Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to that Tennis twenty nine days till Summer
Speaker 1: of Tennis kicks off down under here in Australia. Next up,
Speaker 1: Breakthrough Stars, who is best poised to win her maiden
Speaker 1: Grand Slam in twenty twenty six and the winner is
Speaker 1: the players and coaches in contention for the ATP Awards.
Speaker 1: All that is ahead with me Zavian Mueller bark and
Speaker 1: back from her latest trip around the Sun. Happy birthday,
Speaker 1: Bryce Stewart, Thanks good good, Okay, that was a bit
Speaker 1: cold across the desk WTA coach and soon to be daddy,
Speaker 1: Oh Luke Saville.
Speaker 2: Daddy, Oh what we'll call you now?
Speaker 1: It's not weird interesting, but the real headline I'm over it.
Speaker 1: Making her in person debut on the Pod is Ossie
Speaker 1: Doubles Number one. Ellen Prez, thank you, wow, Bo.
Speaker 3: This is a moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a moment for me. Especially's having fun.
Speaker 2: I am having fun. She's really having fun.
Speaker 1: Luck looks scared with that no novel's really chilled out
Speaker 1: and happy. I like this one.
Speaker 4: This is a big deal. Ellen joined the show.
Speaker 2: We've been trying for months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got a little taste of your presence when
Speaker 1: you're over at Cincy. You died in That was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But tell me, guys, what is your highlight of the season.
Speaker 1: Things are kind of wrapping up before things get heated
Speaker 1: up in Melbourne and around Australia.
Speaker 4: I think mine I was having to think, and I
Speaker 4: come back to Wimbledon. You know, Dasher and I were
Speaker 4: there this year, and just like the last round of
Speaker 4: qualities there, for some reason, there's just I mean obviously
Speaker 4: brings about great memories for me I qualified three times there,
Speaker 4: but I mean we're on the other side of the world,
Speaker 4: and the camaraderie with the Australians I just love. So
Speaker 4: I think everyone gets out, gets behind the Aussies and
Speaker 4: even this year is a great contingent of TA staff
Speaker 4: and even just players that are in the main or
Speaker 4: coming out to Roehampton getting around each other. For some
Speaker 4: reason that just epitomizes the Aussie culture in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So that was probably my nice little humble brag there.
Speaker 5: Time I thought you're going to talk about how you
Speaker 5: got Dasher pregnant on tour, well.
Speaker 1: I suggest suggested that what about the conception.
Speaker 4: Already gone to Instagram.
Speaker 2: It's the best Instagram video.
Speaker 1: So if you want to know where babies are made,
Speaker 1: just check out.
Speaker 2: D on Tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about you, all of you.
Speaker 6: I probably have a few highlights actually, I mean, if
Speaker 6: we're talking tennis, I think it started off in Abi
Speaker 6: Dhabi playing with Elene Ostapenko.
Speaker 3: I think that in itself was very different, a fun experience.
Speaker 2: Actually.
Speaker 6: I think she's a bit of a hoot once you
Speaker 6: get to her Instagram.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I've seen some of the things. I've
Speaker 3: seen some of the things she's been posting.
Speaker 1: There's there's one item got my on pair of broken shoelaces. Really,
Speaker 1: but it's the sort of thing that I feel like
Speaker 1: she might go up.
Speaker 6: I've been laughing at some of the Twitter stuff about
Speaker 6: it coming back to an empty house and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: I think that was Yeah, no, I was about to
Speaker 6: bring him up, but he didn't even let me bring
Speaker 6: you up.
Speaker 2: I was about to.
Speaker 3: Say Luke was my coach that week and that was
Speaker 3: the start of something big.
Speaker 6: But also at the end I didn't really get us finals.
Speaker 6: Yeah no, no, that was the start of it. So
Speaker 6: that was a great week. And then obviously going back
Speaker 6: with Storm Storm Hunter again, we got back on the
Speaker 6: court over the clay swing. We did a semis in Rome.
Speaker 6: So yeah, just getting back out there with her. I
Speaker 6: think she's a great person, great friend. You know, it's
Speaker 6: not even about the tenors. Sometimes it's about having you know,
Speaker 6: a friend on tour, someone to do things with, the camaraderie.
Speaker 3: So it was great to reunite with her.
Speaker 6: And I think lastly, just like Billy Jenkin Cup, you know,
Speaker 6: finishing off the year in Hobart, what a fun time.
Speaker 6: The group of girls we had are just amazing. Everyone
Speaker 6: really supports one another. It was a great vibe, great atmosphere.
Speaker 6: Also playing again with Storm and just getting back into
Speaker 6: the world group. I think that was important for us,
Speaker 6: and we set ourselves a task to do that, and yeah,
Speaker 6: the way we kind of you know carried ourselves and
Speaker 6: did it was yeah, we're really proud.
Speaker 3: So it was a great answer as.
Speaker 1: It should be. It was amazing we did and she
Speaker 1: was like just a very proud mom.
Speaker 3: She set the tone. She was great to have as captain.
Speaker 6: But she made it known like girls, this is my
Speaker 6: first time doing it, don't mess it up.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Bit of inspiration. Not wrong with that. So from a
Speaker 1: little question to a the question so the big question
Speaker 1: this week. We trialed this last week and it was
Speaker 1: actually quite interesting. So I want to put it to
Speaker 1: the group. Everyone, get your nominations in which WTA player
Speaker 1: will win their maiden Grand Slam title in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: So let's put some names out there first and then
Speaker 1: we can drill into the y. I thought i'd go first,
Speaker 1: so I was very scientific in this. I basically looked
Speaker 1: at the top ten and started at number one, checked
Speaker 1: if they won the Grand slams.
Speaker 2: Nope, too, I think it was less scientific.
Speaker 1: No, this, that's that was my whole there. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was quite clever but also efficient.
Speaker 2: That's the most work you've ever done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not just here, but just in general.
Speaker 2: So anyway, keep going.
Speaker 1: By the time we got down to number four, Anisimova
Speaker 1: piqued my interest her year so far. She made the
Speaker 1: second round at the Australian Open, fourth round at Rolling Garross,
Speaker 1: but in the final for both Wimbledon and US Open.
Speaker 1: So pretty good run so far. But you are in agreement.
Speaker 3: I am an agreement. Actually, that's who I would also pick.
Speaker 2: And I actually have some substance.
Speaker 3: Live rankings.
Speaker 6: Who's he didn't actually realize she was next in line
Speaker 6: ranking wise, it hadn't won one. But I think there's
Speaker 6: a reason why she's that ranking. I think she had
Speaker 6: a great year, you know, making back to back finals.
Speaker 6: I think it's kind of really cool to see how
Speaker 6: she bounced back from the finals loss that she had
Speaker 6: against Eger. There was such a you know, convincing scoreline.
Speaker 6: I think it shows you know, you're human, you get nervous,
Speaker 6: but it shows that, you know, after that, she was
Speaker 6: very fearless and she didn't let that bother her and
Speaker 6: affect any of her results.
