Speaker 1: Unfortunately we're not winning the bigger trophy today, but I
Speaker 1: hope we'll win the next one. I hope we play
Speaker 1: a lot of more matches together and we want to
Speaker 1: keep the biggest trophy.
Speaker 2: Gooday and welcome to the tennis for Day fifteen of
Speaker 2: AO twenty twenty five Men's Final Day. John Hubernas with
Speaker 2: all the big stories from Melbourne Park today. On the tennis,
Speaker 2: sensational Sinner does it again.
Speaker 3: It's an amazing feeling to to share this moment with
Speaker 3: all of you.
Speaker 2: While Sasha settles for second.
Speaker 4: I don't want to and my career as the best
Speaker 4: player of all time to never win a grandstand.
Speaker 2: Plus Melbourne's new queen the morning after her maiden major crown.
Speaker 2: And who would the fans most like to see perform
Speaker 2: on finals weekend.
Speaker 5: I think it'd be all sir, yes Old and.
Speaker 2: That's all ahead. On the tennis, Yannick Sinner has bolstered
Speaker 2: his credentials as the hard court king of the world,
Speaker 2: retaining his Australian Open championship with the straight sets victory
Speaker 2: over alex Verev. Sinna looked threatening in the fourth game
Speaker 2: of the first set, forcing Zverev to call upon his
Speaker 2: big serve to get out of trouble.
Speaker 5: Says that wise the back.
Speaker 2: End you heard the let's go as that ball was.
Speaker 6: Still in the air because it was clearly going long.
Speaker 6: And Zverev holds two break points, he sees them.
Speaker 2: Off and holds for two all Sinner's sliding volley to
Speaker 2: open up break points. At four to three in the
Speaker 2: first was assigned. The eighth game was going to be
Speaker 2: a crucial one, but Zverev's firepower proved a handy defense.
Speaker 6: Zverev so heavily, really heavily.
Speaker 7: Down the metal took center.
Speaker 6: By surprise, he's still gott a racket on it, but
Speaker 6: he couldn't get it back over the net two one
Speaker 6: hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 3: Just looking at that as a second servi.
Speaker 2: As the game pushed beyond nine minutes, though something had
Speaker 2: to give.
Speaker 6: Verev is there, lands that very close to the sideline,
Speaker 6: goes back behind Sinner. Sinner forced into a defensive forehand
Speaker 6: at the net.
Speaker 5: Comes Verev. Two dogs from.
Speaker 7: Senna and Yanik.
Speaker 2: Senna finally breaks irving for the first set. The Italian
Speaker 2: was taking no prisoners three set points.
Speaker 7: Theyick Sinner serves.
Speaker 6: An as the defending champion taking a hold of the
Speaker 6: singles finals to night's against Alexander Zverev. The first set
Speaker 6: goes his way.
Speaker 2: Vera's first double fault in the second set gave Sinner
Speaker 2: two chances to break for two to one, but again
Speaker 2: he escaped with two big winners, backed up by another ace.
Speaker 2: Neither player prepared to give an inch deep into the set,
Speaker 2: highlighted by one of the rallies of the tournament.
Speaker 8: Speak fourhands served lantin four hen they got fined up
Speaker 8: the line, see it.
Speaker 5: In, now put it away the five voice third once.
Speaker 8: At that tight thinker.
Speaker 2: Clean sheets from both finalists saw the second set decided
Speaker 2: in a tiebreaker. Sinner opened up daylight at three to two,
Speaker 2: but quickly coughed it up with an error at the
Speaker 2: end of a twenty shot rally, though it seemed was
Speaker 2: on his side, waits.
Speaker 5: The first serve.
Speaker 8: It's on the forehand. It's deep in the middle of
Speaker 8: the court. Now from Sinner, this takes an end. He
Speaker 8: just gets home. Can't get there. The deadis of dead
Speaker 8: neck courts, and that'll leaves Vereb a little flats.
Speaker 2: And suddenly Zverev was staring down the barrel of a
Speaker 2: two set deficit.
