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Speaker 1: Let's call this the Power twenty instead of the Power Hour. Renee,

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Speaker 1: thank you for giving me the keys to your show

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 2: I had a really fun time.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome, Keglin. I'm glad you didn't so I crushed

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Speaker 3: it into the wall and I viewed some of it

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Speaker 3: and it was very good, and you did a fantastic job.

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Speaker 1: I nearly crashed the car on Monday.

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Speaker 2: My mic shit out.

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Speaker 1: Five seconds as they before we started, and then my

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Speaker 1: or I can lick my wounds and get back in there.

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Speaker 1: But I have to say, not only do I appreciate

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Speaker 1: I feel like I sort of have some insight into

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Speaker 1: your brain now, just like the way you think, the

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Speaker 1: way you're like on your toes, the way you're ready

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Speaker 1: to jump in you have to be your brain is

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Speaker 1: hard wired. After doing that for twenty years, it was

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Speaker 3: It's called being a maniac.

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Speaker 2: You are a maniac.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So instead of spending four hours talking about the

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Speaker 1: Australian Open and everything that's going on, why don't we

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Speaker 1: keep it real snappy, so that people can get this

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Speaker 1: to be released tomorrow, the beginning of the second week

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Speaker 1: of the Australian Open, which has been absolute carnage. I

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Speaker 1: have so many things that I want to ask you about,

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Speaker 1: There is there a favorite on the women's side, and

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Speaker 1: if so, I'm not sure it's IGIs Sriantech And even

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Speaker 1: if it was, she's out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's out, so we don't have to worry about her. Listen.

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Speaker 3: I have to say, after watching rab Bakina really take

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Speaker 3: out IgA yesterday, it was fantastically It's amazing how well

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Speaker 3: she finishes. You know, she's just served out the match

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Speaker 3: and she's doing that. So look, there's not many Grand

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Speaker 3: Slam champions in the draw, and she's one of them,

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Speaker 3: one of a couple. As a ranker, I can't even

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Speaker 3: It wasn't a shock that she went down yesterday. You know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think for me what's amazing is

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Speaker 3: There was nothing that Yanick Sinner could do. And then

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Speaker 3: And that changed the whole momentum of the match, the

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Speaker 3: And he has incredible support down here in Australia because

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Speaker 2: That was up two sets to love on Jokui.

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Speaker 1: But he's got this younger, this young head kid jury

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Speaker 1: Lechke next to According to our friend Tako got to

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Speaker 3: Very very good player, I mean, very much in the

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Speaker 3: the check men have been underachieving comparative to the women

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Speaker 2: Can't believe you're putting on makeup right now? What are

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Speaker 2: you going to do? Are you going to some cool thing?

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Speaker 3: Dude? I've got so many things to do here in Melbourny.

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Speaker 2: You have no idea tell me what some of them are.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually going to have breakfast with my former player

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Speaker 3: to go. I'm not playing today. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: Although I did ice bath after, and I recommend that

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so Caitlin, you know I've got television, I

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Speaker 2: Okay, good good, I mean this is what we like.

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Speaker 2: We like you busy.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be hosting your show from Australia next week?

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Speaker 3: I Am going to be hosting my show from Australia

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Speaker 3: next week, so stay tuned on that front. Hopefully the

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Speaker 3: with the wires. Let's put it that way.

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Speaker 2: What are you doing?

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Speaker 3: fifteen love. The ball hit her, and he goes, I

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Speaker 3: didn't see it. What I got, Elaine, Elaine, the ball

433
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 3: hit you, and anyway, she kept walking away from me,

434
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,000
Speaker 3: and then turned around and waggled her finger at me

435
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 3: and said, don't talk to me. Talk to him, meaning

436
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 3: the umpire, knowing full well that he didn't see the ball,

437
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,119
Speaker 3: he didn't see the hitter, and so I was like,

438
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:36,280
Speaker 3: what have you forgiven god? No, No, actually I haven't.

439
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 3: And I didn't talk to her after that for about

440
00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 3: fifteen years, honestly, And then the only time I've talked

441
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 3: to her was because she wanted to talk to me

442
00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 3: about her book, and the incident in her book, if

443
00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 3: anyone's ever read it, is me basically going and standing

444
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 3: up to her dad at one point, blah blah blah.

445
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,359
Speaker 3: But she wanted to talk about that situation so she

446
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,160
Speaker 3: could put it in a book. But no, I haven't.

