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Speaker 1: The tennis season has started, yes, and so much.

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Speaker 2: We so happy about it. I'm not ready really know why.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like it's too soon. I

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Speaker 2: haven't gotten my head around what happened last year.

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Speaker 3: I feel like we're just barreling forward and do a

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Speaker 3: new season without me being comfortable with the next.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel if everyone needs more of

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Speaker 2: a time off than this.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's funny because I and hello, welcome everybody to

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Speaker 4: the podcast.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I have to.

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Speaker 4: It's funny because I read a tweet from Tommy Paul

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Speaker 4: yesterday that said the season said I don't know ver beata,

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Speaker 4: but it was basically him saying, the season is so long,

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Speaker 4: but I'm so ready to start again, because you know,

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Speaker 4: tennis players don't like to be idle too long.

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Speaker 2: They're ready to go. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's like rest versus rest. You don't want to be

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Speaker 2: They love playing tennis.

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Speaker 3: Sure. I mean, look at Veena, she's just given another

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Speaker 4: I've been and going to New Zealand at forty one

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Speaker 2: She's forty two years. Yeah, she's just unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: That she wants to keep playing and enjoy it, and

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Speaker 4: anyone who gives her shit about taking a waldcard, or

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Speaker 4: you need to really consider never following tennis.

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Speaker 3: Ever, I was really turned on to that line of

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Speaker 2: Who can make a decision about.

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Speaker 3: When they retire and whatever terms that they want to

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Speaker 3: a big title, like somebody like Ash Barty, after tumbling

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Speaker 2: It's not up to us, it's up to them.

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Speaker 3: And ever since then I was like, you know what,

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Speaker 3: Venus Williams, as long as she gets wildcards and likes

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Speaker 4: And some people will like, in particular in Australia, they're like, oh,

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Speaker 4: trying to make I said, do you know how many

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Speaker 4: young Aussies get wild cards every single year at the

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Speaker 4: against them, And it's the same at the US Open,

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Speaker 4: same with Wimbledon, the same with the French. You know,

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Speaker 4: going to give them to? We've got like seven to

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Speaker 2: Cup et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there are some players that really deserve it,

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Speaker 3: But there are also some that have gotten like six

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Speaker 4: So as far as I'm concerned, if Venus Williams wants

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Speaker 4: a day, including Andy Murray, people give him shit as

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Speaker 3: They put more bums in seats, and that's the spectators

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Speaker 3: want to see them. And the young almost without exception,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so cool to say, even.

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Speaker 3: If you're especially if you're young, especially if you're eighteen

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Speaker 2: Heyten, that's so cool.

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Speaker 1: You can see you overlapped with one of the greatest

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Speaker 2: That's amazing.

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Speaker 4: I played stephie Graff and Gabriella Smatini in the very

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Speaker 2: I got one into the singles. Yes, I did. But

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so you know, to play Gabby and Stephie on

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Speaker 4: So listen, Venus, I'm glad you're going. I'm glad you

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Speaker 3: But let's get onto the actual Australian Open from last.

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Speaker 2: Year or this year is still it's still not quite

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Speaker 3: This is a good moment because this technically is our

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Speaker 3: and we are now in a.

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Speaker 1: Sort of stock taking moment.

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Speaker 3: We're looking back and the best stuff that happened this year,

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Speaker 3: And based on this past year of tennis, I am

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Speaker 3: incredible because what a great year we had.

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Speaker 2: It was amazing.

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Speaker 4: Let's start at the Straine Open, because you know, the

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Speaker 2: I remember sitting in the President's box.

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Speaker 4: Actually one day I got an invite in there and

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Speaker 3: Dennis Dennis Shapovalov. That match was absolutely enthralling. It was incredible,

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Speaker 3: And then the match against Medvedev to me is equal

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Speaker 4: Had major chances to win those three points, played some

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Speaker 4: the match was over. I actually thought the match was over.

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Speaker 4: And he wins a point at love forty and He

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Speaker 3: Me whens the game comes back, gets to serve for

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Speaker 3: the match at five four and the fifth loses his serf,

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Speaker 3: Usually thinking about those moments of past defeat has a

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Speaker 4: Focused, is also thinking negative thoughts. But that's the difference

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Speaker 3: It's how then they quickly turn it around and said

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Speaker 2: Now he has to beat me. And actually, Medvedev played

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Speaker 4: The most incredible comebacks I've ever seen in tennis, particular

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Speaker 3: But he really has struggled loss. I think that loss

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Speaker 4: Affected him in a way that I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true, he didn't really make much of a

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Speaker 3: We also had an amazing story on the women's side.

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Speaker 3: It was Ashbardy the kind of crowning achievement what ended

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Speaker 3: Stray and Open. But she said that she's enjoying her life.

