Monte Carlo - A new step for Stefanos; Charleston 2 - A whole new world for Astra

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After Stefanos Tsitsipas easily beat Dan Evans and Andrey Rublev on finals weekend in Monte Carlo to claim the title, Catherine, David and Matt talk it all through.

Why does Tsitsipas’ game transfer so well to clay? How significant was it that he won a Masters 1000 event for the first time? What did we learn about Rublev this week? And what should we make of Rafael Nadal’s first tournament back on his favourite surface?

We also cover a career best week for Astra Sharma at Charleston 2, discuss Ons Jabeur’s ongoing quest for a first WTA title, round up the results from the Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs and react to news that Roger Federer will play on clay in Geneva and at Roland Garros this season.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced 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 Svillander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Hutt. This is Yannick Noah.
0:08.2	This is Steven Malloy from County Claire in Ireland and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:23.7	Well hello to all our tennis podcast listeners and hello in particular to Steven Malloy,
0:28.4	who you heard there in our intro, a classic of the genre intro. I would describe that as
0:33.6	Steven with it with an extra bit of Irish flavour, which is the soothing sounds are very much
0:39.6	appreciated on a podcast recording morning when David and I have already had a row.
0:46.8	David, I'll give you a moment to just see, Matt, how are you feeling?
0:53.1	Really rather tense. You two were fine and then literally five minutes before we started a
0:59.0	row broke out. David's not quite been able to look the zoom camera in the eye ever since.
1:05.2	Yep. How you doing David? Nice to see you this fine morning.
1:09.7	It's lovely to see you two Catherine, wish we were in the same room. But in the absence of that,
1:15.9	no, it's a delight to see you across the the hundred miles between us.
1:22.7	And yes, I'm always happy to hear from Steven because he invented the SMDS, which if you don't
1:30.2	remember is the Steven Malloy Dennis Schappel of scale of reaction. Why is it not the SMDSS?
1:37.9	Yes.
1:42.8	Okay, Matt, that was too much for me. I don't know why it's not that, but I'll work on it for next time.
1:50.0	This is like when people say ATM machine, isn't it? The M is machine.
1:56.2	Yeah. Yeah. I'll work on it folks. Anyway, Steven's the bloke who said that you react to
2:01.1	Dennis Schappel of the matches with this guy's amazing. Grand Slam coming very soon.
2:06.7	Second one is why can't he put the ball in court in bracket sobbing. Third one is he's a fighter
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