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Speaker 1: M Rene. We have a special episode today. We are

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Speaker 1: sending down our feed, the courtesy of our friends over

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Speaker 1: at the legendary soccer podcast Men and Blazers, an interview

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Speaker 1: with Danil Menvedev.

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Speaker 2: And actually listening to this interview he does with our

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Speaker 2: friends at Men in Blazers, I found him to be

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Speaker 2: unbelievably thoughtful and interesting and not shy in being honest

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Speaker 2: be so fascinating because what I heard out of him

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Speaker 2: I just I just think he's fascinating in every sense

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Speaker 2: of the word. And I've had my own, you know,

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Speaker 2: situations with him on court, postmatch interviews and also most

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Speaker 2: notably in his loss at the Washington Tournament a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago to Nick Kurios and his runner up

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Speaker 2: speech there was unbelievable. It was funny, he was engaging

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Speaker 2: and very nice and kind, and then of course that ensued,

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Speaker 2: you know, that summer that he had where he culminated

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Speaker 2: in his loss of the Years Open. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: I just I just really like this guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I was really struck by sort of

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Speaker 1: how jocular he is. You watch him play and you

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Speaker 1: think he's going to be sort of like Kaiser Sursey

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Speaker 1: because he's got such a sort of off speed game.

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Speaker 1: But he's really funny. He talks a lot about how

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Speaker 1: you know, he knew he would have to win differently

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Speaker 1: and so he adjusted his game and doing all the

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Speaker 1: other stuff like playing chess and video games growing up

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Speaker 1: in Russia made him such a different mind. So it

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Speaker 1: was a really cool look at what his mind is like.

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Speaker 1: And he's also sort of fun and, like I said,

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Speaker 1: really jocular, like he's kind of hamming it up with

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Speaker 1: these guys in a way that I loved.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want to say anything

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Speaker 2: about what he says on the podcast, but there were

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Speaker 2: some really interesting things that he said that really opened

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Speaker 2: my eyes to how he thinks, and he's not He

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Speaker 2: doesn't think like a normal tennis player. He thinks like

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Speaker 2: a really thoughtful human being about how he wins tennis

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Speaker 2: matches and what he wants to get out of things,

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Speaker 2: and how he turned that situation at the US Open

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Speaker 2: where the crowd I mean, essentially didn't like him, and

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Speaker 2: how he used it and then how he understood how

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Speaker 2: to make it better, and I just, yeah, I just

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Speaker 2: think he's really thoughtful. He's hit the best shot, one

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Speaker 2: of the best shots I've ever seen this year at

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Speaker 2: this Strain Open. When he hit that running back and

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Speaker 2: passing shot. I think I believe it was against sits

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Speaker 2: even know how he hit it. So this guy not

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Speaker 2: only is he thoughtful and you know, very pragmatic with

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Speaker 2: the way he thinks, but also as a tennis player,

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Speaker 2: he's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible amount of fun to watch him as it

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Speaker 1: has been watching him in Miami. And again, if you

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Speaker 1: like the interview, obviously go check out and Blazers, the

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Speaker 1: Legendary soccer podcast. All of this was brought to you

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Speaker 1: by the cast, So thank you so much for the

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Speaker 1: cast for having us, and we really hope you enjoyed

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Speaker 1: this interview from the Men in Blazers team with Danelle Menlo.

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Speaker 4: This is Rebecca Lo or Rebecca Lua. If you listen

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Speaker 4: to Suboptimal Radio and you are listening to Men in

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Speaker 4: Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

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Speaker 5: It's Roger and Dave O here with a special episode

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Speaker 5: of Men in Blazers.

