Speaker 1: We are rolling. I can't roll my I can't do.
Speaker 2: That, Raphael. It's like a gargle things I didn't know about.
Speaker 3: Mike, I could go.
Speaker 1: We had a lovely British feed last night.
Speaker 2: We did courtesy of this nice gal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which had nothing to do with any wagers
Speaker 1: or anything.
Speaker 2: It was losing. It was just stuff.
Speaker 1: You just being generous and it was very nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got the drinks, you got the food. I did,
Speaker 1: and our producer cashed in.
Speaker 2: Yes he did, bast.
Speaker 1: In the Glory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we owed him dinner because he's such a great producer.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I think we make it a tradition now.
Speaker 1: So for the Wimbledon, obviously we got a British pub.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, that's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then for the American we got for barbecue,
Speaker 1: oh love. And then for the French a nice French pistro.
Speaker 2: And for Australia, I don't know a bit of Vietnamese. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's go get a Chinese. Let's get a Chinese.
Speaker 1: I'll wash it down with a beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds good.
Speaker 1: We could get a Chico roll from a servo Chico Chico.
Speaker 1: Am I saying it wrong?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I say Chico, what is quintessential Australian Fair few episodes ago,
Speaker 1: you said Toast and Jack Daniels, I haven't stopped thinking
Speaker 1: about reallymment. It sounds like if depression were a meal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like the vos.
Speaker 1: All right, Wimbledon is over, and then to I mean,
Speaker 1: we have to do this. The people are yelling out.
Speaker 1: They're champing or chomping.
Speaker 2: Chumping, champing, chumping champion. Oh, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's a big discussion. Are we champing or are we chomping?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: It's jumping, but it's spelled champing. I thought chumping at
Speaker 2: the bitman.
Speaker 1: It's champing.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a horst thing.
Speaker 1: Horses champ spell champs.
Speaker 2: I did not know this. I believe it.
Speaker 1: So the Wimbledon champions are center. We'll get that all
Speaker 1: that in a second, because first the people are are
Speaker 1: yelling out for their favorite segment at the top of
Speaker 1: the show, which is the Slam Poetry Slam.
Speaker 4: Wimbledon wimbled over soon as the winner and Linda Noskova
Speaker 4: strawberries and pans as far as the eye can see,
Speaker 4: and for some unknown reason we got plig isn't it
Speaker 4: inside the World Cup something cool.
Speaker 1: What a tournament I was. I was so happy with
Speaker 1: this couple of weeks at tennis, and it was a
Speaker 1: killer tournament. Plenty of drama in the first week and
Speaker 1: then the second week the quarterfinals were just kicking off
Speaker 1: when we last did a pod. So I'll do a
Speaker 1: quick wrap up from the quarterfinals onwards. Zverev over Fritz
Speaker 1: and Straits. Had been a while since Verev had beat Fritz. Yes,
Speaker 1: Fritz is saying he had jankin drink.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Fritz went out and I mean he said
Speaker 1: he's going to recover for the hardcourt swing in the US.
Speaker 1: Arthur Fairy continued his how many times have we heard
Speaker 1: the joke fairy tale in.
Speaker 2: The fairy tale? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, even did it on court because I didn't
Speaker 1: realize he was playing fairy. Next he goes, it's a
Speaker 1: real fairy tale. See what I did there? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I was like, you are not the first to do it.
Speaker 1: It's you know, you are a hack. That was okay,
Speaker 1: I guess. Arthur Fairy continued with a straight sets win
Speaker 1: over Koboli.
Speaker 2: I know, and he beat Koboli here, yeah, open, that
Speaker 2: was the time.
Speaker 1: Was sick. He's always he's always sick, he's always got
Speaker 1: to talk.
Speaker 2: He does, so I wonder if he had it well,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just looked pretty convincing. I think
Speaker 2: it was the crowd. I think it was the crowd,
Speaker 2: because the fairy was like the British crowd was just
Speaker 2: loving him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you have to think also Kobali obviously
Speaker 1: made it to the finals of the French and then
Speaker 1: this deep into Wimbledon. I think he was just cooked
Speaker 1: at a certain point and then, like we said, he's
Speaker 1: had a sore Kabelli and I almost on my pants.
Speaker 1: And the match of kabelliegk and the match of the
Speaker 1: tournament for me was in the corner finals, which was
Speaker 1: Djokovic versus Felix.
Speaker 2: Oh what aka?
Speaker 1: This was amazing A thirty nine year old versus a
Speaker 1: twenty five year old much like my marriage. She's pretty young,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that, no, but she's eighteen.
