Queen's Day 1 - Stories, Gossip, Nostalgia galore
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt meet on the Queen's Club balcony to share stories from their respective opening days at Queen's.
As well as the on-court action, Catherine talks about Greg Rusedski's brand new interest, Matt hits the nail on the head about Daniil Medvedev, and David delves into his monster memory-bank to recall his first locker room experience. It involves, Wayne Ferreira, Michael Stich and a final set tie-break with light fading.
The Tennis Podcast is produced daily throughout the Fever-Tree Championships at The Queen's Club, and will be daily throughout Wimbledon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerod. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Good evening from the Fever Tree Championships at the Queens Club where |
| 0:24.4 | myself David Law, Catherine Whitaker and Matt Robert sit on a balcony overlooking |
| 0:29.7 | nine and a bit thousand seats that are all empty now and were just a few |
| 0:34.8 | minutes ago filled with people getting incredibly excited because a British |
| 0:38.8 | player very nearly won and then didn't. |
| 0:41.9 | A tale is old as time. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh, but it was so close and it was a James Ward who'd qualified for the main draw |
| 0:48.5 | and done really well to do so. He'd be the Evo Carlević along the way and then he was |
| 0:54.6 | 4-2 up, third set against Gilles Simon trying to get revenge wasn't he for that |
| 1:00.0 | Davis cut match that they played on this same court from four years ago in which |
| 1:04.8 | Gilles Simon really thrashed him and didn't get the job done in the end. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean some of the rallies at the end. |
| 1:10.8 | They were at 20-30 shots long. |
| 1:13.6 | I can't imagine anything worse than playing Gilles Simon. |
| 1:16.4 | It just looks awful. It looks absolutely awful. |
| 1:20.8 | You know, you know, well, I certainly know David is guilty of this because I've seen it with |
| 1:26.2 | my own eyes. Maybe you're more virtuous than us Matt but when you hit a glorious shot and you |
| 1:31.8 | just want to stand and admire it and while you're standing and admiring it you're annoying |
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