Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the tennis It's draft day. Who
Speaker 1: will we pick in our Wimbledon fantasy teams?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: Who maya on fire Aussie teen Sensation takes out the
Speaker 1: British number one at Eastbourne and Wimbledon's Smokies, the players
Speaker 1: nobody wants to face at the Championships.
Speaker 2: Not having a dart out in the back.
Speaker 1: Of the No, that's all ahead with me, Brie st
Speaker 1: you it next to me is my co host said
Speaker 1: yea more buck, I'm.
Speaker 2: Here and you said my name right.
Speaker 1: That's really great, that's really exciting. But moving on to
Speaker 1: the most important people across the table, We've got the
Speaker 1: mathemagician from Match Labs, Levi Houston.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, it's fun to be here.
Speaker 1: I really like your outfit. You've really done the Wimbledon colors.
Speaker 3: Well, well, you know, I try. You know, I was
Speaker 3: looking through the wardrobe, wasn't sure what I was going
Speaker 3: to find, and then sometimes you do find that thing.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, that's a perfect And we did have
Speaker 1: to explain it to our next scarce who has just
Speaker 1: come from France, Spain and Portugal, Dan Imhoff, because he's
Speaker 1: color blind.
Speaker 4: Thanks, everyone knows that totally to be ashamed of.
Speaker 5: Now we know why you always wear odd socks, not.
Speaker 2: Your own font. Feeling fresh, ready to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how was the wedding that you went to overseas?
Speaker 2: Was amazing? Still recovering. That was only on this Sunday. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's Thursday now five am in Portugal.
Speaker 5: That Dan, we're over forty speak for you.
Speaker 1: You guys should fine, we're not. Isn't it funny we
Speaker 1: look the youngest?
Speaker 5: Well, anyway, I'm wearing white because Wimbledon Levi's got proper
Speaker 5: purple and green. Your look like you've had a lamar
Speaker 5: on and you're wearing a dnim shirt.
Speaker 2: But did you think it was white? It was all
Speaker 2: I had clean.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair. He only hopped off a plane
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. How was Roland Garross before we get.
Speaker 4: Into it was incredible, as you would have all discussed
Speaker 4: in the wash up.
Speaker 2: Both finals were great. You don't always get the men's
Speaker 2: just finished, didn't it pretty much had to bail halfway
Speaker 2: through for dinner.
Speaker 4: But the ending was incredible, amazing, amazing, and the crowd
Speaker 4: was superb.
Speaker 2: Fell a bit sorry for sinner, but you know that's
Speaker 2: the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll be right, he'll be okay. Well, it's great
Speaker 1: to have you all here. We have got a massive
Speaker 1: WI and preview show ahead of us, Lots to get in,
Speaker 1: so let's kick things off though by crossing to our
Speaker 1: wonderful reporters, our very own Todd wood Bridge and Duncan
Speaker 1: Mackenzie mccague, who are calling in to us from the
Speaker 1: Tennis Australia House in Wimbledon.
Speaker 6: Yes, guys, strawberries and cream, pims and lemonade and grass
Speaker 6: takes center stage. Wimbledon is here. It's my absolute pleasure
Speaker 6: to be joined by a nine time men's doubles champion,
Speaker 6: a one time mixed doubles champion, and this time of
Speaker 6: year dinner party host.
Speaker 7: Well, the dinner party hosting is about the Australian barbecue
Speaker 7: that happens on the Friday of.
Speaker 8: That happens here Tennis Australia.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and so this year will normally I come in
Speaker 7: and do the interviews. I think this year Mark wood
Speaker 7: and I are celebrating an anniversary, so I know it's
Speaker 7: like interviewing yourself at your own wake, but I'm going
Speaker 7: to be there.
Speaker 6: Yes, twenty five years since you won the men's doubles
Speaker 6: in the year two thousand and thirty years since you
Speaker 6: wanted in nineteen ninety five, What do you remember from
Speaker 6: those years to Oh?
Speaker 8: Look, I think I remember, you win it once and
Speaker 8: you think how lucky you are.
Speaker 7: Then you come back and we want it again, and
Speaker 7: we and we won five in a row, and I
Speaker 7: look back at that now, going how did we do that?
Speaker 7: We lost the final of six, and obviously I want
Speaker 7: a few more after that, but I just I just
Speaker 7: the thing I remember is coming back to wimbled and
Speaker 7: feeling like I could win it again. And that was
Speaker 7: never defending, and it's such a mindset for people when
Speaker 7: you get, you know, defend your points and rankings, you go, oh,
Speaker 7: get scared.
Speaker 8: Can I do it?
Speaker 7: It never felt like that was just this great feeling
Speaker 7: of walking down on the hill of Marriott Road from
Speaker 7: Wimbledon Veeley's to the club.
Speaker 8: And just going, I love this place.
Speaker 7: And so I don't know why that happened, It just did,
Speaker 7: but I'm glad it did.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The other one is it was twenty years this tournament
Speaker 7: that I retired, played the last match, So there's all
Speaker 7: these numbers, thirty, twenty five, twenty Yeah, I still feel
Speaker 7: like I'm twenty.
Speaker 6: That's a lifetime of memories. I want to talk about
Speaker 6: the Australians. We've got thirteen and counting in the men's
Speaker 6: and women's singles draws. I started off at the men first. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and Alex Demono. Obviously, he experienced an incredible high this
Speaker 6: time last year, made his first Wimbledon quarterfinal, and then
Speaker 6: a devastating low. Couldn't play in that quarter final match
Speaker 6: against Novak Chokovic because of that heap injury. What do
Speaker 6: you make of Alex's chances in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8: I think they're good.
Speaker 7: Obviously comes with a very different preparation. He was disappointed
Speaker 7: with the loss in Paris and then didn't get as
Speaker 7: many grasscourt matches as he would have liked. But for him,
Speaker 7: I actually feel like as long as he's okay with it,
Speaker 7: it's a great prep because he needs to refresh a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 8: He was tired.
Speaker 7: He said that he puts so much into the clay
Speaker 7: court season. He knows he can play brilliant on grass.
Speaker 7: The one thing he does need to do is lower
Speaker 7: his expectation. He wants it so badly and that has
Speaker 7: hindered him hindered his performance here in the past, so
Speaker 7: I'm hoping very much so that he goes let it
Speaker 7: all sort of be, not get hung up on it,
Speaker 7: and then yes, he can definitely make a semi here.
Speaker 7: Seating's going to be really important. He's just outside the
Speaker 7: top ten now, so it depends where he falls in
Speaker 7: the draw. But if he can keep away from those
Speaker 7: those quarters of our Karaz and Sinner, then I think
Speaker 7: a semi can beckon.
Speaker 6: It's a really exciting time in the women's game for
Speaker 6: the Yeah, Aaria Casina, we can.
Speaker 7: Call her our own now, and my joints just crack
Speaker 7: the worst. I've been chatting on the port a fair
Speaker 7: bit about Maya, you know, I.
