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Speaker 2: I can hear you perfectly clear. All right, Hi everybody,

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Speaker 2: welcome to the Renee Stubs Tennis Podcast. I am Renee

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Speaker 2: Stubbs and it is time for me to introduce Andrea

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Speaker 2: Petko Bitch, she's back. She's on on the pod. We

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Speaker 2: love to hear it and see it.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Renee, you have a water stain behind your heads.

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Speaker 2: Well mate, we're not worried about the water staying because

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Speaker 2: this is a podcast, it is not a visual podcast. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so you just need to not worry about that.

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Speaker 4: Just worried about the mold and your health.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, thanks buddy. But I'm only going to be

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Speaker 2: here for a short amount of time.

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Speaker 1: So we're.

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Speaker 2: Petco Washington d C is on right now. Wmbledon has finished.

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Speaker 2: The grasses are overall under the hardcourt. You are working

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Speaker 2: for Tennis Channel, and can we just start with the

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Speaker 2: story of the week with Venus Williams at forty five

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Speaker 2: years of age winning her first round here.

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Speaker 4: That was amazing, That was really amazing.

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Speaker 2: Can you give me your total thoughts of this as

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Speaker 2: somebody who played against Venus, I played against Venus, Like

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Speaker 2: this is just incredible what we saw last night. You

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Speaker 2: called the match for Tennis Channel with Mark Petchi. Just

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So, I think the first thing that I want

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Speaker 4: when you start working for media. You watch so many

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Speaker 4: It was so loud, she was beaming, And I think

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Speaker 4: I saw her. Her service motion is simplified. She goes

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Speaker 4: her play. She hit nine aces, only two double faults

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Speaker 4: But then Venus was and we talked about it off

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Speaker 4: he won his first round. He had a rough, rough,

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Speaker 4: rough go before the grass courts this year, but I

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Speaker 4: thought in the first set against Novak he already he

435
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Speaker 4: played well, he hit his slice really nicely, and now

436
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Speaker 4: he's kind of getting the groove again. He's won two

437
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Speaker 4: matches here, so that definitely will be an amazing match.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if amazing in quality, but definitely amazing

439
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Speaker 4: to watch and entertain. And I will say I think

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Speaker 4: I think Ben Shelton might win Washington d C.

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Speaker 2: Wow, well that's a big call. I have to say.

442
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Speaker 2: I watched him play yesterday. He's serving as if. I mean,

443
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Speaker 2: he's serving so big here and it bounces up so high.

444
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Speaker 2: But you know, look, it's going to be a test Againstiello.

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Speaker 2: They're both going to be serving well. He's in the

446
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Speaker 2: section with Caboli and Francis Tiaffo. So if Tiafa wins tonight,

447
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Speaker 2: and obviously Tiafo has amazing support in Washington d C,

448
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Speaker 2: I would love.

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Speaker 4: To I would.

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Speaker 1: I would.

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Speaker 4: I would love to see Francis. I know that he

452
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Speaker 4: really wants to win this tournament and he's been close

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Speaker 4: a few times but never really got the got his

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Speaker 4: hands on the trophy, so I would love for Francis

455
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Speaker 4: to get it in his hometown. But for some reason,

456
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Speaker 4: I thought, you know, the condition everyone we had on

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Speaker 4: the Tennis channel to talk about Washington, everyone said, the

458
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Speaker 4: conditions are very lively. The ball is flying, you know,

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Speaker 4: particularly coming from this Lessenger ball to a bit of

460
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Speaker 4: a lighter tennis ball now with the hot weather. I

461
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Speaker 4: think you're right. I think today could be a stumble

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Speaker 4: for him with somebody that plays similar to him. But

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Speaker 4: if he gets through it, I can see him going

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Speaker 4: all the way. Ben Shelton, I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Well, so that you're predicting that he therefore will get

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Speaker 2: through Taylor Fritz. If Taylor wins through his matches, so

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Speaker 2: you think that's a matchup, did you see him winning?

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Speaker 4: I think so. I mean so the thing with Ben

469
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Speaker 4: is if he plays well, I think he can beat anybody.

