Roland Garros Re-Lived 2015/16: When Stan became the Man and Novak completed the Slam

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 6 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Novak Djokovic’s quest to win Roland Garros and complete his career Grand Slam is the focus of this episode as we look back on his near miss against Stan Wawrinka in the 2015 final and his moment of triumph over Andy Murray a year later.

How can Wawrinka trouble Djokovic like nobody else? What was memorable about the ovation Djokovic received after that final? How did he bounce back from such a painful defeat? Was Murray’s fatigue a factor in the 2016 final? And how significant is it that Djokovic, by holding all four slams at once, accomplished something that Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have never done?

We also speak to Marian Vajda, Djokovic’s long-time coach and confidant, who tells us about the way in which Nadal’s dominance gradually eroded Djokovic’s love of clay, the emotions Novak experienced after finally beating Nadal but then losing to Wawrinka in 2015, whether he ever doubted that Djokovic would win at Roland Garros, and the stress Djokovic felt before facing Murray in 2016.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, featuring 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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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli.
0:02.0	I'm Matt Vylander.
0:03.0	This is Mary Carillo.
0:04.0	I'm Stan Ravinka.
0:05.0	I'm Lighten Jutt.
0:06.0	I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.0	This is Janik Noah.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.0	So we're going to fast forward a few additions of Roland Garros to get through to 2015.
0:26.0	How many's Raffaunerdale won in the meantime since he lost in 2009?
0:30.0	He's won what?
0:31.0	Another five?
0:32.0	Yeah, five in a row.
0:33.0	The first time he'd won five in a row, first time any man had won five in a row.
0:38.0	2010 to 2014 just utter Nadal dominance.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	And then it all sort of went a bit wrong, didn't it, in 2015 for him?
0:50.0	And meanwhile, Novak Djokovic is the dominant player in the world.
0:54.0	And he still has that big gap in his CV, the French Open.
1:00.0	He'd never won it.
1:01.0	Would he ever win it?
1:02.0	Well, what would happen in 2015 is a saga in of itself and he would go on and have another one in 2016.
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