Hi, my name is Gregor Dmitrof and you're listening to Tennis Podcasts.

Tennis calendar runs for nearly 12 months a year, but there's no more keeny

anticipated Fortnite than Wimbledon. We'll take a look at the draws,

who's informed, and I'll stick my neck on the line yet again. I've got to get it right

sometime. We'll also speak to the man known as Baby Fed. That's Gregor Dmitrof,

right here on the tennis podcast.

Well, first of all, apologies that this podcast is a week later than planned. We were all set up,

ready to go after the final of the Aegon Championships, and then something rather unexpected happened.

David Naubandian, one of the finest, as you may have seen, was defaulted.

Catherine Whittico and I, as people that run the media operation at Queen's, we were just sort

of putting our feet up, ready to disassemble the entire media room and go and have a bit of a

a bit of a drink to finish it all off, and then suddenly I found myself hurtling out to the court

to find out what was going on. So it was all rather stressful, and we were all rather busy,

and so we've decided to put it off for a week. And here we are today, Catherine. How are you feeling?

On the eve of Wimbledon, we're inside the media interview area, I should just add,

to set the scene. We've been here for a few hours now today, just getting used to the place,

seeing a few old faces, seeing a few new faces, and Wimbledon looks as beautiful as it ever did,

Catherine. Yeah, it's amazing how it still looks beautiful in the rain, isn't it?

It does, yes. I mean, it has been lashing it down so far today, but we are assured that the weather

forecast is going to be improving for the better over the next 24 hours. In fact,

Mundy and Tuesday look quite good, Catherine. Yeah, relatively speaking, compared to the summer

we've had so far, they look positively glorious. I can't wait. It should be good. No, it's going to

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