Wimbledon Re-Lived 2005: Venus Williams - Game Changer

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Sports, Wimbledon, Sports & Recreation, Tennis

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Venus Williams’ 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 victory over Lindsay Davenport in 2005 is the longest women’s final in Wimbledon history, and possibly the greatest.

We discuss the sustained excellence from both players, the joy of watching Venus in her prime, the way she fought for equal prize money the night before the final, and how her uninhibited and jubilant celebration revealed a side to her which we don’t usually see.

Davenport also describes the particular challenge of facing Venus on grass, the point the match slipped away from her in the deciding set, and how she was able to appreciate how good the match was even while playing it.

The Tennis Podcast is presented by Catherine Whitaker and David Law, and features Matt Roberts. It is produced weekly year-round, and daily during the Grand Slam tournaments. It is crowdfunded by listeners each December.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartorri.
0:02.0	I'm Matt Vylander.
0:03.0	This is Mary Carillo.
0:04.0	I'm Stan Ravinka.
0:05.0	I'm Lainey Nutt.
0:06.0	I'm Andy Murray.
0:07.0	This is Janik Noah.
0:08.0	And you're listening to the tennis podcast.
0:21.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the tennis podcast day 11 of Wimbledon Relived.
0:26.0	What would have been women's semi-finals day at Wimbledon and would probably have been under the roof
0:32.0	because looking out of my window in Putney which is my my my line of half-ish down the road from SW-19
0:39.0	is blim-imisurable.
0:41.0	So that's great.
0:42.0	Thank you British weather for making summer 2020 just that little bit extra great.
0:50.0	But not to worry because I've got David and Matt to talk tennis with.
0:55.0	And it's our 700th episode David you just told me.
0:59.0	We actually can mark a milestone because we've remembered it before recording rather than four seconds after recording.
1:07.0	We've celebrated 501 and 601 in the past.
1:12.0	So yeah, I'm feeling quite proud.
1:15.0	You know, it jars me when you say it's women's semi-finals day today because I'd kind of forgotten that.
1:22.0	And as much as I'm so used to now talking about classic matches with you both watching them.
1:28.0	We've just watched another one to what I mean the BBC have got matches on every day that they're showing Wimbledon
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