Rome - Calendar Slam for Post Pope Sinner?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt look back on the last few days of action in Rome and ahead to Finals weekend.
Part one - WTA Results. We discuss Coco Gauff’s remarkable semi-final victory over Zheng Qinwen, the significance for Zheng of beating Aryna Sabalenka for the first time, Peyton Stearns’ incredible deciding set tiebreak win streak, and Jasmine Paolini’s run in front of her home crowd.
Part two - ATP Results (from 32m15s). We cover the remarkable performance by Jannik Sinner to defeat Casper Ruud 6-0 6-1, Alexander Zverev’s bizarre comments following his loss to Lorenzo Musetti, and Tommy Paul having his truck repossessed.
Part three - Reaction to the news that Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic are no longer working together (from 62m13s).
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| 0:38.0 | This is Pam Schreiber. This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:55.5 | It is Friday the 16th of May. |
| 0:58.9 | Rome is reaching its crescendo. |
| 1:02.2 | The men's semifinals will be played later today. |
| 1:04.5 | The women's final will be played tomorrow, Saturday, |
| 1:08.5 | and the men's final will be played on Sunday. This pod was supposed to be |
| 1:13.8 | recorded late last night and David Law wasn't supposed to be on it at all except via the medium |
| 1:19.6 | of two excellent voice notes which have hit the cutting room floor and will never be heard because |
| 1:26.1 | enter Cocoa Goff and Jung Chin Wen and a match that |
| 1:32.7 | was brilliantly described on a WhatsApp chat that we're all in last night as a drunken bar fight |
| 1:39.1 | in the end of incredibly entertaining drunken bar fight the upshot of that is that we're now recording at 8 a.m. the next morning. |
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