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The Tennis Podcast

Queen’s Day 6 - Winner Stays On

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Feliciano Lopez won singles, then doubles, then doubles again to earn places in both finals at the Fever-Tree Championships on Sunday.


The 37-year-old Spaniard outlasted 18-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets, and played two matches with Andy Murray to defy belief.


Afterwards, Catherine Whitaker, David Law and Matt Roberts convened to try to work out how on earth he did it.


There’s also Joe Salisbury chat. 


The Tennis Podcast is produced with Telegraph Sport, and available daily throughout the Fever-Tree Championships at The Queen’s Club, and Wimbledon. 



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0:00.0

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0:27.6

Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navaritolova. I'm Matt Svillander.

0:34.5

I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Huat. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:49.6

Well at 4 a 7 p.m. Feliciano Lopez started his singles semi-final here at the Queen's Club.

0:57.2

Against Felix Orger and they're seeing 623 p.m. He wins that single semi-final at 644 p.m. He

1:03.6

resumes his doubles quarterfinal alongside Andy Murray against Dan Evans and Ken Sgubbsky.

1:09.2

657 p.m. He wins that match 708 p.m. He starts his doubles semi-final also alongside Andy Murray

1:18.4

taking on the 30s, Henry Continent and John Piers and at 851 p.m. He wins that double semi-final

1:25.5

and makes it through to the singles and doubles final. I know the story should be Andy Murray,

1:32.8

but it's not. It's Feliciano Lopez. This is the tennis podcast myself, David Law, Matt Roberts. We are

1:41.0

in the Puntany Exchange of the Queen's Club Media Workroom. The air conditioning unit is

1:48.0

worrying all as well. It is. It's going to be a magical finals day. I mean, we all thought the

1:55.0

fairy tale was going to be Andy Murray and it is. It just turns out there's a bigger fairy tale in town.

2:00.5

As long as you can get up in the morning. Could you imagine trying to come wake up and be loose

2:08.6

after that? I don't know. In all the years I've worked in tennis. I've never seen anything quite

2:13.9

like that before. Did I mention that he's 37? I didn't mention that he's 37. He's 37.

2:23.2

Already started his post-retirement second career. He's an existing tournament director.

2:28.3

This is his side show. He's not walking around saying he's tired or anything. He came bounding

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