Speaker 1: If someone beats you three times in the row, they're
Speaker 1: your daddy. So I was fired into to not let
Speaker 1: that happen Today.
Speaker 2: Gooday and welcome to the tennis. For day seven of
Speaker 2: AO twenty twenty five. John huveeros with all the big
Speaker 2: news from Melbourne Park every day of the main draw.
Speaker 2: Today on the Tennis Date Night, Gail and Elena dance
Speaker 2: into the second week.
Speaker 3: Well, I would want to say that they've got inspired
Speaker 3: after my husband's.
Speaker 2: Win, Demon's declaration, The legs are back, American young guns
Speaker 2: shooting true. Plus a preview of day eight and we
Speaker 2: go downtown with Donner.
Speaker 4: Last year I developed this obsession with shopping. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to control it a little bit, but you know you're
Speaker 4: on in Australia once a year.
Speaker 2: That's all ahead. On the tennis.
Speaker 5: Four heading there from as Fidelein, she goes with a
Speaker 5: backhand down the line, power lady scrambling, but the shot
Speaker 5: is too good.
Speaker 2: That's a big turn up and.
Speaker 5: Spiderlina takes it out in three sets, two six six '
Speaker 5: four six love for the final set and she makes
Speaker 5: a statement over on Margaret Court arena.
Speaker 2: She defeats Paulini. Elina s Fittalina has joined husband galmon
Speaker 2: Feast in the round of sixteen following an impressive three
Speaker 2: set defeat of Jasmine Paulini. The Ukrainian twenty eight seed
Speaker 2: was slow out of the blocks, broken three times in
Speaker 2: a thirty minute first set dictated by Paulini. Spittelina up
Speaker 2: to her game in the second set, winning all but
Speaker 2: two points on serve and counterpunching with some crushing blows
Speaker 2: from the back of the court seventeen winners in all
Speaker 2: to bring the match back on an even keel, but
Speaker 2: few could have predicted the whitewash that would unfold and
Speaker 2: the decider as the two time quarter finalists found another gear.
Speaker 2: She won seventy one percent of receiving points and converted
Speaker 2: all three breakpoint opportunities in a third set demolition. The
Speaker 2: final result six sixty four to six love.
Speaker 3: It was a crazy bouttle today. Well, I would want
Speaker 3: to say that they got inspired after my husband on
Speaker 3: sir Win, but to be fair, you know, I played
Speaker 3: so bad the first set, so I've ben not sure
Speaker 3: if I was expired or but after, you know, I
Speaker 3: had to really push through and really happy the way
Speaker 3: that I came back to the match and was just
Speaker 3: trying to get to one extra ballower than that and
Speaker 3: try to find my shot. So I'm really happy with
Speaker 3: the performance in the end.
Speaker 2: It's the first times Fitelina and Monfie have both reached
Speaker 2: the second week of a major since the twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: US Open. Her next opponent is Veronica Kodimteva, who's stunned
Speaker 2: fifteen seed Bertris hanaj Maya six four six two.
Speaker 6: Yanix Senna here on match point at forty thirty, he
Speaker 6: serves plans this in that's gone white from Giron. He
Speaker 6: only needs the one match point, does Yanixinna. That is
Speaker 6: a very workman like performance from yannix Cinna, barely getting
Speaker 6: out of third gear to see off the challenge of
Speaker 6: the American Markovs Giron.
Speaker 2: With Paulini's earlier defeat, Yeah, Nick Sinner has kept alive
Speaker 2: the Italian dream, overcoming Markos Giron in three. The American
Speaker 2: ground his way into the match, breaking back in the
Speaker 2: third set and matching Sinner as the rallies drew longer,
Speaker 2: but with the end in sight, the world number one
Speaker 2: snatched the final four games of the match to win
Speaker 2: sixty three six four six to two.
Speaker 7: Felt like today was, you know, maybe the best match
Speaker 7: in the way of how I tried to play. I
Speaker 7: made some some more mistakes, but it's okay. I felt
Speaker 7: like I was hitting the ball a little bit better
Speaker 7: than in the previous rounds. So yeah, I'm I'm quite happy.
Speaker 2: Sinner has set up a fourth round clash with Holgard Runa,
Speaker 2: who weathered a meer mir Katzmanovich storm on Margaret Corderena
Speaker 2: to prevail in five sets. It was a heavyweight battle
Speaker 2: as the pair went toe to toe all the way
Speaker 2: to a first set tiebreak that belonged to the Serb.
Speaker 2: Runa struck back in the second set, breaking his opponent's
Speaker 2: first service and launching thirteen winners, including three aces, to
Speaker 2: level the match at a set apiece. Katzmanovich took advantage
Speaker 2: of a break point opportunity in the tenth game of
Speaker 2: the third and had one foot in the second week
Speaker 2: when he broke for four to two in the fourth,
Speaker 2: but Runa still had more left in the tank, breaking
Speaker 2: the Serb twice in a row and consolidating with conviction
Speaker 2: to send it to a decider. Battling leg cramps, the
Speaker 2: Dane had to dig deep to stay the course, relying
Speaker 2: on his heavy ground strokes from the back of the
Speaker 2: court before capitalizing on a loose service game from Katzmanovich
Speaker 2: at four all. From there he was home and host
Speaker 2: a six seven sixty three four six six four sixty
Speaker 2: four result, putting Runa back in the round of sixteen
Speaker 2: in Melbourne for the second time.
