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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Sitdown.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mattrolope from Ozopen dot com and I'm.

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Speaker 2: Viv Christy from Australian Tennis magazine and Matt. This week

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Speaker 2: we are talking to Pallo Lorenzi, who has a big

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Speaker 2: job right now as tournament director of the Italian Open

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Speaker 2: in Rome.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he does. And this is a player who only

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Speaker 1: recently retired himself. He was a former world number thirty

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Speaker 1: three who played his last match in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and he stayed very connected with Italian tennis. This is

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Speaker 1: a man who told us that he warmed up Mateo

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Speaker 1: Berettini before the Wimbledon final in twenty twenty one. And

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Speaker 1: he's also i think played doubles and trained with Yanix Sinner.

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Speaker 1: And he told our colleague Gerson Caderus, who he chatted

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Speaker 1: to on the ground in Rome, just exactly the impact

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Speaker 1: that Yanick Sinner is having on tennis in Italy. His

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Speaker 1: rise to the top of men's tennis. He's Australian Open

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Speaker 1: victory has had a massive flow on effect for tennis

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Speaker 1: in the country and has led to like a surge

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Speaker 1: in interest. So it was really cool to kind of

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Speaker 1: get his insights about how that's how that's impacting the

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Speaker 1: tournament in Rome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Italian tennis, I mean, what a great place

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Speaker 2: it's in. Not only have you got Sinner doing so well,

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Speaker 2: but there's nine Italian men and five Italian women inside

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Speaker 2: the world's top one hundred, so exciting times ahead.

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Speaker 1: They're the Davis Cup champions, that the Billy jing Kin

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Speaker 1: Cup finalists. And one thing that I thought was interesting

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Speaker 1: he said too, was of those Italian men in the

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Speaker 1: top one hundred, the majority of them are twenty three

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Speaker 1: or under. So you know it means the features bright

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Speaker 1: for Italian tennis.

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Speaker 2: It certainly is. Let's hear what he has to say.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I want to start from the beginning.

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Speaker 4: When I was seven eight years old, every year I'm

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Speaker 4: from Senna in Toscany, I took the bus with all

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Speaker 4: the tennis school and I came in.

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Speaker 3: Here to watch all the players.

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Speaker 4: And this is for I think almost every tennis player

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Speaker 4: in Italy, every kids that's playing tennis, is usually when

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Speaker 4: it's wrong time, you're gonna take the bus and it's

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Speaker 4: gonna come to watch tennis. And I think this is

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Speaker 4: the first step that brings you you to dream to

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Speaker 4: for the federation, but for everyone this tournament is so important.

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Speaker 5: And what were your dreams back then?

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Speaker 4: Of course, on the day I was my dream was

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Speaker 4: to become number one in the world. Then you start

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Speaker 4: playing your tournaments when you are under twelve and fourteen

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Speaker 4: and your dream has become, of course, to be number one.

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Speaker 4: But then you know, okay, maybe one day I want

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Speaker 4: to play the future. Then I want to play a challenge,

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Speaker 4: and then I want to play a TP and then

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Speaker 3: But I think this is the first step, is this

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Speaker 4: What is the big difference of Rome and of this

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Speaker 4: tournament and about the other one thousand is the kids.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if you walk a way around, but

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Speaker 4: fifty five thousand kids only for these twelve days. And

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Speaker 4: the Federation always start bringing a lot of kids. And

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Speaker 4: this is the first step. And then this is the

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Speaker 4: first step. The last step is the nex sinner.

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Speaker 5: The last step is onix ciner.

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Speaker 6: So is this part of the success because you bring

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Speaker 3: I think that this is the part.

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Speaker 4: The other one is that in the last twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: and future Italy. In one moment, if you were watching calendar,

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Speaker 4: we had twenty five challenger and more than three future.

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Speaker 4: So what this one doesn't mean that every week you're

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Speaker 4: going to have wild car for Italian players that they

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Speaker 4: can play this tournament also if they don't have the ranking.

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Speaker 4: But it's not only them, they're going to bring the coach,

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Speaker 3: So they're going to improve.

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Speaker 4: And after twenty years, that's why now the Italian Federation

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Speaker 4: have so many good coaches and so many good players.

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Speaker 5: Wow, and where do you want to go from here?

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Speaker 3: Why? If you ask me, I think.

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Speaker 4: This is the beginning because we have of course one

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Speaker 4: so we don't know where they're going to go. I

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Speaker 4: and maybe in ten years, fifteen years, we're going to

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Speaker 5: Wow, that's a big goal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, But.

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Speaker 4: I think that you have to dream big because if

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Speaker 4: have something. And I think that this work, like I said,

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Speaker 4: started from the federation twenty years ago. I'm not saying

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Speaker 4: that it's just started. I'm saying that this process is

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Speaker 4: I think we can we can have a lot of results.

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Speaker 5: What role does the singer play in this whole development?

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Speaker 4: Now, in this moment is the most important roles because

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Speaker 4: it's the example for the new generation, for the players

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Speaker 4: that they are good and they want to become even better.

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Speaker 4: And everyone in Italy is watching Ciner So to be

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Speaker 4: an example and to be young is not easy, but

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Speaker 4: I think the Yannick Kiss is the right person to

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Speaker 5: And how do you see that in excitement? In numbers?

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Speaker 5: For example, how do you see it.

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Speaker 3: In numbers right now, if.

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Speaker 4: You see in the audience, a Yani Ciner match is

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Speaker 4: like a football match in Italy, and this honey is

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Speaker 4: almost never happened in the last three years, and and

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Speaker 4: Sena is playing, you have the live score. Whatever in

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Speaker 4: number one? How many points he needs? Now everyone is

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Speaker 5: So is it almost competing with football?