Speaker 8: Blocked back by vera short ball up the lineo Sinner
Speaker 8: to win, and he's in a very very strong position
Speaker 8: now in this men single final.
Speaker 2: Sinna looked a class above by the time the match
Speaker 2: entered its third hour, Spinning straw into gold from the
Speaker 2: back of the court, up the line brilliantly from Verev, well.
Speaker 6: Defended by Sinner, dropshop from Verev Sinner god and the
Speaker 6: vollemes the net from the German, and that is the
Speaker 6: story of.
Speaker 5: The match right now.
Speaker 2: He held to love in the fifth game of the
Speaker 2: third set, while the unforced errors began to mount for Zverev.
Speaker 7: Still break point for Yannick sinnerrev serves forehand from Sinner,
Speaker 7: straight back in the court, straight at Zev nice off.
Speaker 6: Four hand pull sierra from Zverev's racken. The relentless nature
Speaker 6: of the Sinner groundstrokes has grounds Verev down and he's broken.
Speaker 2: In the sixth game, time was running out for the German,
Speaker 2: who is desperate to find a chink in the champions armor.
Speaker 2: But it was a bridge too far against the world's
Speaker 2: best player Sinner.
Speaker 7: At championship point, second serve from Sinner onto the backhand
Speaker 7: is Verev backhand also from Sinner and from Zverev up
Speaker 7: the line goes Cinner jumping in plays another backend, quite
Speaker 7: good depth from the Italian, goes up the line again again.
Speaker 8: Vere's the drop shot is not going to be too
Speaker 8: good for Zverev.
Speaker 6: No, he makes it Crosscott is brilliant fabianca and he
Speaker 6: raises his hands aloft.
Speaker 7: It's back to.
Speaker 5: Back Australian Opens. He defends his in a.
Speaker 6: Dominant performance hyper Alexander and for Sinner it's major number three.
Speaker 3: We we worked a lot to be again in this position.
Speaker 3: It's it's an amazing feeling to to share this moment
Speaker 3: with all of you. I know also a part of
Speaker 3: the team is at home and and my family and everyone,
Speaker 3: but it's it's it's amazing to to achieve these things,
Speaker 3: but mostly to share.
Speaker 4: This with you guys.
Speaker 3: And I know Darren, it's your your probably maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I tried to convince you, but it's your last Australian
Speaker 3: Open as a coach and I'm very, very happy to
Speaker 3: to share this trophy with you.
Speaker 2: Janick Singer is the King of Melbourne once again, his
Speaker 2: second Australian Open title in a row, his third major title. Overall,
Speaker 2: it wasn't quite the five set battle we had hoped for,
Speaker 2: but my goodness, there's a lot to unpack in just
Speaker 2: how Janick Sinner managed to pull this off. Simon Ray
Speaker 2: from GIG is back. Welcome Simon, Hey John, thanks for
Speaker 2: having me back. And I must say I'm very excited
Speaker 2: for the first time this tournament to have Peter Maccado,
Speaker 2: the voice of AO Radio.
Speaker 5: With us people. I am giving you some of my time.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 8: It just happens to be right at the very end,
Speaker 8: clean all your guests schedule, and now you've got me
Speaker 8: before midnight.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 5: Not badness happening here.
Speaker 2: What a treat. The scoreline six three seven six six '
Speaker 2: three probably doesn't even start to describe this battle. Because
Speaker 2: alex Verev put up a great fight tonight against a
Speaker 2: different beast of a player.
Speaker 5: That's why he is so disappointed.
Speaker 8: He's walking away with the straight sets loss because he
Speaker 8: played some great tennis, but the fellaw he was playing
Speaker 8: played even better tennis and has been playing out of
Speaker 8: this world tennis for the last couple of rounds. Janick
Speaker 8: Sinner built his tournaments superbly, and I mean talk about
Speaker 8: players who be pretty happy with obviously Yanick Sinner pretty happy,
Speaker 8: but I reckon Raiser Tristan's school Kate would be pretty
Speaker 8: happy as well, as one of only the two players
Speaker 8: to take a set off Yannik Cinner through the tournament anyway,
Speaker 8: he was fantastic from start to finish.
