Speaker 1: A.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Renee sab Sens Podcast, although I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think we should just.
Speaker 2: Call it the pot Tubsy Podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to day what the hell day day even? Well,
Speaker 1: no Day eight because we stay nine tomorrow. But as
Speaker 1: we started on.
Speaker 2: Sunday, should we kick talking at the same time?
Speaker 1: It's day eight is now finished. It's day nine tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But that's not true. It's we started on Sunday and
Speaker 3: today Sunday. Those are seven days or am I crazy?
Speaker 2: No? You're right? Okay, Look here's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, We're going to get into what happened today
Speaker 1: and what's happening in the background. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can hear it is still the med sorry, the
Speaker 1: rube Lev demon Or match, which is.
Speaker 2: For Love in the fifth.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do our podcast because we have to
Speaker 1: go to bed at some point, and we're gonna let
Speaker 1: you know what happens in that match.
Speaker 3: And just a little f yi from the side note,
Speaker 3: it's for zero for rub Leff and the fifth. However,
Speaker 3: he started to cramp exactly three points ago, so we
Speaker 3: keep an eye on we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's start with the guys Novak six love
Speaker 1: six love six three six three Djokovic, I mean, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Like he made Manorino look like a
Speaker 1: junior today. Although having said that, Manorino's played back to
Speaker 1: back to back five set matches, the chances of him
Speaker 1: doing anything of importance today against Novak was about zero
Speaker 1: point zero percent, which is pretty much what we got.
Speaker 3: But the worst part about that is it felt like
Speaker 3: he wasn't playing that bad. The first to say, true,
Speaker 3: he just lacked that extra substance and he can't really
Speaker 3: put away, you know, he doesn't have like a he
Speaker 3: has to outplay the other guy.
Speaker 2: And Novak didn't miss.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't miss, He didn't miss, and he knows
Speaker 1: what the guy's all about. Right, Oh my god, rube
Speaker 1: Lev is redlining right now because he knows he's choking.
Speaker 2: I mean not choking. The cramp is the choke of
Speaker 2: the muscle, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so Novak looks absolutely incredible today, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's still not one hundred percent. There's no question he
Speaker 1: still has a call. He's talked about it. He sounds
Speaker 1: like he's not one hundred percent. We've all heard him
Speaker 1: in the interviews.
Speaker 2: But having said that, absolutely flawless.
Speaker 3: Well, and I remember yesterday at the podcast Wmer, I said,
Speaker 3: I'm getting the feeling that he's aiming to peak in
Speaker 3: the second week, which is incredible for me that.
Speaker 2: You are that confident.
Speaker 3: No confident, of course, but he can be confident, right,
Speaker 3: but also that good that you that you know, I
Speaker 3: can be at thirty forty percent for still we get
Speaker 3: still in. And I asked him about this. I interviewed
Speaker 3: him today and I asked him about this, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Of course that's not a guarantee that I will win it.
Speaker 3: But but if you decide to play Davis Cup at
Speaker 3: the end of the year, it doesn't give you a
Speaker 3: lot of time to recover your body. So you have
Speaker 3: to make a compromise somewhere. And that was the compromise
Speaker 3: he was he was willing to take. And I thought
Speaker 3: there was like there was a fascinating insight into his planning.
Speaker 1: You know how old he is comparative to Janick Sinner
Speaker 1: because and we'll get into Yanick, but I interviewed Yanick
Speaker 1: after he won today and Janick said he couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to play again and he goes and I know, it's
Speaker 1: only been a month and a half. I couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to play again. I was like, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: do you mean Yanick's Internet?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yanick Cinterneta. But anyway, well we'll get into Yannick's match.
Speaker 1: But Novak goes up now against Taylor Fritz, who just
Speaker 1: played fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, since he.