Speaker 8: Could say I sort of. I think it was like
Speaker 8: thirty twenty.
Speaker 7: We can see her getting to so she got inside
Speaker 7: the top fifty wins over Radakanu at Eastbourne. The only
Speaker 7: thing for her that I worry about is that she's
Speaker 7: experiencing these big tournaments in the main draw for the
Speaker 7: first time, and like in Paris where she won the
Speaker 7: week before, she's had no time to settle in and
Speaker 7: feel the conditions of the club. I just get used
Speaker 7: to what it's going to be like, she's going to
Speaker 7: come in late and she's hopefully has a little bit
Speaker 7: more experience from what happened in Paris that she can
Speaker 7: use here at Wimbledon, because if she does, the quality
Speaker 7: of ball striking and what she's playing, she's just continuing
Speaker 7: to rise. And I think if she can get through
Speaker 7: round one, then she's off and racing. I think then
Speaker 7: she can really let it happen. And boy, anything's possible
Speaker 7: when you know you have no barriers, no fears, and
Speaker 7: that's exactly how she's playing.
Speaker 6: Tod I'm going to put you on the spot now,
Speaker 6: who are going to be the champions for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 6: You're the men's and women's.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm going with Carlos three people. I
Speaker 7: find it hard not to be able to go with him.
Speaker 7: You know, he has to stay healthy, injury free. If
Speaker 7: he does, he has the confidence. Played brilliantly at Queen's.
Speaker 7: He's just a level above on grass. Sinner has closed
Speaker 7: the gap. I think he's very close and Novak, let's not.
Speaker 7: You know, I know that Novak is pulling out every
Speaker 7: stop to be as fit and ready as he can
Speaker 7: be for here.
Speaker 8: But I think the other two just are.
Speaker 7: A step above and nobody volleys and moves like ol
Speaker 7: chorasm Grass.
Speaker 8: For me and for the women, I think it's a
Speaker 8: wide open tournament.
Speaker 7: I think Saberlenka is the obvious favorite, but I think
Speaker 7: it's going to be difficult mentally for her to recover
Speaker 7: from what happened in Paris. I think she wants everybody
Speaker 7: to really like to love her, to feel good for her,
Speaker 7: and she's going to be really trying to get people
Speaker 7: back on side after the reactions of a press conference
Speaker 7: and the like in Paris. So I'm going to go
Speaker 7: a little bit left field, not way left, but I'm
Speaker 7: going to go with Mira Andreva.
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 8: She's my biggest one.
Speaker 7: I just think the way that she has been building
Speaker 7: and if you know, sometimes women's draws can open up,
Speaker 7: and I think she's ready to now go through and
Speaker 7: do that. I think Coco has a great chance, but
Speaker 7: I think going back to back might be more difficult
Speaker 7: for Coco.
Speaker 8: So interesting tournament no matter what.
Speaker 6: Finally, Todd Bree came to Rolling Garross for the very
Speaker 6: first time this year, Yes, and I hijacked her top
Speaker 6: five and I gave her my top five for rolling Garross.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna put you on the spot now, Okay,
Speaker 6: Todd's top five. How do you experience the perfect day
Speaker 6: watching tennis here at Wimbledon.
Speaker 8: Okay, so let's start with five. I'm going to go.
Speaker 7: You must go and view the queue, of course, and
Speaker 7: snake their weight snakes down into the park, even if
Speaker 7: you're lucky enough not to have to line up in it,
Speaker 7: go and have a look at it.
Speaker 8: Let's go to four. Okay. When you get in, you've
Speaker 8: got to try pims.
Speaker 7: Make sure there's a bit of cucumber, some orange and
Speaker 7: mint that finishes it off beautifully delicious. Now, then you
Speaker 7: get towards afternoon tea, so we'll go three. We'll go
Speaker 7: strawberries and you've got to have the fresh cream. Make
Speaker 7: sure you get the big plump ones because they're magnificent
Speaker 7: as well. Now the next thing is you've got to
Speaker 7: get out to the outside courts leader in the afternoon
Speaker 7: and watch a bit of doubles, yep, right, because that's
Speaker 7: where some great viewing happens, and particularly those first few
Speaker 7: days too, where you get those matches on the outside
Speaker 7: courts that mean so much to players that we don't
Speaker 7: see sometimes on the center at number one court. And
Speaker 7: finally you've got to find a way to get into
Speaker 7: the center court. Absolutely, that is what I call the
Speaker 7: mecha of tennis. This is the home of tennis. Now,
Speaker 7: if you don't have a ticket, what do you do?
Speaker 8: You go up to the booth what do we call that?
Speaker 8: The resale booth? The resale booth, and you get your ticket.
Speaker 7: Most people get the chance to get in, and it's
Speaker 7: unique to all of the majors that you can get
Speaker 7: that chance to get in and spend maybe it's a
Speaker 7: set or something late in the evening on the center court.
Speaker 7: But don't leave without trying to get into the Senate court.
Speaker 6: There you go, Grand Slam Champion, LOGI nominee and now
Speaker 6: tour guide Todd Woobridge, thanks for joining.
Speaker 5: Good on you dunk in so Todd's called out. Andreva
Speaker 5: is his dark horse wind. Now you pulled quite the
Speaker 5: face there, Dan, I did.
Speaker 2: She has matches leading in and she had I thought
Speaker 2: she was a.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, even in Paris, I thought she was. I
Speaker 4: thought she was a roughie to win it. Not that
Speaker 4: there was any shame in losing in the quarters, but
Speaker 4: she lost to boss On, which was a big upset, really,
Speaker 4: and I thought she might have challenged golf in the semis,
Speaker 4: but that's been and go on different surface, she'll have reset.
Speaker 2: And yeah, she hasn't done a huge amount.
Speaker 4: On grass wimbling yet, but she hasn't played many either,
Speaker 4: so you can't read too much into her record.
Speaker 1: And what do we think about his other pick of
Speaker 1: our chias? Is that just a no brainer? Is that
Speaker 1: a lazy pick from Todd?
Speaker 5: Possibly a safe bet, It's a very safe bet, y lazy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you want him on your team, don't you. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're teasing out upcoming best dressed on that one.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I haven't realized about my fantasy team, and we
Speaker 1: all know might will be the worst, don't we know?
Speaker 2: You might get real lucky.
Speaker 5: You know, there's traffic on the way to Wimbledon and
Speaker 5: doesn't make it, So what.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna take?
Speaker 1: What do we think of Alcaraz?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard to look past his
Speaker 3: success in the past. And I think sometimes with Alcaraz,
Speaker 3: the hard court season is the majority of the year
Speaker 3: and people kind of think, oh, he's down, he's not
Speaker 3: playing as well as he was, And then it comes
Speaker 3: to rolling Garrels and Wimbledon and then he just is
Speaker 3: surging again. So I think it's fair to, you know,
Speaker 3: to pick Alcaraz. He's got huge pace on his groundstrokes
Speaker 3: and you know, it just opens the court up for him,
Speaker 3: and his serve has been improving too, So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think he was a solid pick last year and
Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like he's he's doing better this year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would I would give him an edge to.
