Rome - Sinner returns, Swiatek struggles and the rest search for form

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt catch up to discuss the opening week of action in Rome, where Jannik Sinner’s return and Iga Swiatek’s loss have been the big talking points.

Part one - A voice essay from The Athletic’s Matt Futterman on his time in Rome and the main ATP Results so far, including Sinner’s winning return and Arthur Fils’s comeback win over Stefanos Tstisipas which featured some aggro of sorts.

Part two - WTA Results (from 40m40s). We discuss Swiatek’s third round defeat to Danielle Collins and where she goes from here. Plus, good form for Bianca Andreescu, Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka has thrilled us.

Part three - News (from 1h13m40s). Novak Djokovic enters Geneva.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billy Jean King.
0:02.0	This is Marion Bartotti.
0:03.3	This is Bianca Andrescu.
0:04.7	I'm Matt Villander.
0:05.8	This is Mary Carrillo.
0:06.9	This is Pam Schreiber.
0:08.0	This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:27.1	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this fine Monday morning.
0:31.4	We are midway through the Rome combined 1000 event.
0:32.7	We've had a fun few days of tennis.
0:37.8	We've had a new Pope announced, news of that rung out around the Foro Italico.
0:40.0	And he's a tennis fan, David.
0:42.5	Always good news.
0:47.1	In fact, that really was quite a turn-up to me to find out that he was a tennis fan.
0:48.4	And I'm absolutely delighted.
0:50.6	Quite enjoyed Rome so far.
0:55.8	The usual very snail-like slow start. And then everything's happening and it's all too much and now it's all going to slow down and eventually it'll get exciting by the weekend.
1:00.6	Yes. Yep, that's a really good assessment of how the first few days in Rome have been.
1:05.8	I have to say it was, it wasn't specifically a surprise to me that the new pope is a tennis fan it was a surprise to
1:12.5	me that popes or prospective popes sort of were allowed to have any interests aside from god i thought
1:19.5	it was sort of religion you know no space for carlos alcaraz with all with all the worshipping going on but
1:26.6	he's a he's a tennis fan, he's a Swifty.
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