Roland Garros Day 8 - Serena sunk; Federer pulls out
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Could Roger Federer and Serena Williams have played their last ever matches at Roland Garros? That was the question on the Day 8 podcast after they both exited the tournament on Sunday, in drastically different circumstances.
Did Federer do the right thing by withdrawing ahead of his 4th round match? And how did Elena Rybakina beat Serena?
Elsewhere, there’s much excitement as Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev set up their last eight clash and chat about a host of surprise women’s quarter-finalists.
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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 | I'm San Roenca. I'm Lighten Huet. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | Well, it's a mere 903 as we record tonight's tennis podcast 903 UK time 1003 |
| 0:29.3 | Paris time. Ken Ishikori and Alexander's very have currently on court after 52 minutes of battles, |
| 0:36.0 | very heavily six four two love. So he's currently getting the French tennis federation off the hook |
| 0:43.4 | of a scandalously late finish, which I think was what everybody was expecting of Inishikori's |
| 0:49.6 | very have battle could be more twists and turns to come. If there are any in the next 45 to 50 minutes, |
| 0:55.4 | we'll we'll keep you abreast of them. But we're planning not to record any addendums to tonight's |
| 1:01.6 | podcast David. Those are our best laid plans. Yeah, yeah, but anything could happen. Good |
| 1:06.2 | next two hours. So let's see. But no, it's been a really interesting day and yeah, it's interesting |
| 1:15.2 | what shins verive coming out just as he has now absolutely fresh in the ball from ball one. He went |
| 1:20.6 | three love up. He was doing all the things that I think people have been saying for the last six |
| 1:24.8 | years, you should do as a six foot seven inch tennis player playing from the baseline, not standing |
| 1:29.8 | on the back fence, but standing up in the court. When 10 minutes later, it was three all because |
| 1:35.6 | Ishikori had hit back. But yeah, interesting to see if if this is a one off for this very |
| 1:40.8 | little whether this is going to be the new him. Yeah, and everything you said, I'm sure was really |
| 1:47.2 | interesting there David, but I'm afraid my mind was thinking only about whether it's addendums or |
| 1:53.3 | addender. Yeah, and whether I got that wrong match, is it a dender? Has anyone ever used |
| 2:00.2 | it? I was going to say no one has ever made more than one addendum. Yes, they must have done. |
| 2:05.3 | I will miss you. Don't know. Okay, answers on a postcard, please. It's been it's been a big |
| 2:12.8 | old exhausting day, a Roland Garros, so please forgive my grammar. Yeah, because I mean lots of big |
| 2:21.1 | things have happened, but two in particular or two particularly big things have happened. And |
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