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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Sitdown.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Trolope, a writer for ozopen dot com.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Viv Christian, managing editor of Australian Tennis magazine and.

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Speaker 1: Viv why are we sitting down this week with Alex Michelson.

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Speaker 2: We're sitting down with Alex Matt because he has had

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Speaker 2: a fantastic season in twenty twenty four. He's reached two

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Speaker 2: ATP finals, cracked the world's top fifty and he's one

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Speaker 2: of the eight young players competing in the ATP next

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Speaker 2: Gen Finals this week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we were lucky enough to catch Alex just

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Speaker 1: a few weeks before he headed off to Jedda. We

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Speaker 1: got him when he was in a training week in

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Speaker 1: California and we got to meet someone who was He

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Speaker 1: was a great talker, he had a really good story,

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Speaker 1: he was really generous with his time, and yeah, we

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed it and learned a lot about him. So

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Speaker 1: we hope you guys do enjoy it too.

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Speaker 2: Alex, thank you for joining us on the sit Down.

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Speaker 2: It's great that you're joining us so I think from

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Speaker 2: your home in California, it must be nice to have

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Speaker 2: a week or so off from the tour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, did.

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Speaker 4: Okay in the last term and over it METS and

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Speaker 4: then I took about ten days off and yeah today

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Speaker 4: it has been today's my second day back training. So

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Speaker 4: I had to get going pretty quick again because I

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Speaker 4: got to go to Saudi Arabia pretty soon, so I

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Speaker 2: It's been an incredible season for you. You've peaked just

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Speaker 2: outside the top forty and I think you're currently sitting

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Speaker 2: at number forty two. What's been the highlight for you

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 4: It's been a good season, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 4: of ups and downs. I know that's a very cliche

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Speaker 4: thing to say, but I mean at the clay the

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Speaker 4: clay season, I barely wont any matches.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 4: It was tough for me. Even in the grass season,

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Speaker 4: which I like grass, I didn't do great. And then

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Speaker 4: I came back over to America Final than Newport. That

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Speaker 4: was that was a highlight. Defending my points and highlighting

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Speaker 4: defending my points. And finally was because I final Master

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Speaker 4: as well, so that that was that was really good

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Speaker 4: for the confidence as well. And then I kind of

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Speaker 4: took that had a great American summer record, DC got

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Speaker 4: the finals of doubles and Sincy. That was a lot

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Speaker 4: of fun. Yeah, I think just the whole American swing

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Speaker 4: for me was was was great. I was in Europe

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Speaker 4: in front of the home crowd was nice to do

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Speaker 4: for a while for sure.

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Speaker 5: Amazing.

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Speaker 1: And so as you said, you're about to head to

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Speaker 1: jet Up for the next Gen Final. So this is

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Speaker 1: the second time you're going, but you, I guess, arrive

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Speaker 1: in a bit of a different place in your career

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Speaker 1: where it was all new last year and you were

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Speaker 1: just inside the top hundred. Now you're where you are

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Speaker 1: and you'll be the second set. So yeah, what does

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Speaker 1: it mean to qualify for that again? And what will

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Speaker 1: you take into into this experience?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well we'll obvious hit the experience of playing

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Speaker 4: last year. It's going to help me out this year

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Speaker 4: because last year I was you, I just turned prone

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Speaker 4: like August, and it all kind of came very quickly

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Speaker 4: a whole year of experience, well a whole year like

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Speaker 4: I go to Saturday with this year, so I can

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Speaker 4: only do better. I went owing through last year. I

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Speaker 4: looking forward to going back and giving it my all.

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Speaker 4: I have some unfitished busits over there for sure.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, and it's got a pretty impressing on a roll

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Speaker 1: of champions. So like Sinner El Karez sits a pass,

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Speaker 1: they've all won it before. What would it mean for

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Speaker 1: you for you to join them potentially.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be He'll be absolutely epic. I mean,

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Speaker 1: It's also pretty amazing the names that are kind of

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Speaker 5: What do you think of this current generation that you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everyone you said is is very good.

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Speaker 4: I haven't played Fees yet, but obviously I think he's

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Speaker 4: what a couple of five hundreds of series playing sick.

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Speaker 4: I played Mensik and Jerry I played him in junior's

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Speaker 4: in juniors plenty of times when they were very, very good.

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Speaker 3: And then I just train. I train with Murner.

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Speaker 4: I just got done training with them Urdier today, So

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Speaker 4: you know that'll be that'll be fun to play that

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Speaker 4: I'm super happy he did that. He's doing great as well.

