Rome - Inequalities, early results and is Pietrangeli the best court in the world?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

While Rome has been underway for a few days now, we pick off this episode where we left off, by discussing the fallout from the women’s doubles final ceremony in Madrid where the players were not allowed to speak.

Four days after the event, the tournament finally apologised, but not before Jessica Pegula had had more to say and a piece by Matt Futterman in the New York Times had drawn attention to the large scale inequalities faced by women in tennis.

Catherine, David and Matt discuss all of that before getting on to the main headlines from Rome so far, including the wonder of Court Pietrangeli, total dominance from Iga Swiatek, a surprise defeat for Aryna Sabalenka against Sofia Kenin, impressive performances by Marketa Vondrousova which have left us wondering if she’s happening again, better signs from Novak Djokovic, and a defiant victory by Holger Rune against Fabio Fognini and the Italian crowd.

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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.
0:20.9	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast where it is Sunday evening in London and
0:28.9	Solly Hall where you find us this evening. We all have Rome on our Tellies and it looks like Solly
0:36.7	Hall quite frankly and has done all week with the midway point of the tournament sort of ish. I think
0:43.3	it got going officially on Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday was qualifying but yeah we're sort of
0:52.0	in the midway point and I have got a match between Alexander Zverev and David Goffat on my screen
1:00.0	and everybody watching is wrapped in blankets and quite frankly it's just good to see tennis being
1:07.5	played because a lot of the tournaments so far has been well where is the Solly Hall weekend David
1:15.6	what is going on and can it please change in the next 18 hours before I arrive in Rome because
1:25.1	I've seen the forecast and I am most displeased by it. Yeah, yeah it hasn't exactly been vintage so far
1:33.6	has it for the last week. I kind of feel like Rome and Solly Hall have swapped with us for the day
1:39.2	because we've actually had quite nice weather today but at least it didn't rain all day and it
1:45.8	did mean that the catch up that that they had at the tournament really made for a heck of a special day.
1:52.4	Matches everywhere you needed more screens than I own but I had a right good go watching as much
1:59.8	as I could and I do think it's a brilliant tournament and I actually have to say about this one
2:07.0	this day today has been one of the plus points to the longer tournament because you wouldn't have
2:13.2	had this day on a week long tournament starting on a Monday this really was something you you get
2:19.2	the feeling that in Rome they come out big time at the weekend and because a lot of the matches
2:26.3	are on outside courts or Pietrangelo which is an accessible court on a grounds pass and it's
2:32.2	I think I saw it was 24 euros to get in. The atmosphere was electric it was so special at that
2:38.4	tournament today. Yeah we'll talk about Pietrangelo over the course of this episode and I'm sure
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