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The Tennis Podcast

RG Day 11 - Paolini, Andreeva rock Roland Garros; Zverev advances

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The anticipated semi-final between Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina became Jasmine Paolini vs Mirra Andreeva after a day of huge upsets at Roland Garros. Catherine, David and Matt react to the matches, discuss how they made them feel, and look ahead to tomorrow's semi-finals. On the men's side, there's chat about Alexander Zverev's victory over Alex de Minaur.


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0:00.0

Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti 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 folks, and welcome to tennis podcast Towers Paris, where it is

0:25.0

half past midnight. It's day 11 of Roland Garros, or it was day 11, a little short

0:31.9

while ago, the day when Rabakina

0:34.5

Sabalenka became Paulini and Rover a dramatic day a day when

0:41.7

stats went up in flames, stats about the top four seeds who were nailed on

0:47.6

to reach the semi-finals, a day when they went up in flames. How are we feeling that?

0:55.8

Feeling okay, thank you.

0:58.6

Yes, it's one of those where after watching the

1:06.2

were back in a Paulini match and having seen Paulini win I was talking to Matt

1:08.7

Futterman up in the press seats and he said does this now become a bit of a

1:12.4

trap match for

1:13.7

sambal you know with with palini through to the semi-final does that just

1:18.8

change the equation and we have seen it before at Grand Sams haven't we?

1:22.8

An upset leads to another upset

1:25.4

and just the whole day generally

1:27.4

can just end up feeling a little bit weird

1:29.8

and that's kind of what happened.

1:31.9

I mean, we had some great crowning moments for

1:35.5

Andraver and Paulini but definitely weird to see and tough to see Rebecca performing how they did.

1:47.0

Yeah, I think the three of us all had quite different experiences of these two women's

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