Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, especially when you are young,
Speaker 1: you recover very fast. It's a bit different.
Speaker 2: So he's looking right at me and just mocking me,
Speaker 2: like there I guess this guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Good day and welcome to the tennis for Day eleven
Speaker 3: of AO twenty twenty five, slightly congested John Huvanas here
Speaker 3: with all the big news from Melbourne Park every day
Speaker 3: of the main draw. Today on the tennis, Sinner dashes
Speaker 3: Demon's dream.
Speaker 4: Too many times playing game and seeing the same thing,
Speaker 4: so I'm not even surprised anymore.
Speaker 3: Triontek swifly sweeps into the semis.
Speaker 5: I always wanting to be this kind of player that
Speaker 5: is not gonna just give matches for free.
Speaker 3: Plus a preview of Day twelve and Novak Djokovic through
Speaker 3: the eyes of his former coach Goran Ivanizovich.
Speaker 6: Okay, Sinner, he's a favorite. He is the best player
Speaker 6: in the world at the moment. But Novak is Novak.
Speaker 3: That's all ahead.
Speaker 7: On the tennis, Cosco back in for demenor up the
Speaker 7: line by Sinner. He's got too much power for Demino
Speaker 7: and it's long and that is an emphatic win. A
Speaker 7: one sided affair in the quarterfinal, the Junick Sinner through
Speaker 7: to another semi final in Melbourne. The defending jam Bieginea had.
Speaker 1: Done really well.
Speaker 3: Janick Sinner has kept his Australian Open title defense on
Speaker 3: track with a straight sets demolition of Alex Steminor. Despite
Speaker 3: the Aussie's equal best performance at his home slam, he
Speaker 3: was unable to match the brilliance of the world number one.
Speaker 3: From the outset. The Italian landed the first blow, forcing
Speaker 3: Demonor into multiple errors to snatch the first break in
Speaker 3: the fourth game, and once in control, Sinner gave away
Speaker 3: just three more points on serve to clinch the opening
Speaker 3: set in thirty eight minutes. He inflicted more pain on
Speaker 3: the Aussie and the majority of the crowd, breaking Demonor
Speaker 3: at the first asking in set two, the defending champ
Speaker 3: worked his magic to extend the rallies and push the
Speaker 3: world's best defensive player to all corners of the court.
Speaker 3: With the pressure mounting, Sinna found a second break, much
Speaker 3: to the chagrin of a deflated demon and with a
Speaker 3: semi final spot within reach, he went to another level
Speaker 3: in the third set, his opponent unable to scrap a
Speaker 3: single point off Sinner's serve until an unforced era in
Speaker 3: game six, a master class in Melbourne run and win
Speaker 3: in one hour and forty eight minutes sixty three six
Speaker 3: two six ' one.
Speaker 1: So there I was filling everything. You know, when when
Speaker 1: days like this and you know you break quite early
Speaker 1: and he needs that, it's it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 3: Sin A semi final opponent is American twenty first seed
Speaker 3: Ben Shelton.
Speaker 1: Tough match, one of the biggest serves we have on tour.
Speaker 1: He's a very aggressive player and all around player. He
Speaker 1: can go to the nets, you know, he can stay back.
Speaker 3: As for Demonor, he's been stopped frustratingly short of a
Speaker 3: maiden semi final, stuck at the quarter finals for his
Speaker 3: fourth slam in a row.
Speaker 4: I've seen too many times playing him and seeing the
Speaker 4: same thing, so I'm not even surprised anymore when I
Speaker 4: face him and matches like these happened with the conditions
Speaker 4: a little bit slower and a little bit later at night,
Speaker 4: it's it's pretty tough to make him miss or hurt him.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he was bloody good tonight.
Speaker 8: She's missed up enough for just the second time in
Speaker 8: her career as an Australian open. The semi finalist had
Speaker 8: the pole playing somewhere near the peak of her powers
Speaker 8: people seen here in Australia.
Speaker 3: In what was anticipated to be her biggest challenge yet,
Speaker 3: IGAs Fontek has crushed Emminavarro to fly into her second
Speaker 3: semi final in Melbourne. The Poll yet to drop a
Speaker 3: set at this tournament, and while she's been accustomed to
Speaker 3: handing out bagels, today she gave away just three games
Speaker 3: to the eighth seed. The writing was on the wall
Speaker 3: from the first game, with Sriontek break to love in
Speaker 3: a tick over ninety seconds, but in set two came
Speaker 3: some controversy. At two all, Navarro had her first sniff
Speaker 3: at breaking the Poll, and after two duces, Friontech completed
Speaker 3: a contentious hold of serve when a double bounce went
Speaker 3: seemingly unnoticed. Sliding towards the net, the world number two
Speaker 3: was a frame too late onto the ball, and without
Speaker 3: a not up call, play continued. Stunned, Navarro attempted to
Speaker 3: review the point, but her plea came too late, dashing
Speaker 3: any chance of a break of serve. From there, Fiontech
Speaker 3: went into lockdown mode, denying the American any more break
Speaker 3: point opportunities for the match. The five time major champion
Speaker 3: sent down twenty two winners in total and won eighty
Speaker 3: two percent of first serve points to Rain victorious six
Speaker 3: one six ' two.
Speaker 5: For sure, I like to be intents and proactively and
Speaker 5: you know, just look for the opportunities to push my opponents.
Speaker 5: But to focus, I think is like a totally different thing,
Speaker 5: you know. Um, I just you know, tried to have
Speaker 5: the same kind of energy and keep the momentum going
Speaker 5: no matter what the scory is, you know, And that's
Speaker 5: my opens come back to their game or let them
Speaker 5: have some space, you know. And yeah, I mean I
Speaker 5: think it's a mix. I never think has been working
Speaker 5: pretty well so far, so hope to continue that.
