1
00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,840
Speaker 1: What is going on with you, Kaitelan? What's his head way?

2
00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:19,400
Speaker 2: We're wearing?

3
00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,720
Speaker 3: I am. I am wearing a Tupac style a c

4
00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,200
Speaker 3: l U bandana in my Jammi's.

5
00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:28,600
Speaker 4: As it happens.

6
00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 1: That's what is going out with me.

7
00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:31,040
Speaker 4: I am.

8
00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,479
Speaker 3: The change in weather has brought out a horrific scalped

9
00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,680
Speaker 3: condition which everyone in our podcast listenership has now just

10
00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,560
Speaker 3: become aware of. And so I have put I have

11
00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:47,200
Speaker 3: to sleep with stuff on my head and you're seeing me, Yeah,

12
00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:48,000
Speaker 3: you're seeing me.

13
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:48,360
Speaker 4: With it on.

14
00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,280
Speaker 3: We're doing this via video. You look nice and tan

15
00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:57,240
Speaker 3: and in front of a Roland Garros beautifully architected wall

16
00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,480
Speaker 3: eating a baguette. Doesn't get much more friend than that.

17
00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:04,880
Speaker 5: No, I'm fully established into my Presianism.

18
00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,480
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a word, but I just made

19
00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:07,959
Speaker 1: it up.

20
00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,840
Speaker 3: After the shit you say. I feel like it's been

21
00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,280
Speaker 3: up anyway.

22
00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,640
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, you know, the education stopped at a

23
00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:16,080
Speaker 5: certain point in my life, Caitlin.

24
00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,120
Speaker 1: But let me just say I actually.

25
00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,880
Speaker 3: Usually blame Australia for all the sayings that I think

26
00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:21,920
Speaker 3: are not actually real.

27
00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,800
Speaker 5: But you guys, I mean I don't care what I

28
00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,520
Speaker 5: sound like and what verbiage I'm.

29
00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,240
Speaker 1: Using today because you look like herbage is not even

30
00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,839
Speaker 1: a word you exactly. You look like a total ding dong.

31
00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:36,920
Speaker 3: I totally look like a dingo.

32
00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,319
Speaker 1: I look and seeing wearing a large sock.

33
00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,480
Speaker 3: I think maybe we should capture this. I'll tell you what.

34
00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:49,040
Speaker 3: I'll capture this screenschat. You hear me just screenshotting it,

35
00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,040
Speaker 3: and so anybody who we should do a contest, I'll

36
00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:54,360
Speaker 3: figure out what it is and you can get a

37
00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,280
Speaker 3: screenshot of us ducking into each other for a special price.

38
00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,840
Speaker 3: Maybe are one hundred thousand listener subscriber. I don't know

39
00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,240
Speaker 3: something like that. Anyway, I am talking to you today

40
00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,720
Speaker 3: the first day of the friend Shop open. It is Sunday.

41
00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,440
Speaker 3: This podcast will go out tomorrow Monday, the second day

42
00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,880
Speaker 3: of roun on Gros twenty twenty two. I have to

43
00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,680
Speaker 3: say it's my favorite tournament despite a lot of it

44
00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,160
Speaker 3: doesn't really deserve my love, but it gets my love. Anyway,

45
00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,200
Speaker 3: you're there. What's the scene on the ground day one?

46
00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:27,960
Speaker 3: What's been going on behind the scenes.

47
00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,839
Speaker 5: Well, it's pretty great. I do not like the fact

48
00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,959
Speaker 5: that we start on Sunday. I'm just going to put

49
00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,840
Speaker 5: that out there, but you know clearly they'd like to

50
00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,640
Speaker 5: get a little bit more money up their sleeves. So

51
00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,600
Speaker 5: I'm not a big lover of the Sunday start. But

52
00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,360
Speaker 5: having said that, we've already had a major upset here

53
00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,880
Speaker 5: in on Shubbert going out in the first round. Had

54
00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,760
Speaker 5: a tough draw against Magda Lannette from Poland, who's also

55
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,680
Speaker 5: quite a good player, can be very dangerous against anyone,

56
00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,760
Speaker 5: and we saw that today. So you know, when people

57
00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,679
Speaker 5: come into Grand Slams and everyone thinks, oh, they're just

58
00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,200
Speaker 5: going to rip right through like they've been doing all season,

59
00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,400
Speaker 5: it's not so hard, especially when a lot of pressure

60
00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,040
Speaker 5: would have been on Gibburg first time really that people

61
00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,160
Speaker 5: would have been talking about her being one of the

62
00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,400
Speaker 5: favorites to win the tournament.

63
00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,560
Speaker 1: But overall, look, it's just great to be here, Caitlin.

64
00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,160
Speaker 5: I haven't been a rolling Garrison a number of years,

65
00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,440
Speaker 5: to be honest, So it's just great to see the

66
00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,880
Speaker 5: new surroundings and new building, the new stadiums.

67
00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:19,280
Speaker 1: It's just great.

68
00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,280
Speaker 5: I mean, you you know what it's like here. It's

69
00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,600
Speaker 5: just a vibe going on, especially on a Sunday.

70
00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:24,000
Speaker 1: It's great.

71
00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,480
Speaker 3: It's a great vibe, and I think the last time

72
00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 3: I was there, they hadn't yet. They were they were building,

73
00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,440
Speaker 3: but hadn't get completed court Simone Matthieu, which is a greenhouse,

74
00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,160
Speaker 3: which is like an architectural marvel, like I profiled an

75
00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,120
Speaker 3: architectural that just so. I had some friends going this

76
00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,640
Speaker 3: year and they were asking me what to watch, and

77
00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,120
Speaker 3: I usually say, you know, get a grounds pass, try

78
00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,080
Speaker 3: to find the outer courts as are oh where the

79
00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,880
Speaker 3: battles are especially early. But I was also keen to

80
00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,800
Speaker 3: get some pictures from them from that New Quork because

81
00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,040
Speaker 3: I've heard it scoregeous.

82
00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,920
Speaker 1: And because it's a podcast, you don't see us.

83
00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,680
Speaker 5: But what I'm holding up is a water bottle. And

84
00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,680
Speaker 5: the French Federation tennis federation have gone as green as.

85
00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,200
Speaker 1: They can possibly go. They're using green cars only so

86
00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:06,680
Speaker 1: battery card.

87
00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,800
Speaker 5: They are not giving out water bottles, which is fantastic

88
00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,480
Speaker 5: because tennis players go through so many water bottles, clearly

89
00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,440
Speaker 5: because they need a lot of water when they're playing

90
00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,240
Speaker 5: and when they're practicing. And instead they've given about four

91
00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,560
Speaker 5: water bottles every player, and they're asking you to fill

92
00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,200
Speaker 5: up the water bottles with you know, from the water fountains,

93
00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:25,960
Speaker 5: and all the players are doing it, and I think

94
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,920
Speaker 5: it's a great thing that we're doing that because tennis

95
00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,520
Speaker 5: really really needs to improve on the amount of carbon

96
00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,680
Speaker 5: footprint we put into this world. So that's a really

97
00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,320
Speaker 5: great thing. So it's just pumped. I forgot to mention

98
00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,800
Speaker 5: also Garbini move. Garutha lost today against the giant killer

99
00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,920
Speaker 5: Kaya Kinneppi, who you never want to see the Grand.