Speaker 8: I was so tired, so I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 8: need to find a solution. You know, I wasn't going
Speaker 8: to be able to run like fifteen and of all
Speaker 8: side to side, so I had to go for it
Speaker 8: when I had the chance. And you know, MW me
Speaker 8: depleted an amazing match. We pleated a couple of times
Speaker 8: and he's just a big competitor, so credit to him
Speaker 8: for making this mational missing Cudy.
Speaker 6: Is this the moment for Madison Keys to move through?
Speaker 9: Yes, it is.
Speaker 6: See Hammerson as down the medal and Madison Keys has
Speaker 6: a scene off the challenge of Danielle Collins tonight on.
Speaker 2: Rod Labor Arena six four sixty four.
Speaker 6: It was in an hour and twenty three minutes.
Speaker 2: For Madison Keys. She's back in the fourth round of
Speaker 2: the Australian Open. Earlier, Madison Keys was bell of the
Speaker 2: Ball in the All American Showdown with Danielle Collins. The
Speaker 2: big hitting Keys broke Colin serve in the very first
Speaker 2: game of the match, holding her lead as both players
Speaker 2: settled in. Collins flipped the script early in the second set,
Speaker 2: racing to three love and looked like she meant business,
Speaker 2: but a knee complaint required medical attention and Keys capitalized,
Speaker 2: ripping fourteen winners and winning five consecutive games to wrestle
Speaker 2: back control. She served it out six four six '
Speaker 2: four to progress to the second week in Melbourne for
Speaker 2: the first time since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 10: I've been playing some good tennis. I always really love
Speaker 10: playing in Australia. I've had a lot of really great
Speaker 10: success here and being able to being able to win
Speaker 10: another title in Australia and be in the fourth round
Speaker 10: is amazing.
Speaker 2: Key's next opponent is Elena Rebeikiner more on the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three finalist later in the episode.
Speaker 6: The second So there's also our faults and Alex Deminor
Speaker 6: has withstood a fair old challenge from Francisco Serrendalo, but
Speaker 6: he has found a way to deal with the Argentinian
Speaker 6: and is through to the fourth round in four terrific
Speaker 6: sets of tennis on Rod Labor Arena, an Australia's hopes
Speaker 6: for a men's champion tenienu into the second week well.
Speaker 2: Alex Demor continued to fly the Australian flag on day
Speaker 2: seven of competition and his match is the first of
Speaker 2: our spotlight focuses for today. I've got with me Simon
Speaker 2: Ray from Gigallo. Simon Hey, John good to be back,
Speaker 2: and also Candy Reid, how is your Day seven.
Speaker 11: Has been unbelievable, how many good matches we had, with
Speaker 11: exciting conclusions, terrific tiebreakers, all kinds of drama going on
Speaker 11: around the grounds.
Speaker 2: It's been a cracking one for the local contingent, demon Or,
Speaker 2: the sole Australian left in the singles draws, and today
Speaker 2: he took care of Francisco Sirundalo, although Simon not without
Speaker 2: a little bit of a test five seven seven six
Speaker 2: three six three six in the end and it was
Speaker 2: a dogged performance from the.
Speaker 12: I yeah, well, dogged's right. Three hours and fifty three
Speaker 12: minutes worth of dogged really dour a tough struggle out
Speaker 12: there on Rod Laver Arena, and I think there's a
Speaker 12: lot of upside for the Demon in coming through today.
Speaker 12: With one caveat which I'll get to a little bit later.
Speaker 12: On his serving numbers were off. You know, both players
Speaker 12: didn't serve a particularly high number. From a first percentage perspective,
Speaker 12: Demon landed just forty nine percent and Sirundlo is at
Speaker 12: fifty two percent of first serves in play. But it's
Speaker 12: on the second serve return where Demon's able to differentiate
Speaker 12: this match. So second serve return points one, Sirundalo wins
Speaker 12: thirty six percent of his second server return points, Demon
Speaker 12: wins forty nine. And it's becoming a bit of a
Speaker 12: trend for Alex on second server return. He's going about
Speaker 12: it in a little bit of a different way than
Speaker 12: what we've seen previously. So we know how aggressive he
Speaker 12: can be on second silver return and often a meter
Speaker 12: two meters inside baseline, but he's weaving in and mixing
Speaker 12: in the one where he's three and four meters beyond baseline.
Speaker 12: So it's a little bit of both. And I like
Speaker 12: the light and shade that he's starting to introduce from
Speaker 12: a return perspective, he's just it's a strength of the game,
Speaker 12: and he's just adding another string to his bow there
Speaker 12: and he was able to put a gap in the
Speaker 12: match through the pressure that he was able to put
Speaker 12: on the surundolo second. So not always coming at Adam
Speaker 12: inside the baseline. A lot of the time coming up Adam,
Speaker 12: but not always so going about it in a slightly
Speaker 12: different way than what we've maybe seen in previous years.
Speaker 2: I like it, and Candy the legs were back.
Speaker 11: Ha, Yeah, it's interesting. I actually saw Sue Bolter in
Speaker 11: the cafe after the match. Now Sue Bolter is of
Speaker 11: course the mum of Katie Bolter and Katie Bolter the
Speaker 11: fiancee of Alex de Minor, and I was asking Sue
Speaker 11: about the leg thing and she said, yes, it was weird,
Speaker 11: wasn't it. In the first set, Alex Domnor didn't look
Speaker 11: like himself. He was frustrated. We don't often see that.
