Speaker 1: Big day yesterday, Oh big day.
Speaker 2: And the competition hasn't even started.
Speaker 1: Well, it has the qualifying has and the competition with
Speaker 1: us on the pickleball court.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. V randoms V randoms. Yeah, we were
Speaker 2: just about to back up, and then we saw these
Speaker 2: guys leaving the gym, and we thought, you want to challenge,
Speaker 2: you want to throw down.
Speaker 1: You're reflexing. You were giving it the sabalanca bicep case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how I started a match.
Speaker 1: That's how you started the match. And then they were
Speaker 1: they're training someone who's in qualifying, and so they were
Speaker 1: using the gym. They were kind of pro, and one
Speaker 1: of them told us that he is a paddle basically
Speaker 1: a pro paddle player, and he was really talking a
Speaker 1: big game.
Speaker 2: He was really talking it up, and then he said,
Speaker 2: I don't do the overseas competitions, which doesn't reflect in
Speaker 2: my ranking. And I'm like, okay, we're already making excuses
Speaker 2: for us exactly, Hi, if you're listening, we dominated, We
Speaker 2: actually don't. I think it was like eleven one, eleven one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was fair with and without wind.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we switched sides of the court, so that
Speaker 1: kind of uh, accreditated. How do you say accredit credit, accreditators, accreditation?
Speaker 2: What are you trying to say? I don't know what
Speaker 2: you need?
Speaker 1: The court that the that's just for Yeah, the pickleball
Speaker 1: court that we have access to.
Speaker 2: Oh, we have to No one else has access to it.
Speaker 1: No, we have to.
Speaker 2: Go through a kitchen.
Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to say. That only the
Speaker 1: accreditators do.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, US accredits credit. Okay, only people with a
Speaker 2: special pass you can get into this pickaball.
Speaker 1: Court, that's right. So but all comers we will take on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as long as you're accredited.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will stand outside the gym and pick you off.
Speaker 1: Well. Actually, my first day walking into the grounds yesterday,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was walking in I live in the
Speaker 1: neighboring suburb to the Australian Open Grounds and a lady
Speaker 1: saw me wearing my lanyard and she said, hey, how
Speaker 1: do I get into the Australian Open And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: the entrance. You just got to walk this way for
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes and then it's right there. And she was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'll follow you. And I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: am I obligetting to talk to this woman. Now for
Speaker 1: the fifteen minute walk.
Speaker 2: Did she just lag like in your wake? Was she
Speaker 2: just this is when flip street?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well so I immediately put headphones back in.
Speaker 2: Which I was like a signal.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And then I noticed she was not moving
Speaker 1: that fast okay, and I meant to wait, what's the I.
Speaker 2: The people pleaser me would have like chatted to her.
Speaker 2: I would have been talking I probably. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: have done everything for this woman. I would be next
Speaker 2: minute doing her wash ship.
Speaker 1: Because at one point I looked back and she was
Speaker 1: a blip on the horizon.
Speaker 2: Oh did you run? I was sprinting.
Speaker 1: I was like, follow me, and then I sprinted you
Speaker 1: freak and I kicked her crutches. No, so I was
Speaker 1: That was my first kind of awkward social moment, like
Speaker 1: just walking into the tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a good omen, isn't it? So thinking for
Speaker 2: Mike still hates people at all.
Speaker 1: If she could keep up, it would have been a
Speaker 1: different story. But true. But I hope she made it
Speaker 1: in the end. And I've been I've been looking at
Speaker 1: missing persons.
Speaker 2: Reports see if she's if she went into the river.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, a big day for us yesterday.
Speaker 2: Walking for us good vibes yesterday, vibe twenty nine thousand people?
Speaker 2: Is that correct? Is that the correct fact?
Speaker 1: Twenty nine that's huge, twenty nine thousands. And we also
Speaker 1: got twenty nine thousand downloads of our first stab whoa,
Speaker 1: I made that up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. We also got twenty nine thousand complaint emails.
Speaker 1: Actually, I know there was a complaint about me not
Speaker 1: being Ozzy. Oh yeah, I've been here for twenty years.
Speaker 2: You've got a passport.
Speaker 1: I've got it citizenship, Yeah, passport, Im not can if
Speaker 1: people feel more comfortable, I can do it in my
Speaker 1: best Aussie accent.
