Speaker 1: Think you beautiful.
Speaker 2: We've been recording this whole time.
Speaker 1: I hate to see how the cookies get Jesus, we.
Speaker 2: Are back on pod labor arena. Look at us. We
Speaker 2: got the team, the Core three.
Speaker 1: The Big Three, the Big Three. Yes, would you say
Speaker 1: where we're kind of like the cold play of tennis podcasting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I was going to go with the Big
Speaker 2: Three of tennis for tennis podcast.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to forward something we're about. Sorry,
Speaker 1: professional broadcast.
Speaker 2: I know you were, I know you were, but let's
Speaker 2: call it like, who's who in the big three here? Like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is fun. I'm clearly Djokovic. I'm the best, but
Speaker 2: also kind of a villain and people don't like me
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah as well, that's well, you'll around. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool though, Like you and I. It's
Speaker 1: either Rafael fed, I think I want to be do
Speaker 1: you well I could Spanish?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You cry all and then Fed cards a lot as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I love Fed, I'll be fed feah be fair, Yeah, smooth,
Speaker 1: the nicest person to ever live. Yeah. Everyone wants to
Speaker 1: be Men want to be me, women want to be
Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, yeah, that's you.
Speaker 2: Sam tong. Then Lizzie who the co hosts are back,
Speaker 2: look at us, and we got no aceman today, and
Speaker 2: we're all the better forests.
Speaker 3: Were all said. Surprisingly the easiest set up.
Speaker 1: He got stuck in the stairway for twenty minutes before
Speaker 1: the shirt. Yeah god, how will will you deal with
Speaker 1: the nothing that that man used to do?
Speaker 2: We did? We did all get stuck in the stairwell.
Speaker 2: That was a bonding moment. I was already thinking, who
Speaker 2: are we going to eat first?
Speaker 1: Let's do the big three of who we're going to
Speaker 1: eat first.
Speaker 3: I would slow roast my cubs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sweet cars in your own so much more.
Speaker 1: I believe going to be like we take Mike Furst,
Speaker 1: like my calves.
Speaker 3: Eight hours slow.
Speaker 1: To be beautiful. Well, you've definitely thought about I have before.
Speaker 2: We all know what my calves would be slim pickings
Speaker 2: because weird little your car you could use them as
Speaker 2: a tooth pick. We have Lizzie's plump.
Speaker 3: Roasted my god, because they're quite big, but they're also
Speaker 3: quite fatty.
Speaker 2: What your car meat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, I've teaching calves as well. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I say, should we have a carve off? No, that's
Speaker 1: what people know.
Speaker 2: No cave off. How must you two do it? I
Speaker 2: could judge?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, get.
Speaker 2: Your legs, we're really doing it. Oh those are beefee
Speaker 2: and look at that a nice layer of hair. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say lazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so no one wants to eat me. That's fine.
Speaker 2: What a start where I'm justifying women shots stuff? Look
Speaker 2: at the stands.
Speaker 3: Look out, he moves on clay.
Speaker 1: And every Masters he plays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was all sinner.
Speaker 2: Only dropped one set.
Speaker 3: How we soon forget.
Speaker 1: He should have won the French Yeah, it was all sinner.
Speaker 2: He wins, so he wins so very much.
Speaker 3: He's down a break and he still comes up.
Speaker 1: Clark his girlfriend. They had an awkward hug.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cer, I feel like I stuck that one. It's
Speaker 3: quite low for me.
Speaker 1: You got to talk to Mike about what key you
Speaker 1: wanted to start in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what key you like?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, him and his girlfriend a sinner and his girlfriend
Speaker 2: after he won, Monte Carlo had a very awkward hug.
Speaker 3: We had more chemistry, and Lizzie and Center had way more.
Speaker 1: But he's in anyone not hugging city. His body's so weird.
Speaker 1: That it'll be hard to hug it.
