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Speaker 1: All right, hi everybody, and welcome to the Rene Stave

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Speaker 1: Senes Podcast. I am joined here in Australia as my

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Speaker 1: roommate by Andrea Pekovic. Andrea Okay, first day of the

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Speaker 1: Austrain Opener is in the books, and what a random

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Speaker 1: first day on Sunday before Monday, because the Autrain Open

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Speaker 1: decided to attack on an extra day to make it

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Speaker 1: a little extra cash to make up for all the

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Speaker 1: money they lost in the pandemic. But having said that, wow,

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Speaker 1: the crowds were crazy yesterday. But of course it's a Sunday,

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Speaker 1: so all the kids were out. It was a great atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible and we had some great matches. Notably,

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Speaker 1: we have to start with, of course, what Novak Djokovic

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Speaker 1: had to go through last night, and give me your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on his opponent.

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Speaker 2: What a young little superstar we might have on our

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Speaker 3: This guy, absolutely, I mean young prismtch like Croatian guy.

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Speaker 3: He last year won the Australian Open and Roland Garros

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Speaker 3: and the juniors, so this is kind of mind blowing,

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Speaker 3: similar to a Carlos Alcaraz that he made the transition

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Speaker 3: to the seniors so quickly. I wonder what your thoughts

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Speaker 3: on that, because, especially in the men, this had has

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Speaker 3: gotten increasingly difficult with how physical the game has gotten

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Speaker 3: to make that transition from the juniors and seniors, and

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Speaker 3: to see him this quickly at such a high level

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Speaker 3: was really really mesmerizing. I had him on my somewhere

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Speaker 3: in the back of my mind as a good junior,

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Speaker 3: but to see him on this stage this good.

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Speaker 1: Because no, it doesn't translate often, not often, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: people can do really well in Genius, especially the men,

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Speaker 1: because it's, as you said, it's such a physical game

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Speaker 1: and it's really hard to jump from like being seventeen

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Speaker 1: eighteen to you know, you're playing against thirty five year

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Speaker 1: old men. So but this guy, I mean his legs alone, thighs,

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Speaker 1: I mean, my god, I mean.

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Speaker 2: He had to cut it short, shorter, yes, just so

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Speaker 2: to fit into his pants.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, hello, thy chrismache thigh prismich.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, he was.

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Speaker 1: I was so impressed with I mean, yes, you impressed

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Speaker 1: it the way he hits the ball and all that

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Speaker 1: sort of stuff. But the thing that impressed me the most,

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Speaker 1: I mean his movement. My god, like Novak was afraid

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Speaker 2: But it's more about the heart.

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Speaker 1: Like even when he got down for love in the

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Speaker 1: fourth set and you think, okay, it's over, You've given

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Speaker 1: Novak a great match, and you should be proud of yourself.

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Speaker 1: You played against your idol. You've done really well. You're

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Speaker 1: a little bit injured. He didn't look one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: but he still fought. And I mean Novak had to

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Speaker 1: like have what four or five match points just to

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Speaker 1: win the match in the end. So certainly a young

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Speaker 1: superstar that's going to be making lots of noise on

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Speaker 1: last night, didn't we And we said about it and

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Speaker 1: we said, oh, it's going to be great. We've got

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Speaker 1: al Karaz, We've got this young kid, We've got Sinner.

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Speaker 1: I mean, all these really young guys, but they're still

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you what my internet name in Brooklyn is,

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Speaker 3: but Yannick's Internet, Okay, And I'm so proud.

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Speaker 4: Of that one.

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Speaker 2: Why is that?

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Speaker 3: Because I wanted to have a pun and I wanted

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Speaker 3: to have it tennis related. Well, he saw Yani's internet

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Speaker 3: and he had a great win. Just before we move

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Speaker 3: on to Yannick and the others, what did you think

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Speaker 3: of Novak's We saw him at the United Cup.

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Speaker 4: He had some.

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Speaker 3: Wrist injury or wrist problems, let's say not injury. He

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Speaker 3: seemed fine yesterday. He was wearing a sleeve, did you

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Speaker 3: He didn't wear a sleep in the match though, No,

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Speaker 3: But then the practice and the warm up he was

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I mean he wasn't squamish or sort of grabbing at it,

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Speaker 1: as far as like not getting more tennis, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but you know that's all speculation. But I saw and

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Speaker 1: So look, I think that match is certainly going to.

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Speaker 2: Test his body.

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Speaker 1: There's no question about that because it was really bloody

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Speaker 1: physical match. So anyway, he's through, and you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: then it was snatched away once again. But Janixtenner looked

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Speaker 1: really great. He was, and that's a tough first round,

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Speaker 2: So I think that's got to give him tons of confidence. Obviously.

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Speaker 1: I talked to Darren a bit about it yesterday and

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Speaker 1: he's really happy, really happy with the way he's playing.

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Speaker 1: So you got to be pretty pumped about that. And

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Speaker 1: Maria Sakari finally gets a win at Grand Slam level.

