RG Day 13 - Alcaraz outlasts Sinner; Zverev case discontinued; Swiatek vs. Paolini preview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Carlos Alcaraz will face Alexander Zverev in Sunday's men's final at Roland Garros. Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner in five sets on Friday in a match affected by cramp, while Zverev beat Casper Ruud in a match affected by Ruud's ill health. Catherine, David and Matt discuss both matches, analyse in depth what we learned from Alcaraz vs Sinner, and report the news that Zverev's domestic abuse case in Germany has been discontinued. There's also a preview of the women's final between Iga Swiatek and Jasmine Paolini.
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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 |
| 0:05.0 | Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.0 | podcast Hello folks and welcome to tennis podcast towers Paris where it is |
| 0:25.1 | 22 minutes past midnight somehow on a day that only featured two singles |
| 0:30.4 | matches on Philip Chetre but here we are well into the night and |
| 0:35.0 | tomorrow morning. It was Men's Semi-finals Day and a whole lot more today. We |
| 0:40.1 | have a lot to get into. Matt, how you feeling? |
| 0:45.0 | Pretty tired, but ready for finals weekend. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, good. And I'm playing tennis tomorrow. Yes. Oh, who's playing? |
| 0:58.0 | The usual gang, Matt Fusserman, Simon Briggs, Nyl McClemon, take them down. |
| 1:05.0 | Mm. |
| 1:07.0 | It's a, you've got five players for a doubles, so it's a, yeah, it's going to be a rotating system figure out who the weak link is |
| 1:16.4 | which would make it very difficult for you to answer the question who won but I will be |
| 1:21.0 | asking you that question nonetheless tune in to tomorrow's show to find out the answer David |
| 1:26.2 | How are you doing? Yeah good. It's been a long day I think I did five sets of commentary today, |
| 1:33.0 | board by ball on the radio, lots of reports as well. |
| 1:37.2 | But you know, it's semi-finals day, |
| 1:39.3 | and it's men's semifinals day, best of five-cent matches |
| 1:42.1 | and there were a lot of those sets. |
| 1:44.1 | So yeah, pretty exhilarating stuff, particularly in the first semi as we'll obviously get |
| 1:48.4 | on to. |
| 1:49.4 | Yeah, a Five Set Match and a Four Set match to decide our men's finalists. |
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