Speaker 1: Are we going.
Speaker 2: We are going.
Speaker 1: We are going going go into the tennis and go to.
Speaker 2: Get drunkky drink responsibly, drink responsibly.
Speaker 1: We are here, we're in wintry Melbourne, but we're having
Speaker 1: a great time watching all the lead up grass court tournaments.
Speaker 1: It's been a big week. Obviously, we'll get into the
Speaker 1: nitty gritty in a second. But I have a social.
Speaker 2: Beef producing just grown by the way.
Speaker 1: Because I always have some. Well, I had a social
Speaker 1: beef traveling back to Melbourne. Yes, okay, and I'll make
Speaker 1: I'll make it tennis adjacent. It's tennis adjacent.
Speaker 2: Tennis adjacent, fairly tennis related. I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I was on a short flight from Canberra to Melbourne, yep,
Speaker 1: one hour at most.
Speaker 2: The plane.
Speaker 1: Every one boards the plane. I'm sitting in the window seat.
Speaker 1: A man comes in and sits in the middle seat,
Speaker 1: and the plane takes off and there's no one sitting
Speaker 1: in the aisle seat. So I said, oh you can,
Speaker 1: you can move over, and he said, if.
Speaker 2: You go tell you that's fair. Yeah, totally. It's I'm
Speaker 2: surprised you have to even say something that's just a
Speaker 2: logical human thing to do is just move over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I wasn't that blood.
Speaker 2: I wasn't like scoop shoot like a cat, like he's
Speaker 2: shrewing away a cat.
Speaker 1: I said, oh you can, you can move across now?
Speaker 1: Is that bad? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, I mean maybe you should have done like, oh,
Speaker 2: there's a seat that lucky for years.
Speaker 1: Well, so he goes, no, I'm good.
Speaker 2: He was liked you.
Speaker 1: Well, are just as a kind of a graying middle
Speaker 1: aged man sitting next to another gray middle man. But
Speaker 1: then I nuts curly you fro He says, no, I'm good,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh okay, and then he's kind
Speaker 1: of leaning across me to look out the window. He's
Speaker 1: like kind of like invading, not like totally over me,
Speaker 1: but he's just kind of like peering out and what
Speaker 1: are you looking at? We're leaving Canberra.
Speaker 2: There's nothing farmlandout Parliament has. Oh maybe you wanted to
Speaker 2: see God who cares?
Speaker 1: And then so me being me, I shut the window.
Speaker 2: Why why this guy genuinely wanted to see outside of you?
Speaker 2: Like today, my friend, we're in a shut.
Speaker 1: We're in a standoff here. And then I have the
Speaker 1: power and if he's not gonna scoot across, then I
Speaker 1: shut the window. Yeah, do you think that's insane?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: Well? I noticed that he as he was scrolling through
Speaker 1: his phone when we landed, that he had some tennis content.
Speaker 2: On his oh the algorithm on his algo.
Speaker 1: I could have maybe he was like a fan of
Speaker 1: the pod and he was just like trying to snuggle
Speaker 1: up to me. But they didn't have that vibe at all.
Speaker 1: And then now it was a tense one hour flight
Speaker 1: that is so yeah yeah yeah yeah. And then only
Speaker 1: on Australian flights that they make you raise the window
Speaker 1: before landing on takeoff and landing. Yeah, it's a bizarre rule. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Australian aviation rules are so dumb to me, like that
Speaker 1: one in particular, especially if the sun's blasting through. And
Speaker 1: then the them checking your phone when you walk onto
Speaker 1: the plane or your boarding pass. They just checked it
Speaker 1: at the gate. What do you think happened in between
Speaker 1: the gate and getting on the pluck name, Like, why
Speaker 1: am I showing you my phone again? And they don't
Speaker 1: do that anywhere else in the world. Really, it's only
Speaker 1: Australia where they think somehow someone got onto the air
Speaker 1: bridge and it's like.
Speaker 3: A shutgun.
Speaker 2: The seventeen year old had multiple firearms on him. He
Speaker 2: allegedly cut through the perimeter of Avalon Airport.
Speaker 1: If this passenger had a boarding pass, it could have
Speaker 1: ended very differently. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Maybe that's they didn't check his pass, Is that right?
Speaker 1: So, but if he had a boarding pass, he would
Speaker 1: have been Yeah.
Speaker 2: I kind of like it when they say, oh, welcome aboard, miss.
Speaker 1: Who oh yeah, if you get the if your boarding
Speaker 1: pass is like gold or platinum, and then you get
Speaker 1: the note come.
