Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the tennis for another week of madness.
Speaker 1: Here around the oblong table. That's actually an oval. My
Speaker 1: name is ab Mullbuck. Big week of tennis. It's sweet
Speaker 1: smell of success for boys. Song's French fairy tale scheduling
Speaker 1: in the spotlight, a woman getting a fair girl with
Speaker 1: grand slams and defiant Djokovic. Novak sets up a semi
Speaker 1: final showdown with Sinner. All that are more coming up
Speaker 1: over with, however long this show goes. I am Xavier
Speaker 1: and joining me this week former Australian player Davis Cup
Speaker 1: captain and now commentator.
Speaker 2: It's John Fitzgerald. Safe, nice jacket, k thank you.
Speaker 3: You're not getting this jacket because I've noticed you've tried
Speaker 3: to knock it off.
Speaker 2: I stole it last time he was here.
Speaker 3: I'm keeping it on.
Speaker 2: Well, we're very happy to have you back.
Speaker 1: And Australian Open tournament director and the Big Koodoo himself.
Speaker 2: It's Quig Tyler.
Speaker 4: Good to be here.
Speaker 2: That's very good. Nervous I'm not either, Okay good.
Speaker 1: I wanted you to come in a little bit jitter,
Speaker 1: but I've seen cool palmer collected but joining me as
Speaker 1: always set when she's over at Roland Garros. It is
Speaker 1: Brie Stewart, dressed as Vicki Pollard from Little Britain today
Speaker 1: with your.
Speaker 3: They're pretty cool.
Speaker 5: I think they're cool. We're playing pop tennis this afternoon. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's great to be back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing jeans and a button up shirt, so we'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes for me.
Speaker 2: Now, we've got a huge show this week.
Speaker 1: Obviously, we're in the middle of a one of four
Speaker 1: Grand Slams over at Roland Garrison. We've got some hot
Speaker 1: results fresh off the press. Pretty exciting stuff. Quarterfinals, Novak
Speaker 1: Djokovic taking out Zverev, very convincing. We've got Janick Sinner
Speaker 1: number one seed, taking out Alexander Publick and the women's side,
Speaker 1: Coco GoF took out Madison keys Our reigning champion at
Speaker 1: the moment from the Australian Open, and Luis Bosson the
Speaker 1: surprise defeat of Mira Andreva.
Speaker 2: Pretty exciting stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty big. Yeah, it's been some great matches.
Speaker 5: The quarterfinals have been really exciting. The semis in our
Speaker 5: looking really exciting. It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, your French is perfect. I understood everything you
Speaker 1: just said. Then that's great. Well, let's jump straight in
Speaker 1: with what's caught your eye in tennis this week, Fitz
Speaker 1: kickus off.
Speaker 2: Louis Beausson. Yes, who is she? What she done? Why
Speaker 2: is she a talk of the town?
Speaker 3: Can I use my Australian Actually I'm struggling for her
Speaker 3: first name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to revert to the French accent for the
Speaker 3: second name. We Yeah, Lois has been a revelation and look,
Speaker 3: I love this stuff in tennis. You know, there's an
Speaker 3: argument to say when when the highest ranked guys get
Speaker 3: through the final, it creates all of this energy and
Speaker 3: it is great, and it's the matchups you want to see.
Speaker 3: But when a youngster comes along and does what she's done,
Speaker 3: it's a different sort of attention. And I'm one of
Speaker 3: those guys who loves it. And it's very rare that
Speaker 3: a player outside of the top five or so can
Speaker 3: win these majors.
Speaker 2: She's very outside the top, very outside.
Speaker 3: And she's shown a lot of resilience the last twelve months,
Speaker 3: which I love, coming back from that knee injury, big
Speaker 3: knee injury, A year out of the game, like a
Speaker 3: full year of rehab really and only to play a
Speaker 3: couple of times competitively before the French Open, speaks volumes
Speaker 3: and to come back from breaks down and sets in
Speaker 3: a previous mates. She's got resilience, she's got fight, and
Speaker 3: now she might just have belief. You know, who knows
Speaker 3: it's a big step, though, big step.
Speaker 1: Playing at home she's got a lot of French locals
Speaker 1: screaming her name.
Speaker 2: But I'm just reading here.
Speaker 1: So she had not recorded a single, only one win sorry,
Speaker 1: between her rehab and playing RG. That is just diabolical.
Speaker 3: Well, it's amazing that you actually that your body would
Speaker 3: all stand up too, no matter how much training you do,
Speaker 3: you know leading into this. Once you start playing competitive matches,
Speaker 3: you know, it's tough to stay fit and keep everything
Speaker 3: together for five straight matches. Look, I guess she's there.
Speaker 3: She's got a chance, she likes the clay and she's
Speaker 3: a young kid with nothing to lose. Now, Yeah, she's
Speaker 3: achieved a lot of already. Her ranking is going to
Speaker 3: go to sixty five or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, loses anonymity to well inside, I'm reading.
Speaker 5: This morning that she started Roland Garros ranked as the
Speaker 5: number twenty fourth French woman and she'll end Roland Garris
Speaker 5: is the number one French woman. It's massive.
Speaker 3: One other things she's done. She has previously won at
Speaker 3: WT event and she's won six ITF events, so she's
Speaker 3: won tournaments. And when you win tournaments, it's significant. You
Speaker 3: know you can you can get to the quarters and lose.
Speaker 3: But she's handled those smaller, bigger moments well in her
Speaker 3: life in her career. This is by far bigger than
Speaker 3: any of those tournament wins. But to win tournaments says
Speaker 3: something about a players character. I think you never know.
Speaker 5: First wild card to reach women's semi final at Roland
Speaker 5: Garros huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you were over there, Craig, did you say otherwise?
Speaker 6: I got back at the beginning of this week and
Speaker 6: there was a lot of excitement around her player, but
Speaker 6: not as much as there is now because you didn't
Speaker 6: have the last two results that she had bidding Andre
Speaker 6: of course would be Beatina, so which was which was
Speaker 6: something we thought potentially could go the other way. But
Speaker 6: but yeah, I mean, I think she's forced to be
Speaker 6: reckoned with her As she said, she's a really good
Speaker 6: clay called player. I watched her a little bit, but
Speaker 6: no one expected her that she'd be in this in
Speaker 6: this position.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've seen a couple of her media interviews. She's
Speaker 2: pretty funny too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's got good for the tennis world.
Speaker 5: And she's still very young. She's only twenty two, isn't she.
Speaker 3: Yeah, born in Dijon, Ah, right.
Speaker 4: Like Dejon Mustard, and she can do a mootard commercial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the village next to Hockenglish.