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Speaker 4: But I think mostly she's the only thing that she's

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Speaker 4: that therefore and pulling herself off the ranking list, and

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Speaker 4: therefore Eagle would go to number one the next week.

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Speaker 4: And I saw her that day in the parking lot,

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Speaker 4: and I saw Daria, her sports psychologists and her and

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Speaker 4: I said.

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Speaker 2: How she doing? And she can't looked at me like, oh,

448
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Speaker 2: you know, like I don't know if I'm ready for

449
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Speaker 2: this quite yet? Well, hell was she ever ready?

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Speaker 3: Now? She wins Indian Wells, She then wins Miami, She

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Speaker 3: wins every tournament leading up to.

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Speaker 1: The French She dusts.

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Speaker 2: Did everyone in the finals of Miami?

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Speaker 3: I mean everybody was like, oh, finally my name Osaka

455
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Speaker 3: decided to show up and play some tennis this here? Nope, no,

456
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Speaker 3: God dusted half a set against Ego.

457
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Speaker 4: Maybe Ega went from on a thirty seven match win streak,

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Speaker 4: which is the longest since the year two thousands, twenty

459
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Speaker 4: two years. It took someone to win that many matches,

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Speaker 4: and the last person do.

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Speaker 2: It was Venus Williams, which is why she deserves a walker.

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Speaker 3: She's never she hasn't she's not real comfortable on grass.

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Speaker 3: We'll see where she goes next year.

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Speaker 2: I do have a bet on with her.

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Speaker 3: If she makes the semis or better at wemblon, I

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Speaker 3: get a nice gift.

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Speaker 2: Oh, just a gift of any type. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: say which it is, but you know, but I know

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Speaker 2: what it is.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's like a stick dinner or it's better than that,

489
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Speaker 3: because you know, I told her she's got to be

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Speaker 3: a free psychological session.

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Speaker 2: Daria it. I'll show it to you if she gets there.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't There's.

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Speaker 4: Everyone out there pull for e gonna make the semi

494
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Speaker 4: felt better at Wimbledon this coming year.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's one of the most exciting things about noting

496
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Speaker 3: a player really at the top of her game, considering

497
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Speaker 3: what Ego went on to do for the rest of

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Speaker 3: the year, but also knowing that there's still more ceiling, right,

499
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Speaker 3: Like there's still such as Steal to improve, there's still

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Speaker 3: more room for her.

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Speaker 4: At the US opened about the balls and was not happy,

502
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Speaker 4: was not playing well there.

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Speaker 2: And guess what she does. She ends up winning the tourny.

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Speaker 3: She won the tournament pretty handily in the finals against

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Speaker 3: Os Druper, but she got better match after match after match.

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Speaker 2: Like that was the other thing.

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Speaker 1: She started off a little creaky, but then by.

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Speaker 3: The time she was in the semis finals, she was

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Speaker 3: I mean, she was just a level above everybody else,

510
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Speaker 3: which is saying a lot because I think in the

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Speaker 3: later stage of that tournament, in particular, you had Gussia

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Speaker 3: playing off her seat, I played off her mind. On's

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Speaker 3: was looking pretty unstoppable. Cocoa GF made another great, great

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Speaker 3: lead run, which let's pause for a second since we're

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Speaker 3: talking about the French at the moment, and just say,

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Speaker 3: Cocoa GoF somebody who had made her first Grand Slam

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Speaker 3: final in singles and doubles, in singles and doubles, made

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Speaker 3: the tour finals top eight singles and doubles, and she

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Speaker 3: has so much room to grow. She's gotten so much better,

520
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Speaker 3: and there's so much more, so much more room to

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Speaker 3: go to improve.

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Speaker 2: It's just fourhand.

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Speaker 4: Once she gets that forehand organized and confident, she will

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Speaker 4: definitely be the player to be in the next like

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Speaker 4: three years.

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Speaker 2: But she's got to get their forehand under control, and

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Speaker 2: the and the serve.

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Speaker 3: There's there's kinks in the serve that I don't like

529
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Speaker 3: as well. So if she can square away those two,

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Speaker 3: the serve and the forehand, she's gonna have.

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Speaker 2: An amazing And she's already incredible.

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Speaker 4: So you know, I'm and you know I want to

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Speaker 4: give props while we're at it to Jessica Bagoula, her

534
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Speaker 4: doubles partner in the finals of the French Open. What

535
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Speaker 4: an amazing year, made the top man three in the world,

536
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Speaker 4: number three in the world. I think about where she

537
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Speaker 4: was three years ago during the pandemic.

538
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Speaker 3: Didn't even get an invitation into this Charleston exhibition that

539
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Speaker 3: I went down with Jeannie Bouchard in.

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Speaker 2: She couldn't even get in on the American team to play.

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Speaker 3: And she was there practicing and went and played this

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Speaker 3: event in Lexington, Kentucky, a money event as well.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I just think.

