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Speaker 1: The women's final is locked in. Welcome to the AO RAP.

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Speaker 1: You're with the Late crew.

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Speaker 2: I'm Brett Thomas and I'm Lexi Mitchell. Here's your quick

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Speaker 2: hit from day twelve. Back in business, Elena Rebarkaner survives

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Speaker 2: the Beagoula Awakening, history maker Arena Savalenka brushes off Alena Sidelina.

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Speaker 1: We're joined by former player Tom commentator Jill Crabs to

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Speaker 1: unpack that match and preview the men's semifinals.

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Speaker 3: Second serve on match point lances in Rebecca now hammers

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Speaker 3: the backhand down the line and on the fourth time

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Speaker 3: of asking, Elena Rebeccaa wins and moves back into the

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Speaker 3: final for the first time in three years. She's seen

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Speaker 3: off Jessica Pegoula in two in thralling sets six, three, seven, six.

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Speaker 1: Well, Elena Rebarkaner getting the job done against jess Pegoula,

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Speaker 1: But we thought it might be over a lot sooner

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Speaker 1: because Rebarkaner got very tight toward the end of what

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Speaker 1: was in the end, Lexi a straight sets result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just did see some openings which we will

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Speaker 2: talk about soon. But that first set, Rebarkner was quite

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Speaker 2: dominant but still warming up her serve. She was only

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Speaker 2: landing less than fifty percent of her first serves and

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Speaker 2: taking a time which we saw against Jon Tech, but

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Speaker 2: I was still, I guess, waiting for that to come

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Speaker 2: into action in this match.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is crazy. She was able to get that

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Speaker 1: first set fairly comfortably, and she raced out as you've

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Speaker 1: got there, to a three love lead when she wasn't

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Speaker 1: serving particularly well. And we know that she led the

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Speaker 1: WTA last year with aces and this tournament as well,

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Speaker 1: so when she gets her first serve in very difficult

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Speaker 1: to return. But she was playing big and making a

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Speaker 1: lot of those big shots that were we're used to seeing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then in the second set it started off

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Speaker 2: pretty topsy turvy as well. There were three breaks of

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Speaker 2: serve between both players with Rebarkner holding the lead, and

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Speaker 2: then things just started to get a little bit shaky

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Speaker 2: for it. It's like she could see the finish line

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Speaker 2: bit didn't know what to do with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, shaky is an understatement. So Jess Begoola is

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Speaker 1: serving down three to five in the second set and

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Speaker 1: then Rebarkaner has three match points, can't close it out

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Speaker 1: when she got really really tight trying to serve out

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Speaker 1: the match not once, but twice in that second set.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so she had the chance to serve out at

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Speaker 2: five to four and just really tightened up, and Pegola

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Speaker 2: just took that chance, breaking two level to five all.

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Speaker 2: And then we thought, oh, well, Pegoola's got a bit

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Speaker 2: of momentum, maybe she'll hold hit. Nope, Rebarkaner breaks back,

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Speaker 2: She's got a lead and then just has to serve

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Speaker 2: out the match again. What does Pegoola do? She breaks

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Speaker 2: again to take it to a tiebreak. I couldn't believe

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Speaker 2: what I was seeing.

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Speaker 4: That was tough.

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Speaker 5: Obviously, having sat points, knowing that I was able to

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Speaker 5: stay in there and kind of start turning the match

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Speaker 5: at times and start playing a lot better towards the end,

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Speaker 5: you know, just in time to give myself a chance.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, that was tough to night. I honestly am

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Speaker 5: disappointed in my level. I felt like I didn't play

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Speaker 5: very well until maybe the very end, and even at

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Speaker 5: the end it was still kind of shaddy. I missed

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Speaker 5: and I felt like both of us were a little

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Speaker 5: like back and forth at times. She was just playing

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Speaker 5: a little bit cleaner than I was. But yeah, I'm

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Speaker 5: kind of just disappointed that I wasn't able to bring

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Speaker 5: a better level tonight.

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Speaker 1: I thought for sure we were going to a third set.

