WEBVTT - Novak’s tough day, Eala earns Grand Slam spot, Aussies eye BJK Cup Finals 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.480 Hello, welcome to the tennis for another week of clay play. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.600 It's had us all talking and here are the headlines. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.600 Djokovic disaster in Monte Carlo was demon and Pop roll 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.760 into the round of sixteen. Alex Yala gains direct entry 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.400 into her first Grand Slam mainraw at Roland Garross and 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.520 the Aussie women take on Kazakhstan and Colombia for a 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.720 spot in the b JK Cup finals. I'ms a muleback 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.720 your host for this little tennis tour through the tournament's alliteration. No, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.520 no points for that brain now great? Joining me is 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.280 always his Brie Stuart with Bunny is why have we 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:32.800 got these on? 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.199 That's right? Do you like that? I just sort of 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.199 put them on without any knowledge of. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.000 Why, but you did have knowledge? 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.760 Oh okay, well, removing that fourth wall. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.880 So joining us once again, father of Tofu, husband of Dasher. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.839 It's Luke Savil. Welcome back, mate, Thanks guys, great to 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:50.200 be back. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.080 Oh good and for the very first time, Queen of 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.960 Tennis Australia p R and Australian Open Lot. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:58.920 Yeah really the ruler. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.600 Of the roosting me up there? 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.120 Yeah, your boss pre is about to jump in the 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.160 door and go Actually I'm in charge. But that's fine. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.840 She doesn't listen. It's fine. Welcome Colorado, Riccio, thank you 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.720 excited to be here. Why did you agree to be 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:10.240 on the show. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.280 I didn't know there was a choice. If I did, 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.880 maybe I would have, you know, acted differently. No, I'm 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:16.360 pumped to be. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:17.199 A fan of the show. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.680 Great being tennis head, big tennis head here because. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.280 You have knowledge, yes, which you know, which we needed. Yes, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.040 but that's a lesson for our fans out there. If 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.319 you listen enough, you might end up on it. So 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.240 that's yea the bars. Yeah, good, Well we'll jump right in. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.720 We've done our intros. Let's get what's caught your eye? 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.919 Luke kick us off. You've been man about the world 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.120 back into Australia as of earlier this week. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:39.240 What's caught your eye this week? 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.760 In LANDA TWNA mine is the Houston two point fifty 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.600 just gone and the two titles from Jensen Brooksby and 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.040 John Patrick Smith the Aussie and Jensen Brooksby, Well, he's 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.720 spent two years away from the sport with two injuries, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.240 the right and left wrist, so we had surgeries on 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.680 those and a ten month ban as well. So three 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.520 miss tests drug tests. I think it's probably good to 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.040 tell all the viewers about whereabouts. So a lot of 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.640 the top players in the world, you have to put 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.720 in an app one hour every day of where you'll 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.799 be just in case of random drug tests, and he 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:15.720 missed three of those. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.120 Really, so it happened. 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.320 It's a good question. I don't know. And he's been 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.880 very open about his autism as well, and that's a 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.840 topic very close to my heart as well. So he 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.280 was nonverbal till four so pretty amazing story. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:34.520 Really. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.840 He was had a career high of thirty three in 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.840 twenty twenty two at the age of twenty one. It's 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.240 an amazing player. Then two years away from the sport, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.839 came back won his first title in Houston from being 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.600 a qualify a wild card ander qualifying, so amazing story there. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.079 And then the Aussie John Patrick Smith story of persistence. 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.840 And he's down to the rank of sixty one. Career 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.360 high of fifty two in twenty seventeen, so not too 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.519 far from that career high. He was an alternate into 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.000 Indian Wells, made the semi finals and then one Houston, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.320 so you know, probably it was around maybe ninety before 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.920 Indian Wells and now sitting at sixty one, got a 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:16.600 new partner in Fernando Romboli, a Brazilian guy, and looking 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.000 to really push on this year. So yeah, two great 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.000 stories of persistence. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:22.760 So I think, I mean, maybe it's just me, but 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.120 this app thing, I had no idea that was. So 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.799 it's literally just a nap that ever goes. Oh yeah, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.200 I'm in turkmenis down right now. 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.600 Yeah, so you know, Daris, my wife's on it, and 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.040 I was on it for a few years as well. