Speaker 1: Oh oh, we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back. Oh my gosh, what a day, What a day.
Speaker 1: Feel I'm exhausted, but exhilarated.
Speaker 2: I'm exhausted, but I've got a camera roll that's never
Speaker 2: looked better. Line. Oh my gosh, it's unbelievable. It looks
Speaker 2: like AI.
Speaker 1: It does look like AI, but it's just AO.
Speaker 2: It is button.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: We've never used that button before. Eagle shwantak. Yes, you
Speaker 2: heard correctly, now dropping. She was in here and she
Speaker 2: was in control of that whatever you call it she found. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she played with a few things.
Speaker 1: I think she found a bunch of new sound effects
Speaker 1: I don't even know existed, So good for her. Today
Speaker 1: was media.
Speaker 2: Day, Media day.
Speaker 1: We are still a couple of days out from the
Speaker 1: tournament kicking off proper, and today was the day where
Speaker 1: they turn players through the gauntlet of interviews. Yes, and
Speaker 1: I have never had more stilted conversations in my life.
Speaker 2: You warned me, You did warn me, and I thought,
Speaker 2: how hard can it be? And then it happened, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this this could be. This could
Speaker 2: be a long day, and I think it felt really long.
Speaker 2: Can we go into plays?
Speaker 3: Well, I think like for the most part, I probably
Speaker 3: can't say who was well hint the most painful.
Speaker 2: Hint.
Speaker 1: I think we did a total of twenty interviews.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that many?
Speaker 1: I think it was up there, and I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say it, by far and away, the worst,
Speaker 1: most painful interview of the day was.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 1: No, but I'm a big tennis geek, so I loved
Speaker 1: meeting some players that I hadn't met yet doing other
Speaker 1: promo things for the AO, so it was great to
Speaker 1: play the one point.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that was cool. I don't think I
Speaker 2: won any matches. No, I think I've got a couple. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do a super cut of all the sting palm.
Speaker 1: I did leave a massive welt on Taylor Fritz's back,
Speaker 1: and our producer suggested that it's knocked him out of
Speaker 1: the AO. Yeah, he's pulled out of the tournament with
Speaker 1: a welt. But I mean, so many people were so
Speaker 1: fun to talk to. The thing is, you get them
Speaker 1: sometimes at the end of their tether on media day
Speaker 1: and they're so sick of answering the same.
Speaker 2: Time, can you imagine what they're saying about us? I
Speaker 2: went into this podcastudio and this guy there, Mike's other
Speaker 2: chicken what tracksuit, trying to talk to me. She was
Speaker 2: trying to play table tennis. And then one of them
Speaker 2: wanted to date me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did have a date scenario that went.
Speaker 2: Para shape went absolutely.
Speaker 1: So many interviews throughout the day. I kind of got
Speaker 1: a little tired myself of asking people, what's the weirdest
Speaker 1: thing you found in your tennis bag? We're going We're delirious.
Speaker 1: We've been here all day. The players had a great
Speaker 1: time because he did We're giving him something different. We
Speaker 1: backed Yannick Center into a corner, asking him if he'd
Speaker 1: ever hang out with Kim Jong un, and then one player,
Speaker 1: in a very fun, you know vibe, suggested that we
Speaker 1: should be further vetted by Craig Tyler.
Speaker 2: I think our exact words were, you guys are going
Speaker 2: to get canceled.
Speaker 1: Yeah. She asked whether Craig Tiley was across what was
Speaker 1: happening here, and Craig, we know you're watching and listening
Speaker 1: and you got our backs, but if you want to
Speaker 1: fire us, maybe just Lizzie hey, because I just I
Speaker 1: just love what you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a big fan You're stylish. Your stylish, you cool.
Speaker 2: It has been a long day. Craig Talley is stylish,
Speaker 2: You're cool.
Speaker 4: You're my guy.
Speaker 1: Is it's the best. So yeah, playing ping pong with
Speaker 1: some people that I've watched playing tennis for years was
Speaker 1: both nerve wracking and awesome.
Speaker 2: It was so cool. Yeah, I was better at the
Speaker 2: ping pong. Then we got into champagne pong. At one point,
Speaker 2: I missed the champagne pong. You did miss the champagne pong,
Speaker 2: And that was probably the most mortifying moment of my life.
