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Speaker 1: It seems like no better place to start than watching

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Speaker 2: Know, really a state of mind. Yes, it is. It

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Speaker 3: One of the reasons moscovates mad No, you know what

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Speaker 2: And there's like five courts inside that massive stadium and

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Speaker 4: End of the year.

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Speaker 2: It was always literally one of the last tournaments of

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Speaker 1: Well, listen to I mean, I know that this was

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Speaker 2: or whomever. So it's nice to talk to people that

433
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Speaker 2: are involved in the sport as deeply as what you are.

434
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Speaker 5: And of course I'm here talking to Jean.

435
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Speaker 2: From BNP Paribar, you are CEO of BMP Parry Bar.

436
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Speaker 2: I guess the first question I always ask players, The

437
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Speaker 2: first question is why tennis? Like why did you choose tennis?

438
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Speaker 5: And my question to you is is a little the

439
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Speaker 5: same why BNP Perrybar chose.

440
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Speaker 2: Why this sport?

441
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Speaker 4: In particular, it started a long time ago. It started

442
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Speaker 4: in nineteen seventy three. The story says BNP was financing

443
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Speaker 4: a you know, refurbishing project in the Rono Garos Stadium,

444
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Speaker 4: and I guess you know, this is where the bank

445
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Speaker 4: had an opportunity to basically put the sign of BNP

446
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Speaker 4: on the backboard of the French Open. And since then,

447
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 4: I think this logo, this you know, green logo became

448
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,640
Speaker 4: quite symbolic and this is where they got the bank

449
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,680
Speaker 4: into tennis fifty years ago. And since then the bank

450
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 4: has just you know, invested and expanded its reach and

451
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 4: support of tennis around the world. The values of tennis

452
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 4: fits really well fits really well are the values of

453
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Speaker 4: the bank. It's around sportsmanship, it's around self improvement, it's

454
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Speaker 4: around you know, it's an individual sport, but it's around

455
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Speaker 4: the community and the collectivity, and it's a global sport.

456
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Speaker 4: And b ampipi by is a bank that has presence

457
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Speaker 4: in seventy two countries.

458
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Speaker 2: And you know, just for everybody our listeners out there,

459
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Speaker 2: if you hear any ambient noise from behind you, we're

460
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Speaker 2: actually here at Tennis Paradise in Indian Wells, California for

461
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Speaker 2: the BNP Paribal Tournament out here, which is one of

462
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Speaker 2: the favorite stops on It was certainly one of the

463
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Speaker 2: favorite stops for me, and I know that all the

464
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Speaker 2: players love coming to this event. I guess on a

465
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Speaker 2: personal note, you have been with BNP Pariba now for

466
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Speaker 2: so long, many many decades, and you are such a

467
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Speaker 2: leader of course with the company. Now, how does a

468
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Speaker 2: guy that was on the French sailing team, am I right?

469
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Speaker 2: How does a guy have the passion to continue because

470
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Speaker 2: I mean, really you're making a lot of the decisions

471
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Speaker 2: based on what BNP perry But does with its marketing

472
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Speaker 2: and its money. Why does a guy that was so

473
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Speaker 2: in love with sailing end up loving and pushing tennis

474
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Speaker 2: so much because you talk about the French Open, but

475
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Speaker 2: the expansion of being tennis has been enormous.

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Speaker 4: You I grew up in the French Alps, skiing a

477
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Speaker 4: lot of your sleep, but we were living along the

478
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Speaker 4: lake and the yard club. There across the street from

479
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Speaker 4: the yard club was the tennis club, and I just loved,

480
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Speaker 4: you know, playing tennis when I was not on the

481
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Speaker 4: water and what I working for for initially Pariba, but

482
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Speaker 4: which became b In the Pariba, I shared a lot

483
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Speaker 4: for the sport I play and the what I like

484
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Speaker 4: with the way we look at tennis today. It's obviously

485
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Speaker 4: it's professional tennis like what we have here, but the

486
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Speaker 4: bank is really involved in many dimensions of the game

487
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Speaker 4: of tennis. It's amateur tennis, it's club tennis, it's wheelchair tennis,

488
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Speaker 4: and it's really in the DNA of the bank. Then

489
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Speaker 4: that helps, you know, driving decisions and making decisions, particularly

490
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Speaker 4: when your clients love it, when your staff love it.