Speaker 4: Listen to you. You're practicing that across.
Speaker 2: Across the sin from horseradish cram.
Speaker 1: Anyways, amazing, great for tennis, great for the French.
Speaker 5: Great for the French, great for the tournament, for Grand Slams.
Speaker 4: When Grand Slam with players from Grand.
Speaker 2: Slam, anything that's great for a Grand Slam, it's all excited.
Speaker 6: And then when they stepped up and do well in
Speaker 6: their home slams, it's really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If that buzz keeps going, we might see her here
Speaker 1: in January.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's gonna be Well.
Speaker 1: Let's stick with the French for a little bit, keeping
Speaker 1: with Roland Garros. Now, Brie, you've been keeping your finger
Speaker 1: on the pulse of tennis news.
Speaker 2: We'll call your eye.
Speaker 5: Well. I thought it would be remiss of us not
Speaker 5: to chat about one of the big stories that's come
Speaker 5: out of Rolling Garros, which is all around the scheduling
Speaker 5: and the women's matches, and we've seen on Chiburg came
Speaker 5: out with you quite articulate, really interesting perspective that you
Speaker 5: put on social media. So I just kind of wanted
Speaker 5: to open that up because obviously scheduling and for listeners
Speaker 5: out there, we don't even know half of it, Craig.
Speaker 2: But scheduling, the king of.
Speaker 5: Scheduling, is not an easy thing to do, and there's
Speaker 5: lots of things that come into consideration like broadcast and player,
Speaker 5: all these kind of stuff. So you know, obviously it's
Speaker 5: a big thing in France right now and around the
Speaker 5: world in terms of that. That's kind of what caught
Speaker 5: my eye.
Speaker 6: It's a big thing to cash, you arks, everyone's writing
Speaker 6: about it, and look, there are many factors that go
Speaker 6: into making a decision and scheduling. I the French will
Speaker 6: have their factors there and there, and their considerations that
Speaker 6: they're going to take on board and different circumstances to us.
Speaker 6: We have twenty six sessions over the course of the fortnight,
Speaker 6: and a session every night, so there's forty nights of
Speaker 6: tennis and at least one session every night.
Speaker 4: Some nights.
Speaker 6: Some nights there's three courts playing with two matches. We
Speaker 6: generally schedule. We always do schedule two matches, so we
Speaker 6: share it between the men and the woman.
Speaker 4: We start earlier.
Speaker 6: We started seven and we and it's even sometimes the
Speaker 6: men go first, sometimes the women go first, and some
Speaker 6: years you may have it's more skewed towards the women
Speaker 6: and more skewed towards the men as far as the number,
Speaker 6: but generally we try and keep it the same.
Speaker 4: As much as we possibly can.
Speaker 6: There's an added complication of three sets versus five sets,
Speaker 6: and that's just the time. That's not really that's not
Speaker 6: a value because you can get three set matches, it
Speaker 6: can be a lot more long but also more launt.
Speaker 6: But it's just on average, the three sets are going
Speaker 6: to be are going to be shorter and uh and look,
Speaker 6: I can't go into I haven't spoken to anyone at
Speaker 6: the at the French janisfederations. I can't go into you know,
Speaker 6: the basis of their decisions. But our decisions are you know,
Speaker 6: there's what the broadcasters want, what the players want. The
Speaker 6: gap between when you played your last match you're playing singles, doubles, mixed.
Speaker 6: You know, also what the players, you know, the players
Speaker 6: are a big part of that too. Some like days,
Speaker 6: some like nicely. You take all these into consideration and
Speaker 6: you do the best you can. And because you dealing
Speaker 6: with two people each time is you're never going to
Speaker 6: get at a.
Speaker 5: Home No one's ever going to be happy. Right, that's
Speaker 5: exactly right.
Speaker 2: There's so much starting.
Speaker 5: To lose out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the end of the day when it.
Speaker 1: Comes to the schedule, much like tennis, there will be
Speaker 1: one winner and someone who wish for a different result one.
Speaker 4: Hundred and twenty eight, or there will be one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty seven. They'll lose that.
Speaker 5: That start always upsets me for players.
Speaker 2: Until you say the prize money stats, like, oh, they're
Speaker 2: all right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, that's why most of us felt like a loser
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got many reasons for mine, but I won't
Speaker 1: all the audience with that. But there's so many stakeholders, Craig, Yes,
Speaker 1: the players, but you've got broadcasters, local fans, ticket holders,
Speaker 1: people around the world.
Speaker 5: They do start later, like eight twenty was there.
Speaker 6: And it's a it's a new initiative it's only been
Speaker 6: a couple of years that they actually have a night
Speaker 6: match because they normally just like women and just roll through,
Speaker 6: roll through the evening. And so it's only in it's
Speaker 6: a new thing and they've got one match that they've
Speaker 6: got to take that into consideration. And there's other things too.
Speaker 6: Is you know where players have come off events. You know,
Speaker 6: are they're a little bit injured, Oh theyre one hundredstand healthy.
Speaker 6: You have to consider that as well.
Speaker 3: So could there be a default?
Speaker 4: Could there be a default?
Speaker 2: So and that would derail everything we've had.
Speaker 6: That we've had women's final default played five games and
Speaker 6: then you just got.
Speaker 4: To be ready. But what we do is when we
Speaker 4: when we have.
Speaker 6: One match, we make sure we've got something to swing
Speaker 6: in or or we've got some other activity like the
Speaker 6: great legends of John waiting in the wings to come
Speaker 6: and have a bit of a hit.
Speaker 4: But it's hard to keep it exactly.
Speaker 2: YEA, let's cross to the fan.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, what you try
Speaker 6: and do with you with your fans, you know, globally
Speaker 6: around the world and here on the precinct, you try
Speaker 6: and provide them with a with two three, four hours
Speaker 6: of some great content and then sometimes it does go longer,
Speaker 6: and that's why we have laten finishes, and then you
Speaker 6: get the complaint all late.
Speaker 2: What do you do start?
Speaker 4: We can all start at seven o'clock.
Speaker 6: The news in Australia is between six and seven, and
Speaker 6: so starting earther than seven o'clock is not an option
Speaker 6: because no one's going to be watching the tennis and
Speaker 6: the sport doesn't want that they're watching the news, and
Speaker 6: so we start on, you know, bang on seven o'clock
Speaker 6: and then and then sometimes you can have two long matches, Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 6: and then you finished the two in the morning and
Speaker 6: then everyone complains.
Speaker 5: But sometimes you say, a lot of the fans who
Speaker 5: stay in the stadiums to watch matches love the late matches.