Speaker 1: This was the longest ever Wimbledon quarterfinal and it had
Speaker 1: all the drama, all Djokovic was they were both playing
Speaker 1: out of their mind. Was amazing, and it was one
Speaker 1: to five obviously, and it was to me the most
Speaker 1: memorable match and most fun and compelling of the tournament.
Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, yeah, even though well there was that
Speaker 1: Golf Pagola three setter in that round. And then even
Speaker 1: more crazier I thought, was Goff and Mooch in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Golf Coca Goff and Carolina Mukoba the Mooch. We
Speaker 1: love the movie. The level. They weren't both playing great
Speaker 1: at the same time as each other until the third set,
Speaker 1: so that's why it's I wouldn't put it up as
Speaker 1: match of the tournament, but that tie break for the match,
Speaker 1: insane was the craziest tennis in terms of the decision
Speaker 1: making was questionable. Yeah, will you tighten up? Of course,
Speaker 1: and when Golf had match point and then just ditches
Speaker 1: of the easiest forehand volley, I mean it's easy for
Speaker 1: me to say, but into the net and just had
Speaker 1: the whole court could have pushed Mooch into a corner,
Speaker 1: come in, put it away, but goes for the drop shot,
Speaker 1: hits like the bottom of the net, and that is
Speaker 1: one of those shots that surely on her deathbed she'll like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll haunt you forever. I mean, because that point, if
Speaker 1: she converts that point, then she's into the final, right,
Speaker 1: and this is the deepest she's ever gone in Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: and it's just like it's a hard watch. And she
Speaker 1: being as having the fortitude that Cocoa Goff has, she
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you know, this happens to players. You know,
Speaker 1: Sinner had how many match points in the final against
Speaker 1: Alcarez at the French last year. It's just something they
Speaker 1: all go through. And she was able to kind of
Speaker 1: like just be totally rational about it. Yeah, if that
Speaker 1: happened to me again, I'd move to Antarctica and never
Speaker 1: talk to anybody ever again.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely gonna think about the last point or I
Speaker 2: don't even know second and third, last whatever, wait for
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 1: So that tie break, if you watch anything, watch that
Speaker 1: tie break again because that was crazy. And the other
Speaker 1: semi final on the women's Caustic went out to Naskova
Speaker 1: in the Straits, setting up the all Czech final. I
Speaker 1: look this up. I maybe this is common knowledge, but
Speaker 1: I was like, why is there so many Ova names
Speaker 1: in Russian and Czech players? And do you know the reason?
Speaker 1: Ova means women?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Right, okay, so if it's Ov, it's a son of
Speaker 1: But if it's Ova, it's daughter of right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so a little Russian language, yeah, lesson Yeah.
Speaker 1: So like say, well he's Bulgarian, but Dimitrov son of
Speaker 1: but if he was a woman, Demitrova little, we're learning things.
Speaker 2: This is good poetry. So you'd be hoo hoo yeah
Speaker 2: son of who daughter daughter? Oh god?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Djokovic Sinner in the semi final. I seem
Speaker 1: to remember because I brought it up multiple times in
Speaker 1: the group chat that I said Djokovic will be to
Speaker 1: five sets.
Speaker 2: I believe you kept saying I'm a genius, I am
Speaker 2: a genius. Caps look, I am a genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I just shortened it to I am genius.
Speaker 1: The I said he'll be pushed a five by Felix
Speaker 1: Aliasim in the quarterfinals and then he'll be cooked in
Speaker 1: his semi final against Sinner. I was right, Yes, I
Speaker 1: am genius.
Speaker 2: I am genius. I wonder what he does for his recovery.
Speaker 1: Well, he had two days, so this was the point
Speaker 1: of the tournament where you get two days off before
Speaker 1: your next match. And look, I think it's not all
Speaker 1: attributed to playing that insane five hour, fifteen minute quarterfinal.
Speaker 1: I think Sinner finally looked like the sinner that was
Speaker 1: winning all those Masters one thousands in a row. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was finally found his form that he had going
Speaker 1: into the French and he just absolutely outplayed Djokovic. And
Speaker 1: I think Djokovic had one break point but couldn't convert
Speaker 1: and it was, yeah, just a straight sets loss, which
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people wanted to see Djokovic
Speaker 1: go for twenty five.
Speaker 2: You include, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But couldn't get there, couldn't get through him. And I
Speaker 1: had agacy. He was announcing that match and every time
Speaker 1: he said Yannick, he would say yunique and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, what is that?
Speaker 2: It's a unique Yannick?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Yo Ni Nick. Sounds like she's on
Speaker 1: Jerry Springer. Yeah she doesn't.