Speaker 2: Oh, go for it.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey yah, yes, pat Rafta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love him. I'll do mine as well.
Speaker 1: Shake Check's got Vegas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if I can handle that. Maybe
Speaker 2: I could do it in my American accent as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just did it talking about like I'm hang on,
Speaker 2: let's get into it. I'm doing it now. I'm from
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I think you've gone mob boss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well look at this tracksuit. This is what I'm wearing.
Speaker 1: Also, we forgot to establish yesterday that you've set up
Speaker 1: a Rayah account. Oh yeah, for the duration of the tournament.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, I fired it up again.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh so it was already it already existed and it's
Speaker 2: laid dormant for quite a quite a while, and I thought,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'll give the podcast some content.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I fired it up. You're not really allowed
Speaker 2: to talk about it publicly. You can't even screenshot.
Speaker 1: So Riya's like fight club.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, okay, who's on?
Speaker 1: You can't So if you meet a tennis player on here,
Speaker 1: you can't even tell us about it. No.
Speaker 2: I of course I had to bring it up on
Speaker 2: the pot. Are you serious? That's the only thing that
Speaker 2: this is good for.
Speaker 1: Have you had any hits from that tennis world?
Speaker 2: Yeah? You know who I've had a hit from. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can bring this up. A
Speaker 2: tennis guy did like my profile and I looked him up.
Speaker 2: He's sixty years old.
Speaker 1: Oh and a coach. Basically, what I'm hearing is you're
Speaker 1: getting hit on by Todd Woodbridge.
Speaker 2: Nah. No, it's an overseas guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, did he send you a message or it's
Speaker 1: just all.
Speaker 2: Like they like you, you have to like them back
Speaker 2: and then you can start talking right right, right, and.
Speaker 1: For anyone who doesn't know, Riya is the tender for
Speaker 1: people who think they're better than.
Speaker 2: You, Yeah, pretty much. You have to be invited on.
Speaker 2: And I think overseas it's quite cool. He Actually there's
Speaker 2: like really good people on there. But in Australia, so
Speaker 2: good commercial real estate ages all right, Yeah, footy players
Speaker 2: it's not great.
Speaker 1: Players might be all right, yeah, but a commercial real
Speaker 1: estate agent, yeah it's so good.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, when the tennis comes through, usually there's
Speaker 2: a few tennis players.
Speaker 1: All right. So I think that the main objective is
Speaker 1: with your Riyah account or the Australian Open, is you
Speaker 1: get a date with the tennis player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully, and then you know, film it.
Speaker 1: And then we're going to film it everything and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be the chaperone.
Speaker 2: I'd actually love that show.
Speaker 1: Perfect Tennis, Welcome to pod Labor Arena. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of chat before we got into it. And of course
Speaker 1: I am My Goldstein and as all of us, I
Speaker 1: have the Venus villains, Serena, Lizzy.
Speaker 2: Who what a day?
Speaker 1: Yes, huge turnout. Oh Bernard Thomic is back.
Speaker 2: I know he won his qualifying match.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think I'm excited. Yeah, Bernie bring
Speaker 1: him back so much potential. You know, he was huge
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 2: It was huge. I just I just remember his car.
Speaker 2: Do you remember his car?
Speaker 1: I know he got caught speed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like orange. Was it orange? Or Am
Speaker 2: I getting that mixed up with curiosity?
Speaker 1: No? It's probably that sounds right. Yeah it was orange
Speaker 1: atomic at an orange car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was orange and orange bmw. Oh yeah, why
Speaker 2: do I remember that?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I don't want to remember that.
Speaker 1: If Bernie hit you up on Rayah and was like
Speaker 1: let's hang.
Speaker 2: Out, I'd be like, I'm busy. I got a one
Speaker 2: point slim to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah you do.
Speaker 2: Actually, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 3: We're competing in the one point one.
Speaker 1: What do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 2: It's not not together right?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if we're playing against each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if that's true, and judging by how many times you
Speaker 1: hit me with the ping pong ball yesterday, we should
Speaker 1: we should try and involve, like if you lose the point,
Speaker 1: I get to hit a tennis ball. Yeah, and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Deal are right? In today's headline calls a bunch of
Speaker 1: things to talk about Lizzie Uh. As we mentioned before,
Speaker 1: there was the sable Anca celebration kissing the Yeah I
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, yeah, she's got out of cheat. No.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And but she she it was done because a
Speaker 2: player said that she had too much testoster.