Speaker 5: A lot of my tennis hungry friends are like, love
Speaker 5: how long that went? It was so amazing. So we again,
Speaker 5: it's the whole thing with what we do. You never
Speaker 5: gonna make everyone exactly.
Speaker 1: And there's the hardcore, like keen fans in the stadium
Speaker 1: who love that. But you got to remember ninety nine
Speaker 1: point something of the people watching the match are at home,
Speaker 1: whether it's in Melbourne or Sydney or.
Speaker 4: Paris or tim bucktoo. Yeah, it's yeah, and you've.
Speaker 6: Got to trying to mash it up because if you're
Speaker 6: sitting in Europe, or if you in a time zone
Speaker 6: that's forty hours behind, you know, it'd be nice to
Speaker 6: give them the second matches that's early in the morning,
Speaker 6: when they were in the morning, when they're getting up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you got to take those into consideration as well.
Speaker 2: Or in the middle of their workday and the boss going,
Speaker 2: why are you watching the tennants?
Speaker 5: That's one of the best things about our jobs.
Speaker 2: We get paid to watch tennis.
Speaker 5: The tennis is on right now out there, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, I think well handled, Craig. I think we've
Speaker 1: got a bit a bit of a better understanding of scheduling.
Speaker 1: But it will always be backwards and forwards it is, and.
Speaker 6: There's variables, and you know, when it comes to the
Speaker 6: one or the two matches, that's the.
Speaker 4: Decision that rolling.
Speaker 2: And you don't have to make that decision.
Speaker 4: No, we don't, because we have.
Speaker 2: We're down here.
Speaker 6: Of course, we focus, We focus on what we do
Speaker 6: and we try and do as best as we possibly
Speaker 6: can to make it as fair. We all say that
Speaker 6: we always I always say to the players that will
Speaker 6: make sure it's fair, not necessarily equal, yeah.
Speaker 5: Because it can't be. It can't be otherwise the way
Speaker 5: you're lying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, otherwise don't give them a trophy. Everyone's a winner.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to thank you very much, Craig. That
Speaker 1: was very insightful. Break well asked, do you think?
Speaker 5: Very well answered? But that's why I wanted to ask it,
Speaker 5: because I find scheduling is so interesting.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 6: It's one of the biggest We will sometimes spend six
Speaker 6: to eight hours a day before making a decision on
Speaker 6: the on the schedule for them.
Speaker 5: And you've got golf in there, isn't it to help
Speaker 5: you think.
Speaker 4: That's for a bit of fun.
Speaker 6: But in the in the room, and always give mind
Speaker 6: the room is also secure because if the people are
Speaker 6: betting on scheduling and betting on when someone's gonna going
Speaker 6: to be on, and then if you if it gets
Speaker 6: out of the room before it's actually published, then they
Speaker 6: can you know, the odds change. But but in the room,
Speaker 6: you have you have the referee, you have a represent
Speaker 6: of the international broadcaster, is a represent of the domestic broadcast.
Speaker 6: You have represent from the men's tour, represent from the
Speaker 6: Women's Tour. You have someone from Integrity, someone from secure,
Speaker 6: you to make sure that you're not putting nations that
Speaker 6: are war with each other right next to each other.
Speaker 6: I'm in there as well, representing the tournament. And that
Speaker 6: group of that group gets together six eight hours the
Speaker 6: day before to make some decisions on the scheduling for
Speaker 6: the next day. Because remember it's not just the show
Speaker 6: course through scheduling, it's all.
Speaker 2: Fourteen There's a lot of tennis to put on.
Speaker 1: So amongst all of those important people, there's also a
Speaker 1: kid from Bray's team in the court waiting to tweet
Speaker 1: out the schedules, to be first.
Speaker 5: To be first, not too I was in there once.
Speaker 2: I can't get in there understand once.
Speaker 5: My first year was really interesting to sit in there
Speaker 5: and watchat happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah. We average twenty four variables per match.
Speaker 6: Wow, So variable is injury, previous mash time finished, previous
Speaker 6: mash time start? What marks there in? Who this sponsors are?
Speaker 6: Which broadcast want some internationally? Which ones wants sym domestically? Oh,
Speaker 6: they're playing singles? Are they're playing double? You can go
Speaker 6: on averages.
Speaker 2: I mean it sounds stressful. I mean Craig's only thirty three.
Speaker 3: Look, so would it be fair to say it's really
Speaker 3: easy to criticize it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: That's fun too. You're not being criticized. You're not doing
Speaker 4: anything exactly.
Speaker 2: You've got to mix the pipe, all right. Well, thank
Speaker 2: you very much, Greig.
Speaker 1: We'll crack on with some more eye catching moments from tennis.
Speaker 2: This one's for me.
Speaker 1: I do love a bit of a punt for our
Speaker 1: international listeners.
Speaker 2: That means a bit of a gambler play.
Speaker 5: But you can say that, can you?
Speaker 2: I do know or do it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Talk about it, don't do it anyway. I do have
Speaker 2: a point Public.
Speaker 1: He's had a pretty good run, but a bit of
Speaker 1: a bumpy start to the year, and he's the first
Speaker 1: cassack Man to reach a Grand Slam quarter final first
Speaker 1: time matches in twenty twenty five, things went going well.
Speaker 1: His coach and his team said, you know what, you
Speaker 1: need a weekend in Vegas and he hit Vegas once,
Speaker 1: say what he did, but he had some fun and
Speaker 1: he came back in New Man and frankly that caught
Speaker 1: my eye because good on your mate.
Speaker 2: Any your thoughts on Bublic, I just want to talk
Speaker 2: about gamb Well.
Speaker 6: When I heard the master of the question that I'll
Speaker 6: ask you in the context of did you take your
Speaker 6: acts and practice and his smile and he said no,
Speaker 6: I was in Vegas.
Speaker 2: Fun I'm sure there's a tennis court somewhere in different.
Speaker 4: Kind of preparation. Yeah, examly, does we skill and work
Speaker 4: for everyone?
Speaker 5: No, wouldn't work for everyone.
Speaker 2: I don't think we.
Speaker 1: Didn't have any prize money to put in, so maybe
Speaker 1: you'll head back to something nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, certainly was playing well, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, he's a bit different, isn't he. He comes
Speaker 3: from a different space, but very much. But if you
Speaker 3: can put it together, yep, you know.
Speaker 2: Well the pieces he's taken out Towsies in Duckworth on
Speaker 2: the end of it.
Speaker 3: And then Draper, if you can keep focused, he can
Speaker 3: fire in the next few years.