Speaker 3: Navara looking to the positives for her best result in Melbourne.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's tough to not get the win today, but
Speaker 9: there's a lot to be proud of from this week.
Speaker 9: In these past few weeks, I think I've I've worked
Speaker 9: through a lot and kind of felt like I wasn't
Speaker 9: playing my best tennis coming into just the Australian Swing,
Speaker 9: and I feel like I'm leaving here with you know,
Speaker 9: a lot of positives, lots to be proud of and
Speaker 9: and definitely lots to improve one.
Speaker 8: Way, so much came Madison did the semi models of
Speaker 8: the Australian Open and the run continues.
Speaker 3: It was another amazing day for the American contingent with
Speaker 3: a couple more winners through to the semifinals today Madison
Speaker 3: Keys and Ben Shelton through to the last four in Melbourne.
Speaker 3: It is time for our spotlight segment. Blair Henley Johnny again.
Speaker 3: Hello Blair, Hi, John Simon Ray from gig Hey John
Speaker 3: and Ryan Harrison back with us on the tennis Welcome, Ryan.
Speaker 10: Lovely to be with you guys.
Speaker 3: And you got to call Ben Shelton. We'll give you
Speaker 3: some airtime because you had a front row seat to
Speaker 3: all the action. In just a few moments. We're going
Speaker 3: to start though with Madison Keys. She prevailed today after
Speaker 3: dropping the first set against Elena Spittalina three six six,
Speaker 3: three sixty four, and she advances to her third semifinal
Speaker 3: here in Melbourne.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Absolutely, I mean Madison Keys, She's been talked about as
Speaker 10: having so much talent for so long. I thought it
Speaker 10: was really unfortunate last year the injury she had in Wimbledon.
Speaker 10: I thought she was really getting her momentum going, and
Speaker 10: to see her picking up right and stride now that
Speaker 10: she's healthy again, it's just remarkable right back on it.
Speaker 10: No signs of any Russ coming off that injury, and
Speaker 10: she's right here in the last four.
Speaker 2: If you need a framework for how long Madison Keyes
Speaker 2: has been around, look only to her first Grand Slam
Speaker 2: semi final, which came right here at the Australian Open
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. She was still a teenager. She now
Speaker 2: says she's hanging onto her twenties for dear life. She
Speaker 2: turns thirty in February. But looked every bit the young,
Speaker 2: fearless youngster today. Was so good against Alena Svidlina didn't
Speaker 2: let her draw her into those long rallies in the
Speaker 2: second and third sets, attacked on the forehand, mixed in
Speaker 2: the slice as well as the dry backhand. And also
Speaker 2: I had the chance to talk to her, she said,
Speaker 2: and I made my way into.
Speaker 12: The net slightly more than I felt comfortable with, but
Speaker 12: it worked out for her today.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Well, I think that the Cause have summed it up
Speaker 13: really well. I was impressed with some of the improvement
Speaker 13: that we've seen from Fidelina it's a different fiddelina than
Speaker 13: what we're seen down here, and ye has gone by.
Speaker 13: So on serv there's some similarities between these two plays,
Speaker 13: which did surprise me. So a case serves at one
Speaker 13: hundred and seventy seven kilometers and now today on average
Speaker 13: siddeling is one hundred sixty seven. I feel like that's
Speaker 13: a lot higher than we would have seen her previously.
Speaker 13: On second serves, Fideline is serving at one hundred and
Speaker 13: thirty seven. Madison Keys is down at one hundred and
Speaker 13: twenty six, So Fidelin has got ten more. K's an
Speaker 13: nour On second serve, the numbers are really similar in
Speaker 13: terms of balls in play points one and behind the
Speaker 13: first serve, but that's where the similarity stop on the
Speaker 13: service game because when we come through to serve plus one,
Speaker 13: so the really important third shot that the numbers are
Speaker 13: stark in terms of how different they are. So Madison
Speaker 13: Keys takes the first ball after her first serve inside
Speaker 13: the baseline. So this is a sign of intent, right,
Speaker 13: they're both landing their first serve roughly the same amount,
Speaker 13: they're both winning roughly the same amount behind it, But
Speaker 13: what type of point is happening and behind the first serve,
Speaker 13: Keys inside the baseline on the plus one sixty percent
Speaker 13: of the time. Fideline is inside the baseline after her
Speaker 13: first serve just twenty three percent of the time, and
Speaker 13: that's a little bit of an indication of what started
Speaker 13: to play on play out from the third ball of
Speaker 13: the point onwards across the course of this match.
Speaker 3: Well, let's have a listen to Madison Keys following her
Speaker 3: win and paying particular credit to the new of game
Speaker 3: from Elenis Fittlina.
Speaker 14: She's playing, honestly, some absolutely amazing tennis and I think
Speaker 14: she's kind of changed her approach to how she's playing,
Speaker 14: and I think it's it's kind of fun to see.
Speaker 14: And we played juniors together, so seeing each other through
Speaker 14: different parts of our career and the way that we're
Speaker 14: evolving and changing and trying different things, it's fun and
Speaker 14: it's it's nice to see all of these people that
Speaker 14: you grew up with and played juniors with, are you know,
Speaker 14: still doing it.
Speaker 3: What else did Madison do well, Simon, Well, I think.