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Speaker 4: About the hours that she's put in with David Witt

545
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Speaker 4: and what an incredible job he's done with her. To

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Speaker 4: get to number three in the world is absolutely unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: She wins Guadalajara her first one thousand victory. I mean,

548
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Speaker 4: it took her years to win a tournament, and then

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Speaker 4: she won that tournament in Washington, DC and really with

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Speaker 4: David and hasn't looked back. And so Jess, super proud

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Speaker 4: of you. Also an alarm of the pod Jessica as also.

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Speaker 3: I just want to shout out to jess Pogola for

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Speaker 3: having the coolest post match press conference. AVI she really

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Speaker 3: did with the BF I mean just generally de ribes

555
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Speaker 3: and then add a beer on top of it. She's

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Speaker 3: just like the person most likely to want.

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Speaker 2: To hang out the bar. Yeah, got married. I mean,

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Speaker 2: she just had a great year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a big Jeff Pagola fan. Maybe the Bills

560
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Speaker 3: will give her something to jump start her season with

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Speaker 3: and she would like the role she would like, and

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Speaker 3: then we'll have another great Jess Googola run. One of

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Speaker 3: a few Americans who had a really, really great year.

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Speaker 2: I don't really go in.

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Speaker 1: For the nationalism stuff because that doesn't matter to me

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Speaker 1: where people.

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Speaker 2: Are from generally.

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Speaker 3: But it is exciting after having had a bit of

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Speaker 3: a dearth of exciting young talent here in the States

570
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Speaker 3: to have not won in Cocoa several or Jets, but

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Speaker 3: Francis and others, Taylor Fritz winning Indian Wells, like, we've

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Speaker 3: had an exciting kind of Francis's run at the US

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Speaker 3: Open was unbelievable, like just everything. So American tennis is

574
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Speaker 3: looking really healthy and young, which is good, right, I

575
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Speaker 3: want to go to just as far as Wimbledon, I mean,

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Speaker 3: the ban on the Russians and Belarussians that was I

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Speaker 3: think a pr disaster for Wimbledon. I think the ATP

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Speaker 3: and WTA also handled it woefully. It was just a

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Speaker 3: disaster of an event in some ways because of that.

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Speaker 3: But Rabakina, I mean, when she plays at her best,

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Speaker 3: she is she takes the it.

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Speaker 2: Out of your hand.

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Speaker 4: She's got a massive serve, just hits the shit out

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Speaker 4: of the ball. I mean, I mean she made Eat

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Speaker 4: look pretty pretty average the other day at that event

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Speaker 4: in Dubai. I know it's an exhibition, and also there's

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Speaker 4: no ad, which makes a big difference because if you're

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Speaker 4: a big server and a big hitter, you can sort

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Speaker 4: of win games really easily. So I don't put a

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Speaker 4: lot of credence in it. But it is still a

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Speaker 4: big win. But that was Ons to win. I thought,

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Speaker 4: you know, Ons had was probably.

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Speaker 1: The I think Ans would agree with you.

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Speaker 4: But I see Ons really threatening again at Wimbledon next

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Speaker 4: year because she has just such variety and or dropshot

596
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Speaker 4: of such killer on.

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Speaker 3: My hook with Ons is having seen her have a

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Speaker 3: pretty good year year before last and a great year

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Speaker 3: this year where she very credibly could have won two

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Speaker 3: Grand slams, or at least one because she was up

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Speaker 3: in that call it. Well, it's also you see, I

602
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Speaker 3: think players and Google is another one where they get

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Speaker 3: to that level on the either panic or they get

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Speaker 3: comfortable and they say, okay, well.

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Speaker 1: I deserve to be here. I expect this of myself.

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Speaker 3: And my hope for her is that tennis just watching

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Speaker 3: her variety, watching her personality, watching how excited she makes

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Speaker 3: the entirety of the Arab world engaged. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: kind of similar to seeing Morocco do so well at

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Speaker 3: the World Cup. It's like tennis is great when it

611
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Speaker 3: draws on talent, pools and traditions and vistas and tournament

612
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Speaker 3: locations from all these different and I mean looks she

613
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Speaker 3: wants it. You know, the Karen Kransky Award as well.

614
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Speaker 3: So she's so beloved on the tour. So I have

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Speaker 3: a really strong showing from Arms this year and chout

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Speaker 3: out because she's on the cover of Vulgaribia right now,

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Speaker 3: looking like.

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Speaker 1: She's ready to solve some crimes.

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Speaker 2: Looks like a cool detective.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, so we get to the summer US Open

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Speaker 4: period of time. I mean, what an incredible run from

622
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Speaker 4: Alcarez to win the US Open. Unbelievable. This kid is

623
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Speaker 4: so exciting, so fun. But of course Novak misses out

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Speaker 4: the US Open.

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Speaker 3: Again because he's not vaccinated, and you know, this is

626
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Speaker 3: just the issue all year.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully this is just over with now.

