Roland Garros Day 12 - Swiatek and Gauff set up sizzling final; When Catherine met Amelie
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek set up a dream women's final, Catherine, David and Matt are joined by Pam Shriver to review the semi-finals, to discuss the careers of Gauff and Swiatek to date and the possibility of a new rivalry blossoming, and to look ahead to Saturday's final. How has Gauff developed over the last few years? And how does Swiatek compare to other dominant World No.1s?
We also chat about the men's semi-finals and the spectacular Casper Ruud-Holger Rune aggro before moving on to Catherine's chat with Amelie Mauresmo about the night session scheduling and issue of how female players have been treated at this tournament.
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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 |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | Well folks, our women's final is set. It will be 21-year-old world number one on a 34-match winning |
| 0:28.8 | streak, Eagish Viontech taking on the 18-year-old Coco Goff. It'll be the 2018 French Open and Wimbledon |
| 0:38.4 | Junior Champions facing off for the senior French Open title. There is so much to talk about today. |
| 0:46.2 | Obviously the two semifinals played by these two young women today as well as some follow-up |
| 0:51.4 | on yesterday's big story involving Amalie Morezmo. And because there's so much to talk about, |
| 0:57.9 | we've only got the one and only Pam Shriver to join us. Hello Pam. Hello and in your 10th year |
| 1:06.6 | anniversary week, thanks for having me on. On my last night in Paris. That's nice. That's lovely. |
| 1:12.7 | And you spend a lot of time with the Eiffel Tower this fortnight. Including using it as headwear. |
| 1:19.5 | Yeah, I mean why not? Hotel was close to it and made me seem like I was really |
| 1:24.9 | wrongly and doing a lot of sating. So why not? It's classic inster content, isn't it? Here I am |
| 1:31.0 | in Paris to prove it. Here's the Eiffel Tower. On my head. Absolutely. On my head. It's been overall |
| 1:38.8 | quite an uplifting day today. I think we are just minutes post the Coco Goff press conference, |
| 1:46.6 | which was just the most uplifting experience. In fact, I think we should talk about Coco Goff |
| 1:52.4 | first. She won her semi-final. They were both quite frankly. They were compelling in their |
| 1:57.2 | own ways, but quite one-sided semi-final wins for both Iishvillantech and Coco Goff. Coco Goff |
| 2:05.2 | was nervy to start with, but shook it off so, so quickly today against Martina Javita. And just |
| 2:13.1 | show, I can't believe I'm saying this about an 18-year-old, but showed all of her experience. |
| 2:17.8 | Well, that's the first press conference of hers I've ever been in. I've never been in the same |
| 2:22.6 | room as her before. So it's very interesting just to see how she interacted with people. Obviously, |
| 2:27.6 | most of us, twice, three times a age, it must be pretty daunting. Or at least I assume it would be |
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