Speaker 2: Back, welcome back, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Sir Goldstein, your cherryo at away. It's your
Speaker 1: air chariot.
Speaker 2: Away, your window seat away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I've had it.
Speaker 2: Didn't move, He didn't move.
Speaker 1: But then my wife said me shutting the window was
Speaker 1: a sociopathic I think it's actually it's kind of rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, rules that you want to it just
Speaker 2: rules that you went ahead with it and then you
Speaker 2: enjoyed that fly.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was an hour of just tense.
Speaker 2: But were you listening to anything? What were you listening to?
Speaker 2: I have put on Likest the machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, but on speaker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I can't make that tennis adjacent.
Speaker 2: Show me perfect stay.
Speaker 1: One more thing before we get into the proper like results.
Speaker 1: You had Curios beating straight straight sets. Curios then withdrew
Speaker 1: from the tournament. Is his well, let's cover it right now.
Speaker 1: Is Curios has comeback? Are at a non starter?
Speaker 2: Well, it feels that way. In singles he wasn't given
Speaker 2: a wild cud no to Wimbledon, but he was given
Speaker 2: a doubles wild cud Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he just lost to fellow Aussie Adam Walton
Speaker 1: in Mayorka and the grass tournament there, and his knee
Speaker 1: didn't look great. You think the Wimbledon decision not to
Speaker 1: give Carryos a wild card was because they saw him
Speaker 1: pulling out of previous tournaments and they're like, well he's
Speaker 1: not going to really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's too much of a risk.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And I think there's so many other guys
Speaker 1: to give wild cards too. I mean, Demitrov got one, Varenka,
Speaker 1: gail Montfees did not, and he like surprisingly, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone knows it's last year on tour, and so to
Speaker 1: give Kurrios.
Speaker 2: One would have felt that would have felt when yeah, we'll.
Speaker 1: Get into the other wildcards in a moment for Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: and obviously the draw will be out on Friday.
Speaker 2: That's going to be well, that's exciting. I know we
Speaker 2: have to do what do you call it?
Speaker 1: Brackets?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh, see you later in the dementia
Speaker 2: wood sprinkling, little magic like what is the word anyway?
Speaker 1: The resert reserts.
Speaker 2: Results, Oh my god, I got strawberries on.
Speaker 1: The mind resert dessert.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Francis Tfo wins Holliay, his first five hundred win of
Speaker 1: his career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a big hitting game.
Speaker 1: He looks amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I never thought of him as a grass court specialist.
Speaker 1: I thought hardcourt was a surface. But beating Taylor Fritz
Speaker 1: four and four in pretty confident fashion, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna go deep into Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: Ooh you're here first.
Speaker 1: Wow, Francis into the second week of Wimbledon. My predictions.
Speaker 1: But TFO's run was amazing. He beat Kabuli early on,
Speaker 1: and then the match of the tournament for me, him
Speaker 1: and Felix a ali Asim just an absolute, just baseline battle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That ended I think fourteen twelve in the third set
Speaker 1: tiber Yeah, so that was killer. And then I know
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a winning record against Taylor Fritz. So
Speaker 1: I think Fritz was the favorite going into the final
Speaker 1: in Halay. And then Fritz, of course, you know, lost
Speaker 1: four and four, but beat Zverev in the semi final. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Zverev has a Taylor Fritz problem because he doesn't
Speaker 1: beat him. Guten dog, That's all I got. So don't
Speaker 1: get that excited Fritz. I mean he is showing some
Speaker 1: good grass court form, but uh yeah, not getting through Tiaffo,
Speaker 1: his fellow countryman in the final. Of course, the real
Speaker 1: American battle was happening on the White House lawn with
Speaker 1: the UFC events insane. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: How's the production value on none event?
Speaker 1: It's pretty good?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean through the White House in some
Speaker 2: cases what was going on with the old country.
Speaker 1: This is like a different place. So Taylor Fritz runner
Speaker 1: up in Hallay, And like I said last week, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much you tried to watch of it,
Speaker 1: but the shadows and the roof in there makes a
Speaker 1: lot of the matches. Yeah, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: the organizers of Halley want to listen.
Speaker 2: Hall Hall, Hallay Hall.
Speaker 1: Didn't we argue about this last week?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We did, and he said, let's commit to Halley
Speaker 2: and then I've taken us back.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. And then the other men's tournament that
Speaker 1: was going on was the Queen's Club tournament where Francisco
Speaker 1: Cerundelo overcame Tommy Paul and three very loved this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a good match.
Speaker 2: It was a good match. It was a beautiful story.
