Live from Wimbledon Day 1 - Kenin vs. Gauff ignites strange first day
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Day 1 of Wimbledon is in the books, and after a slow start due to rain, the day came to life as Sofia Kenin rediscovered her 2020 Australian Open form to beat Coco Gauff in a thrilling, high-quality three-setter. Catherine, David and Matt discuss that, the state of Gauff's game, Venus Williams' special return to Centre Court which ended in unfortunate fashion, victories for Iga Swiatek and Novak Djokovic which were interrupted by rain, tough days for Dan Evans, Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime, and long queues to get in.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bhattori. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon on day one of the championships. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Catherine Whitaker with me David Law, Matt Roberts, |
| 0:29.2 | overlooking our incredible position on court 18, where live as we speak, the court |
| 0:34.8 | covers are pulling the covers over the court so it can go to sleep for the night. |
| 0:39.5 | That is the court on which we saw Stamber Rinker. When today we saw Veronica Cudamitova |
| 0:45.4 | avoid the Kaya Kanepi banana skin. That was the first match of the day on court 18. |
| 0:51.9 | Day one's in the bag. David, we did it. Yeah, we did it and it was such a day of halves. |
| 1:00.8 | Wasn't it? Because the first few hours we came in all excited, some of us came in about five |
| 1:05.8 | hours before it started when he really didn't need to. But I decided to come in at 7.30 and get |
| 1:12.7 | an omelette and walk around the grounds and take pictures and enjoy myself. Then I'd sort of |
| 1:16.8 | burnt myself out by the time one o'clock came around and well it never had a clock for the |
| 1:21.2 | answer. It sounds like a tall likey, David. No. Then it was all a bit of a damp squib for a few |
| 1:26.8 | hours and we were all a bit flat and nobody seemed to have any energy. Even I felt a bit low |
| 1:32.2 | and then it suddenly ignited. That was my take from the day. |
| 1:38.6 | To really ignite it, can I just tell you that for the benefit of anybody joining us on the |
| 1:43.5 | live stream right now and for anybody listening, hopefully you'd be able to hear them. We have |
| 1:47.4 | a crowd over over over over my right shoulder. I think this is our first ever unexpected crowd |
| 1:55.7 | for a tennis podcast. There are people wearing merch over there that have bought us beers. |
| 2:01.4 | We wear people legends. Yeah, legends. Best lives are being lived. It's like MTV in the 90s |
| 2:09.0 | over here. We did not bring them with us these people and we have not paid them. None of them |
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