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

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

podcast Well, hello folks, and welcome to tennis podcast towers on day nine of Roland Garros, where it is 146 a.m.

and apparently that's not even a notably late finish time at the French Open anymore. It's not even a talking point.

It's just what we do in tennis.

Alexander Zarev has just beaten HolgerunaRuna in five sets.

Runa having led by two sets to one

and looked very much on top of that match for large periods of it.

Had Runa won it, I do think that would have been the story of the day.

But as it is, David, Novat Jokovich and his win somehow

over Francisco Serringello 6157, 3, 6.3 in the fifth has to be the story, I think.

Yeah, and I think pretty much in some ways maybe no matter what had happened because it seemed so unlikely really when he was struggling with the knee injury that he seemed to sustain early on in the second set,

which I think he said he suffered in the third game of it,

slipping around and he'd come into it with something.

But he, I mean, look, this is the second time.

We're talking like this in 48 hours and last time it was

three in the morning after four hours and 29 minutes this was even longer this was another

ten minutes on top of that and he was playing a guy 12 years is junior and he looked in a bad way Novak Jokovich.

He looked like he'd got no energy but more to the point he looked like he just couldn't

move properly and he figured it out he found

away and that is just what he does isn't it and increasingly the older he gets the more he seems able to find solutions he is the

ultimate solution finder and I but I'm really shocked that he managed to do it this

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