Speaker 2: I thought one point slam was bad. Playing champagne pong
Speaker 2: with Isla tom Lanovitch brutal.
Speaker 1: Did you choke?
Speaker 2: I've choked in all three games, Zi Zoo tom Lanovich
Speaker 2: Ani Simova. I I was I wasn't even hitting the table. Sometimes,
Speaker 2: what's happened?
Speaker 1: Because you were you drinking?
Speaker 2: I'm sober? Oh wow, I know this is bad. And
Speaker 2: Isla was like, wow, you're really bad at this. It's
Speaker 2: been a long day.
Speaker 1: It's been a long day. But some great player interviews.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be kind of drip feeding those out. We'll
Speaker 1: be doing kind of a super cut of all the
Speaker 1: pain pong, stingpong whatever. Maybe I'm the only one that
Speaker 1: calls it.
Speaker 2: Because there were a lot of Americans in here today
Speaker 2: and most of them called it stingpong.
Speaker 1: We'll just stick with stingpong from here on out. And
Speaker 1: I noticed people were taking it easy on you when
Speaker 1: you would.
Speaker 2: Lose a point, which I didn't appreciate. But I took
Speaker 2: it easy on Eliza the other day, so maybe that
Speaker 2: it does feel weird when you're hitting a ball at
Speaker 2: a woman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially one who's crying.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially they're probably like, we couldn't hit it while
Speaker 2: she's down. She's really bad at this.
Speaker 1: She'll be perfect.
Speaker 2: Tennis, no way.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Pod labor Arena. Once again,
Speaker 1: you are joined by Mike Goldstein and the wood Bird
Speaker 1: to my Woodbridge Lizzie, who.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: It's such a pleasure to interview another person. Oh, I
Speaker 1: live for it.
Speaker 2: How good?
Speaker 1: But at least no, like I would love to hear
Speaker 1: the ideal interview, you know, because you got jokes.
Speaker 2: Yeah sometimes, Yeah, you got some zazz zizuzu.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like he was one of my favorites today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is awesome, but Yeah, it's been a big day,
Speaker 1: a lot happening around the grounds. We haven't even got
Speaker 1: into the draw. Yeah, last night, welcome to headline calls,
Speaker 1: everybody's favorite segments. So many things to discuss. Uh, the
Speaker 1: draw is out. How do you feel?
Speaker 2: Well? I saw our poor demon. Now is he demon?
Speaker 4: He has a hard drawer.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he is coming up against Matteo Barretini in
Speaker 1: the first round. I mean, speaking of punks, Baratini is
Speaker 1: right up there with the top hounk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's tophunk, top punk. Yeah, he's up the top
Speaker 2: five hunks. Oh yeah, Oh, we haven't done this top
Speaker 2: five hunks. Well, this is a mix, is not like
Speaker 2: one I think al Choraz. Who else do we have
Speaker 2: in today? Grigor h Gregor, go ahead, Watch of the day?
Speaker 2: Everything about Everyone came in with their watches. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was eyeing the watches.
Speaker 1: Gregor was sitting right next to me, and I felt
Speaker 1: pregnant afterwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my over reason, Voom voom.
Speaker 1: Top three watches of the day.
Speaker 2: Who did you think? There are a couple of girl.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna have to go back through my pitches.
Speaker 2: That's all right, let's can that segment?
Speaker 1: Well, can top three watches, but stay tuned for our
Speaker 1: new segment Watch Watch. The draw is out, I'll just
Speaker 1: quickly scan it through the men's draw and see what
Speaker 1: pops out at me. And if you're doing the bracket
Speaker 1: challenge at home, I'm going to go through the men's
Speaker 1: singles draw and just talk about some matches that pop
Speaker 1: out at me. Lizzie, you'll be looking at the women's
Speaker 1: draw after this. As discussed before, Demon are Barrettini. That's
Speaker 1: a real highlight of an opening.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a tough match Demon Demon. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Although I did look at the matchups last year and
Speaker 2: they had one each.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, I think Barrettini's I know they've both had injuries,
Speaker 1: but Barrettini maybe struggled more with some physical issues in
Speaker 1: the past year. And then also the home field and Vanta.
Speaker 2: Is it an advantage though?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Because I think sometimes there's too much pressure, right, But we.
Speaker 1: Had him in here today. He's chill.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great track suit, great track suit, got.