Speaker 2: That he's in a better position now than he was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Obviously like ebbs and flows in tennis,
Speaker 3: but I think this this run is a bit stronger.
Speaker 4: And the guy can volley, which we haven't always said
Speaker 4: about spinach players in the past. I'm more traditionally better
Speaker 4: on the clay, but he can play on any surface really,
Speaker 4: and I'm not afraid to come to net moves as
Speaker 4: well as anyone anticipates. So he's really the complete package,
Speaker 4: as we saw in Paris.
Speaker 1: I've got a question and before we move on to
Speaker 1: the big week that we've had with the Aussies, but
Speaker 1: on a lot of you know, literature, I've been reading for.
Speaker 3: Literature, literature at I was on Google's Skull.
Speaker 2: I'm actually paid for the pdfall literature going probably can.
Speaker 1: But I've been reading a lot of articles about and
Speaker 1: they always go, oh, they really moved to the net. Well,
Speaker 1: and are we losing a little bit from some of
Speaker 1: the modern day tennis the art of the volley?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's it's more difficult now than the pace
Speaker 4: of the shot. The modern technology, the rackets, the strings
Speaker 4: make it a lot easier to pass someone at net,
Speaker 4: so there's less incentive to get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But Olcz is someone who's still mixes it up enough
Speaker 4: and has the power and the variety with dropshots that
Speaker 4: he can approaching.
Speaker 2: That a bit more than some guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cool, Well you've just answered some questions that I picked
Speaker 1: up from literature.
Speaker 2: So what we will literature? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Literature. Let's move on to how good of a week
Speaker 1: we have had for the Aussies? And Dan, did you
Speaker 1: want to kick us off with some Maya joint?
Speaker 2: Yes, so touched on it.
Speaker 4: There Maya three to the quarterfinals in Eastbourne, and she's
Speaker 4: had two great winds there. The one over first round
Speaker 4: I think she beat our which is Wimbledon finalists, and
Speaker 4: then she led I think five to three against Emma
Speaker 4: Ratikanu failed to serve it out but still ended up
Speaker 4: getting across the line, which was no mean feat. You've
Speaker 4: got the whole British crowd there, windy down on the
Speaker 4: southern coast there. If she makes the semis, I think
Speaker 4: she's due to play blink of her vitals.
Speaker 2: She'll be favorite there.
Speaker 4: If she made the semis, she would have made three
Speaker 4: this year, all on different surfaces, So she's starting to
Speaker 4: She's on the map as an awful player.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And as Todd said from London, he will
Speaker 1: wimbled in he has picked that. She'll just keep rising
Speaker 1: and she's definitely someone that could be big for us trainer.
Speaker 4: And she made good comment after beating Radakanu that she
Speaker 4: was going for the lines and that's a good sign
Speaker 4: if she's confident.
Speaker 2: In making those shots.
Speaker 4: Becau's one thing to say you're going for them, but
Speaker 4: if you're spraying them and it's a complete disaster, then
Speaker 4: you can't keep doing that.
Speaker 1: Explain that term for some of our less tennis.
Speaker 2: It means hosts going for the line.
Speaker 4: It means your margins for error smaller going you know,
Speaker 4: you go literally for the risky bold. Yeah, not that
Speaker 4: she's playing like completely risky tennis star still measured.
Speaker 5: Instead of going center mass, you're trying to push the other.
Speaker 4: She was maneuvering Radakoni beautifully and even there was one
Speaker 4: point she played a pretty ordinary drop shot, but she
Speaker 4: moved and anticipated so well that she managed to whip
Speaker 4: it past her anyway, so's she's really hitting form at
Speaker 4: the right time.
Speaker 2: As todd sattled after her Rebat title, she.
Speaker 4: Struggled to then make an impact in Paris, ran into
Speaker 4: Eiler first round, So it'll be interesting how she finds
Speaker 4: her feet as soon she hits wimbled and which will
Speaker 4: be a little bit different to the grass.
Speaker 1: I also think and this could I don't know how
Speaker 1: this will affect her in Wimbledon, but watching her against Eiler,
Speaker 1: it looked like she was tired because she'd just run
Speaker 1: Rabat and she's kind of doing the same thing against.
Speaker 4: Yeah as well, so she definitely would have been she
Speaker 4: doubled a little bit a little bit time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it will be exciting to see what happens next
Speaker 1: for my joint.
Speaker 2: She's only nineteen, so on with and upwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what have you got for a save?
Speaker 2: Oh it is time once again it's Grand Slam season.
Speaker 5: Fantasy draft time, Fantasy fantasy fantasy tennis tennisness. We'll have
Speaker 5: to make my own sting because and he didn't. I've
Speaker 5: not even asking for one anyway. So fantasy draft. We've
Speaker 5: got three teams. We've got Team Dan, Team Levi, and
Speaker 5: Team Bree. Each of you will be selecting from the
Speaker 5: field two men and two women who you believe will
Speaker 5: go furthest into Wimbledon, maybe even win the thing. And
Speaker 5: there are points associated, so if they get to the
Speaker 5: second round, they get one point. If they are the
Speaker 5: champion of the whole event, you get ten points, and
Speaker 5: you get points along the way. So over the next
Speaker 5: couple of weeks we'll keep tabs on this, see how
Speaker 5: you go. It's also a little sneaky way of previewing
Speaker 5: the event, seeing who's who in the zoo.
Speaker 2: But it's so I can understand who is doing what.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. So we've mixed it up. It's
Speaker 2: a snake draft order.
Speaker 5: It doesn't really matter what that means, but basically pick
Speaker 5: number one goes to Levi.
Speaker 2: Whoo the girl?
Speaker 3: Were is that your work?
Speaker 2: Photo?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And Instagram?
Speaker 1: No, I don't use it on dating apps.
Speaker 3: That's a nice photo.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Maybe I should after this update.
Speaker 3: No, none of that. Well, I'm going to choose Carlos
Speaker 3: Alcaaz I got first round picks rigged.
Speaker 2: No, I'm sorry, but the check squid.
Speaker 5: I mean there's no money changing hands and it's fun.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dave, appreciate that. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 5: it's hard to look past him. He's done so well
Speaker 5: in the past.
Speaker 2: I just can't.
Speaker 3: I can't not pick him as a first round pick,
Speaker 3: and like he might.
Speaker 5: Even if he doesn't win, he's going to go deep,
Speaker 5: so safe bet well played.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, number two on our pick list.
Speaker 2: Three M. I see you put a lot of thought
Speaker 2: into this in advent I have.
Speaker 1: I'm still thinking out loud. I'm giving the people some fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know where this is a good move, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to go without Jasmine Palini.
Speaker 2: Pealini put on the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why am I going with her? I just feel
Speaker 1: like she's in great form. I just have a weird
Speaker 1: spidy feeling and I'm going to go with my psychic abilities.