Speaker 2: His parents arrived. This was the bit I loved.
Speaker 1: His dad watching for the first time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't like flying. He's a fear of flying,
Speaker 2: and apparently he's been trying to get over it. And
Speaker 2: they were all like, yeah, we'll believe it when we
Speaker 2: see it, you know, And he did it. But they
Speaker 2: only arrived, like at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I want to think my family, that is my mom.
Speaker 3: They just arrived for the last two games.
Speaker 2: My dad.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the first moment that I see them
Speaker 3: because there arrive in the last two games from Argentina.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the first time my dad takes a
Speaker 3: flight and the first time he can't watch me outside
Speaker 3: from Argentina.
Speaker 1: So there isn't it right. Yeah, So we overcame the
Speaker 1: fear of flying to get to the Queen's.
Speaker 2: Club and they only arrived at the airport like two
Speaker 2: thirty or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if he lost the match, would they just
Speaker 1: quietly leave and not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they just call him from the hotel. We did
Speaker 2: a try and we did try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the trying is what matters, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then also a fear of flying. I guess he
Speaker 1: took some therapy to get over it and then make
Speaker 1: the tournament. Come see his sunplay. But also it's a
Speaker 1: good excuse if you don't want to do something right,
Speaker 1: Like my wife thinks I have a fear of shopping.
Speaker 2: Hello, sorry, I just can't do it. I can't do
Speaker 2: the shopping.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, today I feel gay.
Speaker 2: There's so much World Cup fever on. Yeah, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of loving it.
Speaker 1: It's great. Who's going to win?
Speaker 2: I don't want it to be well who is? Say?
Speaker 2: Is looking actually pretty good? They're looking really really fun
Speaker 2: and at home the crowd is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then so loud. I know we're diverting. But
Speaker 1: the Australia USA match, Yeah, obviously I'm basically half Australian
Speaker 1: half American at this point, but when Australia scored that
Speaker 1: own goal, I was like, I'm American, but.
Speaker 2: Like when it when it's down to games like that,
Speaker 2: don't you aren't you just American? You've got to go
Speaker 2: for your origin. You got to go for your country
Speaker 2: of origin for sure, right, totally. Yeah, in America is
Speaker 2: great again. We love America, America beautiful.
Speaker 1: I believe that we don't excel at the.
Speaker 2: Chance either, do it, Ausies? But I have heard some
Speaker 2: pretty good ones at the World Cup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they had a very good one. The Aussie boys
Speaker 1: are on a bender. Donald Trump is a sex offender.
Speaker 1: Pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's no, we believe, we believe.
Speaker 4: Us.
Speaker 1: That's the way we like it.
Speaker 2: We like it.
Speaker 1: We so Cerrendilo beating Tommy Paul and it looked really
Speaker 1: after the first set, and Tommy Paul up a break
Speaker 1: in this second that he was gonna run away with it.
Speaker 1: But Sarrendalo's forehand does a lot of damage and Tommy
Speaker 1: Paul can play erratically when put under pressure, and that's
Speaker 1: pretty much what happened in this match. But it was
Speaker 1: an awesome final to end the week on and surrenderal.
Speaker 3: Getting to take a plane and come here. It's the
Speaker 3: father Day, you know, Gendina, so.
Speaker 2: Be there for you.
Speaker 1: So tell me Paul looking good. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of Americans in the second
Speaker 1: week of Wimbledon at this.
Speaker 2: Rate, because it's a good time.
Speaker 1: I know, because obviously on clay we don't really show up.
Speaker 1: But I think Tfo, Temmy, Paul, Ben Shelton playing right,
Speaker 1: obviously Taylor Fritz. So it's gonna be, yeah, a good,
Speaker 1: good tournament, I believe for us. And this story with Sarrendalo, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I have experienced pain before. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you saw the footage of him getting hit in the.
Speaker 4: Throat, yes, oh gosh, oh no, that's got him right
Speaker 4: in the throat.
Speaker 2: Straight in the He was at the net in the
Speaker 2: throat ow out of what probably one hundred and something
Speaker 2: miles Proud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it looks brutal. I mean, getting tagged in
Speaker 1: the throat. It has happened to me. Really, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get it dance around saying I took get
Speaker 1: him shot in the throat, dance. I was playing doubles
Speaker 1: and one of my good buddies on the other side
Speaker 1: of the net. I was up at the net and
Speaker 1: he took one out of the air and it went
Speaker 1: straight into my atoms apple and I was I was
Speaker 1: on the ground for a second because I couldn't breathe,
Speaker 1: and then I got up in pain, but not you know,
Speaker 1: any serious damage. But then realized I was talking with
Speaker 1: a whistle.
