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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 Talk zed b.

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Speaker 2: KK, our regular Australian correspondent, as with us Big show

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Speaker 2: and a big week here Adam with the with the

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Speaker 2: parting of ways between Scott Robertson and New Zealand Rugby.

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Speaker 2: What's the reaction being to this on your side of

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Speaker 2: the Tasman Yeah, I'm gonna pionty.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of out of left fields. It's weird for

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Speaker 3: like a coach to go in that way. It's not

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Speaker 3: like it's off the back of an emotional result or

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Speaker 3: something like that. It's a thorough investigation and it's a

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Speaker 3: really weird ones. I caught everyone on the hop over

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Speaker 3: here and probably the first thing that came to mind

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Speaker 3: over here was well does this mean the all Bucks

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Speaker 3: are going to go after Joe Schmidt and get him

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Speaker 3: to get rink out of his itself? A weird contract

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Speaker 3: with Ruddy Australia with a transition to less kisses as

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Speaker 3: coch But yeah, that was the main one. And of

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Speaker 3: course he's known here as I'm sure it's in media.

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Speaker 3: What's over there is the breakdancing coach, so he's you

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Speaker 3: know that highlight thing on all the TV news is

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Speaker 3: to explain who this guy is. Has nothing to do

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Speaker 3: with a like a crusader's looking a trophy or whatever

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Speaker 3: like that. It's alway the ten second clip with him

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Speaker 3: buff and moves after a game. But yeah, that was

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Speaker 3: the main kind of immediate thought over here. I don't

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Speaker 3: know if it's kind of resonated over there that the

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Speaker 3: thought of possibility of Joe Schmidt. I know there are

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Speaker 3: other candidates.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely has been mentioned, yeah, among others, but I

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Speaker 2: mean he's he's highly credential, he's a key week, he's

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Speaker 2: been in the around the team before, so yeah, he's

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Speaker 2: certainly a name being being bandied about. What's the name

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Speaker 2: of that breakdancer, the Australian breakdancer who was world famous.

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Speaker 2: What was what was her name?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, there wasn't really breakdancing or rolling around on

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Speaker 3: the floor like a toddler in the shops not getting

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Speaker 3: a lolly. Anyway, it was trying to expungde that as

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Speaker 3: a nation from our memory from fabric.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad I brought it up there, and that's great. Okay,

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Speaker 2: let's move on to what lies ahead of you. You're

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Speaker 2: always deeply involved in the Australian Open about to begin.

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Speaker 2: Just before we get to it. In the week past

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Speaker 2: we've had the inaugural one point Slam, a million dollars

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Speaker 2: for the winner, who was a twenty nine year old

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Speaker 2: tennis coach out of Sydney. Tell Us about this.

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Speaker 3: Innovation, Yeah, Dan Jordan Smith, he's a coach. It was

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Speaker 3: basically like you try and qualify and then they ended

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Speaker 3: up with the main drawer on the night. I think

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Speaker 3: it was a thirty touristic key full main draw, so

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Speaker 3: it was like you played one point and the amateurs

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Speaker 3: get two serves that the pro's got one serve and

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Speaker 3: whoever that point goes on in the tournament. So it's

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Speaker 3: like it went all day. So they had qualifying outside

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Speaker 3: and then they came inside for the night TV product

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Speaker 3: if you like. And as a TV product I think

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Speaker 3: it actually really worked and as a promotional tool as

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Speaker 3: well the Australian Open. Obviously the ashes have caught everyone's

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Speaker 3: attention here at school holidays. It's holiday time full stop,

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Speaker 3: so that the tennis is like always on the count

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Speaker 3: and now, but you need something to get in front

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Speaker 3: of people and go it's on, and I reckon this

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Speaker 3: works perfectly. And tonight we've got Roger Federer playing on

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Speaker 3: a rod Labor arena again in the exhibition to have

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Speaker 3: the opening ceremony, so that again is a good way

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Speaker 3: to introduce. But this one point plan brought about this

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Speaker 3: guy from Sydney, Jordan Smith, a good player that he's

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Speaker 3: had hit problems, so that's kind of stopped him as

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Speaker 3: a professional, but he just got through. He won himself

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Speaker 3: a million dollars.

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Speaker 2: It was awesome, absolutely brilliant. The tournament proper underway this

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Speaker 2: weekend and the me and twelve number one colors El

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Speaker 2: Carez double defending champion Alex Center, the top two men seeds.