Speaker 1: Oh is that why?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, that's what they're assuming, right, But then they
Speaker 2: asked her about it and she said, no, I just
Speaker 2: was strong in that game pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been told I have too much estrogen.
Speaker 2: Really too much?
Speaker 1: So which should I kiss.
Speaker 2: My ass?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean it is a pretty cool celebration. I
Speaker 1: think only she could pull it off. I think if
Speaker 1: anything male player did it, you'd be like, what a
Speaker 1: what a douche? Really, don't you think?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like my players celebrate like male footballer is
Speaker 2: do that like the flex yeah all the time, and
Speaker 2: whenever they do it. I think I have never once
Speaker 2: in my life won anything and wanted to do.
Speaker 1: That, right, just like flex?
Speaker 2: What what about? I don't see tennis players really doing it,
Speaker 2: but it'd be.
Speaker 1: Cool to do the kissing the bicep thing and like
Speaker 1: everyday life, like when you pick up your coffee, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just like they call your name and you walk
Speaker 1: up and we'll yeah, that's my ice latte with soy milk.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. I'm going to do it in
Speaker 2: the one point slam. Oh you should actually when I lose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Cocky Nucus has a new injury. Yeah, did well last night.
Speaker 1: He won his first round match in the Adelaide tournament.
Speaker 1: That's currently happening. I hope it's not serious.
Speaker 2: No, I want to see him play.
Speaker 1: What other body part can he have implanted?
Speaker 2: Because it's a shoulder niggle, so we need to get
Speaker 2: him a shoulder right, but he.
Speaker 1: Had an Achilles tendon in the packs or what and
Speaker 1: maybe an a c L and the shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, something like a hip hip flexor in the shoulder.
Speaker 1: A glute muscle in the shoulder.
Speaker 2: This is all very medical.
Speaker 3: Yes, old butt shoulders like dunk and dunk on his shoulder,
Speaker 3: but do all.
Speaker 1: Right for us. Also, like I play a bit of tennis.
Speaker 1: When I do. I recently played Australian comedian icon some
Speaker 1: might say Dave Hughes and I'm generally beat husy, you know,
Speaker 1: convincingly convincingly Yeah, And I love to see Hughesy get
Speaker 1: mad because oh yeah. He's so competitive, really, and he's
Speaker 1: screaming at himself and everyone knows it's him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what does he say? What's his talk?
Speaker 1: I can't say it on him, We'll have to bleep
Speaker 1: it out. But there's a lot of sea bombs and
Speaker 1: really yeh, but he's great, Like he's he's so competitive.
Speaker 1: But we played the other day and he beat me
Speaker 1: six four six zero six zero delta bagel by Dave.
Speaker 2: I know, did you just like completely choke in that
Speaker 2: second set?
Speaker 1: I thought I was playing okay, but I've never seen
Speaker 1: the man move quicker in my life.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then I was talking to him on change of
Speaker 1: ends and I was like, what's going on. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm on this new ADHD medication and I'm like okay,
Speaker 1: and like you meant meant to take how many a day?
Speaker 1: And he's like two to three. I was like, how
Speaker 1: many have you taken? He's like about eight. I don't
Speaker 1: care if this is out there. There's just this gray
Speaker 1: blur on the other side of the course, just running.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get it past him. And now, like, because
Speaker 1: when I beat him, he's messaging me. The next day
Speaker 1: we got to play. We gotta play. And now that
Speaker 1: he's beaten me and my message like we got to
Speaker 1: play again? No response? What radio silence?
Speaker 2: Do you think he's playing someone else?
Speaker 1: No? I think he wants to maintain his Oh that's it.
Speaker 2: He wants to go out on a high. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: run out of prescription.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's run out of his meds. He's going to
Speaker 1: have to take ten next time, and then it'll be
Speaker 1: my problem when his heart explodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're got to that quote.
Speaker 1: Oh fucking can you do? Hughsy, wonderful crowd.
Speaker 2: Of my line, this is the best of her hat.
Speaker 1: You're going into hubee.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. Have a Eusy impersonation.
Speaker 2: I think I feel like every comedian does.
Speaker 1: That's a good character, hughesy her catch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a combination of this frail.
Speaker 1: Dave Hughes You're wonderful crowd.
