Wimbledon Day 1 - Raducanu's sparkling Centre Court debut; David's predictions nightmare
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Day one at Wimbledon began slowly with rain suspending play for a few hours, but soon came to life with Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray on Centre, a couple of epic five setters with big implications for the men's draw, and David's finalist prediction coming crashing down. Catherine, David and Matt got together at Tennis Podcast Towers to talk it all through:
- Jabeur puts Roland Garros behind her
- Haddad Maia defeated, David despairs
- Raducanu embraces Centre Court debut
- Djokovic wins but doesn’t look quite right
- Murray's underarm serve
- Alcaraz wins five set thriller
- Hurkacz loses bizarre match to Davidovich Fokina
- Lowest first day attendance since 2007
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary |
| 0:04.8 | Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well day one of Wimbledon is in the books done and dusted. You find us, myself |
| 0:26.6 | Catherine Ridzky, David Law, Matt Roberts, at tennis podcast towers London edition. Or |
| 0:34.1 | rather sort of almost Wimbledon edition. We're a very short bus ride away from Wimbledon. |
| 0:39.7 | David discovered the bus this evening. Yeah. It was like cash anymore. Is that Christopher Columbus |
| 0:46.2 | discovering America? That we actually got on the bus and Catherine had to talk to me like I used |
| 0:51.0 | to talk to my kids and they're about four and said put it here. Well on route to the bus |
| 0:57.5 | off day, to stop David did expressed anxiety about the fact that he didn't have any change. |
| 1:04.4 | Yes, I did that. And that was while Matt was making a phone call to one of his contacts about |
| 1:12.2 | a stat upcoming in this episode, little teaser. Therefore you Matt's been working his contacts. |
| 1:18.8 | Yes, I should take journalism. That's good. It's a really good actually. |
| 1:24.3 | It is. It's an interesting talking point that will come to over the course of this episode about |
| 1:30.0 | attendance, which we instinctively to us, the feel of the place, the attendance felt down today |
| 1:38.6 | on what you'd normally expect for day one of the championships. It was still, it was great, |
| 1:45.1 | but I think post COVID restrictions, incredible order of play, I think we and the tournament |
| 1:52.2 | were braced for record attendance is quite frankly and it was very far from that today. |
| 2:01.1 | I feel like we shouldn't start with that. I've accidentally started with that, but we will, |
| 2:05.8 | as I say, we'll come onto it. But we should start with what was basically a really great day, |
| 2:13.3 | I think. Slight intrusion of rain, which nobody was prepared for. BBC WeatherValkost did not |
| 2:22.4 | gear us up for the, I didn't have the appropriate outerwear. No, neither did I. I had a half an hour |
| 2:28.0 | walk to work today and about 10 minutes in it started raining. My one blazer that I've got for |
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