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Speaker 1: Okay, hi everyone, and I want to say thank you

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Speaker 1: very much Caitlin at Racketbert for everyone that's come tonight,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much.

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Speaker 2: We have some really cool people who are so thanks.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just going to start because the last interview

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Speaker 2: But it is fantastic to be back here interviewing you again.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that you know, I love so

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Speaker 2: So first of all, I am a servant volleyer.

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Speaker 1: Anybody that's played against me knows, and I want to

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Speaker 1: jump right into the initiatives that BNP has done through

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Speaker 2: In particular, I'm going to go through a couple of

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to get into all of this BNP

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Speaker 1: also a sustainable tennis paradise. I mean anybody who's been here,

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Speaker 1: I want to know first of all from you, how

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Speaker 3: First of all, first you've done made peace base way

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Speaker 3: power By then, thank you for that. Listen that first

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Speaker 3: supervit edge to be with you all here. And abviously

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Speaker 3: I value digital I value everything that you know Zoom

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Diving into the topic. I have a personal history with

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about him because he's not even twelve yet

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Speaker 1: The thing is is, but you and I talked about

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Speaker 3: Run this tournament, and run this tournament, and I believe

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Speaker 3: It's equal pay. Yeah, it's been equal pay since two

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Speaker 3: fifteen you know, because I've reknewed this contract probably four

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Speaker 3: times of the last you know, fourteen years, and I

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Speaker 3: know what it is to go through the next phase,

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Speaker 3: think about the future. I look forward to celebrating this again,

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Speaker 3: this is my French side. We celebrate a lot in front,

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Speaker 3: but I look forward as well to when we get

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Speaker 3: into the next phase, you know, the next five years.

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Speaker 3: Exactly what you were saying about gender diversity, about equal access,

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Speaker 3: about sustainability, what exactly is going to be the meaning

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Speaker 3: of this tournament. I think it's a lot of trees.

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Speaker 3: I think more diversity, probably more mutual respect, and I

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Speaker 3: think this tournament you know we we pubaly sponsored by

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Speaker 3: one hundreds of tournaments in the world, you know, in

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Speaker 3: all dimensions of tennis, from family tennis, you know, a

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Speaker 3: team tennis across around the world. Then we have a sense.

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Speaker 3: We do the French, we do the Village in Kincup,

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Speaker 3: we do the Davis Cup. I can tell you being

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Speaker 3: involved in most of these tournaments, this one is special.

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Speaker 3: Then how can we continue to make it special? I

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Speaker 3: do believe it's not exactly what we've been discussing obviously

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Speaker 3: Grand Slam. You know, quality and content and attendance. That's

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Speaker 3: creditic on this is this is the tennis side, and

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Speaker 3: I think it's going to continue to get better and

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Speaker 3: better making this venue And thank you to Larry honestly

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Speaker 3: like like a unique venue that is unmatched. Uh. That's

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Speaker 3: the second dimension and the third one. I truly believe

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Speaker 3: that what we touch upon today around diversity, around gender equality,

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Speaker 3: around mutual respect amongst around sustainability is something that's we

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Speaker 3: won't celebrate this next year because I don't think we're

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Speaker 3: there yet, but this is to me, uh, the plan

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Speaker 3: for the next phase, okay, and I look forward to it.

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Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye on you, Okay. So, so one

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Speaker 1: of the things we wanted to do today was just

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Speaker 1: open up the for questions, what do you want for

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Speaker 1: the future of this time or tennis in general?

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Speaker 3: Right, right, No, it's it's an excellent question. Actually, I

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Speaker 3: have another connection with with Newport because I well, I

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Speaker 3: grew up playing tennis. I love the game, but I

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Speaker 3: really grew up sailing and skiing and former member of

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Speaker 3: the French sailing team. I'm a member of New York

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Speaker 3: Art Club, which is pretty much next to the Tennis

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Speaker 3: out of Fame in terms of distance. Uh, it's a

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Speaker 3: good point. Well, I think contributions come from from from

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Speaker 3: many contributors. I'm already a very large sponsor of the

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Speaker 3: Tennis out of Fame for the last you know seven years.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually they give me the privilege of you know, supporting.

