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Speaker 2: Yes, welcome everyone to the French Connection, brought to you

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Speaker 2: by NBC Sports and Racket. We'll be covering the tennis,

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Speaker 2: as you know, from the French Open right through the

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Speaker 2: Olympics back in Paris at Roland Garros, and we'll cover

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Speaker 2: everything in between. Today we have a very special guest

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Speaker 2: alongside of me, of course, is Sam Query. What way

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Speaker 2: Sam Query, of course joining me again, and the one

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Speaker 2: and only former world number one US Open champion, the

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Speaker 2: one and only Andy Roddick. Hi, Andy, thanks for joining

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Speaker 2: us today, buddy.

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Speaker 1: How are your friends?

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Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, you were here.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate this is cool. Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 2: But before we get into that, Andy, I want to

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Speaker 2: ask you, on a personal level, give us your best

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Speaker 1: Oh that's easy. It's the easiest thing, well one that

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Speaker 3: Know now, right right? I mean, there were so many

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Speaker 1: protecting something. I promise you one is a lot more fun.

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Speaker 1: And watching Osaka now it feels like you're watching her

434
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Speaker 1: gaining on something, kind of hunting as opposed to being hunted.

435
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Speaker 3: Great absolutely moving over to the men's side of Thames.

436
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Speaker 3: When Novak won his first round on Tuesday, I stated

437
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Speaker 3: that I didn't think he was playing great. I was

438
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Speaker 3: worried about and he didn't seem engaged. Fast forward to today,

439
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Speaker 3: I feel like you looked incredible and I'm changing my sentiment.

440
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Speaker 3: And now I'm going to say I think Novak's the

441
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Speaker 3: overwhelming favorite to win the tournament after watching him today.

442
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Speaker 3: What do you think about Novak's game after watching him

443
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Speaker 3: today compared to last week and kind of the year

444
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Speaker 3: that he's happened.

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Speaker 1: Jeez, Sam, you're changing your mind like a fart in

446
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Speaker 1: the winman.

447
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Speaker 3: I could go back and forth with Novak.

448
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so, I'll give you an example of

449
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Speaker 1: kind of my version of what you just said. We

450
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Speaker 1: did a we did a live drawl show, so the

451
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Speaker 1: first time I was seeing the draw was kind of

452
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Speaker 1: live on our on our podcast, and that was kind

453
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Speaker 1: of fun, but it was weird how you kind of

454
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Speaker 1: had to take into account what you're talking about a

455
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Speaker 1: little bit. So I was going match by match and

456
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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I can't bet again. I don't have

457
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Speaker 1: the stones to actually bet against Novak in any one

458
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Speaker 1: of these matchups, right, LUSSETI you go through Tommy Paul.

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Speaker 1: I love Tommy Paul. Is he ready three out of

460
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Speaker 1: five sets? And then I get to Zverev in the

461
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Speaker 1: semis and I'm going, Okay, well, Zara is playing better,

462
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Speaker 1: so maybe he's the favorite. But then I Remember, if

463
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Speaker 1: Novak makes the Semis, he's a different animal, Like he's

464
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Speaker 1: a different he's a completely different human, right, So it's

465
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Speaker 1: hard to kind of check forward twelve days and then

466
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Speaker 1: make your decision. So I had him going to the final,

467
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Speaker 1: not because I think he's playing you know, you know,

468
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Speaker 1: a top ten level at this moment, but if he

469
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Speaker 1: gets to that quarters or the semis, and he has

470
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Speaker 1: four or five matches behind him, like hell, I'm going

471
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Speaker 1: to bet against him. There's there's just there's just no chance.

472
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Speaker 1: So I think that's right, And and we're going to

473
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Speaker 1: kind of default to the person. Since this draw on

474
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Speaker 1: the men's side is so wide open, we can't put

475
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Speaker 1: too much stock in the winners of the tournaments because

476
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Speaker 1: half the favorites were there. People were default it was.

