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Hey everyone , john Wertheim , here from

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behind court 14 at Wimbledon Day

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two . This is Quick Serve , presented by

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. Interesting day at Wimbledon . We'll

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be checking in periodically . Quick hints

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regarding the tournament top moments , storylines

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, upsets . Day two was

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a typical Wimbledon early round day

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A little bit of rain , a couple of upsets , some

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familiar faces , some new faces . Dave

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Grohl and Simon Lebon were seated near

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each other in the Royal Box . Very importantly , we'll

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spare you the Foo Fighters and Duran Duran

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puns and dad jokes and just get right

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to the action . As with

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day one , day two came with a couple

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of rain delays . Apart from the course here at Wimbledon

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, it would not be Wimbledon if the tarps didn't come

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out at least a few times . The good

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news here , of course , is that there are two covered

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courts , so there is continuous play . But on the outer

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courts it was a little bit of a stop-and-start

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situation , with the exception of one

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groundskeeper who seemed to have got eaten

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by Tarp . We actually heard he's OK

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, but everybody survived . Some

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matches got pushed , but

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this is par for the course at Wimbledon . The showers

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were annoying . They were sort of persistent

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, but persistently brief . Some of the matches

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were delayed at least three

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times , but the delays weren't particularly

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long . So a little bit of your standard Wimbledon

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rain delays . You'd have a little

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bit of havoc on the schedule . A couple of matches were

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pushed , the fourth ons were told essentially

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to go home . We're not going to get you in before the sun goes

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down , but we saw the benefit of having

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roofed courts . And again , it would

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not be Wimbledon if we did not see some umbrellas

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getting trafficked in the gift shop here . Iga

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Svatic , number one seed , just won the French

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Open , just won Roland Garros . Now she's trying

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to do the channel double

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and win Wimbledon . She hasn't gotten beyond

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the quarterfinals . She started off against Sonia Kennan

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, former major champion , and Iga looked

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good Not great , but good , got

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through , did what she needed to do . One down

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, six to go . Andy

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and I talked about how her draw is no fun and the dangerous players in her order in particular

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still remain . But a good first

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outing for Iga . You know who else had

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a good first outing ? The seven-time champion

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, novak Djokovic . Ordinarily , no surprise

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, novak Djokovic winning his first round

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match breezily . However , just

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a few weeks removed from knee surgery , there were some questions

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, but he seemed to move just

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fine . To the naked , untrained

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eye , there was no indication that

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he was at all compromised . He got

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through and now he faces Jake

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Fearnley . Who is Jake Fearnley , you wonder

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? Good question . He played for

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TCU six weeks ago

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, helping TCU win the NCAA

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title , and now here he comes , likely a center

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court assignation . Six weeks

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later at Wimbledon , djokovic talked a lot about

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the knee . He seems to be fine

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. He said you know nothing to see here , folks , and

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his tennis certainly bore that out . I do think there

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is this interesting sidebar . We've

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been a bit distracted and not talked perhaps

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enough about Novak's tennis , the guy who won three

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majors last year and at the fourth one here

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he came within a few points of winning

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all four . He hasn't

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won a title of any size

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so far in 2024 . He has not even reached

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a final , did play well

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in Paris but then , of course , had a knee injury

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. So it's very strange . I mean , we're talking about him

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as a contender , as we ought

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to , with anyone who won seven titles

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. We're also talking about a 37-year-old man

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coming off knee surgery who hasn't gotten

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to a final at all in 2024

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. But the tennis was good today and Novak

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lays on here's . Who

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does not play on , unfortunately , is Andy Murray

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, another 37-year-old . Not a

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huge surprise , but it still came

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with a significant stab of disappointment

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this morning when it was all but made official

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and the spinal cyst surgery

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that Murray underwent 10

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days ago or so it was going to take a lot

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longer to recover than this Wimbledon . So

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he announced he's been at rehab

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, it's been 24-7 , but he just hasn't been able

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to play . Certainly not singles , he'll play

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doubles . He did say that this is the last

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time he'll play Wimbledon , still on the Olympic

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docket . So perhaps it's not time for the full-on

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retirement retrospective . But

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some air was taken out of this tournament , no doubt today

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when it was official and Andy Murray

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, two-time champion , sir , knighted

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national hero , he will not be in

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the single straw . Andy

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and I have talked about this on the podcast , but it sort

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of gets back to this question of stars

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playing deep into their 30s . That's great . What

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is not always so great about that is it seems that

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less and less often certainly didn't happen

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with Federer , it's unclear if it'll happen with Nadal

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Less and less often are they getting to say just

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where and when the finish

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line exists and resides . So fortunately

