Madrid - Sabalenka sets up Swiatek showdown; Leading men struggle; Shirt-gate
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Madrid is nearing the finish line, so here's a podcast to round up what's happened since the last one. There's coverage of Arena Sabalenka's comebacks against Danielle Collins and Elena Rybakina, a men's draw that has rather fallen apart, and concerns over Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev. Plus, the latest on Rafael Nadal, and of course our reaction to the Twitter storm we were part of: Shirt-gate!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartori I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary |
| 0:04.9 | Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.0 | podcast Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It's Friday morning. We are hurtling |
| 0:27.2 | or limping towards the finish line of the mutual Madrid open, depending what way you look at it there are three more days of |
| 0:35.0 | action to go David's here mats here mat you are well you're only three days |
| 0:39.8 | older since the last time we potted with you but on paper you are a year older how does |
| 0:45.6 | it feel to officially be in your late 20s? |
| 0:49.4 | Cameron Matthew told me yesterday that I'm getting old. Oh, charming. |
| 0:55.0 | Classic Cameron Matthew really. |
| 0:57.0 | But yes, it is good to be able to insert terrible joke about aging a whole year |
| 1:02.0 | during the Madrid Open because it lasts so long. |
| 1:05.0 | Very good, very good, but David's here, how are you? |
| 1:11.0 | David had a very positive sleep score from his wearable tech so we're expecting a |
| 1:18.0 | top-notch David law today. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah no excuses no excuse fact, I've actually done quite well with |
| 1:26.1 | wearable tech sleep score all week, so I'm quite proud of myself, you know, despite the |
| 1:30.4 | scrapes I've got myself into. I'm here and I'm in good shape. |
| 1:35.2 | And meandering. Meandering, Meandering Catherine is the word I came up with for Madrid, |
| 1:39.6 | wasn't it? Yes, very good. Yeah, that's a that was a 7 79% school for David despite staying up |
| 1:46.9 | till gone 11 watching Rabakina against Sabalenka, what turned out to be an absolute incredible match that David |
| 1:55.7 | was prepared to sacrifice a good sleep score for and that was absolutely the right |
| 1:59.5 | decision. Somehow he managed to achieve a good sleep score and a full watch of Rabakina |
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