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Speaker 4: The reason I say that, I think is that I

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Speaker 4: called his match with Janick Sinner in the quarters of Wimbledon,

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Speaker 4: and there were just margins separating the two. Ben was

473
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Speaker 4: playing so well, and when he came up on the scene,

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Speaker 4: I think we all saw the raw potential that he possesses.

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Speaker 4: But he was still kind of all over the place.

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Speaker 4: And I was thinking about this yesterday after he finished

477
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Speaker 4: the match. I think he's the player that has improved

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Speaker 4: the most in the last two years from completely.

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Speaker 1: Raw to.

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Speaker 4: Like a professional, solid tennis player who I think soon

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Speaker 4: will have major accomplishments. I don't know why. I just

482
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Speaker 4: think the way he constructs the points and how he's

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Speaker 4: gotten better athletically, I really see incredible improvements with him.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you with a majority of that. The

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Speaker 2: only thing that I have still a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a question mark for is his backhand. Now, the forehand

487
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Speaker 2: is huge. It is such a weapon, so you know,

488
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Speaker 2: not even close to being it's so good, and he

489
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Speaker 2: can vary it so much with the kick, and his

490
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Speaker 2: kick service just out of this world. But his backhand

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Speaker 2: is questionable. So when you're playing someone like a Taylor,

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Speaker 2: Fritz Taylor is amazing at being able to exploit a weakness.

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Speaker 2: And because Taylor is so disciplined and his forehand cross

494
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Speaker 2: court is going to help, he's going to really hurt

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Speaker 2: against Ben. And Ben is still makes really poor decisions,

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Speaker 2: Like there were a couple of shots the other day

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Speaker 2: against Macki or yesterday against Mackie that he would just

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Speaker 2: rush a slice and try and run into the net

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Speaker 2: and just make you know, what we would call as

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Speaker 2: a coach, just not a good decision. And so I

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Speaker 2: still think there's decisions that he doesn't make that are great.

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Speaker 2: And against someone that is as disciplined and as good

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Speaker 2: as Taylor, I think that that's the problem. And Taylor

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Speaker 2: can get the serve to his backhand. I think Taylor

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Speaker 2: is one of the best returners. And also you think

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Speaker 2: about the height of Taylor, Fritz. When when Ben is

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Speaker 2: kicking the serve to a Mackie McDonald, it's a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: To Taylor, it's not such a nightmare. It's just hitting zone.

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Speaker 2: It's not so bad. So listen, I don't disagree with you.

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Speaker 2: He has the weapons.

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Speaker 4: Kind of convinced me. I think you're making some good

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Speaker 4: points with Taylor. Fritz. I think I'm swaying to Taylor. Now, okay,

513
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Speaker 4: I'm easily influenceable. I'm easily influenceable. No, I think Taylor.

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Speaker 4: I called both of his first two matches and Wimbledon

515
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Speaker 4: against Patchy Perry Khan Yallow and what he did there,

516
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Speaker 4: he was on the line returning and just chipping his return,

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Speaker 4: and I feel like if he can do something along

518
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Speaker 4: the lines Obviously hardcorets are different, saying a lefty is different.

519
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Speaker 4: But if he can do something along the lines of

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Speaker 4: a similar thing where he neutralizes the serve by chipping it, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think you convinced me. But still maybe, like in

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Speaker 4: the back of my mind, Ben is like a dark

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Speaker 4: pause for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, listen, Ben's a darkhos all the time because

525
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Speaker 2: his weapons are just so massive that anything can happen.

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Speaker 2: Cam Nori beat Mussetti yesterday in three yas was unbelievable.

527
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Speaker 2: I think he's actually going to be really hard to be.

528
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Speaker 2: He plays Nekashima, who played very well yesterday served He's

529
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Speaker 2: served very very well yesterday out of a lot of trouble.

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Speaker 2: I think Alex de Mino is going to be a

531
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Speaker 2: little sneaky as well. Court is very very good for him.

