French Open Day 14 - Andreeva’s dream comes true

0:10Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on women's finals day at the 2026 French Open, a day that has seen 19 year old Mira Andrava crowned a Grand Slam champion for the first time. I'm she beat qualifier, Michael Wolinska, 6-3, 6-2. And if Matt sounds at all down about this turn of events, it's because he's just had the microphone rudely yanked out of his hand by Mira Andreeva in a Conchita Martinez press conference. Yeah, it's OK. It went better than that sounds, I would say. I still managed to get my question in. And it was one of those things I could see happening in slow motion. I had the microphone in my hand, ready for the last question in English.

0:56And Drava giddily entered the room and I thought, oh no, I'm going to be involved in some kind of exchange, some sort of content potentially. Didn't want any of that. But it was OK. She asked her a question. I got the chance to ask mine. And everyone's happy. I'm not quite as happy as Mira and Drava, though. I so recognised the look on Matt's face, which was, I'm about to become content against my will. Yes. He's given it to me a lot. You're going to be on tennis TV, bro. Yeah, that was the energy. But no, it was a lovely moment. And Matt was a lovely cameo in it. I certainly got a lot of fun from it.

1:36In Mira Andreva's press conference, David, she said a lot of lovely things. But one of the things that stuck with me was what she said in, I think, her first answer, actually, to you. Certainly the answer to the first question from the floor, there was an opening one from the moderator, but she said, this feels better than I even dreamed. And I thought, this is a fourth French Open, so, OK, that's not a long time coming, but it's not come out of the blue. She's had time to build up to this and figure out what it means and how hard it is and put herself in a place to really process and enjoy this.

2:12But it's not been so long a quest or struggle that all she can fear is relief. We see that a lot in Grand Slam champions, don't we, where the overwhelming feeling is just one of relief and exhaustion. It felt like the absolute sweet spot of pure joy, quite frankly, and it was lovely to see. Yeah, I can imagine if Zverev were to win tomorrow, his would mostly be relief. I think there would be obviously joy, but mostly relief. We had a question from Friends of the Tennis Podcast during a live show not that long ago when we were asked about Emma Raducanu winning as early as she did. and where the sweet spot is.

2:49You know, would you rather win at the start of your career or the end of your career? And actually, I think Andreeva's, as it's turned out, is probably perfect because she's still only 19, but she's been kind of around for three years. She's got used to the tour. She's got used to the life. And it's not just this bolt from the blue that will just overwhelm her life. She seemed ready for this in just about every way, which actually is quite a pretty breakneck turnaround considering where she was only a couple of months ago. I think she lost at four successive tournaments she lost in a deciding set and she'd been kind of up in all the sets, you know, and it seemed like a real problem for her.

3:34It almost seemed like her wind or her sun, you know. And then this tournament, that hasn't happened at all. And that's great credit to her. I mean, look, she hasn't played maybe some of the players that might have forced her into those tense moments, but mainly because she's just sort of handled it. I mean, it was Lois Brasson a year ago, and that wasn't a household name or a top 10 player. She's just dealt with everything. I mean, there was a particular moment today in the second set when she was serving for the title and she lost the serve. and, you know, you wondered, didn't you? But after she sat down, she ran out.

4:20And I remember thinking, OK, this is a bit like when Jakub Minsk ran out of the changing room yesterday. You feel like the body language is telling you, I mean, business. And I just think something's clicked. Something has clicked these last month or so. I actually think the fact that she's won these seven matches, matches she's won this Grand Slam being the favorite in every single one of those matches is a bigger mental triumph for her than had she been the underdog in in one or two of the the later matches she's even when she's been having these mental struggles she's performed really well in the matches against Sabalenka and Shontek you know she beat Sabalenka to to win Indian Wells last year didn't she and can't quite remember it was but she had a great win over during a similar period as well.