Speaker 3: And I think she had very consistent.
Speaker 6: Results, beat some of the top players for the rest
Speaker 6: of the year in finals, in riad, I know she
Speaker 6: had some really good wins as well. But she's always
Speaker 6: been a great junior, you know. I think she got
Speaker 6: to like world number two. She's won US Open Juniors
Speaker 6: finals of Roland Garross, and she's done it all across
Speaker 6: different surfaces. So I think her aim is very aggressive.
Speaker 6: I think her back end is by far the best
Speaker 6: on tour. Scary, scary good anyone that's played her. That's
Speaker 6: the first thing they mentioned. They're just like, don't give
Speaker 6: her a backhand, and just she looks very composed and
Speaker 6: in a good place. I don't know if you ever
Speaker 6: follow like her Instagram and stuff like that, but she
Speaker 6: has a good group of family and friends and well
Speaker 6: outside the tennis world, and I think that's important. I
Speaker 6: think she doesn't get too wrapped up in, you know,
Speaker 6: all the other stuff. I think she grounds herself, resets
Speaker 6: really well, and makes it all about tennis when she's there.
Speaker 6: And I think that's important, like having a great team,
Speaker 6: great people around you.
Speaker 3: And enjoying it.
Speaker 6: So obviously she took the break she needed from tennis.
Speaker 6: She's come back and she's really ready. She looks fresh,
Speaker 6: and I think I.
Speaker 5: Think she probably realizes now that taking that break was
Speaker 5: the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: You've got to.
Speaker 6: Right, absolutely, And I think a few people looked back
Speaker 6: and be like, why would you stop?
Speaker 3: You would you know?
Speaker 6: So good and this and that, and now we all
Speaker 6: look stupid. We're like, well, maybe we should do it.
Speaker 6: Amanda is doing much better.
Speaker 2: That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: It's a holiday, Yeah, what about you, LCK Without.
Speaker 4: Question, So mine is Belinda Bencic, I currently ranked eleven,
Speaker 4: started the year at drum roll for twenty one, so
Speaker 4: incredible year. By benchicchim Oh. That's for twenty and I think,
Speaker 4: you know, obviously coming back with a fresher new perspective
Speaker 4: as a mother. I think that's really sort of you know,
Speaker 4: she seems to really be enjoying her tennis and her
Speaker 4: time on tour. Incredible resume Korea high ranking of four
Speaker 4: in February twenty twenty. She's made fifteen meal usd and
Speaker 4: prize money. Not too bad. Olympic gold medalers from Tokyo
Speaker 4: won the feed Cup in twenty twenty two, and best
Speaker 4: Lam results are semis this year at Wimby and semis
Speaker 4: of the US Open in twenty nineteen. So I think
Speaker 4: she's as Ellen said as well, you know, I think
Speaker 4: she's been also a great junior. I think she cracked
Speaker 4: the top one hundred when she's seventeen, so I think
Speaker 4: she's coming back. She's looking dangerous. I think Ellen can
Speaker 4: quote me here, but she's better on the faster surfaces,
Speaker 4: so I'm not too surprised that her best results are
Speaker 4: US Open and Wimbledon. So she's one definitely on my radar,
Speaker 4: and I think she'll be coming to this train openers.
Speaker 4: Definitely one of the one of the players to beat.
Speaker 2: She's a mum.
Speaker 1: Well are you in the back of your mind going hey, Dash,
Speaker 1: secret weapon? After March you could be back in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was maybe part of my agenda for sure
Speaker 4: to choose that coaching moment was so now. Even actually
Speaker 4: in Abu Dhabi started the year when we saw bench
Speaker 4: it she won the singles there and you know, she
Speaker 4: had her baby there, her husband and just looked very settled.
Speaker 4: And I think that's cool to see. And hopefully Dasha
Speaker 4: and I can follow on their footsteps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, pressure Dash can get back on the court. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about you?
Speaker 5: Birthday by well, everyone knows how much I love mir
Speaker 5: and River really really love her.
Speaker 2: She reached fourth round at the AO.
Speaker 5: She reached the Roland Garris quarterfinal, quarify On final at Wimbledon,
Speaker 5: and also third round at US Open. She reached her
Speaker 5: career high number five in Duely after winning the Dubai tournament,
Speaker 5: which she was the youngest to win titled at the
Speaker 5: age of seventeen. She's now eighteen, so she's really really young.
Speaker 5: She's obviously coached by Conchita Martinez that we all love,
Speaker 5: and their relationships amazing and I really would love to
Speaker 5: see her win one. Whether or not she will, I
Speaker 5: feel like she's on the precipice making it.
Speaker 4: I'll be honest. She was my first pick.
Speaker 2: Oh did you change that?
Speaker 4: And I give Belinda a bit of a shout out,
Speaker 4: but I've been a huge fan of Mira. I think
Speaker 4: she's one of the brightest prospects that we have in
Speaker 4: Tenna's full stop. So I think she's She's so good
Speaker 4: on every surface, very versatile, all core game, and I
Speaker 4: think she's handling the big moment it's better and better.
Speaker 2: I think got the right mental.
Speaker 4: It was probably probably the one thing that, yeah, maybe
Speaker 4: later in Slam, she was a little inexperienced, little immature.
Speaker 4: I mean she's seventeen eighteen, so it's incredible what she's doing.
Speaker 4: And I think she's going to be poised to definitely
Speaker 4: win her first Slam very very soon.
Speaker 1: Well, they were our thoughts on this week's Big Question.
Speaker 1: What is your answer to the big question? Which WTA
Speaker 1: player will reach their first ever Grand Slam title next year?
Speaker 1: Hit us up in the comments, let us know on
Speaker 1: the Instagram wherever you like. On with the show. First up,
Speaker 1: what's caught your eye? And we're going to start with
Speaker 1: our first time on the panel, Ellen, I'll caught your
Speaker 1: eye this week.
Speaker 6: I think it'd be hard to say it didn't catch
Speaker 6: anyone's eyes. Serena Williams re entering the ITIA doping protocol
Speaker 6: I think yeah, a few Twitter fans managed to spot
Speaker 6: that and bring it up, and obviously Ben rothenberg A
Speaker 6: tweeted about it. But yeah, Serena came back with that
Speaker 6: she's not coming back and that this is wildfire and crazy,
Speaker 6: which I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sold.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, Ben, the I New at Times
Speaker 1: journalist did say what we're all thinking, why did you
Speaker 1: do it? Then?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's a great question because I can tell
Speaker 6: you when you're on the you know, doping protocols, it's
Speaker 6: not fun. You know, unless she likes a nice six
Speaker 6: am wake up and enjoys giving blood and having someone
Speaker 6: watch her pee, I wouldn't know why you would enter.