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Speaker 4: As far as situation is concerned. But you know, Novak

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Speaker 4: may have cost himself two or three Grand Slams this year,

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Speaker 4: which you know clearly he wins Wimbledon playing unbelievable to

631
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Speaker 4: us again beating Nick. We've got to mention Nick Curios's

632
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Speaker 4: run at Wimbledon. Of course, he got a default in

633
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Speaker 4: the semis over Rafa over I was looking forward to

634
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Speaker 4: that and a shout out to Taylor Fritz after winning

635
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Speaker 4: indiw Wells and then making an I mean that match

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Speaker 4: at Wimbledon was that could go up as one of

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Speaker 4: the best matches of the year, losing to Rafa and

638
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Speaker 4: that unbelievable five setter. But Nick, you know, shout us

639
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Speaker 4: all that he can get through to a Grand Slam final,

640
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Speaker 4: so look out if he stays healthy and fit. He

641
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 4: played great after that. He won the singles and the

642
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Speaker 4: doubles at Washington. He was a threat again at US Open.

643
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Speaker 2: Beat Medvedev.

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Speaker 3: I mean, just you know, when he wants to play

645
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Speaker 3: and he's fit and healthy.

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Speaker 2: Look out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really disappointed in the way that he

648
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Speaker 3: contended that Wembledon final.

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Speaker 1: I thought he tucked himself out of it and.

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Speaker 2: Give the match to Novak. No, I think you know

651
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Speaker 2: what his problem was.

652
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Speaker 3: I think he finally got beat by a guy it

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Speaker 3: was just fitter than him.

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Speaker 2: There's one point I can't remember when it were it

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Speaker 2: was a set.

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Speaker 4: There was a third set when it was really a tussle,

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Speaker 4: and there was about a thirty ball rally and I

658
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Speaker 4: don't remember the score, but it was like a thirty

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Speaker 4: ball rally that Novak ended up winning. And I swear

660
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Speaker 4: to you after that point and I said to everyone

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Speaker 4: in the room, he's done physically.

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Speaker 2: He was done.

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Speaker 3: After that point. And that's when he started getting the

664
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 3: shits with the.

665
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 4: Crowd, the drunk lady in the front and yelling at

666
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 4: his box together a reason to Liz.

667
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, he kind of held it together until then.

668
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 3: I think inside of him he knew he couldn't physically

669
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 3: last after that, and I think that that his default

670
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 3: mechanism then is to get angry at everyone else because.

671
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 2: He knows we can't. And it's it's look, a.

672
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 3: Psychologist could have a real field Day working with him

673
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 3: on a consistent basis to work out where it comes from.

674
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 4: I've talked to you about this. I think he was

675
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 4: bullied really badly as a kid.

676
00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: Clearly he's working with a lighter baggage for sure.

677
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 4: I think that there's a lot going on there, and

678
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 4: I think when he realizes that he can't win, he

679
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 4: gets really angry, and he gets he starts blaming other

680
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 4: people instead of looking in respectively at himself.

681
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 2: And it's not a slight on Nick.

682
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 3: This is just I see that players being able to

683
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 3: improve not only physically, but.

684
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: Also mentally and emotionally.

685
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 3: And to his credit, he cared, I think the first

686
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: time in a very long time, and afterwards shape I

687
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 3: think is really meaningful and I think is a real

688
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 3: step forward, as scary as it must be for him to,

689
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: you know, deeply care and then lose.

690
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 2: So I think that's this he takes.

691
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 3: Away from that, you know, some some real progress to

692
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 3: build on. Let's hope given this February court date that

693
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 3: you know he's.

694
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: Still got a few things to deal with us. Clearly

695
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: he's clearly got some some stuff got I will say.

696
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 4: Well, at Washington when I did interview him a couple

697
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 4: of times I was there working at the tournament, and

698
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: You've just looked and felt like a little different guy,

699
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 4: just the way answered questions and stuff. And I think

700
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 4: getting to the final Wimbledon made him feel pretty good

701
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,479
Speaker 4: about himself.

702
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 2: So let's hope that continues throughout next year.

703
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,479
Speaker 4: And of course Alcaa is winning unbelievable and we know

704
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 4: what Eager Sciontech did there by winning another Grand Slam

705
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 4: and a tournament that she was not happy with the balls, etc.

706
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 3: We talked about, Yeah, winning when you're feeling great and

707
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 3: being all the conditions are in your favor feels amazing. Yeah,

708
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 3: I can remembred that feeling from juniors in college, winning

709
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 3: when you're not feeling good, when you don't like the conditions,

710
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 3: when the service isn't going your way, and with the

711
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 3: balls or too heavy or.

712
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 2: Whatever they were for her, it feels good.

713
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: That's really something.

714
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 4: But I guess the tournament, the US Open, is two things.