100
00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,400
Speaker 3: Slam, especially not in the first round. I was watching

101
00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,520
Speaker 3: that match this morning and even one Garbina won the

102
00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,960
Speaker 3: first set six too. I was like, Garbini, even danger

103
00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,760
Speaker 3: girl kai Kanepi is going to do what Kaya Knepi does,

104
00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:53,640
Speaker 3: and she did.

105
00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,560
Speaker 5: Kai Kaya did another Canepi on somebody, and that's the

106
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,480
Speaker 5: bottom line. So webbam, we've got some upsets in the

107
00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,080
Speaker 5: women's already, and yeah, it's just great.

108
00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:04,320
Speaker 1: To be here.

109
00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,560
Speaker 3: Let's very quickly touch on our guest this week. It

110
00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,840
Speaker 3: is someone you know very well, Daria Gavrilova, better known

111
00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:16,800
Speaker 3: as Dasha, now known as Daria Dasha Sabo. She's newly

112
00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,560
Speaker 3: married and she is a delay. What a delight it

113
00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:21,080
Speaker 3: was to listen to the show. Maybe it was just

114
00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:25,920
Speaker 3: Asie on Azzie Well, Azzie on Ozzie Russian. But she's

115
00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,479
Speaker 3: so such a delightful person. What an upbeat kid, despite

116
00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,520
Speaker 3: having a litany of injuries. I mean, I think you

117
00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,600
Speaker 3: said it, how many years does this girl last to

118
00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:34,880
Speaker 3: injuries after a career?

119
00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,880
Speaker 5: I would say four, four years off her career. She's

120
00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,800
Speaker 5: twenty eight years of age. She's coming back again from

121
00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,880
Speaker 5: another massive, you know injury to her achilles and her

122
00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,800
Speaker 5: you know, plan of fashion, all kinds of things. So

123
00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,719
Speaker 5: it's just she's just such a fun person. She's definitely

124
00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,960
Speaker 5: one of the best TikTokers on the tour. She's hilarious.

125
00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,040
Speaker 5: She's such a good person. And you know, I did

126
00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 5: actually win the doubles yesterday in Strasburg, so you don't

127
00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,480
Speaker 5: hear that in the pod because she's talking about being

128
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:03,880
Speaker 5: in the final.

129
00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,320
Speaker 1: So she did win. She's a legend doubles player in Strasburg.

130
00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,200
Speaker 5: I think she's won it like two or three times,

131
00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,479
Speaker 5: and she's probably only won like three events, so so

132
00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:12,760
Speaker 5: it was.

133
00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,640
Speaker 1: Really nice to see her finishing winning that.

134
00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,200
Speaker 5: And yeah, she's just a delight Hopefully she does well

135
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,880
Speaker 5: here in Paris because she needs those points. Considering wim, well,

136
00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,800
Speaker 5: they're not giving me any, but we won't get into that.

137
00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,720
Speaker 1: Yet, Caitlin, let's at.

138
00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,200
Speaker 3: Some point, well, while we were on the topic of Strasbourg,

139
00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,640
Speaker 3: and then I'll let this interview speak for itself, because

140
00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,680
Speaker 3: it really was a nice lesson. When you were in Strasbourg.

141
00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,200
Speaker 3: You were with Sam Stosser, who got a wild card

142
00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,200
Speaker 3: into singles, which everyone on Twitter was losing their minds

143
00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,880
Speaker 3: about because everyone who pays very close attention to the

144
00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,000
Speaker 3: tour and the career of Sam Stoser, which I assume

145
00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,160
Speaker 3: is every single listener of this podcast. Sam Schuster retired

146
00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,040
Speaker 3: from singles at the Australian event, but yet in Strasbourg

147
00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,240
Speaker 3: last week she had a shining moment on the singles court.

148
00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,479
Speaker 5: What happened, Well, she's won the Strasburg and singles a

149
00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,280
Speaker 5: couple of times, so they absolutely went after her when

150
00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,440
Speaker 5: they knew she was coming here to play doubles, and

151
00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,720
Speaker 5: they said, Sam, do you want to walk out in singles?

152
00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,120
Speaker 1: We'd love to give it to you. They didn't have

153
00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:13,080
Speaker 1: a French.

154
00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,760
Speaker 5: Player really to give it to you, because they were

155
00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,720
Speaker 5: playing other tournaments. And Sam's like really, He's like, yeah,

156
00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,240
Speaker 5: we really like to give it to you because she's

157
00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:22,880
Speaker 5: also very popular there, and so she said okay, why not?

158
00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,040
Speaker 5: And I said, she, you know, oscillated between whether or

159
00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,640
Speaker 5: not to do it, and I said, look, you didn't

160
00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,160
Speaker 5: have an opportunity to play on clay last year because

161
00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,920
Speaker 5: she hurt her foot and it's really her best surface,

162
00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:34,320
Speaker 5: even though she won the US Open.

163
00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,440
Speaker 1: And I said, hey, listen, it's just an.

164
00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,760
Speaker 5: Opportunity for you to play one more match on clay,

165
00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,520
Speaker 5: so why not And she said, yeah, why not?

166
00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:42,120
Speaker 1: And she did and it was really cute.

167
00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,400
Speaker 5: The girl that beat her, young French girl, good player,

168
00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,880
Speaker 5: Harmony's hand when they shook hands, told Sam how much

169
00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,320
Speaker 5: she admired her, and she saw her play the final

170
00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,240
Speaker 5: in Paris and went on and I was super cute.

171
00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:56,920
Speaker 5: So it was just a really nice moment for Sam

172
00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,360
Speaker 5: to have one more match on the red dirt in

173
00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:00,840
Speaker 5: in France.

174
00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,120
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like Strasburg was a smash hit for

175
00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,960
Speaker 3: you and the Aussies and hopefully some of those good

176
00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,160
Speaker 3: vibes continue into Rolandgaras. So with that said, we better

177
00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,000
Speaker 3: rush to get this show out so these results don't

178
00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,440
Speaker 3: sound super old by the time everyone's listening to them,

179
00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,200
Speaker 3: because anything can happen at the French Open, as we know.

180
00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:37,640
Speaker 3: And here is your fantastic interview with Dasha Seville.

181
00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,360
Speaker 5: Hi, everybody, ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special

182
00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,480
Speaker 5: guest here this particular evening. I'm in Strasburg, friends, and

183
00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:54,800
Speaker 5: I'm with my buddy, Daria Gavrilova, now Daria Sevil. So Dasha,

184
00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,120
Speaker 5: first of all, I'm not gonna call you Daria, because

185
00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:58,400
Speaker 5: the last time I think I called you that, I

186
00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,840
Speaker 5: was mad at you. So I just want to thank Dasha.

187
00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,880
Speaker 5: We're here in Strasbourg where she is in the finals

188
00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,520
Speaker 5: of the doubles except correct. So Dasha, thanks for joining me,

189
00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:09,400
Speaker 5: my friend.

190
00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,040
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me I mean, we've had a few

191
00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,760
Speaker 6: dinners here together. I was saying, maybe I've exhausted my

192
00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,480
Speaker 6: what is it being social? But we're good to go.

