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Speaker 1: Donald Trump says surviving an assassin's bullet has given him
Speaker 1: an opportunity to unite America. Republicans are gathering in Milwaukee
Speaker 1: to endorse Trump at the national Convention and the Donald
Speaker 1: will name a vice president.
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Speaker 2: the thirty nine year old senator from Ohio.
Speaker 1: Greens leader Adam Badd says he'll lead the party to
Speaker 1: a Robin Hood style take from the Rich victory at
Speaker 1: the next election. Band says big corporations will pay more
Speaker 1: tax and that the Greens have already replaced Labor as
Speaker 1: the party of the center left. That's part of our
Speaker 1: exclusive series on the Greens Live now at the Australian
Speaker 1: dot Com dot a U. The Aging King and the
Speaker 1: Young Superstars. Novak Djokovic says he just can't match it
Speaker 1: with Carlos al Karaz or Yannick Sinner. So who knew
Speaker 1: the spiky cocky serve would turn out to be a
Speaker 1: gracious loser? And is this the beginning of a whole
Speaker 1: new era in tennis? As all eyes turned to the
Speaker 1: Paris Olympics. We're joined by tennis writer Will Swanton.
Speaker 3: Jokovic, What ho you do?
Speaker 4: Is outing? What point? Sen Saxon from Jakovich's very best?
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic the greatest of all time? So Skovich, He's
Speaker 1: been wonderful to watch and sometimes hard to light. Well,
Speaker 1: I know we're supposed to be impartial. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: are impartial even if I'm not. So do you love
Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic or do you hate him?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if anyone in sports journalism is impartial.
Speaker 1: That's Will Swanton, a sports writer at The Australian and
Speaker 1: our man in the press box at the All England
Speaker 1: Lawn Tennyson Croquet Club, Wimbledon.
Speaker 4: I really admire Djokovic, I think like everyone else. Oh,
Speaker 4: I thought he was probably a bit too much a
Speaker 4: few years ago and he enjoyed lauding it over everyone.
Speaker 4: But in the last few years he does a great
Speaker 4: salesman's job for the sport as in he does long interviews,
Speaker 4: he gives deep and meaningful answers. He's shown amazing kind
Speaker 4: of dedication to doing what he wants to do, which
Speaker 4: was overtake Roger and Raffa, which he's done. He's thirty
Speaker 4: seven now, and it's a fascinating thing because in life
Speaker 4: he's still a young man.
Speaker 1: Tennessee. Isn't like Doggie, and.
Speaker 4: He hasn't always been a great winner. He could probably
Speaker 4: say he was a gracious loser yesterday. The way he
Speaker 4: spoke to us afterwards, he was just completely accepting of
Speaker 4: Carlos was better and it was almost as shocking as
Speaker 4: the lopsided result. Was no vatch reaction. Such a nice loser.
Speaker 5: Yeah, huge congrats to Carlos. Deserved this win today. He
Speaker 5: was a better player from the beginning to the end.
Speaker 5: But it was I guess inevitable for him to win
Speaker 5: today because he was just coming out on the court
Speaker 5: with a better quality tennis. That's as simple as it is.
Speaker 1: More than twenty five years at the top, a record
Speaker 1: twenty four Grand Slam singles titles, and your sense. Importantly
Speaker 1: for the Joker, he's outlasted the other two of tennis's
Speaker 1: Big three, retired Swiss gentleman Roger Federer and the chronically
Speaker 1: injured Spanish artist Rafel Nadal. And then so we can
Speaker 1: changed round a straight sets thrashing in the Wimbledon final
Speaker 1: at the hands of twenty one year old Spaniard Carlos Alparez.
Speaker 4: This that slone sixteen sixteen seventy six.
Speaker 3: Stop twenty one years of age.
Speaker 1: I guess we haven't got to see him losing much,
Speaker 1: have we. We've always seen him in victory, and maybe
Speaker 1: none of us would behave that well as world champions.
Speaker 4: And even when Novac used to talk himself up, he
Speaker 4: always used to say, I'm just being honest and if
Speaker 4: I'm winning a lot, I'm just telling you what I
Speaker 4: actually think. And now it makes you think that rings
Speaker 4: true because he was just absolutely cleaned up by Alcoraz
Speaker 4: and again he was just completely honest.
Speaker 5: You know, you can always analyze the match, of course
Speaker 5: after and say, you know, I could have done this
Speaker 5: or that, but just overall, the way I felt on
Speaker 5: the court today against him, I just I was inferior
Speaker 5: on the court.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: You know, he was a better player. He played every
Speaker 5: single shot better than add so.
Speaker 4: When I was leaving last night, I was even more
Speaker 4: stunned by just how great Chokovic was in this significant
Speaker 4: moment where it really felt like one era of tennis officially,
Speaker 4: and that's what it felt like. Without Roger, without Rafa,
Speaker 4: Novak was just completely outplayed. A new era has begun,
Speaker 4: and no one seems more accepting of it than him.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's safe to say then that Carlos
Speaker 1: al KaAZ is the new face of tennis? Or do
Speaker 1: we have to wait a couple of decades to work
Speaker 1: that out?
