Live from Wimbledon preview - Serena steals the show
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
The night before Wimbledon, Catherine, David and Matt were live for one last hype show.
We start by discussing some more pre tournament press conferences and most notably Serena Williams’ return to the media room at Wimbledon. What did we learn?
We also have updates from Jack Draper and Emma Raducanu, while Matt is cautiously optimistic about what he heard from Amanda Anisimova.
In part two (29:42), we’re joined by tournament director Jamie Baker to discuss Wimbledon’s position on the player protests, the expansion plans, and wildcards.
Finally , we look ahead to the opening day’s order of play (55:00) and react to the news that Stefanos Tsitsipas has split permanently from his father as his coach.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon presented by Barclays, the official banking partner of Wimbledon. |
| 0:19.5 | This is our official Wimbledon. How many times can I say Wimbledon? |
| 0:23.4 | This is our official Wimbledon hype show, our final preview before things get going in 15 hours time out there on the grass courts behind us. |
| 0:34.2 | To help us get hyped, senior Wimbledon staff have plied us with alcohol. I shall name no |
| 0:39.9 | names, but we are very grateful. Indeed, we have been led astray and cheers to Wimbledon 2026, everyone. |
| 0:47.6 | Cheers, team. We have a lot to talk about today. We're also going to be joined a little later in the show by Wumberland Tournament Director, Jamie Baker. |
| 0:57.0 | We booked him in for that interview weeks ago, and we always wanted to speak to Jamie, |
| 1:02.6 | because he's always a very good value, and he's a real straight shooter and a great speaker, |
| 1:07.7 | but given the protests and all of that, there's quite a lot to get |
| 1:11.6 | into with him. So he'll be joining us in about half an hour's time. Who knows how many |
| 1:17.4 | Cicenticourt coolers will have drunk by that point. So do stay tuned to find out. We had quite a lot |
| 1:25.4 | of significant media day activity today, even though it was an |
| 1:29.7 | officially media day, because of course Serena came in not on official media day. She doesn't |
| 1:35.9 | want to come in with the riffraff. She wants to come in sandwiched between Jack Draper and |
| 1:41.4 | actually I'm not sure there was anyone before Jack Draper. |
| 1:44.7 | She wants to be the starter to the Jack Draper main course, apparently. |
| 1:51.0 | Is that anything? |
| 1:52.1 | I think he was dessert. |
| 1:53.1 | Right, okay, yes. |
| 1:54.5 | There was no starter, straight into main course. |
| 1:56.8 | Exactly. |
| 1:57.7 | Right, yeah. |
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