Wimbledon stripped of ranking points & Inside Roland Garros Media Day
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We begin by discussing the fact that the ATP, WTA and ITF have decided to strip Wimbledon of ranking points over its decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players. What are the main factors behind this decision? What other options were available to them? Will this lead to further stand offs between the tours and the Grand Slams? And why have the ATP and WTA not stripped tour events of ranking points too?
We then switch to talking about the headlines from an excellent media day at Roland Garros, which Catherine, David and Matt all attended. Perhaps the highlight was the way in which the leading WTA players - Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur and Paula Badosa - all opened up, revealing so much about how they're feeling. On the men's side, Novak Djokovic's game face and Rafael Nadal's humour got our attention.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Janic Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | Well, hello folks and greetings once again from sunny Paris. It is a lovely sunny evening here in |
| 0:26.0 | the French capital. Wasn't such a sunny morning. In fact, Il pleure des cord, as Matt said to the |
| 0:34.8 | our elderly neighbour as she was struggling to get out of the the front door this morning with her |
| 0:41.4 | umbrella. Well, Matt and I were huddled in the foyer waiting for David to bring the Uber |
| 0:48.7 | closer than it was at that point. I was unprepared to journey 50 meters to the Uber. |
| 0:55.2 | Such was the extent of the rainfall. The puddle outside the flat was a problem as well. What does |
| 1:01.1 | that mean, Matt? Well, it literally means it's raining ropes. It's the equivalent, it's the French |
| 1:07.6 | for its raining cats and dogs. Yeah, I see. And it makes a lot more sense than its raining cats and |
| 1:12.5 | dogs. Let's be honest. Yeah. When you when you drill down into its raining cats and dogs, |
| 1:17.1 | makes no sense whatsoever. It was media day today at Roland Garros folks and it was brilliant. It |
| 1:25.0 | was actually one of my favourite ever media days. The quality of the content that we got from the |
| 1:30.7 | players was was really top notch. David would have found the whole thing top notch regardless of |
| 1:36.8 | the quality of the content. Such was his level of pumpedness. Can you confirm David? Can confirm. Can |
| 1:43.0 | confirm. Yes, so much pumpedness. David had a wonderful first experience of Roland Garros, |
| 1:49.3 | of Stadford, Leap Shattray, of the brand new media centre. It's all been brilliant, but |
| 1:54.6 | we're not going to lead with any of that. Unfortunately, we can't really lead with any of that. We've got |
| 1:58.8 | to take a trip down politics, Elaine, again, folks. You know that piece I was talking about yesterday |
| 2:05.8 | that we started a grand slam talking about tennis rather than court hearings. Well, that lasted |
| 2:11.5 | 24 hours and we now have enormous political fallout. Yes. Now, Riemann's were were abound today |
| 2:19.2 | at the French Open pretty much from the moment we arrived on site that big news would be breaking |
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