Speaker 3: Was so I don't think, and I've seen him win
Speaker 3: Indian Welles like I saw all three matches of his
Speaker 3: the quarters, semis and final, and I thought he played
Speaker 3: so well there. But this is the best I've seen
Speaker 3: him play. I think Taylor because he was coming to
Speaker 3: the net at times, I know, And he was always
Speaker 3: an amazing bass striker. He was always an incredible competitor,
Speaker 3: but there was something extra today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, you know, he and I've had
Speaker 1: a couple of funny conversations of late about his inability
Speaker 1: to want or his not inability, but his what's the word.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to come into the net, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want a volley, he doesn't trusty his resistance.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my friend, who English is not your first lane,
Speaker 2: that's my third leg. But you you're welcome speak better
Speaker 2: English than me.
Speaker 1: But his resistance to wanting to come into that it's
Speaker 1: like the net is kryptonite to him. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I had that forehand, and frankly, if you had
Speaker 1: my volleys, you'd be really good, but he is, Or
Speaker 1: if I had his forehand, I would have been good.
Speaker 1: But but he just the fact that he's aware of
Speaker 1: needing to come into the net. Because when you play
Speaker 1: the players like Sits a pass, especially sits a pass
Speaker 1: with his backhand, if you can come in on his backhand,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win a lot of points. So if he's
Speaker 1: less resistant to coming into the net and work on it.
Speaker 1: And he first thing he said to me today when
Speaker 1: I saw him, I say, well done, dude. You know
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, did you see me coming in? So
Speaker 1: he's aware of it, knows And I said, listen, the more.
Speaker 2: You do it, the more comfortable you become.
Speaker 1: And you may miss some, but you will make more
Speaker 1: than you miss if you keep coming in. And so
Speaker 1: I think that's super important for him to keep coming
Speaker 1: into the net, because you don't want to keep playing
Speaker 1: five set matches that you're playing fifty ball rallies fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: Well and with him. What I really liked it.
Speaker 3: He stuck with it through the end of the match,
Speaker 3: and the dividends paid off in the end. Sometimes when
Speaker 3: you play a match, especially in a best of five,
Speaker 3: you make tactical investments in the beginning stages of a match,
Speaker 3: they payoff much later. They pay off in the most
Speaker 3: stressful moments when the other one is feeling the pressure.
Speaker 3: And today in the third set, and when it was
Speaker 3: so close in the tiebreak, sorry not in the tiebreak,
Speaker 3: when he was about to break, you could see Cypus
Speaker 3: framing a few of those backhands because he knew, yes,
Speaker 3: and I can't slice it, I have to hit it,
Speaker 3: and that's the shot that goes.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: The dividends came back that Taylor invested in the beginning
Speaker 3: stages of the match.
Speaker 1: And he kept with it, and when he broke in
Speaker 1: the fourth he came into the net and he actually
Speaker 1: hit a couple of good volleys to break, and it
Speaker 1: was just like there you go, bro. You know, the more,
Speaker 1: as you said, the more you invest in coming in
Speaker 1: and getting.
Speaker 2: Better under pressure. I mean, Novak's a perfect example. Novak.
Speaker 2: I would say it was a little resistant to coming
Speaker 2: into the net. When he was younger. But he finishes
Speaker 2: points at the net, and that's.
Speaker 1: Important to finish, particularly when these guys all play so
Speaker 1: good from the back of the court.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, the men just save match points. So
Speaker 2: that's my match point. It's five love.
Speaker 3: It's he's not It wouldn't It wouldn't be that crazy
Speaker 3: if Ruby Lev wasn't cramping.
Speaker 2: True, but Ruble is cramping. So you're feeling like this
Speaker 2: is good man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna have to have a full body cramp
Speaker 1: for it not to happen. But anyway, so I was
Speaker 1: super happy for Taylor. Look, Taylor played Novak very very
Speaker 1: very well here a couple of years ago, in the
Speaker 1: pandemic year.
Speaker 2: It's eight and oh, just so I understand.
Speaker 1: Yes, I get it, he played terrible at the US
Speaker 1: Open against him, but I actually think that I don't
Speaker 1: think he's going to beat him, but I think that
Speaker 1: this is going to be a better match than we
Speaker 1: certainly then we saw at the US Open. And I
Speaker 1: think he feels good about playing him on Rod Labor.
