French Open Day 2 - Svitolina, Ruud survive scares
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt capture another day at Roland Garros which saw Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils say goodbye, Elina Svitolina and Casper Ruud survive, and more players succumb to hot conditions.
Part one - Day session. We cover Svitolina’s hard fought win over Anna Bondar, overcoming her recent difficulties in that match up. What makes Bondar tricky for her? And how did she come through? Elsewhere, there’s chat about Amanda Anisimova’s winning return, a tough day for Zheng Qinwen, and Rafael Jodar’s emphatic victory.
Part two - Night session (38:31). Gael Monfils ended his Roland Garros career with a 6-0 final set loss to Hugo Gaston. Why was this such a weird match? And how will Monfils be remembered? We also pick the bones out of an even more bizarre five-setter between Casper Ruud and Roman Safiullen.
Part three - Mousquetaire of the day and Day 3 Order of Play (56:21).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day two of the French Open part one of the show today coming to you from Court Philippe Chattrier. |
| 0:20.1 | We are up in the press seats overlooking |
| 0:21.9 | what is currently a completely empty court. We are making the most of intentionally blank |
| 0:27.5 | today. We found a use for it. When life gives you lemons, and those lemons are Adrian |
| 0:33.3 | Manorino and Hugo and Bear, we make lemonade. It is, it is, look, we'll, we'll get the weather |
| 0:41.4 | chat out of the way nice and early here. We'll do it up front because we don't want to spend |
| 0:45.2 | the whole show banging on about it again today, but it is bloody hot, folks, hotter than yesterday |
| 0:51.7 | even. It is gone 7pm here as we record part one and it is still |
| 0:58.0 | suffocating heat unless you're somewhere like we are with a breeze and a good amount of shade. I think at least the |
| 1:04.4 | first hour or so of this night session tonight is going to be hot and sweaty. It continues to be a major feature of this tournament. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, well, we were talking about when we might be able to record part one today. |
| 1:17.5 | And Catherine and myself on our way in saw the weather forecast. |
| 1:21.2 | And 7pm, I thought, oh, you know, temperature should be starting to drop by then. |
| 1:25.3 | 30 degrees. |
| 1:26.8 | So, you know, that didn't sound ideal. |
| 1:29.5 | And I mean, look, it is tough for these players in the heat of the day when they're playing any of these matches. |
| 1:38.3 | And there are so few courts without shade. |
| 1:41.5 | And you look into the crowds and you know where the sun is because if the sun's on the seats there's nobody in them. |
| 1:48.4 | And I feel for people with tickets in that respect. |
| 1:51.3 | I mean it's a lovely place to be here. |
| 1:53.2 | The tennis has been great. |
| 1:54.9 | But, you know, this is a little too much for people to really enjoy it. |
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