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.720 And we have all sorts of random tests at our 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.000 house and a lot of the players. I think the 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.240 earliest you can put in is six am because you 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.600 know you'll be home. So yeah, we have all sorts 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.880 of six am drug tests come to the door, and 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.360 Tofu's not happy. Yeah, he wakes up about eight, so 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.520 he's barking and really keeping a keep. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.440 Always came to give a year example actually on the side, he's. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.520 Not sure and yeah, so he follows Dashery in all that. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.160 But yeah, so it's cute. Look, I think it's just 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.080 one of those ones where we see the top players 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.120 in the world. We see all the perks and whatnot, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:12.440 but you know it's not all so glamorous. So yeah, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.000 he had three miss tests there, Jensen brooks By, but 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.520 he's back now, wild card into qualifying, qualifies, wins the tournament. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.960 Amazing story and a fantastic player has wins over Fritz 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.400 Ruod and Berrettini, all Slam finalists, So very impressive. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.560 Yeah, it's gonna be a big year. 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.920 Yep, not just a qualifier, but a wild card qualifier. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.279 Yeah, just such a good story. Yeah, brand follow all 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:36.760 the way through. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.039 So a few weeks ago I was talking about Madison Keys, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.080 current Australian Open champion. Love her game, love her as 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.159 a person, but at the moment women's American tennis is 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.080 just dominating. Five that of the eight quarter finalists in 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.680 Charleston were from the US Anisamova, Navarro, Cannan, Pagoula, Collins, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.599 and we could have had two all American semi finals 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.719 if it went for a bit of an unluck of 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.599 the draw. But women's tennis in America it is a 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:02.800 renaissance that we think. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.800 Well three of the top five, like that's incredible. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:05.680 Yeah, that's massive. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.320 And Jesspa Gooul has just taken Coco spot as number three. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.480 Coco still in the five, but still it's huge for her. 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.960 Yeah, definitely, because Coco is one of those enduring names. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.280 She's on all the Nike billboards. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.280 But yeah, to be kind of put down by one 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.080 of your countrymen quite the story. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.680 Yeah, it's big. It's really good for American women's tennis. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:25.080 Yeah. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.400 Yeah, and we see it every year in the summer 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.200 of tennis down here in Australia where the Americans coming down. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.839 They really are fun to watch. The fans love them. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.719 They've got really great personalities attitudes, from the happiness of 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.760 Coco to the naughtiness. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.560 Yeah, let's go with sas naughtiness. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.039 They seem to be really friendly, like they seem to 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:44.880 be friends. 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:45.159 Off the court. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.920 They always seem to be in each other's videos and 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.680 posts on social media. Like whether that camaraderie and like 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.799 friendly competitiveness between them is assisting, I'm not sure. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.480 Well, speaking of social something caught your eye. It's related 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.240 to Luke in a way talk me through it yet. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.960 Funnily enough, it is a video posted on TikTok by 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.919 Oussie player Darius Savile, wife of Luke Savill, friend of 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.640 the pod I did not know Luke would be on 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.440 the pod tonag, but it actually makes it all the 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.080 more interesting. So Dasha posted a video in the last 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:18.560 week openly questioning why brands seem to prioritize working with 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.240 tennis wags quote unquote over the actual athletes. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.320 Let's talk brand deals for a second. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.719 Tennis aesthetics are in right now, right till over the place, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.040 but female tennis blairs are not getting those brand deals. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.279 It's actually tennis wags that fit into the esthetics rather 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.919 than us sweaty tennis blairs. Spoken to a few influencer 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:47.320 wags and they're surprised that we don't get the same opportunities. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.480 Is it that athletes are not as relatable as wags 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:52.359 to the audience? 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.880 The funny thing, I didn't get ready with me to 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.719 watch my husband play a tennis match during Australian Open, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.560 and it did so much better. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.560 And I got old, old up and it did so 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:04.360 much better. 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.000 Than all of my other videos where I'm like, oh, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.200 here's a day in the life of a professional tennis player. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.720 I don't know, is that our personalities that. