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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Renee Stubs Tennis Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It has been an unbelievable few days of tennis. As

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Speaker 2: we talked about day before, yesterday was probably one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest days of Grand Slam tennis player that I've

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Speaker 2: ever been involved with. I mean as a player, as

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Speaker 2: a commentator, it was just incredible. But yesterday was a

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Speaker 2: bit of a pooper scooper. Let's put it that way.

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Speaker 2: It was not a great day of tennis.

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Speaker 1: So if you had tickets yesterday, you got.

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Speaker 2: An average day of tennis. The day before you got

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest. So that's just the luck of

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Speaker 2: the draw. But having said that, we still had a

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Speaker 2: couple of pretty good matches. It was probably finished off

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Speaker 2: with the best match of the day as far as

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Speaker 2: just being competitive. And yes, you probably don't hear Petko's

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Speaker 2: voice today because she went to the post office to

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Speaker 2: pick up some clothes that she bought online and then

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Speaker 2: they got delivered here, but wasn't here because she's at

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Speaker 2: the tennis all day just like I am. And then

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Speaker 2: they delivered it to the post office and then she

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Speaker 2: had to go to the post office.

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Speaker 1: But my little German, she's probably gotten lost.

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Speaker 2: She was supposed to be back here for her car

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Speaker 2: at ten forty five, which is in fourteen minutes, and

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Speaker 2: she has I might have to send out a tracking

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Speaker 2: dog to go find her. But in the meantime, you've

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Speaker 2: got me, which is fine, I suspect, but she's much

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Speaker 2: funnier than me. So hopefully she gets back in time

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Speaker 2: before her car. But I'm going to go through a

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Speaker 2: couple of things while she's not here, and she'll come

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Speaker 2: bursting through the door any second now and be like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, broody, broody, I'm so sarty. I got lost. I

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Speaker 1: went the wrong way. I went to the city anyway.

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Speaker 2: But in the meantime, Storm Hunter played against Barbara or

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Speaker 2: Kujikova last night. They played after Midnight once again. Ah,

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Speaker 2: and she's coming through the door. Here, she is here,

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Speaker 2: she is just in time. I told everybody that you

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Speaker 2: were lost in Melbourne and you didn't know where you

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Speaker 2: were going.

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Speaker 3: The line was through the fucking five one hundred people

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Speaker 3: waiting to pick up, and you thought you were going

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Speaker 3: there at ten o'clock when it opens, and you were

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Speaker 3: going to be the first in line. I was the

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Speaker 3: first in line, but after seven hundred people, I was

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Speaker 1: Guess what.

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Speaker 2: Everybody else had the same idea. Oh my god, she's

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Speaker 2: actually sweating.

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Speaker 1: Is it hot outside? It's like humid. It's much warmer

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Speaker 1: than it used to be.

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Speaker 2: All right, good, well, listen, I was just starting the

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Speaker 2: pod as thinking that you were going to come bursting

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Speaker 2: through the.

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Speaker 1: Door, as you did.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, I was just saying that the match of

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Speaker 2: the day, probably yesterday, as far as the matches we're concerned,

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Speaker 2: were probably the last match of the day in Kujikova

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Speaker 2: and storm Hunters, just as far as drama is concerned.

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Speaker 2: On the women's side anyway, as I'm sitting here fanning

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Speaker 2: you ready, but that was probably the best women's match,

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Speaker 2: yes kay, although it just comes to show you that

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Speaker 2: life always finds a way to balance itself. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 2: because I said that yet two days ago was one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest in tennis history, and yesterday it was

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Speaker 2: a bit of a pooper, Scooper.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, That was my Scooper is nice. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 3: There was a Cocoa gov easy, Sablenka easy, who else easy?

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Speaker 1: Almost everyone wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It was a smacking She didn't lose a game in

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Speaker 2: the third round of the tray and open. It gets

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Speaker 2: a pretty good player in Serenco. But Serenko is a

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Speaker 2: little weird sometimes. But that's a joke, and oh come on,

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Speaker 2: you gotta win a game for fox sake.