Speaker 2: That's incredible about Okay? All right?
Speaker 1: Looking ahead to the Australian Open Tournament. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a big one. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: the best ever and.
Speaker 2: I'm on ever in general?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that because we're here, Yeah, we're a part of it.
Speaker 1: People are talking about US.
Speaker 2: Oh so many?
Speaker 1: Who are why are they here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are they doing?
Speaker 2: Do they know anything about tennis?
Speaker 1: No? But I I do think the Australian Open, and
Speaker 1: this is my unbiased opinion. I think it's the best
Speaker 1: of the Slams.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 2: Have you been to all of this?
Speaker 1: The US A bunch and I've been to Wimbledon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just haven't been to the.
Speaker 2: French okay, yes, particular reason.
Speaker 1: I would look bad in a Panama head.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that head. It's not fitting much.
Speaker 1: Is this going to be a running gag of a
Speaker 1: huge head? Maybe that's fine? Sorry, no, no, that's fair. Yeah.
Speaker 2: There's record prize money this.
Speaker 1: Year singles champs collect four point one five million each.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what would you do with four point one million?
Speaker 1: Still quit? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Still quit quit? Yeah, I'm quitning.
Speaker 1: It's good to know you have that Asian work ethic.
Speaker 2: I am half what so it kicks in every now
Speaker 2: and then. But yeah, I think i'd quit go on
Speaker 2: a holiday. Oh yeah, I'd go and see all the Slams.
Speaker 1: I mean Australian Open. It said they're going to send
Speaker 1: us to all the Slams. Yeah, I did hear. That
Speaker 1: is that right, Shannon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beat on the street.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I'll go. I'll do it for whatever.
Speaker 1: If I have to oil up Bernie, I'd love to
Speaker 1: say that. So yeah, I've been a very enthusiastic punter
Speaker 1: at previous events. You get angry, vocal, well, yelling stuff
Speaker 1: out at a tennis match. It's prime for getting a
Speaker 1: big laugh.
Speaker 2: Oh and we love big love.
Speaker 1: I love big laughs, we do. But it's also a
Speaker 1: prime for bombing in front of more people than Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've ever bombed in front of Okay, But I used
Speaker 1: to one of my very good friends, Paul Hancock, who
Speaker 1: lives in Sydney's an absolute tennis freak and we would
Speaker 1: go every year to the Australian Open and yell stuff out,
Speaker 1: try to get a laugh. And we were in rod
Speaker 1: Labor in a first round match. Nadal was playing somebody
Speaker 1: and absolutely killing him. It was like six to oho,
Speaker 1: six to oh four zero and uh he yelled out,
Speaker 1: hanging their rafa and it killed right, like huge laugh.
Speaker 1: Whatever capacity is Rod Labor, you know, and uh and
Speaker 1: then he nudges me and he was like, you'll never
Speaker 1: get a laugh from that many people at once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: brutal right, and I was like, all right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good, pretty good. And then we were watching a
Speaker 1: match on one of the outside courts. Gael mon Fees
Speaker 1: play Doggopolov. His first name Alexander. He was playing Alexander Dogoppolov,
Speaker 1: and uh, who people used to call Doggie? Right, there's
Speaker 1: the dog dog Appolof. And so I told my my friend.
Speaker 1: I was like, you should yell out I love your
Speaker 1: doggy style. And he did and it did not go
Speaker 1: well at all, I know, but oh I relished. People
Speaker 1: were looking like, ugh, is this guy tasteless? So still
Speaker 1: about once or twice a year I'll message my buddy
Speaker 1: and say, I love your doggy style.
Speaker 2: Do you have any crowd etiquette rules?
Speaker 1: Look, I think we should start letting people in, even
Speaker 1: when it's not change events. Right. Oh, we're treating the
Speaker 1: players a little too preciously. Let people walk in.
Speaker 2: But people are so distracting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, why do we have to act
Speaker 1: like you're so special as a tennis player?
Speaker 2: Yeah? True, any other sport. Like you see a golf
Speaker 2: with tea off and there's like a thousand cameras in
Speaker 2: their face and everyone's whispering and talking.
Speaker 1: Exactly and the golf gets rowdy.
Speaker 2: Now it does, yeah, Rory's wife.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think I've seen a few things
Speaker 1: happen in a crowd that maybe beyond the pale one.