Speaker 2: Cool. I mean, she's she's cool.
Speaker 4: She made the final last year, Yeah she did, so
Speaker 4: that's and remember everyone was like, oh, she's not going
Speaker 4: to win this, and she didn't.
Speaker 1: But they didn't think she'd go as far. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just got good feeling for her her time.
Speaker 2: All Right, Palini on the board for Team Brie.
Speaker 4: All right, Imhoff, all right, number one, I'm going to
Speaker 4: go with a women's pick first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did too good ones.
Speaker 2: It just happened not one of the obvious ones, but
Speaker 2: she has won it before. I'm going to go with
Speaker 2: Elena Rebaka, the Rebecca. I thought about it, Okay, eleventh c.
Speaker 2: She's a bit of an enigma. You never quite know
Speaker 2: where she said at the moment.
Speaker 4: Physical, but when she is on, she is arguably one
Speaker 4: of the best in the world, particularly on grass, which
Speaker 4: we saw in twenty twenty two when she beat on
Speaker 4: to Birth to become the Wimblin champion.
Speaker 2: She's also done well there subsequent two years.
Speaker 4: I think she made the quarters the following year, Semis
Speaker 4: again last year, which kind of went unnoticed a bit.
Speaker 4: But yeah, look, it depends a lot on her own
Speaker 4: mental state. She has had a few wins on the
Speaker 4: grass coming in. She narrowly lost to Sablenka in the
Speaker 4: Berlin quarter finals, so that's.
Speaker 2: Not a bad result.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and like with the nature of the draw, like
Speaker 5: you don't need to get both champions. If you get an,
Speaker 5: you get four to go deep.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean the only thing against her is she's the
Speaker 4: eleventh seat. She's dropped out of the top ten, so
Speaker 4: she's at the mercy of the draw. Could run into
Speaker 4: one of the top seeds, so she did in Paris,
Speaker 4: she ran into Eager in the fourth round.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
Speaker 5: Watching brief, Yeah, okay, round two, we're going to stick
Speaker 5: with you Dan, Okay, hit me with your next month.
Speaker 1: Hit me with your best shirt.
Speaker 2: Fire away. I'm gonna sw to the men's end and
Speaker 2: we'll go with.
Speaker 1: Really interesting.
Speaker 2: He's got a few trophies from the old Wimbi. Yeah,
Speaker 2: kind of well known.
Speaker 8: Ye from me.
Speaker 1: I reckon he could do well here.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. I feel like because he's an omnipresent goat well.
Speaker 2: He still thinks he's got another slam. He thinks he's
Speaker 2: got another gold medal in him, so he could do it.
Speaker 2: He wouldn't put it past him, but if there's a slam,
Speaker 2: he might get another one out. I think Wemblin could
Speaker 2: be his best chance. I think that's a good pick, ye.
Speaker 4: Keep in mind is probably going to have to beat
Speaker 4: one of for both, which is not easy to do.
Speaker 4: But he Look, he beat Alcoraz quarterfinals at AO this year,
Speaker 4: beat Verev quarterfinals in Paris, so he's still got.
Speaker 2: Those big wins in him. He's thereabouts. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to lock him in my first men's pick. Very good,
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Dan Bri.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make a purely strategic move here. And
Speaker 1: also because he just brought out a song with Andrea
Speaker 1: Forcelli and it feels appropriate to.
Speaker 5: Honor that was that ultimately master. I love and like,
Speaker 5: don't get me wrong, songs in my childhood, but that
Speaker 5: was I.
Speaker 1: Listened to it a couple of times and just couldn't
Speaker 1: get into it. But it is a nice clash of
Speaker 1: culture and tennis, and to honor that, I'm going to
Speaker 1: pick Yannick Sinner.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, yes, and.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 2: Blind, But.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's had some good runs this year. AO champion
Speaker 1: finalist Roland Garrison Rome twenty twenty five grass court season
Speaker 1: so far saw him lose to Public at Halle, so
Speaker 1: who knows what's ahead for him, but the song is
Speaker 1: interesting and we're going with him and.
Speaker 2: His top seed, so good pick. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1: Like I've got to put a big one in there
Speaker 1: from a point.
Speaker 2: Got a big dog in there somewhere. Fair enough, Okay,
Speaker 2: Levi hit us up with your pick number two.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to go with a women's pick, and
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the number one seed a
Speaker 3: gable anka good. Well, I was at number two soon.
Speaker 2: I mean, like again, going the big dog watching the
Speaker 2: little box.
Speaker 1: It's really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, she's had strong results there in
Speaker 3: the past. She hasn't she hasn't won it yet, but
Speaker 3: I think she's in great form. She hits the crap
Speaker 3: out of the ball. I mean, she just slugs it.
Speaker 3: She's got a big.
Speaker 2: Serve and a big mouth. Lightly but she's talked a
Speaker 2: lot back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, semi final there in Berlin. I think
Speaker 3: I think she has a good chance of taking the title.
Speaker 2: Honestly. Yeah, great, okay, thank you Levi. Third round. We're
Speaker 2: going to stick with you, mister Levi. What's feeling in
Speaker 2: your jeans?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: That's good?
Speaker 1: Why it twice?
Speaker 2: Because order? Yeah, hey break go read something. You stepped
Speaker 2: on my Jane's joke I'll carry on. You just don't
Speaker 2: get it, That's fine.
Speaker 3: My grandpa called me Briches growing up.
Speaker 2: Got it, I just got it the last time I finish.
Speaker 3: I didn't get it until it was about twelve.
Speaker 7: I never.
Speaker 1: Oh dear, I'm gonna have a glass water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but on camera that does look a lot like one,
Speaker 2: and that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's definitely water good.
Speaker 3: But for my pick, I'm gonna go with Madison Keys.
Speaker 3: I think you know, it's similar. I'm building kind of
Speaker 3: a similar arsenal Ao champion is a lot of power there,
Speaker 3: a lot of power, and they've been in good form recently.
Speaker 3: It will be interesting to see how she does Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna back. I'm in back Keys.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think she's going to be going in with a
Speaker 5: lot of positive thoughts and really good fitness, like she's
Speaker 5: at a pretty top notch.
Speaker 2: Level of her game at the moment. Good one, All right,
Speaker 2: thanks Leeby.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, okay, I want to take Draper?
Speaker 2: Okay, Draper next up? Did you want him?
Speaker 1: I am going with Draper because he is in good form,
Speaker 1: although he was a bit sick recently with ton sliders
Speaker 1: and I'm a little bit frustrated as well during his
Speaker 1: match at Queen's when he lost to Lahechka, but he
Speaker 1: still made it to the semi finals. So I also
Speaker 1: think playing at Wimbledon with a home crowd could either
Speaker 1: be make or break, but hopefully it pushes him through.
Speaker 1: And I think he's the hot thing right now.
Speaker 2: Well, he's going to have some boisterous crowds behind him one.
Speaker 1: I imagine how good the energy will be for his matches.