Speaker 5: Yanik he just controlled things. It was on his racket.
Speaker 8: There was lots of variation in pace during the match
Speaker 8: and when they were in the long rallies, which Sinna
Speaker 8: won comfortably. That was for me one of the biggest
Speaker 8: factors that Zverev couldn't stay in the rallies long enough.
Speaker 8: Sinner was just struggling because there'd be changes of pace.
Speaker 8: He did an off pay shot Ciner and then he'd
Speaker 8: really go for it. Changed the complexion of the rallies.
Speaker 8: Zverev didn't really have a lot of opportunity to get forward,
Speaker 8: and when he started to do that, he did give
Speaker 8: himself some opportunities to just try and break the rhythm
Speaker 8: of Cinner, but it was like a brick wall out
Speaker 8: there tonight.
Speaker 5: It was one of the.
Speaker 8: Dominant performances two hours and forty two minutes on court,
Speaker 8: but you still felt that Cinner was dominant despite the
Speaker 8: fact that his opponent was playing so well as well.
Speaker 8: It was just extraordinary.
Speaker 2: All right, Razer, help us understand this from a numbers perspective, Well, it.
Speaker 10: Was a stunning display. And really, if you told me
Speaker 10: going in that Zvera was going to serve at eighty
Speaker 10: one percent of first serves in play in the opening
Speaker 10: set at an average speed of two hundred and nineteen
Speaker 10: kilometers per hour, if you don't mind and be beaten
Speaker 10: six three in a fairly regulation opening set, I would
Speaker 10: have said, I think there's something wrong with that assessment.
Speaker 10: So the inroads that Yarnix Centner was able to make
Speaker 10: against the Alexander Vera first serve was significant across the
Speaker 10: course of the night, and really on the flip side
Speaker 10: of that coin, I think the sinner had lost only
Speaker 10: five points on his first serve through the opening two sets.
Speaker 10: He was nearly flawless. And when he on the rare
Speaker 10: in the rare occasion that on the rare occasion that
Speaker 10: he did find himself fifteen thirty thirty all juice having
Speaker 10: to handle some moments of pressure is when his serving
Speaker 10: elevated again. Yarnix center so he had it covered on
Speaker 10: the return of serve. Despite the heat that Vera was
Speaker 10: bringing to the table, and then it was a flawless
Speaker 10: It was the best displayer serving we'd seen from Younix
Speaker 10: Center across the fortnite or across the fifteen days, and
Speaker 10: he needed it the most.
Speaker 8: So it was a breathtaking display. One of the things
Speaker 8: was that Zara was trying to do was try and
Speaker 8: upset that rhythm of Sinner. So he's returning position, he'd
Speaker 8: be up in the court. Then he switched it around.
Speaker 8: He'd be standing back and I mean way back in
Speaker 8: terms of that second serve to give himself a good
Speaker 8: swing at the ball. But the problem was that he
Speaker 8: was getting into those rallies. But it was more often
Speaker 8: than not it was Verev who was making the errors.
Speaker 8: And it was the pressure obviously that Sinner was building,
Speaker 8: and it continued to build and build and build. But
Speaker 8: vere just at those moments you think he was trying
Speaker 8: to attack. He had to play with such fine margins
Speaker 8: to try and upset the rhythm of Sinner because he
Speaker 8: was running down absolutely everything. He was the one that
Speaker 8: was being forced into error and it was just because
Speaker 8: Sinner was just too good.
Speaker 2: And you've already talked about the serve but there wasn't
Speaker 2: even a look in for Zvera with no break points
Speaker 2: across the all three sets.
Speaker 10: No and again going in. You know, I thought that
Speaker 10: from a returner serve perspective, mindful, I guess or cognizant
Speaker 10: of the fact that Zverev's going to bring so much
Speaker 10: more heat on his own second serve than Yarnick Center.
Speaker 10: And that was the case tonight, you know, in terms
Speaker 10: of second serve pure speed, Vera's right up there compared
Speaker 10: to Cinner And I thought, well, this is going to
Speaker 10: be interesting because Yarnick Center typically likes to be a
Speaker 10: lot more aggressive on second serve return with his positioning
Speaker 10: than Zverev, who can often retreat back in the court.
