Tatjana Maria, Queen of Queen's - could 70's tennis win Wimbledon?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David and Matt are back from Paris and here to discuss the first week of the grass court season.

Part one - WTA Queen’s. We cover Tatjana Maria’s extraordinary run to the title as women’s tennis returned to The Queen’s Club for the first time in 52 years. How did she use her slice and dice game to defeat the likes of Elena Rybakina, Madison Keys and Amanda Anisimova? And what more could they have done against her? There’s also chat about Zheng Qinwen’s ‘shoenanigans’ and Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter playing doubles together.

Part two - Results round up (33m33s). Elise Mertens saves 11 match points against Ekaterina Alexandrova and goes on to triumph in s’Hertogenbosch, Gabriel Diallo wins his first title, and Taylor Fritz continues his dominance over Alexander Zverev.

Part three - News (46m30s). We look ahead to this week’s events, including stacked fields in Berlin, Queen’s and Halle, and discuss the main headlines from Wimbledon’s pre event press conference.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on this fine, fine Monday morning in London and Sully Hull respectively.
0:19.4	The grass court season is well underway.
0:22.6	We've experienced the whiplash transition from red to green.
0:27.3	And we are raring to go to talk about the first week of the grass court season.
0:32.2	Although I say that, David Law is wearing a Roland Garros T-shirt.
0:36.2	And that's not changing because every season is rolling garous season in my household, I'll have you know.
0:42.4	In fact, I bought this T-shirt for all members of my family just so that I get to see it more.
0:47.7	And I love all the Grand Slams, but not equally.
0:52.7	Wow.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:54.5	I've been saying exactly the opposite to that on a recent promo that a client has paid us for.
0:59.4	I think it's, I think it started to affect me.
1:03.8	And now I'm just sort of trotting it out, but changing the meaning.
1:08.9	Matt, how does Carlos Alcaraz look more over Roland Garros and recovered than we do?
1:16.7	How is that possible? Is it that we all need to go to Abitha after Paris every year? Is that what
1:23.2	we need to be considering? He got it out of his system, didn't he, with a fun night in Abitha,
1:29.6	then some more days in Abitha hanging out with his mates. We've had a fun time too,
1:34.7	doing shows on Tennis Channel, but a different kind of fun, I would say.
1:41.9	Yes, I would say so too.
1:47.5	Yes, he claimed you only had one night out in Abitha, didn't he?
1:48.0	Yep.
1:49.4	He went just to chill.
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