Speaker 6: I think, well, if you can count cards can If
Speaker 6: I was convinced Draper was going to win that match
Speaker 6: person in the quarters and of Drapers, is you know,
Speaker 6: one of the one of the future superstars of the game,
Speaker 6: both him and fun Seca.
Speaker 4: I think of the two absolutely.
Speaker 1: And Draper went into r G as the fifth seed,
Speaker 1: so you know, all eyes were on him.
Speaker 2: But then this is he's a really good player.
Speaker 1: Now, Craig, Yeah, time for your what caught your eye?
Speaker 1: I saw you on the telly earlier this week.
Speaker 6: I caught my eyes, not specifically what happens is a
Speaker 6: rolling goes because there's many things every day there actually,
Speaker 6: but what caught my eyes A bit of a plug
Speaker 6: as well.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, five hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: million goa.
Speaker 4: In fact, no, I don't have a presentation.
Speaker 6: I don't think you're promoted to a million, you know,
Speaker 6: for the event I am, and for the business aand
Speaker 6: but but yeah, five hundred and sixty five million dollars
Speaker 6: of direct economic impact to the state.
Speaker 4: It's a massive and it's it's.
Speaker 6: And on the last ten years, a little over three
Speaker 6: and a half billion dollars straight straight to the state,
Speaker 6: straight to Victoria most of the city's moment straight to
Speaker 6: Victoria nine.
Speaker 2: I've got new hospitals popping up everywhere. This is great.
Speaker 6: Or you know, one point two million fans for the
Speaker 6: gate and around the world a little under two billion.
Speaker 4: That actually watched it.
Speaker 6: So if you think about it, that's third of the
Speaker 6: world's population.
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, so big.
Speaker 6: What the rest are you doing exactly, but big, big numbers,
Speaker 6: big numbers for you know, for the Australian Open, the
Speaker 6: cer and for the business.
Speaker 4: We're very proud of it and growing.
Speaker 6: Tremendously in Asia and the Asia Pacific region, South American
Speaker 6: newmarkt we've focused on doing really well. So yeah, so
Speaker 6: we're excited about you know what the what on the horizon.
Speaker 1: Like four hundred and forty two thousand nights in hotels
Speaker 1: were booked.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 5: That's crazy.
Speaker 6: A century the hotel has always tell us that they
Speaker 6: need more hotels possessed, specifically for January, but we we
Speaker 6: kicked out the year for Australia and actually for the
Speaker 6: world and sporting entertainment. That's what happened during COVID while
Speaker 6: everyone was you know, had lots of misery at home.
Speaker 6: You flick on the TV or you look at your
Speaker 6: device and you can see this beautiful blue sky.
Speaker 4: Yeah, rather than having a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember working that tournament. That was bizarre, but Jesus
Speaker 1: was it was very calm on site.
Speaker 2: I loved it. Missed our fans, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but no, it was.
Speaker 5: It never happened again. But yes, it sounds calm.
Speaker 2: No, it's good. Take that economic impact.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we would, we would, We would absolutely take it.
Speaker 6: But just shows you that, you know again it is.
Speaker 6: It is the largest annual sporting and entertainment event in
Speaker 6: the Southern Hemisphere each year, the largest event in the
Speaker 6: world January and uh, and we're proud of what we do.
Speaker 4: For the country.
Speaker 2: Well that's all well and good prag.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's next?
Speaker 2: How do we go bigger?
Speaker 6: How do we keep We got some plans to get announced,
Speaker 6: maybe even on this over Table round Table podcast. We
Speaker 6: will have probably the next top of months and innst.
Speaker 2: Not right now.
Speaker 1: You're not going to be like, hey, we're building our
Speaker 1: own hotel in the shape of the tennis ball.
Speaker 3: It's going to be waiting for someone else to host it.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe something an actual professional in a different different hosts.
Speaker 2: That's been noted. Yeah, you keep drinking a drink, crag.
Speaker 2: It's definitely water.
Speaker 4: My Alkarez water bottle. I just grabbed you the way down.
Speaker 2: I saw his name on that. Carl's texting me, where's
Speaker 2: my bloody water bottle?
Speaker 4: The water does taste? May have been in this this
Speaker 4: January does taste.
Speaker 2: It's definitely sad, but that's fine.
Speaker 4: I grab it. I was first.
Speaker 5: So in terms of these figures, what does it mean
Speaker 5: for the average fan? Does it mean that every fan
Speaker 5: who comes to this train open is actually assisting us
Speaker 5: in keeping the Victorian economy going well?
Speaker 4: Well to flip it.
Speaker 6: The other way around, our goal objective is to provide
Speaker 6: every fan with a memorable experience, and we want a
Speaker 6: surprise and delight them like they've never been surprised and
Speaker 6: delighted before, so they always want to come back. We
Speaker 6: have a lot of returning fans. We have a large
Speaker 6: gift that comes from overseas love from inn state. About
Speaker 6: sixty percent come from Victoria itself, so that's our first objective.
Speaker 6: And then in doing that, then you know people will
Speaker 6: buy more tickets, go and buy some merchandise, have something
Speaker 6: to eat and maybe our average international visits stays on
Speaker 6: average four nights in the city and that's where a
Speaker 6: lot of the economic impact comes from. Is that spend. Absolutely,
Speaker 6: So the more we get people coming in from overseas
Speaker 6: from inner State, that boosts a lot, and then of
Speaker 6: course coming from outside of the city of Melbourne as well,
Speaker 6: and there's just a lot to do and our job
Speaker 6: is to give them just a complete variety of experiences.
Speaker 5: And to make sure they then leave and book instantly
Speaker 5: to come again. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well even notice this year that, like the sort of
Speaker 1: premium experiences, they were available pretty much straight after this
Speaker 1: year's AO for next year's So you can have that
Speaker 1: moment of like, well that was great, I need to
Speaker 1: book in now before it goes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's clearly it's really exciting.
Speaker 1: Weld I, Craig and everyone at Team Tennis Australia in
Speaker 1: the Australia that includes includes you too.
Speaker 2: It's a team and I just get to yell at
Speaker 2: the microphone for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty good, gig.
Speaker 1: But Craig, you just got back from Paris. There's some
Speaker 1: tennis thing happening over there.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 6: What I was up to, well, there was a lot
Speaker 6: going on in the discussion what's happening with with Global Tennis?
Speaker 4: Start business has so he always has brought a business.
Speaker 2: Talking about Bordeaux or something.
Speaker 4: No, I don't straight into Paris and straight out of Paris.
Speaker 5: What do you mean Craig's doing well?
Speaker 2: Not what I thought I'm working.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't do what you do when you
Speaker 4: go to these groups.
Speaker 2: Junket I mean work trip.
