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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, what's up.

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Speaker 2: I just had a week of playing tennis every day.

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Speaker 2: It really showed me what the possibilities are for my

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Speaker 3: Let's preface by saying outside, you played tennis outside because

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Speaker 3: you went to Florida.

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Speaker 2: I went to Florida, or as my son calls it, Florida.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't understand why we don't live there, and all

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Speaker 2: the reasons that I would use to explain to him

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Speaker 2: it was a nice trip and I'm glad to be back.

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Speaker 2: You have the week off. I can't believe that they

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Speaker 2: gave you the week off after you know, toiling away

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Speaker 2: in the content minds five days a week. Renee, look

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Speaker 1: I have a week off. What is my life? This

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Speaker 1: is great?

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Speaker 3: Anyway, Yes, I have the weak off. So I'm actually

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Speaker 3: I am not going to the sun. I am going

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Speaker 3: don't know if that's possible, but yeah, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: go skiing with my buddy Betsy, and we're going to

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Speaker 3: have a good time and we'll meet you know, who

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Speaker 3: knows we were going to bump into out there, But

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Speaker 3: I am super excited because it is dumping out there

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Speaker 1: So that's what That's what I'm doing on my first

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Speaker 3: It's my favorite sport outside of tennis to do.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: See yeah, I have skied with you. You are an

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Speaker 2: excellent skier, surprising no one.

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Speaker 3: You have.

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Speaker 2: You have good form, you have good balance, looks like

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Speaker 2: you've been doing it all your life. But as anyone

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Speaker 2: from Australia can attest, you, guys don't have so many

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Speaker 2: opportunities to ski. Can I ask you when you were

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Speaker 2: playing tennis, did the Australian Sports Federation or the school

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Speaker 2: that you went to forbid you from skiing? Because I

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Speaker 2: got in trouble in college for it. I got it

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Speaker 2: just like doing my family thing because I grew up

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Speaker 2: sound out I skied as we do because that's the

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Speaker 2: only way we get along and my coach like glasses mine,

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Speaker 2: Who's like, oh my god, you could have broken your legs.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I'm an excellent skier, so

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Speaker 3: That is a thing for you, Yes, I can attest

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Speaker 3: tell anyone thought I was going skiing, so I just

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Speaker 3: went and did it on my own when I.

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Speaker 1: Was at this Strain Institute sport. It's actually when I started.

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Speaker 3: A friend of mine who was one of the tutors there,

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Speaker 3: probably very irresponsible of him to be like, hey, I'm

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Speaker 3: going to go skiing this way, you want to come?

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Speaker 1: And I was like yeah, okay.

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Speaker 3: So I really learned skiing when I was really just

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Speaker 3: embarking on my professional tennis career. So it was the

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Speaker 3: dumbest thing I could have possibly ever done. And even

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Speaker 3: in my off season every year I would only have

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Speaker 3: like three days I would go skiing.

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Speaker 1: I would go skiing. I mean, it was really the

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Speaker 3: But thankfully, knock on wood, I did not hurt myself

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Speaker 3: while I was skiing and learning to ski, and I

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Speaker 3: team Peekaboo Street, Hillary Lynn back in the day, and

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Speaker 3: they used to make so much fun of me. I'm like, guys,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so Jess, give me a break.

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Speaker 3: And since then, I've just you know, skied every try

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Speaker 2: I think that's really cool. And that's sort of a

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Speaker 2: nice segue because one of the things that I heard

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Speaker 2: When I was in Florida, I took some lessons of tennis.

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Speaker 2: I feel like tennis is like skiing one of these sports.

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Speaker 3: Betsy forces me to get lessons from this crazy guy

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nis, let's take my tennis. We have some incredible,

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Speaker 1: For me.

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Speaker 2: The first person I'm wanting to talk to you about,

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Speaker 2: but I'm so excited is back is Garlitos Algoraz. What

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Speaker 2: looked like a pretty Dacey injury. And now he's back

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Speaker 2: and he's storming through the draw in Rio and Clay.