5:08I've always backed her to not necessarily win all of those, but really show up and lock in. But it's in matches like today where I've had my questions. And look, Conchita has too. And Mirandreva has had them about herself. Conchita Martinez, before Mirandreva entered the press conference room and changed the tone of the whole thing before Matt said, let's talk about Linz for a moment. Incredible. yeah one of the the things she said it was the question i asked her but it was your question david david gave me a question to ask because he heroically came out here and and set up all our our recording equipment for us she said she said look something had to change in mira andrea before she was ready to do this and i said did that change happen before the tournament then like you're kind of coming into this tournament thinking right she's ready now the thing that I'd been waiting for has clicked into gear and she said no it happened during the tournament she called it a work in progress throughout the fortnight wow isn't that fascinating but it has kind of felt like that she she's felt like a really convincing player throughout this tournament and just the odd occasion she's had a a little bit of adversity she's just seemed locked in and that answer she gave a couple of days ago about seeing the the hairs on the on the ball the fuzz of the ball you know the way she locks in on that as a way to concentrate I mean that's you know it's it's something I think a lot of people do in sport and psych sports psychologists would tell you to do stuff like that wouldn't they and it's it's really seems to have worked and there was a lot that could have thrown her off from that hyper-focus, locked-in mode today.

6:59Obviously, a very awkward opponent, but the wind. I mean, my God, the wind today. I kind of loved watching the challenge of this match for both players. It didn't develop into the match that it sort of had the promise of being in the early stages. but in those early stages, watching how extreme the wind was, I thought it could be a disaster for both of them, quite frankly. The fact that Andreva managed to produce tennis of any quality, and actually incredible quality, I think is masterful, quite frankly. I was nervous watching the warm-up. The ball was moving sideways. It was moving so much. And both players were really pushing the ball, but also struggling for their timing.

7:47And then the first point of the match was a double fault from Kvalinska. And I was clenched, you know. I thought, oh, my goodness, is this going to be one of those really tough-to-watch Grandstand finals where both players are nervous and can't play their best. And actually, the opening stages were the most compelling of the match because that was the moment where I think Andreeva was tight. You know, like she was suddenly faced with a ball she hadn't experienced all week, looped up, sliced, quite a lot of drop shots in those early stages, no pace on it at all. And when you're nervous, it's incredibly difficult to play an opponent like that.

8:33you end up not swinging through the ball at full speed, not putting your whole body into it, just arming the ball, and you get caught in the rallies that you don't want to be caught in. And I felt like in those opening stages, it was going about as well as Kovalinska could possibly have hoped for, because it was even. She wasn't serving well. Her serve was a disaster, really, but neither was Andreeva. So that meant that there was a kind of even footing, and it was actually Kowalinska who held serve first to go up 3-2. And at that point, it's weird to say it now, that it then became such a dominant win for Andreeva.

9:12But at that point, I really thought there was jeopardy in this match and I really thought it could be tight. But what Andreeva then did for the, I think she won 10 games in a row from that point, she suddenly opened her shoulders and played with much more freedom, started hitting the ball down the line. I think exploited how tired Kowalinska was after this run and played like a dream, really, for ten games or so in those tricky conditions when the wind was still up. She managed everything. She managed the crowd. You know, it was goosebumps when I went out to Chattere and saw all the Polish flags just appearing in the crowd.

9:54It really overwhelmed you. You thought, wow, they're dotted around everywhere. Matt and I were stopped by a Polish van while you were in Carrefour buying biscuits this morning, David. Matt and I were waiting on the street outside and a Polish fan was just asking people, does anyone have a ticket for Chaturé today that they want to sell? Wow. So Andreeva had so much to deal with, is basically what I'm saying, and did it wonderfully, as she has done all tournament. Yeah, I mean, look, to break it down to the real rudimentals for Linska, I do, you know, physically she looked tired today. I do think you feel more tired when the scoreboard's not going your way.

10:36You see Jakub Mensik yesterday, but it was the serve, wasn't it? She held serve once today. 46 % win percentage on her first serve, 18 % on the second serve. Like, you just don't win tennis matches with those stats. And as Matt said, it was kind of okay in the opening stages because Andreeva was struggling so much as well. But as soon as Andreeva ironed that out, she had to do the same. And she was just unable to today. The serve was totally exposed. Yeah, to get to 3-2 up, the noise that greeted that moment for Linska was absolutely astonishing. I mean, it went right, goosebump stuff, you know.

11:19And it would have been very easy, I think, for Andreeva, who wasn't really hitting a stride then. I felt she was reacting to her, for Linska's game, you know, reacting to the variety, trying to counter the drop shots and that sort of thing. And it was really only when she got a bit more comfortable and started to just impose her superior power and shot making. I mean, look, there's a reason one of these players is eight in the world and the other one was 114. and look, Valinska's going to be way higher than that and I think she's got a game that can actually cause people problems in the future too.

