Roland Garros - Tales from the interview room

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Shortly after attending media day at Roland Garros, Catherine, David and Matt react to what the players had to say. There's chat about Stefanos Tsitsipas' coaching set up, Coco Gauff's forehand, Iga Swiatek's health, Aryna Sabalenka and Daniil Medvedev's developing relationships with clay, the way Carlos Alcaraz is taking everything in his stride, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.4	Well, welcome back to Paris, everyone, and to tennis podcast towers, Paris, where you find
0:25.3	myself, David and Matt, and we've been doing, who have been doing very French things, David, haven't we?
0:31.8	Yeah, I had birth, burg and y'all last night. We've been drinking wine. We've been watching a young
0:37.1	French hope and I predicted would win Leo and he's into the final. It's all happening.
0:44.1	Yeah, it might be time to finalize what we call French players doing well in France.
0:51.6	It is musketeer. It is musketeer. Well, we've been watching a musketeer.
0:59.5	I was ready to potentially start calling this a crowning for Art of Fies in Leo, because he hadn't
1:07.0	actually had to win too many matches to get through to the semi-finals. He had a default and then
1:12.2	he had a withdrawal. Suddenly, he's in the semis, but I feel like he's earned his stripes in that
1:17.2	semi-final because he quite literally had to win the match twice. Yeah, it's made up. Yeah,
1:22.6	it was a root throw. It was like that match you and I played against one another at the Royal
1:28.8	Arbat Hall, David. It was an umpire insisting that we continue playing. It was David himself.
1:40.2	Did you fall on your back in celebration? No, and you know what, if you're going to do a
1:46.4	cancelled celebration, Clay is the absolute worst surface to do that on because poor old Art of
1:52.0	Fies had to play the remainder of the match. Pick himself up, play a match tie break, deciding set
1:58.3	tie break with the physical evidence of his lost win all over his body. It was quite an extra
2:09.2	even. Yeah, it was quite an extraordinary sight, wasn't it? And I don't know, not on its own,
2:14.9	but moments like that could be the making of him. Yeah, could be. I mean, I think that's,
2:23.8	I think that sounds quite premature, but at the same time, it was a heck of a feat to do that.
2:30.5	You're telling me I'm being premature about Art of Fies. We're recording this podcast
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