Roland Garros Preview, ‘Drip’ Review
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A few months later than usual, but the French Open is here and the draws have been made.
We reflect on the significance of the headline match between Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka, discuss Jo Konta’s chances against Coco Gauff, break down a tough route for Stefanos Tsitsipas, consider a wide-open bottom half of the women’s draw, and debate whether Rafael Nadal can be viewed as more of a favourite than Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem.
We also review “Drip” by Denis Shapovalov and Corentin Moutet, salute Liam Broady for qualifying at Roland Garros, discuss Casper Ruud’s impressive form in 2020, look ahead to the Laver Cup at London’s O2 arena in 2022, analyse the ramifications of Simon Briggs’ story in The Telegraph about the dramatic decrease in drug testing during lockdown, and revisit our discussion about a non-gendered word to describe Alexander Zverev.
The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartorri. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Roenka. I'm like New York. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yanik Noah. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, this is Lily Denison from Minneapolis, Minnesota and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello folks and hello in particular to Lily Denison that you heard on our intro there. Lily in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm a writer, lovely rich, lovely voice overy type voice there for our intro. Thank you, Lily. It's a tough time to be in the States at the moment. |
| 0:43.0 | Frankly, it's a tough time to be anywhere, but tough time to be in the States over thinking of you, Lily and hope things improve maybe in November. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, I've got all political. No one's even said anything. Yeah, tough time to be in my living room at the moment because I accidentally |
| 1:02.0 | double-dosed in my coffee this morning and I've just in a sleepy haze. I forgot that I'd already spooned my coffee into my mug. |
| 1:12.0 | So did it twice and I've got mega mega jitters. I can't get rid of them. Or maybe it's because I've just been listening to drip by Dennis Schappervalov and current amute. |
| 1:22.0 | But either way, I'm on edge. Yeah, I think it's the latter because I've also got the jitters. So, another normal coffee. |
| 1:30.0 | Drip was on our agenda. It was quite far down our agenda, but given I've just mentioned it and don't want to have to mention it twice. |
| 1:40.0 | Should we just get our review of drip out of the way now? Can we just tell my mum what it is? Because she doesn't know. |
| 1:47.0 | It's a rap song written by Dennis Schappervalov and current amute who have now joined forces and recently released on YouTube. |
| 2:03.0 | I mean, I don't think you would, I mean, why would you want to buy it? But maybe you can buy it from somewhere if you'd like to. |
| 2:11.0 | But I mean, I would advise against that. These are tough times. I think there's better places for your money to go. |
| 2:19.0 | Well, I mean, we were listening to it and I did find myself slightly not in a nodding long for eight seconds. |
| 2:25.0 | And there is multiple references to the word drip. And then I started to get a little bit irritated by it and then the jitters did follow. So that's my review. |
| 2:36.0 | I think the sort of musical hook is all right. Very repetitive. I think that it's sort of decently produced. |
| 2:46.0 | It seems to have been produced by maybe it doesn't actually say on the, I thought it did say no property of shadow music. |
| 2:59.0 | So that's provided to you on YouTube by distro kid. I don't know if that's a producer anyway. |
| 3:05.0 | Right. It's quite sort of decent quality production. The lyrics are an absolute abomination. |
| 3:11.0 | Any particular? |
| 3:13.0 | It's like they've ironically played rap song bingo and put a load of, you know, words that you must say in cheesy low-rent rap music into a hat and pulled them out line by line. |
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