WEBVTT - Farewell Rafa 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:03.240 Here at two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.520 the traditional owners of the land on which we record 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.840 this podcast. There were innerie people. This land was never seated, 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:19.840 always was always will be chow or as the people 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.119 say in Croatia, where I have also been, Hi and 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.800 welcome to sports sports news told differently. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:27.880 Guess what it's me. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.160 I'm Georgie Toney Yay. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.160 And I'm Abby Jelmy, who essentially behaved like a jack 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.920 rustle when someone got home today. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.960 When I saw Georgie, I was so overwhelmed. I was 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.640 spinning in circles, just running laps, just didn't know quite 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.880 what to do with myself. Because you've returned. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:52.120 I have returned a tinge of brown after months months. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.440 Let's be honest, I think. But that's really lovely of 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:56.080 you to say that. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:56.600 Thank you. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.880 I do believe Jeremy's words to me this morning were 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.240 you look well so the rest of our friendship. I 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.839 must have looked like a half dead corpse. But that's okay, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.479 that's okay. You just need five weeks in the Italian 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.559 sun and then everything is healed. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.640 Give us a good sport about the trip, Oh. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.200 My gosh, good sport about the trip. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.479 I have to have to give a round of applause 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.000 to a very very unique thought, which is that Sicily is. 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:27.600 Real nice, really recognice. I think I'm actually you. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.520 Discovered a little known place I think. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:30.960 I have, I think I have. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.319 Yeah, yep, I expect big things for that place, especially 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.360 a place called Talmina. I think it was in a 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.160 show called The White Lotus. But anyway, loved it, absolutely 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:40.680 loved it. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.600 Every the people were lovely in Italy. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.440 The food actually my biggest good sport, just to pasta, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.080 whether it be or a keaty, whether it be to aloney, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.600 whether it be just spaghetti. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.280 They call it the city of Love. You fell in 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:56.640 love with. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:01.000 Calves honestly every single meal, every single meal and involved 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.320 some kind of carb. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.280 And it was the best of time. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.280 No one ever goes and goes, oh it was underwhelming. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.839 Oh didn't love it? Yeah, never didn't love it. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:09.160 Never. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.400 It was so incredible, so incredible, very fortunate that I 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.440 had an amazing time and I survived the thirty hours 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:16.240 of transit back to. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.799 Me and I still managed to watch the Brisbane Lions 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.919 win I did, and the Panthers win again again again again. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.440 I did, And this is going to be the most 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.200 obscene sentence I may have said in my entire life. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.320 But I watched the Brisbane Lions or win the flag, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.919 which I predicted two months ago on this podcast. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.840 Go back check the tape you did I did? 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:36.280 I did. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.320 Remember I said I don't believe in anyone, therefore they're 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.040 gonna win, and they did. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.280 But I watched them win the flag in Lake Como 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.520 with George Clooney. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.720 He was somewhere. It wasn't with me. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.400 Oh my god. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.000 So the problem with you is that you actually interview 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.880 people like George Clooney. So I just thought, did you 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.520 actually find George Clooney? 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:57.680 He was around, he was around. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.440 The energy was there, Yeah, the energy was there. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.840 The energy was there, and it was the greatest I 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.080 watched the Panthers game. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:03.919 I think it was. It was. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.560 I was on my way to Milan the Panthers Storm game, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.680 and yeah, I was with Robert, who was a massive 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:10.239 Storm fan. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.919 So it was a sad train trip. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.880 We kind of kept losing signals, so we'd be there 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.399 and he'd be like Stormer in front, and then we'd 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.600 come back. And that was early, early, early, early, and 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.080 then I was like every now and then we'd come 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:22.320 back in. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:23.440 I was like, it's not looking good. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.840 Oh George, you've missed her so much. From the beautiful 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.360 city of Melbourne. It's glorious weather. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.440 As you noticed. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.440 I don't have a teen because none of me has 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.960 seen the sun ever. But I will start off with 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.320 my good sport being Laura Sperway and the way that 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.480 she pulled through in your absence. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:41.880 But also she's just a gun. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.480 She's an apprad gun, so again on the AFLW yesterday, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.960 her knowledge is amazing. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.080 She's an encyclopedia and she. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.560 Worked on the project as well before she worked at seven, 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.200 so she's basically a hybrid of us. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:54.880 Yes, but she's just a rock star. 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.760 And were so grateful for her literally moving around her 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.200 schedule when she was in different states to cover from 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.160 grand finals in order to come in. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:02.960 We love Laura. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.760 It was herculean and it really was not gone unnoticed. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.400 And thank you very very much, Laura. We so appreciate it, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.280 and you were freaking amazing. The goodest of sports, the 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.160 goodest of sports, the goodest of sports. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:16.360 Jellmy, we have so much to get through. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.000 Today because another very very good sport, one of our 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.280 all time favorites, I think it is fair to say 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.280 is our main discussion of today's episode, and that is 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:31.640 mister Raphael Nadal, who broke our hearts and I'm going 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.200 to say the world's hearts recently by announcing that all 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.800 good things actually. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.719 Do have to come to an end. 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:43.520 And he's retiring the least surprising sports retirement perhaps in history. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.200 And if there was part of me though that thought 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.520 that he was an X man and we actually we're 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:50.599 going to see him playing. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.640 Yeah, we were going to see him play till he 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:53.200 was ninety two. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.359 I thought it could be possible. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.120 Do you know what the saddest thing is, I was like, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.120 what retirement has hit me more? Ever? Feders? 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.120 Oh god, So even in retirement, he's still he's on 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.120 the podium, but fed still got him. But we're going 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.960 to talk about of course, rafaun Adhal. We are still 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.320 going to see him. He's going to play at the 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.080 Davis Cup in Malaga in Spain. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.600 So it's this beautiful full circle because of course. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:22.000 Spain and Spanish tennis will never be the same after 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.839 Rafa and his career that has spanned three decades. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.320 It is just remarkable. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.760 But we're going to get to all the stats, why 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.359 we love him and our memories of Rafa and Adhal. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.240 In a very too good sports tribute coming. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:48.600 Up, tell me, where does one begin with a poem? 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:54.080 Apparently, spoiler, you're correct, it is with a poem. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.320 In the most too good sports tribute to Rafael Nadal, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.040 I have donned my pin. It is a clickie pen, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.480 because that's my favorite type of pen. But I digress this. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.839 Here's a few little words. Fiddle stanzas that I have 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:14.200 dubbed an ode to Raphael n is for never say die. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.840 At thirty eight years of age, his body finally said 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.240 enough because we all know his brain and his heart. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.920 Never would A is for ass crack. 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:29.520 Because his name. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.960 I couldn't call him what all never has nor will again. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.160 The tennis world sees such expert wedgie picking in. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:42.359 Such high definition. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:48.719 Rhythmic d is for distractingly neat. Watching a raffa timeout 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.840 is like watching a military drill. The discipline with which 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.600 he selects what water bottle to drink from and why 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.000 and in what order, and the placement of them back 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.920 upon the court was more precise than the Beijing opening 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.400 ceremony in two thousand and eight fun fact he won 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:08.520 gold at that game's coincidence. A is for arm, namely 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.040 his left one. That limb is a beast triple the 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.200 size of the right. It's a wonder he continues to 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.600 be allowed through airport security with such a weapon. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.000 A mudcrab, if you will. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.080 L is for loss to the game of sport and 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.040 sue our lives. But that's actually too sad to think about, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.440 so instead I'll say L is for legacy. Nadah was 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.400 Tennis's raging bull, stampeding his way to immortality, but he 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.400 will continue to be like his good pal Roger, the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.360 ultimate sportsman, showing as possible to win with humility and 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.640 carve a classy path for the next generation. 