Is tennis having a moment?
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Wimbledon. Hit films like “Challengers.” Tennis core. While household names such as Serena Williams and Roger Federer have retired from the game, a new generation of players is on the rise. They are fueling a resurgence in the sport’s popularity and pushing for long-awaited pay equity.
Today on “Post Reports,” Martine Powers speaks with sports reporter Ava Wallace from Wimbledon about this tennis moment and the new players to watch, such as Carlos Alcaraz, Lorenzo Musetti, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff, and the challenge the sport is facing from pickleball. Wallace also offers her viewing tips as Wimbledon heads to its final matches.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon. It was edited by Monica Campbell. Thanks to Greg Schimmel.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want to know about the people who were in the Royal Box today? |
| 0:06.0 | Who is in the Royal Box today? |
| 0:08.0 | It was a big one today. |
| 0:09.0 | Queen Camilla was here. |
| 0:10.0 | Ooh! |
| 0:11.0 | Full Queen of England, simply strolling the grounds of Wimbledon, walked herself over to court |
| 0:15.3 | number one to go take in the action of Lorenzo Muzetti and Taylor Fritz. |
| 0:19.6 | Two people, I would love to know if she knew their names before today. |
| 0:23.6 | I would love to know what were they aware that like the Queen of England had just |
| 0:27.1 | happened to like show up to their they were not aware because it's so unusual for anybody who would be in the Royal Box to be on |
| 0:34.0 | court one and my girl did the wave today in the crowd. |
| 0:38.2 | So I... |
| 0:39.2 | Just a woo-woo as it goes by. |
| 0:41.6 | She was fully in on it. |
| 0:44.4 | This is post reports. |
| 0:49.6 | It's Thursday, July 11th. I'm Martin Powers, and today I am joined by |
| 0:55.4 | post sports reporter Ava Wallace, who was currently in London. We recorded this on |
| 1:00.8 | Wednesday night, so just to be clear, the Queen did the wave yesterday. |
| 1:05.2 | But Ava is there eating strawberries and cream, perhaps wearing white, doing all the things that |
| 1:11.8 | one is supposed to do when you are at Wimbledon. |
| 1:14.4 | I have had strawberries and cream but I am wearing a black sweat-proof dress and like shoveling ham |
| 1:21.3 | sandwiches into my face mostly because that's the life of the sports writer on the road, you know? |
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