Speaker 13: Again, it was a little bit different than what I
Speaker 13: might have expected before the match, because I mentioned the
Speaker 13: difference in court position at a third ball onwards. The
Speaker 13: short rallies one, I would have thought Madison would probably
Speaker 13: dominate Elenis Fidilina in this match. That wasn't the case
Speaker 13: when the points were short. It was sixty two for
Speaker 13: Fidilina fifty six for Keys. When the points were mediumly
Speaker 13: comes out in the wash twenty one to nineteen. But
Speaker 13: Maddie had the age and longer rallies. So I think
Speaker 13: that's where the core position of the third ball onwards
Speaker 13: does become a factor. It was allowing her to set
Speaker 13: up the point on her terms more often, and she
Speaker 13: did some damage with her forehand in a way that
Speaker 13: we've not seen. There's only two players across the course
Speaker 13: of this match. There's only two players that have had
Speaker 13: more heaviness on the forehand side than what we saw
Speaker 13: from Madison Keys today. Remember, heaviness is a combination of
Speaker 13: speed and spin. It's both Maddie's speed and spin forehand
Speaker 13: heaviness today across this match right up there on our scale.
Speaker 13: We don't see those types of numbers very often at all.
Speaker 13: And she was able to do damage across the course
Speaker 13: of the three sets in behind the fourhand grandy.
Speaker 10: And to comment on that a bit also looking at
Speaker 10: the second serve speed. Mattie Keys can hit the second
Speaker 10: serve bigger. She's definitely capable of doing that. What she
Speaker 10: is doing now is she's using the spin on the
Speaker 10: second serve to get the ball up more. So the
Speaker 10: speed is dropping, but the ball is hitting and bouncing
Speaker 10: up a bit more and using that slower speed strategically
Speaker 10: to get the ball a bit higher, which I think
Speaker 10: is helped setting her up to build a point.
Speaker 2: I was just going to give a quick shout out
Speaker 2: to both of those players who were the only two
Speaker 2: players remaining. I believe only two players in the women's
Speaker 2: draw who've had one hundred or more wins at Majors
Speaker 2: elenas Fiddelina reached the milestone while she was here. There
Speaker 2: are only two of six active players. But when you
Speaker 2: look at the rest of the four Venus Williams, Caroline Wosniaki,
Speaker 2: Simona Hallop and I'm missing one. Victoria Azarenka was the
Speaker 2: other one who was out of course earlier in the tournament.
Speaker 2: But that just shows their longevity and the fact that
Speaker 2: they're they've been so consistent over the course of their careers.
Speaker 13: That's high quality over longevity as well, all write that stuff.
Speaker 11: Good.
Speaker 12: You mentioned that means a lot coming from Simony.
Speaker 3: Credit from the GIG team. All right. Our second focus
Speaker 3: match Ryan of day eleven was that of Ben Shelton
Speaker 3: over Lorenzo's Sonigo. We've just seen a fantastic It was
Speaker 3: a four set match in the end and the points
Speaker 3: went to the American. He comes through six ' four
Speaker 3: seventy five four six, seven six. But it was an
Speaker 3: almighty high octane battle out there on Rod Laver Arena.
Speaker 10: Incredible. I thought that San Diego played beautifully, especially toward
Speaker 10: the end of the match. I thought that he started
Speaker 10: finding his range. The temperature dropped while we were on
Speaker 10: the court quite significantly. When we started in the middle
Speaker 10: of the day. It was very hot, very lively. That
Speaker 10: favors the big serving American who was getting a lot
Speaker 10: of free points on serve. By the end, Sonega was
Speaker 10: putting so many returns back in the court, and it
Speaker 10: was all about Shelton holding his nerve at the end
Speaker 10: of the match. If he loses that fourth set tiebreaker
Speaker 10: and that goes five with the momentum and head of
Speaker 10: steam and Sonego is a momentum player when he gets
Speaker 10: himself going his top end, very very good. He has
Speaker 10: some losses. They're a bit strange, and we've seen him
Speaker 10: have a little bit of variety and up and down.
Speaker 10: But when he is good, he.
Speaker 3: Is really good.
Speaker 10: He is really good when he's good. So I thought
Speaker 10: it Shelton did a great job closing out out in
Speaker 10: four sets. And then how about that little tumble that
Speaker 10: we saw him take and the fourth set tiebreaker, and
Speaker 10: then the push in the push ups doesn't lose a
Speaker 10: point after doing a couple of push ups. It's incredible.
Speaker 3: Now you had just two mats behind that, right. I
Speaker 3: was right behind that.
Speaker 1: Uly.
Speaker 10: I was a bit concerned because it was a loud sounds,
Speaker 10: a loud pop on the side of me. He didn't
Speaker 10: go in there lightly. It wasn't like he went in
Speaker 10: there with a very mild hit. It was a loud thump.
Speaker 10: And so myself and I was sitting there next to
Speaker 10: James Blake as well, another former American player, and we
Speaker 10: kind of peaked up. We were like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 10: he see okay, And then we see him roll over
Speaker 10: and do a few push ups, and he and I
Speaker 10: both just sort of bursting out and laughter. We were
Speaker 10: like Oh my gosh, because if you know Ben, that's
Speaker 10: like classic Ben like to turn around and be like, nah,
Speaker 10: I'm good, I'm going to put this like on my terms,
Speaker 10: and then he turns around and plays three great points.
