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The Tennis Podcast

Queen's Day 7 - Lopez At The Double; The Andy Murray Story Continues; Ash Barty, New World No.1

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Feliciano Lopez produced an astonishing day of tennis to win the singles and doubles titles at the Fever-Tree Championships at the age of 37, joining forces with Andy Murray after beating Gilles Simon.


Afterwards, an exhausted Catherine and David hauled themselves behind the microphone to reminisce, exchange stories, and talk about the latest tennis World No.1 - Ash Barty.


How did Barty get there and what are her prospects now. And are Lopez and Federer in the Wimbledon mix after their titles at the age of 37?


The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with Telegraph Sport, and will be available daily during Wimbledon.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm John McAnery. I'm Bjorn Borg.

0:02.2

This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander.

0:04.9

I'm San Roenka. I'm Lainya. I'm Andy Murray.

0:07.6

And you're listening to the tennis podcast.

0:20.1

After more than 15 hours of time spent on a tennis court,

0:23.3

Feliciana Lopez owns both the singles and the doubles trophy here

0:28.1

at the Fevertree Championships at the Queen's Club.

0:31.6

And he's done the latter, the doubles with Andy Murray,

0:35.3

who six months ago we thought had retired.

0:38.3

And he's playing with a metal hip and he looks like he's a new born suddenly.

0:43.5

He's so happy. And it's been quite an astonishing day.

0:48.1

Both matches going to final sets, Feliciana Lopez beating Gil Simón

0:52.8

and then Murray and Lopez teaming up to have become Joe Salisbury and Ranjie Ram.

0:58.4

In just fantastic style. And it's just been, I would say, a special end to an incredible week.

1:07.9

I'm completely overwhelmed by it to be honest with you. I'm slightly nervous about

1:12.6

recording this podcast because I can't really process it all. It's been a complete

1:19.4

emotional overload today. I mean, I know better stories have happened in tennis and I know it's

1:28.3

a recency bias and being there bias and all of that. But I'm struggling to think of how at the

1:34.8

beginning of the week you could have written a better script for how it would all come together

1:41.3

and end. And I just don't think you could. It's been a spine tingling in every possible way.

1:49.1

Yeah, it has. And actually, Lopez's words on the court kind of summed it up when he said,

1:55.8

you know, in 2017, it was when I won this title. It was the best day of my career.

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