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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we hope

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Speaker 1: all your besties cheer for you, like figure skaters Alyssa

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Speaker 2: Cheered on Amber Glenn this weekend. Girlhood.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, January twelfth, and on today's show, we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking to Defector writer Giddy Nathan about the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: kicking off the twenty twenty six tennis season, which players

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Speaker 1: cons of a WTAATP merger and more, plus showing up

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Speaker 1: with pride, a footy rumor we're trying to ignore, and

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Speaker 1: it's deja vous all over again in stores Connecticut. It's

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Speaker 1: all coming up right after this. Welcome back, Slices. Hope

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Speaker 1: you had a great weekend. Here's what you need to

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Speaker 1: know today. Let's start with figure skating. The US Championships

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Speaker 1: There were so many beautiful moments from this weekend, including

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Speaker 1: love to see it to the slopes. Lindsay Vaughn won

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Speaker 1: American snowboarder Chloe Kim announced on social media on Thursday

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Speaker 1: that read quote some suggested resolutions for Kathy Engelburton, Adam Silver,

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Speaker 1: It is overdue to Unrivaled. Kelsey Plum tied the league

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Speaker 1: More unrivaled highlights from the weekend include the aforementioned Gray

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Speaker 1: Unrivaled season is co founder Brianna Stewart, who sealed the

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Angel City announced that the club had

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Speaker 1: the qualifying rounds of the Australian Open got underway yesterday

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Speaker 1: and from the twenty twenty sixth tennis season overall later

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Speaker 1: in the show, and I'll be joined by defectors Giddy

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Speaker 1: Nathan to Hockey. Canada announced its women's hockey roster on Friday,

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Speaker 1: Philippe Puhlen, who will be competing in her fifth Olympics.

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Speaker 1: World Championships, where the team lost to the US twice

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Speaker 1: You may remember Claire as our favorite future doctor, currently

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Speaker 1: tennis season with writer Gilly Nathan.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now.

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Speaker 1: He's a staff writer and co founder at Defector Media.

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Speaker 1: His writing has appeared in New York Magazine, The Washington Post,

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Speaker 1: The Guardian, The New York Times, National Geographic, The New Yorker,

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Speaker 1: The Second Serve, and the author of Changeover, a Young Rivalry.

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Speaker 2: And a New Era of Men's Tennis.

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Speaker 1: He's the Papa two, a ten month old baby who

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Speaker 3: Nathan, thank you for having me, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Giddy, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: I want to start big picture first and sort of

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Speaker 1: come to be that there's a top trio. We had

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Speaker 2: Then we had this sort.

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Speaker 1: three the trio is Fiat Tech, Arena Sabalanca and Coco Goff.

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Speaker 2: They've won nine of the last twelve Grand Slams.

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Speaker 1: So, as we get set for another season of tennis,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you have framing is spot on. Like

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Speaker 3: there was that post Serena power vacuum for a little

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Speaker 1: Be thinking about that When i'm getting tickets for different

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Speaker 3: Game they can be pretty one. Sided so, yeah she

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Speaker 3: because she's absolutely elite at everything else there is to

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Speaker 3: Attrition and the Two slam finals that these players have

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Speaker 1: Yeah So Sabalanca golf And spiantech have finished the last

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Speaker 3: Six, yeah there's one PLAYER i definitely put on their

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Speaker 3: sidebar but to put it, briefly her coach was investigated

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Speaker 1: all sort of wondered from afar whether it Was stockholm's

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Speaker 3: Yeah and making it even more complicated is by all,

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Speaker 1: Ye so, yeah it's which it's one of those power,

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Speaker 1: years back in the top, fifteen after she fell as

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00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 1: low as number sixty one In. March it feels to

436
00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 1: me Like osaka is just about, consistency. Right if she

437
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 1: is consistently, herself she's really tough to, beat but she'll

438
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,200
Speaker 1: just kind of disappear in the match or blow.

439
00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 2: It and is that really the biggest issue for?