Speaker 3: And I was sitting there watching with Ble and she
Speaker 3: coined a new nique name gupher It.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's new or that original, but
Speaker 2: showtime Shelton, we see a lot of it, and saw
Speaker 2: a tweet coming through as we were doing the blue
Speaker 2: Zone today, somebody just saying this Shelton Sonago match is
Speaker 2: crazy fun. It looked fun for the players, and the
Speaker 2: fans were enjoying it as well. I do have a
Speaker 2: question for Simon and Ryan as well, because you were
Speaker 2: out there watching, because again, all I got to see
Speaker 2: were the stats and the percentage of second serve points
Speaker 2: one from Ben Shelton. So first set sixty seven for him,
Speaker 2: thirty six percent for Sonago, second set seventy percent to
Speaker 2: thirty six percent, and then in the third set the
Speaker 2: percentage of second serve points one for Ben went down
Speaker 2: to twenty nine percent to Snago's eighty three and then
Speaker 2: it stabilized a little bit in the fourth. But what
Speaker 2: was the difference was he doing something different on the serve?
Speaker 12: Was just curious.
Speaker 10: Well, in the third set, Sonaga started doing a lot
Speaker 10: better on the return, getting the depth of the ball.
Speaker 10: In the first couple sets, his returns were dropping a
Speaker 10: bit short, especially with that spin serve that Shelton has
Speaker 10: and when and you know, Simon, you could probably have
Speaker 10: this more accurately than I could. But in my opinion,
Speaker 10: just on iesight, when the ball hits and bounces off
Speaker 10: the court, Shelton gets a lot of action and sometimes
Speaker 10: that can take a little while to get used to.
Speaker 10: You don't realize how heavy that serve is. So even
Speaker 10: when he takes a little pace off, the ball bounces
Speaker 10: extreme spin and that takes a second to adjust. And
Speaker 10: I thought that Sonago started doing better and better as
Speaker 10: a man went on of adjusting, he started adjusting his
Speaker 10: court positioning, getting better depth in return. And we saw
Speaker 10: Ben Shelton having lots of first ball short forehand opportunities
Speaker 10: early on in the match, and then that became fewer
Speaker 10: and fewer and we had these long, griindy, exciting rallies
Speaker 10: toward the end the match.
Speaker 13: Yeah, look like Snago did adjust the return position. So
Speaker 13: the numbers bear out exactly what Ryan's talking to there.
Speaker 13: All of a sudden got a lot more aggressive on
Speaker 13: second serve return, in particular returning right up inside the
Speaker 13: baseline nearly every time he got a look at second serve.
Speaker 13: In that third set, four set he tries to do
Speaker 13: the same thing, but obviously Ben Shelton makes the adjustment.
Speaker 13: Perhaps Brett raises the pace a little bit, challenges the
Speaker 13: returner in different ways in the four set. I thought,
Speaker 13: ultimately first serves unreturn and it was one of your
Speaker 13: opening remarks right plays a big factor in this match.
Speaker 13: So it's nearly double. Ben Shelton's able to get thirty
Speaker 13: two percent of first serves unreturned, so one out of
Speaker 13: every three points on his serve he's able to get
Speaker 13: that breathing space that we know is so valuable. SNA
Speaker 13: goes down at just eighteen percent, so less than one
Speaker 13: in five, so he's having to work that much harder,
Speaker 13: that much more can persistently on his service game than
Speaker 13: Ben Shelton. I thought it was a big factor in
Speaker 13: the match. One thought I did have Ryan and I
Speaker 13: don't know what it looked like from your advantage point
Speaker 13: down their court side. I did wonder whether at times
Speaker 13: Ben can be a little bit more conservative because he
Speaker 13: relies on his athleticism so much and his shot making
Speaker 13: ability showtime Shelton, I did wonder at times whether he
Speaker 13: can almost lull himself into a trapper being a little
Speaker 13: more conservative than you might choose to have him play
Speaker 13: from a coaching perspective. He plays a pretty big physical
Speaker 13: price in this match. So the sprint count, we have
Speaker 13: a definition for a sprint here. He's sprinted sixty seven
Speaker 13: times in this match. Snego thirty four, so double the
Speaker 13: number of sprints. He covered well nearly four klungbus three
Speaker 13: thy eight hundred meters. His distance run at high speed
Speaker 13: thirteen percent as compared to Snago's just half of that
Speaker 13: at seven.
Speaker 3: Percent, because they covered a similar amount of territory, just
Speaker 3: in different ways.
Speaker 13: And Ben loves that.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 13: Ben's an explosive athlete. He can cover court like we've
Speaker 13: we've very rarely seen before. But I do wonder if
Speaker 13: in rely on that, if you want to hold up
Speaker 13: the trophy here on Sunday evening and you're going best
Speaker 13: to five every second night. I did wonder whether sometimes
Speaker 13: he falls into the trap of being more defensive and
Speaker 13: conservative and trying to come up with the spectacular, perhaps
Speaker 13: more than maybe advisable out of his camp.
Speaker 10: That's exactly right. You hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 10: And we also saw another statistic where Sonego got into
Speaker 10: the net around ninety times in four sets, which is
Speaker 10: an incredibly high off thet It's off the chart side,
Speaker 10: and that tells you a couple things. First of all,
Speaker 10: he's not getting in the net that much if Shelton
Speaker 10: is getting the ball deeper in the court, So that
Speaker 10: tells you who is the dictating player, and which is
Speaker 10: a bit surprising because if you were to look at
Speaker 10: those guys stand side by side in the locker room,
Speaker 10: let's just say they'd be in different categories. If they
Speaker 10: were boxers, right, one guy would be a heavyweight, the
Speaker 10: next guy would be probably a middle later or lightweight.
Speaker 10: So you look at the way that their physique is
Speaker 10: and you would think that the dictating player would be
Speaker 10: Shelton by mile, and that's not the case. Sonego is
Speaker 10: absolutely taking control of the points and running Shelton around.
