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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks EDB in.

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Speaker 2: The Wimbledon women's tennis final, that's up a way to

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Speaker 2: end it.

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Speaker 3: Higos Fiatek, a dominant display, is now a Grand Slam

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Speaker 3: champion for all surfaces, elation and also consolation for an

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Speaker 3: opponent who The datemare are out here.

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Speaker 2: But this is Siatzback's moment.

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Speaker 3: She made out of imagine it, Chrissy, but she looks

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Speaker 3: like she expected it today.

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Speaker 4: Eighth seed Eagers fion Tech blitzing Amanda and a Samova

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Speaker 4: six love, six love in less than an hour to

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Speaker 4: claim her first eb A Wimbledon crown. It's Fiontech's sixth

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Speaker 4: Grand Slam title. She is unbeaten in major finals. Only

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Speaker 4: once in Wimbledon history has a women's final finished.

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Speaker 2: With the double bagel. That's what they call it, six love,

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Speaker 2: six love. That was all the.

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Speaker 4: Way back in nineteen eleven. Craig Gabriel watched on at Wimbledon. Craig,

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Speaker 4: You've watched a heck of a lot of tennis. Have

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Speaker 4: you ever seen a more one sided major tennis final?

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Speaker 5: I have, Actually, I'll get onto that in I'll get

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Speaker 5: onto that in one second. But you had to see

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Speaker 5: the international media racing for the record books and the

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Speaker 5: compendium that Wimbledon produced, which is like a doorstop trying

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Speaker 5: to find this sort of information as to the last

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Speaker 5: time and the last time what it was Dorothy Lambert

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Speaker 5: Chambers in nineteen eleven over Dora Brooksby. I can't say

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Speaker 5: that I know Dora, that she must have been embarrassed.

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Speaker 5: And that match lasted twenty five minutes. It was a

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Speaker 5: little longer today fifty seven. But it's the shortest or

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Speaker 5: the quickest final that has happened at Wimbledon on the

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Speaker 5: women's side since I think in twenty nineteen, when Samona

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Speaker 5: Halla beats Serena Williams. But to your question, yes I have,

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Speaker 5: and it was the nineteen eighty eight French final with

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Speaker 5: Stephanie Graft defeating Na Tasha Zvereva six love, six love

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Speaker 5: in thirty two minutes.

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Speaker 2: Goodness may so, yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 4: Why and where, apart from everywhere, was Siontek particularly dominant.

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Speaker 5: She went out there playing fast tennis, aggressive tennis, and

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Speaker 5: she got on top from the very very start of

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Speaker 5: the match, and you could see there was some the

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Speaker 5: nerves aspect was coming into play with Amanda Anisimova. She

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Speaker 5: but what she said was, yeah, there were nerves, but

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Speaker 5: it wasn't dramatic. Well, I think as the match progressed

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Speaker 5: and things were just not happening for her. I mean

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Speaker 5: shots there would have been bread and butter, shots were

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Speaker 5: going out or into the net, and the frustration was developing,

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Speaker 5: and the crowd was trying to get her going and

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Speaker 5: lifting her, and I think that would have added to

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Speaker 5: the nerves situation. But and then on top of it,

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Speaker 5: to counteract somebody like srion Tech, conditions were helping her.

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Speaker 5: I mean it was hot and sunny and just think

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Speaker 5: things just fell into play sport for srian Tech. It

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Speaker 5: was such a solid performance, it really was. It was classy.

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Speaker 4: She is unbeaten in major finals that six yeah, grand

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Speaker 4: same title.

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Speaker 2: So she loves the big occasion. Craig by the Sonds

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 5: Oh, there's no doubt about it. You know, with any

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Speaker 5: of the big tour players, you know, the first couple

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Speaker 5: of rounds might be a little bit of a drag.

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Speaker 5: We saw so many upsets at Wimbledon this year, but

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Speaker 5: when they get into a rhythm, it's so hard to

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Speaker 5: stop them, and srian Tek was just able to avoid

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Speaker 5: any potential upsets and the draw opened up for her.

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Speaker 5: And as is saying, these conditions for a lot of

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Speaker 5: the time here at Wimbledon, they've been hot and sunny.

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Speaker 5: When I walk down to the courts this morning from

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Speaker 5: Southfield's tube station, which is the most convenient tube station

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Speaker 5: for wimbled for the All England Club, it was seven

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Speaker 5: point thirty in the morning and it was twenty five degrees,

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Speaker 5: so it was a hot day.

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Speaker 4: Let's go to the means final tonight, as it was

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Speaker 4: at the French Open Annick Center against Carlos el Karez.

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Speaker 2: We had a five and a half hour match that time.

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Speaker 2: Elkarez wedning in five.