Speaker 6: But there's a lot of grandstand board meetings, meetings with players,
Speaker 6: meetings with partners, meetings with potential partners, entertaining some partners
Speaker 6: that I wanted to make an investment in in this
Speaker 6: round open or are currently doing it, and so yeah,
Speaker 6: it was it was I think it'd be in the
Speaker 6: ten days, and we went a bit earlier because it
Speaker 6: was a scheduled play meeting with the top five players
Speaker 6: around compensation and other slams giving their fair share and
Speaker 6: giving enough. But that's always an ongoing conversation and there's
Speaker 6: always little bit of education in how the distribution does
Speaker 6: happen and what happens in the investment and the business model.
Speaker 6: And we've also been a player first event, so you know,
Speaker 6: specifically when the players talked to us, they was appreciative
Speaker 6: of what we do.
Speaker 2: Seem to love the AO the players.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's a lot to do.
Speaker 6: You know, time of the year January, we're right next
Speaker 6: to the city, you can walk in and out. But
Speaker 6: then also what we provide as a service and generally
Speaker 6: when you come to Australia at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 6: you know, You've got this welcoming environment, you know, all
Speaker 6: of our staff and even showing up at the airport
Speaker 6: and people generally have police to see you.
Speaker 4: And want to have you're having a good time.
Speaker 2: Wonder what that's like, I wantn't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not something you personally.
Speaker 2: I get off at airport.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, why is everyone looking at me
Speaker 1: like that? Getting dark here? But anyway, take your tournament
Speaker 1: director hat off for a minute. Your tennis astray Ceo
Speaker 1: hat On Ossie Tennis Emerson Jones quarterfinals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's huge playing an American next, I think. And
Speaker 6: so she's playing great tennis. Yeah, she's one of the
Speaker 6: number one in the world in the junior's up and
Speaker 6: coming superstar, works really hard, got a great game. It's
Speaker 6: got a lot of upsides. So you know, she's stay
Speaker 6: by day with for her in month by month and
Speaker 6: year by years.
Speaker 4: You can rush into an amazing career. But so far,
Speaker 4: so far being great.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I will.
Speaker 1: Say that the junior tournament, especially at the Grand Slam level,
Speaker 1: it is some good tennis. It is like you kind
Speaker 1: of hound, These aren't kids. These are pros in the.
Speaker 4: Making, younger belts for sure.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're Inca.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and we should get more people out watching them.
Speaker 5: So if you are at Roland Garros, go check out that.
Speaker 1: You go early, go to one of the other courts
Speaker 1: and you'll see some wicked tennis and you can get
Speaker 1: some great seats.
Speaker 5: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 6: We've shared a little bit on I mean, I think
Speaker 6: when it comes I think global sport. You know Alex
Speaker 6: Stemno's comments after he was just match around around, he's
Speaker 6: just exhausted, and you can see that when he when
Speaker 6: he was playing public, he won the first set pretty easy,
Speaker 6: and then he just ran out of steam and then
Speaker 6: he just felt to the end that he just didn't
Speaker 6: have any energy or any steam. And I empathized with
Speaker 6: that and agreed with him. You know, the schedule, the
Speaker 6: schedule is the way it's set up. You've got to
Speaker 6: chase points to keep your ranking high. To do that,
Speaker 6: you've got to play every week you can, in and out,
Speaker 6: and you start before the first of the year when
Speaker 6: you get this particular this year, because we started twenty
Speaker 6: sixth or twenty seventh of December, so you start before
Speaker 6: and then and then if you playing the Davis Cup
Speaker 6: finals at the end of the year year at the
Speaker 6: end of November and you have maybe a week off
Speaker 6: and you're back into preseason training. Just not enough for
Speaker 6: the rigorous play that these that these top players, both
Speaker 6: on the women and the men's side performat and the
Speaker 6: level that performat, they need more an off season. So
Speaker 6: totally agree with Alex. There's a proposal on the table.
Speaker 6: There's an opportunity to to change things and to develop
Speaker 6: an environment where fans know where the players are going
Speaker 6: and the equipments of the players make there's a proper
Speaker 6: off season. But you've got to bring all these seven
Speaker 6: governing bodies, which there's seven governing bodies and tennis for slambs,
Speaker 6: men's two women's turn the idea, you got to bring.
Speaker 4: Them together and to all look great. Put all agree.
Speaker 1: Guarante even if hypothetically we found a nice little three
Speaker 1: or four week gap from some billionaire had come in
Speaker 1: and create an exo match for.
Speaker 6: Them potentially, But but I think you create a tour
Speaker 6: that where it's so important via environment that's so valuable,
Speaker 6: so important and so valuable for the players, but that
Speaker 6: becomes their focus and whatever they do in between, then
Speaker 6: it's on them.
Speaker 4: Content.
Speaker 2: Yeah, schedule.
Speaker 1: The analogy I said to Fitzy before is that if
Speaker 1: you work a double shift at machas, you can't then
Speaker 1: win about being tired.
Speaker 2: It's like, hey, you chose to do two ships in row.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But I think in the case of we put yeah, look,
Speaker 6: I'll come on the plane like the analogy because no,
Speaker 6: because I'll put it.
Speaker 4: On the players side.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: The way it's set up, the double shift, you choose.
Speaker 6: But in tennis you don't ness to choose, because if
Speaker 6: you want to keep.
Speaker 4: My analogy, you've got to.
Speaker 3: You've got to.
Speaker 6: You've got you've got to keep playing to chase, and
Speaker 6: I'll go down there and I'll play that event down
Speaker 6: next and maybe a bit of trans games in the
Speaker 6: finals and maybe a two fifty or five hundred, and
Speaker 6: all of a sudden you got the number five player
Speaker 6: in the world playing a two fifty.
Speaker 4: And then the fan I will say, what does this mean?
Speaker 2: Going sweet these cheap so.
Speaker 6: Roll and get us finished this weekend. And you said
Speaker 6: to just you have his tennis fan, So what's on
Speaker 6: next week? What events on next week?
Speaker 2: Like Wimbledon? That's what they'd say. They wouldn't be.
Speaker 4: Right, That's that's my point. So you know the four majors.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and yeah, there's all the others in between.
Speaker 2: Crazy when you really looked at there's a lot of tennis.
Speaker 6: It ever stops, but there's an opportunity. I think there's
Speaker 6: an opportunity to elevate the whole thing for everyone. So
Speaker 6: just getting your heads around how we get aligned on
Speaker 6: that all?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, last one on Ozzie Tennis, Nick curiosit just announced
Speaker 1: that he's not feeling up to the grass swing, so
Speaker 1: he's playing there.
