Queen's Day 6 - Djokovic vs. Cilic Final - we speak to both; Marian Vajda - why he came back to coach Djokovic
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Novak Djokovic is into an ATP final for the first time since he returned from a serious elbow injury, and afterwards he spoke to The Tennis Podcast. He is up against Marin Cilic in the title-decider for the Fever-Tree Championships. The Croatian also joined Gigi Salmon to chat on the pod.
Elsewhere, we hear from Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett during the ever first wheelchair exhibition tournament at Queen's, and from Novak Djokovic's coach Marian Vajda, who explains why he returned to his man's side.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | I brought to you in association with the telegraph from day six of the |
| 0:20.0 | Fever Tree Championships at the Queens Club. The sun is setting over the |
| 0:24.0 | Queens Club. There are Merry Queens Club members everywhere you look, which is why |
| 0:28.0 | Gigi Salmon and myself Catherine Ridghoff ducked for cover recording inside the |
| 0:32.0 | Photographer's Room in the Bows of the Queens Club. After what has been a quite wonderful day, |
| 0:40.0 | the sun has been shining. We've had two very competitive men single semi-finals, |
| 0:45.0 | Marin Chilich winning through against Nick Kirios. Novak Djokovic winning through |
| 0:49.0 | against Jeremy Shardy will be hearing from both finalists. Gigi has been catching up |
| 0:53.0 | with both of them. We'll also hear an exclusive interview with Novak Djokovic |
| 0:57.0 | coach, Marian Vider and will be hearing from Gordon Reed and Alfie Huett, two of the players |
| 1:03.0 | who've been taking part this week in the first ever wheelchair tennis event at the |
| 1:08.0 | Queens Club. So plenty coming up, but first and foremost, Gigi, we must talk about |
| 1:13.0 | our men's finalists, Marin Chilich, just too good in pretty much every department. |
| 1:19.0 | And I include serve in that for Nick Kirios today, 7-6, 7-6, a brilliant match, |
| 1:24.0 | a thrilling match, old school, grass court tennis. It is wonderful to see, isn't it? |
| 1:29.0 | It really was, and he didn't get the wobbles towards the end, Marin Chilich. |
| 1:33.0 | That's the one thing about Marin Chilich when it gets into a tough situation. |
| 1:37.0 | Kenny closed things out, but it's always been said about him when he's on it. |
| 1:41.0 | And we always go back to 2014, the run, the US Open, because he was on it, he was unstoppable, |
| 1:45.0 | he was unbeatable, he became a Grand Slam champion. If he is fully there in every department |
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