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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Sitdown. I'm Viv Christie, managing

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Speaker 1: editor of Australian Tennis magazine, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm Mattrolope, a writer for oz open dot com now

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Speaker 2: Viv for this week's episode. Unfortunately, I was a little

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Speaker 2: unwell and couldn't join you in the studio. I was

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Speaker 2: on screen though for this interview. Tell us what it

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Speaker 2: was like to actually be in studio with Daria and

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Speaker 2: Luke Savill.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was fabulous, Matt. There was so much fun

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Speaker 1: and energy spending time with Dasha and Luke, who were

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Speaker 1: actually doing their first official interview as a couple, and

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Speaker 1: I think we got a really strong sense of how

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Speaker 1: they click as a couple, but particularly how they've supported

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Speaker 1: each other throughout their tennis careers.

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Speaker 2: For sure, And speaking of how they click for the

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Speaker 2: listeners who won't have seen them, they rocked up in

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Speaker 2: almost matching outfits. They we're both in a shade of

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Speaker 2: pink or purple, so we loved their coordinated approach to

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Speaker 2: the interview and you started it off by asking them

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Speaker 2: the most important question about their dog, who's almost as

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Speaker 2: famous as them.

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Speaker 1: Luke and Dasher, thank you for joining us today on

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Speaker 1: the sit down at great to have you here in

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Speaker 1: the studio.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. This is a very nice studio by the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we call it pot labor Arena.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I love it. This is so smart.

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Speaker 1: What's of great interviews happening here, including this one? I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: But let's start with the most important question. Where is

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Speaker 1: Tofu right now? Who is looking after Tofu?

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Speaker 4: Dash's mum back in back in the house. But I'm

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Speaker 4: sure he's probably pretty sad and disappointed that he's not here.

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Speaker 4: He's he always waves goodbye to us when we go

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Speaker 4: to work, and it's it's quite a funny, quite a

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Speaker 4: funny sight.

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Speaker 1: You must you must love catching up with Tofu when

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Speaker 1: you're home.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, definitely. I probably prioritize him over anyone. So

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Speaker 5: if any of my friends are listening to this, and

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Speaker 5: I may be sometimes canceled some of my some of

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Speaker 1: In all seriousness, it does seem like it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a rare break for both of you being home together.

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Speaker 1: What do you most laugh about being back in Melbourne?

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Speaker 4: For me, it's probably just living kind of normal for

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Speaker 4: a little bit. It's staying in their own bed, in

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Speaker 4: gets up with me as well, and I usually bring

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Speaker 4: So I think he just likes knowing that we're home

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Speaker 4: and he can sort of see.

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Speaker 6: His mum and dad.

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Speaker 4: But also just the training side of it, and I

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Speaker 4: mean obviously spending time with one another when we're traveling

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Speaker 4: a lot of the time we're on different schedules, so's

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Speaker 4: it's nice to sort of live normal and yeah, just

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Speaker 5: Right, Oh, what about golf all the golf golfing that

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Speaker 5: you're doing that as well, But.

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Speaker 6: That's that's a touchy subject.

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Speaker 1: I can actually really to that. We have that in

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Speaker 1: our house too. How many how many weeks would that

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Speaker 1: happen when you're of a year? Would that happen when

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Speaker 5: Honestly, we can probably count them on one hand, right, like,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, not not that often.

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Speaker 2: To be fair, speaking of this, like, I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: how often it is that you've done joint interviews before.

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Speaker 2: Is this Is this something that's regular for you to

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Speaker 6: Definitely not.

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Speaker 4: It's probably maybe a first yeah, but then I'll be interesting.

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Speaker 4: I hope you guys don't stitch us up with any

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Speaker 4: hard hitting questions or anything like that. But no, it's

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's good to even spend time together, even

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Speaker 2: How often do you get asked about each other in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely get asked a lot about Tofu.

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Speaker 3: And then and then Loup probably second.

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Speaker 2: What about you Luke to come up in yours?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, quite a bit.

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Speaker 4: It's quite a common question how much we see each other,

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Speaker 4: And it's a very difficult question to answer because from

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Speaker 4: every year, you know, it really varies on how much

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Speaker 4: but it probably, yeah, it varies from probably fifteen to

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Speaker 4: twenty five weeks something like that. So but to be honest,

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Speaker 4: we've been dating for so many years, and especially early

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Speaker 4: what it takes to play professional tennis and a lot

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Speaker 4: I think it actually really works well when we can

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Speaker 6: It's just part of the business.