Speaker 2: She just cheated on Yeah yeah, yeah, And now we're
Speaker 2: going to bring out Yo Nick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yo Nic, don't play that so Yo Nique center
Speaker 1: getting through that one, and Djokovic you could kind of
Speaker 1: tell he conceded defeat. Obviously, he's the ultimate competitor and
Speaker 1: we'll fight to the end, But like he just didn't
Speaker 1: seem totally locked in when he was making jokes, Like
Speaker 1: after rallies, there was one rally where Cinner comes out
Speaker 1: on top and Djokovic says loud enough for the crowd
Speaker 1: to hear, like maybe ten years ago. Oh and then yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it gets kind of a laugh. But then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, he's not in lockdown, just so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do everything it takes to win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mode, Everyone says you're the best returns ever been.
Speaker 3: He hit, he tried was.
Speaker 5: There was also an exchange where at the where someone
Speaker 5: you said to I think some of the out maybe
Speaker 5: ten years ago, may so, can you talk about what
Speaker 5: he said to you and how he tried to stay
Speaker 5: between us.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's giving credit where credits due.
Speaker 2: I think he's like respecting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's always been very gracious in defeat and
Speaker 1: like shown yeah, that respect to the opposing player. And
Speaker 1: I mean sinners in his prime obviously twenty four years
Speaker 1: old and is doing Djokovician things out there, like the defense,
Speaker 1: the sliding into backhands, the recovering from it, like the
Speaker 1: rubber band body flexibility. It's just like it's him seemingly
Speaker 1: coming to terms with age. Yeah right, well, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: We've all been that job.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, I mean I'm still wearing backwards
Speaker 1: hats and headbands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just noticed you're wearing this. What is this about.
Speaker 1: It's tennis. That's tennis. That should be the name of
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: It is tennis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think it is. And then Djokovic accepting
Speaker 1: that his dominance over the tour for so many years,
Speaker 1: much like a female in Russia or Czech is Ova.
Speaker 2: Oh, but he's still making semi finals.
Speaker 1: I know he was in the final of the oz Open,
Speaker 1: he had that. I mean in the French he went
Speaker 1: out to Fonseka in a five side epic. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not over, and I think he has set his sights
Speaker 1: on the next Summer Olympics.
Speaker 2: So twenty eight. I saw that with Sebbian flat.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So if he's playing through to twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: then we got another two years. Yeah, but can you
Speaker 1: be bothered. I just feel like after that long on tour,
Speaker 1: the physical regime, all the hard work that goes into it,
Speaker 1: surely at some point you're just like, I just want
Speaker 1: to rest on my billions of dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Nobody's kids are in the box. It's
Speaker 2: a family affair. Yeah, Yeah, everyone's hanging out. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: gets like another X amount of dollars appearance fee plus
Speaker 2: semifinal fee.
Speaker 1: When is it enough? Lizzy? Who?
Speaker 2: Well, I would I would have tapped out years ago.
Speaker 2: Parted it totally, Yeah, Like how much do you want?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Once, yeah, you went a couple of slams. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's why he's the wolf.
Speaker 1: Here's the wolf.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I think it is. He's got
Speaker 2: a documentary.
Speaker 1: Obviously, how are they not calling that the documentary?
Speaker 2: He's got a jocumentary. Beautiful right, stuff, He's got a
Speaker 2: jocumentary and the ending is him getting the twenty fifth
Speaker 2: slam and he just won't quit, right, he wants the
Speaker 2: perfect ending.
Speaker 1: Well, you can have cameras follow you around for as
Speaker 1: long as you can, obviously, but I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: not happening, it's not happening. Because the Rafa documentary on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Then I saw an interview with the guys who made
Speaker 1: it and they're like, yeah, we just started filming and
Speaker 1: we didn't know what was going to happen. And then
Speaker 1: you know, he gets knocked out first round of the
Speaker 1: Fringe and it's kind of a tough dog to watch
Speaker 1: because it's a fading champion. Yeah, but also it rules.
Speaker 1: It's great. There's a moment with Djokovic and is not Jokovic.
Speaker 1: There's a moment with the doll and his wife where
Speaker 1: they're eating dessert at a restaurant and he's like so
Speaker 1: sweet and romantic and it's like a side you just
Speaker 1: would never expect to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cute.
Speaker 1: He said to meet you want perfect right now? Oh
Speaker 1: perfect in a few years. Not so perfect, I don't know. No,
Speaker 1: you want better better, good, you look very good dessert.
Speaker 1: The other semi final was, of course at Zvere versus
Speaker 1: Arthur Fairy.
Speaker 2: Oh this was visually very funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, them at the net standing here. Yeah, photos.
Speaker 2: I mean, Fairy's tiny, he's strong and stucky, but he's
Speaker 2: he's like a shorter he's a shorter guy.