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.040 All we do is just think about tennis. But I've 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.840 got a personality and it's salty right now. Of course 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.280 the top tennis players that have their big sponsorships. Do 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.800 marketing teams think tennis players are too niche compared to 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.840 a wag? Is it the whole glamorous life compared to 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.280 sweat life? Is it more aspirational to be a wag 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.400 than a female athlete? And honestly mind boggling to me 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.520 that brands are picking influencers for their campaigns during Grand 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.520 Slams And I'm definitely not the only female tennis player 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.880 that feels that way the marketing girls, why is that? 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.880 Sorry, if I came across salty af I'm done here. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.360 Having a look at comments. I mean I try to 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.280 steer away from comments on. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.440 There were a lot of comments rating the yes both. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.880 Ways, and I mean I took notice straight away because 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.280 for me, it like perfectly perfectly encapsulates. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.680 The challenge in my role. And Bree, you probably can 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:09.480 speak to this as well. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.800 Where As a PR person for Tennis Australia, obviously we're 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.480 trying to promote the athletes and promote the sport in turn, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.080 but also I work with lots of brands and partners 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.160 that you know, at the end of the day, it's 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.680 a numbers game. They need a return on investment, they 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.480 need figures, and in this day and age, often they're 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.960 getting that from influences. I find it really relatable. I 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.040 am so glad that Dasha brought it up because she 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.920 really stuck her head out doing that, because I'm sure 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.679 they probably will be a little bit of backlash. I 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.880 think it's an important conversation to have in terms of 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.200 brands wanting to work with wags quote unquote. I know 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.160 that's not always the most we have. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.480 A what are you hag? Yeah, hag. I think he's 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:49.880 a coach. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.400 Yeah, but I stopped diminishing who Luke is. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.360 It's more than dasha'st. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.400 I'm not trying to diminish him. I'm just elevating women 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.480 in tennis. Sorry, Karla ordering. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.280 I just think, yeah, good on Dasher for bringing it up. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.199 I think from the perspective of a brand, I think 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.080 tapping into that wag, that influence of that content creator audience, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.560 I think it's brought a whole new audience to tennis 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:13.160 and to the sport. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.120 I think that's a positive. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.240 I think people that previously would never have turned up 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.440 to a Grand Slam or tuned in to watch it 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:21.880 on TV and now engaging with the sport and what 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.480 you hope is in turn that generates more opportunities for everyone, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.280 including the athletes, more earning opportunities all round. I think also, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.920 I know from the space that I work in, one 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.680 of the biggest challenges for brands working with athletes is access, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.160 especially tennis players. They are on tour most of the year. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.640 It's not their fault, but they can't be in an event, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.920 they can't record something when it's needed, and I think 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.079 especially during the Slams and the big tournaments, when interest 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.719 in the sport is highest, that is when they're the 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.200 most locked in and the least available understandably, so perhaps 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.360 working with the wags and the influences is a clever 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.040 workaround where you've still got access to the sport, you know, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.520 without being able to work with the athlete directly. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:02.800 You've still got someone who can go to the met gal. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.600 Yeah, but I think from my perspective, right to put 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:10.240 a spin on it, I know people who follow tennis 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.680 players like tennis. But if so, if I want to 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.800 get a new audience for social for this train, open 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:21.280 getting a wag who might have people who are more 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.880 aligned with lifestyle fashion rather than pure tennis. Means that 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.680 I'm getting a new audience, so I utilize them to 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.240 get a new audience, where for example, Dasher's audience I 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.240 think we'd probably already have ideally because it's pure tennis. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.040 So that's kind of the flip side from my world. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.800 But what's great is players like Dasher who are doing 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.559 both content like that, not not so much this one 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.760 in particular, but get ready with me as a non 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.440 tennis content, I would imagine correct if I'm wrong, breed 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.720 kind of taps into those others. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.240 Yeah, yeah, but I think that might be why sometimes 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.040 the wags are getting out over the tennis players. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.199 I'm not on tiktop and I was facetiming my mum 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.319 a couple of weeks ago and maybe a week and 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.080 she goes, what's this video that Dash has just put up? Okay, no, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.320 I don't know what is it? And then my mum 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.360 goes into depth and I'm just like, well, look, mom, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.800 I just respectfully, I'll stay out of it and not 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.200 on TikTok. But yeah, I've seen the video and there's 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.199 a few people talking about it, and I. 