Roland Garros - Draw drama as Nadal faces Zverev
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The Roland Garros draw threw up 128 first round singles matches, but there’s only one which everyone is talking about: 14-time champion Rafael Nadal drawn to face Alexander Zverev.
On the pod, hear the reaction from inside the room when Zverev’s name was drawn next to Nadal’s, as well as Catherine, David and Matt’s own feelings about the prospect of that match.
Elsewhere, there’s chat about the draws facing all the other leading contenders, the state of French tennis, and Dominic Thiem’s defeat in qualifying.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the team Jack, so here you'll find your crouching desk. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh great, I've been meaning to crouch more. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, your team is right down this hallway. |
| 0:11.0 | It's quite narrow. How did this not come up in the interview? And finally here is the |
| 0:17.7 | conference cupboard. Where do I put my legs? |
| 0:21.3 | Feel like nothing about your job fits. Find where your skills fit in with time. Thanks. Hi, this is Billy Jean King. This is Marion Bartotti. I'm Matz Villander. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the |
| 0:41.0 | tennis podcast. We have a cat number four. |
| 0:55.0 | Alexander Zarev. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, no. Well, it's Jordid at Roland Garros, and the three of us, myself, Katharitha David |
| 1:09.9 | Law, Matt Roberts, rocked up to La Mezzanine at Lorangeri here at Roland Garros, our first day on site. |
| 1:17.6 | We headed there in anticipation in hope of U-Lar-Lars and we got U-Lars and we'll talk about them in due course but first |
| 1:28.7 | and foremost we got the moment that you just heard there and whatever sound it was that you just heard there |
| 1:33.8 | David Law how would you describe the reaction in the room to the moment that |
| 1:39.6 | Alexander Zverev was drawn to face Raphael Nidal in what we fully expect to be his last ever Roland Garros. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, shock was the sound I think you just heard and I think that's because |
| 1:55.1 | well Nidal has meant such an awful lot to this tournament the relationship |
| 2:00.9 | between him and it and the people around it. |
| 2:04.7 | And everybody knows that this is the end. |
| 2:06.9 | And we were talking before we arrived even on site today |
| 2:11.2 | about what sort of draw would you hope for for Raphael |
| 2:15.3 | and a Dow would it be against a massive name for him to have a go against and |
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