Speaker 1: Match boy number three for Carolina Plishkiva. Four hundred turn
Speaker 1: from Williams's deep four and from Polishkiva into the fourn
Speaker 1: winging Williams. Williams gets this up four and from Politiciver
Speaker 1: down the backend wing. Williams is there. Politkiva goes down
Speaker 1: the middle of the call for and from Williams let its.
Speaker 1: Plashkiva raises her arms, put hand to her mouse. I
Speaker 1: don't think she could quite believe it. You want to
Speaker 1: win for Carolina Plishkiva.
Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to the AO Show. I'm James Parkinson.
Speaker 2: Day ten of the Australian Open and another great day
Speaker 2: of quarterfinal action at Melbourne Park. Naomi Asaka, Carolina Plushkiv,
Speaker 2: Lucas Pui and Novak Djokovic all progressing to the semifinals.
Speaker 2: In Jokovic's case, it was Kane Shakori retiring from the
Speaker 2: match that ended the contest in the second set six
Speaker 2: to one for one for on today's show, we learn
Speaker 2: what it takes to be a line on pile.
Speaker 3: I really love Porkie because your own accuracy improves, and.
Speaker 2: We speak with tennis legend Daniella on Chakova.
Speaker 4: It's a really a huge privilege to minton. This is
Speaker 4: the most beautiful sports.
Speaker 2: But we start with the big upset of the day,
Speaker 2: Carolina Plushkova defeating Serena Williams in three sets. Firstly, let's
Speaker 2: hear from Pluskiva and her reaction on court.
Speaker 5: I think she improved her game, especially in the second set.
Speaker 5: She just went for her shots. She was more aggressive.
Speaker 5: I was struggling a little bit on that side, was
Speaker 5: against the wind, so it's tough to play against Serena
Speaker 5: and against the wind two so you know, she was
Speaker 5: playing very well, especially at the end of the second set.
Speaker 5: She went for her shots. She was more aggressive. I
Speaker 5: played too passive, but you know, on one hands, I
Speaker 5: was almost in the locker room. But now I'm standing
Speaker 5: here as a winner, so I'm believe a feeling.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Pluskova has every right to be delighted. It's not every
Speaker 2: day you beat Serena Williams in a Grand Slam quarter final.
Speaker 2: To learn more about Carolina and what this result means,
Speaker 2: Tim Soley spoke to Nadia Voutchakova.
Speaker 7: My name is Nadia Vachikova and I worked.
Speaker 8: For ESB's radio check an outstanding game against one of
Speaker 8: the all time champions.
Speaker 9: What are your initial thoughts?
Speaker 7: I almost cry. It was amazing to beat Serena Williams.
Speaker 7: It's a big thing in his in her career as well.
Speaker 7: They met four times and twice she was able to
Speaker 7: beat her. So that's that's amazing.
Speaker 8: Serena's up five to one in the final set and
Speaker 8: Fishkiva just finds something a little bit extra to find
Speaker 8: a way through the semifinal here at the Open, it.
Speaker 7: Was very stressful, that's that's for sure. It was a
Speaker 7: really game from start to the end. And then I
Speaker 7: saw that she'd probably enjoy herself a little bit in
Speaker 7: feet so and since then she lost her focus and
Speaker 7: that was a chance for Carolina and she took it.
Speaker 8: Do you think the injury played a big role or
Speaker 8: was Carolina? Did Carolina find another gear and actually, you know,
Speaker 8: win on her own terms.
Speaker 7: I think it was a big gear. But also she straightforward,
Speaker 7: she stayed focused and that was the best what she
Speaker 7: could do in that moment and actually show us her
Speaker 7: STrenD is tell us.
Speaker 8: About the reaction back in the Czech Republic from this win?
Speaker 8: Will it be huge in the papers tomorrow? How is
Speaker 8: Carolina received back in the Czech Republic.
Speaker 7: I think it will. We have just a few players,
Speaker 7: especially right now this year, it's just a Carolina ar Protectva,
Speaker 7: which I hope or everyone just hope somewhere that it
Speaker 7: will be a check final, or it could be a
Speaker 7: check final. You know, it's still on a table. So
Speaker 7: I think the reaction will be just positive. You know,
Speaker 7: Serena has a big name, as you said before, so
Speaker 7: definitely she will be filling up the pages at least
Speaker 7: for a few days.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, this is a tough defeat for
Speaker 2: Serena Williams. She did have to deal with an injury
Speaker 2: during this match. He's what she had to say.