Speaker 1: The threads on some of the and I'm here wearing
Speaker 1: a headband, cotton on T shirt. Uh. In the men's draw,
Speaker 1: some matches I'm looking forward to. You got to talk
Speaker 1: about the hometown players. Tristan school Kate has a tough draw.
Speaker 1: He's playing Quarantine Mouta, the wiley Frenchman. What do you
Speaker 1: think I think is going to take that. He's real slicy,
Speaker 1: real tricky. He's really gonna put a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on school Kate. And yeah, it's a tough one, and
Speaker 1: I think all the Aussies kind of have a tough draw.
Speaker 1: Jordan Thompson is playing Cerrendolo, so that could be tough
Speaker 1: for Jordan. I think he comes through that one. So
Speaker 1: these are just the Sunday and Eye matches. There's so
Speaker 1: much look forward to. Another Koobler, a qualifier, Australian qualifier
Speaker 1: is playing Francis Tfo.
Speaker 2: I know that's hard. The most Australians to qualifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for this Open, that's huge, I know. And it
Speaker 1: looks like none of them will get through the first round.
Speaker 2: Brutal coming from an America.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, that's all right. And then another Australian, Walton,
Speaker 1: is up against Alcarez in the first round at Rod
Speaker 1: Laver Arena.
Speaker 2: I mean, what a moment though, Yeah, oh yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 2: Yeah to play Alcoraz.
Speaker 1: I know, center court, are you going to go. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna be out there supporting the Aussies? Yeah?
Speaker 2: O o OI all the way. Have you thought of
Speaker 2: a new you know what I'm thinking? We just sing
Speaker 2: ac DC songs.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think it's thunderstrung? Yeah, school Kate.
Speaker 2: What's the Dallas Cowboy? He's a CDC song.
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys a CDC song?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that the one they danced to. You
Speaker 2: didn't watch Dallas Cowboys, no cheerleading documentary.
Speaker 1: I did, but with the sound off.
Speaker 2: And my door clubs.
Speaker 1: A couple other matches that are leaping out at me
Speaker 1: from the men's draw. One of my favorite players, Alexander
Speaker 1: Bublick is playing Jensen Brooksby of America.
Speaker 2: Oh this you torn?
Speaker 1: Torn?
Speaker 2: What are you thinking?
Speaker 1: I think Bublick takes that one. I love the boob,
Speaker 1: I love the lick.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then just quickly, I'll have a look at the
Speaker 1: Monday Ones. Caspar Rude playing Baluchi. That's worth watching. There's
Speaker 1: an all American match Leerner TN again Mark against Marcus Kuran.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're gonna watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna watch it. I love Lerner t.
Speaker 2: If you watch him play it, yeah, he's fun, he's fine.
Speaker 1: Who do you? Who do you picking that one? Tien
Speaker 1: over Marcus gran and that our personal best friend after today.
Speaker 1: Grigor Dimitrov is against Thomas Mahach always got his name
Speaker 1: around a Chuck mahawk. He wears tiny shorts. That's all
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: We love a king.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna go Gregor in that one? Just yeah?
Speaker 2: Great? Watch?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And he was he was a great hang as well.
Speaker 1: He was a good hang. He was good value. Ben
Speaker 1: Shelton against Ugo Humbert and I've learned it's we can't
Speaker 1: call anyone named Ugo Ugo. Do you remember the guy
Speaker 1: that cut his hair? It's what they prefer Ugo.
Speaker 2: Yes, did someone come?
Speaker 1: Yeah? The all the Ugos come after me. Hard Jokovic
Speaker 1: is up against Pedro Martinez, who got deep in the
Speaker 1: one point slam the other day. But I stilln't feel
Speaker 1: like Jokovic has that in the bag. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: an he bet for you. Oh, this will be a
Speaker 1: good match. Sinner is playing Hugo Gaston. Cinner is going
Speaker 1: to be the heavy favorite in that one, but huge, huge,
Speaker 1: Hugo Gaston is another French guy with a very unorthodox
Speaker 1: game a lot of slices, a lot of just trick shots.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that'll be a good one to watch. And
Speaker 1: then of course stan Varenka playing Laslo Jier.
Speaker 2: Stand the man. We hope he goes through. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: want a little bit of a sendoff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. It's his last time at the AO.