Speaker 1: Him and Katie Boult like the sweethearts of English tennis.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm really even.
Speaker 1: Sweethearts of they're not together.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I thought you were saying that they're just
Speaker 2: both English.
Speaker 1: No, but I am very happy with that pick, and
Speaker 1: I'm really happy I took it off.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That actually makes it so much better.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it. No One, no one seemed worried about Paulini's.
Speaker 4: Worried about Paolini. I'm going to pivot, you are correct.
Speaker 4: I'm going to pivot to the women then twice.
Speaker 5: Because it's okay, come down, Everything's fine, it's snake orderbris
Speaker 5: just follow the system, Dan, what's in XP.
Speaker 2: I'm going to pivot back and clinch one of the favorites.
Speaker 2: So I don't end up with some outsiders here and
Speaker 2: go with golf. Yeah, Coco Loko, why not?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 4: She got one back and yet she was understandably a
Speaker 4: bit exhausted after Paris lost the match on grass?
Speaker 2: Where was that in Berlin?
Speaker 4: Her first match that I wouldn't read into that at all.
Speaker 4: She'll appreciate the extra time now to reset, and she has.
Speaker 2: A history there.
Speaker 4: She qualified obviously, is a fifteen year old in twenty
Speaker 4: nineteen went to the fourth round beat Venus Williams on rude.
Speaker 4: I mean, if anything, if Paris showed us anything, it's
Speaker 4: her fighting qualities when she's not even may not be
Speaker 4: playing her absolute best, so she's always.
Speaker 5: In for me.
Speaker 1: Mental strength, mental strengths is she's.
Speaker 5: Got the mental strength of someone much older than herself.
Speaker 5: She's the maturity on and off court.
Speaker 2: That can translate into a great family. I reckon that
Speaker 2: part of it, definite part of it. And maybe a
Speaker 2: lot of trust and great relationship.
Speaker 5: With her coaching team and those around her like not
Speaker 5: surrounded by yes people, not surrounded by those who are
Speaker 5: trying to bring her down, unless when you speak to.
Speaker 4: You, you think you're talking to someone late twenties she's
Speaker 4: been around six years or so on tour, but still
Speaker 4: she's got this maturity.
Speaker 5: And I would love to say a Saboleca golf final
Speaker 5: like that would be pretty good on the grass.
Speaker 2: The press conference after, haven't we seen that before? Not
Speaker 2: this one, I've seen two now?
Speaker 5: All right, Well Dan, okay, hold on to your hat, Brie.
Speaker 5: We're going to stay with Dan for his final.
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle. I'd never get a double.
Speaker 2: Correct, got you, but you never last either. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: we'll go to my final. Men's pick.
Speaker 4: Here we go, and it is a bit left field,
Speaker 4: but I'm going to go with Yushi Lehechka. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I know he's not top ten, he's not even top
Speaker 4: twenty for that matter.
Speaker 2: You have twenty third seed. But the checks do love
Speaker 2: the grass and he showed that this week with the
Speaker 2: run to the final in Queens.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I took a set there off El Kraz. I know
Speaker 4: it's not slam, but yeah, he can play on the surface.
Speaker 4: Reached the fourth round there two.
Speaker 5: Years ago, so okay, and he could have a reasonably
Speaker 5: friendly draw being that low seeded.
Speaker 4: Player twenty well at the moment he's number twenty five,
Speaker 4: so yeah, it depends a lot on the draw for him.
Speaker 2: Which is Tomorrow Brie our time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tomorrow wins and queens over Draper and demon Or
Speaker 4: on route. So there, it wasn't a soft doll foring
Speaker 4: brainy stretch, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Good pick.
Speaker 5: All right, He's there so far the roughest of the
Speaker 5: rouffies on our board, so I'll be watching that one
Speaker 5: with breath.
Speaker 2: That is baited. Okay, we pick the interesting pick up
Speaker 2: over to your final pick.
Speaker 1: My final pick, and I'm so glad I haven't missed
Speaker 1: out on this. But I'm guessing no one else wanted her.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Mira Andreva, which is also who Todd
Speaker 1: had picked. I'm going with Mirror. Firstly, I love her
Speaker 1: and she's one of my favorite players on the tours.
Speaker 1: I think she's amazing. She obviously twenty twenty five highlights,
Speaker 1: she was a champ at Indian Wells and Dubai quarter
Speaker 1: fi finalist at Roland Garross. Her best progress Wimbledon in
Speaker 1: the past was fourth round in twenty twenty three. Obviously,
Speaker 1: in the past two years a lot has changed in
Speaker 1: her maturity, style, co all of that stuff, so she
Speaker 1: hasn't had a great grass court season as yet because
Speaker 1: she lost round one at Berlin. But she does play
Speaker 1: no Kova next at the quarterfinal of bad Homburg, so she,
Speaker 1: you know, might have some form. So I'm going with
Speaker 1: her and I love her a bit.
Speaker 2: She just has every time she's here in Melbourne. She's
Speaker 2: just she's so good after the.
Speaker 1: Game, she's so good. So go Mirror, I you have
Speaker 1: all my support.
Speaker 2: All right, you're locked in now, bree good lit there.
Speaker 1: I think I've got a good mix, all right.
Speaker 5: And now for the final pick of this year's women
Speaker 5: have finish the shark himself, Dan Danham Dan Dan Dan Denim.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, I know this is a bit out there,
Speaker 3: but I'm going to go with a dark course. I'm
Speaker 3: going to go with Alexander Bubleck.
Speaker 5: That's not a.
Speaker 1: Dark horse at the moment, but like he have you
Speaker 1: seen what he's no, you probably haven't seen what he's
Speaker 1: been doing lately. Is performing really well?
Speaker 3: I knew what his seed was, yeah, yeah, No, I
Speaker 3: mean I think Bublick has, like Breeze said, he's been
Speaker 3: on a tear and I think he's still a bit
Speaker 3: of a dark chrus. But what he's showing out there,
Speaker 3: I think he can go quite far. And I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm hoping to get in and talk a little bit
Speaker 3: more about that.
Speaker 5: You do have some of your Levi's long shots coming up, Yeah,
Speaker 5: a little bit later. So Team Levi, Albaraz, Sabelenka, Keys
Speaker 5: and Bublock, Team Brie, Paulini, Sinner, Draper and Andreva and
Speaker 5: Team Dan bringing it Home, Rebecca ar Djokovic, Cocoa Goff
Speaker 5: and Leahechka the check twenty third seed. So follow along
Speaker 5: at home, give us your picks. See who you would
Speaker 5: pick yourself. Which of our teams is going to win?
Speaker 5: It won't be Bre and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Bray, you're gonna send us to an AD break.
Speaker 1: We're going to go to an AD break, and after
Speaker 1: that we will check in with Levi's long.
Speaker 2: Shot, Levi's Levi's long long long Shot.