715
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 4: It had the match of the year. There's no question.

716
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 3: With Alcarez and Sinner, I hope we see them play,

717
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 3: as you said earlier, for the next ten to fifteen years.

718
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 4: Too wonderful, guys. I mean when I say nice guys.

719
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 4: I'm saying nice guys. They are both such nice kids.

720
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 4: They say a low to everybody. They're so respectful. I

721
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 4: did an interview with Alcarez this year at Wimbledon, and

722
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 4: he thanked every body in the stuff, like the crew,

723
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 4: the sound guys, the cameraman.

724
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 2: He shook everyone's hand. I was like, does he know

725
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 2: these people? Like he just is the nicest kid. But

726
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: I guess the storyline really of the US Open as Serena.

727
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 4: I mean, what happened the first week with Serena was

728
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 4: just incredible.

729
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 2: Obviously for me, it was very personal. I was part

730
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: of it.

731
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 4: It was a moment that I look back on now

732
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 4: and just think, wow, I'm I'm so proud I was

733
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 4: a part of that with her, to see her from

734
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: the age of twelve years of age and then to

735
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 4: see her walk away from the game, and it was

736
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 4: such an incredible week. I'm so glad she won a

737
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 4: couple of matches and felt good about her tennis, even

738
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 4: to the point that she probably thought about maybe I

739
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 4: can play more, you know, But yeah, Look, it was

740
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 4: just incredible. The crowd noise was just unbelievable. I've never

741
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 4: heard anything like it. In my life, the support she

742
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 4: got at the US Open. So it was a beautiful

743
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 4: send off. The only thing it would have been better

744
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 4: if she won the tournament, but realistically that was going

745
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 4: to be pretty tough with lack of matches over the year.

746
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 4: But that was an amazing moment for me and I

747
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 4: think for the tennis world to Psy goodbye, and I

748
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 4: think she acquitted herself exceptionally.

749
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 2: She competed, she went.

750
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 3: Down swinging, and she had, you know, I think a

751
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 3: fitting send off between on court soaking up the love

752
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: of that crowd, the sight of her first Grand Slam

753
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 3: victory at age nineteen, but also having all of these

754
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: amazing cultural moments, being on the cover of Bogue, having

755
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 3: the Fashion Week appearances, and just really getting to sort

756
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 3: of everything step into this moment and sort of soak

757
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 3: it in. So yeah, I mean, looking back on it

758
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: six months later now and facing a tour year without

759
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 3: her and without the other famous person who was going

760
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 3: to get to there is a really interesting changed landscape. Yeah,

761
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: I mean, we hadn't had Roger and Serena around for

762
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 3: the last like twelve months really, other than you know,

763
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 3: Serena's magical run at the US Open, and that first

764
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 3: round match at Wimbledon, which was pretty dramatic in to say,

765
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 3: at least Harmony Tan you can never forget that name.

766
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 3: But but you know, Roger send Off, I mean I

767
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 3: was bawling my eyes out.

768
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 2: I know you were just like, oh, I'm glad he's

769
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: finally gone for this.

770
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 3: To be But you know, I get personal emails and

771
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 3: Instagram messages from people that hate you for that, the

772
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 3: three disgruntled, Well, you know, it's a bit much. I mean,

773
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 3: he gave so much of the game. I love the guy.

774
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 4: He's always been such a gentleman, such a nice person

775
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 4: to myself personally. I will miss him being around because

776
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 4: I love that just that magnetic walk, that just that's

777
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 4: everything about him. The most beautiful tennis player I've ever

778
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 4: seen play, that one handed backhand.

779
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: Everything about him was just classy.

780
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 4: And to see him like just crying his eyes out

781
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 4: with Rafa just bawling his eyes out, it was just

782
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 4: such a beautiful moment for men, you know, for I

783
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 4: just to see two great athletes realizing that the end

784
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 4: was there and how much they appreciated each other and

785
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 4: what they'd both gone.

786
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: Through, and it's a really beautiful emotional.

787
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

788
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 3: It was pretty amazing. So sadly both of them are gone,

789
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 3: but listen, we've got.

790
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 2: A lot world forward to.

791
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 3: My hope is that, just as you mentioned Nash, body

792
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: is gonna hopefully be doing some tennis commentating for Australian

793
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 3: networks during the forthcoming Slam.

794
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: We're going to have Roger at Wimbledon.

795
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 2: I think for the BBC. You're hearing.

796
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: That's what I've That's what's been reported a couple of

797
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 3: different places.

798
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see what ESPN.

799
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 4: Does as well, because I don't know if he's there

800
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,280
Speaker 4: for the b and I don't know anything.

801
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 3: This is a cure speculation. You all know that I

802
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 3: work for ESPAM, but we haven't. I haven't heard anything.

803
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 4: But my god, if we got Roger on some of

804
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 4: the coverage, oh going to be so awesome. We got

805
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 4: to talk a couple of just little side bits.