Speaker 11: He's got a great poker face, but he looked like
Speaker 11: he was whacking his strings. He was complaining to his bench.
Speaker 11: I don't think I've ever seen him that animated in
Speaker 11: my life, and maybe he was started to panic just slightly.
Speaker 11: Being the last Australian in the singles draw, there's a
Speaker 11: lot of pressure on his shoulders and his straw has
Speaker 11: been relatively easy and it's opening up. So I think
Speaker 11: a few more people have done to say, well, Alex
Speaker 11: de Monor could get to the quarter finals, and that
Speaker 11: heaps more pressure. Now we know Alex's a very calm individual.
Speaker 11: He's quite insular. He seems to take things really well. However,
Speaker 11: you know, when you've got that much anticipation and build
Speaker 11: up around you as the last person standing, that's going
Speaker 11: to hurt. And I think it was very interesting after
Speaker 11: he won that second set. I actually said on AO
Speaker 11: radio commentary, I think he's going to be all right now.
Speaker 11: That second set breaker was crucial if Francisco Currinderloud won it.
Speaker 11: And I thought Cirrindillo was playing unbelievably well in matches
Speaker 11: that I've commentated on him before.
Speaker 13: He's gone off a lot.
Speaker 11: Sirindalo's very talented, but I thought he was playing nine
Speaker 11: out of ten, Alex de Minor was playing six out
Speaker 11: of ten, and Alex de Minor, despite being the second
Speaker 11: best player on the court, managed to level it up
Speaker 11: at a set all, and then I thought after that
Speaker 11: Demonor was home and dry, because we know about his
Speaker 11: unbelievable legs he had the momentum, and Sue Bolter said, yeah,
Speaker 11: it looked like the real Alex de Minor just appeared
Speaker 11: in sets three and four. So she's looking at her
Speaker 11: future son in law with very microscopic eyes. She absolutely
Speaker 11: loves him, by the way, she says, I couldn't really
Speaker 11: have a better son in law. He's going to take
Speaker 11: care of Katie and that's very important because I am
Speaker 11: a mother too.
Speaker 2: Good results all around then, So more numbers then from
Speaker 2: the Demon today.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, I just wanted to touch on the physical
Speaker 12: profile because these numbers from the perspective of the two
Speaker 12: players and the two player comparison, they are off the charts.
Speaker 12: You just don't see separation like this, and Kenny's touched
Speaker 12: on it already. I think it can be a blessing
Speaker 12: and a curse for Demon. So clearly the league's being
Speaker 12: back absolute blessing. But the fact that Sarriendola was able
Speaker 12: to dictate so much of the proceedings through the opening
Speaker 12: couple of sets and Kenny's it all hinged on the
Speaker 12: second set tiebreak and Alex was able to do enough,
Speaker 12: do enough to turn the tables, and I think it's
Speaker 12: it's not doom and gloom in terms of I think
Speaker 12: he can take a lot of confidence, a lot of
Speaker 12: belief because we know his legs and his physicality and
Speaker 12: his movement and his explosiveness. It's so important to him.
Speaker 12: But have a listen to these numbers in terms of
Speaker 12: the difference in the profile. So from a sprint perspective,
Speaker 12: we've got a measurement here in our dashboard sprint. Cirindalo
Speaker 12: sprinted twelve times in this match. That's about half as
Speaker 12: much as we would have expected him to sprint. Okay,
Speaker 12: normally we see him sprint twenty five times twelve for
Speaker 12: Cirindalu Demon fifty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like five times fifty six sprints.
Speaker 12: To twelve distance. Demons covered an extra six hundred meters,
Speaker 12: so he's up around three thousand, well four thousand meters.
Speaker 12: Sirindalo's at thirty four hundred and distance run at high speed,
Speaker 12: So how much of that distance is at high speed
Speaker 12: Demons at nine percent. Cirindalo's down at three percent. So
Speaker 12: he can take belief out of that. He can take
Speaker 12: faith in the fact that his physicality is back, But
Speaker 12: by the same token, he won't want to be wholly
Speaker 12: and solely relying on that physical profile to go five
Speaker 12: sets for the next what he hopes is four and
Speaker 12: five rounds to claim the crown. So a blessing and
Speaker 12: a curse.
Speaker 2: I guess well, it's Alex Michelson next in the round
Speaker 2: of sixteen and potentially a quarterfinal with the defending champion
Speaker 2: Janick Sinner to come. Kenny. Other match focus for today
Speaker 2: was a little bit more one sided, Egon Tech sweeping
Speaker 2: aside Emma Radikanu for the loss of only one game
Speaker 2: six one six love. She goes through to the fourth round.
Speaker 13: She was great.
Speaker 11: A couple of days ago, is on your podcast and
Speaker 11: it was IgA versus Rebecca Shramkov as Slovakia, and I said,
Speaker 11: I thought that Shramkov was going to give her Egor
Speaker 11: a tough time.
Speaker 13: She didn't.
Speaker 11: She got two games and Radakana got one fewer. After holding,
Speaker 11: she lost eleven straight and I think that says a
Speaker 11: lot about Igsion Tech. We were just discussing this at
Speaker 11: AO Radio, the fact that now Egor has become the
Speaker 11: world number two, she's no longer the person to beat.
Speaker 11: She looks like she's just relaxed, and she said as
Speaker 11: much in her post match press conference that last year
Speaker 11: she was worried.