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Speaker 4: You have few, at least as I know, a few

492
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Speaker 4: institutions who define themselves as world tennis, which is which

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Speaker 4: is what this bank does. In addition to obously stating

494
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Speaker 4: that we're a bank for a changing world and we're

495
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Speaker 4: tennis website. Hearing is one of the most you know

496
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Speaker 4: visited website about tennis. And it's still obviously the website

497
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Speaker 4: you know, run by the bank. Then it's it's really

498
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Speaker 4: embedded in what in what we do, and as the

499
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Speaker 4: CEO of the US Bank, in in what I do

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Speaker 4: as well. And we here at Indian Worlds. As you mentioned,

501
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Speaker 4: we're seeing one thousand clients clients over the last you know,

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Speaker 4: over the two weeks here. Even though it's a very

503
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Speaker 4: special you know, it's a full edition that was never

504
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Speaker 4: meant to be right of Indian Wales. We we are

505
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Speaker 4: expecting one hundred thousands of fans, which I think is

506
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Speaker 4: very good for hopefully the world of tennis. Well, I

507
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Speaker 4: speak to the players. They just like the fact that

508
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Speaker 4: it's happening and we don't skip it, you know, two

509
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Speaker 4: years in a row, and and I you know, I've

510
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Speaker 4: been here every year over the last you know, fifteen

511
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 4: years we've been sponsoring this tournament. I can tell you

512
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Speaker 4: it's it's good for the local economy and they need it,

513
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 4: and they're really good news here. He's the two edition

514
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 4: is just you know, five months away.

515
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Speaker 5: We're right around the corner from it.

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Speaker 2: It'll be great to see because I think next year

517
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Speaker 2: come much in its usual slot, we're going to see

518
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Speaker 2: these stands absolutely packed and we'll have everybody back. And

519
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Speaker 2: I think it's phenomenal that you know that you guys

520
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: put the tournament on at this time of the year,

521
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Speaker 2: because it really does help. As you said, the economy

522
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Speaker 2: and tennis in general, how does B and P address equality,

523
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Speaker 2: equity and inclusion access Because you talk about because the

524
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Speaker 2: MP is a financial global conglomerate, it's probably you know,

525
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 2: seen by a lot of people as finance. Finance means rich,

526
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 2: finance means wealthy customers. But how do how do you

527
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Speaker 2: reconcile also going to the grassroots of something like tennis,

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Speaker 2: because I know how much money you're investing in the

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Speaker 2: grassroots of community tennis.

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00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 4: And you're right In the meantime, being a global firm

531
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 4: means knowing by definition of a diversity when you have

532
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 4: a presence in seventy seventy two countries to better know

533
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 4: and understand what diversity means, being very involved in supporting

534
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 4: clients and being very connected to the trends. You know,

535
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Speaker 4: about sustainability and ESG and SDG from the United Nations.

536
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 4: Then sustainability is cretical to the business we conduct, and

537
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 4: just being a firm with two hundred thousand people worldwide

538
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 4: and fourteen thousand people in the United States, you better

539
00:27:55,480 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 4: understand what corporate and corporate and social responsibility means. And

540
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 4: equity equal treatment is part is a big part of it.

541
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Speaker 4: There is so much to be to do and seal,

542
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,439
Speaker 4: so much to be done, but that's that's that's an

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00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 4: important obviously dimension of what we do. This is probably

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00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 4: what why tennis is very critical to the bank as well,

545
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 4: because it fits really well what tennis is about.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Then being in the grassroots of tennis, you you are

548
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Speaker 4: connected to all these dimensions.

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00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: Yea. Uh.

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Speaker 4: And but maybe to be more specific around actions, we

551
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 4: don't we don't sponsor tennis tournaments, We do not offer

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Speaker 4: or provide equal treatment, equal pay or you know, fits

553
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 4: all these criteria you and I just listed. And that's

554
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 4: a statement this bank made probably ahead of everybody has,

555
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: you know, quite some time ago, including this tournament here

556
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 4: by the way, ahead.

