Wimbledon Day 3 - Willis Wins Wimbledon Hearts; Federer Prevails; Djokovic Cruises, Konta Canters
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Hearts were won on Centre Court on day 3, but for once, not by seven-time champion Roger Federer.
His opponent Marcus Willis, ranked 772 in the world, only won seven games, but the combination of his wide-eyed, cheeky-chappie, smiley reaction to getting his Centre Court opportunity was a breath of fresh of air.
Catherine Whitaker and David Law are joined by the Telegraph's Charlie Eccleshare and BBC 5 Live's Philip Studd to discuss it all.
Plus, how did Novak Djokovic look? What about the other Brits - Konta, Evans and Watson? And find out what happened when David bumped into umpires Mohamed lahyani and Carlos Barnardes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Svillander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | Stan Roenka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:24.0 | telegraph. It is day three of the Wimble the Championships. It has been a bit wet and |
| 0:28.2 | sodden on the outside courts. We've had lots of frustration but we've also had one of the most |
| 0:33.4 | romantic stories imaginable. We're the players only want about seven games in a match but he was ranked |
| 0:39.2 | 772 in the world. His name Marcus Willis, the British number 23 and he is the man we're going to be |
| 0:46.1 | talking about first here on the tennis podcast. My name is David Law. Catherine Whittaker's here. |
| 0:50.4 | We've got Charlie Eccleshire from the telegraph as a special guest today and how about this? We've |
| 0:54.8 | only got BBC Radio 5 live's Philip Sturd. Philip, how are you doing? I'm very good, David. Yes, |
| 0:59.8 | it has been wet. It has been drizzly but how the whole atmosphere has been lit up by what's happened |
| 1:05.0 | on Sunday court today. We've had no vac job of it, studying a new opening or a record for |
| 1:08.1 | Grand Slam wins consecutively and we've had Marcus Willis, the fairy tale man who has shaken hands |
| 1:14.8 | with Roger Federer, embraced arguably the greatest player of all time at the net after putting on |
| 1:19.4 | a terrific show in front of a pack crowd under the roof. The noise reverberating around the stadium |
| 1:25.3 | like some rock concert. It's a day that Marcus Willis will never forget and no one who was there |
| 1:30.6 | will ever forget it. No, Philip doesn't get that animated easily. It has to be good. |
| 1:36.4 | Catherine Whittaker, you're not one for hyperbole either. However, even you will win over as well, |
| 1:42.8 | aren't you? Let's be honest, twinkle in the eye, tear in the eye, I would say. |
| 1:47.4 | Yes, absolutely. I was going to say I learned everything I know about being deadpan from Philip |
| 1:54.8 | Sturds and I'm very proud to say. But yeah, it was hard to be in the face of Marcus Willis, wasn't it? |
| 1:59.6 | My favourite, well, it's hard to pick a favourite thing but possibly the fact that he walked on to |
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