11:59I don't necessarily think she's going to be doing this every year but it is a tricky game and she's clever. I actually think she sort of lost her way a little bit. I think she needed to bring the drop shots back and the slice back. She sort of went into a little bit too much of a mode of the loopy. shots and andreva adjusted to them um but yeah i mean her the the conviction behind her ground strokes ultimately and and the you know she's got this big serve you don't think oh mira andreva big server but she's one of the biggest i mean she might not be rebacking her but she's not actually that far off um and and as time goes on i think she's going to be that the potential is there for her to become more dangerous than she is right now.

12:46And what an athlete as well you know I always think the wind shows up who the best athletes are. No she's not she doesn't have those trademark tiny ballerina steps that Svantec has I mean not far off and she's not I mean nobody's the athlete that Coco Gough is but I feel like she's kind of she's got the blend of everybody's athleticism she seems so it's like she has springs in her shoes it always looks like to me she's so light on her feet and she's a she's a tall player like seeing her burst into the press conference room and sit behind matt i was like oh my goodness she's she's big and she's strong and suddenly you're like wow i i see where all that power on the on the serve comes from and it's i don't know It's a bit deceptive, maybe because of how young she is in the face.

13:39She's actually got this incredibly strong, mature frame, I think. Her athleticism reminds me a bit of Steffi Graf, although I'm not sure I actually have any of my own memories of Steffi Graf. I think maybe that's from YouTube. But that kind of springiness on the surface reminds me a bit of that. I do love watching her. I really do. She's got so much in the toolkit. Yeah, I love watching her too. I'm mainly just happy that she seems to have... Maybe it's only short term, but it feels like she's found a bit of a solution to the tailspinning and the getting upset on court. I'm not saying that won't happen in the future, but I do feel like she's figured something out.

14:26I mean, even the fact that she said in the press comments, I've started trying to impersonate Roger Federer, not in terms of his strokes but in terms of his demeanour because I don't want to look like this on court, these shows of petulance, really. It sounded to me like somebody that has either chosen to or been told or asked to watch herself back when she's having a meltdown. I've heard some friends who are parents say that sometimes if their young child is having a total meltdown, they'll film them and you know at a at a calmer moment in the future they'll play it back to them just as just so you know this is what that looks like up to you what you want to do into content against their will i can relate up to you what you want to do with that information but just you know just so you know that's what it sounded like it happened to me and that is you know we all know what it's like when you suddenly see yourself or hear yourself do anything right like I remember in tennis lessons at school which were utter shite I can't believe my school even bothered with tennis lessons we didn't even have a school field we had to get a bus to Reading University and anyway I remember one day the awful sports teacher got the camera out and filmed us all serving and I was nobody in my class could could play tennis this was not it was not an athletic school folks no um and i thought well this is going to be great for me i'm gonna i'm gonna shine here and the horror of watching it back i i can feel it in my bones now it was awful anyway all of which is to say i i totally understand why that sort of thing can have a really big impact on someone yeah yeah and look i think the other important thing that Martinez said in the press conference is that there's probably still going to be ups and downs you know like I don't think it's necessarily gone from her as a player forever that she's going to be really calm on court and going to respond to all pressure that she ever faces in a really controlled way like she is still only 19 and And kind of like we talked about with San Belenco the other day, sometimes these things are entrenched in you and it's not necessarily about getting rid of it completely, it's about dealing with it and handling it.

17:06And she seems better equipped to do that than ever and I'm sure will be even better from this experience. But if we're seeing those sorts of tensions between her and the box or losing leads or not responding well to pressure in the future, hopefully this tournament will serve as a reminder for her and for everyone that, OK, that might happen, but she can overcome it and still be the great player and champion that she is. So I thought that was an important point that Martina's made. It's still a work in progress. It kind of is for everyone all the time, isn't it? And she was very keen to gently tamp down any talk of world number one or now suddenly becoming a dominant force.

