CSB - Craig Gabriel - Wimbledon Day 1

Live out of the grass courts of The All-England club - an we have history for Kiwi tennis fans from overnight. Craig also updates us on how the rest of the big names have gone on day one. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's time to talk tennis.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
The grass has been pampered, the strawberries and cream have
been prepped. The celebrities have come out, including Sir David Attenborough.
The third major of the year, the All England Wimbledon.
It gives me a great pleasure to bring in multimedia
megastar Craig Gabriel.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Morning Craig, Dear Chap, so good to be with you
from the Orton Club World.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Great to have you back on the airwaves. Did you
get a bit of sleep after Roland Garrison?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
After Ronald Gais? I went to Romania for a few
days and I did a day trip into Bulgaria. And
while I was in Romania, in Bukarest, I caught up
with Simona Hallap and we had a great time chatting around,
sitting around and talking and all that. So yeah, there
was a bit of a slight break, but a lot
there was a lot of work there as well. And

(00:49):
then came into London in time for Queen's Club and
I've been here now going on three weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well wonderful, all right, So we're waking up here in
New Zealand with something we aren't used to singles win
at a major, first time since twenty seventeen that a
Kiwi lu Lusan has beaten the eighth seed out of China.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah. Where is she from? Tiana?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Tiana Yeh Island, bottom of the South Island.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Pride of Tiano. Look, this is a great effort. She's
the first Kiwi woman to win a singles match at
Wimbledon since twenty sixteen, and that was Marina Irakovic. So
that's a big deal and a big effort on her part.
She'd never ever come close to beating a player in
the top one hundred before. And she beats Jansen Wen

(01:37):
of China, the eighth seed the Australian Open finalists from
this year, so that you know, you've got to take
your hat off to her because she's pretty still pretty
inexperience even though she's twenty three. She went to college
in the United States at the University of Texas, which
has got a pretty good tennis program. And yep, big effort.
That was really something to cheer.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
About and talk about cheering about.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
The poems will have something to cheer about Himma a Reticano.
She gets through round one.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah, a couple of things for the poems to cheer
about Emma certainly getting through her first round match seven
six six three against Renato Zarazua of Mexico, who wasn't
supposed to be playing that match. She came in as
a lucky loser because Radicano was due to play a
catterine Alexandrova the twenty second seed, but she, along with

(02:26):
Arena Saberlenka and Vika Azarenka all pulled out today. So
Emma through and you can ye know there'll be They
are very thrilled to know that Andy Murray is going
to play tomorrow. He's decided to play because he is
on the order of play.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
He has got an injury, though hasn't the obviously has
come through it all right.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, he thinks he's getting every day, he said yesterday,
it's getting better and better and better. So by Tuesday
he feels he'll be fitting right enough to place yet surgery,
keyhole surgery on his back to have assist removed. He
says the back is not troubling him at all. He says, yes,
there's some stitches over there if they come undone, He's

(03:08):
not concerned. The leg issue that was resulting off from
the back problem that still not gone away. Completely, but
I guess he feels strong enough to play.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And elsewhere on the mean side of things, Carlos el Karez,
Daniel Midevedev, that's through in the in the means draw, Yeah,
they are.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Did you see Carlos's opponent, No.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
His name is Mark Lall. He came through the qualifying
from Estonia. Here's the story on him. He came through qualifying.
He never been to Wimbledon.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
He was done.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
He did an induction tour of the grounds and the
cook clubhouse and all that, and he was standing on
Center Court on Friday with his Wimbledon guide one of
the members who then asked him, do you know who
you're playing? And the draw had just been done. He said, no,
I don't. He says, you're playing Carlos Alcarez on this
court on Monday, and he started crying, Oh, how's that?

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, yes, he didn't know, and the emotion got to
him at that moment. That was great. And his peroxide
blonde Rastafarian hair. He certainly was popular. Danil Medvedev through
Grigordymitrov also through.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
How's the weather behaving itself?

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, it was it was quite nice. It was a
lot of overcast conditions, but it stayed dry. That's the
main thing. That's all we're concerned about. So there were
no interruptions and hopefully we'll have the same tomorrow, but
maybe a little bit more sun would be nice.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Craig will let you go back to that little glass
of shampas and we'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Great to have you on the ear waves.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Okay, sure,