Wimbledon Day 5 - Jabeur, Korda & Shapovalov Take Centre Stage; VeNick Win on Debut
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Making your debut on Centre Court at Wimbledon can be an intimidating experience, but Ons Jabeur, Sebastian Korda and Denis Shapovalov all relished it in different ways on Friday to reach the second week.
How did Jabeur compose herself after vomiting underneath the Royal Box? Where does Korda get his calm temperament from? Can Shapovalov back up his win over Andy Murray against Roberto Bautista Agut in the next round? In what way did Murray's quite downbeat press conference change our perspective on his match today? And will we see him at Wimbledon again?
Elsewhere, we say 'look out' for Liudmila Samsonova and 'hooray' for Venus Williams and Nick Kyrgios playing and winning mixed doubles together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Stan Roenka. I'm Lighten Hewitt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | So here we are again, tennis podcast towers, dog on lap, myself, David, Matt, Nando's consumed. |
| 0:29.6 | Other Peri Peri chicken outlets, I'm sure are available. Although I'm not sure that many |
| 0:35.6 | others are available because Nando's is so cool in that market. Yeah. And we all very much enjoyed |
| 0:42.2 | our dinners. We've enjoyed another great days play at Wimbledon and it has been a great days play |
| 0:50.8 | at Wimbledon. I don't quite know what to lead with because if I felt any degree of certainty that |
| 0:56.7 | we'd just seen Andy Murray's last Wimbledon match a three set pretty once I did lost a denyshap |
| 1:04.0 | of all of them. Of course, that would be the lead story. But I just don't know. As he left the court, |
| 1:11.0 | I felt that he was making it clear that it wasn't a goodbye I felt. It was all in what he wasn't |
| 1:19.8 | doing rather than what he was. But then we've all just read through his press conference |
| 1:24.7 | transcript and what he had to say after the match and suddenly the waters feel somewhat murky. |
| 1:31.4 | Well, I felt reading through them that he was clearly very disappointed with what he put out |
| 1:38.4 | today, which I found interesting. I find it, I've always found it so difficult to read Andy Murray. |
| 1:44.5 | I'd never feel like I've managed to achieve that. And that's fine. I think that's what makes him |
| 1:50.3 | so fascinating as a sports person. And he would be so delighted to hear you say that. He |
| 1:54.9 | prides himself on being unreadable. I'll be getting Andy Murray wrong for the next 20, 30 years |
| 2:01.6 | probably, one man or another. But the bottom line from it was that he doesn't want to be performing |
| 2:09.7 | like that in his view in the long run. It's not worth it. It's what he was saying. He said, |
| 2:16.8 | I've had to put a heck of a lot of work in to get to this point. And if that's going to be the |
| 2:21.4 | result, even after the two matches he's had, admittedly it's in the immediate aftermath, but he's |
| 2:26.4 | saying I wouldn't want to do that. So the conversations will have to come. He said, if me and my team |
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