557
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 5: Of your time.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that you know, I'm a bit

559
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Speaker 2: of a watcher of CNBC myself. I see you in

560
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: there from time to time, and one of the things

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Speaker 2: that I remember you talking about was, you know, e

562
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Speaker 2: sc sort of environmentals social change, and you guys are

563
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 2: so big obviously derivatives and making a difference, and you know,

564
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 2: I want a little bit. You know, that interested me

565
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 2: because you know we're talking about you investing in like

566
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 2: you said, you want to invest in tennis tournaments that

567
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 2: are equal to men and women. But also it's important

568
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 2: for BNP to be a part of the environment and

569
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: making better decisions and what you invest in the importance

570
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: of that as well when you talk about access for

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Speaker 2: kids in communities that are going to be affected by

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Speaker 2: weather changes and various things. Is that an important part

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Speaker 2: of your philosophy.

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Speaker 4: It's more than important, it's fundamental on the sustainability when

575
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Speaker 4: I know now that I know you are a CNBC

576
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Speaker 4: viewer on the sustainability front, on supporting the transition to

577
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Speaker 4: a better planet, to cre in a space with the

578
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 4: bank as we designed, it's part of offering to support

579
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Speaker 4: clients in this direction in a in a major way.

580
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Speaker 4: And here we're seeing some very fascinating and interesting developments

581
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Speaker 4: which were very powder to head again have been ahead

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Speaker 4: of our time here and on use on kids. I

583
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Speaker 4: think you're spot on here we but you know here

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Speaker 4: actions speak more than you know philosophy or worlds. For instance,

585
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Speaker 4: here we offer false scholarships a year. Even last year

586
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Speaker 4: when the tournament you know, we got canceled, we still

587
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 4: offer the false scholarships to you know kids, kids you

588
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 4: know living in the coach Leva meaning deserving kids. They

589
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 4: have to play tennis, they have pretty competitive they have

590
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 4: to write an essays. But basically we've been sending Next

591
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 4: year will be the sixth year we've been sending initially

592
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Speaker 4: two kids, now four kids to college university you know

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Speaker 4: ic ro I and U S, c U, c l

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Speaker 4: A and others, all the colleges you know they want

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Speaker 4: to go to. That's one example. Another example of supporting

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00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 4: youths and supporting kids. We have created actually we announced

597
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 4: it here three years ago. BMPPI by mac One with

598
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 4: Patrick and John. Patrick was here actually a few days ago.

599
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Speaker 5: A song on on his Instagram.

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Speaker 4: He was, you know, telling us all he was in

601
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 4: the desert here. It's supporting, supporting, you know, deserving kids.

602
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 4: This one is really for kids who could be on

603
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 4: the tour, very talented. We have two We had two

604
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 4: of them here over the weekend with their parents. One

605
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 4: of them actually got a white card and actually had

606
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 4: too much point, you know, could have gone even further

607
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 4: in the tournament. Another program regarding youth again you know,

608
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 4: actions speak better than worlds, this time with John mc

609
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 4: and one Bellagian King. We have a program which we

610
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 4: are the title sponsor in New York City called City

611
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 4: Parks Tennis, where we offer for the whole summer, uh

612
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 4: you know, tennis inspection tennis tournaments to six thousand kids

613
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 4: across the five Borrows. And you know it's to me,

614
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 4: it's as inspiring as motivating times even more than obviously

615
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 4: being part of these amazing you know slams, and this

616
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 4: one is a quite like you know Slam as well.

617
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 4: And to your excellent part about you know the grassroots,

618
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: that's really well, that's really where the action takes place.

619
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 4: You need you need to be consistent across these dimensions

620
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 4: too to really understand it, be part of it and

621
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Speaker 4: push it forward.

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Speaker 2: And you also announced something here with Felix as you are,

623
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Speaker 2: I saw what a great person to choose. First of all,

624
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: he's one of my absolute favorites so many reasons.

625
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 4: He's amazing for many reasons.

626
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Speaker 2: Guy, I can't call him a kid anymore, and that

627
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: was a kid to me, to both of us. But

628
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about that initiative with Felix.

629
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Speaker 4: The bank is very involved in supporting the sport of tennis.

630
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 4: We actually we don't, we don't sponsor players per se.

631
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 4: Felix is a great example of actually the bank being

632
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 4: more involved with one player, but it's really contributing to

633
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 4: his charity. Then for every point he wins, Felix gives

634
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 4: five dollars and we give fifteen.

635
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: That's amazing.

636
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 4: And the better it gets, and he's already extremely good,

637
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 4: the more he wins, then the better to charity. And

638
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 4: we're you know, matching three times his contribution, which we

639
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 4: believe is a great way actually to support an amazing

640
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 4: player and just an amazing person individual who lives with

641
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 4: this time.