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Speaker 4: You know, he's very close friend for me, so to

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Speaker 4: absolutely waxed me in Madrid stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know you can play. So I mean,

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Speaker 4: He rids me of like a like a mini sitter,

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Speaker 4: of the say I put them both. The way they

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be tough to to do well this year,

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Speaker 1: Do you see that group of players as your main

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Speaker 1: like compare yourself against all that you're targeting like a

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't really think of like two many

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Speaker 3: Them all like seven times at least.

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Speaker 4: So I mean I think now, no, but I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, cool, Alex.

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Speaker 2: It's obviously a pretty exciting time for American tennis right now.

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Speaker 2: Are you close to to many of the other American

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Speaker 4: Tour, Well, yeah, I would say so. I mean closer

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Speaker 4: then I'm definitely I played doubles with a bunch of

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Speaker 4: That's not too bad. I think American tennis is doing

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Speaker 2: There's actually five men in the world's top twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Five American men. I should say, how inspiring is that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean to see all those guys, you know,

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Speaker 4: the whole point of seeing someone from your country or

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Speaker 3: I think it's great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of American tennis, you're currently coached by Robbie Janeprie,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, just to be able to draw, you know,

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Speaker 1: Has that come naturally, that kind of change where you're

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Speaker 4: But I feel like sometimes I'm I can drop back

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Speaker 5: We've got options, which is good.

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Speaker 1: In terms of how you actually got started in tennis,

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Speaker 1: so we understand that both of your parents played college tennis.

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Speaker 5: It is what you are to die.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I actually don't remember starting to I

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Speaker 3: No, but yeah, I hit with him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, does he know that? Have you told him?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got three before I turned folio. I was

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Speaker 3: I started working really hard about four years ago.

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Speaker 3: I love Newports. It's a great place. So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Not really just because it was doubles, It wasn't like

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Speaker 4: That was in terms of level, like my actual level

440
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Speaker 4: like was not where I played way above my actual

441
00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,680
Speaker 4: level that day for sure. That was sick and then

442
00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,399
Speaker 4: beating Fritz is probably those those are the two because

443
00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:20,720
Speaker 4: I mean you and I was like nine in the

444
00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:22,879
Speaker 4: world that when I played him in Mexico, and then

445
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,399
Speaker 4: Fritz was I think he was top ten when I

446
00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:27,520
Speaker 4: played him. I'm not one hundred percent sure I think

447
00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:32,840
Speaker 4: he was, but I played pretty good and then I gagged.

448
00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,720
Speaker 3: I gagged it away.

449
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,199
Speaker 4: In the second I was at five to three and

450
00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:36,720
Speaker 4: then had like four match points and then all of

451
00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,600
Speaker 4: a sudden it was five all, and then I came

452
00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,400
Speaker 4: back and like only lost one more point from there.

453
00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,840
Speaker 4: That was a good mental effort for me to uh

454
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Speaker 4: to take him down, so that those are definitelyated to

455
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:46,840
Speaker 4: uh two best wins of the year for me.

456
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Speaker 5: We watched The Demon A one in the Office. Do

457
00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,640
Speaker 5: you remember view we did?

458
00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:51,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

459
00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,879
Speaker 1: It was now timesigme. We were watching Office, Yeah, because

460
00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,800
Speaker 1: it was joke I played.

461
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Speaker 2: I just yeah, it was an incredible performance. I was

462
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Speaker 2: also in Shanghai recently where I saw you compete against

463
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Speaker 2: Novak Djokovic, who took him to two tight tie break sets.

464
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,800
Speaker 2: What's it like to compete against the legend like Novak.

465
00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean being on the other side, and that

466
00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 4: is again something else I never thought would happen. And

467
00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,840
Speaker 4: uh like when I was just like warm me up,

468
00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,000
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, I mean this is the goat.

469
00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,080
Speaker 4: I'm playing the goat, and it's it's pretty intimidating. You know,

470
00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,439
Speaker 4: that guy's got twenty four slams, like he's got a

471
00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,400
Speaker 4: gold medal. He's like, he doesn't even like he's won

472
00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,320
Speaker 4: everything there is to win, Like what else do you

473
00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:33,800
Speaker 4: need to win? Like why are you here? And I

474
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,159
Speaker 4: play I'm drying. I'm drawing him second round like now.

475
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,000
Speaker 4: But it was it was absolute incredible And I.

476
00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,399
Speaker 3: Got up three to zero in the first set in

477
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Speaker 3: like nine minutes, and I.

478
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,880
Speaker 4: Was like and then I kind of realized, oh maybe

479
00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,200
Speaker 4: I can win, and then I got a little tight,

480
00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,480
Speaker 4: but yeah, playing it was an incredible experience. I get

481
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:49,960
Speaker 4: to tell my grandkids that I get got to playing

482
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:50,720
Speaker 4: at novet Chak.