Speaker 2: So I would love that version of Michael.
Speaker 1: I had to do gigs that week and I was
Speaker 1: just whistling through my words and.
Speaker 2: It was just, yeah, whistling while you would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I whist at work. But I wasn't happy at all.
Speaker 1: And he because he was a good friend, that did it.
Speaker 1: And once it was obvious I was fine, But then
Speaker 1: talking with the whistle, he thought it was the most hilarious.
Speaker 2: It's really funny. Yeah that is crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Cerrendolo, no whistling. Besides, that's just being happy
Speaker 1: to win the tournament. Yeah. Special mentioned a Rinky.
Speaker 2: Hitcheacta did so well.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, defeating a yearie l Hechka, Rinky beating a
Speaker 1: top twenty player and he has had a great season,
Speaker 1: so huge win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some confidence for Rinky going into the big show,
Speaker 1: big show, Yeah, the championships. And then because we're still
Speaker 1: on this tournament, the Queen's Club had some controversy m
Speaker 1: hm that we absolutely love yeah Moute, which I believe.
Speaker 2: Was my favorite, one of our favorites. Yeah, you needed
Speaker 2: the top three.
Speaker 1: We need a mooned personalities. That's so frustrated. You know,
Speaker 1: when I had a match point, I was on the
Speaker 1: second serve. Okay, you hatim in the middle. What about
Speaker 1: you do? You just put the ball in the court.
Speaker 3: And then he hates me one. I was like, fuck,
Speaker 3: I would have to serve and I would have to noms.
Speaker 2: Please no right content.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you one more question.
Speaker 2: Apologies everyone for the language there. I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 2: one more question, so please keep it clean.
Speaker 1: Okay, you on the grass last week, unfortunately didn't go
Speaker 1: your way.
Speaker 2: What's it like to get your first victory? Fuck?
Speaker 1: Fok fox.
Speaker 2: I couldn't help himself. He didn't help himself.
Speaker 1: How is that not?
Speaker 2: And he's laughing, he's smiling. It's like I gotta gew
Speaker 2: gags away, great gags, great time, great time, perfect time,
Speaker 2: perfect time. Just when you think the joke is over,
Speaker 2: he comes back.
Speaker 1: I know, and it's like he drops the first F bomb.
Speaker 1: It gets a laugh from the crowd, and you can
Speaker 1: see in his face he's like a mischievous little boys.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, he's.
Speaker 2: Just playing, he's just having a good time.
Speaker 1: And it was like not a tirade. If he was angry.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, he was smiling, he was happy.
Speaker 1: It was so fun. One of the best on court
Speaker 1: interviews ever. He eventually got fined forty thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: unsportsmanlike conduct.
Speaker 2: Oh god, and his.
Speaker 1: Prize money was forty three thousand.
Speaker 2: Oh that sucks. Yeah, that win. I mean, would you
Speaker 2: still feel happy about the win?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess beating Perry Carr and his you know,
Speaker 1: huge serving. But then for money, for no money at all,
Speaker 1: and like it gets a laugh, if it.
Speaker 2: Gets laugh yeah, it's fine. Give him another forty Yeah.
Speaker 1: And on sportsmanlike conduct, when it's a postmatch interview, there's no.
Speaker 2: Sports, there's no game going on anymore.
Speaker 1: Still happening, Yeah, so what are we doing here? And
Speaker 1: like who is okay? I have a few problems.
Speaker 2: With this, Okay, who is still.
Speaker 1: Offended by sports with all the atrocities world, Like who
Speaker 1: is like hearing a swear word of me?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well that lady that clutched the pearls
Speaker 2: when Andreva said true, Yeah, and the.
Speaker 1: Defending champion is eliminated, and I get there's kids there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but most say they watching so many.
Speaker 1: They have access to the internet.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's exactly way worse things on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: And then also, like to put it in context, Zvera
Speaker 1: of a couple of years ago in Anger took his
Speaker 1: racket and smashed up the chair umpire's chair. Yeah he
Speaker 1: got fined forty thousand dollars for that.
Speaker 2: Oh this was completely different.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is fun.
Speaker 2: This is fun. Tell you have some fun. I know.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. We should start a moute kickstarter
Speaker 1: to get him as money back for for the tournament
Speaker 1: fund me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's do that. And then when he comes
Speaker 2: on the pod at the Australian Open, we'll give him
Speaker 2: a big check.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, not a go fundme, a go fuck me.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 1: So moving on to the wt A and the Berlin
Speaker 1: Grass Court Championships. Linda Noskova beating American Jess I wanted
Speaker 1: just to win.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you, Mike, I know you're a Biggoles fan.
