Wimbledon Day 7 - Manic Monday scheduling under the spotlight; Federer, Nadal & Djokovic through but who will play on Centre Court on Wednesday?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As the annual tennis festival that is 'Manic Monday' comes and goes, David & Catherine meet in their usual spot on the broadcast roof to analyse not only the matches themselves, but also their scheduling. Six men's and three women's matches on the three main show courts, and Djokovic relegated to Court One once again while Federer enjoys his usual Centre Court procession - is it fair? And if not, does it even matter so long as the paying public are happy?
And what of the women's round of 16 matches.. How much can we really learn from Serena Williams demolition of Evgenia Rodina? And why does Catherine have a funny feeling that Saturday's Champion might end up being the winner of the quarter final between Angelique 'The Absorber' Kerber and Daria 'The Magician' Kasatkina? And just how on earth is Camila Giorgi averaging 36 winners per match? All this is debated and dissected, with a small dollop of #PollVault thrown in for good measure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. |
| 0:02.2 | This is Martina Navratlova. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Matt Svillander. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Stan Ravinka. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Lighten Huet. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Andy Murray. |
| 0:07.6 | And you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, here we are, David, at a little before 7pm on the broadcast |
| 0:24.6 | roof are spiritual and actual home for the fortnight here at Wimbledon |
| 0:29.2 | 2018. |
| 0:30.5 | A little before 7pm on manic, magic, whatever you want to call it Monday, |
| 0:34.8 | the day when all of the round of 16 matches are played on both the men's and |
| 0:40.0 | women's singles competitions. |
| 0:41.8 | We are, of course, the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:44.9 | Telegraph and sponsored by Amazon Prime Video, the home of the US Open in the UK. |
| 0:50.8 | And David, as we come to you now, Novak Djokovic hasn't stepped on to court |
| 0:56.7 | for his round of 16 match. |
| 0:58.8 | That match is not in progress yet. |
| 1:00.8 | He's matched against Aaron Hachanov of Russia. |
| 1:04.2 | And the situation bears remarkable similarities to what happened on this very day last year. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah, you've just read out to me the news report that followed his postponed |
| 1:17.1 | match in the fourth round stage last year when he was due to face |
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