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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. Well, the Australian Open is on.

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Speaker 1: This is where Melbourne comes into its own every year,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. They've got the Grand Prix, They've got the

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Speaker 1: Australian Open. It's this is the tennis high point for

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Speaker 1: Australians for the year. They've had a lot of withdrawls.

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Speaker 1: Carlos al KaAZ is top seed in the world number one.

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Speaker 1: He a Spaniard. He's had a dream run and the

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Speaker 1: ATP Tour in recent years. But this was interesting. He

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Speaker 1: took to social media to announce he'd hurt himself. I'm

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Speaker 1: intrigued by the injury. This is what he said. He

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Speaker 1: injured himself quote through a chance unnatural movement in training.

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Speaker 2: Chance a natural movement, twerking.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Macarina was planking.

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Speaker 2: Was he jumping the net? I took out my tooth

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Speaker 2: front teeth jumping the net when I used to play.

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Speaker 1: Tennis, Sure he went jumping a net.

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Speaker 2: No, it was only five but really, yeah, because I

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Speaker 2: just mastered and it was around the time of when

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Speaker 2: John Yucom used to jump.

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Speaker 1: The Yeah, but he jumped when he won. Did you win?

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Speaker 1: Presumably you've been punished by the tennis you.

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Speaker 2: Have a tennis rack in my hand. I just ran

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Speaker 2: at the neck because I saw Nuke doing it. Nuke

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Speaker 2: was a lot longer of leg than me as a

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Speaker 2: book straight into the.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that television ad where it might have

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Speaker 1: been an ad for Listine or something, where they were

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Speaker 1: spinning the tennis racket and this was ruffel smooth. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember that?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: And if the rough to determine who was going to

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Speaker 1: serve because one side of the strings has a slightly

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Speaker 1: rougher knot in it or something.

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Speaker 2: This is back in the days when they made out

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Speaker 2: a cat gut. Tennis strings used to be made out of.

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Speaker 1: Bat cats were terrified every year the tennis came on

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Speaker 1: ruffles smooth, and she said you need to brush your

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Speaker 1: teeth or something terrible happened after that. But Naomi Asaka

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Speaker 1: has also.

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Speaker 2: Withdrawn on because she's having a baby.

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Speaker 1: She's having a baby. Venus Williams withdrew. She suffered an

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Speaker 1: injury in a warm up tournament New Zealand. Nick Curios

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Speaker 1: he withdrew after the he was injured during the Adelaide International.

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Speaker 2: There was some conjecture there that's I just accepted that

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Speaker 2: his knee was Bung.

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Speaker 1: Is there some conjecture that it's not well someone that.

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Speaker 2: I was asking you, as our resident tennis expert, I

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Speaker 2: think we.

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Speaker 1: Can accept he's injured. He would want to play the

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Speaker 1: Australian Open.

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Speaker 2: Of course, of course, I'm just saying.

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Speaker 1: But everyone was saying, it's okay because we've still got

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Speaker 1: Rafael Nadal. Rafael Nadal is an Australian. People love him,

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Speaker 1: they love him. He's obviously a Spaniard, but the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: he's our Rafa. He's our Raffa. He won last year.

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Speaker 1: He has enduring popularity here in Australia for the twenty

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Speaker 1: years he's played here. He's thirty six years old, and

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Speaker 1: he's keeping going, keeping going, keeping going. Yesterday he was

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Speaker 1: injured and has had to pull out, but dignified to

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Speaker 1: the end. He was playing another player. Funnily enough, was

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Speaker 1: only the second round and he could have just said

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Speaker 1: I'm injured, I'm out. You could see him reach for

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Speaker 1: the ball, injury, I'm down. But he came back out

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Speaker 1: for another hour and kept playing because he wanted his

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Speaker 1: other his opponent, to have the dignity of saying I won,

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Speaker 1: rather than he went through the next round because Rafa Withdrew.

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Speaker 2: What a good guy and.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to remember his name.

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Speaker 2: Didn't someone have to run off to go to the

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Speaker 2: toilet all on.

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Speaker 1: Those long matches? You might have to because that'd be terrible. Actually, well,

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Speaker 1: let me just say it was American McKenzie McDonald. Yes,

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Speaker 1: wearing those white shorts. But you know, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: running off and long games. There's some speculation that the

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Speaker 1: game is going longer because of the nature of the

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Speaker 1: tennis balls. A lot of people aren't happy with the

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Speaker 1: tennis balls this year. Who knew that tennis balls each

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Speaker 1: year could be slightly different. Rafael Nadal has been scathing,

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Speaker 1: saying that they're the worst quality, they don't generate the

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Speaker 1: same spin. Another player, Stan Wrinka has said that they've

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Speaker 1: lost they lose a lot of pop after a few games,

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Speaker 1: and Djokovic has said that the year's balls seem to

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Speaker 1: lead to longer matches, so maybe that's deliberate. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So Djokovic is still in this time. Last year we

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Speaker 1: didn't like him. Now he's still in, so we're going

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Speaker 1: to have to go.

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Speaker 2: He's great, we love him.

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Speaker 1: So the Australians to follow and cheer on cochon. Arcus

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Speaker 1: is going to be playing Andy Murray, Alex Demanuur I'm not.

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Speaker 2: That's his name, D I m A and you are Manua.

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Speaker 1: Or not Manure d D mand or demand or let's

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Speaker 1: not call him Manure is still in. So if you're

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Speaker 1: looking for people to cheer on rappers out, we've still

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Speaker 1: got cockin Arcus, We've still got Alex Demanor.

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Speaker 2: Bruce mcavany is going to someone's someone's stilling.

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Speaker 1: I know, honestly, it's so easy for me.

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Speaker 2: You could easily be on wide world of sports.

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Speaker 1: I could be.

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Speaker 2: You could be the next Ken Sutcliffe.

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Speaker 1: Sure,