Wimbledon Day 12 - Djokovic vs Kyrgios is on; Jabeur's Journey
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Novak Djokovic will face Nick Kyrgios in the Wimbledon men's final after Djokovic's four set victory over Cameron Norrie on Friday. Why does Djokovic keep having slow starts? How did he turn the match around? Where might Sunday's final be won and lost? And in what ways was Kyrgios' pre final press conference his most candid and interesting of the tournament? These are all questions for Catherine, David and Matt on the pod.
To preview the women's final, we hear from Reem Abulleil, a journalist who has followed Ons Jabeur's career more closely than anyone. She tells us about Jabeur's journey to this point, how she's evolved as a player and as a person into a Grand Slam contender, and why Jabeur's run is resonating so strongly in the Arab world. Looking ahead to the match, can Jabeur nullify the Rybakina power? And who will deal with the occasion better?
Finally, we wrap up all the other results and talk about a big day for wheelchair tennis, headlined by a couple of epic wins for Alfie Hewett.
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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, Novak Djokovic is into a 30 second Grand Slam final which means that he tops the men's |
| 0:28.4 | all-time list in that regard. He has surpassed Roger Federer on his measly 31 Grand Slam |
| 0:36.0 | Finals. He is still a couple behind Chris Evans, though, who leads the way on 34. So keep going, |
| 0:41.7 | Novak. You might get there eventually. He will go for a seventh Wimbledon title on Sunday against |
| 0:51.2 | Nick Kirios and that is because he beats Plucky Brit Camnory today in four sets and I really think |
| 0:59.0 | that Camnory deserves a proper official place among the tradition of Plucky Wimbledon Brits now. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah, I mean, he's almost the definitive Plucky Brit accept that he's way better than the vast |
| 1:12.9 | majority of the ones that we would have called Plucky Brits in the past. Oh, yeah, he's a really |
| 1:19.1 | high quality Plucky Brit. Yeah, he certainly, I mean, he can have no regrets about his effort, |
| 1:28.1 | application. I don't even really think his tennis and we'll get onto what happened in the match, |
| 1:32.7 | but I think he came up against somebody who asks different questions to everybody else that he |
| 1:39.1 | would have faced and so I don't think he played badly. And David, he did it all by channeling the |
| 1:45.1 | spirit of 1991 Jimmy Connors. Camnory came out today with a brand new roundhouse fist pump |
| 1:52.0 | just for you. He did. And actually, you know, it's not the most absurd of comparisons because I |
| 1:57.8 | actually watched some footage of Jimmy Connors earlier this morning for something else. Just because |
| 2:02.1 | he fancy, yeah. Just fancy about three hours worth actually. But whilst their forehands are very |
| 2:08.1 | different, Norris is a very heavily top spun loopy one and Connors was sometimes would underhit his |
| 2:14.8 | in a way. Their backhand is very similar, really flat, really skidding through and, you know, |
| 2:22.4 | it and both left handers. And as you say, I mean, look, Camnory's very, very quiet by comparison, |
| 2:28.5 | but he first game, first game he breaks, leads one love roundhouse fist pump. And I thought |
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