2026 WIMBLEDON DAY 2 RECAP: Serena's Emotional Comeback, Shelton's Shock Exit & More

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**Andy Roddick** (1:04)
Nice house.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:05)
How's it going?

**Andy Roddick** (1:05)
Good, I like what you did with the place. Thank you. Good to be here.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:08)
I will say, techie Sean and producer Mike are moonlighting as set designers.

**Andy Roddick** (1:13)
I like that.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:13)
This week, so.

**Andy Roddick** (1:14)
It's gonna come with buttons for your pants, but it looks like you're taking care of it.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:19)
I sometimes forget that anyone listens to this. Yeah. So like walking through is like, oh, you got your buttons. I'm like, got a zipper.
That was the deal of the day. But what's been going on first couple of days?

**Andy Roddick** (1:31)
Good first few days. What I was gonna ask you, I mean, the metabolism of these events, they slow down eventually. I mean, these first two days is just sheer chaos, right? And you're on a match, you're watching, and then you're, I didn't even know they were playing. You just, you can't be everywhere once.

**Jon Wertheim** (1:47)
It is, it is intense. Like you throw like a goat comeback and not knowing what goes on. And we'll touch obviously Serena's story of the day, Ben Shelton, maybe second story of the day. But there's some good stuff around the ground. So maybe I'll just kind of touch on it real quick.
Iga Swiatek wins against Taylor Townsend. I don't think that's like a big story on its own, but there was some emotion after this match. Iga broke down afterwards. Taylor walked off and emotions were running high.

**Andy Roddick** (2:23)
There was more emotion than there was when Iga played her last match here, which happened to be her title.
There's a lot going on there. And I think some of it, she talked about it a bit. And she said, you know, she got pushed to a third set and she hasn't had a great record this year. And it all sort of came tumbling. I also thought, I don't know if you saw this, the club put her father and sister in the Royal Box.

**Jon Wertheim** (2:42)
I think that was a lot to do with it.

**Andy Roddick** (2:43)
I think there's a real sense of occasion and you're coming out to defend your title and it hasn't been a great year and you win this three set match.
Yeah, there was a lot going on for, again, seems like a pretty standard, Iga wins in round one over a player who competed gamely. Taylor Townsend, very fun to watch on grass in particular, but not a shocking result. But yeah, Iga's reaction afterwards was, that was quite something.

**Jon Wertheim** (3:05)
You know what you'll never ever ever be able to say about Iga Swiatek? Is that she doesn't care.

**Andy Roddick** (3:12)
Good point.

**Jon Wertheim** (3:13)
Like she's, have you ever watched her and been like, you can say she's...

**Andy Roddick** (3:17)
Ah, mailed it in again.

**Jon Wertheim** (3:18)
Like if anything, it's like she cares too much, right? You need to be able to like kind of level set every once in a while. But like, it's a pretty great thing this far in where she cares that much. She won six grand slams. She won this last year going away. She won 0-0 in the final. And yet she gets through and it still kind of has that depth of emotion.
It was shocking because she's accomplished so much. She's seen so much. We view it as like, oh, you got another win. She views it as kind of like the most important thing ever, almost every time she goes out on the court.