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Speaker 2: Hey, I'll come down to Miami anytime, my friend. All right, everyone,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the French Connection, once again, brought to you

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Speaker 2: by NBC Sports and Racket. We are here to cover

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Speaker 2: the tennis, not only from the French Open right through

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Speaker 2: of course back to Paris for the Olympic Games at

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Speaker 2: Roland Garros. We are so excited to bring it to

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Speaker 2: get to that, of course, it is me, Renee Stubbs,

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Speaker 2: alongside that guy where is he? That side Sam Query,

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Speaker 2: of course I'm going to say it the greatest downhill

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Speaker 2: of all time, Lindsay Vaughn, thanks for Johnny us today, Linz.

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Speaker 1: Thanks today, Thanks for having me. Hey Sam, how they're.

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Speaker 3: Going all right?

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Speaker 2: Lind's We're going to get into this because we know

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Speaker 2: and certainly more than pickleball. Sam play. So that in

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Speaker 4: You know, obviously you need to be incredibly talented and

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Speaker 1: Oh? Well, two of them are in my sock drawer

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Speaker 2: Oh that's cute. I have a funny story about Sue

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Speaker 2: That's that's a that's a joke. That's my French. What's

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Speaker 2: That is my runner up trophy. I have two runner

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Speaker 2: She is all right. Lind's we so appreciate you being

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Speaker 2: Yes, along the canal.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, Lind's we really appreciate you not only

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Speaker 3: this yeah, twenty twenty six in La twenty thirty.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, Renee gave me like go like some tips,

442
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Speaker 4: but I don't know when you promise me you're gonna

443
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Speaker 4: get me a lesson.

444
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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on that.

445
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Speaker 2: So hey, I'll come down to Miami anytime. My friends.

446
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Speaker 2: All right, well, skiing, les tennis lesson.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: We actually we do send each other videos of our

449
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Speaker 2: different sports and we do critique, which he did off

450
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Speaker 2: my scheme, which I appreciate anyway. All right, Lens, we

451
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Speaker 2: love you, thanks so much for joining us. We can't

452
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Speaker 2: wait to see you in Paris. And a reminder that

453
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Speaker 2: the US Olympic and Paralympic team trials kick off June fifteenth.

454
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Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see them get into action, all

455
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Speaker 2: of them trying to make the Olympic team, the best

456
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Speaker 2: athletes in the country seek as I said, to join

457
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Speaker 2: and make the toughest team in the world. Ahead of

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Speaker 2: the Paris Games. We cannot wait and catch the action

459
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Speaker 2: on NBC Peacock. Then the Paris Olympics, of course, begins

460
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Speaker 2: July twenty sixth. Just give me your thoughts on Novak

461
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 2: having to pull out as just detrimental not only to

462
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Speaker 2: the tournament, but of course for his I mean going forward.

463
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 2: This is not a great injury to have at this

464
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Speaker 2: time of the year.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a brutal injury for Novak and a brutal

466
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Speaker 3: injury for the tennis community. No one wants to see

467
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Speaker 3: him pull out of the French Open, especially at a

468
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Speaker 3: quarterfinal stage like this. He's battled the two previous matches

469
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Speaker 3: in five sets, which has been an incredible effort from him.

470
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Speaker 3: But you know, a meniscus tear like this, I think

471
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Speaker 3: that's what it is. It's a minor injury. It's gonna

472
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Speaker 3: put him out four to six weeks, maybe eight weeks.

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Speaker 3: I'd be shocked to see him at Wimbledon. Hopefully we

474
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Speaker 3: get him back in time for the Olympics in Paris.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I have to say. I've had my two of

476
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Speaker 2: my knees surgic surgically repaired by a miniscus and one

477
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Speaker 2: I came back six weeks later, but I was only

478
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Speaker 2: just playing doubles and I felt like six weeks was

479
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Speaker 2: probably a week or two too soon. So I imagine

480
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Speaker 2: if he is going to have if he's gone into

481
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Speaker 2: immediate surgery to have a meniscus. You can play with

482
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Speaker 2: a meniscus tear. It's just said how bad is it?

