Live from Wimbledon Day 5 - Osaka peaks for Sabalenka clash
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt were live at the end of Day 5 as a series of brilliant Last 16 women’s matches were set up.
We discuss the good mental place Naomi Osaka is in this tournament and whether she can finally trouble Aryna Sabalenka, whether Barbora Krejickova’s closing problem will be an issue for her against Karolina Muchova, how Iva Jovic doesn’t feel out of place in the line-up despite her age, and who the favourite is between Coco Gauff and Belinda Bencic.
In part two (32:41) we discuss Novak Djokovic’s entertaining win over Arthur Rinderknech, the room for improvement that remains for Jannik Sinner despite his best performance of the week, brilliant wins for Roman Safiullin and Shintaro Mochizuki, and a shocking loss for Daniil Medvedev.
Looking ahead to day six (1:02:35), will Serena and Venus Williams play doubles? And which court will they be on?
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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. |
| 0:19.7 | It is day five of the championships we have our first players through to the second week. |
| 0:25.1 | It has been an absolutely stunning day here. |
| 0:29.3 | It still is a stunning day, frankly. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a beautiful evening. |
| 0:32.0 | 9.30 local time. |
| 0:33.9 | We're up here on the broadcast roof. |
| 0:35.3 | Our incredible position, overlooking the grounds, |
| 0:38.0 | which are slowly being put to sleep for the night. Matt David, I want to start with the |
| 0:43.4 | women's draw on today's show, not just because we've had some great matches today. We have, |
| 0:49.0 | but more than that, we have set up some absolutely tantalising, delicious matches for two days' time. |
| 0:58.5 | How is this for a round of 16 line-up in this top half of the draw? |
| 1:02.2 | Arena Sabalenko against Naomi Asaka. |
| 1:05.6 | Caroline Mookova against Barbora Kri Kjikiva. |
| 1:09.0 | Jessica Pagula against Eva Jovich and Belinda Benchich against |
| 1:14.0 | Cocoa Goff. I'm not sure it gets much better than that, any better than that. When we were over and |
| 1:20.5 | caught one, Catherine and I, just watching Cocoa Goff, really having to go through it against Claire Liu |
| 1:26.7 | in a third set there. |
| 1:28.9 | And I was thinking, right, now, who does Cocoa Gough play if she wins this match? |
| 1:33.9 | So I brought up the draw on. I said, Catherine, have you seen this? |
| 1:38.0 | Look at the top of this draw. You know, the fact that it's Sambalenko or Osaka with Asaka |
| 1:42.6 | playing the way that she is. Pagoula for the title you know and and her draw is is challenging as well and then |
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