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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB.

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Speaker 2: And a muscle tear has forced Novak Djokovic to retire

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Speaker 2: hurt from the Australian Tennis Open semi finals six four.

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Speaker 3: I think this is it, This is it against It's over.

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Speaker 2: And it is a stunned Rod Labor Arena. Yeah, the

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Speaker 2: twenty four time major winer walking off rod Labor Arena

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Speaker 2: with an injured leg after losing the opening set against

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Speaker 2: German second seed Alexander Zverev and a tie breaks. Verev

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Speaker 2: will face top seed and defending champion Yannick Sinner in

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Speaker 2: tomorrow night's final after he dispatched Ben Shelton in straight

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Speaker 2: sets game Sinner, it will be a third major sixteen

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Speaker 2: your attempt to defend his titleic sesshas h off. He

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Speaker 2: maximized the moments today against Ben shouting and found a

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Speaker 2: way to win like Opera champions. Still so the top

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Speaker 2: two seeds in the men's final and the women's final tonight.

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Speaker 2: It is Arena Sablenka, two time defending champion against the

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Speaker 2: American Madison Keys. Let's bring in long time tennis correspondent

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Speaker 2: Dave Worsley, who's at his empteenth Australian Open. You might

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Speaker 2: even be able to tell us how many have been

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Speaker 2: to Dave.

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Speaker 3: What number is this? This is twenty six, so it

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Speaker 3: makes me pretty old.

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Speaker 2: I guess well, I'll tell you what. It's a terrific,

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Speaker 2: terrific run. Now, the crowd were booing Novak Djokovic after

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Speaker 2: he retired, hurt. What's going on there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting the crowd this year, it seems to

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Speaker 3: have got more feral. Certainly for the early matches with

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Speaker 3: a lot of Australian players, they were got pretty raucous

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Speaker 3: and pretty feral in many ways, Whereas say the French

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Speaker 3: crowd when the French planned playing, they were fair, the Brazilians,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. But the Aussie crowds certainly were well. They

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Speaker 3: weren't great in the first week and now in the

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Speaker 3: finals last night. See, I don't know, maybe they just

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Speaker 3: really wanted more tennis for their money that they're paid.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a bit off. You could tell that.

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Speaker 3: You know, he wasn't just pulling out for the fun

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Speaker 3: of it. He's not that sort of person. He's won

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Speaker 3: at ten times, and as Zadev said afterwards, on court,

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Speaker 3: you know, showed a bit of respect. He's a twenty

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Speaker 3: four time champion ten times at the Australian Open, and

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Speaker 3: he's pulled out with an injury, not because he didn't

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Speaker 3: feel like playing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's exactly it. He's played there injured before,

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Speaker 2: hasn't he. He's gone quite deep with injury before. So

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Speaker 2: I think you're probably right, David's people having paid you

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Speaker 2: money for their tickets and wanting, you know, a five

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Speaker 2: setter or at least a three setter. Anyway, What was

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Speaker 2: Jokovic's demeanor like afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Well, in the press conference, he made a couple of

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Speaker 3: good points. He said, well, you know, okay, there was

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Speaker 3: some billing, but he said, I understand that those people

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Speaker 3: they always want more tennis. They don't want a three

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Speaker 3: that's just one of those things. He said, Look, I

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Speaker 3: if you had won that first set, would you have

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Speaker 3: been able to keep going. Would it sort of kept

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Speaker 3: you going a bit more? He said no, not really.

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Speaker 3: He said, you know, maybe I could have, but yeah,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't have lasted that much longer, he said, had

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Speaker 3: an injury. We all saw it in the previous match

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Speaker 3: and managed to come through a great battle there. But

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Speaker 3: this time he just said, well, I don't know if

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Speaker 3: I'll be back either. He was asked if he had

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Speaker 3: He said, we'll see. It was very much, we'll see,

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Speaker 3: And then he was asked, well, what about your coaching

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Speaker 3: he said, well, we'll see on that as well. So

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Speaker 3: everything is very much up in the air for Novakcenter.

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Speaker 3: No accident was that Jocovich Sorry, we'll think about young

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Speaker 3: unfortunate way to finish. Yeah, it just people did want more,

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Speaker 2: Just before we move on from Novak Djokovic, I guess

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Speaker 2: it's possible, Dave that his final number might be twenty four.

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Speaker 3: I would say very possible. I can't see him winning

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Speaker 3: We're in, you know, it's a bit shorter matches, shorter

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Speaker 2: Alright, let's talk about the German second seed, Alexander Zverev

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Speaker 2: into his third major final. He's never won one. He's

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Speaker 2: been around since what twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, Dave, He's

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Speaker 2: What chance do you give Alexander Veriev are finally breaking

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Speaker 3: His Well, there's always been this pressure on them that

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Speaker 3: He's come back very strong in the later part of

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Speaker 3: going sixty forty Center over a Zaidev who has a

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Speaker 2: Second seem me last night, let's look at that young

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Speaker 3: Well, the first set was exciting. That's what you get

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Speaker 3: you know. Senna is good. Shelton is good. He's made

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three loss to Jokovic. He's got plenty

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Speaker 2: Right, So first against second in terms of seedings for

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Speaker 2: final from nine to thirty New Zealand time on Rod

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Speaker 2: Labor Arena. Arena Sabolenka two time defending champion. She's only

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Speaker 2: the semi final. Can Medicine Keys lift one more time?

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Speaker 2: Because Arena Sabolenka looks imperious to me, Dave.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she does. She's hitting the ball so hard we

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Speaker 3: we won't call it a bashing fest, but certainly a

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Speaker 3: very hard hitting You know, I can hit it hard.

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Speaker 3: there's not much subtlety there, but you know, that's the

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Speaker 3: I was fifty to fifty on that one. I'm certainly

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Speaker 3: I think she's actually just got a little bit one

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Speaker 3: with power. She's doing a Serena Williams after Serena Williams, dominating,

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Speaker 3: So you've got to look at her as a favorite medicine.

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Speaker 3: Key's a good player, runner up the US Open to

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Speaker 3: Sloan Stevens back in twenty seventeen. I think it was

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Speaker 3: that was when Keys should have won it, but had

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Speaker 3: She made the semifinals here. I think it was in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. I mean second time semi final here

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Speaker 3: it comes to their play, but considering that that Dobrowski

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Speaker 3: Almos gonna be tough, lost in three sets, So I

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Speaker 3: of them have been through that Dobrowski of course with

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Speaker 3: But considering finally they've been they've played together in five

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Speaker 3: for Dobrawskian rautleft absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: Dave, Thanks so much, mate, enjoy the remainder of your

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth Australian Open. Appreciate you joining us on weekend

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Speaker 2: sport this afternoon.

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Speaker 3: No worries planning. I'm feeling old when you're sad like that.

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Speaker 2: I'll always be older than you, Dave. Dave Worsley from

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Speaker 2: Melbourne Park where the Australian openers into its final stages.

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Speaker 2: So women's singles final tonight Arena Sablenka against Madison Keys

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Speaker 2: from nineth thirty in New Zealand time, and then tomorrow

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Speaker 2: night it's one v two in terms of the seedings.

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Speaker 2: Can Alexander's Veriev finally win his first major or will

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Speaker 2: it be back to back Australian opens for the number

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Speaker 2: one sentate Italian Yannick Singer. That's tomorrow night from around

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Speaker 2: about the same time.

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