Queen's Day 7 - Cilic Banishes Demons; Djokovic Devastated; Who Is Wimbledon Favourite Now?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A year ago, Marin Cilic cut a disconsolate figure as he lost the final against Feliciano Lopez from match point down. A year on, it was his turn to save match point against Novak Djokovic before winning through in the longest match in the history of the Fever-Tree Championships at The Queen's Club.
Afterwards, Cilic spoke to David Law, and, sitting overlooking centre court, Law and Catherine Whitaker debriefed over the match they had just witnessed. What happened to Djokovic - was it a choke? Or did Cilic wrestle it away?
What does it all mean for Wimbledon? Is Cilic now the favourite for the title? Is Djokovic a real contender?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph from me David Law and alongside me Catherine Whittaker who has hot-footed it from the Amazon Prime Video studio. |
| 0:26.0 | Where we've been together watching Marin Chilich come from behind come from match point down against Novak Djokovic. |
| 0:33.0 | Turn in the tables from a year ago when it was he that was in charge against Feliciano Lopez and was just devastated after losing that and he's won the title. |
| 0:42.0 | Catherine we're going to be hearing from Marin I had a chance to speak to him for quite a while earlier on this evening. |
| 0:48.0 | We're going to hear from Novak Djokovic. We're here from the doubles winners, Henry Contan and John Peers who beat Bruno Suarez and Jamie Murray. |
| 0:56.0 | But as we sit here on the tournament directors balcony overlooking 9288 empty seats and a centre court that no longer has players on it. |
| 1:07.0 | That has been some afternoon. |
| 1:09.0 | It does still have sun on it though the centre court David. |
| 1:12.0 | I mean we're just basking. |
| 1:15.0 | What an absolutely extraordinary week it's been it's set the bar for weather at Queen's hasn't it? |
| 1:21.0 | The sun is still glinting off the dark blue are they dark blue or are they black seats? |
| 1:27.0 | They are black seats. |
| 1:28.0 | They are black. They are black with the sun. |
| 1:30.0 | Black lower ones and then great upper tier. |
| 1:32.0 | Well just to be specific. |
| 1:33.0 | The glinting sun makes them look navy blue. |
| 1:36.0 | Yes. |
| 1:37.0 | I just look absolutely glorious. |
| 1:39.0 | I usually hate this portion of an event because as we've discussed on the podcast before it feels like the there's not enough sort of respect paid to the aftermath and the trucks roll in all too quickly to dismantling everything. |
| 1:56.0 | But there is a maybe it's happening behind the scenes that we can't see but there is a wonderful stillness about the centre court just now. |
| 2:01.0 | Nobody is dismantling anything before our eyes. |
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