18:00You know, she is number one in the race now, Mirandreva, by more than 400 points over Irina Sabalenka. She's played a lot more tournaments, I think, and I do wonder if that will be something she'll look at longer term. Like this clay court season, and they've obviously been the right scheduling decisions, but she has played a lot, I feel like, this Claypool season. So much. You know, she's obviously been, it's been a project, and she's been working on it and wanting to keep momentum going and build on that, but that is not a sustainable, long-term approach to schedule. Agreed, yeah, and I have felt in past seasons like she has burnt out a little bit.

18:40Last year, big time. Especially last year. And yeah, just to go on about Linz again, The reason I wanted to ask Martinez about that was because Martinez wasn't there in Linz, and Andreva won the title. And I remember thinking at the time that that felt relevant. Coaches are always saying, Darren Cahill I've heard say this perhaps the best, my job is to set you free so you don't need me. It's like parenting, isn't it? Yeah. And it just felt like such a moment for Andreva having had a real... You know, there'd been a sort of blow-up, really, between her and Martinez during the Sunshine Double. It felt like a real moment for her to go out and win a tournament on her own when Martinez was on holiday.

19:31And she said today in the press conference, I was on the phone, obviously, I was talking to her, I was preparing matches for her, but on court, she had no-one to blame. And... That's good. She was like, yeah, that was an important tournament. And then, OK, we still saw little moments through the rest of the clay court swing, Madrid in particular, where she was seen saying, I'm not a champion, I'm not a champion, I'm going to choke. You know, that was in Madrid, which was only five or six weeks ago. Incredible how quickly we've come from here. But immediately the clay court season was different to the rest of her season.

20:06She was winning more matches. Other than that match I've talked about in Madrid, she was generally calmer and it's all come together and and worked out brilliantly for her at Roland Garros but it's amazing how how it's happened because I was teetering on whether to put her in the mix coming into this tournament and the the doubt was not the tennis the doubt was the mindset on court and if you told me that her mindset on court would be brilliant as it has been this tournament I wouldn't have doubted putting her in the mix because the tennis the tennis is so good and she's just had a wonderful chance to express that this tournament which has been great to watch uh have i asked you already what she asked martinez she asked martinez what's what's your favorite thing about coaching mira andreva she did say her name in the third person didn't she did yeah yeah and i think uno featured in the answer yes conchita said uh we get to play Uno and I always win.

21:10And Mira was quite disappointed by that. She was like, is that it? Is that all you've got? It was a very tired parent, wasn't it? Conchita's answer. She was like, it was like, I know you think this is funny, but I want to get out of here and drink my champagne. Yeah. Someone's going to ask me about lint cinnamon. Conchita Martinez has now coached two different women, two major titles we think she's the first head female coach to ever do that um I feel pretty confident so I feel like we would know about it if if uh if there were any others um and I hope it'll you know provide an example and a pathway for there to be more in the future and I I really don't think it's an accident that it has been a female coach and a female psychologist as well i know female psychologists that has worked with male players very famously andy murray in the past um but you know a a team with a lot of female energy in it that has been shepherding a young tennis player and a young woman through to from girlhood to adulthood like i i really don't think that's that's an accident and it's so wonderful to see that bearing fruit yeah it was Pam Shriver who's who who reminded me today that she had coached two women to Grand Slam champions the other being Garbini Magarutha I I had forgotten that to be honest um which says a lot about her I think and how how smart she is and how well she communicates with these players I I think that that is the absolute key but and I I don't think it's any coincidence that a young woman is able to to take a lot from from an older woman who's had experience and who can understand things that a man just isn't going to be able to understand in quite the same way that's not to say there aren't brilliant male coaches around there are and they've coached many women to many titles but it feels like there's so much left on the table right now other female coaches who could be making a big difference and uh and i do i do i do think that these sort of occurrences will yield further ones you know if you can see it you can be it the old billy jean king statement which seems so so right and it normalizes it as much as anything doesn't it doesn't feel like some you know outlandish thing to do to hire a female coach i mean obviously It's always been more normal in the women's game, but still shockingly unusual, I think, generally speaking.

23:59So big moment for that movement. Big moment for the dogs in player boxes and involved in trophy ceremonies movement. I'd say a seismic moment, actually. It's a movement now, is it? Yeah, I mean, it might no longer need to be a movement because today has done so much for the cause, David. it. Everybody's going with the Luna trophy shot, as will we be on our Instagram. Gotcha. Yeah, not Mira's dog. She has a Bernadoodle that Rafi. Yeah, I think it's too big to bring on tour. I don't know if she considered that when she was choosing breeds. I love a Bernadoodle so much, but it's not a practical dog in terms of portability.