Speaker 1: He's nuggeting, is huge, he's a longman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just even looking at I don't know, this
Speaker 2: was like anytime zeb set up to serve. It was
Speaker 2: just just like he was looking at Fairy going like
Speaker 2: why are you here? I felt like, who is this guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a bit of that, and there's.
Speaker 2: Just like a stature about him. It just felt dominant.
Speaker 1: It did, at least the first set was competitive. It was,
Speaker 1: and I think it was Verev obviously hadn't played it before,
Speaker 1: and it was him figuring out this kind of like
Speaker 1: crafty variety of game because he just played Fritz, who was,
Speaker 1: you know, just slamming serves down and playing baseline tennis.
Speaker 1: But then fairies just darting around the court slicing. And
Speaker 1: then but then once Zverev got used to that, the
Speaker 1: next two sets he was just swatting fairies ball away
Speaker 1: and just like thundering returns back and it looked like
Speaker 1: a first round match or like a dad playing his son.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it was very like welcome to the big league.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, he made it to the semi final.
Speaker 2: He can't take that away from him.
Speaker 1: It is so well and he's the new British number one.
Speaker 2: Yeah cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How many places did he jump? I want to say
Speaker 2: it was like one hundred and something, one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and forty ish and now he's thirty ish yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy.
Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting. We'll see if his game converts
Speaker 1: to the hard courts, bringing us to the final all
Speaker 1: check final. I have to be honest, I didn't watch
Speaker 1: a single Noskova match until the final that she played.
Speaker 1: I just was like, I mean, I remember when she
Speaker 1: came to my attention a couple of years ago when
Speaker 1: she beat Ego shawontek here at the Australian Open, and
Speaker 1: then yeah, I just hadn't be when we were talking
Speaker 1: about the semi finally wash and then the last one
Speaker 1: on Osco of Mertens, who cares? I think the quarter
Speaker 1: between her and Mertens. I was like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: skipped that, but I mean I shouldn't have because I
Speaker 1: am a Noscova fan.
Speaker 2: Now, oh noskov the line thank you.
Speaker 1: This was the mooch versus.
Speaker 2: The nast because we're such mooch fans, were moochheads, and
Speaker 2: I feel like everyone's a moodhead. Yeah, the mooches were.
Speaker 1: Out, the mooches were out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we wanted the mooch to win.
Speaker 1: The Mucherinos, the Mucherinos, the mood Jets, the mood Jetts.
Speaker 2: I think it's nice, Okay, I feel like everyone wanted
Speaker 2: the mooch to win.
Speaker 1: The mooch being twenty nine and being plagued with injuries
Speaker 1: over her career has a lot of yeah people love her.
Speaker 1: Any fan of the game is like just loves watching
Speaker 1: her glide around the court. She sold light on her feet,
Speaker 1: great variety, awesome, you know, drop shots, slice everything, and
Speaker 1: this was nascova power versus Mukova's finesse yes. But Nascova
Speaker 1: also showed a lot of crafty drop shots and grass
Speaker 1: court game. And crazily, this is the ninth consecutive Wimbledon
Speaker 1: with the first time women's champion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There has That's just amazing to me that something about
Speaker 1: grass court or I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: it's just like there's no one consistently winning since I
Speaker 1: guess Serena. I mean, I know Kovidova won it twice.
Speaker 1: But the mucha story, the fact that she was out
Speaker 1: in the first round of Wimbledon the last four years
Speaker 1: and then is now in the final. It's great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she'd been to a Grand Slampo.
Speaker 2: Because they'd both one going into.
Speaker 1: This, right, Yeahscova had won in Berlin and the Mooch
Speaker 1: one bad Homburg. Yeah, so they had grass court winds
Speaker 1: going in great form. This seemed to be a blowout.
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be over in like
Speaker 1: an hour came out with like seemingly noiring firing. Yeah, easy, yeah,
Speaker 1: just Muchova was thea we color the mooch, but it
Speaker 1: is Muka, but we love the move the moo is.
Speaker 1: We are moochets.
Speaker 2: We are what's another moochmucerinos.
Speaker 1: We have life. The mooch seemed to be the nervous one,
Speaker 1: seemed to be the tight one, not playing her game
Speaker 1: that she had played pretty much all tournament, was just
Speaker 1: ripping the ball, and then at six two, five two,
Speaker 1: a ton of championship points one on her serve where
Speaker 1: she double faulted. Yeah, if I did that, I'd moved
Speaker 1: to Antarctica.
Speaker 3: Another move.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the end of your documentary. Just cut to Antarctica.
Speaker 1: And somehow lost that set from six to five to up.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lost the next five games. And this is when
Speaker 1: I went from wanting mood to win to being like I,
Speaker 1: it's so painful to have five championship points not convert,
Speaker 1: and like she.
