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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Bilain Woodie. It's a Monday afternoon. The Aussie

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Speaker 1: Open kicks off today on Channel nine. You can watch

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Speaker 1: it all day every day from eleven am the night

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Speaker 1: sessions at seven o'clock. It's on Channel nine to nine now,

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Speaker 1: or you can stream it online. And we've got one

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Speaker 1: of their commentators, in genuine legend of Australian sporter joins

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Speaker 1: us right now from Melbourne Park.

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Speaker 2: Our Next gest is it tennis Ace. It's been a

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Speaker 2: few years since she called game, set and match on

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Speaker 2: her playing career, but she quickly turned her hand to

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Speaker 2: writing her twenty seventeen autobiography on Breakable, top the Aussie

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Speaker 2: charts in its first week. Somebody Good read to be

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Speaker 2: Fair Now an accomplished commentator and coach. There's a rumor

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Speaker 2: going around she's picking on the racket again. Here's to

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Speaker 2: talk to our races.

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Speaker 3: I'll probably give them a serve or two.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Elena Dockage.

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Speaker 1: Yes You'relena Docky spoken to the show mate.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 4: Thank you? I'm good. Thank you for that beautiful intro.

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Speaker 1: By the way, no worries at all. It was going

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Speaker 1: to say I'm looking at a two year transfer before

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Speaker 1: and after sort of a shot here, mate, you are

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Speaker 1: looking amazing.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Not a problem at all. And you've got this number

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Speaker 1: one best selling autobiography, Unbreakable, all about coming to Australia

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Speaker 1: from Yugoslavia and just a highly publicized relationship with your

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Speaker 1: dad in the media. How does it feel to have

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Speaker 1: all that out there, Elena.

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Speaker 4: Look, it feels good. It's something that I definitely wanted

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Speaker 4: at some stage, certainly to talk about or write about.

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Speaker 4: I covered a lot of things that people definitely didn't know.

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Speaker 4: And obviously my story hasn't been easy, and you know,

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Speaker 4: from dealing obviously with domestic violence, violence for over fifteen years,

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Speaker 4: and mental health issues and almost committing sue side on

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Speaker 4: felt like I had to tell it.

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Speaker 3: Wow, congratulations for right now. Yeah, and again the success

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Speaker 3: to one side, honestly, the courage to write about it, Elena, well.

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Speaker 1: Done, well done, mate, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, before you move on, Elina, Lifeline's number is thirteen

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Speaker 3: eleven fourteen. If you have by listen into that you're

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Speaker 3: having any issues around that. But on a lighter note, Elena,

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Speaker 3: I heard a rumor that there might be a return

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Speaker 3: to the circuit. Is there any truth to that rumor?

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Speaker 4: You're really asking the tough questions, aren't you. I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: exactly say I'm coming back, but at the same time,

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Speaker 4: I say never say never to think. Ye, I can

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Speaker 4: already see the big headlines that I'm coming back, But

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Speaker 4: don't take it that way.

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Speaker 1: Do we just make a headline?

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Speaker 4: What's the story? Well, I know, I know how I'm

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Speaker 4: eating a few balls for fun. Let's just leave it

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Speaker 4: at that.

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Speaker 1: Now, moving from you know, the hard hitting questions, you

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Speaker 1: layer to another hard hitting questions. But what did you

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Speaker 1: think about ash Barty's one bat on the chopping board yesterday?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Look, she's doing so well in playing incredible tennis.

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Speaker 4: It's great to see because she hasn't played in twelve months.

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Speaker 4: Pretty incredible to come out of the twelve month break

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Speaker 4: and win a tournament. She had a couple of tough

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Speaker 4: matches and she was able to get through that, so

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Speaker 4: she's actually in a great form.

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Speaker 3: As a professional. How much of an impact will that

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Speaker 3: lockdown before the tournament have on some players?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Look, I think everyone deals with it. Differently. I

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Speaker 4: think it also depends a lot on what you've been

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Speaker 1: And Elena, I know, speaking about the players in Lockdown,

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Speaker 1: I know, coming from Yugoslavia, I've heard that apparently they

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Speaker 1: only have their hair washed by other people, so you

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Speaker 1: could really empathize with Bernie Tomics.

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Speaker 4: Girlfriend, I really have no comment on that one. You've

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Speaker 4: asked me a question that I'm really yeah, it's really

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Speaker 4: hard to comment from all of that, and perhaps yeah,

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Speaker 4: a little bit too much attention on something like that,

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Speaker 4: as crazy as that. Our comment was your medium and

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Speaker 4: all the great tennis players that are here.

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Speaker 1: It's great. It's amazing that it's going ahead. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: Channel nine. They're all out there tomorrow, all the way

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Speaker 1: from Zverev to Kurios. We've got John Milbman is going

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Speaker 1: to out there for the Aussies as well. So there's

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Speaker 1: a whole load of tennis that you guys can wrap

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Speaker 1: your eyes around later tonight.

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Speaker 4: So today, no, he lost him five.

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Speaker 1: We're right across it here, aren't We dropped the pall? Elena,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. You can watch it on Channel

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Speaker 1: nine to nine now stream it online. It's been a

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Speaker 1: pleasure making grats on the new book as well, and

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Speaker 1: good luck for the rest of the tournament.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, thank you later. Bye B.