Rome - Serena, Osaka scramble for form; Nadal fights back from brink
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
With time running out ahead of Roland Garros, the Rome draws have been packed to the rafters with big names. Not all of them are in form. We talk about our first sighting on clay of Serena Williams, our impressions of Naomi Osaka, a big week so far for Coco Gauff, what we made of Rafael Nadal extracting himself from the jaws of defeat, and why Daniil Medvedev continues to entertain us massively.
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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 Lighten Hutt. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | Well we're in the heart of Rome, not the actual city of Rome, |
| 0:24.9 | but the tournament of Rome right now as we come to you here on the tennis podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | And it is one of those tournaments where everybody is playing, |
| 0:33.7 | everything is going on, everybody's had a drama. |
| 0:38.0 | It feels to me on the court so far over the course of this week. |
| 0:42.3 | And Catherine and Matt, we've got to try to make some sort of sense of it all because |
| 0:47.6 | I don't know, it feels frantic to me, Catherine, Rome right now. |
| 0:52.7 | Is that the sense you get? |
| 0:54.2 | Yes, it is. I have had a sort of manic Monday feel over the past few days, |
| 1:00.8 | but is that because the last couple of 1,000 events that we've experienced |
| 1:06.1 | have been once spread out over more than a week? |
| 1:08.6 | So we're not actually used to what used to be the kind of standard feel of a master's |
| 1:15.0 | or a 1,000 or a premier mandatory, you know, they're all called 1,000s now, |
| 1:19.6 | but yeah, the consistency for anyone that's still using old money. |
| 1:25.2 | This is what they're supposed to feel like and I think this is the optimum |
| 1:30.3 | feeling of them actually. I'm not saying I haven't been the odd moment where I felt like |
| 1:35.2 | there aren't enough screens available and I don't have enough bandwidth |
| 1:39.6 | to follow everything that's going on, but this is the great thing about combined |
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