Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo.

This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well folks, it is 119 AM here at tennis podcast towers Paris and up until about half an hour ago,

possibly less. Tennis was happening because tennis be tennising.

This is the most extreme ridiculousness of the lot though. Isn't it? The fact that they're actually

starting a five set match at nine o'clock. Deliberately out of choice.

Yeah, I mean, Madrid do this. Madrid do do this, but they don't schedule a start time deliberately

for 9 AM, I suppose. For 9 PM. But I don't know. I once had a very traumatising experience in Madrid

where I was somehow standing outside the locker room interviewing Andy Murray at 3.56 AM.

But this is the whole problem, isn't it? Because this is so common in tennis, it's normalised.

And barely an eyebrow is raised when tennis finishes at 1 AM. And eyebrows should be raising.

That speaking of not raising eyebrows, there were people that left Shetriy tonight after watching

I mean, I'm struggling for words for what Lorenzo Misedotti against Stefano Sitsapas was,

watching a five setter between Misedotti and Sitsapas. And then cute to get onto some unmatched

suits, the drags of Pablo Carrenio Buster against Gil Simón.

I mean, I've got to say, having commentated on the Shetriy match and walked past that queue,

I mean, I'm literally editing what you all do. And then when I walked past Simón Misedotti,

the atmosphere was amazing. And it didn't sort of, and actually I'm so bold over by the French

crowds here, having never been here before. It's so much better than they ever expected it would be,

that I tell that to Alex Dimonore. Yeah, okay, I could say that point. But, you know,

high on the sort of adrenaline of commentating, I was like, oh, you know, that would be fun in a way

to go and see the last few minutes of this moment. You wouldn't be on this bloody podcast if you'd

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