Roland Garros Day 2 - Geopolitics, throwbacks and sadness

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Novak Djokovic won his opening round match at Roland Garros on Monday without too much fuss, but he sparked a potential political row after writing the phrase ‘Kosovo is the heart of Serbia’ in the customary post-match camera signing. We discuss what he was referring to, why it's a controversial statement, and the rest of what he had to say in the Serbian part of his press conference.

Elsewhere, Catherine, David and Matt discuss throwback wins for Sloane Stephens, Stan Wawrinka and Elina Svitolina, as well as sad times for Felix Auger-Aliassime, Jack Draper and Dominic Thiem. There’s also exhilaration at Carlos Alcaraz’s performance and exasperation (again) at the night session scheduling.

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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.
0:20.6	Hello and welcome to Paris to tennis podcast towers Paris and the day two of Roland Garros
0:27.9	2023. It might only be day two if this year's French Open but I have already eaten three galettes
0:36.3	on this trip. It's quite possibly what I've missed most about Paris. Galettes on tap.
0:43.3	Yeah, I think that's quite productive, Catherine. I think you should be very proud.
0:47.6	Thank you very much. Each one has been a different flavour. I'm working my way through the whole menu of
0:52.9	Galette, Parisienne or whatever it is. Wherever it is that we're ordering galettes from. I should have
1:00.2	got their name right because then they might give us free galettes. But we've given them the promo
1:04.3	anyway. Did it work? The cost of coffee for all those years, did it? No. It has though worked
1:09.6	with Wilson. Because we've been using this stuff anyway. We have. Matt describes Wilson as his sponsor
1:19.1	because he wears so much freebie Wilson gear. Do I? Well, you wear the one hoodie all the time.
1:27.2	Send me ironically. It is a nice hoodie to be fair. He's one step away from Felix Orgera
1:31.8	Eliot Seam having his own logo in the Wilson range. I must say Felix Orgera Seam, this is a tangent.
1:40.1	I think has one of the coolest signatures because he does he does sort of half an F and then half
1:46.4	an A and half an A and then puts one line through it all. He's got good initials to work with.
1:50.7	Right. I would say. Why is his logo not that? Look, there's more on Felix Orgera Eliot Seam coming
1:57.3	up later. What I was trying to get on to Matt. Sorry, I would love to see Matt take it up with Felix.
2:02.8	Could you both stop? He's my chance because he's out. David, I'm trying to promote our sponsors.
2:08.4	Oh yeah, gone. This edition of the tennis podcast is brought to you in association
2:14.8	with Wilson. Provider my sponsor. Provider if the official Roland Garros tennis ball
2:23.4	and Wilson has given us was given Matt a lovely hoodie and has given us two fantastic packs of
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