806
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 3: Obviously, Team Dominic Team, let's see where he can keep

807
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 3: going to tennis tour is better with him healthy, competing

808
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 3: bringing that incredible like just doggedness. Still the best twin

809
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 3: or I've ever seen was committed at full speed by

810
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: Dominic Team. I play a couple of years ago, and

811
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 3: you know that risk injury is not it's not because

812
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 3: this guy has been in the comeback process now going

813
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 3: on two seasons, and he had some brief.

814
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 2: Starting to get there though. I think he started to

815
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 2: get there.

816
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: Let's hope for next year we get a rejuvenated team

817
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 3: back on tour because it's better with him in it,

818
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 3: much better.

819
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 2: And of course Severev he's back as well.

820
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 4: So you know, two really players that we thought were

821
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: maybe going to take over the mantle, they're back playing.

822
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,320
Speaker 4: You know how we both feel about Zverev and everything

823
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 4: that happens, and.

824
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 2: Tennis is not the issue.

825
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 3: He's playing some good tennis before he went down with

826
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 3: that high ankle injury in the French Open. Let's see

827
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 3: how that case gets resolved. One thing that we didn't

828
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 3: talk about. Can I just go back to Wimbledon is

829
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 3: the run of Tatiana Maria. Think.

830
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 4: I think if there's a fairy tale story this year,

831
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 4: we have to give it to Tatiana.

832
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 3: Maria to make a semi final Wimbledon as a mom of.

833
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 4: Two doing it for the most. You know, came back,

834
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 4: she had her second child the year. We've already talked

835
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 4: about this.

836
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 3: She played for six months, and that's why I don't

837
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 3: think she should have got Comeback.

838
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 2: Player of the Year.

839
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 4: That should have been Dariya Gavelop But we've already discussed

840
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 4: this for all our tennis podcast.

841
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: People know.

842
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 4: But her run at Wimbledon was so magical. I've never

843
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 4: I cried every time she won. She's the nicest person

844
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 4: in the world. Her husband's the greatest guy. Her kids

845
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 4: are amazing, Like, there's just.

846
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 2: Nothing pets couldn't be, just nothing you can't say about.

847
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 2: It's got a great couch, she's got a one handed

848
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 2: bats and.

849
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 3: Her fridge are always cold and served over a she

850
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 3: had a two handed backhand and went to the one handed.

851
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 4: I respect that is unbelievable that she chopping and slicing

852
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 4: her way to a semberfinal. Wer It was an amazing story.

853
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: It was one of Dan Evans of Women's game.

854
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 2: Totally love you, We love you, Tatiana. Actually, let's get her.

855
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 3: On the pod.

856
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, got to go. But what else?

857
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: I don't know when she's going to be.

858
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 2: She's on the cover, she's going to be. She's on

859
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 2: the cover of record magazines.

860
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 3: And I remember you putting Musuka on the cover of

861
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 3: Racket magazine years before.

862
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 2: She was number one. Well speak, let's just say, where

863
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: is Naomi Essa? Dude, Nami asaka.

864
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 3: One thing I want for her And we've said this

865
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 3: a little bit on the past podcast. The world's highest

866
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 3: paid female athlete raking in fifty one million dollars last year.

867
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 3: I think she raked in about fifty million dollars a

868
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 3: year before she's doing. Just find the bank account department,

869
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: if you need to get intensive help, support, if you

870
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 3: need to take a sabbatical, but please just do what

871
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 3: you need to do, because I for me, it's really

872
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 3: tough to see a player who's.

873
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: Obviously not enjoying the sport as.

874
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: Much as she's obviously. Look at ash body.

875
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 3: Look she accomplished winning the French Open Wimbledon. Astraie opened

876
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 3: and said back, yeah for the second time, because she

877
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 3: wasn't happy in the first time. And I don't think

878
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 3: she ever really longed to tend us to that way.

879
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 3: And she didn't love traveling, and she didn't love being

880
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 3: away from her family, and she didn't like the pressure

881
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:56,959
Speaker 3: and all.

882
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:57,479
Speaker 2: That sort of stuff.

883
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 4: And I think Naomi is very similar in that respect

884
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 4: to her family life is a little bit more complicated

885
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 4: than ashes. But yeah, I mean, it's clear that she's

886
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 4: not happy, but boy, you know, it'd be great if

887
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 4: she was happy and got back on the tenn.

888
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 3: Listen when she plays lights out tennis like that Miami

889
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 3: run where you're thinking, oh, hey, maybe she's into this again.

890
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 2: She looked great up until that final against Ego.

891
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 3: So it is interesting to see Naomi's name at the

892
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 3: top of all these lists as earning all this money,

893
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 3: which you know, look great work if you can get it,

894
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 3: don't don't you know, don't.

