About this episode

The episode recaps Day 7 of Wimbledon 2026, highlighting major matches and featuring guest Jonathan Overend.

Day 7 of our Wimbledon 2026 daily live series, recorded inside the grounds. Brought to you by Novellus. Live every night at 9pm UK across the Wimbledon fortnight, with Wimbledon champions, tennis icons and special guests joining Dan to break down the day's biggest stories from inside the grounds at SW19. In this episode: Major Moments (brought to you by SotoTennis Academy): the world No. 1 out, the defending champion out, and Wimbledon 2026 guaranteed a first-time women's champion Naomi Osaka beats Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 7-6(2) on Centre Court to reach her first ever Wimbledon quarter-final Karolina Muchova beats defending champion Barbora Krejcikova 7-5, 5-7, 6-3 in an all-Czech thriller Jessica Pegula fights back from a set down to beat 18-year-old Iva Jovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 Jan-Lennard Struff into his first ever Grand Slam quarter-final at 36 , after Hubert Hurkacz retires hurt from two sets to love up Novak Djokovic through to the quarter-finals in another tough four-setter, closing on major title No. 25 Felix Auger-Aliassime from a set down to beat Davidovich Fokina , on a collision course with Djokovic TennisAthlete Player of the Day: Naomi Osaka , the physical rebuild after…

People in this episode

Host: Dan Kiernan

Guest: Jonathan Overend

Topics covered

• Wimbledon 2026
• tennis
• sports recap
• major moments
• player performances
• live commentary

Keywords

• Wimbledon
• Naomi Osaka
• tennis
• live commentary
• sports recap
• major moments
• Grand Slam

Sponsors

Novellus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio 5 Live, SotoTennis Academy

Places: Centre Court, SW19

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