642
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 2: And I believe that is it through care and it's

643
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: through for education of young kids. Absolutely, yeah, I mean,

644
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: I just think that's phenomenal because education obviously.

645
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 4: So then here we go full circle, you know, back

646
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 4: to the excellent points we are making earlier. You know,

647
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 4: why tennis, Why you know, values, equity, diversity, being really

648
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 4: connected to the communities. That's that's another illustration of what

649
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 4: what tennis brings to the bank and obviously what the

650
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Speaker 4: bank brings to to the world of tennis or to

651
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Speaker 4: the communities were connected with through tennis. Through the program

652
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Speaker 4: we have here which is called a c's for trees

653
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Speaker 4: where actually for but it's dedicated to the tournament like

654
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Speaker 4: every aces served. Basically we contribute I believe one one

655
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Speaker 4: daughter to basically to support you know, to fix you know,

656
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Speaker 4: deferestation because of the white fires in California. Then that's

657
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Speaker 4: that's another way to leverage tennis and be really a

658
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Speaker 4: contributor to the community here of the state. We have

659
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Speaker 4: a strong presence in not to mention the West Bank

660
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Speaker 4: of the West or Community and regional bank headquartered in

661
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Speaker 4: San Francisco.

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Speaker 5: That's great.

663
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Speaker 2: I think it's very important for people to know those

664
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Speaker 2: things because as I said, you know, B and P

665
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Speaker 2: is pared by is seen as a financial conglomermate and

666
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Speaker 2: a lot of people ground zero think money and greed

667
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Speaker 2: and they're not understanding that it's actually spreading the wealth

668
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Speaker 2: is super important.

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Speaker 5: It is important for a company like yours in particular.

670
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Speaker 4: And I believe you know, if looking forward for any

671
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Speaker 4: any companies, you know, financial institutions, or you're pressuring them

672
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 4: absolutely And if you don't believe, well we we we

673
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 4: so much believe in all the values we share today.

674
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Speaker 4: But even somebody who doesn't believe in these values, which

675
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Speaker 4: obviously is not being a bi vible, I think your

676
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 4: future become very limited because it's going to be extremely

677
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Speaker 4: complicated to attract the best talents. If you don't attract

678
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 4: the best talents, the right people, you whoever you are,

679
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Speaker 4: irrespective of how well capitalized on which you are, there

680
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Speaker 4: is not that much more to do, you know, in

681
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Speaker 4: the mirror or in the midterm future.

682
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Speaker 5: What is the most interesting thing for you currently with

683
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 5: the sport of tennis right now?

684
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 4: Well, probably some of the dimensions we covered and the

685
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 4: world of tennis being more and more connected to the communities.

686
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Speaker 4: And I think if I look from where we see

687
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Speaker 4: you know, sponsors and obviously being the vibe by leveraging

688
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 4: tennis to try to do good and to do better

689
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 4: around across beyond the sport itself. Obviously, if I look

690
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 4: at the professional tennis, uh, I mean, I just want.

691
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Speaker 5: To know that you're actually your grin got really big

692
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Speaker 5: when you.

693
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Speaker 4: Start the new generation coming in, it's just amazing. Obviously

694
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 4: Roger and Rapha and still obviously Djokovic. You know, we

695
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 4: see we saw Handy Murray here that having quite a

696
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: good good round here and they these four players right,

697
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 4: totally true. But these four players have dominated obviously the

698
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 4: world of tennis for many, many years. And now we

699
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 4: see we see the new generation coming in and they

700
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Speaker 4: are so it's so exciting, they are so inspiring. And

701
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: by the way, both on the men's side and the

702
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 4: women's side, and beyond the amazing tennis they show, they

703
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 4: are so well spoken. Yes, and uh, and I think

704
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Speaker 4: it's it's it boats very well for the future of

705
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Speaker 4: the sport.

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Speaker 5: Well, we hope you hang around for a lot longer.

707
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Speaker 5: You're also on the board of the Hall of Fame Fame,

708
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 5: what does that mean to you?

709
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Speaker 4: And love it?

710
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 5: I just love it. And I guess the involvement for

711
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Speaker 5: you in that, how did that come about?

712
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Speaker 4: I love spending time with my friends Todd, Martin, Stan Smith,

713
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 4: Charlie Pacerela, actually.