Speaker 2: Was, she was, Oh yeah, the reset was crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The reset was closing the ears, blocking out all the noise,
Speaker 2: towel over the head. She left the court, came back
Speaker 2: and then walked in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that first game back. She faced a few break
Speaker 1: points and I was like, here we go, it's just
Speaker 1: slipping away and she's in a tailspin. But then somehow
Speaker 1: held that aim and then looked like she did in
Speaker 1: the first set at twenty one years old. Like again,
Speaker 1: the mental fortitude that these players have is so baffling
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Turn around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I stubbed my toe in the morning, like
Speaker 1: I don't leave that.
Speaker 2: Bad day, bad day. Yeah, I moved that dark week. Yeah.
Speaker 2: She yeah, totally turned it around. I don't wonder what
Speaker 2: she said to herself.
Speaker 1: Well, there was some interview where she said she obviously
Speaker 1: took a break after the second set and went to
Speaker 1: the female locker room and they have the trophy back
Speaker 1: in that area somewhere, and she just like was steely, resolved,
Speaker 1: stared at the trophy.
Speaker 2: Whoaeah, okay, pretty cool. That is cool. No great scene
Speaker 2: in a documentary. Yeah, I hope cameras.
Speaker 1: It is real main character energy. Yeah, who do you
Speaker 1: think you are? Linda and Osky.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go look at the trophy, ye to mine.
Speaker 2: I'll be back.
Speaker 1: So the Mooch just was kind of outplayed again in
Speaker 1: that third set, and Oscova somehow recovered one in three
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. It was a killer match when
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a blowout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was nice to see both check players
Speaker 2: former doubles partners, so I guess they knew a lot
Speaker 2: about each other. And then the mooch was funny.
Speaker 1: The speech, great comic timing, great comic was a joke.
Speaker 2: It was she said, oh, my former friend. I'd like
Speaker 2: to think, yeah, my ex friend.
Speaker 1: And then she was like just kidding but not really
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: And so Nascova again like that turnaround and coming back
Speaker 1: from five championship points slipped away amazing. And she's a
Speaker 1: little punk rock Did you notice this? Yeah, yeah, she's
Speaker 1: got that septum piercing. She's wearing like a big chain.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, I like both their vibes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, check players are cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah they are. I like the mooches. The Mooch's outfit
Speaker 2: was my favorite of the tournament, all right. That I
Speaker 2: was like, I would wear that that shit right, just
Speaker 2: it was just like a loose kind of fitting tea,
Speaker 2: Like she just looked a bit eighties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there was an eighties vibe there. Costa got
Speaker 1: a lot of praise for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she did have a cool outfit. Wouldn't wear it,
Speaker 2: wouldn't wear it? No, I don't have the confidence.
Speaker 1: I believe in you. I'll wear it if it'll make
Speaker 1: you feel good. So yeah, I'm an osco of a
Speaker 1: fan for life. I will follow. What a turnaround, Pa,
Speaker 1: youngest Wimbledon champ since twenty eleven.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: And then okay, let's get to the men's spinner spinner, spinner,
Speaker 1: spinner and Zarev. No, let's get to the men's sinner
Speaker 1: and Zverev. This is the number one and the number
Speaker 1: two seeds, and they looked it. Yeah, I love this match.
Speaker 1: I thought it was both of them. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: very of the best he's ever played against Cinner. I
Speaker 1: think maybe in general. Came out and was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna rip my forehand as hard as I can
Speaker 1: and see if he can deal with it. And it
Speaker 1: just ended up in a tie break in the first set,
Speaker 1: and Zverev won on a forehand winner. Yeah, won that
Speaker 1: first set. His reaction was huge, Yeah, because it obviously
Speaker 1: means a ton.
Speaker 2: I think, well, it was the first set he'd won
Speaker 2: against Center in a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in fifteen previous attempts. It's first set, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is like, yeah.
Speaker 2: This is mentally great, huge and.
Speaker 1: Winning the first set, and then you know it was, uh,
Speaker 1: it was like, well we got a match on and
Speaker 1: this is great. Yeah, because Cinner had beat him what
Speaker 1: ten times in a row or nine times in a
Speaker 1: row going in? Was this number ten or was this
Speaker 1: this is number ten in a row, and so someone's
Speaker 1: beat you nine times in a row. You know, there's
Speaker 1: that classic quote, no one beats Alexanders ten times, but
Speaker 1: they did, and it was Cinner, And yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the second set again obviously crazy competitive. It went to
Speaker 1: a tie break again, but Center played a flawless If
Speaker 1: that one lob had landed in, it would have been
Speaker 1: like the ultimate tie break play because I think there
Speaker 1: was just one of Zavera's serves. Both guys serving out
Speaker 1: of their mind. Yeah, and they're huge serves. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of comparisons to this and the like Sampras
Speaker 1: Era God's just bombing down serves leads to a tie
Speaker 1: break and when guy barely edges the other out, which
Speaker 1: can be kind of boring and routine. But I thought
Speaker 1: this match was just utterly compelling from the start. This
Speaker 1: is heartbreaking. Zaverev's one break opportunity in the third set,
Speaker 1: so they're both they'd both taken a set. In the
Speaker 1: third set, Zaverev has a break point and Sinner saves
Speaker 1: it by hitting a drop shot. Zverev slips and hyper
Speaker 1: extends his knee. Yeah, and Zverev, it could be argued
Speaker 1: we're not the same after that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could tell. Yeah, I was watching his knee.