440
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 3: Her it's she's always been like when it rains at

441
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: poors kind of. PLAYER i think she's very rhythm, based

442
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 3: like when she's feeling it in the, groove she'll just

443
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 3: cruise through. TOURNAMENTS i would, Say i'm told then. YEAH

444
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,439
Speaker 3: i would. Say one aspect that maybe more tangible THAT

445
00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,119
Speaker 3: i could point to in her comeback phase was the

446
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 3: movement is a big differentiator for. Her the difference between

447
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,919
Speaker 3: when she gets to the ball a little earlier and

448
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,120
Speaker 3: has some time to line up her shots versus when

449
00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 3: she's not like that gulf is enormous and you could

450
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 3: see the ball is either a winner in the last

451
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 3: three inches of the court or it's like fifteen feet.

452
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 3: Out she's not really a player who, thrives you, know

453
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 3: playing HER b game or her. Game it's a kind

454
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,959
Speaker 3: of digging in and finding new. Solutions she has an

455
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 3: absolutely tier one a, game and when she's in that,

456
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 3: rhythm she's really hard to hang. With but she was

457
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 3: not one who can kind of change her style.

458
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: Easily who, Can so maybe the longer she gets away

459
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 1: from the pregnancy and post, pregnancy the more she'll regained

460
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 1: the kind of physical ability that she needs to be

461
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,679
Speaker 1: able to play the way she wants to.

462
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 3: Play, Yeah and one of the THINGS i thought was

463
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 3: really cool and admirable to see her talking about so

464
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,760
Speaker 3: candidly was just like the nuts and bolts of rebuilding

465
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 3: her body after pregnancy and giving. Birth she, talked you,

466
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 3: know rebuilding the pelvic, floor, muscles your core is so

467
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 3: critical for, tennis so much. Rotation it's just like that

468
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 3: will take time to build back. Up AND i would,

469
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 3: expect especially given the success she started having later last,

470
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 3: year once she got on the hard courts in the

471
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 3: Summer MONTREAL Us, OPEN i would expect her to kind

472
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 3: of pick up where she left off this year on

473
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 3: the hard courts at least.

474
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: Anyone Else i'm forgetting in there that we should be

475
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: throwing out as potentially top three by the end of this.

476
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 3: YEAR i think those are the realistic. Candidates LIKE i

477
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 3: would Expect verbakkana to climb into that, trio but it's

478
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 3: really hard for me to envision too many other. People

479
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 3: but you, know one of the nice things about the

480
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 3: tour right now is that there's a lot of young

481
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 3: talent kind of rising up, too and some of the

482
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 3: we're seeing comebacks kind of second wind for certain players

483
00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,639
Speaker 3: Like Lina spidealina really great player has been around for

484
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 3: a while and it has been playing really. Well but

485
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 3: in terms of top, THREE i think we're pretty. Safe

486
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 3: we're pretty much covered with the name so.

487
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 2: Far you mentioned, youngsters which brings me to my next.

488
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,480
Speaker 1: One there were a couple of teenagers last year that

489
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: really made a name for themselves eighteen year Old Mira,

490
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: andriva nineteen year olds Of victoria And boco And maya joint.

491
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: TOO i don't actually remember hearing that much, about but

492
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: she made her way up the. Rankings can you get

493
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: a sense for which of those phenoms seems to have

494
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,239
Speaker 1: the most staying power this early in their.

495
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 3: CAREER i would say in terms of like the body

496
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 3: of work so, Far andreva is kind of well ahead

497
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 3: of the. Pack She's i'd, say this is a sport

498
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 3: that no longer produces as many teenage prodigies as it used.

499
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 3: TO i just think it's gotten too. Physical players peak.

500
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 3: Later in, general it takes a little while to kind

501
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 3: of build up that. Base But andreva is definitely a

502
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 3: counterexample to that trend because she was. Sixteen i'll never

503
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 3: forget this quote she. Said but she was, sixteen made

504
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,080
Speaker 3: it to the fourth round of The Australian, open and

505
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 3: she was, like fourth round is nothing like IF i

506
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 3: want to win A, SLAM i gotta win three more.

