Roland Garros Day 13 - Agony, ecstasy, history - Nadal vs. Ruud in final
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It was a weird day at Roland Garros, with Alexander Zverev's injury curtailing the first semi-final and a protestor interrupting the second. Catherine, David and Matt discuss where the matches were won and lost, how the conditions impacted Zverev vs. Nadal, the emotional toll this tournament is taking on Nadal, what happened to Marin Cilic as he faded, and why reaching a first slam final is a big deal for Casper Ruud.
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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. |
| 0:20.4 | Well that's day 13 in the books, folks, and our men's singles final is set. It will be Rafa |
| 0:27.9 | Nadal going for an extraordinary 14th French Open title and Casparoude going for a first. It'll also be |
| 0:37.6 | a first ever meeting between these two or first ever Grand Slam Final for Casparoude. There's |
| 0:44.6 | going to be all sorts on the line, but that does not tell the story of today by any means, does it? |
| 0:52.1 | Because it was a weird one in Paris today and I think it all started with the weather, didn't it? |
| 0:57.9 | The weather was, Roland Garrison's very own pathetic fallacy today. It was humid and strange and close |
| 1:07.7 | and claustrophobic and ultimately a little bit disappointing. Yeah, I think actually I think I'd |
| 1:13.8 | blame the weather for most of it because that's how it makes you feel. You know, it's just put |
| 1:19.7 | this on a bit of a downer really when you leave the apartment and I'd seen the weather app and it |
| 1:24.9 | was a big sunshine with a bit of night cloud. David was making big promises about the weather today. |
| 1:32.5 | Yeah, I specifically asked David what the weather's going to be. Glorious I think. |
| 1:36.8 | Was the worst? Glorious. Except when I got to the site, it was starting to rain. There was a big |
| 1:44.5 | black cloud over the part of France and I thought, oh, that's just a passing shower. That |
| 1:50.3 | was last long and then it did last long and then the roof was closed and it created the most humid |
| 1:57.5 | and just uncomfortable day of weather really until about seven o'clock and encapsulated the |
| 2:04.8 | entirety of the first semi-final which was just weird from start to finish really. |
| 2:11.9 | And the second one was pretty weird in its own way as well. We'll obviously talk about both of |
| 2:16.4 | them in detail. I mean, yeah, the risk of definitely using a sort of GCSE level turn of phrase, |
| 2:25.8 | a cloud hung over Roland Garros today literally and metaphorically. See what you did there. |
| 2:34.9 | Thank you very much. I liked it. I didn't really get it but I liked it. Yeah. |
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