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Speaker 2: These guys seem like they're on a collision course. Elkrez

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Speaker 2: has never even made an Ossie Open semi final though

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Speaker 2: live alone the final. Surely that changes this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows. I can't really explain why he hasn't

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Speaker 3: been able to get it done here. Maybe started the

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Speaker 3: year is not quite at his top, changed his coaching structure.

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Speaker 3: He's no longer working with one Carlos Ferrero, who got

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Speaker 3: him to this point on the cusp of winning a

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Speaker 3: career Grand Flame. When he's by the age of twenty two.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous thought, but he's that good. Look, these two

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Speaker 3: are just cleared away. So consider this in the rankings,

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Speaker 3: that Sinner and al KaAZ they're on point. You get

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Speaker 3: ranking points through the year. They're on. So the guy

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Speaker 3: who's ranked third, I think it's Zverev. He's closer to

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Speaker 3: the guy ranked fifteen hundred in the world on zero

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Speaker 3: points than he is to enough two. Wow, that's the

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Speaker 3: cut these two have just created in the game. It's

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Speaker 3: one two and then daylight. So very strange. If they

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Speaker 3: don't play in the final, a weird result would have happened.

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Speaker 3: Big upset would have happened. Though not saying it can't happen,

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Speaker 3: but it would go against the grain. But yeah, these

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Speaker 3: two are just cleared out. I think between them one

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Speaker 3: of the last eight Grand Slams in the tennis. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: surprised if one of those two don't win it, I'd

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Speaker 3: probably lump the Sinner at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Alex Stephen know the big hometown hope. Of course, he's

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Speaker 2: the sixth seed, made the quarters last year, which was

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Speaker 2: I understand his best showing in Melbourne. Could he go further?

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Speaker 2: They caught him demon over there? Could he go further.

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Speaker 3: He could got a horrific draw. He plays the player

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Speaker 3: Barre's any first up. Now he's ranked fifty in the world,

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Speaker 3: but he's played a Wimbledon final at his top. He's

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Speaker 3: a very very good player the first round and then

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Speaker 3: he's got these tricky assignments on the way through. He could,

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Speaker 3: but he gets to a moment where he plays a

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Speaker 3: sinner and an our Karagh and they're just better than

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Speaker 3: him on their day, like when they're playing well, they're

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Speaker 3: just better than Alex when he's playing well. At this stage,

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Speaker 3: he hasn't figured out a way there. But the thing

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Speaker 3: about Alex demon Or is the fact that he will

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Speaker 3: present himself and put himself in the best possible shape

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Speaker 3: and the best possible way to take advantage of something

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Speaker 3: that opens up in a draw every single time. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: it could happen to him this year's Australian Open if

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Speaker 3: weird results happen and he gets through and he continues

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Speaker 3: to go along. But it'd be awesome if he made

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Speaker 3: a final here. The place would go off. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: we're all behind him over here definitely.

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Speaker 2: And of the women's singles, Arena sableinca top seed She's

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Speaker 2: made the last three finals, one two of those. She

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Speaker 2: a pretty firm favorite to go deep again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The top three in women's tennis is Coco Gough,

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Speaker 3: Egosriantek and also Arena Sablenka. They've been the top three

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Speaker 3: for the last three years. So women's tennis has been

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Speaker 3: like that, especially after ash Party retired, but these three

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Speaker 3: it's between those three. Last year we had Madison Keys

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Speaker 3: win it and that was just an awesome final. It

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Speaker 3: was one of the best matches I think I've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, funny results can happen, but yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 3: Sabalanca has got an immensely a mental record here in Australia,

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Speaker 3: won two of the three last Austras got touched out

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Speaker 3: last year, got Madison Keys. Yeah, she's the favorite, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: All right, raygan As who should have remembered ray Gun

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Speaker 2: that was her name. Long may she be consigned to history.

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Speaker 3: Razor and.

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Speaker 2: There you go, Ovels combination to beat them all. Always

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Speaker 2: good to chat mate, enjoy Melbourne in the weekend. Head

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Speaker 2: We'll catch up next ourday wilbur Thanks Funny, No, thank you, Matte.

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Speaker 2: That's Adam Peacock, our regular Australian correspondent here on News

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