Speaker 13: She was a little bit up on edge.
Speaker 11: You could see fear in her eyes and panic coming in,
Speaker 11: and she didn't have her best year, despite of course
Speaker 11: winning Roland Garrass once again. But people have started to
Speaker 11: find a solution to the Egas Fontech problem, which they
Speaker 11: weren't in twenty twenty three. This year, she looks like
Speaker 11: she's calm, she's relaxed, she's playing her best tennis.
Speaker 13: She's moving.
Speaker 11: She moves, in my opinion, better than any other female
Speaker 11: maybe with the exception of Cocoa Goth those two really
Speaker 11: dominate that part of the game. She looks much freer
Speaker 11: Radi khan who just about scraped through her first two matches.
Speaker 11: It was very close against Eketerine Alexandrova and Amanda Anisimova.
Speaker 11: I didn't feel like Emma Rada Khanne was playing anywhere
Speaker 11: near her best, but she was getting through it very
Speaker 11: very well. But Egos Fontec just showed why she is
Speaker 11: one of the world's best. There was a big class
Speaker 11: difference today, So watch.
Speaker 2: Fiontech doing really well this tournament.
Speaker 12: Simon, well, there's two things I wanted to touch on,
Speaker 12: and one of them revolves around the numbers, and I
Speaker 12: just want to stop the numbers and talk a little
Speaker 12: bit to the mentality. So I'll touch on the numbers
Speaker 12: first of all. Let's go there first. The trouble starts
Speaker 12: from Radekanu perspective. First serve and play fifty eight percent. Okay,
Speaker 12: second serve one twenty three percent? And what is Eager doo?
Speaker 12: She really goes to work a lot of the time.
Speaker 12: It's not necessarily cold return winners. It's returning deep middle
Speaker 12: and taking control of the point thereafter and rocking Radakanu
Speaker 12: with her physicality, which Candy's touched on. So her court
Speaker 12: coverage you feel like you can't get through her. And
Speaker 12: then the heaviness of her forehand today was off the charts,
Speaker 12: even by her lofty standards. So twenty six hundred revs
Speaker 12: on the ball the two are average in the woman's
Speaker 12: game is about twenty one hundred. That's high even by
Speaker 12: Eager's standards. Okay, serious spin. So that ball off the
Speaker 12: forehand side is jumping, rearing, leaping at you. It's got
Speaker 12: an edge to it that we haven't seen from her
Speaker 12: down here in Australia in previous years. And then there's
Speaker 12: a mentality. So now I'm just going to stop the numbers,
Speaker 12: close the book, right because I thought this was a
Speaker 12: more emotive, more expressive, more ruthless eagersh on tech on
Speaker 12: the court, and that's sometimes what we haven't seen. We've
Speaker 12: almost felt like we've seen that robotic mono tone from
Speaker 12: her where she's not giving a lot away, but nor
Speaker 12: is she being absolutely kind of outward and external with
Speaker 12: her expressions of emotion. And I thought we saw the
Speaker 12: fire today. I thought we saw the glint and the
Speaker 12: eye looking down the other end of the opponent and
Speaker 12: almost moving in for the kill. I thought we saw
Speaker 12: the ruthlessness. And I love the externalization if that's if
Speaker 12: that's a word of that emotion, and I think it
Speaker 12: sends a signal that she's going about it slightly differently.
Speaker 12: And I just loved what I saw.
Speaker 11: I think she had almost a point to prove, because
Speaker 11: of course there's so many eyes on Emmarada Khano. She's
Speaker 11: absolutely beloved in Great Britain, and I think she is
Speaker 11: around the rest of the world, in China and Romania.
Speaker 13: Of course, she's got roots.
Speaker 11: She was born in Toronto, and when she breaks her fingernail,
Speaker 11: it's reported in Great Britain.
Speaker 13: There's so much attention.
Speaker 11: So when you play Emarada Khan, who I think a
Speaker 11: lot of players really want to beat her. I also
Speaker 11: questioned the Egosfiontech vinf set relationship after Eager fired Thomas Fitarowski.
Speaker 11: I wasn't sure if it was the right combination, and
Speaker 11: I'm apologizing for that because.
Speaker 12: I think it's come around.
Speaker 11: I've come around well. I mean, I admit when I'm wrong,
Speaker 11: and I'm wrong very very often. Unfortunately, my husband reminds
Speaker 11: me daily.
Speaker 13: They've gone early with that enough, it seems yeah, I
Speaker 13: think so.
Speaker 11: I think impressed by the forehand. I think they've worked
Speaker 11: very aggressively. They've changed a little bit on the serve
Speaker 11: and he's brought a more relaxed, calm demeanor to Ego's fiancee.
Speaker 13: So watch out for her.
Speaker 2: Before we turn our attention to day, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to touch on Galmon's face. Magnificent win in four sets
Speaker 2: over Taylor Fritz. Fritz was a tournament fancy for many
Speaker 2: of myself included before the event. But he goes in
Speaker 2: the third round.
Speaker 13: He was second best? Wasn't he a gal or feast?
Speaker 11: I was a bit worried about him in the fourth
Speaker 11: set of his match against Giovanni mcpetchy Pericard in the
Speaker 11: first round.
Speaker 13: I thought he did superbly.
Speaker 11: He keeps humping his older doesn't He keeps leaning over
Speaker 11: and look like he's done, and he's not done. He's
Speaker 11: thirty eight years of age and he was moving around the.
