Arthur Fils - future Roland Garros champion?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Part one - WTA (00:00 - 32:07). We start with Elena Rybakina’s title in Stuttgart which takes her to the top of the WTA Race for 2026. What were the keys to her victory? How did she come through an extraordinary match with Leylah Fernandez? And what might this mean for the rest of the clay court swing? There’s also chat about Karolina Muchova’s brilliant run and another loss from a set up for Iga Swiatek. But were there some positive signs for Swiatek in her defeat to Mirra Andreeva? Over in Rouen, we cover Marta Kostyuk’s victory in an all-Ukrainian final against Veronika Podrez.

Part two - ATP (32:08 - 1:05:08). Arthur Fils is a title winner again and David is a very happy man! We discuss Fils’ level to beat Lorenzo Musetti, Rafael Jodar and Andrey Rublev in Barcelona before David makes a very big prediction. In Munich, we analyse Ben Shelton’s improvement on clay and an emotional week for Flavio Cobolli.

Part three - News and Madrid preview (1:05:09 - 1:28:49). We cover the news that Marketa Vondrousova is facing investigation for refusing a doping test before looking through the Madrid draws. How concerning is Carlos Alcaraz’s withdrawal?

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0:00.0	Well, hello and welcome to your Monday morning tennis podcast.
0:14.9	We have a lot to discuss on today's show.
0:19.2	Titles yesterday for Elena Rabakina, Matacostok, Ben Shelton and
0:24.4	Arta Fis. And we of course have an exhilarated David Law with us this morning. How are you doing,
0:33.7	David? Yeah, I'm exhilarated. Pretty standard.
0:38.9	But it has been a heck of a good week of tennis.
0:41.7	Loads to go in on.
0:43.1	And nice weather as well here in sunny Solihull.
0:46.3	So I've particularly exhilarated.
0:49.7	Matt, still exhilarated from Fulham's nil-nill-nill with Brentford on Saturday?
0:56.6	I was annoyed I couldn't get a ticket for that, and then really pleased I didn't get a ticket for that.
1:02.5	Because my God, what a dreadful match.
1:05.3	But I was thrilled for David.
1:07.1	I feel like we had an hour period on, was it Saturday, where West Brom scored a load of goals,
1:13.0	Arta Feist was winning. It was all coming up, David. Yeah, it was all coming up, David, Lord.
1:20.8	Arthur Feast is coming, David. Part two. Can you hang on until then? No trouble. No trouble.
1:27.7	This is only the calm before the storm anyway.
1:29.9	I mean, Barcelona, I'm sorry, so, you know, I'm just pacing myself.
1:33.4	This is the appetiser.
1:35.9	We're going to head to Stuttgart, first of all,
1:39.3	and the WTA 500 event there won by Elena Rabakana. 7561 over Karolina Mukova in the final.
1:50.0	She won all sorts of tennis matches, did Elena Rabakana in all sorts of different ways over the course of the week.
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