Wimbledon Day 2 - Serena's last stand on Centre Court?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It was a day which began with Matteo Berrettini’s withdrawal after testing positive for covid-19, and ended with Serena Williams’ departing Centre Court possibly for the last time after a dramatic loss to Harmony Tan, meaning it was a day of big emotions all round. As the clock ticked past midnight, Catherine, David and Matt tried to process it all. How did it feel to watch Serena again? And what might she do next? We also talked about battling wins for Rafael Nadal, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Coco Gauff, Nick Kyrgios’ press conference, Iga Swiatek opening Centre Court and our New York Times appearance!
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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 day two of Wimbledon is in the books and it is already yesterday because |
| 0:28.0 | Wimbledon don't do night sessions. However, it is two minutes past midnight, |
| 0:34.4 | in tennis podcast hours and we are recording our day two podcast, but Wimbledon don't do night sessions. |
| 0:44.0 | No, it's a remarkable slight of hand, I've not used that, isn't it? You know, they've just sort of |
| 0:49.5 | crept this one upon us without us knowing and then suddenly we were speculating about how three |
| 0:54.8 | years ago all of our podcasts were done under sort of nice fading light at about eight p.m. We |
| 1:00.3 | want to watch the sunset as we record it. On Henman Hill. Yeah, they're letting the |
| 1:05.2 | Frank show open, take all the flack, all the heat. Yeah. With their cold night sessions and they've |
| 1:12.2 | just snuck their own in. And yet you still can't finish the matches because there's a curve |
| 1:17.0 | you have 10, 59 p.m. Yeah, Carolyn Eplishkever wandered out into court number one. |
| 1:21.9 | Carolyn Eplishkever got thrust into a night session that she was not advertised to her and yet |
| 1:28.7 | still didn't get to finish her match. Not allowed to finish whether she likes it or not. |
| 1:33.8 | I know we're being grumpy about it. Look, we we loved our evening of watching tennis under the |
| 1:39.1 | Centricort roof tonight, under the lights. Yeah. And we will be leading with the story of |
| 1:43.9 | Serena Williams. However, I wish they would just say night session under the light, |
| 1:48.4 | Centricort Wimbledon. Don't let's call a spade a spade Wimbledon, shall we? And let's try and |
| 1:55.5 | negotiate this curfew away. Well, there may be the fact that it's guaranteed to finish it a |
| 2:02.5 | reasonable hour. I don't know, I don't know. It's not a debate for now because the debate for now |
| 2:09.7 | that we're all going to have is whether we all have just watched Serena Williams play her final |
| 2:17.2 | ever Wimbledon match. An epic, by the way, three hours and 11 minutes, a defeat in the deciding |
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