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Speaker 1: Hey, it spilling what We're alive at the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: all thanks to stan Sport this afternoon. And Jim Currier

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Speaker 1: joins us here at the court side bar. He's been lurking.

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Speaker 1: Just bust it out of the match and here I am.

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Speaker 1: So we gotta keep it tighty. You gotta get back

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Speaker 1: to the tennis. Yeah, so he's very Ivfjokovic is going

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Speaker 1: on right now, Jim, Let's talk Djokovic.

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Speaker 2: So is he faking an injury? Let's get to it.

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Speaker 3: He's not. He is definitely not faking an injury. But

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Speaker 3: I think that because he is a polarizing figure, as

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Speaker 3: you referred to going to break. Yeah, a lot of

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Speaker 3: people just don't really know what to think of him.

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Speaker 3: But we've seen him in twenty twenty one and twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty three win this tournament carrying legitimate injuries. He had

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Speaker 3: an abdominal strain in twenty twenty one and he had

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Speaker 3: a tear in his hamstring muscle in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: I suspect he's got another micro tear in his hamstring muscle. Ye,

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna find out, you know more, after the match.

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Speaker 3: He'll tell us. But I don't think there's no reason

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Speaker 3: for you to fake an injury and totally change the

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Speaker 3: way you play.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like, even if he is faking an injury,

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Speaker 1: is it all's fair in love and war? And faking

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Speaker 1: an injury when you because I mean that in al

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Speaker 1: Choraz was was thumping him in the first set the

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Speaker 1: other night and then all of a sudden injury changes

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Speaker 1: the pace. Al Chiz maybe take the foot off the

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Speaker 1: throat a little bit and then bang his back, And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Zvera's not gonna make the same mistake. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is why Jokovic is such

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Speaker 1: an interesting character, right, Like, because I actually remember speaking

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Speaker 1: to you a few years ago about Djokovic. This was

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Speaker 1: when we were doing Ninjuo and he was a similar thing.

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Speaker 2: I think. I think he came into this train of

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Speaker 2: me with a knee, some sort of.

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Speaker 3: A Nigel of you.

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Speaker 1: But there was something going on and we were talking

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Speaker 1: about how polarizing is for Australians and you actually said

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Speaker 1: to me, you were like, it's funny that we kind

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Speaker 1: of want Djokovic to be a knight in shining armor,

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Speaker 1: like a white Knight. But if you think about you know,

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Speaker 1: this guy was born in Serbia in the eighties, late eighties, right,

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Speaker 1: so that the Bosnian you know, Serbian hertzegomny of war

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Speaker 1: is going on.

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Speaker 2: All through his childhood.

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Speaker 1: He I feel like he's a different sort of competitor

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Speaker 1: because of that. There's not this sense of like I

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Speaker 1: owe you anything, you know.

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Speaker 3: No, he's he's a born warrior out of necessity because

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Speaker 3: he's sort of been fighting and scraping and Klawn and

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Speaker 3: his family for their safety. Yeah, that's probably his earliest memories. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Then out here, he likes to be antagonized by the crowd.

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Speaker 3: It drives him. It's like it energizes him. I don't

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Speaker 3: know if he ultimately likes it, but I know that

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Speaker 3: it makes him play better when he does. And he's

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Speaker 3: brought that energy this year into the tournament, and he's

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Speaker 3: been looking for things to fire him up. He needs

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Speaker 3: to murray on board. Yeah, he needs a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a spark, a little pushback, and he's gotten it.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I think it's easy to think that

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Speaker 3: he might be high, you know, faking an injury, but

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Speaker 3: there's no reason for him to go so far away

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Speaker 3: from his normal game that that is the best game

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Speaker 3: of all time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for him to do that for me, that's a

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Speaker 3: clear signal that he's got an issue. Two days off though,

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Speaker 3: you know, maybe that helps him, but we'll see.

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Speaker 4: He definitely got a spark off Tony Jones, obviously the

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Speaker 4: Serbian fans.

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Speaker 5: There, and then you were brought in the middle of this, so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you were you were really the guy?

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Speaker 2: Were you?

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Speaker 4: And he refused to do that interview with you. I'm

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Speaker 4: just interested to like intimately get the details there. So

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Speaker 4: the match finishes, you walk on the court. At what

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Speaker 4: stage did you realize that Novak wasn't going to do

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Speaker 4: a chat with you?

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Speaker 3: Well, it was strange because I walked on the court

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Speaker 3: and I hadn't seen him in person because I was

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Speaker 3: late arriving, so it's the first time we'd been in

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Speaker 3: the same area. And the way that he looked at

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Speaker 3: me was we're normally pretty warm towards each other, and

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Speaker 3: he looked at me like, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 3: So I knew something was off, So I put the

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Speaker 3: microphone down so it wouldn't go to air, and I

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Speaker 3: went over, came together and talked. He's like, look they

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Speaker 3: should have told you, I'm not doing this interview until

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Speaker 3: I get a public apology with Channel nine.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, I mean my view is

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Speaker 3: we're there to serve the audience and the player. If

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Speaker 3: he doesn't want to do it, I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: make it. I can't make anybody do it. So I said,

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Speaker 3: do you want to talk to the crowd? So he

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Speaker 3: said sure. I handed him the mic. He said what

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Speaker 3: he said to the crowd, and we moved on from

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Speaker 3: there and eventually, you know, it all ended up the

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Speaker 3: way it ended up, with Tony making an apology, you know,

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Speaker 3: back accepting it, and we moved forward word But it

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Speaker 3: was weird, man.

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Speaker 2: That's a first I felt for you. I felt for you.

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Speaker 2: I was I was.

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Speaker 5: You were just like beautiful, down to count with questions.

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Speaker 3: This is my first thought was why doesn't this happen

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Speaker 3: more often? This is so so less stressful.

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Speaker 2: People should know Jim had a great backup plan. He's

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Speaker 2: actually a great cabaret dancer. So you were just you

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Speaker 2: were just getting the frills out the Lacey do that.

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Speaker 2: You were ready to go. That was your moment.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna just do a couple of lashes, and

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Speaker 3: we're gonna be all set.

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Speaker 2: And I would have killed all right.

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Speaker 1: I we're gonna go to another break, I think because

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Speaker 1: I really speaking of your skill set. We've got a

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Speaker 1: little challenge for you and I just want.

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Speaker 2: To see how it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got to.

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Speaker 5: Know you had this skill. By the way, will is

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Speaker 5: very cabaret dancing. By the way, will is adamant you

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Speaker 5: have a particular skill.

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Speaker 4: We're going to put that to the test up next.

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Speaker 4: But I haven't seen or heard of this skill.

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Speaker 3: It sounds like the liam nieson test. What's that particular setups?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, No, you're not going to be

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Speaker 2: killing anyone, all right, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Jim Curry have more with him right up next

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Speaker 1: at the Australian Open, all thanks to stand Sport.

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Speaker 2: It's really what are you listening to? Kiss