507
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 3: Matches and you do not hear that many sixteen Sounds?

508
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 2: Russian yeah it sounds.

509
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: Frankly, yeah she goes back In Mother, russia fourth place me.

510
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 3: Nothing so, yeah she's she's got high expectations and you,

511
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 3: know it's it's it's a bit of a you, know sportswriter,

512
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 3: cliche BUT i think in in this case the results

513
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 3: really bear it. Out she's very much a big match,

514
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,239
Speaker 3: player you, know the tour runs year, round but when

515
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 3: she's at The Forest, lambs she's consistently going to third,

516
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 3: round fourth round from her very first season on, Tour

517
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 3: so like that was kind of marks her as SOMEONE

518
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 3: i think it handles pressure very well and will continue

519
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 3: to add things to her. Game kind of a counterpuncher.

520
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 3: PLAYER i think as she gets bigger and, stronger points

521
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 3: will come more easily to her as. Well SO i

522
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 3: really like her long term potential just based on how

523
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 3: much he's already, achieved you, know without being a physically mature.

524
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: PLAYER i botched her last. Name DID i bought her

525
00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: first name? Too how DO i say her?

526
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 3: Full?

527
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: No that's?

528
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah Mire. Andreva that's kind Of american Pronunciation.

529
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 2: Andreva But. Andreva.

530
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: Okay you, know it is a great time for women's.

531
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: Tennis there are a lot of big names to.

532
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: Follow there are players that have been around long enough

533
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: to get to know them and their style and anticipate

534
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: what it might look like in these big. Matchups but

535
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: there's also a lot of complaining going on from top

536
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: players on the tour right now about the. Schedules fiontek

537
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: called the tour quote, unquote a. Madness she said it

538
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: was quote impossible to fit everything in the. Calendar sabalanka

539
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: called the season and THE Wta tour quote unquote. Insane

540
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: she was frustrated by the intensity of the schedule and

541
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: consequences for players skipping. Events AND i have to be,

542
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 1: HONEST i didn't really realize that there were penalties for missing.

543
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: Events can you explain that and why these players are,

544
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: frustrated because it's not Just i'm going to give up

545
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: the opportunity to make some money and improve my, ranking

546
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,439
Speaker 1: It's i'm going to get penalized for not going to

547
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: all these.

548
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: Things, Yeah so the way the tour is set up

549
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 3: is there are The slams kind of the biggest, tournaments

550
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 3: the one you see ON, tv and then there are

551
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: thousand level tournaments and those are basically mandatory. Participation so,

552
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 3: like if you are, healthy unless you can really beg

553
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 3: out with an actual, injury you are supposed to go to.

554
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 3: Those and then you're also supposed to play at least

555
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 3: six five hundred level, tournaments so these if you qualify for,

556
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 3: those you kind of have to be. There and then

557
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 3: when you for whatever reason don't show up and don't

558
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 3: have an injury, excuse you can be docked ranking points

559
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 3: is something that happened To sabolenka in the, past and

560
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 3: she pretty much said earlier this year That i'm willing

561
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 3: to accept those consequences now just to it's more important

562
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 3: for me to prioritize my health and just like long

563
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 3: term potential than to just lean into the burnout and

564
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 3: just meet every single stringent criteria of being on the.

565
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: Tour AND i totally get. It LIKE i will, say

566
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 3: this is a problem kind of unique to the highest

567
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 3: performers because they're the ones who are playing to the

568
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 3: end of every tournament and then have to fly somewhere

569
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 3: halfway around the world and do it. Again but they

570
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 3: just because of the schedule has kind of. Expanded even

571
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 3: these one week events have basically become two week. Events

572
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 3: they don't have a lot of downtime if they are

573
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,880
Speaker 3: going deep week after.

574
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 2: Week so, yeah and there's seasons very.

575
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 3: Long they have the shortest off season That i'm aware

576
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 3: of in any professional. Sports SO i, think you, know

577
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 3: basically three weeks and then they're back to.

578
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,120
Speaker 2: It that's.