Speaker 2: That's thine, Are you going to have fa?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, maybe she needs that extra insurance, like Venus mentioned, true,
Speaker 6: he's pretty strapped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think there's an element that she watched maybe Venus
Speaker 6: come back, and I don't know if there's a little
Speaker 6: last go with them playing together or something. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I've definitely heard the rumors of her coming back. Who
Speaker 6: knows if it's true. I just think you don't re
Speaker 6: enter the protocol unless you plan on coming back. It's
Speaker 6: pretty much that's how it is. So stay tuned.
Speaker 2: How would someone have found out that she's read it's
Speaker 2: public back?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can just go to the I's.
Speaker 2: Just sitting there watching looking.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people are Actually there's some interesting Twitter fans out there.
Speaker 6: There's people that are checking that every day. Really, you
Speaker 6: can find out the most crazy stuff on Twitter. You
Speaker 6: just gonna stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Follow the right people. Yeah, So Serena, let's say, let's
Speaker 1: play Devil's Advocate hypothetic or whatever. But if she did,
Speaker 1: if Serena did come back into play, would she do well?
Speaker 1: How do you think it would go? Like? Take you know,
Speaker 1: the excitement out of it? Is she going to be
Speaker 1: the Serena that we know and love or is it
Speaker 1: a bit of a fools Errand?
Speaker 3: I think Serena is Serena. I think she's going to
Speaker 3: be amazing.
Speaker 6: In general, it's the big question mark is always fitness
Speaker 6: and movement, and that was the question mark around Venus
Speaker 6: but she surprised us. Her level was good and she
Speaker 6: was still beating a lot of players on this comeback.
Speaker 6: I don't think Serena does anything half asked, let's put
Speaker 6: it that way. So if she's going to come back,
Speaker 6: she's not going to want to lose to someone one
Speaker 6: hundred in the world and not be ready. And obviously
Speaker 6: she's a looking fits.
Speaker 1: She can still kick through a brick door.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she's yeah, definitely a different arena from when she
Speaker 6: was on tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean maybe she litoks like.
Speaker 7: She's been getting ready for something, doesn't she I just
Speaker 7: met Gala or something, But maybe it's tennis, maybe it's both.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe she will lose a bit of power with
Speaker 6: the different physique, But yeah, I definitely think if she
Speaker 6: comes back, you don't want to draw her.
Speaker 1: She'll definitely get a lot of opportunities and wild cards.
Speaker 1: Why't she tournament directors falling out?
Speaker 4: The only thing that you said, Ellen was just probably
Speaker 4: backing up matches in that physical side is probably the
Speaker 4: question in order to build her ranking up. But she's
Speaker 4: going to get that many opportunities at big events. If
Speaker 4: you win a few matches at those big events, big points,
Speaker 4: So maybe she can work her way back up that way.
Speaker 6: I just don't see it as a long term comeback
Speaker 6: or it's just going to be picking events here and
Speaker 6: there that suit he Maybe that's how I feel if
Speaker 6: it is.
Speaker 1: But three, it's award season in the tennis world. Next
Speaker 1: week we've got the new can Medal for Australian Tennis.
Speaker 1: What else is on?
Speaker 2: Well, the ATP Awards are presented this coming week.
Speaker 1: That's exciting.
Speaker 2: A couple of awards we already know that have been won, like.
Speaker 1: Number one the award and they are number one.
Speaker 2: The doubles number one Lloyd Glasspool.
Speaker 5: But some of the categories, well, the first category we
Speaker 5: can have a chat is the breakth Through of the Year,
Speaker 5: which is voted on by the ATP.
Speaker 2: Number one club.
Speaker 1: Am I in there?
Speaker 5: No, it's Jack Draper, von Seca, Mensic and Vashio.
Speaker 1: Okay, good little group. Who's going to win that?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's obviously the higher you are,
Speaker 4: the less you can obviously move up, and those me
Speaker 4: more than if you're further out. But I feel like Vaschero,
Speaker 4: that's really sort of catching my eye.
Speaker 2: But is that a flash in the pan?
Speaker 4: Sorry, it could be, but it's still it's still happened
Speaker 4: this year from two and seventy six in into Korehi
Speaker 4: of thirty winning Shanghai. That was just an incredible storyline
Speaker 4: playing his cousin Rindannesh in the final, and so I
Speaker 4: think that's you know, he was you know, he's twenty
Speaker 4: six years old. He's been grinding away and the challenges
Speaker 4: for quite some time, but he's always had that huge game,
Speaker 4: so you kind of felt you could get it together,
Speaker 4: get a little bit of structure around him, maybe he
Speaker 4: could get it going. So for me, Vatro wins that.
Speaker 1: Well on that metric. I mean Drape has got no
Speaker 1: shut right, I went from eighteen to four.
Speaker 7: Well, who, I don't know whether Drape has been able
Speaker 7: to play enough this year because of been Yeah, I
Speaker 7: don't know.
Speaker 1: He just stopped breaking his leg and start breaking through basically.
Speaker 4: Pretty much guy I Reckon it's yeah, probably the other ones.
Speaker 1: Fonseca, Yeah, I was thinking he's broken through a media sense.
Speaker 4: Exactly outside one hundred to twenty five, and he's got
Speaker 4: the charisma, he's got the profile as well, So I
Speaker 4: think maybe Fonseca as well. And incredible player, so talented now.
Speaker 1: That'd be a good award.
Speaker 5: All right, what else we've got, bro, We have the
Speaker 5: Stefan Edinburgh Sportsmanship Award and the nominees one no Carlos Akarez,
Speaker 5: Felix Grigor Dimitrov.
Speaker 1: And Caspar Grigor. I mean there's a name that hasn't
Speaker 1: been kind of he's a good sports Oh he's brilliant,
Speaker 1: but he just you know, he's a bit of a
Speaker 1: statesman of tennis. You know, he's getting long in the tooth.
Speaker 2: I love that he's still there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, he's taking this one out. I reckon
Speaker 1: Felix audio ALII.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the year he's had, I think. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's an amazing person, really nice guy. I remember I
Speaker 6: did an event with him in Adelaide and he straight
Speaker 6: up came up to me and asked me questions and
Speaker 6: got me involved.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, that's really nice. Like you
Speaker 3: don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: You don't know me.
Speaker 6: I'm kind of a nobody, so like that was really sweet.
Speaker 6: But I don't know something about Carlos. That guy is
Speaker 6: just so humble.
Speaker 3: So sweet.
Speaker 6: I feel like he carries the top of the sport
Speaker 6: so well. It's hard to go past him. But I
Speaker 6: would love to see Felix gettered.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I find with Carlos, aside from his crappy haircut,
Speaker 1: like he's just got such a he's almost like a toddler,
Speaker 1: Like he sees the world as like everything's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can't be the happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like how are you so happy? Be angry?
Speaker 1: What he's angry?