477
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Speaker 1: It's the kind of toughest thing to get a grasp

478
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Speaker 1: on on form, And so the easiest way to go

479
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: about it is who do I want to bet against

480
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Speaker 1: the least? And the name, the name that stands out

481
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Speaker 1: there is Novak, especially because he's not dealing with an

482
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Speaker 1: injury like a Sinner or an Alcoraz, I don't have

483
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Speaker 1: him winning. But as I was kind of progressing through

484
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Speaker 1: the draw. You know, if he had to play Tommy

485
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Speaker 1: Paul first round, I'm like, oh, well, Tommy's got a shot,

486
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Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, he's a week eight days in.

487
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Speaker 1: It completely changed the way that you you digest the matchups.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and listen, he has a little bit on the

489
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Speaker 2: line here because if he doesn't win the tournament and

490
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Speaker 2: you know, Yanick is there, he's going to be the

491
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Speaker 2: world number one again. He will be the new world

492
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Speaker 2: number one in Yanick Cinna, which is pretty amazing. And frankly,

493
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Speaker 2: he has been the best player in the world on

494
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Speaker 2: the ATP this year Yanick Sinner, So if he does

495
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Speaker 2: get there, he certainly deserves it. So just your thoughts, Andy,

496
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Speaker 2: on the bottom half of the draw. Of course it

497
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Speaker 2: will be Sinner or Alcaraz probably, we don't know what's

498
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Speaker 2: going to happen. Both of those two are struggle a

499
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Speaker 2: little bit, as you said, with injuries. But you know,

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Speaker 2: just your thoughts on Yanick and how he looks, and

501
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Speaker 2: also Alcaraz and just my thing on Alcaraz. I felt

502
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Speaker 2: like even you know, his last match where he to DeJong,

503
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Speaker 2: he just kind of like he still has that youthful

504
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Speaker 2: moments right where he just kind of drifts off. I

505
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Speaker 2: don't know where he goes, and all of a sudden

506
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Speaker 2: he's like, oh, oh, that's right, I got to finish

507
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Speaker 2: this match off. Like he still has that youthful sort

508
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Speaker 2: of lack of you know, just zoning in sometimes and

509
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Speaker 2: winning in three sets. So just your thoughts on those

510
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Speaker 2: two guys and how they're looking.

511
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, listen, all of the opinions coming in

512
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: are purely based on health, right, Yeah, we know Alcaraz

513
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: can and will win this tournament. I had some question

514
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Speaker 1: marks about center on the surface last second round last year,

515
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Speaker 1: and then I saw him playing Monty Carlo in the

516
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Speaker 1: that he was moving and I'm going, okay, so that's that's,

517
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Speaker 1: you know, kind of transition over. No problem. I actually

518
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Speaker 1: have Ciner winning, and it's I don't feel good about

519
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Speaker 1: any prediction I made because it's so upside down to

520
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: Carlos specifically, and the question you're asking. I was with

521
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Speaker 1: Agasy at the event we did in Vegas when when

522
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Speaker 1: Alcarez played inn ad All and we kind of came

523
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Speaker 1: to this consensus that the problem with having all the

524
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Speaker 1: options is that it takes time to learn when to

525
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Speaker 1: use all the options. Like dummies like me and Sam.

526
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Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, we're gonna try to surf through you.

527
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Speaker 1: Then we're going to try to smoke something, and you know,

528
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Speaker 1: we move fined for guys that don't move great like

529
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Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what we had to deal with.

530
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Speaker 1: But we weren't hitting job shots or floating or coming in.

