Live from Wimbledon Day 1 - Sinner survives scare
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt were live at the end of an eventful opening day at Wimbledon in 2026.
We start with the day’s most dramatic events including Novak Djokovic’s late night victory on Centre Court, Jannik Sinner overcoming the triple threat of a dramatic fall, a bloody shoe and an inspired performance by Miomir Kecmanovic, French Open finalist Maja Chwalinska’s cruel injury on match point, and a brutal day for British tennis with ten defeats plus the withdrawal of Jack Draper.
In part two (39:45) we wrap up the day’s other key results including good wins for Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka and Mirra Andreeva, a strong showing from the Czech women, and a convincing performance by Daniil Medvedev.
We end the show by discussing the top players ending their protest after “constructive meetings” with Wimbledon before looking ahead to day two, headlined by Serena Williams (59:04).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon and presented by Barclays, the official banking partner of Wimbledon. Thank you very much for the applause from the very modest but wonderful crowd on day one of the championships here at SW19. What a breathless first day it has been. I'm trying to exhale, but it's kind of all so much and so overwhelming and so brilliant. I'm Catherine |
| 0:38.2 | Ritigar, this is Matt Roberts, this is David Law, we have accidentally all worn white |
| 0:44.0 | tonight. Yes, so you'll be able to see the bugs dive bombing us during this live show. |
| 0:51.7 | You'll be able to see exactly how real our struggle with bugs is. |
| 0:55.2 | Although they don't go for Matt. |
| 0:56.8 | He's too pure. |
| 0:58.0 | Anyway, we're all pure tonight. |
| 0:59.5 | Here we all are. |
| 1:01.1 | Two white human beings away from a Backstreet Boys video. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's very appropriate. |
| 1:06.8 | Wimbledon whites. |
| 1:08.7 | Honestly, what a first day it has been. I already had an absolutely breathless agenda for today's show. |
| 1:16.6 | And then of course, of course I should have allowed room for Novak Djokovic drama because this is, this is the Novak Djokovic that exists now in the tennis world, right? |
| 1:28.9 | This, like, how naive I was a few hours ago to think that it would be anything but this from Novak Djokovic and from Wuyi Bing, |
| 1:37.5 | who I have become a huge fan of tonight, Novak Djokovic, just moments ago getting the better of Wu 6457-7564 in three hours and 12 dramatic minutes on centre court. |
| 1:50.5 | David, how much real trouble do you think Jokovic was in tonight? |
| 1:56.5 | I don't think he was in really big trouble, but I think he wasn't far away from it becoming a bit of a crisis. |
| 2:06.1 | I think he just kept it sufficiently at arm's length when it was most important so that he was never really pushed onto the ropes and kept there. |
| 2:16.6 | And that would have been a fifth set. |
| 2:18.5 | And he said himself in his post-match on-court interview with Lee McKenzie there, |
| 2:24.1 | that really he should have lost the fourth set in his eyes because his opponent had break points. |
| 2:29.4 | And there was a smash that Wu missed. |
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