Speaker 1: I love Pagola. She was she was great when she
Speaker 1: came in for the interview. I love talking NFL to
Speaker 1: American players. You do, and I thought it was hers
Speaker 1: to win, but Noskova was kind of powering through the tournament.
Speaker 1: She'll enter the top ten for the first time after this.
Speaker 1: Pagola had an insane match against Sablenka, Yeah, where Sablenka
Speaker 1: got bageled in the third set decider.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think she just gives up?
Speaker 1: Well, it's an interesting thing because at the French Open
Speaker 1: she got bageled in the third set by Diana Schneider.
Speaker 2: Right, do you think she just decides at one point?
Speaker 2: Is like, it's not for me.
Speaker 1: There's definitely something mentally going on. But to come back,
Speaker 1: they had a rain delay and it looked like she
Speaker 1: was going to lose in straight sets Sablenka, But then
Speaker 1: after the raindelay, came back and on that second set,
Speaker 1: and so you think the momentums with her, but then
Speaker 1: the bagel in the third set decider, it seemed to switch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a mental drop off that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know she's battled mental demons in the past with their
Speaker 1: serve where she like it took like a good year
Speaker 1: of trying to rectify that, but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Double bagels and two tournaments close together is.
Speaker 2: Not Yeah, well, it's not looking good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: For Wimbledon, she's still the favorite. Yeah, still the favorite,
Speaker 2: still the top seed. Other than that, uh Iyola Yola.
Speaker 2: She had a great round, so good because she's got
Speaker 2: so much confidence behind her and she's so level headed.
Speaker 2: For however, like she's so young and she just speaks
Speaker 2: like she's I don't know, got fifty years of experience
Speaker 2: of life, experience, old soul, old soul, really grounded. Beats Rebucana,
Speaker 2: beats my favorite sit Alina.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but if it's Yalla, you're kind of
Speaker 1: like like, yeah, it's still cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but beating Rebeccaha is huge obviously, and then losing
Speaker 1: to the eventual winner and Oscova, it's like what a run?
Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's part of I wanted to ask you about this.
Speaker 1: Did you notice there's like a cool girl click.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they all got photos together. Yeah, so it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, even yeah and then and then there is
Speaker 1: one no zz yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they do loved it. They're a little girl crew.
Speaker 1: They're a little girl crew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be fun. Yeah, I'd love to know who,
Speaker 2: like is the like I woant to know that the
Speaker 2: behind the scenes, what like Who's the Yeah, the reality
Speaker 2: TV of tell Oh Yeah, I think that would be
Speaker 2: a good show.
Speaker 1: That's not bad at all, and they are cool.
Speaker 2: And especially on the on the Women's Tour, I think
Speaker 2: it'd be I think it'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Obviously there'd be people that wouldn't like each other or
Speaker 2: just do their own thing, but I think they'd be
Speaker 2: like real cool hangs.
Speaker 1: But because they are, like, you know, doing almost fashion
Speaker 1: shoots at every tournament, there's a ton of Instagram content.
Speaker 1: Do you think there's players like say a Diana Schneider
Speaker 1: or a Lauris Siegmund that are watching from the sidelines
Speaker 1: going I wish I was.
Speaker 2: In that cool? They've got their own cool girl group,
Speaker 2: I reckon. Yeah, they're doing their own things.
Speaker 1: But it is like a traveling circus, the W two
Speaker 1: and the ATP College crew. Yeah, but do you think
Speaker 1: they have a table in the cafeteria and.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what I mean probably Yeah, they would
Speaker 2: just gravitate toward each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't let you.
Speaker 2: Know, you can't sit here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, stop trying to make fetch happen?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: Ah, what else, Well, let's get into the Wimbledon wild cards.
Speaker 1: This is huge?
Speaker 2: Happened?
Speaker 1: Can we start with the headline story? Yeah, Serna.
Speaker 2: Back?
Speaker 1: Where is hold on? Serna is playing? I don't know
Speaker 1: that's the wrong line. Serena Williams playing singles Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love to see it. Oh, this is exciting.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, she's forty four years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're telling me there's a chance I can
Speaker 1: play in Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: Definitely. Yeah. You can put your mind to anything.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can't put my mind anything, but it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I'll succeed.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, yeah, I believe in you. Serena playing is
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I think it's like huge obviously not only tennis news,
Speaker 1: but like she's such a global name that Wimbledon knows
Speaker 1: exactly what it's doing. They know they're going to get
Speaker 1: a lot of eyeballs on whatever match or matches hopefully
Speaker 1: as she ends up playing. But the draw is not
Speaker 1: out till Friday. Who, Lizzie, who do you want to
Speaker 1: see Serena play in the first round as a wildcat?