193
00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,120
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, you are definitely somebody who can talk

194
00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,360
Speaker 5: more than me, which is saying something. So Dash, let's

195
00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,679
Speaker 5: get into it. The first thing I always ask all

196
00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,120
Speaker 5: of my people that I have on the podcast is

197
00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,679
Speaker 5: how why tennis? How did you get into tennis?

198
00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:36,520
Speaker 7: It was my dad.

199
00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,480
Speaker 6: My dad always thought that tennis was one of the

200
00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,120
Speaker 6: best sports for a little girl. And in Russia where

201
00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,200
Speaker 6: I grew up, I used to live close to a

202
00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:56,120
Speaker 6: tennis club spar Target's pretty famous, so that's yeah, that's

203
00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:56,920
Speaker 6: how I started.

204
00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,200
Speaker 5: Who were some of the people around you at that

205
00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,640
Speaker 5: time that you know, because it is a very famous

206
00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:05,400
Speaker 5: tennis club in Moscow? Correct, Who are some of the

207
00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,559
Speaker 5: people who are around about the same time. Well, actually

208
00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:08,880
Speaker 5: that we're a little bit older than you at the

209
00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,160
Speaker 5: time that you were sort of watching at the time.

210
00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:18,320
Speaker 6: I think Dinara Safina and her brother, they were a Miskina,

211
00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,000
Speaker 6: Anastasia Meschina, they were I think, I'm pretty sure from

212
00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,400
Speaker 6: that club. And also, I don't know if many people know,

213
00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,800
Speaker 6: but Andre's Rublev's mom was actually my first coach.

214
00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:38,880
Speaker 7: So that's pretty cool.

215
00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:41,640
Speaker 5: Getting into you know, understanding. I love this opportunity to

216
00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,719
Speaker 5: talk to you because you grew up obviously in a

217
00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:49,280
Speaker 5: Russian mentality, Russian upbringing, Russian junior coaches, and now of

218
00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,959
Speaker 5: course you're living in Australia, so and you spend a

219
00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 5: lot of time in Australia and I always say that

220
00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,280
Speaker 5: you as a Russian, you are so Australian just because

221
00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,480
Speaker 5: of your personality. But tell us the difference in the

222
00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,920
Speaker 5: mentality of sort of what you think now knowing the

223
00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,800
Speaker 5: Australian mentality a lot. What the difference was with the

224
00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,559
Speaker 5: Russian mentality, particularly as a young kid getting coached.

225
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,840
Speaker 6: I mean, not gonna lie our coach. Well, our playing

226
00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:19,559
Speaker 6: group was so competitive. We actually had really good juniors

227
00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:25,200
Speaker 6: and yeah, we just were very competitive. And what was

228
00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,520
Speaker 6: actually really interesting for me when I came to Australia,

229
00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,720
Speaker 6: all the girls were so so nice to me, and

230
00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,600
Speaker 6: I was like, are they joking? Like why are they

231
00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,840
Speaker 6: being so nice to me? Like I came from Russia,

232
00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,199
Speaker 6: Like I just got my residency. Why are these girls

233
00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,560
Speaker 6: treating me so nice? I was actually like surprised because

234
00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,240
Speaker 6: in Russia, like the mentality was always like you kind

235
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,960
Speaker 6: of you want to be the best, and you compete

236
00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,920
Speaker 6: even with your best friends, like you if you lose,

237
00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,080
Speaker 6: you kind of like you're you want everyone to lose

238
00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,959
Speaker 6: straight away. You're like, oh, but that's one thing. And

239
00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,720
Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, coaches were tough on us there.

240
00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:13,120
Speaker 7: I was.

241
00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,599
Speaker 6: I think all of the kids were kind of terrified

242
00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,679
Speaker 6: by coaches, and we just did whatever we were told

243
00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:30,439
Speaker 6: to really, I mean I probably tried to be sneaky

244
00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,880
Speaker 6: every now and then, but yeah, they worked us hard

245
00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 6: and we spent so many hours at the tennis club,

246
00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:45,040
Speaker 6: just especially in summers, from probably a morning session till

247
00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,200
Speaker 6: we would be there till eight pm, nine pm.

248
00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,559
Speaker 7: Well, like we.

249
00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,880
Speaker 5: Would just from what time though, what time you start?

250
00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,679
Speaker 7: Maybe eleven ten, I don't know.

251
00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, like I mean, we're not just playing tennis the

252
00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,360
Speaker 6: whole time. We were I mean playing hide and seek

253
00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:02,359
Speaker 6: and whatever.

254
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,000
Speaker 5: Like what about school?

255
00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:10,120
Speaker 6: That was talking like summers and holidays. So we would

256
00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,520
Speaker 6: have a proper like session a squad and then we

257
00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:23,200
Speaker 6: would go and have lunch and play games like no

258
00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,920
Speaker 6: non tennis games, and then we would just play doubles.

259
00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:32,280
Speaker 6: We played so much doubles and.

260
00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,520
Speaker 5: And it was actually, why do you think you why

261
00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,640
Speaker 5: do you think the mentality was to do that? Because

262
00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,319
Speaker 5: that's something that I don't think I've ever heard.

263
00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,000
Speaker 6: Well, the thing like there was not enough course for

264
00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,720
Speaker 6: so many kids, so we played doubles and you stay

265
00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,480
Speaker 6: on only if you win.

266
00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:56,520
Speaker 7: So we played. Yeah, we loved it. We just played

267
00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,640
Speaker 7: doubles all the time.

268
00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,600
Speaker 5: And do you think that that's also good? And what

269
00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,520
Speaker 5: age was that about?

270
00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:05,559
Speaker 7: Probably like ten?

271
00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, And do you think that it's funny because in Australia,

272
00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,120
Speaker 5: my upbringing was to play a lot of doubles. As well,

273
00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,800
Speaker 5: also similar reasons because there wasn't a lot of courts

274
00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,880
Speaker 5: and we just would play on the same court together.

275
00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,480
Speaker 5: But do you think that that's important As competitive as

276
00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,520
Speaker 5: you were, do you think it's important to also have

277
00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:25,200
Speaker 5: that fun factor of sort of competing but being in

278
00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,800
Speaker 5: a bit of a team environment.

279
00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, even though we were kind of itch to their own,

280
00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:35,880
Speaker 6: like fighting for to stay on the court, we had

281
00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,640
Speaker 6: a lot of fun and we like the coach was there,

282
00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,440
Speaker 6: but not really they they that because the coaches were

283
00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:51,080
Speaker 6: kind of having like their they were socializing with the

284
00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,800
Speaker 6: parents because that wasn't there hours to culture. So we

285
00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,000
Speaker 6: kind of just did your own thing, did our own thing,

286
00:14:58,160 --> 00:14:59,960
Speaker 6: and just played and had fun.

287
00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you start going juniors, had a very successful

288
00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,640
Speaker 5: junior career as well. What what was the reasoning really

289
00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,640
Speaker 5: for the Australia move and how did that come about?

290
00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,720
Speaker 6: Honestly, I guess since I was a kid, I've always

291
00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:24,640
Speaker 6: wanted to leave elsewhere. And I played a few junior

292
00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:29,440
Speaker 6: tournaments in Australia and I loved it, and I was like,

293
00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,760
Speaker 6: I think this is like the country. If I'm gonna

294
00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,040
Speaker 6: move and leave, this is where I want to end

295
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,120
Speaker 6: to be, Like end up being And I didn't think

296
00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,600
Speaker 6: I would make that move when I was eighteen, but

297
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:44,760
Speaker 6: I kind of did.

