Backhands and Compliments: A Tennis Podcast

"Naur Comment" (Australian Open Preview and Round 1)


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Unlike most of the ATP, we will be commenting on many things during this episode. Before getting into more serious topics, we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of round one. Like Andrey Rublev giving his fans, and probably himself, a migraine. Felix Auger-Alissame and Dominic Thiem played five sets of beautiful tennis and made Katie reconsider her position on BO5. Speaking of BO5, Jack Draper pulled out a tough five-setter in the heat and will he have post-puke clarity like Jannik Sinner? Only time will tell, although we’re not sure he’ll clear Tommy Paul. 

Miranda gives her thoughts on Break Point (28:45), which includes the episode entirely devoted to Zverev. And that transitions us into discussing some of the questions posed to ATP players like Cameron Norrie, Casper Ruud, and Grigor Dimitrov. Spoiler alert, none of them responded in any adequate fashion and we get a bit heated about it. We do mention when we discuss it if DV is a trigger for you. Listen with caution. (48:48)

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