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Speaker 1: Darcy water Grave Sports Store coasters with us. Hey, Darce,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. How good is the latest recruision to our

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Speaker 1: tennis team? Not so bad? And a really interesting backstory.

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Speaker 1: Had you ever heard of Lulu Soum before? So she

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Speaker 1: played her first Grand Slam start of the year and

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Speaker 1: Australia got knocked out in the first rounds. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think did she transfer her? She was born in New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: she went to live in Switzerland. She's got a Croatian

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Speaker 1: dad and a Chinese mum and she spends most of

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Speaker 1: her time now in Slovenia with her coaches or Florida

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Speaker 1: because she was scored in the United States. She loves us,

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Speaker 1: so she's decided to stuff playing out around. When she

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Speaker 1: came over to the ASP, she thought this was so good,

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Speaker 1: So I think maybe the Ossie open straight after that,

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Speaker 1: So I might have taken a while to transfer their allegiances.

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Speaker 1: But this was a fantastic living in Switzerland and she

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Speaker 1: was five years old. She's fluent in English and French

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Speaker 1: and Chinese. Obviously a brilliant tennis player, studies international affairs

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Speaker 1: and politics. So the kind of women that you really

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Speaker 1: love to hate because she's got everything, man, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what she is going to be.

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Speaker 2: She's going to need a good man.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, she can need a good partner, or maybe

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Speaker 1: she can just do it all alone. Does it really

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Speaker 1: really matter? So that victory over jin kin We was

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Speaker 1: for six six two six four. She beat the eighth

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Speaker 1: seed and she seated somewhere in like below one hundred

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Speaker 1: is one hundred and twenty three. Beat the eighth seed.

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Speaker 1: First time she's beaten a top ten player, first time

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Speaker 1: she's beaten anyone in the top one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Just happened to be a top ten player.

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Speaker 1: This is the finalist in the Aussie Open at the

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Speaker 1: start of the year. So definitely a shining star. So

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Speaker 1: she's taking on this woman called Julia startledub saver. I

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Speaker 1: don't know did Lulu get lucky or is she actually?

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Speaker 1: Is she thiss good? You? I didn't watch the game.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of the points, that's all. But

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Speaker 1: when you look at the score for six six two

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Speaker 1: six four, that suggests she's good because you go down

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Speaker 1: to a top seed like that for six and then

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Speaker 1: you rally to win six to two in the next and.

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Speaker 2: Then you carry on. How good that would suggest.

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Speaker 1: I'm told that she's very good at turning her defensive

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Speaker 1: game into an offense. I, Lulu, welcome to Welcome to

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Speaker 1: I okay. So we've got the Warriors team out tonight,

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Speaker 1: and thank god, we're not going to have to agonize

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Speaker 1: about whether they're going to make the right call in

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Speaker 1: number seven. Well, because Shawn Johnson's broken out so they

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Speaker 1: can't pick him. But he still is at the Warriors

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Speaker 1: press conference today, the media session, and he's there. He's

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Speaker 1: engaged in training. Look, he can't train, but he's not

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Speaker 1: hiding in the gym doing all of his rehab. He's

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Speaker 1: out there, according to Andrew Webster, with everybody talking and

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Speaker 1: chatting and jeeing them, mart providing all the energy that

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Speaker 1: he has as a thirty three year old athlete and

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Speaker 1: helping them on. Because we've got to Madie Martin, who

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Speaker 1: was out and I keep thinking to Lady, Martin's a

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Speaker 1: younger player, is younger than Johnson, but he's twenty seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty eight. So I've been around with it that

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Speaker 1: he was sensational. And then you've got a few other

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Speaker 1: players floating around. Do you remember Metcalf has yet to

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Speaker 1: come back, so that'd be interesting how they combo to

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Speaker 1: six and seven again they have two sevens playing. But

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Speaker 1: I think that predictions or reports of his demise Sean Johnson.

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Speaker 2: Just completely utterly wrong.

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Speaker 1: I say that because he's still so much upstairs that

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Speaker 1: he can offer to this team, and he can help

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Speaker 1: feed that next generation through. And he's not still playing

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Speaker 1: because he wants to draw a paycheck. He's still playing

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Speaker 1: because he thinks he can offer something. So he was

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Speaker 1: playing under an injury cloud and that probably wasn't the

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Speaker 1: best move. But now they've got a guy who can

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Speaker 1: sit in his spot and play very very well. So

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Speaker 1: now Sean's like right competition, Yeah right, this is nothing

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Speaker 1: like a bit of competition.

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Speaker 2: Eight.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Dars, thank you, always appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Darcy want to grow grave. Yeah, that's I'm terrified of

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Speaker 2: the interns.

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Speaker 1: I'm just warming up for the day. That's what's going on.

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Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to anybody for like two hours. You're

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Speaker 1: not terrified of the interns too, They're all on our jobs.

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Speaker 1: Oh look, I'll be terrified of the interns in a

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Speaker 1: few years.

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Speaker 2: For now, I'm just going to relax a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I'm terrified of other people at the moment, namely you,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stuff your name up so badly, do it

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Speaker 1: for me, Darcy Crispin, Waldergrave sports stook cost back at

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