Speaker 2: She could play anyone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you want to? Well, do you want to Rena.
Speaker 2: Osaka?
Speaker 1: Amazing?
Speaker 2: Could you have imagine, I mean Blockbusters, Serena, Goff, Goff, great, Serena,
Speaker 2: Sabalanka crazy, any yeah, any of the top.
Speaker 1: So you want to see a top ten Yes, play.
Speaker 2: A top ten place Serena, I do?
Speaker 1: Do you not want to go the other side of things?
Speaker 1: And another say she plays another qualifier or a wild
Speaker 1: card and then she gets a couple of matches in like.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I want it hard out. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: welcome back Serena.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean it could be any of those players, Like,
Speaker 1: we won't know till Friday, but it's the draw is
Speaker 1: going to be awesome on Friday, just when they announce
Speaker 1: who's she.
Speaker 2: Going to play, who she's going to play, it's going
Speaker 2: to be sick.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Osaka is a good chout. I
Speaker 1: think that would be.
Speaker 2: That'd be awesome, awesome because like obviously Serena is coming
Speaker 2: back to tennis, but the person playing her, if it
Speaker 2: is like a top ten player, it's like such a
Speaker 2: mental thing to have to face, like the queen of tennis.
Speaker 1: Yeah I know, but she's also coming in with no matches.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, She's going from zero to sixty one one
Speaker 1: doubles match she's going from zero to forty four, you know,
Speaker 1: can she do it? I mean the one doubles match
Speaker 1: and then oh, an interesting one would be tom Lanovic,
Speaker 1: who beat Serena the US Open twenty twenty two for
Speaker 1: her last match.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that would be cool.
Speaker 1: That would be cool. But then it's just movement on
Speaker 1: grass is difficult, and she is forty four, like her
Speaker 1: serve is obviously still huge and great.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, I just maybe she'll have that
Speaker 2: sort of like not first time but you know, coming
Speaker 2: back excitement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the adrenaline, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean the joy of playing.
Speaker 1: From zero singles matches in a like pro event to
Speaker 1: Wimbledon is nuts. I worry that this is like when
Speaker 1: they announced the new Indiana Jones movie. Right, we're like
Speaker 1: nostalgia and everything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're like, oh, I grew.
Speaker 1: Up with this, and this, you know, is awesome to watch,
Speaker 1: and then when it's actually happening, you're like they are
Speaker 1: too old to be like they.
Speaker 2: Do not have or when you go see an old band, yeah,
Speaker 2: Paul McCartney, you cannot sing anymore. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They have to poke Bob Dylan with a stick, so
Speaker 1: he goes I'm in the word or whatever. Yeah, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Though it's exciting now, but
Speaker 1: then in actual practice or in actual you know, match,
Speaker 1: it's going to be like.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be good. Okay, I think it'll be.
Speaker 1: I trust you trust that she'll put in a competitive effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's no controversy with her getting the wild
Speaker 1: card over it's say a battling player on the WTA side.
Speaker 2: That you know, I mean that probably is. There's probably
Speaker 2: someone that could have got it, but it's Serena. I know,
Speaker 2: it's Serena, Queen of Tennis at Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean we're happy that uh Kolinska is
Speaker 1: then with a wild card who just played the final
Speaker 1: of Roland Garros, so that is awesome. And then the
Speaker 1: rest are just kind of a British players. Harriet Dart
Speaker 1: of course has been around for a while, but the
Speaker 1: other ones, Yeah, I mean, good luck, good.
Speaker 2: Luck, oh, good luck, good luck out there.
Speaker 1: Don't have to strawberries and cream before you go bets cuff.
Speaker 1: And then on the men's side, the wild cards we've
Speaker 1: briefly touched on before. Varenka and Dematrov are through no
Speaker 1: wildcard for mon fees or carryos, But like you said,
Speaker 1: Curios is playing the doubles. Yes, interestingly, no wild card
Speaker 1: for Barrettini or Dan Evans. Dan Evans is interesting. He's
Speaker 1: been like a British player who's given a lot of
Speaker 1: trouble to the top ten over the past I don't
Speaker 1: know howver many years, ten years plus, and it has
Speaker 1: it said it's his last year playing. But no, no
Speaker 1: wild card for Dan Evans. Interestingly, do they treat the
Speaker 1: wild cards like a reality TV show?
