Rome: Swiatek and Djokovic dominate - who can stop them in Paris?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt review the last few days in Rome, which saw Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic sweep all before them. Will Swiatek be on her own in a mix of one at Roland Garros? What about Ons Jabeur? Did Djokovic find exactly what he needed to be ready for the French Open? How much of a concern is Rafael Nadal's foot pain? And how do we rate Stefanos Tsitsipas' chances in Paris?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Yannick Noah. |
| 0:06.4 | Hello, my name's Connie and I'm with Daddy. My favorite tennis player is Emma Radikarnu and |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Mary and I'm listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | Well thank you to lovely Connie in our intro. They're beautifully |
| 0:35.4 | introducing today's show and to her dad Barnaby that didn't get a name check |
| 0:41.0 | but I suppose to Connie he's just Daddy but we can confirm that Daddy is in fact Barnaby |
| 0:47.9 | friend of the show and and loyal listener not Barnaby that David used to live with |
| 0:53.6 | keeper of samurai swords. There was some anxiety when we saw the name Barnaby on the list |
| 1:00.9 | because David has associations with that name but it turns out Barnaby is a lovely man with an |
| 1:07.0 | even lovely adult at Connie so thank you to both of you for introducing the show and being |
| 1:13.7 | a friend of the tennis podcast. It is Monday the 16th of May. We are six days away from the second |
| 1:23.3 | grand slam of the 2022 tennis season. Eagish Rantech and Novak Djokovic are the newly crowned |
| 1:32.0 | Rome champions, gems life are having a baby and Matt's got facial hair. It's very difficult to |
| 1:40.0 | know editorially what we should lead with today David help me out. We both had haircuts have we met? |
| 1:48.4 | Yes that's right. I've had a haircut and also have facial hair. Yes two things are true. |
| 1:53.9 | So complicated hair situation right it's very difficult to keep up. I've also got facial hair but |
| 2:00.6 | as when I was 18 nobody can tell. A genuine he can't see anything. Matt's just showing you up. |
| 2:10.8 | It's always a grand slam haircut isn't it a couple of days before going. So you know |
| 2:16.4 | Matt a streamlined ready to go. And thanks to Ronan Gara starting on a Sunday we can say it's |
| 2:22.4 | grand slam week in fact. Yeah. You know we're in the week of the French Open and that is exciting. |
| 2:29.8 | We are indeed folks we are indeed two tennis relived shows to be recorded this week in person. |
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