Speaker 1: This is getting all okay, welcome back. We are going
Speaker 1: to hand over to Levi now in a segment we
Speaker 1: called Levi's Longsholtz, and he's going to talk about some
Speaker 1: players that could be considered dark horses and why they
Speaker 1: could cause some troubles at Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: And also why you picked one of course, Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, the work that we do, it really
Speaker 3: focuses on game analysis, and we don't try to help
Speaker 3: the players and the coaches understand, you know, what's happening
Speaker 3: on the court. And so our team really focuses on
Speaker 3: diving into that type of data. So my picks, which
Speaker 3: I did pick this player Bubliic, Alexander Bublick, and Marquetta
Speaker 3: von Drusova, And so I want to really highlight Bublic
Speaker 3: in terms of just the change that he's kind of
Speaker 3: undergone in the last year. I mean, this is a
Speaker 3: guy who was coming into this spring saying I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if I'm going to continue playing tennis, and now
Speaker 3: he's he went to Vegas and then he went to
Speaker 3: Vegas a man and he had you love him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean put himself on my right up, Yeah,
Speaker 5: craps to kind of center himself.
Speaker 2: Genius.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's such an interesting story and if you
Speaker 3: dive in deeper into it. Basically he was overtraining, is
Speaker 3: what he said. He said, I was too serious about it,
Speaker 3: and I was too robotic. I was trying to be
Speaker 3: like the other players and I couldn't quite It wasn't
Speaker 3: for him, and so he went to Vegas, he had
Speaker 3: a change of a mindset, and he's come back, and
Speaker 3: he's actually come back so strong. I mean, you look
Speaker 3: at his mentality and the mentality in terms of his
Speaker 3: fortitude out there breakpoints save those are really hard. That's
Speaker 3: a lot of pressure that's being put on you. If
Speaker 3: you lose your serve in tennis, that's a huge blow.
Speaker 3: Obviously up thirty percent from last year in terms of
Speaker 3: like grass court performance, so thirty percent.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 3: So not only is he, you know, serving really well,
Speaker 3: but then he's fending off these points, so it's like
Speaker 3: basically nine out of ten breakpoints he's saving.
Speaker 2: WHOA isn't that crazy? Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 5: And in order to do that, he would have to
Speaker 5: be so multi purpose really yeah, not just you know,
Speaker 5: get lucky with what he's been thrown at him. You'll
Speaker 5: do the long rallies, the short rallies, go to the baseline,
Speaker 5: the whole shebang everything.
Speaker 3: So what's really interesting is, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's part of this mentality of letting go, but he's
Speaker 3: actually hitting harder on both wings. So he's hitting fifteen
Speaker 3: k's harder on his forehand and his backhand, so he's increasing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so he's really amping it up. And if you see
Speaker 3: the people he's playing against, they're standing farther and farther back.
Speaker 2: They try to distorb his pace to him.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, but now he's pointing out the drop shots
Speaker 3: and so now they're having to run and try to
Speaker 3: get these drop shots. And he's known as a showman,
Speaker 3: he knows how to do that. So he has this
Speaker 3: pace where he's pushing them back and he's bringing them
Speaker 3: in with these drop shots. And then, like you're talking about,
Speaker 3: there's kind of a loss of the volley game as we.
Speaker 2: You know, get into this era.
Speaker 3: But his hands are really quite good up there too,
Speaker 3: so he'll do the drop shot, they'll run and get it,
Speaker 3: and he'll be right there to put away the volley.
Speaker 3: So I think, you know, his game has really changed
Speaker 3: since his mindset changed, and I'll just yeah, I'm very
Speaker 3: curious to see how he'll do at Wimbledon because obviously
Speaker 3: that's a little bit more pressure.
Speaker 2: Then his title run at Halla.
Speaker 4: So there's definitely a mindset shift. Because he didn't make
Speaker 4: second weeks of slams much at all.
Speaker 2: In Paris. He not only made it, he then beat Draper.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and I remember watching him against Alex Demanon.
Speaker 1: I know Alex probably didn't have the best match, but
Speaker 1: you could tell that he was a different playoff.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, he was at about twenty last year and then
Speaker 3: he dropped to eighty. It's only been in the last
Speaker 3: couple months that he's actually skyrocketed back up to thirty.
Speaker 1: And if you look at his range, he was from
Speaker 1: seventy six to thirty. Didn't he just crazy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, decent run at Wimbledon. Then could scarrok at him
Speaker 5: again towards the top ten?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Towards him no, Yeah, I mean so it's just interesting
Speaker 3: to think about how not everything works the same way
Speaker 3: for every player. You know, you can't be this robot
Speaker 3: out there if that's not your personality. And I think
Speaker 3: that's a that's an interesting story, interesting takeaway to say, Okay,
Speaker 3: who are the robots? I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: would think Center Yep, you know, he Djokovic. You know,
Speaker 3: they have these patterns and these routines and a doll.
Speaker 3: They do the same things. They're out there training. But Bublic,
Speaker 3: I think trying to put himself into that. You know,
Speaker 3: he's a square trying to go into the round shape. Paul,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's hard, and so I think it's an
Speaker 3: interesting realization that, like, maybe I have to pivot the
Speaker 3: way I play the game.
Speaker 4: You've always seen him as more of an entertainer, and
Speaker 4: while Curios held that mantle for a long time, Bublic
Speaker 4: was often considered like a lesser version of that. But
Speaker 4: he's clearly got the ability and just needed to unlock that.
Speaker 4: As you said in a different manner, it's not not
Speaker 4: one size fits all for a player that don't all
Speaker 4: have to train exactly the same.
Speaker 1: I've seen that with our cries too. He needs more
Speaker 1: time off.
Speaker 2: Yea get away still came back and on the title,
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 2: He partied hard, he played harder good.
Speaker 1: And then who do we have next? Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so for the second pick, I'm going with von Drosova. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, she just had the Berlin title.
Speaker 2: And again if she has an injury recently.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty twenty four, she had surgery on her rotator
Speaker 3: cluff after the US opened, and I can relate to that.
Speaker 3: So I tore on my shoulder, I thought.
Speaker 2: Because you were playing gresson tennis.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he did it pay I was in
Speaker 3: the stands. Actually, I was throwing back one of the
Speaker 3: balls that could really get you. Yeah, I really can't
Speaker 3: because you know, there's a lot of pressure there, but no,
Speaker 3: I think to have that so the shoulder heels super
Speaker 3: slow because there's very little blood flow that gets in there.
Speaker 3: And so for her to win a title, you know,
Speaker 3: less than a year after that is incredible and it's
Speaker 3: just a testament to probably how much work she had
Speaker 3: to put in in terms of the rehab to get
Speaker 3: her shoulder mobile and to start servying and everything like that.
Speaker 3: So it's it's really cool to see her take that title.
Speaker 3: And I think the question on everyone's mind is, Okay,
Speaker 3: she's won at Wimbledon before, Now is she in the
Speaker 3: same form that she was previously? And so if we
Speaker 3: look at kind of some of that big big picture
Speaker 3: stuff in terms of her return game, is it as
Speaker 3: good as we would think is expected of the top ten?
