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The Tennis Podcast

French Open Draws - Swiatek vs. Ostapenko could be ON!

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts are in Paris where the Roland Garros draws have taken place as players plan to protest the prize money on offer by limiting their media commitments.

Part one - Carlos Alcaraz is out of Wimbledon (00:00 - 12:57) Our reaction, what it means for Alcaraz, and what it means for men’s tennis.

Part two - Roland Garros draws. (12:57 - 50:07) We break down the main headlines from Thursday’s draw ceremony at The Orangerie. Is this the year Jelena Ostapenko vs Iga Swiatek finally happens here? Which round one matches pop off the page? And can anyone possibly stop Jannik Sinner?

Part three - Players plan media walk out to protest Grand Slam prize money (50:07) How effective could the planned action be?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Paris. We have made it. We're here. I have already been brought

0:16.9

vinaigrette in a bistro when I'd asked the waiter for vinegar.

0:21.4

We are so back.

0:24.2

I wait 365 days for that moment and it delivered once again.

0:30.9

And there was some concern that it might not for a moment because for a split second we thought

0:36.4

he'd actually understood the request

0:37.8

and was going to bring you exactly what he wanted and then he turned up with something

0:42.0

that was nothing like it and Matt and I rejoiced.

0:45.8

Catherine laughed in his face.

0:48.4

It's all on our Instagram if you'd like to check that out.

0:52.9

Yeah, I'll be carrying personal vinegar with me for the rest of this trip.

0:58.0

You find us, incidentally, for the first of our 18 daily tennis podcast throughout this Roland Garros,

1:04.5

in the eaves of court Suzanne Longlem.

1:07.9

We're down kind of the back end of the site here at Roland Garris.

1:12.1

We're next to court 11.

1:14.2

Court 14 is a few metres behind us.

1:17.7

There are still qualifying matches going on.

1:19.7

David checked out a bit of qualifying on Longlen early.

1:22.9

In fact, he sacrificed lunch for it, which Matt thought was chaotic behaviour.

1:28.6

Four minutes.

1:29.2

I'd been here before I was on Longwood.

1:31.0

And it was Sloan Stevens, and she won all the games I'll watch. Some, now her good luck job. And then I was the only one in the press seats, by the way. Literally just me in about 100 seats. Everyone else was at lunch, David. That's right. And then I stayed to have a little look at Toma Forel, the young French qualifier,

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