Episode 2731: Amazing Alcaraz, Yanks Are Back, World Cup Mo
It’s a new week on the Second Captains podcast, one which features both the Irish soccer team playing France, and the start of our Rugby World Cup campaign. Ken finds out today that our football team are not, in fact, playing in the Stade de France for rugby reasons – a revelation which while late in arriving, we should offer thanks for arriving at all.
We talk to Caitlin Thompson of Racquet Magazine about the new wave of American tennis talent that is in danger of taking over Flushing Meadows and the US Open. They seem completely uninhibited by the baggage of American tennis’ underachievement of the last 20 years (Williams sisters besides) and are electrifying the already-raucous New York crowd.
There’s also Carlos Alcaraz’s AI tennis brain and Ken’s thoughts on Devil movies.
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