714
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Speaker 5: Take the mountain, show them around in the yard a

715
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Speaker 5: little bit.

716
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Speaker 4: When you're from time to time and they take me

717
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 4: on the on the Tennis Cup. It means a lot

718
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Speaker 4: because the Hall of Fame is really, uh somewhere somewhat

719
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Speaker 4: the guardian of you know, the legacy and UH and

720
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Speaker 4: the legacy of tennis. But in the meantime it's a

721
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Speaker 4: wonderful bridge with the current world and the future. And

722
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Speaker 4: I think they do an amazing job in in dimensions

723
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Speaker 4: and it's really a privileged to be associated to the

724
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Speaker 4: Board of Governor. Besides, there are you know, are so

725
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Speaker 4: fun to be with, and I can tell you it's

726
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Speaker 4: a good spot. It's a good spot. I'm assuming you've

727
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Speaker 4: been to the tennis sort of farming in Newport. You

728
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 4: know the location there, the museum, it's it's beautiful. And

729
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 4: I think the the because it's really called the International

730
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Speaker 4: Tennis out of Fame, I think it's it's now the

731
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Speaker 4: dimension and the reach is going beyond beyond the United States,

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Speaker 4: which which I think is it's a really good it's

733
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Speaker 4: a really good thing as well.

734
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, tennis is truly, truly, truly a global sport.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why sometimes you know, the

736
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Speaker 2: question is asked, when are we going to have the

737
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Speaker 2: next American great player.

738
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Speaker 5: When are we going to have the next, you know,

739
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 5: superstar coming particularly from this country. I was going to

740
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Speaker 5: say Australia.

741
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 4: Because player by the Australian player, the.

742
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Speaker 2: French player, but they were such the conglomerates that ruled

743
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 2: tennis sixty years ago, forty years ago. But now it's

744
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Speaker 2: truly a global sport. When you see someone from Tunisia

745
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 2: absolutely and to the top ten in the world.

746
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Speaker 5: I mean, who would have ever thought that, how do

747
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Speaker 5: we came back.

748
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Speaker 4: To week what access back to Daver City, back to

749
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Speaker 4: That's That's exactly what the sport is becoming. And I

750
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 4: think that's another dimension of it that will continue to

751
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 4: attract firms, companies, sponsors who actually are very connected to these.

752
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Speaker 2: That is, you know, I was going to ask you

753
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Speaker 2: another question, but just to finish on that a little bit,

754
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Speaker 2: the button on the international side of it, You guys

755
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Speaker 2: are such a You have been the most unbelievable sponsors

756
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Speaker 2: for the Billy Jean King Cup formerly known as the

757
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Speaker 2: fed Cup formerly known as the Federation Cup when I

758
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 2: was playing, but also Davis Cup. How important is it

759
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Speaker 2: for you because I think people don't realize the grassroots

760
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Speaker 2: of the itf running something like Davis Cup and the

761
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Speaker 2: Village and King Cup. How important that is for small

762
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Speaker 2: countries like someone like on Zuba from Tsier to play

763
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: and represent their country. How important is that still.

764
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 4: For you guys to stay a part of Very very

765
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 4: important as well. Obviously we have a very close connection

766
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Speaker 4: with Belliging yep.

767
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Speaker 2: And.

768
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 4: We were so excited and delighted to see the Fat

769
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Speaker 4: Cup becoming the Bulligin Cup by BNP Pariba. It's supporting

770
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 4: the world of the game of tennis, it's supporting the

771
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 4: international dimension of tennis as well, and it's supporting the

772
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 4: women playing the game so beautifully and being associated to

773
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Speaker 4: the Belligein King is amazing and we look forward to Prague.

774
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Speaker 4: It's going to be taking place in Prague very soon.

775
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 4: I was actually with Religion King and Ilana a few

776
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 4: days ago. They were here actually celebrating the original nine

777
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 4: and they were so excited to go there.

778
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 5: Truly our greatest ambassador.

779
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 2: How do we keep the spoon of tennis going because

780
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: it is a boom. Yeah, we've noticed it up take

781
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 2: obviously the pandemic. We don't wish that ever again in life,

782
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: but certainly tennis. You know, with this one of the

783
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 2: sports you could play during the pandemic. How do we

784
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: keep this boom going?

785
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:30,320
Speaker 4: I think it's it's all around, focusing on many dimensions.

786
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 4: It takes a village. Hopefully it's going to come out right.