579
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: Crazy the petty side of me wants to, say, well

580
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: maybe you don't participate in really stupid and ultimately harmful

581
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: fake battle of the sexist reunion matches if you're so.

582
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: Tired but the adult in me, says playing in one

583
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: of those is very different than playing in a lengthy tournament.

584
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 2: Run so it's not exactly a fair.

585
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: Criticism i'm still going to say, it, though because that's

586
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: WHO i.

587
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 3: AM i think it's entirely. FAIR i think there's a

588
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 3: lot of attention of a very low. QUALITY i would

589
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 3: say it was put on tennis because of that, match and,

590
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 3: yeah there's a bunch of reasons THAT i think it was,

591
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: Underbaked but, Yeah.

592
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: I'm just glad that most people seem to.

593
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: Agree there weren't a lot of people advocating that it

594
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: was a good idea or well executed.

595
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 2: Totally hopefully that will teach people in the.

596
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: FUTURE i want to talk about the merger that's been

597
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: circled around for several years, now AND reps claimed that

598
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: it was on the doorstep In. November everyone anticipated it

599
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: would actually get done In, december but now they've Announced

600
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: beeve that they'll just continue to have conversations in this new.

601
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: Year so what are the pros and cons for THE

602
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,719
Speaker 1: wta if that merger were to happen with THE atp

603
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:08,240
Speaker 1: the men's.

604
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 3: Tour, yeah so you, know the tours are financially speaking

605
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: in pretty different positions right. NOW i don't think it

606
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 3: necessarily speaks to the underlying quality of you, know the

607
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 3: competition on either. Tour but just going by the twenty

608
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 3: twenty four tax, returns this is reporting From Front Office

609
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 3: SPORTS atp in twenty twenty four reported two hundred ninety

610
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: three million in revenue and a surplus of fifty two,

611
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 3: MILLION wta ad revenues of one hundred and forty two

612
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 3: million and a shortfall of about five. Million SO i

613
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 3: think there's been you, know quite a bit of mismanagement

614
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 3: on THE wta. SIDE i think they are failing to

615
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 3: market and you, know make the most of WHAT i

616
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 3: think is a very rich era in women's. Tennis BUT

617
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 3: i do think there would be a lot of potential

618
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 3: benefits from a potential. Merger and one WAY i look

619
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: at it is it's a very fract and decentralized sport

620
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 3: with a lot of different power. Players and you could

621
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 3: even just look at the right, steals like how DO

622
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 3: i watch? Tennis those rights get bundled off different, tournaments you,

623
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 3: know different levels of. Tournaments the men and. Women they

624
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 3: all bundled and spun off and sold. Differently so for

625
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 3: the average person trying to follow professional, tennis you've got

626
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: to cobble together a bunch of different. Subscriptions SO i

627
00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 3: just think from, uh you, know as a unified, product

628
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 3: that you could maybe leverage that when negotiating these right. Steals, look,

629
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 3: hey you've got cocoa goff and you've Got carlos oucraz,

630
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 3: like you've got the whole. PACKAGE i think that could

631
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: be potentially beneficial in those kind of. Conversations and THEN

632
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 3: i just think like as an in person fan, experience

633
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 3: the tournaments that have both sides are just like more,

634
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 3: evaborant they're the.

635
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: Best so, yeah to, me it feels like there is

636
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: a kind of no brainer quality to the like selling,

637
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: sponsorships gambling, data all those things across both and how

638
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: often the joint tour are so. SUCCESSFUL i think one

639
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: thing that frustrates, me AND i don't, Know i'm not

640
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: in the books for either of these, outlets but you

641
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: still hear criticism of places that are prioritizing men's matches

642
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: on the best courts and at the best, times and

643
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 1: if they are taking that into account when they're counting up,

644
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: revenue and then they're arguing that the men's who continues to.

