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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to the AO Show. I'm Mattrolo

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Speaker 1: from oz open dot com and we're bringing you a

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Speaker 1: new stream of the podcast called The sit Down, which

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Speaker 1: will be released at the start of each week. For

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Speaker 1: every episode, I'll be joined by Viv Christy from Australian

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Speaker 1: tennis magazine.

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Speaker 2: Hey Viv, Hey Matt, it's so much fun to be

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Speaker 2: here with you.

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Speaker 1: Tell our listeners more about what they can expect from

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Speaker 1: the sit Down.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a bit like a change of ends in

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Speaker 2: a professional tennis match. It's a chance for us to

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Speaker 2: sit down with players, coaches and other tennis identities and

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Speaker 2: just get their take on the game.

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Speaker 1: I love the sound of that. I love a deep

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Speaker 1: dive conversation where you get a little bit more into

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Speaker 1: the weeds of what people think and what makes them ticks.

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Speaker 1: So that sounds great. And who's our first guest today,

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Speaker 1: Viv on the Sitdown?

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Speaker 2: Well, we start with the look back from Yanick Sinner,

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Speaker 2: who sat down with Nick mccarvill, a very good friend

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Speaker 2: of the pod during the History and Open.

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Speaker 1: And what a great guest to start off the first

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Speaker 1: episode of the Sitdown. Given Yanick Sinner's start to season

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's absolutely the man of the moment, isn't he.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear from him.

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Speaker 3: Janick Center, thanks you for your time as always. You've

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Speaker 3: now been in Australia for a few years. But adding

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Speaker 3: Darren Cahill to your team does that help you know

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Speaker 3: how to navigate the Australian and Australian people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, first of all, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 5: It's obviously you know, working with with Darren and also

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Speaker 5: with Simone. I think the combination is really nice. And

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Speaker 5: obviously he knows here in Australia are really well where

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Speaker 5: to go and and and how to handle a little

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Speaker 5: bit of the situation. And I think he's, you know,

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Speaker 5: the person who gives us confidence and also calmness in

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Speaker 5: the team, and so we we always say to him

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Speaker 5: he is our our dead for all of us know.

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Speaker 5: And Simon is more for the technical and tactical side.

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Speaker 5: And I think, as I said, a combination is working

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Speaker 5: really well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And Darren comes in as the.

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Speaker 4: Wise father exactly. It's it's important, he's important to be honest.

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Speaker 5: And when I chose him, I felt immediately a good

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Speaker 5: connection because also human wise, he's he's so nice and

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Speaker 5: he has a beautiful family and we all understand.

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Speaker 4: Us really well. Which is the most important.

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Speaker 3: What are the one or two things he's told you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you've spent now a few years in Australia,

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Speaker 3: but coming here and seeing it maybe through his eyes,

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Speaker 3: is it different.

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Speaker 4: It is a little bit different, for sure.

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Speaker 5: When I played in Adelaide last year, you know, he

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Speaker 5: showed us a little bit how how everything works there

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Speaker 5: and that's us hometown.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, it's it's his hometown.

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Speaker 5: So we went for and the thirty first of December,

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Speaker 5: we went to it in a in a restaurant with him.

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Speaker 5: So you know, I also get to know his his taste,

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Speaker 5: what he likes and what he doesn't like, and usually

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Speaker 5: he likes the unhealthy stuff with It's okay, it's really yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's but it's he's in he's in good shape, he's

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Speaker 5: looking right, and it's it's all going in the right way.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: Off season, obviously players take some time away.

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Speaker 4: You get to have a little bit of a break.

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Speaker 3: But you went skiing, which I think surprised a lot

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Speaker 3: of people because fans at home, I think many of

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Speaker 3: them will know that you're a champion skier. As a junior,

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Speaker 3: you chose tennis, but a lot of tennis players wouldn't

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Speaker 3: take that risk because not only are you skiing, but

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Speaker 3: you're a really dang good skier.

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Speaker 4: So I used to be good, but they're still pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Let's say that.

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Speaker 5: I feel I feel still safe on the on the skis,

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Speaker 5: on the slopes. It's just more to be very careful

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Speaker 5: with other skiers. You know, I watch around a lot.

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Speaker 5: You know, if somebody is cutting you a little bit,

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Speaker 5: you know, you never know, but it's I always say

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Speaker 5: it's it's you also have to enjoy no I am

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm in a tennis court basically every day. But

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Speaker 5: when you get a little bit of time off, it's

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Speaker 5: it's nice to do something different. I love to go

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Speaker 5: even if I'm really bad in golf, but it's good

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Speaker 5: for your mind. You don't think about tennis and skiing.

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Speaker 5: For me, it is always a positive emotion. It's something different.

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Speaker 5: You know, you can feel the wind, you can feel

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Speaker 5: a little bit the cold weather and being in the nature.

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Speaker 4: I love to so it's it's nice to go sometimes

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Speaker 4: to ski.

