Wimbledon Day 1 - Marcus Willis Wonderland; Federer Next
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Willis - British No.23, World No.772 and winner of $64 so far in 2016, faces one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racquet - Roger Federer - in the second round of Wimbledon, and The Tennis Podcast team couldn’t wait to talk about it.
Gigi Salmon tells us what it was like to be in amongst the Court 17 crowd, describing the Willis victory scenes for BBC Radio 5 Live.
Annabel Croft drops by to share the stories she’s heard about Willis, and to reveal that Garbine Muguruza is a heck of a cook.
And presenters David Law and Catherine Whitaker review the rest of eventful opening day in which James Ward performed creditably against Novak Djokovic, Dan Evans won well, and Federer found a way past Guido Pella, eventually.
The team also preview day 2 at Wimbledon, when Andy Murray will face Liam Broady, Serena Williams makes her bow, and an ‘aggro-fest’ is expected between Nick Kyrgios and Radek Stepanek.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | San Roenka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Marri and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:23.6 | 10-a-graph. It is day one of Wimbledon 2016 and Catherine Whitaker and myself David Law are joined |
| 0:31.1 | here today. We have the pleasure of Gigi Samman's company Gigi. We always love having you on |
| 0:36.0 | the tennis podcast but particularly today because you were in our makeshift commentary box on |
| 0:42.5 | BBC Radio 5 live on Marcus Willis Jutti because there is no commentary box. So where were you? |
| 0:47.8 | I was standing to the left of the chair on Pies' chair on court 17 just behind the chair of |
| 0:52.5 | Ricardo Baranca. So I was having to be very very quiet because Baranca was very unsettled. He was |
| 0:57.5 | getting very annoyed and I'd say it was about 16 deep behind me. People on the balcony of the |
| 1:02.2 | debentures lounge, I don't know what was happening on court 16 but they weren't watching it because |
| 1:05.6 | they were leaning over and as far as court one people at the top of court won the balcony. They were |
| 1:09.9 | also looking down on to court 17. And what was this about shoes that you were telling me as we |
| 1:14.8 | walked up her? As Marcus Willis if you don't know is ranked 772 in the world. He's the British |
| 1:20.1 | number 23. He's earned $64 all year and now he's just won himself 50 grand pounds sterling and |
| 1:27.8 | will now play it face Roger Federer probably in the second round. Federer is a set up. So what was |
| 1:32.6 | this about shoes? It was the hardcore Willis fans. These are people he knows very well. They were |
| 1:38.2 | dressed like him with the white headband and the white top and they were screaming shoes off |
| 1:42.8 | if you like Willis. I won't sing it but it went along those lines and so they started waving |
| 1:46.8 | their shoes but then very unwimble than like the rest of this crowd started waving shoes. I'm |
| 1:51.6 | talking flip flops, sandals, trainers, high heels. There was even a woman and I think she'd had |
| 1:55.8 | too many pimps on the debentures balcony waving her wedges and the man next to her was giving her |
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