645
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: Outperform it's like every other space of women's sports where

646
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: the opportunity is not provided to make that, revenue they're

647
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: actually being prevented from maximizing. Revenue and then later on

648
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: down the, line in a place that feels maybe, unrelated

649
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: they can then report that revenue. Gap and if you're

650
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: going to continue to hold back women in those joint,

651
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: events then you can't then argue that What i've, seen

652
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: which is THE atp is seeking an uneven split of

653
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: revenues for this in eighty twenty. Ratio, now if they

654
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 1: are indeed making more money and they have a better

655
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: revenue and if fewer, debt that makes, sense but eighty

656
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: twenty you're just going to continue then to create a

657
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: deficit for THE.

658
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 2: Wta so that wouldn't be a great move for.

659
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: Them And i've also talked to folks who said that

660
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: the power dynamic would be really problematic because THE atp

661
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: has been really with intention not super interested in uplifting

662
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: and supporting women's. Tennis in, fact has sometimes seemed to

663
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: go out of their way to be unhelpful and so

664
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: if you merge with, them what's what they have zero

665
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: women on their? Board they never, Have, like what's the

666
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: chances that they're going to see you as a partner

667
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: and not as something that they manage and.

668
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 3: Control, yeah it's it's a totally fair angle to look.

669
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 3: AT i think a lot of the comments that even

670
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 3: superstar men's players have made over the last decade kind.

671
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,680
Speaker 2: Of, reveal Specially, Djokovic.

672
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 3: YEAH i Mean nadal as, Well they have revealed basically

673
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 3: the attitude that you summed up just. There it's, like

674
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 3: kind of where they, attraction where the? Moneymakers why would

675
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 3: we be saddled with this other?

676
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: Operation and so often not the.

677
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 3: Case, yeah. DEFINITELY i mean they are.

678
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: A great, draw and there are some tremendous men's players

679
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: and rivalries that have sort of driven, things but there's

680
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: tons of examples.

681
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 2: Where the women are a bigger draw and drive more.

682
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 3: Interest AND i would say heading into at the very

683
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 3: least the twenty twenty six, season there's far more intrigue

684
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 3: about who's going to win these big trophies on the

685
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 3: webside than vice. Versa and just like as is often the,

686
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 3: CASE i don't need to tell you this or your.

687
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: Listeners but just worth repeating the case across many. Sports

688
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: as soon as you treat something as worthy of fans

689
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 3: time and respect instead of treating it as an, afterthought

690
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 3: than you, know kind of the different.

691
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: Follows so, yeah, well and you, know in women's, SPORTS

692
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: i think we've seen this incredible ever since decades and decades,

693
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: Ago Billy Jean king and The dollar contract getting good

694
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: pay and prize. Money they are the highest paid women

695
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: athletes in the. World tennis players. Are but when you

696
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: look at say THE wnba trying to negotiate now under

697
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: the umbrella of THE, nba where it's very clear that

698
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: they are not getting given the same deal and revenue

699
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: split that the men. Do oftentimes partnering with men has

700
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: actually created more of an imbalance or less of an

701
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: intention to get women what they've earned and what they're.

702
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: Owed AND i think in this, case when you do

703
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: have male players who have specifically publicly said that they

704
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: should get paid less because they play fewer, sets or

705
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 1: that the not interested in bargaining on their, behalf they

706
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: want to create unions and spaces that are just for the.

707
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 2: MEN i would worry about a merger even.

708
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: Taking away the teeth of THE org and THE wta

709
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 1: that can fight for things like, that because if they're

710
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: not fighting for, themselves because it's not as interesting for

711
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: THE atp to fight for, it do they still have

712
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: the power to do it?

713
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 3: Here, yeah it's IT'S i don't necessarily have a great

714
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: answer for, this but one THING i would say is

715
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 3: looking back to the history of THE wta is just

716
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: like this trailblazing force for equity in. SPORTS a lot

717
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 3: of the advances were made decades, ago AND i don't

718
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 3: think we've seen very significant stride since. Then AND i

719
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 3: think for whatever, reason tennis, players you, know capacity for collective,

720
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 3: action collective bargaining seems to have.

721
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: Dwindled no, unions individual, players, yeah just kind of for,

722
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: themselves very.