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Speaker 1: The options were limited, so it provided a little bit

532
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Speaker 1: of of clarity. With Alcoraz, It's like he's this combination

533
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Speaker 1: of you know, Roger Ratha Novak, and I think the

534
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Speaker 1: more that he develops into Novak where he can just

535
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Speaker 1: lock you down, punch that back in, get the ball

536
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Speaker 1: flight down, not feel like he to be phenomenal every

537
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Speaker 1: point that he wins, it's gonna be worse for us

538
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Speaker 1: as fans because it's so much fun to watch, even

539
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Speaker 1: when he's going through those peaks and valleys like you're

540
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: talking about. But I feel like once he gets that

541
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Speaker 1: base level and trust the fact that he can play

542
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Speaker 1: pretty badly and still win matches, I think that's when

543
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Speaker 1: you see him just kind of go to another level.

544
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Speaker 1: But man, he is he fun to watch. I get

545
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: jealous when I see him hit the shots that he does.

546
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the description of you two being dummies.

547
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Speaker 3: I love that description.

548
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Sam, I think let's throw Andy

549
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Speaker 2: some and I love the description on all of that. Andy.

550
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Speaker 2: It's just it's so fun. I have to say the

551
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 2: depth in men's tennis, now, the depth in women's tennis.

552
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Speaker 2: It's nice to go into the French Open, actually saying

553
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Speaker 2: I mean the women's side. It was very obvious who

554
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Speaker 2: the favorite was an egar, but it's nice to have

555
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Speaker 2: these guys like no, no, I mean Zverev. I've said

556
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Speaker 2: Zverev's gonna make the final. I don't think he's gonna

557
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Speaker 2: win because I think he chokes when it really matters.

558
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Speaker 2: But he's certainly playing well. I mean he is. I'm

559
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Speaker 2: just being honest. I'm just honest.

560
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Speaker 1: Don't hold back, don't say it in a nice way.

561
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Speaker 1: Just tell us what you think.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know me, Andy, I just I'm the

563
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Speaker 2: Spades's and Spade guy. You know that's how I am.

564
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Speaker 2: I did say that Egan was not going to have

565
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Speaker 2: an easy time against Osaka. I got that one right,

566
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Speaker 2: but might call it. I did call that.

567
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Speaker 1: You call it where you called You're now calling losses,

568
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Speaker 1: but like the right kind of loss. No, that's a

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Speaker 1: lot of credit given.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: This guy over here was like, Yeah, it's going to

572
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Speaker 2: be pretty I think Egan's going to win us it.

573
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Speaker 2: Hold on a second. I think it's going to be

574
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Speaker 2: more difficult than you expect. And I think I was right,

575
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Speaker 2: because she should have won. She was one fourhand down

576
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Speaker 2: the line, going in over the net, forty to fifteen,

577
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Speaker 2: serving for the match, two match points on her surf. Okay,

578
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Speaker 2: let's not forget about that, all right, Sam, let's get

579
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Speaker 2: to the rapid fire questions. I know you want to

580
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Speaker 2: start with us. Yes, we're going to American.

581
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Speaker 3: We've got twenty Americans in the draft, so we're not

582
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Speaker 3: going to We're not going to go ten minutes on

583
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Speaker 3: each of them. What we want here is one sentence

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Speaker 3: on each player and how they're looking right now at

585
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Speaker 3: the French open. Start with this.

586
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Speaker 1: This will get me in trouble. We're gonna start with

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Speaker 1: Ben shl I love Ben. I think you know it's

588
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Speaker 1: it's amazing to me. Only one sentence. GEEZU remember I

589
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Speaker 1: love that. Next next question, great, I love Ben. Great,

590
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Speaker 1: this is fun. Coc gone love Coco. Second Serve needs

591
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Speaker 1: to help her out a little bit I.

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Speaker 2: Agree on that. Okay, So before we go to the

593
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Speaker 2: next one, how how is the second serve? Come on?