Speaker 1: This is the last one I'll ask you about. In
Speaker 1: the men's draw for the first round, local boy Sweeney
Speaker 1: against Gale moon Fees. That's hard, hard. They're both so likable,
Speaker 1: both these players.
Speaker 2: But I mean, but yeah, I think I'm gonna go Sweeney.
Speaker 2: I think Sweeney, Yeah, I mean, I just want it
Speaker 2: in the the crowd behind it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, one of the most likable players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the best of all time. All right, and
Speaker 2: I'm going with my heart. I'm going with my Aussie.
Speaker 1: Price Sweeney over gailmand Fees. You heard it here, all right.
Speaker 1: And then Lizzie going through the women's.
Speaker 2: All right, and looking at the women's drawer. Here people
Speaker 2: that I would want to watch if I if I
Speaker 2: could watch all of these, Paulini.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love her, Jasmine Paulini taking on Sasnovich.
Speaker 1: So you like Paulini and that Pauline's Paulini seated seventh
Speaker 1: and looks like Sasnovich unseated, so the heavy favorite. Definitely,
Speaker 1: I'd see Marta Costjak against Jacques mo and Marta costjac
Speaker 1: propositioned me for a date when she was in here
Speaker 1: for the interview gossip for everybody. Oh she did.
Speaker 2: She actually came back looking for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: She was like, Ah, that guy, the tall one, the
Speaker 2: weird heads, is he still around? Like, I don't know
Speaker 2: where he is, honey.
Speaker 1: Brutal, brutal stuff. So anyone else sleeps out at you?
Speaker 1: From the women's Venus Williams, she's back.
Speaker 2: Yes, I really want to watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Danilovich, who are you picking that one?
Speaker 2: I'm going Williams. I'm going with my heart.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I could be wrong, but I think Danilovitch came
Speaker 1: through qualifiers, so she must be in good form. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I want Venus to win, you know,
Speaker 1: you want her to have She keeps playing. She's older
Speaker 1: than us, she.
Speaker 2: Looks good, she looks great. Okay, I'm gonna go. We've
Speaker 2: got Gibson, Alia Gibson.
Speaker 1: God. The women's draw. It's hard to pick, honestly, like
Speaker 1: some of these names. Sabalnka in her first round is
Speaker 1: playing Raca Tomeonga Ra Jonah. I mean, what are the
Speaker 1: odds on Rakka Ma Tone Jonah.
Speaker 2: Let's go Monday.
Speaker 1: Can we predict a double bagel?
Speaker 2: Let's go Monday? All right, a game. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to Leila Fernandez Firsus Genie Tian.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, Leila Fernandez. I like Leila, who, of
Speaker 1: course played Emma Radikanu in that US Open final from
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and both, you know, we're so
Speaker 1: likable and so awesome, and then Rata Khanu just edged
Speaker 1: her out. But Fernandez has been a stayer on the circuit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she looks strong. Yeah, she's good. But I really
Speaker 2: there's a lot of hype around this Indonesian player.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going with her the Indonesian players, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know, I'm going for a lot of first
Speaker 2: round upsets.
Speaker 1: Right. I love the confidence there, even though you're unsure
Speaker 1: how to pura.
Speaker 2: What about the Canadian Moboco?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she is in red hot form. Moboco took
Speaker 1: out Madison Keys at the Adelaide International.
Speaker 2: She looks very good up against Emerson Jones and now
Speaker 2: I do want to go with my heart here, but
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to go with the Canadian. Okay,
Speaker 2: she's looking good. I think like she's going to go
Speaker 2: far in this competition, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, there's a player here who I'm aware of, volley Nets.
Speaker 1: I think it's Katie volley NEETs.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a tennis brand.
Speaker 1: It's really, you know, uh self fulfilling prophecy.
Speaker 2: What else could she have done?
Speaker 1: There was a guy a few years ago Tennis Sangrin
Speaker 1: Tennis sang. His first name was Tennis and he was
Speaker 1: from This is not a lot of Tennessee great, that's true. Oh,
Speaker 1: this one's great. Carolina Plishkova against our very own Sloan
Speaker 1: Stevens and I say that, oh well, and podlavor Arena's
Speaker 1: very own.
Speaker 2: We had her in here and we loved her.
Speaker 1: She was the best.
Speaker 2: She was great. I'm obviously going to go for Sloan.
