Roland Garros Day 14 - Coco’s moment, but what happened to Sabalenka?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Part one - All about Coco Gauff’s incredible comeback victory over Aryna Sabalenka to win her first Roland Garros title. We discuss the key moments of a dramatic match, Sabalenka’s press conference in which she lamented the conditions, criticised her performance and even threw some shade at Gauff’s, and what the future might hold for both players.

Part two (48m19s) - Reaction to the wheelchair, doubles and juniors results, including another heartbreaking loss for Alfie Hewett against Tokito Oda.

Part three (53m27s) - A preview of Jannik Sinner vs Carlos Alcaraz in the men’s final on Sunday.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billy Jean King.
0:01.9	This is Marion Bartoddy.
0:03.2	This is Bianca Andrescu.
0:04.6	I'm Matt Villander.
0:05.8	This is Mary Carrillo.
0:06.9	This is Pam Schreiber.
0:07.9	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on the penultimate day of Roland Garros 2025, a day that has seen 21-year-old Cocoa Gough win her second major title and a first here on the red clay of Roland Garrish.
0:38.5	She did it with a performance that was frankly one of the most extraordinary feats of
0:44.2	resilience and tenacity that I have ever seen on a tennis court.
0:49.1	A dramatic 6-7-6-2-6-4 victory over top seed and pre-match favourite Arena Sabalenko, a match and a result that is
0:59.5	going to take quite a lot of digesting and one that I haven't quite fully made sense of yet,
1:06.1	to be honest, which is why I am thrilled and relieved to be in the company of David Law and Matt Roberts,
1:12.3	who I hope are going to hold my hand through the analysis of this exhilarating hot
1:18.6	mets of a tennis match and what it means. No pressure, guys. Well, it's a good description. Hot mess is
1:24.8	what I was going to come out with as well, and I also need some help. So it's all on you, Matt.
1:29.7	But no, it is one of those that, as it was going along, I was watching from a different vantage point,
1:35.0	commentating on BBC radio from up in the commentary box just below the roof there.
1:39.6	You're a couple of floors beneath me. And I was thinking as it was going along. I really, really do need to
1:45.2	talk you about this because I can't figure out where this is going, why it's going. I think I'm
1:50.7	getting there with elements of it, having spoken to both the players, heard from them. But the
1:55.7	circumstances of this match with the weather conditions, the way undulated throughout, the twos and froze, ups and downs,
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