Speaker 12: Court, I think, and he's foxing.
Speaker 11: And he was talking about in there afterwards, you know
Speaker 11: how he's slow balling Fritz, who's a little bit, for
Speaker 11: my mind, one dimensional. I don't know if Simon would agree.
Speaker 11: Doesn't really like to bollie, even though Michael Russell and
Speaker 11: Paul Ana kind of been urging him to go forward.
Speaker 13: He doesn't really like to slice.
Speaker 11: He likes to play that game right in the pocket
Speaker 11: where he's hitting the balls, and Gael mon Feast didn't
Speaker 11: allow it. He soft bored him, gave him no pace
Speaker 11: and then suddenly when he had a minute, he flicked
Speaker 11: the ble hard down the line and he was having
Speaker 11: so much fun. The dance at the end, I mean,
Speaker 11: that's going to be the moment of the Australian Open
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five. That was such a sensational He just
Speaker 11: he looked like he'd won an Emmy, a Golden Globe.
Speaker 11: He just conquered the world. And it's so fun to
Speaker 11: see Gael mon Feast and full flow.
Speaker 2: Genius performance from the Frenchman.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think any of us really saw this coming.
Speaker 12: We've kind of seen him on and off the tour
Speaker 12: in recent years and still dangerous and damaging when he
Speaker 12: wants to be, but we've not seen him consistently week
Speaker 12: in week out. So these two last played at this
Speaker 12: strain up and in twenty nineteen, six years ago. Mont
Speaker 12: Feast is a thirty eight year old. I don't know
Speaker 12: if any of us thought that this run was in
Speaker 12: him and Kenny's right, it's one of the absolute headline
Speaker 12: items at the Australian Open for twenty twenty five right now,
Speaker 12: and who's to say it stops here? So really exciting
Speaker 12: to see where the run goes next.
Speaker 11: And just quickly, Michael Russell, the coach of Taylor Fretz,
Speaker 11: was laughing because he said when Michael was playing that
Speaker 11: he'd played gam increased three times in his career and
Speaker 11: his proteges he's playing it and they can't beat him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, what's wrong.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 14: Painter of so many beautiful pictures in the sport fifth
Speaker 14: paints a masterpiece today, Hang it to the loof four
Speaker 14: beats takes down Fritz in four a masterclass.
Speaker 2: As mentioned earlier, Gaumon Fees has round back the clock
Speaker 2: against pre tournament fancy Taylor Fritz to produce a four
Speaker 2: set work of art. The French veteran was outplayed in
Speaker 2: the opening set, with Fritz winning eighty three percent of
Speaker 2: first serve points to land the first punch, but the
Speaker 2: Adelaide champion pounced on the American's foot niggles, taking the
Speaker 2: second and dominating the tie break in the third. From there,
Speaker 2: he lifted his level again, breaking Fritz in the night
Speaker 2: game of the fourth set before serving it out an
Speaker 2: ace on match point the peace to resistance of the
Speaker 2: mon feast masterpiece three six seven six six.
Speaker 15: Four Tell always starts wrong, serving well, and it was
Speaker 15: just one break. I played a very poor game, but
Speaker 15: I thought like I could move great today, and the
Speaker 15: game plan was to hold my best line and definitely
Speaker 15: change of tempo, hit some big shot down the line
Speaker 15: and use you know, some shape with my friends, some
Speaker 15: slice us the back end, and so well, and I
Speaker 15: think it. I've done the job. I mean, I've done
Speaker 15: the job.
Speaker 2: So but the thirty eight year old is approaching the
Speaker 2: fourth round with a sense of humility.
Speaker 16: To be honest with you, is not even a dream
Speaker 16: doing the tournament. Main dream, you know it is to
Speaker 16: be old and with a lot of kids and healthy.
Speaker 16: You know that that's your dream. I gets two two
Speaker 16: win slam. You know, I tell you my dream. My
Speaker 16: dream is to have an unbelievable family. You know, tennis
Speaker 16: is cool, you know, of course, you know you want
Speaker 16: to have cool dream whatever, But that's that's my dream.
Speaker 2: Is he is out there, mon Face has set up
Speaker 2: a round of sixteen clash with Ben Shelton. The American
Speaker 2: brought it home in a fourth set tie break in
Speaker 2: his match against Italian number two Lorenzo Mazzetti to win
Speaker 2: sixty three three six six four seven six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's never straightforward to Musseti. He's definitely one of
Speaker 1: the most talented guys on tour, one of the top
Speaker 1: three shot makers on tour, and he does some things
Speaker 1: that you can't believe when he's on the court. I
Speaker 1: was zeroing too against him before today. So, uh, we
Speaker 1: say on tour if someone beats you three times in
Speaker 1: a row, they're your daddy. So I was fighting too
Speaker 1: to not let that happen today, and I'm glad that
Speaker 1: I was able to come.
Speaker 17: Out with it.
Speaker 2: Emminavarro has secured a maid and fourth round berth in Melbourne,
Speaker 2: downing Ons Jibbur in three grueling sets. The eight seed
Speaker 2: won the first five games of the match before the
Speaker 2: Tunisian snatched the next four, setting the tone for a
Speaker 2: seesawing battle. After six breaks of serve apiece, it was
Speaker 2: the American who prevailed six four three six six four.
