Wimbledon Day 1 - Serena’s Return; Stan The Man Is Back! Sloane Slumps; Federer’s Sartorial Statement
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On the day that Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon for the first time in a couple of years and won her first round, Stan Wawrinka scored the biggest win of his career since returning from knee surgery.
Wawrinka overcame Grigor Dimitrov in exhilarating fashion on Centre Court, commentated on for BBC 5 Live by David Law. Afterwards, he and Catherine Whitaker met up to mull over the day’s action, including a shocking loss for Sloane Stephens, they talk about the clothing label change of Roger Federer, and find out what Catherine made of Venus Williams and Katie Swan in her interviews.
The Tennis Podcast will be daily throughout Wimbledon, presented by David Law and Catherine Whitaker.
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| 0:00.0 | I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it had to move |
| 0:05.1 | to make it happen, and for me, the Met presented endless opportunities. |
| 0:10.0 | From joining as a PC at age 23, I went into a variety of roles, from emergency response |
| 0:15.4 | to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch, my dream job became reality. |
| 0:21.6 | Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where my career takes me next. |
| 0:26.0 | Come a Met Police Officer, search Met Police Careers. |
| 0:32.4 | Hi, I'm John McAnery, I'm Bjorn Borgh. |
| 0:34.6 | This is Martina Navratilova, I'm Matt Vylander, I'm Sten Roenka, I'm Lighten Ewitt, I'm Andy |
| 0:39.6 | Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day one of Wimbledon, it is coming to an end, |
| 0:58.5 | it is brought to you in association with the telegraph the tennis podcast is as always |
| 1:03.0 | we are sponsored by the new home of the US Open Amazon Prime video and the excellent |
| 1:09.4 | presenter Catherine Whitica. |
| 1:11.4 | Also, presenter of the tennis podcast is here after her day off with finally managed to |
| 1:16.0 | get hold of her and she's gracing us with her presence. |
| 1:19.4 | Rapt in a Wimbledon towel on the broadcast roof of Wimbledon, Catherine. |
| 1:25.5 | And the reason you're wrapped in a towel is because what is it? |
| 1:27.6 | 730 at night as the towel flies off her shoulders and now she's covering herself up again. |
| 1:32.6 | It's because it's cold, isn't it? |
| 1:33.6 | I mean, you know, it's beautiful blue skies but on day one in which Roger Federer has |
| 1:39.0 | won serenely early on in the heat of the day in which it was said to be 38 degrees Celsius |
| 1:44.5 | at one point, stand for rink as one of four set, epic with a grigor dimmer travel. |
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