Live from Wimbledon Day 14 - Alcaraz achieves the ultimate

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt react to Carlos Alcaraz's epic five-set victory over Novak Djokovic. There's analysis of each set and the way in which Alcaraz managed to win so many of the big moments, lots of general excitement about how great it was, and chat about what it means for both Alcaraz and Djokovic in the future.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.5	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon on day 14 of the championship.
0:28.8	Our final podcast where we will be digesting what we have just witnessed which is Carlos Alcras
0:37.7	20 years of age becoming a two time Grand Slam champion, a first time Wimbledon champion coming
0:44.9	back from losing the opening set 6-1 to 23 time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic to win.
0:53.2	1-6-7-6-6-1-36-6-4 in four hours and 42 minutes. We're thinking of this as kind of a group
1:05.9	talking therapy session. This is us all together processing what on earth we've just seen and experienced
1:14.8	over the course of this afternoon. Yeah, I think that's well put because I don't feel like I've
1:22.2	felt like this for a long long time because of well the intensity of the match, the length of the
1:30.1	match, the ups and downs, the people involved, the age difference between them, the achievements of
1:36.5	Djokovic, the excitement of Alcras being realized in front of the crowd, in front of the nation,
1:42.0	in front of the world and it's it's meaning. It's meaning we don't know what it'll mean for
1:49.0	the future but we certainly know what it means for the present which is something that I don't
1:54.1	think many saw coming and Alcras has just made it so and I felt like that before when Nadal finally
2:03.2	beat Federer in 2008 here there have been probably others but this is similar in terms of just
2:13.6	magnitude, maybe not as consistently as an incredible match but in spells. I was almost lost for words.
2:24.0	Not great for a podcast, do stay with it. Oh, working to it. Matt Words.
2:29.0	Word, I mean the main thing that comes to mind honestly is that Carlos Alcras is even better than
2:36.4	I thought he was. You know, like we knew he was good and we knew that he would win loads of
2:45.4	Grand Sam titles but I didn't know that he was ready to beat no at Djokovic in the final at Wimbledon
2:52.7	over five sets on the court that he hasn't lost on in 10 years. I just didn't know if he was ready
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