Speaker 1: Let's to our next guest. O.
Speaker 2: Our next guest is an Australian tennis legend who during
Speaker 2: his career was ranked number one in the world for
Speaker 2: men's singles.
Speaker 1: Rafter is the nineteen.
Speaker 2: He retired in two thousand and three, but just last
Speaker 2: year showed us he can still pop a hell of us.
Speaker 3: Served two hundred and two Kara.
Speaker 1: Two two. Please welcome to the show, Pat Rafter.
Speaker 3: Hey, Paddy Rafter, one of my faves. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Why are you smiling and laugh when you hear it?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what previous world number one?
Speaker 3: Patrick Rafter? How long were you world number one for?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I wasn't laugh at that, but that is funny in
Speaker 2: the self, but they said world number one for men's singles?
Speaker 4: Thanks for clarifying the men's single.
Speaker 3: How long were your world number one for Patty?
Speaker 4: We're one week? One week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was having a week off too. Did never
Speaker 2: undefeat him? I want to ever beat me at number one.
Speaker 2: Carloskraz has got a tattoo of the date he went
Speaker 2: world number one.
Speaker 4: Have you got a similar tat? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sure, No, I don't have any tats, but you imagine
Speaker 2: the alchoraz if you want to put a tattoos and
Speaker 2: all the good things career.
Speaker 3: And how old is it's only.
Speaker 1: What were you when you were number one men's singles?
Speaker 4: Uh No? Twenty six? Listen as a late bloomer.
Speaker 5: Hey, Pete, do you think it's easier or harder to
Speaker 5: play now? Because when you were playing, did you have
Speaker 5: this extreme heat rule and closed roofs and all of
Speaker 5: those things.
Speaker 2: I remember playing very hot conditions. I think it was
Speaker 2: around but I don't know if we ever had that
Speaker 2: situation where we got called off court. But you know,
Speaker 2: when you say how hard is it to play? I
Speaker 2: mean playing these guys right now is so good. I
Speaker 2: mean technology has changed a little bit when I played,
Speaker 2: so that obviously changes the style of play.
Speaker 4: Yep, but God, they're good. Was it hot that night
Speaker 4: that you cramped up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was humid because it was some ridiculous night.
Speaker 5: Of because you you actually the whole body shut down.
Speaker 4: Its awesome. I don't talk about the women of.
Speaker 1: Question on the line.
Speaker 5: Is that what happened to Janick Sinner when he cramped
Speaker 5: up was at the heat?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But ge went early, didn't he? I was just sort
Speaker 2: of sitting back watching going God what's going on here?
Speaker 2: So he he struggles badly. We saw that the year
Speaker 2: before as well against Rune. He was very lucky in
Speaker 2: that match. The roof closed, he was gone, he was
Speaker 2: he was going home.
Speaker 1: And then can we talk about the joker and the blisters.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this yet.
Speaker 3: Before we look at the blisters.
Speaker 5: Novak has had the easiest walk the semi finals of
Speaker 5: all time. He had a walk over to game matches ago,
Speaker 5: so he didn't actually play. Then this what yesterday? He's
Speaker 5: his player dropped out when he was down two sets.
Speaker 5: So he's only played two sets in six days and
Speaker 5: he lost them both and he's in the semi finals.
Speaker 6: Is that a positive or a nigg because his body
Speaker 6: would be rested theoretically.
Speaker 2: Theoretically, but that blister that we saw, which you're going
Speaker 2: to show if he.
Speaker 5: Showed it, yeah, Jason hasn't seen it. Have a look
Speaker 5: at this on his foot. So he's got blisters all
Speaker 5: over and it's actually like.
Speaker 2: The underneath that, Yeah, a bit of a flap coming
Speaker 2: on and you'd see two or three skins. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: he that that is I didn't know how you play
Speaker 2: with that. So he was struggling. He didn't look like
Speaker 2: he was moving that great. Either he's thirty eight or no.