483
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Speaker 2: Because I saw him point to hit in the back

484
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Speaker 2: of his knee when he was having issues with it

485
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Speaker 2: and had the trainer come out, and I actually said

486
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Speaker 2: to a friend of mine, I was like, that kind

487
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Speaker 2: of looks like meniscus. I mean, I was totally guessing,

488
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Speaker 2: but when they said meniscus. So there's no question he

489
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Speaker 2: won't be able to play Wimbolan unless he decides not

490
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Speaker 2: to have the surgery, because you can't. I played for

491
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Speaker 2: about two three months with a miniscus tair. It just

492
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Speaker 2: depends on how bad it is. But if he wants

493
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Speaker 2: to win a Grand Slam, there's no way that he

494
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Speaker 2: can do that with a slight miniscus tair. So if

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Speaker 2: that's the case, six weeks, my guess minimally, although he

496
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Speaker 2: is into the ru WU, he does all the stuff,

497
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Speaker 2: maybe he can recover a little bit quicker like what

498
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Speaker 2: was that quarterback's name that came back from the Achilles quickly? Anyway,

499
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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, I'm kidding, but anyway, so I think you know,

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Speaker 2: Novak certainly has the capability of maybe coming back a

501
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Speaker 2: bit earlier than most. But that is a rough injury

502
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Speaker 2: to have for him, all right, So let me.

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Speaker 3: See physical too. A big part of his DA is

504
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Speaker 3: the movement, and so to have it, you know, I

505
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Speaker 3: think he's a guy that's only going to go out there,

506
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Speaker 3: you know, when his knee is one hundred percent and healed,

507
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Speaker 3: and hopefully that's sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 2: I know one thing that your little your little crutch

509
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Speaker 2: behind you. He's going to be needing that for a

510
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Speaker 2: day or two after that surgery, so you could probably

511
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Speaker 2: lend it to him, although you're a little bit taller,

512
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Speaker 2: all right. So let's get to know. One of the

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Speaker 2: great stories though, is Janick Sinner has been the best

514
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Speaker 2: player this year without question. He has won the Australian Open,

515
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Speaker 2: He's won multiple tournaments coming into this event in the

516
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Speaker 2: next the second Grand Slam of the year, arguably the

517
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Speaker 2: best player this year deservedly gets the number one ranking.

518
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Speaker 2: Sadly Novak didn't wasn't able to at least get to

519
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Speaker 2: the final or keep that number one ranking with all

520
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Speaker 2: the points that he has coming off from now until

521
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Speaker 2: the end of the year. But Janik's been fantastic, but

522
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Speaker 2: also has Carlos Alcaraz. Just give me your thoughts on

523
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Speaker 2: who you think is going to win this match.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Center, even going back to last year,

525
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Speaker 3: you know, winn winning Vienna and then winning the Divers

526
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Speaker 3: Cup finals of the year in winning Australia, winning Miami,

527
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Speaker 3: He's been on an incredible run. Now. It's well deserved

528
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Speaker 3: this number one ranking. Even if Novak didn't pull out here,

529
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Speaker 3: I think Center was going to hit that number one

530
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Speaker 3: rankings by at some point this year. And Alcaraz is

531
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Speaker 3: right on his heels and they're kind of the right.

532
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Speaker 3: They're the feder Nadal of ten years ago, and so

533
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Speaker 3: it's a shame they have to play each other. They're

534
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Speaker 3: on the same side of the draw. As we had

535
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Speaker 3: talked about earlier. I think everyone would everyone kind of

536
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Speaker 3: wants that as a fun finals matchup at every tournament.

537
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Speaker 3: But it's it's gonna be a fun match, It's it's

538
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Speaker 3: going to be something that everyone's excited to want, you know.

539
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Speaker 3: I think sinner, knowing he's number one in the world,

540
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Speaker 3: it kind of gives him a little extra confidence on

541
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Speaker 3: the back end of this French Open, and I'm I'm

542
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Speaker 3: picking him to win it at this point.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

544
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know who's going to win

545
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Speaker 2: between the two of them. They both play so well

546
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Speaker 2: against one another. It is arguably the best matchup. It is,

547
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Speaker 2: without question the big These two are the big two

548
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: now they've taken over from the Big three. Obviously Novak

549
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 2: is still there, but this is the next generation of

550
00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 2: Roger Rafa and Novak. I don't know. I would say

551
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Speaker 2: that Carlos is slightly more comfortable on clay then Yanick.

552
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: Yannick likes it fast, so I think it's dependent also

553
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Speaker 2: on the on the on the temperature. Andy Roddick said

554
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Speaker 2: it last week that the French Open is probably the

555
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Speaker 2: one tournament that is really subject to the weather. If

556
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Speaker 2: it's hot and bouncy, that will help Yanick a little

557
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 2: bit make the court quicker. But also the spin on

558
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Speaker 2: the ball and the velocity of the spin of Alcaraze's

559
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 2: shots will also be helped with the hot weather. So

560
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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a pick them. Look look at

561
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Speaker 2: their look at their matchups against one another, four and four.

