Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we virtually
Speaker 1: attended the funeral Simone Biles held for the Yurchenko double
Speaker 1: pike rip. On today's show, we'll shed light on a
Speaker 1: whole lot of success at the Paralympics. Put you in
Speaker 1: a suite at the US Open and reveal a footy
Speaker 1: name twin submission from one of your slices. It's all
Speaker 1: coming up right after this. Welcome back, my little slices.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. A lot of
Speaker 1: Paralympic news. In para equestrian American Rebecca Heart, a five
Speaker 1: time Paralympian, won her first individual medal and get this,
Speaker 1: it's the big one. Heart earned a gold in Grade three,
Speaker 1: which is for athletes with severe impairments in both legs
Speaker 1: but minimal or no trunk impairment per the AP. After
Speaker 1: the event ended, Heart took a moment to soak it
Speaker 1: all in. She said, quote, it's been twenty five years
Speaker 1: of trying to get to this point and being close
Speaker 1: many many times to actually get it. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm going to wake up at any moment. It's just surreal.
Speaker 1: It feels like a dream. End quote. Doesn't that just
Speaker 1: pull out your heart strings some more para Equestria for you.
Speaker 1: Twenty five year old American Fiona Howard made the most
Speaker 1: of her Paralympic debut, winning gold with a personal best
Speaker 1: score in the Grade two individual competition. That's for folks
Speaker 1: with severe impairment of the trunk and minimal impairment of
Speaker 1: the upper limbs or moderate impairment of the trunk, upper
Speaker 1: and lower limbs. Howard's not done either. She's got two
Speaker 1: more chances to medal this week. Today, she and her
Speaker 1: USA counterparts compete in the team event, and on Saturday
Speaker 1: she's in the freestyle competition. And three time Paralympian Rock
Speaker 1: Sane Toronto won a silver medal in the Grade one
Speaker 1: equestrian competition for athletes with severe impairments affecting all four
Speaker 1: limbs in trunk. This is her third medal. She previously
Speaker 1: won two golds in Tokyo. So much success for the Americans.
Speaker 1: In at You Love It. On the Track, Susanna Scaroni
Speaker 1: earned bronze in the women's fifteen hundred meter T fifty four.
Speaker 1: It was a thrilling race. A crash in the last
Speaker 1: lap took out the top two finishers in Tokyo and
Speaker 1: Scarni herself hit the inside rail on the last curve,
Speaker 1: but she was able to recover. Switzerland's Catherine de Brunner
Speaker 1: won the gold, her third gold medal of the Games
Speaker 1: in a Paralympic record, and Great Britain Samantha Kinghorn took
Speaker 1: silver to the pool, where Christy Roley Crossley won gold
Speaker 1: in the one hundred meter backstroke S nine final, finishing
Speaker 1: in one oh seven ninety two, setting a Paralympic record
Speaker 1: in the process. Raleig Crossley adds that medal to the
Speaker 1: silver they won in the fifty meter freestyle. Team USA's
Speaker 1: LeAnn Smith also added to the metal hall, winning gold
Speaker 1: in thee hundred meter freestyle S three. Smith had an
Speaker 1: especially tough road to reach Paris. Two years ago. She
Speaker 1: was forced to spend seven months out of the pool
Speaker 1: after she was admitted to the ICU with a collapse lung.
Speaker 1: Congrats to her on quite a comeback. In sitting volleyball,
Speaker 1: the US swept Italy in three sets and now advances
Speaker 1: to the semi final for the sixth straight time. Set
Speaker 1: ones started off, Set two required a late comeback, but
Speaker 1: Set three was all USA. The quest for a third
Speaker 1: straight Paralympic gold medal in the sport continues against Brazil
Speaker 1: on Thursday, and in wheelchair basketball, US is onto the
Speaker 1: knockout round. They faced Great Britain in the quarterfinals today
Speaker 1: at ten a m Eastern. The US duo of Rose
Speaker 1: Hollerman and Courtney Ryan have led the way for Team
Speaker 1: USA so far, both averaging exactly thirteen point seven points
Speaker 1: per game. To Hockey News, PWHL, Minnesota announced that Melissa
Speaker 1: Caruso will take over as general manager. Crusoe, a Saint
Speaker 1: Paul resident, spent fifteen years working in the American Hockey League.
Speaker 1: She began as an intern right out of college and
Speaker 1: eventually worked her way into a role as the league's
Speaker 1: Vice president of Hockey Operations and Governance. Crusoe fills the
Speaker 1: spot in Minnesota after the dismissal of former GM Natalie
Speaker 1: Darwitz in June. The squad Darwitz put together was successful
Speaker 1: in its first ever season, winning the inaugural Walter Cup,
Speaker 1: but she was let go just days after the win.
