Hi, I'm John Mackenore and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. I'm sitting in the players' restaurant at the

moment, which on Saturday morning with the blue sky above and a warm sun outside is a very

serene scene, actually. Not many people are in just yet. I can see Richard

Christchurch's former coach, Ron Gertzker. I can see John Fitzgerald, the former Australian

player and Davis Cup captain for many years. And I've just been wandering around seeing people

like Jamie Murray and Jamie Baker, the British players. And we're really getting ready for

people's Saturday, Catherine, after a week one at Wimbledon, the likes of which I think we've never

seen before. I mean, Wednesday in particular was just ridiculous, wasn't it?

Yes, it was the BBC's, to date, Wimbledon Roundup programme opened to the casualty theme

music, which I thought was rather special. Yeah, Day 3 was pretty sensational. There's no two

ways about it. And it really sets things up for a fascinating week, too, doesn't it? Because we

just don't really know where it's going to go next. I mean, if you actually go through Wednesday,

I mean, it was a big enough deal that it was slippery and people were falling over and dropping

light flyers. I mean, in terms of the amount of players that were pulling out, it seemed as though

something was strange in the air. And then we started to lose World No. 1 after World No. 1.

I think there were four World No. 1s that lost in the women's game. Oh, and then Roger Federer

seven-time champion lost? Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt. I mean, to address the slipperiness thing,

I mean, you can't expect us to play the same kind of tennis on grass that you play elsewhere.

I mean, I think it's great that grass has unique facets to it that you not only have to adjust

the way you hit the ball, but the way you move. Obviously, I don't want to say anybody injured

on the grass, but I think it adds to it if, you know, because not everybody was falling.

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