Speaker 1: He played him really tough a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and there's no question he is a better player this
Speaker 1: year than.
Speaker 2: Even last year.
Speaker 1: I really think that he's matured a lot over the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, and he can't carry on like
Speaker 1: a pork chop in this match. He has to keep
Speaker 1: his shit together and use his big weapons and we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna win.
Speaker 3: But I do think that he needs and this is
Speaker 3: I think a great challenge for him if he wants
Speaker 3: to mature as a tennis player, and if he wants
Speaker 3: to be dangerous and these Grand Slam tournaments, if he
Speaker 3: wants to be dangerous to the best players in the
Speaker 3: world right now, who are Novak and the others Novak
Speaker 3: plus as I like to call the atp too Novak,
Speaker 3: And he needs to add something to his game. So
Speaker 3: this is an opportunity for him to bring a little
Speaker 3: bit off dimension in his game, which he showed today.
Speaker 3: So today was a great tailor, future tailor maybe on
Speaker 3: the horizon.
Speaker 1: And one thing he has added which I think everybody
Speaker 1: can think Carlos Alchoraz for this is a drop four
Speaker 1: hand drop shot because his forehand is so big that
Speaker 1: people naturally start backing off and then he puts that
Speaker 1: little inside out, very similar to Sinner as well.
Speaker 2: His internet has added that as well.
Speaker 1: He doesn't make it as much as I mean, Carlos
Speaker 1: is so good at it.
Speaker 2: But what did you think of.
Speaker 3: Stefanosity pass shadow jumping jack on match point? I saw
Speaker 3: you had a tweet absolutely refuckingdiculous.
Speaker 2: Is that a word? I just made a word up.
Speaker 1: That was the most absolutely fucking ridiculous thing I've absolutely
Speaker 1: ever seen on his tennis sport.
Speaker 2: I mean, I got a few people saying, it's a
Speaker 2: bit of e.
Speaker 1: What the fuck, dude, like, you hit a shit half folly,
Speaker 1: it's in the air, try and win the.
Speaker 3: First of all strange surf and volley And that wasn't
Speaker 3: a great surf. It wasn't a great surf to come
Speaker 3: in on. But even I know that then I never
Speaker 3: played surf.
Speaker 1: But but honestly, it would have been interesting if Taylor
Speaker 1: had missed that shot. That was one hundred percent hindrance,
Speaker 1: So if he'd lost the point. But they've called hindrance
Speaker 1: because I'll tell you what, is it possible for them
Speaker 1: to review that? I don't know, it's not possible. That
Speaker 1: was only possible the US Open.
Speaker 3: But here they don't have that rule and play, so
Speaker 3: they couldn't have It would have been an.
Speaker 1: Interesting situation because if I was Taylor and I lost
Speaker 1: that point, I would be ropable to the umpire.
Speaker 2: Well you, let's move on. You called Janick Centenet's match.
Speaker 3: You were courtside, so you got the honor and privilege
Speaker 3: of watching him up close. See the small little ginger
Speaker 3: locks fly around. Maybe catch a little pearl of sweat.
Speaker 3: I didn't get a whiff of his, didn't.
Speaker 2: Get a filigerance.
Speaker 1: Maybe can I tell you I didn't tell you this
Speaker 1: this morning or last night when we did the pod
Speaker 1: from last night, But when Medvedev won his match the
Speaker 1: other yesterday, I was sitting directly across from him, like literally,
Speaker 1: as soon as he sits down, the first person he
Speaker 1: had to have seen.
Speaker 2: Every time was me, because it was unavoidable. I thought
Speaker 2: he looked a little bit unhappy during.
Speaker 1: It's very possible now I listen. I love Meddie. He's
Speaker 1: always very sweet and nice and funny. But when he
Speaker 1: sat down when he won the match, he looked directly
Speaker 1: at me.
Speaker 2: And I was so happy that he won quickly because
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: So tired yesterday and I wanted to get out of there.
Speaker 1: And I looked directly at him, and I gave a
Speaker 1: thumbs up and I pointed at my watch and I laughed,
Speaker 1: and I went and I put the thumbs up and
Speaker 1: he started laughing.
