ROLAND-GARROS
19 May - 8 June 2025
Throughout the year, "Courtside Conversations: the Roland-Garros tennis podcast" invites you to listen to some exciting and insightful chats between host Gigi Salmon and her high-profile guests. After Alex Corretja, Marion Bartoli, Amélie Mauresmo, Mark Woodforde, Mats Wilander, Cédric Pioline and Christopher Clarey in 2024, season two just kicked-off!
"Courtside Conversations" – EP 8: Australian Open debrief
In this eighth episode of your podcast, Gigi Salmon and Daniela Hantuchova look back at the 2025 season’s opening Grand Slam.
©FFTFor this second season of the Roland-Garros podcast, the British sports journalist reviewed this 2025 Australian Open with the help of Daniela Hantuchova, semi-finalist in Melbourne in 2008 and mixed double champion in each Grand Slam.
Together, they talk about Madison Keys' triumph, Jannik Sinner's domination, Aryna Sabalenka's run to a third final in a row, but also the results of Iga Swiatek, Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.
The former world No.5 also payed a heartfelt tribute to Simona Halep during this episode. The 2018 Roland-Garros champion who had just announced the end of her career.
To hear Gigi and Daniela’s chat in full, find yourself a comfortable seat and click on the player below:
The podcast will return in April for a new episode dedicated to the Sunshine Double (Indian Wells and Miami) and the season’s first clay-court tournaments, which mark the start of the countdown to Roland-Garros.