French Open Day 2 - Serena sends Diatchenko packing, eventually; Djokovic, Nadal cruise; Edmund’s epic
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On our 7th birthday, we are back with our Day 2 Tennis Podcast from Roland Garros!
Serena Williams has rarely been seen on a tennis court in recent months, but her return to Roland Garros was a welcome one, and she got going eventually. Not before swallowing a 2-6 first set against Vitalia Diatchenko though. So what happened? Catherine Whitaker and Matt Roberts talk us through from the media restaurant.
Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic jumped out of the blocks looking every bit the likely finalists in the men’s draw, but Dominic Thiem had a right old scrap on his hands against Tommy Paul. So how did they all look? Catherine and Matt give us the lo-down, with a little bit of assistance from David Law in Solihull.
Jo Konta got her first win in the main draw, Pierre-Hugues Herbert followed his old mate Nicolas Mahut in nailing a stunning 5-set comeback and the pod team pay tribute to 19-year-old Paul Jubb, who did something no British player has done before.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratelova. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Ravinka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lainey Njut. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | Well, hello and happy birthday to us. |
| 0:22.1 | It is the seventh anniversary of the first ever tennis podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | Since David's not here, I will urge you not ever to go back |
| 0:29.2 | and listen to the back catalog because it horrifies me. |
| 0:32.0 | But if David were here, he would say, |
| 0:33.7 | go and listen to the back catalog. |
| 0:34.9 | It's great. |
| 0:35.5 | There's seven years worth of podcasts, listen to. |
| 0:38.5 | It is our second daily French Open 2019 podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | Myself, Catherine Rich, who alongside Matt Roberts, |
| 0:46.4 | we've been watching and enjoying and reveling in the day's play. |
| 0:51.5 | Mark's out of ten has it been as good as yesterday? |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah, I think it has. |
| 0:56.5 | I think it's probably possibly even been better, |
| 0:59.9 | just because it's been a fuller order of play. |
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