Speaker 9: I work really hard on my fitness and just my
Speaker 9: you know, ability to go the distance and stick in
Speaker 9: there for as long as it takes. And you know,
Speaker 9: I always tell myself that before I go out in
Speaker 9: the court, don't be afraid to stay out there for
Speaker 9: as long as it takes. And you know, I'm really
Speaker 9: not not afraid to go two three hours, whatever it
Speaker 9: may be. And yeah, I mean, of course I'd rather
Speaker 9: win in two, but you know, I kind of love
Speaker 9: the grind of three sets.
Speaker 2: Navara's next opponent will be night seed Daria Kasatkina, who
Speaker 2: accounted for Yulia Potinziva. Ever the opportunist. The night Seed
Speaker 2: clawed back a break of serve and converted another five
Speaker 2: from five opportunities to win seven five, six to one.
Speaker 18: Exactly, especially in the first set up and what I expected.
Speaker 18: Tough beginning and then you know, fighting was hot today,
Speaker 18: tough conditions, you know, longer rallies, but again very happy
Speaker 18: with the win. And how you know, I turned the
Speaker 18: first set around and I was down, but still came
Speaker 18: back and really happy to you know, not going to
Speaker 18: the marathon match today and finish it in two.
Speaker 2: Cents eleanor rebike and has powered past Diana y Stremsker
Speaker 2: in hot conditions on John Cane Arena. The twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three finalists played a cleaner brand with just sixteen unforced areas,
Speaker 2: but her opponent showed plenty of fight to stave off
Speaker 2: six match points. Rebikener, who was battling through lower back pain,
Speaker 2: finally sealed the deal six three, six ' four.
Speaker 19: Well, honestly, I didn't know how it's going to go,
Speaker 19: because it came out of a sudden I did you expect,
Speaker 19: And of course it was not easy. I knew that
Speaker 19: it would be very difficult for me to stay longer
Speaker 19: in the rallies or I was trying just to play
Speaker 19: you sometimes risked a little bit more. So Yeah, really
Speaker 19: happy that it went on.
Speaker 2: My way in And the dream campaign of ever Lease
Speaker 2: has continued into the second week, the German lucky Loser
Speaker 2: coming from a set down against Jacqueline Christian to reach
Speaker 2: a Grand Slam round of sixteen for the first time.
Speaker 2: Lisa has now added four hundred and twenty thousand Australian
Speaker 2: dollars to her kitty. Not a bad return for someone
Speaker 2: who is almost about to fly home following her qualifying campaign.
Speaker 2: And here's the moment she found out just before her
Speaker 2: chat with Lockey Wills from AO Live.
Speaker 10: But I'm incredibly happy.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm a.
Speaker 4: Four hundred and twenty grand.
Speaker 3: I know you didn't know.
Speaker 10: Because I've never went that far in the tournament. I'm
Speaker 10: just looking at the quality numbers.
Speaker 1: Story like you're gone from maybe fly back maybe not.
Speaker 17: Yeah, four two it's insane.
Speaker 10: That is insane. That's a number I have never even
Speaker 10: heard in my life.
Speaker 15: So it's now your rich.
Speaker 2: It's been the young guns that are flying the flag
Speaker 2: for Team USA. Alix Michelson continuing his giant slang run,
Speaker 2: this time leaving nineteenth seed Karen Hutchenov in his wake
Speaker 2: after ousting Stefanov Sitsipass earlier in the week. Michelson moves
Speaker 2: on with a six three, seven, six, six to two
Speaker 2: result in two hours and fifteen minutes. The twenty year
Speaker 2: old shocked by the quality of his tennis.
Speaker 17: I played unbelievable most of that match. I don't really
Speaker 17: know what's going on. I was sitting my foreign unbelievable
Speaker 17: on my foreign that well, So just super happy to
Speaker 17: keep the momentum going. And yeah, not a lot of
Speaker 17: words right now.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, teenage compatriot Lerner Tien wowed the Kia Arena crowd
Speaker 2: with a statement win of a Kranton mute, showing a
Speaker 2: maturity beyond his years. The slayer of Daniel Mevedev captured
Speaker 2: the first set in a twelve ten tiebreak before making
Speaker 2: his opponents scramble across the court an ailing mute unable
Speaker 2: to go the distance with the nineteen year old, who
Speaker 2: advanced seven six sixty three sixty three in doing so,
Speaker 2: becoming the youngest man since Rafael Nadal in two thousand
Speaker 2: and five to reach the second week in Melbourne.
Speaker 20: It feels great, obviously, I mean this, this succeeded my
Speaker 20: expectations what I was hoping for coming into this week. Obviously,
Speaker 20: you know, you go into every match believing you can win,
Speaker 20: but you know, to be in the second week is
Speaker 20: is amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the cramping Frenchman pushing to the end in a
Speaker 2: unique show of sportsmanship.
Speaker 20: All the best him, you know, wishing him speedy recovery.
Speaker 20: I'm not sure what actually happened. I was like stretching
Speaker 20: for a return and I didn't really see what was
Speaker 20: going on, and then I saw him on the ground,
Speaker 20: So I just didn't really know what happened. I didn't
Speaker 20: want the match to end like that, but he told me,
Speaker 20: told me he was going to keep trying just for me.
Speaker 2: So Ten's fourth round opponent is Lorenzo Sanago, who overcame
Speaker 2: a first set deficit to beat Fabian Marajan.
Speaker 21: So there was it was difficult because it was so
Speaker 21: hot and the first and second set was really really tough.