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Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately for him, he did storm through the last

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Speaker 3: And I got to give so much props to Cam Norrie.

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Speaker 3: But you know, indications is that he got a little

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Speaker 3: that was probably going to win the French Open probably

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Speaker 1: I mean the way he's yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Rafa and Roger and Nolay they're all gone, right, and

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Speaker 1: It'll be this guy. But Caitlin, I got to say,

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Speaker 1: the injuries are worrying me.

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Speaker 3: At that age, to consistently get these injuries is not

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Speaker 1: He should not be getting injuries at this age.

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Speaker 3: I mean you get them at thirty five and thirty

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Speaker 2: So he's getting like big muscle group injuries too, Like

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Speaker 2: those aren't minor injuries like your abs and a giant

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Speaker 2: he's on the road for recovery. But hopefully he stays

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Speaker 1: It's a real doesn't mess. Yeah, he doesn't miss. The

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Speaker 3: Has this, you know, a ton of pop spin on

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Speaker 3: the forehand. He has this incredibly flat backhand, and he

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Speaker 3: That certainly helps him, you know, five to ten percent

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Speaker 1: So you know that that helps him. But you know

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's very unusual sort of way to the

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Speaker 1: And so for me, it was good. It was good.

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Speaker 3: I enjoy I enjoy watching him play because he plays

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the variety is for me like part of the

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Speaker 2: it kind of Yeah, it's sort of fun to see

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Speaker 2: that is usually you know, not where you'd expect him

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Speaker 2: really enjoy watching fight who we don't get to talk

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Speaker 2: about very much because she's bananas, But she won a

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Speaker 2: year to win a Grand Slam? I ask that every year,

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Speaker 2: But can you explain? Can you attempt to explain for

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Speaker 2: the Camilla Georgie uninitiated what her I don't know if

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Speaker 2: Like she's just sort of an Ostapenko character for me,

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Speaker 2: holy shit, how does she lose anybody? Well, Georgie won

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Speaker 2: her like only like second or so title, Like, there's

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Speaker 3: She she is an anomaly, let's face it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: professional tennis. That's the record that I personally think is cool.

439
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Speaker 2: And I really think the Golden Slam is cool. The

440
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,440
Speaker 2: Golden Slam is just like, holy shit, you have all

441
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 2: the four trophies and a gold medal in your trophy

442
00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,439
Speaker 2: case from the same year, and Stephan Graff is the

443
00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,440
Speaker 2: only person who has that, Like that is so cool.

444
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Speaker 1: I don't think.

445
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Speaker 3: I think if there's one record that will forever stand,

446
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Speaker 3: I think it will be that one.

447
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Speaker 1: Because to be able to do it in the one year,

448
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Speaker 1: we saw what it did to Novak. He was just

449
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Speaker 1: by the time pretty close.

450
00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 3: Well he came close, but he you know. I think

451
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Speaker 3: actually what hurt him winning the US Open and winning

452
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Speaker 3: the Calendar Grand Slam was actually playing the Olympics. I

453
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Speaker 3: think that that ruined him. I think that that through

454
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Speaker 3: a spanner, as we say in the works, I think

455
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Speaker 3: it was too much load, workload on his body, and

456
00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,600
Speaker 3: we saw what it did. It took it out of him,

457
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 3: and I think that it cost him Calendar Grand Slam.

458
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Speaker 2: That you I really do, Yeah, and the pressure ended

459
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 2: up being kind of like I think, you know, to me,

460
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,840
Speaker 2: that was my favorite Novak was playing that year, going

461
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Speaker 2: for that and seeing how much it meant to him

462
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 2: in a way that was really like cool and meaningful,

463
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Speaker 2: and I think, you know, for me, I don't like

464
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Speaker 2: and I this is true of all the Big Three,

465
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Speaker 2: and it was true at times watching you know, just

466
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Speaker 2: anybody who was super dominant. Like to me, I like

467
00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 2: the drama of not knowing who's gonna win, and I think,

468
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Speaker 2: what if it becomes inevitable, it gets really boring. And

469
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Speaker 2: so for me, which is kind of why I root

470
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Speaker 2: against Rafa in the finals of Rolangaros a lot, because

471
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Speaker 2: like I like raffa fine, but like I don't, you know,

472
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Speaker 2: I've seen it before. I want somebody else to win.