Speaker 10: Mankel seems to be fine. I usually don't know until
Speaker 10: the next day, so I think she just played lights
Speaker 10: out on Nash Finds, literally it in lines and just
Speaker 10: went crazy on Nashalins. So I don't think it was
Speaker 10: she just played unbelievable on Lash one. I really hate
Speaker 10: Colina out, to be honest, and at that point I
Speaker 10: didn't feel like I needed it or I didn't feel
Speaker 10: like it would be a big deal, so I just
Speaker 10: just kept going, you know, I like to just kind
Speaker 10: of toss it out so to say, But yeah, it
Speaker 10: was fine.
Speaker 2: No doubt Serena will be back, but this is still
Speaker 2: a shock result for many. Tim Soley spoke with Kurt
Speaker 2: Streeter to help put this into context.
Speaker 6: Kurt Streeter, I'm a staff writer at the New York Times.
Speaker 8: Kurt, fascinating match, just a real sea souring affair. Looked
Speaker 8: at some stage through the second set that Serena was
Speaker 8: going to go down, and then that champion that we
Speaker 8: know fought back and up five to one in the
Speaker 8: third and she goes and I lose the match.
Speaker 9: What are your initial thoughts?
Speaker 6: Well, the way forwarded with an injury at match point.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I just tweeted out, you know,
Speaker 6: Serena loses an epic match. When have we ever seen
Speaker 6: that before? Unbelievable match.
Speaker 8: She's thirty seven years of age now, she's got an
Speaker 8: eighty six percent winning ratio on the circuit since turning
Speaker 8: pro in ninety ninety five. It's a remarkable record and
Speaker 8: we used to it getting out of those situations. Was
Speaker 8: it the injury that really, you know, took the toll
Speaker 8: on that match?
Speaker 6: I'd say clearly she is. She was very injured. I mean,
Speaker 6: there's no way. I cannot see her losing that match
Speaker 6: if not for the injury. I think one of the
Speaker 6: things that was really surprising to me is that in
Speaker 6: all that time she was clearly hobbling, she never called
Speaker 6: for a trainer, which if I was her coach I
Speaker 6: would have advised her to do. But that maybe speaks
Speaker 6: to Serena and how you know, terrifically stubborn she is.
Speaker 8: She obviously won the Australia Open here a couple of
Speaker 8: years ago when had a daughter.
Speaker 9: She's come back, She's made two finals since then.
Speaker 8: Will we see Serena get to that pinnicle again and
Speaker 8: win another Grand Slam?
Speaker 6: As long as she is playing, I will not never
Speaker 6: count out Serena, and I don't think anybody else should.
Speaker 6: I mean, she's head and shoulders, a better player and
Speaker 6: a better athlete, I believe overall, even at thirty seven,
Speaker 6: then most of the field, and she has an unbelievable
Speaker 6: self belief.
Speaker 8: Will this be a big story back home tomorrow? And
Speaker 8: what will be the reaction in the States.
Speaker 6: It's going to be big news anytime she loses. Anytime
Speaker 6: she plays in a Grand Slam, people watch, And I'm
Speaker 6: talking about people who aren't even sports fans, but just
Speaker 6: a casual sports fan who doesn't pay any attention to tennis.
Speaker 6: They pay attention when she's playing.
Speaker 2: In the other women's singles match today, Naomi Asaka continues
Speaker 2: her great form this tournament, defeating Elena s Fitdelena six
Speaker 2: four six ' one. He is her reaction on court.
Speaker 11: She's a really good player and it's kind of unfortunate
Speaker 11: that she got injured. But yeah, I mean playing against
Speaker 11: her even when she was injured was still really tough.
Speaker 11: So for me today, I just had one goal and
Speaker 11: it was to try as hard as I can and
Speaker 11: not get angry. So yeah, I didn't do that well
Speaker 11: in the last two rounds, so that was my only
Speaker 11: goal and I think I did it well. So I'm
Speaker 11: really happy with how I played today.
Speaker 2: Such a humble person, know me, and her status within
Speaker 2: the tennis world is only set to grow. With Serena
Speaker 2: now out of the tournament, she's likely to be many
Speaker 2: people's favorite for the title, but she will have to
Speaker 2: get past Plush give up first in her way to
Speaker 2: the final. Elsewhere in the day session, Frenchman Lucas Poi
Speaker 2: defeated Miloseronic in four sets and he spoke about his
Speaker 2: performance after the match.
