Roland Garros Day 11 - Semis set; Mauresmo's disappointing remarks

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With everyone still recovering from the very late finish to Rafael Nadal vs Novak Djokovic, Wednesday dawned with Amelie Mauresmo’s press conference, and Catherine was there to ask her about why the scheduling has favoured men’s matches over women’s matches this tournament. Mauresmo's comments - that it’s because men’s tennis is more appealing - cast a big shadow over the day’s play and we talked about why they were so damaging and disappointing on the pod.

Elsewhere, we discuss Iga Swiatek's form, whether Jessica Pegula can do even better than Grand Slam quarter-finals, how Daria Kasatkina and Casper Ruud both broke new ground, and Marin Cilic's continued resurgence.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.4	Well, we have some more French-open semi-finalists. We found a few of them yesterday and today
0:26.0	the lineup is confirmed. It'll be Casparoud who we've just watched toyle three four sets against
0:33.2	Holger Runa, he'll take on Marin Chilich, the resurgent Marin Chilich in the semi-finals in
0:39.3	a couple of days time and in the women's it'll be the world number one Eagish Fiontec to take on
0:45.8	Daria Cazett Keener, the 20th seed. I think also resurgent. I'm going to use that word about her
0:52.6	as well. They will face off in a semi-final tomorrow. Of course both women's semi-finals to be played
0:58.3	tomorrow Thursday here in Paris. It's a mere 1am podcast team. We're all fresh as spring days.
1:10.8	David did say earlier. Do you want to go out for dinner? Matt was like, we've got a
1:15.4	watch Runa Roo today, David. Calm down. I got overwhelmed. I got overwhelmed. Overruned.
1:24.0	Didn't quite work that. You should have gone with Roo, not Runa. I kind of didn't intend to go either
1:32.2	and then I thought, oh, this works. I mean it's still a late finish isn't it? It just doesn't feel
1:38.1	like a late finish because relatively it's nothing in the scheme of things. Yeah, this time yesterday
1:44.7	we were wrapped up in a tie break on the court-filipe chatriet. It's still about two hours away
1:51.2	from actually podcasting. So true. That will end up coming up, folks. Many of you will know that
1:57.9	Aminem Arozmo gave a press conference this morning at 10am. Quick word for Catherine there I think.
2:05.0	It's a sign for the schedule. We will be talking about it in quite some detail later but we want to
2:12.4	talk about the tennis first and I think we should lead with the world number one, Ege Shviontek
2:17.8	because the banana skins keep being presented to her and she keeps dainterly and elegantly
2:27.2	dancing around them and pressing right on. And I think I'm maybe more impressed with her as a result
2:34.0	because we've already seen her do the demolition job where she just sort of sweeps all before her as
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