Speaker 2: But like him and Alcohoraz's huge and broke a much
Speaker 2: deeper thing than you know, anyone else.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: So I have a tennis story before we get into
Speaker 2: the news and the highlights from the week. I played
Speaker 2: a good friend David Hughes, a friend of the.
Speaker 1: You've never been on, never.
Speaker 2: Knocked Lizzie out of the one point tournament.
Speaker 1: Yeah, scurty this guy, Yeah yeah, yeah he uh yeah,
Speaker 1: will never have a moment's competitive. Just keep asking he
Speaker 1: as the time he really wants to be on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's not coming on. Yeah, we don't want him.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're listening easy, you're not coming on. Ye,
Speaker 1: stick to your own seventy thousand.
Speaker 2: Do you know he bought a van to podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the van broke down and like it just sits out
Speaker 2: the front of his house and he lets struggling comedians
Speaker 2: sleep in.
Speaker 1: There, saying that's why you've got this cold.
Speaker 3: It's too cold.
Speaker 1: No exactly, no electric blanket.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Thing, but we played recently. We got to the courts
Speaker 2: and you know, we had like a two hour booking.
Speaker 2: That's enough for a best of three sent match, and
Speaker 2: we go okay, Yeah, we're going to play best of three.
Speaker 2: He wins the first set with his bullshit moon ball.
Speaker 2: I know I'm a bit rusty.
Speaker 3: Medication kicked in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is tweaking out on h Yeah. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: telling you it is that gray blur.
Speaker 1: I got to get watered down there before you play,
Speaker 1: and I can kiss into a cop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he needs a three month ban. And then so
Speaker 2: he takes the first step. But then I figured it out.
Speaker 2: I kill him in the second secon and then he goes,
Speaker 2: I'm going home what And I go what, Like, we
Speaker 2: said best of three and you got time. I know
Speaker 2: you have nowhere to be right, And he's like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: He's like he's like, I got to do a show tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 1: I'm done.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, you can't, Like we have to
Speaker 2: finish this. And he's like, no, I'm leaving, and I go, okay,
Speaker 2: you can leave, but you have to say, Dave Hughes forfeit,
Speaker 2: the match, can't concede defeat to you, Mike Goldstein, right,
Speaker 2: And he's like, I'm not saying it.
Speaker 1: Say it get him in the podcast fan saying it recorded,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 2: Know I wanted it in writing at least, you know,
Speaker 2: And he's refusing to say it, and I'm like, you
Speaker 2: have to like you have to say and he starts
Speaker 2: like shaking with rage and he's like, I for he
Speaker 2: was so angry.
Speaker 1: Wait, so what was the school line? What did he win?
Speaker 1: The first?
Speaker 2: And six three?
Speaker 1: And then what did you?
Speaker 4: Was?
Speaker 2: One six one for me in the second.
Speaker 1: The momentum had shift.
Speaker 3: He didn't want to continue. I saw him two days
Speaker 3: ago and he said, I played Goldstein the other day.
Speaker 2: Did he tell you about his cramps?
Speaker 1: No? I said, how did you go?
Speaker 3: He just said, set a piece.
Speaker 1: That is actually bullshit, retired, Oh you know, And.
Speaker 2: He like was messaging me later and he goes, I
Speaker 2: was driving to my show and I had to pull
Speaker 2: over it because I had full body cramps. So imagine
Speaker 2: if I played the third set. Imagine yeah, And I
Speaker 2: was like, he's still forfeited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, screw he sucks at tennis and would never be
Speaker 1: on our tennis Monte Carlo.
Speaker 2: So the first one thousand event of the clay court
Speaker 2: season just wrapped up a couple of days ago. I
Speaker 2: thought it was an awesome tournament, like this was great.
Speaker 2: A lot of drama early on. Sits a pass who
Speaker 2: had won a few of these in the.
Speaker 1: Past, He's won with three of four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so he was the active player with the
Speaker 2: most Monte Carlo was going into this tournament. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: and he got bounced in the first round, straight set.