532
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Speaker 2: So listen, the men's is packed, Medvedev is packed. Medvedev

533
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Speaker 2: is still hanging on there in the second center against Riley,

534
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Speaker 2: will see. I mean, overall, if Medvedev plays his best,

535
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Speaker 2: this is the court that really suits him because he's

536
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Speaker 2: done very well here in DC in the past. But

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Speaker 2: he's he's struggled this year, There's no question. Lastly, I

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Speaker 2: just want to finish with the women. Pagoula this is

539
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Speaker 2: a perfect court for her, but she plays against Leila Fernandez,

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Speaker 2: which is not going to be easy. An interesting matchup

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Speaker 2: for me tonight is Sakari, Maria Sakari against Navarro. That's

542
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Speaker 2: going to be a real test for both of them

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Speaker 2: because neither of them because Maria Sakari got a wild

544
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Speaker 2: cud in here. She's made the finals here before where

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Speaker 2: she lost to Pagoula, and Emma Navarro is has not

546
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Speaker 2: had a good year but had a decent Wimbledon. So

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Speaker 2: it's kind of like a who's going to come out

548
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Speaker 2: with the confidence tonight? I think that will be a

549
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Speaker 2: big lesson for us on the women's side.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely a huge Maybe maybe the ah well, Raducano

551
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Speaker 4: Costuke was also huge, but maybe the two best players

552
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Speaker 4: facing each other so soon, let's say, apart from cost

553
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Speaker 4: Juke and Radocano in the tournament, I'm excited to see

554
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Speaker 4: Jess and I'm very interested to see Jess Pagoula back

555
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Speaker 4: because that Wimbledon loss was I think very frustrating for her.

556
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Speaker 4: I think that was the biggest We talked about it

557
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Speaker 4: on air on German TV as well, and I know

558
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Speaker 4: you guys talked about it, but we all agreed that

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Speaker 4: that was the biggest surprise for us on the women's side,

560
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Speaker 4: that Jess had lost so early. And yes, Coccaretto played

561
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Speaker 4: maybe the match of her life. But it's going to

562
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Speaker 4: be interesting to see how she bounces back from from

563
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Speaker 4: a tough loss, whether she is going to take that

564
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Speaker 4: as a motivation and maybe she has worked harder and

565
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Speaker 4: comes back and really dominates this US Hardcore season because

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Speaker 4: she remember, she has a lot of points to defend

567
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Speaker 4: from last year she won Montreal or Toronto. It was

568
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Speaker 4: last year, and she played Cincinnati final and she played

569
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Speaker 4: the US Open finals, so it could be nice to

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Speaker 4: get some of those points off her back by playing

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Speaker 4: well in Washington.

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Speaker 2: D see absolutely. I think that the only thing is

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Speaker 2: Cocciarecto plays very similar to Pagula up on the baseline,

574
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Speaker 2: takes the ball early, does those like half volley almost

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Speaker 2: things on the baseline, which Jess does so well against people,

576
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Speaker 2: and usually Jess pushes you back. But what's interesting is

577
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Speaker 2: that Leila Fernandez is a very similar player as well.

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Speaker 2: She likes to stay up on the baseline, so it

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Speaker 2: will be absolutely a test for Jess because that lefty

580
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Speaker 2: serve will drag her off the court a little bit.

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Speaker 2: She doesn't have the best of reaches on return, so

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Speaker 2: I think if she gets through this match comfortably against

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Speaker 2: Leila Fernandez, that would be a good test for her. Clearly,

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Speaker 2: losing early at Wimbledon gave her a lot of time

585
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Speaker 2: to prepare on hardcore, which is sometimes a good thing.

586
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Speaker 2: You think about Foco GoF losing so early at Weldon

587
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Speaker 2: and then having the season of her life and then

588
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Speaker 2: going on to win the US Open. But look, for me,

589
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Speaker 2: it'll be a test against against Fernandez, and then she'll

590
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Speaker 2: play the winner of Kennon and Towns Taylor Townsend, so

591
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Speaker 2: it only gets harder. The court is fast, it suits her,

592
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Speaker 2: but there are so many great players between Rebarkina. Of course,

593
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Speaker 2: the story of Venus Williams Clara Towson against Dole high

594
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Speaker 2: today that two big servers and big hitters. So I'm

595
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Speaker 2: really looking forward to the top half of the drawer

596
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Speaker 2: is certainly a lot more aggressive big hitters. The bottom

597
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Speaker 2: half is not quite the big hitters, but some amazing

598
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Speaker 2: talent in this tournament, and I'm looking forward to the

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Speaker 2: rest of the week. It's been awesome having you back

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Speaker 2: in the pod. Let go, I missed you.