24:43But Luna, Conchita's dog, very portable and very amenable to a trophy ceremony. There's good lunar stuff out there, folks. Described as an 11-year-old grandma by Andreeva when asked about her in press. So that was another nice moment. You two were in the Felinska press conference and I wasn't. Was it an exhaling Felinska? Was she kind of... Did the floodgates open a little bit from her today? Not really. I think she takes it all in a stride. I think she's really cool. I mean, I think, yes, there was a bit of, yeah, it's over now. There was a bit of that, yeah. But she came out with a couple of cracking lines, I thought.

25:34Right early on, you know, she's been asked about the difference between her tennis this two weeks than the rest of her career, given she's 114 in the world, and she tried to qualify for this event three times and failed. And here she's in the bloody final after qualifying. She says, yeah, I don't really think I've played my best tennis these two weeks. Okay, how good could you be? It was very funny. You know, she also talked about, she was asked about playing on grass and she said she sort of really made me a believer that this is somebody who can you know she said I was terrible on grass last year but usually I'm quite good on it and I kind of think it works with my spins and my movement and I can see that all the things that I can do she was asked about whether she had given any thought to getting a wild card at Wimbledon how she would she you know does she think she's going to get one she says I you know I don't know but it would be the news of the century if I did she said um but uh and she says but look if I don't get one I'll treat it as a challenge and go in the qualifying and and I'll be excited to try it yes and she said she's not going to play any warm-up events on grass like she said I need a holiday so she said I thought I needed a holiday before Roland Garros anyway probably a good job she didn't Ibiza here she comes.

27:05Right, yeah. With her 1.4 million euros. She is 21 in the live rankings. That'll probably slip a bit before Wimbledon, but you know, she will be in a seeded position come Wimbledon. Do you think she will get a Wimbledon wildcard? Do you think she should get a Wimbledon wildcard? I read something on social media, and I realised that's a very dangerous thing to do, that quoted Tim Henman, who's on the Wimbledon committee on TNT saying he doesn't see why not or something of that ilk um I may have slightly misquoted him there but that was that was the gist it sounds like Tim yeah um but a bit vague I think she should be getting a wild card absolutely I think she somebody who has just got themselves to 21 in the world and reached the French Open final should be given access to play in the Wimbledon draw.

28:02Yes. I agree. I think you can argue forever about what wild cards should be for, but I think capitalising on this opportunity, on this moment, she's just got to a grandstand final, I think she deserves a wild card. Do you think she will be? Do you get one? I'm going to say yes. David's got his own movement. I think so as well I know people will point to Boisson but I do think the final is a big difference maker It is It's very different I do too I think it's a different kettle of fish I do think there's going to be a Serena wildcard I think there's going to be a Venus wildcard and we've got Scott Lloyd having said wildcards go to British players I don't think it's a slam dunk I think just about she probably will that I reckon there will be some dissenting voices around that wildcard committee table.

29:05Yeah, maybe. I mean, personally, if it were between her or Venus for a singles wildcard, I'd be giving it to her now because Venus has had a lot of them in the last few years and absolutely no trouble with that at all. And I'd also probably, I'm not sure, I mean, if there's eight wildcards, is there something like that? I mean, you know, I think there's several for Brits. How many do you need to give? Maybe not all of them. It's almost like we need to have an existential debate about what on earth wildcards are for. Stick them in the qualities. Make them earn their place, I say. She did say that she's been so stressed the last three weeks she's found, like, eating hard.

29:50Yeah, she couldn't eat a pizza. And she said, now I'm looking forward to, like, the joy of eating being back. And I thought that was the moment of real insight in terms of just how different this has been and this release now of the tournament finally being over. God, you enjoy Ibiza, Maya. Or wherever you're going, you enjoy it. And it is going to be fascinating now that she is ranked in the top 30 and she's going to be coming up against, you know, of players that we know a lot more. And I think for a while that game style can be effective. You know, it's such a breath of fresh air for us to watch because we don't see it a lot.