Speaker 10: And I thought, well, I wonder if that could work
Speaker 10: in Vera's favor, because Yari's not going to find that
Speaker 10: so easy to be on or inside baseline against a
Speaker 10: second serve coming at of it let's call it one
Speaker 10: hundred and eighty kilometers an hour. And this is what
Speaker 10: makes this guy so good. So really we've not seen
Speaker 10: it from him all fortnite so far, and what does
Speaker 10: he do tonight knowing that that server is coming at
Speaker 10: one hundred and eight kilometers an hour. He says, that's
Speaker 10: no problem. Everyone back, I'll go to plan B. I'll
Speaker 10: go back five and six meters tonight. You haven't seen
Speaker 10: it from me yet at this tournament, not consistently. Here
Speaker 10: it is tonight for the first time on the biggest
Speaker 10: stage of the tournament and executes really well. And what
Speaker 10: that does, and Pete's already shine a light on it.
Speaker 10: What that does is allow him to play the type
Speaker 10: of point in behind the serve and return that It
Speaker 10: really allowed him to dominate from the back of the
Speaker 10: court and those lengthy rallies. It was one way traffic.
Speaker 10: I think from memory it was twenty six to thirteen
Speaker 10: when the rallies went beyond eight shots, so two to
Speaker 10: one in the favor of you Onix senate was a domination.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the way that he constructed those points as well.
Speaker 8: So he'd started off rallying with Zverev, who was a
Speaker 8: little bit further back in the court, so he had
Speaker 8: this loopy top spin, then be content to rally whether
Speaker 8: it was fourhand to four hand, backhand to backhand, then
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, sinner were just up the pace
Speaker 8: and then the point would really get going. So it
Speaker 8: was then going to be Zverev who was onto the
Speaker 8: back foot, and he was the one that was left
Speaker 8: scrambling more often than not. And that was the thing
Speaker 8: for me, just so clever in terms of how he
Speaker 8: actually constructed those points. We talk about moments in the match.
Speaker 8: For Zverev, it was obviously that second set tie break
Speaker 8: where he did get the mini break early on too
Speaker 8: yep to put himself in front, give himself that opportunity. Then,
Speaker 8: of course you talk about moments that net cord, the
Speaker 8: deadest of dead net cords, and just the flating effect
Speaker 8: that that has when you've tried so hard just to
Speaker 8: keep pace with your opponent and you think, okay, if
Speaker 8: I can just jag this set, then the complexion of
Speaker 8: the match changes. He gets the neck cord, he gets
Speaker 8: the lucky younix in it, and then he was able
Speaker 8: to run away with the match. So that deflation and
Speaker 8: we saw it. Obviously, Zarah was so frustrated, obviously, sitting
Speaker 8: in the chair and smashing rackets and things like that.
Speaker 8: You can understand why, because he was working so hard
Speaker 8: to keep pace. He finally thought, right, I've got an
Speaker 8: advantage here. One of the few that he had in
Speaker 8: the match, but unfortunately luck and obviously anix sinner meant
Speaker 8: he couldn't continue on.
Speaker 2: Well, let's hear now from the runner up. First of all,
Speaker 2: Alex is very following his loss tonight.
Speaker 4: I'm doing everything I can. I'm working as hard as
Speaker 4: I ever did. I think I'm doing all the right
Speaker 4: things off courts. I think I'm practicing the right things.
Speaker 4: But I lost in straight sets today, so it's I mean,
Speaker 4: those are facts. I mean, that is a fact. I
Speaker 4: lost to Janik and sts at stas Or. I don't
Speaker 4: want to end my career as the best player of
Speaker 4: all time to never win a Grand Slam, That's for sure,
Speaker 4: and I'll keep doing everything I can to to lift
Speaker 4: one of those trophies.
Speaker 2: Is it just a matter of finding versatility, like we
Speaker 2: saw from Janick Cinna, when the moments come and he
Speaker 2: needs to change it up a bit.