Speaker 12: I didn't have to face a breakpoint for almost three hours,
Speaker 12: so even if I lost this the third set, in
Speaker 12: my mind it was clear I had to stay focused
Speaker 12: on my service game, taking care of that and then
Speaker 12: trying to put as many return as I can. In
Speaker 12: the third set, I had some breakpoints, he always saved
Speaker 12: it really well with a good serve and good points,
Speaker 12: and then he made a good breaker and here we are,
Speaker 12: and then it's a four set. I'm still leading two
Speaker 12: sets to one, so I don't have to panic and
Speaker 12: been needed to stay positive and chill doing what I
Speaker 12: what I did great for to our thurnaments.
Speaker 2: Saw an effort today for pois a player really on
Speaker 2: the rights now and into a semi final. Tim Swey
Speaker 2: has more.
Speaker 13: David Lario and I'm a reporter for the French sports
Speaker 13: daily Newsley keep in Paris.
Speaker 8: Tell me, look, he's been a number ten, he's found
Speaker 8: himself at number thirty now. Obviously that will jump after
Speaker 8: after his results here, But do you think this is
Speaker 8: a moment in history where he will look back and
Speaker 8: go this is where it clicked for me.
Speaker 13: I hope, so, I hope so for him I opes
Speaker 13: so for him because you know, look as everybody know
Speaker 13: that it is a big talent. You know, he has
Speaker 13: a big arm, you know, a real far ham, really
Speaker 13: really powerful, you know, and he gets just you know,
Speaker 13: to stabilize a little bit that you know, and just
Speaker 13: to find a good balance, you know, between to be
Speaker 13: aggressive on the court and between to be a good defender.
Speaker 13: And I guess for against Hawnich today, I find that
Speaker 13: I find a good balance. You know, is capable to
Speaker 13: make big returns and to be aggressive on his served,
Speaker 13: you know, and if you find the good balance for me,
Speaker 13: it could be a top ten players.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Tell me about Emilie Maresma huge success with Marion Bartoli
Speaker 8: at the wind Wooden. She's had some great success with
Speaker 8: Annie Mari. Now she takes on a new player. She's
Speaker 8: been with him since December and she's already having this influence.
Speaker 13: She knows that big moment, you know, she knows how
Speaker 13: you get to work with that, how you get to
Speaker 13: approach you know, that kind of game. And I guess
Speaker 13: with luc At they got something simple. You know, the
Speaker 13: worst was simple. It was just take pleasure on the court,
Speaker 13: play simple, you know, not to be complicated.
Speaker 6: On new game.
Speaker 13: You just play simple and look at you know, do
Speaker 13: that on the con Rhina since the beginning of the tournament.
Speaker 13: And I mean Emili is probably the big influence you
Speaker 13: know in his new game.
Speaker 8: Right now, people will be waking up in France. Now,
Speaker 8: they'll be getting the news. What will the reaction be
Speaker 8: in France at the.
Speaker 13: Moment they got a bit wait for you know, that
Speaker 13: kind of result in France. You know, the last season
Speaker 13: for the French player were not so good, you know,
Speaker 13: for Richaga's schedule with some Gaga Alemphis it was really
Speaker 13: so so, you know, they got no big results and
Speaker 13: we are waiting for that. You know, we're waiting for
Speaker 13: a guy with capable you know, to fight with the
Speaker 13: top ten, top twenty, you know, and we we we
Speaker 13: have many expectations with Lucas since two years, you know,
Speaker 13: right a, since Inmate the quarter final in US Superen
Speaker 13: you know, and they got something really exciting in France
Speaker 13: with the CAPU right now.
Speaker 9: Thanks for you, Tom, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Today on the Twilight Show, the AI radio team got
Speaker 2: talking about comebacks in tennis. Is Brigittel, Richard Evans and
Speaker 2: Matt Cronin.
Speaker 14: I think we need to get back to the basics
Speaker 14: and remind people of what tennis is. Unlike other sports.
Speaker 14: There is no bell. Yeah, there is no whistle. There
Speaker 14: is no clock that says this match is going to
Speaker 14: end in so many seconds or so many minutes. And
Speaker 14: as my former co writing colleague, the intellectual Davis Cuppa
Speaker 14: Alan Fox said to me once, he said, you have
Speaker 14: to go through the nasty business of winning. You have
Speaker 14: to go over the horns and put the sword in.