Speaker 4: He's happy Like he basically says, you know, his goal
Speaker 4: or ambitions to entertain court, And I think that's just
Speaker 4: think it's incredible because it takes the result, I guess
Speaker 4: away from his mentality and he's just out there to
Speaker 4: have fun and obviously win.
Speaker 1: But that allows him to play his opponent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it allows him to play that game style and
Speaker 4: just play the Tennessee he wants to play.
Speaker 2: Who he's going with? Do you think? Are you the
Speaker 2: same as Allen Carlos.
Speaker 4: I'll go Casper. Just an all round four great blokes
Speaker 4: there for me. Caspar, I think he never puts a
Speaker 4: foot roll near to the other three, to be fair,
Speaker 4: But I'll go with Casper. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It'd be a good night out of the pub with them,
Speaker 1: be very fun chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good group of guys to hang out
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 1: Actually, all right, last one, brave, what have we got
Speaker 1: coach of the year this one.
Speaker 5: No, we've got Benjamin bealerat which is Vachero's coach.
Speaker 2: Kai who.
Speaker 1: S Kim at the moment, Sorry.
Speaker 2: Darren k Hill with Simone Vagnzi. I probably said that wrong.
Speaker 5: We'll leave it. We'll leave it the way it was.
Speaker 5: You can hear what the producer said. Juan Carlos Ferrero
Speaker 5: and Samuel Lopez, Frederick Fontange and Brian Shelton. So some
Speaker 5: of them if you don't know, it's Vashero's coach, Sinner's coach,
Speaker 5: Arkraz's coach, Felix's coach. Hopefully you got Shelton's coach is
Speaker 5: his dad, and I want ka Hill to win with Kile.
Speaker 4: Hill, they took Sinner from one to two a.
Speaker 1: Breakthrough. Look they went down.
Speaker 4: Darren, you're good coach, but but this you can do
Speaker 4: better than that.
Speaker 1: The number is increased by one hundred percent, but that
Speaker 1: is killing. Yeah. Yeah, the loads, I mean yeah, no
Speaker 1: shared prizes. No, I reckon the father son duo.
Speaker 2: Brian brianan.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, how is your breakfast meaning? Momsis all right? No,
Speaker 1: that's good. Well, there's a few other awards aren't there.
Speaker 1: There's the Arthur Ascherman Tearing Award, there's Fan Favorites for
Speaker 1: the singers and doubles Tournament of the Year. Unfortunately Grand
Speaker 1: Slams are not eligible, so you know the AO would
Speaker 1: clearly win.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Brisbane, Adela is the top A.
Speaker 3: TP Cincinnati this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you look very happy.
Speaker 6: They're going to be hard to beat. The facilities and
Speaker 6: upgrades were insane.
Speaker 1: We're not winning, no, but we're not even competing now
Speaker 1: my turn. I would love to claim this is an
Speaker 1: original thought of something that I'm like, wow, that's really cool.
Speaker 1: But Ellen was sending some ideas to our producer John
Speaker 1: about her career and I'm like, oh, that's really fun.
Speaker 1: I want to steal that one. So thanks for that.
Speaker 1: But Alexandra olia Nikova has broken into the WTA top
Speaker 1: one hundred, which is, you know, a great feat. She's
Speaker 1: now world number ninety five. But what I'm more interested
Speaker 1: about is back in twenty twenty one, she actually sold
Speaker 1: I like that, you're nodding like I'm telling you something.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, this is my freakin' idea. Anyway, back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, she actually sold off a bit
Speaker 1: of real estate, and that real estate was her upper arm.
Speaker 1: In exchange, that person who bought it for five grand
Speaker 1: is allowed at some stage to tattoo whatever they want
Speaker 1: onto that. Hopefully a professional tato artist does it, and
Speaker 1: they have tattooed it. No, it's still empty, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I think it's empty.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And now that she's in the top one hundred,
Speaker 1: does that And she was an NFT like back in
Speaker 1: the day, everyone's selling weird pictures of monkeys and all
Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But she's like, boom, I'm going
Speaker 1: to make some quick cash sell off my upper arm.
Speaker 1: But now she's the top hundred, does that real estate
Speaker 1: become more valuable? Is there going to be a mad
Speaker 1: rush to try and buy her upper arm? I think
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like going it's a little bit
Speaker 1: creepy in a sense of buying a part of someone.
Speaker 1: It's almost like buying, you know, a steak from a cow,
Speaker 1: but the cow is still in the paddock. It's a
Speaker 1: bit weird. What do we think for sure?
Speaker 6: I mean, she's obviously the first person to do something
Speaker 6: like this. I do love that she's working around the
Speaker 6: w TA rules. Because you know, you only allowed two
Speaker 6: patches on your shirt, but now she's opened up avenue.
Speaker 2: For a third.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I have read that.
Speaker 6: You know she can the person that owns the patch
Speaker 6: can resell the patch, so someone can now buy it
Speaker 6: off them for a higher price. But yeah, I think
Speaker 6: the sad part is she only got five thousand, Like
Speaker 6: she's probably looking back now and realizing that's worth a
Speaker 6: lot more.
Speaker 1: So this other person could potentially make Yeah, why don't
Speaker 1: we you pitch in as Tennis Australia.
Speaker 3: We could we put logo.
Speaker 1: Hot shots Tennis AOGE just a QR code that goes
Speaker 1: to the website.
Speaker 3: You'd have your name on there for sure.
Speaker 1: Absolute shah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But she also went a bit viral recently because she's
Speaker 1: she's fun, like she's cool chick, and she actually had
Speaker 1: a video of a point. Let's have a look on
Speaker 1: her Instagram.
Speaker 3: She has moonball this over the heart of the lights.
Speaker 6: She's slipped, she's down, but she's back again. Coverage another.
Speaker 6: She's buying time big time. She's putting this real high
Speaker 6: and she's on the floor trying to.
Speaker 2: Do with a ball kid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think they caught everyone's eye, just
Speaker 6: because how ridiculously high she.
Speaker 3: Was hitting the ball.
Speaker 6: I mean, it was moonballing out there, and she was
Speaker 6: about four meters back from the baseline and there was
Speaker 6: some drama falling over. But I think that came down
Speaker 6: a little bit to the opponent she was playing. She
Speaker 6: was playing my Sharif who I think she was maybe
Speaker 6: trying to hit through her. But she also just rolls
Speaker 6: balls around, and so I think she was trying to
Speaker 6: play the same game and won up her maybe, yeah,
Speaker 6: But it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen enough of her.
Speaker 6: She's obviously just broken through from eighty five this year
Speaker 6: to top hundred, so she hasn't been around many WTA
Speaker 6: events now, just the back end of the year. There's one,
Speaker 6: two five's, but it will be interesting to see her
Speaker 6: around the tour. And I don't know if you've seen it,
Speaker 6: but her throat has a massive tattoo.
Speaker 1: Bringing the photo up, Johnny, it's now.
Speaker 6: I think she must have gone and tried to remove
Speaker 6: it or something. But six oh wow, it was so
Speaker 6: dark an inker Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it.
