Roland Garros Day 5 - Ostapenko reborn; Shapovalov combusts; Pas de bulle à Paris
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It took until Day 5, but David has finally got a prediction correct! We rejoice about that, discuss a day which didn't exactly catch fire in terms of epic matches but did deliver numerous talking points, and hear from an angry Denis Shapovalov about the non-existent Roland Garros 'bubble'.
- Return of Ostapenko, fall of Pliskova (0.00)
- Fiona Ferro - David’s new fave (11.00)
- Sofia Kenin - an anxious watch, but still going (17.00)
- Garbine Muguruza looking solid (22.30)
- Denis Shapovalov - angry and out after 5 hours vs. Roberto Carballes Baena, and 5 minutes vs. Matt Roberts (25.30)
- Does Shapovalov have a point about the French Open's covid measures? (33.00)
- Novak Djokovic - still serene. Who can hurt him before the final? (43.00)
- Tsitsipas chat - (48.00)
- Day 6 schedule looks flames (53.00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:01.9 | I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Stan Ravinka. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Lighten Huet. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:06.8 | This is Janik Noah. |
| 0:07.9 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | Well folks, today was further evidence of what we said |
| 0:26.0 | with absolute conviction a couple of days ago, |
| 0:27.6 | which is that Yelena Osterpenko is going to win the 2020 French Open. |
| 0:32.5 | Because she either loses first round or wins the thing. |
| 0:36.9 | And today, well a couple of days ago, she won her first round. |
| 0:41.1 | So obviously everyone realised Yelena Osterpenko is going to win the French Open. |
| 0:45.4 | And today she backed that up by beating the second seed, |
| 0:49.0 | Caroleena Pishkever, and how she was extraordinary. |
| 0:54.1 | Is the story that she was extraordinary |
| 0:56.0 | or is the story that Pishkever was poor and disappointing again? |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, it's both Pishkever was poor and disappointing |
| 1:05.5 | and made to look so one-dimensional. |
| 1:08.5 | And even that one-dimension was not great. |
| 1:11.6 | Usually one-dimensional players, that one-dimension is at least tip-top. |
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