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Speaker 5: I missed you.

602
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Speaker 2: To see you soon.

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Speaker 4: Sorry I yawned at you, but I've been awake since

604
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Speaker 4: three am, so I'm ready to go back to sleep

605
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Speaker 4: at eleven am here in California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, my friend, I know you're doing matches later

607
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Speaker 2: on tonight, so good luck with that. That's all I

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Speaker 2: can say.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm just I'm just looking forward for not having

610
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Speaker 4: to pronounce Venus Williams as a German again, you know,

611
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Speaker 4: today at least not until at least not today.

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Speaker 2: But I said, just type her name W and then

613
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Speaker 2: do it, do it the other way around, and you'll

614
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Speaker 2: know it. Yes, I love you, mate. It's been great

615
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Speaker 2: to have you on and seeing all of you guys

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Speaker 2: next week.

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Speaker 6: Juice, juice, good day, my friends.

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Speaker 3: Great to see you here. Thanks money.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, all right?

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Speaker 3: Here he is here.

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Speaker 2: He is Gabriel Diallo. Everybody say hi. First of all, Gabriel,

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Speaker 2: what's it like being in DC? Have you played here before?

623
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Speaker 2: I should have looked that up before I started the conversation.

624
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Speaker 2: But have you played here before, and what are your

625
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 2: thoughts about being in DC?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, it's my first time here in the in

627
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Speaker 7: the Great Capital. Funny, I ninkdove. My parents actually is

628
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Speaker 7: their favorite city. They came multiple times. My dad loves

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Speaker 7: the history of Washington. So yeah, no, first time, first

630
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Speaker 7: time playing here, and so far has been treating me

631
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Speaker 7: really well. Fans I guess they really like Canadians, so

632
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Speaker 7: it's good for me and yeah, looking forward to to

633
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Speaker 7: keep on going.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you won your first ATP title this year,

635
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Speaker 2: but before we get to that, you actually went to college,

636
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Speaker 2: and so why did you decide to go to college

637
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Speaker 2: because we had I've had this conversation. I had it

638
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Speaker 2: with Loner ten yesterday and he went straight into the pros.

639
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Speaker 2: Well he did one semester I think in college. But

640
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Speaker 2: why did you decide that college was important for you

641
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Speaker 2: to do?

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00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I mean I think I was miles miles away from

644
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Speaker 7: being ready to be a professional tennis player, just from

645
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Speaker 7: a tennis standpoint and from a maturity standpoint.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't a highly sought.

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Speaker 7: Out junior, so it was it was kind of a

648
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 7: no brainer for me and my family to go to college.

649
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 7: I'm I was fortunate enough to have an offer from Kentucky,

650
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 7: and yeah, to get you know, step by step. I

651
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 7: really I never thought that I was gonna do like, Okay,

652
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do a year and a half and then

653
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 7: go off. In my mind, I was doing four years

654
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 7: getting my degree and then you know, I can try

655
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 7: for as long as I want.

656
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's treated me really well.

657
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 7: I think that I matured a lot, gain a lot

658
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 7: of match play, which is what we were looking for ultimately,

659
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 7: and and yeah, overall, at the best decision probably I've

660
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 7: ever made.

661
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

662
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 3: Great.

663
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: I often get asked by people, you know, what should

664
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 2: should I get my kid to go to college?

665
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 3: Or should I go pro?

666
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: And I'm always like, if you're not mature enough or

667
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 2: physically ready to go, en off, especially if with the guys,

668
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: I think it's really important. And college tennis is so

669
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 2: competitive if you look at all the ATP players that

670
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: have done really well in college and then gone on

671
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 2: to have great careers on the tour. So I think

672
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: that was a terrific decision for you. So let's get

673
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 2: to your first ATP title. What was that like for you?

674
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 2: The feeling you tell me.