483
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:53,600
Speaker 3: Which just absolutely sick. And then I had some chance.

484
00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,280
Speaker 4: I had to said the second set, I should have

485
00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,200
Speaker 4: should have won that second set. But I mean he's,

486
00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,879
Speaker 4: you know, the most clutched guy that ever played the sport.

487
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,840
Speaker 4: So and also knowing that the back of my head

488
00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:03,560
Speaker 4: makes makes.

489
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,160
Speaker 3: Me even more tight. So it's yeah.

490
00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,359
Speaker 4: I was definitely a crazy experience, and I think I

491
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:09,240
Speaker 4: learned a lot from that one.

492
00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,119
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you lift against some of the

493
00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,640
Speaker 2: bigger names, lift like you play better?

494
00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:15,520
Speaker 3: Yeah?

495
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like I have. I feel like I

496
00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,160
Speaker 4: don't always. I played against the Verev in the third

497
00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,920
Speaker 4: round Astra. I didn't play great there, but I feel

498
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,840
Speaker 4: like I I have. I feel like almost like half

499
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 4: the time I do have time I don't because you know,

500
00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:30,680
Speaker 4: you have to beat these guys.

501
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:31,720
Speaker 3: You know, you have to lift.

502
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 4: Your level like before I played you know, Demon r

503
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,880
Speaker 4: Fritz or Sissy Pass like, you know, you have to

504
00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:39,199
Speaker 4: play well to beat any of these guys. So and

505
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,280
Speaker 4: then going out and executing it like feels great. And

506
00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,320
Speaker 4: then sometimes you go out there and you don't execute it,

507
00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,560
Speaker 4: and then the guy will just pummel you. So I

508
00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,240
Speaker 4: feel like it's kind of dependent on the match for me.

509
00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,000
Speaker 1: Sure, we were going to ask you about the Io

510
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,440
Speaker 1: third round run because it's your best Grand Slam results

511
00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,240
Speaker 1: so far, and you beat uryla Hechker as well to

512
00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 1: reach there.

513
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Speaker 5: He was a seed like you, How was it?

514
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:02,119
Speaker 3: You know?

515
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:03,720
Speaker 1: How do you look at that achievement and was that

516
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,679
Speaker 1: was that a bit of a like a barrier bar

517
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,600
Speaker 1: couldn't getting maybe further into a slam like that?

518
00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, of course. I mean I was like on

519
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:10,640
Speaker 3: the edge.

520
00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,639
Speaker 4: I was like ninety ninety five before that event, or

521
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 4: like ninety two or something like that. I remember going

522
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,240
Speaker 4: into that week and played US Train Wildcard first round,

523
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 4: crazy crowd. I got through that one, which just felt great,

524
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 4: and then I played pretty well against Lash. I remember

525
00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:25,679
Speaker 4: I played a poor first set, and then after that

526
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 4: I just like locked in and I I and there

527
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:29,359
Speaker 4: was a couple of rain delays which helped me, and

528
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,120
Speaker 4: I I just played really really well and then being

529
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,160
Speaker 4: able to win that one that was incredible, and uh

530
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:36,920
Speaker 4: zero was lost in the third rounder.

531
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Speaker 3: The second rounder, I remember, I.

532
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,720
Speaker 4: Almost got to play like I als got to play

533
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,439
Speaker 4: client in the third round, which has been cool. I mean,

534
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,880
Speaker 4: but uh players Vere von rod Laver was was incredible,

535
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,200
Speaker 4: incredible experience. That was my first time on like a

536
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,440
Speaker 4: really good court like that, and I feel like most

537
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 4: of the crowd was like for me. I think they

538
00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 4: wanted the underdog, and I made a close second set.

539
00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 4: I had like one of the sickest shots in my

540
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 4: life and the second set breakers ACA a line pass.

541
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 3: But I was that was an incredible experience.

542
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 4: I really hope I get to play a Rod Labor

543
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,880
Speaker 4: again this time, hopefully not to that means I'll play

544
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:08,679
Speaker 4: like Yannick or Carlos.

545
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,760
Speaker 3: I don't walk, but maybe like like third round again.

546
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 4: But yeah, I was an absolutely, absolutely incredible experience playing rather.

547
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a fantastic cold.

548
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 2: It sounds like you enjoyed the crowds in Australia. How

549
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,480
Speaker 2: do they compare to so say US crowds.

550
00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 3: They're definitely more rowdy.

