Roland Garros Preview - Nadal gives reasons to believe
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In our final preview show ahead of this year's Roland Garros, we were live in our AirBnB in Paris to react to an astonishing Rafael Nadal press conferences as he confirmed that he's feeling better, said there's a chance he could play this tournament again next year, and revealed that he's been practising well in preparation for his first round match against Alexander Zverev. There was a dose of realism in there too - he hasn't played at a high level for a long time - but his mood was much more buoyant than we were expecting.
We also react to Hannah's latest column to talk about how Nadal's dominance at the French Open has made us feel over the years and how to come to terms with what the tournament will be like without him.
Finally, there's reaction to Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu's press conferences, chat about possible outsiders who could go on a run, a discussion about what would count as success for Novak Djokovic in 2024, and a run through the day one order of play.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary |
| 0:04.9 | Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.0 | podcast Hello and a very warm welcome to Tennis Podcast Towers Paris and hello in particular |
| 0:27.5 | to anyone that is joining us live in Tennis Podcast Towers Paris or faulty towers Paris as some might be calling it |
| 0:36.7 | Le Tour de factoe. I don't know we're still we're still finessing the title but definitely this is our |
| 0:46.2 | humble abode here in Paris for the next fortnight and more and our feelings about |
| 0:52.4 | it are David? |
| 0:55.0 | Encouraging. I'm getting used to it by bit but yeah I do have to do some |
| 1:01.6 | contortionism in order to get around it with the lamps and the various things that can kill you. |
| 1:10.0 | So, yeah, I'm trying to get used to that. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah fans of lamps would not be disappointed in this place. |
| 1:17.0 | I promise you we really did try to fit as many of the lamps into shot as possible. |
| 1:22.0 | But there's just too many to do that, but you've got the main |
| 1:26.1 | theme lamp over there, which is, I would describe it as not fit for purpose, but our host obviously loves it. |
| 1:34.5 | There are various other lamps assorted around the place. |
| 1:37.1 | Maybe we'll treat you to more as we go on our Instagram. |
| 1:41.7 | Matt's freaked out by the sort of slightly horror-ish-looking masks that are staring directly |
| 1:48.7 | at him from the table. |
| 1:51.5 | Just add a shot. I've also just spotted a lava lamp which I hadn't |
| 1:55.1 | noticed up till now. I think all lamp connoisseurs have a lava lamp in |
| 1:59.6 | their repertoire somewhere. Can you really be a lamp guy if you don't have a lava lamp? Anyway folks |
| 2:05.9 | welcome to tennis podcast towers Paris. We are very happy to be here. We're very happy to have |
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