Speaker 10: Shelton is a really interesting character though, because he is
Speaker 10: such a fast athlete. He's so quick around the baseline,
Speaker 10: but he's also got the big game. So I think
Speaker 10: that as he gets older and more experienced, reminds you
Speaker 10: two years ago here was the first time he'd never
Speaker 10: left the United States of America. So tell you how
Speaker 10: yeah staggering to him. Yeah, that's how green he is.
Speaker 10: He's twenty two years old. People think that just because
Speaker 10: you know, he's been around now for the last eight
Speaker 10: nine majors, which seems like a long time. Two years.
Speaker 10: You know, you're seeing him in the later stages of
Speaker 10: the Grand Slam, already made the quarterfinals here, semi finals
Speaker 10: of US Open, So I think people are starting to
Speaker 10: get familiar with him in the later stages of tournaments.
Speaker 10: But as far as his career goes, he's still very green,
Speaker 10: and he's learning his identity. And when you move well
Speaker 10: and you have a bomb, sometimes you can fall into
Speaker 10: a little bit of an identity crisis. And as he
Speaker 10: gets better and better, I think that Ben is only
Speaker 10: going to become more clear about who his identity is.
Speaker 10: And I think that as we talk about he's going
Speaker 10: to get a little bit more offensive. Not to not
Speaker 10: to say his service games aren't offensive, because they are,
Speaker 10: but in the baseline, rallies. He's going to get more
Speaker 10: and more offensive.
Speaker 13: Hey, Ron's pretty too. I've got a dashboard in front
Speaker 13: of me. I've got all these notes that I've spent
Speaker 13: out with here and Ryan said around ninety times. It
Speaker 13: turns out Senego came in ninety times and just to
Speaker 13: add credens to the point that Ryan's making there, he
Speaker 13: won seventy four percent of those points. So it wasn't
Speaker 13: necessarily a tactic that I don't think worked that well
Speaker 13: for Shelton. So that's a little watch and see, I
Speaker 13: guess with the next round in mind.
Speaker 12: And he sealed them with an ace.
Speaker 13: John Piers line is that's the six four or six spots.
Speaker 11: The Aussie wildcards are through to the final here at
Speaker 11: the Australian Open.
Speaker 3: For the first time in the Open era, two Australian
Speaker 3: teams have made the Australian Open Mixed doubles final and
Speaker 3: they're both wild cards. Olivia Gadecki and John Piers the
Speaker 3: first to secure their spot, upstaging second seeds Emily Rutliffe
Speaker 3: and Michael Venus six four sixty four. Piers, a gold
Speaker 3: medalist in Paris, sealed the deal with an ace to
Speaker 3: give the pair a chance to lift their first Australian
Speaker 3: Open Mixed doubles trophy.
Speaker 11: It's always, you know, one of my dreams to make
Speaker 11: a Grand Slam final, so to be, you know, playing
Speaker 11: in one at the age of twenty two is pretty
Speaker 11: cool and to hopefully play another Aussie would be incredible.
Speaker 3: Kim Berrel and John Patrick Smith secured their spot with
Speaker 3: a straight sets win over British pair Olivia Nichols and
Speaker 3: Henry Patton with a break apiece. The Aussies forced a
Speaker 3: first set tiebreak, winning the last five points to seal
Speaker 3: at seven to two. The wild Cards put the pressure
Speaker 3: on in the second set, breaking in games four and
Speaker 3: eight to sail home six to two. After Burrel fell
Speaker 3: to lucky loser Everlease in the first round of singles,
Speaker 3: Her delight after playing a sizzling second set look to
Speaker 3: have put her Australian Open demons to bed. And it's
Speaker 3: all smiles as mates take on mates in Friday's final.
Speaker 12: Super happy for them.
Speaker 11: They've had an amazing week and I played in the
Speaker 11: women's doubles with Lives, so.
Speaker 12: I think it's safe to say we know each other
Speaker 12: pretty well and it's just going to be an awesome night.
Speaker 2: We're going to keep enjoying it and we'll come up
Speaker 2: with a plan and you know, keep backing ourselves.
Speaker 3: In the men's doubles, fourth seeds Kevin Kravitz and Tim
Speaker 3: Pwetts have been made to fight for their place in
Speaker 3: the last four British pair Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool,
Speaker 3: forcing them to two tiebreakers. The Brits couldn't capitalize on
Speaker 3: their two set points in the opening tie break, which
Speaker 3: the Germans won eleven nine. The shootout continued in set
Speaker 3: two as both teams dominated on serve, but again the
Speaker 3: tiebreaker fell into the hands of Kravites and Poets seven five.
Speaker 15: I think we both didn't win too many points returning,
Speaker 15: maybe had a few looks here and there, but then
Speaker 15: maybe missed some returns as well. So yeah, a lot
Speaker 15: of times it comes down to tiebreaks and then yeah,
Speaker 15: in the end, it's a bit of luck involved as well.
Speaker 15: So in the first we were lucky to scratch it
Speaker 15: out eleven nine, and now he's seven five. It's so close,
Speaker 15: So yeah, we're just happy and thrilled to be through.
Speaker 3: They'll meet sixth seeds Harry Helievara and Henry Pattin in
Speaker 3: the semis after they went through in straight sets, and
Speaker 3: in the women's doubles, top seeds Catarina sine Yakova and
Speaker 3: Taylor Townsend have stormed into the last four, the Czech
Speaker 3: and American combination defeating Kicki Mildenovitch and Junk Shwi six
Speaker 3: one seventy five, the raiding Wimbledon champions, sharing the keys
Speaker 3: to their success.
