Wimbledon Day 9 - Venus / Serena - History Beckons; Jeff Tarango Picks Tsonga To Cause Murray Problems
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Venus and Serena Williams rolled on to the Wimbledon semifinals, aged 36 and 34 respectively, to keep alive the chance of a history-making all-Williams final.
Catherine, David and Simon Briggs (Telegraph) are joined by former ATP pro and BBC 5 Live commentator Jeff Tarango to discuss their extraordinary stories, assess their chances against Angelique Kerber and Elena Vesnina respectively, and to look ahead to the men's quarterfinals on Wednesday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm John McInerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. This is Martina Navratlova. I'm Matt Vylander. I'm |
| 0:05.2 | San Roenka. I'm Lainey Nuit. I'm Andy Murray. And you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | One, two, three, four, five. Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on Women's |
| 0:26.4 | Court of Finals Day, although I should also say we had a round of 16 match to complete |
| 0:30.8 | between Yuri Vesely and Thomas Burtick and Burtick eventually coming through in the fifth set. |
| 0:36.4 | So he will now line up against Luca Pwheel in that sort of Andy Murray, Joe Alfred Songa half |
| 0:41.6 | of the draw as well. That's all to come on. What day is it tomorrow? Wednesday. That's all coming up |
| 0:46.7 | then. My name is David Law. This is the tennis podcast brought to you in association with the |
| 0:50.4 | Telegraph. Catherine Whittick is here. Hello Catherine. Hello David. Hello, Simon Briggs. |
| 0:54.1 | Hello, how are you? And hello, Jeff Tarrango from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:58.6 | Hey David, are you sure you pronounced Pooley Lee's name correctly? I kind of think of rap songs |
| 1:05.6 | when I think of him. Pooey, you know that song? Nuit is a good idea to get you on the show. |
| 1:11.6 | Um, Catherine, why don't we just confirm quickly what the correct pronunciation is? |
| 1:16.1 | It's Luca Puy. So I was right, Jeffrey. That was much closer. No, no, no, no, no, |
| 1:20.5 | I'm afraid you won't. You said you pronounced the L's. Yeah, see, I'm not. I did not pronounce it. |
| 1:25.7 | Go back and listen to everybody. Listen to the tennis podcast right now. I'm right. |
| 1:31.5 | Jeff Tarrango here. Anyway, let's get on to the serious business of the matches we've had so far |
| 1:36.1 | today. I was doing the commentary on Venus Williams against Yaroslav Vashvediver, highly |
| 1:43.6 | competitive opening set in which Vedaver led five two in the first set tie break, Catherine, |
| 1:49.5 | and Venus Williams came back. I think experience from the 36-year-old ultimately told. Yeah, you |
| 1:55.9 | don't see the fight in the same demonstrable ways you do with Serena. Do you know? I mean, |
| 2:00.3 | with Serena when she's in that sort of position, she becomes incredible Hulk, doesn't she? But with |
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