723
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 3: Mercenary you. Know we had this attempt at something like

724
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 3: a player's union That djokovic spearheaded five years, ago and

725
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 3: he just completely distanced himself from the project last, week

726
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 3: basically washed his hands of the project.

727
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: Completely so and that wasn't going to allow, women, RIGHT

728
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: i remember at.

729
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 3: The outset they did, not and then pretty soon, after

730
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 3: to their, credit they included women into the. Organization but

731
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 3: it just really hasn't gotten the traction and buy widespread

732
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 3: buy in from players across the.

733
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: Tours, well we'll keep an eye on the merger and

734
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 2: hope for the best with.

735
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: It but let's Talk Australian open, specifically because it's about

736
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: to get underway with the qualifying rounds OR i guess

737
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: the qualifying rounds will have started by the time people

738
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: are listening to, this and then the main draw doesn't

739
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: start actually Till sunday the.

740
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: Eighteenth let's talk to S fiontech because.

741
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: At just twenty, four she's going to try to complete

742
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: the Career Grand slam In melbourne this, year which is

743
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: winning all four MAJORS Us, Open Australian, Open Front open And. Wimbledon,

744
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: Meantime Marinas abalanca playing for her Third Australian.

745
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 2: Open title in four.

746
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: Years so who's your favorite heading in the one going

747
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: for the Career grant And flamm.

748
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 2: Were the one who's had such success In.

749
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 3: MELBOURNE i Think i'm going to keep rocking. It, BLENKA

750
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 3: i just she's been so hard to beat the hardcourt,

751
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 3: slams the consistence to see that she's had across, tournaments

752
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 3: across all the. MAJORS i just think she comes into.

753
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 3: This The Australian opens a very interesting slam in, that you,

754
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 3: know you get to see what people have been working

755
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 3: on in the off. Season everyone's coming in fresh THEN

756
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: i totally burnt out like they are at the end

757
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 3: of the. Season and they call it The Happy. Slam

758
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 3: it's kind of the nickname for, it and she's kind

759
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 3: of a happy. GAL i just think that energy really

760
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: works for. HER i fully expect her to go back

761
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 3: and get that title that she just narrowly missed out

762
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 3: on last.

763
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: Year we'll get to see more of that tiger. Tattoo,

764
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: yes she's always showing. OFF i LIKE i, mentioned The

765
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: Australian open technically begins with qualifying, now but the main

766
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: draw isn't for another week or, so and a lot

767
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: of players come in early for The Adelaide international In Southern,

768
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: australia which is going on.

769
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 2: Now the finals for that are on the seventeenth Ye.

770
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: So talk to me about the connection between The Australian

771
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: open And Adelaide, international because it's sort of like The

772
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: Golden globes and The, oscars, Right it's, like whoever wins

773
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: The globe has a really high chance of getting The.

774
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: Oscar these are so close to each other back to.

775
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: Back but is it because it's the first major of

776
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: the year that folks want to get in this good

777
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: quality competition and get ready to go for the for

778
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: the main draw of the of The Australian.

779
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: Open.

780
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, NO i think pretty. Much the Four majors are

781
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: the staple of the tennis, calendar but they all have

782
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 3: their little ramp up earlier in the season to get

783
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 3: make sure players are getting comfortable on that, surface and

784
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 3: like we'll be informed by the time the major, starts

785
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 3: and you know with the clay season it'll be smaller

786
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 3: clay tournaments with grass so. On here we are on,

787
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 3: hardcore AND i think players really do like getting those reps,

788
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 3: in especially because they've had the longest gap that they

789
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 3: have all year. Round it just came off from probably

790
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 3: last play competitive matches In november most of. Them so,

791
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 3: look they call it a tune. Up SO i show,

792
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 3: up hopefully get two three really high quality matches in

793
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 3: AND i think the reason we've seen The adelaide winner

794
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 3: go on to the. Win i'll try and open AND

795
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 3: i want to say it was twenty twenty two to twenty.

796
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: Three three of the last.

797
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: Four, Yeah Cash party in twenty twenty, Two sabalink in twenty,

798
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: Three Madison keys in twenty twenty.

