Wimbledon Day 8 - Sabalenka, Barty, Kerber and Pliskova to shine in semis

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Tennis, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Women's quarter-final day never quite caught fire, but there were some stellar performances from Aryna Sabalenka, Karolina Pliskova, Angelique Kerber and Ash Barty, and it's set up two tantalising semi-finals on Thursday.

Catherine, David and Matt discuss all of that, Hubert Hurkacz's upset of Daniil Medvedev, and the reaction to Emma Raducanu's statement.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo.
0:05.3	I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Lighten Hewitt. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis
0:09.8	podcast.
0:20.9	So that was not so manic Tuesday. Things this went so well yesterday. I thought we'd revisit
0:28.0	finding an adjective beginning with T to describe today's play. Matt, David, how would you
0:34.8	describe women's quarterfinals in a word beginning with T? Tents. Tents Tuesday, Matt.
0:44.7	No, it wasn't even Tents. Tepid. Yeah. I know whether it wasn't Tepid, but the tennis was quite
0:51.2	free with it. I'm afraid I would agree with Matt. What point were you tense today, David?
0:56.9	When I was racing to try to get undercover because there was a storm about to come over.
1:03.5	I was very much getting it the tennis when I... You see, you put me on the spot.
1:08.0	Tell me what I'm going to do, David, is tomorrow, think of adjectives beginning with W.
1:12.5	Yes, I think that's something that I'm learning here, Matt, is that I've gone two days in a row
1:17.3	and I really should have figured that out. Matt, why was it Tepid?
1:22.4	It was Tepid because... Let's be honest, none of the women's quarterfinals today were fantastic
1:30.1	matches. I think there were some great performances. I think Arena Sabileanka, in particular, was very,
1:36.8	very impressive. Ash Barthie gave her best performance of the tournament. I think Kerber did what she's
1:43.2	been doing, all tournament. Piscava was excellent as well. Lots of great performances and we have
1:50.2	a fantastic semi-final lineup, but they're all straight set matches without my tension.
1:56.9	Can I rescue my tense Tuesday description? Really for the players that didn't win today,
2:04.3	there was some tension on show, actually. I wasn't actually getting that. I was just trying to
2:08.4	find a word with beginning with T, but when I think back to it now, I can... I look at them and
2:14.8	this is what frustrates me so much that we get to quarterfinals stages and it isn't elevated the
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