Live from Wimbledon Day 4 - Dimitrov, Berrettini roll back the years
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt were live moments after Grigor Dimitrov beat Jakub Mensik in a match which began outdoors and finished under the roof, exorcising the demons of twelve months ago.
Dimitrov now faces Matteo Berrettini who impressed again by beating Arthur Fils. Could one of them..reach the final? The bottom half of the men’s draw remains open and we discuss Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Alexander Zverev and Flavio Cobolli all winning through.
In part two (32:56) we break down the women’s results, and most notably the setting up of Iga Swiatek vs Alexandra Eala in the third round. We discuss that match up and how Eala embraces representing The Philippines. Elsewhere, we cover Amanda Anisimova struggling for form but surviving a final set tiebreak, a convincing performance by Elena Ryabkina, and the sneaky good form of Emma Navarro.
We end the show by running through the Day 5 Order of Play (53:48).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast, live from Wimbledon and presented by Barclays, the official banking partner of Wimbledon. |
| 0:20.2 | That incredibly unprofessional intro was largely cameraman Matthew's fault, but also because we have a crowd. |
| 0:29.9 | They made it through security. |
| 0:32.4 | Yay! |
| 0:33.7 | We don't know how. |
| 0:35.2 | Rule breakers. |
| 0:36.1 | And we are very grateful |
| 0:37.6 | for the rule breakers of Wimbledon |
| 0:40.0 | day four it is day four of the |
| 0:42.4 | championships here at SW19 the second round |
| 0:44.9 | has been completed |
| 0:46.5 | and the last man to sneak |
| 0:49.8 | his way into the last 32 |
| 0:52.4 | was one Grigor Dimitrov. |
| 0:55.8 | If you're with us live on YouTube tonight, |
| 0:57.8 | you've probably just watched his four-set win. |
| 1:01.2 | Over 15th seed, Yakub Menshev, 7-6-4-6-7-6-3. |
| 1:08.2 | More an exorcism, David, than a win. |
| 1:11.5 | I felt like we all and Grigold Dimitrov were doing trauma processing there in real time. |
| 1:20.0 | That was a lot for me. |
| 1:23.4 | I cannot imagine what that was like for Grigold Dimitrov. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, because he had to remind everybody on court that when play stopped for bad light and they needed to put the roof on, |
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