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Speaker 1: It almost felt like rebackin it was more comfortable when

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Speaker 1: Pegoula was serving because the pressure was off her. But

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Speaker 1: just going through Rebackina's record from last year coughing up

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Speaker 1: big leads. So she led Sablenka at a tournament in

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Speaker 1: Berlin up six to on a tiebreak, lost that match,

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Speaker 1: then up five to three in the second set against

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Speaker 1: Leila Fernandez in Washington, lost that match up five to three,

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Speaker 1: up five to four with a match point on her racket,

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Speaker 1: and lost to Inmboco in Montreal. So some of those

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Speaker 1: demons started to resurface because she was missing fourhands so

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Speaker 1: way to explain it was nerves considering how different that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I almost thought this was going to go

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Speaker 2: into a third because Pogoula did have two set points

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Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, so that tiebreak it meant that Rebarkater

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Speaker 2: eventually won nine to seven. Her serve eventually came in

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Speaker 2: to save her with a beautiful ace down the tee

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Speaker 2: match on a backhand winner. As you say, she's got

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Speaker 2: this history of coughing up leads, I guess I'm glad

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Speaker 2: she's done it, you know, almost done it, but sort

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Speaker 2: the final.

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Speaker 1: Well hope, you hope not.

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Speaker 6: You hope not.

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Speaker 1: She when they met in the final in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: she actually won the first set and lost in three.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, let's see if she does get a lead

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Speaker 1: against sat Balinka, if any of those kind of resurfaced.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure the way she was able to end

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Speaker 1: the match, make sure it didn't go to three sets,

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Speaker 1: get off court in straight, will give her a lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence going into that final.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 2: And I think, yeah, if she can and perfect herself

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Speaker 2: in all in as many ways as possible, that's the

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Speaker 2: best chance you have against Sabilenka. If you can really

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Speaker 2: get on top of that mental blip and really come

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Speaker 2: in on the clutch moments and capitalize on the set

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Speaker 2: points or the break points when they open up, then

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Speaker 2: that's obviously going to help you against Sablenka.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was very nervous, frustrated when it was not

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Speaker 7: going my way. I was leading five three and then

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Speaker 7: it went so fight three, I think, Yeah, it went

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Speaker 7: so close. I think Jasica she also stepped in. She

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Speaker 7: started to return a bit better and putting some pressures

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Speaker 7: long grallys. So yeah, I was just thinking to play

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Speaker 7: as possible. And again, I'm just happy that it went

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because Sabalanca thrives under pressure. She's added different elements

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Speaker 1: to her game, so I'm not sure if Rebakana has

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Speaker 1: that same variety in her game that she can go

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Speaker 1: to when she is in trouble. But let's just hope

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Speaker 1: it does go to three cents because we've had so

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Speaker 1: many straight sets results at this tournament. But you know,

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Speaker 1: this one, with the way that it ended, I think

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Speaker 1: was possibly the better of the two semi finals.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I guess talking about that final, let's save

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Speaker 2: the best to all last, Hey and.

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Speaker 6: The serv out wide pour a cross corps to Alena

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Speaker 6: up the line from Sabolenka, blockbacks Fiddelina, It's a short

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Speaker 6: Paul Sabelenka cross car boy hend winner and yet again,

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Speaker 6: Arena Sabolenka is through to the Australian Open Vinyl. Her

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Speaker 6: magic running Melbourne continues.

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Speaker 1: All right, Arena Sabolenka defending Alena's Fidelina six two six

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Speaker 1: three in about an hour and fifteen minutes. She's won

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Speaker 1: this tournament twice before, but that is as dominant as

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Speaker 1: I think we've seen Arena Sabolenka play here on rod

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Speaker 1: Laver Arena. Very lucky to be joined by Jill Craves,

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Speaker 1: former pro and now a commentator. You were courtside for that.

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Speaker 1: How awesome was it to see Sabolenka in that full swing?

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Speaker 8: First of all, thank you for having me. Yeah, it

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Speaker 8: was pretty amazing. Actually, there were a few of us

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Speaker 8: lot of times we just looked at each other and

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Speaker 8: and Spinalita, I think you can say overall did not

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Speaker 8: play that poorly. She was trying with all her might

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Speaker 8: to do everything she could, from trying to hit with

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Speaker 8: a ton of pace to throwing in some variety, throwing

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Speaker 8: a drop shot a couple of times. But I think

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Speaker 8: Sabolenka just stepped up her game even even more. I mean,

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Speaker 8: there were moments in the rally that all of a

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Speaker 8: sudden I looked on her side and she was already

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Speaker 8: up to the boss. So she was really rushing Sidelina.