675
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, it was I mean, as you can imagine,

676
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 7: it was very special for me, but you know, not

677
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 7: only for me, for my whole my family, and my coach,

678
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 7: my strength coach, my physio, my agent, everyone around me.

679
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: I think it was a nice thing.

680
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 7: Definitely didn't expect it to come that fast and definitely

681
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 7: not on the grass.

682
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was super happy.

683
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 7: It's kind of felt surreal a little bit at the moment,

684
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 7: but I didn't have really time to process because I

685
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 7: had to play Queen's two days later. But after winby,

686
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 7: I really took the time to to appreciate and reflect

687
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 7: on on on what we.

688
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: Were able to achieve throughout the grass.

689
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 7: Season, and really happy for it and motivates me for

690
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 7: what's coming next.

691
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 3: Can you tell that to the people?

692
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: You win a title and then what happens immediately after that.

693
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Well, champagne a little bit for sure. In the locker room.

694
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 3: That's good to hear.

695
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: Definitely popped a bottle and spread it all over my

696
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: coach and my strength coach.

697
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 3: I'm twenty three, he's old enough.

698
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: Even if I wasn't. It wasn't a europe It's eight

699
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: year old.

700
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: He's good.

701
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 7: He's good, all right, I'm good I'm good. My coach

702
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 7: wouldn't let me drink anyways, But I think that my

703
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 7: my coach and my strength coach did most of the

704
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 7: drinking because I had to play two days later.

705
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: But I think that.

706
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 7: I was after Queens, I had kind of a ten

707
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 7: day break before my next event, so we went to

708
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 7: a bar and we probably celebrated it. But yeah, you

709
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 7: don't have, like I said, don't have time to really

710
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 7: process because you know, you got to find a flight

711
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 7: to go to your next event, which is kind of

712
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 7: the reality of tennis, but makes it beautiful in a way.

713
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think people understand it.

714
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 2: You're win a title and then you you're literally all

715
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 2: you're thinking about that ten hours later is I gotta

716
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:45,479
Speaker 2: play another match.

717
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 1: So it's not that easy.

718
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 3: It's really hard. So take me. Then you do go

719
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 3: to Wimbledon.

720
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 2: What an incredible match that was against Taylor Fritz if

721
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 2: you remember it was an incredible five set match that

722
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 2: you played against him. What did you learn from that?

723
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: And I mean interested to hear you. You just said

724
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 2: you didn't expect to win your first tile on grass.

725
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 2: Why is that with your type of game, with your

726
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 2: type of serve, why wouldn't you think grass was your

727
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 2: especially so a little bit about that and also about

728
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 2: the match against Taylor.

729
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 7: Well, you know, yeah, I knew that overall it would

730
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 7: definitely fit my my game style.

731
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: But I'm also aware.

732
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,879
Speaker 7: That it's a it's a surface that requires such specificity

733
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,479
Speaker 7: that I wasn't exposed to in juniors, which I didn't

734
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 7: play on grass.

735
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 3: So you didn't grow grow up in Australia, I think, yeah.

736
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 7: We didn't grow up you know being involved on grass.

737
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 7: Were more of indoor hard but what we don't have

738
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 7: the weather seriously house grass anyways, it's gonna become eyes.

739
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 7: But yeah, I knew that for sure in the future

740
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 7: I could play well, but I thought it was gonna

741
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 7: it was gonna take me time to develop into that player.

742
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: But I mean we really I really.

743
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 7: Trusted into the process and uh, I think that's what

744
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 7: made it possible for me to play really well on

745
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 7: the surface. And uh yeah, to go back to sort

746
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 7: of match against Taylor, yeah it was. I mean, first

747
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 7: of all, it was just a very great full on

748
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 7: my part to to be able to compete on those stages, uh,

749
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 7: court one at Wimbledon, uh and then after the third

750
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 7: when they.

751
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: Closed the roof. It was it was pretty special. Felt

752
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: more like indoor harder than grass.

753
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 7: Actually, but no, it was. It was a great match.

