Rybakina, Ruud conquer clay, Rafa's ready to ‘die’ on Chatrier, and Muguruza retires
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt round up the results from another hectic week on the clay, headlined by Elena Rybakina’s victory in Stuttgart. We discuss her win over Iga Swiatek and what that might mean for the pair’s rivalry, and pay tribute to an incredible week for Marta Kostyuk.
Elsewhere, Sloane Stephens’ run to the title in Rouen had us checking the Roland Garros odds and Catherine was trolled by Casper Ruud avenging his Monte Carlo defeat to Stefanos Tsitsipas by winning in Barcelona. Is Ruud now in the French Open Mix?
There’s also discussion about Rafael Nadal’s form in Barcelona and his quote that he’s ready to die on the court in Paris, Jan-Lennard Struff’s first career title in snowy Munich, Garbine Muguruza announcing her retirement, and a quick preview of Madrid.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary |
| 0:04.9 | Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis |
| 0:09.0 | podcast Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this fine Monday morning the day |
| 0:26.6 | after the 18P&WTA tours of Crown Champions in Stuttgart, Munich, Bucharest, Rouen and Barcelona. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't think I'm missing anywhere there. |
| 0:38.2 | Lots to talk about, lots to look ahead to David's here. |
| 0:41.4 | Hello David. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello, yes, it's a lot of tournaments isn't it it |
| 0:45.6 | did take some some following over the weekend particularly obviously when they |
| 0:49.6 | overlapped and clashed as per usual but also I found it quite an invigorating week of tennis I |
| 0:57.1 | enjoyed lots of the story lines I felt slightly shortchanged once or. I felt like there were a couple of stories |
| 1:05.4 | brewing that we were going to get the full house. But overall I feel like that's a bit pedantic to complain about |
| 1:12.4 | because overall it was pretty cool. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah we've gone from lots happening to nothing happening. |
| 1:18.4 | There is now no live tennis available because we are in week one of a two-week combined 1,000 events, which means that pretty |
| 1:27.6 | much until the weekend nothing of interest or import will happen. So thank you tennis scheduling once again. |
| 1:35.2 | Matt how you doing? I'm very well thank you. Thankfully Catherine we have a |
| 1:40.4 | new Taylor Swift album to listen to which will see us through. |
| 1:44.3 | It's like she looked at the clay court season and says this is a convenient time for |
| 1:50.8 | them and we appreciate you Taylor for doing that. Yes Matt and |
| 1:55.7 | night it's like we've got homework to do learning 31 new Taylor Swift songs and |
| 2:01.2 | we've somehow fitted it in around watching tennis, so not all |
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