French Open preview: Draw analysis as Djokovic and Swiatek get tricky assignments
5/23/20261 hr 12 min
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First 90 secondsJames Gray· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Hello, and welcome back to Tennis Unfiltered with me, James Gray of the i paper. Uh, this is our Roland-Garros preview, our line-by-line of the two men's and women's singles draws. So if you don't like, uh, that... Well, firstly, what are you doing listening to a tennis podcast? Uh, and secondly, uh, we'll see you on the other side for the dailies. Now remember, if you want to listen to our Grand Slam daily podcasts, uh, from Paris every day over the next two weeks, then you need to sign up to our Patreon, uh, which is just £3.60 for the first month, and that will include, oh, I don't know, 15 Grand Slam daily podcasts. Uh, and then outside of Grand Slams, you get a bonus podcast every Friday morning as well. Um, you can also get in the group chat with me, George, and Calvin, uh, and all sorts of other perks. Um, today we have, uh, me in Paris and on the podcast, Calvin in Paris but not on the podcast, and George on the podcast but not in Paris. George, you're still in Istanbul?
George Bellshaw· Host1:01
I'm still in what I would call Astonbul, James- [laughs] ... after Villa's mighty conquering of it. Um, but yeah, I made a bit of a holiday of it. Uh, fly back tonight. Um, but yeah, it's been a very, very fun week. I mean, the week started in hellish fashion with that awful 70.3 and then has really peaked with Villa ending a lifetime of pain to finally get over the line there- Really