Rome - Svitolina, Sinner’s stunning title wins
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt convened for a live show to discuss Elina Svitolina crowning one of the all-time great title runs, Jannik Sinner completing his set of all the Masters titles, and what it all means for Paris.
Part one - WTA (00:00 - 33:48). What made the final between Svitolina and Coco Gauff so compelling? How did Svitolina’s victory show off her evolution as a player? And what’s the status of The Mix heading into Roland Garros?
Part two - ATP (33:49 - 1:13:22) We cover Sinner’s tough semi-final win over Daniil Medvedev and his more straightforward victory in the final against Casper Ruud. Could he win all the Masters 1000 events this year? How much mental and physical fatigue is he battling? And who - or what - can stop Sinner is Paris?
Part three - The week ahead (1:13:23 - 1:26:33). Emma Raducanu has reunited with Andrew Richardson - are we hopeful?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, not just any tennis podcast, but episode 15,100 of the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | Yannick Sinner might think he's the one setting records today, |
| 0:23.4 | but he has got nothing on us. |
| 0:26.6 | That is what we're here to talk about, though. |
| 0:28.7 | Yannick Sinha, not ourselves, maybe a bit of ourselves. |
| 0:31.7 | We'll party later. |
| 0:34.2 | Sinner, Svitolina, and a side helping of why on earth did Luciano Darderi think that walk-on was a good idea? |
| 0:42.4 | David Law is here. How you doing, David? |
| 0:47.4 | I'm all right. I'm trying to work out what's more surprising. |
| 0:50.6 | Yannick Sin are winning all of these titles in a row, us reaching 1,500 episodes, |
| 0:56.9 | or us remembering that we had reached 1,500 episodes and us not having to do it next time when it's 1501, like normal. |
| 1:06.2 | I can't speak for how surprising it is that we've made it to 1,500. But I definitely think Yannick Sinner doing anything successful is less surprising than me remembering any kind of significant milestone at the time of said milestone. |
| 1:24.5 | So well done us. |
| 1:27.3 | Matt Roberts is here. Hello, Matt. Hello. Yes. Here for |
| 1:32.4 | most of those 1500. There's plenty in the archive without me, but I'm going to celebrate 1500 as well. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:46.3 | As you should, speaking of celebrating, |
| 1:49.0 | Alina Svitolina has won her third Rome title, |
| 1:53.6 | her first since 2018, |
| 1:57.1 | won an absolutely thrilling final |
| 1:59.4 | against Cocoa Goff 6-4, 6-7, 6-2, |
| 2:03.3 | potentially the match of the year since the last match they played in Dubai. |
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