Speaker 1: What is going on? Is he done? Do you think
Speaker 1: sits a pass? Like? I feel like there was a
Speaker 1: lot of momentum, and I guess at one point he
Speaker 1: was talked about as the greatest ever player from Greece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then now it's kind of like the wheels have
Speaker 1: fallen off.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about a few years ago he was
Speaker 2: in a press conference saying, the next big three, without
Speaker 2: a doubt me it sits a pass, Not Michael Stein.
Speaker 1: Mike sa.
Speaker 2: Tree exactly. He said, it was the big three are
Speaker 2: going to be himself, Medvedev, and Zverev, Right yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I mean now sits past is what rank fifty
Speaker 2: sixth in the world, and Zverev's hanging around in the
Speaker 2: big three. But the gap between Zverev totally Alkhorizm center
Speaker 2: is like ten thousand points or something.
Speaker 1: I mean, it probably wasn't a bad call at the
Speaker 1: time because when he said I feel like sinner and
Speaker 1: Kalito went around. Yeah, but still like, oh, you've got
Speaker 1: tickets on yourself.
Speaker 2: Big tickets, and I mean to actually, I don't know
Speaker 2: the Djokovic still being around and playing and killing people
Speaker 2: when he said it was a big call. And then
Speaker 2: now you know, going out in the first round. And
Speaker 2: then of course Medvedev sucks on clay, he hates it,
Speaker 2: but getting double Yeah, what.
Speaker 1: Gives you that impression is the fact that he's got
Speaker 1: no rackets.
Speaker 2: He yeah, one of the best hissy fits we've seen.
Speaker 1: In a long time.
Speaker 2: I think this is up there with the top racket smashes.
Speaker 1: Of all time.
Speaker 2: Really. Oh yeah, so here's the the mad smashing the racket.
Speaker 2: So he starts with the big one back back of
Speaker 2: the court, and then over and over again. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 2: like I always say, he should be forced to play
Speaker 2: out the rest of the match with that racket.
Speaker 1: With the racket, yeah, that he mangled.
Speaker 2: And then the best part was the Monte Carlo crowd.
Speaker 1: Like kind of cheering them all yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And as he's doing it, and then.
Speaker 1: I support the crowd cheering, It's.
Speaker 3: Like it's fine, it's a bit of a yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, he should get extra points for like, I feel
Speaker 1: like clay is a harder surface. Yeah, to break a racket.
Speaker 2: Well, the delegate straight.
Speaker 1: They did have a.
Speaker 2: It was a tennis racket specific bin just then and
Speaker 2: that gets fine. Yeah, so an amazing crash out and
Speaker 2: a double bagel and for a top ten player Bartin
Speaker 2: playing with some form. But also I.
Speaker 1: Would love to get in Medvedev's head and just see
Speaker 1: what's going on, because like it is an emotional rollercoaster
Speaker 1: with that guy. You never know what state he's in,
Speaker 1: and then like he almost wins the other week and
Speaker 1: he's like playing Greg Kenneth and he's losing bags. He's
Speaker 1: starting with people like it is a mess up, a
Speaker 1: crazy month.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, the travel trying to get from
Speaker 2: Dubai totally to Palm Springs and then yeah, the finals
Speaker 2: of Indian Wells and then going out double bag alta
Speaker 2: Berretini or POTATOI.
Speaker 1: I like him for the French. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to come good with no form to back at christ
Speaker 1: Connell Medvedev final, please qualify, Chris, do.
Speaker 2: You want to put money on that well?
Speaker 1: On that specific look? You know, I'm not really a
Speaker 1: gambling type of guy, I don't think we should be
Speaker 1: promoting behavior on this podcast. So that was.