473
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Speaker 2: So for me, you know, seeing him go for this,

474
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Speaker 2: obviously after he'd lost in the what was it the

475
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Speaker 2: semifinal round.

476
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Speaker 1: To uh even earlier than that.

477
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't. He didn't get to the finals, I

478
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Speaker 2: can tell you that, but he meaning having seening how

479
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Speaker 2: much it meant to him to play a medvetive in

480
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Speaker 2: the final and have the crowd support. It was cool.

481
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Speaker 2: It was like a new thing that I hadn't seen

482
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Speaker 2: before and for that reason, like that was a really

483
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Speaker 2: dynamic and interesting I think result. Okay, so other matches

484
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Speaker 2: you want to talk about that just happened. We got

485
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Speaker 2: to talk about Kryjo.

486
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Speaker 1: Yes, I was going to say, we can't forget.

487
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Speaker 3: And you know, my favorite thing of the week was

488
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Speaker 3: really watching Egischiontek just like literally clean house with every

489
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Speaker 3: single top player in the world, like literally not even

490
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Speaker 3: giving them games. It was it was like she opened

491
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Speaker 3: her own bakery. She was breadsticking and bageling. Everyone left

492
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Speaker 3: their right. But then you see, this is why we

493
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Speaker 3: love tennis, because there's no you cannot predict anything in

494
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Speaker 3: the end because she's just wiping the floor with everybody.

495
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Speaker 3: And then she gets to the final against Kujikova, who's

496
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Speaker 3: struggled over the last couple of years since winning the

497
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Speaker 3: French Open. She got COVID, she got injured, she's like

498
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 3: being a little bit with her singles. You know, it's

499
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,080
Speaker 3: been dominant in doubles, but rocks Up this week is

500
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Speaker 3: down a set and three one to Sabolenka.

501
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Speaker 1: She was actually down.

502
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Speaker 3: Also earlier in the tournament, and she comes back and

503
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Speaker 3: beats Sabolenka for her first Sabalanka's first loss of the year.

504
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Speaker 3: After really, I mean, I don't know what happened all

505
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Speaker 3: of a sudden at three when it got to three

506
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Speaker 3: to two, when she broke, it was like she became

507
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Speaker 3: a different person.

508
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Speaker 1: She couldn't miss in the third second.

509
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Speaker 3: I mean, at one point Sabolenka looked up at her

510
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Speaker 3: coach and was just like, what, like what the fuck?

511
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Speaker 1: Like how do I play this?

512
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: Because she was literally hitting winners everywhere, and so, you know,

513
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Speaker 3: then she takes out Jess Pagoula and I spoke to Jess, Jess,

514
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Speaker 3: you know, we were texting, and Jess's like, I mean,

515
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Speaker 3: I couldn't do anything. In the third set, she literally

516
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Speaker 3: didn't miss a ball. And then so I think she

517
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Speaker 3: went into the finals with a ton of confidence, knowing

518
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Speaker 3: that she'd beat Niager before and beatn Eiger in a

519
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 3: final and not many people can beat Eager in finals,

520
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Speaker 3: and she'd done it before, and she knew how well

521
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Speaker 3: she was playing. She had no pressure on her shoulders,

522
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Speaker 3: and Eager, of course had all the pressure on her

523
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Speaker 3: shoulders because she'd been just thrashing everybody and the expectation was, well,

524
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Speaker 3: she's going to do this again, and she was just

525
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Speaker 3: too good and Ego looked a little bit anxious and

526
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 3: was not comfortable at all. And again Krajikova has just

527
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,879
Speaker 3: found another gear again.

