Madrid - Sabalenka, Zverev take titles
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The last few weeks have seen the blossoming of a new rivalry in women’s tennis and the latest meeting between Ash Barty and Aryna Sabalenka didn’t disappoint.
Catherine, David and Matt discuss how Sabalenka won the opening set of the Madrid final 6-0, the impressive way she competed in the decider, and whether or not this victory changes her prospects at Roland Garros.
We then turn our attention to the men’s event. Is Matteo Berrettini a better player than we’d realised? Why did we enjoy watching him compete so much in Madrid? Does Dominic Thiem have enough time to get ready for Roland Garros? And what should we make of Rafael Nadal’s week?
Finally, we analyse the title-winning tennis of Alexander Zverev and reflect on how we should cover him when the allegations against him continue to make us feel uncomfortable.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It publishes on Mondays and Thursdays, and daily during Grand Slam tournaments.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Neut. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | It's three minutes to midnight and Madrid is over. Catherine is eating her twiglets |
| 0:28.4 | and she's safely back in her apartment after spending a week presenting live television coverage |
| 0:34.3 | of the tournament in Madrid. How's it been out of ten Catherine? |
| 0:38.9 | Oh, a bit of a distance I've had my twiglets. |
| 0:42.7 | Do you mean my experience of it or my sort of objective assessment of the tournament's quality? |
| 0:48.9 | Oh, crikey. Can we have both? |
| 0:50.2 | Oh, good. I mean, I would say the... |
| 0:57.9 | What's our benchmark? What's our metric? |
| 1:00.9 | You weren't expecting it. It's 10 out of 10, David. |
| 1:03.5 | David, it's all been great. We want to match. |
| 1:07.2 | Is my army the benchmark? Yeah, Matt, what have you made of it? |
| 1:11.8 | I say, I've kind of required a lot of the tournament. I told you on Thursday that I've just |
| 1:16.3 | enjoyed it because I've just been sort of watching it without working on it other than |
| 1:20.6 | recording the podcast. And I think that's meant that I've just been out of really soak it up. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, no, I think it's been good. I've had some issues with the scheduling, which I've |
| 1:32.7 | found difficult to overcome. I really don't like the way they schedule the tournament |
| 1:37.5 | front heavy for the women and then sort of piling up all those important men's matches at the |
| 1:42.9 | end. I thought the fact that the women's final was scheduled between the men's semi-finals was |
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