787
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 4: But I, like you just alluded to, I believe that

788
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 4: COVID nineteen actually has been a good a good development

789
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 4: for tennis because the sport is, you know, COVID nineteen compliant.

790
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 4: You're the nets. People were more home than you know,

791
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 4: they needed to exercise more and what is what? What? What?

792
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 4: What else to do? Then it's it's going to be

793
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 4: go outside and play play tennis, you know, to your

794
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 4: local in your local club. And we've seen the membership here,

795
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 4: but I believe worldwide really grow during COVID nineteen. Then

796
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 4: you're at the taboom. I believe that going forward, the

797
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 4: more we can connect tennis with its international dimension, the

798
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 4: more we can connect tennis, as we discussed, you know,

799
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 4: with the with the communities, the more we can show

800
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 4: not only the wonderful tournament and the amazing players we

801
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 4: have here at the B and B Bibe Open, but

802
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 4: making a real making a sport that really speaks to

803
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 4: more and more people, whether you play or you're like

804
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 4: watching or your player recreationally. I think that's that's where

805
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 4: the growth will continue to come from. And I see

806
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 4: other you know dimension of tennis, you know, appearing like

807
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 4: you know, Pickaball's.

808
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 2: Caitlin and I we get so upset with people wanting

809
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 2: to play pedal tennis, people ball.

810
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 5: We're like, no, no, you gotta play tennis.

811
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: But I get it.

812
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 4: But we get and say the same thing. You're right, actually,

813
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 4: you know the purist and I'm kind of purist as well.

814
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 4: I mean I in the meantime, in the meantime and

815
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 4: I'm you know, I'm discovering the concept and I'm trying

816
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 4: to familiarize myself with it. But when you see the many,

817
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 4: many peckable courts, you know, or the paddle tennis courts.

818
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 4: We have the Californian dimension, you have the East Code

819
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 4: dimension with the wall, but it's so many more people

820
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 4: swinging racket. And by the way, I see these people

821
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 4: as well swinging tennis r at the one you and

822
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 4: I like. Then I think that's another It showed that

823
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,439
Speaker 4: the world of tennis is adapting as well to different people,

824
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 4: different profile, different you know, ages as well. Then I

825
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 4: think it's going to feel the continuing crours of the

826
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 4: sport you and I love so much.

827
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it's important, and I mean, I

828
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 5: can't stress it enough.

829
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Speaker 2: Obviously I played for twenty two years on to and

830
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 2: I've been now doing you know, media for well over

831
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 2: a decade, and we don't come across you know, back

832
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 2: in my day, obviously, Virginia Slims was such an important

833
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 2: part of particularly women's tennis, like getting it even recognized

834
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: and monetarily how important they were. Clearly we couldn't keep

835
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 2: that going with the smoking thing at all. But you know,

836
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 2: BNP Parrybar has been just the most phenomenal sponsor.

837
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 5: And I don't know, and this is just me saying

838
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 5: thank you.

839
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 2: I guess from you know players for the last thirty years,

840
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 2: how incredibly important your company has been to the sport

841
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 2: of tennis. And you're going to have your naysays like, oh,

842
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: there are any involved because of the fact that tennis

843
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: is so widely seen as a global sport and you

844
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 2: know it's upper echelon, But it's important for people to

845
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 2: understand the initiatives that you're also doing. And I guess

846
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 2: my one of my last questions to you is what

847
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: do you want the legacy of bm P Paribar to

848
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 2: be in tennis? And I and I'm not saying I

849
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 2: want you to go away. I don't want you to

850
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 2: go away for a very long time.

851
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 5: But what do you want the legacy or even just

852
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 5: people to understand about.

853
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 4: Your very much what we discussed today that we love

854
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 4: the beauty of the sport and obviously that you were

855
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 4: an amazing player on tour. You know what it is,

856
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 4: right and this is where the most spectacular dimensions of

857
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 4: tennis is being shown, right including here at the B

858
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 4: and B Biby Open. But in the meantime it really

859
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 4: goes with alongside just loving the game, loving the people

860
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 4: who play the game, loving the fans. By the way,

861
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 4: here at this gurnament, I spend time with the volunteers.

862
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 4: Yesterday I visited the ball kids. It's pretty loving all

863
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 4: the components of the game of tennis. And the discussion

864
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 4: we had on youth it has nothing to do with

865
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 4: being a wealthy company or being in the world of finance.

