# The best French Open first week ever? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tennis-unfiltered-5090049/the-best-french-open-first-week-ever Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tennis-unfiltered-5090049/the-best-french-open-first-week-ever.md Podcast: [Tennis Unfiltered](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tennis-unfiltered-5090049) Published: 2026-06-02T17:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG9136020638.mp3 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/COMG9136020638.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tennis-unfiltered-5090049/episodes/the-best-french-open-first-week-ever Duration seconds: 4135 ## Resource Calvin Betton and James Gray are in Paris, while George Bellshaw holds the fort in London (while dodging celebrating Arsenal fans). Serena Williams confirms her comeback to tennis and will play doubles with Victoria Mboko at Queen's next week Jannik Sinner suffers one of the biggest shocks in French Open history as cramp and fatigue beats him (and Juan Manuel Cerundolo) Novak Djokovic is beaten for just the second time ever from two sets up, smoked off the court by Joao Fonseca in a compelling five-setter in the heat of Chatrier Iga Swiatek's return to form comes to an end with a shock defeat to Marta Kostyuk that she blames on being "tense" on the court Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff are also early casualties to leave the draw relatively open in the second week For daily podcast updates from the grand slams, join the TUSCers on our Patreon channel for just £3.60 a month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tennis-unfiltered-5090049/episodes/the-best-french-open-first-week-ever/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/tennis-unfiltered-5090049/the-best-french-open-first-week-ever.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.