Wimbledon Preview - Draws, media day, and a jaw-dropping prediction
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are back together, sitting on a bench above Court 18, to look ahead to Wimbledon 2022. With less than one day to go until the tournament starts, we look through the draws, discuss what the players said on media day, and scrutinise David's predictions.
Why does Simona Halep not have the honour of opening Centre Court on Tuesday? What do we expect from Serena Williams this fortnight? Has Ons Jabeur put what happened at Roland Garros behind her? How quickly will Rafael Nadal find his feet on the grass? Who is the biggest threat to Novak Djokovic in the top half? And what's the latest with Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu's injuries?
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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. |
| 0:05.2 | This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, after three years and a global pandemic, we, the tennis podcast, myself, |
| 0:26.4 | Catamirica, David Law, Matt Roberts are back on what I'm going to designate our favorite bench |
| 0:33.4 | in the world. I think that's fair. Yeah. We are atop the Wimbledon roof, overlooking court 18, |
| 0:42.1 | surrounded by trees which are blowing heavily in the very, very strong breeze, slightly, |
| 0:47.3 | slightly stronger breeze than we'd like, but I'm going to paint this as an adilic scene. So, |
| 0:53.2 | I'll leave the breeze there. The final finishing touches are being made to this wonderful |
| 0:58.8 | place. The roses are being painted red or purple, whatever, whatever colour they paint the roses |
| 1:05.0 | here. And it is just an absolutely beautiful sight and it is very, very special to be back here. |
| 1:11.9 | I know we covered Wimbledon last year. David, you were on site for the BBC. Matt and I came as |
| 1:18.5 | fans and spectators and that was fun. It was great. It was so brilliant to have Wimbledon back |
| 1:23.6 | and to cover it and to talk about it, but this is different. Yeah. And it's very special. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, I wouldn't call this the best day of the tennis year because there's actually no tennis, |
| 1:32.4 | but it's one of the more special ones because we're here pretty much on our own. And obviously, |
| 1:39.6 | it's going to be lovely to see the crowds and the excitement which I suspect will be a little |
| 1:44.3 | reminiscent of Ron and Garros this year. I know that people were in last year, but people are |
| 1:49.5 | being from the start. The queue will be back. This more or less feels like normal Wimbledon. |
| 1:55.4 | And in terms of at least the pandemic, anyway, there's a lot going on in the world, but still, |
| 2:01.0 | there's a feeling around here of optimism as you walk around. Or we come across our a few other |
| 2:07.3 | journalists and broadcasters and lots and lots of officials and stewards who have just been put |
| 2:12.0 | through their paces and told what to do tomorrow. And we've got the run of the place. I've already |
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