French Open - Week 2 Starts With Washout; John McEnroe - Super Coach; What Now For Nadal? Djokovic, Murray
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
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🗓️ 30 May 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
After play was called off for the day because of bad weather on Monday, the Telegraph’s Tennis Correspondent Simon Briggs joined Catherine Whitaker to discuss week one and look ahead to week two.
Will the tournament get back on track, or is a third Monday in store?
What does the future look like for Rafael Nadal after his shock withdrawal because of a wrist injury?
What will new super-coach John McEnroe bring to the career of Milos Raonic?
How is Andy Murray looking now that he has got his tournament back on track?
And who is Shelby Rogers, and how did she get to the quarterfinals?
Whitaker and Briggs wade through it all, before wading back to their respective hotels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borgh. This is Martina Navratelova. I'm Matt Svillander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Marri. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast from a very rainy roll on Garras. We're brought to you |
| 0:26.3 | in association with the Telegraph. And once again alongside the Telegraph's tennis correspondent, |
| 0:31.3 | Simon Briggs. Simon, it's a bit miserable today, isn't it? We've we're about two hours |
| 0:37.2 | hence of play being completely abandoned for the day. The tournament organizers having looked at |
| 0:43.4 | what was a pretty apocalyptic weather forecast here in Paris. We should paint the picture that we're |
| 0:49.6 | now huddling in a room with a ceiling, which is about three foot high, isn't it? This is |
| 0:54.6 | interview room four and the rolling Garras press enter, which is kind of where the the waste |
| 0:59.1 | and strays who any two people want to talk to get shunted out to. It's the more intimate interview |
| 1:04.8 | setting. No windows. There's a few kind of ventilation shafts, so yeah, we're living the life. |
| 1:10.4 | We certainly are. I mean, I cannot stress enough just how miserable it is in Paris today. It is |
| 1:16.5 | about as miserable as weather can get. And we're not going to see any tennis. The schedule for tomorrow |
| 1:23.4 | has come out and whether permitting there will be lots of tennis because all of the backlog matches |
| 1:29.9 | and all of the quarterfinals that would have been scheduled tomorrow are scheduled to go ahead. |
| 1:35.3 | It's going to be interesting, isn't it? Yeah, I worked out 12 men and 12 women due to take the court |
| 1:40.8 | tomorrow. And that's that's all but two of the players who are still in the tournament because |
| 1:45.8 | Mugoritz and Shelby Rogers, they are through to the quarterfinals, which is not scheduled till |
| 1:53.4 | Wednesday. So then they're not on the schedule. Everybody else is. So if you had a gambler's instinct, |
| 1:59.1 | you might think, well, I'll show up and I'll get a ground pass because it could be a fantastic |
| 2:02.6 | day to see all sorts of players who wouldn't normally be necessarily available, maybe on court one. |
| 2:07.2 | You get a few people who are normally on the on the show court. So the downside is that the |
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