Speaker 2: You wake up on the wrong side of bed a
Speaker 2: lot of times, as we know when we get older.
Speaker 2: But he is, he is struggling through this. He was
Speaker 2: lucky he didn't have to play Mensick the round before
Speaker 2: the fourth.
Speaker 5: Well exactly, so he's got blisters like that and he
Speaker 5: hasn't even been playing.
Speaker 4: And good luck against Jarnick.
Speaker 6: But if he took away the blisters, yeah, technically should
Speaker 6: be rested.
Speaker 4: Yeah, technically, but he's thirty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3: Is this it? Is this the last time we see
Speaker 3: him at Melbourne, doesn't it?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, look, he's really Roger was. I think
Speaker 4: Roger thirty eight was doing better.
Speaker 2: I think lost in the finals to Novaka the US Open,
Speaker 2: and he had match points so that he was nearly
Speaker 2: winning Grand Slams. I don't know how, and I think
Speaker 2: Novak wuld probably admit it that how does he beat
Speaker 2: Sinner and al KaAZ?
Speaker 4: Yeah, on top of the other five matches you have
Speaker 4: to play.
Speaker 5: This point of the tournament is where you meant to
Speaker 5: see the best matches. But they've sort of been a
Speaker 5: bit underwhelmed. They've all been straight set wins like.
Speaker 4: The women and the man's have been pretty average.
Speaker 5: Now, I love Coco Goff and there's been a lot
Speaker 5: of debate about her cracking it at the end and
Speaker 5: going and smashing her rackets.
Speaker 3: We've all seen that vision.
Speaker 5: She's saying there should be a spot that players can
Speaker 5: go and have some privacy. She didn't think there was
Speaker 5: cameras there. She said it the Australian Open. There are
Speaker 5: cameras on smash room. Well, basically, what do you think
Speaker 5: of the racket smash.
Speaker 2: Well, there is there is a safe space and that's
Speaker 2: the locker room view want to unload in the I
Speaker 2: can't really have cameras in the way. But the other
Speaker 2: thing is I said to one of the players yesterday
Speaker 2: is that you know it's actually fine to let the
Speaker 2: emotion out on the court too, because if you're if
Speaker 2: you're getting really frustrated, and she was, I mean, she
Speaker 2: was getting her ass kicked and she just couldn't find
Speaker 2: a way back in let that frustration out sometimes at
Speaker 2: the end of the first yet just demolished one and
Speaker 2: then just clears everything.
Speaker 4: I could be no, no, I probably don't.
Speaker 2: Only a couple of times on TV, but if I
Speaker 2: got really frustrated on the court, there was a way
Speaker 2: of just letting rid of all that energy, getting rid
Speaker 2: of it and just refocusing, and it's a reset.
Speaker 4: It's a reset for me. It was a reset.
Speaker 2: If you continually keep smashing your racket as the sets
Speaker 2: go along, that's not great. But it's about getting the
Speaker 2: anger out.
Speaker 4: And so there are too many cameras then you know,
Speaker 4: it's all part of the course. I sort of is now.
Speaker 4: I mean players also make their money out of the broadcays.
Speaker 1: The change.
Speaker 6: Are you in there with your competitor. Are you having
Speaker 6: a pre chat before?
Speaker 2: Not normally having a pre chat? You know, I'm not
Speaker 2: sitting beside sampus and chat before we walk out.
Speaker 1: But you're in the same room technically getting ready.
Speaker 4: The weirdest one at Wimbledon is you.
Speaker 2: It's you go, you finish the locker room and you
Speaker 2: walk to the next room, which is another holding room
Speaker 2: right before you walk out in the court, and the
Speaker 2: rooms tiny two by two meters. Yeah, and you're sitting
Speaker 2: there and going and you're like five minutes there and
Speaker 2: you come, you make small talk.
Speaker 4: You don't no headphones, weadphones, so you change.