Speaker 10: Well, again, I thought that the intent from this very
Speaker 10: of camp tonight was correct insofar as it didn't look
Speaker 10: like he was going to win those lengthy baseline exchanges
Speaker 10: and was maybe going to play into sin his hands
Speaker 10: in trying to do so. So he did look to
Speaker 10: get forward. I think he got forward tonight off the
Speaker 10: top of my head twenty six times and one just
Speaker 10: over just over fifty percent of those points, which was
Speaker 10: not enough. But some of those misses, some of the
Speaker 10: execution that was below where it needed to be. We're
Speaker 10: in some pivotal moments of this contest, and I think
Speaker 10: that's the discussion point, isn't it, Because is it a
Speaker 10: plan that you just it might be the right plan,
Speaker 10: but is it absolutely can comitted to from the athlete
Speaker 10: or believed in from the athlete versus maybe the plan
Speaker 10: that's perhaps not as well thought through. But the conviction
Speaker 10: behind that plan is complete, it's resolute, and I think
Speaker 10: that's the discussion point. So into the medium term, I
Speaker 10: think you're right, John, it was the right way to
Speaker 10: go about it from the Zverev camp, but some of
Speaker 10: his execution in those moments let him down.
Speaker 8: It's going to be the question that gets asked, obviously,
Speaker 8: it's the one that our listeners on a radio talking
Speaker 8: about as well.
Speaker 5: Will Zara be able to make that breakthrough?
Speaker 8: And obviously when you consider that the players that are
Speaker 8: around him, with al KaAZ and Center in particular, the
Speaker 8: task gets a lot more difficult. He certainly played to
Speaker 8: such a high level throughout the tournament. I mean, his
Speaker 8: first week of the event was sensational. He was the
Speaker 8: form player. He was breezing through his matches relatively speaking,
Speaker 8: and then obviously the degree of difficulty started to increase
Speaker 8: from there. So he can take plenty from this. Obviously,
Speaker 8: the disappointment will continue to fuel him on.
Speaker 5: And drive him on.
Speaker 8: He's a finalist at Roland Garross's last year, so there's
Speaker 8: nothing to say that he can't get back to the top.
Speaker 8: It's just that extra hurdle that has felled so many
Speaker 8: players over the years. And obviously he's also a player
Speaker 8: that wants to get it done sooner rather than later.
Speaker 8: Considering the next generation who have had a glimpse of
Speaker 8: here at AO twenty twenty five to see what they
Speaker 8: can do, he wants to get one in the bag now.
Speaker 2: Now, pressure at both ends of this age spectrum. So
Speaker 2: where does this leave center then? Now three hard court
Speaker 2: titles and his twenty three years of age, clearly he's
Speaker 2: the new king of the hard court. So you'd put
Speaker 2: him down for US Open favorite. What other slams can
Speaker 2: you see him going the distance at in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 10: Well, I'll probably ask you and Peter what other slams
Speaker 10: can we not see him going all the way out?
Speaker 10: I think he goes straight to the top of my
Speaker 10: reckoning when I think about Roland Garross being the next
Speaker 10: cab off the rank, and he can win Wimbledon too,
Speaker 10: He can do it all.
Speaker 5: This guy his ceiling's.
Speaker 2: Untapped calendar slam in making.
Speaker 8: Possibly, Yeah, Wimbledon is probably more likely than Roland Garross,
Speaker 8: I'd say. I mean, obviously if he's dominating and steam
Speaker 8: rolling his way through, but he won that grass court
Speaker 8: title last year in Hullah, so he's sort of now
Speaker 8: he's away. He's got one of those on grass and
Speaker 8: obviously to be contender, he's obviously got enormous belief in himself.
Speaker 8: And if it's just it's that thing of building the momentum.
Speaker 8: It's such a long season. Obviously anything can happen. But yeah,
Speaker 8: he's certainly installing himself, I would say for Wimbledon, and
Speaker 8: I'd say probably more Alcarez for Roland Garross at the moment.
