Hi this is Billy Jane King this is Marion Bartotti this is Biancon Dreskou I'm Matt's Villander this is Mary Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast live from

Wimbledon on day eight of the championships I'm Catherine Ritterke.

This is Matt Roberts. This is David Law. this is our wet weather position which is frankly

just our position now our former position is haunting us over there serving as a metaphor

for the great British summertime so so near yet so far

and actually we had to scoop the bench further forward today because even our wet weather

position was was under attack

from the rain. Nowhere is safe folks apart from centre and number one courts here

at Wimbledon but rain be damned we are going to have a good night.

Do you see what I did there?

Matthew loves it! I couldn't help myself what a gift to know about Jokovich has just given us to kick

off the show tonight we have all just watched that interview live up here,

rewound it and watched it again to check that we weren't imagining it and that was actually all just happening and it's

quite a lot to process but it it feels like a real bizarre gift he's given us

there yeah that that was truly excellent. I mean I wasn't

in the stadium earlier I was watching with the sound off because of the position I

was in in various interview rooms etc.

But my understanding is that the crowd was certainly at some point cheering Rooner.

Yeah?

A lot.

A lot. Kind of every time he won a point which wasn't often and

geogovish didn't like that after a while he thought people were using it as an

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