Wimbledon Day 6 - Tired Halep Crashes Out; Djokovic Rises from the ashes to end British Hopes
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As the first week of Wimbledon 2018 draws to a close, Catherine & David meet on the broadcast centre roof overlooking the grounds to discuss yet another shock defeat in the women's draw, that of top seed and French Open Champion Simona Halep to perennial Grand Slam giant-killer Su-Wei Hseih. They also discuss the rest of the day's women's results which included wins for 'tennis magicians' Daria Kasatkina and Belinda Bencic, and another jaw-dropping performance by on-fire Jelena Ostapenko.
The day's men's results saw straightforward victories for Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin Del Potro, but also the end of British hopes at the Championships as Kyle Edmund battled valiantly before losing in four sets to a defiant and resurgent Novak Djokovic. And what of Kei Nishikori's 'best ever' grass court performance to beat Nick Kyrgios in fading light, and of his fourth round opponent Ernests Gulbis, whose rankings history is quite the rollercoaster ride.
And as the order of play dropped mid-episode, discussion moved on yet again to contraversial court assignments, including inequitable distribution of men's and women's matches, and a seeming refusal to put three-time champion Djokovic on Centre Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm San Roenka. I'm Lighten Huat. I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | People Saturday has come and gone. |
| 0:22.9 | And we've just had a number of results that have fascinated and intrigued and excited |
| 0:28.2 | and disappointed in some ways. Catherine, with her here on the broadcast room for Wimbledon, |
| 0:33.2 | here with me, David Lauren. Some people are getting very excited in one of the little studios nearby |
| 0:37.7 | because it's that time of night, middle Sunday tomorrow. And some people are probably just having |
| 0:42.0 | one or too many, too many pims. This is the tennis podcast brought to you in association with |
| 0:47.0 | the telegraph and sponsored by Amazon Prime Video, the new home of the US Open in the UK. |
| 0:53.8 | And Catherine, the reason I gave all those descriptions of the days because you've been on |
| 0:59.0 | flash interview duty today for the BBC. And you've you must have done some very different types |
| 1:04.7 | of interview or following some very different types of tennis matches. Why don't you go through them? |
| 1:10.5 | I did three interviews that I absolutely was not planning on doing at the start of the day. |
| 1:16.0 | The first was with the winner of the match between Top Seeds and Mona Halop and the unseeded Sue |
| 1:21.5 | Wei-Shea who to be fair has a past history of giant killing. She beat Mugaretha at the Australian |
| 1:27.4 | Overseas Beat Conte at the French Open last year, but still to beat Halop today, seven-five in the |
| 1:34.0 | third after Halop had led five-two in that deciding set. Oh, it's five-two. I know it was six. |
| 1:40.4 | It was the second set that she led five-two. Second set that she led five-two. She had a |
| 1:46.0 | match point at Halop. It's all a bit of a blur. That kind of day. Is that kind of day? And Sue Wei-Shea |
| 1:53.5 | from Chinese Taipei. She's this incredible throwback. If she were playing tennis in the 50s, |
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