447
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,159
Speaker 3: I haven't spoken to her really before or after that,

448
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 3: because I just lost so much respect for her in

449
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Speaker 3: that moment.

450
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,360
Speaker 2: And honestly, that was my read.

451
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: The internet was roasting the umpire for being on top

452
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 1: of it literally physically and missing it somehow, and then

453
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Speaker 1: the supervisor being there and also missing it, which also

454
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Speaker 1: kind of seems to often be the case with supervisors

455
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 1: where they're like, well, I was right here, but I

456
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,199
Speaker 1: missed it, and you're like, well, then what are you

457
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,120
Speaker 1: doing right there.

458
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 2: Picking your nose? Yeah, let's go.

459
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Speaker 1: But to me, and I'm glad because after I responded

460
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Speaker 1: this way, I feel like some momentum got sort of

461
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: on the right side, which is as an athlete, you

462
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,440
Speaker 1: call that on yourself one hundred percent of the time.

463
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: These are your coworkers. You have to look at them

464
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Speaker 1: in the locker room. And just like you were describing

465
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Speaker 1: with the alien of dockage, Pavlova gets hit with the ball,

466
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 1: she knows she was hit, she walks away, she doesn't

467
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Speaker 1: interrupt the umpire. She lets Ali risk go into this big,

468
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: long thing, and she could have stopped it at any

469
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Speaker 1: point by being like, you know what, did hit me?

470
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: Just take the point because that's the right and sporting

471
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 1: thing to do. And that is exactly what she should

472
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: have done in this case in my opinion, Like that

473
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 1: is absolutely It's like when you have a double bounce

474
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Speaker 1: or you see, you know, a blatant call that goes

475
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 1: in your favorite when maybe it shouldn't. And I want

476
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 1: to say, like on the rare occasions when this happens

477
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: and somebody like Novak Djokovic gives the point correctly to

478
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: his opponent, because the umpires missed it like nothing warms

479
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: my heart. And you know, I have plenty of criticism

480
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: for that guy in other ways, but in that way,

481
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: he's always been a very good sport and it always

482
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 1: stood out to me because I think that that's like

483
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: absolutely atrocious. It reminds me of junior tennis when that happens,

484
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: and it made me so infuriated, and I was very

485
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: happy to see Ali risk on the match. But also

486
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: I want to make a special call out to that

487
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Speaker 1: athlete for not calling it on herself, which is what

488
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: she should.

489
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Speaker 3: Have done one hundred percent, Like there's no way a

490
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,680
Speaker 3: ball would hit my body and go over the net

491
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 3: and make you go, yeah, yeah, I hit that. That's

492
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 3: definitely me. Definitely did that. Because there are fifty thousand

493
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 3: cameras around the court, everybody in the locker room knows

494
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 3: that hit you, like, so for me, locker room reputation

495
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,680
Speaker 3: is the most important thing. And if you become a cheat,

496
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,360
Speaker 3: you are a cheat forever, like you are a cheat forever.

497
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Speaker 3: So that girl is never going to leave that down.

498
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 3: So she's always going to be known as somebody who

499
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Speaker 3: will adamantly take a point right in front of you.

500
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 3: I mean, and I've told you this before, Liesel Hubert

501
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 3: did the same thing on I might have been not

502
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,879
Speaker 3: the same court, but the same thing on a double

503
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 3: bounce on match point against Mercer and Vesnina. You can

504
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 3: look it up on YouTube. Everybody claim that she picked

505
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 3: up the ball and everybody knew in the locker room

506
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 3: we were all watching it, and everybody knew the ball

507
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 3: bounce twice. Now, everybody knows that Liesel will cheat her

508
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 3: way through anything because she's done it before. So but

509
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 3: that's the thing everybody in the locker room knows, well,

510
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 3: it's Liesel. Of course she's going to do that. So

511
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 3: if you want that reputation for the rest of your career,

512
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 3: how about it. I don't want that. That is not

513
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 3: something that I want to live with, and so that

514
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 3: girl's never going to live that down horrific to me.

515
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 3: She shouldn't.

516
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm here has missed some stuff sometimes,

517
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: but it's on us as clearers, and that goes recreational

518
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: to anything to like just get it done.

519
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 2: So for me, that's it, all right.

520
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: You have an extremely busy week ahead of you, so

521
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we get any other

522
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: talking points you want in, You're going to be on

523
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: the court, You're going to celebrating Sam, You're going to

524
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,479
Speaker 1: be seeing from the family.

