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Monday Oct 14, 2019
The Kids Are All Fight
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
It's been a minute since we've covered tennis week-to-week. We're making up for lost time by speeding through the Asian/European fall swing, highlighting the huge steps taken by the ATP's younger generation, Coco Gauff's first title, and Naomi Osaka's dominance in Asia. That's followed by a rapid-fire segment, in which we discuss everything from Kim Clijsters' shocking comeback announcement to the Pospisil-led player movement toward better prize money.
1:45 Coco Gauff, age 15, wins her first WTA title at Linz
5:00 Next Gen steps forward at Shanghai, Medvedev cements his status as the next big thing
9:10 Grumpy Gramps makes an appearance in Shanghai
17:10 Catching up with the rest of the fall swing results - Djokovic recovers from shoulder injury, Thiem bounces back to win Beijing, and Grouchy Andy is back!
27:30 Naomi Osaka wins Osaka & Beijing, beats Andreescu; is this the launch of a new rivalry? Does the WTA "need" it?
39:15 Rapid-fire topics: the Clijsters & Golovin comebacks (?!); revisiting a bad take on Nadal's Hilfiger campaign; Gold badge umpire Moscarella suspended for a whole mess of things
55:30 Players, led by Vasek Pospisil, demand bigger piece of the pie from Grand Slams
64:45 Race to Shenzhen; Shout-outs to all-time greats Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Simone Biles!
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