Live from Wimbledon Day 10 - Sinner vs Djokovic is on! Who wins?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt were live as blockbuster semi-final line-ups were set up in both draws.

In Part 1 we review the defeats by Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner of Flavio Cobolli and Ben Shelton respectively. We discuss how much better Cobolli performed than we expected, how Djokovic is looking at this stage of the tournament, and whether his late stage fall is anything to be concerned about. Jannik Sinner’s elbow seems to be holding up reasonably well; we talk over Shelton’s approach to the match and whether there’s anything he could have done differently to trouble the world no. 1. Then it’s time for the Sinner vs Djokovic hype to begin. Will it be a repeat of Paris a few weeks ago? Or can Djokovic get him this time?

In Part 2 (31m09s) we discuss the victories of Iga Swiatek and Belinda Bencic over Liudmila Samsonova and Mirra Andreeva. Why did Andreeva not quite play her best tennis? How much is grass suiting Bencic’s game? And will the quick turnaround ahead of tomorrow’s semi-finals have any effect on Swiatek?

In Part 3 (54m51s) we preview the two women’s semifinals happening tomorrow and there’s a round of punchy percentage predictions in which Matt and David briefly reverse roles. Will Anisimova bring us closer to Matt dying his hair? Or will we get the Swiatek-Sabalenka grand slam final we’ve always wanted?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon on day 10 of the championships.
0:16.1	It's another absolutely stunning evening here on the broadcast roof overlooking a very quiet court 18
0:22.1	in fact the whole place up here is pretty quiet
0:25.5	there's a real week to vibe about the media centre
0:29.6	about the grounds actually it feels like it's building towards something
0:32.9	the stakes are high but it is definitely quieter
0:36.2	about the place too and after all the who-ha of
0:40.6	murderers row last week and seeds falling by the wayside left right and centre we do seem to have
0:48.1	actually ended up with an entirely predictable semi-final lineup in the men's tournament. Who would have thought it, David?
0:55.8	Yes, it is quite astonishing to think that it's all come down to Yanuk Sinner against Novak
1:01.1	Chalkovich and Taylorfritz against Carlos Alcrowse, which is exactly what all of us would
1:05.7	have predicted.
1:06.5	We just wouldn't have predicted the roundabout way we got there.
1:11.3	Yeah, that's pretty much the size of it, isn't it?
1:14.2	It is, and I think, you know, we did say when the seeds were falling in those first few days,
1:20.1	we haven't actually lost any, like, big favourites for the title yet.
1:25.1	I think Draper was probably the biggest shock on the men's side
1:29.3	in terms of the players to go out early,
1:31.8	but he was in Novot Jochovic's quarter.
1:33.9	So we were never going to get him in the semis and Djokovic.
1:37.5	So, you know, as it turned out, I think the sort of seeds losing
1:43.5	was actually an incredibly, incredibly like interesting and fascinating start to the tournament.
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