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Speaker 3: It was a very good performance. The problem with Sirenko

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Speaker 3: is she just didn't have any weapons to take time

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Speaker 3: away from Arena. So she was you can see that

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Speaker 3: she's feeling good about herself and the only time only

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Speaker 3: either and Sirenko that was the problem. She doesn't have

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Speaker 3: the slicing and dicing that can jet her off. She

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Speaker 3: plays really nice, she plays a nice tempo, she plays

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Speaker 3: nice ground, she plays perfect, she plays exactly. So she

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Speaker 3: Arena broke on every opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Literally literally yeah yeah, anyway, so so Serenka. So no

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Speaker 2: match for Sabalanca. Oh no, Steph Sitzapass looked really good

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Speaker 2: against van Usher. I mean, Vanash is a good young payer,

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Speaker 1: Just got out matched.

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Speaker 2: So it was good signs for Citipass because he's been

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Speaker 3: Especially after Kekyos named him the tournament favorite.

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Speaker 1: I think he was joking. I think he was kind

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Speaker 1: of saying that.

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Speaker 3: In Jess, But I feel like he was so up

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Speaker 3: Novak's ass for the past two weeks that he's gotten

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Speaker 3: shit about it, and he's like, Okay, I have to

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Speaker 3: pick somebody else just so people think.

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Speaker 2: That I'm not you know that I'm not a Novak

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Speaker 2: fan boy. I have to become Novak's manager. But yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: but speaking of Novak, holy shit. He came out yesterday

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Speaker 2: thankfully for me because I was second night match covering

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Speaker 2: and commentating and you were waiting here at home to

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Speaker 2: let me into the apartment, so we didn't want another

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Speaker 2: super late night. But he was on fire yesterday, just super,

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Speaker 2: super comfortable. He looked a little bit better, although I

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Speaker 2: still don't know if he's one hundred percent, but.

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Speaker 1: He looked really good last night.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: With Novaka, sometimes wonder whether he because he's so confident

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Speaker 3: he honestly turned times his preparation to.

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Speaker 1: Peak in the second week of Grand Slams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like everyone else normally times their peak performance for

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Speaker 3: Slams in general, and with him, it sometimes feel like,

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Speaker 3: especially at the estourne Open, because he's the best player

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Speaker 3: in the world, he always plays very far.

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Speaker 1: He played Davis Cup, so he probably needed some rest.

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Speaker 3: He started training later, so maybe he just you know,

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Speaker 3: started tennis a little bit later, and just when it matters,

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Speaker 3: he will start to peak and it's so much better

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Speaker 3: that it doesn't even matter that he's not at one

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Speaker 3: hundred percent in the first week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, so we'll see. Anyway, he looked unbelievable yesterday.

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Speaker 2: So remember when I said, oh, I think sinnecon win. Ooh,

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Speaker 2: I think Novak's still the favorite. Yeah, so I'm oscillating

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Speaker 2: back and forth. But yeah, Koudjikova got through in that

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Speaker 2: really tough match. She was about an inch away from

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Speaker 2: storm Hunter serving for the second set.

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Speaker 1: She hit. Kudjikova hit at.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen forty down at four all or five all on

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Speaker 2: the second set, an unbelievable like half hop back end.

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Speaker 2: Like we always talk about her. She has to time

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Speaker 2: it and when she's timing in the ball, she's like

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, what is she doing?

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Speaker 1: Like, first of all, either take it in the air.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or let it come down to a natural position

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Speaker 2: around hip level.

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Speaker 1: She decided to like take that half off.

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Speaker 2: It was like, you literally made that the most difficult

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Speaker 2: at that, but boy did she take a risk there.

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Speaker 2: And she hit it on the sideline enough to the

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Speaker 2: point that Storm was running for it and stopped running

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Speaker 2: for it because she thought it was going out. And

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Speaker 2: could she have gotten there and done something to it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but she certainly would have made it

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Speaker 2: back and she didn't. And it was thirty forty and

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Speaker 2: then Storm hit still missed a return on the forehand

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Speaker 1: And then everything turned around after that and she.

