Roland Garros Day 10 - Alcaraz vs. Djokovic is ON; The sadness of Sabalenka vs. Svitolina
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Clear your schedules: Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz is finally happening. They will meet in the French Open semi-finals on Friday and the hype begins now. Catherine, David and Matt discuss how they both got there with stellar performances on Tuesday, as Djokovic came back to beat Karen Khachanov before Alcaraz thrashed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the night session. On the women's side, we talk about Karolina Muchova and Aryna Sabalenka reaching the semi-finals as well as Sabalenka's return to the press conference room.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayon Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Well folks, it is on. After 10 days of Roland Garros 2023, we have arrived at the destination. |
| 0:31.0 | We hoped to be at with five remaining days of competition. Yes, I am of course talking about |
| 0:38.3 | impwets and Miyukato, winning the mixed doubles title. They're into the semi-finals. It is on. |
| 0:46.4 | And I'm any half joking because I genuinely want that to happen with all of my heart and soul. |
| 0:51.1 | But I am also being facetious because of course I also mean Carlos Alcaraz against Novac |
| 0:59.6 | Jocovic in a Grand Slam for the first time. Best of five sets, it is happening. |
| 1:09.6 | Oh, I can't wait. Can you? Guys, I'm so excited. So excited. This is what we've been waiting for and |
| 1:21.2 | their performance is today. Set it up perfectly. Like I was excited about it anyway, |
| 1:27.0 | but I'm even more excited about it now. I have to see them both play today. Bring it on. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, in the words of my brother, Math, on our Alcarazmataz WhatsApp group very appropriately, |
| 1:40.6 | he said, I feel like this afternoon has been a six hour long trailer for Alcaraz against Jocovic. |
| 1:46.6 | And I really think that sums up the afternoon perfectly, doesn't it? It was a real... |
| 1:52.4 | You know, when the big three arguably, I mean, I do believe in the big four, we all do. |
| 1:59.9 | But I think in this example, I do think of it as big three. When two of them would be scheduled |
| 2:06.8 | back to back on a show court at a Grand Slam, this quite often happened, didn't it? You know, |
| 2:12.8 | one would go out there and make a statement and then there'd be a statement in response to follow. |
| 2:18.3 | Anything you can do, I can do better. Yeah, my mind this afternoon instantly went back to |
| 2:23.8 | that Australian open when Nadal played and beat Stefano Sissapas very handily, very heavily. |
| 2:32.9 | And we were all like, oh, oh, this guy is on and Jocovic is in for a trouble. And then Jocovic came |
| 2:40.8 | out and just destroyed Luca Puyers, though he didn't exist. And then it felt suddenly very |
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