Speaker 2: Looks like she's been having las to removal that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she doesn't mind a tattoo.
Speaker 2: Maybe she wants to Selki Crime branding.
Speaker 1: You're in every shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, much better than I wonder.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well she's trying to knock down the old house
Speaker 1: on the real estate and then just open up the
Speaker 1: land for redevelopment.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fascinating player. I'm sure we'll see a bit more
Speaker 1: of her. Now she just cracks And I'm now realizing
Speaker 1: why Luke gave me a funny look before, because I
Speaker 1: see last one. I'm going to go. But we haven't
Speaker 1: even done you. Yeah, what caught your iley?
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks Dave, just forgetting me mate. Now mine was
Speaker 4: the six A wild cards that were awarded slash Ones
Speaker 4: this past week, and I think we can start with
Speaker 4: the Australian Points Race that were awarded over the three
Speaker 4: tournaments Brisbane, Sydney and Playford, which is Adelaide and I
Speaker 4: think great initiative from Tennis Australia. It's basically just goes
Speaker 4: on one merit you win, the win the wild cards
Speaker 4: and they went to James Darkworth, Duck's my very good mate,
Speaker 4: and Emerson Jones, and I think it's just there is
Speaker 4: smiling the big fella. But I just think, you know,
Speaker 4: two players completely different ends of their career. How are
Speaker 4: both equally as impressive Emerson and James Darkworth And you know,
Speaker 4: I think Ducks he lost in the quarters of Brisbane.
Speaker 4: That was a last week for the cut of the
Speaker 4: Train Open, so he missed out at one o five,
Speaker 4: put the head down, won the next week Semis of
Speaker 4: Playford and now is ranked eighty six. So incredible resilience
Speaker 4: from from Ducks. And then Emerson one of our brightest,
Speaker 4: maybe our brightest prospect in Australian tennis right now wins
Speaker 4: Playford current ranking of one hundred and fifty one. Majordan
Speaker 4: she yes, consecutive aos for her started the year at
Speaker 4: three nder and seventy one, so more than half the
Speaker 4: ranking and she's got just a very bright future ahead
Speaker 4: of her. And then over in Asia we had the
Speaker 4: winner of the men's Boo Jan Hiketti here he dropped
Speaker 4: only fifteen games across the event into his fifth major
Speaker 4: in a row. He he just dropped a bunch of points.
Speaker 4: He didn't defend his couple of big results in Asia
Speaker 4: from a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: And he's the China number one, isn't he?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: Yeap?
Speaker 4: Who's you know he's been based cup? I believe very
Speaker 4: good been based in Spain since he was sixteen and
Speaker 4: reached the Kree high sixty four, and Zorena Diaz won
Speaker 4: the women's playoff from Kazakhstan. Been a tough couple of
Speaker 4: years for her, battling injury between twenty twenty two and
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, but now she's backing into her first
Speaker 4: Slam and Raw since AO twenty twenty two, reached a
Speaker 4: Korea high thirty one, So great to see them back
Speaker 4: and then any Yanks and then over in the States,
Speaker 4: Patrick Gibson and Elizabeth Manlick were awarded the reciprocal wild
Speaker 4: cards from the USTA. Patrick Gibson I think he's just
Speaker 4: on the cusp of top hundred and man Lick one
Speaker 4: of the up and coming players as well. So congratulations
Speaker 4: to those six players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm thinking there's a few kind of discretionary
Speaker 1: wildcards still up for grabs, aren't they in Craig Tiley's
Speaker 1: back pocket? Who do you think he should flick them to? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, the people at home, they're going, oh, Nick
Speaker 1: Kirios or someone who you know puts on a bit
Speaker 1: of fun show. But like, do you like what's going on?
Speaker 1: Who's going to get him.
Speaker 6: Well, I think firstly, you've got to look at a
Speaker 6: few wild cards that are going to be asked. I
Speaker 6: think as a rank has asked for one. I'm not
Speaker 6: sure if maybe Venus has asked for one, So if
Speaker 6: they steal a couple, that makes it a few more limited.
Speaker 6: But I think on the women's side, someone like Tylie
Speaker 6: Gibson's had an amazing year super young hasn't had that
Speaker 6: many wild I think when they look at a few things,
Speaker 6: obviously age and how many opportunities they've had and a
Speaker 6: little bit of funding and whatnot. And I think she's
Speaker 6: a great recipient, you know, hasn't had that many opportunities
Speaker 6: at AO before and has had an incredible year and
Speaker 6: maybe even one of the next highest ranked.
Speaker 3: So I think for me, that's kind of a no brainer.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I guess it also just depends a little
Speaker 6: bit if Kim kind of finishes. She's currently around the
Speaker 6: ninety six mark and that usually should be fine, but
Speaker 6: there is still some results coming in, so yeah, if
Speaker 6: she was to kind of miss out, maybe that's someone.
Speaker 3: To look at.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, shout, absolutely, Yeah, any thoughts, Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: And then putting your hand on, No, definitely won't be.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that's round. I mean, that's like
Speaker 1: a couple of years of private school done for your kid,
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 4: True.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now, I think that the men side pretty interesting because
Speaker 4: we have you know, Chris O'Connell, Jordan Thompson, Ranki Hijikata,
Speaker 4: who have all been incredible players, established top one hundred
Speaker 4: pliers for many years. Now. I think he's out, and
Speaker 4: you know Tom Owen O'Connell had tough years with injury,
Speaker 4: so you know, you're probably looking at those three have
Speaker 4: been great ambassadors for Shannon Tannis in my opinion, and
Speaker 4: then a few of the up and coming players. You know,
Speaker 4: I think James mccabs had a reasonably good year. He's
Speaker 4: sort of knocking around, and a few juniors like that.
Speaker 4: So but obviously Big Kraze's got the he holds the reins.
Speaker 4: But I think those those three boys I mentioned at
Speaker 4: the start will be pretty strong candidates because I don't
Speaker 4: think any of them really needed wild cards for quite
Speaker 4: a few years now, and all three kind of slipped
Speaker 4: out because of injury and rink. He's been doing a
Speaker 4: lot of good stuff in the doubles as well obviously
Speaker 4: final of Wimbledon, middle of the year, and three great
Speaker 4: role models so they would get my.
Speaker 1: Nod content idea. We dressed Craig up as Willy Wonka,
Speaker 1: full high production value, right, and we print out gold
Speaker 1: wild cards and he goes magically to their whoever it is,
Speaker 1: and we shoot it overseas. No, but like they're all,
Speaker 1: that's great, let's go. I want to I want my
Speaker 1: fifth holiday.
Speaker 5: We filmed with Craig Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It was actually hilarious.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Fun is in a hard heart and I was.