Speaker 16: I've honestly become really good friends with Kad and you know,
Speaker 16: I think that that helps me personally. All the times
Speaker 16: that I've had the most success with the partners that
Speaker 16: I've played with, I've been friends off the court, and
Speaker 16: so we're able to speak and communicate. And I was like,
Speaker 16: I'm nervous, like help me, like help me out, and
Speaker 16: she was able to raise her level. So you know,
Speaker 16: I think that that's what it's about, being able to
Speaker 16: just talk and be able to be free with each
Speaker 16: other and you know, to know that there's no judgment.
Speaker 3: Their semi finals opponents will be Mirr Andreva and Dianna Schneider,
Speaker 3: who are through after dropping just three games. Let's turn
Speaker 3: our attention now to Day twelve of the Australian Open.
Speaker 3: It is women's semi final day. We're going to preview
Speaker 3: a couple of matches and we'll start with Arena Sablanca,
Speaker 3: who takes on Powella Badosa. I'm going to start with you, Blair,
Speaker 3: because you've chatted to you chatted to Powell, didn't you
Speaker 3: yesterday after the match? Yes, into her first major semifinal
Speaker 3: at against the biggest osk on hard court in the
Speaker 3: women's game.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and also her best friend.
Speaker 2: They know each other so well off the court, but
Speaker 2: they have experience playing each other on the court. They
Speaker 2: actually played three times last year. Savalenka won all three
Speaker 2: of those. I don't really count those though, because Pala
Speaker 2: Badosa was still working on her comeback. She was out
Speaker 2: the last six months of twenty twenty three, barely won
Speaker 2: a match to the first six months of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: so I'm just wiping the slate clean on those three matches.
Speaker 2: Prior to that, Savelenka had a couple of tough, tight wins,
Speaker 2: and then Pala Badosa won the first two times they played.
Speaker 12: I'm tempted to say that.
Speaker 2: Arena Savalanka does everything that Pala Badosa does with just
Speaker 2: a little bit better However, with their types of game,
Speaker 2: I do think that Palavadosa has the capability to take
Speaker 2: the racket out of her opponent's hand so that it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter how well you can do your thing, because
Speaker 2: she was serving so well against Cocoa Goff and she
Speaker 2: can hit a winner from anywhere on the court.
Speaker 10: Paul is playing great tun us, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 10: But what's doing right now? It's been twenty five years
Speaker 10: since someone did that. She's won nineteen matches in a
Speaker 10: row at the Australian Open and Martina hingis ninety seven
Speaker 10: or two thousand last time that someone did that. So
Speaker 10: Nelssa say, she feels very comfortable here on rod Lever Arena,
Speaker 10: and as we saw last night, even when she doesn't
Speaker 10: have her best stuff where she was down a break
Speaker 10: in the third twice against Palchhenkova, it just seems like
Speaker 10: something about it, something about the atmosphere here, it brings
Speaker 10: out her best stuff under pressure.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and I thought credit to her last night because
Speaker 13: I thought we saw from her arena Sablinka on rod
Speaker 13: Laverna last night just a little more settled, a little
Speaker 13: more measured and mild, a little cooler and more methodical
Speaker 13: under pressure than we've seen her in the past. We
Speaker 13: know she's an emotional character. She wears her heart on
Speaker 13: her sleeve, and at times I think in the past,
Speaker 13: when that scoreboard pressure has been on, it's all gotten
Speaker 13: a little bit too much for Sablinka. But there was
Speaker 13: no sign of that last night. I thought it was
Speaker 13: a distinct shift in her ability to handle the moment,
Speaker 13: maintain composure and clarity of thought, and really think her
Speaker 13: way in, fight her way back into the contest. I'm
Speaker 13: a little bit like Blair. I was looking at this
Speaker 13: matchup thinking, gee, I don't know how Bodosa gets this done.
Speaker 13: One thing that I would point out is on second serve,
Speaker 13: Bidosa can generate some heat. On second serve. She's serving
Speaker 13: about ten k's an hour bigger than Sabalanca on second serve,
Speaker 13: and the two players their return position on second serve.
Speaker 13: Sabalanca is about twice as aggressive in terms of how
Speaker 13: often she's inside the baseline on second serve return compared
Speaker 13: to Bodosa. So if I'm in the Meidosa camp, I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 13: we've got to play on that. We've got to play
Speaker 13: to win here. We've got to be bold. We've got
Speaker 13: to be brave on our second serve. If we're serving
Speaker 13: for this matchup five four in the third thirty all
Speaker 13: we've got to be prepared to hit to serve at
Speaker 13: one hundred and fifty five kilometers an hour second serve
Speaker 13: right into the Sabalanca body and jammer up and then
Speaker 13: we can dictate thereafter. Because if we allow Arena Sabalanca
Speaker 13: a swing on that second serve return, if we put
Speaker 13: that thing in the middle of the box and hope
Speaker 13: for the best, hoping's not going to get it done.
Speaker 13: So I think she needs to be bold, brave, and
Speaker 13: be prepared to go down on her terms to give
Speaker 13: herself a chance.
Speaker 10: You're exactly right and game planning for sable Anca. You
Speaker 10: have to get a lot of depth on the ball
Speaker 10: as well. She generates so much power. If the ball
Speaker 10: is landing around the service line, even if you hit
Speaker 10: it hard, it's coming back harder. It's just going to
Speaker 10: go right back and return to send her. So if
Speaker 10: you're able to go deep, deep through the middle is
Speaker 10: definitely a good play. If you can jammer up a bit,
Speaker 10: as you were saying on the serve, good play to
Speaker 10: jammer up. Anytime that she has her arms extended, she's
Speaker 10: great if you can make her have to feel a
Speaker 10: little bit crowded. The thing is is Arena's always swinging.
