Roland Garros Day 8 - Sabalenka, Stephens star at night; Djokovic vs. Alcaraz - it’s getting closer
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
At the end of a great night session match between Aryna Sabalenka and Sloane Stephens, Catherine, David and Matt discuss whether this was Sabalenka demonstrating how much of a title contender she is, debate how well Stephens played, explain why it mattered that this match was good, and react to the fact that Sabalenka once again did not do a press conference.
Elsewhere, there's excitement about how close we now are to Novak Djokovic vs Carlos Alcaraz, an assessment of how they looked and the performance of Lorenzo Musetti, and much joy at the unexpected quarter-final runs of Elina Svitolina and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome back to Paris and tennis podcast hours where it's 11.30 pm. |
| 0:26.2 | Our first quarter finals have been set at the French Open 2023 and we have just witnessed |
| 0:33.8 | the extraordinary novelty of a women's night session match at Roland Garros. |
| 0:40.3 | Good aren't they? Yeah, we've had a fun night, haven't we? |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah, there's just a really really good tennis match and we all watched it in the press seats |
| 0:49.2 | together and you know it was just everything. You want to watch in a good tennis match at night. |
| 0:55.5 | And it featured two women and what do you know they can do really good tennis matches? |
| 1:01.6 | It was a good tennis match wasn't it? I realised we sort of all of our takes on this are going to |
| 1:06.9 | be coloured by the fact that we so desperately wanted it to be a brilliant tennis match |
| 1:12.4 | and then also we're wrestling with the fact that it shouldn't matter at all. These women shouldn't |
| 1:18.9 | be having to represent all women and all of women's tennis while they're out there and yet they were. |
| 1:25.7 | And there was a level on which it did need to be a good tennis match in order not to have |
| 1:32.4 | our mentions filled with absolutely more ones tomorrow and tonight. So there is an element of |
| 1:39.2 | relief here isn't there? Certainly considering Matt that there was a moment where it was five love |
| 1:45.1 | Arena Sabile Enca in the opening set and Sloane Stevens was receiving ironic applause for |
| 1:50.9 | for winning points. Yeah I mean personally I wouldn't have felt short changed by that because it was |
| 1:59.2 | it was absolutely electrifying to watch the world number two play some of the most stunning |
| 2:06.8 | tennis match in the ball in those first five games it was it was Madrid Sabile Enca in the first five |
| 2:13.2 | games she just she just came out middling the ball with such intent and also building the points |
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