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This is a short preview of our daily podcast from Wimbledon, to give you a flavour of what we are doing each day during the Championships.

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It's always a pleasure to have Eleanor Crooks sub in on the podcast: the Press Association's tennis correspondent is one of the very best tour-mates in tennis and what she doesn't know about tennis probably isn't worth knowing.

She was covering the women's semi-finals on Thursday, so who better to have on while James waits for Calvin to gladhand his way round the locker-room after guiding Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara to a third grand slam final.

Here is the big news from the second Thursday of Wimbledon.

Coco Gauff dumps a drop shot into the net on match point and is dumped out of the tournament four points later by Karolina Muchova

Linda Noskova makes it an all-Czech final as she beats Marta Kostyuk in straight sets, twice breaking at 4-5 to ensure she never had to serve it out

Calvin assesses the chances of a player he has known for years, Arthur Fery, who is preparing for the biggest challenge of his life, up against Alexander Zverev in the first semi-final on Friday

Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic will follow them on Centre Court in a blockbuster semi-final, the world No 1 against the all-time GOAT

Carlos Alcaraz has already pulled out of the Masters event in Montreal, taking his wrist injury layoff to four months at least

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This is a short preview of our daily podcast from Wimbledon, to give you a flavour of what we are doing each day during the Championships.

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Arthur Fery, Wimbledon semi-finalist. We can still barely believe they are words that you can write down and no one can say "hang on, that's not right". But they are, no matter how little George or James can believe it.

Arthur Fery beats Flavio Cobolli in straight sets to book his place in the last four, only the fifth British man in the Open Era to do so

He will face Alexander Zverev, after he served Taylor Fritz off the court to catch his pigeon and end a long-running streak of defeats to the American

Marta Kostyuk's display of clean hitting knocks out Jasmine Paolini and moves the Ukrainian into her second straight grand slam semi-final

Linda Noskova's destiny awaits (if you ask James) as she picks up another win, this time beating Elise Mertens in straight sets

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George Bellshaw, James Gray and Calvin Betton get together on the first day of quarterfinals to discuss everything that has been going on at Wimbledon and more - and are joined at various points by Jamie Murray, Andrea Petkovic and the Bryan Brothers

- Naomi Osaka is out, well beaten by Karolina Muchova in straight sets and admits to pain in her feet due to plantar fasciitis

- Coco Gauff lost the first set and appeared to be having "one of those days" but turned around her 23rd three-set match of the year to roar into a first ever Wimbledon semi-final, seeing off her often doubles partner Jessica Pegula

- Alexander Zverev comes in on his day off to (eventually) see off Jiri Lehecka

- Jannik Sinner absolutely cruises past Jan-Lennard Struff

- Mike and Bob Byran weigh in the ATP's efforts to turn the doubles circuit upside down and downsize it up...

- ...and so does Calvin

- Henry and Harri make it through to the men's doubles semi-finals

- And Arthur Fery is about to take on the biggest match of his life
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Look, it’s fair to say that George and James were a little sleep deprived after both making bad football-related decisions on Sunday night. So if they got a little bit silly at Wimbledon on Monday, that’s why. Genuinely, no drink had been taken. They even forgot to mention Alex de Minaur. We’re sorry. We don’t really know what got into them.

Arthur Fery keeps British hopes alive by winning a five-set thriller over Grigor Dimitrov, but is that the worst defeat of the Bulgarian’s career?

James’s Linda Noskova prediction gets better every day as Madison Keys is the latest victim

Alexander Zverev gets shafted by the schedule and loses his day off

Does Alexandra Eala have the worst serve in the draw? James certainly was blown away by her first serve bottoming out at 65 miles per hour in defeat to Italy’s Jasmine Paolini

 Taylor Fritz’s serene progress continues with a speedy win over Alexander Bublik

Marta Kostyuk is done by lunchtime and slips under the radar into the quarter-finals

AND FINALLY, George has finished his novel.

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This is a short preview of our daily podcast from Wimbledon, to give you a flavour of what we are doing each day during the Championships.

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It is hard not to feel like you are missing something on fourth-round day: it makes you realise that Manic Monday really was completely insane from a journalistic perspective.

But we've done our best to pick up all the best stories from Middle Sunday (once a day off for the overworked courts and reporters).


Naomi Osaka handed Aryna Sabalenka her first straight-sets defeat at a slam for six years, overpowering the world No 1 on Centre Court to reach her first ever Wimbledon quarter-final


She will face Karolina Muchova in the last eight after she won the battle of the Czechs against Barbora Krejcikova


Jessica Pegula produced an impressive comeback win over the ever-improving Iva Jovic and will play Coco Gauff (see below)


Novak Djokovic is safely through but did drop a set and expended more energy than he would have liked in the sun, while Jannik Sinner played in a cool evening and bagged victory in three sets


Jan-Lennard Struff is the oldest-ever first-time major quarter-finalist at 36, after Hubert Hurkacz's back caught up with him in the fifth set


And Felix Auger-Aliassime is NOT happy about Alejandro Davidovich Fokina's badly timed medical timeout

AND WE MISSED...


Coco Gauff reaching her first Wimbledon quarter-final in the nick of time, beating Belinda Bencic and the SW19 curfew by just two minutes. Sorry, we were already heading to bed...

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