562
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Speaker 2: Who's going to be the one that breaks the drought

563
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Speaker 2: and maybe takes over and gets the final and wins

564
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Speaker 2: the French Open. So much on the line between these

565
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Speaker 2: two guys, and as you said, Sam, they're two great guys.

566
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Speaker 2: These two they're just so great for the game of tennis.

567
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Speaker 2: I'm so excited for the next ten years of men's.

568
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Speaker 3: As much watch TV when these two are matched up.

569
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Speaker 3: Wherever I am in the world, I look at what

570
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Speaker 3: time are they play, and I set the alarm to

571
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Speaker 3: watch it, because it's just it's it's like I said,

572
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Speaker 3: it's better than it all from ten years ago. So

573
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Speaker 3: it's a it's going to be. Hopefully they have a

574
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Speaker 3: great match and to kind of entertain the crowd and

575
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Speaker 3: everyone watching.

576
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm hoping they both get through injury free

577
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 2: and they, as you said, have a great match, and

578
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Speaker 2: I suspect if they're injury free they will all right, Sam. So,

579
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Speaker 2: of course, the other semifinals certainly not being talked about

580
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 2: as much as Alkora Sinna, which is understandable in a

581
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Speaker 2: lot of ways. Is of course now Kaspar Rude, who

582
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Speaker 2: got the default over Novak Djokovic, going up against Alexander Zverev,

583
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Speaker 2: who just also had a great win over alex Demonor

584
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Speaker 2: in straight sets. But boy or boy, it was pretty complicated,

585
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Speaker 2: even though it was straight sets for Zverev. It was

586
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Speaker 2: very complicated that match. It could have been a lot

587
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 2: more difficult if poor old Alex Diemono had won that

588
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 2: second set. But just give me your whole thoughts on

589
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: that semi on that quarter final.

590
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said, it was three difficult sets. As

591
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 3: well as demon Are played, you never really felt like

592
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Speaker 3: he was going to win the match. You felt like

593
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,399
Speaker 3: he was doing everything he could to like get really close.

594
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 3: You know, like you said he needed that second and

595
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 3: said he was in that set point. I think he

596
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 3: got a little tentative there. I definitely needed that, and

597
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 3: then in the end did a good job of breaking

598
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 3: Vera when Zvera was serving for it. Vera, as tough

599
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 3: as he's playing in, as great as he's plane right now,

600
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: broke right back. But now we've got Zvera against Casper

601
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Speaker 3: route and that's going to be another great semi final

602
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 3: along with Alcarez Center and you know, the ruths Vera

603
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 3: is a little bit of a toss up to me.

604
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 3: I think I'm going Casper just because he's going to

605
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: have a you know, four days off now, and Vera's

606
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Speaker 3: played a lot of match, He's had a lot of

607
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 3: time on court, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go a

608
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 3: rude kind of sixty five thirty five there for percentage one.

609
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I have a question on that. I mean,

610
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've had a situation where you've

611
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 2: been at a Grand Slam, you've got best of five,

612
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: you know it's a brutal struggle. You know that Rude's

613
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: going to come out banging four hands, you know, looking

614
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 2: for the forehand, all all of the things. But tell

615
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: me from your perspective, as like a best of five situation,

616
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: Casper hasn't played in like four days essentially for him

617
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 2: to go up now and play guy that's gotten through

618
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 2: a lot of tough matches, and I don't know what

619
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Speaker 2: it is as very he plays unbelievably long matches. Look

620
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: at these stray and open. He got through some really

621
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 2: long matches there, but not does it help? But does

622
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 2: it hurt in some respects as well? That rud hasn't

623
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 2: played a match in four days? So do you lose

624
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 2: your like your match, prep your match, Like, tell me,

625
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 2: give me a little bit of what you think about that, right,

626
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: you know, I.

627
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 3: Think it's a little bit of like, you know, sorry,

628
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 3: it's okay, Ruby, I.

629
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 2: Like this, your dog.

630
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 3: You got a dog in here. You leave that on?

631
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 2: Please?