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Speaker 4: I think that Siner right now maybe can be better

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Speaker 6: As a tennis administrator and as tournament director. Do you

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Speaker 6: think players or former players make the best administrators in tennis.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so, because if you think that only

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Speaker 3: Season. I think that they know tennis, they know.

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Speaker 4: A little bit better how to run a tournament because

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Speaker 4: they can speak with the players, they know what they need,

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Speaker 4: so they have an advantage. I'm not saying that they're

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Speaker 6: Now look at the money side of things. This whole excitement,

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Speaker 4: Yes, now there are full show most sponsor. Everyone was

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Speaker 4: want to be involved in tennis because of course everyone

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Speaker 4: is talking about tennis. We just want the Davis Cup

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Speaker 4: we made finally in belishing cups, so this must bring

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Speaker 4: everyone is becoming concentrated on the goal, and the goal

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Speaker 4: is to have always top players, because the top players

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Speaker 4: bring you more kids and then you have a big base,

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Speaker 4: then you're going to have more plays for the future.

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Speaker 6: So do you get more requests for tournament sponsors right now?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 4: We have ry that this most important tennis channel in Italy,

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Speaker 3: To put them m on TV again.

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Speaker 4: Sponsors want to be part of the wrong tournament, but

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Speaker 4: they want to be part of the Devis Cup team

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Speaker 5: Does that also mean the tournament will grow.

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Speaker 4: Of course, our goal is to grow. The numbers are crazy.

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Speaker 4: People want wants to come here, and we are selling

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Speaker 4: more tickets and so of course the tournament has grown.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what we can.

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Speaker 4: Do better than you every year, but our goal is

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Speaker 4: to be a better tourn How about a roof, and

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Speaker 4: the roof is I think our most important goal for

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Speaker 4: not easy to change things. They already give us the

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Speaker 3: But I think in the next few years the roof.

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Speaker 5: Is going to be ready.

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Speaker 6: What about the federation setting up its own tennis channel

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Speaker 7: Maybe as well, but this is a big part of

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Speaker 4: So you are home and you can watch tennis I

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Speaker 4: think that that's a big change because you can follow

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Speaker 4: and I think that is changing slowly, but it changed

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Speaker 5: And Super Tennis is free TV.

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Speaker 4: This is free TV, and this is one of the

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Speaker 5: Day, and it is a purely federation investment. Is it

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Speaker 3: Is owned by the federation.

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Speaker 4: Right now you have free all the Challenger, you had

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Speaker 3: So I think that all these matches you can watch

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Speaker 6: Wow, that's fantastic. Just got a couple more. Is there

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Speaker 6: an Italian way of playing tennis?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 4: And I think that at the beginning, like when I

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Speaker 4: was starting to play pro, that was a key moment

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Speaker 4: because we were watching Spain or other country like the

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Speaker 4: United States, that all the players that were to say

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Speaker 4: in Spain that was trying to use a lot of spin.

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Speaker 4: The Italian Federation. No, we don't have like we have

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Speaker 4: a school, but not that we have to follow some rules.

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Speaker 4: And then I think it's why we have seen it

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Speaker 4: that is playing like this. Then we have Lorenzo Musset

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Speaker 4: with one end back, and then we have I don't

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Speaker 3: And I think also this when it's helping us a lot.

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Speaker 6: And you practiced with Singer and Pertini quite a few times, right.

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Speaker 4: Right, We were jogging right now because I warm up

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Speaker 4: better till before the finally Winbledon. So it enjoyed the

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Speaker 4: lost because it was my fault, I hope, not because

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Speaker 4: I always told him that he won the first set

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Speaker 4: and it was because he practiced with me.

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Speaker 5: What's Sinner blaming you for anything? Siner? Is he blaming

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Speaker 5: you for anything as well?

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Speaker 4: Okay, the first time that it made semi in ATP

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Speaker 4: to fifteen, Anthweb, we played doubles together and we made semis.

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Speaker 3: So I think also you have to thanks me a

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Speaker 3: lot for this.

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Speaker 5: So who was better in practice?

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Speaker 4: I have to say that they are completely different players

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Speaker 4: because very tiny you, serf. Sometimes I'm telling you you

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Speaker 4: know where you're gonna serve, but you can return. And

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Speaker 4: then you have seen the intensity when it was already

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Speaker 4: sixteen seventeen years old. The intensity that he put on

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Speaker 4: courts was unbelilable. It was so focused.

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Speaker 3: And so this is why, now who would be the

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Speaker 3: next number one of the world.

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Speaker 2: So Yannick Sinner as the world number one player, Well

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Speaker 2: that could prediction could come true as soon as Roland

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Speaker 2: Garros with Novak Djokovic defending lots of points as defending

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Speaker 2: champion and yes, Sinna with a great opportunity.

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Speaker 1: There absolutely and I mean we're talking about Novak Djokovic,

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Speaker 1: the most dominant number one in tennis history and took

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Speaker 1: a back of Carlos Elcarez last year and has held

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Speaker 1: on to it ever since. He's been number one for

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Speaker 1: well over four hundred weeks. So to have a torch

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Speaker 1: passing moment potentially as soon as Roland Garros with Yanick

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Speaker 1: Sinner taking it over, that's a pretty interesting plot line.

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Speaker 2: So we'll be back next week with another episode of

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Speaker 2: the sit Down. When we talked to Francesca Schiavoni, a

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Speaker 2: former Roland Garros champion and a legend another legend of

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Speaker 2: Italian tennis.

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Speaker 1: You can listen to John and the team in the

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Speaker 1: meantime this Thursday on the AO Show. Weekly and details

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Speaker 1: for how to contact Vive and I are in the

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Speaker 1: show notes below. As always, play, subscribe, rate and review.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next week, Viv.

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Speaker 2: Look forward to it. Matt Hey