January 15, 2021

2021, Like Tennys Sandgren, is Taking Off!

55 minutes

Today on the Lucky Letcord Podcast, Chris Oddo is joined by his colleagues at Tennis Now, Richard Pagliaro and Erik Gudris. The trio breaks down a superb opening week of tennis and looks forward to the upcoming Australian Open.

Here are the topics we dive into:

Tennys Sandgren tests positive for Covid but still flies to Melbourne, what's up with that?

An elite quarantine in Adelaide, featuring Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and others. Is it fair and what was Tennis Australia's motivation to throw this wrinkle into the plan?

How friggin good was Aryna Sabalenka at Abu Dhabi and what does it say about her potential in 2021?

Should we all be jumping on the Sebastian Korda bandwago pronto, or is prudence the better option? Erik and Richard give their take on what there is to like about Sebastian Korda and Chris mentions the intangibles, which could be why he is ahead of his peers at the young age of 20.

Christian Harrison played amazing tennis, but it kind of got swallowed up by the fact that he's not into wearing masks. We discuss what happened with the American in Delray Beach, praise his amazing performance, and Chris admits that he is torn between loving Harrison and not loving the anti-mask.

Erik leads a break down of some of the many interesting names that managed to qualify this year at the Australian Open. You'll love this discussion.

Last but not least -- Why did Dayana Yastremska, who has been provisionally suspended, jump on plane to Melbourne?

Enjoy the show and thanks for listening!

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