Live from Wimbledon Day 9 - New Svitolina rolls on; Djokovic tells kids ‘It ain’t happening’
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Two of the singles semi-finals at Wimbledon are set: Elina Svitolina vs Marketa Vondrousova and Novak Djokovic vs Jannik Sinner.
On the podcast, Catherine, David and Matt are joined by Simon Briggs of The Telegraph to talk about Tuesday's quarter-finals. How did Svitolina show again that she's transformed as a player? How much traction is her story getting in the UK press? What happened to Swiatek's forehand? And how much regret will Jessica Pegula have about losing a 4-1 lead in the final set as she tried to reach her first Grand Slam semi-final?
On the men's side, there's chat about Novak Djokovic's adaptability, a good performance from Andrey Rublev that wasn't enough, whether Jannik Sinner can go one better than his strong showing last year against Djokovic, and much excitement for Carlos Alcaraz vs Holger Rune.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bhattori. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon on day nine of Wimbledon, |
| 0:26.7 | where it is a mere 805 pm. I'm Catherine Rittaker. Matt Roberts is here. David Lawyer is here. |
| 0:34.0 | Just he was in the BBC Radio commentary box about 14 seconds ago. So I'll let you catch your breath, |
| 0:39.5 | David. I've never run that fast in my life. I'll let you catch your breath while we introduce. |
| 0:43.7 | So the first time this Wimbledon, Daily Telegraphs, Tell Us Correspondent, Simon Breaks, Simon, |
| 0:48.7 | Hello. Hello, how are you doing? We're great. Oh, I mean, now to breath in David's case, |
| 0:53.2 | but otherwise great, I think. How are you? I'm really cold. This is a warm one tonight, Simon. Trust us. |
| 1:00.0 | This is my mistake. I wore shorts to Wimbledon. You should never wear shorts to Wimbledon. |
| 1:03.8 | We do get quite a lot of feedback on the live chat when we look cold. We're told to look less cold. |
| 1:10.2 | If you could, if you could do your best acting jobs tonight, Simon, that would be much appreciated. |
| 1:14.9 | Today is the day that our first semi-finals have been set. We have one men's semi-final. |
| 1:21.4 | We have one women's semi-final set up. And while chronologically, the men's is where we just come |
| 1:27.2 | from. David's been commentating on Andre Rublev winning for a bit over Novak Djokovic and then |
| 1:32.5 | inevitably very much not winning. We're going to start with the women, I think, because |
| 1:38.1 | that's where the great matches were and that's where the storyline lies today, because not only did |
| 1:43.3 | we lose World No. 1, Eagish Viontek, but we lost her to what is fast becoming, who is fast becoming, |
| 1:51.4 | the story of the tournament, if she wasn't already, and that is Alina's Vittalina. |
| 1:57.4 | To stop us, she's doing because you think you know someone, you think you after, what is it, |
| 2:05.6 | probably eight to ten years of watching Alina's Vittalina, you know what you're dealing with, |
| 2:10.6 | who you're dealing with, what she's got, what she hasn't. And then she has found something that |
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