Speaker 21: Not a lot energy on court, but I tried to
Speaker 21: put all my energy on court.
Speaker 2: As we round the bend into the second week of competition,
Speaker 2: there are some tantalizing matchups for us. On day eight,
Speaker 2: the commencement of the fourth round, Jack Draper and Carlos Alcarez.
Speaker 2: First up, Well, Draper has been put through the ringer,
Speaker 2: I think spent the most amount of hours on court
Speaker 2: so far at over twelve hours, and now has this
Speaker 2: tough ask of the world number three in the fourth round.
Speaker 11: Well, firstly, I apologize because he's taken out two Australians.
Speaker 11: Hasn't he the brit in five sets? He's played fifteen
Speaker 11: sets and three matches. How gutsy is Jack Draper who
Speaker 11: had a terrible off season. He was playing well and
Speaker 11: then he hurt his hip. He was supposed to be
Speaker 11: training with Joe Fonsaca at the National Tennis Center in
Speaker 11: London right before Christmas.
Speaker 13: I know because I was there and he couldn't play.
Speaker 11: So Fonsaka was playing with the likes of Charlie Broome
Speaker 11: and others just to get some matches in because otherwise
Speaker 11: it would have been a wasted trip from Brazil. So
Speaker 11: not ideal for James Tropman and Jack Draper. But I've
Speaker 11: just been so impressed by his ability to to grind
Speaker 11: things out. I do wish and I've had this same
Speaker 11: conversation with James Truptman, who was a year behind me
Speaker 11: when we were playing in Great Britain, that Jack would
Speaker 11: be a little bit more aggressive. He does tend to
Speaker 11: move back in the court and CounterPunch and run, but
Speaker 11: boy is he fit. His trainers have done a remarkable
Speaker 11: job with Jack Draper. I just think perhaps he's going
Speaker 11: to run out of steam against al Karaz, who was
Speaker 11: just at his magic best a couple of days ago.
Speaker 11: Is growing in this sensational fourhand drop shot. Sometimes he
Speaker 11: slightly overdoes it, Carlus, but we're all here for it, aren't.
Speaker 13: We just love him.
Speaker 12: I think Draper does play a price physically. I hope
Speaker 12: I'm wrong, But and I took my cap to Jack
Speaker 12: last night as well. I thought it was a remarkable
Speaker 12: competitive and physical display from him and his team. And
Speaker 12: Trot's in the physio. They'll they'll be would have been
Speaker 12: working overtime since last night to prepare for tomorrow. But
Speaker 12: I think I've got to feel like it's too big
Speaker 12: an ask five sets into five sets into five sets
Speaker 12: into play Alcarez smells like trouble to me. But I
Speaker 12: hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: So Alcoraz doesn't need to diverge from Plan A on
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 12: I don't think so. In fact, I think it will have.
Speaker 12: I've got to think it's it's Trot's and Team Draper
Speaker 12: that come up with a different plan of attack, which
Speaker 12: is I think that that aggression that Candy's calling for there,
Speaker 12: you have to see that, and you have to see
Speaker 12: it from all one. The points have got to be shortened.
Speaker 12: Jack's got no choice because I don't think he's got
Speaker 12: five sets in him so and in fact, I don't
Speaker 12: think he's got extended rally after extended rally after extended
Speaker 12: rally in him. So he's going to have to come
Speaker 12: up with a different plan of attack, a different way through.
Speaker 12: And I wish him luck because elk Rez he can
Speaker 12: do it all.
Speaker 13: It's so exciting to watch. I am absolutely fascinated.
Speaker 11: I actually thought that Jack Draper would have lost steam
Speaker 11: offed second five set match, the fact that he's just
Speaker 11: been vuks I think it was six five and the
Speaker 11: fifth when I went to sleep, and I thought, oh,
Speaker 11: Vukitch is probably going to take that, and he didn't.
Speaker 13: When I woke up this morning, Jack Draper again, I
Speaker 13: was guts had one.
Speaker 2: He was gutsy.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's just an incredible performance.
Speaker 11: He's somebody who's been coached by Justin Shearing As a youngster,
Speaker 11: Justin Shearing was the man behind Joe Salisbury and a
Speaker 11: host of other British juniors. Justin Sharing, for my mind,
Speaker 11: is one of the best coaches in Great Britain, and
Speaker 11: Jack Draper is just showing a lot of fight and belief.
Speaker 11: But I would love to see the all aggressive match
Speaker 11: against Alcaraz. But I just suspect that his default, Draper's
Speaker 11: is still moving back behind the line, and I don't
Speaker 11: think he can play that way all right.
Speaker 2: Other Day eight match for focus is Coco Goth against
Speaker 2: Belinda Benchicic, who, on the opposite side of the coin
Speaker 2: should be a little bit more fresh having passed through
Speaker 2: her match against Nawmiosaka, who is forced to retire after
Speaker 2: just a set, and suddenly Benchicch is back in the
Speaker 2: second week of a Grand Slam in Melbourne.
Speaker 13: Another one that's got British roots.
Speaker 11: Just bring that in because Benchicic's coach is Ian Hughes,
Speaker 11: who used to be my coach growing up. And Ian
Speaker 11: Hughes is in his second stint with Belinda Benchich. He's
Speaker 11: also worked with the likes of helenas Fittalina Katarina Siniakova.