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Speaker 6: Yes, for a change, we get to talk about a

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Speaker 6: sport we actually know something about, tennis, a game we

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Speaker 6: both loved dearly, which makes this the deby of Men

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Speaker 6: in Blazers on grass.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Roger Tennis is back with the Miami Open on

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Speaker 5: the hard courts of the hard Rock Stadium, a tournament

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Speaker 5: I love it. I've attended it so many times since

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Speaker 5: it debuted in the mid eighties. It's where a twenty

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Speaker 5: two year old Federer first played a seventeen year old

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Speaker 5: Nadal in two thousand and four, and now, after a

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Speaker 5: one year hiatus, it's going to be played in front

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Speaker 5: of real, live tennis oubcessed South Florida humans, including myself,

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Speaker 5: starting next week. I can't wait to be there again

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Speaker 5: and watch pro tennis in person.

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Speaker 6: To celebrate, we've partnered with Lacoste, that dashing brand we've

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Speaker 6: long adored and bodied by its founder, the French tennis

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Speaker 6: legend Renee Lacoste, a darling, romantic champion who went Grand

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Speaker 6: slams on the court while making time to invent the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the most stylish of all tennis brands for sure,

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Speaker 5: and its modern standard bearer is Danil Medvedev, a young

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Speaker 5: man as distinctive as Ronae la cost was in his day.

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Speaker 5: The bear to his crocodile, if you will, the twenty

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Speaker 5: five year old Russian has emerged with his unique game

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Speaker 5: to become one of the most fascinating and human stories

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Speaker 5: in the tennis world on the men's side. Winner now

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Speaker 5: of ten career a tob titles, hoping to make Miami

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Speaker 5: his eleventh, he will take to the court head to

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Speaker 5: toe in the latest high performance and snazzy lacostegear, a

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Speaker 5: Technifiber three H five racket in his hands and his

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Speaker 5: new lacost signature shoe, the AGLT twenty one Ultra, which

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Speaker 5: is as exceptional as he is on his feet. We

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Speaker 5: talked to him about his early days, his rise and

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Speaker 5: life lessons learned along the way. Oh, such a joy

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Speaker 5: to talk to a man who, at this very moment

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Speaker 5: is on the precipice of becoming the next great in

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Speaker 5: the game. Here's our interview with Danil Medvedev.

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Speaker 6: Our guest today is a remarkable sporting maverick disruptor, a

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Speaker 6: man who's danced a singular path to glory, melding an

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Speaker 6: unorthodox playing style, elite athleticism, resilience and concentration superpowers to

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Speaker 6: mentally grind down all comers. He's often said that he

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Speaker 6: resembles Quentin Tarantino, but he blows away tennis conventions like

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Speaker 6: Jules Winfield out of Moscow via the south of France.

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Speaker 6: A man who's just risen to number two in the world.

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Speaker 6: It's a joy to welcome mister Danil Medvedev.

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Speaker 5: Well, guys, Danil, great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 5: Your parents had you playing a lot of different sports

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Speaker 5: when you were growing up. Age six, you went to

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Speaker 5: your local swimming pool for a swimming lesson and you

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Speaker 5: happened to see an ad for tennis training. Take us

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Speaker 5: back to this moment because it changed your life.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely did. I didn't think at the time

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Speaker 3: but I remember an advertisement. It's like when you got

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Speaker 6: First time you hit. Did it just feel different to

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Speaker 3: Uh No, I was already in bombs two hundred away.

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Speaker 3: I remember that they would not take everybody because they

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Speaker 3: a ball with the wall, and of course I never

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Speaker 6: In that six foot six six year old, They're like,

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Speaker 5: How did it playing against the wall develop your game?

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Speaker 3: Early Russia many ankets, I mean not only in Russia.

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Speaker 3: I play against the wall. I imagined a bond and against me,

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Speaker 3: I just saw them playing against them, and I have

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Speaker 5: The wall never misses off the court.

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Speaker 6: You were a chess player, and a big, big gamer.