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.360 Just ask Carlos al Karrez. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.400 We love. Oh there were highs and lows there. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:56.720 There. I've got a question was asked, crack the high 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.000 because the wedgie picking and the eyebrows. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:04.720 Eyebrow, But but back to eyebrow, where you picking the balls? 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.560 How many times he was bouncing the ball? 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.600 It was mesmerizing, it really was. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.840 But you speak of Carlos Alkaraz, and we're going to 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.720 get into a little bit of the stats around raph 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.960 and Odal and why he basically broke math. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.880 Yes, in his history, he's the. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.800 Only player to be world number one across three decades. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.520 Mental think about that. I can't. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:30.080 I can't in the time of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.600 Andy Murray as well. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:32.520 I'm going to count him in there. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.600 Oh, that's cute. It's a big three. It's a big three. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.600 No metal. I love Andy Murray, but there ain't no 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.199 metal for four. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.000 When you think about stats in tennis, those three figures 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:47.960 have broken the system. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:49.280 Yes, in men's tennis. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.760 In men's tennis, absolutely, Serena, we see you and welcome 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.920 to the table. But before the Big three, you had 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.840 the names like Pete Sampras who'd won fourteen Grands. Yes, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:06.840 and he was the god Rafa one fourteen just at 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:07.680 the French Open. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.200 I still actually don't quite believe it. I mean, fourteen years. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.160 Imagine that's that's half of our lives. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.559 Fourteen years. Imagine if we of our lives just winning 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.760 Grand Slams, for sure. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.480 But remove Clay from his twenty two and he still 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:30.120 has the same number of Grand Grand Slams as Andre Agassi. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.040 And Jimmy Connors. He can't he can't, so I think. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.400 Like, don't get me wrong, he is the king of clay, yes, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.040 but sometimes we can simplify Rafa to just being a 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.280 clay court specialist, yes, which he was, but he also 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.640 lost four Grand Slams to Federer, yeah, and four Grand 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.679 Slams to Djokovic. So can you imagine if all of 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.400 these three weren't trying to dine out at the same time. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.400 And twenty two Grand Slams in total, fourteen of which 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.600 yes on clay. However, what made him so specially you're right, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.760 Jelmy is actually his ability to play across the courts. Yeah, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.920 he was so good at hard court as well. When 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.520 he broke through and won his Wimbledon, his first Wimbledon, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.240 I think that was when the tennis world took him very, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.640 very seriously, and it's like they should have been taking 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.720 him seriously far beyond that, but that was the moment 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.720 when everyone went tip the hat, yes. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.880 Yes, you are not just a clay court specialist. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.320 But of course Wimbledon is a mere three weeks after 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.719 the French and it's like someone the difference between the 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:30.720 clay and the grass. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.840 To win both is just unbelievable. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.920 It's crazy. And yes we know him as the king 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:37.319 of clay. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.800 And also I do want to point out just how 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.000 difficult it is to win clay, namely because you have 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.520 to beat Rafae on the dal in the. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.920 French Open and the Europeans. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.360 Yes, yes, but Novak Djokovic, in his illustrious career, has 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.280 only won three French Opens. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.079 Roger Federer, what do. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:51.520 You know why? 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.680 Rafa was there saying can someone hold my bag or 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.400 my drink bottle in this particular order please, because I'm 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:00.480 about to get to work. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:01.439 But you speak about that. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.880 So before he won his first French Open in two 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.240 thousand and five, a then seventeen year old Nadal came 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.440 head to head with Andy Roddick. