Roland Garros Day 1 - Sabalenka/Kostyuk tension escalates; Pouille’s redemption

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

There's no longer such as thing as a slow Sunday start at Roland Garros. Catherine, David and Matt discuss Lucas Pouille's comeback continuing, the tension on court and in the press conference room between Aryna Sabalenka and Marta Kostyuk, Karolina Muchova's "upset" win over Maria Sakkari, a survival act by Stefanos Tsitsipas against Jiri Vesely, lots of fun from Constant Lestienne, and meeting Arthur Fils in the interview room.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.6	Hello and welcome to day one of the French Open 2023 live from tennis podcast Towers,
0:28.6	Paris. And I say live because day one of Roland Garros is still as we come to you
0:35.6	underway. We have Jessica Beguiler who is on the Cusp of Victory over Daniel Collins on
0:41.2	court Suzan Longlain. Court Suzan Longlain, David, that I'm sure will come up a lot.
0:47.2	Over the course of this episode we've just watched Luca Puie, complete victory over the man
0:52.5	that he also beat in the final round of qualifying because he ended up getting in as a look
0:57.7	lucky loser. So Matt, the incredibly emotional Luca Puie story that you told us about a couple of days ago
1:04.6	continues and I feel like it's going to be big at Roland Garros. Yes.
1:10.5	Maybe already is big at Roland Garros. I think it's probably the biggest
1:14.5	story so far. I think slams are always elevated when home players are doing well and nobody saw
1:23.0	this coming for Luca Puie and I think everyone is just so pleased for him. He beat Uri Rodeon
1:28.7	off again much more straightforwardly than he did in qualifying. He really lost in qualifying but
1:34.8	there was just no chance of that happening today. He won very convincingly and special scenes
1:41.6	on court 14 at the end. There was a big rendition of the Marseille's afterwards which is,
1:47.9	you know the French Open started when the Marseille's is being broken out. I would love to
1:52.9	join in with one of those these two weeks. I do love the Marseille's. It was all so quintessentially
1:59.6	early days of Roland Garros wasn't it? Sort of a day session match over spilling into the evening.
2:06.7	Suns sort of dipping down over Roland Garros. It's an outside court but still one with
2:13.7	good amount of space in the stands every inch of which is filled with just tennis fans going
2:21.1	absolutely bananas for an incredible story. I mean I didn't know everything that Matt told
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