594
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Speaker 2: How is it going to get better? Just give me

595
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Speaker 2: something on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the tosses gets too forward. It has to come back,

597
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Speaker 1: not not even like a traditional kick, because that's not

598
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Speaker 1: the way she hits it shoulders need to close a

599
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Speaker 1: little bit. Toss needs to come back kind of over

600
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Speaker 1: herhead a little bit. If you reach for a second serve,

601
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Speaker 1: you can't create the spin profile to get clearance over

602
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Speaker 1: the net. It's it's all just positioning. The swing is fine,

603
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Speaker 1: everything else is fine. She just kind of contorts herself

604
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Speaker 1: and kind of falls into the second second serve and

605
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Speaker 1: you can't really create the spin that you need for

606
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Speaker 1: for margin.

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Speaker 2: We are on the same wavelength with that one, all right.

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Speaker 2: Danielle Collins or as we like to call her them.

609
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: All surprised she just lost. Yeah, but she's been I mean,

610
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Speaker 1: she's been phenomenal. I can't wait to see her. I mean,

611
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: clay is not that's like that natural footing thing. She's

612
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: not a natural mover on clay. Roland Garris is a

613
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: different animal for us, not natural, not native movers on

614
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Speaker 1: clay Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's a shame that she lost because I thought she

616
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 2: could have done a little bit more damage here.

617
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Speaker 3: But anyway, absolutely, how about Madison Keys.

618
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Speaker 1: I love Madison Keys. I think I like her against

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Speaker 1: most players not named Fiatek right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Maddy. Maddy seems to run into that buzz

621
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Speaker 2: so quite often later in tournaments. Okay, let's get to

622
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Speaker 2: Taylor Fritz or is he likes to call himself Klayler.

623
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Speaker 1: I like how dedicated he is, Like he doesn't get

624
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: road fatigue. He seems like he's committed to Clay. I

625
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 1: don't know that he has kind of the natural, you know,

626
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: feel in and out of the corners, but I like him.

627
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Speaker 1: He could get him getting to the last eight here,

628
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Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. How about the most likable guy on tour?

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Speaker 1: Tommy I love don I think, Okay, Tommy Paul here's

631
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: my I think he has the best transition game in

632
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Speaker 1: men's tennis this side of.

633
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 2: Alcoraz, Yeah, meaning going into the net, and he's really

634
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: tried to work on that a lot this year, and

635
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: I love it for he's talked publicly about I go

636
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 2: watch the film of Patrick Rafter of Stefan Edberg figuring out.

637
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: And it's really nice to hear that because some of

638
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: the things that's difficult about moving forward. I mean, you

639
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 2: two wouldn't know because you know, you were so greater

640
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: than that that both of you is like actually learning

641
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 2: how to move forward and what to move forward on.

642
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: I think looking at some of the old film is

643
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 2: a really good idea. So he's done a great job there,

644
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 2: all right.

645
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: Another one, just real quick with Tommy. I think one

646
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Speaker 1: of the biggest things too, is like he doesn't have

647
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: the weight of shot. He doesn't have to serve. He

648
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: doesn't have like that that knockout punch that you're like

649
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: trying to stay away from all the time. So by

650
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: him interjecting kind of the crush and Russ coming in

651
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: of it just gives you something to think about it.

652
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: And he's using it as a weapon. I love what

653
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:51,959
Speaker 1: he's done.

654
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's so fast. Okay, Francis a TFO.

655
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: Needs to turn it around a little bit, and I

656
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: think he's not going to be able to get off

657
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 1: of that clay fast enough. You know what I was

658
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: talking about. With that train to London, that's gonna be

659
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: a good trip for him.

660
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 2: He's already on it.

661
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna say he could be on it already. Good,

662
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 3: let's go one more. Sebastian Korda. He's kind of quietly

663
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 3: behind some of those other names, so it teems to

664
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: go out there, get a lot of wins, get a

665
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 3: lot of results. What do you say about him.

666
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: That the eye test tells me he's top ten, but

667
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: his ranking always disagrees with me. You know, when you

668
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: watch him, he's smooth. I think he leaves a lot

669
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: on the table with his serve, especially at six foot five.