Speaker 10: She doesn't really have a you know, take the pace
Speaker 10: off the ball.
Speaker 3: So if you jammer up.
Speaker 10: And she continues to swing from those jam positions, that's
Speaker 10: when you can see a few mistakes. That's what palajen
Speaker 10: Covid did really well in the second set yesterday. She
Speaker 10: was able to push her back through the deep middle
Speaker 10: to court and then when she got the short response,
Speaker 10: she then opened her up. But she wasn't opening up
Speaker 10: the point too early because on the run, Sablenka can
Speaker 10: still generate and go defense to offense in the blink
Speaker 10: of an eye. So we'll see if Bodoza is able
Speaker 10: to generate a little bit depth through the middle and
Speaker 10: go at the body.
Speaker 3: Wonderful analysis. Get the stripe jacket on Arena Sabolenka. The
Speaker 3: other semifinal is Medicine k and IgA Fiontech Fiontech coming
Speaker 3: through on day eleven today against Emma Navarro and Keys.
Speaker 3: As we mentioned before against Fiddelina, this shapes is a
Speaker 3: real tussle.
Speaker 10: Eager to me, has been playing amazing tennis. I think
Speaker 10: that Australia was a place that people used to look
Speaker 10: at Ega and say, oh, that's the one slam that
Speaker 10: you can maybe make some headway against her. Last year
Speaker 10: we saw her struggling in the first couple of rounds
Speaker 10: Ega to me is emulating a path of one of
Speaker 10: the men's all time greats and Rafael and Nadal, and
Speaker 10: by that I mean dominant on one surface early on
Speaker 10: in her career and then making small adjustments to then
Speaker 10: become a force on all the majors. And with EGA's age,
Speaker 10: I personally think that we're going to be looking at
Speaker 10: Ega in ten years, closing in on twenty Grand slams.
Speaker 10: I think that she's going to be a person who
Speaker 10: over the next force. You know, she's going to be
Speaker 10: one of the title favorites at every major moving forward.
Speaker 10: She's made some slight adjustments within her game to where
Speaker 10: she's now playing so aggressively here on the hard courts,
Speaker 10: and she's not just using her foot speed in consistency
Speaker 10: the way we've seen her win on the clay a
Speaker 10: lot of times. It's been really impressive to see what
Speaker 10: she's doing.
Speaker 5: I'm happy that I'm consistent. You know, this is something
Speaker 5: that I always work towards to and I always wanted
Speaker 5: to be this kind of player that is not gonna
Speaker 5: just give matches for free, you know. So I'm happy
Speaker 5: that I'm doing that, and I'm focusing on every single
Speaker 5: match like it's the most important one and I'm not
Speaker 5: letting go. So at the end, I think this is
Speaker 5: the result and it's great.
Speaker 12: A few things on this topic.
Speaker 2: Number One, we know that IgA is an incredible front runner.
Speaker 2: She's lost just fourteen games so far this tournament. I
Speaker 2: do wonder if Maddie can work her way into the
Speaker 2: match just a little bit put a little bit of
Speaker 2: stress on Fiantech. I wonder how she's going to handle that,
Speaker 2: especially because she has not felt that stress so far
Speaker 2: this tournament.
Speaker 12: So interested to see that.
Speaker 2: I did have the chance to talk to Bjorn Forra TAngelo,
Speaker 2: who is of course Madison Key's husband and also coach,
Speaker 2: and he said that in order to win the match,
Speaker 2: Maddie is going to have to be a little bit uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: to get out of her shell and probably do some
Speaker 2: of the things that we saw from her today against Fidlina,
Speaker 2: making sure you're aggressive in that mid court coming into
Speaker 2: the net a little bit. And he also mentioned the
Speaker 2: fact that they're going to be playing a night match
Speaker 2: and the ball will likely not be jumping up off
Speaker 2: the court quite as much as it can with Egoshviontec's
Speaker 2: forehand in particular, that has so many RPMs on it,
Speaker 2: and Bjorn was hopeful that that would kind of keep
Speaker 2: that shot in Madison Key's strike zone. And he also
Speaker 2: mentioned that as the person warming her up, he said,
Speaker 2: I really don't like to warm her up because my
Speaker 2: game is not realistic.
Speaker 12: But when she's playing Tech, yes it is realistic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we said it actually works out when she's
Speaker 2: playing EGA, especially on the forehand side.
Speaker 12: So she'll have a great warm up.
Speaker 3: We know that, and we'll see ready, exactly what do
Speaker 3: you love ins have you got, Raiser?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 13: I think Blair and Ryan have summed it up really well.
Speaker 13: I think it's super important for the Madison case to
Speaker 13: serve well tomorrow, not particularly early in that match. And
Speaker 13: the reason I say that is and Ryan's given great
Speaker 13: insight into the thinking on the second sip, going with
Speaker 13: more of the what we call the hopper down under,
Speaker 13: going with more of the kicks to get that ball,
Speaker 13: lifting and rising and challenging the returner in a different way.
Speaker 13: But at night tomorrow and Rob Daverena and the weather's
Speaker 13: cool down here in Melbourne for the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 13: I just wonder whether you're going to get that same effect.
