Roland Garros Day 4 - Escape for Alcaraz; Give Raducanu time
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Wednesday was the day this Roland Garros came alive, with Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev both being forced to save match point in their five-set victories, and the women’s draw losing Maria Sakkari, all in the space of a few hours. How come Alcaraz ended up having to save match point? And will this match make him more or less likely to win the tournament? Catherine, David and Matt also talk about Emma Raducanu's defeat and the coverage of it, how Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are shaping up, and who might come through the wide open bottom half in the women's draw.
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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 Janic Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | Well folks, with four days down of the French Open 2022, we have been in Paris nearly a week and |
| 0:26.2 | finally we've embarked upon round two of Roland Garros. It has begun with 50% of the way through |
| 0:35.4 | round two matches in fact and the favourite on the men's side for the title in many people's eyes. |
| 0:42.4 | I believe in the bookmaker's eyes, pre-tournament at least, remains alive just the Alca Rasmata's dream |
| 0:52.6 | lives on. Yeah, it does but you know I haven't checked the bookies' odds but I dare say he's fallen |
| 1:01.3 | quite a bit. I mean it's certainly in public opinion people are starting to withdraw from their |
| 1:08.4 | their positions. I'm sensing quite a lot of things. And in your ship David. Yeah. Well, I've got a lot |
| 1:14.1 | of questions in that direction that I'm going to be posing to you both but let's give our |
| 1:21.6 | dear listeners a little recap of a quite extraordinary series of events on the on the Simon |
| 1:29.3 | Mathieu court late afternoon early evening, earlier on today Wednesday in Paris. Carlos Alcaraz coming |
| 1:38.5 | from match point down to beat, countryman Albert Ramos Vinyalas who obviously is a tremendous |
| 1:46.6 | servant of the game that's been around for so long and you know four career titles remember |
| 1:51.6 | beat Roger Federer in Shanghai at that time. Beat Andy Murray did neon route to the Monte Carlo |
| 1:57.0 | final. He's had results. He's been solid. He's been more than solid on occasion. I don't think he's |
| 2:03.6 | a particularly memorable player in any of our eyes is he he's an opponent. He's a he's just sort |
| 2:11.7 | of typical solid clay quarter that's always there or there about but never a factor. And today |
| 2:18.5 | he suddenly decided to make himself a factor again. It's almost as if there was a bit of the |
| 2:24.6 | denial mevada about him. You know in the pre tournament press conference when denial mevada |
| 2:28.9 | sort of Riley said all the famous Carlos Alcaraz. Yes. It was almost that quote was Albert |
| 2:37.9 | Ramos Vinyalas today was the very embodiment of that quote. That's I agree with you. And isn't it |
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