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Speaker 4: Might we see a similar battle at Wimbledon and the

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Speaker 4: means final?

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't it be incredible if we did? I mean, I

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Speaker 5: mean we'll be there through after dinner drinks. It'll go

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Speaker 5: that long because the final only starts at four o'clock

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Speaker 5: in the afternoon London time. But both of them are

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Speaker 5: expecting a tough, challenging match, and rightly so. They know

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Speaker 5: exactly what to expect. It's nothing different. They've been through

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Speaker 5: these matches time and again and they head to head

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Speaker 5: his eight to four in Carlitos's favor. You know, it

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Speaker 5: was suggest asked for Alcaraz, will you have the mental

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Speaker 5: edge considering what happened at the French Open, and he

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Speaker 5: said absolutely not, definitely not, and that is the truth

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Speaker 5: as he put it. A sorry sinner feels that Alcaraz

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Speaker 5: is the favorite, and he probably is is right in that,

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Speaker 5: considering that Alcaraz has won the last two Wimbledon's and

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Speaker 5: is quite comfortable playing on grass. So we'll see how

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Speaker 5: this pans out. But I think we are in for

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Speaker 5: another humdinger of a match. For me, nothing against Carlos.

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Speaker 5: I think the world of Carlos. By the way, he

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Speaker 5: doesn't like being called Carlos. It's either Charlie or Carlitos.

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Speaker 5: And but I would like to see Annik Winn and

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Speaker 5: you know, he's a he's a wonderful guy. Both of

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Speaker 5: them are the heartbreak of Paris. I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: it'll be wonderful to see him get through. And also

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Speaker 5: there's an Australian connection in that one of his two coaches,

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Speaker 5: Darren Cahill, is an Australian and has done wonders with him.

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Speaker 5: As has his Italian coach Simoni.

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Speaker 4: He's never won Wimbledon though, here's he Craig. He's never

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Speaker 4: even made the final Yanick Center before this year. But

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Speaker 4: he's obviously fairly handy on grass, is he well, he's more.

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Speaker 5: Comfortable on it now. I mean it's taken a little while.

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Speaker 5: He admitted that, you know, he was a bit touss

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Speaker 5: on the movement. What I think has helped change things around.

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Speaker 5: And Darren Cahle is revealing this. He Novak Djokovic beat

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Speaker 5: Yanick on two occasions at Wimbledon. The first time they played,

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Speaker 5: Yanick was up two sets to love and lost it.

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Speaker 5: The final three sets were pretty handy in Novak's favorite.

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Speaker 5: Darren had just started working with Yannick and he went

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Speaker 5: to Novak. He said, look, don't tell me what you

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Speaker 5: don't want want to say, but what do you think?

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Speaker 5: And Novak gave him a complete write up on what

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Speaker 5: is failing Yannick? And that's when things really started. And

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Speaker 5: now in the semi final, that was the fifth straight

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Speaker 5: time he'd beaten Novak. Thanks nice for you know, if

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Speaker 5: you're in friends like that, seriously, but it's you know,

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Speaker 5: it's great to see him develop the way he has

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Speaker 5: of the world number one, and he's one of I

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Speaker 5: think what five or eleven players to have reached all

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Speaker 5: four off the major finals in the open era. But

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Speaker 5: what he has also done is the sixth player or

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Speaker 5: six man to win to sorry, reached the finals of

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Speaker 5: four consecutive majors. Started at the US Open last.

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Speaker 2: Year, quite in cribble, just to finish quickly.

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Speaker 4: Craig Novak Djokovic, have we seen his last major wins?

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Speaker 5: He was sort of asked that in a roundabout way yesterday,

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Speaker 5: and he says he expects to be back at Wimbledon, maybe,

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Speaker 5: as he put it, for one last Wimbledon, So we'll see.

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Speaker 5: But he admitted that ages catching up and the injuries

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Speaker 5: are there. He's a bit more suspect susceptible to injuries

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Speaker 5: because of the age factor. But he said, I change

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Speaker 5: anybody to match me for the way I take care

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Speaker 5: of my body and the work that I do.

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Speaker 4: All right, We'll waiting and to see you what lies

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Speaker 4: ahead for Novak not to be at Wimbledon twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 4: Janick Center against Carlos Alcarez for the men's singles final.

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Speaker 4: Acquarez can make it three in a row. Janix Cinner

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Speaker 4: can win his first Wimbledon title. Craig Gabriel and Wimbledon,

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Speaker 4: thank you for your time as always, Craig, appreciate you

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Speaker 4: updating us on what you see on the grass courts

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Speaker 4: at Wimbledon, what you see all around the tennis world.

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Speaker 4: Always good to get your insight and your Analyson.

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