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

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Speaker 1: from News talk EDB.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with tennis. Naomio Osaka and Clara Towson will

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Speaker 2: meet in this afternoon's ASB Women's Tennis Classic final in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: Both emerged from the semi finals yesterday with straight sets

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Speaker 2: wins fifth seed Clara Towson over American Robin Montgomery.

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Speaker 3: The two matches in one day.

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Speaker 4: That's the ultimate results for Clara Towson.

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Speaker 3: Through to the final of the ASB Classic.

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Speaker 4: The third final of her career, and she has done

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Speaker 4: it with some emphatic style, big shots, big winners and

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Speaker 4: now a big smile.

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Speaker 3: Six to four or sixth three.

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Speaker 4: Clara Towson goes through to the final at Auckland's.

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Speaker 2: And then seventh seed of Japanese plan Naomi Osaka far

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Speaker 2: too good for Alicia Parks.

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Speaker 4: A marquee performance from the tournament's headline acts. For the

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Speaker 4: first time since twenty twenty two, Naomi Yoursaka will play

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Speaker 4: for a title.

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Speaker 3: On the WTA Tour. The Young America and Alicia Parks

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Speaker 3: drew plenty at how she absorbed it all in.

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Speaker 4: Naomia cycle clinical professional calm and composed.

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Speaker 3: She goes through to the final six four sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson, each last one a WTA

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Speaker 2: title in twenty twenty one. So are we while between

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Speaker 2: drinks for both of them life coverage on sky Sport.

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Speaker 2: The voice you hear you heard calling those semi final

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Speaker 2: wins was, of course lead commentator Ricky Swinell, who joins us. Now, Ricky,

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Speaker 2: the first time these two have ever played one another,

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Speaker 2: which is always an intriguing prospect. Can you perhaps start

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Speaker 2: by comparing the two of them for us and their

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Speaker 2: relative strengths.

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Speaker 5: They've got some similarities and that we see pipe so

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Speaker 5: it's the same say hello first of all before we

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Speaker 5: get it and happy New Year to Yeah. Look that

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Speaker 5: they have got some similarities in that in that big

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Speaker 5: game style, big weapons, big series, big four hands, and

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Speaker 5: both have been pretty controlled with it as well. When

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Speaker 5: Naomi Osaka played Alicia Parks in the semi final yesterday,

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Speaker 5: which she won in straight sets, eventually that Parks has

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Speaker 5: got a huge game, but she was probably just a

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Speaker 5: That's somebody like Osaka has. What we've seen from from

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Speaker 5: Clara Towson is that ability to mix her game up

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Speaker 5: as well. A handful of occasions, particularly in the quarterfinal

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Speaker 5: against Madison Keys Keys is getting stuck behind the baseline

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Speaker 5: and and Tawson had some really lovely touch, good drop shots,

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Speaker 5: some variety in her game as well. She was a

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Speaker 5: you know, they come through playing a heap of doubles

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Speaker 6: But yes, so there's some definite.

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Speaker 5: Similarities in their games. We could expect some big time tennis,

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Speaker 5: some big balling, which is quite I think the crowd

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Speaker 5: here always likes. I likes to see a couple of

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Speaker 2: Clara Tolson had a busy day yesterday, didn't She two

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Speaker 2: So will fatigue play any part today?

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Speaker 5: I mean these players at this time of year, that

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Speaker 6: She didn't show.

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Speaker 5: Any signs of it at all. In the semi final

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Speaker 6: Of the tiebreaker.

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Speaker 5: They had called off the quarter final relatively early the

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Speaker 6: Then she came out.

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Speaker 5: They were slightly delayed getting on court at midday, but

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Speaker 6: She was on court a lot and we saw a

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Speaker 5: You know, that second match at quarterfinal was about only

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Speaker 5: when you're playing someone like Osaka who's just got such

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Speaker 2: The pedigree of Naomi Osaka we all know, you know

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Speaker 2: two times Australian opened when a two time US Open winner.

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Speaker 2: That was a week while ago. Now, though, how do

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Speaker 5: I think the game's getting back there. She looked really

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Speaker 5: So it has and will take her some time. But

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Speaker 5: I think certainly those signs are that she is back

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Speaker 5: I KNOWE. There's a piece of stuff today with a

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Speaker 5: she's probably been a bit guilty of not really focusing,

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Speaker 6: She's always one big events, four.

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Speaker 5: Grand slams and her other events have always been massive,

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Speaker 5: and so she's come here with a really fresh focus.

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Speaker 5: She's looked incredibly relaxed, I must say too very Jovi,

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Speaker 5: or she's quite a quietly spoken person, but very Jovi.

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Speaker 5: You'll been out and about things to be enjoying her

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Speaker 5: So she looks really composed and like super chill almost zn.

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Speaker 2: Like great to hear, great to hear. Well, I should

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Speaker 2: serve her well. So five o'clock in this afternoon that's

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Speaker 5: No, they've changed that over the last couple of years

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Speaker 5: It's a nice, nice time of day to think, oh, yes,

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Speaker 5: as I say, those big ground strokes that they have

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Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with it at all. I guess the promoter's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a real shame, wasn't it. I mean, they and

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Speaker 6: Little bit earlier, and.

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Speaker 5: Not quite back to where she is physically and where

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Speaker 6: To be because she's going to have a whole lot.

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Speaker 5: Of eyes from here on her again this year. She

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Speaker 5: But you're really disappointing and maybe just you know, as

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Speaker 6: I mean, the good thing is that we're going to

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Speaker 5: Here the year you would imagine, you know, it's not

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Speaker 6: We hope the fourth seed is gone.

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Speaker 2: What about the overall standard? We've got the final to go.

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Speaker 6: Yeah? I think so.

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Speaker 5: I think it's been an interesting tournament and tough losing

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Speaker 5: Radicanu and Elise Mertens as well. The two of the

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Speaker 5: You've got Son Anisimova, Radicanu and Merton's gone early on.

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Speaker 5: Some of your named players, I think they'll be the

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think people kind of know it's really

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Speaker 6: That's the way he has.

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Speaker 5: To go because of the rules and restrictions around who

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Speaker 5: But having big deep fields is a different story. They

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Speaker 5: Scene, you again asked that I knew you again. I mean,

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Speaker 5: the dream scenario for all of us is, with all

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Speaker 5: due respect to Clara Telson, is that Naomiosaka adds her

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Speaker 5: name to Serena Williams, Coco Goff, Venus Williams Ana Ivanovitch,

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Speaker 5: because you know, we have had some absolute Hall of

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Speaker 5: and absolute superstars, and so yeah, the heart and actually

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Speaker 5: the head would say, Naomi Osaka will lift it up

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Speaker 5: this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Have absolutely loved your commentary across the week, Ricky, thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us this afternoon.

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Speaker 5: Pleasure Pinny, nice to chat, Nice to tet to.

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Speaker 2: You too, Ricky. Ricky Spinel there you can hear her

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Speaker 2: on Sky as the lead commentator when the final we'll

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Speaker 2: get to underway at five o'clock this afternoon, twelve twenty four.

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Speaker 2: If you've been following this tournament, you might have some

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Speaker 2: then the dream scenario is the big name, right Naomio Saka,

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Speaker 2: the four time major winner. She's paying a dollar forty

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Speaker 2: four at the tab Clara Towson is playing is paying

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Speaker 2: two dollars sixty. Tewson is seated higher due to her

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Speaker 2: world ranking, which is currently number fifty in the world.

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Speaker 2: Naomi Osaka currently world number fifty seven. But I think

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Speaker 2: the odds probably reflect the pedigree and also the slightly

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