Roland Garros Day 10 - Tsitsipas shuts his **** up and wins
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Tuesday at Roland Garros was enthralling, beginning with new names doing battle in unfamiliar territory and ending with old enemies duking it out under the lights. Afterwards, Catherine, David and Matt talked it through.
Where was all the aggro between Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas? How did the clay help Tsitsipas? And how much of a chance will Zverev have against Tsitsipas in this form in the semi-finals?
In the women’s draw, the quarter-finals delivered so much drama and yielded breakthrough victories for Tamara Zidansek and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. How much did nerves affect Paula Badosa? In what way did Zidansek handle the occasion better? And just how significant is it that Pavlyuchenkova has altered her own story by finally winning a Grand Slam quarter-final at the eighth attempt?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | Well, I don't know about you, listeners, but I am exhausted after day 10 of Roland Garros 2021. |
| 0:31.2 | Not too exhausted to do some rudimentary maths, though. Thank you very much. |
| 0:35.9 | A day 10 of Roland Garros was a little bit bizarre in places. It entertained massively, but not quite in |
| 0:45.2 | the places that I was expecting it to entertain as thrillingly as it did, which is to say that Medvedev |
| 0:52.6 | versus Sitsapas disappointed on the Agrifront, but other matches made up for it. Not on the Agrifront at all. |
| 1:00.0 | I have been short-changed massively and nothing can possibly fully make up for that. |
| 1:08.9 | Due to other events occurring, it was a good day nonetheless. Is that cryptic enough for everybody |
| 1:15.6 | that doesn't know what happened exactly today at Roland Garros? There were basically two brilliant |
| 1:21.4 | women's quarterfinals, one Dada Vaman's quarterfinal and one decent men's quarterfinal, but |
| 1:32.1 | that I had such high expectations for I feel robbed by. |
| 1:38.0 | Am I being unreasonable? In normal circumstances, with normal people, yes, you are being unfair, |
| 1:47.8 | but I know how much that match meant to you on paper, so I understand it. I actually really enjoyed |
| 1:55.6 | it. I just feel like it had so much more to give, but it didn't quite get there. |
| 2:04.9 | Shall we get into the lack of aggro straight away? Yes, please. |
| 2:10.8 | I mean, I've thought for a while that those two have rode back from their bullshit Russian aggro |
| 2:18.3 | of Miami a few years ago, and this was, I think, the greatest evidence yet, because there were |
| 2:25.9 | opportunities, as David said, for there to be aggro and Sitsapas didn't take the bait, and I just |
| 2:34.0 | not sure we're going to see that much aggro from them going forward. And actually... Oh, we are. |
| 2:39.8 | Actually, Medvedev has just been in his press conference and said, I don't think we're going to |
| 2:44.4 | have that many more fights, because... Yeah, nonsense. Because actually, he framed it quite |
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