30:35And I think that's also partly why it can be effective because people are not used to it. I do think over time that just the power game will overtake a game like that. I don't think she's quite good enough at what she does to sustain a really top level in this power era. Especially on a hard court. Especially on surfaces other than clay, yeah. I think grass, I think the natural surfaces, you may get something out of it. Yeah, I certainly think the slice. You're going to make me say Laura Siegmund again, aren't you? But it is similar. Yeah? Yes. Disruptor, but... Tatiana Maria? vulnerable to being overpowered a lot and the thing about Santiana Maria is when we watched her win Queen's last year and beat all these power hitters you think wow that's an amazing game and then you look at her Wimbledon record and she had that one run but otherwise she played Wimbledon a lot and not been that effective you have to be so precise with a game like that in this era to actually make it work and it's just not easy.

31:50I always remember Fabrice Santoro saying that, you know, that people kind of almost laugh at my game and the sort of unusual style of it. He says, but I have to play really well to get results with it. You know, it's not just because it annoys the opponent. If I don't play it well, they kill me. Incidentally, Laura Siegman, potential first match for Amanda Renesimova on a wet grass court. So, K-Mac, you're off to Chicago. Can't wait. Okay, folks. Just to say before we break for part one, if you are new to the pod, and there are a few new listeners around this parish, welcome. We are daily throughout all four of the Grand Sound tournaments every year and at least weekly the rest of the time as well, often more.

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33:23He won six games in a row from three love down in the second set to defend his men's wheelchair singles title in a repeat of last year's final against Alfie Hewitt. poor Alfie Hewitt, whose whole life is dedicated, it seems, to trying to beat this phenom, Takedo Oda. And he's not getting further away, I don't think. It's not an uncompetitive rivalry. It's not an unrivalry. He's just not winning them, David. Yeah, and the thing is, Takedo Oda is not only getting better, he's also becoming sort of more clutch now, because he's playing so many of these finals he's getting used to winning them and it must be it must be mentally really challenging for for Alfie to to to believe it'll be different next time I mean I think in his his interview on the court afterwards he was really disappointed with his performance he said and bear in mind he hit 28 winners to 17 unforced errors in this match this was not an objectively poor performance from Alfie Hewitt he said I'm gutted with the performance it's not one I'm proud of.

34:32Yeah. In a way, if he believes that, then maybe that will help him to keep going again because you've got to believe that there's a turning point out there, haven't you? And yeah, fortunately, there's another grand slam around the corner. Yes. For him anyway. But I mean, Oda is what a superstar and what a player. Yeah. I'll say. Speaking of which, Dede Deghut is back, folks, not only is she back she has rang the death toll for Muscatair of the Day quite frankly I think she's killed it off not to take Muscatair of the Day away from Ksenia Shastor, who's won it the last two days in a row but Dider Rukh beat her today, 6-1 6-love she won 52 points to Shastos 19.

35:32Now, look, Shastos day will come. This was a breakthrough tournament for her. She'd never reached a Grand Slam single semifinal before. She's 20 years old. She has all the time in the world ahead of her to win future Musketeers of the day. And Grand Slam champions. But my God, she was shell-shocked today. Utterly shell-shocked. I mean, she shanked a second serve on match points. she was like, what the hell is this? Like, this is a player from another planet to anybody else I've played. And she's played good players. I think she took out the second seed in the semifinals. So pretty strong evidence that Dieder de Root is back.

36:13And I know a lot of you probably hear, you know, Dieder de Root winning a Grand Slam title, big deal. She's done that a million times before. This is a big deal. It was really in doubt about whether she would get back. She had very major hip surgery. just less than two years ago after the Paris Olympics. And she hasn't even reached a Grand Samp final since then, or even a semi-final, I don't think. Just a couple of quarterfinals. So this is absolutely massive for De Roo. And the complexion of women's wheelchair tennis has changed a lot since she was last at the top. There are youngsters like Chastot coming a lot.

36:51There's a group of Chinese young players as well. So whether she can be as dominant as she was before is going to be interesting to see, I think. But it's wonderful to see her back. It's a very uplifting story, if not for the beloved feature of Miskatera the day. It had a good run, folks. The top seed, Niels Vink, won the quad wheelchair doubles title, 6-3, 6-4, over the unseeded Ahmed Kaplan from Turkey. Vink's third French Open title, but is first for three years. So a big one there for Vink. We had the men's doubles title on Chatrier today. Started at 11 a.m. before the women's singles final.