Rome - 10 for Nadal, History for Swiatek, Catherine meets Cobra Kai
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The current Roland Garros champions - Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek - reigned in Rome last week. But they took different routes to the title.
Catherine, David and Matt react to Swiatek double bagelling Karolina Pliskova and Nadal earning a tight three set win in his 57th meeting with Novak Djokovic.
How much of the 6-0 6-0 scoreline was about Swiatek being amazing and how much was it down to Pliskova’s performance? Where does Swiatek’s ruthlessness come from? Why was Djokovic vs. Tsitsipas so wonderful? How should Djokovic feel about his week in Rome? Is Nadal in perfect shape for Roland Garros? And how has the Nadal-Djokovic rivalry evolved on clay over the past few years?
There’s also a look ahead to next week which sees Serena Williams in Parma and Roger Federer’s return in Geneva, an update on Andy Murray, and a huge tangent about Cobra Kai after Lorenzo Sonego gets a mention.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Neut. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | So after all that drama, all that chat about these new players coming through, |
| 0:27.6 | we end up with the same two in the men's draw that have played each other 56 times previously |
| 0:33.8 | and they meet again in the Rome final. And in keeping with that, we've got the same people |
| 0:40.2 | on the podcast. There's me, David Law, there's Catherine Rittica, there's Matt Rollett. |
| 0:44.4 | Hello, Betty. How you doing? |
| 0:46.8 | Hello. |
| 0:47.6 | Are we all right? |
| 0:48.5 | Yeah. Yeah. Very all right. |
| 0:51.9 | Disappointed not to be the next gen. I'd think that in these podcast terms, I would, |
| 0:56.8 | oh, I suppose Matt's the next gen, isn't he? I'm sort of, I'm Grigal Dimitroff. |
| 1:02.8 | Who is 30 years of age today? |
| 1:04.8 | It's Grigal Dimitroff day. |
| 1:07.1 | Goodness. What did that happen? |
| 1:09.3 | He did an Instagram post about how delighted he is to be 30. He's very grateful |
| 1:15.3 | for the gifts that life has given him. He's not as sad as we are about him being 30, |
| 1:20.4 | which I think is a relief. |
| 1:22.7 | It's a heartwarming thing, isn't it? |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah. |
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