298
00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,360
Speaker 4: I I mean I.

299
00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,000
Speaker 6: Started dating Loop when we were we were we started

300
00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,840
Speaker 6: dating dating, I mean Facebook messaging when we were pretty young.

301
00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:01,920
Speaker 6: And I was ranked maybe like two hundred, two hundred

302
00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,960
Speaker 6: and thirty and I was trying to make enough points

303
00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:10,360
Speaker 6: to play austraight and open qualifying, and.

304
00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,520
Speaker 7: I convinced my dad.

305
00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,040
Speaker 6: That I had to go to Australia because the twenty

306
00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,280
Speaker 6: five's there were a lot weaker.

307
00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,800
Speaker 7: They were, and they were and they were. I made

308
00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,600
Speaker 7: it worked out for me.

309
00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,600
Speaker 5: And was that because you had the grand plan.

310
00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:32,080
Speaker 6: To I actually wanted to see Luke And my dad's like,

311
00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,480
Speaker 6: you guys are not that serious, like why are you

312
00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:35,320
Speaker 6: going there?

313
00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:37,840
Speaker 7: And I'm like, well, it's just.

314
00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,320
Speaker 6: Weak tournaments, like I'm going to get and it's expensive, right,

315
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,440
Speaker 6: It's an expensive trip. So I was going by myself.

316
00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,120
Speaker 6: I was maybe eighteen nineteen, I can't remember. And so

317
00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:53,320
Speaker 6: I went and I made back to back sammis. So

318
00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,280
Speaker 6: I actually didn't play great tennis there, but somehow.

319
00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,080
Speaker 7: I got enough points and.

320
00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,600
Speaker 6: But yeah, my dad was like, don't forget to come

321
00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:10,320
Speaker 6: back with Australian fastward and actually when I came to Australia,

322
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,000
Speaker 6: everyone knew me and Luke were dating. So they were

323
00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:18,000
Speaker 6: all like, oh, when you guys, when it's becoming Australian

324
00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,600
Speaker 6: to Luke joking and I'm like in my head, I'm like, well,

325
00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,760
Speaker 6: let's you guys kind of have to stop joking because

326
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,480
Speaker 6: I'm gonna just want to do I really want to

327
00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:27,840
Speaker 6: do this.

328
00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:29,400
Speaker 7: So I approached.

329
00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,720
Speaker 6: So Nicole was head of Nicole Pratt was head of

330
00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:44,080
Speaker 6: women's tennis back twenty thirteen, and I was staying there

331
00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,440
Speaker 6: for a few more weeks to train before going to Japan.

332
00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:52,200
Speaker 6: I can't remember exactly, anyway, I was there just training

333
00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:56,040
Speaker 6: for a week and I joined the squads that she

334
00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,840
Speaker 6: was running with Aussie girls and my in was not

335
00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:06,199
Speaker 6: like great, And I just talked to Nicole and I

336
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,960
Speaker 6: was like, can please send your email? I need to

337
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,560
Speaker 6: send you an important email. And it's like I still

338
00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,199
Speaker 6: have this email. I need to I should find it

339
00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,720
Speaker 6: and read it out to you because it's like there

340
00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:26,760
Speaker 6: was maybe five sentences a lot maybe less, but basically that, yeah,

341
00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:30,480
Speaker 6: I want to become Australian, like I want to have

342
00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:36,000
Speaker 6: the opportunity to represent Australia and yeah, she just gave

343
00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:41,720
Speaker 6: me a contact immigration of the immigration guy and then

344
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,960
Speaker 6: I emailed him and it kind of just started.

345
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:49,399
Speaker 5: Like now, now during this process, is Luke aware that

346
00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:50,359
Speaker 5: you are trying.

347
00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:50,600
Speaker 4: To move there?

348
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sure. And okay, the finniest thing was.

349
00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,280
Speaker 5: Because there was a period of time where you actually

350
00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:56,800
Speaker 5: broke up.

351
00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,679
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was before that.

352
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,640
Speaker 5: Before that, that.

353
00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:09,679
Speaker 6: Was during like when we're playing junior Grandslams. But so

354
00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,480
Speaker 6: I was practicing with Nicole in Melbourne and I wanted

355
00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,840
Speaker 6: to see Luke. But Luke was at Australian Institute of

356
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,760
Speaker 6: Sports Sport in Canberra.

357
00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 7: That was where they had their base back in those days.

358
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,280
Speaker 6: But so he was there and he couldn't come to Melbourne,

359
00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,680
Speaker 6: like he couldn't come, and I was in Melbourne staying

360
00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,399
Speaker 6: with my friends. But then he's like, hey, you should

361
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,200
Speaker 6: come to Canberra because no one's going to know that

362
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,040
Speaker 6: you're going to come because all the coaches are actually

363
00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 6: leaving to Melbourne for some friends, I don't know whatever.

364
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:50,440
Speaker 7: And I was like.

365
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:57,040
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, okay, I should do that. And I had

366
00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:04,159
Speaker 6: to message Nicole that I was sick. So I flew

367
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,160
Speaker 6: to Canberra to see Luke for a few days and

368
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 6: then flew back. Well, I haven't told her this story

369
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,480
Speaker 6: until our wedding day and she was like cracking out.

370
00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,199
Speaker 5: Oh that's hilarious. It's a good story though obviously you know,

371
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,879
Speaker 5: we know the rest is history. You got your passport,

372
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,359
Speaker 5: You've represented Australia's so many times now, Fed Cup and

373
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 5: Olympics and all kinds of things. What does that feel

374
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 5: like for you? Obviously parents are Russian, your dad still

375
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,920
Speaker 5: and parents both live in Russia and you're representing Australia.

376
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 5: How does your heart And of course you and Luke

377
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 5: just recently got married, so I mean you're real legit now,

378
00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 5: what does that feel like for you?

379
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:50,040
Speaker 6: It's funny I always, I mean I get this question

380
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,160
Speaker 6: all the time, like during fed Cup weeks, our Billaging

381
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 6: King Cup weeks, like how does it feel to represent

382
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 6: your country? And I always like joke that, hey, I

383
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 6: can't really say that as a little girl, I grew

384
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 6: up wanting to represent Australia, Like no, because I was

385
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,160
Speaker 6: in Russia when I was a little girl. And that's

386
00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 6: like kind of what everyone says, you know, they say

387
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 6: as a little girl, and I'm like well, really were

388
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:18,960
Speaker 6: you actually thinking.

389
00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,640
Speaker 7: That so now?

390
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:25,800
Speaker 6: But I do feel like very ausy and like I'm proud,

391
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 6: and I feel yeah, like I get kind of like

392
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,280
Speaker 6: goose bumps, and I just think we're such a great

393
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:40,720
Speaker 6: like we all get along so well, the Aussies, and

394
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 6: I feel like we're one of the best like teams,

395
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 6: like in terms of like our group, we all want

396
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 6: to help out each other, which is really really nice.

397
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 6: Like I don't just like, yeah, I represent Australia, but

398
00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,119
Speaker 6: I feel like I represent like, oh, my mates and

399
00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 6: my you know.

400
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,880
Speaker 5: Are you're giving me a tear?

401
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:07,440
Speaker 4: Oh it's good.