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, sort of Andy Burry's body made this decision for

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him . It doesn't look like he

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will ever play Wimbledon singles again , which

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is a disappointment . There

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were some surprising results , some

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upsets I wouldn't say huge in the

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grand scheme of things , but still some convulsive

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results . Marketa Vondrosova , the

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defending champ , christened center

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court today , as the defending women champions

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do , and she did

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not succeed . She will

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not be defending her title . She lost in the first round to

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Spanish newcomer Vondrosova's

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Wimbledon record . She's won eight matches here . Seven

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of them Came Last year

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. Keep an eye On her Opponent

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, who has a Tattoo on her finger that reads

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S-H-H-H . We asked her what that

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meant and she said it's when the haters

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start hating . She can just hold her finger Up like this

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and they can see the Shh . She can Tell

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Um she . She can have said so . You tell the

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haters to shut up . Um good , good tattoo

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, good

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tattoo . Intel . Other winners uh , giovanni Petchy-Péricard , a lucky loser who Andy and

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I were both touting . Six foot , 10 inch , 20 year old , from France , he'll now

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be in the top 50 . So his days of being a qualifier

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and a lucky loser are probably behind him . He was

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terrific today , taking out Sebastian Korda

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51 aces . That's

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a lot of aces . Then

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again , 6'9 is a lot of height as well . For our friend Giovanni . This is a vat

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of grapes maturing into wine in front

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of our eyes . Really a poised performance . Apart from 51

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aces , he also faced 11 break

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points and

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Korda converted none of them . So apart from serving bombs , he also

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served clutch , and he moves

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on . Keep an eye on Giovanni Pesci-Perry

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guard . He's had a bit of a , a bit of

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a coming out at the , at Roland Garros a lot

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of agents watching his matches , a lot of chatter

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. And now he comes to Wimbledon , beats a seed

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and lives up to some of the hype

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. And he's gotten plenty of grief for picking

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Irina Sabalenka to win this event

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. Uh , we'll give him a do-over , since arena sabalenka

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did not even post on account of her

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shoulder injury . But uh , credit where it's

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due . Andy also dismissed the possibility

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of alicia parks , the hard-serving

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american beating carolyn wozniacki . He was absolutely

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correct . That was six , two , six , love

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. A lopsided scoreline for wozniacki , who

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got the wild card a former , former

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major champion and she moves on , which

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, I think , to Andy's larger point . This is the

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crass oversimplification that

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big serve equals success on grass

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. You get burned when you go that top

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line and this was a case of just a superior

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returner , a superior mover , a superior

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player more experienced , beating

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one of probably the five best servers on the women's

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tour . But Carolyn Wozniacki a resounding

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win . Give Andy

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Roddick some credit , as you rightfully

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shower him with grief for picking

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a winner who didn't even post Other results

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. Andre Rublev also upset . Another major

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, another Andre Rublev breakdown

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. You can watch the self-flagellation

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on YouTube . But he falls to Francisco

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Comisana . Not

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a player too many had winning that match . But

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Rublev , who of course is a

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six seed . We all know about what

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he can do week in , week out . He cannot seem

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to get it together in majors , has never

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been beyond a quarterfinal and it won't happen here because

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he's out in round one . Uh

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. Other results of note uh , ben schultz

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was down two steps to love last night . Uh , that

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would have been a disappointing defeat . Went home , slept

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on it , came back and uh , prevailed in

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five sets . Very nice win for

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him . Shelton next will play Lloyd

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Harris , the South African . Again one

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for your YouTube pleasure . Go look how

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Lloyd Harris closed out Alex Mickelson

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on match point . One of the all-time great

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match points you'll ever see . Shelton gets

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Lloyd Harris next . If you have a court , one

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ticket on Wednesday , day three , you are very happy

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why you get to see the defending champion , carlos

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Alcaraz . Remember most

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tournaments , most of these majors , the

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top players tend to play most

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of their matches on the biggest court , but one match on the

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other court . This will be Carlos' day on court one

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. Also on court one Naomi

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Osaka , four-time major champion , against

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Emma Navarro . Very interesting

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match . We'll see what Naomi Osaka's level is . Emma Navarro very interesting

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match . We'll see what Naomi Osaka's level is . Big day tomorrow

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. Some matches that were pushed on account of the rain

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today . So a lot on your docket . But

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day two good

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day for tennis , good day for the top seeds

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. Not so good day for the defending women's

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champ , or some of the seeds in the middle Alexandra

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Zverev , elena Rabakuna , also among

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the winners . They

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are both seeded for their respective draws . Uh , the tournament rolls on and so do

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