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US OPEN PREVIEW PODCAST: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE TRAGIC, featuring COACHES DAVID TAYLOR AND KAMAU MURRAY

8/26/2018

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Episode 135 of The Body Serve Tennis Podcast: available on iTunes, podbean.com, and all podcast apps

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#135: The Good, the Bad, and the Tragic: US Open Preview f/ David Taylor and Kamau Murray

We sat down with the coaches of last year's US Open finalists, David Taylor (Keys) and Kamau Murray (Stephens). These very different coaches share their thoughts on navigating player personalities and what they see as the most important roles of a tennis coach. But first, we analyze the US Open draws: the stacked women's first quarter, which could see a Venus-Serena third round and a Simona-Serena fourth, but with much uncertainty for all. On the men's side, Nadal gets an easy-ish one, while Djokovic looms for Federer (or vice versa) in the quarters. We also take on FFT President Giudicelli's comments on Serena's catsuit, and why boycotting is not top of mind for us.


2:10 The tragic: the women's first quarter, which features 5 current or former no. 1s plus Kuznetsova
12:45 The good: Madison Keys' draw
21:15 Also good: defending champ Nadal gets a soft draw to the semis
32:50 The bad (depending on your position): Djokovic and Federer drawn to play in the quarters
38:10 Peng Shuai gets dinged by the Tennis Integrity Unit, Lendl joins the Zverev camp
42:50 French Federation president Giudicelli bans Serena's catsuit: the cultural battleground that is the black female body
51:30 Is this the least wide-open women's draw in a while?
56:20 Our interviews with David Taylor and Kamau Murray, coaches of last year's US Open finalists Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens
1:04:40 Kamau Murray's radical honesty

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9/4/2018 09:33:43 pm

If you're into tennis and have been a huge fan since you were young, you will know that David Taylor and Kamau Murray are two different coaches with two different personalities yet they have effective ways of coaching. Their personalities clash a lot, that's why they can never be on the same team! Despite that, I love the idea that their athletes are both doing great in the field. That means, the strategy they feed are both effective. This interview has opened a lot of trivia for both of coaches!

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5/26/2019 05:19:18 am

why is no one talking about the doping tidbit that nick alluded to in his ben rothenberg’s interview when talking about murray?

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