632
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, leave that on. You know it's gonna be four

633
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 3: days off. I don't think that's enough time for him

634
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 3: to get rusty. I think I think he would have

635
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: signed up for that before the tournament started. I think

636
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 3: the four days is a short enough time where he's

637
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 3: still gonna be confident coming off three prior matches. He's

638
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 3: he's been to the finals here twice before, so it's

639
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 3: nothing new. So I think for Casper, he's gonna go

640
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 3: into this match literally feeling one hundred percent. And I

641
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: expect them to have I expect him to have zero

642
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 3: Russ expect them to come out firing from the first shot.

643
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 3: And and Zverev, like you said, he's played a lot

644
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 3: of long matches in his career. He's extremely fit. I

645
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 3: don't think the fact that he's gone five cent or

646
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 3: five setter is going to make that much of a difference,

647
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 3: unless they do go five sets themselves. But I expect

648
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 3: Vereb to come out and be ready to go as

649
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 3: well in two days time.

650
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: Well, I picked Zvereb. I didn't know what was going

651
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 2: to happen to Novak. Clearly none of us knew that

652
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: he would pull out in the quarter finals. That's just

653
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: unheard off for him. So he's obviously very injured. But

654
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 2: I did pick Zverev to make the finals. I don't

655
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 2: think he's going to win the tournament. I think he

656
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: gets too tight. We saw it even when he served

657
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 2: for the match against Alex Demonor. He didn't close out

658
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: the game, and those are sort of the games you

659
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: expect someone who wants to win the tournament close those

660
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 2: games out, even though he broke. But you have to

661
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: think the casker with the days off, with having thrashed

662
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: Zverev last year, I think Zvera is a better player

663
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: this year. He comes in with tons of confidence after

664
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Speaker 2: winning in Rome, and the matchup is it'll be interesting.

665
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: I think Zverev serves really well. He has a chance,

666
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 2: but you have have to think with the rest with

667
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 2: Casper's also, let's not forget about Casper Rude. I mean,

668
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 2: this guy's been the perennial runner up, really, I mean

669
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 2: Novak Rafa without them, he wins a French Open. He

670
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 2: probably thinks this is his best chance to do it.

671
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 2: You know, this year, having had the opportunity to have

672
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 2: the rest day against Novak and going up against Verev,

673
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 2: who he has a great record against, clearly on clay.

674
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 2: So look, the bottom line is, you don't know, we

675
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 2: throw the balls in the airt we let them play

676
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 2: and that's the best thing about the French Open this year.

677
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 2: It's been very unexpected. Look at the women's some of

678
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: the surprises there, but certainly with the men's probably what

679
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 2: we expected in some ways other than Novak, but rude

680
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 2: being there is no surprise because he's been so good

681
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 2: in rolling ger So give me. You gave me your prediction,

682
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 2: but give me a prediction for the final on what

683
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 2: you think we're going to see in the men's.

684
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm going to take I'm going to take

685
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 3: Casper over Zverev. I think to Casper is a clay

686
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 3: quarter like he's made two finals before, he's loving this.

687
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 3: On the other side, I'm going to go with Cinner

688
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 3: over al Karez and then the more than I think

689
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 3: about it here, I'm gonna go with Casper Rudd in

690
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 3: the for the for the title. You know what he's like,

691
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 3: you said, I think he looks at this draw and

692
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 3: kind of says like, Okay, maybe this is the time

693
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 3: when I can win it. I've made two finals, I've

694
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 3: lost the Novak, I've lost to Rafa. Those guys aren't here.

695
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 3: This is my time. He's kind of quietly going through

696
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 3: the draw. I guess you would say, you know, a

697
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 3: lot a lot of people are talking about him. They're

698
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 3: talking about Center and al KaAZ and Zara, So I

699
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 3: think he's just going to kind of go into the radar.

700
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 3: He's winning matches relatively easily, and this is his tournament

701
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 3: to win.

702
00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 2: I like it. Sam. You always go for the you know,

703
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: the random stuff and you throw it out there, and

704
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Listen, you're not wrong. But the bottom

705
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: line is if he does win against vera hottest player

706
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 2: coming into the tournament, he has to play against the

707
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: two hottest players over the last you know, year and

708
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 2: a half, let's say, other than Novak. So if he's

709
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 2: gonna win it, he's going to have to do it

710
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: the hard way. That's there's no doubt about that, and

711
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 2: he certainly will earn his French Open title. We can't

712
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 2: we count wait for it. It's going to be great semifinals.

713
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the lad is. It's time

714
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: to talk about them. What we saw today was pretty extraordinary.

715
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 2: From the upset cut, this is not what we thought.

