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The Tennis Podcast

Wimbledon Day 6 - Champ Kvitova out; Brown back down to earth, James Ward heartbreak and Murray/Federer lose a set but make week 2

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2015

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The defending champion Petra Kvitova has gone, and The Tennis Podcast team - David Law (BBC Radio 5 Live), Catherine Whitaker (Live at Wimbledon) and the Telegraph’s Charlie Eccleshare get together to talk about what went wrong. Plus, Dustin Brown’s hopes were ended, James Ward suffered a brave defeat, and Andy Murray and Roger Federer both lost sets. Is there anything to worry about? With middle-Sunday beckoning, Catherine gives a sneak preview of her exclusive interview with Mats Wilander, which will be in Sunday night’s podcast, and David gets all his predictions wrong. The Tennis Podcast is produced in association with the Telegraph, and supported by BNP Paribas, the bank for a changing world.

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Layton Huett and you are listening to the tennis podcast.

0:12.8

Well hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. It is Saturday night as we prepare for

0:18.0

middle Sunday and it has been another thrilling day here at Wimbledon. So many storylines.

0:22.6

Petra Cavittiver, the defending champion has gone just in brown. Remember him? He's no more.

0:27.8

James Ward was valiant in his five-septrilo with Vassak Pospercil but he's lost

0:32.9

and Andy Murray and Roger Petra are both lost to set but survive. I'm David Law,

0:38.1

part of the five-live tennis team. I'm also the presenter of the tennis podcast brought to you

0:43.5

in association with the telegraph. We are supported by BNP Powerbar, the bank for a changing world

0:49.3

and alongside me tonight as the sun starts to set once more. It's Catherine Whitaker and Charlie

0:55.8

Eccleshire, how are you doing Charlie? Very well thank you. How are you? You'll be coming

0:59.8

irregular now aren't you? I think so yeah, absolutely. Excellent, we like that.

1:03.6

Catherine Whitaker today losing Petra Cavittiver, my word, the defending champion at the third round

1:09.3

stays. That is careless from Wimbledon. Careless from Wimbledon, Crike. Careless from Petra

1:15.9

Cavittiver, I'd say. I mean I saw your tweet during the match and I think you're right,

1:20.3

she doesn't enjoy playing in the heat. I mean not that it was, as all the players have been saying,

1:24.1

not that it was crazy hot today, it was just reasonably warm, but she did look hot and bothered,

1:31.6

she really did. The point where she stopped play to challenge, I mean that did smack of somebody

1:38.5

that just wasn't thinking quite straight, didn't hadn't screwed their head on properly that morning.

1:44.0

I watched it all unfolding and thought okay, Yankovich is one of set, that's good.

1:49.4

She's, but I mean obviously normal service will be resumed and then it all of a sudden it just

1:54.7

happened and Petra Cavittiver was out and it was all just I still don't quite know what happened

2:00.0

there. She knows how Petra Cavittiver is a little bit fragile, psychologically just at the moment in

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