Speaker 2: That would be cool, That would be what I would watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, so they're all standing there, you got all
Speaker 1: the players, you got carry ons on on fees, you're
Speaker 1: playing but yeah, yeah, yeah, and you get the who
Speaker 1: cures starmer even though I know he's just resigned, but
Speaker 1: he hands out like a single rose to the players
Speaker 1: that get to walk.
Speaker 2: You accept this?
Speaker 1: I mean, why not? What would you call the reality
Speaker 1: show for the wild card.
Speaker 2: Wild things?
Speaker 1: Whoa hell?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And they have to do like a mechanical bull
Speaker 2: to get the wild gun.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it? Mechanical ball? Oh, mechanical bull A
Speaker 1: ball all right, mechanical bull are So they do that
Speaker 1: as a like a lead up to the rose.
Speaker 2: That's one of that's one of the challenges. Mechanical bawl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, instead of a rose, maybe like, yeah, a golden
Speaker 1: tennis ball. Yes, I mean we are, you know, gainfully
Speaker 1: employed by the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: Beautiful.
Speaker 1: Maybe we should pitch wild things for the AO.
Speaker 2: Yeah, behind the scenes. Yeah, I'm sure he flies on
Speaker 2: the wall.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the players would love it.
Speaker 2: They love everything that we do.
Speaker 1: They love competition, they love everything we do. But I mean,
Speaker 1: standing there without a golden ball at the end of
Speaker 1: the and it's like, all right, you got.
Speaker 2: To fly back to Yeah, getting the cup. We'll get
Speaker 2: him into shakeshare, We'll get him into a couple of them.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because we'll why them out to Australia
Speaker 1: and then if they don't get the golden ball, we'll
Speaker 1: be like, well, you're not in the tournament, so you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta fly back to you know, it was true.
Speaker 1: Then I got the hotel room.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 1: I can't wait all these sweet hotel rooms that I'll
Speaker 1: be collecting on. We believe, we believe, we believe, we believe.
Speaker 2: Okay, Mike, you ready for approaching the net featuring me
Speaker 2: and you, Yes, which is of course the best way
Speaker 2: that I love to watch tennis is through my phone
Speaker 2: on social media, and this is what I have seen
Speaker 2: this week. Yanixina, we love him. He has had an
Speaker 2: asteroid named after him. Do you think he's happy with it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I guess it's a.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, Okay, I guess.
Speaker 1: It's funny to me because Yennick Sinner, who struggled in
Speaker 1: the heat of Paris. This is an object that burns
Speaker 1: up once entering Earth's atmosphere, So I guess it's that.
Speaker 2: Is it a compliment?
Speaker 1: I don't know, celestial like I think a comet would be.
Speaker 2: I could for a star. Yeah, I want to star
Speaker 2: like a star formation.
Speaker 1: A whole consolation. Yeah, it's a whole.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They've officially called the asteroid one two zero zero
Speaker 2: nine seven Yonick Cinna special name.
Speaker 1: What if this is the asteroid that brings about armageddon?
Speaker 1: Because who remembers asteroids if they don't do any damage?
Speaker 1: You know? So if this is the one, this is
Speaker 1: the one where Yannick Center is going to end us all.
Speaker 2: One to zero zero nine to seven, Yannick Cinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck to it two zero zero nine to seven.
Speaker 1: Also Bernard Thomic's current ranking.
Speaker 2: Okay, big news always with any tournament that Naomi Orsucker
Speaker 2: does is her outfit, and she has revealed her dress
Speaker 2: and obviously Wimbledon you got to just have the whites.
Speaker 2: Have you seen it?
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, right, I like it. It's got like a flower
Speaker 2: trim okay, very like you know, cut out shoulder. I'm
Speaker 2: into it. I think it's one of my favorite dresses
Speaker 2: of hers.
Speaker 1: Holdout it now. Yeah, it's obviously Wimbledon. She must find
Speaker 1: restrictive in that she can't do a huge outlandish true.
Speaker 2: I think restrictions are good though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does look pretty kind of streamlined.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not neat, it's tidy.
Speaker 1: Centatious as usual, and uh yeah, good for her.
Speaker 2: Just more on Naomi's fashion future. Yes, she put on threads.
Speaker 2: She is quite prolific on threads, to be honest. She's
Speaker 2: always on it. You're following, Yeah, I follow her on threads.