670
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: I'd like to see some freedom of that elbow to

671
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: where he can actually get some torque on it. It feels

672
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: like he kind of goes a little bit t Rex

673
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: on it. It's a little bit too close, but I

674
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: love the way he moves. It just seems like once

675
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: a set, all of a sudden, he makes two airs

676
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: and he's down love thirty, trying to trying to get

677
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: through service games.

678
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a shame. Obviously. The wrist injuries really affected

679
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: him over the last couple of years. It's affected the fourhand.

680
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 2: You can sort of see it in his face. He

681
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 2: looks just a little dejected from time to time. And

682
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 2: such a shame because you know, he was just having

683
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 2: such a great career there for a little while until

684
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: that injury really hurt him. But he is still part

685
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: of the best sporting family in the world, let's face it.

686
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 2: Although sadly, his sister Nellie Carter had a ten on

687
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 2: a Part three today, so she's really knocked herself out

688
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: at the US Open.

689
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: CONTENTI oh, what a what a loser?

690
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 2: I mean, have you ever had a ten at a

691
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 2: part three? Look at you? You're so disgusted, you like orry.

692
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: I pulled my cord and it just everything went. I'm

693
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: sure I've had a ten on everything on my golf course,

694
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: five fours, threes.

695
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: I don't discriminate, all right, We're going to throw in

696
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: some old timers now for you to discuss stan Vavrinka.

697
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: He lost to Kotov, but he got through a match

698
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 2: against Andy Murray. Just give me your favorite stand story.

699
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: I got one for you. So I lost. I basically

700
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: tore my knee apart against him in Shanghai one year.

701
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: It was like two thousand and nine, Yeah, two thousand

702
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: and nine. And I hear him as I'm like limping

703
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: off the court on crutches, stated the umpire. This guy

704
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: always defaults against me. I'm like, man, okay, not the time, bro,

705
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: not the one that I didn't like that.

706
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 3: I don't know if you did. You see he's so

707
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 3: he's playing in his most recent match, pavelk There's a

708
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 3: picture right now going around of Kotov's mom gripping his racket.

709
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: Did you who would you trust to drip your grip

710
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: your rackets when you're playing inside yourself?

711
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 2: Trust your mom, your dad, or your or your wife.

712
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: No, no, absolutely not. There's just there's just no chance.

713
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: I got in trouble, uh for code off. I did

714
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: pick him to move to get to the third round,

715
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: but I also said he kind of looks like a

716
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: third base coach. So I got in trouble for that one.

717
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look look at this. I mean he's

718
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 2: got his mom wrapping his grip for him.

719
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: And he amazing. Say this, this is so great.

720
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: It's great, right, It's just the most amazing. Okay, So

721
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 2: everyone in the US Olympic and Paralympic team trials kick

722
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: off on June fifteenth. I'm so excited about the Olympics.

723
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 2: I can't even stand it. As the best athletes in

724
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: the country seek to make the toughest team in the world.

725
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,959
Speaker 2: Ahead of Paris Games. Catch the action on NBC and

726
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 2: Peacock and of course the Paris Olympics begin July twenty

727
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 2: sixth I can't wait for this, but before that happens,

728
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: they got to make the team, so stay tuned on

729
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 2: all the networks of NBC for that. Andy, We're obviously

730
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 2: got the Olympics. It's not too far away. It's been

731
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: amazing in the Olympic village with Andy Erotic. You made

732
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: us to the quarterfinals in two thousand at the athen Games.

733
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 2: You lost to Gonzales, who ended up winning the gold medal.

734
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Speaker 2: I believe you lost to Djokovic in am I wrong

735
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 2: on that? No, it must see that's it. I knew

736
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: it was a random and not no offense to him.

737
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: But you lost to Jokovic in the second round of London.

738
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 2: Nice draw. But is there a moment that stuck out

739
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Speaker 2: to you at the Olympics.

