Vicki Barker
speaker
765 appearances
133 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 14 Sep
Vicki Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 107 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
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Shakespeare famously incorporated a spear into his family crest, a visual pun on his name, the theory Southampton may have gifted the miniature to Shakespeare, who later returned it when the romance turned sour.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London.
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Just thirty-five days after losing the French Open to Carlos Alcaraz in a grueling five and a half hour match, Yannick Cinner got his revenge.
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He recovered from a set down to topple Alcaraz, the two-time defending champion, 4-6-64-64-64, ending Alcaraz's 24-match winning streak.
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It's Sinner's fourth Grand Slam title, putting him within touching distance of Alcaraz's five and his first major victory on grass.
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He's also the first Italian to win the men's singles tournament at Wimbledon.
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Sinner said after, I'm living my dream.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London.
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Carlos Alcaraz and Yannick Sinner are only the second pair of players to contest the men's finals at both the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year.
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Something Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer achieved for three straight years between two thousand six and two thousand eight.
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For Alcaraz, it's a chance to become the fifth man in the open era to win Wimbledon three times in a row.
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That would put him in the pantheon with Borg, Sampras, Federer, and Djokovich.
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Alcaraz has five Grand Slam titles, Sinner three, and between them they have won the past six, perhaps incubating another great rivalry in professional tennis.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicky Parker in London.
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It was Amanda Anasimova's first Grand Slam final.
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Iga Schviantek walked on to center court with five Grand Slam titles already under her belt.
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She walked off with her sixth, becoming Poland's first ever Wimbledon champion.
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The final score, 6060, the most one-sided victory on Wimbledon's grass courts in 114 years.
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She has admitted she was, in her words, frozen with nerves.
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For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London.
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