Speaker 2: It was really quite funny.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Jannick Cinternet was just he was a little
Speaker 1: patchy at the beginning.
Speaker 3: He played current cutch enough. There was probably the strongest
Speaker 3: opponent he had to face. It was in this tournament
Speaker 3: and Ruble.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Rublev wins the fifth set six love, so we'll get
Speaker 1: to that match.
Speaker 2: But Yannick was a little up and down. Didn't serve great.
Speaker 1: It was only about fifty four percent him first serve percentage.
Speaker 2: And I spoke to him a match. In the entire
Speaker 2: match Windy, it was a little breezy.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it wasn't easy, but still that's not great
Speaker 1: stats for him. And the first one of the things
Speaker 1: that he said that he did not do well today's serf, so.
Speaker 2: He's aware of that.
Speaker 1: I think his ball tosk gets a little bit low,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't get that wrist snap at the top
Speaker 1: that he needed today, so he gets a long yeay,
Speaker 1: he just gets a little bit fat on the bottom
Speaker 1: of the racket string.
Speaker 3: So I sometimes thought because I called all of his
Speaker 3: matches when he won Toronto, where he played so well
Speaker 3: it was his first master's one thousand ATP one thousand titles.
Speaker 3: He sometimes keeps on the first serf, only he never
Speaker 3: does it on the second serve. He has another thing
Speaker 3: on the second serf sometimes, but on the first serve
Speaker 3: he sometimes keeps his racket too long and then he yeah,
Speaker 3: and when he gets it right, it's so perfect, but
Speaker 3: it feels like it's one blink of an eye.
Speaker 2: And if he does it too long, he doesn't.
Speaker 3: Get up on times, and then he hits it low
Speaker 3: and then it flies a long.
Speaker 1: Guess what which is why he needs to get his
Speaker 1: racket his balltoss up a little higher because of the lag.
Speaker 1: He needs it a little bit higher so the lag
Speaker 1: can catch up and still get it at its highest point.
Speaker 1: And I did, lag is l a G l A
Speaker 1: G not jet lag, but lag meaning it's behind.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a little labored getting up.
Speaker 1: And so I actually talked to Darren Khle about it
Speaker 1: after the match and I said to Darren, I just
Speaker 1: feel like his bultos is too low on the first
Speaker 1: serve and he goes, yeah, I know, it's the one
Speaker 1: thing that we consistently try and get him to understanding.
Speaker 1: So I said, well, you can tell him that Renee
Speaker 1: said his boltos was too low on the first serve today, Well.
Speaker 2: That's going to change. He will absolutely listen. Now I
Speaker 2: believe that. I believe that.
Speaker 1: I just want to say he didn't serve, well, he didn't.
Speaker 1: He was a little patchy, he was shanking a few
Speaker 1: four hands, he was missing, making unforcedaeros that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: make normally. But he still managed to get the first
Speaker 1: set he played and Hutchanov played an incredible point. It
Speaker 1: was thirty three point shot rally fifteen thirty at five
Speaker 1: all in the second and hutch Enough won the point
Speaker 1: to go forty to fifteen on his serve and he
Speaker 1: you know, you know, was gesturing into.
Speaker 2: The crowd after it.
Speaker 1: It was an unbelievably taxing point. Yanick did not lose
Speaker 1: a point after that point.
Speaker 2: He broke serve.
Speaker 1: He won four points in a row, and then he
Speaker 1: won his serf to love and it was two sets
Speaker 1: of love like that, And that is fitness level, That
Speaker 1: is his capacity to play those really long points and
Speaker 1: not get winded. And Hutchanov tried to pull the trigger
Speaker 1: a little too early and the next two points, and
Speaker 1: it was because he was still exhausted.
Speaker 2: From the fifteen to forty points.
Speaker 1: So for me, that shows Janick's fitness level is unbelievably high.
Speaker 2: And also he.