740
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed being Marty's cheerleader in O four, I lost

741
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: in the round of sixteen, I think to to Gonzales

742
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: and then he had a run kind of all the

743
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: way to the final and was up a couple sets

744
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: on Messou. You know, so I was I had fun

745
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: just pulling for Marty. I was the highest ranked practice

746
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: partner that week, you know, so that that was that

747
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: was a blast for me. London. I thought I had

748
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: a you know, I was feeling pretty good. I had

749
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: won a tour event the week before. I'm like, Grass,

750
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: this is great. And then I walked off against that

751
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: that match against Novak, he beat me one and two

752
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: on grass and I walked off and I said, you

753
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: know what, I didn't actually play that badly. And that

754
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: was the first time I realized that the game had

755
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: probably passed me by. And I retired like three months later.

756
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Speaker 3: Smart choice. Yeah, is there a moment at the Olympics.

757
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 3: Obviously there's We've got athletes from everywhere. Were you ever starstruck?

758
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 3: You ever seeing Hussaint Bolt or someone in the village

759
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 3: or walking around that you kind of went, well, that's

760
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 3: that guy or that girl is larger than life.

761
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: I liked they didn't stay in the village, but watching

762
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: the US basketball team kind of make their appearance and

763
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: walk through, you know, the village in Athens that kind

764
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: of had these you know, four level buildings and people

765
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: have these little patios and all of a sudden, this

766
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: bus lands and they're just walking through the village and

767
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: to just see the sea of humanity from all over

768
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: the globe just surround these guys. That was there was Listen,

769
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: you knew who Michael was, and you knew who Tito was,

770
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: and they were Michael.

771
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was the coolest thing about the Olympics was

772
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 2: just running into random people like that, like meing, what

773
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 2: was that basketball player from China? Remember what we were

774
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: like walking next to him, trying to take photos, like

775
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: side of this dude. It was unbelievable. But we had

776
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 2: an interesting conversation with Jess Pagoula the other day about

777
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: the Olympics and she would like to see the Olympics

778
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: tennis be a little bit more like a team event

779
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: rather than individuals. What do you think of that?

780
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's right. You know. I think ideas

781
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: are easy. I think execution is harder. You know, I

782
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: think tennis sometimes we have the knee jerk reaction to say,

783
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: well we should do this, we should shorten the schedule,

784
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: we should do all this, and then it's like, well,

785
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: how do we do that? Like, I don't know, we

786
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: should just tell the people. I'm like, Okay, that doesn't

787
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: exactly work in theory. If they could create the space

788
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: and it didn't eat up another week of the calendar,

789
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: because one of the things, we can't really sacrifice our tour,

790
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: you know, more than the allotted days for an Olympic thing.

791
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: So as long as they could fit it in the

792
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: allotted time where we're not giving up another thousand or

793
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: switching services one more time or something like that, I'm

794
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: all for it. I think it could probably separate. I'd like,

795
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: you know, imagine you know, college tennis match men and

796
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: women combine. That would be insane, you know. I certainly

797
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: it would reward countries that have a lot of depth

798
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: with selfishly, as an American, I would be I would

799
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 1: be four. But yeah, I think there's something to it. Again,

800
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: you'd have to just see kind of how all the

801
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: moving parts fit together and if that was actually a reality.

802
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 2: All Right, Andy, we're gonna move on. We're going to

803
00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: move on to the drug. Let's move on to the

804
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 2: drop shot, because I know that Andy's got to get

805
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 2: going through his own show. But let's move on to

806
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 2: the drop shot. Last show, we asked folks on Twitter

807
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 2: Andy about to send questions to you, So let's get

808
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: to them.

809
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: Now, which current player, just in general.

810
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: US not a man ranked number one in the world

811
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,959
Speaker 2: since you and two thousand, What does a US program, training,

812
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 2: et cetera need to do to get back there? Which

813
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: current player do you believe has the best shot and why?