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Speaker 6: Shout out to Rainbow six, two joys which combine to

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Speaker 6: give you a unique strategic approach to the game. Your friend,

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Speaker 6: fellow Russian pro Andre rube Lev once said, back when

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Speaker 6: you were kids, you daniel with lob opponents for hours

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Speaker 3: This was amazing matches. I was playing tournaments against definitely

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Speaker 3: I love winning. I hate to lose. That's why I

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Speaker 3: the only choice I had is to love by opponents

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Speaker 6: The style you proceeded to develop is unique. You learned

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Speaker 6: There are multiple baby feds and baby raffers, but Medvedev's

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Speaker 6: style has always been your own. Your signature flat low

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Speaker 3: When I was young, you watch the best on the

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Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't matter which technique. So I tried

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Speaker 3: saw that people don't like my flat ball. Actually, when

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Speaker 5: Tonill. Let's take you to the end of your junior career.

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Speaker 5: Twenty fourteen. You moved to the South of France, you

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Speaker 5: turn pro eighteen years old. You've described yourself as not

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Speaker 5: much of a dreamer. But take us back to those days, Daniel,

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Speaker 3: To be honest, was a very tough moment because coming

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Speaker 3: from juniors to pros, I didn't get much help, I

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Speaker 3: enough to maybe pay for practices because it was too expensive,

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Speaker 3: maybe to make a quarters of the futures and you

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Speaker 3: what's not easy? I was not believing in much. I

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Speaker 6: You had a mixed bag of results initially, some big

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Speaker 6: occasional broken racket friction with opponents with umpires. For you,

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Speaker 6: frustration and anger were often as great an opponent as

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Speaker 6: What did you come to understand about why the demons

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Speaker 3: Still don't know. I was a bit worse than juniors

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Speaker 5: To get your gain kept developing. Tootanil below the radar. Physically,

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Speaker 5: Okay, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, Danil,

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Speaker 5: world and the transformation that has powdered along the way. Danil,

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Speaker 5: you're a singular athlete. You've walked a unique journey to glory,

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Speaker 5: and now you have a signature shoe that reflects that,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we worked really close with LaCosta on developing it,

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Speaker 3: You need to be honest. It's all about how fast

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Speaker 6: Renee Lacoste, the maverick who created the Lacosse brand, was

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it's not for me to decide, but I feel

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Speaker 5: Okay, let's go win Miami. Twenty nineteen was your breakthrough season.

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Speaker 5: Everything clicked. You beat Djokovic, the world number one at

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Speaker 3: The thing is that I understood I made a mistake

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Speaker 3: I need to take it as a challenge. I took

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Speaker 6: That authenticity and tenacity ultimately one over New York in

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Speaker 6: grew five hour heavyweight battle of wills won a more straightforward,

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Speaker 6: straight set loss. How long does the frustration last? And

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Speaker 6: what do you tell yourself to renew your motivation after

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Speaker 6: a Grand Slam final loss.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not easy. I think both of them were

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Speaker 3: tough because in one of them I definitely could have

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Speaker 3: won the match the US Open one, but we can

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Speaker 3: talk about maybe small points and I'll say, okay, maybe

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Speaker 3: I would have won this point, and maybe I would

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Speaker 3: have won the match. In Australian Open, we definitely cannot

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Speaker 3: say this because there needs to be a lot of

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Speaker 3: points to change. But both of these matches is huge

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Speaker 3: experience and I always said in my career, experience is

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Speaker 3: the Key. I always try to learn on my mistakes.

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Speaker 3: That's how I won't have regrets at the end of

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Speaker 3: my career. You know, I've done all I can. If

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Speaker 3: it's sent Grand Slams, it's perfect. I'm really happy. If

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Speaker 3: it's twenty one and Rogers still have twenty well, it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: If it's zero, well at least, I just need to

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Speaker 3: have no regrets with myself. I just need to do

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Speaker 3: everything I can. From my point of view, That's what

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Speaker 3: I try to do. After Rob's defeat, I just tried

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Speaker 3: to learn from it. So if I have one more

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Speaker 3: straight Open final to play against him, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: try to be very different, to prepare differently, to play differently.