895
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: Let me talk you out of a fifty million dollar check.

896
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 3: But you know, it is a little disappointing when when

897
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,479
Speaker 3: she's obviously seemingly doing it for just the appearance fees

898
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 3: or just the you know, sponsor obligations, and it's tough

899
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 3: to reconcile that with a very very clearly unhappy person.

900
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 4: Speaking of unhappy, what about Simona Hallan, what's going on there?

901
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 2: What is going on there?

902
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 4: We haven't heard much, but I don't know. Apparently, I

903
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 4: don't know someone's going to get thrown under the bus there.

904
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: I don't know who it's going to be, but I

905
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 4: think someone from her team is going to get thrown

906
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 4: under the bus and I don't know any information, so.

907
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: I don't think that I do. But this is.

908
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 4: I mean, I really want to make I really want

909
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 4: this to not be true, and I just have to

910
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 4: fall on the side. I don't believe she would take

911
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 4: anything unknowingly, but do you think it could be a

912
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 4: Maria sherpop a situation where somebody who she trusted to

913
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 4: keep up with the stuff and the supplements and don't know.

914
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 4: I mean, listen, Darren Cahill put it out that he

915
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 4: said anything that she would take, she would double and

916
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 4: triple check every time. And I believe Darren, He's not

917
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 4: going to make that up. He's not going to say

918
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 4: that complicated. He just wouldn't say anything. So I just

919
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 4: really believe, you know, from Darren's perspective, for him to

920
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 4: say that out loud, it just makes me feel like

921
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 4: she wouldn't knowingly put something in her system to cheat.

922
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 4: But listen, I guess we'll find out at some point.

923
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 4: But at this moment in time, she ain't playing tennis.

924
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: Which is really weird because you know, again we look

925
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 3: at some of the past greats, Naomi's not really playing

926
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 3: much tennis.

927
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 2: Someone is out of.

928
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: The game Serena like Kuber, I mean Mozletop she had

929
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: a kid.

930
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: Awesome news. Maybe she'll come back. We've lost Andy Petkovich.

931
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 3: We lost Andrea Petkovic, the most of the world's most

932
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 3: compelling tennis player. You know, it's it's a remade landscape.

933
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 3: And you want, as we were just talking about Zverevan

934
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 3: team and all these guys, you want the best coward

935
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 3: of players, right, you want the most competitive, most amazing melange,

936
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 3: at least I do.

937
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: I don't like when the.

938
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: Season's a foregun conclusion.

939
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 3: I more players playing well, being happy, exceeding. I want

940
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 3: to see Carolyne Garcia RTT back up her great run

941
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: where I think her run started when she won the

942
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 3: French Open.

943
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 4: Doubles as well, So anybody else onto play doubles, Okay,

944
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 4: get some totally get some match wins. Look at Nick

945
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 4: Kurios winning the strain iplan and goes on a great

946
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 4: run and wins a French Open.

947
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 2: Has an unbleagual.

948
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 4: Season immediately after that, because I think it gave her

949
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 4: a ton of confidence.

950
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: Also, I love when the players take competing for their

951
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 3: country really seriously.

952
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: Canada lifted the Davis Cup Trophy this year.

953
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: I don't need to say that to you as somebody

954
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 3: who made a run seem finally breaks the curse of

955
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 3: getting into all these consecutive finals and lose by winning

956
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: ends of the season by hoisting the Davis Cup Trophy

957
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 3: over his had credits fellow Canadians and looks like going

958
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: into the twenty twenty three season a totally different player,

959
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: somebody who always had the talent, always had the movement,

960
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 3: always had the beautiful technique, but maybe not the sort

961
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 3: of stick to itiveness or big moment matchplay toughness, and

962
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 3: now all of a sudden, it looks like a different

963
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 3: guy like that to me is so exciting thinking about, Okay,

964
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 3: hopefully these guys continue the momentum into the next year,

965
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 3: and he's one of them.

966
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 4: One player I think we need to have a little

967
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 4: think about for next year that I think might have

968
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 4: a decent run is Sloan Stevens. She's hired Francisca Roy

969
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 4: who was obviously with Raffaelanda for a number of years

970
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 4: twenty years almost, and I think that's a big step

971
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,439
Speaker 4: for a Sloan. He was working with Sloane a little

972
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 4: bit at the end of last year, so I know

973
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 4: at the US Open.

974
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: He was there at Cincinnati.

975
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 4: He was there and he was helping her, but he

976
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 4: wasn't full full time with her, giving her every bit

977
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 4: of attention. So I think this is a big hire

978
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 4: because to me, it's Sloan saying all right, I'm going

979
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 4: to give this one really good shot because for me,

980
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 4: when Sloane's out her best, she can beat anybody in

981
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,800
Speaker 4: the world. I thought she could have won five Grand Slams.

982
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 4: She's only got that US Open only. I mean, i'd

983
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 4: take it, I'd take.