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Speaker 4: And it was impressive.

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Speaker 2: The commentators were just saying how much Spidelina was maxing out,

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Speaker 2: just trying to match Sabolenka. But there was a controversy

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Speaker 2: in the beginning of the match with a hindrance call

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Speaker 2: at two one, and that almost felt like, oh, no,

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Speaker 2: we've poked.

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Speaker 3: The tiger beforehand flank of Sabolenka. That's a mishit.

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Speaker 8: Hindrance, hindrance, hindrance. Something's happened.

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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure it was that a scream after

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Speaker 9: I think I think she's called boy.

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Speaker 3: I think he's called the scream slash shout on Sabolenka

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Speaker 3: after she hit it.

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Speaker 8: Louise as well.

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Speaker 3: Has called a hindrance on Arena Satellaca. She looks shocked, stunned.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that was an interesting moment because again we all

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Speaker 8: all looked at each other on the sideline and nothing

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Speaker 8: the umpire's discretion, but nothing seemed different to me from

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Speaker 8: Sabolenka's grant. Everything seen the same. Even Fidilinia, to me,

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Speaker 8: looked a little bit surprised. She didn't really understand what

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Speaker 8: was happening. But anyway, you're correct, I mean, I think

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Speaker 8: you don't want to get Sablenka even more angry. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: she she played. I think she played the next couple

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Speaker 8: in the world, is she can let things go very quickly,

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Speaker 8: and she showed that today.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Fidelena continued to play out the point, so it

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Speaker 1: was interesting that they stopped the play, But then when

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Speaker 1: they reviewed it, they still elected to docker point off Sabolenka.

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Speaker 1: So from where you were courtside, it didn't sound anything

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Speaker 1: different to any other grunted Seboleinka hits.

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Speaker 8: It didn't to us now, and I think the umpire

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Speaker 8: said it was extended a little bit longer. But yeah,

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Speaker 8: there were a few of us former players along and

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Speaker 8: we both all of us were a little bit surprised

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Speaker 8: because I think we would have recognized something that sounded different.

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Speaker 8: But to me, it just sounded like a Sabellaca grunt.

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Speaker 1: It was a big call in a semi final. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever played in a match where you felt like

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Speaker 1: someone's grunting all the noise that were making was a

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Speaker 1: hindrance to your play, was actually affecting maybe the way

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Speaker 1: you heard the ball come off the racket.

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Speaker 8: Not from me, no, I think I say this to

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Speaker 8: people all the time. The one time that I got

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Speaker 8: distracted was when I played Cheripo, but one year at

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Speaker 8: Roland Garros and she grunts all the time, and there

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Speaker 8: were a couple of points where she stopped, she got silent,

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Speaker 8: and that distracted me because that surprised me because I

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Speaker 8: was like, oh, it was weird, But that you get

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Speaker 8: used to it, You get used to hearing the same

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Speaker 8: sounds over and over, so it didn't affect me.

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Speaker 1: Sebolenka was just serving so big, and she seems to

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Speaker 1: have added some different things to a game backhand drop SHOTZ.

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Speaker 1: But it just felt like there weren't too many ways

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Speaker 1: match or find any holes in the Seblenca game tonight.

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Speaker 8: I think the thing that what would have helped Fidelina

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's had a great couple of weeks coming into

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the dominant record. She had a Spindelina as well.

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Speaker 8: I actually think she's gone on all surfaces. I know

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Speaker 2: Just on her hard court dominance. She's just the third

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just been an incredible run. And I think

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Speaker 11: I don't know, I just love this place. I love

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Speaker 1: Okay, time now to preview the men's semi finals with

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Speaker 1: Jill Craves, former pro player of course on the tour

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Speaker 1: and now a commentator will start with Alex Zverev and

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Speaker 1: Carlos al Karaz. They are underway on the day session tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: If there's anyone that could topple el Karaz and Sinner,

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Speaker 1: is it Zverev, who has a sort of decent record

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Speaker 1: When you compare that to other players who come up

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Speaker 8: I think I think yes, I think everyone would agree

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Speaker 8: he's proved that he can be both of them. It's

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Speaker 8: I think to that deep belief for a Zverev that

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Speaker 2: Zverev served coming up against Carlos's power and under his

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Speaker 1: And for Carlos el Karaz chasing the career Grand Slam,

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Speaker 8: I think so. I mean, he never looks like he

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Speaker 8: he's been he's been looking great. We spoke to him.

