Hailey's Breakthrough, Sinner's Streak, and Rome on Deck

About this episode

The episode discusses recent tennis performances and previews upcoming events in Rome.

A mini pod to wrap Madrid and look ahead to Rome. We get into Hailey Baptiste's career-best run, Marta Kostyuk's unbeaten clay season (and the backflip we didn't know we needed), Mirra Andreeva's two finals, Townsend and Siniakova's doubles takeover, and the men's final that we, frankly, did not watch. Plus: why Alexander Blockx deserves more credit, the case for actually watching Next Gen, Ethan Quinn going full clay dog in Aix, and our spring merch is live (with a very limited Hailey Baptiste tee that drops out of the store May 11). Order of Play hits Substack right after. Links:  Merch: https://www.groundpasspodcast.com/shop   ATP Next Gen doc: https://youtu.be/Vwdq01RMD9I?si=HdzjlbrKhVlxeFDE   Off Season Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offseasontv?igsh=MWJhaHZ4ano4NWlpeQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr Rome Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@internazionalibnl Last Week’s Order of Play: https://groundpass.substack.com/p/order-of-play-alcaraz-out-roland-garros Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Merch Update 04:48 Breakthrough Performances: Hailey Baptiste and Others 11:48 Men's Final and Emerging Talents 24:24 Other Bits and Bobs 25:10 Rome Preview 29:41 Outro 💬…

People in this episode

Hosts: Anastasia Folorunso, Nick Carter

Topics covered

• tennis
• tournament recap
• player performances
• clay season
• upcoming events

Keywords

• Hailey Baptiste
• Marta Kostyuk
• Mirra Andreeva
• clay season
• Next Gen

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Order of Play

Places: Madrid, Rome

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