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John Wertheim (1:13)
Hey everyone, John Wertheim. Here it is, today's quick serve. Wimbledon 2025. This was day seven. This was Andy gets to go back to the hotel and be a dad and I'm traveling solo. So let me do a quick wrap up of, you know, sort of sort of an on again off again day of tennis. It rained. It didn't rain. There were some matches that were dynamic. There were some matches less than dynamic. Just one of these days that you go through in a major as we make the turn to to week two to the business end. Let's go in reverse order. We're about five minutes from Carlos Alcaraz doing Carlos Alcarazian things. Very entertaining match as his matches, 10 to be. He beat Andrey Rublev in four sets though losing the first set. He's got to be really happy about this performance. Served really well, 23 aces. The last three sets were really sort of more Alcaraz magic than anything else. It's funny, he lost 18 games today. That's one more game than Jannik Sinner. His foil and rival has lost so far cumulatively this tournament. But I think line scores at some level are personality tests and sort of center the clinical mechanical tennis doesn't surrender many games and Alcaraz a little more high risk, high reward gives up a lot more. I lost count. I think he's given up more than 50 games so far this tournament. It Means nothing. The bid for the three peat is still very much alive, and he's got to be really thrilled with this performance. Beating a quality player in Rublev and just turning it on for the last 90 minutes or so. All smiles after this one. Other matches today, the other presumptive favorite, top seed, Arena Sabalenka. The stench of upset has faded a little bit. We haven't had so many the last day or so. And Sabalenka, who is the top seed and the favorite, she looked great against Lisa Mertens, sort of a tricky veteran opponent. The fact that they were longtime doubles partners added, I think, an element of depth and drama to this. And Sabalenko was terrific. 36 winners, 18 unforced errors. This was a very tight match. Mertens played well, she attacked. She's a nice, solid veteran player. And Sabalenko basically was better when she had to be and got through very, very, very happy with her performance afterwards, as she should have been. And she survives in advances, her bid for a first Wimbledon final. In fact, a first. I mean, a first Wimbledon title, but also a first Wimbledon final. I mean, none of the players left in the women's draw, let alone having won the title. None of them have been to the final either. For the ninth straight year, we will have a new women's champion. Yeah, it's crazy, right? I mean, it's after the years of Serena dominance and the big three, Sean, now we're. We're at a wide open playing field. But the remaining contenders. Yeah, so we're going to have a new winner. And if you were a betting man, which. Which we're not, but a lot of people are, Sabine would probably be your first choice. Other matches today, sine Cartel's bid to win the first British female title in nearly 50 years. That was put to an end by Anastasia Pavliachenkova, a former major finalist who's coming back from a series of maladies, including Lyme disease. But Pavs look great today and was just the better player. First ball to last, and she's one of these just consummate pros. We talked about Elisa Mertens. We can talk in a bit about Alex Diminor. Corinne Kachanov, another player who won today, is another example that there is this class of player, and they're not necessarily stars and they're not necessarily contenders, but they just win a lot of matches, and I think we probably should give them more due. But Pavs was a very solid winner today. Other winners, Taylor Fritz, who had that brutal draw for the first week, and had to play on successive days and play the big servers and then play the seed. He had an easier time today against Jordan Thompson, the Australian who just won one game and then early in the second set pulled the ripcord. Jordan Thompson played a lot of tennis like a five setter, a five setter, a four setter. Also played doubles including a three setter yesterday and that fatigue sort of came to bear today. We love it when players play in both draws. We love when players work on their volleys and spend their off days playing doubles. But we saw it can exact a price which is what happened at Jordan Thompson. Meanwhile, Taylor Fritz, quarter finalist last year, very happy to get back to that round and eyes get big. We are not going to mention the 2003 US Open but do note there are two Americans left as we make the turn to week two other winners, Cam Norrie. To the delight of the British crowd. Cam Norrie who is staying at Southfields and has been riding his bike into matches and has really been playing well over the last sort of 60 days or so. I mean he had drifted deep into the double digit rankings. Former semifinalist here and now back in week two, a five set win over Nick Jari as we speak. In full disclosure, we jumped the gun a little bit but as we speak Amanda Anisimova and Linda Noskova are in a third set. So we'll have that result tomorrow. Another winner, 37 year old Laura Siegeman who beat Madison Keys in the previous round. She came back and beat the lucky loser, Solana Sierra. Laura Siegman is not everyone's cup of tea and she, she's a, a feisty competitor putting it charitably. She has a psychology degree. She's an interesting cat but take nothing away from her. She is playing deep into uh, into the second week with a nice win today. Let's when we come back why don't we look ahead to tomorrow and we can share our off court story for today. Day 7.