716
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: But before we get to that, let's preview the number

717
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: one player in the world, the most dominant player at

718
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 2: this tournament over the last several years, Eageron Tech going

719
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: up against Toco a golf. They've played each other a

720
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: couple of times here at the French but and the

721
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: head to heads certainly are very favorable for eager Tech.

722
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: But Coco having won a Grand Slam, now she knows

723
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: what it takes. Just uh, who wins here, Sammy.

724
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 3: It's Eager I mean you, I hope, I hope you

725
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 3: can pull the upset. It's so hard to get go

726
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 3: against eager right now. She's so dominant, not only on clay,

727
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 3: but against Coco as well. We see there she's ten

728
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 3: and one overall, four and oh on clay, And you know,

729
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 3: as in the top half, it's kind of work. We've

730
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: got two heavy hitters on the top half of the

731
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 3: woman's draw and two somewhat unknown girls on the on

732
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 3: the bottom half. So I think a lot of people

733
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 3: are almost looking at this matchup as the final. Whoever

734
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 3: wins this will be a pretty heavy fever in the final.

735
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: But I got to go with Eager here. She's just

736
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 3: too dominant in my opinion.

737
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: What about you, Yeah, look, I think that as it

738
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,479
Speaker 2: was against Osaka, Osaka's ability to really hit anyone off

739
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: the court, Coco doesn't quite have that ability on the forehand.

740
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: Certainly on the back end, she has arguably the best

741
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 2: back end in women's tennis. But I think the matchup

742
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 2: is the issue here. Ega loves to hit the forehand

743
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 2: cross court and heavy and deep, and that goes into

744
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: the weaker side of Coco. Eventually gets one a bit

745
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: short and then Eager takes control of the point again.

746
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: So this is a little bit more about you know,

747
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 2: Coco's going to have to serve at her best, She's

748
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 2: going to have to have a high percentage of first serves.

749
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 2: In her second serve will get punished big time by Eager,

750
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: and that's part of the issue as well. On the clay,

751
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 2: it sits up for Eager to do a little bit

752
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 2: more with it. Where's a post. On hard court, her

753
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: ball stays a bit lower, gives Eager a few more

754
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: issues on the forehand, But overall on the clay, I

755
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: just thinking Eager shontek is by far the favorite. Having

756
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: said that there's no one greater at trying to match

757
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: no matter what is happening in front of her than

758
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: Cocoa Gough. It was not pretty in her match in

759
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: the quarterfinals. She lost the first set, she bounced back.

760
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 2: She just hangs in there. There's no one that has

761
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 2: a better fighting spirit than her, although you'd have to

762
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: say Sabalanca today had some fighting spirits. Just your thoughts

763
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: on also what we saw Mirah Andreva. I mean, this teenager.

764
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: We've been talking about her on the Whimen's tour now

765
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 2: for a couple of years. I remember her playing Cocoa Gough,

766
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 2: might have been last year. She won the first set

767
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,919
Speaker 2: and she lost her flipping mind in the first game

768
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 2: of the second set, and I was like, what are

769
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 2: you doing? You were in control of the match, and

770
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 2: that was just her youth. Have been sixteen years of age.

771
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: She lost one point, she threw a racket on the ground.

772
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. As a coach, you'd

773
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: be like, pick your rack itt up, pick your rack

774
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 2: it up. You're up a set, what are you doing?

775
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 2: And I think she won one game after that against Cocoke.

776
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: But to see her maturity of handling this moment today

777
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: against Sablenka and getting through a couple of tough matches

778
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: of late. This kid is going to be, without question,

779
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: punch finals of Grand Slams for a long time to come.

780
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,799
Speaker 2: And we saw her get through a really tough match

781
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 2: today against Sabolanka, who was clearly feeling not well.

782
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that mets here. I think we're just waiting

783
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 3: for Andreva to make a run, and here it is.

784
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 3: And I was actually a rehab for my knee, so

785
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 3: I missed the first set, missed part of the second set.

786
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 3: By the time I came back and turned it on,

787
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 3: saw that Sabalanka was kind of injured and sometimes it's

788
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 3: tough to play against an opponent like that. So Andreva

789
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 3: the match there. When I turned it on in the

790
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 3: third set, it was a back and forth. You'd see

791
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 3: Andreva getting frustrated, then it would go to Sabalanca getting frustrated,

792
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 3: then back to Andreva getting frustrated. But in the end

793
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 3: Andreda Andreva did a great job of staying focus, kind

794
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 3: of getting through the mental battle of playing someone who's

795
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 3: partially injured, and that last game at four or five,

796
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 3: she did a great job of kind of hanging in there,

797
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 3: forcing some airs from Sabolanca and then on match point

798
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 3: guessing right and just feeling a perfect backhand lob over

799
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 3: Sabolenka's backhand side. And so it was an exciting day

800
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 3: for her, an exciting match of great fight from Sablenca.