Speaker 2: And so it actually is.
Speaker 3: She's winning return games about four percentage points above the
Speaker 3: top ten at forty five percent, so's she's doing well on.
Speaker 2: Her return game.
Speaker 3: And then what really makes up that return game when
Speaker 3: you break is your breakpoint conversions, So how often are
Speaker 3: you capitalizing on the opportunities that you have? And so
Speaker 3: her breakpoint conversions is actually six points above the top
Speaker 3: ten have fifty four percent. So her return game is
Speaker 3: there and it's at the top ten level, exceeding the
Speaker 3: top ten level, But where she's maybe lacking a little
Speaker 3: bit is on her serve right, So her serve is
Speaker 3: just not going in as much as it should. It's
Speaker 3: at you know, minus seven of the top ten. So
Speaker 3: really what she needs to be able to do on
Speaker 3: grass especially is to get that first serve in and
Speaker 3: that's going to increase her ability to hold. So she
Speaker 3: has the ability to break with her impressive return game,
Speaker 3: but she's really going to need to be able to
Speaker 3: hold and get those first serves in.
Speaker 5: So looking at her movement, like, what's the problem that
Speaker 5: you've been able to say using the data? Is it
Speaker 5: her accuracy shot placement rating the other player? Yeah, So
Speaker 5: she has this really good tactic that she uses.
Speaker 3: So she's a lefty, right, and if you've played tennis
Speaker 3: and you're getting served at from a lefty, what they
Speaker 3: often do, especially on the ad side, is they'll serve
Speaker 3: you out wide on the backhand and so you have
Speaker 3: this really terrible choice to make. Do I either go
Speaker 3: cross court and that's the easier shot. I'm out of position,
Speaker 3: but I could go cross court, but then I'm hitting
Speaker 3: it right at their forehand. Or do I try to
Speaker 3: go over the high point of the net and go
Speaker 3: down the line. It's a tough choice to make, and
Speaker 3: so often when you look at the patterns there, people
Speaker 3: are choosing to go back cross court to her forehand.
Speaker 3: She can open up the field and either hit down
Speaker 3: the line, or she does this really loopy forehand back
Speaker 3: to the backhand, and it's just a nightmare to deal with.
Speaker 3: So she has this really good plate. Again, when her
Speaker 3: first serve goes in, she can set up that mechanism
Speaker 3: where she's going to target the backhand or open up
Speaker 3: the court and go down the line. And so I
Speaker 3: think that could be a real strength for her. So
Speaker 3: that's kind of where I see your strengths on the
Speaker 3: serve patterns. I think she could mix it up a bit.
Speaker 3: Like I said, she likes to use those patterns of
Speaker 3: going to the backhand. They can get a little bit predictable.
Speaker 3: So for instance, she only hit about one percent of
Speaker 3: serves to the forehand on the second serve on the
Speaker 3: I think it's the deuce side. So it's like, well,
Speaker 3: if you're not hitting that, obviously you don't want to
Speaker 3: hit a second serve to the forehand too often. But
Speaker 3: if you're never doing it, it becomes easier to read
Speaker 3: and say, oh, she's never going to hit a fourhand.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna think on this backhand. So yes, that's
Speaker 3: her plan, and she's just yeah, So I think you
Speaker 3: know she's she's got all the talent there, and she
Speaker 3: has what it takes. She's she's won it before. I
Speaker 3: think that she's a real contender there, and we'll just
Speaker 3: have to see what happens.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 1: The insights yourself and Simon Ray, both from Match Labs,
Speaker 1: our in house data science gurus you bring are always
Speaker 1: phenomenal and I have a lot to think about now
Speaker 1: based on.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I just said. If they're both
Speaker 5: out in the first round, you're sure shit will be
Speaker 5: deleting this episode.
Speaker 1: No, I'll take it on board for later.
Speaker 2: All very useful.
Speaker 3: You never can predict everything, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Literally your job literally the wind predictor, yeah.
Speaker 1: The wind predictor. Anyway, we're going to roll into everyone's
Speaker 1: favorite segment.
Speaker 2: We are your thing.
Speaker 1: We've got a wimbled and white squiz, and obviously we
Speaker 1: have five questions. Okay, we're going to go with number wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: first question. Wimbledon's streaket dress code has existed in some
Speaker 1: form since the eighteen hundreds, But in what decade was
Speaker 1: the predominantly white guideline first formalized in.
Speaker 3: Writing nineteen fifties, lev nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5: Wrong sixties, xavior sixties, nineteen sixties, eighteen sixties, well nineteen eighties, ten,
Speaker 5: ninety ten, nineteen eighties, Yeah no, nineteen ten, eighteen eighties,
Speaker 5: le Ohuddlestone, Yes.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The predominantly white concept became formalized in the late nineteenth
Speaker 1: century as tennis grew in popularity among the upper classes.
Speaker 5: Eighteen eighties, not THEO, not the Leader, sport down, here
Speaker 5: we go, wild your fluros, Williams, beads in your hair.
Speaker 2: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Under the Okay, number two. Under the current Wimbledon regulations,
Speaker 1: how wide can a colored trem or stripe be on
Speaker 1: any piece of plate? Oh, you don't want multiple choice? Okay,
Speaker 1: go who was in first? Dan?
Speaker 2: Let's go with one centimeter. I think it's literally half
Speaker 2: five mil.
Speaker 1: Dan was right. Yeah, the colored trem rule is famously strict,
Speaker 1: no wider than ten millimeters, which is a centimeter on
Speaker 1: any gar. Do you know I actually dreamt about this
Speaker 1: last night, like, and a player went out on court
Speaker 1: and she had like colors everywhere, and I was like,
Speaker 1: how is she getting away with this? That was my dreams?
Speaker 1: And whites have infiltrated me. There's a little bit of
Speaker 1: insight by Psyche. We're going to move on to number three. Okay,
Speaker 1: true or false? Even players underwear must be white. If
Speaker 1: it has any false, it is false now because it used.
Speaker 5: To be true because didn't Wasn't there a female player
Speaker 5: who got called out and then everyone was like, well
Speaker 5: that's a bit stuffed up.
Speaker 1: Well no, it's been brought in because the women spoke
Speaker 1: about how when they're menstrating, wearing white is not ideal.
Speaker 1: And as a woman, I can say, hand up, not ideal.
Speaker 1: So women are now.
Speaker 5: Women usually are playing in an attire where they can expose.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, we've not yet seen a man play in
Speaker 1: a skirt, which could.
Speaker 6: Be the year.
Speaker 2: I know out there a nice little pleated number.
Speaker 1: I'm into it. Okay, everyone's got one point each. We're
Speaker 1: moving on to number four.
Speaker 2: Where's my full button four machine? We're running here.
Speaker 1: The strict enforcement of the all white rule was dramatically
Speaker 1: increased following which controversial incidents.
Speaker 4: Dan Tatyana Golovin wearing red you know, compression shorts or underpin.