Speaker 1: He understood that that was a great point and not
Speaker 1: to get down about it, and he has an amazing
Speaker 1: ability to let go of shit quickly, and that to me,
Speaker 1: he did not lose one point after that. And then
Speaker 1: in the third set he was just too good. He
Speaker 1: raised his level in the third set another level like
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen percent higher in the third set, And
Speaker 1: he said to me after the match he was really
Speaker 1: happy with the way finished because he did play very
Speaker 1: very well. So I mean, just if you consider today
Speaker 1: was tough for him, a tough match, that's how good
Speaker 1: he's played in throughout the whole time. He's not getting
Speaker 1: pushed at all.
Speaker 3: Let's let's hear a little bit about Karten Yea, the
Speaker 3: long lost Hamsworth brother.
Speaker 2: H We have rediscovered him.
Speaker 3: He's in Australia, he's playing at the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: He's quite good.
Speaker 3: How does he look to you? He was gone for
Speaker 3: a while. Yeah, it looks t Yeah, nice.
Speaker 1: I think it comes back to the fitness level. Just
Speaker 1: wasn't quite there y I think because he's a big guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's about the same hight as Yannick, maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit taller.
Speaker 2: But he's just bigger.
Speaker 1: And Yannick moves around the court with such effortless nimble.
Speaker 2: He's so nimble.
Speaker 1: He's very much like Novak, where he's so flexible. He
Speaker 1: gets down so low to the ball. And there was
Speaker 1: a couple of times today We're One of the things
Speaker 1: that really hurt Karen was there was a bit of
Speaker 1: wind down one end and if the ball was mid court,
Speaker 1: and as you know, you've got to make a quick
Speaker 1: decision to get up there and either hit it and
Speaker 1: come in or hit it and get back. And Karen
Speaker 1: was like a little bit unsure, and he hit it
Speaker 1: long because the wind was behind him, whereas Yannick has
Speaker 1: that whip on his forehander back end so he can
Speaker 1: whip it better with the wind, and he gets.
Speaker 2: So low to the ground. It's incredible for a guy
Speaker 2: so tall.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's interesting or what do you think
Speaker 3: about it? Just in general, whether you think that's interesting
Speaker 3: or not that the new successful body type on the
Speaker 3: men's tour is a bit different than it was maybe
Speaker 3: ten years ago. If we think of the flexible, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because if you think of the guys, they were good.
Speaker 3: I'm taking Federal and Erotic songa Birdish Del Potro, Del Potro.
Speaker 3: Those were huge guys with a lot of muscle mass
Speaker 3: who tend to get injured a lot. And now I
Speaker 3: think Novak has really kind of revolutionized tennis the body
Speaker 3: type for tennis where he's much lighter.
Speaker 1: He's quite skinny, flexible, and Demona Medvedev obviously Yanik. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you have to be you have to be
Speaker 1: able to run and slide and be nimble and flexible,
Speaker 1: and you have to have unbelievably strong core and legs,
Speaker 1: and tennis is are very very taxing sports. So Janick
Speaker 1: Sinna now goes up against Rublev. The two ginger heads
Speaker 1: are going to go at it. It's going to be awesome.
Speaker 1: Can win a quarter final match?
Speaker 3: Much more important question? Now, who has the better hair?
Speaker 3: C Internet or Androi Rubyl.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at this guy.
Speaker 1: We're looking at Rublev on the court right now, and
Speaker 1: he he.
Speaker 2: He has so much hair. It's unreal. He has so
Speaker 2: much hair. He's also very peasty.
Speaker 1: He's very pasty, and he's been in Australia and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I love him and I love the fact
Speaker 1: that his shirt says play for the kids.
Speaker 3: I think everyone loves him like there is literally he's
Speaker 3: crazy and we love him for it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, you've got crazy redhead against and look who's
Speaker 1: interview and Jem Fier another ginger Heads, so I love
Speaker 1: them anyway, that's going to be an incredible quarterfinal. And
Speaker 1: of course Nick and Rublev and Novak and Taylor Fritz
Speaker 1: so now side, Yes, Marta Kostuk wins over tim A Fever.
Speaker 2: The qualifier, Marta won fairly comfortably. There's a few like gestures.