801
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 3: We know she was injured a little bit, but all

802
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 3: in all, it was just that was great drama.

803
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you put it beautifully in

804
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 2: the last game when you were getting so close to

805
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 2: beating someone. It's the biggest win of her career, to

806
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: make the semi finals of her first Grand Slam. I

807
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 2: think it helps to have someone like Conchita Martinez, who's

808
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 2: been there herself many times, who's now coaching her, has

809
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 2: been coaching her for the last couple of months. We

810
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 2: don't give enough credit to you know what Knchita's been

811
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 2: able to do with her, to calm her down, to

812
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 2: teach her the ropes a little bit. The mum left,

813
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the second set. You know,

814
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: so there was a lot going on, but the fact

815
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 2: that she was able to calm herself and not get

816
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 2: overawed by this situation, knowing that Sabalannka was certainly struggling.

817
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 2: You can see that. But as an opponent, you know

818
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 2: you're seeing down the other You're like, oh my god,

819
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: she's sick. Is she going to pull out? There's all

820
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 2: these things going through your head. So for someone so

821
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 2: young to be able to not let that affect her

822
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 2: and actually get the job done was so impressive. Flip

823
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 2: it two. Paolini, who is my favorite player? I love

824
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 2: her so much. Every time I see her on the

825
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 2: to her, I'm like, Jasmine, I love you, You're my

826
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 2: favorite player, and she always laughs at me and I go,

827
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: I'm serious. I've watched her for years, Sam. I watched

828
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 2: her in small tournaments in Europe, you know, playing on

829
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 2: the clay, and I'm like, who is this kid? She's

830
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 2: so good, but she's like this big so I'm like

831
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 2: for her to match up against someone like Ribarkina in

832
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 2: that moment and hit with her aggressively on the baseline,

833
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: and also to be able to handle the prosure where

834
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 2: she was up a set and a break twice in

835
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: the second set four three forty fifteen on serve lost

836
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 2: the game, lost the set, to be able to come

837
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 2: back and bounce back and not give anything free away

838
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: in the third set against someone like Ribarkina, who in

839
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 2: the end made her own errors to lose that match.

840
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 2: So I'm so bloody and pressed by this young Italian

841
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 2: at twenty I think she's twenty eight years of age.

842
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 2: She's been around a while. To get through that match

843
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: was awesome. I mean, it's going to be so interesting

844
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: to see two players that probably never expected to be there.

845
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 2: I think Andreva, we all expect to be there eventually,

846
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: but to get there now to play against Poelini, it's

847
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: going to be in interesting to see how they handle

848
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 2: it because they would not have expected to play each

849
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,760
Speaker 2: other in the Semis to make their first final.

850
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 3: I haven't watched a ton of her matches, but watching

851
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 3: it today, she's so fun to watch. She's like a

852
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 3: little ball of bubbly energy. She's kind of built like Sakari,

853
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: but just with a bigger smile almost. So I think

854
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 3: if you would, if you have not watched tennis, and

855
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: you turn that match on today and watch Jasmine play,

856
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: you're gonna be like, oh my gosh, this girl is

857
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 3: so fun to watch. She's got such great energy, and

858
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 3: like you said, to lose that second set and then

859
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,959
Speaker 3: come back against herbakana and win the third was really

860
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 3: impressive for a girl that hasn't been in this position before.

861
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 3: I was really impressed with kind of her mental fortitude

862
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 3: coming back in that third set and getting the win.

863
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just love her. So I was

864
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 2: so excited. Even when she was choking, she was looking

865
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 2: up literally all the time and just laughing at her crew.

866
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: And I want to give a shout out to her

867
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 2: coach who has been with her for it feels like forever.

868
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: And as you and I know, when players aren't having success,

869
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 2: they certainly get rid of their coaches too quickly sometimes,

870
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 2: and these two have developed such a great relationship that

871
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: she's able to look up at him and smile and

872
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 2: he's not like concentrate. He knows her. And so for me,

873
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 2: that's a beautiful story as well of two people that

874
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 2: have stuck in there with each other and they've achieved

875
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 2: what they've achieved today. Sam, what do you think about

876
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: Amsburg calling out the rolling garrel scheduling a little bit?

