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Speaker 1: Elliott Smith hosting sports talk from seven o'clock this evening

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Speaker 1: on Newstalk's AIRBN with us Now, Hey Elliott, Hey Heather.

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Speaker 1: Wimbledon A is going to be hot, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's stinking hot, absolutely, And you know, one day in

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Speaker 2: and already we've had millions of storylines. It's the best

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Speaker 2: Slam of the year. It's the best two weeks of

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Speaker 2: tennis of the year. We had yuligaputin Savor asking for

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Speaker 2: a spectator to be ejected over security fears, the world

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Speaker 2: number thirty three in the women's draw, with Carlos Alcarez

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Speaker 2: almost losing to a thirty eight year old battling basically

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Speaker 2: on one league, Fabio Fognini. And then we just had

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Speaker 2: the general color of Wimbledon where Lulu Sun being knocked

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Speaker 2: out as well, and then the other thing hither as well.

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Speaker 2: It was the first day that Wimbledon used electronic line calling.

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Speaker 2: Now Wimbledon, of course all the other slams that got

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Speaker 2: rid of it years ago, and they had the you know,

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Speaker 2: the well dressed line judges that were very prim and proper.

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Speaker 2: They've been replaced by AI, so they've joined the real

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Speaker 2: world now. Wimbledon and the line judges have gone so

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Speaker 2: and in some way I quite like that traditional aspect

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Speaker 2: of the game that you had real humans calling the

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Speaker 2: line calls. And now AI's gone and taken their jobs.

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Speaker 2: So it's not quite the same but Wimbledon, but it's

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Speaker 2: underway for another year and that heat has been rather

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Speaker 2: oppressive on day one. We know about the heat wave

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Speaker 2: going right across Europe and stinking hot for a lot

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Speaker 2: of those players.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to use that? You have you read

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Speaker 1: anything about this heat rule? No, They've got a heat

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Speaker 1: rule where if it gets too hot, they have special

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Speaker 1: breaks and stuff like that, which I imagine they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to use because this is going to be

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Speaker 1: the hottest Wimbledon on record.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And look that, you know, you look

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Speaker 2: at the Australian Open. Of course they's played in the

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Speaker 2: two weeks of January, you know, right at the heat

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Speaker 2: of summer in Melbourne, and often they close the roof

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Speaker 2: because it's so hot over the air and the conditions

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Speaker 2: are so oppressive there that they have to take these breaks.

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Speaker 2: And to be honest, you know, Wimbledon in the UK

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Speaker 2: not really built for it compared to an Australia and

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Speaker 2: when you've got the heat and it's turned up a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Not only that, you know, the players are

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Speaker 2: probably more built for it than you know, your regulars.

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Speaker 2: In the standaroj and Carlos olkrass match this morning, he

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Speaker 2: went over with a bot of cold water when one

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Speaker 2: of these spectators, I think it collapsed in the stands.

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Speaker 2: So you know, perhaps the players are built for it

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Speaker 2: a little bit better than the spectators or the officials

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Speaker 2: maybe aren't used to having a tennis tournament run in

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Speaker 2: that sort of heat, ye too.

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Speaker 1: Right now, listen is Charm's definitely out for a month.

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Speaker 2: Charms is definitely out for a month, so that's not good.

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Speaker 2: Luke Metcalf has gone for the season, which we kind

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Speaker 2: of suspected, but just having it in writing, written down

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Speaker 2: by the Warriors and released today makes it a little

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Speaker 2: bit more real. And you look at the context of

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Speaker 2: their season. Now we're right at the business end of

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Speaker 2: the season. Your origin finishes next weekend and this is

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Speaker 2: when things really ramp up in terms of the race

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Speaker 2: of the plaffs. The Warriors, to their credit, they've got

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Speaker 2: themselves in a really good position, but they've now lost

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Speaker 2: their first choice half back, their first choice fullback for

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Speaker 2: periods of time. I think they're obviously going to make

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Speaker 2: the eight. They will still make the eight, but it

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Speaker 2: just feels like that was a bit of a turning

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Speaker 2: point in the weekend, losing a couple of players and

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Speaker 2: now they're going to have to rebuild around it. A

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Speaker 2: Boyd potentially coming in as a replacement. He hasn't played

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Speaker 2: NROL season. He's been waiting in the wings and reserve

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Speaker 2: grade for the Warriors. They're going to have to move

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Speaker 2: the pieces around at a time of the season, Heather,

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Speaker 2: whether you really don't want to be moving too many

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Speaker 2: pieces around. You want those pieces on the chessboard in

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Speaker 2: the right places. Now the Warriors having to try and

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Speaker 2: change things around not ideal that by this week to

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Speaker 2: try and figure it out, and then next week they're

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Speaker 2: going to have to roll out without their first choice

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Speaker 2: half back, first choice fallback. Jays.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, thanks alert, I appreciate it, Elliott Smith. He'll

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Speaker 1: be on Sports Talk from seven o'clock this evening.

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