Wimbledon Day 3 - Watson wins, Novak, Stan stroll, Nishikori, Ivanovic out; Plus, is Andy Murray Britain’s best sportsperson?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Sports & Recreation, Wimbledon, Sports

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A couple of big names fell on Wednesday, with Nishikori withdrawing and Ivanovic going out, but Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka cruised through. But, as the Telegraph’s Jim White joins The Tennis Podcast presenters David Law (BBC 5 Live) and Catherine Whitaker (Live at Wimbledon), the talk of the town is Heather Watson, who reached the third round, and now faces Serena Williams … The team also preview Thursday’s order of play, and discuss where Andy Murray sits among all time British sporting champions. The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with The Telegraph, and supported by BNP Paribas, the bank for a changing world. www.wearetennis.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stan Bavinka and you're releasing the tennis podcast.
0:13.2	Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day three of Wimbledon a day in which more
0:18.8	good British news has come because Heather Watson has gone through to the third round
0:23.8	including her best ever performance at this tournament. She now may face Serena Williams, Serena's
0:29.7	currently halfway through her match at the moment having won the first set there. Lots of other
0:34.4	big matches, big storylines today on day three at Wimbledon but most of the big names have gone
0:40.7	through. My name is David Law, part of the BBC Radio 5 live tennis team on the alongside Catherine
0:45.7	Whitaker who's here for live at Wimbledon and we are brought to you in association with the telegraph.
0:50.7	We are supported by BNP Powerbar and today we have the telegraphs Jim White with us. How are you
0:57.0	doing today Jim? I'm very good David, thank you very much. Great to see you with us here and
1:02.4	Catherine Whitaker, what have you been up to today? It's same as ever just a little bit more sweaterly
1:09.9	today. I've been in the studio pretty much all day for live at Wimbledon which is fantastic but
1:17.9	I'll be pleased to get in the shower tonight. You said you were not going to complain about the weather.
1:22.7	Wasn't it a complaint again, mere statement of fact? Well yeah it is a bit toasty today isn't it?
1:28.2	It's been hot although for the players you know every player is asked in the press conferences
1:34.7	what's the weather like and they all go well it's quite nice actually I work well I play in this
1:38.3	oh it's not as hot as I was expecting and we're all hoping they're going to say no like the rest
1:42.6	of the British public we're sweating we're melting but no they're enjoying it. I quite
1:47.2	enjoyed Jonathan News piece about that the way he was doing exactly that trying to get somebody
1:53.8	to just win about the weather like we all do. Well I heard John McEnroe on the TV commentary
1:59.6	and he was asked you know how hot is this in comparison to where you played and he went well
2:04.1	no one's played in Australia it was so hot that the souls of my tennis shoes melted on court
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