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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation. That's interesting because normally when a

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Speaker 1: tennis player retires, it's because their bodies run run out

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Speaker 1: and they've got injuries and they can't keep playing at

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Speaker 1: the top level, or maybe their brain. Maybe it's the

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Speaker 1: mental thing, just the attention to detail, the concentration, the

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Speaker 1: mental rigor that it would take to stay at the

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Speaker 1: top of your game. But Serena Williams has said that

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Speaker 1: she's announcing really her retirement'm not saying exactly when, but

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Speaker 1: it's not a choice she would have made if she

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Speaker 1: wasn't a forty year old woman wanting to have a

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Speaker 1: second baby. So she said, if she wins the US

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Speaker 1: Open next month, she has a shot at equalling Margaret

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Speaker 1: Court's record of Grand slams, and she's always wanted to

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Speaker 1: do that. But even if she doesn't win, it seems

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Speaker 1: like she will be bowing out of her tennis career.

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Speaker 1: So it's not quite the fairy tale ending that it may.

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Speaker 1: You know, she's not leaving because she has to because

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Speaker 1: her body's given up. She has said she has to

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Speaker 1: choose between family or she said that, believe me, I

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Speaker 1: never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair if a guy wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: writing this, because I'd be out there playing and winning

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Speaker 1: while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding

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Speaker 1: our family. But she remember she played when she was

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Speaker 1: pregnant for the first child, and she said that she

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Speaker 1: really doesn't want to do that, and funnily enough, so

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Speaker 1: she will be It seems stepping away. For there's not

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Speaker 1: many tennis players professional tennis places and still play at

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Speaker 1: forty at the top, but she's still at the top

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Speaker 1: of her game. I think they are the guys around

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Speaker 1: that age. No, I don't think. So. How old is Nada?

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Speaker 1: He's not forty, isn't he? How old is that other

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Speaker 1: one old mate? Not Djokovic because he's a bit younger.

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Speaker 1: But what about thirty six? He's thirty six? Yeah, Rappa

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Speaker 1: is thirty six, so really what about Roger Federer? Federer

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Speaker 1: would be I reckon thirty five. But that's why she's

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Speaker 1: been so extraordinary. And she still pick physical fitness forty one.

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Speaker 1: So that's what's a tough decision, isn't it. And she

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Speaker 1: said that there were complications that nearly killed her following

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Speaker 1: the birth of her first child, so she said, having

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Speaker 1: another child is not a simple or straightforward matter, and

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Speaker 1: after long consideration, she's made the decision to not attempt

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Speaker 1: to balance professional tennis and pregnancy this time around. How

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Speaker 1: many people have had to do that? So she might

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Speaker 1: do what other women do when they get pregnant. She

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Speaker 1: might work part time and start working from home. Just

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Speaker 1: start playing in a lounge room. See how she goes.

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Speaker 1: Was she do Midweek's Ladies Tennis? Imagine that you're lined

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Speaker 1: up to play her and I've bought the sandwiches and Serena,

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Speaker 1: what have you brought