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Speaker 1: He was pretty awesome against Demon All Yea, his power

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Speaker 8: I think, yeah, I mean, I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you think it sort of feels like

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Speaker 8: I think people are loving, loving this rivalry for sure.

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Speaker 1: of people love Jokovic. Well, he has a big fan

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Speaker 1: that Yannick Sinner Novak Djokovic. Health for both of them

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Speaker 8: Yes, I think more so with Djokovic because he has

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Speaker 8: to hend, but Senator's he's just he has a little

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Speaker 8: that's why. And it's crazy saying that when you're talking

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Speaker 8: about someone playing Djokovic.

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Speaker 4: Just start talking about the body.

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Speaker 2: Yannick admitted that he was still sort of rebounding a

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Speaker 2: bit after the cramps earlier on. Do you think that

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Speaker 2: it could come to an advantage for Novak if this

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Speaker 2: match can string out.

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Speaker 8: I don't think so now. I mean, it seems like

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Speaker 8: the Ivos question to ask, because obviously we all know

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Speaker 8: he was suffering. But if you looked his next couple

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Speaker 8: of matches, he looked really, really good. And I think

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Speaker 8: the fact that it's playing at Nate is probably I

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Speaker 8: don't know what the way they're supposed to be like,

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Speaker 8: but I think the fact that it's playing at Nate

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Speaker 8: will help him, will help him alike.

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Speaker 1: Well, Novak is to blame for Yannick playing so well.

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Speaker 1: I heard Darren k Hill say that after Novak beat

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Speaker 1: him at Wimbledon, Darren k Hill ran into to Novak

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Speaker 1: and said, you know, what do you think about my boy?

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Speaker 1: And he said, well, he just he doesn't give me

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Speaker 1: that much variety on his shots, so he hits it big.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I can sort of read and react

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Speaker 1: what he's doing, and since then he's added a lot

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Speaker 1: more shape to the ball and he's got, you know,

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Speaker 1: just an all round game Yanick center.

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Speaker 8: And what I like about Center too is that he

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Speaker 8: starting to add stuff like now he's coming to the net.

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Speaker 8: I saw it in Serve and Bali in one match,

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Speaker 8: and I was like, this is great. And then then

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Speaker 8: I started thinking about comparing Carlos and Yonick, and I

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Speaker 8: was like, there's so much more things Yanick can add

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Speaker 8: to his game. Like Carlos already has so many tools

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Speaker 8: and he can still get better because he saw has

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Speaker 8: like little shifts up and down. But Yanick is now

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Speaker 8: starting to add the drop shot. He's starting to come

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Speaker 8: into the net. He served in Valiye a couple of times,

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Speaker 8: so that's really exciting to see. So that's that variety.

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Speaker 8: I think that maybe Novak might not expect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he for a big man, he covers the

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Speaker 1: court so well. We get to drop shots, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know if it's his skiing background. He's fast faced, slide.

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Speaker 1: The way he moves, he moves so well being so tall.

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Speaker 8: It's absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, but you can't. You can't be

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Speaker 8: at the top of the game if you're not moving well.

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Speaker 8: I mean, same with Sasha Sasha moves incredibly well for

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Speaker 8: his height.

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a tip?

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Speaker 10: Then?

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Speaker 1: For the two semi finals, who do you think we're.

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Speaker 8: Gonna I'm gonna go with Carlos and yonik Okay.

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Speaker 4: I would say the same, what about you.

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Speaker 1: I think it's what the people want, so I think

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Speaker 1: we haven't seen it in Australia. I would love to see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great rivalry. We were hoping at

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Speaker 1: this tournament a third player might emerge, maybe a Ben

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Speaker 1: Shelton to challenge them, but it sort of just followed

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Speaker 1: the form line and we've got the top two.

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Speaker 8: I did think I been was gonna do. I thought

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Speaker 8: Ben would at least get a sad Yeah, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 8: I just played insane.