754
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 7: Definitely a heartbreaker at the end. But you know, like

755
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 7: I said, you take the time to reflect and kind

756
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 7: of analyze, and you know, just like I said, be

757
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 7: grateful that you were in this position. And I learned

758
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 7: a lot from that match about myself, about my tennis,

759
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,720
Speaker 7: specially playing against such.

760
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 3: A what what was that?

761
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: What did you learn?

762
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 7: I mean, first of all, learned that I have the

763
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 7: physical uh capability to last for five sets against the

764
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 7: best some of the best players in the world, and

765
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 7: the tennis wise again, to back my game in big moments,

766
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 7: try to come to it in there as much as

767
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 7: I can, and it's.

768
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 1: Still going to require a lot of effort and work

769
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 1: to get to there one day. But really looking forward.

770
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: To that, what do you think you need to do,

771
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 2: because obviously what Taylor did then after that getting to

772
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 2: the semi finals and playing such a great tournament, he

773
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: reached the finals of the US Open. Does it give

774
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 2: a play like you at twenty three? And I really

775
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 2: do think you'll probably get much better the older you

776
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: get because of all the skills that you have. What

777
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 2: did you learn from that process? And watching him therefore?

778
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: Does it give I mean, you tell me what you

779
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: learn from that. I don't on put boys in your mouth?

780
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 7: I think, yeah, just how the I mean the top guys.

781
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 7: I think what they do really well is they buy

782
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 7: themselves in an important moment down break break cooiner, when

783
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 7: they have a breakpoint, they buy themselves.

784
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: They play really aggressive with big margins.

785
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 7: But what I think is required to get to that

786
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 7: level is just your base level overall weekend and week

787
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 7: out has to be much higher than everybody else. On

788
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 7: a day where maybe they're not playing as good, they're

789
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 7: still going to give themselves a chance to win the match,

790
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 7: which is what I think I need to do. Raise

791
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 7: my base level, my minimal level.

792
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's going to require still a lot of

793
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: that for a lot of work and looking forward to it.

794
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 2: Does it give you the impotence to actually also think that,

795
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: you know, with my game, with your weapons, that you

796
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 2: could go really even a grand slam of particularly a

797
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 2: slam that is a faster surface.

798
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, of course, you know you can get

799
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 7: really hotter for two weeks A goal or dream of

800
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 7: mine will be to reach maybe the second week of

801
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 7: any Slam realistically and make a deep run. It's going

802
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 7: to require, like I said, a lot of effort and

803
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 7: behind the scenes. But I do believe in myself. I

804
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 7: think my team believes in myself and me that I

805
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 7: can achieve that.

806
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: So let's see.

807
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 7: Hopefully I say out ten more years to play and

808
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 7: I can achieve that at least.

809
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 3: I mean, did you watch what happened last night?

810
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: Yeah?

811
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 3: Forty five. You're twenty three, bro, you got a lot

812
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 3: of decades left.

813
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: My friends, she didn't look forty five for me. She

814
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: looked more like twenty and twenty five.

815
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome to watch. Take me back a little bit.

816
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: You actually were coached by Felix as your Ali seems.

817
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 3: Father for a little while. What influence did he have

818
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 3: on your career?

819
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: And also just knowing that Felix has had the career

820
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: that he has as well, Like, do you guys still talk,

821
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 2: what's the relationship like there with his father with Felix?

822
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: And is it nice to have this like camaraderie with

823
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: the Canadian players and is it that.

824
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 3: Important to you?

825
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course, I mean, yeah, we grew up.

826
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 7: I mean since I can remember nine or ten, I

827
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 7: was already going to his dad's house to do training camps.

828
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 7: He was inviting a bunch of kids from Montreal to

829
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 7: go up to Quebec and practice, and then eventually at sixteen,

830
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 7: I moved there and trained there for three and a

831
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 7: half years until I went to college.

832
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: So I have an amazing relationship with Felix.

833
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 7: I was actually back to this wedding in September, which

834
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 7: unfortunately I don't know if I'll be able to attend,

835
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 7: but I hope I.

836
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 2: Well, catsay out of the bag. Felix is getting married

837
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 2: in September.

838
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: I hope I'm not spoiling it.

839
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 3: But yes, he's playing the old but it's after that.