528
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Speaker 1: So look out.

529
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is somebody who was number two in

530
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Speaker 3: the world not that long ago. Yeah, you get back

531
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Speaker 3: inside the top five after that dominant performance over the

532
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Speaker 3: last week.

533
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Speaker 1: Guess what, She's going to be.

534
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Speaker 3: Definitely one of the favorites in Indian wells.

535
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Speaker 2: I love Kadjikova for a couple of reasons because she's

536
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: so ice cold, Like she wins the match and she

537
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,040
Speaker 2: just like barely holds up a palm, like.

538
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Speaker 1: She's not one.

539
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 2: She was excited, but she's like, she beat the number

540
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Speaker 2: three player in the world, the number two player in

541
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Speaker 2: the world, and then the number one player in the world.

542
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Speaker 2: That has not happened all that much in the same tournament.

543
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: There was a list and it was pretty short, and

544
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 2: the names on that list of people who've done that

545
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 2: feat specifically in tennis include Serena Williams and Stephane graff

546
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 2: among you know ever never had Alova, Like the greats

547
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 2: have done that and it doesn't happen on that often,

548
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 2: so that is super super cool. I also, I love

549
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: Kadikova just only really wearing one outfit for a couple

550
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 2: of years in a row, Like they just keep it

551
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 2: real simple with her, and she just doesn't change her outfit,

552
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 2: Like she's not out there trying to wow anybody with

553
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 2: her sartorial choices. She's just getting it done. There's such

554
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 2: a no nonsense element to when Burba Kazikova plays. Shout

555
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 2: out to Jess Googoula, who's proving to be the most

556
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 2: fun hang in tennis right now between drinking her heinnekens

557
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,240
Speaker 2: after losing at the US Open last summer and posting

558
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Speaker 2: a picture of herself talking about how everyone thinks that

559
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Speaker 2: being a pro tennis player is all glitz and glamour,

560
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Speaker 2: but here she is getting biggled on her birthday waiting

561
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 2: for a sixteen hour flight while eating doritos she stole

562
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 2: from the physio Like relatable, you know what I mean?

563
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,119
Speaker 2: Like who hasn't been there eaten sand Dorito's late at

564
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Speaker 2: night alone?

565
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Speaker 3: Listen, I I when I had the greatest day in

566
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Speaker 3: my couple of days in my tennis career when I

567
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Speaker 3: won my first Grand Slam.

568
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Speaker 1: I won the doubles and the mixed doubles at the

569
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Speaker 1: Australian Open.

570
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Speaker 3: And I went to the airport by myself with my

571
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Speaker 3: two trophies in those Barley Hessian bags.

572
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Speaker 1: They're like, you know, there's ones you get at a market,

573
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: you know.

574
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Speaker 3: So I had my back, my rackets and these two bags,

575
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, I'm sitting at a burger

576
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Speaker 3: King in Melbourne Airport eating.

577
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,479
Speaker 1: A whopper by myself.

578
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: With my trophies, and I'm like the glamour, the glamorous

579
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Speaker 3: side of tennis. It was like, so listen, just so

580
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 3: everybody knows out there it's a great living and you can,

581
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 3: you know, have a great life and see the world.

582
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 3: But goddamn, sometimes it's really lonely and it's not that

583
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 3: easy to do, even when you've.

584
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Speaker 1: Had like literally the best couple of days of your life.

585
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Speaker 3: And like she had an incredible couple of weeks and

586
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 3: Jessica Gaula singles and doubles. You know, Coca Golf again

587
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 3: is like getting to Adelada. Parts of tournaments just not

588
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 3: quite getting over those the egis Fion text, but you know,

589
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 3: hopefully that will come with time.

590
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Speaker 1: But it's been a great couple of weeks. Like, literally, you've.

