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Speaker 1: All right, Hi everybody, welcome to the Renown Stuff sen

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Speaker 1: Us podcast and I am joined once again by my buddy,

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Speaker 1: my roommate, my broody, Andrea Pekovich Okay Peko. Day three,

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Speaker 1: which is weird because it's Tuesday, so it's normally day two,

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Speaker 1: but because we started on Sunday, day three is in

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Speaker 1: the books. It feels like we're actually doing this podcast

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Speaker 1: at the end of play, but there are actually one

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Speaker 1: match still going on with Isla Tamlanovich, so we apologize

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Speaker 1: that we didn't get that result in. But we've got

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Speaker 1: to go to bed because we've got a long day

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Speaker 1: ahead of us tomorrow. But what a day's play it

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Speaker 1: was today. Can we start with the first match in

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Speaker 1: the evening in particular that I would like to talk

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Speaker 1: about with match after day. The match of the day

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Speaker 1: on the women's side in a lot of ways was

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Speaker 1: the Ribakina Plishkova match. What a funtastick match that was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, wow, like some huge hitting, very similar to

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Speaker 1: Osaka Garcia the night before, where it was like not

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Speaker 1: a lot of rallies but just amazing shot making and serving.

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Speaker 1: This one, in my opinion, was actually even better because

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Speaker 1: the quality was really really good from both players. Plishkov

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Speaker 1: had three set points, Rebarkina had three set points earlier,

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Speaker 1: and then also back and forth in that first set.

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Speaker 1: I could have gone either way. Polishkova had an early

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Speaker 1: break in the first set and then in the end.

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Speaker 1: Really Plischkova had it on her plate serving for that

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Speaker 1: first set in the tiebreak, and normally back in the

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Speaker 1: day she would have finished that off. But I think

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Speaker 1: the confidence that Rebarkina has got her through that match.

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Speaker 1: But what were your thoughts on it? Because you were

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Speaker 1: caught side for that match. I was calling it for

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Speaker 1: ESPN and you were court side for the World Feed,

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Speaker 1: So what did you think? I agree with you one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. It was a really high quality match. I

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Speaker 1: think both women played really well.

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Speaker 2: I think it was the best set I've seen plish

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Speaker 2: Gooba play in a long time. Since her risk injuries

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Speaker 2: have hasn't really been the same. I feel like she

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Speaker 2: has improved her surf, but that's possible. Of course, she's

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Speaker 2: known as the surf, but she's known as somebody yours

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Speaker 2: serfser really well. However, I feel like there were two

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Speaker 2: three years of her serving period where her elbow had dropped,

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Speaker 2: where she just was serving double faults and important moments I.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't hitting the she was. What I noticed tonight was

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Speaker 1: that she was getting better with the kicksurf. She's getting

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Speaker 1: again and sort of getting some some you know, air

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Speaker 1: as attackable. I mean, it was something that I worked

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Speaker 1: to see. So you noticed that as.

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Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, and I think it was really the difference

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Speaker 2: was the confidence, right you can see, Rebeccina has won

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Speaker 2: a lot a lot of matches. Interesting fact, she was

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Speaker 2: in the back of my mind, I was like, she

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Speaker 1: She just went for it.

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's the difference. She didn't have any

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Speaker 2: thought in her mind, and on those two set points,

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Speaker 2: especially when Carolina was serving, you could see that her

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Speaker 2: thoughts were racing, should I go way, maybe look down

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Speaker 1: That's how it looked like. Had been so good the

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Speaker 1: an incredible shot from Rebarkina with the cross caught little

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Speaker 1: her way. But that's what happens when you have the confidence,

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Speaker 1: and when you don't have the confidence, those little tiny

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Speaker 1: things don't go your way, and that's what happened in

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Speaker 1: with this quality of tennis that Carolina Police go for

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Speaker 2: And Josh Eagle was calling the match, and Josh Eagle

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Speaker 2: and Laura Robson and just asked us, when it's all

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Speaker 2: so comfortable here. It's a medium quick court. It's the

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Speaker 2: quickest of all majors as of now. Of course they

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Speaker 1: And I think these kids faster than the US Open.

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Speaker 2: When it's hot and with the humidity, the ball and

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Speaker 1: On the auter carts, it's a different story here.

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Speaker 2: It really skids through and it's been a bit slower

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Speaker 2: the Tours slowing down the hard courts more and more.

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Speaker 2: And I think, especially for these big hitters, the beginning of.

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Speaker 1: The season is so huge.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you saw it last year too with Saballeenka and

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Speaker 2: Rebecca and they started into the season blasting because they

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Speaker 2: just need that freshness, that alertness. They need to see

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Speaker 1: And you know, we don't talk about the balls enough.

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Speaker 1: These balls, I'm hearing that they're a little bit feel

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Speaker 1: drawing gone, are you fucking kidding me? Like really, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: Eager Shentach also had a great win first up. Oh

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Speaker 1: that was a good match too. Yeah, I mean Sophia Cannon,

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Speaker 1: nightmare draw for Sophia Kennon and frankly for Pulishkoba. I mean, geez,

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Speaker 1: I mean Miomisaka, Angie Kober, all these players that lost

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Speaker 2: Well, and you tweeted it out before the tournament. The

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Speaker 2: craziest section of a Liz she on Tech getting through through,

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Speaker 1: A few years ago, she took her out two years

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Speaker 1: I did see Eager today and she was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: getting any easier having to play against Daniel Collins and yes,

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Speaker 1: line is that, you know, Kerber lost to Daniel Collins

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Speaker 1: That was a rough first round as far as you

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Speaker 1: some good, good players in Fuxovitch. But he's Grigo is

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Speaker 1: tough man right now. He's stronger, he's fitter, he's he's bigger.

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Speaker 1: He went through long COVID. He was having some real

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Speaker 1: and you can tell he's just stronger and he's fitter,

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Speaker 1: I'm super happy about seeing Gregord do really.

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Speaker 2: Well and can not win a match here under five

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Speaker 1: Hear unbelievable, But he did it. He got through, and

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