Wimbledon - Has Sinner conquered the heat?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are together at Tennis Podcast Towers in Putney as Wimbledon qualifying wrapped up at Roehampton and excitement grows ahead of Friday’s Draw.
Part one (00:00 - 27:10) - Wimbledon Qualifying. We cover some of the main headlines from qualifying including Oliver Tarvet making it through, Dan Evans’ singles career ending, and a big moment for Bianca Andreescu.
Part two (27:11 - 37:29) - Tour Results Round Up. There’s chat about Iga Swiatek losing her first match on grass this season and some positive signs for Jack Draper in Eastbourne.
Part three (37:30 - 1:05:52) - News. We discuss Marketa Vondrousova’s four-year ban, the news that top players will expand their prize money protest at Wimbledon, and Jannik Sinner’s comments about his attempts to deal with the heat.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast live from Wimbledon presented by Barclays, the official banking partner of Wimbledon. |
| 0:21.1 | We are thrilled to have Barclays on board for the duration of the championships |
| 0:25.7 | and our 18 shows from the championships in 2026. |
| 0:31.0 | I say live from Wimbledon. |
| 0:34.5 | I mean that in the loosest and most spiritual possible sense because we are neither live nor at Wimbledon. I mean that in the loosest and most spiritual possible sense, because we are |
| 0:39.6 | neither live nor at Wimbledon. Not this time. We will be from tomorrow folks. Right now, |
| 0:46.2 | we are all together in the same vicinity. So we've sort of overcome that initial obstacle. We |
| 0:52.3 | are down the road from Wimbledon at Tennis Podcast Towers in the Wimbledon area, |
| 0:56.8 | and we will be in our usual wonderful spot at Wimbledon on the broadcast roof, |
| 1:02.8 | overlooking the grounds, caught one in the background, live streamed on YouTube. |
| 1:07.1 | We will be there from tomorrow. |
| 1:09.2 | The plan for today was to do this show from |
| 1:12.9 | Wimbledon qualifying at Roehampton. None of us made it to Wimbledon qualify at Roampton. |
| 1:22.6 | It's, yeah, it's, it's been a, it's been an eventful start to our, our 2026 Wimbledon journey, David. |
| 1:29.9 | Wasn't our fault, folks. |
| 1:31.4 | We had all the plans in place. |
| 1:33.2 | We'd ordered a massive air conditioning unit for this apartment. |
| 1:36.5 | And then it arrived and then it didn't work. |
| 1:38.9 | And then troubleshooting started. |
| 1:41.7 | And the heat rose outside. |
| 1:46.9 | We were running out of time and we realized there's no possible way we can make this work. So here we are. Here's plan B. Yeah, we're just sweaty and Putney |
| 1:53.3 | instead. We were going to be sweaty somewhere. And we've decided to be sweaty and |
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