Speaker 2: Early on in Monte Carlos, and then just some insane
Speaker 2: matches leading up to what we all expected the final
Speaker 2: to be. Sincre, we finally had a Center Alcarez final,
Speaker 2: the first one of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do we did? This rivalry Guard is obviously
Speaker 1: gonna be one for the ages and going ahead forward,
Speaker 1: but it's like, obviously Kalito's got the edge when it
Speaker 1: comes to slams, but it's like it is hard to pick,
Speaker 1: Like I always feel like it's like fifty to fifty,
Speaker 1: you don't know what's going to happen. Who's on edge.
Speaker 1: Maybe Colito's stands out better in the longer format or something,
Speaker 1: but man Sinna looked unreal on the clay.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So it was a battle for who's going to be
Speaker 2: world number one. I think there's just like two hundred
Speaker 2: points separate in them. Now Center takes world number one,
Speaker 2: and now he's skipping the five hundred events, so and
Speaker 2: Alcoraz is playing in Barcelona, So now Barcelona, if he
Speaker 2: wins that, he goes back.
Speaker 1: To probably number world number one. Okay, yeah, wow, yeah.
Speaker 2: So it was in terms of their rivalry, I thought
Speaker 2: it was kind of a disappointing match. Yeah it was,
Speaker 2: didn't you know, go to three it was Alcohaz being
Speaker 2: up a break and bow sets and Center kind of
Speaker 2: just coming back and picking on his backhand, noticing it
Speaker 2: was bad alcoraz Is timing in the wind was.
Speaker 1: It was windy, And that's.
Speaker 2: Who would have thought it would be windy on court
Speaker 2: when you set it up right next to the French room.
Speaker 1: And it's also like that stadium is very like as well, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you pop a little roof on that, it's what you
Speaker 1: would want or something. But there's not even like there's
Speaker 1: like a lot of gaps. You can see stuff out
Speaker 1: the side of the like that stand. So the wind
Speaker 1: is just whipping through.
Speaker 2: The wind's whipping through. There's yachts pulling up outside.
Speaker 1: With rules cars around. I him like.
Speaker 2: It is on record saying Monte Carlo is too trashy.
Speaker 1: It looked I think, imagine I did.
Speaker 3: I did question my thoughts when I was watching.
Speaker 1: It looks the late night parties you would.
Speaker 3: Go to there. It was a bit of a trashy vibe.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well then what a ship tournament. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't even.
Speaker 3: The tournament the place.
Speaker 1: Is it possible?
Speaker 2: You brought the trashy vibe wherever you go.
Speaker 1: There you are, that's the one constant.
Speaker 3: Adulta.
Speaker 2: You were driving a Minion's mini.
Speaker 1: It looked good on the clay, though, I thought around
Speaker 1: I always you know, you feel like his body is
Speaker 1: not I'm just obsessed with his body because he's a draft.
Speaker 1: But like, yeah, but he likes around out there. I
Speaker 1: mean he's white sox a bold choice on the clay
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: How does he do that?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, but then he has added more
Speaker 2: variety to his game. He's he's not just like hitting
Speaker 2: groundies from behind the baseline. He's more drop shots than ever,
Speaker 2: which on clay is super effective. Alcoraz, I think the
Speaker 2: wind just broke his brain. And uh, I think Andy
Speaker 2: Murray tweeted during the match, the first got to adjust
Speaker 2: and like hit with more margins is going to win
Speaker 2: the match? And it was center, Yeah basically, but you know,
Speaker 2: as soon as Alcahaz plays center on a super sunny day,
Speaker 2: it's it's Alcoraz.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The redheads in the heat, you know.
Speaker 1: They can't handle it. Redheads in the heat, and if
Speaker 1: you put another two sets in it, like in a slam,
Speaker 1: it's like the whole dynamic chiefs immediately. Maybe those two
Speaker 1: should just play five sets. That should just be a
Speaker 1: rule they bring in they so I don't matter when
Speaker 1: they made each other in any regular season tournament, they
Speaker 1: have to play five sets.