Speaker 1: To Sandra up in the coaches box and losing her
Speaker 1: mind again, but she pretty much won that fairly comfortably.
Speaker 1: Today looked really good. I'm happy for her to get
Speaker 1: through for her first quarterfinal. She got to I believe
Speaker 1: the third round here as like a fifteen year old,
Speaker 1: so she's like now old and read at like what
Speaker 1: went exactly. So it's nice to see you get through.
Speaker 1: And she's good enough to be in the situation. It's
Speaker 1: not like like, oh, I'm shocked she's there. She's a
Speaker 1: good player.
Speaker 2: No, she's a very good player.
Speaker 3: And she actually I talked to her after the match.
Speaker 3: I interviewed her and she was playing with a lot
Speaker 3: of variation today and she won twenty one out of
Speaker 3: twenty nine net points.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you would be very happy with that.
Speaker 3: And I asked her about that variety in her game,
Speaker 3: and she said that in the off season they've been
Speaker 3: trying to put a bit more structure on it because
Speaker 3: it felt to her sometimes she could hit all the
Speaker 3: shots and she would sometimes try to do so, and
Speaker 3: now they are trying to put a bit more structure
Speaker 3: when to hit, when to change it up, and it
Speaker 3: seems to be working really well for her. She's yes,
Speaker 3: the jaw fell apart a little bit there, but.
Speaker 2: Not as much as it did on the other side.
Speaker 3: And she did beat because we sometimes forget because now
Speaker 3: she beat Timo Fava and it was like, oh, that's
Speaker 3: such a good jow. She did beat Alice Madtens, who's
Speaker 3: playing a really good start of the seven six and
Speaker 3: the third in a two hour fifty three.
Speaker 1: Epic battle, epic battle, and that was Sakari's section.
Speaker 3: That was Sacari section that fell apart, so she's there
Speaker 3: for a reason, marta costume.
Speaker 2: She's playing very very well.
Speaker 3: I see a wall in front of her, because the
Speaker 3: wall I saw play today, and the wall's name is Coco.
Speaker 3: GoF Man, she was bloody good today. She was bloody
Speaker 3: good and I hadn't seen she.
Speaker 1: Was she bloody good or she's playing against the gold
Speaker 1: that she should know absolutely crushing.
Speaker 3: No, she was bloody, bloody good because I was sitting
Speaker 3: court side, and I've never seen Coco play court side.
Speaker 3: I've always watched her on screens, or I played with her,
Speaker 3: I practiced with her. I've never seen her from the side.
Speaker 3: And the thing that was so stunning to witness the
Speaker 3: way she moves in and out of the court, and
Speaker 3: the way she changes the margin above the net, the
Speaker 3: height above the net, depending on where she's positioned in
Speaker 3: the court.
Speaker 2: I was like, man, this woman understands she's like no
Speaker 2: other en. She's a teenager. Yeah, what in the world.
Speaker 3: It took me sixteen years of studying this game meticulously
Speaker 3: to get even to fifty percent of what she already possesses,
Speaker 3: whether that is instinctively or because she consciously sees it.
Speaker 3: But every time she was caught a bit behind the baseline, whoop,
Speaker 3: a little spin, a little margin, gets back straight and
Speaker 3: then Ben gets into it and goes and in the
Speaker 3: second set beforehand.
Speaker 2: Did a little bit, did go a little bit waywire?
Speaker 2: I will waywire, waywire? Is that a word? Wayward? Wayward? Yeah, yeah, wayward.
Speaker 3: And we are just seeing Katie Bolter hugging Alex Alex Demonar,
Speaker 3: who looks very sad, and he played so well.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's hard, this sport is so so it's brutal,
Speaker 2: This sport is so brutal.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so Coco up against Costuk, so two young
Speaker 1: guns going at it again. Women's tennis is it went
Speaker 1: through a phase where it was only like the older
Speaker 1: players that we're doing well. Now it feels like we're
Speaker 1: back to like the back to the early nineties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great to see and talking about young players.