Speaker 4: Definitely the new face of tennis. Like when you turn
Speaker 4: up at a tournament, you see who the faces of
Speaker 4: tennis are, because all over that city posters of that face,
Speaker 4: and every tournament we go to now front and center
Speaker 4: will be Carlos al Karaz, and he's such a godsend
Speaker 4: for the sport. I remember not so long ago we
Speaker 4: used to wonder, how will tennis continue to thrive when
Speaker 4: you don't have these great characters in Roger Back and
Speaker 4: Raffa who capture people's attention, who don't just love tennis?
Speaker 4: How is tennis going to keep going when they've gone?
Speaker 4: But then Alcoraz has popped up and it's just this joyful, beaming, entertaining,
Speaker 4: extremely likable showman of a young Spaniard and it's just
Speaker 4: such a great thing for the sport. But as Novak
Speaker 4: so graciously conceded, it's the year of Alcaraz and sinner
Speaker 4: in his days are numbered.
Speaker 1: Carlos, you've defended your title.
Speaker 5: Does it feel as good as the first time?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 5: I feel he was the first one.
Speaker 1: It is an amazing feeling for me being the champion,
Speaker 1: killing women on back to back.
Speaker 5: It is great. So I'm really proud and really happy about.
Speaker 1: It coming up. So will Djokovic finally throw in the towel?
Speaker 1: Plus a spine chilling moment for Britain's in saor NEI
Speaker 1: of some good news. We'll be back after this break.
Speaker 1: There's a treat looming for tennis fans. Both Novak Djokovic
Speaker 1: and Rafael Nadal have confirmed they'll play at the Paris
Speaker 1: Olympics beginning next week. As a Rafa Nadal fan myself,
Speaker 1: I'm desperately hoping that he retires and doesn't get humiliated
Speaker 1: as an old man. He's a hearing forty getting thrashed
Speaker 1: by twenty year olds. That is now happening to Novak Djokovic.
Speaker 1: Are those guys going to retire now?
Speaker 4: Oh, good old Rafa, stop the fight. I agree with
Speaker 4: you at a slightly different point, but an absolute highlight
Speaker 4: of the Olympics will be the men's doubles because young, sprightly,
Speaker 4: exuberant Los Alcarez will be trying to carry you know,
Speaker 4: good old Rafael and Nadhal through the doubles.
Speaker 1: Oh what a match up.
Speaker 4: That will be fantastic. I think Novaks. It's a funny
Speaker 4: one with Novak because he did reach the winmbledon final,
Speaker 4: so it's not like a complete disaster. But I when
Speaker 4: there's two damning stats for Novak. He hasn't beaten another
Speaker 4: top ten player since last November, which is incredible, and
Speaker 4: his final here in London was the first final he's
Speaker 4: made all year of any tournament. Roger and Rafa hung
Speaker 4: in there as long as they could. I don't think
Speaker 4: Novak will do the same. I think his pride in
Speaker 4: performance means that if he really starts believing he's not
Speaker 4: going to win majors, I think he'll walk away, and
Speaker 4: he might walk away pretty quickly. Whereas Roger and Raffa
Speaker 4: they just had this kind of they've always had this
Speaker 4: boyish love of playing tennis. They just wanted to keep
Speaker 4: playing or.
Speaker 1: What will was at center court for a spine tingling moment,
Speaker 1: a standing ovation for Catherine, Princess of Wales. Has she
Speaker 1: emerged for a rare break from her chemotherapy treatment, escorting
Speaker 1: her daughter, Princess Charlotte.
Speaker 2: And here we are the appearance of her Royal Highness.
Speaker 2: Very appearance, Sarah, symbol of the resilience, hmm, exactly.
Speaker 4: My request for a seat in the Royal Box didn't
Speaker 4: come through, so I was at the far I was
Speaker 4: at the far end of the court. But so you're
Speaker 4: looking straight at the Royal Box and there's no kind
Speaker 4: of announcement that Kate was about trumpets trumpets, And but
Speaker 4: then this beautiful wave of applause just went around this
Speaker 4: truly beautiful sporting stadium. And I looked up and unless
Speaker 4: she was sworning down the aisle to her seats, there
Speaker 4: was a touching kind of gave me a great sense
Speaker 4: of what the royal family and what means to people.
Speaker 4: With that myself, it was a really heartfelt long ovation,
Speaker 4: and she did this beautiful, little understated way with everyone.
Speaker 4: I thought, oh that's quite nice.
Speaker 1: Really, Oh you you're Amnicus. Now, Will Swanton and our
Speaker 1: team of sports writers are heading to Paris for the Olympics,
Speaker 1: which could be Djokovic's last stand. Some of the country's
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