Madrid - WTA big guns clash, but it’s a men’s Mix of many

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the women’s semi-finals and men’s quarter-finals, Catherine, David and Matt discuss the last few days of action in Madrid since Monday’s blackout.

Part one - WTA Results. We discuss Iga Swiatek’s fascinating week, look ahead to her intriguing semi-final against Coco Gauff, and wonder whether Elina Svitolina can keep her incredible run going against Aryna Sabalenka.

Part two - ATP Results (from 24m39s). Who is the favourite for the title and which of the eight remaining players is most likely to carry this form into Roland Garros?

Part three - News (from 48m07s). Max Purcell is banned for 18 months and Novak Djokovic pulls out of Rome.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billy Jean King.
0:02.0	This is Marion Bartoddy.
0:03.2	This is Bianca Andrescu.
0:04.7	I'm Matt Villander.
0:05.8	This is Mary Carrillo.
0:06.9	This is Pam Schreiber.
0:08.0	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast.
0:27.6	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, Pinch Punch, first of the month.
0:35.3	It is Thursday the 1st of May, three days have passed in Madrid since we were last with you.
0:38.5	Tennis, though, was only played on one of them because Matt Roberts, we kind of broke the news live.
0:43.5	Well, live for us in our last podcast
0:47.0	about the nationwide, the region-wide blackout in Spain and Portugal,
0:52.9	which caused a cessation of activity in Madrid
0:58.0	and all sorts of chaos, including tennis players having to walk places and read books.
1:07.4	Unprecedented things were happening.
1:17.8	Yeah, I think the favourite quote I saw to come out of the blackout was Jack Draper,
1:22.9	who was very proud of himself for reading 10 pages of a book.
1:26.1	He was initially like, I read four pages.
1:28.0	And then he was like, actually, no, I think it was 10.
1:30.7	And I was like, oh, go on, Jack.
1:34.0	Do we know what the book was?
1:35.0	We did. And would we like to speculate, David?
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