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QUICK SERVED: Wimbledon Day 7 - Alcaraz Prevails, Norrie Keeps British Hope Alive, & More
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John Wertheim
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.
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John Wertheim
All right, we're back here on Quick Served. Wrapping up day seven, spinning forward to day eight. A reminder too that Andy and I seek redress and redraw and pick them over and start from scratch. We should get out a tourniquet as we do our our Redraw show. Ironically enough, I think both of our picks to win the title are still alive. It's just everyone else that seems to have been replaced. So we'll see where the draw is and lick our chops and then and then redraw. Looking ahead to Monday, which no longer is manic Monday. You know, I think this is year five, I believe of no of middle Sunday now has tennis. So that takes a little bit of the fun out of what used to be the best day in tennis when every single player was in action for the round of 16. We don't quite have that, but a nice docket nonetheless. Novak Djokovic, who has looked terrific as he tries to win again here and win that 25th major, he gets Alex Diminor. Remember this was a match that was supposed to have happened last year and then Diminor pulled up injured on match point, which he won, but then could not post for his match against Novak. I, you know, it's, it's, I don't think this is necessarily an iceberg ahead for Novak, but you know, Novak played a countryman Katzmanovich in his last match looked terrific. He played Dan Evans, a fun, admirable player but a 35 year old previously. This is a step up for Novak, but I think he will be up to the challenge. His level can afford to drop. He is playing well, he's moving well. He seems in such a good frame of mind. Diminor has not necessarily played him so tough in the past. Sort of does does every sort of the I need to say this charitably but you know, he's not. There's some similarities to the Novak game. I'm not sure Diminour does anything better except maybe as a step faster. But I think Novak will be okay here. Interesting match on the women's side. Mirandreva against Emma Navarro. Em Navarro having taken out the defending champion Barbara Khrushchikova in a really solid. In a dramatic match on Saturday. Keep in mind Mira Andreeva played a long doubles match today. That might have some bearing on the outcome. Though let us do re emphasize that Mira Andrea is 18 years old and has the 18 year old powers of recovery. Keep an eye too on Mira Andrea serve, which Andy to his credit, called to our attention. I think we think of Mira Andreeva as sort of maybe a Hingus type, a strategic player, a player who likes angles. She also has really improved her serve and it's become a weapon. Certainly the stats speak for themselves, but if Andreeva serves well, she's probably the favorite in that one. And then Jannik Sinner, the machine continues against Grigor Dimitrov. Hard to imagine Grigor Dimitrov, who reached the semifinals here 11 years ago, giving much of a run to Sinner. They played five times, center four to one. The one time Grigor got him. Jannik Sinner was still a teenager. Other matches, Alexandrova, who reached the fourth round to Roland Garros. Back in the fourth round she plays Belinda Bencic. Ben Shelton against Lorenzo Sanigo, which is almost redundant. They are now playing each other in the third straight major. Shelton won both in Australia and at Roland Garros. And then IGA Swiatek against Clara Tossen. IGA Swiatek suddenly really in contender mode. Beat Danielle Collins, looked very good, seems to be moving well on this grass. And Clara Tassen, a hard, hard serving Dane. But IGA is the superior athlete, probably the favorite, I have to say. Claire Tossen. There's a sort of a larger story here. We visited with her tennis journal yesterday and you know one of those names you see, not necessarily someone we know a lot about. And she, you know. Now download on Clara Tossen. She's dating her coach. She lives in Copenhagen, she's got a great hamburger tip and at a gas station in Copenhagen. It's a reminder that everyone comes from somewhere. Everyone has a story and there's some players we know better than others. But all of these players sort of have their own tail. And I'd say the vast majority are quite charming and amiable and affable in their way. That said, Igish Van Dyk ought to be the favorite. Marin Cilic, age 36, former finalist here, keeping it alive against Flavio Caboli. And all of a sudden Marin Cilic, probably the favorite to win that match despite being the lesser ranked of the two. And Ludnola Samsonova, another player who played doubles today played a long match against the defending champions Senyakov and Townsend. They nearly claimed, nearly call that one. But it was a three set win for the top seeds. Samsonova, coming off that big doubles matchup plays Jessica Boozes Monero. Today's off court story. Sponsorship still available. Let's see, I haven't prepared anything in advance. Here's one we talked about, I talked about on Tennis Channel. Emma Shelton, perhaps you saw the news. Ben's sister has been here. Ben Shelton won his previous match and said, you know, he enjoys the support of his family, his girlfriend, it's a pity his sister Emma has to go back to Morgan Stanley. Maybe someone can put in a good word and give her some time off. And she was then subsequently granted that time off. So she will be in the box. Well, Emma Shelton met one of the high ups from Morgan Stanley. I was told from event planning and wealth management, sort of the Uber boss. The boss's boss's boss happens to be at Wimbledon and the two of them met. Emma Shelton was able to sort of say thank you indirectly for letting me remain at Wimbledon. Emma Shelton, I'm told may well be wearing some branded apparel. The look for perhaps a Morgan Stanley hat on the head of Emma Shelton. Small price to pay for the ability to stick around Wimbledon and cheer on your brother as he goes for the title. I was also thinking, here's one more Shelton related one. Shelton's mom, Lisa Witzkin is also the brother of Todd Witzkin who played at USC and played on the tour, beat Jimmy Connors at the U.S. open. Married, of course, to Brian Shelton, Ben's dad. I can't imagine there are too many other players who have brothers, husbands and sons who all played Wimbledon. So shout out to the the Shelton family. They could sponsor this element. Anyway, that does it for today. Andy and I again will redraw Andy on the grounds today, I'll have you know, as a grounds pass. You know, Saturday he came and got to sit in the royal box next to fancy people and eat, you know, eat watercress sandwiches and drink tea. And today he gets to wear a black T shirt and walk around and hope he doesn't get too noticed. But we will do the redraw show tomorrow where we will take another stab at this draw that is absolute boneyard. A few days into this and that will do it for today. Enjoy the tennis. Lot of good matches everyone. 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John Wertheim
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