Roland Garros Day 4 - Serena steadies herself, and is Daniil Medvedev conquering clay?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
After finally making it through a tumultuous and protracted opening round, Day 4 at Roland Garros was all about the tennis, and it certainly delivered the goods. Catherine, David and Matt talked all about it.
- Vondrousova, Kasatkina, Badosa - will one of them reach the SFs?
- Has Sabalenka figured out how to win when she’s not at her best?
- How well is Serena playing?
- Can Tsitsipas handle the expectations?
- Is Medvedev conquering clay before our eyes?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Nguyen. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.8 | podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Well hello folks and welcome to day four of the French Open. This is the second time we've recorded |
| 0:26.1 | this intro. The first time David confessed pretty late in the game that he hadn't heard a word |
| 0:32.2 | I'd said and his intention was just to to carry on. I'm just ignoring me and saying what he |
| 0:40.3 | damn well pleased. Yeah, sorry about that. I'm back in the game now. Catherine, so you can carry on. |
| 0:46.6 | He's in the game. The good news is that the interminable round one has ended all three days of it |
| 0:54.0 | and we're now into a normally structured two days per round, one half the draw one day, the other |
| 1:00.4 | half of the day, the other half of the draw the next situation. We've had half, well almost half |
| 1:08.6 | because as we record Tommy Paul is a set of peace against Danielle Mavvedev or looking |
| 1:13.6 | although looking like he's played nine sets already today. So I'd be surprised if that resulted |
| 1:20.0 | in an upset as David predicted. But yeah, as we come to you, we have completed half of the second |
| 1:26.5 | round matches and we all know where we are and it feels good. And I feel like I need a t-shirt. |
| 1:33.2 | I survived round one of the 2021 French Open because that was a long three days but finally |
| 1:42.0 | we're into round two and as you said the draws are taking shape actually. I think some real patterns |
| 1:47.8 | are beginning to develop and some storylines and we sort of know where we stand with this tournament |
| 1:52.1 | now. So yeah, I thought it was a good day. As you said Matt, it's been a long three days, |
| 1:59.2 | the screen that I'm looking at the camera zeroed in on Danielle Mavvedev and it was as if Mavvedev |
| 2:05.6 | was trying to create a gift for you in that moment to illustrate exactly what a long three days |
| 2:12.4 | it's been he took an enormous swing of water. I say what both Mavvedev and Tommy Paul look |
| 2:18.0 | absolutely out on their feet after sort of less than an hour of tennis. Not sure what's going on |
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