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Speaker 2: When was the first meeting between the two of you?

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Speaker 2: Was Was it in Australia?

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Speaker 6: I think it was Junior Davis Cup in.

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Speaker 5: Mexico, Mexico, okay, and then a lot of just Facebook

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Speaker 2: And what year was that Junior Davis Cup Fair Cup.

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Speaker 3: I think we were sixteen, so two thousand and nine

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So yeah, Dasha was obviously playing for Russia at

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Speaker 4: party and slash disco there and that's where I showed

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Speaker 4: my great moves to Dasha clearly. Clearly I'm joking, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: from there it was a little bit of messaging and

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Speaker 4: obviously quite early days we were young, but yeah, sort

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Speaker 1: How often did you get to meet up at sort

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Speaker 3: Days, Not much at all. I think we've.

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Speaker 5: There was a time where we didn't see each other

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Speaker 2: It's a fantastic story. And I guess because the two

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Speaker 2: you came here when you were eighteen. How grateful were

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Speaker 2: you that tennis, you know, allowed you to meet Luke

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Speaker 2: and then it's kind of created it maybe a different

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Speaker 5: Probably not when I started tennis, but when I started traveling,

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Speaker 5: I really liked Australia and I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 5: Then I came back a few years later to play

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Speaker 5: like challenges ATFS twenty fives and I told my dad.

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Speaker 5: I was like, I'm going to Australia because you know

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Speaker 5: it's the cuts were weaker, so I would definitely be

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Speaker 1: How old were you when you first came to Australia.

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Speaker 1: Can you remember your first trip?

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Speaker 3: I think either fifteen or sixteen. I was still playing juniors.

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Speaker 2: And on the flip side, Luke, have you been, because

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Speaker 2: obviously Dasha licks you have you been to Russia much.

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Speaker 2: Can you speak any of the language.

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Speaker 6: I definitely can't.

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Speaker 4: We've tried, but I just can't pick it up for

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Speaker 6: It's it's very difficult.

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Speaker 4: And I've been once to Russia and Dasha wasn't there, actually,

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Speaker 4: But I went to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and was

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Speaker 6: And Dasha's dad was there, and I met a dog, and.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I s met my grandama as well.

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Speaker 6: So, but where were you, Dasha?

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Speaker 3: I was injured.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so these days, do you train together often or

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Speaker 5: We actually do a little bit. Luke helps me out.

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Speaker 5: It's probably more beneficial to me than it is to Luke.

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Speaker 5: But then again, I think I make enough balls and

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Speaker 5: pretty consistent. Sometimes looks like, wow, you really don't miss

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Speaker 5: definitely wouldn't play too many points. I don't think it'll

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Speaker 5: be very interesting for Luke to be fair.

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Speaker 1: Does it feel like work or does it feel like

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we tried to make it work like otherwise it's

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Speaker 5: Actually during COVID in lockdown, we kind of had to

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Speaker 6: I think, Yeah, there was.

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Speaker 4: A little bit of tension on court, it's fair to say,

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Speaker 4: but that was probably just the times as well. We

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Speaker 4: So it's it's probably a little bit like the mixed doubles.

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Speaker 4: We go out there and we aim to really enjoy

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Speaker 4: it and not take it too seriously, but ultimately it

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Speaker 4: always gets competitive and possibly a little argumentative. But I'd

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Speaker 4: say in the last last six months, maybe years, the

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Speaker 6: We tend to enjoy it a lot more and make

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, obviously I'm a little bit biased,

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Speaker 4: just like a ball machine. So it's very impressive.

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Speaker 1: Who is the better coach among you.

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Speaker 5: Probably Luke, I would say. I think Luke is a

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Speaker 5: See this drama or blah blah blah, So something comes up.

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Speaker 4: But it's it's brutal.

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Speaker 5: It's brutal because you feel like so helpless and you

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Speaker 3: Like sometimes it's really hard.

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Speaker 3: And coaching me that's not happening. We discussed.

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Speaker 2: Clear, Dasha. It was interesting hearing Luke describe like your

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Speaker 5: That's something I should maybe learn a bit late. Now

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Speaker 3: Would you say persistence?