Speaker 8: Obviously it's it's January and there's still a long way
Speaker 8: to go. But yeah, if you're on his day, obviously
Speaker 8: he comes into the number one player in the world,
Speaker 8: so he's got to be amongst the title fancies for
Speaker 8: every tournament that he plays this year.
Speaker 2: It has been an incredible campaign after a really testing
Speaker 2: back end to twenty twenty four for Yannick's inner final.
Speaker 2: Thoughts on the tournament from both of you, Simon, so
Speaker 2: many highlights. For me, it was Lerner Tien's five set
Speaker 2: upst of Daniel Medvedev in the first week. But we
Speaker 2: usually do Ace of the Week on the show, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on the spot Ace of
Speaker 2: the Fortnite for you favorite thing that you've seen or
Speaker 2: been a part of this week?
Speaker 10: Well, probably selfishly, I was really lucky to have a
Speaker 10: close up view of the Vukchen Draper match on Margaret
Speaker 10: Corderina that finished in the weels, and I thought that
Speaker 10: was a phenomenal contest in terms of two athletes that
Speaker 10: literally left it all out there, and we saw what
Speaker 10: that did to Draper a couple of days later, potentially
Speaker 10: finished or ruined his campaign, but what a competitor he
Speaker 10: was to somehow find a way to prevail. And I
Speaker 10: thought Alex Vuksch did Australia proud that night as well,
Speaker 10: So that was.
Speaker 5: One that leaves to the top of my page.
Speaker 2: Beautiful and you Pete.
Speaker 8: As always John when we do the podcast, I always
Speaker 8: picked more than one, so it's a fortnite actually get
Speaker 8: two because it was two weeks of a double as
Speaker 8: I will thank you Madison Keys Egiston Tech.
Speaker 5: What a match that was from start to finish.
Speaker 8: Fantastic tens and congratulations to Maddie for winning that title.
Speaker 8: Who made a major title, finally got there. And then
Speaker 8: Joe Fonseeka my goodness, talk about the next generation of
Speaker 8: players coming through, dismantling under a.
Speaker 5: Rube Lev and then building his tournaments. He went along.
Speaker 8: But even then this is turning into four or five.
Speaker 8: But the fans obviously had over a one point two million,
Speaker 8: a new record here, but just so many countries represented,
Speaker 8: so fonsakah, the Brazilian fans, we're out and abouts. We
Speaker 8: had Lebanese fans for the first time coming in and
Speaker 8: celebrating their player who made it through and started making history.
Speaker 8: There was obviously the Aussie fans were out in force,
Speaker 8: but most countries were represented. Even the Finnish fans for
Speaker 8: the men's doubles final we're here too, So it's great
Speaker 8: to see that this is truly an international event.
Speaker 5: And we've had great action.
Speaker 8: The site has looked fantastic right from start to finish,
Speaker 8: and the vibees been positive.
Speaker 5: So it's been a wonderful couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Wonderful. Well, thank you for your insights tonight, Pete in
Speaker 2: a wonderful campaign from the AO Radio team under your tutelage.
Speaker 5: That's the ultimate highlight, John, and also to.
Speaker 2: Your gig team, the insights on this program have been terrific,
Speaker 2: first class. Thank you so much, Thanks John.
Speaker 5: Thanks for great for night.
Speaker 2: Let's leave the final word to a men's champion for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, Yannick Sina.
Speaker 5: What kind of champion do you want to be in
Speaker 5: people's eyes? I want to be.
Speaker 3: Just a humble person, to be honest. I mean, I
Speaker 3: always remind myself where I'm from, and I'm from a
Speaker 3: small house in a small village with you know, an
Speaker 3: amazing family which I was very very lucky to have
Speaker 3: and I still have.
Speaker 5: And that's it, you know.
Speaker 3: I believe we are people who are very good in
Speaker 3: what we do, and so we are automatically also the
Speaker 3: inspiration for younger people.
Speaker 5: But that's it.
Speaker 3: No, we are not changing the world or whatever. So
Speaker 3: you know, why change ourselves with success?
Speaker 5: Who do you dedicate as trophy too?
