High performance tennis coach, Marc Sophoulis, joined Scott Cummings and Tim Gossage to review the first Round of Wimbledon and how each Aussie is fairing.
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Marc Sophoulis - Wimbledon Update (03/07/2024)
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But good to see Alex get over the line in his first round match. - Yeah, seven, six, seven, six, seven, six. I have never, now I've followed tennis. I've got no massive skin in the game, but I do know most Australians, I've never heard of Adam Walton. I've never heard of him. - Yeah, Adam's come, he's actually come through a different pathway in terms of college based. And he's come through very quietly. I'm gonna say that and he got through against Correa from Argentina and he's first round last night and straight sets and actually has a fairly good draw. Rublev, who is the sixth seed, went out in the first round. So he plays against his opponent, Kamasana, who's from Argentina as well. So he's got two of the Argentinians on grass. He's in a bad first two rounds for Adam Walton. So he's got a, not a bad little draw there at Wimbledon for not tonight, but tomorrow night he will play. So it'd be quite an interesting round to see if he can get through to the third round. - Well, who's their best hopes? Obviously, Demon is gonna be our best hope. It'd wanna be a cock an ark, it's gonna be a pop run. They both had solid wins. - Yeah, I think it's gonna be interesting. Like I've spoken before about, you know, the hopes of winning the title. And I think the only one from our men's draw would be Alex that would probably go all the way. But obviously some like Jordan Thompson's another one that probably comes to mind. It's had a win two nights ago. And he's playing some really good tennis on the grass. And I think he's probably another one of our best bets to sort of get through. He came from two sets of the love down to get through him when he's five. And obviously playing some good tennis had a good result last week, making the final in the lead up event to this. And look, cock an ark, this will, will he serve, will always be there about and be out of trouble opponents. Alex, you pop in the same big serve, will be out of trouble opponents on the grass. But I think in terms of the actual title itself, I think Demonor is probably in his best position. He has been, I guess, in many years to be able to challenge for a title. And obviously being on grass, he loves the grass, loves the way it plays. His game suits the grass. And now with, I guess, Jockovic having surgery three weeks to go on being sort of slightly under done. And obviously Murray pulling out yesterday. Rapper's not there. I think the draw starts open up to someone like Alex and maybe come through and have, you know, hopefully a career best result at Wimbledon. - I'll just correct myself, their cognitive scheme was suspended due to bad weather, surprising. So there we are, he is set down to one and it's one all in the, in the fourth set. What happens now? They just lob today and pick it up from one all? - Yeah, correct. I'll just come back and start from where they finished off yesterday. And obviously with the grass, the real challenging part about rain at Wimbledon is if you don't get the covers on in time, the grass gets quite wet and quite slippery. And we've seen some major injuries in the past coming down on that grass. Obviously, no spikes on the shoe. So it's a bit challenging to hold your feet. So they'll come back and finish from where they left off last night. And hopefully, for now, you can come back and win that match and see if you can continue with your journey at Wimbledon. - It changes everything for you though, doesn't it? Like you, obviously you're recovery rate. If you get through that one, you've lost a day somewhere in recovery. So you can really mess you up. But anyway, what's happening on the women's side of the draw? - Yeah, women's side of the draw. We had Ayla Tomianovic, who has been coming back from some major injury. She's missed a lot of tennis in the last two years. And she got through as a wild card in this event. She had a really good week in the lead up to this event and got given a wild card. And unfortunately played, Yelena Osterpenko, French Open champion of a few years ago. And Osterpenko was just too strong last night winning 6-1-6-2 in that match. And Tomianovic just had a lot of time out of the game. So I guess for her, you know, the positive issues back on court. And she's able to compete at the highest level again. And that's the biggest challenge for her. And I guess the other Aussie that was in action last night was Olivia Gedecky, another young Aussie girl who fought her way through qualifying and unfortunately lost last night, 6-4-6-4 to Montgomery from the US. And she had a decent draw. Montgomery's another qualifier as well. So it was a decent draw, but just couldn't get over the line last night. And it was a real challenge. Hey, Mark, we might check in with you early next week, after the weekend's action, if we can, mate, to get an update on how the Aussies and how the big names are travelling. We're out of time at the moment, but we really appreciate you coming on the show. Anytime, guys, thanks for having me. There's Mark Zafoulis. Of course, the tennis menu dot com,