Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt Villander this is Mary

Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the

tennis podcast Well hello and welcome to La Place de Musketeer here at Roland Garros in the shadow of the

Philippe Chatere Stadium where the night session is just getting underway.

We will cover that night session and the start of Novak Jokovich's title

defense in part two so don't worry we'll be talking about that in just a little while but it's

10 to 9 just now and against the odds it's turned into quite a nice

evening albeit a bit cold because David Matt it has been a bit of a misery

of a day so far.

Soggy it has been and it appears to be a bit of a theme of this week unlike last year and

it was glory of sunshine every day but we're not going to complain well not too much but yes the most

frustrating element of it being that for the first several hours of the day there was

just no play on the outside courts thank goodness you have covered courts in the new long

Lend roof and Chiatrier, the main court. But it's not really what the first

week of Grand Slams is all about is it you want vibe you want

stuff going on everywhere we now have that and you end up getting an amplified

sense of that because there's all these matches to catch up on but it's a bit frustrating

early on.

Yes you dear listener will know the pod title when you're listening to this but there was definitely

a time when we'd walked in to Roland Garros getting absolutely drenched and gone to lunch with

seemingly every member of the media and there was a huge cue where I was thinking

we were going to have to roll back a dut of a day as our as our pod title

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