On this episode, we are bringing the audio from our YouTube Live! You can catch the video version here - YouTube Live Recording: Alcaraz defends Madrid Title; Sabalenka outlasts Iga; Rome Preview!
We begin the show discussing the results from Masters 1000 event Madrid. In the men's draw, Alcaraz defends his title just as he did in Barcelona against a surprise finalist, the Lucky Loser Jean Leonard Struff. On the women's draw we got a rematch of the Stuttgart final from a few weeks ago between Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka, and this time it is Aryna Sabalenka who takes the title, her second Madrid win.
We discuss notable players who had really good tournaments, including 16 year old Mirra Andreeva, chinese star Zhizhen Zhang, and a surprising return to form from Aslan Karatsev. We also dive into the cake-gate controversy and the decision from the tournament to not let the women's doubles champions and runner ups to have a speech during the trophy ceremony.
We also preview the draw for the Masters 1000 event in Rome! We go quarter by quarter discussing the most notable match-ups, and we give our predictions from the quarterfinals onwards.
At the end of the show, we do some Rome related Trivia! Listen to the end to see if you can get more correct answers than our host Jishnu!
Keep an eye out for our next YouTube live coming in 2 weeks, when we will recap the results from Rome and discuss the ATP and WTA power rankings as we head toward the second grand slam of the season in Roland Garros!
Episode Timestamps:
1:19 Biggest Stories: Episode Preview
6:25 Madrid Results Discussion: ATP
25:28 Madrid Results Discussion: WTA
39:10 Madrid Cake-gate controversy and silencing of WTA doubles champions/runner-ups
56:07 Rome Draw Preview ATP
1:25:50 Rome Draw Preview WTA and Predictions
1:42:36 Podcast Fantasy League Results, Other News, and Rome Trivia!
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