Wimbledon Day 8 - Kerber & Kasatkina Dazzle on Centre; Serena Battles through; Federer relegated to Court One

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

After a women's quarter finals day that did not disappoint, David & Catherine are left to dissect four quarter final matches, and four deserving semi finalists. David picks Serena as the title favourite while Catherine thinks Angelique Kerber is the one to watch, and what about Jelena Ostapenko, a woman who is capable of hitting any opponent clean off the court. And although not a winner on Tuesday, Daria Kasatkina sure did seize the opportunity to show the Centre Court crowd what she's made of...

Also discussed is the surprising and welcome decision to put Roger Federer vs Kevin Anderson on Court One on Wednesday, and the guest appearance by pundit Andy Murray on BBC TV's Wimbledon coverage, during which he hinted that he thinks his old rival Novak Djokovic could be the men's champion come Sunday.

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0:00.0	Hi I'm John McEnore. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm
0:05.1	Stan Ravinka. I'm Lainey Njut. I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:20.0	So women's quarter finals day is done and dusted and it's been really good.
0:25.2	Hasn't it Catherine Whitaker? We're here on the broadcast roof here at Wimbledon.
0:28.8	This is the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the telegraph and sponsored by Amazon
0:33.0	Prime UK, the new home of the US Open. From next month and I'll tell you what Catherine,
0:39.2	there's going to be some stories going when that comes around. There are some stories here at
0:44.1	Wimbledon this week. I mean today it's just been full of them. Let's start on court. It began
0:50.2	with Angelic Kerber against Daria Cassechina and it was everything and more wasn't it? It's just a shame.
0:56.3	It was two sets and not three sets but it was probably my favourite match of the week so far.
1:01.2	Yeah it didn't disappoint. The only thing that disappointed about that match and about today in
1:05.5	general I think is that it didn't go to three sets and it's so easily, it's so easily could Kerber
1:11.0	had the break. What was it three times in the end and that second set and Cassechina kept on
1:16.3	pegging her back and had it gone to a third. I think Cassechina might have been the favourite
1:20.8	because she grows into a match as it goes along and I think Kerber probably knew that and knew
1:26.1	the importance of getting it done in that second set. That second set of that match was as thrilling
1:32.1	as tennis gets I think. Yeah I mean if you go through the match it started with
1:36.7	her coming from behind. Twice Kerber had points for a five on lead in that first set.
1:43.4	Cassechina ever win the first set of a match. This is the thing and what I was going to come on
1:49.8	to I'll say it now is that I felt as though it was a classic young player on the centre court
1:57.8	basically producing a best stuff when she's behind because that happens a lot doesn't it and
2:02.6	you're watching it and the best tennis of the match the most memorable tennis of the match
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