A post-Paris mailbag.
But first...
Housekeeping
• Louisiana Lighting, Chanda Rubin, is our next guest on the podcast.
• R.I.P. Maria Bueno.
• A few words on Rafa Nadal's unprecedented greatness on clay.
• Here are 50 parting thoughts to wrap up the 2018 French Open.
• Due to a bad telegraph reception, in those thoughts we neglected to mention the French Open junior champs. In the boys final, Chun Hsin Tseng from Taiwan beat Sebastien Baez of Argentina. In still another American/American girls final, Coco Gauff of Delray Beach—who only turned 14 in March—beat 16-year-old Caty McNally, of Cincinnati in a terrific match that ended in a third-set tiebreak.