Roland Garros Day 1 - Slams escalate Osaka row; Thiem falls

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A lot happened on the opening day of Roland Garros 2021, but it was still a day where the headlines were dominated by Naomi Osaka.

We discuss Osaka’s victory over Patricia Maria Tig, her on court interview, and the joint statement released by the Grand Slams warning that she could face expulsion if her media boycott continues. Was such an escalation necessary? And how could this all end up?

Elsewhere, we analyse Dominic Thiem’s loss from two sets up against Pablo Andujar and ponder what’s going on with him, react to more disappointment at a major for Dan Evans, and cover an impressive win for Victoria Azarenka over fellow two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. And lots more, including some tales from the press room.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Stewart. This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:21.1	Well it's day one of the French Open 2021. The sun is shining at least in the UK. Apologies if
0:27.2	you're somewhere in the world where the sun is not shining. But here very much is it's been shining
0:32.0	in Paris as well today David Matt and myself were all feeling the joys of spring slash summer
0:40.0	mats wearing a sort of perisiany shirt T-shirt. Been a lot of interest Matt from Follivus of our
0:47.5	Instagram account in where that shirt is from.
0:51.8	Hmm it's my French Open shirt. I think it was the Nike line that was supposed to be out in the spring
1:00.4	last year and it never saw the light of day and I bought one for myself and it is a it's a top
1:06.9	sort of French themed French Open themed. It's got Quasau and tennis courts on it. French flags
1:14.4	in Nike swush shape. Yes. It's a treat. If Nike would like to sponsor us that would that would be fine.
1:23.0	David, I mean it's not yet. No, I'm fine. They've not been in touch but you know they've not seen
1:30.1	modeling modeling their stuff before now. That's a point. Yeah and today's a bit as you say it's
1:35.6	a bank holiday so they wouldn't be in touch today with day. So in a couple of days time having
1:39.9	digested what Matt's wearing. I'm expecting a call. Anyway, Clang head to our Instagram account
1:45.4	for excellent hashtag content including your daily updates on what Matt Roberts is wearing.
1:54.8	It's been a proper day of Grand Slam tennis, hasn't it? A proper proper day. Officially day one
2:02.5	didn't feature the much talked about brand new night sessions at Roland Garros but here we are at
2:08.9	815 UK time 915 French time watching Sitzapasse midway through the first set against Jeremy Shardy.
2:17.6	So in the French Open doesn't have a night session today news the French Open very much seems
2:22.9	to be experiencing a night session. It's three all in fact Sitzapasse did have a break in this
2:29.7	opening set but Shardy friend of the poor or certainly friend of David Whitaker is fighting back.
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