Speaker 11: He got Magdalenette to a semi final here a few
Speaker 11: years ago, so he is a phenomenal coach and they've
Speaker 11: got back together. Of course, baby Bella is traveling with Belinda.
Speaker 11: Her mum is here to look after Bella. Her boyfriend
Speaker 11: and partner and the father of a child. Martin is
Speaker 11: her strength and conditioning. She just seemed really settled, and
Speaker 11: I think having a child has actually put a sense
Speaker 11: of perspective into Belinda Benchic. She was coached by Melanie
Speaker 11: Molitor as a youngster. Melanie Monitors the mother of Martina Hingis,
Speaker 11: so she's been well grounded. She has this unique style
Speaker 11: where she walks through shots. For my mind, she has
Speaker 11: the best drive volley in the whole world of tennis. Wow,
Speaker 11: it's unbelievable. She never misses it.
Speaker 13: I promise you'd just watch it and she'll probably miss everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's having on that tomorrow?
Speaker 11: I'm so interested in this matchup. I'm not sure who's
Speaker 11: going to win. Obviously, Coco Gough on paper, is the favorite.
Speaker 11: Benchich has hardly just really come back to tennis after
Speaker 11: giving birth, but she looks fit as a fiddle. She's
Speaker 11: had some great results, She's taken out some big names already.
Speaker 13: I mean, who's to stop her going one further?
Speaker 11: I don't know if Coco Gough maybe us a little
Speaker 11: bit on that forehand, which she did slightly against Leilani
Speaker 11: Fernandez before shoring it up. Maybe Benchic can use her
Speaker 11: smarts and get through it.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 12: I think the data is saying to me when I
Speaker 12: look at it, that you know, the fairy tale run
Speaker 12: of Benchich probably comes to an end tomorrow. But I
Speaker 12: think again, I'm with Kenny. I tip my cap. What
Speaker 12: a resurgence, What an effort from a relatively fresh new
Speaker 12: mum to return to these heights that quickly. It's phenomenal
Speaker 12: what these women are doing in the women's game. I
Speaker 12: just I spoke about earlier. I'm in awe. I'm in
Speaker 12: admiration and follow of admiration for what we're seeing. But
Speaker 12: I think the fairy tale return may be shutters to
Speaker 12: a quick cult tomorrow because I think go Coco's profiling
Speaker 12: like someone that's going to be here at the very
Speaker 12: business end of the event. Physicality. She can do it
Speaker 12: on both sides of the coin, so she can defend
Speaker 12: we know she's got elite movement, elite defensive skills, very
Speaker 12: hard to get through, but then she can hurt you
Speaker 12: as well with her weapons on from the back of
Speaker 12: the court. Probably goes about it slightly differently off the
Speaker 12: foehand wing. It's more spin than speed necessarily, but back
Speaker 12: endside can punish you as well, and always adding strings
Speaker 12: to the bow cocokef She's still a work in progress,
Speaker 12: she's still improving, so she's my overwhelming for that matchup tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Also in action on day eight is Donavekicch, who will
Speaker 2: take on Anastasia Publiahchenkova. The twenty twenty three quarter finalist,
Speaker 2: is one went away from getting back into the last eight,
Speaker 2: but tennis isn't the only thing on her mind. During
Speaker 2: her stay in Melbourne, the renowned fashion easta taking some
Speaker 2: time off on her day off to tick off another
Speaker 2: non negotiable.
Speaker 13: Hey guys, let's do some shopping.
Speaker 4: I'm obsessed with dresses like these, Like this is what
Speaker 4: my whole wardrobe is.
Speaker 9: I really like.
Speaker 4: Fashion of court. For me on court, it's important to
Speaker 4: feel good but at the same time look good. I
Speaker 4: like to wear different colors of court as well and yeah,
Speaker 4: I like to mix it up.
Speaker 13: Anything that can slim me. That's well, you don't need
Speaker 13: that either.
Speaker 4: We haven't, like, didn't have any time to do any shopping.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think, all right.
Speaker 4: Well this is a great excuse. Last year I developed
Speaker 4: this obsession with shopping. I'm trying to control it a
Speaker 4: little bit. But you know, you're only in Australia once
Speaker 4: a year, so and this brand, I guess we can
Speaker 4: only find in Australia, so I have to make good
Speaker 4: use of it. I've been really enjoying Coca Golf collections.
Speaker 4: She always has cool kids. But it's nice to see
Speaker 4: some different things now. Miosaka last year as well, so
Speaker 4: I like to see players changing up a little bit.
Speaker 18: Okay, let's see.
Speaker 13: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 4: It's definitely my color.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Oh I have pockets.
Speaker 13: Pockets.
Speaker 4: Every single dress in the world should happen pockets.
Speaker 2: Well, we tried.
Speaker 6: This is nice.
Speaker 4: I was obsessed last year in Sydney. Next to our
Speaker 4: hotel was like three shopping malls and so many little
Speaker 4: boutique stores. And yeah, I spend more time shopping than
Speaker 4: on court. Yeah, maybe that's why I lost the restaurant.
Speaker 4: I travel with two or three suitcases, and then when
Speaker 4: I go back home, that becomes at least another suitcase.
Speaker 4: And it's then even a bigger problem when I go
Speaker 4: back home and I have no more space to put
Speaker 4: my stuff in. So I need a bigger apartment in
Speaker 4: a bigger closet because I don't think I'm gonna stop
Speaker 4: shopping anything soon.
Speaker 2: That's all for Day seven of the Australian Open. Join
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