Speaker 3: One of the youngest players that was still left in
Speaker 3: the draw, the youngest player that was still left in
Speaker 3: the draw, and she went out today against a very
Speaker 3: good Barbara Krychikova. Especially in the first set, was horrible
Speaker 3: from both players. It was it got it picked up,
Speaker 3: it got so cold. They played on John Cane arena.
Speaker 3: It was so windy, and both were playing absolutely terrible,
Speaker 3: and they went off after the first set.
Speaker 2: Both of them went off. That's how bad it was.
Speaker 1: Even Oh, this is terrible. I think these people have
Speaker 1: paid money to watch us.
Speaker 3: Well, and they came back and I almost felt like
Speaker 3: they both picked up the level. And I almost felt
Speaker 3: like that was too Mira's statriment, because you know, when
Speaker 3: you hit the ball cleaner, that's worse if you play
Speaker 3: against Kriichikova because she has such incredible timing. So the
Speaker 3: better Mirror played, the better Kretchikova played. And then it
Speaker 3: just she was just physically done.
Speaker 2: Mirror Andreva. She was fighting, she was chying, like sixteen.
Speaker 1: You know, when she's four years from now, she will
Speaker 1: no chance to lose a match like that because she'll
Speaker 1: physically like Coco, and Coco was quite advanced athletically.
Speaker 2: But when you think about where Coco was at sixteen,
Speaker 2: very similar.
Speaker 1: To Andrea Andreeva at some point, because Coca was still skinny,
Speaker 1: but she was quick and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But now she's becoming a woman, like she is so
Speaker 1: strong Coco, and I think Andreaeva will also be maybe
Speaker 1: not as strong as Coco.
Speaker 2: But certainly as quick. She's fast and endurance, and she
Speaker 2: will have very great and endurance. Hassa.
Speaker 1: She's going to be She's going to be less dramatic, yeah,
Speaker 1: less carry on, less, you know, yelling at the box
Speaker 1: and all that and carrying on like a bit of
Speaker 1: a pop chop. She's going to be really fucking good
Speaker 1: in a year or two. She already is really good.
Speaker 1: Krijikoba managed to find a way.
Speaker 3: And the last said she played so well, and I
Speaker 3: have to say what she is and I have to
Speaker 3: say one thing, and I was so impressed by her.
Speaker 3: She kept running to the net in the second set,
Speaker 3: and she was not making one point to the extent
Speaker 3: that I said on air, I was court sized to
Speaker 3: I was like, is.
Speaker 2: This the right game plan here? Because just what are
Speaker 2: we critical?
Speaker 3: Because she was not winning one point, but she kept
Speaker 3: backing herself and all of the sudden she figured it
Speaker 3: out and she didn't lose a point at the net
Speaker 3: in the second half of the second set and the
Speaker 3: third at all anymore. And I was like, Okay, she
Speaker 3: understands what she's doing. She lost to mire Andreva twice
Speaker 3: before already, so she was going to and had to
Speaker 3: head and I guess she had put her She tried
Speaker 3: in the first set to do what she's always done,
Speaker 3: went out and was like, this is not working.
Speaker 2: I've lost five sets in a row. Now what I
Speaker 2: gotta do?
Speaker 3: What do I have to change and to do to
Speaker 3: get a wig exactly? And so she came back, changed
Speaker 3: the game plan and even though it wasn't working, she
Speaker 3: backed herself.
Speaker 2: It paid off and now.
Speaker 1: She's got a nice little match up against Arena Sebalanka.
Speaker 2: The playoffs to the tournament so far, she was.
Speaker 1: I want to say, Amanda Anissamova, what a great time
Speaker 1: nament she had. She's come back, what is second tournament
Speaker 1: that she's been back for since like seven months.
Speaker 2: Incredible tournament that she had.
Speaker 1: She beat some really really good players on the way,
Speaker 1: but today it was the first time where she walked
Speaker 1: on the court and she was not happy. She looked stressed,
Speaker 1: She looked like the expectation actually got to her because
Speaker 1: she was four and one against Sablenka, and you know
Speaker 1: she was asked about that six bazillion times in pract Well,
Speaker 1: you know you were, you're four and one against Sablenka.