551
00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,679
Speaker 4: When I played the Australian Walker, and I mean that

552
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 4: was my first time again, I was felt like I

553
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,840
Speaker 4: was really really away, like I felt like I was

554
00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 4: in an away game ever not one person and that

555
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 4: crowd was cheered for me, and uh it was tough.

556
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 4: And I feel like I had that a lot this

557
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,680
Speaker 4: year where the crowd was against me, which which I've

558
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 4: come to love. I I enjoy it now, but I

559
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 4: remember in that first round of Australia, I was like,

560
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:47,600
Speaker 4: I didn't love it.

561
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 3: It made it even more tight. But now but now

562
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:51,959
Speaker 3: I absolutely love it.

563
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think I maybe I earned their respect

564
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,440
Speaker 4: after I did, and then in the second round it

565
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,439
Speaker 4: that was pretty even for me go and then I

566
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 4: felt like it was more for me, but yeah, it.

567
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 3: Was, it was. It was really cool. It was really

568
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 3: cool to experience that.

569
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Speaker 4: I think experiencing that and then seeing they're definitely the

570
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 4: most rowdy like Australia, maybe the French too, but the

571
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 4: Australians are crazy rowdy.

572
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 3: It was it was nice outas here is fun.

573
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:18,080
Speaker 5: We love it.

574
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Speaker 1: We're famous for loving and underdogs. So that'll that will

575
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,680
Speaker 1: help explain why you experience love.

576
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, love it.

577
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Speaker 1: So I guess when you said, like, you know, play

578
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: on rod La Arena if you you know you would

579
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: like to avoid Yanni and Carlos and people like that early.

580
00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: You can do that by getting a Grand Slam seat.

581
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: And you're actually quite close to being in that bracket.

582
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,879
Speaker 1: What is the now that you've kind of had a

583
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: bit of time on tour and you know the level

584
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: and you see what those top players do, what is

585
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: the difference from going from where you are now at

586
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: forty to like that top thirty two bracket or cracking

587
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: the top twenty. Like it's such small margins at the top,

588
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: so like, what do you think is the key to

589
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: cracking those next barriers.

590
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 4: I think for me, one of the main things is

591
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 4: going to be getting a better surf because I'm six

592
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 4: four and I don't get a ton of free points

593
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 4: off of surf, whereas most other guys that in my

594
00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 4: he do get a lot of free points on surf.

595
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 4: So I think that is a is a bit component.

596
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 4: Also playing a little more offensive because against these guys

597
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 4: are not going to give it to you, got to

598
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,399
Speaker 4: take it from them if you want to win. So

599
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 4: I feel like those are the two main things that

600
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 4: are that are that need to happen for me. And

601
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,359
Speaker 4: I also think the mental I really kind to believe

602
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:24,719
Speaker 4: that I can be all these guys when I when

603
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 4: I see them in draw.

604
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 3: So I think those those three things for sure, is.

605
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,440
Speaker 5: That belief starting to come.

606
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.

607
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 4: I I usually go on the court and no matter

608
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 4: who I'm playing, I tell myself that I could win,

609
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 4: at least I can. I try to convince myself of

610
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 4: that because if you because if you don't, if you

611
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 4: go in you think you're gonna lose, that you're gonna lose.

612
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 3: So that's what I tell myself.

613
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,439
Speaker 4: I definitely tell myself I can win every time I

614
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 4: walk out there.

615
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 5: Awesome.

616
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 1: We've spent a lot of these chat talking about kind

617
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 1: of like you as a tennis player, your career so far,

618
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 1: your game. What would you like people to know about you,

619
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,679
Speaker 1: maybe like off the court as you as a person.

620
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm crazy competitive on the court, and I'm

621
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 4: also crazy competitive off the court for whatever it is,

622
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: like you, like, I played basketball, it's id a crazy competitive.

623
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 4: I play video games, like, I get really pissed the

624
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 4: video games, way more piss than I do with tennis.

625
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 4: So I'm crazy competitive with with everything I do. But

626
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 4: I'm also like, I mean, I hate to say this said,

627
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 4: but I'm kind of worry.

628
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:19,560
Speaker 3: I don't do a lot.

629
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 4: Like I go to practice and at least when I'm home,

630
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 4: I go to practice most of the day. I come back,

631
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 4: I relax, I you know, play video games, hang out

632
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 4: friends and family, and go and do it again the

633
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 4: next day. I feel like I kind of live at

634
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 4: like groundhod day. It's just everything I repeat. So not

635
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 4: a whole lot going on over here.

636
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you're under selling yourself because we have we

637
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: were reading in preparation for these interview and we discover

638
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: that you collect coins and you read about history, which

639
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: are pretty hice things like what what how did they start?

