Roland Garros Day 4 - Rough day for France as Alcaraz-Djokovic draws closer

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There was a ‘morning after the night before’ feeling to Wednesday at Roland Garros, with the reverberations from Gael Monfils’ epic late night win still being felt around the grounds. But such is the pace of these Grand Slam tournaments, new stories quickly formed on Day 4.

Catherine, David and Matt discuss Novak Djokovic's victory over Marton Fucsovics which included an epic first set, defeat for Caroline Garcia as she got tight against Anna Blinkova, a five set victory for Thanasi Kokkinakis against Stan Wawrinka, a delightful match between Daria Kasatkina and Marketa Vondrousova, more tension in an Aryna Sabalenka press conference, a mid-match lapse from Carlos Alcaraz, Gael Monfils' withdrawal, and a big upset in the women's doubles as Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova lost their first match at a slam since 2021.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli.
0:03.1	I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.
0:06.4	This is Yannick Noah. Hey, this is John. And this is Anita.
0:09.9	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:12.0	Welcome back to tennis podcast hours at the end of day four of Roland Garros 2023.
0:30.5	And thank you to Jonathan Peace and his friends Sunita there for brilliantly
0:36.1	introducing this edition of the tennis podcast Jonathan.
0:40.9	You will remember David hosted along with his then-employers Cafe Rouge,
0:46.1	our very first live show. Yes, we were rather green then, weren't we?
0:52.0	If we didn't really know what we were doing, and Jonathan helped us through it.
0:56.1	And Matt was there in a sort of Richard Osman role at the time.
1:00.9	Working the presentation. Pushing buttons on a computer.
1:05.2	But he's still out of mic. Didn't he, Catherine? He's still out of mic.
1:07.9	Yeah, the seeds had been sewn. So thank you Jonathan for providing a place for those seedlings
1:15.6	to incubate and grow into the beautiful metaphor that I don't know how to finish,
1:22.7	that I see before me right now. At 13 minutes past midnight in Paris, the day has finally drawn
1:32.0	to a close. David has just got back from the night session where he was commentating for BBC Radio
1:38.7	Five Live on Novak. Jokovic, beating Martin Futchervich in three sets. But three extremely
1:47.2	different set, but never has there been David greater contrast between set one and set two
1:53.8	in a tennis match. I think that must be true. That must be quite an interesting stat that I'm sure
1:59.1	we would never find a way to pull, but the longest first set followed by the shortest second set.
2:04.5	Because the first set of this one was won by Jokovic on a tie break. I think it was an hour and
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