Speaker 3: To all the people who are close to me? Twelve
Speaker 3: the people who I really love and this kind of
Speaker 3: of people they know who.
Speaker 6: I love, and.
Speaker 3: And also a bit, you know, to myself because it's
Speaker 3: it's I'm I was in a very difficult situation during
Speaker 3: this tournament, also before tournament, so I'm very happy Hawaii handle.
Speaker 3: But obviously without the people around this impossible.
Speaker 2: Well she might have already had one of the biggest
Speaker 2: smiles in tennis, but you couldn't wipe the smile off
Speaker 2: the face of Madison Keys this morning, taking a stroll
Speaker 2: on Melbourne's iconic Brighton Beach with her new friend, the
Speaker 2: Daphney Ackerst Memorial Trophy, the Women's champion posing for photos
Speaker 2: with her silverware before reflecting on the biggest achievement of
Speaker 2: her fourteen year professional careers.
Speaker 5: Close on Madison James, she is a champion.
Speaker 11: The last kind of twelve hours has been very quick.
Speaker 11: Didn't sleep a whole lot last night, but being able
Speaker 11: to just win my first Grand Slam and have so
Speaker 11: many people who I got to talk to and FaceTime
Speaker 11: and I got to talk to my mom and it's
Speaker 11: been really, really nice. There was definitely some times when
Speaker 11: I didn't know if I was going to ever be
Speaker 11: able to get back into a Grand Slam final, and
Speaker 11: I really wanted another opportunity to try to play on
Speaker 11: my terms and walk away with my head held high.
Speaker 11: And to be able to do that is just incredible.
Speaker 12: Her husband and coach, Biorn Frantangelo.
Speaker 11: He's kind of a big softie. I don't think he
Speaker 11: always shows that.
Speaker 3: I'm one of the.
Speaker 11: Few people that actually gets to see it, but he's just,
Speaker 11: you know, the sweetest, best guy. I've always wanted to
Speaker 11: win every single tournament I've ever been in a draw,
Speaker 11: so I think that's going to continue to be the goal.
Speaker 11: And I think now it's just sky's limit and we
Speaker 11: just keep working towards the next title.
Speaker 2: As has become tradition in recent years, a Lucky Hot
Speaker 2: Shots tennis participant had the opportunity to interview the champion.
Speaker 2: Ten year old Kiara from Barrack Tennis Club sat down
Speaker 2: with the new Queen of Melbourne.
Speaker 9: My name is Kiara and today I'm going to interview
Speaker 9: Madison Keys. I know that your birthday is like in
Speaker 9: the next month. Is this like your early birthday present?
Speaker 11: I wasn't planning on it being my early birthday present,
Speaker 11: but this is a pretty good one to give to myself.
Speaker 9: What is your favorite thing mostly about tennis?
Speaker 11: I think my favorite thing about tennis is you get
Speaker 11: to learn so much about yourself. It's constant changing and
Speaker 11: you it kind of forces you to also change and adapt,
Speaker 11: and I think it makes you try to be kind
Speaker 11: of the best version of yourself that you can be.
Speaker 9: What are you most excited about for today?
Speaker 11: I think actually getting to kind of spend time with
Speaker 11: my team because I haven't gotten to see a whole
Speaker 11: lot of them the last few hours, and just really
Speaker 11: get to kind of enjoy everything that's happened the last
Speaker 11: three weeks.
Speaker 9: What did you take your long.
Speaker 11: I think I said, oh my god, I did it,
Speaker 11: and I've been a bunch of heart emojis.
Speaker 5: I think that's what I sent her, very logically.
Speaker 11: Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend have claimed the Australian Open
Speaker 2: Women's doubles championship in a three set roller coaster. The
Speaker 2: top seeds and defending Wimbledon champs overcame last year's finalist
Speaker 2: Che Suwe and Elena Ostapenko in two and a half hours.
Speaker 2: Siney Arkiva and Townsend got the jump to snatch the
Speaker 2: opening set and had the chance to serve for the
Speaker 2: match at five to four in the second, but some
Speaker 2: gritty defense from Che and Ostapenko kept them minute before
Speaker 2: they clinched the second set tiebreak at a set of piece.