799
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 3: Five, yeah it's, LIKE i think that reveals you know

800
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 3: who is in the best. Form and then because it

801
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,959
Speaker 3: is the same exact playing surface and same roughly the same,

802
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 3: conditions that person has got the momentum and they're feeling.

803
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 3: It they're feeling. It so, yeah last year As Madison

804
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 3: keys went on an absolute tear to start the year

805
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 3: and she was able to win her first major in

806
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 3: very dramatic, fashion had match point down Against Sigas fiontek

807
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: and then went on to Beat. Sablenka beating those two

808
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 3: players back to back In islam is one of probably

809
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 3: the signature feet you can pull off in women's tennis right.

810
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 3: Now it'd be very cool to see if another player

811
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 3: can manage it this, season BUT i wouldn't bet on

812
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 3: it in twenty twenty.

813
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: Six All, right so this is the women's sports, show

814
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: but a lot of folks who watch women's tennis are

815
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: also into the men's. Game so we're going to give

816
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,319
Speaker 1: you time to give a little elevator pitch for your.

817
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: Book changeover a young rivalry and a new era of men's.

818
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: Tennis it's on The Carlos Alcazioni centner, rivalry it's won

819
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of award that's been on the top of.

820
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: List it's very well, reviewed So i'm sure they're folks

821
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: who are interested tell us a little bit about.

822
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 3: IT i was just, thinking it is so refreshing to

823
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 3: not have to talk about the men's. Side but, NO

824
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 3: i love both sours the. Book the premise of the

825
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 3: book is the men's game has undergone a big generational.

826
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 3: Shift it was dominated for almost two full decades By,

827
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 3: Djokovic nidal And, feeder AND i really wanted to chronicle

828
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: what that shift was going to look like when it actually.

829
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 3: Did timing really worked out for. Me it all happened

830
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 3: all at once in twenty twenty, four where we See

831
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 3: djokovic finally recede and in his place two rising, Superstars

832
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 3: carlos Alcazionic center kind of fun contrast in temperament and,

833
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 3: style you, know one pretty, fiery the other pretty, icy

834
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 3: and they continue to dominate. Then AND i often felt

835
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 3: myself thinking, like, OH i could have tacked on like

836
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 3: another chapter or four or five based on what.

837
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: Happened the perils of book writing that's pretty much everyone

838
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: unless you're doing a historical exactly.

839
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 3: Novel, yeah but, yeah it. Was it was a really

840
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 3: fun thing to be able to document in real. Time

841
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 3: it's just like this long Awaited Who's. Next we finally

842
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 3: saw that come into, Frame and it's kind of a

843
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: dual profile of those, players but also an appreciation of

844
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 3: The Big three era that came, before and then also

845
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,919
Speaker 3: a bit of a tribute to the players that got

846
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 3: trapped between those two eras of, greatness which is pretty

847
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 3: much everyone born in the nineteen, nineties which is Rough

848
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 3: as one of those, PEOPLE i can sympathize with their,

849
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 3: plight but it's, yeah just trying to capture that shift

850
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 3: and build some excitement for these two personalities who seem

851
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 3: to be taking over the game right.

852
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: Now as A chicago AND i have to, ask Does

853
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 1: Michael jordan's name come up as an example of someone

854
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: who blocks generations of talent from ever getting to the.

855
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 3: Top Michael jordan is mentioned in the book in the

856
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 3: context is actually pretty funny Because carlos alcraz wears a

857
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 3: lot Of jordan brand. Stuff, yeah like you often see

858
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 3: him in that classic locker room pick OF. Mj cradling

859
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 3: The Larry. Bryant but the Contrast i'm drawing there IS

860
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 3: mj was able, was you, know smoking, cigars eating pizza

861
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 3: like during THE Nba, Finals AND i was using that

862
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: as a contrast for how kind of monk like an

863
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: aesthetic the life of the tennis player has become, Now

864
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 3: like they don't have much time. Off If carlos goes

865
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: To abiza for a, weekend like it's a whole news.

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