Live from Wimbledon Day 9 - Sabalenka survives Siegemund, can Anisimova stop her?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt were live at the end of the first day of quarter-finals.
In Part 1 we covered Sabalenka’s efforts to overcome Laura Siegemund, who was using every single one of her arsenal of tricks to frustrate and wind up the world number one. It looked fraught at times but Sablenka fought through in the end to set up a semi final clash with Amanda Anisimova, who likewise required no small amount of resilience to put missed opportunities behind her and win a compelling second set tiebreak against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
In Part 2 (29m40s) we discuss the first set of men’s quarter finals, as Alcaraz showed he was on a different level to Cam Norrie, and Fritz held his nerve to see off Khachanov. Looking ahead to that semi final, there was news of confidence and optimism from Fritz about his ability to take on Alcaraz.
In part 3 (42m13s) we look ahead to tomorrow’s second set of quarters, but not before giving appropriate attention to Andreeva’s stint at coaching Conchita Martinez with a professional level sign and hat. We ran through the percentage chances we think Cobolli and Shelton have against Djokovic and Sinner, though with some uncertainty for the latter as we wait to see the true significance of the injury he sustained against Grigor Dimitrov.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon on night nine of the championships in our incredible position here, overlooking Court 18, where mercifully a Legends |
| 0:22.8 | doubles match has just finished split seconds ago. I'm Catherine Riddick, alongside me as always. |
| 0:29.3 | David Law, Matt Roberts, it is a stunning summer's evening here at SW19. I texted the group |
| 0:36.4 | at midday today saying I just had an excellent |
| 0:39.5 | interaction with the dog coming through the gates here and it was definitely going to be a great |
| 0:44.7 | day and I think I was right, David. Yeah, I think you were. It was beautiful weather, great crowds |
| 0:51.5 | everywhere. People in a good mood. We had Mirandrava going out to |
| 0:55.9 | support Conchita Martinez in her invitational doubles, and we had some good matches and, I mean, |
| 1:03.0 | some incredible performances and some great shows of grit and courage. And I kind of feel like |
| 1:09.8 | some good winners as well to really set up the next few days. |
| 1:14.6 | Matt? Some good winners. Who could you possibly be talking about? You enjoying being brunette, four more days? |
| 1:24.1 | I am, but I'm also hoping I'm not in a way. |
| 1:29.3 | I have to say also shout out Catherine for your incredible invitational doubles confidence, should I say, that that match was not going past 8 o'clock. |
| 1:40.7 | They'd been told to play till 8 o'clock. |
| 1:43.1 | Mantle Burami is 70 years old. They weren't playing past 8 o'clock. Yeah, they'd been told to play till eight o'clock. Mantle Borami is 70 years old. |
| 1:45.3 | They weren't playing past eight o'clock. |
| 1:47.8 | And he knows what he's doing. |
| 1:49.6 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:50.3 | And look, they, I mean, they had a full, they had a full court 18. |
| 1:53.6 | They were lapping it up. |
| 1:55.0 | It was brilliant. |
| 1:55.7 | I know we've seen it all before and we're totally jaded and boring about it but it's... |
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