Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you an association with the telegraph and with

Eurosport and myself David Law from BBC Radio 5 Live joined by Catherine Whittiecombe

from Eurosport inside the Eurosport Greenroom but it is deserted aside from Lucy the producer

who is here waving at the moment here on the tennis podcast Just Us and a bit of Chris

Bradenham commentary in the background on the tennis that's come today and Catherine

we have had one heck of a day today. I think one of the days that we will probably remember

for the rest of our tennis supporting lives and I'm sure all of you listening to this

will as well I mean maybe Roger Federer and Venus Williams and Serena Williams are not

your favourite players maybe they are but nobody can argue with the significance of today and

let's take it in reverse order Roger Federer beating Stan Verenker in five sets I mean

it was it was a stunning three hours I mean pretty quick in terms of the sets but goodness

me it felt like a big deal to that did it really did.

It felt like a big deal I mean was as big a deal as you can get on a tennis court really

I mean I very rarely get nervous about recording a tennis podcast because it's just you know

having a chat with David Law about tennis but the task of trying to sum up with mere words

took place today and what is going to take place over the weekend is a formidable one

really and I doubt I doubt whether I'm up to it because you're almost exactly like Roger Federer

is celebration upon winning in that fifth set I was stood in front of the big screen wondering

whether we'd get I was sort of charting going back through the various celebrations we saw

after the third round victory against Birdick and after the fourth round victory over Nishikori

and then I suppose it dived back a bit after the victory over Misha's Varv and I wonder I thought

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