Live from Wimbledon Day 2 - Rybakina, Roger and rain return
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Persistent rain meant that only 8 matches were finished on Tuesday and that Catherine, David and Matt needed to shelter from the rain for the Day 2 pod. There's chat about Roger Federer's return to Wimbledon, a nervy start from Elena Rybakina, lots of great shot-making from Carlos Alcaraz and Ons Jabeur, an efficient win and a new service motion for Andy Murray, Aryna Sabalenka's first match back after the Russia and Belarus ban, and a look ahead to Day 3 with an eye-watering 87 singles matches on the schedule.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bartoli. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam |
| 0:06.0 | Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast Live from Wimbledon on day two of the championships |
| 0:28.0 | where for anybody that cannot see us right now, let me, let me paint a picture for you. Find us not even |
| 0:38.0 | in our wet weather position today. Our wet weather position quickly became due to |
| 0:45.0 | torrential conditions, a literal wet weather position. We are in something even more emergency |
| 0:51.0 | than a wet weather position. Shriver is not dead. There are three men on the tennis podcast |
| 0:56.0 | team. All of them are in the dry right now and you find myself, Catherine Whittaker, |
| 1:02.0 | perched underneath an umbrella. We appreciate it. Good times guys. Good times at Wimbledon. |
| 1:13.0 | What a day. What a day it has been. It has been the kind of day where if we didn't have two |
| 1:20.0 | gloves on two show courts, we had been watching the 1980 tie break between Morgan Mac and |
| 1:25.0 | Rowe on a loop today. That's right. I mean, it really brought back memories of my childhood |
| 1:31.0 | in terms of just not being out of watch tennis in the first, there was an hour before |
| 1:36.0 | the show courts with the roofs got underway and where you're actually able to watch no matter what. |
| 1:43.0 | And then I was on court number 18 where Katie Bolter was playing and it was an hour and one |
| 1:50.0 | minute she'd played to get to six five down in the in the first set against Staria Savile. |
| 1:56.0 | And it reminded me of 1997 being on exactly the same court having queued for three days and not |
| 2:05.0 | seen a single ball hit. And that was the moment that broke my enthusiasm for queuing and for |
| 2:15.0 | tennis as a fan. You were broken. I was broken. Yes. I spent two days in the |
| 2:21.0 | queue nonstop in a tent with my good friend Alex Kenneson who I went to university with |
| 2:26.0 | and I've been to two previous years with a loved every minute of it and we had a great |
| 2:30.0 | time and then 1997 we saw two days of unbroken rain and we got on court number 18 and we |
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