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.520 The dumbest thing I've ever felt in my life was 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:19.000 happiness because imagine this statement. The happiness that I felt 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.240 because they subbed in Rafa Nadal to play against me 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.640 on clay, the single dumbest thing I've ever felt. And 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.280 going into that, I'm like, oh, yeah, he could. You know, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.840 he could grind out. He's gonna be good. I walked 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.800 off of that court that day, had a chance in 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.079 the third set, missed a passing shot by quarter of 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.560 an inch. You know, you look down, you circle the mark, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.720 do the whole thing. Let a third set breaker get away, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:49.920 and this kid in the fourth set closed the coffin 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.240 on me. I lost it six two and third. I 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.120 was two in the world at the time. I walked 0:11:55.160 --> 0:12:00.120 off of that court and I said, Planet Earth, that 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.600 tennis Earth has a fucking problem. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.640 Just andy on it going. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.200 I don't like this kid that I was happy to 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.600 come out, just absolutely made. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.440 A mockery of me. 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.079 We got a problem because this kid's going to be 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.640 around for a while. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.000 And he was seventeen. 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.160 And I think the thing about Nadal when he first 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.280 came on the scene, and bizarrely, we all remember when 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.280 he first came on the scene because he was so 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.760 good from so young. Yes, was he was quite shy 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.760 and this humble champion, And I think he eventually grew 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.000 into himself. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.840 Yes, And I think it was one of those moments 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.440 where I'll always remember his arms first, because when he 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.280 came out as a seventeen year old, he wore the 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:52.319 sleeveless singlets, right, and he looked so cute. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.800 How old were you twelve? Oh young, You're so young. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:56.480 So it's okay. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.360 It's allowed, it's allowed. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.560 But also because he didn't speak that much English Wish 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.680 at the start of his career, and so I think 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.440 he was just naturally very shy anyway. But then when 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.360 it came to the postmatch interviews, we couldn't really see 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.520 too much of his personality because he was very focused 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:17.240 and he was trying to obviously translate everything into English. 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.360 Of course, so that he could come across. Yes, you 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.360 get the far bro. He's like, he's thinking, he's thinking, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:22.200 so yes. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.400 After the coffin clothing that happened to Andy Roddick, I 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.240 still didn't really know anything about him. He was an 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.800 unknown name here in Australia. He was taking on our 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.760 latent and you have to remember early two thousands, Laton 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.240 here was like number three in the world. He was 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.520 favorite for the Australian Open. 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.160 Hat's foot backwards everywhere. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.640 Yeah, a lot of come on, yeah, the come on. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.400 And he made the final in two thousand and five 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.320 Layton here, that's how good form that he was in. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.319 But on his way there he had a five set, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.600 four hour epic with a teenager named Rafael Nadal and 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.959 I was like, who is this guy? 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:58.440 Why is he so good. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.960 Why is he making Layton he would run around so much? 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.360 Why why is he able to do that to one 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.880 of our greats? And it was because we could see 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.400 just the incredible skill from that young age. And then 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.319 a couple of months later he went on to win 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:14.520 his first Grand Slam. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.000 And the Australian Open was by far his worst slam. Yeah, 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.440 oh yes it was. He didn't love playing in Australia, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.960 not like Novak, who basically is like hi, honey, welcome home. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.440 It was one of those ones where he really in 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.440 twenty twenty two, that's one of my favorite memories because 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.680 he had no right. He came in with very little form. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:38.200 But because it was Nadal, we all vamosarappa, we were 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.000 all on board and there's just those wins. And I 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.480 do think if not for Roger Federer, and we have 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.160 to talk about that romance because it was one of 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.320 the most enticing. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.120 You couldn't not love them. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.240 But the only reason why Nadal's not everyone's favorite athlete is. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.160 Because he was in the same time as Roger. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:03.200 I am on the record as sleeping on Nadal despite 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.400 me seeing him play at Layton Hewitt. In terms of 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.600 my love for Nadal. I refuse to like him for 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.520 the first five years of his career because he beat 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.560 Roger Federer at every single turn, and Roger Federer was. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.560 My idol, and I was like, how dare how dare 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:21.520 you Rafa? 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.000 And I refuse to look at his incredible top spin. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.960 I refuse to look at his insane forehand. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.360 And the fact he's the lefties. So that's the thing 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:29.040 he'll never be. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.160 He won't be replicated by other players because you have 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.640 to be left handed to start with. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.520 He had so many weapons in his arsenal. And also 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.080 I would say he is among the greatest defensive players 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.800 that we have or will ever see. I think Novakdjokovic 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.520 is number one. But in terms of his ability to 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.760 be able to keep the ball in play, he is 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.640 a big man. His fitness levels, he doesn't he's six' two, yeah, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.880 yeah surprisingly till. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.040 Tall, yes, yes you don't think. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.320 It it's shocking when because you just don't think that 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:01.640 he's that. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.920 Tall one of the sad POINTS i think it will 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.440 always be a regret of my life IS i never 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:08.360 got to see him play. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.960 Live really, yeah the, idea. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.440 Look at your little. FACE i got to see him 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.720 walk past me in a Packed Australian open crowd when 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.920 he was, training AND i was, like that man is, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.080 huge surprisingly, tall and it's always stuck with, me But 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.480 i've never actually got to see him play. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.320 Live the most upsetting moment of my life is THAT 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.680 i actually got an offer of tickets to The remember. 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.120 The Roger fadah twenty, Seventeen stop? IT i, thought stop 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.520 it my greatest tennis much of. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:44.080 My one SHIFT i had At Fox Sports. News to. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.160 Add that to the the volumes of times THAT i 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.520 probably shouldn't have put worked fast and potentially should have 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.320 got on a flight To victoria to watch. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.520 For daal like. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.440 But you also think about that, Final but then it 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:06.159 was actually when The Nadal federer final At wimbledon as, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.280 well which everyone thinks back to, you AND i think 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.639 it was two thousand and eight that it was just 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.040 it just, began AND i actually Love there's a wonderful 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.480 grab From roger where they sort of ask him and 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.320 they say who do you like playing the? Least and he, goes, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.159 Oh Rafa, nadala and he goes who do you love 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.879 playing the? Most and he Goes rafa And nadal and 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.840 they've just got this. Beautiful and if you haven't watched 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.840 The federer doco about his own, retirement you must because 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.119 those pictures that went absolutely viral of the two of 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.680 them bawling their eyes out and holding hands literally holding 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.080 hands courtside about the fact that it was an end 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:42.320 of an. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.440 Era you see the build up to, that you see 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:46.119 them in the locker. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.040 Room And, federer even in the wake of all of, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.159 this has come out and, said you, know we're different. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.639 People we're very different, people and we have very different 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.480 styles of. Things we just have this overwhelming respect for one. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.800 Another Because nadal apparently if you get him on a 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.960 topic that he's quite passionate, about he's a dog with a. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.679 Bone oh, yes like, that like his competitive, argue his. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.520 Point and that's the other thing as, well is that 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.119 they say With, nadal his ability after each point to 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.919 mentally reset was. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.840 Unparalleled don't you think, though that that then is symbolized 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.160 or represented in his little. Idiosyncrasies, yes so he has 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.240 to do everything in that certain way because that's part 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:28.280 of the process. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:29.920 Of him being starting, again him wiping. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.280 It and you talk about the respect That federer And 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:36.080 nadal had and have for each, other and the locker. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.080 Room they've created for the next. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.040 Generation, yes two of the most competitive athletes that we 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.399 have ever. Seen Roger, federer one of my favorite quotes 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.399 from him from him About nadal was that he, said 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:49.600 tennis is a tough. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:50.879 Sport there are no. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.520 Draws if there, WERE i would have been happy to 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:54.879 accept one and share it With. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:55.280 Raffa. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.000 OH i. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.280 KNOW i think that those two have added or responsible 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.840 for adding so much value and worth and. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:10.320 Hard hard cash money dollars to. Tennis just to their own. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.320