French Open Day 8 - Wawrinka vs. Tsitsipas - all-time classic; Konta continues stunning run; Thiem shows teeth after press room run-in
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It is hard to imagine that we will see a better tennis match than Stan Wawrinka vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas this fortnight, or even this year.
Five sets and more than five hours of intoxicating drama, and spellbinding shotmaking which forms the centrepiece of our Day 8 Tennis Podcast from the French Open.
How did Wawrinka outlast a man well over 10 years his junior? What state was Tsitsipas in when he spoke about it afterwards? (Matt Roberts went along to find out). And how do Matt and Catherine Whitaker rate Wawrinka’s chances against Roger Federer in the quarterfinals?
Elsewhere, Johanna Konta is a 100%, cast-iron member of ‘The Mix’ after her straight sets defeat of Donna Vekic. She now faces Sloane Stephens in the last 8. So who will win?
The performances of Federer and Rafael Nadal are also covered, and there’s reaction to Dominic Thiem’s anger at being moved from the biggest interview room to make way for Serena Williams yesterday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm John McEnore, I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratilova. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Stan Roenka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lainey Njut. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Marri and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day eight of the French Opener |
| 0:24.6 | eight daily podcast from Roland Garros 2019. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm a self-cathamiric alongside Matt Roberts on what has been one of those days |
| 0:33.7 | in tennis which makes me feel sorry for people that don't follow this sport because it has been |
| 0:42.1 | intoxicating Matt, absolutely intoxicating and yes there has been other very good tennis and we |
| 0:48.8 | will talk all about that other very good tennis but mostly we are intoxicated still by the memory |
| 0:56.2 | of Vavrinka against Sitsapas. |
| 0:59.5 | We're drunk on it, we're drunk on Vavrinka back hands, Sitsapas is courage and just one of the most |
| 1:09.0 | mind-bending, extraordinary matches that we've certainly I feel like I've ever had the privilege |
| 1:17.2 | to witness. I think you feel the same and one that has just come it's already been a fantastic |
| 1:22.8 | French Open and this has just completely brought it to life. It was everything we hoped it would be |
| 1:29.6 | and more just a stunning stunning match. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, there may be a negative possible spin on the brilliance of that match today. |
| 1:36.6 | It was obviously found by a member of the Wittic family and those were the words from my father. |
| 1:42.2 | It feels as though that was the final and Roland Garros 2019 is over. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, I get his point because I know we're guilty of falling into the Champions League semi-final |
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