Speaker 2: What's your hope for young n K?
Speaker 4: Well, still young, but you know, just to be healthy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And my wish for him is just to be
Speaker 6: healthy and then dad and it's a good thing.
Speaker 4: It is a good thing. And then and then to
Speaker 4: just do what he wants to do.
Speaker 6: And then I think, you know, if he wants to
Speaker 6: come out and play, it be healthy, come out and play.
Speaker 6: If he doesn't, that's fine too. But I think there's
Speaker 6: there's been a lot of pressure on him, you know,
Speaker 6: pretty much right throughout his career, the highly talented individual.
Speaker 4: He's had some big wins.
Speaker 6: Big big, big results, and then you know, the public
Speaker 6: has that expectation, maybe he does to that expectation that'll
Speaker 6: just roll out every week like that.
Speaker 4: It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 6: And as a form of player will tell you that
Speaker 6: that it doesn't work like that. It's a grind. And
Speaker 6: so yeah, it's for himphsis to be healthy. And then
Speaker 6: then after that it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean was telling you, were saying about
Speaker 1: your grind when you're a player just wolfing through croissants.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't have a nutrition. He does that now,
Speaker 2: high grind.
Speaker 3: The higher the grind, the less talent.
Speaker 2: You've got to have calories to be the less talent.
Speaker 3: So the worst you were as a player, the harder
Speaker 3: you had to work. It was a grind. But if
Speaker 3: you don't play consistently, it's very hard to get miles
Speaker 3: in your legs. Yes, and so then to switch the
Speaker 3: tap on again after you've been out, not played, injured,
Speaker 3: haven't played, no match condition, it's very difficult to flick
Speaker 3: the switch. And the longer that goes, the harder it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that words of wisdom. I'm happy to leave that
Speaker 1: there because that is bang on.
Speaker 5: Yeah all right, well it gets better soon with all
Speaker 5: these injuries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he'll be right. He'll probably come back with
Speaker 2: a cool new haircut and a greener car.
Speaker 1: Anyway, time for a quick bake here from the tennis
Speaker 1: but craiging to stick around.
Speaker 4: What's it? What's the bake? Someone's going to bring a cake.
Speaker 2: Okay, welcome back, folks.
Speaker 1: So the last few weeks for Rollan Garros some while
Speaker 1: you were actually heading over there, I think you touched
Speaker 1: on it last week the team on the show, we
Speaker 1: did a bit of a fantasy draft pick for Roland Garross.
Speaker 2: Doing to bring those up.
Speaker 4: So, Luke Savill, Viv and Simon Ray, did you not
Speaker 4: do it? No?
Speaker 1: I was like and seeing it hosting, some would say
Speaker 1: and yeah, basically picking two players that were men two
Speaker 1: women going into r G who would go the furthest
Speaker 1: get points. So obviously they did pretty well. All three
Speaker 1: teams each have one man and one woman remaining. So
Speaker 1: Luke Savill, Alcraz and Eager and Viv had Sable, Anka
Speaker 1: and Novak and Simon Coco and Sinner. So who if
Speaker 1: you had to pick a team. Obviously they're not in
Speaker 1: the room, they're not listening.
Speaker 2: Luke's busy.
Speaker 3: Well I heard a rumor that, yeah, our own Teddy Woodbridge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was having a bit of a crack.
Speaker 5: He was having a crack and actually Djokovic.
Speaker 4: Right, she got right.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, she's got two out of the four. Like
Speaker 3: everyone else.
Speaker 6: It looks like they're given two regular favorites and two
Speaker 6: they have they've gone potentials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a dark horse and a properly to win.
Speaker 3: A little bit more adventure, I would say, in Viv's.
Speaker 5: Choices, Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1: Some would say out of the three of them, she's
Speaker 1: the smartest of the group, that's the deepest thinker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very analytical, She's got to be brain. He's a
Speaker 4: data scientist, and yet that's why he needs scientist and
Speaker 4: he died.
Speaker 2: Whereas Viv natural god given tell exactly.
Speaker 3: And Luke's the South.
Speaker 1: God your sub patriotism. So if you had to pick
Speaker 1: a team, who would you go with? Would you go
Speaker 1: with Luke, Viv or Simon?
Speaker 3: Well, I can understand Luke absolutely going with defending champion
Speaker 3: and a four time winner.
Speaker 2: That just makes Yeah, that's an easy choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I don't blame historical results do not usually
Speaker 1: can't always be used to predict the future.
Speaker 3: I'm just wondering, if it's Sinner's turn, is it too
Speaker 3: early in after the three months off to actually win
Speaker 3: a slam, but he hasn't really been tested. He should
Speaker 3: be fresh. It could well be his time and a
Speaker 3: soft spot. Oh, he's going to win all for so
Speaker 3: is chorus by the way, my opinion in their career
Speaker 3: this year some stage, Craig look and it might be
Speaker 3: Coco's turn at the French too.
Speaker 2: Definitely, she's looking amazing out there.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go out in a small limb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and go with Tim Simon.
Speaker 3: I'm going to team.
Speaker 1: Simon, right, Okay, well thought three probably more thought a
Speaker 1: venturous and we.
Speaker 2: Just love viv you're listening, Craig, Tim team Luke.
Speaker 4: Carez.
Speaker 2: Fair enough? Is that because you've got a drink bottle? Yes?
Speaker 4: And at least I get right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the price tennis, no fair enough? I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's cut.
Speaker 4: I think Coco is going in as a favorite now.
Speaker 1: And al Carez it's nice sitting at this point of
Speaker 1: the event. We've got a bit more information than they
Speaker 1: had when they were picking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's a big match in the women's
Speaker 3: semi final.
Speaker 1: At the top though, Yeah, definitely. But to possibly take
Speaker 1: out Saboka.
Speaker 3: Well, because Beyon text game is suited more to Clay
Speaker 3: that's how Yeah, and she's won four times.
Speaker 1: But I think you could, Like they're playing on red bricks,
Speaker 1: she could run through a brick wall.
Speaker 4: Yeah you could, she could.
Speaker 2: I'm a big fan, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3: No, No, of course she can win. She's none want
Speaker 3: to see. But it's Beyontex's game is suited more to that.
Speaker 3: I just don't quite know if she's at the peak
Speaker 3: of her powers at the moment.
Speaker 1: But she needs bigger headphones. It's about when she comes
Speaker 1: on court. She seems to have bigger headphones every time pillows.
Speaker 3: Strapped to be careful, you might take off if they
Speaker 3: keep absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Bray, what about you?