402
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like I love it.

403
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 6: Like I like, I don't just play, you know, for myself,

404
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,880
Speaker 6: like especially when Sam is there, and I'm like, I'm

405
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 6: not just doing it for like me, I'm like, I

406
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 6: want to make like Sam prout like with like a

407
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 6: teammate proud, Like that's cool.

408
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 5: So take me back Dash, because you know you're twenty

409
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 5: eight now correct, still a young soul, very young in

410
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 5: tennis terms. You know everyone really so many players are

411
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 5: peaking in their mid thirties now, you know, winning Grand Slams,

412
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 5: and it's been a hard, tough professional life for you.

413
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 5: Give the people who don't know you that well or

414
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,239
Speaker 5: may not know the history of you, the injuries that

415
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 5: you've had, major injuries over the last Like a lot

416
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 5: of players would have retired going through what you've gone

417
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 5: through in your career. Just give us a quick snapshot

418
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,960
Speaker 5: of some of the major ones and what you've lost.

419
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 5: Sam Stozia and I were actually talking about you yesterday

420
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,399
Speaker 5: the day before, how proud we are of you and

421
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 5: where you've come to just in the last five months,

422
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 5: even because a lot of players would have retired with

423
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 5: going through what you've been through, and you've lost about

424
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 5: four years of your career with injuries. So give me

425
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,440
Speaker 5: some of them.

426
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 7: I mean the main one is my achilles.

427
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 5: Well, prior to that, you tore your aco.

428
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 7: Oh wow, I forgot about that.

429
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of forget though, Like I don't find

430
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 6: it like a struggle. I'm like, well, I like tennis, Like, well,

431
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 6: I don't have a choice, like I'm going to come back.

432
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,679
Speaker 6: So every time someone asked me this question, like you

433
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 6: know what, it's not that high, Like, don't make it

434
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 6: like it's not easy.

435
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: No.

436
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 7: Yeah.

437
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 6: So yeah, So since that chat I had with Pratty

438
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 6: with Nicole, I literally told him my ac ACL maybe

439
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 6: a few months later and I came to Australia with

440
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 6: the busted knee and basically I have an Australian knee.

441
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 6: So I had surgery there and yeah, like it was

442
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 6: my parents were terrified that I was eighteen moving to

443
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 6: another country having surgery like going down and they wouldn't

444
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 6: be there for me.

445
00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,400
Speaker 4: But I was staying with.

446
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 6: One of well, they're like family to me, Kate she

447
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 6: and and I stayed with her and Stormy and they

448
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 6: like took really good care of me. And yeah, like

449
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 6: the I mean the first few weeks, I was just

450
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 6: in bed because I just had the surgery and I

451
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 6: kind of was like, oh my god, this is hard.

452
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 6: And they were the girls were training and I was like, oh,

453
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 6: just sitting on the couch.

454
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 7: And but then I had from that very well.

455
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 1: Got to.

456
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 7: The thing I remember when I was working with.

457
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 6: Well, I had so many people helping me out, Like

458
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 6: Tennis Australia has been in my corner for many, many years,

459
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 6: Like I'm very grateful for that.

460
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 7: And I remember.

461
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 6: Aaron, who was the strength and conditioning coach back then,

462
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 6: was saying that you're going to come back fitter than

463
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 6: ever and I was like, uh, okay, because I was Yeah,

464
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 6: I was. Oh, I can't remember how old I was anymore.

465
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 6: Maybe I was older than eighteen, maybe probably not, I

466
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 6: think yeah, and he he was right. I came back

467
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 6: so fit. I was lifting really heavy, like then Stephano,

468
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 6: you know Stephano, the Italian. I mean, I had Stephanie

469
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 6: and Nicole with me traveling, and I just had like

470
00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,959
Speaker 6: a proper team for the first time, and I just

471
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 6: kind of took off. I had this crazy run and

472
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 6: roam from qualifying where well I before that, I beat

473
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,360
Speaker 6: Maria Sharapova in Miami.

474
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 5: And that that let you know that you could play.

475
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 6: And I really I just remember I just wanted to

476
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 6: say that, like's if anyone young is listening to it,

477
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 6: it's crazy, Like I really believed that I could beat her.

478
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 6: I've never played the top ten. Oh maybe I can't remember,

479
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 6: but I really was. I remember I was trying.

480
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 5: My why do you think that?

481
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:45,639
Speaker 4: I don't know.

482
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 6: But I bought this little Lemon outfit myself finally, like

483
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 6: I was sponsored by them now, and I remember like

484
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 6: I loved it, and I was like watching myself in

485
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 6: the mirror and I was like practicing celebrations like and

486
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 6: does that how do you even think you're going to

487
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 6: be a number two in the world?

488
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 7: And I really did, and.

489
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 5: They manifested that way.

490
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 7: Yet, like I mean, I maybe should do that again.

491
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 6: Sometimes I'm Gowell on Garrison's That Faraway.

492
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 3: Renee today on the podcast. We have a fantastic sponsor.

493
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 3: It is Sakarla. I have been dying to try this

494
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 3: because the food looks legitimately delicious when my friends post

495
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: about it on Instagram, and I have, like the two

496
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 3: of us, just been sort of feeling like a little

497
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 3: bit belaguered and bloated. So when these plant rich meals

498
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 3: arrived at my door our doors last week, I was

499
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 3: pretty pumped to get to try them. Did you have

500
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 3: any impressions from our three day cleanse?

501
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, I also was on it a

502
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 5: little bit as well before.

503
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: I went to Europe, so it was nice for me

504
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: to also get it.

505
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 5: And you're right, I didn't feel bladed.

506
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 1: But most importantly, I you know, had a bit of

507
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: a high.

508
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 5: Cholesterol the last time I went to the doctor, and

509
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 5: so I'm really appreciative of like a plant rich food

510
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 5: because I really do need to start thinking about doing

511
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 5: that a little bit more, and I knew I was

512
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 5: going to Europe and plant rich is not really their

513
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 5: their forte, particularly in France. So so I'm really enjoying

514
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 5: them and yes, so so great to have them as

515
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 5: one of our sponsors, and I'm just I'm loving it.

516
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 8: Sokara is a wellness company anchored in food as medicine

517
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 8: on a mission to nourish your body through.

518
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: The power of plants.

519
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 8: Sokara is offering our listeners twenty percent off their first

520
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 8: order when they go to sokara dot com slash racket

521
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 8: or enter the code racket at checkout. That's Scara s

522
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 8: a k A r a dot com slash get to

523
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 8: get twenty percent off your first order.

524
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 4: So that was crazy. And then I just, yeah, I

525
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 4: kind of took off. I was. I'm not saying I

526
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 4: took off.

527
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 6: It's not like, no, you are very so semifinals, but

528
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 6: I was top fifty, top thirty.

529
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 4: I remember Dave Taylor was like, I don't.

530
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 6: Know why, but he's an interesting guy. He was kind

531
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 6: of asking me all those questions and he's like, when

532
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 6: do you think, what ranking do you think?

533
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 4: What do you what can you do?

534
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 6: What your year end ranking? Is going to be and

535
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 6: I was like, I just threw like I threw a number.

536
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 6: I was like twenty five, and I literally it was

537
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 6: like around there, like it was crazy.

