Wimbledon Day 13 - Djokovic Edges Classic; Federer Devastated; Gap Closes
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Novak Djokovic is the Wimbledon champion again, but Roger Federer will feel like it was one that got away.
Two match points came and went, so what happened, how, why and when? The Tennis Podcast team convened one final time to dissect a match that finished 13-12 in the fifth set.
It also has far-reaching consequences for in the Grand Slam title race between Federer, Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. So what next?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.3 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lighten Ewitt. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | So we sit where we've been sitting all week on a green picnic table on a piece of grass |
| 0:24.4 | with the sun setting. Blue skies still up above. |
| 0:27.8 | It is now just short of nine o'clock in the evening on the final day of Wimbledon and the moon |
| 0:33.6 | is rising over Matt's head. He can't see that, but I can. |
| 0:38.8 | And we have just had one of the most extraordinary days of sports in history. |
| 0:44.5 | I would suggest Catherine Wittica, because not only have we just had Novak Djokovic |
| 0:49.4 | win the first ever singles 12-all tie break in the men's singles final to win his 16th |
| 0:56.9 | Grand Slam title. He's done so from two match points down and almost simultaneously England |
| 1:03.1 | have won the World Cup cricket for the first time. |
| 1:07.9 | In a super final, in the final ball, it is super over. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, well, we were furiously googling what one of those was as we're just about everybody in |
| 1:16.6 | the country, it seemed. But yes, that kind of is the short version of what has happened today, |
| 1:23.0 | and we have got a lot of blanks to fill in, because it has been exhausting, exhilarating. |
| 1:29.4 | I don't really know where to start. Take it away. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, it feels like all those things that you described, the sun setting and the moon rising, |
| 1:39.0 | and the sort of natural order of the universe shouldn't be happening. It feels like |
| 1:45.7 | the natural world should be recognising the earth shattering, seismic sporting events that |
| 1:53.7 | took place today. It feels like things shouldn't be normal. There should be some sort of storm |
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