Speaker 1: I was at a at the Hopman Cup in Perth
Speaker 1: with my old man, uh and Goldstein, doctor Goldstein.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, yeah, thank you again, doctor Goldstein.
Speaker 1: He uh sees American, right, And so he was unfamiliar
Speaker 1: with the ketchup packets.
Speaker 2: Oh that stumps everyone.
Speaker 1: Do you know the twisty ones where it's like the
Speaker 1: little packet and couple squeeze. Yeah, yeah, so you squeeze
Speaker 1: so it comes out. But he thought it was twisty, right,
Speaker 1: and so he went to twist the ketchup packet tomato sauce. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm not ausy, but I am, oh the tomato sauce.
Speaker 1: And so instead of squeezing, he twisted and the ketchup
Speaker 1: sprayed all over the shirt, the white T shirt of
Speaker 1: a like ten year old kid sitting in front of us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely doused the shirt and the kid unknowing well, it
Speaker 1: took a minute for it to seep in far enough
Speaker 1: for him to feel it. Okay, And before that happened,
Speaker 1: because we were sitting pretty far up and there was
Speaker 1: a crowd of people obviously behind us. Everyone was losing
Speaker 1: it left because everyone saw this happen. It was a
Speaker 1: boring match, and they this was like the highlight of forever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then the kid felt it seep in and he
Speaker 1: starts like kind of grabbing and.
Speaker 2: So so you didn't tell him straight away.
Speaker 1: I was taking pictures. I'll send the picture through to
Speaker 1: our producer. We'll get it up right. And then but
Speaker 1: my dad, you know, being a good man, he went
Speaker 1: and bought the kid a new Roger Federer T shirt.
Speaker 2: What. Yeah, that's a win.
Speaker 1: That's a win.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you think of the person
Speaker 2: in the crowd that wants to clap last?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: You know that person? No, like you know, you know
Speaker 2: when they and it's like there's one person they just
Speaker 2: try and be the.
Speaker 1: Is there a last clapper?
Speaker 2: Is that a thing? Or is that just me?
Speaker 1: Ace?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: But you know, one of our guys, he's the last clapper.
Speaker 1: We didn't ask who has the clap?
Speaker 2: A man?
Speaker 1: So have you been a guilty of being the last clapper? No?
Speaker 2: I hate those people.
Speaker 1: Okay, Australians in every country besides the US, has good chance.
Speaker 2: At the tennis what Oh, sorry, Australians don't have good
Speaker 2: you do? We do not, you don't think so we
Speaker 2: are a chanceless nation. We have the most terrible chance.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's fine, No, it's enough if I we cannot be
Speaker 2: doing anymore. Oh right, so what's your I don't have
Speaker 2: any I have absolutely no alternatives. But we've got to
Speaker 2: do something better than.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a challenge. Okay, for the next part, we'll
Speaker 1: think of new chance. We will because the US is
Speaker 1: just USA.
Speaker 2: But that sounds so cool, cool, yeah, non American. When
Speaker 2: you hear a cropping, look you that's like what what
Speaker 2: you watched as a kid on the movie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because well, I've only seen people be very annoyed
Speaker 1: when I chant USA, like when I pick up my
Speaker 1: coffee and then kiss my biceps.
Speaker 2: Wrong time. You know what else? I don't like the
Speaker 2: chat where they're like, let's go, whoever, let's go. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: really nice, We've got to be better.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's like straight from primary school.
Speaker 1: Let's go, Lizzy, let's go.
Speaker 2: It's an uninspiring chance. If I was playing tennis and
Speaker 2: someone did that to me, I'd be like bess Off.
Speaker 2: I think I get really angry.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all right, welcome back to pod Labor Arena.
Speaker 1: We have our first ever interviews. Eliza West is here.
Speaker 1: It's so good to have you here. Would you call
Speaker 1: it yourself a tennis influencer.
Speaker 4: I feel like influences a dirty word it is, but
Speaker 4: I'll go with content creator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, cleaner, I respect you.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: You do a lot of stuff with tennis fashion, yes,
Speaker 2: reviewing it.
Speaker 4: I have always been into tennis fashion, but I try
Speaker 4: to bring people into tennis through my love of on
Speaker 4: court fashion, and I think that's been very culturally relevant
Speaker 4: over the last few years with the rise of Athlesia
Speaker 4: where and tennis becoming culturally relevant in the movies and
Speaker 4: our TV shows, and people loving tennis fashion as lifestyle.
