This Sport Is Brutal

Madrid ends with Aryna Sabalenka further extending her lead as number one, Casper Ruud grabbing his first Masters, and a lot of discourse around Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, and Naomi Osaka. We’ve got updates on: Jannik Sinner’s hero's welcome in Rome, Bianca Andreescu, Anastasija Sevastova, Tyra Grant, and more. We do a quick review of the strange but sometimes interesting Alcaraz Netflix documentary before wrapping the episode with a dive into the Max Purcell doping suspension, which is way more fascinating than he first let on.  Theme music courtesy of Oleg Fedak from Pixabay 01:45 Penko being Penko 5:05 Madrid: the Iga discourse  9:45 Sabalenka d. Gauff to win Madrid, joins the 11,000 points club  13:40 Casper wins his first Masters 1000 20:20 Osaka drops a level and wins!  23:15 Jannik, the ironic vir triumphalis, returns to Rome 26:15 Updates on Andreescu, Sevastova 30:20 The perplexing Alcaraz Netflix doc 40:00 Is Venus quiet quitting (or did she already)? 43:05 The Max Purcell doping case gets a lot more interesting