Madrid - Sabalenka stopped, but what about Sinner?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt look ahead to the women’s final and the men’s semis in Madrid.
Part one - WTA (00:00 - 29:59). The Athletic’s Matt Futterman provides a report from on the ground in Madrid before we discuss Hailey Baptiste’s thrilling upset of Aryna Sabalenka as well as the paths that Mirra Andreeva and Marta Kostyuk have taken to the final.
Part two - ATP (30:00 - 56:16). After Jannik Sinner’s impressive victory over Rafael Jodar, can Arthur Fils stop him? In the other semi-final, we discuss how Alexander Blockx has got there to face Alexander Zverev.
Part three - News (56:17 - 1:12:07). Jack Draper is out of Roland Garros and will drop outside of the Top 100. We also have some insight into Emma Raducanu’s coaching developments…
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast where it is Friday morning men's semi-finals day in Madrid with the women's final to come on Saturday and the men's final following |
| 0:22.3 | on Sunday. Lots has unfolded since we last potted on Monday, including a winning end to the season |
| 0:30.3 | for coach David Law. Hello, David. Yes, hello. On a number of levels, really, because my son's football team last night was victorious with their third win in a row, of which I am one of the coaches. |
| 0:46.4 | And also my fantasy team has both women's finalists in it and a men's semi-finalist as we come to you right now. |
| 0:53.9 | So I am indeed inspiring |
| 0:55.9 | people everywhere I go. Meanwhile Matt's fantasy team is unexpectedly being held together at the |
| 1:03.7 | seams by Alexander Blocks. I mean, thank goodness for Alexander Blocks, Matt. Yeah, it's a good |
| 1:10.7 | pick that, wasn't it? |
| 1:11.7 | It's just a shame my other nine were so bad. |
| 1:14.3 | But I am quite pleased of myself for picking out Blocks at the start of the year. |
| 1:18.6 | He's had a nice rise. |
| 1:20.3 | Yeah, I do appear to be in a stage several tournaments in a row where Alexander Blocks is my last man standing. And that wasn't |
| 1:28.8 | the strategy of my fantasy team, but here we are. We go with the flow with our fantasy teams. |
| 1:36.3 | Okay, lots to get into today because there's there's a lot of ground to cover, including |
| 1:42.3 | an exclusive on Emeraldi Karni's latest coaching developments later in the show. |
| 1:47.6 | Stay tuned for that. |
| 1:48.6 | But we're going to start with a report from the heart of things in Madrid because Matt |
| 1:54.7 | Futterman of the Athletic is on the ground at the Caha Magica and he has sent us this bit of magic. |
| 2:02.8 | Hey there, podcast friends. |
| 2:04.5 | Greetings from Madrid. |
| 2:05.9 | I want to start by saying the hardest thing for me about being a tennis writer |
| 2:09.4 | is separating the signal from the noise. |
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