Doing The Best I Can With What I GOT

1 hour 30 minutes Posted May 6, 2024 at 1:27 am.

Women save the day (after Aryna steps in it)

More of Madrid women’s draw shining bright

Ons Jabeur makes a statement about women’s sports + Feliciano Lopez’s change of tone

Never stay for your farewell ceremony

Shirtgate: the height of idgaf-ness

Men’s draw ravaged by injuries but Andrey overcomes

Cornet is retiring, Tsitsidosa is breaking up

Our thoughts on Challengers

What’s the first thing you’d change if you were in charge of the WTA/ATP merger?

Players who’ve taken us on journeys of like and dislike (or apathy or indifference or standom, etc.) …

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Madrid stretched nearly two weeks and few of the top men survived without injury. Felix Auger-Aliassime landed in the final after three walkovers/retirements but it was a very ill Andrey Rublev who snatched the title. Iga Swiatek won Madrid for the first time (be scared). Aryna Sabalenka and Ons Jabeur provided lots of food for thought -- in very different ways -- on women’s sports and continuing inequities. Plus, we’re bringing you our thoughts on Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited queer tennis drama Challengers (aka the crowning of Zendaya as a true movie star), and we answer some listener questions!

47:50 Our thoughts on Challengers

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