Roland Garros Day 10 - Will it be #22 and out for extraordinary Rafael Nadal?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We've known for years that you should never count out Rafael Nadal. And yet we keep doing it! After his epic four set victory over Novak Djokovic at Roland Garros, Catherine, David and Matt gather in the middle of the night to talk about how he did it and what it all means. There's chat about Nadal's fast start, Djokovic's recovery, the way Nadal looked physically stronger, the role of the crowd, the tension between the two players, and Nadal's press conference where he stressed once again that he could be playing his final Roland Garros.
Elsewhere, what happened to Carlos Alcaraz today? Was this the best Grand Slam performance of Zverev's career? And in what way has tennis left us feeling uncomfortable when talking about Zverev?
In the women's draw, we discuss how Martina Trevisan overcame Leylah Fernandez's spirited fightback and how mature Coco Gauff looked in her victory over Sloane Stephens.
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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 |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, it is nearly three o'clock in the morning and we have all just watched Rafa and the |
| 0:26.9 | Dal do something truly extraordinary, which is a phrase that I and others have said far more than |
| 0:37.2 | we should ever have been able to say over the course of the last 20 years. But tennis finishing |
| 0:43.0 | at 1.30 in the morning and Rafa and the Dal doing superhuman things are no longer or have never |
| 0:51.4 | been particularly unusual events and yet we should not take them for granted. We should not take |
| 1:00.5 | what we are seeing tonight for granted David Law. No, no, we shouldn't. And I've still struggling |
| 1:06.6 | to get over the fact that he's here at all and competing properly after what I saw at the end |
| 1:11.6 | in Rome. That looked too far gone, an injury or problem, a physical impediment for him to be |
| 1:20.0 | able to perform like this. Well, that was made to look stupid, wasn't it? I think most people |
| 1:28.0 | felt like that coming into this tournament. I don't know too many people who thought he had a |
| 1:31.6 | realistic chance given how he looked. But then he works his way through those early rounds. |
| 1:38.8 | He's withstood the Felix Ojalea scene match, which he didn't look very good in really |
| 1:44.8 | for parts of that. But tonight the way he came out and just took it to Jokovic and just decided |
| 1:53.4 | I'm going for it. And I thought he was trying to win it quick and like he did two years ago, |
| 2:00.1 | you know, in the year and a half ago in the October match that they played and it was very similar, |
| 2:04.9 | wasn't it, to 6-2-3-Love? He was just pummeling Jokovic and he was short in the points and flattening |
| 2:11.5 | it out, an absolutely blistering shot left, right, and centre. But it was almost more surprising |
| 2:16.9 | what happened after that. How he won when he didn't win that second set, I can't get my head round |
| 2:22.4 | that. Matt, when we watched Rafael Nadal win the Australian Open in January of this year, |
| 2:30.1 | just doing the completely unthinkable, I mean, A, reaching that final in the first place, having been |
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