525
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 2: Any big like big.

526
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: Picture takeaways from the from the Australian Open so far

527
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: that we haven't really talked about.

528
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,880
Speaker 3: I think tennis fans have been just dying for live

529
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 3: tennis for the last couple of years. We saw the

530
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 3: atmosphere and the crowds at the US Open this year,

531
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Speaker 3: how boisterous they were. Whether it be Serena, whether it

532
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 3: be you know, Tiafo the finals, doesn't matter. They were

533
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 3: just they were just so pent up with this emotion

534
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 3: to want to watch live tennis, and we are seeing

535
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 3: it on full brand here at this Train Open. It

536
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 3: has been unbelievable the crowds. They have been so boisterous,

537
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 3: so into it on every court, every court, and it

538
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 3: is so packed at this Train Open. Tennis is well alive.

539
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 3: It is hugely popular and they're getting a show this

540
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 3: year by the men. Are the men are outshining the

541
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 3: women on this occasion. Sometimes it's the women have incredible

542
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 3: match and we have these great three set matches. The

543
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 3: men are just they're just playing some amazing tennis and

544
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 3: it gives me a lot of hope. And you and

545
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 3: I talk about this quite often, but it's given me

546
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 3: a lot of hope to know that without the Rajah

547
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 3: and the Rafa, because he's not here anymore. You know, tennis,

548
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 3: Guess what tennis survives. It's amazing. If you have great tennis,

549
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 3: you have great matches. People love the sport, and that's

550
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 3: the takeaway I have that. The crowds have just been

551
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 3: incredible here at this Train Open, and then the second week,

552
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 3: which is about to start today, I'm very much looking

553
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: forward to it. There's a bunch of Americans still in

554
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 3: the tournament doing really really well. Alex demon Or from

555
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 3: Australia still in the tournament. He goes up against Novak.

556
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 3: Now we'll see how that goes. But yeah, of course

557
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 3: Novak just hanging around every single match. He's the wonderbeat.

558
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 2: Still last starts.

559
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: Just because we have not talked about it on this show,

560
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: even though we talked about it a little bit this

561
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: past week.

562
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 2: On your show.

563
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: By now, everybody should have watched at least five of

564
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: the first episodes of break Point on Netflix, and if

565
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: they haven't, then turned this off because there might be

566
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: some spoilers I honestly, my overall take on it is

567
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 1: I'm happy that it happened. I'm happy that we have

568
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: new sort of ways for fans to get into the sport.

569
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was particularly interested to hit them done, No,

570
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: it was.

571
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,199
Speaker 2: It left a lot to be desired.

572
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: And I am a fan, as are you of drive

573
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: to survive.

574
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the thing that and I've heard that

575
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 3: the drama, more of the drama is going to happen

576
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 3: in the second part of the series, and I'm happy

577
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 3: to hear that, but I would like to see more.

578
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 3: I know from the fact, from a fact of talking

579
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: to a bunch of people in the show, that there

580
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 3: was a lot of things that they left out that

581
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 3: they were surprised at. There was psychology sessions that they

582
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 3: got to hear that were massive fights between a player

583
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 3: and a coach that didn't air. There's a lot of

584
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 3: stuff that did not go on the actual show that

585
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 3: I'm hearing from the actual participants in the movie in

586
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 3: the series saying that I'm surprised they didn't put that up.

587
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they didn't put that up. So there's a

588
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 3: lot of stuff that I think that hopefully in the

589
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 3: second series, they put more drama, and I did mention

590
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 3: it to someone who's part of the series. I was like,

591
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: I hope we see more drama and the behind the scenes,

592
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 3: because nobody when I talk to people about certain things

593
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 3: in my life for tennis, and they love the behind

594
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 3: the scenes, they love the stories. Oh well, you're never

595
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 3: going to believe this happened actually before the match, you

596
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 3: know what I mean that you oh, tell me about

597
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 3: it or during the match. So that's the stuff I

598
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 3: want to see more. So hopefully from the word that

599
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 3: I'm getting, it's going to be more dramatic. We didn't

600
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 3: even know with that eilight, Tom Lanovitch and Bertini broke

601
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 3: up in that time, you know, so there was a

602
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 3: lot of things that were left off the table. So

603
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 3: hopefully that doesn't happen in the second part. But I

604
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 3: am enjoying it.