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Speaker 3: I supported the most of their project, including the museum,

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Speaker 3: and I'm one of their largest corporate sponsors. I'm actually

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Speaker 3: a board member of the Tennis out of Fame, which

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Speaker 3: I feel very privileged to be, and they give me

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Speaker 3: the privilege to be their opening speaker every year at

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Speaker 3: their you know, gadad dinner in New York City during

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Speaker 3: the US Open then, which is, by the way, called

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Speaker 3: the legends. Then that's my contribution to the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: I yeah, I think you're right. The tournament is a

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Speaker 3: great terma. I think it's a two fifty or right,

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Speaker 3: and I think that this is where hopefully we will

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Speaker 3: benefit from this contagion effect that you know, all the

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Speaker 3: corporate sponsors and they have some you know, but will

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Speaker 3: continue to push the concept forward. I'm a big fan

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Speaker 3: of the Hall of Fame. I think it's it's protecting

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Speaker 3: the tradition, but they do it in such a way

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Speaker 3: that it's protecting the tradition projecting themselves into the future

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Speaker 3: of tennis. What I have to say for the last

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Speaker 3: for the certainly not that was my worst day. That

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Speaker 3: was to be on record, that's my worst day. Uh.

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Speaker 3: What I'm going to give you two Well, I've had

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Speaker 3: the privilege to hand the trophy over here over the

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Speaker 3: last you know, eleven years, and I have to say

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Speaker 3: it's not only a privilege to do it and reward

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Speaker 3: or be one of the ones who was contributing to

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Speaker 3: the winners, because it's an amazing accomplishment, but it's a

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Speaker 3: wonderful opportunity for me in a few minutes to speak

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Speaker 3: about the bank, to speak about a commitment to tennis,

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Speaker 3: a commitment to the sports, and addressing you know, eighteen

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Speaker 3: thousand people in a way I hope translate or convey

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Speaker 3: some passion. And I love that. I have an anecdote

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Speaker 3: actually which keeps me very modest about brand recognition. And

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Speaker 3: that's my second good day, I guess. In terms of tennis,

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Speaker 3: you spoke about the Hall of Fame. By the way,

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Speaker 3: I have a program with Billy Jion King in New York.

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Speaker 3: It's called City Parks Tennis. It's not the John and

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Speaker 3: Patrick mcenroll thing. It's not like you know, uh, coaching

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Speaker 3: kids to become to go players. It's really providing tennis

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Speaker 3: education to six thousand kids during the summer months, but

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Speaker 3: long summer, like from early June to late August, and uh.

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Speaker 3: And these kids played deserving kids, you know, in the

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Speaker 3: city parks, you know, all summer. Then this is the

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Speaker 3: story I was. Then every year I go there with

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Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. I think that was Virginia, either

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Speaker 3: Villagine or Virginia was right Australian. Well, you're right, but

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Speaker 3: very Australian, exactly right. Right then, and a little kid

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Speaker 3: a little girl. She was playing so well by she

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Speaker 3: was probably six or seven. She grabbed me. She grabbed

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Speaker 3: me and she said, you know, can I speak to you?

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Speaker 3: I think I was, and I'm like sure, and she said,

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Speaker 3: one day I want to be like you. I can

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Speaker 3: tell you the first time somebody in my life told

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Speaker 3: me they want to be a banker. And I look

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Speaker 3: at Virgin, I'm like, and she's like surprised as well,

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Speaker 3: you know why somebody would want to be like you?

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Speaker 3: And it's another discussion we had with then. Then I said, really,

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Speaker 3: She said, yes, I want to be like you. I

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Speaker 3: see you on TV. I want to run a tennis

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Speaker 3: company like you do. Then I had to explain to

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Speaker 3: her that being pipe I was not a tennis company

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Speaker 3: but a bank then totally of big, big, big disappointment,

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Speaker 3: but that we're very community to tennis. And we loved it.

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Speaker 3: She was a meeting. She she looked at me, she said,

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Speaker 3: I get it, and then she turned around and she

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Speaker 3: went back and played, I love that's you know, back

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Speaker 3: to your point. Was it a good day? I think

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Speaker 3: it was actually because it kept me very modest. I

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Speaker 3: love the transparency of this young girl. And and and

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Speaker 3: I think that's that's what branding is about. At times

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Speaker 3: you don't care why you are being known for. But

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Speaker 3: but but you are being You're being known, you are

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Speaker 3: being in the community, you are being part of it.

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Speaker 3: And I think she actually she put on the name

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Speaker 3: of the bank amazing linguin.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to say thank you Johnny for again

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Speaker 1: supporting tennis in a way that no sponsor sports supports

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Speaker 1: it throughout the world. So thank you in every way,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for having us tonight. Everyone can enjoy

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Speaker 1: this great match now and I just want to say

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you so much for having me to

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Speaker 1: pre