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Speaker 2: Played much better, although it's got a bit shaky in

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Speaker 2: the third as well. The crowd, God loved them, that

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Speaker 2: stayed there till like twelve thirty one o'clock in the morning,

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Speaker 2: really tried to get behind her.

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Speaker 1: But it was a great match. Kujikova. We're not talking

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Speaker 2: She's a former slam champion or a slam champion, and

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Speaker 2: so you know, she goes up against mirror Andreva. Can

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Speaker 2: we talk about that fucking comeback? That was probably the

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Speaker 2: match of the day for sure.

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Speaker 1: Diane Paris. She plays so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean she's like a newer version or not

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Speaker 1: Suarez Navarro.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, with the one handed back, one back,

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Speaker 3: not tall, heavy spin, not tall, great kick. I mean

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Speaker 3: really she plays beautiful but also Andreva water fighter.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love If you haven't seen the

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Speaker 2: tweet from Andy Murray where he literally throws the commentator

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Speaker 2: under the bus whoever was doing the match, Basically, she

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Speaker 2: needs to improve her attitude, you know, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: This was at five to one, and then Andy.

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Speaker 2: Basically says, well, I guess that attitude is also something

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Speaker 2: of a perfectionist who actually refuses to lose.

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Speaker 1: And so what.

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Speaker 2: A sixteen years of age now plays against Krijiko art

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Speaker 2: That is going to be a fun match, Yeah, because

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Speaker 2: boy can she move around the court as well. And

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking to myself, sixteen, she's already gotten stronger

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Speaker 2: in a year physically, She's going to get so much

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Speaker 2: stronger in the next two or three years.

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Speaker 1: Look at Coco.

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Speaker 2: Coco to me, is so much stronger in her upper

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Speaker 2: body than she was just at the US open. So

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Speaker 2: her off season training. She I mean, I hugged her

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Speaker 2: the first time I saw her, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I said to her, oh my god, you are what

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Speaker 2: have you been doing in the off season. She's so

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Speaker 2: strong in the upper body and so much like Saberlenka.

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Speaker 1: Who looks like, oh my god, like she is so strong.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, well, Astreva, one thing I have to say, she

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Speaker 3: finds amazing. She what a like really mental fortitude. But

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Speaker 3: she did play again, I get the pace. Then she

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Speaker 3: played against Antaba, and I expect her to pick it

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Speaker 3: guess because you know, she.

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Speaker 1: Knew against On she has to do something special.

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Speaker 3: And then she played somebody that is not as highly ranked,

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Speaker 3: that is not as well known around the tour yet,

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Speaker 3: and she went back to the old putting the ball

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Speaker 3: in and helping the other one misses.

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Speaker 1: And then when she was down, she picked it up again.

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Speaker 3: And that's why she did turn it around, because she's

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Speaker 3: so so good that she's just better. She doesn't lose

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Speaker 3: a game then when she hits a bit harder. But

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Speaker 3: she had a little face in that first set and

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Speaker 3: the third set where she was pushing the ball again,

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Speaker 3: just the juwi I'm not gonna miss and they're gonna

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Speaker 3: miss it.

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Speaker 1: She played.

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Speaker 2: It was playing against a very good player. But having

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Speaker 2: said that, it was also very it's quite windy.

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Speaker 3: It was windy, and this court three is always difficult

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Speaker 3: to play. I mean, honestly, it was so fun. I

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Speaker 3: was calling fifteen seventy three, which is on the other

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Speaker 3: side of the and you could hear the audience going

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Speaker 2: I was unbelieva. It was such a great, fun, exciting match.

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Speaker 1: They got him through that match. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: I will finish this up, rublev and as Petko runs

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Speaker 2: Wow, what is he going to do? I mean, how's

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Speaker 2: So anyway, guys, tons of matches on today, look forward

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