814
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: Well, I think we need to stop making it about

815
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: a program that's going to make us get there. I

816
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: don't I don't think that's the case. I mean, Sam

817
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: came for training weeks. We would work out of a

818
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,479
Speaker 1: high school track, like you can get your work done,

819
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: stop pointing fingers elsewhere, and maybe have a hard look

820
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: in the mirror. Sometimes I don't think we need to

821
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: rely on, you know, anyone giving us anything to make

822
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: it happen. But I also think that we've made so

823
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: much progress where you know, at the end of my

824
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: career till now, with the amount of players we're putting

825
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen consistently, it's just a matter of

826
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: time till till one breaks the right way. And so

827
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: I feel better about now than you know twelve years ago.

828
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: The best drop shot is Carlos A. Karez, And there's

829
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:08,959
Speaker 1: not a lot of There's not a lot of doubt.

830
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think you might have the best

831
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: drop shot of all time. And now you see copycat

832
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: syndrome going on where now everyone's trying them. But in

833
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: order to have a great job shot, if you're not

834
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: like Centaurro some wizard, I think you have to have

835
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: a massive forehand so people check step backwards right so

836
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: you get a defensive position, and then if you can

837
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: kind of throw it underneath. You know, people don't see

838
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: the setup. They just think dropshots are hit when people

839
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: are in stride. It's against movement, it's against kind of

840
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: the check step, and he's become a master of that

841
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: very early in his career. And also the shot from

842
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: Novak that doesn't get talked about nearly enough is his

843
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: ability to take it back with two hands where it

844
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,479
Speaker 1: looks like a top and back in and then drop

845
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: it up the line. It's an unbelievable shot.

846
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Agree, All right, let's get to the next one.

847
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: This is from Jeff Malcolm. You can read this one, Sam, We.

848
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 3: Got this is just playing and simple. What does it

849
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 3: feel like to hit a proper serve?

850
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 2: Well? I could have asset to the both of you.

851
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: Uh true? Well, say Sam? Actually probably had like a

852
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: proper motion.

853
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 3: You did have a little little funky motion when you

854
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: came out.

855
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little a little little little strange. Uh,

856
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: but jeff, it feels it feels great. It feels really good.

857
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 2: It's like hitting that driver like like three twenty.

858
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good, just melting it.

859
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 2: M Yeah. All right, let's get to Andy, right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: one match on clay. Okay, this is the question we

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Speaker 2: we we had a harsh week. This is the question

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Speaker 2: of the week. Andy. If you had one of these

863
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Speaker 2: women to play a match for you to save your life,

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Speaker 2: who would it be?

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Speaker 3: And the match is going to be on clay?

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Speaker 2: And you have to this is for our viewers. You

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Speaker 2: have to tweet us at NBC Sports and give us

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Speaker 2: the answer on Twitter or ex or whatever you call

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00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 2: it these days. But we're gonna ask you live on

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Speaker 2: air whom you would like tough one.

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00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: I love this question. I'm happy they put Hennon on

872
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: here because I didn't get talked about enough. She's not

873
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: going to be my pick, but I'm just happy that

874
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: she's on this Graphic Sia tech not yet we're left.

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00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm down to Graph and Chrissy. I think

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Speaker 1: it's weird because you had Graph kind of take over

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00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: from Chrissy, and then sell Us got, oh, this is brutal.

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00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 2: I'm with you, buddy.

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00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: I think I think I hate this so much. I

880
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: hate choosing because it's like there's no.

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00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 2: Real life, Andy, it's for your life.

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00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we have children. Yeah, I do.

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00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: I think probably Stephie. I think her career numbers would

884
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: have rival Graph. We forget that she retired after, you know,

885
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: having won it, So I don't know that I'm gonna

886
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: punish her volume numbers because she just decided to take

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00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: a decade off.