Speaker 5: I'm torn because I kind of like what Viv has done,
Speaker 5: but I'm still not sure what the Dokovic can beat
Speaker 5: Sinner in his next round?
Speaker 3: Be good? Yeah, it's a two horse race, so you
Speaker 3: never know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. It's fifty to fifty, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's not so much fun.
Speaker 5: But I kind of want to go with Viv because
Speaker 5: it is risky, and I like to be risky.
Speaker 1: Living on the seeing your pants. You obviously like to
Speaker 1: take gambles and that's good, all right, Well, if you
Speaker 1: want to give us your opinions, pick a team, or
Speaker 1: even tells who you were planning to choose yourself.
Speaker 2: Jump on YouTube, put in the comments.
Speaker 1: Andy and Harper will read it because that's their job
Speaker 1: and they love it.
Speaker 2: Now as you all know, and I'm Craig.
Speaker 1: I know you're a Kaane subscribe, But we have another
Speaker 1: podcast in our Ale Originals network to sit down with
Speaker 1: Vivin Matt Now. This week they caught up with twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen French Open champion Gabby Yimbagarutha. On the episode, she
Speaker 1: actually goes through her predictions for the Rolling Girls Championship,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Use of stuff. So we've got a little clip here.
Speaker 2: We'll play that now.
Speaker 7: I mean, I gotta put SI link up there. She's
Speaker 7: like the number one by far, so many different points.
Speaker 7: And she just won Madrid. Yeah she want to madread
Speaker 7: cocor good as well, cocko. She's just amazing on clay courts.
Speaker 7: She just lost two finals. I mean she's going to
Speaker 7: be up there in the in the quarter semis.
Speaker 5: As a clay coread player.
Speaker 7: I really like zen Zen is an amazing lay court player.
Speaker 7: She's you know, I feel like she just has a
Speaker 7: perfect lay court game and who else? It's already three
Speaker 7: play an ega. Of course she's won four times French Open.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it? Four times?
Speaker 7: It's insane that she's so young and she's wanted four times.
Speaker 7: She's gonna like, if she keeps going like this, she's
Speaker 7: gonna like, who make a record? I don't know who's
Speaker 7: the most women's players. I had won more French Opens,
Speaker 7: but she's probably up there.
Speaker 1: So some insightful things there. But you can listen to
Speaker 1: the full lep. It's out now, actually went out on Monday.
Speaker 1: It did cool, so jump in your feeds wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Listen to the sit down. Now, speaking
Speaker 1: of former champions at Roland Garross, it's time for a
Speaker 1: little bit of musical guess who. The real question is,
Speaker 1: what is musical guess who? Well, Harpara and the team
Speaker 1: have been putting together some shenanigans, Yeah, I would say,
Speaker 1: and why does give you some clues? This person was
Speaker 1: born in this year, in this place. When we can
Speaker 1: do it in song. It was very hard to stop
Speaker 1: Harper whipping out his ukulele, which is not a euphemism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we've got five songs and he's tweaked the lyrics
Speaker 1: a bit to give us a little.
Speaker 2: Bit of a clue. A bit of a clue, all right,
Speaker 2: So we'll kick us off with our first one.
Speaker 5: So what do we need to do? We need to
Speaker 5: guess the tune.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then guess the player what is the real song?
Speaker 1: And then what who is the song singing about? So
Speaker 1: buzzing with your name, Harps will stop the tape and
Speaker 1: we'll just see how this goes.
Speaker 2: You're fun love that this isn't light. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 2: Harps hit it.
Speaker 8: Number four my ranking. I said bye.
Speaker 3: Now I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You go okay. So you're saying I think I know
Speaker 2: the player, I just can't get the song.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you can still at a point for that,
Speaker 1: Andy Murray, No, not incorrect, and yours.
Speaker 5: Was rougher, but I've got nothing.
Speaker 2: Also incorrect is that a player? The player is Sam Stoza.
Speaker 2: So if you listen careful those lyrics I did.
Speaker 4: But yeah, anyway, that's okay.
Speaker 1: Anyone got the song, I'll give you a hint, toy story, No,
Speaker 1: no songs, We're not there.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's just see if you can figure it out.
Speaker 1: So let's keep playing half. Yeah, but don't want to
Speaker 1: see when it makes sense. Just seconds of patience, all right,
Speaker 1: halves killer there.
Speaker 2: That's hard.
Speaker 3: By the way, if anyone I know, I'm no good
Speaker 3: of this. So I said, then because I think they
Speaker 3: said peaked at number four? Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think he might be a yeah exactly. He might
Speaker 2: be texting as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I apologize.
Speaker 2: All right, give us your second one half.
Speaker 4: In France named four counter five.
Speaker 2: Coach me up to the press.
Speaker 3: Big Games.
Speaker 4: Last year's on the show.
Speaker 2: It is definity pass.
Speaker 3: Well done, nice and so I had no clue.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 4: Alright, team effort exactly. I have to uh, you.
Speaker 3: Had to say your name.
Speaker 4: I thought you were telling it was yourself.
Speaker 1: He was actually remember of that's very good. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a fun one. I reckon, Craig,
Speaker 1: you're in with this complete guests on that. But we'll
Speaker 1: see how we go hit it.
Speaker 8: I grew up with the weird hair and ten it's
Speaker 8: gonna be worth.
Speaker 3: The world parents.
Speaker 8: But guy said Brono, you know, thank God and betraying boy.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, yeah, it's just the same songs
Speaker 3: last time.
Speaker 1: Bree is really focusing on the song, and it's just
Speaker 1: like I don't care about tennis.
Speaker 2: These guys are writing the lyrics, listening intently.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it is. Hey, you get a point for that.
Speaker 1: Well done, bree. Now gentlemen, do you.
Speaker 2: Need some morning both?
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 2: What do you guys doing? One in now?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Rhyme's that? Oh Michael, Lena cra.
Speaker 3: Well done?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that was good.
Speaker 4: I mean it's basically up there.
Speaker 3: I thought he was singing the same song.
Speaker 2: Okay, well done, mate, al right, well done. Point for
Speaker 2: Craig and a point for Braveer getting the song. So
Speaker 2: that's good. A right, there's this. This really matters.
Speaker 4: He's going to win the songs, all right.
Speaker 2: Next one hit it hops.
Speaker 9: Second bone soun really brilliant. Sun Sports King.
Speaker 2: Again in schools, Chased my tenor drink.
Speaker 9: I cracked top two hundred and at the age of
Speaker 9: fifty hours.
Speaker 8: Oh Mary, Sam, we're now we're stilling young man in
Speaker 8: the world.
Speaker 5: Michael, Michael check get that was when it was Lena.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think you were just reading over my shoulder and
Speaker 2: you just read the long answer.