Speaker 1: You're going for Sloan against the big hitter, Carolina Piskva.
Speaker 2: I want to see Sloan through. Speaking of great names,
Speaker 2: Storm Hunter what a name. Yeah? Got through the qualifiers?
Speaker 1: Yeah she did? And so who is she up against?
Speaker 2: Jay Boozas?
Speaker 1: Okay, Jay Bozzaz Jay boos as Oh bo Jessica Jessica
Speaker 1: boo Oh. Also Ega Shavontek is taking on you on
Speaker 1: in the first round. Ego's seated number two. Some interesting
Speaker 1: news about Ego, Yeah, I heard.
Speaker 2: It in the corridors. A lot of whisky goss up
Speaker 2: happening out there. But apparently in a press conference one
Speaker 2: of the reporters said, oh, you know, in the third
Speaker 2: or fourth round, you could play this person or this person,
Speaker 2: and Eiger wasn't happy about that. She did not want
Speaker 2: to know who she could potentially play. She's just looking
Speaker 2: what's in front of her, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Makes sense. There's a lot of players like that that
Speaker 1: don't want to know the jraw. They just want to
Speaker 1: show up and play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Well I did ask Ela tom Lenovitch today who are
Speaker 2: you looking for to playing? And she said what kind
Speaker 2: of question is that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's amazing. I think did you not ask her?
Speaker 1: Are you looking what? Who are you looking for to play?
Speaker 1: Or are you looking for.
Speaker 4: What kind of question is that?
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: All the players are debuting their new threads here at
Speaker 1: the Australian Open. Uh, we'll get Liza West back in
Speaker 1: here for the Fashion Police segment. But people are talking
Speaker 1: about Yannick Center's little mustard number.
Speaker 2: I don't mind it. You like it? Yeah, I quite
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 1: Does mustard go with carrots?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to taste a flavor profile in my mouth
Speaker 2: and it's not It's not a usual combination. Gingers look
Speaker 2: good in autumnal colors. Yeah, look at you. I know,
Speaker 2: call me the new Liza.
Speaker 3: West, Liza East. Everybody very good, thank you, very good.
Speaker 1: Oh. One of the new segments that we started doing
Speaker 1: today with the tennis players we interviewed was would you rafter?
Speaker 2: Very clever?
Speaker 1: Very clever? Pat Raftor's name falls into a would you
Speaker 1: rather scenario? But it's just we're asking doubles partners for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. We'd put two people up on
Speaker 1: the screen and who would you rather hang out with?
Speaker 1: Stuck on a desert island with? And apparently our producer
Speaker 1: has put together one of his own and this looks like,
Speaker 1: what do you guys do? And I mean Martina Hingis.
Speaker 2: And what's his deal? Oh? Definitely the Saudi. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you just hang out with us, Crown Prince.
Speaker 1: You just did the comedy festival and I am filthy rich.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's Saudi. I'm gonna hang with Hingers,
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. But he has set up his own
Speaker 1: burger place called chic Check. Some tireless efforts by the team.
Speaker 2: It was a really well done team and Spunky, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Big shout out to the ace man, our
Speaker 2: sound guy, Yeah, Sounde, who tried on a number of
Speaker 2: occasions too for us to eat his pistachios. He's always
Speaker 2: trying to push these pistachios.
Speaker 1: What uh, how exactly are the pistachios presented to us?
Speaker 2: They're presented in their original plastic box. And he hasn't
Speaker 2: been throwing out the shells anywhere. He's just been putting
Speaker 2: them back in the box.
Speaker 1: So you got to dig through his filthy shells little
Speaker 1: pistachio to find a pistachio.
Speaker 2: And its yeah, it's it's not appealing, and it's mainly
Speaker 2: we've been here for what four days, he's gone through
Speaker 2: the pistachios. I had one just out of politeness the
Speaker 2: other day, did you Yeah? I did, and I did.
Speaker 2: And usually if I have one pistachio, I can't stop iceman,
Speaker 2: but I stopped after one.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is how COVID started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. But the real thing we've got to
Speaker 2: praise him for is that he was He had a
Speaker 2: lot of trappic ass today, Ace Man.
Speaker 1: Is this true?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he was holding on all day and then
Speaker 2: finally this afternoon he had a bit of time to
Speaker 2: go to the men's and what did you say, acemn.