Speaker 2: You know you have a winning record against Sabolenka.
Speaker 3: I e.
Speaker 1: You know, you're supposed to win this match now, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden You're like, wait a second, I'm
Speaker 1: not prepared to win this match right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not prepared to be the favorite.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared to come out like I have in every
Speaker 1: other match and been the underdog and smoked people. And
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it was like, I'm not to
Speaker 1: be supposed to be the favorite and smoke this girl.
Speaker 2: She's the number two player in the world, and the.
Speaker 1: Former defense is she's the defending champion, and I think
Speaker 1: it all just got too much for her because she
Speaker 1: was not happy in the first three or four games.
Speaker 2: She looked a little bit miserable, to put.
Speaker 1: It mildly, and then throughout the whole match, she was
Speaker 1: throwing a racket, she was complaining about the rain, she
Speaker 1: wanted the roof close, she was like bitching about She
Speaker 1: all normal when you know what that feeling is like
Speaker 1: to be the not be the favorite, but to have
Speaker 1: a lot of expectation to play a.
Speaker 3: Great match, well interestingly win. Yeah, it was similar with
Speaker 3: mi Andreva. She had that a little bit first time, yes,
Speaker 3: because she was, as I said, too old, had to
Speaker 3: have that against Kurtikova, and it just seemed like she expected.
Speaker 2: Herself to win this, like, yeah, I won against her
Speaker 2: a twire, Yeah I'm actually the favorite. Yes I should,
Speaker 2: I should win this. And also Barbora hasn't.
Speaker 3: She's played herself back into the top ten, but she
Speaker 3: hasn't played as well as we've been used from her
Speaker 3: from the for the past in the last season.
Speaker 1: So Amanda just she made so many unforced eerrs at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the match. You could tell she was
Speaker 1: so frustrated. She was like, I can't make At one
Speaker 1: point she turned around to Mark Lecero.
Speaker 2: Her coach, and was like, I can't make anything. And
Speaker 2: you know, the shame about it is if she just
Speaker 2: sort of being calmer, I'm sure she would have played
Speaker 2: better and been right into it.
Speaker 1: But Sabalanka just she's too experienced now to let anything
Speaker 1: affect her and she won fairly comfortably in the end.
Speaker 1: But nice to see Amanda Anissimova get back.
Speaker 3: So the last player we will talk about, because we
Speaker 3: have them all, it's going to get shorter and shorter,
Speaker 3: but we are talking longer and longer, so we make
Speaker 3: it work. We make it work the life balances are
Speaker 3: but Arena Sabalanka has looked the best so far at.
Speaker 2: The Ostianne opened. There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and you know with you know, top seeds dropping
Speaker 1: left and right, and the other side of the women's
Speaker 1: draw is so decimated, not decimated. I don't want to
Speaker 1: I don't want to know say that there's not great
Speaker 1: players in there. There's the Suitelena's, but there is nobody
Speaker 1: other than other than as a ranker in that section
Speaker 1: of the drawer. It's been to a final of a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam. Okay, think about that. The killing sky is
Speaker 1: the Noskovas, the Yastremskers, Pauolini, Kinwin Jay.
Speaker 2: And Chin Chin.
Speaker 1: When if I get like, if I say the wrong way,
Speaker 1: Caitlin's gonna never ever talk to me again.
Speaker 2: Shin went jang technically a jung went thank you?
Speaker 1: Okay, And I mean, what do I know, right German
Speaker 1: slash Serbian slash English?
Speaker 2: What do I know? You say better than I do?
Speaker 1: But listen anyway, Jinuin Chang is a player that I
Speaker 1: think can.
Speaker 2: Get to the semis.
Speaker 1: But listen, here's the deal, guys, We're getting to the
Speaker 1: nuts and bolts of this tournament. We appreciate you listening
Speaker 1: to us. It is almost midnight again here in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you forgot to mention that tomorrow the
Speaker 3: most important match of the tournament.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
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Speaker 1: the Queen has finally arrived. If you saw my Instagram
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Speaker 2: I have been drinking beer and she's been working out,
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