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Speaker 5: So what an amazing year has been already the Australian

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Speaker 5: Open Final, you lead Russia to the ATP Cup, you

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Speaker 5: just win in Marseille, and now we're taping this a

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Speaker 5: day after the rankings announced you is the number two

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Speaker 5: in the world, the first time anyone besides the Big

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Speaker 5: three or Andy Murray has been that high since two

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Speaker 5: thousand and five. Can you describe how you feel in

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Speaker 5: this moment. Is there satisfaction or does it just spur

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Speaker 5: you on a deeper desire to climb that one last

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Speaker 5: place that remains.

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Speaker 3: Definitely boss at the same time because huge achievement. First

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Speaker 3: of all, even semi is over, Grand Slam is not

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Speaker 3: enough anymore to climb up the rankings. I managed to

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Speaker 3: do it by making some great results. I'm really happy

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Speaker 3: about it. To pass this monsters Rafa Roger, yes he

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Speaker 3: was not playing of course last year, but still Dominic

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Speaker 3: who actually won a Grand Slam. All these people is

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Speaker 3: just unbelievable. And of course I'm always looking forward. As

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Speaker 3: soon as you get something you never had, you try

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Speaker 3: not to stop, and you want to get more. Just

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Speaker 3: want to see my limits.

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Speaker 6: You've been a pro for six years now, Danielle, blazing

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Speaker 6: your singular path to glory. You break through, You made

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Speaker 6: a name for yourself as a maverick, young underdog, disruptor.

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Speaker 6: How would you like to be seen now?

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Speaker 3: To be honest, I never thought of how I would

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Speaker 3: like to be seen. I just try to be myself.

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Speaker 3: The higher you go, especially we can see it with

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Speaker 3: a big three. You will have people who love you.

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Speaker 3: You'll have people who admire you, who adore you, who

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Speaker 3: can live without you, and you will have haters. It's

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Speaker 3: just normal. I just want to be myself and I

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Speaker 3: let people decide. Somebody likes me, somebody thinks I'm boring

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Speaker 3: or my style is boring. Well, I cannot change just

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Speaker 3: for the people. Especially if you have one million people

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Speaker 3: following you, some of them won't like you. It's normal.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just being myself and I let people decide

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Speaker 3: what they think about.

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Speaker 6: What would the Medvedev of today say to the Medvedev

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Speaker 6: of twenty eighteen about the most important lesson that he

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Speaker 6: needs to learn to get where you are?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 3: That's a nice question because it's reflecting a little bit.

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Speaker 3: I would say that, because for sure, Mead of twenty

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Speaker 3: eighteen was doubting a lot of things. The only thing

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Speaker 3: I would say is consider the hard work you are

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Speaker 3: doing and it's going to pay off.

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Speaker 6: Danil, I have to tell you, and I know I'm

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Speaker 6: not alone in this. We find your approach to tennis,

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Speaker 6: your approach to life inspiring. We wish you your family,

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Speaker 6: your team, strength, health, success and courage.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I appreciate it and thanks for

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Speaker 3: the interview. Guys.

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Speaker 5: What an impressive guy. I really admire the strategic, pragmatic

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Speaker 5: way he has attacked his life and career.

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Speaker 6: I'll never forget the way he went over that New

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Speaker 6: York crowd at the twenty nineteen US Open, and that

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Speaker 6: which caused a New York Post to write, Medvedev is

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Speaker 6: more New York than most New Yorkers, and it's true

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Speaker 6: that Blue is authentic, tenacious, and incredibly human.

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Speaker 5: We are so grateful to Daniel, his team and to

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Speaker 5: the cost for their partnership. I've been wearing the AGLT

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Speaker 5: twenty one Ultra all week on court, and while I've

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Speaker 5: not been able to do his trick of simply lobbing

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Speaker 5: my opponents to their doom, I swear it's added about

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Speaker 5: three feet of kick to my second serve.

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Speaker 6: Courage bonchance, Godspeed,