French Open - The Draws! Magnus Norman - How To Beat Novak Djokovic; David Law: 'The French Open Cost Me My A-Levels'
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The French Open for 2016 is upon us, the draws have been made, and Catherine Whitaker is in Paris for the fortnight. David Law isn't, but that doesn't stop them getting together to pour over the potential match-ups and make the usual batch of sweeping, and most likely ill conceived predictions.
We hear from Magnus Norman, coach to Stan Wawrinka, about how you beat Novak Djokovic in a Grand Slam tournament, from catherine about what Roland Garros is like (full of quiche, apparently) and from David about how the French Open caused him to fail his A-levels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm Matt Villander. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Stan Roenka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm like Newt. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.7 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | The tennis podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | The tennis podcast. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | Brought to you in association with the tenor graph. |
| 0:26.8 | We are on the eve of the French Open, the second grand slam tournament of 2016. |
| 0:33.2 | Catherine Whittaker of Eurosport fame is in Paris awaiting the start of the tournament. |
| 0:38.8 | Myself, David Law, I am not. |
| 0:42.0 | I work for BBC Radio 5 Live and BT Sport. |
| 0:44.5 | Neither one of those I'm working for over the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm just going to be standing in an office of which I can hit all four walls at the same time. |
| 0:52.2 | It's so small. It has no windows. |
| 0:54.4 | I can't see the beautiful Philip Shattery court from where I'm sitting unless I turn my TV on. |
| 0:59.2 | I've never been to the French Open. |
| 1:01.0 | But Catherine Whittaker is going to tell me all about how wonderful it is. |
| 1:04.8 | We're going to be talking about the French Open generally. |
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