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Speaker 1: Not good and this is one of many grass court

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that's a new reason why he would

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, look, it's an opportunity for him

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Speaker 3: I best leave not to worry about that for the moment,

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Speaker 4: She won it.

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Speaker 3: see each other and all of us to catch up,

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Speaker 3: to be quite honest with you, So that's always really

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Speaker 3: to see each other. I haven't seen Giselle with Dulko

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Speaker 3: in like, you know, eight years or something. So it's

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Speaker 3: just always so fun and we love it. We love it,

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Speaker 3: we love it.

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Speaker 4: Although there's a few aches and pains out there. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to die.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you guys should take the rougher mentality and just

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Speaker 1: be willing to sacrifice your body boats and then this

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be such an issue.

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Speaker 3: Well, the doctor did say to me when he said

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Speaker 3: when do you want to get the injection in your shoulder?

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Speaker 2: And I said, well, I think I should wait until

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Speaker 2: after I'm done. He said, well, yes, because we do

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Speaker 2: have to.

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Speaker 3: Get a to you know, do we have to get

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Speaker 3: a tue like you know you have to get exceptions

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Speaker 3: to get certain things, you know, for the drugs and

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. And I said, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: don't worry about it. I'm not under that restriction. You

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Speaker 3: can give me any drugs you want, mate. They all

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Speaker 3: had a good laugh about that. But I did have

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Speaker 3: to wait untilves out before I got my injection.

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Speaker 4: But I'm feeling better at Caitlin.

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Speaker 3: I think I might be back at Wimbledon serving at

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Speaker 3: least one hundred miles an hour at least.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was going to be my final question for you,

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Speaker 1: which is I just booked my tickets. I will see

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Speaker 1: you there in it looks like three short weeks time.

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Speaker 1: Will you be playing Legends? Can you give us a

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Speaker 1: preview about whether you'll be playing or not or is

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Speaker 1: that still something you're going to reveal at.

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Speaker 4: A later day. No, no, I can reveal now.

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Speaker 3: I will be playing the mixed doubles at the Invitational

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Speaker 3: with I think Thomas Enquist might be my partner, and

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Speaker 3: he's quite the cutie, so I mean, you know, not

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Speaker 3: super into the boys, but I do love a good

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Speaker 3: looking Swede.

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Speaker 4: So you know that's going to be my partner.

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Speaker 3: And it's going to have just loads of fun veterans

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Speaker 3: back out there on the Legends court, so that'll be

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Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And clearly, look, we've got the

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Speaker 3: whole situation at Wimbledon with no points, and you know,

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Speaker 3: it's the whole situation there, which you know, you and

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Speaker 3: I might get into prior to Wimbledon when it starts.

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Speaker 3: But it's very disappointing how everything went down there with

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Speaker 3: the points and with the.

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Speaker 4: Bands, and I just think.

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Speaker 3: That that was a cock up, as we say in

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Speaker 3: every way. Now that I'm in England.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to call it a cocker because that was

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Speaker 2: a cocker.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's we'll table that until the furst of the

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Speaker 1: tournament because I know we have some strong opinions about it.

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Speaker 1: But I'm happy to have closed the chapter on another

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Speaker 1: incredible clickorancy in I'm very, very thrilled with how good

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Speaker 1: the tournament was, as you said, Sonny, fan fans, ic

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Speaker 1: capacity and two great champions coming off of the Rulin

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Speaker 1: Garas titles. And now we're into the grass, which is

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Speaker 1: an amazing part of the year. So I will see

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Speaker 1: you next week where we will talk about all manner

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Speaker 1: of grass work goings on.

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Speaker 4: We might get more into Wimbledon.

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Speaker 1: But thank you everybody for listening, and good luck to

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Speaker 1: Sam this week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you my friend, and enjoy everybody.

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Speaker 3: The grass is here points a short little bit of serving, bully,

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Speaker 3: little chip and charge, but overall we're just going to

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Speaker 3: have a lot of long rally since everybody can play

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Speaker 3: from the baseline now, so even on gross anyway.

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Speaker 2: Caitle, it's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, thanks for everybody, thanks for listening, and we'll see

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Speaker 3: you on the gross