Roland Garros Day 8 - Nadal vs. Djokovic - It's On! WTA Avengers assemble
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We asked the tennis gods for better matches, and they delivered, with Rafael Nadal defeating Felix Auger-Aliassime in five sets on Sunday. How come it never ceases to be amazing to watch Nadal win like this at Roland Garros? Will he recover in time for Djokovic? And is Felix getting closer? Elsewhere, Catherine, David and Matt are stunned by the level of Carlos Alcaraz and assess his quarter-final against Alexander Zverev. In the women's draw, is Coco Gauff ready to go all the way? How did Leylah Fernandez expose Amanda Anisimova's weaknesses? And is Sloane Stephens back to her best?
Oh, and Roger Federer's got a dog.
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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 Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | Well, I rounded off yesterday's podcast by appealing to the tennis gods for better tennis |
| 0:25.7 | today and it turns out the tennis gods are listeners to the tennis podcast because boy did they |
| 0:32.4 | deliver day eight has been a corker David here. Hello David. Hello, you're right. It's been great. |
| 0:38.9 | I've just come back from commentating on the last match of the day with Carlos Algrass and |
| 0:44.2 | woo that was something else. It's the sort of it's a sort of performance you can only sum up with |
| 0:50.3 | sort of guttural noises. I'm not sure this is going to be the best listen. Matt's here. We're |
| 0:57.1 | relying Matt to produce eloquent words for things. I would do my best. Yes, it's very cold today at |
| 1:03.8 | right on the terrace but the tennis was was super so it made up for it. Yeah, we've just |
| 1:10.6 | been watching while you were commentating David. We're watching the prime video French coverage of |
| 1:15.6 | the evening session. The presenter was wearing a coat and a scarf. Yeah, I was in the press seats |
| 1:21.2 | for sets one on three because I was only commentating on set two and by the end I mean I was the only |
| 1:25.9 | one left in the press seats. Nobody else was braving it but I was wearing a full woolie jumper |
| 1:32.0 | and my coat and there was people in front of me in between games dancing up and down just to keep |
| 1:39.7 | warm like jogging like they were jogging on the spot. Well, yes, they were handing out blankets. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. Spectators throughout the day. It was that cold. It is scheduled to get warmer from this |
| 1:52.1 | point onwards and I think quite substantially warmer and obviously that's you know the conditions |
| 1:57.1 | are always such a feature of this tournament and we'll talk about them today. We'll talk about them |
| 2:01.2 | every day going forward but obviously that that change is is also it could be significant. Let's |
| 2:06.1 | talk about the tennis today. At around about 5pm this afternoon the news broke. |
| 2:14.4 | The Roger Federer has got a dog. Yeah. And at that moment when I stared when I gazed |
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