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Speaker 3: Does it feel like freeing too for yourself as a

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Speaker 4: And yeah for me.

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Speaker 5: For me, when I'm in the mountain, I just take

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Speaker 5: or I just need a couple of days to refuel myself, no,

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Speaker 5: to relax. But also you know, when I get back

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Speaker 5: on tennis court, I feel ready Again.

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Speaker 4: The problem means.

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Speaker 5: When you go with friends to ski, because then you know,

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Speaker 5: you you start to think like you you were thinking

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Speaker 5: when you were ten years old, so things can go

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Speaker 5: a little bit crazy. But in the other way, now

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Speaker 5: I am, I have to say, I have quite good

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Speaker 5: self control of myself, so it's it's it's fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen obviously your talent on the tennis court,

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Speaker 3: but there's also been the fashion piece of it, right

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Speaker 3: the deals of court. It feels like maybe that's something

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Speaker 3: that you've enjoyed exploring. And I don't know if you

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Speaker 3: would you have a like fashion inspiration.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so let's say in the in the beginning was

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Speaker 5: really strange for me. But when I started to work

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Speaker 5: with Gucci, I'm very curious man, and I also sometimes

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Speaker 5: you know, would like to know what's what's the story behind,

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Speaker 5: and so you get to know and also to learn

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Speaker 5: new things, which which is sometimes really nice, and then

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Speaker 5: how they choose the colors and everything. It's it's it's

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Speaker 5: nice to be to be also just part of it,

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Speaker 5: you know, to see a different point of view, you

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Speaker 5: know sometimes or most of the time, I see only

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Speaker 5: you know, the tennis court and and and the tennis fans,

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Speaker 5: which which is also nice. But you know, when you

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Speaker 5: start to make a couple of shootings, it's it's fun

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Speaker 5: to see also different side and then you say this

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Speaker 5: I don't like and then this it's it's it's better,

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Speaker 5: but you know, it's it's also part of a little

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My very last question, the Corota boys. They're here, they've

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Speaker 3: completed their career Grand Slam. Yes, there's really been nothing

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Speaker 3: like it in tennis. This group of fans dressed in

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Speaker 3: orange supporting you. Does it give you that special energy?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. It is a special feeling.

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Speaker 5: No, you have this fang club which is basically coming

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Speaker 5: now to do a lot of tournaments, and they give

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Speaker 5: you a good feeling. You know, they are you know,

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Speaker 5: kind of family in one way. They are getting more

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Speaker 5: more and more famous than I am slowly, so it's

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Speaker 5: I am really happy for them, and but it's good

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Speaker 5: also for them, you know, to go a little bit

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Speaker 5: out of the country seeing senior things. You know, they're

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Speaker 5: here in Melbourne, they can they can explor as to

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Speaker 5: the city, maybe more than I do because I my

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Speaker 5: main goal is still, you know, to play tennis and

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Speaker 5: trying to win as many matches as possible.

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Speaker 4: But in other way, you know, it's it's nice.

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Speaker 5: That they are here. It's it gives a good feeling.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, let's see where they are coming next.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well, we appreciate your time and thank great.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So Matt.

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Speaker 2: The thing that struck me most about that interview is

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Speaker 2: that Yannick has achieved such a great balance, firstly with

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Speaker 2: his coaching team of Daran Klee and Semonia of Nazi,

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Speaker 2: and also in his life generally.

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Speaker 1: And also confidence. I think partnering with a big luxurious

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Speaker 1: brand like Gucci, there's a bit of swagger there and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like high end and he looks great

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Speaker 1: and he's doing fashion shoots. And there's the fact that

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Speaker 1: he had the confidence to go on a skiing trip

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Speaker 1: in the off season. A lot of players would avoid

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Speaker 1: doing that. Because skiing is inherently risky and you can

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Speaker 1: get injured. But it's good for him. He wants to ski.

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Speaker 1: He said, he feels good on the slopes and you

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Speaker 1: know he comes out in January, he wins his So

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Speaker 1: it was the right thing to do.

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Speaker 2: It sounds to me like skiing puts him in a

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Speaker 2: really great state of mind. Actually, I mean, he sounds

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Speaker 2: almost poetic when he talks about it. He says, you

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Speaker 2: can feel the wind, you can feel the weather. He

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Speaker 2: loves the nature. So yeah, I think he arrived at

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Speaker 2: the Australian Open perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Placed, also in a great headspace. You can see that

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Speaker 1: into play he has with the team. They've got a

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Speaker 1: great dynamic. When Kale and Vanyotzi were doing that press

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Speaker 1: conference during the Australian Open, there were photos of Sinner

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Speaker 1: hoobbing up in the side of the press conference and

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Speaker 1: I think did he ask a question or he became

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Speaker 1: visible or something happened, And it was just a really

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Speaker 1: humorous little moment between the team that's seemed quite spontaneous.

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

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