866
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 4: Is actually trying to leverage the fact that we have

867
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Speaker 4: some means and some resources that through tennis because of

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Speaker 4: all the attributes tennis has. We can redirect support and

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Speaker 4: reallocate some of the very good dimension the sport has

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Speaker 4: to just try to provide more access and really changing lives.

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Speaker 4: Some of the kids are inequality. But it's all connected.

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Speaker 4: I truly believe by the way that sustainability, if you

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Speaker 4: you believe in respecting people and diversity and inclusion are

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Speaker 4: all connected. And I think you see every single day

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Speaker 4: in the world of tennis as well. And that's I

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Speaker 4: don't know if this is the legacy, but you know

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Speaker 4: in times in legacy you can read the future. I believe,

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Speaker 4: I hope and I wish and I hope I will

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Speaker 4: continue to be part of it part way that our

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Speaker 4: firm will continue to push this one forward for all

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Speaker 4: the reasons you and I discussed today, and that you

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Speaker 4: amazingly capture so well because you know, you know the

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Speaker 4: sports so well, and you and you just love people.

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Speaker 4: I love, I love the game. You've loved the game

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Speaker 4: you've played.

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Speaker 1: For so long.

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Speaker 2: I do. And you know, one of the things about

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Speaker 2: at Racket Magazine and Racket the company in general ours

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Speaker 2: is you know art social that that that is super

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Speaker 2: important for us. It's not about just you know, bringing

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Speaker 2: the upper echellance of let's face it, white Americans or

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Speaker 2: white Australians or white people in France or whatever.

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Speaker 5: It's about including everybody around the world.

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Speaker 2: And I think the importance of you supporting Davis Carp

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Speaker 2: and Fedcarp and the initiatives like what FAA is doing

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Speaker 2: and the social changes even here and in the desert

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Speaker 2: that you're that you're promoting.

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Speaker 5: I think that's just so very important for us at.

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Speaker 2: Our company and also with you to stress that's the

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Speaker 2: social responsibility of the company, like your was just doing

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Speaker 2: it and it's appreciative.

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Speaker 4: Maybe one last point if I met, let's listening to

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Speaker 4: what you said. If there is one, I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it's legacy, if it's looking forward. I think it's both.

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Speaker 4: But maybe the most important thing or what excites me

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Speaker 4: the most, what inspires me the most, and my life

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Speaker 4: gives me very humble is changing life. Changing somebody's life.

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Speaker 4: You know, the kids we spoke in New York City

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Speaker 4: with City Parks, Tennis, whoever is involved, I think world

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Speaker 4: changing life. The kids we sent to college here, you know,

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Speaker 4: with the scholarships I think world changing lives. This player

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Speaker 4: I mentioned from the BnB, Biby Macwan, who played here

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Speaker 4: wild card match points. I can tell you I saw

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Speaker 4: her eyes. Her life has changed. And when I see

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Speaker 4: what Felix does with the foundation, I think this contribution

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Speaker 4: to the charity that has exponentially grown because of his

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Speaker 4: contribution and horror triple matching. If I may say there's

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Speaker 4: a lot of money, I think it's changing life as well,

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Speaker 4: and that maybe if I were to pick one that

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Speaker 4: I would love this to be the legacy in the future.

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Speaker 5: Well we'll leave it at that.

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Speaker 2: For me again, I just thank you for supporting tennis,

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Speaker 2: and it's vital that we have companies like you stay

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Speaker 2: in it for a number of decades and clearly being

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Speaker 4: On that for a lot. It's lovely to have players

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Speaker 4: like you and know the games so well and who

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Speaker 4: means beyond beyond the game itself.

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Speaker 5: We plan on doing a lot of things together, so it's.

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Speaker 4: Look we're going to change the one I look forward to.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me today.

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Speaker 5: Johnny, thank you so much for joining us. Okay and

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Speaker 5: go enjoy the tennis. H stop talking to people like me,

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Speaker 5: Thanks very much, thank you, and that's it for this

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Speaker 5: episode of the Racket Magazine podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 5: Our host is Renee Stubbs.

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Speaker 1: Our co host and producer is me Caitlin Thompson. Music

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Speaker 1: by internationally renowned DJ Stretch Armstrong. Thanks to Tim or

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Speaker 1: Jerry and the team at ACAST. Find us at racketmag

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