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

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It is about 730 in the evening on Sunday,

post final, post men's singles final, one of the great finals I reckon. I've just come off

commentary from it for BBC Radio 5 Live and it's always difficult Catherine to judge

the level of tennis in a final like that to judge it against other great finals more recently,

one thinks of Federer against Nadal in O8 and Rodic against Federer in O9. But for me it was up

there in terms of its drama, in terms of its styles and obviously it's a sort of draining experience.

I think for everybody involved the fact that Federer came all the way back and didn't quite win,

but I think the first thing we have to say is congratulations, no Vat Jokovic, a grand slam champion again.

Congratulations no Vat Jokovic and huge commiserations to Roger Federer because he did so well,

did need so well to take it into a fifth and seeing him looking at his kids in the box there,

obviously desperately wanting them to be able to see him become a champion. I remember Agassi

talking about how much remotivating Factor it was for him to keep going into his 30s. It was the

opportunity for his kids to remember him being a champion and I'm sure that applies to Federer as

well, so it was heartbreaking to see him look up to his box as a runner up, but huge

congratulations to Jokovic. I don't know how he did it, I don't know how he picked himself up

from that fourth set, but he did and he was sensational. I think when the match got taken

into a fifth set and email went around from the ITF statisticians who'd worked out that the

last time somebody saved a championship point and went on to win Wimbledon, saved a championship

point in the final and went on to win was in 1948, which shows you that Federer as well as he had

done to take it into fifth was pretty much trying to achieve the impossible there, not quite the

impossible because someone did it in 1948, but pretty much impossible. I think I saw another

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