538
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 5: And so that's the importance of manifesting stuff and really

539
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 5: believing in yourself, you know, and then shooting for oh

540
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 5: I want to be top hundred, you know.

541
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 4: Yeah. I so then.

542
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:21,479
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was playing well, I I won you haven,

543
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 6: but I remember I got my the Achilles problem in

544
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen. So that's when me Nick Yrris and I

545
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 6: won on the Copman Cup. That was actually my first

546
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 6: time representing Australia ever. Like this is in December twenty fifteen.

547
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 6: I just got my passport so I could represent Australia

548
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 6: and like that's pretty cool and you want you want it?

549
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 4: It was amazing.

550
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 5: So you were having issues with your achilles starting around

551
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen.

552
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 6: So January, Yeah, I remember I looked at my heel

553
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 6: and I was like, what is that, Like would see

554
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 6: like a phone yep. And I was in the second

555
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 6: week of oz ob and so my phsio Melanie she

556
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 6: was never going to freak me out.

557
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 4: So she's like she taped, I.

558
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,239
Speaker 5: Mean, she she did what she could do.

559
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I just I think I was young,

560
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 6: and I was like I had the ACL and like

561
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 6: it was major, but I never had like niggles like

562
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 6: I've never.

563
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 5: Been Yeah, you never had You've never been a player

564
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 5: that's had, you know, an injury every couple.

565
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 6: Of Yeah, I would never go see get treatment that washash.

566
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 5: This is you to a t. You either do things

567
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 5: really big or not at all. Go big or go home,

568
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,479
Speaker 5: including injuries. So the achilles was an issue ongoing for

569
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 5: a couple of years really just until you finally said

570
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 5: I've got to have major surgery on.

571
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,959
Speaker 4: That, and that was twenty twenty.

572
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so how when you had the surgery, then

573
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 5: you had to rehab for approximately what eight months? And

574
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 5: then when you came back again again a similar back

575
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 5: now basically yeah, oh no you didn't no.

576
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 6: No, no, I didn't have surgery back then. So we

577
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 6: just I had two injuries. I had my achilles and

578
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 6: my plant fasciatis, and so I was rehabbing it and

579
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 6: then the pandemic hit and I was only meant to

580
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 6: be out for five six months. Then the pandemic hit

581
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 6: and then I came back. I played twenty twenty Roland

582
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 6: Garros and I was I was in a I did

583
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 6: a really good training block just before OZ opened, and

584
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 6: you were playing and I was playing really really good.

585
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 6: Everyone couldn't believe that I had surgery literally a week later.

586
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 6: No one could believe this, But I just it was

587
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 6: crazy because I remember I played ash and it just went.

588
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 6: My achilles just was not like I felt it. It

589
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 6: was really sore and I could barely walk off the court,

590
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 6: like I literally had to throw my shoes off because

591
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 6: it was rubbing on that spot and I had to

592
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 6: play doubles.

593
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 4: So which I did.

594
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 5: You know you have that difficulty, then you have to

595
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 5: have the surgery. I want to know when you because

596
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 5: I have to say, like a lot of us were like,

597
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 5: oh my god, Like how many more difficult moments can

598
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 5: you go through physically and come back?

599
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: You know.

600
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 5: I want to know from your perspective when that happened,

601
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 5: you know, and you had the surgery, and you I.

602
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 4: Really wanted that surgery. That's the funny thing.

603
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 5: So when you get the surgery, you're positive about it.

604
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 5: Is that what you're telling us?

605
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean I so.

606
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 6: After the match I was doing, I was like cooling

607
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 6: down and I was there and I was like, my

608
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 6: pain is eleven out of ten and they're like, nah,

609
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 6: you're exaggerating.

610
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 4: You just lost Like calm down.

611
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 5: I'm like, you are. You are sometimes a little you do.

612
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: I know, I know, but this time I was like,

613
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 6: I was like, guys, I'm having surgery.

614
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 4: I don't even know what on.

615
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 6: Because this was the worst part. It's like there wasn't

616
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 6: enough damage to go have surgery, like we tried to

617
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 6: avoid it as much as possible.

618
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 4: Yep. So I played doubles.

619
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 6: The tournaments finished, and I was seeing doctors at the

620
00:34:54,200 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 6: Strain Open and I had scans and I was like, please,

621
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 6: can something just show up because it would have been

622
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 6: worse if it was just like the same.

623
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 4: But I have so much pain.

624
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 5: I would have I can understand that.

625
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 6: So I was like, please, can there be something really bad? Yeah,

626
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 6: so at least you know, yeah, and so I have.

627
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 4: I had Haglin's bump, just for people to understand what

628
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 4: it is. It's like bunyance but on.

629
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 6: The back of your heel, and it was pressing on

630
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 6: my tendon, which is has been irritated for years. So

631
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 6: I still, I mean, my tendon is still irritated. Because

632
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 6: it's like sensitized, like I just my brain just always

633
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 6: aware of it, and I always tell my feces now

634
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:59,280
Speaker 6: it's bullshit, like unsensitized. Like, but I was like ready

635
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 6: and I had the full and it was really hard

636
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 6: to find someone who would operate it on without being

637
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 6: too invasive. And there were a few surgeons that would

638
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 6: do that surgery.

639
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 4: And one of the surgeons was.

640
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 6: Who did my a cl and I was like, oh

641
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 6: my god, David Young, are you kidding, I'm going like

642
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 6: I'm going there, like I want to see him, like

643
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 6: let's go, let's do it.

644
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 5: So that was successful, and.

645
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't.

646
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 6: I was like I literally messaged him straight away like

647
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 6: I was being naughty, like I shouldn't have done this.

648
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm gonna come see you because I

649
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:56,479
Speaker 6: had like I kept in touch with him, and I yeah,

650
00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 6: like he he loves his job, like he was gonna

651
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 6: operate on me that day if I wanted to. He

652
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 6: loves it, like he spent crazy hours there and obviously

653
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 6: I went and saw David with Melanie, my physio, and yeah,

654
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 6: I just I was ready, like and I knew let's

655
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 6: do this, that it would take a while.

656
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 5: I mean it was seven months approximately.

657
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 6: More, and there was a point where it was not

658
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 6: like I thought. I honestly thought that my expectations. I

659
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 6: had expectations that it would just go away completely, like

660
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 6: it would be like my left achilles.

661
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 4: But it's wasn't and it's not.

662
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 6: And now I've accepted it, I'm like whatever, Like it's

663
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 6: it lets me function the way I want to function.

664
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 6: I can obviously play three hour match and back it

665
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 6: up like I'm fine.

666
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 4: But I.

667
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 6: The first few months of the after the surgery were

668
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 6: pretty No, they were easy because I was actually improving

669
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,800
Speaker 6: quickly with so many things, like well, first two weeks

670
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 6: I was just making my dashlets bracelets, and I couldn't move.

671
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:33,439
Speaker 6: But after like you started walking, it's slow, but there

672
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 6: are like the improvements are.

673
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 5: Pretty big so after you.

674
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 6: But it took a while once three months, but then

675
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 6: I still had pain, like and that was tough for you,

676
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 6: and it just I was.

677
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 4: Like, oh my god, are you joking.

678
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 5: Like it's never going to get better.

679
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 4: It's not going to give a period of time.

680
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 5: Where you thought your career might might be over. Yeah,

681
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 5: how is that to deal with a little bit emotionally?