Speaker 4: So I've kind of been able to ride the wave
Speaker 4: with it being trendy.
Speaker 5: At the moment.
Speaker 1: Did you like the movie Challengers The Outfit?
Speaker 4: It was a funny watch. I thought the way they
Speaker 4: filmed it was really entertaining. I didn't really love the ending.
Speaker 2: Though, No, I don't think anybody did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone laughing when they jumped over the net. Yeah spoilers, Yeah.
Speaker 5: You haven't seen it by now, then that's your fault exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was, you know, stylishly directed and you know,
Speaker 1: fun to watch. It's hard not to judge the tennis
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 4: It is, and I feel like people who are tennis
Speaker 4: fans and play tennis, we are extremely judgmental of tennis movies.
Speaker 4: I think to the average eye, it probably did look
Speaker 4: really good and was much better than other tennis movies.
Speaker 4: But I know, for example, even the poster of Zendea
Speaker 4: serving got trolled a lot on tennis Twitter, So it
Speaker 4: kind of depends on who you ask. But for the
Speaker 4: tennis purists, I think they could have done a better
Speaker 4: job Zendaya's grip.
Speaker 1: The pancakes us so good to have you in here.
Speaker 1: We had a recent fashion f PA. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: we should get you to rate.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what do you think of my my outfit?
Speaker 5: No, I genuinely told you I liked it this morning.
Speaker 4: I actually took a picture of that outfit at the
Speaker 4: Much store yesterday.
Speaker 5: I was going to post it as Liza Approved.
Speaker 2: So you have made my day?
Speaker 1: Have I Liza Approved? I'm in track pants and a T.
Speaker 5: Shirt and the official dress up A bit.
Speaker 1: More yeah, what would you do?
Speaker 5: I think we could add some colors. I think we
Speaker 5: go with a hat.
Speaker 1: Maybe a better looking guy.
Speaker 5: Let's have nothing to do with.
Speaker 1: Oh my, that's good.
Speaker 2: So who do you who is your best dressed player
Speaker 2: or who do you think your top this tournament, or
Speaker 2: just general, who's the most stylish?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think in kind of ten history, the
Speaker 4: conversations usually always revolve around Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams,
Speaker 4: and I think they were lucky in that era of
Speaker 4: Nike really wanting to push the boat out, giving them
Speaker 4: their own collections, designing specifically for them and their taste,
Speaker 4: and those dresses have been iconic ever since they came out,
Speaker 4: and I think a lot of tennis fans wish that
Speaker 4: Nike would bring those lines back.
Speaker 5: But I also really like kind of going.
Speaker 4: Back into tennis fashion history and looking at a lot
Speaker 4: of the women who've kind of paved the way, like
Speaker 4: CHRISI Ever with a lot of her outfits and styles,
Speaker 4: and then looking back at what Adidas used to do
Speaker 4: with Steffi Graff. So I think in general, modern tennis
Speaker 4: fashion kind of twenty eighteen onwards has been disappointing for
Speaker 4: the fashion purists. But I'm hoping that the tide is
Speaker 4: starting to change and we're seeing new brands enter in
Speaker 4: and I think people are seeing that there's an opportunity
Speaker 4: to kind of take on the giants while they're sleeping
Speaker 4: and get get things moving with kind of new styles
Speaker 4: and new looks.
Speaker 1: Right, Because I've come across the free content before where
Speaker 1: you're writing people's outfits for whatever slam is taking place.
Speaker 1: Has anyone ever complained or been reached out and said, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe don't trash our gear or our new look.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's happened on multiple occasions.
Speaker 4: I think I sent your X into a tailspin two
Speaker 4: years ago with AO when I said their dress looked
Speaker 4: like an air freshener, and I think they had a
Speaker 4: whole board meeting about what an air freshman was.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: In Japan, they weren't quite sure what I was talking about,
Speaker 4: and I think I caused a bit of a headache there.
Speaker 4: I know some players hate to see me coming, but
Speaker 4: my answer is always, you know, I'm trying to push
Speaker 4: you to be better, trying to push the brands to
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, consider different styles and really consider
Speaker 4: how things look on TV. Because I think A lot
Speaker 4: of what's designed is maybe they're looking at, you know,
Speaker 4: the colors of the court and how something looks in person,
Speaker 4: but a lot of the time that doesn't translate to
Speaker 4: digital and how we're looking on it on TV.