Speaker 1: He dispatched successfully.
Speaker 2: Getting too comfortable arena. Well, not not we Ace Man.
Speaker 1: He's the best.
Speaker 2: He's the best him.
Speaker 1: And thank you for you know, containing your gas and
Speaker 1: not not ruining Marta Kostik's day because she is a
Speaker 1: princess and must be predicted at all costs, all right,
Speaker 1: And then coming up stick around for an interview with
Speaker 1: Diego Shortsman.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we love diegol Peck.
Speaker 1: Today we have Diego Schwartzman in the studio.
Speaker 2: Welcome to arena.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Let's right, let's writ bake it backy than.
Speaker 2: When I was.
Speaker 4: He's trying to say, Becky.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 1: Peck? All right? El peck?
Speaker 4: Fun decent just started.
Speaker 1: It's okay, thanks so much for being here. I've been
Speaker 1: a huge fan for a long time. I remember your
Speaker 1: semi final against Raffa at the French well got to
Speaker 1: the semifinals.
Speaker 4: Man, I didn't have lucky. You know, I was thinking
Speaker 4: when I arrived to Melbourne, I was thinking about my
Speaker 4: second week in different Grand slams. I always loosing against
Speaker 4: Novak or Rafa like six times.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Fuck, how much money I lost? This guys, money points, everything.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for those two dudes, it would be
Speaker 1: the easiest run.
Speaker 4: No, back still here, he's still here.
Speaker 2: Have you seen him yet? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw him in the logo and he said
Speaker 4: to me, I'm here because I want the young guys
Speaker 4: still running on court, right yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have you have you seen Roger Federer around?
Speaker 4: He's around, He's around, but I didn't see him. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's going to be nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be good. It's only twenty thousand bucks to
Speaker 1: shake his.
Speaker 2: Hand, did you know that?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, really, people are paying that.
Speaker 4: It's so that really yeah people. Yeah, to see Russia
Speaker 4: shake the hand, yeah yeah, hundred percent. People is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people look crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you paid Roger twenty grand, what would you expect
Speaker 1: in return?
Speaker 4: At least play play yeah head for twenty minutes? I said, no, Yeah,
Speaker 4: at least but.
Speaker 1: I've seen the clip of you and him playing ping pong.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, win those matches and.
Speaker 4: Now we just did like a few points. It wasn't
Speaker 4: a Labor Cup in two in London. Yeah, yeah, good moments.
Speaker 4: Always share moments with these kind of guys. For me,
Speaker 4: it was very special. Also, my family always went to
Speaker 4: to the Labor Cup, so they always met Russia and
Speaker 4: all these guys. It's like, what the fuck what.
Speaker 2: We are doing?
Speaker 4: People is paying twenty twenty Now.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that I didn't want to bring this,
Speaker 1: so you said, ala am I saying that right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, which translates to little one, little one, right,
Speaker 1: and you're happy with that, next, dame.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's okay. My family said that to me
Speaker 4: when I was young, because I not because of my size,
Speaker 4: because of I was the little of the family. And
Speaker 4: then I don't know why, my friends start to repeat it.
Speaker 4: And then you know, on court in Buenos Aires, especially
Speaker 4: in the ATP during February, people listen to my friends,
Speaker 4: listen to family, and they start to repeat, you know,
Speaker 4: and yeah.
Speaker 2: Here, so that's what your family and friends call you too?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well no they they they said to me some
Speaker 4: some friends. They called me by my second name, Sev, Like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my family just called me packer, packer Americans. It's
Speaker 1: not nice. And I didn't want to say this, but
Speaker 1: our boss Shannon said to tell you, we found your tennis.
Speaker 4: Right as soon as as soon as I said, I
Speaker 4: was thinking, okay, this is my racket.
Speaker 2: This has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 4: She just gave us.
Speaker 1: So who's your pick for the Australian Open twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: It's difficult to say, but I think Senor and Alcoraz
Speaker 4: right now are a little bit, you know, a few steps, yeah,
Speaker 4: the to the rest. They show unreal tennis. Last year
Speaker 4: I went to Turin and I saw their level and
Speaker 4: it's crazy in another step. But I don't know this year.
Speaker 4: Always when you start Australian Open, it's for many the
Speaker 4: first tournament, so it's so difficult to play the first tournament.