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Speaker 2: It's only taken a year to do it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, looked a little nervous in the first step, but

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Speaker 3: then went on a roll and looked really comfortable. Had

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Speaker 3: a good lead up beat Angiekaba at the United Cup

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Speaker 3: in a very comfortable manner. What did you think of

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Speaker 3: Arena Sablenka. I had the for that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: If I had the blessing or the curse because I

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Speaker 3: has qualified. Was her first Grand Slam tournament, a major

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Speaker 4: Draw ever qualified.

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Speaker 3: I had a good qualifying had good qualifying rounds. But man,

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Speaker 3: Arena Saballenka looked great today.

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Speaker 1: She was well, I mean, going on the court at

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Speaker 1: like what eleven thirty at night. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 1: defending champion. That's kind of some bullshit. I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I think if I had to do that again,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna put Eager Shantech there as well as and

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Speaker 1: I'm wont player in the world second one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: sadly the women have to play after the man after

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Speaker 1: best of five and if you're playing a four hour match,

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Speaker 2: Getting screwed there.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think that they should probably stagger

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Speaker 1: the defending champions on certainly now Sunday and Monday.

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Speaker 2: But whatever, I'm not doing.

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Speaker 1: The tournament schedule, and you know, they've got a lot

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Speaker 2: But she looked unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: But she was serving one hundred and ninety k's an hour,

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Speaker 3: it's one hundred and ten more seventeen hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 3: that's something to really pay attention to. If she can

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Speaker 3: keep that up, it's going to be really hard to

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Speaker 1: And if she does do that, considering last year, you know,

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Speaker 1: or two years ago, she couldn't get a serve in

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately for Arena sometimes it just goes off. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: It's not that natural sort of you know, beautiful Roger

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Speaker 2: Just beautiful motion. So it's if it goes off, it

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Speaker 1: So if she keeps it like that, as you said,

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Speaker 1: then good luck meeting her here at the Strain Open,

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Speaker 3: I did see a few improvements in her game too.

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Speaker 3: She came forward with my which will make you very happy.

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Speaker 3: She came forward when she had a shot ball, she

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Speaker 3: followed it to the net, and the few important points

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Speaker 3: like they worked a little bit on that. She used

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Speaker 3: always love to see at the Australian Open, those top

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Speaker 4: And you really could see a step ahead for her.

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Speaker 2: Well, don't you know That's what makes a great player.

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Speaker 2: It's not a player that's just.

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Speaker 1: Sitting back on their laurels and not trying to change

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Why do I need to change anything? Well,

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Speaker 1: So you know, we're seeing Chiantek for examples, change your

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Speaker 1: because it needs to get better. So she looked really good,

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Speaker 2: She looked bad, down and out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, she keeps so calm that she

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Speaker 1: we almost had another upset with Andre rublavvered that match

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Speaker 1: and oh my god, he was up two sets to love.

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Speaker 2: It's like.

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Speaker 3: It's like keep with Portuguese. So this is the one

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Speaker 3: language I can I have no ear for. If you

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Speaker 1: But it was such a fun match, and it really

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Speaker 1: two sets of love up. You thought it was over

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Speaker 1: and done with, and then you know, the Algo managed

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Speaker 1: and then he really had an opportunity in the match.

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Speaker 1: He had was down love forty five six, pulled out

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Speaker 1: some unbelievable serving, second serves, served in, vollied a couple

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Speaker 1: in the tiebreak. But with those ten point tie breaks,

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Speaker 1: you cannot rest on your laurels. You got to just

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Speaker 1: keep the hammer down. And his biggest issue in that

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Speaker 1: one or two double faults. He just he didn't have

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Speaker 1: it on the surf. And rube Lev, on the other hand,

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Speaker 3: The time, especially thinking that that lost that heartbreaker in

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Speaker 3: the fifth set tiebreaker last year against Nas, so that.

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Speaker 4: Must have been in his head.

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Speaker 3: But I wonder he was up Sabot Wilt or se

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Speaker 3: Bush Wilts.

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's say Chiago, he was up for to one

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Speaker 3: in the in the champions tae break.

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Speaker 2: Or in the tiebreak only one mini break, though, do.

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Speaker 3: You think that would have been enough if it was

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Speaker 3: have been even enough?

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe just because if you get for one,

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Speaker 1: and you can sort of, you know, get limp over

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Speaker 4: Because I have to head to the courts. We are

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Speaker 4: Few words on Amanda.

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Speaker 4: And it has to be not just because we didn't.

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Speaker 2: And she beats some of us.

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Speaker 3: She bad some son of our thirteenth see it's here

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Speaker 4: Up her job a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Renee, I have to go if you want to take

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Speaker 3: this to an end, I'm going to go pee and

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Speaker 4: I'll see you there.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we needed to hear all of your situation,

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Speaker 1: So for all the Canadians out there that follow our podcast,

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Speaker 1: And as I said, just some amazing matches, and there's

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Speaker 2: But thanks for joining us today here in Melbourne. We'll

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Speaker 2: see you soon.

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Speaker 1: Bye, say bye, PECKRD Jews Okay, cheers, H.