682
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 6: Well, I think because I had such good people around.

683
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 4: Me that they never let you get They never let

684
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 4: me get to down. Yeah they are. Well they would

685
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 4: be like, well.

686
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 6: You've got nothing, like you still have to give it

687
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 6: a shot, like why did you even have surgery?

688
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 4: So I was like yeah, yeah.

689
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 6: True and yeah, I mean I wouldn't be playing if

690
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 6: I didn't.

691
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 5: So you come back again.

692
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 6: The worst part was that we were in lockdown during

693
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 6: like during both but the book, Yeah, like tell.

694
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 5: People at home how difficult it was in Melbourne.

695
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 6: They were just so all I did was going to

696
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 6: the tennis, get do my rehab, which was not very exciting,

697
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 6: and go home and go home and just chill. I mean,

698
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 6: thank god I had tofu and my mom was there

699
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 6: and my brother while Luke was playing, so I didn't

700
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 6: see him. We didn't see each other for like eight

701
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 6: months before we got married. So I had all this

702
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 6: plans that at least I'll have like I'll socialize with everyone,

703
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 6: yeah after surgery, like I'll have normal life, but that.

704
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 5: Didn't happen because of lockdown.

705
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 4: Because of lockdown, So.

706
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 5: When you had a good run, it had, you know,

707
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 5: a nice little time in Australia, but then you come

708
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 5: over this year to Palm Springs and Indie Whlles and

709
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 5: Miami and have a great couple of weeks. How much

710
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 5: did that make you feel like you have gone through

711
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 5: all of this stuff and you feel like, oh my god,

712
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 5: it was all worth it, and it's all worth it

713
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 5: with the results that you've had over the last few months,

714
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,800
Speaker 5: and do you feel like, all right, I feel like

715
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 5: I can really get back to a really solid place

716
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:53,919
Speaker 5: in my career now.

717
00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 6: So after so I came back during Bellaging King Cup.

718
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 5: So I had this like that was the last minute

719
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 5: call up for.

720
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 4: You, That was the last minute call out for me.

721
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 4: It was.

722
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 6: It's a long story, but basically we had a few

723
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 6: injured players in the team and they had to pick

724
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 6: that week between Priscilla Horn and myself, and I was

725
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 6: we were both playing unbelievable because I think we really

726
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 6: wanted to be in the team. And I kind of

727
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 6: was underdone, Like I was underdone, not kind I was underdone.

728
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 6: I haven't even played two sets and I win that

729
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 6: match and I'm like, oh my god, this is like

730
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 6: what like this is crazy? And then I come back

731
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 6: and I mean I was then just too I was distracted,

732
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 6: like with wedding and like not gonna lie, Like my

733
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 6: preseason was probably like I didn't take all the boxes

734
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 6: because of it's red wedding, and I was distracted and

735
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 6: I knew and it's the worst, like when you know

736
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 6: that you haven't done everything. I know, some people can

737
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 6: just not think about it, but for me, it's important

738
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 6: and for some reason, like I wasn't as motivated, like

739
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 6: like the ausiest summer was right around the corner, playing

740
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 6: at home, I like got the wild cards, and.

741
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 4: I just I wasn't playing well.

742
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,240
Speaker 5: And why do you think you weren't as motivated?

743
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 4: I wasn't.

744
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 6: I don't know, and I felt bad, like I felt guilty.

745
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 6: I'm like what, like you just you.

746
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 5: Went through all of this and now you went.

747
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 4: All of yeah, and I just I don't know.

748
00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 6: I was like not as excited, like and I was

749
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 6: not overly happy, like I wasn't sad, but I just

750
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 6: was like like just I didn't didn't want it, Like

751
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 6: I was like, as we like do I even want.

752
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 4: To play tennis?

753
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 6: Like and I was surprised, like I was like what

754
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 6: is going on? And then like I got killed? Yeah,

755
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 6: I mean I didn't get killed, but I wasn't winning

756
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 6: practice sets, and I was like, I don't think I'm

757
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 6: like I've got the level, Like I'm way off, But

758
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 6: the reality was, that's what's That's what was in my head.

759
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 6: Like the reality was I was a lot closer yeah

760
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 6: to being like at not at that level, but a

761
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 6: good level. Yeah, But I just didn't think and didn't

762
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 6: trust and.

763
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 5: And so what changed? What changed going to Indian Wells

764
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 5: and having that obviously the experience.

765
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 6: I had this I'm having this, I'm having a practice

766
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 6: with Nicole Pratt and Storm and I'm just being like

767
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 6: all crazy on cord, like making stupid decisions and we're

768
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 6: playing points and Storm is just like killing me, and

769
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 6: I'm like feeling.

770
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 4: Oh poor me, Oh my god, I'm not playing well.

771
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 6: Why am I even going overseas? Like what's the point,

772
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 6: Like I'd rather be with my dog? And they they

773
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 6: sat me down and they're like you need to stop

774
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 6: like feeling sorry for yourself, Like you need to literally

775
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 6: Nicole said, the best thing that you can do is

776
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 6: actually get out of Australia because.

777
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: You're getting comfortable exactly, You're way too comfortable here. And

778
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 2: I was like, that's probably why I wasn't motivated, like

779
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: I I.

780
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,839
Speaker 5: Mean because it had been probably almost two years where

781
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 5: you've really been home. Yeah, and you probably had never

782
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 5: felt that feeling in your entire life.

783
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I stayed at home first chair and open.

784
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, it was like.

785
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 5: It's one of the things that I feel like, you

786
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 5: know when otherone's like, you know why is in Australia

787
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 5: have more dominant players and of course we just recently

788
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 5: had another one in the world, so it's possible and

789
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 5: ashes as laid back as they come. But I think

790
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 5: it is one of the things about being from Australia

791
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 5: and even from the United States sometimes is that it's

792
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 5: pretty easy. You know, it's a pretty easy life. It's

793
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 5: a good life. You're not really stressed about stuff. And

794
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 5: that's the one thing about maybe the Russian mentality and

795
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 5: you know, growing up and that sort of different coaching style.

796
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 5: They're very tough on you. They're not overly nice, you know,

797
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 5: the girls aren't overly nice to each other. And that's

798
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 5: some things you know that you have to really deal

799
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 5: with as an Australian or as an American or coming

800
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 5: from a very wealthy or well well to do country,

801
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 5: is that you've got to really push yourself hard.

802
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 4: So Grand Slam country.

803
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially well you're getting funding and it's a little

804
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 5: bit easier, so you started clearly feeling a little bit

805
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 5: less sorry for yourself. You get on the plane, you

806
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 5: go play in your wells. What was it like for

807
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 5: you to win that.

808
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 6: I went to Lahara and I was there. I was

809
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 6: traveling with Storm and I was strength and conditioning coach

810
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 6: who was doing the whole rehab process, and he was

811
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 6: so excited to like just go on the road and

812
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 6: we were like and like, I didn't work on anything mentally.

813
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 6: It's not like I went and started journaling or doing meditation.

814
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 6: I just literally got on the plane and I changed

815
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 6: my attitude like straight away, like I got there, I'm

816
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 6: there with my coach Jay, and I am straight away

817
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 6: in like I'm here, like let's go.

818
00:46:58,239 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 4: Let's do this.

