Rublev, Zverev, Krawietz & Mies, Murray & Skupski

10/18/20 • 29 min

We hear from two recent tournament winners. Russia's Andrey Rublev discusses his latest title on home turf in St Petersburg whilst Cologne winner Alexander Zverev gets competitive away from the court as he goes head-to-head in a quiz with the NBA's Dirk Nowitzki. We also turn our attention to the doubles game and hear from Roland Garros champions, Kevin Krawietz and Andres Mies and Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski speak about how they've been getting on since tennis returned.

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