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Speaker 1: We've reached the pointy end of the Australian Open. There's

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Speaker 1: been plenty happening on the court and just as much

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Speaker 1: happening off it as we've been covering this week. Madison Keys,

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Speaker 1: Arena Saberlenka. That progressed to the women's singles finals which

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Speaker 1: are on Saturday. The men's semis play out this evening,

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Speaker 1: with the championship happening Sunday. Craig Gabriel Australian Open commentators

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Speaker 1: with US.

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Speaker 2: Craig, good morning, Hey Ryan, good to be with you

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Speaker 2: at this ridiculous hour that we've been putting with the

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Speaker 2: hours we've been putting through over here was another eatingly,

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Speaker 2: excruciatingly late night over here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: Well. Arena Saberlenka helped us all by getting through her

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Speaker 3: match relatively well, six four six two, defeating Palabadosa, a

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Speaker 3: very good friend. Then we got the match of the tournament.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I would even say it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a match of the year candidate. There was such an

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Speaker 3: extraordinary clash between EGO srion Tech and Madison Keys. It

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Speaker 3: was the sixth meeting between them and srion Tek was

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Speaker 3: a hot favorite to go through to the final at

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Speaker 3: the Australian Open for the first time, and it just

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Speaker 3: went totally the other way and it was just breathtaking

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Speaker 3: tennis at times, and Keys saved a match point and

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Speaker 3: ended up winning five to seven, six ' one seven

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Speaker 3: six to reach her first Australian Open final and the

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Speaker 3: second time she's reached the final of a major in

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Speaker 3: her career. The last time was nearly eight years ago

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Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen at the US Open. She lost to

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Speaker 3: her very good friend Sloan Stevens on that occasion, but

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Speaker 3: this was just, I mean, superb tennis. So I was

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Speaker 3: lost for words on a number of occasions with the

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Speaker 3: shots that were played and the atmosphere and the excitement

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Speaker 3: that was on show brilliant.

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Speaker 1: So Keys gets through in Seberlinka. That's Saturday, and today Jokovic.

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Speaker 3: Today we've got the men semifinals and it'll be Yanik

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Speaker 3: Sinner against Ben Shelton and then Novak Djokovic will be

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Speaker 3: playing Alexander Zverev. So going into the Sinner Shelton match,

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Speaker 3: Yanik leads for one on their head to head Sorry,

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Speaker 3: Shelton beat Sinner the first time they played, which was

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Speaker 3: in October twenty three in Shanghai. They've played four times

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Speaker 3: since and Shelton has not won a set from Sinner

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Speaker 3: in those matches. And then going in on the Djokovic

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Speaker 3: Zverev match, Novak leads their series eight to four. He

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Speaker 3: won the last time that they played. The last time

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Speaker 3: Zverev won over Djokovic was twenty twenty one, So I look,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be another interesting match and depending

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Speaker 3: on how Novak pulls up after the injury that happened

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Speaker 3: in his previous round against Carlos al Karaz, will be

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Speaker 3: curious to see. But you know, at the moment he's

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Speaker 3: probably favored on that one slightly.

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Speaker 1: Greig, thank you for that. Craig Gabriel, Australian Open commentary

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Speaker 1: with US Live from Melbourne.

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