Speaker 1: According to the Athletic Minnesota parted ways with Darwit's due
Speaker 1: to a rift between her and head coach Ken Clee.
Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll hear from a couple ogs at the Open. Don't
Speaker 1: move a muscle, Welcome back. If you listen to yesterday's show,
Speaker 1: you know I'm on a very cool field trip to
Speaker 1: the US Open this week and yesterday I got to
Speaker 1: hang in a suite with our friends at ELF Cosmetics.
Speaker 1: ELF has entered a long term partnership with Billy Jean
Speaker 1: King to support the Billy Jean King Cup, which is
Speaker 1: the top international team competition in women's tennis, kind of
Speaker 1: like the Women's World Cup of Tennis. ELF is also
Speaker 1: co hosting the first ever Power of Women's Summit at
Speaker 1: the BJK Cup, bringing together influential change makers to celebrate
Speaker 1: progress and raise awareness for advancing gender equality and sports.
Speaker 1: People like Malala are going to be there, and the
Speaker 1: tournament and the summit are going to be in Spain
Speaker 1: in November. And I'm not saying that I'm angling for
Speaker 1: an invite, but if you're listening ELF, and I know
Speaker 1: you are Spain in Spain sounds like a dream to me.
Speaker 1: But back to Tuesday, some pretty incredible former tennis grades
Speaker 1: were in the ELF suite and if you spoke to
Speaker 1: the room of media and partners before the matches got started.
Speaker 1: I want to take you inside the suite with me
Speaker 1: and play you some of the great stories and memories
Speaker 1: that they shared. And one thing you'll notice, Billy Jean
Speaker 1: King is a common thread in all of these bits,
Speaker 1: and deservedly so. She broke barriers with her performance on
Speaker 1: the court and continues to do so with her advocacy
Speaker 1: and support of women and women athletes off of it.
Speaker 1: I always call Billy Jean King the Forest Gump of
Speaker 1: women's sports because every story you hear she eventually pops up.
Speaker 1: It's like women's hockey. We weren't sure what to do.
Speaker 1: We called Billy Jean King women's soccer. We weren't sure
Speaker 1: how to get what we wanted, so we called Billy
Speaker 1: Jean King. She's absolutely the best, and you'll hear her
Speaker 1: name come up a lot here. First up, we got
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six American Olympic champ and three time Grand
Speaker 1: Slam winner Lindsay Davenport talking about being a young player
Speaker 1: and some special moments that she had where BJK stepped
Speaker 1: in and helped reframe her approach to the game, make
Speaker 1: sure she was thinking about truly being a winner. And
Speaker 1: putting herself in the mindset of winning first at the
Speaker 1: Olympics and then at the Billy Jean kingcop Here's Lindsay.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six. I was twenty years old.
Speaker 3: We were at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Billy was
Speaker 3: our captain. So, you know, you get to go to
Speaker 3: the Olympics, you feel like you're like a kid in
Speaker 3: a candy shop.
Speaker 2: We're going to all these events and having fun.
Speaker 3: And long story short, I found myself in the final
Speaker 3: playing for the next day.
Speaker 2: I was gonna be playing for the gold medal.
Speaker 3: So the day before Billy goes I'd love to sit
Speaker 3: down and talk to you about tomorrow. So we sit
Speaker 3: down and she's like, okay, tomorrow, I go, Billy, can
Speaker 3: you believe it? I'm going to at least leave here
Speaker 3: with a silver medal. She was like, oh, Lindsay, Oh, Lindsay.
Speaker 3: So that started an over hour conversation of you know,
Speaker 3: really delving into like why are you scared to go
Speaker 3: for the gold? Like why won't you go out there
Speaker 3: tomorrow in a match that could change your life? And
Speaker 3: why are you scared to put it all on the line?
Speaker 3: Obviously really heavy stuff like a day before the final
Speaker 3: was like, oh my goodness. But it got me in
Speaker 3: the headspace of going out there against the player, beaten
Speaker 3: to think like why not, why can't this be my moment?
Speaker 3: So and then the other story I loved it tell
Speaker 3: the I did with the golf y I didacty eight.
Speaker 3: The other story that is really funny with Billy is
Speaker 3: fast forward another few years and we're the Billy at
Speaker 3: Billy Jean King Cup Finals. Renee was there actually with us,
Speaker 3: even though she represented Australia. I'm yeah, We're sitting there
Speaker 3: and again, you know, I was freaking out before a
Speaker 3: match and like, Billy, I can't handle this, Like I
Speaker 3: was playing one.
Speaker 2: And I think Monica was was had a tough match.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what if Monica loses? Like I don't even
Speaker 2: know it was freaking out. She's like, You've got to
Speaker 2: get it together.
Speaker 3: She's like come on, She's like, champions adjust and pressure
Speaker 3: is a privilege. I'm like, okay, okay, I'll take that.
