Wimbledon Day 1 - The Return of Andy Murray; The Return of Wimbledon

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Wimbledon, Sports, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Wimbledon is back! After a rain-interrupted first few hours, the day and tournament suddenly sprung to life as Jack Draper won the opening set against Novak Djokovic, Sloane Stephens and Frances Tiafoe upset Petra Kvitova and Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Andy Murray eventually and agonisingly got the better of Nikoloz Basilashvili.

On the podcast, Catherine, David and Matt discuss all of those matches, reflect on what it was like to be on site as Wimbledon returned, and despair at a terrible day for predictions.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary
0:04.8	Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Huit. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis
0:09.8	podcast.
0:21.0	So you know how there is always a day and a podcast
0:28.0	in the first week of Every Grand Slam where we all say this was the day that this tournament
0:34.5	came alive. Well today was the day that Wimbledon came alive and lo and behold it was day one
0:43.7	and that's quite rarely the case I think but are we all unanimous that today was the day?
0:51.2	Yeah and I would say it is very specific to the fact that this is the first Wimbledon in two years.
0:58.4	It just feels to me that it was inevitable. Oh I don't feel that way. I feel like today would have stood up
1:10.7	stood up without that. Well yeah it probably would but the fact that it's the first day I don't know
1:17.3	it's an enhancer sure. I was sitting there feeling quite emotional on
1:24.6	Centricle chewing Andy Murray's match and everything else that was going on and looking around
1:31.2	at the crowd and seeing the involvements and the I know everything everything just felt
1:38.4	right about it to me. Yeah we need to not have another year without Wimbledon.
1:47.6	That was clear from today. I think I was surprised by how normal it felt. I think for me once there
1:59.9	were you know a large number of fans in the stadium, a large number of fans in the grounds, great
2:08.4	matches, then it was inevitable that it was going to be great because it was the first day of
2:12.8	Wimbledon for two years. I thought there was a possibility it could be a bit flat, terrible weather,
2:19.9	maybe none of the matches would catch fire but that absolutely wasn't the case and it was
2:25.6	it was kind of lightning in a bottle at the end of the day. Everything was just
2:29.7	well that's but that was at the end of the day. It was so much great momentum. Early on I did think it was
2:35.2	weird. If you weren't on Centricle. And there speaks a man that didn't spend two hours in a rainy
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