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.840 Like that conversation. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.679 I like her from Dasha. She's always not afraid to 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.840 speak her mind. Be a bit controversial, but it comes 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.000 from a good place. She's got a good heart, and 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:31.280 you know, she's a bit of. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:35.719 As I have a personality, she has a personality, we know. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.440 And I liked the end of it too because she 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.600 was like, I'm not sure if I'm going to post this. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.280 I'm going to send it to my friends first, to 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.400 a tennis players as well, and see what they think. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.120 It was a good video, it's a good conversation. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.040 And play the creative first. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:52.720 She's fantastic. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.880 She's just good. Yeah, sorry, Mum've got to go walk 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:55.960 to her for and then you ran off. 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.560 Yeah, fair enough, all right, Well moving on with caught 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.280 your eye, Brie, Yes, what caught your eye in tennis? 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.960 So what caught my eye was alex Yala after her 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:12.240 amazing run in Miami, has seen some great ranking jumps 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.439 over the past few days. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.000 Week. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.360 So last week she was ranked to number seventy five, 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.480 and now without having played all week, she's hit number 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:22.040 seventy three. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.720 Bang, that was easy, I'm obviously joking. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.320 Yeah, So she's got a big kind of what do 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.680 you call it? Schedule of Clay coming up. She's got 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:39.440 areas in Portugal Open, Madrid Open, the Catalunya Open, Italian Open, 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.800 Palma Ladies Open, and then rolling into Roland. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.120 Garros, rolling to Rollin. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.040 Where she will be in the main draw for the 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.280 first time. So because of those ranking jumps, she's made 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.240 it through to main draw. She lost last year in 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.199 the last round of qualies, and that will make her 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.520 the first female Filipino Slam. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.040 Huge, big shout out to our Filipino fans of the show. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.240 I haven't seen much of her, but I think for 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.199 me and I can speak more on the men's side, 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.559 it's great to see just someone pushing into that top 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.760 hundred because she's been on I guess, the challenger circuit 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.800 for so many years, and especially on the men's side, 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.000 that gap is just not that much from challenges into 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.400 the touraments. Of course the guys are better, but it's 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.400 not as big as what people might think. So great 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.880 to see that she made I guess took full advantage 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.040 of that wild card into Miami and had some huge 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.480 wins and now she's ranked seventy three in the world 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.200 nineteen years old, and she could be definitely one to 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:39.959 watch for years to come. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.840 I'm sure what caught all of our eyes and everyone's eyes. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.760 Novak Djokovic this week had let's say, a bit of 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.800 a nightmare run, a bit of an early exits. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.360 Words, yeah, his words. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.160 I'm not taking any out of context, but lost in 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.840 his first match against Allejandro Tabiilo six three sixty four. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.000 Look, I was hoping this is not going to happen, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.360 but there was quite a high probability I'm going to 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:07.360 play this way. I don't know. It's just horrible, horrible 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.440 feeling to play this way, and just sorry for all 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.680 the people that had to witness this. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.800 Someone asked, so, what's your goal on Clay and he 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.720 just went rolling Garras and that was kind of the 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.480 end of the of the press conference. I do feel 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.400 for him though that that would you know, when we 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.320 have a bad day at work, you go home feel 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.760 constantly the pits. You would every day is a bad 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.160 time for you. But like I just it must be 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.920 a hard feeling. What do you think it was? Do 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.560 you think he's just body's not in condition, tired after Miami? 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:39.360 What do you think it might be? 