Speaker 3: So little did I know that was the first time
Speaker 3: she said it was to me. So when you ever
Speaker 3: hear that quote pressure is a privilege, that's because I
Speaker 3: was really freaking out out here about Lane and.
Speaker 1: Mad That is some breaking news, y'all. Pressure is a
Speaker 1: privilege is basically Billy's best bar and Lindsay was the
Speaker 1: one who inspired it, which is too cool. And now
Speaker 1: Lindsay's in a position to duel out similar words of
Speaker 1: wisdom as she is the new US captain for the
Speaker 1: upcoming BJK Cup. Next up. Former Australian doubles Dynamos, six
Speaker 1: time Grand Slam winner and host of the Renee Stubs
Speaker 1: tennis podcast right here and I Hurt Women's Sports talked
Speaker 1: to the crowd, and here's Renee sharing her own fond
Speaker 1: memories of playing in the Billy Jean Kingcup.
Speaker 4: Billy Jean Kingcup for me, it was literally my favorite
Speaker 4: weeks of the year. And we as Lindsay knows, tennis
Speaker 4: is an incredibly selfish individual sport. Even though you're amongst
Speaker 4: your peers every single week, they're not your peers, are
Speaker 4: not your friends during a tennis tournament because you literally
Speaker 4: have to walk out and play against them, and so
Speaker 4: we do have a traveling circus. But when it comes
Speaker 4: to playing Billy Jean King Cup, it was the greatest
Speaker 4: week for me because I was surrounded by my fellow Australians.
Speaker 4: I was surrounded my teammates for the first and only
Speaker 4: time that year, and it was usually two or three
Speaker 4: weeks a year, so it was just a week that
Speaker 4: we worked so hard.
Speaker 2: It was so pressurized. It was so stressful.
Speaker 4: But when you were around, like your other teammates were
Speaker 4: obviously coming from your own country and you're there together
Speaker 4: for a whole week, it's just it's my favorite. It
Speaker 4: was my favorite weeks of the year. As I said,
Speaker 4: it was also very stressful when you walk out there
Speaker 4: knowing that your teammates are, you know, looking at you
Speaker 4: to like for me, a lot of the times it
Speaker 4: was also I was the doubles player and so it
Speaker 4: came down to the doubles quite often in Billy Jean
Speaker 4: King cups.
Speaker 2: It was very stressful for me.
Speaker 4: I was a great teammate all week, you know, playing
Speaker 4: singles and all that, and then they were like.
Speaker 2: Okay, go win the doubles match, and I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh god.
Speaker 4: But it was honestly, the joy I got from winning
Speaker 4: those matches and being part of a team as literally
Speaker 4: my favorite memories of playing professional tennis. And so you know,
Speaker 4: I know, Lindsay will instill that with her players. The
Speaker 4: pride of playing for the United States, the pride of
Speaker 4: playing for other people and other teammates is something.
Speaker 2: That you'll never forget. And I think that that's that,
Speaker 2: you know, if I were to.
Speaker 4: Sell to players about getting out there and playing Billy
Speaker 4: Jean King cups.
Speaker 2: That's the memory.
Speaker 4: The memories are the favorite weeks of the end. I'm
Speaker 4: sure Lindsay could attest that Billy Jean King Cup those
Speaker 4: weeks spending up with.
Speaker 2: Your friends and getting to know them a little bit.
Speaker 4: Better and also getting in the trenches together, you know,
Speaker 4: and continually talking to one another when you're playing matches
Speaker 4: and you don't look over often and see, you know,
Speaker 4: five or six of your enemies week in and week out,
Speaker 4: they're pulling for you. You know you've got you know,
Speaker 4: Lindsay's going to have the Emminavarro's and Coco Goths who
Speaker 4: just played each other the other day.
Speaker 2: You know they're going to be pulling for each other.
Speaker 2: And that is a memory that you can never forget
Speaker 2: as a player. So for me, that's my favorite, and.
Speaker 4: That partnerships with ELF is just the synergy, the teamwork,
Speaker 4: and that's what billaging King Come is it's a quality.
Speaker 2: It's working together and so for me, that's great to
Speaker 2: have this partnership.
Speaker 1: Love Renee and it was very cool after that to
Speaker 1: see her down on Arthur Ash Court interviewing players after
Speaker 1: their whin tusslin around there getting the work done. Billy
Speaker 1: Jean King deserves a lot of credit for all the
Speaker 1: stuff she's done in tennis and sports in general, but
Speaker 1: her wife and former South African pro tennis player Alana
Speaker 1: Class is always by her side, always putting in the
Speaker 1: work too, and she was in the suite with us too.
Speaker 1: She shared her thoughts on the first ever Billy Jean
Speaker 1: King Cup, which was then called the Federation Cup.
Speaker 5: It's the woman's World Cup of tennis and the first
Speaker 5: one started in London in nineteen sixty three and had us.