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Speaker 1: Yep, that's just the way the tournament's played out. Jill,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us, and we appreciate

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Speaker 1: it joining us. On the aar RAP, James.

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Speaker 11: Said that.

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Speaker 12: Llas designer six to three days, Jackson, Coupler and make

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Speaker 12: Pullmans have found a way for the title.

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Speaker 1: Jason Kubler Mark Pulman's had never played together before this AO.

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Speaker 1: They get into the final. They defeated Luke Johnson and

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Speaker 1: Jan Zelinski. In the semis today. Mark Pulman's was huge

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Speaker 1: with his volleys and he's serving as well. And Jason Kubler,

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Speaker 1: who won the title with Rinky hit Jakarta now with

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Speaker 1: the Polman said if it wasn't for Polman's and his

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Speaker 1: presence at the net, then they wouldn't have gotten through,

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Speaker 1: so congratulations to them. Next up, they've got to Christian

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Speaker 1: Harrison and Neil Skupski in the men's doubles final.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. Man, I'm pretty pumped to be in the final.

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Speaker 9: I mean, we had a very close first round match,

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Speaker 9: being down for one against the Special Case in the third,

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Speaker 9: so didn't expect to be to go this far. So

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Speaker 9: I've just me and Jason are just enjoying the roller

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Speaker 9: coaster ride we're on at the moment. But I'm yeah,

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Speaker 9: I'm really enjoying playing Jason and to be here still

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Speaker 9: at the AO. I lost early in the qualifying the

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Speaker 9: single so it's nice to be extending my stay here

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Speaker 9: in the AO.

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Speaker 2: And the women's semi final winners today were Alisa Mertens

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Speaker 2: and Jane Shwi. They'll come up against Anna Danelina and

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Speaker 2: Alexander Kruinich.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, let's go into ACE or unforced era,

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Speaker 1: because you were all over Melbourne Park today you're on

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Speaker 1: the Blue Zone. You made a special appearance to talk

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Speaker 1: up the pod and also some of your backstory which

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Speaker 1: we haven't gone to in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very excited to join another form of media,

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Speaker 2: my first TV gig, I guess you could say. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were very interested in my backstory of driving tractors

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Speaker 2: and fighting fires and things like that. So and I

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Speaker 2: guess you know, being school captain of a primary school

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Speaker 2: that had eleven kids total, I've obviously had a pretty

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Speaker 2: big direct trajectory since then.

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Speaker 1: This podcast are you saying? This podcast and the Blue

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Speaker 1: Zone is the peak?

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Speaker 4: Exactly?

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Speaker 2: That is exactly it. The peak is what's coming is

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Speaker 2: my performance on the Blue Zone. This is leading into

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Speaker 2: the ace.

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Speaker 4: Sorry.

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Speaker 2: They challenged me to this competitive game of tossing tennis

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Speaker 2: balls into a bucket and I was not aware. This

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Speaker 2: is something I had to do as a special guest

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Speaker 2: and I had a minute to throw as many tennis

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Speaker 2: balls in the bucket as I could.

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Speaker 4: Pretty simple stuff. I got nineteen in.

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Speaker 1: Well done, thank you, yep.

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Speaker 2: And the cherry on top is that it beat our podcast.

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Speaker 2: What do you call them the colleagues, colleagues, weird uncles.

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Speaker 2: I don't know Lizzie Who and Mike Goldstein I beat

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Speaker 2: both of them are in the ball task.

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Speaker 1: Oh well done flying the flag. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: appear on the blue zone now because I don't want

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Speaker 1: to ruin your perfect record and lose to Pod Lavor Arena.

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Speaker 1: So well done to you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much farding the good fight for both

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Speaker 4: of us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll fighting fires. When we talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: under pressure Lena rebark in the late in that match,

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Speaker 1: that does not compare to fighting fires. So I think

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Speaker 1: you can always put down that ace card part in

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Speaker 1: the pun when we're talking about tennis players feeling a

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Speaker 1: little bit of pressure. But what onto you on the

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Speaker 1: blue zone and tonight as well.

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Speaker 4: Thank you you as well, Brett

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Speaker 1: And we'll be back tomorrow for men's semi final day