Speaker 4: But these guys always do well, so let's see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but is there someone outside of Alcohorazer Center, like
Speaker 1: a dark horse that you could see getting through the
Speaker 1: draw and making it at least to the final.
Speaker 4: Difficult to say, but like a new name, I hope Fonseca.
Speaker 4: But I like him also for South America, being Argentina,
Speaker 4: he's Brazilian, but being South American. For US, it's very
Speaker 4: important to have one very far. I think he's going
Speaker 4: to have a great year, so maybe there is a
Speaker 4: chance to start well. But he pulled out the first tournament,
Speaker 4: so let's see how he is, you know, physically.
Speaker 1: What did you watch the one point slap?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm part of the organization right now, part of
Speaker 4: Tennis Ausia. After the Yeah, did you love it?
Speaker 2: Were you jealous?
Speaker 1: I love it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, I don't miss the court, to be honest, but
Speaker 4: I think it was an important event for the people
Speaker 4: who is watching at home, you know Argentina, I mean
Speaker 4: South America. When when I wake up today and I
Speaker 4: saw all the the streamers and everyone, you know, repeating
Speaker 4: the highlights and talking about this. They they never spoke
Speaker 4: about tennis before. Now they are speaking, you know, like
Speaker 4: what the fuck? An amateur guy with a million dollars?
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyone could have won.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing, like they should. Jordan Smith, a
Speaker 1: guy who wanted don't you think he should get a
Speaker 1: wild card into the main draw.
Speaker 4: Now it's okay like this he won a yeah as
Speaker 4: much just won the prizes, Yeah, unbelievable, but I think
Speaker 4: the band was nice. People enjoyed. This is the most
Speaker 4: important thing. But also the players. I spoke today just
Speaker 4: trying to to have a feedback from the players and everyone.
Speaker 4: Everyone was enjoying.
Speaker 2: So what is your job now at Tennis Australia.
Speaker 4: I mean the player relations team with Andrea, with the
Speaker 4: Resilian guys.
Speaker 2: What's happening?
Speaker 1: Tell us.
Speaker 4: Everyone is happy? I think, really really, I decide to
Speaker 4: take the job because I think Australian Open is one
Speaker 4: of the best by far in the relation with the players.
Speaker 4: You know, they if you go downstairs for the layers,
Speaker 4: it's an amazing event.
Speaker 1: Everyone says that it's the best event. They treat the
Speaker 1: players the best.
Speaker 4: The facilities are the best facilities by fire. You know.
Speaker 1: I worked out at the gym with the players yesterday.
Speaker 4: Ahead of my going like.
Speaker 2: What did you do? Because I'm not saying anything, maybe
Speaker 2: walking around with with.
Speaker 4: I want to shake back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was doing twelve hours lifts basically. Maria Sockery
Speaker 1: was working out next to me and I felt very
Speaker 1: peck Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm still walking in the gym every day or running here.
Speaker 4: The Yarra River is so nice. Yeah, and also was
Speaker 4: helping me to fight the shed log fourteen hours?
Speaker 2: When did you get it?
Speaker 4: Sunday?
Speaker 1: Right now? I'm a so you're Argentinian. Do you wear
Speaker 1: the little budgy smugglers? Have you heard that term before?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: I like how your hand went like that.
Speaker 1: If you go for a swim there you were in
Speaker 1: the speedos, I don't yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, to cover
Speaker 1: up your little l peck, but we don't use that.
Speaker 4: They should get.
Speaker 2: Some budgy smugglers here, I think, so that's a brand
Speaker 2: of like swim with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the little speedos that a lot of European guys were.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they have tennis ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get some Ale branded.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You're allowed to go to swim in the yarra, I
Speaker 4: think no, no, nobody.
Speaker 2: It's quite dirty.
Speaker 1: You can if you want diarrhea forever.
Speaker 4: But you have the seat here. Think about the cities
Speaker 4: in Australia. I have the sea cloaths. Yeah, it's so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well let's try something with the diego. We are
Speaker 1: trialing a new game here at pod Labor Arena called
Speaker 1: would You Rafter? So it's basically would you rather? So
Speaker 1: we'll give you some options and you tell us which
Speaker 1: one you would rather do. We've just forced the raft's name.
Speaker 4: Okay again it Yeah.