640
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 1: And what kind of like history do you delve into.

641
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,399
Speaker 4: Oh, the American history, I love it. I love it

642
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 4: in America. I love I love America. So just reading

643
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 4: about the history and you know how how we came

644
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 4: to be is pretty cool. I don't know, like I

645
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 4: got into it and I was like crazy young, and

646
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 4: I like it's always kind of stuck with it. And

647
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 4: my my grandfather also fought in World War two and

648
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 4: my other grandfather fought in the Vietnam War. So I

649
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 4: think having that, you know, connections and definitely made me, uh,

650
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,719
Speaker 4: you know, I want to learn more about that.

651
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 3: And then I also for the coins.

652
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 4: I never I haven't collected coins since I was like thirteen,

653
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 4: but I do have like I do have some like

654
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 4: some cool underlike clause that's for sure. I haven't opened

655
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 4: that thing in my years, but it's I definitely have

656
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 4: some some coins that are probably worth a couple of

657
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 4: grand now just because they're so old and they're in

658
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 4: good condition too, so.

659
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 3: And I was I kind of got there from my brother.

660
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 3: I remember my brother started doing that when I was

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Speaker 3: erk and I just kind of fall in.

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Speaker 5: So that must have been an old story we read.

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Speaker 5: But that's cool. It could have could have it could

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Speaker 5: have some value.

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Speaker 1: Now, Alex, this has been so great, You've been really

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Speaker 1: generous with your time. We just wanted to close by asking, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like when will we see you down in Australia twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, like the Australian summer and kind of what

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Speaker 1: are your what are your goals going into a new

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Speaker 1: season which you've started preparing for.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I will be in Brisbane the first threek.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna play Brisbane and then and then obviously Melbourne.

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Speaker 4: Looking forward to getting down there and start started all

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Speaker 4: over again a year.

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Speaker 3: Two goals for next year. I don't really want to

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Speaker 3: say that.

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Speaker 4: I like keeping it to myself for the most part,

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Speaker 4: but I do have some goals I would like to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I just got to put in.

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Speaker 4: The work in this next couple of weeks before before

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Speaker 4: next gen and try to get after it.

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Speaker 2: Amazing, fantastic, That sounds sounds very exciting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait to get down to Australia.

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Speaker 4: I love I love the course down there and it

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Speaker 4: rise like Australia's lost silver country to America, so that's

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Speaker 4: probably why I like it down there.

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Speaker 1: I think there's definitely a bit of a crossover between

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Speaker 1: like southern California and Australia. Like the Preachers, everyone feels

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Speaker 1: really comfortable, so that's that's good.

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Speaker 5: Will you have to come before Christmas though, No.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually gonna go home after Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go home back to California for a couple

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Speaker 4: of days, part of four five days to spend it

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Speaker 4: with my.

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Speaker 3: Family, and then I will and then I will head

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Speaker 3: down to Britain.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. We look forward to seeing you come this summer,

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Speaker 2: so thank you so much for your time today.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll find see you guys in Melbourne.

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Speaker 5: Now, Yeah you will?

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Speaker 1: You will?

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Speaker 5: Yeah for sure, definitely.

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Speaker 3: Oh cool.

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Speaker 2: Well, I really do hope that we have a chance

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Speaker 2: to talk to Alex in person after such a great interview.

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Speaker 3: Map.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be great to see him, I guess

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Speaker 1: before he comes to Australia, which is super exciting. We'll

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Speaker 1: see I think from Wednesday when the Next Gen Finals starts.

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Speaker 1: How he progresses. And I really enjoyed the part of

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Speaker 1: the chat where he talked about kind of his contemporaries

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Speaker 1: and rivals that are in that field. It's a pretty

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Speaker 1: amazing group that are coming up. And that reference to

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Speaker 1: Juel Fonseca hitting a ball like Yannick Sinner like, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of exciting stuff about this generation to look

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Speaker 1: forward to. And so yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 1: both Alex and all of them when they come to

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Speaker 1: come to Melbourne January.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Alex is actually the number two seed at

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Speaker 2: the tournament and he has he's come so far since

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Speaker 2: he played that event last year as well, So I

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Speaker 2: think we'll see a lot of progress for him, and

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Speaker 2: you know who knows he We've got Yannick Sinners to

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Speaker 2: find us, sits a Pass, Carlos Alcoraza, some of the

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Speaker 2: names that are won that tournament. So let's see who

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Speaker 2: comes next.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks again for joining us for this episode, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be back next week with another episode of The

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Speaker 1: sit Down when we bring you our interview with Sumitt Nogal.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, you can join John and Brie

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