Speaker 1: Playing his long beleagued assistant. It was just back to
Speaker 1: earth anyway, Thank you very much all for playing along
Speaker 1: with out caught your eye seg. We've got lots more
Speaker 1: news to cover off after the break. We'll be back
Speaker 1: in a second with all of that and Breeze Top
Speaker 1: five unmissible things from summer stick around seen in a second.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. So there's a bit of the news to
Speaker 1: discuss bre what's happening in the United Cup world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we've recently announced the captains for some of
Speaker 5: our teams or country teams, and there's quite some fun
Speaker 5: kind of names in there. So stan will Rinka is
Speaker 5: going to be a player captain for Switzerland.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's just who is the only one who
Speaker 1: can do this job?
Speaker 2: It's me?
Speaker 1: Else can do it?
Speaker 2: Bring me in?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: And then obviously we have Leton here.
Speaker 5: It returns for the fourth straight campaign as home captain,
Speaker 5: which classick we love as OSSI's for his second time
Speaker 5: since twenty twenty three. Tim Henman will be coming back
Speaker 5: for Great Britain.
Speaker 1: We've got a grab I think from our sister podcasts
Speaker 1: and sit down, mister Hammon listen.
Speaker 8: It was atp Cup to begin with a United Kick
Speaker 8: Cup more recently, I just abtolutely loved that event, have
Speaker 8: great fun, you know, working with the British men and women,
Speaker 8: and we had a great team spirit and we played well.
Speaker 8: We we really did play well and it would definitely
Speaker 8: been an event that I'd like to be involved in
Speaker 8: again in the future.
Speaker 1: I hear there's a little bit there's some family of neotism.
Speaker 1: Let's us call it what.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's nepotism.
Speaker 5: I think it's just keeping it in the family, that's yeah,
Speaker 5: what all family things and epotism. Anyway, we've got stefano'capoli.
Speaker 5: I don't know whether you know he's the dad of
Speaker 5: love Koboli, so he will be the captain of Italy.
Speaker 5: We've got Alexander Zverev.
Speaker 1: See I read that thinking, hang on, he's just done
Speaker 1: the same as stan No No.
Speaker 2: Zverev and his dad.
Speaker 5: He's a junior. So that's for team Germany. We have
Speaker 5: Christian Rude, who is the father of Kaspar Rude from Norway.
Speaker 1: Is he a friendlier ghost anywhere? I keep going, I
Speaker 1: don't get it.
Speaker 5: And then we have Petros siss Pass who is the
Speaker 5: brother of why not.
Speaker 2: He's the captain of Greece.
Speaker 1: So do you reckon? Petros is going to be hitting
Speaker 1: it hard and he's going to be telling his brother.
Speaker 4: What to do. I want over and unders of the
Speaker 4: first moment where Steph just barges.
Speaker 1: Do you want that? In seconds?
Speaker 4: I want to says I'm going to say within the
Speaker 4: first two games. That's about the line.
Speaker 1: Walk on during the flag ceremony. It just starts strangling
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there'll be a bit of tension there, but ye're
Speaker 4: great to see all the lineups and the field looks incredible.
Speaker 5: Tell me something we do well. We have some debut taunts.
Speaker 5: Lucas put from France is the captain. And then we
Speaker 5: have Gabriella Dobroski, who is a double specialist and the
Speaker 5: only female captain on our list, and she will be
Speaker 5: the captain of Canada.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's bread and from my understanding, So the number
Speaker 1: one player do they kind of have to say they
Speaker 1: pick the coach the captain.
Speaker 3: Sorry, the number one is supposed to decide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. So Felix or Jeroni A. Sidden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a feminist. Chose Gabby.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's great.
Speaker 1: Do you know her at all?
Speaker 3: You know Gabby very well?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is she cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's cool.
Speaker 6: I mean I think she actually would do a very
Speaker 6: good job in this role. I think she's very organized,
Speaker 6: very structured. Yeah, I mean that's part of the why
Speaker 6: she's very good at doubles. I think she sees the
Speaker 6: game well, so I think she'll bring a great up a.
Speaker 1: Bit more of a team thinker as opposed to a
Speaker 1: single minded it's just me out there, yeah for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We also will be announcing full fields for some of
Speaker 5: our summer events.
Speaker 1: Oh, like other tennis events, yes, which on Brisbane International
Speaker 1: also day well, from some exciting news coming up to
Speaker 1: a bit of sad news from the world of tennis.
Speaker 1: Italian tennis legend Nicola Piachin Jelly, aged ninety two, passed away.
Speaker 1: He was a two time Rolling Girls champion and record
Speaker 1: holder for Davis Cup wins one hundred and twenty to
Speaker 1: forty four, which is a pretty epic record to have.
Speaker 1: A lot of tributes were coming from everywhere, from Rafaa
Speaker 1: dal Novat Jokovic, from the top echelons to everybody in between. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bit of a sad day, but we were very,
Speaker 1: very lucky Nicola. Earlier this year spoke with one of
Speaker 1: our producers, Erson in the Making, Actually the poster behind
Speaker 1: me for was the Rise of Italian Tennis and we
Speaker 1: used that in a recent episode of To Sit Down
Speaker 1: and they were talking about having the Rome Stadium named
Speaker 1: in his honor. Let's have a listen.
Speaker 9: You know, I have this court name on me like
Speaker 9: Roquets in the Mamood and it's not the most important,
Speaker 9: it's not the biggest, that is most beautiful in the world, no.
Speaker 6: Doubt that.
Speaker 1: Quite a loss. But have you played at the stadium
Speaker 1: that's named in his honor?
Speaker 6: I have, Yeah, I've played on that court and it's
Speaker 6: by far the best court on tour. It is so pretty.
Speaker 6: The statues kind of surround the court. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 6: It is one of the nicest courts.
Speaker 1: Well, he'll be so missing, of course, our thoughts go
Speaker 1: to his friends and family over in Italy. Now, Brie,
Speaker 1: shall we move on to the final piece of the week.
Speaker 1: I need to find my numbers because it is time
Speaker 1: to top five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a bit worried they're boring, but okay, so
Speaker 5: what's the top what all be counting down? We're counting
Speaker 5: down top five admissible things this Australian summer.
Speaker 2: But I've made them for a period. I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 2: It cane. We'll touch and go there for a moment.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I centered it all around the tennis.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm going to make sense. No, but there's
Speaker 1: some fun stuff.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine.
Speaker 5: Let's see how we go. But I'm going to do
Speaker 5: for Suppose is a tennis podcast.
Speaker 1: Allegedly it's called the Tennis. Yes, exciting news that I'm
Speaker 1: going to debut next week. But we'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a minute.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 8: Five.
Speaker 5: So the first one is AO Live, which is our
Speaker 5: music program during this train open. So we have some
Speaker 5: really great acts that are at the end of the tournament,
Speaker 5: so these ones are.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: Looks like a menu, Hot Chips, Elderflower pre set, that's
Speaker 1: good in a taco who is playing.