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Speaker 6: So I think that's the core part.

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Speaker 4: Well, with Dasher, I think it's, you know, she's obviously

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Speaker 4: It's so admirable, absolutely incredible, and it just shows the

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you.

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Speaker 5: long way if you you know, reach out to someone

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Speaker 5: or come and watch them. And it's something I'm starting

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Speaker 5: to do a lot more because especially if like what

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Speaker 5: Luke said, you know, when you were growing up and

448
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Speaker 5: traveling with other boys and a few years later you're

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Speaker 5: playing like the biggest tournaments and it's pretty cool. So

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Speaker 5: it's something I would like encourage up and coming you know,

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Speaker 5: players juniors.

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Speaker 3: To do is support each other.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, I've mentioned before how Luke is very consistent

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Speaker 5: with you know, his routines and whatnot. But I also

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Speaker 5: learned with Luke that he actually can switch off and

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Speaker 5: you know, take the day off to play golf, let's say,

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Speaker 5: or you know, any like he has other interests, which

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Speaker 5: is also really important because yeah, you definitely need need

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Speaker 5: another source where yeah you can with the energy and

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Speaker 5: then feel like, okay, this is also fulfilling. It's not

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Speaker 5: just always about tennis.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting hearing a little bit about your junior career, Luke,

463
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Speaker 1: because I wanted to take you back bear with me

464
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Speaker 1: to a letter that I have in the Australian Tennis

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Speaker 1: magazine files from a few years ago, and I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to read you a couple of lines. Just when

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Speaker 1: I thought it couldn't get any worse, I injured my

468
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Speaker 1: arm and couldn't play the last game. It was a disaster,

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Speaker 1: disaster and big letters. So after the tournament I had

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Speaker 1: two and a half weeks off and then there was

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Speaker 1: a question. What I don't understand is why does the

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Speaker 1: number one seed play the number three seed and in

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Speaker 1: the semifinals and number two plays number four seeds? Just

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Speaker 1: wondering if you remember anything about that letter he wrote

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Speaker 1: a letter, Just want to pull it out for you.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, do you remember this? Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Years old?

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Speaker 3: I actually do I need to frame this?

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Speaker 6: So was that it was.

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Speaker 1: Big letters disaster.

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Speaker 3: It's not just big letters, it's late.

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Speaker 6: I'm so taken aback right now?

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Speaker 1: Is it fun looking back?

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Speaker 4: That's hilarious, That's absolutely hilarious. I vaguely remember that. And

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Speaker 4: that was Bruce Cup.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it was Bruce.

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Speaker 3: Cups two thousand and five, by the way, two.

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Speaker 1: Thousand and five.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I played three Bruce Cups. It's an under twelves

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Speaker 4: state teams competition. And I remember my arm.

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 4: They kept me in the lineup, but I couldn't serve,

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Speaker 4: so I was serving under arm. And then I went

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Speaker 4: home and I had like an our physio treatment on

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Speaker 4: my arm and it was just basically a huge not

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Speaker 4: in the back of the back of my shoulder that

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Speaker 4: he just had to get out. And I was good

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Speaker 4: as gold after that. But that was up in. That

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Speaker 4: was up in Darwin, and I remember riding. It was

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Speaker 4: a disaster in four or four times bigger than than

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Speaker 4: the rest.

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Speaker 5: Of the So, yeah, it's like a notebook with lines

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Speaker 5: and Luke it took one to five lines or six

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Speaker 5: lines to put it was a disaster.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't I don't mince my words. So I.

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Speaker 2: Will be very, very thrilled that Luke, you were reading

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Speaker 2: it and conceiving the magazine from such a young age.

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Speaker 2: That's like a real tennis fan.

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Speaker 5: You still ride the same, by the way, it's probably

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Speaker 5: better back then, but we don't need to know that.

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Speaker 5: You know how you brought up a few weeks ago

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Speaker 5: that when you have like little injury, like you really struggle.

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Speaker 5: I guess it started from two thousand and five.

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Speaker 1: You just had a nel like.

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Speaker 5: Niggle in your arm and you'd take six lines to write.

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Speaker 3: It was a disaster.

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Speaker 1: So after looking back, let's look forward a little bit. Dasha,

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Speaker 1: You're about to go to Billy jing Kin Cup finals.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so I'm actually leaving tomorrow. I'm playing another tournament

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Speaker 5: just before that, an IF seventy five in Luxembourg. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: I've been looking after, you know, my body a little bit.

