Roland Garros Day 7 - Medvedev makes his move; Swiatek shows she's human
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
How do you perk up a dull day at Roland Garros? You get Simon Briggs on the pod! He joined Catherine, David and Matt to talk through Iga Swiatek's worst performance in a while and why Qinwen Zheng could trouble her in the next round, the excellent form of Daniil Medvedev, a bad day for French players on Chatrier, Paula Badosa's injury, a much-needed easy win for Stefanos Tsitsipas, and growing excitement for a potential Novak Djokovic vs Rafael Nadal quarter-final. While Simon was with us, he also told us about how much he has to write about Emma Raducanu and the latest news he's hearing about Wimbledon's Russia ban.
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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 hello folks and welcome to day 7 of the 2022 French Open. It is a day that is not yet done. |
| 0:26.5 | It's around about 7.15 as we start this recording. There is a night session still to happen. |
| 0:33.0 | Doesn't even start for about two hours but there's a night session still to come. |
| 0:36.8 | On Philippe Chattray there is a singles match routine later. We're back in our Madison |
| 0:40.4 | Keys still going on but we've had the majority of the days action. Certainly the action that |
| 0:47.2 | will have an impact on the business end of the tournament as we see it. Obviously now, |
| 0:52.5 | Holgeruna and Madison Keys are going to go and win the titles and make this podcast look silly. |
| 0:57.8 | But anyway for now we feel confident that we're going to be able to bring you the big news stories |
| 1:02.4 | from the day. It's been a bit of a ropey flat day to be honest folks. We're not going to try and |
| 1:09.9 | we're not going to try and polish this turd for you. We're going to try and entertain you all the |
| 1:15.2 | way through the turd that was today and to help us do that we've got Simon Briggs. |
| 1:20.4 | I thought you were going to say it was a purest stay, Catherine. It was anything but a purest day. |
| 1:26.2 | So I don't know, did you see any purest tennis yet today? Yeah, I was thinking this was a really |
| 1:32.5 | bad idea to come over here and talk about like the least inspiring subject matter of the four |
| 1:37.2 | night. I just thought maybe you need some help. It was a change of scene or something. |
| 1:41.8 | We appreciate it Simon and we absolutely do need some help. Should we talk about the fact that |
| 1:46.0 | Egor Schwiontek lost quite a lot of games today. Should we lead with that? That potentially feels like |
| 1:52.1 | the biggest story of the day. Straight sets win but not a straight forward win. No, Matt was that the |
| 1:58.2 | most games she's lost collectively? She lost more today than she lost in the whole tournament, |
| 2:04.8 | right? Yeah, that's right. She had lost two in the first round, two in the second round and |
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