Speaker 5: It's the thirdeenth and sixteenth of January. It's in top
Speaker 5: court and their DJ sets and they're really really great
Speaker 5: acts that were are still quite big, but really do
Speaker 5: talk to your favorite jen Y Hot Chip and the presets.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I've seen them many times before. So that's one I.
Speaker 5: Wanted to call out because there's the great music acts
Speaker 5: at JCA at the end of the tournament, but they're
Speaker 5: these great ones up at top court.
Speaker 2: At the beginning of the tournament.
Speaker 1: So sixty nine bucks a bargain bargain.
Speaker 2: So please go on over and buy a ticket if.
Speaker 1: You all right, number four, what do we got four?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm really excited to see the high line. I've
Speaker 5: got a video here. It's an artist interpretation of what
Speaker 5: the high line will look. But we should be able
Speaker 5: to walk from one court to another above ground. So
Speaker 5: here you can see courtside bar and then you can
Speaker 5: kind of walk over to the other court.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a little bit of like in Jurassic
Speaker 1: Park when they're around the raptor thing and they're like
Speaker 1: looking down, it's gonna be cool. So you can kind
Speaker 1: of get a top down view of the outdoor court,
Speaker 1: so they'll be.
Speaker 5: Able to have all these people over here. You can
Speaker 5: see these courts to the right, and on the other side,
Speaker 5: you're be able to see the courts.
Speaker 2: To the left.
Speaker 1: So there's the bar over there.
Speaker 3: So just get the original bar and this is a
Speaker 3: new bar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the original bu's bigger. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you can walk all the way to the other
Speaker 3: bar from this bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and watch.
Speaker 1: Hill get if you ever can't find it during AO.
Speaker 3: I loved being on the bar.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: I don't even think some people, but other people I
Speaker 2: reckon I would just mixed doubles.
Speaker 6: I don't think you want to play your singles out there,
Speaker 6: but doubles and mixed doubles. I mean, you can't really
Speaker 6: hear signal or anything like that anymore, but it's from
Speaker 6: your opponent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're both losing that tool. You've got to adapt.
Speaker 4: So like, noises allowed on these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's within reason. Like if people are
Speaker 1: hooping and hollering and yelling at ca Hill, but you know,
Speaker 1: and don't throw your beer on the corner until they won,
Speaker 1: and they just go nuts. What's number three?
Speaker 2: I'm excited for that United Cup.
Speaker 5: I pulled out a match that I think will be interesting, well,
Speaker 5: a session, a day session in Perth.
Speaker 2: It's on Saturday, third of Jan. And do you know
Speaker 2: why I found.
Speaker 5: It interesting because we've got Busson in there and we've
Speaker 5: got Rinda Kannek I've said that wrong probably and ben
Speaker 5: Chic and we're Rinker and we've got the mixed doubles
Speaker 5: with them. And I thought it was a really fun
Speaker 5: interesting matchup because obviously Boson she did really well being
Speaker 5: was she.
Speaker 2: A wild card or lucky loser? I wrote it down.
Speaker 5: First women's wildcard roller go semifinals since the Open era began. WHOA,
Speaker 5: that's pretty cool, so she's cool. But then Rinder Kannik
Speaker 5: he is a cousin of Vashero and made the singles
Speaker 5: finals at Shanghai with him cool. So I thought they're
Speaker 5: two interesting ones. And obviously we love Benchic and we're
Speaker 5: Rinka playing captain.
Speaker 1: But Rinda Kanick, that's the funnest name to say.
Speaker 5: It is, actually isn't It's part of the reason I
Speaker 5: chose it, but I just thought, you know, this is
Speaker 5: quite a fun matchup and I just wanted to pull
Speaker 5: out one.
Speaker 2: Of the ones.
Speaker 1: But again, one of the best things about United Cup is,
Speaker 1: unlike a lot of tennis events, you get a ticket
Speaker 1: and hope you get a good match. You know exactly
Speaker 1: what you're getting, so get on there and get your tickets.
Speaker 1: So I didn't mean that to be a plug, but
Speaker 1: it was number two.
Speaker 5: Well do you know a lot And this is a
Speaker 5: little bit of an acid the week I suppose as well.
Speaker 5: But we are seeing and you've sent me some stuff
Speaker 5: to day, we're seeing a lot of our member associations
Speaker 5: and just tiny clubs and clubs playing the one point
Speaker 5: Slam so that their players in their group can have
Speaker 5: a chance to hit the Australian one point the IO
Speaker 5: one point Slam here at Rola. Now Tennis Northern Territory
Speaker 5: are our first group to have a final that's coming
Speaker 5: up that will have our first state champion that could
Speaker 5: come down then to play here, and I just think
Speaker 5: it's such a great concept and I love it and
Speaker 5: I've loved watching the Instagram stories from around Australia and
Speaker 5: I can't wait to see what happens with it here.
Speaker 5: Obviously we have our Karas and now Oced playing, and
Speaker 5: we are announcing some other players next week as well.
Speaker 7: And you win a million bucks if you win, Yeah
Speaker 7: you do. You have to win in order to win
Speaker 7: a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you reckon?
Speaker 6: If you make the final, you're trying to split it
Speaker 6: before you play? The point we're talking about this.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's a rule against that.
Speaker 3: Does that all the legalities out of it? If you
Speaker 3: can't you negotio?
Speaker 5: Like, hey, you like like Love Island, I would do that?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
Speaker 6: You'd way up who you're playing, or like, I don't
Speaker 6: think like anything can happen.
Speaker 3: I know me, I'd mess it up.
Speaker 1: Like what if you just but net and then you cooked, I'm.
Speaker 3: Playing an amateur.
Speaker 6: I'd still take half. I'd be so tight I reckon,
Speaker 6: I would roll over and I'd.
Speaker 3: Be so pissed. So like, yeah, I think I'm splitting it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that will be fascinating to watch. But it was
Speaker 1: just a test run this year at the AO, and
Speaker 1: everyone loved it and it was really exciting. Yeah, So yeah,
Speaker 1: with some big bucks on the line. Yeah and yeah,
Speaker 1: and you win a car or something and your club
Speaker 1: gets five grand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like a game show, but it's it's it's
Speaker 5: only fun.
Speaker 2: I love it. Down to Tennis Northern Territory, the.
Speaker 1: Dar Stingrays, love your logo, they're very cool, and the
Speaker 1: Darwin International Tennis Center. Right, So if that's number two,
Speaker 1: what's number one?
Speaker 5: Well, the potential that we might have finally an ourcro
Speaker 5: Center final.
Speaker 1: We were the only Slam in twenty twenty four get one.
Speaker 2: So will we get one?
Speaker 1: Hope? So well yeah, Well because where the seedings, how
Speaker 1: they work, it's the only possible opportunity for them to.
Speaker 5: Blame well they have if they if one of them,
Speaker 5: if we're going to see it, they have to get
Speaker 5: to finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not like you know, there's any other
Speaker 1: that's it, that's something, that's that.
Speaker 2: It's that or nothing.