Speaker 5: So I really want the.
Speaker 4: Players to be able to use it as AMMO with
Speaker 4: their brands and be like, look, this person's trashing my outfit.
Speaker 5: And you have to do better.
Speaker 1: You're trying to help.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in my own way, Tennis.
Speaker 2: True, Frank Rose, we need to get here.
Speaker 1: There was a recent fashion for We discussed it on
Speaker 1: yesterday's podcast. I think we have it here if we
Speaker 1: queue up, it's a I think you've seen this already
Speaker 1: seen this?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, it hurts, hurts straight up.
Speaker 1: What type of person do you think could pull that
Speaker 1: outfit off? If not stuff on us, it's pers.
Speaker 5: Maybe Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I see Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's you know, he's a tracksuit kind of guy.
Speaker 4: He would rock that at the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But other than that, Lizzie suggested that he stole it
Speaker 1: off like sixty year old Miami grandma.
Speaker 2: You know, I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't be surprised given how Stephane Rolls.
Speaker 2: They had a light night.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he's got the he's got the knee cock out.
Speaker 2: Can you say that?
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: His knee that's a real one. It's a little knee flap. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm trying to get it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It might be comfortable. He probably traveled
Speaker 1: long haul and then, but still that's a flex of
Speaker 1: an outfit.
Speaker 5: It's unnecessary. Yeah, especially for a travel outfit.
Speaker 4: You know, if this was maybe Halloween time, it would
Speaker 4: be the right choice.
Speaker 1: This says to me. His dad isn't bullying him enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has bad friends. Yes, no one said you
Speaker 2: cannot maybe don't do this outfit.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we looked up some of the fashion
Speaker 1: pho pause from yesteryear, the big one that usually comes
Speaker 1: up as Augusty and George.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I couldn't play in denim.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: You know people are calling for that to come back. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's really How do.
Speaker 2: You feel about mat No?
Speaker 4: I didn't mind it when Serena Williams did the Denham skirt.
Speaker 4: I thought that was kind of cool. I think we
Speaker 4: could see a modern innovation of Denham, right, Yeah, that
Speaker 4: look was so iconic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that up on the screen for anyone watching,
Speaker 1: but it's she's denim skirt and then long socks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it just looks tough.
Speaker 4: It does look tough, but she can put it off.
Speaker 4: I think the problem with the jawts is that short shorts,
Speaker 4: you know, went so out of style and you can't
Speaker 4: possibly think of doing like a longer jean short. But
Speaker 4: now short shorts are kind of coming back, So maybe
Speaker 4: a whole garuna or a Mahuchwood rocket jean short.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He loves his tiny little shorts, he does. He's got
Speaker 1: the quads for it, he does. I mean, do you
Speaker 1: think so?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever play professionally.
Speaker 2: Today, I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Go as chaps up.
Speaker 5: I'm sure the fans will love it.
Speaker 1: Eliza, what did you think of Grigor Dimitrov's outfit from
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Australian Open.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul Gregor, I think I posted a meme about
Speaker 4: that a lot of while ago. That was definitely a mess,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad he's since moved on with Lacoste and
Speaker 4: they have done a great job with both his.
Speaker 5: On court and off court style.
Speaker 4: I think that's what's special about Lacoste is that they're
Speaker 4: the only brand that does runway and on court looks,
Speaker 4: and so the players that they've picked can kind of
Speaker 4: do both in terms of the styling, which I think
Speaker 4: is special not just for the lacost brand, but also yeah,
Speaker 4: for the legacy of kind of tennis fashion history that
Speaker 4: that continues with both the runway looks and on court looks.
Speaker 1: All right, correct? What more outfit to ask you about?
Speaker 1: And I was unaware with this one, even though I
Speaker 1: watched a ton of tennis. The Venus Williams Lingerie outfit.
Speaker 5: You know, Venus is another one of those personalities that
Speaker 5: I think she can kind of.
