Hi, this is Charlie the Ferret.

No, it isn't. It's Mary Carrillo and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast.

I brought you an association with the telegraph introduced there by the peerless Mary Carrillo

who joins us in the second half of the show to talk through her thoughts.

A head of the women's final and many other things as well.

But first I'm joined by the telegraph Simon Brakes to talk through our two men's semifinals

who which I must confess are not quite finished yet, although the current standing is 6'4", 6'1",

2'1 with the break to Nadal and we're rather confidently predicting that Nadal is on his way to an 11th final here Simon.

Yeah well there's an interesting aspect of this is we're not quite sure what physical state Del Pocho is in

because early in the match, a third or fourth game he sort of slid, got his sort of one leg stuck behind him a bit,

grimaced unpleasantly kind of hopped around on his legs for a bit, looked up to his blocks in a full all-way,

shook his head, had the medical trainer on, next break.

You know he grew he grew up so well in that first set which was high quality,

but then when he'd lost the first set he did look like he hit a wall a bit.

The thing is it's difficult to deduce how big a factor it is because he did proceed to play really well

for the majority of that first set until he was broken to Lisa.

I think he had six break points, had he taken one of those? I know it's the classic what if,

but had he taken one of them, this match could be entirely different.

He was five love down at one stage in the second set.

You know, soon as he got broken his mind just went and again it's the relentlessness of Rafa on the dull that does the damage.

Yeah he was sort of backing off in that second set into the Jim Currier trademark position

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