Speaker 2: She's always talking about her life and like she's just
Speaker 2: kind of giving motivational stuff on threads, Like I don't know,
Speaker 2: he needs to hear this today. But you're doing great.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because, as we know interviewing, she's not the
Speaker 1: most forthcoming.
Speaker 2: Or no, she's an introvert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I guess there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: like that that once are online, they kind.
Speaker 2: Of, you know, they find their place. But she's like
Speaker 2: she threw out on threads. I would actually love to
Speaker 2: creative direct other tennis players. Lol, Come let me spice
Speaker 2: up your life. Come let me spice up your life.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would personally let I mean creative
Speaker 2: direct for me because imagine saying no when she's like,
Speaker 2: you have to wear this crown and giant cape and
Speaker 2: pro style. I mean style is different for everyone, but
Speaker 2: not for me. I think like to see you go
Speaker 2: to like some sort of design school. First show me
Speaker 2: your qualifications, then you can create a direct for me, babe. Okay. Finally,
Speaker 2: on approaching the net, Wimbledon will sell around two million strawberries. Okay,
Speaker 2: the strawberries excite you.
Speaker 1: I mean strawberries and cream is a good dessert, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's I don't mind it and they have pims
Speaker 1: is the drinks is the drink? I mean it's refreshing
Speaker 1: and it's better than eating most British food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's better than.
Speaker 1: Beer spot.
Speaker 2: This is the yearly dose of fruit and ben it's
Speaker 2: just the strawberries and cream.
Speaker 1: Some beans in an old chew.
Speaker 2: So bad, but the strawberries and cream. It is iconic.
Speaker 2: And I love that they have a food, yes, because
Speaker 2: there's no other tennis tournament really that has a food
Speaker 2: so strongly associated with the tournament. That's true, Like what
Speaker 2: could we have Australian specific Bunning sausage. We need to
Speaker 2: get the Bunnings collab going.
Speaker 1: With what paired with what?
Speaker 2: Drink avb Yeah maybe yeah, Bundy and coke, Bundy and
Speaker 2: Chicka roll, chicker roll chaser.
Speaker 1: Vegim on toast Yeah, and Jack Daniels classic.
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait for my vegimions and Jack Daniels
Speaker 2: can wash.
Speaker 1: It down warm Jack Daniels on a day.
Speaker 2: But the thing I love about the strawberries is that
Speaker 2: they only come from about forty kilometers away and they're
Speaker 2: picked on the day, shipped straight there. These strawberries uh
Speaker 2: low income workers, low income workers, and then they go
Speaker 2: straight there for inspection and if they don't make the
Speaker 2: they get made into jam. That's something that really impressed me.
Speaker 2: I thought that was really cool. We know tennis players
Speaker 2: love a little fashion moment. Of course, so Ego Shwantech
Speaker 2: has a new sponsored coach and she is modeling a handbag.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, all right, well you've given I.
Speaker 2: Know I feel bad now, but this looks to me
Speaker 2: a bit hills hoist. Like she's out in the backyard.
Speaker 2: There's sheets on the line. Yeah, and she's got to
Speaker 2: check the washing before she goes out. She's like, is
Speaker 2: it damp the bag itself?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm not going to buy that. I'm not a fan
Speaker 2: of this bag, but I do have a favorite Eager bag. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Course that's the original ego.
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Speaker 1: and you you like that bag more?
Speaker 2: I would use that bag, Moore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well that takes us to the tail
Speaker 1: end of the episode, and we do have a couple
Speaker 1: more tournaments before Wimbledon kicks off proper. We have the
Speaker 1: Eastbourne Open, which is atp and a WTA two fifty
Speaker 1: that started already the first round. Yes, at the time
Speaker 1: of recording, we touched on the MAJORCA Open, which is
Speaker 1: an ATP two fifty carry OUs first round. Lost Aussie
Speaker 1: Adam Walton there. And then of course the Bad Homburg.
Speaker 1: WTA want to Holmberg Homburg. I love that name for Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good, it's great. And so those are the last
Speaker 1: few before the main draw of Wimbledon kicks off. The
Speaker 1: draw is out on Friday.
Speaker 2: I can wait.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make a ton of predictions on the next episode.
Speaker 1: Who we'd like we don't like going in to that.
Speaker 1: The qualifiers have started this week, so you know there
Speaker 1: could be someone coming out of qualifying that might make
Speaker 1: a deep run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, I just thought of another Serena matchup that
Speaker 1: would be amazing. Serena versus Radic on it.
Speaker 2: That would be great home hometown. Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. We'll cover it all next week, all right,
Speaker 1: see yup.