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00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty nine, she stopped and she won. As you said,

889
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: the French Open of a Martine he is incredible. I

890
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 2: would have. I would have. I would not disagree with you.

891
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 2: Of course, Chrissy's record on clay speak for itself. It's

892
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 2: like unheard of. And also Monica Sellis's record against Stephie

893
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 2: at the French was unbelievable until we know what happened

894
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: sadly to her. So listen, you know, bottom line, I'd

895
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Speaker 2: take any of these chicks to play a match for

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Speaker 2: my life on clay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with Yeah, I hate my answer and

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Speaker 1: I still I love the question. I hate it all

899
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Speaker 1: at the same time.

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00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I know

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00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: who i'd pick in.

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00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 3: The men's Yeah, yeah, it's two odd men.

903
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 2: But what about Sam?

904
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Speaker 3: I've gone raph as well with Andy. I didn't watch

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Speaker 3: I didn't get to watch Chrissy play or still didn't

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Speaker 3: play that much.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I.

908
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 3: Didn't watched highlights of Stephie. I'm just a fan of hers,

909
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: so I want to watch her play on Matt Talk Clay.

910
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 3: So Stephie's my answer as well, and not to mention.

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00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 3: Like we said earlier, she was done at twenty nine.

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Speaker 3: Who knows how many more she would have won had

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Speaker 3: she kept playing.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I'll tell you this, Sam. If

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Speaker 1: you didn't see Chrissy play much, the next time she

916
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Speaker 1: wastes motion on any shot will be the first time. Unbelievable.

917
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Speaker 1: Like you're just nothing can go wrong. It's like sword

918
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Speaker 1: and stand and golf, like the golf are like it's

919
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: like you're going, okay, that looks very simple.

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00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, every single time, every single time. You know, they're great.

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Speaker 2: They're all great. They're all great in their own right,

922
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Speaker 2: and certainly at the French Open. But Andy, you know,

923
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Speaker 2: we know we follow you on Tennis Channel. Of course

924
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,759
Speaker 2: you have served. It's a great podcast. You've had some

925
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,240
Speaker 2: awesome guests on it. I love your insights into tennis.

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Speaker 2: I've been trying to get you to do more TV,

927
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Speaker 2: more radio because we love hearing from you. You have

928
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: such a great outlook on everything. And it's just thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us today on on our little French Connection.

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Speaker 2: We really appreciate you coming on and voicing your opinions.

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Speaker 1: Cheers, Thanks douves. Sam, get that Achilles better man.

932
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got to get him back on a pickleball court.

933
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Speaker 3: Seven seven more months, seven more short months.

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Speaker 1: Just stay away from that ship, Sam.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you anyway, let it buddy. Thanks okay, everyone,

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Speaker 2: Well what you want to Thank Andy so much everyone

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Speaker 2: for joining us today on the French Connection is brought

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Speaker 2: to you, of course by NBC Sports and Racket. Next

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Speaker 2: episode is June fifth, and guess who we have? Who

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Speaker 2: do we have? Sam?

941
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Speaker 3: We have Lindsay Fun that's the racial tennis player, probably

942
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 3: the best skier of all time. It probably knows more

943
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: about tennis than most tennis players will.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lindsay absolutely loves tennis. I cannot wait to get

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Speaker 2: into some stories with her. She's been ever present at

946
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Speaker 2: every single Grand Slam over the last couple of years.

947
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Speaker 2: As you said, arguably one of the greatest skiers of

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Speaker 2: all time and certainly the best, there's no question, the

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Speaker 2: best downhill skier we've ever seen in the history of

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Speaker 2: the sport. So she likes speed, she loves tennis, and

951
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 2: she loves talking about it. So we're very happy to

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Speaker 2: have Lindsay on. So hopefully you'll join us, and thanks

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Speaker 2: again for joining us today. Sam, way to go, buddy,

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Speaker 2: You've got some questions in there, and we'll see you

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Speaker 2: guys next time. See you later.