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Speaker 5: I've had a foot like kind of fasciatis foot injuries.

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Speaker 5: So it's it's it's feeling good. So I'm excited to,

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Speaker 5: you know, compete again. And I've actually started working with

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Speaker 5: Michael Lagazo, so spend almost a month working with him.

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Speaker 5: So if I don't do well, that's because and if

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Speaker 5: I do well, that's also because of you. I'm kidding,

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Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm actually we've been working on a few things.

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Speaker 3: You know. It's not like any sin.

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Speaker 5: Dramatic and I don't have a one handed back end,

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Speaker 5: but I am excited to confit with what we've worked on.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Luke. What's next for you?

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Speaker 4: I'm sort of done for the year, just chilling out

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Speaker 4: a little bit at the moment, spending a little bit

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Speaker 4: of time with Dasher and possibly heading up to the

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Speaker 4: Gold Coast for the future up there, and Dasha is

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Speaker 4: also playing the seventy five a couple of weeks after

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Speaker 4: fed Cup, so yeah, just a little bit of downtime

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Speaker 4: now and then just looking ahead to January and hopefully yeah,

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Speaker 4: playing the playing the Australian Open and maybe enjoying the

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Speaker 4: mixed doubles this time around.

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Speaker 1: What do you most kind of look forward to when

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Speaker 1: you think about an Australian summer coming up.

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Speaker 4: Firstly, it's probably just being home, that's the obvious one.

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Speaker 4: But there's just there's nothing like playing the Australian Open

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Speaker 4: every single year, the anticipation of just playing your home slam,

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Speaker 4: and every year it's improving, it really is, and it's

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Speaker 4: definitely the best slam I Am and Craig and the

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Speaker 4: team just do an amazing job of just you know,

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Speaker 4: basically improving the event from year to year and then

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Speaker 4: just playing in front of family and friends and looking

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Speaker 4: back on letters like this and just seeing how much

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Speaker 4: tennis means to me, and then you know, twenty years later,

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Speaker 4: I'm playing the Australian Opener. It's probably my fifteenth Australian

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Speaker 4: Open and it's still the same feeling every time. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: for me, it's just nothing really compares to just playing

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Speaker 4: here at home.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and definitely the fans. That's so much fun when everyone,

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Speaker 5: almost everyone in the stands is supporting you. And yeah,

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Speaker 5: I definitely feel like I connect with everyone and I

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Speaker 5: always try and find a group of people that are

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Speaker 5: there like supporting me, and I give that energy back.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I definitely, you know, I can't I almost

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Speaker 5: can't wait. Like it's like December is when I I

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Speaker 5: like have so much fun training because well, first of all,

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Speaker 5: it's summer, we're in the sun finally Melbourne, So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I love pre season because like I have a goal

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Speaker 5: and something to look forward to, and then playing you know,

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Speaker 5: in front of home crowd and friends, it's always so

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Speaker 5: much fun.

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Speaker 2: That was absolutely incredible that you'd kept that letter to

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Speaker 2: Australian Tennis magazine from Luke for twenty years. I loved

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Speaker 2: his and Dash's reaction to when you actually handed that

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Speaker 2: to them, like all those memories coming back that that

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Speaker 2: was incredible.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was really fun. I've been waiting for an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to share that. But I do think I'm bringing

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Speaker 1: letters to the editor back for the magazine. We never

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Speaker 1: know what future star is going to be writing to us.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, so many nuggets in that interview as well.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah there were weren't there. There was the revelation

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Speaker 2: that Dash is working with a new coach. She wants

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Speaker 2: to do some coaching and mentoring. Luke talked about a

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Speaker 2: potential coaching career He's interested in doing that. We covered

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Speaker 2: a lot of ground with them in that chat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we could have talked to them forever, but Luke

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Speaker 1: had another interview to get to Actually.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Luke made his debut on the Aoshow Weekly this

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Speaker 2: week and John and Brie and the team will be

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Speaker 2: back with another episode next Thursday.

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Speaker 1: And we'll be back with another episode of the sit

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Speaker 1: Down next week. Please remember to subscribe rate and review.

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Speaker 1: See you next week. Matt See of viv