Speaker 5: Billy played on the very first one and sixteen teams
Speaker 5: supposed to be outdoors, it was raining, they went indoors
Speaker 5: and Billy always tries to set goals, so she kept
Speaker 5: telling that her teammates, we have to win because this
Speaker 5: is the first one, Billy, right, and you know, we
Speaker 5: want our name to be on the cup because you're
Speaker 5: always going to look back and see your name and
Speaker 5: so This is really important to her as she believes
Speaker 5: in teamwork, she believes in being the best you can be.
Speaker 5: And we started a joint venture with the International Tennis Federation,
Speaker 5: who actually manages the competition. You'd have to play in
Speaker 5: the Billy Jenkin Cup in order to qualify for the Olympics,
Speaker 5: so it really is connected to the Olympics, which is important.
Speaker 5: But most important is the message it sends to young
Speaker 5: girls and women not only on the court. We want
Speaker 5: more women on boards and the tennis federations. We want
Speaker 5: more women coaches, we want more women in the business.
Speaker 5: More woman the podcast than our story's being told. So honestly,
Speaker 5: we couldn't be more thrilled because at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, I think, as Lindsay was saying, it is
Speaker 5: about the relationships you build in life, and this one
Speaker 5: is very special.
Speaker 1: And last but not least, we got a little bonus
Speaker 1: content from Milana to the l Folks asked her to
Speaker 1: talk a bit about helping Billy start the PWHL earlier
Speaker 1: this year. Here it is we're a.
Speaker 5: Good team, but he says, she dreams it and then
Speaker 5: we build it. But we don't build it alone, but
Speaker 5: we did this year start a woman's professional ice hockey league,
Speaker 5: and we felt that some of the players. Ken Or Coyne,
Speaker 5: who was the captain and the US Olympic team, came
Speaker 5: to us and said, you know, we're playing. I'm earning
Speaker 5: seven thousand dollars. I'm sleeping on a blow up mattress.
Speaker 5: I'm flying on Southwest Okay to Minnesota. I'm playing to Minnesota.
Speaker 5: You know, CHAPALTI is You know that that's my main meal.
Speaker 5: And we're are the best players in the world, you know,
Speaker 5: and so would you help? And so we very similarly
Speaker 5: used the playbook that we used for women's tennis fifty
Speaker 5: years ago when we started the w and we said, look,
Speaker 5: you have to get all the top players together. You
Speaker 5: need one voice. They formed a player association and they
Speaker 5: actually didn't play in competition for three years, which is
Speaker 5: unbelievable when you think about it, because when you're playing
Speaker 5: a sport that maybe the Olympics of the World Championship
Speaker 5: is your goal and you're giving up an opportunity. But
Speaker 5: they rarely felt that sticking together to create something for
Speaker 5: future generations was more important. So we helped work on
Speaker 5: a business plan, and more importantly, we helped fund an investor,
Speaker 5: so one of our partners, Mark Walter, who owns the
Speaker 5: Dodgers and a few other things. Billy was able to
Speaker 5: get him to understand that investing in women's sports is huge,
Speaker 5: so long term investment, single entity ownership. We started the
Speaker 5: league in January in Montreal. Twenty one thousand people sold
Speaker 5: out a st in ten minutes. Three teams in Canada,
Speaker 5: three in the US. And what's great is you can
Speaker 5: invest and you can build, but you can't make people come.
Speaker 5: And they came, so it's just the beginning. It's at
Speaker 5: the beginning where tennis is a little more mature. But
Speaker 5: ELF has been with us on both junis.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk plenty of p WHL when that season
Speaker 1: gets closer. But back to tennis. It was a hell
Speaker 1: of a day at the BJK Tennis Center. I got
Speaker 1: to watch a fantastic match between American Taylor Fritz and
Speaker 1: German Alexander Zverev. The serves in person, like the one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five mile power serves, are insane in person,
Speaker 1: but even better, I got to watch Emma Navarro, the
Speaker 1: upstart American that we mentioned on a previous show, and
Speaker 1: she continued her fairy tale run. She got a two
Speaker 1: set win over Spain's Paula Badosa and she's now off
Speaker 1: to her first Grand Slam semi final. So cool. I
Speaker 1: want to give a huge shout out to the Elf
Speaker 1: Cosmetics folks for the hospitality. Had an absolute blast in
Speaker 1: the sweet watch and all the action and talking about
Speaker 1: all the ways that Billyjian King had an impact on
Speaker 1: the sports world. We're gonna still be referencing her for
Speaker 1: decades to come. Also us open. I agree with Serena
Speaker 1: Williams the Honey Deuce. We need to rebrand that. We
Speaker 1: need to name that the Honey Ace. But more on
Speaker 1: that coming later when we come back. Another slice gets
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