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.

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•  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

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