Speaker 1: That would be wrong. Would we like to go to
Speaker 1: the multiple choices? Okay, we have a Serena Williams wore
Speaker 1: a pink headband in two thousand and four. B Andre
Speaker 1: Agassi refused to play due to the dress code. In
Speaker 1: the early nineties see Roger Federer's orange souls in twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen or d John Muckinroe's logo protest in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: Buzz Xavier may yeah, please I reckon it's Fetterer's souls.
Speaker 1: It was Fetterer's orange sold shoes, made global headlines and
Speaker 1: triggered a crackdown and an enforcement further of the rules.
Speaker 2: Well done, nice Ques. So strict, isn't it.
Speaker 5: It's so strict, and part of me like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: that's the rules, but a part of me is like, ugh,
Speaker 5: that's my thought.
Speaker 1: They're very good at keeping tradition alive. Then I'll give
Speaker 1: them that. Okay, we're going on to our final question.
Speaker 1: Number you are get in? Oh god, never do that again.
Speaker 1: Number five, which famous British tennis figure once remarked, you
Speaker 1: can never wear too much white at Wimbledon. We have
Speaker 1: multiple choice A Fred Perry, B Virginia Wade, C. Tim
Speaker 1: Henman or D Sue Barker.
Speaker 2: Let's go Sue Barker.
Speaker 8: You're right, so.
Speaker 1: Sue Barker, the former player and iconic BBC broadcaster, famously
Speaker 1: defended the tradition with that quote. The draw between Xavier
Speaker 1: and is there.
Speaker 2: A choicer weapon?
Speaker 3: Is there are?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, let me think it's something. Do I know
Speaker 1: something about? What year did Todd wood Bridge come runner
Speaker 1: up in singles at wimbededed semi.
Speaker 2: Make the final. I'm going to go nineteen ninety seven
Speaker 2: semi finalist.
Speaker 8: Is he right?
Speaker 2: Questions?
Speaker 1: You're still figuring out the question I said wrong?
Speaker 2: You stuffed it up. I'm outraged. I demand to recout.
Speaker 2: That is why I could never go to pologies birthday.
Speaker 2: That was good.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you so much, guys. I always love a
Speaker 1: book giving me some time to shine and thank you
Speaker 1: to my team to help.
Speaker 2: Me fact team, which as a team. Now, god, we're
Speaker 2: just jealous. Sorry, I am incredibly jealous.
Speaker 1: So we're just moving on now to Ace of the Week,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with you say.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's my favorite part of the show. So normally
Speaker 5: I struggle, but I have an Ace of the week.
Speaker 5: Technically though, it's Ace of next week, which ironically I
Speaker 5: think mine will be your Ace of the week next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going on holidays, so taking the fan kids
Speaker 2: and yeah, OFFI we know what happens and you go overseas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone is pleasant, no one has any missing memories,
Speaker 5: and they don't come back with a weird tattoo.
Speaker 1: It gets sick.
Speaker 5: Last year, yeah, I might have caught a little little,
Speaker 5: little little sliver of dengky fever. That wasn't super fun.
Speaker 5: But no, I've got all my jabs, shots, vaccines, whatever.
Speaker 5: Its staying nice place. No, it's gonna be hoot. And
Speaker 5: don't think about tennis for a week. Great, I'll still
Speaker 5: be checking on Wimban.
Speaker 8: How about you.
Speaker 2: My Ace of the week.
Speaker 3: It's just a small one, but I was able to
Speaker 3: play video games with my nephew who's over in the us.
Speaker 3: Oh that's cool, and so him and my brother we played.
Speaker 3: So that was really cool to get on there and
Speaker 3: just have some family time.
Speaker 2: So that was nice.
Speaker 1: Oh god love that. Do you wear a headset?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you just go to town. You're gonna die,
Speaker 2: little man.
Speaker 3: It's a team based game, so its versus another team.
Speaker 2: But it's pretty funny. They're like, who is this guy?
Speaker 3: He's terrible, he's only.
Speaker 2: Nine, and how about you?
Speaker 1: Daniel im Hoff has just.
Speaker 4: Come backack into It was about a week ago on
Speaker 4: a trip to Mauritia with my partner.
Speaker 2: Last week in Spain, which is not a touristy part
Speaker 2: of Spain.
Speaker 4: And even less touristy on the outskirts is a little
Speaker 4: place called El Palomar, which is the hometown of Carlos z.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, okay, it is not a tourist hotsport whatsoever.
Speaker 2: There is Amurror Majorca. It's our charaze from its humble,
Speaker 2: humble beginnings, and there's one mural there.
Speaker 4: A woman her child got out of their car laughing
Speaker 4: at me for even taking a photo of it. So
Speaker 4: I don't think they really get what all the fuss
Speaker 4: is about. It was a nice little stop one to Maurthia.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I'll get some TV's guys. He's kind
Speaker 5: of a big deal in the tennis world. It was
Speaker 5: a fascinating im Hoff stopping traffic everywhere it goes. Good,
Speaker 5: All right, I'll I'll step in here, Bree. What about yourself?
Speaker 5: What's your age?
Speaker 1: Guys who are going to love this? So on Saturday,
Speaker 1: I am going to Castlemaine with one of my girlfriends
Speaker 1: and we are going to see one of our favorite
Speaker 1: spiritual guides, one of our favorite tarot readers, Melo, who
Speaker 1: now operates.
Speaker 2: Her name's Mellow mel mel Oh.
Speaker 1: She operates out of Castle, Maine in a cute little
Speaker 1: witchy shop up there, and that is I. I will
Speaker 1: come in on Monday knowing exactly what my future holds
Speaker 1: and knowing exactly how to find the man in my dreams.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you have you never seen her before?
Speaker 1: I've seen her so many times.
Speaker 2: So what happened?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: An issue?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just my friend this morning told me you just
Speaker 1: need to manifest. I was like, I've been manifesting for
Speaker 1: twenty five years.
Speaker 5: Maybe stop because I feel like Mellow looks forward to
Speaker 5: your Yeah, exactly, I'm guessing it's a cashy guys.
Speaker 1: I've got multiple spiritual guides and they all see me
Speaker 1: coming and they rub their hands to exactly anyway.
Speaker 2: That's really exciting for me, doesn't but also customers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to the pub and Dumpling the Dog
Speaker 1: is coming, so it'll be lovely.
Speaker 2: The Railway pub particularly good.
Speaker 1: I think that's where we're going. Yeah, but thank you
Speaker 1: to Dan and LEVI are amazing guests for being here today.
Speaker 1: Save who can't wait to have you off next and
Speaker 1: have a little break. But we are going to throw
Speaker 1: it to our lovely production team to bring us home
Speaker 1: and tell you what to do and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 7: Bye.
Speaker 4: Hey everyone, Harps and Andy here just want to remind
Speaker 4: you that you can watch every episode of the Tennis
Speaker 4: on our YouTube channel, Australian Open Tv.
Speaker 9: And we have an email as well podcast at Tennis
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Speaker 2: Catch you later, mm hm.