Live from Wimbledon Day 12 - Djokovic. Alcaraz. It’s on.
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The men's semi-finals did not live up to expectations, with straight sets wins for Novak Djokovic over Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz over Daniil Medvedev, but they have set up a mouth-watering final. On the pod, Catherine, David and Matt are joined by BBC commentator Andrew Cotter to talk through it all. There's chat about why Sinner came less close to winning this year against Djokovic, the way Djokovic is using his aura and enjoying his status in the sport, the hindrance call against Djokovic, Medvedev's poor tactics, and the Alcaraz improvement over the last twelve months. All that plus a preview of the women's final between Ons Jabeur and Marketa Vondrousova, and plenty of dog chat with Andrew.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wembleden on day 12 of the championships. |
| 0:27.2 | On what has been an absolute celebration of British summer time today in SW19, |
| 0:34.1 | it has been the most horrific day of weather except to say that tomorrow is forecast to be even worse. |
| 0:40.8 | So we've really scouted a top-end wet weather position today because we might be using it for |
| 0:46.7 | the whole of the weekend. Matt here, David here and we've had to get a guest on today that is |
| 0:52.0 | comfortable with sitting in drizzle. So we welcomed Scottsman Andrew Cotter. We were born in |
| 0:56.7 | drizzle. We're 90% drizzle Scottish people. So this is fine. This is actually, I consider this |
| 1:01.9 | quite pleasant. We thank you for your hardiness because it's been a challenging day at Wembleden. |
| 1:08.7 | I mean thank goodness for Reeves. The roof was pulled over centre court long before the players |
| 1:13.9 | stepped out there today. Hannah got on the chat with us this morning ahead of her |
| 1:18.8 | Twitter assistant and said, I hope I'm wrong but I think we're going to only have six sets of tennis |
| 1:23.4 | on centre today and I thought, oh Hannah, you party pooper. And unfortunately Hannah was wrong |
| 1:30.0 | because we did only get six sets of tennis today on the centre court. It has set up what should |
| 1:35.2 | be an incredible final between the top two seeds, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alkaraz but |
| 1:42.0 | let's be frank Andrew, those were not the semi-finals we quite hoped for. |
| 1:47.2 | No, I mean there have been, can I say that this used championships on the men's side of things |
| 1:53.8 | in particular has been short on classics that have been a few and I think Andy Monty |
| 1:58.3 | sets a pass over a couple of days was not a classic but just you want something to provide that |
| 2:03.1 | drama and go five sets and do we say it as well. It hasn't been that but I think the first one |
| 2:08.3 | I was commentating on was Djokovic doing his thing again basically and centre was very good in |
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