984
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 3: It, sure, But but I think she's she's she's unbeatable.

985
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 3: She should have won the French Open the year. So

986
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 3: I think this is a big hire.

987
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 4: And I think there's this letting everyone know listen, I'm

988
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 4: really serious because she kind of since Kamala Murray and

989
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 4: you know him in and out and random coaching. This

990
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 4: is a big statement by her saying all right, I'm

991
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 4: serious about this year. So look out for Sloan Stevens

992
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 4: next year twenty twenty three.

993
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: Oh, I hope that prediction comes true. That may to

994
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: take me very.

995
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 2: Out because speaking of.

996
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 3: Him, Sloan is just so great on the mic everything.

997
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 3: Very few people are as fun she's philanthropic, she's cool,

998
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 3: she's smart, she's funny, and she went to Africa. She

999
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 3: can stand in holidays, bat it back and forth with

1000
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 3: the journals in a way that's like.

1001
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 2: Cool and fun. I just I have nothing.

1002
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 3: She's a great commentator, like when she's done her guest

1003
00:42:54,040 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 3: stints unfredible. Yeah, So a healthy, engaged, competitive Sloan again.

1004
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: So that's my breakout for next year and the women's.

1005
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 4: In the men's, we'll see my fingers across the dominic

1006
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 4: team that he has a great run.

1007
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 2: But I predicted a.

1008
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 3: Couple of months ago that maybe it's called Darren Kale's

1009
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 3: coaching him, and I love Darren and I love Yannick,

1010
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 3: but I think Janick sin is going to really surprise

1011
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 3: a lot of people next year. So I'm hoping that

1012
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 3: those two are my standouts for next year.

1013
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. But twenty twenty two was amazing.

1014
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 3: There was a lot of Rockie moments between vaccinations, Wimbledon,

1015
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 3: the Hull thing, Serena retiring, Rogers retiring, But it was

1016
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 3: a great, fun year.

1017
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: Great year.

1018
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:37,959
Speaker 3: I want to see a few people do much better.

1019
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 3: And by those people, I don't mean tennis players. I

1020
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 3: want the Tennis channel to do dramatically better. I want

1021
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 3: the governing bodies to do dramatically better. The fact that

1022
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 3: we had an empty stadium for the WTA Tour Finals

1023
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 3: was unacceptable. Yep. The fact that these schedules and the

1024
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 3: travel necessitated by the players, the fact that there's new

1025
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 3: competitions but they're not necessarily in to the fold. It's

1026
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: an unenviable job running a governing body and a sport,

1027
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: and Tennis has with the Slam countries no fewer than

1028
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 3: seven yep. That said get your shit together, get your

1029
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 3: shit together. There's no excuse for this sport, which is beloved,

1030
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 3: which is growing, and which is poised to explode even

1031
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 3: further with the airing next month of the Netflix seriest

1032
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 3: break Point, brought.

1033
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: To you by the same production company Box to Box

1034
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: that did Drive.

1035
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,399
Speaker 3: To Get Your Shit Together. Just let's get our shit

1036
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 3: together twenty twenty three. Yeh, governing bodies, this is on you, guys.

1037
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 2: Get it together.

1038
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 3: Marketing for the WTA, get your marketing together. I'm sick

1039
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,240
Speaker 3: and tired of it. I've spoken to them a hundred

1040
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 3: times about this.

1041
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 2: They're marketing.

1042
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 4: I know they don't have that much money, But get

1043
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 4: your shit together with marketing. You do it, and I

1044
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,760
Speaker 4: mean this with all my heart. You stink at it. Okay,

1045
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 4: the marketing for the WTA is horrendous. It is run

1046
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 4: really shoddily half the time. I think we and I

1047
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 4: love Steve Simon, but we need new leadership. I believe

1048
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 4: that at the WTA. I think the ATP are doing

1049
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 4: a better job on that front, even though they've had

1050
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 4: their moments. If Grand slams, everybody's let's get our shit

1051
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 4: together and Tennis Channel stop showing pickaball it's terrible, all right.

1052
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 3: Positive note twenty twenty three is around the corner. It's

1053
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 3: going to bring some amazing tennis narratives. And now after

1054
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 3: our chat, I am inspired. I will go and turn

1055
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 3: on the TV and get re engaged. I just needed

1056
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 3: a breathere to.

1057
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: Reset because I care so much for it. That's why

1058
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: I care so much.

1059
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 2: I know we do.

1060
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 4: We care a lot, We care a lot, care a lot.

1061
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 4: We love you guys. Thank you for listening to us,

1062
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 4: Thank you for this. Happy twenty twenty two. Have you

1063
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 4: had a great Christmas and you'll have an amazing new year.

1064
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 2: Happy Hearneker, all that sort of stuff. We'll see you

1065
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty thirty. Everybody bite back.