Speaker 2: The tapese so there was a lot of that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was that. That was a really awkward moment. Even
Speaker 2: Gore and who's a good maide of mine. I wasn't
Speaker 2: even looking at him because it's a head game. First,
Speaker 2: it's a mind game. It's yeah, you don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could probably potentially say something but smart arsy to
Speaker 2: him and then upset his of them, which I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's not my style.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and not curious.
Speaker 3: About him going out partying before his game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't mind it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he used to do it before he's singles,
Speaker 2: so he's now doing for doubles and mixed. When he goes,
Speaker 2: he goes hard by the looks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I'm just for we let you go.
Speaker 6: One other athlete I wanted to ask about is a
Speaker 6: bit nervous. No, no, no, I believe you've had the fortunate
Speaker 6: experience of trying to coach ow Verio Lawn.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Cardio Tes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she goes all right, Lozzi, there's a girls group
Speaker 2: going on bar and going back in the while when
Speaker 2: she was living down there.
Speaker 1: Question Tennis or Champagne, what were they better add on
Speaker 1: the court?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: Comparable? I mean in terms of another tennis place. He
Speaker 2: goes really well in terms of a champagne drinker.
Speaker 1: She's a professional professional. That's the world number one.
Speaker 5: We fired actually because he took the cardio tennis and
Speaker 5: we were all nearly vomiting on it side.
Speaker 3: You were so awful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very competitive and we're like, we're just here
Speaker 5: for a bit of fun.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm not, we just want to for the
Speaker 3: grand I left.
Speaker 4: After a couple of weeks that I'm not doing this anymore.
Speaker 3: Paddy, now you're is it paddle or padel that bit?
Speaker 4: I don't know either. I think I should know by.
Speaker 3: Playing paddle playing. Are you loving it?
Speaker 1: Is that the one where it bounces off the walls
Speaker 1: exactly exactly? I've got to give it again.
Speaker 4: I am so sad.
Speaker 3: It's Australian Masters.
Speaker 2: Well actually made the Young Fella's team too, the Australian
Speaker 2: Young Guys so went over to guitar and played with
Speaker 2: the Asian Cup with the Aussies as well. Played against
Speaker 2: the warm over a little bit was bloody hell outside
Speaker 2: outside I was. We started matches at five o'clock by
Speaker 2: to put the girls on a one was like the
Speaker 2: sound is when they're burkers and everything. They're running around
Speaker 2: these whole dresses and whatever. It was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it was bloody hot and doors. How about it, he's
Speaker 2: still on the bike.
Speaker 4: You ride there.
Speaker 2: No, it's too far for mid line bike, but I'm
Speaker 2: lined bike. The green helmet's a ripper. I always look
Speaker 2: for one for the helmet.
Speaker 5: I've been telling them about this and they didn't believe
Speaker 5: me that you actually take the line bike.
Speaker 1: Here's a commueral helmet.
Speaker 4: Back in the day when my kids used to bring
Speaker 4: it home from pre skill and things, I got them
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 3: No, he carries his own helmet.
Speaker 2: I did, but now I'm getting annoyed with that, so
Speaker 2: I'd just find one with a helmet in it and
Speaker 2: put I look unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Sometimes he changes his runners as well.
Speaker 3: We went to lunch and he sat out the front.
Speaker 5: Had to take his bike riding runners off and put
Speaker 5: his good shoes on for lunch.
Speaker 6: Well, I was having Sorry, you're not wearing little tap
Speaker 6: shoes when you're.
Speaker 1: On a line bike.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not doing the old clip bins. But for
Speaker 2: FLOSSI and Paulie to have lunch and I had to
Speaker 2: dress up nicely.
Speaker 3: And now we had ASHPARTI in the other days.
Speaker 5: I loved watching you guys play in the doubles, the
Speaker 5: mixed doubles on that opening round or whatever it was called.
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