877
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that? I know I have

878
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: mine certainly if you follow me on Twitter, you know.

879
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the scheduling is tough and I'm not

880
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 3: going to kind of single out the French Open. I

881
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: can't stand it when tennis matches go to twelve, one am,

882
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 3: two am, we're seeing him going to three am. I

883
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:35,960
Speaker 3: don't exactly know what the solution is. I know they're

884
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,479
Speaker 3: going to go late at times, but I just feel

885
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 3: like people don't want to be out and about at

886
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: two am on a Tuesday night watching tennis. So I

887
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 3: wish they would start these matches a little earlier or

888
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 3: come up with a solution to kind of I don't know,

889
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 3: maybe play half the match that we had a hard

890
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 3: cutoff time at midnight. But they do need to figure

891
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 3: out something because I'm not a fan of these matches

892
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 3: going so late to the nave. It's just bad for

893
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 3: the players, bad for the fans, and you know, they

894
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 3: need to do something about it. And like I said,

895
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 3: not just the French Open, all these tournaments.

896
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 2: I agree, and having two matches starting at seven o'clock

897
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 2: with the men's and the women's. Who ever place that

898
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 2: second match is getting absolutely screwed every single time, and

899
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 2: people are like, why do you let it? Why do

900
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 2: they let it happen? I'm like, well, you don't and

901
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 2: you cannot predict the amount of time someone takes to

902
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: win a match, right, So a match could be an hour,

903
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: or it could be three and a half hours if

904
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 2: it's a women's match, and then the guys are going

905
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 2: on at eleven o'clock at night playing best of five.

906
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 2: The men could go best to five, the women are

907
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 2: getting on at midnight. It's just ridiculous. So we have

908
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: to figure out a way to make it quicker. I

909
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: don't know. I've always been an opponent also to maybe

910
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 2: make the men's best of three, but that's a whole

911
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 2: nother story.

912
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 3: I don't even play anymore, but i've when I was playing,

913
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 3: I would have loved flams to be best of three.

914
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 2: Hey, that's what the Olympics do. And we see the

915
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: drama there. We see nineteen fifth, you know, nineteen seventeen

916
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: or seventeen fifty Dean in the third. I'm all for

917
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: of playing out the third set, no problem. So I

918
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 2: think there's a ways we can get around it. But

919
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,400
Speaker 2: starting a men's match at eight point thirty on clay

920
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: best of five is really a dumb idea, That's what

921
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say. So if you're gonna.

922
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 3: Totally in the grands and I think I think we're

923
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 3: with the majority here. I don't think anyone wants this,

924
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 3: so it it'd be great. Look, they're not going to

925
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 3: make a change this year, But the next Grand Slam, Wimbledon,

926
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 3: doesn't have night matches. I hope the US Open. Maybe

927
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 3: they'll be the first one to say, hey, we're going

928
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 3: to start our night session at six pm, or we're

929
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 3: going to have a hard cutoff at midnight. Or I'd

930
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 3: be up for a tournament or a Slam, trying something

931
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 3: and if it doesn't work, go back. But these lead

932
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 3: matches are ridiculous.

933
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 2: I'm with you, And you know what if someone who

934
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 2: covers these matches often court side, and I'm sitting there

935
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 2: at one thirty, two thirty in the morning, I'm like, really,

936
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 2: do we really have people watching? So that's another thing.

937
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 3: We don't feel bad for you, Courtsie. We're feeling bad

938
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,280
Speaker 3: for the players and the fans.

939
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks, I appreciate you, Sam, thanks for that. Thanks

940
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 2: for dropping the on me. All right, So the bottom

941
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 2: line is I'm going to ask you real quick, with

942
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: what you've seen so far at the French who's winning Wimbledon.

943
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 3: Oh, who's winning Wimbledon?

944
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 2: You know?

945
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with kind of like man out. I'm

946
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 3: not going to give you one guest, but I'm gonna

947
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 3: say it's gonna be someone like a like a tailor

948
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,720
Speaker 3: Fritz or Demono or you know, one of these guys

949
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 3: that's like ranked between like eight and fifteen on the

950
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 3: men's side and on the and on the on the

951
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 3: women's side. I'm going to go with sabal Anca. I

952
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 3: think just how hard she hits the ball, it's just

953
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 3: going to just fly through the grass. And so I'm

954
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 3: going to take her on the grass. But the men,

955
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 3: I think we're going to see kind of someone that

956
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 3: wor that's unassuming when their first Grand Slam.