Speaker 1: Because last year it was Novak that took out color.
Speaker 1: Yeah and then that pulled out he did took away
Speaker 1: our dream and then went home.
Speaker 4: But is that Carlos's furthest round is got gotten the
Speaker 4: Open quarterfinals.
Speaker 1: So he's going to be under what it is?
Speaker 4: I think yeah, it's maybe one of those ones. I
Speaker 4: haven't looked into it too much, but after a bit
Speaker 4: of a break, maybe it takes him a little bit
Speaker 4: of time to get going. I was the open obviously
Speaker 4: his you know, sometimes his first tournam another year, So
Speaker 4: maybe maybe. But I think the court surface, everything should
Speaker 4: suit him here.
Speaker 1: But in the weather as well, in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 4: So it might be might be the year.
Speaker 5: Might I suggest he plays Brisbane or something so he's ready?
Speaker 3: Do we really want that final? Don't we just want
Speaker 3: Demon to come?
Speaker 1: Okay? Moving on?
Speaker 5: That's actually that's actually fair. I would do you know
Speaker 5: if I had my ultimate dreamer would be Demon?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah in twenty seven no save top me to put
Speaker 1: this in anyway, Yeah, Demon Demon Demon verse Carlos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would get that going.
Speaker 3: We need, yeah, sooner to be taken out by someone else.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, snipers, you have a green light.
Speaker 3: I don't want to have to take on both of them.
Speaker 1: Point, that's really hard to do.
Speaker 6: So I think we need to see one of them
Speaker 6: lose earlier in someone else, and then you cruise through
Speaker 6: Demons demable.
Speaker 4: I'd agree with that.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 1: When he's tuning in craig'sist in his office listening.
Speaker 2: My first thing is listening to it is always is
Speaker 2: good times.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, brace. That was that was a long
Speaker 1: but I must say, very enjoyable. Top five.
Speaker 4: Okay, well I'm broke.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's trying to be crazy to realize it was long.
Speaker 1: I went on for a while. No, well done, well done,
Speaker 1: my done, thank you. He smashed it, Thank you Hill. Okay.
Speaker 1: So as we finish up this episode of the Tennis
Speaker 1: we ask our panel, what is your ace of the week?
Speaker 1: Something that's happened this week or it's coming up in
Speaker 1: the next seven days that you're most happy about, something
Speaker 1: sparked a bit of joy. What's the rest of the week?
Speaker 5: Start with you, Bree, Well, I had my birthday last week,
Speaker 5: so this week and I'm doing nothing, thank you. I
Speaker 5: had a lot of fun and I'm now tired and
Speaker 5: I've been tired all week, so I'm doing nothing on
Speaker 5: the weekend.
Speaker 1: Great, what we do when we get rest in recovery?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, how do your birthday?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: You don't look four days over forty one takes four
Speaker 1: days Part two birthday, But what's your ace of the week?
Speaker 3: I think kickstarting preseason.
Speaker 6: You know, I've just come back from Bali, just had
Speaker 6: a wedding in wan Gerada over the weekend.
Speaker 1: On you for not going to the mould Dives like
Speaker 1: every other buddy with WS.
Speaker 6: You know what, if I had a free trip to
Speaker 6: the Maldives, I wouldn't say no.
Speaker 3: So I just didn't get that off, you know.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I am excited to get back on court,
Speaker 6: get back into training. I feel like I was eating
Speaker 6: so much food and so much good food in Bali
Speaker 6: that I almost felt guilty that now I'm excited to
Speaker 6: work out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's probably my when you wake up here,
Speaker 1: Oh I could go a little Nazi gooring for breakfast.
Speaker 1: No chance eat your avocado. No good on you?
Speaker 4: Look mine is you know, obviously transitioning into coaching. Coaching
Speaker 4: claiers all different levels and ages. And one of my players,
Speaker 4: a twenty four year old, got his first ATP point yesterday.
Speaker 4: Oh that's awesome in Indiana. So I won't embarrass him.
Speaker 4: But we've been working him as a child. Yeah, we've
Speaker 4: been working throughout the year and there was just a
Speaker 4: little bit of satisfaction, like we've done a good job.
Speaker 4: And at the start of the road and I tuned in.
Speaker 4: He was up a set and a break lost. It
Speaker 4: got a little bit tight, maybe, but he finished it off.
Speaker 4: So very proud of him.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2: It's amazing I've done to both of you.
Speaker 1: As for me, my ace of the week, I am finally,
Speaker 1: after thirty nine years, living out one of my all
Speaker 1: time goals. This afternoon, we're having like a big department
Speaker 1: meeting where we talk about things been. Afterwards, we're going
Speaker 1: to the pub and we're having pub trivia and I'm hosting.
Speaker 1: I get to host my very own pub trivia. Never
Speaker 1: done it, always wanted to do it. I've been laboring
Speaker 1: over these questions. The format, how many rounds? Is their
Speaker 1: picture questions? We get one question here, so I'll give
Speaker 1: you one. What is a group of pandas called so
Speaker 1: like a murder of crows? Heard of this? What is
Speaker 1: a collective term for pandas and ammonium?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good Yeah, a cuddle. You're not You're
Speaker 1: not far off in the sense of it doesn't. It's weird.
Speaker 1: It is an embarrassment, an embarrassment of pandas. You get
Speaker 1: you get a free point. So do you guys. Well,
Speaker 1: before we do wrap up next week, we've got the
Speaker 1: new can metal. You're going yes as a plus one?
Speaker 1: Are you're invited?
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter on there.
Speaker 1: It sounds like, well you'll be there.
Speaker 3: I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you'll be there. We're on the same table.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like to have a lot of fun right on
Speaker 1: the front. I'm sure dead center, right at.
Speaker 2: The back, hidden actually behind the curtains.
Speaker 1: You can't keep me quiet, just tucking a drinks back there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely bring the piper this way. Yeah, some great nominees.
Speaker 1: It's going to be pretty exciting. You know, there's some
Speaker 1: clear favorites at the front. But I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 1: a full breakdown next week on the tennis about the nukes.
Speaker 1: For now, like, subscribe, let us know what you want
Speaker 1: to do, follow us on socials. Thanks for listening. Drive
Speaker 1: safe wherever you are, See you later. Hey everyone, have
Speaker 1: sin Andy here.
Speaker 4: Just want to remind you that you can watch every
Speaker 4: episode of the Tennis on our YouTube channel, austrain Open TV.
Speaker 4: And you can also catch us on Tennis Plus by
Speaker 4: heading to ozopen dot com, forward slash Tennis Plus.
Speaker 10: And if you want to flick us an email feedback,
Speaker 10: thoughts on the show comments, We're at podcast at tennis
Speaker 10: dot com DOTU.
Speaker 1: One of us too.
Speaker 10: Will read it, but in the meantime we'll catch you
Speaker 10: in the next one.
Speaker 1: See Yah.