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

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast.

We sit here, Catherine Whittaker and myself David Law, and it is almost 9 o'clock on Sunday night at the Aegon Championships on finals day

about an hour Catherine after the final ball was hit.

And what a week it's been, the most extraordinary week we've had Andy Murray and Amily Marismo in town.

We've had Gregor Dmitrof, the man we can now finally call our own, and be proud to mention his name after all those months of wondering whether he was ever going to do what we said he would do.

And he's won the title, 7-6 in the third set against Feliciano Lopez having saved match points.

And then we've had Raleigh Fibali raising money for Alain and Maltač's memory and her academy of tennis.

And we've had the kids on the court that have learnt tennis from her.

We've had Victoria Azarenka showing what a star she is, what a great character she is making everybody laugh and showing a totally different side to herself.

It's been, I think, the best week of my tennis career in terms of covering the sports.

I've been doing this for almost 20 years. I've not had a better one. I've just had so much fun. What do you think?

I'm delighted to hear you say that. I've had a cracking week. And I think the burning question is how much credit can we take for Gregor Dmitrof's success?

Well, I did have a quick word with him earlier. And there was a moment where we thought, should we try and get Gregor on the show tonight?

Well, the problem was the ball girls had a photo shoot and impromptu photo shoot on the court with him.

And that was on his way out the door. And frankly, the tennis podcast was probably down the list and we decided we didn't have time to put in the request, didn't we, Catherine?

That was at Gregor's request to that photo shoot. You got to the locker room after the match and we got the 80P came over the radio saying Gregor would like to do a photo shoot with the ball girls, please.

It's not often after a match whether someone's won all-off that you get a player requesting to do extra post-match activities.

I've never heard of it before. I've never heard. I mean, when that came over the walkie talkie, where I was on the court trying to look after the players in the rally for ballet.

A voice came over the radio saying, Gregor Dmitro would like to come on the court after this match so that he can have his photo taken with the ball girls.

And I was just in shock. I didn't quite know how to answer that. But of course, we did it and he loved it.

I think the ball girls loved it as well.

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