Wimbledon Day 1 - Apocalyptic Shocks Galore

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Day 2 of Wimbledon was supposed to be the one that we remembered, but it will take some going to beat Day 1 for drama.

Naomi Osaka, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev all went tumbling in the space of a couple of hours, and today's Tennis Podcast trio of David Law, Charlie Eccleshare and Matt Roberts had their hands full making sense of it all. They gave it a good go on the broadcast roof at Wimbledon.

What happened to them all? Which was the biggest surprise? And how concerned should they all be?

Elsewhere, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Coco Gauff gave hope for the Next, Next Generation, with breakthrough wins.

And as Matt delves into the Wimbledon library, we find out how often more women's matches have been scheduled on Centre and Court One at Wimbledon than men's matches, as will happen on Tuesday.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg.
0:02.2	This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander.
0:04.9	I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Jut. I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.6	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.0	We're on the roof of the broadcast centre here at Wimbledon.
0:23.9	And the skyline is a spectacular setting as we've ever been
0:29.4	apart of here on the tennis podcast.
0:31.4	And it is an appropriately apocalyptic looking skyline for a day,
0:36.0	which has seen apocalyptic shock after apocalyptic shock.
0:40.3	Matt Roberts is here. Hello, Matt.
0:41.8	Hello, David. Charlie Ecclesiard is here from the Telegraph.
0:43.9	Hello, Charlie. Hello, David.
0:45.5	And myself, David Law, sitting at a green picnic table on a nice little patch of grass.
0:52.1	And we're just trying to take it all in.
0:54.1	The sun is setting. It is a mixture of blues and oranges and grays up above.
0:59.1	It's an incredible sight.
1:01.2	But the day we have just experienced is I would say one of the most
1:07.2	shock-filled days that I can ever remember on the first day of a grand slam.
1:11.6	OK, perhaps not the most gargantuan names falling in the history of the game.
1:17.3	It's not like Jockovich and Nadal and Federer have all gone out on day one.
1:21.1	But when does that ever happen anyway?
1:23.3	But there have been so many surprises today, Charlie.
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