Marcus Willis - 'I don't want to be remembered for losing second round at Wimbledon'.

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

He was the talk of Wimbledon for the first few days. The man who nearly quit the sport until his girlfriend told him not to, who entered pre-qualifying, won six matches, and made it into the main draw before bowing out to Roger Federer in round two.But as Marcus Willis tells David Law on the Tennis Podcast, he doesn't want to remembered for losing in the second round at Wimbledon.The journey to achieve more starts here, with masses of off-court training, a qualifying wild card at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna, and an invitation to compete for a winner-take-all cheque of $250,000 against Andy Murray, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, Dominic Thiem, Tommy Haas and Goran Ivanisevic.The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with Telegraph Sport.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John McEnore.
0:01.4	I'm Bjorn Borg.
0:02.2	This is Martina Navratlova.
0:03.8	I'm Matt Svillander.
0:05.0	I'm San Roenka.
0:06.0	I'm Lighten Ewitt.
0:06.8	I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.7	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.0	Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast.
0:21.9	Brought to you an association with the Teregra.
0:24.1	My name is David Law.
0:25.5	Commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live and BT Sport.
0:29.2	And normally on this show,
0:30.5	I'm joined by Euro Sport presenter Catherine Whittaker
0:33.1	to discuss the week in tennis.
0:35.0	And it's been some week, isn't it, with Andy Murray,
0:37.1	winning his 40th title, Joe Conte,
0:39.4	reaching the Beijing final,
0:40.9	and moving to eighth on the road to Singapore.
0:43.2	And Maria Schaupova's band being reduced from 24 to 15 months.
0:47.6	However, we're not going to talk about any of that.
0:49.5	Not today, because Catherine's not very well.
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