840
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: And yeah, no.

841
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 7: It was a huge, huge game changer for me, I think,

842
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 7: and it stored a lot of discipline. He was really demanding,

843
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 7: which is what I needed at the time, and just

844
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 7: having a high standard for yourself, which is something maybe

845
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,839
Speaker 7: I liked before going into training with him and then

846
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 7: into college. Just that self discipline, always being able to

847
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 7: look yourself in the mirror and see what you could

848
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 7: have done better, what you did good, And that's something

849
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 7: that's now ingraining me. I believe and is going to

850
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 7: follow me for the rest of my career and for

851
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 7: the rest of my life.

852
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 2: So you know, yix thin I just won and is

853
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 2: dominating right now at grand slime level of course with

854
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 2: Carlos al Choraz. But you know, given his height, you're

855
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 2: a very tall guy as well. You're maybe a couple

856
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 2: an initial too taller than than Yannick.

857
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm six eight, I don't know.

858
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so he's like six probably four.

859
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: But you know, there's been a lot of success for

860
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 2: the last couple of years with tall guys, right, how

861
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 2: much do you think that seeing the John Disner's uh,

862
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: you know, players like that doing well through the years,

863
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,359
Speaker 2: how much does that help you? And do you do

864
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 2: you look at the way that they play and start

865
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: to try and model yourself up to that, because it's

866
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 2: quite unique how tall you are.

867
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, growing up can In I probably the

868
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 7: best example I could have with Melos, that's true. Yeah,

869
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 7: and Lassk as well, who was more or less the

870
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 7: same hight. You know, there were great servers. They always

871
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 7: looked to take it to their opponent, looking for the

872
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 7: foreign looking to come forward. So growing up I had

873
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 7: the perfect I had the perfect example. Honestly, I didn't

874
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 7: have to go and look elsewhere. But I do believe

875
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 7: that maybe I can do some things differently as well.

876
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 7: I think Melos to Serve is something that probably will

877
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 7: never see again, so I have to find other ways

878
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 7: where I can be a little bit better. But yeah,

879
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 7: I definitely definitely modeled my game after the big guys event.

880
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 7: Essentially is what I'm trying to do. Come to the

881
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 7: net as much as I can and try not to

882
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 7: extend the rallies, and if I have to, I do

883
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 7: believe that I have the athleticism to maintain the rally

884
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 7: and play some defense.

885
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: If I have to. And yeah, but like I said,

886
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: growing up, I had the best example in Meal.

887
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 2: Well, you're too young to have seen me play, but

888
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 2: my friends Serve and Valley, you're a person of my heart,

889
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 2: my friend, so I get it.

890
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 3: I love it.

891
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 2: I love to say, especially with your life grouse feed

892
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 2: out there, it's nice to see. Speaking of big so

893
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: those big players. Ben Shelton, next opponent, Did you guys

894
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: play at college?

895
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: Uh? No, we never played in college. I mean we

896
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: played as.

897
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 7: School, but he played my teammate and I played one

898
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 7: of his teamen, but we.

899
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 3: Never actually were you higher than him? Were you one?

900
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 2: Or two?

901
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,919
Speaker 1: Were you no? He saw his first year I was hired,

902
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: but then his second year he was playing one and

903
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: I was playing too. No two.

904
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so give me your thoughts on playing

905
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 2: him and what you expect.

906
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,400
Speaker 3: I know what to expect.

907
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: If you're sitting behind the court, make sure you either

908
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 2: have a helmet on, or you're a catch a smith,

909
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: or you're paying attention. So what do we expect from

910
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 2: that match? I, like.

911
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 7: You said, you can expect the firepower for sure, fireworks.

912
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be a should be an

913
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 7: electric one, as that he's American playing here in America.

914
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: But like I said, as what you you trained for.

915
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 7: You trained to play for those those big matches, those

916
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 7: those big stage and surely going to be a lot

917
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 7: of fun and hopefully a lot of firepower.

918
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thank every all on here to day

919
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 2: off coming here. I'm giving you a bit a live

920
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 2: Dary'll have gone Tomorr look.

921
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 3: Forward to the match.

922
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, Thanks very king on that great