Wimbledon Day 14 - Djokovic joins Sampras on seven but now heads into the unknown
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
After Novak Djokovic defeated Nick Kyrgios in a great four-set final, Catherine, David and Matt got together for one last Wimbledon 2022 pod.
We discussed where the final was won and lost, the press conferences, what the future might hold for both players, the significance of Wimbledon as a tournament for Djokovic, and the Grand Slam Race. There's also a round up of the doubles and juniors results as well as chat about Shingo Kunieda completing the career Golden Slam and heartbreak for Alfie Hewett.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Matt Vylander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver. |
| 0:06.4 | This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well Nova Jokovic is a seven time Wimbledon champion, a 21 time Grand Slam champion. |
| 0:28.5 | Here's one the title here at SW19, where you find myself, David Law, Matt Roberts, |
| 0:34.4 | a top the Wimbledon Broadcast Reef one more time. Here's one the title here for consecutive years, |
| 0:42.4 | or for consecutive tournament years because of course, in case you'd forgotten there was a |
| 0:46.8 | pandemic in the middle of those four years, but he is a truly extraordinary man, a truly extraordinary |
| 0:53.2 | competitor. He's beaten Nick Kirios today in four sets. David, if I told you, in the year 2000, |
| 1:00.0 | when your man Pete Sanprice was winning his seventh title here, that 22 years later, two men |
| 1:09.2 | would also have won seven titles or more. What would you have said to me? |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, I would have thought it was absurd and you were lying to my eyes. |
| 1:18.4 | He had come to the future with a lot from the future with lies is what I would have thought. |
| 1:25.1 | Look, in the year 2000, Roger Federer had just come out of juniors and was trying to figure it out |
| 1:32.8 | and wasn't doing a very good job of it to be quite honest. And Pete Sanprice was looking good |
| 1:40.7 | at the most successful Grand Slam winning male of all time. I didn't see that changing, |
| 1:48.0 | anytime soon. And to think that he was over, I remember in 2009, when Federer overtook him, |
| 1:54.4 | and I got a chance to interview Sanprice earlier that year before it happened. And that was an |
| 1:59.3 | amazing opportunity to kind of get in his mind and try to understand what it must feel like. |
| 2:06.0 | And now here we are, and Federer's third, you know, that is startling when you hear that. |
| 2:18.0 | And it's the first time that's happened. |
| 2:19.7 | First time he's ever been third in the Grand Slam race. Matt, hit us with the stat that you |
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