957
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 2: Okay, our producer just texted on our chat that you're

958
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 2: drunk picking one of those guys. But it's okay because

959
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 2: if you're right, we get to give it to her,

960
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: and like I said, it's going to be like I'm sorry, Sam,

961
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 2: you were right. My prediction is Sinner. I think he

962
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,959
Speaker 2: wins Wimbledon, and if he does and wins the French

963
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 2: we'll look out because he's my favorite to win the

964
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 2: US Open because I think he's so good on that surface.

965
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: And I think Rebarkina is going to win Wimbledon again,

966
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: but we don't know, because Sabolanca could come good, we don't.

967
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 2: Eager's not super comfortable in grass on je Bersman in

968
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 2: the final a couple of times, so we don't know.

969
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 2: So my two picks are Rebarkina and Yanick Sinner. But

970
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 2: well we'll see, all right, guys, Well we did a

971
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 2: question for you in the last show with the one

972
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 2: and only Andy Roddick, Chris Evertt, Steffie Graff, Justine Enna,

973
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 2: Monica sell Us or Egis Fiantec. Which one of these

974
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: women has to win a match for you to save

975
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: your life on clay? Who are you picking? We've got

976
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 2: a lot of great responses and a lot of people

977
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 2: really loved Steffie fraeulein fourhand Steffie Graff, Steffie anywhere against

978
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 2: any woman that has ever played the game, Stephie, Steffie, Steffie.

979
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: There was also I don't know, you take some here, Sammy.

980
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 3: Good because I also wanted Steffie. I mean I would

981
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 3: have taken them all, but like Steffie was my pick too,

982
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 3: but you know, and like we said here with that

983
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 3: when we got kids to you to remember Christy ever

984
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 3: On clay, and that was like me, Chrissy was so

985
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 3: dominant on clay and kind of the current generation doesn't

986
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 3: know that she, you know, maybe didn't have as many

987
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 3: French Opens as the adult, but her record on clay,

988
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 3: especially at the French Open was one that will could

989
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 3: never be broken on the women's side of the game.

990
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 2: One hundred and twenty five consecutive matches on clay, are

991
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 2: you kidding?

992
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 3: Will never be broken? It's just say it will never

993
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 3: be broken.

994
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 2: That's insane. Oh god, so yes, a lot of Stepfie,

995
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 2: a lot of Chris Ever, there was a lot of

996
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: Monica sell Us as well before you know, sadly what

997
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 2: happened to her in Hamburg, Germany. But Monica was to

998
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 2: me probably the toughest player I ever saw play at

999
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 2: the French Open, and the nineteen ninety two final with

1000
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 2: stephie Graff was unbelievable, which Monica won. So listen, bottom

1001
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 2: line is, I don't even go wrong with picking any

1002
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: of those people, right exactly. I'll take Braffa and the

1003
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 2: men's and any of those ladies on the clay in Paris.

1004
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,320
Speaker 2: All right, So the next segment, okay for next week's

1005
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 2: question is We're going to do it right now, Which

1006
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 2: tennis content are you most excited about? Roger Federer's docu series,

1007
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 2: Andre Agassi and Stephie Gruff's movie, or Serena Williams doc

1008
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 2: you series. Tweet your answer to us, of course always

1009
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 2: at NBC Sports. Tag me and Sam in there as well. Well, Sam,

1010
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 2: you're not on Twitter, so don't worry about you, but

1011
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: I am so oh well, I'll retweet it. But bottom

1012
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 2: line is which tennis content are you most excited about?

1013
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 2: With Roger, Andre, Stephie and of course Serena's docuseries coming out,

1014
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: we can't wait to hear your answers. Thanks to joining

1015
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 2: us once again today. Thank you again course to the

1016
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 2: one and only great Lindsay Vaughn and everyone for joining

1017
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: us on the French Connection, brought to you by NBC

1018
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 2: Sports and Racket. The next episode is out Friday, June seventh.

1019
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 2: We look ahead to the finals of course at Roland

1020
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 2: Garris see then Sam. Thanks for joining me. The end today,

1021
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 2: and take it easy on the old crutch there.

1022
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 3: Well, don you've had two crutches and under one crutch.

1023
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 2: Next week will be no crush, all right, We're gonna

1024
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 2: see Sam with no crutches by the end of this

1025
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 2: French connection. All right, guys, thanks for joining us today.

1026
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Speaker 2: We'll see you next time.

1027
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: Sam, good luck with your Achilles.

1028
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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Only six more months before he's back to pickleballing.