Speaker 2: You could tell he was being a little bit ginger.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is wild. I mean it's because Verev.
Speaker 2: Doesn't like to admit to his injuries, right, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: never says anything about it.
Speaker 1: He's a bit kg. Yeah, right, but.
Speaker 2: I reckon it was like a little bit after that,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: And also there's gotta be some trauma with zverev An injuries.
Speaker 1: When he snapped his ankle playing the Doll at the
Speaker 1: French a few years ago, one of the most gruesome
Speaker 1: injuries on a tennis court, and then he was out
Speaker 1: for what eight months after that because tendons had snapped
Speaker 1: and everything. And it's like then if you have any
Speaker 1: kind of fall that jars or you know, it's hyper
Speaker 1: extends or like surely that's there's a memory of that,
Speaker 1: and then you're in the final of Wimbledon. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it did not seem to be the same match after
Speaker 1: that slip, and then because then Sinner holds and then
Speaker 1: he takes that set, and then yeah, it was Sinner's
Speaker 1: match from there too, too good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was nice to see Siner back.
Speaker 1: People have Sinner's celebration at least with this, he like
Speaker 1: fell down on the court and there was some you know,
Speaker 1: effusive celebrating, which is good to see from him because
Speaker 1: like during the match they've said he's a little too reserved.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 2: just his way of like locking in. I think he
Speaker 2: doesn't want to get too carried away. He's like, I
Speaker 2: haven't done it.
Speaker 1: Yet, yeah, because he just that Yeah is that enough?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the Alexy alo one I think is
Speaker 2: the best she gets.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, at least no one's doing that.
Speaker 2: The light and well we got cruise coming through.
Speaker 1: Oh I haven't seen does he celebrate?
Speaker 2: Has come on?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't come on, right, but he's not. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Zverev is now number two in the world. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would like your thoughts on Alcaaz. How where is he? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is he coming back?
Speaker 1: The tour misses him, it does.
Speaker 2: It missed his personality, They miss his tennis. Please Alcarez
Speaker 2: come back soon.
Speaker 1: So Alchoraz has pulled out of the Canadian Masters in Montreal,
Speaker 1: but then he'll probably pull out of Cincinnati. A shame.
Speaker 1: One of the best matches the last few years was
Speaker 1: him and Djokovic and Cincinnati. The wrist is tricky, tricky.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at Dominic TM, we don't
Speaker 1: want that. If you look at del Potro, they were
Speaker 1: never the same. And it's like, if he does come back,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people assume, oh, it'll just
Speaker 1: be him in center battling it out, and I mean
Speaker 1: this is grim to think about. But maybe he's just
Speaker 1: he just isn't mentally the same or you know, like
Speaker 1: obviously we need him back on the tour. We miss
Speaker 1: him like just sinners. I feel like just going to
Speaker 1: dominate until he's back. Yeah, So get well soon.
Speaker 2: Please, Alcoraz.
Speaker 3: We need you.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's getting the best help he can get.
Speaker 1: So the dance. Did you see the dance?
Speaker 2: I did see the dance, and this is tradition. Well
Speaker 2: it was tradition. Then it stopped and then yeah, Djokovic
Speaker 2: and Serena bought it back.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen. It had stopped so long ago, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven and then twenty fifteen, and now it's back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Do you like it?
Speaker 2: No? I don't like it at all. I think it's
Speaker 2: awkward and we and it's like, oh, I guess how
Speaker 2: are you going to celebrate? I guess we're going to
Speaker 2: dance and then they do some it'd be cool if
Speaker 2: they got together beforehand and like you know those weddings
Speaker 2: where the first dance their choreograph. If singer and Oscova
Speaker 2: got together and did like some really sick hip hop
Speaker 2: did yeah, and then they just go out there and
Speaker 2: then they'd start it in an awkward ballroom and then
Speaker 2: be like track change, boom, and then.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's I mean, so convinced that they're going to
Speaker 1: win that they have time to choreograph some kind of
Speaker 1: crunk hip hop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did in a fun way.