Speaker 4: Get away with whatever it is that she decides to
Speaker 4: wear on court, even if it does not look the
Speaker 4: best for the rest of us. I just love that
Speaker 4: Venus always wanted to express her own identity through fashion,
Speaker 4: and that she left big brands early on and started
Speaker 4: her own lines while she was still very much an
Speaker 4: active player. And I hope to see more players either
Speaker 4: get their own lines with a bigger brand or start
Speaker 4: their own clothing companies, because I think tennis is such
Speaker 4: an expression of your own personality, the way you play tennis,
Speaker 4: the way you are competing, and that should also be
Speaker 4: reflected in kind of how you look and how the
Speaker 4: costume that you're wearing. So I think if she, you know,
Speaker 4: felt excited and comfortable with it, go for it. In
Speaker 4: terms of like Liza approved, I wouldn't put that on.
Speaker 1: My well, I got suggesting that all the women should
Speaker 1: wear laundering.
Speaker 2: Oh one more, what about the new Osaka Ao fit?
Speaker 2: Have you seen the rumored one I have?
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not opposed to the color away. I
Speaker 4: am opposed to the dangling roughly parts.
Speaker 2: You know what it's telling me?
Speaker 5: Great barrier reef and that's like kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2: And like jellyfish sort of thing going on. The colors.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's for me.
Speaker 4: It's better than what we saw at US Open, So
Speaker 4: I'll take it. That was two years ago. The outfit
Speaker 4: at the US Open this year was kind of the poofy,
Speaker 4: almost jellyfish like sky. It just didn't look comfortable to
Speaker 4: play in. But again, she's another one of those plays
Speaker 4: is that she's reflecting her culture. She's reflecting her interest
Speaker 4: in things like anime and stuff that she likes off
Speaker 4: the court, so I respect that she's always putting a
Speaker 4: lot of thought and effort into what she's wearing. And
Speaker 4: even if it's not my cup of tea, I like
Speaker 4: that she gets the conversation going on fashion and tennis,
Speaker 4: and I'm all for bringing people into the world of
Speaker 4: tennis through any means possible, And if they like watching
Speaker 4: her because of her outfits, then I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1: Great You're here on behalf of the Serve podcast, I
Speaker 1: am with Andy Roddick. Yes, Andy always wore a backwards
Speaker 1: hat a lot of the times, especially when playing. He
Speaker 1: still will rock it from time to time. Yeap, is
Speaker 1: there an age where a man can no longer wear
Speaker 1: a backwards hat?
Speaker 4: One of my most popular series on Instagram was how
Speaker 4: to Dress Like a Hot Man in Tennis, and one
Speaker 4: of my rules about backwards hats is you just have
Speaker 4: to be a really good tennis player to be able
Speaker 4: to do it. Count Andy kind of has that, and
Speaker 4: he's not allowed to wear Advisor ever again. Okay, I
Speaker 4: hate I hate many advisors.
Speaker 5: I'm really sorry. It's just like never.
Speaker 1: Yes, do you think capri pants should come back?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Definitely, not hard No.
Speaker 1: Eliza Wes. Thank you so much for being on the
Speaker 1: p Yeah, I really appreciate it. Anything else you want
Speaker 1: to plug or.
Speaker 4: Follow along on served social media channels and my own
Speaker 4: handle it's lies as well and always happy to chat tennis,
Speaker 4: fashion and everything else that goes on with it.
Speaker 5: So thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Eliza here on pod labor Arena. To wrap up every episode,
Speaker 1: we play a one point slam of our own, but
Speaker 1: it's the ping pong version on the tiny little table over.
Speaker 5: There are a million dollars on the line, but.
Speaker 1: If you lose, you have to give us a million dollars.
Speaker 2: And you'll have it.
Speaker 1: So I think it'll be between you and Lizzie. Tokay,
Speaker 1: So decide to decide who serves. We're gonna do rock
Speaker 1: paper scissors, whatever you want to call it. What do
Speaker 1: you say?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So on three rock papers, she got you.
Speaker 1: All right, Lizzie served my serve.
Speaker 2: I got served yesterday and I lost no pressure.
Speaker 1: Here we go, all right, Here we are at the
Speaker 1: one point slam around to Lizzie who versus Eliza West.
Speaker 1: Lizzy has won the serve and we'll take us away. Oh,
Speaker 1: Lizzie gets the cheap point. Eliza won all the warm
Speaker 1: up points Lizzy Wait wait wait there's more what the
Speaker 1: pain pong elements? And oh god, she went easy. That
Speaker 1: was pathetic from Lizzie, who she showed didn't hold back
Speaker 1: on me, but