605
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean, I'm not sad about watching a

606
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: show about tennis and my favorite subject in the world

607
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: by a wide margin. I guess for me, I am

608
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: one of the things that I'm most worried about because

609
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily care how good this show is. I

610
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 1: don't need it to be good. I don't need it

611
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: to be, you know, I think it's at the very

612
00:28:58,120 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: least something.

613
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: Additive to sport.

614
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: I am worried about the fact that tennis is so

615
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: hard to find, especially in the US, once we get

616
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: all these new fans, and the kind of some of

617
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: the commentary that's waiting for them, some of the labyrinthine

618
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: ways that they have to pay extra to watch tennis

619
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: because it's not aired on any broadcast channel, or the

620
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: Tennis channel gets it during the non Slam times and

621
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: doesn't do a very good job of it.

622
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 3: You know.

623
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Speaker 1: To me, it's just it's it's there's a lot of

624
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: hoops to go through, and frankly, I wish ESPN would

625
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: do a better job of promoting it on the main broadcast.

626
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: You know, they've had free diving and other things on

627
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: the second channel. I don't want to put you in

628
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: the spot by talking about this, but like, there's many

629
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: things I could say about it, But the most disappointing

630
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: thing is there's no dialogue between ESPN Plus and ESPN,

631
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: and that to me is crazy, Like you paid for

632
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: this big thing and then you're just going to ignore it.

633
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 3: You know.

634
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: I see free diving on ESPN. It's great how is

635
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: this happening?

636
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I mean it's well above my pay grade,

637
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 3: as you know. And I know that there are a

638
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: bunch of I know that there are a lot of

639
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 3: people at ESPN, particularly us at ESPN Tennis, that want

640
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 3: it on the linear channel, that want to have it

641
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 3: on ESPN, ESPN Two, ESPN News whenever it needs to

642
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 3: be on cable. But it goes well above us, even

643
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 3: all the people at Tennis. It goes way above us

644
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 3: trying to drive stuff through ESPN Plus and apparently from

645
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 3: the numbers, they're quite big and they're doing really well.

646
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 3: So that's important for ESPN, for ABC Disney to get

647
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 3: things on digital. People watch stuff, now, you know, die

648
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 3: hards maybe not, but people watch stuff on their phones,

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Speaker 3: on their iPads, on their computers a lot. I think

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Speaker 3: the difference with this one is that it's two in

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Speaker 3: watching on their computer. They're going to want to watch

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Speaker 3: it lying in bed on their TV. So look, it's it.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you that us at Tennis, at ESPN,

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Speaker 3: please don't yell at us. It's not us that are

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Speaker 3: making these calls right right right to the people that

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Speaker 3: But you know, currently there's nothing we can do about

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Speaker 3: it other than do our jobs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate that. I think you're right. It's an

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Speaker 1: ESPN Disney ABC kind of question.

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Speaker 3: Trust me, everybody in that Bristol unit right now hates

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Speaker 3: being there and wants to be here in Melbourne. They

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Speaker 3: do not want to be sitting in a cubicle in Bristol, Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: This week on ESPN. Are you going to do commentary

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Speaker 2: this week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll be. I'm working the whole time while

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Speaker 3: I'm here for ESPN, so we'll continue our coverage down

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Speaker 3: here courtside and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Right, good, I should thank you. You have so much

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Speaker 1: to do, Renee. Maybe a promise. I know you're coming

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Speaker 1: in hot, like the last minute of the tournament and

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Speaker 1: then you're like off to the airport and get a plane,

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Speaker 1: but let's make a point to check in because we

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Speaker 1: will have so many results to talk about and maybe

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Speaker 1: some new champions to discuss.

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Speaker 3: Very possible, are were going to have new champions? Although

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Speaker 3: I still think no, that's looking pretty good even with

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Speaker 3: a hamstring injury.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, same s right, all right, enjoy, he enjoy everybody.

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Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for joining us, guys, and now stay tuned

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Speaker 3: for the second week of the Shrine Open count Wait a.

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Speaker 1: Brand if you want to catch more Renee Stubbs. It

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Speaker 1: is on the Power Hour Amazon Sports Prime every day

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Speaker 1: five to six Eastern time.

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Speaker 2: It's live. Sometimes I get to be on it. It's great,

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Speaker 2: all right, Subsy, be well talk soon.

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Speaker 3: Bye my bye everyone,