Roland Garros Day 12 - Krejcikova makes us cry; Nadal vs. Djokovic 58 preview
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Women’s semi-finals day at Roland Garros 2021 will live long in the memory, with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova reaching a first Grand Slam final in her 52nd appearance and Barbora Krejcikova winning an absolute classic against Maria Sakkari.
We discuss Krejcikova’s composure and mental resilience, her moonballling tactics, the extraordinary closing stages as match points came and went for both players, Hawkeye on clay, Krejcikova’s emotional tribute to late coach Jana Novotna, how the defeat will hit Sakkari, and the way in which Pavlyuchenkova continues to re-write her own story.
Looking ahead to tomorrow men’s semi-finals, we discuss how much of a chance Novak Djokovic has against Rafael Nadal, and why more people aren’t talking about the fact that Nadal is two matches away from breaking Roger Federer’s men's Grand Slam record.
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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 | I'm San Roenca. I'm like Newt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | So it's 9pm in London after day 12 of the French Open. I'm here Matt here, David here. We're all |
| 0:29.0 | in the same city. We're separated by increasingly small distances but separated still. |
| 0:36.3 | That will change next week folks. But we'll talk about next week when it happened because now |
| 0:42.7 | I feel like I need to check with you both that we're all in a fit state to record this podcast |
| 0:48.4 | because I can confidently say that an hour ago I wasn't in a fit state to do podcasting after |
| 0:56.5 | three hours and 18 minutes plus the emotional aftermath of Cragicover against |
| 1:03.9 | Zachary. I've done some regrouping. I've watched the minimal videos on the internet. I'm feeling |
| 1:12.8 | just about emotionally stable enough to record this podcast. How about you David? |
| 1:19.4 | Well I'm alright Catherine because I'm kind of used to it with Barbara Cragicover now. |
| 1:25.0 | She and I have got history in terms of her talking and me getting upset. But this was another level. I |
| 1:31.7 | have to say it was an incredibly emotional last hour of the match on both sides of the net. I found |
| 1:39.2 | myself really moved by both of those players today for different reasons and that was one of the best |
| 1:47.4 | sets I've seen in a long long time. It just had everything and I won't forget it. I won't forget |
| 1:54.0 | it at all. I think those two players probably won themselves. I had a lot of fans. People that |
| 2:01.0 | probably didn't even know they were when they started watching. It's one of those sets of tennis. |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah. The exchange between Sue Barker and Andy Murray after the 2013 Wimbledon final came to mind |
| 2:15.5 | when Sue Barker said to him, do you realise what you put us all through that final game? He said, |
| 2:20.5 | well imagine playing it. That's how I felt. I was extremely stressed in those last stages of that |
| 2:28.4 | match because everything was on the line for both players and you could feel it and see it how |
| 2:35.1 | much it meant. Then I just thought, well I'm sat here on the sofa. I'm fine. But these two are the |
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