Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon and presented by Barclays, the official banking partner of Wimbledon.

It is day three of the championships.

We're here on the close or at the close of play on what counts as an early night, 9.45pm.

And for that, we have Novak Djokovic to thank because he just put in the most efficient of all the efficient performances to dispatch poor old Stephanos Sitzipas 6.3, 64, 62 in an hour and 38 minutes.

You know, Novak Djokovic, he's a slow tennis player between points.

His matches really don't get much shorter at ground Slam's than an hour and 38 minutes.

This match started at 7.53pm. Deadline Jokovic, David, is back. Yeah. And I mean, this time it wasn't

about maybe curfew. What have we got? You know, you'd have another hour and 15. There is an element of

time pressure there.

I think their senses are heightened because he, it was a bit messy in the first round.

You know, he, he had his hands full in that match against Wuya Bing.

But I think knowing the reputation of Sitsa Pass after that match,

he needed to tighten things up.

He needed to be absolutely on it.

He didn't want Sitsa Pass to find sort of 2021 version of himself

and find himself in another awful situation.

But I also think there is that ticking time in his brain. Hello. I think he's got

that ticking time in his brain of how much energy he's got to spare in this fortnight. If he wants

to win this tournament and likely have to do what he did in

Australia and beat Yanik Sinner in a semi-final, which he knows he can do, but he did that

partly because he hadn't had many hours on a tennis court. I realize he got a bit lucky there

with Lorenza Mazzetti's retirement and so forth, but he was just so efficient today he was so clean

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