Speaker 1: It would be fun. It would be fun and I
Speaker 1: mean it is awkward. It's strikes of old British men
Speaker 1: being like, no, you shall dance for.
Speaker 2: Us, dance with the lady, make the spin the lady
Speaker 2: around for petto yeah, bridge name.
Speaker 1: Henry Wadsworth longfellow, the third Man's that you dance.
Speaker 3: With the lady.
Speaker 2: Now, dance with lady, yes, naked dice, ye spin her
Speaker 2: before Yes, I don't want to dance with this creep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is good. I remember shavan Text
Speaker 1: and Sinners from last year because they're both kind of
Speaker 1: awkward and a little yeah, but it's like it's it's sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean they've just won a grandson who can't.
Speaker 1: But I think there's a lot of tennis players that
Speaker 1: are introverts. Yeah, yeah, but I mean it makes sense
Speaker 1: for Jokovic and Serena.
Speaker 2: Yeah they're fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then it's like shy introverts who are just
Speaker 1: tennis brained, just.
Speaker 2: Like a twelve and then that awkward like handover the
Speaker 2: head thing black event. I think no Oscov is fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's seemingly got better moves than yo, nick yo nick.
Speaker 2: It needs to be a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Gives her a little twirl and I just picture off
Speaker 1: camera all.
Speaker 2: The other and he's like and it's over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thank god that all these old British men
Speaker 1: are off camera going no couldress her dec letage. Make
Speaker 1: sure to smile?
Speaker 2: What about a fox Trots?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that was Wimbledon twenty twenty six. I absolutely
Speaker 1: loved it. Great tournaments, great tournament, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to next year. But now the US.
Speaker 2: Will oh see US Open.
Speaker 1: One more thing about the Wimbledon Championships is that you
Speaker 1: touched on it before Cruz Hewitt was in the final.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he lost to a sixteen year old
Speaker 1: American Jordan Lee. But Cruz getting to the final, yeah,
Speaker 1: huge effort. Yeah yeah, And I think now he's too
Speaker 1: young to play in the juniors, so he'll be too
Speaker 1: old to Sorry, he's too old to play the juniors,
Speaker 1: so he'll be graduating to the big boys.
Speaker 2: So do you think we'll see him? I hope you
Speaker 2: get to see him at the Open next year and.
Speaker 1: The yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting.
Speaker 3: Okay for.
Speaker 2: Request, I'm ready to dance? Are you ready for approaching
Speaker 2: the net?
Speaker 1: Lady must dance more centrally.
Speaker 2: Some pretty crazy stuff obviously out of Wimbledon. Love Andre
Speaker 2: Agacy in the commentary box. He doesn't want to. He's propicable,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't want to about it.
Speaker 1: He had no protection on the head at all. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys are speaking up to your pickleber exploits
Speaker 1: in the stakes.
Speaker 2: We're serving six four two three in the semis. Let's
Speaker 2: stick to that. That's so good.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: He's like, mate, we're doing we're working now, and you
Speaker 2: want to talk to me about pickle We're talking about
Speaker 2: a real sport. Yeah, we're in a Grand Slam. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you want to talk about pickle No, I.
Speaker 1: Know this is his This is Agassy's real feelings on pickleball.
Speaker 1: Like I know he plays, and.
Speaker 3: I wish some money out he is.
Speaker 2: I wish you boy his rack.
Speaker 1: I wish I knew how he really felt before I
Speaker 1: paid four hundred dollars for an Agacy paddle. But uh sure,
Speaker 1: but then just shutting the guy DOWNA we're talking about
Speaker 1: the semi final Wimbledon. What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you go up to Tony Hawk and
Speaker 1: ask him about rollerblading.
Speaker 2: Well, he's coming dating the X gate exactly?
Speaker 1: Are we starting another war with the pickle community.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the comments have died down. I really want to
Speaker 2: wake up every morning two more comments about pickleball and
Speaker 2: how they're saying it's the superior sport.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, and that tennis is dying off.
Speaker 2: It's called pickleball. I'll leave it though, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just wait for a banana racket.
Speaker 2: It's going to take off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I loved it. I love Agacy, like it's
Speaker 1: true feelings kind of coming out there. And I know
Speaker 1: he supports pickleball, and you know it's his paddle. Maybe
Speaker 1: not worth four hundred bucks, but my wife was not
Speaker 1: really impressed with that purchase.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, what's this four hundred dollars on the bank statement?
Speaker 1: Michael, Yeah, it says paddle and she's like, what are
Speaker 1: you paddle for four hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: Did you buy us a kayak?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 2: Don't let it be a kayak.
Speaker 1: Are you at one of those clubs where they only
Speaker 1: wear leather on the weekend? All right?