591
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 2: Played better, cook go GoF played better against Ega this

592
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 2: time than she did when they met a couple of

593
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 2: weeks ago. I felt like that was a real improvement.

594
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 2: She gave her more of a match, she hung in there,

595
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,360
Speaker 2: and like the thing is with Cocoa specifically, I feel

596
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 2: like you just got to like count the progress, Like

597
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 2: she's still so young and we've only really had her

598
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: as a full mature adult player for a very short

599
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: period of time. So for me, it's more like she's

600
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Speaker 2: trending the right way, she's fixing some of the strokes,

601
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: she's learning to compete better. Like to me, I don't

602
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 2: need her to be like fully formed and taking sets

603
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 2: and matches off of Vega. If as long as she's

604
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 2: just making progress, you know what I mean, And that

605
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 2: feels like a good sign.

606
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: I agree.

607
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 3: I love that she's play singles and doubles as well.

608
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 3: It'll only make her a better tennis player. And you

609
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 3: know how I feel about so many of these great

610
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 3: players that won doubles, Grand Slams, before they won singles

611
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 3: Grand Slams, and I think that's going to help her

612
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 3: in big matches.

613
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: Look, the foehand is still an issue, and.

614
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 3: It's going to be she needs to like, oh, anyway

615
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 3: we can get into It's like trying to teach you

616
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 3: how to hit a fourhand better.

617
00:26:58,480 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 2: You gotta see it, you gotta see it. After my

618
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 2: lessons in Florida, it's a whole new sugar rotation. Renee,

619
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 2: all right, good, this is a montestep process. I changed

620
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 2: from the same grip that Coco Golf had where I

621
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: was really under it, and now I'm like Sammi Western

622
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: and you've got to you gotta read do your biomechanics.

623
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: I can't claim to be anywhere near as good as

624
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 2: anybody who's ever played a pro tennis match. On the

625
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: same time, we're still playing the same game, trying to

626
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 2: learn how to hit the same strokes.

627
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: So you know there's time shout out to the to

628
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: your new coach.

629
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Speaker 3: Listen, Caitlin, I know you're back from Florida. You're going

630
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 3: to be here. I'm going to go skating for a week.

631
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: But they're still exciting tennis going on this week. As

632
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: as you know, We've got the tournament in Austin for

633
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: the women. The guys are still over in the Middle East.

634
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 3: So so I'm just pumped for Indian Wells. The biggest

635
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: tournament of the year after the Strain Open is coming up.

636
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: And who's gonna win it?

637
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. You got to push eager.

638
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 3: I think Ega is gonna be looking pretty good. Sablenka,

639
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 3: all the women are going to be there, and of

640
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 3: course no Novak, he will not be there, but we'll see.

641
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: It looks like Raf is not going to be playing,

642
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,199
Speaker 3: so that's a bummer for the tournament in general.

643
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: But Alcarez will be there of course, all day, all

644
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,199
Speaker 1: day long. Give give me Carlitos all day long. I

645
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 1: love the kid. He's just the best.

646
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go make some dinner for my family.

647
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 2: It will not be a sad airport whopper. It's gonna

648
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 2: be some nice halib it. But have a great time skiing,

649
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 2: don't hurt yourself, have a great time touchwood. Do your

650
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 2: moguls be able not.

651
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 3: I will not be trying to compete with Mikhayla Schiffrin.

652
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 3: I'll just be trying to stay safe.

653
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know. End the day in one piece

654
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: and you've you've, you've accomplished a major victory.

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Speaker 1: At the bar. No injuries, all goodt upright skiings.

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Speaker 3: All right, Caitlin, good to see my friend everybody, Thanks

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Speaker 3: for joining us again for a little addition here, and

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Speaker 3: we're going to just get ramped up. We might even

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Speaker 3: have a little special guest next week. Get you ramped

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Speaker 3: up for Indian wellsty

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Speaker 1: Guys, peace out,