Wimbledon Day 2 - The Sadness of Serena Williams

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tuesday at Wimbledon elicited so many emotions - excitement as Nick Kyrgios returned to tennis, tension as Roger Federer got a lucky escape, uplifting joy as Carla Suarez Navarro got the send off she deserved, and overwhelming sadness as Serena Williams was forced to retire after just a few games. Afterwards, Catherine, David and Matt convened at Tennis Podcast Towers to take it all in.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary
0:04.8	Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Hewitt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis
0:09.8	podcast.
0:21.0	Well it's day two of Wimbledon and I shan't name many names but somebody in the room with me now
0:27.6	has uttered the words what is Nick Curios' root to the final. Well the first thing it'll require
0:36.7	is somehow to extricate himself from a fifth set held overnight. He's root to the second round
0:44.2	is not yet sealed far from it and yet here we are swept up once again. I'd have thought you'd
0:51.3	have known better by now. I know it's not the biggest story of the day Nick Curios not even completing
1:00.0	a match against Hugo and Burr but it is the one freshest in our minds because we're recording this
1:06.6	at close to midnight in August 11 UK time because we've been watching not a night session.
1:13.9	I should stress Wimbledon don't have night sessions but we have been watching tennis being played
1:20.0	at Wimbledon under the roof, under the lights by Nick Curios and Hugo and Burr until just minutes ago.
1:28.0	I miss Nick Curios. I've not really thought about him through the tennis we've had since
1:33.5	Australia and open and yet when you see him play like he was playing tonight you realise what he
1:40.3	brings to these tournaments and how much I do enjoy watching. You mean you weren't swept up by
1:45.6	get that vibe on Twitter whenever he tweets that because I don't really know what any of that means.
1:51.6	There's something computer game based and to me I'm really in those younger listeners David
2:00.7	hitting all the demographics. What I'm going for you know what is Nintendo and all that
2:06.8	but I think that he is a turn off for people like me you care about tennis when he's banging on
2:14.4	about all that lot and then he walks out on court in a match like this and reminds me why I am still
2:20.8	a Curios optimist. The thing is he's hard to miss because you never he's never reliably there.
2:28.6	You kind of miss things that you are used to being there or can count on being there and he has
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