Speaker 13: And Eager's going to be on or inside baseline looking
Speaker 13: to come after every single second serve she gets a
Speaker 13: look at. If Madison serves well early. I like that
Speaker 13: theory of Blairz. I think it's all of a sudden
Speaker 13: Eager finds herself maybe one four down opening set in
Speaker 13: a really foreign position, chasing scoreboard and encountering a pressure
Speaker 13: that she hasn't had so far. So I'm watching the
Speaker 13: Keys execution on serve early. I think if Madison does
Speaker 13: execute well on first serve, she can get these points
Speaker 13: on her terms. Madison's ball striking from the back of
Speaker 13: the court. She's someone that can absolutely go with it.
Speaker 13: She's probably got her own speed off both wings, and
Speaker 13: she can match her for spin if she needs to
Speaker 13: off both wings. But if Eger is able to make
Speaker 13: this physical, if Eger gets Madison, Key's taking one hand
Speaker 13: off the racket and Madison's got to go to the
Speaker 13: slice and then is able to utilize her wheels and
Speaker 13: her movement. I think that's trouble. So I track a
Speaker 13: lot back to what happens early. I'm with Blair on
Speaker 13: that and what happens in terms of medicine. Keys is
Speaker 13: first to being able to do the damage tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Not Yeah, I agree, it's going to be one. On serve.
Speaker 10: You got to look when you're in the coach's hat,
Speaker 10: like Jorna is right now, you look at the areas
Speaker 10: where your player has the advantage. And we have enough
Speaker 10: data on Madison to know, you know, we know who
Speaker 10: she is. She's improved, but you know who she is
Speaker 10: as a player, and she has that ability to hit
Speaker 10: the serve big and also use some variety and use
Speaker 10: the kickserf. She has great backbend on the serve, great
Speaker 10: spin action on the serve, and to your point, if
Speaker 10: she's getting free points on serve and if she's able
Speaker 10: to put the pressure on the egoserve by getting through
Speaker 10: her service game. I would say in a businessman, but
Speaker 10: we can say business woman like fashion for Madison. I
Speaker 10: always tell myself to be a businessman on serve, and
Speaker 10: by that I mean efficient in control and under your own,
Speaker 10: you know, sort of tempo out there. I want to
Speaker 10: see if Madison can do that. That's the one area
Speaker 10: of the game that I think Madison holds the advantages
Speaker 10: of being able to generate free points on serve and
Speaker 10: on return serfs. If she's able to do that, she
Speaker 10: doesn't give herself a shance a chance if she's having
Speaker 10: to play all these extended baseline rallies, that favoritism goes.
Speaker 10: Have you to igo.
Speaker 3: With the tennis world still processing the heroics of Novak
Speaker 3: Djokovic on nine ten, there's one person who can shed
Speaker 3: light on his unbreakable mindset. Goran Ivanizovich, the former coach
Speaker 3: of Djokovic for six years, has witnessed some of his
Speaker 3: most challenging moments. Ivan Izovich has revealed some insights into
Speaker 3: Novak's inner world. He spoke with Daniella hunter Kova on
Speaker 3: her podcast The Real DNA.
Speaker 8: When you work with the greatest in the history of tennis,
Speaker 8: is there something that caught you by surprise in a
Speaker 8: good way that you learned from Novak?
Speaker 6: You can learn every day from you. I was lucky,
Speaker 6: I mean easier for me because we speak the same
Speaker 6: language you're coming from the same I was one country
Speaker 6: before Ugoslavia, so mentality is the same. Neighbors. So I
Speaker 6: understood the better his moves. It's not easy to understand
Speaker 6: his moves, but you know at least a little bit.
Speaker 6: But he is a genius. He's a perfectionist who wants
Speaker 6: everything to be one hundred percent every day. What was
Speaker 6: good today is not good tomorrow. And you need to
Speaker 6: you know, you need to be ready, you need to
Speaker 6: always be at twenty four hours alert. But it's okay.
Speaker 6: I learned that and with him, you know, it's how
Speaker 6: he approached the matches, how he prove the practice, how
Speaker 6: he takes cares of his body, because if you see
Speaker 6: his career, he's probably among rough him Roger and Andy.
Speaker 6: You know, was always most fit and least injury. That's
Speaker 6: why he was carrying off his body with his eating,
Speaker 6: with his exercise. And he's still here. Not that he's here,
Speaker 6: he's one of the favorite to win a tournaments and
Speaker 6: he's still going and going. He can still play for
Speaker 6: a couple of years for sure.
Speaker 3: Do you believe he can win an Islam Yes, I.
Speaker 6: Think you can come in. I mean, okay, Sinner is
Speaker 6: a favorite is the best player in the world at
Speaker 6: the moment, but Novak is Novak, and when he's present
Speaker 6: on the court, then I always put my money on Novac.
Speaker 12: Is there something you don't miss?
Speaker 6: I don't miss honestly, but okay, yelling, scream, okain. But
Speaker 6: in the end I didn't mind that. You get used
Speaker 6: to it. You know, it's a person nothing personally, it's
Speaker 6: a tennis match. You need to get your craziness out
Speaker 6: of system. You cannot kill somebody there or hit somebody there.
Speaker 6: So it's okay. We we were. We were there for
Speaker 6: that and now it's much quice on the court. You know,
Speaker 6: sometimes I don't know what to do with myself. You know,
Speaker 6: everybody is quiet. It's no stress. But it was okay.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed it every minute. I enjoyed it, and it
Speaker 6: was a huge honor for me to be his coach.
Speaker 12: So it's almost you would say to come these days.
Speaker 6: Honestly, it's very calm. I say, first couple of practices,
Speaker 6: I was like, did I'm on the tennis court if
Speaker 6: somebody's playing, Okay, I need some action here, you know,
Speaker 6: right now, I'm getting used to this, to this quietness.
Speaker 3: That's all for Day eleven of the Australian Open, but
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