Speaker 2: Sine Arkiva and Townsend found a crucial break in the
Speaker 2: eighth game of the decider before going on to victory
Speaker 2: six two sixt' seven six three.
Speaker 1: I am excited. It was really tough match and I'm
Speaker 1: just really happy that we managed to did it, that
Speaker 1: we kept fighting and that I can have the trophy
Speaker 1: on once more time. Yeah, so I'm really excited. I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying the feeling and I just want to stick with it.
Speaker 2: Sine Akiva has made history with her tenth Grand Slam
Speaker 2: title in the women's doubles, the first player to reach
Speaker 2: double figures since Martina Hingis won her tenth at the
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen Wimbledon Championships. Well, it's a second Grand Slam
Speaker 2: title for Townsend.
Speaker 13: I look at it as part a part of history
Speaker 13: where you know, it's nobody in our generation that is
Speaker 13: as decorated or that has accomplished the things that this
Speaker 13: woman has, and so to be able to be on
Speaker 13: the same side as hers, it's an honor and I'll
Speaker 13: be happy to continue to rack up those slams.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 13: You know, she's in double digits. You know I'm a
Speaker 13: work to get there. But you know, in the meantime,
Speaker 13: I'm really happy to be able to share the court
Speaker 13: with her and shared these moments. It means a lot.
Speaker 2: The Australian Open Finals are a feast for the senses,
Speaker 2: and not just the spectacular exploits of the two players
Speaker 2: left at the final dance. There's an array of pre
Speaker 2: match entertainment that sets the stage for the main event.
Speaker 2: On women's final night, the crowd was treated to a
Speaker 2: performance by ruvac Nuena and the cast of Tina the Musical,
Speaker 2: and the cast of Beauty and the Beast performed be
Speaker 2: our Guest before the men's final. But who are the
Speaker 2: fans most like to open on Rod Laver Arena during
Speaker 2: finals weekend? Harper Pesninger went to find out. Now if
Speaker 2: you could pick one musical artists to perform at the
Speaker 2: Australian Open Final. Who you haven't on stage?
Speaker 5: Chris Martin, no doubt, best ever do it?
Speaker 2: Chris Martin solo or Chris Martin with cold for the band.
Speaker 5: Is pretty good as well, so we'll take cold Play
Speaker 5: as a whole.
Speaker 2: I'd probably say Bruno Mars. I want to Dynasam live
Speaker 2: and hit me, hit suit, the vibe reckon.
Speaker 11: Oh definitely Billie Eilish.
Speaker 2: I went to a concert last year and she performed
Speaker 2: at URLAS.
Speaker 13: So you know she knows the venue. I feel like
Speaker 13: somebody that would really get the crowd going and somebody
Speaker 13: that Australians I think club would be Pink.
Speaker 12: I think yes, yeah, Chili Peppers. Yeah, can't stop when
Speaker 12: that drops. Yeah, everybody's along for the ride. So I
Speaker 12: think that's probably the best walkout entrance song you could.
Speaker 12: You could lead out too, So Chili Peppers for mine.
Speaker 5: Queen, that would be big.
Speaker 6: That would be huge queen as well.
Speaker 13: So Harry Styles would be gray as well.
Speaker 11: Yeah seeing him down then like down Under again, that'd.
Speaker 2: Be good about Harry Styles front.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that would make my year.
Speaker 8: Would be John Mayer and I've seen him at rod
Speaker 8: labor before, so Ao, if you could get him down somehow,
Speaker 8: that would be amazing.
Speaker 12: Well, I saw Choice Savanne Margaret Court a couple of
Speaker 12: years ago, so I'd say him, I'll have to go.
Speaker 5: He's big at the moment. Dom Dollard would be good, Matt,
Speaker 5: do you know who that is?
Speaker 2: I've gotten as you can see the age difference.
Speaker 13: Now, I have no idea that did they sing?
Speaker 2: Well, that's all for Day fifteen and for Australian Open
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