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.600 I think, as I mentioned, the eyes probably bothering him 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.160 a little bit as well, like quite a sizeable sort 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.720 of you know, infection there. Yeah, I just feel like 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.920 with Djokovic, he's achieved everything. That's why I was just 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.800 questioning why he goes to Monte Carlo. Obviously an amazing place, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.600 Master Theory is one of the best settings in tennis, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.600 but just to go there and to fron up week 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.800 in week out, I was reasonably surprised even fronted up 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.760 for Monte Carlo, and obviously in the twilight of his 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:13.680 career now literally achieving everything. He's definitely picking a I guess, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.400 a lighter schedule and just prioritizing the really big events, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.000 and obviously Roland Garross is his big priority in the 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.400 Grand Slams, and so I was surprised he sort of 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.720 went there, especially after the final in Miami and having 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.720 that eye infection as well, and so he turned up 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.480 and just watching a little bit of his match last 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.680 night against Tabiloh, and he just didn't look right into 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.720 the match. And for me, Djokovic, when he's just got 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.320 that focus and concentration is almost unbeatable, and he just 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.440 sort of didn't have that in that match. And to 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:48.320 Bilo is one of three players to have played Djokovic 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.440 more than once and beaten him all times, so it 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.720 was too and zero on Djokovic. So a little bit 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.760 of a random stat that one, but obviously isn't shared. Yeah, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.160 and Tabilo's been struggling bit this year, so a huge 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.760 win for Tabilo nonetheless, great confidence boost for him. But yeah, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.440 for Djokovic, it's I'm sure he'll probably take a couple 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.120 of weeks off and I definitely wouldn't ride him off 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.200 for the Roland Garross just yet. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.360 So think Luke, I'm just throwing this out there, but 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.240 we know he is very big into his records and 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.800 you know the history of his career. He's chasing that 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.920 elusive hundred ATP title. Could that it's a nice round number, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:26.720 no one's ever done it before. I don't know whether 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.920 that's maybe a small motivator that final slam he's chasing 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:31.360 as well. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.040 Yeah, Ondred, I think that's a great point by you, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.960 but sort of feel like with Djokovic, he's probably just 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:38.920 going to believe that he will get it eventually, doesn't 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.560 need to rush a week after Miami to hunt that. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.480 So interesting scheduling for me, because you know, last week 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.840 I was with Alex Stemna, for example, and he was 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.600 sort of checking the list leading up to Monte Carlo 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.880 and he was sort of seeing if someone was going 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.680 to withdraw because he was going to go into the 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.120 eighth seed and get a buyer. So he was sort 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.320 of also thinking that Jokovic was going to be the 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.520 one to pull out. In the end, it was Fritz 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.120 who pulled out and Alex got the buyer. But yes, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.440 scheduling interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if he takes probably 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.399 Madrid off and just maybe plays one or two le 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.960 into the French Open and just really freshens up. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.200 Yeah, is he going to be back in Melbourne and 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.360 jam Is there any fears there or is it just like, yeah, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:20.920 of course he will. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.040 You kin't have a discount Novack. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.960 I mean, was it last year when he you know, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.960 that injury that took him out of the I'm going 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.720 to get this wrong, Luke, correct me, But you know 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:31.479 went out with an injury that you should have been 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.159 months head surgery. And then he makes the semis at 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.280 Wimbledon like he's sort of he'll be back, not human 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.560 in the best way possible. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.600 There is no doubt he'll be at the A But 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:43.919 he does love the stats you've got. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.600 You've got your team constantly updating that atp. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.720 We've had that hundred visual and ready for it. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.280 Can we just finish on Monte Carlo a little bit 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.399 more because overnight. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:17:59.960 I'll keep us on track. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:05.640 Back we see Alan for the buttons overcame mccatch, which 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.280 I think, did I say that right? 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:08.399 Hatch? Hatch? 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.280 You didn't. It's my hatch, but I have been saying 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:12.600 it wrong. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.840 Great, that's how he knows. 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.000 You know, I'm bad with this stuff. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:21.280 And then reading please continue fanetics. 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.800 And then Poppy Poprin took out Francis Tiafo, which is 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:32.240 really exciting. So great run for both of them. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.600 Big for Alexi, like that's he's he hasn't taken down 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.240 the big foe. Well, he's had a tough start to 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.199 twenty twenty five, and that's a first tournament this year 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.240 where he's won two matches consecutively, and he's got a 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:40.760 new coach. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.880 Yeah, Wayne Ferrera's come in and Alexi spoke about him 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:47.680 coming in and just changing the grip on his back 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.560 end right away. So not afraid to come in and 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.399 sort of make a change and make a bit of 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.280