Wimbledon Day 11 - Jabeur, Rybakina break new ground; Nadal's agony
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This is a podcast in two halves!
In the first part, David and Matt react to Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from Wimbledon, the bombshell news which broke at around 7pm on Thursday. How did the story unfold throughout the day? And what reasons did Nadal give for his decision?
Earlier, Catherine, David and Matt were joined by Simon Briggs to talk about Ons Jabeur and Elena Rybakina reaching the women’s final. We covered their semi-final performances, the Jabeur story and why it’s so important, and the thorny issue of nationality in tennis and why it’s a big talking point with Rybakina, who was born in Moscow, now in with a big chance of lifting the trophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to Wimbledon Folks. You might wonder where our music is. You might wonder where Catherine is. |
| 0:06.0 | More of that later you're going to hear both of those two things in the course of this show. |
| 0:12.5 | But we'll come clean. Matt and I sitting on the broadcast roof overlooking Court One and Henman Hill at the moment. |
| 0:20.0 | We had already recorded the podcast about 40 minutes ago. Completed a lovely hour of chat about all things. |
| 0:28.0 | Semifinals today looking ahead to the semifinals tomorrow. Catherine went on her way. |
| 0:34.0 | And then two minutes later we heard that there was going to be a press conference. |
| 0:38.0 | And Raffa and the Dal was returning to Wimbledon to take part in it. |
| 0:43.0 | And that meant Matt, we knew that Raffa and the Dal was going to pull out a Wimbledon. |
| 0:48.0 | So what we're going to do... |
| 0:50.0 | Just when you think you're ahead of Tennis, ahead of the news, you're ready for an early night. |
| 0:55.0 | No. Yeah. So where does that leave us? |
| 0:58.0 | It means that we're going to have to remove the bit where we were talking about Raffa and the Dal in the main show. |
| 1:04.0 | But you're going to hear all the rest of it. |
| 1:06.0 | And Matt and I have been in that press conference or Matt was in the room itself. |
| 1:10.0 | I was watching on TV while still filing reports for BBC Radio. |
| 1:14.0 | But we'll just react to that now and go through that story and then let you listen to the rest of the show that we conduct to with Catherine and Simon Briggs. |
| 1:23.0 | Honest, it's worth it. |
| 1:25.0 | But Matt, it's been a strange day hasn't it in a way because we had all the kind of drama and the inspiration of yesterday. |
| 1:37.0 | Him getting through that match against Taylor Fred is clearly in trouble with this abdominal tear, |
| 1:44.0 | which was confirmed today when we heard that he'd got a 7mm tear. |
| 1:49.0 | He'd had a scan over night. That was what was the result of it. |
| 1:54.0 | We then had this comical situation where word got around that he was going to be practicing on court 10 this afternoon. |
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