Speaker 2: What else you got? Okay, We've got a lot of
Speaker 2: celebrities at Wimbledon, really top class celebrities. I know we
Speaker 2: get celebrities at the others open, but these are like
Speaker 2: a listious including Jennifer lopezs that's huge if we could
Speaker 2: get the likes of j Lo. Yeah, But controversy, she
Speaker 2: wore a massive hat.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Yeah a tennis match? Yeah, rude, I
Speaker 1: mean it is a huge hat, the urban soprero.
Speaker 2: I mean, how old is she?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she looks great, but also that hat at a
Speaker 1: tennis match? Like, what are you? Jenny from the blocking
Speaker 1: my view, I've been sitting on that one for a while.
Speaker 2: Mike draw, Mike draw, that was so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'd be annoyed if I was sitting
Speaker 1: behind her, But.
Speaker 2: You know, would you really? Yeah, it's Jlo. You're so
Speaker 2: you could smell Jlo. You could smell her perfume and
Speaker 2: you'd be com on, how's it? You wouldn't care about
Speaker 2: her hat?
Speaker 1: What do I care about?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Well, you put like little chips in her hat? Just
Speaker 2: pretend how many things you can put in her hat
Speaker 2: before she noticed.
Speaker 1: As long as they're not tortilla chips, because that.
Speaker 2: Is rac Yeah, not Joe, not John.
Speaker 1: I can't do that.
Speaker 3: That's like the Simpsons episode.
Speaker 2: Any all right? Last one, it's on a challenger tour
Speaker 2: clay Court, Belgium. Player goes to serve, and then something happens.
Speaker 5: All right the.
Speaker 1: Score lines, oh no, oh my god. For those of
Speaker 1: you just listening to the audio, we see a player
Speaker 1: serving for the second set to take it to a third,
Speaker 1: and a maintenance worker decides to run across the court
Speaker 1: at that exact moment, Mama Mia, he does the little run.
Speaker 2: He did not want to walk around, you know, when.
Speaker 1: You're crossing the street and like the light changes and
Speaker 1: you do that.
Speaker 2: Like, oops, I'm not meant to be shoulder this guy.
Speaker 2: He's obviously doing something back here. Yeah, maintenance, Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: a worker. The players just like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, crazy distraction. And then because you see where he
Speaker 1: starts and he sees him setting up the.
Speaker 2: Surf, he's like, don't mind me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's any distraction playing tennis, especially at such
Speaker 1: a crucial juncture when you're serving for set point. And
Speaker 1: then we had a guy we were playing the other
Speaker 1: week and I had two break points to stay in
Speaker 1: a match, and a guy walked behind me and stole
Speaker 1: one of our balls and went back over.
Speaker 2: To his That's what he said.
Speaker 1: But then the guy was playing with this like oh no, no,
Speaker 1: stop the point. And now I was like on top
Speaker 1: of a rally and the guy and he was like,
Speaker 1: that guy just took one over balls. And so I
Speaker 1: went over to the court and I was like, hey man,
Speaker 1: did you take one of our balls? And he was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, is this yours? And I'm like yeah,
Speaker 1: it was right behind. Yeah, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: then I lost the match.
Speaker 2: Fixing yea with.
Speaker 1: Real cheater, great stuff. You must dance for Henry Wadsworth
Speaker 1: Long Yes, they gets mad, make good.
Speaker 3: More smile smile.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're back for quizzy who. Okay, last week's question,
Speaker 2: who was the first unseated player to win Wimbledon?
Speaker 1: We had many people right in and the winner is
Speaker 1: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The third I wrote in to say.
Speaker 2: It was Boris Becker.
Speaker 1: Boris Becker who won it nineteen eighty five, Yes, seventeen,
Speaker 1: that's impressive.
Speaker 2: His nickname was boom Boom.
Speaker 1: Boom boom. He had a big serve and so they
Speaker 1: called them boom boom. Really yes, not the other but like,
Speaker 1: did you do a boom.
Speaker 2: Boom boom boom boom boom. This is Prevanger Boys.
Speaker 1: It was Prevanger Boys. But that's what the Banger Boys
Speaker 1: song is about. Big all right, and then you got
Speaker 1: a question. All right, what do you go?
Speaker 2: Please email us at podlover at tennis dot com dot au.
Speaker 2: The question is what fruit is on the top of
Speaker 2: the gentleman's Wimbledon Trophy?
Speaker 1: All right? Send that through. What an episode, What a
Speaker 1: Fortnite of tennis?
Speaker 2: Unbelievable. The real winner is tennis.
Speaker 1: Tennis always friendship.
Speaker 2: And love and dancing.
Speaker 6: Dance for the gentlemen. Spin her around, let miss you,
Speaker 6: the plunging neckline of the blue.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.