Speaker 1: So here's your first round of would you rafter? This
Speaker 1: is the doubles edition. Would you rather play doubles with
Speaker 1: this guy Nick Kurios Or would you rather play doubles with.
Speaker 2: This Donald Trump? Or Nick?
Speaker 4: You know, the guy is loving the Argentinian president, taking
Speaker 4: about him every time and helping helping Argentina with a
Speaker 4: lot of money the last few months. Yeah crazy, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: so but doubles though, I think right now we play
Speaker 4: with Donald just no more than some about my country
Speaker 4: in the next few years, you know, just because of that.
Speaker 4: This is trade relations back.
Speaker 1: To Donald real quick man. Look at the.
Speaker 2: Underwear.
Speaker 1: It's bad for him. I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 4: Forad it's a Wimbledon clothing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Red, and that is a giant ass on
Speaker 1: the man.
Speaker 4: Be careful.
Speaker 2: I would love it if he listened to this podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, a couple more options for would you rafter
Speaker 1: the doubles category? Would you rather play doubles? Yeah, with
Speaker 1: Simona Halip or this person we have.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm actually kind of happy that you don't know
Speaker 2: who Reagun is. This is our national embarrassment, right this
Speaker 2: this is an Australian breakdancer. You know what the paras
Speaker 2: Olympics last year they had break dancing and this is
Speaker 2: who represented us. And then she came out and she
Speaker 2: did all of these crazy Australian animal moves. Well correct,
Speaker 2: it was embarrassing.
Speaker 1: She was the equivalent of you know that wild r
Speaker 1: to the Nairobi Tournament and the w t A did
Speaker 1: you didn't see that? All right? This was just like
Speaker 1: basically a fraud on an international stage. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: would go Simona, yes, definitely. One more round of would
Speaker 1: you rather doubles edition? We have Anastasia? Yes her? Or
Speaker 1: would you go with well Danny DeVito?
Speaker 5: There I think with these guys, look at this guys
Speaker 5: go on, yeah, you two together on the court would
Speaker 5: be we need a chair not serve.
Speaker 1: This guy would be amazing. He looks comfy though, He's
Speaker 1: definitely comfortable. All right. One more option for would you
Speaker 1: wrap her doubles edition? This is Jordan Smith, the winner
Speaker 1: in a million points around so fromdly so good or
Speaker 1: this person?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah we played together? Yeah we beat first
Speaker 4: round again? Gran right, one of the best teams around
Speaker 4: the world. Of course we beat them and we're born
Speaker 4: same same day, well me in nineteen ninety two. I
Speaker 4: don't know. He's a year two. What day, sixteen August
Speaker 4: from Leo.
Speaker 2: Leo leaders.
Speaker 1: Selfish and that was Carlo.
Speaker 2: You said it.
Speaker 4: I love Leo, you know when I see I say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I have the bad things and good things from.
Speaker 1: Leo Monte Carlo. That was a good tournament for you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but Rio was the one where you.
Speaker 4: You know, it was my last really good, good tournament
Speaker 4: playing I lost since he passed quarterfinance. I was four
Speaker 4: zero on the third up, serving to go through the
Speaker 4: semi finals, and I lost this much.
Speaker 1: Well, at least you're not still thinking about it.
Speaker 4: You can see the highlights. One of them before the
Speaker 4: match point he shumped for a bully the winner. It
Speaker 4: was brutal, super crazy.
Speaker 1: That's all right. Well, we just showed you Jordan Smith
Speaker 1: from the one million dollar one point slam. What we're
Speaker 1: doing here at Pod Labor Arena is we jump on
Speaker 1: the ping pong table for a zero dollar, zero dollar
Speaker 1: one slam.
Speaker 4: The lunch you play the lunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can take you to the cafeteria.
Speaker 1: If you lose the point, we're doing pain pong or
Speaker 1: sting pong where the other player gets the ball. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So I think you and Lizzie are going
Speaker 1: to verse each other today.
Speaker 2: So first.
Speaker 1: Rock paper scissors to see who's the herbs.
Speaker 4: And it's on four four, okay, okay, one two three, ah,
Speaker 4: I'm serving.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Diego won the Rock paper scissors and has elected to
Speaker 1: serve take away. Oh the double handed backhand.
Speaker 4: I want to set up.
Speaker 1: Lizzy takes at one point, well, you know the stakes.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Oh it stings, It stings a little bit.