819
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:04,440
Speaker 6: And I beat Emma right account route account on like

820
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 6: it was well. It still is one of the longest

821
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 6: matches and we didn't even finish the match. And then

822
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 6: I backed it up and I was like, oh my god,

823
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 6: I played the longest match of the year and I.

824
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 4: Was able to come back to come back and play again.

825
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 6: And I was because I was didn't know how my

826
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 6: achilles would feel, and it felt good.

827
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 4: So actually, what I was focusing.

828
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 6: On was small wins, like I aimed really low to

829
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 6: then reach that goal because I didn't want to disappoint myself.

830
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 5: So I think part of it is also because you've

831
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 5: been through so much physically, you sort of for the

832
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 5: first time maybe in your own life, you gave yourself

833
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 5: a bit of a break to not have those hugely

834
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 5: high expectations because you're very tough on yourself. So do

835
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 5: you think maybe for the first time, you're like, you

836
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 5: know what, let's just go and play and enjoy it

837
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 5: because you're healthy and you gave yourself maybe a little

838
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 5: bit of a break.

839
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had low expectations just because you always have.

840
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, everything was a win for me. Like playing a

841
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 6: discipline point that's a win. Like being able to concentrate

842
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:28,959
Speaker 6: for five more minutes than the day before, that's a win.

843
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 5: And physically being healthy that's.

844
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,439
Speaker 6: That's like just everything, like not freaking double faulting ten

845
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 6: times because I'm freaking out, like seriously like that, Like

846
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 6: that's why my serve got so much better because.

847
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 5: You worked on it.

848
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I worked on it, but I

849
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 6: just like was happy to be playing to freaking make

850
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 6: it rather than hit the biggest second serve of my

851
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 6: life and not make it, you know, like the little thing, Like.

852
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 4: I would rather.

853
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 6: Make it and then hit a winner then, because I

854
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 6: was getting angry when they would hit a winner. But

855
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 6: that's just how woman senus works, Like, that's just how

856
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 6: it is. But so I was accepting things.

857
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 4: For what they are.

858
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 6: And yeah, I had low expectations. But it's funny like

859
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 6: now that like people say, oh, you had a couple

860
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 6: of like great tournaments months and like it was on

861
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 6: there really like two or three weeks. But now I

862
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 6: kind of have expectations that, well, I've been an on

863
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 6: and I made quarters of Miami or second week of

864
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 6: Indian wells that like I should back it up.

865
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 5: And so how do you how so be your best

866
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 5: be like your own doubles partner? What would you tell

867
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 5: yourself now then? Because you've had a couple of tough

868
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 5: losses over the last weeks seven six and the third,

869
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 5: and you're going to a Grand Slam first time, you know,

870
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 5: since the Austrain Open, you have an opportunity to do

871
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 5: well at a Grand Slam. So what do you what

872
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 5: do you tell and this is for other people at

873
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 5: home or people that are listening, what would you as

874
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 5: you as a doubles partner or as a coach to yourself?

875
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 5: What would you what's the best thing that you could

876
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 5: tell yourself?

877
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 6: Now, Well, I actually was writing things down like in

878
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 6: my like at dual journal, so I kind of like

879
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 6: set goals and I think and then I have like

880
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,240
Speaker 6: I've made a diary that like I have a section

881
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 6: like from each month, like a goal, and then what

882
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 6: I've learned. And then I kind of went back on

883
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 6: what I've learned from March from when I did well

884
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 6: in Guadalajara and Indos Miami that trip, and it said

885
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 6: that I was enjoying the small wins and I was

886
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 6: having lower expectations like smaller goals, but then.

887
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 4: They were more achievable.

888
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 9: So I was like, hmm, that's that's right, Like why

889
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 9: all of a sudden I have like high expectations, like

890
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 9: I'm not I'm not saying like I'm just here as

891
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 9: a tourist role garretson.

892
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 5: Although we haven enjoyed ourselves. But and nobody has a

893
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 5: TikTok like you. Nobody has a TikTok account like you.

894
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 4: But I literally wrut down, okay, like.

895
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 6: I haven't played a click court season and I haven't

896
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 6: had the singles with and I literally just wrote, let's

897
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 6: have one singles win, like I'll be happy with that

898
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 6: and then it can take me anywhere, like I don't know,

899
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 6: I mean.

900
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 3: And.

901
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 6: Just just that like and I'm just gonna enjoy the

902
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 6: small whens along the way for like preparing, like I'm

903
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:08,919
Speaker 6: excited we're in doubles finals, like play on Saturday. It's

904
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 6: been fun and it's funny, like playing with Nicole, I'm

905
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 6: I think it's like I'm so much more positive on

906
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 6: a double score, Like I'm pretty positive when I'm playing well,

907
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 6: but I can get angry with myself. And I was

908
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 6: just like thinking, imagine if I was like getting angry

909
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 6: at Nicole, like if she would miss.

910
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:39,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, you treat yourself worse than you treat your partner.

911
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 6: Like if she would miss like a smash or an

912
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 6: easy shot, Like I wouldn't just be like, oh my god,

913
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 6: you're an idiot, but that's something I would say to

914
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 6: myself and then yeah, like I'm like, okay, I need

915
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 6: to be more. I need to talk to myself the

916
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 6: way I talk to pretend that like there's someone playing

917
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 6: with me like a partner.

918
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 5: So other than that, which I think is a great thing,

919
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 5: what would you go back and tell your eighteen year

920
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 5: old self, the person the kid that moved from Russia

921
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 5: to Australia. What would you tell them now if you

922
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 5: could whisper in their.

923
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 6: Good move, the you move to Australia. Yeah, I mean

924
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 6: I'll literally be like, yeah, go Justlian move. I don't know,

925
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 6: that's a hard one because I still feel like an

926
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 6: eighteen year old sometimes sometimes I think I would be

927
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 6: I would say, don't be so hard on yourself. Enjoy

928
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 6: and enjoy every little moment because there's so many things

929
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 6: you can like, there's so many Seriously, there's so many

930
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 6: little things that make me happy. And like now that

931
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 6: I recognize now, I just like I'm a lot more positive.

932
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 6: Like even like I get happy at the if I'm

933
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:15,760
Speaker 6: staying at the hotel that has like a really strong

934
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 6: hot shower, Like that makes me really like small things

935
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 6: you don't understand. Yeah, and yeah, like because I think

936
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 6: when I was eighteen, I was not aware of.

937
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 4: Things that were like kind of making me happy. I

938
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 4: don't know if it makes.

939
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 5: Sense yeah, that makes sense. Well, now you're a married woman,

940
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 5: you're a mother of a child of ducks, and so

941
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, life has definitely changed over the last

942
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 5: ten years. But it's been great to sort of see

943
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 5: it all happen and all the ups and downs and

944
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 5: the physicality that you know, physical problems you've had and

945
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,439
Speaker 5: the injuries, and as your friend, I have to say,

946
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 5: it's been really remarkable and it's been really nice to

947
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 5: see you continually always fight back with exactly the same attitude,

948
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 5: which is always just that joyful person to be around.

949
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 5: And it's great to see you back, Dasha, And so

950
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 5: thanks for joining me today. Thanks, good luck in Paris.

951
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 4: Let's go just one win, guys.

952
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 5: Just one win, because you get one, I'll bet.

953
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 4: You get right.

954
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 5: Thanks Gush.