Speaker 14: There is no escape. You can't hide, you can get
Speaker 14: the match point, and if you can't do that, you're
Speaker 14: never going to win. And that is what makes tennis
Speaker 14: such a hugely psychological game. It makes it so difficult
Speaker 14: because a boxer, a boxer can can get the points
Speaker 14: going for him and pile up the points and then
Speaker 14: for the last two rounds he puts his gloves in
Speaker 14: front of his face and somebody rings a bell and
Speaker 14: he's won. Never happens in tennis. It can't happen in tennis.
Speaker 14: That's why the scoring system is so brilliant and what
Speaker 14: makes the game different from any other sport.
Speaker 15: I haven't thought about that, but you're absolutely right, and
Speaker 15: you're never out of the guy a camping.
Speaker 14: Yeah, f way up, way up, way up.
Speaker 16: All the time that person's like here or she is
Speaker 16: going to collapse. Whatever, you have to win it. Yes,
Speaker 16: the only thing you can do. You can make a
Speaker 16: couple of errors. Then you'll say, whoops, oh I'm still here.
Speaker 16: What am I going to do?
Speaker 15: It was one of the best comebacks I've say, especially
Speaker 15: because it was against Serena And what was the one
Speaker 15: you mentioned? Are there any others you can think of
Speaker 15: that were really stuck out in your mind? I mean, look, Misia,
Speaker 15: Corey had a pretty good one in his last round
Speaker 15: coming back come you know from two sets down. That's
Speaker 15: pretty extraordinary too. Yeah, so I look at it. They're
Speaker 15: definitely out there. But that was quite an extraordinary game
Speaker 15: of tennis. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 14: It's in the men's game, of course, you get the
Speaker 14: chance to come back from a long way in the
Speaker 14: best of five set format because it can be two
Speaker 14: sets down and everybody said, oh, the match is over,
Speaker 14: but it isn't. You know, have to produce. You've got
Speaker 14: to get that first survey and you've got to hit
Speaker 14: that return, and whether you couldn't do it the way
Speaker 14: you want to is all about the psychology of the
Speaker 14: match and where the match is and what has happened
Speaker 14: in the previous hour or so.
Speaker 2: Throughout the Open. So far, we've looked at various jobs
Speaker 2: around the tournament, including those on court, and one of
Speaker 2: the most unique, I think has to be the line umpires,
Speaker 2: a role that requires quick decision making and twenty twenty vision.
Speaker 3: My name is Hannah, I'm one of the Lion officials
Speaker 3: at the Australian Open.
Speaker 8: Tell me how long you've been doing this for now
Speaker 8: and just to some experiences along the way.
Speaker 3: So ten years, I've been very lucky, very unfortunate. I've
Speaker 3: got the opportunity to umpire at oversea Grand Slams also
Speaker 3: so ron Garos and Wimbleden. You just get to travel
Speaker 3: the world, whether you meet a lot of people from
Speaker 3: all over the glove and very unique experience.
Speaker 9: What is the culture like down here between the line umpires?
Speaker 3: Really friendly? Everyone is great now every morning you come
Speaker 3: in and there's always someone to have a chat with.
Speaker 9: And do you have any idea how any umpires are
Speaker 9: here at the Open?
Speaker 3: Maybe don't quote me, but probably around three hundred. But
Speaker 3: it gets cut down as there are less matches to service.
Speaker 9: It's a very good guess.
Speaker 8: I know last year here at the Open they had
Speaker 8: three hundred and eighty three. Really, so I was testing you, Tribua.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not very good at trivia, so I'm glad
Speaker 3: I got within one hundred of the march.
Speaker 8: Tell me about the introduction of hawkeye. You must feel
Speaker 8: sometimes that it undermines your call. And what's it like
Speaker 8: to make that call and think I've made the right call.
Speaker 8: Then they sent it up for a challenge and you're
Speaker 8: sitting there waiting.
Speaker 9: What's going on in your mind at that moment.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, I really love hawkey. I think it's really
Speaker 3: great because I think your own accuracy improves with Hawkeye
Speaker 3: because it's kind of I think it's very accurate. There
Speaker 3: are some times when you make the wrong call, but
Speaker 3: you knew that you made the wrong call, and hawkkey
Speaker 3: will show that. So when you're waiting for the image
Speaker 3: coming through it, you're you're like a bit like a
Speaker 3: bit resigned because you know that you know that you've
Speaker 3: probably made you've made an error. But it's also very affirmative,
Speaker 3: like when you know you've made a good core and
Speaker 3: it was tight and then it confirms that you feel
Speaker 3: really good. So yeah, it goes both ways.