Speaker 5: I listened to Michael Chang on the sit down.
Speaker 3: What's it like watching yourself sing that.
Speaker 2: By the way, he loves it. Okay, last one. This
Speaker 2: one's a little bit trickier because all the but I've
Speaker 2: got a feeling that this is going to be the
Speaker 2: last name.
Speaker 3: Of the song.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, absolutely, someone gets all the peanuts out
Speaker 1: of this, so right halfs hit it.
Speaker 5: Cold play?
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on play so fix me.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 3: I got Alex correct fix you?
Speaker 2: Sorry game?
Speaker 3: Can I choose another one?
Speaker 2: You can go, keep going to your face.
Speaker 4: Career, give me a career. It's actually problem guessing. Gadia
Speaker 4: saman Swedish.
Speaker 3: You should get it.
Speaker 5: I've got no idea.
Speaker 3: I know him well, talking Swedish. Okay, beat rapper to
Speaker 3: give Roger the chance to win.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Rob Solon, Sorry, Robin, sorry to get
Speaker 4: all the biscuits, Craig Tiley.
Speaker 2: On the balance of it, you buddy won that. I
Speaker 2: got all the.
Speaker 4: Songs, not all the songs.
Speaker 3: Rock and Roller.
Speaker 2: No, that was broiled Harper, that was weird, exactly. We're
Speaker 2: very much in Chune. No, that was great. One on halps.
Speaker 2: We'll probably do whatever again. But Jesus was fun.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's time for our favorite time of the week,
Speaker 2: which is your ace of the week.
Speaker 1: So this will take us out, Cray, you can hurry
Speaker 1: up and get out of here and go back to
Speaker 1: doing more meaningful things and having fun with us.
Speaker 2: But we'll start with you. Do you have an ace
Speaker 2: of the week.
Speaker 4: I actually do have ace of the week?
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 6: And I saw some great images and I sent a text.
Speaker 6: There was a there was a person who loves the
Speaker 6: game of tennis, used to play profession played professionally. Has
Speaker 6: now I've got a big job in Qatar, the CEO,
Speaker 6: chairman of be and Sports, oh wow, but also the
Speaker 6: president of Paris Saint Germain. And the last ten years
Speaker 6: he's been trying to get Paris Saint Germaine to win
Speaker 6: the Champions League and they won, of course five zero,
Speaker 6: and then they took the trophy two rolling girls with
Speaker 6: all his friends because he wanted to have tennis celebrate
Speaker 6: the trophy, which meant so much to him because you'd
Speaker 6: put ten years and it was pretty cool to see
Speaker 6: Nasa el Khalifi enjoy what had been a tough journey
Speaker 6: for him.
Speaker 2: That's brillant, awesome. I don't know how going to top that.
Speaker 1: That was really probably the best one we've had on
Speaker 1: the show to date, unless it's is like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know there was one Oto winnow last.
Speaker 2: Night it was me.
Speaker 3: Look, just very quickly, I think I'd like to mention
Speaker 3: Raffer again because I wasn't here last week when you
Speaker 3: talked about celebration. Yes, what a record. Yeah in credit
Speaker 3: boggles the mind. That to me, so good for him.
Speaker 3: I hope he stays in the sport. And what a
Speaker 3: great message with those other great champions there. Yeah, all mates,
Speaker 3: Now that's what we want our sport to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that camaraderie.
Speaker 6: I got to sit in the stadium to put a
Speaker 6: shirt on and I was given an extra small we'll
Speaker 6: put it on, and I stayed there to put it in.
Speaker 2: It was a bit of muscle, none of that. But
Speaker 2: there wasn't even any breathing. I don't know it was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was great.
Speaker 3: What a great man for Tennessee's yea, yeah, they grows
Speaker 3: a third on the ladder.
Speaker 2: By the way, in Australia, there fl.
Speaker 5: Team for at latest in Australia.
Speaker 2: Good wine.
Speaker 1: Good sorry, adequate one. No you want me to say
Speaker 1: something amazing word?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not very good. No, that's good even a double
Speaker 2: one that's me very good.
Speaker 5: Mine's quite boring, as per usual. Pants it's not my pants.
Speaker 5: My pants are cool anyway. I'm having a mid life crisis.
Speaker 5: But I got home from Paris six am on Sunday,
Speaker 5: and you know what, I had the best time in Paris.
Speaker 5: But I love my life and it was so nice
Speaker 5: to come back. I love our team here at Tennis Australia,
Speaker 5: so nice to see them all. I missed my dog
Speaker 5: of a cat and I you know, it's really nice
Speaker 5: to go away with work and then come back not
Speaker 5: dreading going back to life. And I really was like, oh,
Speaker 5: I've kind of hit the jackpot with where I'm at
Speaker 5: in life that I'm really happy with it.
Speaker 3: Be honest, have you ever had a cross song in Melbourne?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: And that's mainly because Bree kept trying to find a
Speaker 2: ham and cheese?
Speaker 3: How good?
Speaker 2: How good?
Speaker 7: Wouldn't?
Speaker 3: Did you have a coo or a chocola punt?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I didn't, but I think we're going to have a
Speaker 4: have a beak.
Speaker 1: Maybe Maybe that's my ass of the week, Genesi Australia
Speaker 1: making me feel like a dick.
Speaker 2: No minice the week. It's not really a nice of
Speaker 2: the week. But it's been fun.
Speaker 1: So I went to drop my five year old stn
Speaker 1: at school today, rolled up there, looked around, where is everybody?
Speaker 1: Checked the app. It's buddy, it's a pupil freeze day
Speaker 1: at school. And I'm sitting there looking the back. Said
Speaker 1: he's there in his little uniform and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: work and.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okuess what, buddy, you're coming to the office.
Speaker 1: So I've left him with Shannon, one of our senior
Speaker 1: produ executi producer of original content.
Speaker 2: Hopefully not learning horrible things, but yeah, it's fun to
Speaker 2: bring the kid to work and had a podcast. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well he's he'll do a better job than I he would.
Speaker 1: He definitely can pronounce his hs in break.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, Well that is it for us from the
Speaker 2: ten for another week. I've had fun.
Speaker 1: Don't know about our guests, but I'm sure being able
Speaker 1: to tell me that it was excellent.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Craig, good to see you. Always a pleasure
Speaker 4: having it's.
Speaker 2: Always thank you. Thanks for having me breed quieter pants
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 5: Let's close this up.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for listening.
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Speaker 2: See you next week for more tennis.
Speaker 5: See you next week.
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Speaker 4: you that you can watch every episode of The Tennis
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