Speaker 8: How do you get selected to do the big finals
Speaker 8: at the end of the tournament?
Speaker 3: Yes, so you're yeah, you're getting evaluated every single time
Speaker 3: you do a session, so it's all it all gets tabulated,
Speaker 3: and then the ones that have the highest point average
Speaker 3: they make they make the cuts.
Speaker 8: And how are you tracking this year or are we
Speaker 8: hoping that to see you in the final?
Speaker 9: Maybe this year?
Speaker 3: I have no idea, no idea, Yeah, you kind of
Speaker 3: you find out after the tournament finishes, you know, just
Speaker 3: just you know, keep focus, just keep doing what you've
Speaker 3: got to do, and then whatever happens happens.
Speaker 9: Good luck. Hope to see you out there in the final.
Speaker 3: Great thanks too.
Speaker 2: Lastly, today we check in with an another legend of
Speaker 2: the game. This time it's Danielle han cha Kova Daniello.
Speaker 9: Thoughts and feelings about being back at the Open.
Speaker 4: Oh, I feels amazing always to be back down on there.
Speaker 2: Couldn't wait.
Speaker 4: I just got here this morning. Actually, so no, it's
Speaker 4: the best time of the year. Actually, I've been always
Speaker 4: saying that when I still play it because everyone's fresh
Speaker 4: ready to start the season and I just love Australia,
Speaker 4: so I'm super happy to be back.
Speaker 8: Tell me, there's a lot of technology now, a lot
Speaker 8: of changes in the game. Is there things that are
Speaker 8: happening now out there that you wish you had back
Speaker 8: in the day when you were applying?
Speaker 14: Not really.
Speaker 4: I'm actually a very old style kind of person. So
Speaker 4: I like the way, you know, things has been working
Speaker 4: in tennis for many years. Maybe with the analysis stuff
Speaker 4: for the players, you know, like now all the access
Speaker 4: that the coaches have to see exactly how we play,
Speaker 4: maybe that could have been useful.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 14: I just no.
Speaker 4: I think I like the tennis that has been the
Speaker 4: way it's been for the last I don't know how
Speaker 4: many times of years.
Speaker 8: You finished now obviously a legend of the sport looking
Speaker 8: back as a legend at your early stages of your career,
Speaker 8: is there some advice you could give some of these
Speaker 8: young players out on court now looking back at your career, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Definitely to appreciate it what they do, because you know,
Speaker 4: it's only maybe what two hundred players people in the
Speaker 4: world that get to do this, and it's really a
Speaker 4: huge privilege to meet and this is the most beautiful
Speaker 4: sport so that they can appreciate it and really enjoy
Speaker 4: it and not take anything for granted because the real
Speaker 4: life it's completely different, and you know, just maybe sometimes
Speaker 4: slow down and when they have a good result, really
Speaker 4: really digest it and not to rush from one tournament
Speaker 4: to another.
Speaker 9: And what are some of the greatest memories for you
Speaker 9: here at over Park.
Speaker 4: Oh, definitely reaching the Semis and we need the grand
Speaker 4: at the mixed doubles and making it to the finals
Speaker 4: of women's doubles. Yeah, I've had some great results. But
Speaker 4: more than that, it's how much fun we always used
Speaker 4: to have in the city and great restaurants, great cafes
Speaker 4: and just the whole atmosphere of the place.
Speaker 10: It's amazing.
Speaker 8: And which of these legends here that I are you
Speaker 8: really looking forward to hang out with and catch up with?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, it's such an honor, you know, Like I'm the
Speaker 4: youngest one, I guess with Kim Plister, So it's really
Speaker 4: privileged to be able to spend time with them on and.
Speaker 2: Off the court.
Speaker 4: Obviously we do a lot of TV stuff together as well,
Speaker 4: and it would be actually fun to play mixed doubles.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: We've been saying that for some time now, I think
Speaker 4: Defens would enjoy that too, so yeah, let's see. But
Speaker 4: you know, it's just a really nice, nice week.
Speaker 9: To have great chat.
Speaker 2: Yep, And that will do it for day ten. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for listening really at the business end.
Speaker 2: Now I'll talk to you again on day eleven.