Speaker 3: Temperature that's controlled so indoor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Monte Carlo final not the epic everyone
Speaker 2: was hoping for. And then like the first set was
Speaker 2: seventy two minutes long and then it ends on an
Speaker 2: Alcoraz double fault, and that was yeah exactly. And then
Speaker 2: at once the first set was that long and I
Speaker 2: was watching and it's like one am at that point,
Speaker 2: and I was just want and Center to win the
Speaker 2: second set so I could got to bed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what the rivalry is. All the power,
Speaker 1: we want good tennis. We just want Mike to go
Speaker 1: to bed.
Speaker 3: Well, I fell asleep during it. I started and then
Speaker 3: I was just I was out. It was a hard
Speaker 3: one to watch, but that is like.
Speaker 1: Being a tennis fan in Australia is like my all
Speaker 1: my memories of like watching Wimbledon all the French. It's
Speaker 1: like waking up in a daze on a couch and
Speaker 1: being like, what's happened? I've missed half a game here?
Speaker 1: Like you're fighting the sleep at all times?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, especially the five Saturdays. I mean if they're
Speaker 2: going five six hours and you're like.
Speaker 1: Yes, let me go to sleep exactly, God damn let
Speaker 1: me leave.
Speaker 2: And then, as discussed, he center took it out his
Speaker 2: world number one when had a weird hug with his
Speaker 2: Insta model. Yeah, but we're at the weird point where
Speaker 2: Alcoraz has won three of the last four Grand Slams,
Speaker 2: but it's still world number two.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: I know that rules though it's like what would you
Speaker 1: rather tell? It's like who really cares about one or two?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Obviously they seed positions and there's a bit of ego
Speaker 1: at stake, But if that were like, you can just
Speaker 1: win eighty percent of the Grand Slams you play, but
Speaker 1: you kind of maybe won't be number one. All this
Speaker 1: it's like every day of the week, I.
Speaker 2: Know, well that's it. The going into the French they're
Speaker 2: one and two, you know, it's it'll be a back
Speaker 2: and forth between them. But also I don't think it's
Speaker 2: as important for al Choraz because I don't know if
Speaker 2: you saw that postmatch interview where he's like, yeah, i'll
Speaker 2: drop out of world number one. He'll take it for
Speaker 2: a while. I might get it back.
Speaker 3: It seems pretty cool.
Speaker 1: He seems he's just like filming Sinner doing the jump
Speaker 1: into the wall. Well, I think it's weird. I was
Speaker 1: just like, I know, well, this is what people love
Speaker 1: about tennis is like that. It's like, oh, we're all
Speaker 1: hugging and we love each other or whatever. But it's like,
Speaker 1: shouldn't he just be like, I'm not even going to
Speaker 1: the pool?
Speaker 2: Yeah, weirdly standing there watching the guy who just beat
Speaker 2: you like have the time of his life. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Did you see the job. It looked like he'd never
Speaker 1: jumped into a pool before.
Speaker 3: He didn't want to do it. He was for his keys,
Speaker 3: And again, I think we should get you jumping in
Speaker 3: the pool afterwards. It's going to be really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I also think of the table's return and
Speaker 2: Alcoraz wins. I don't think Sinner is hanging out watching
Speaker 2: him jump into the pool.
Speaker 3: I think he will now do you think, yeah you
Speaker 3: got it after he's watched him jump in the pool.
Speaker 1: But do you think, because like tennis, Twitter is like
Speaker 1: people are obsessed with this relationship between these two. People
Speaker 1: are like they're like, oh my god, my heart, like
Speaker 1: they want them to date. That is the vibe that's
Speaker 1: going on. But is it real? Do you think like.
Speaker 3: I think they're good friends.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're good friends?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They see each other all the time.
Speaker 1: It's like us, yeah, are you going to Fiel watch?
Speaker 1: I would actually watch you jump I have you just
Speaker 1: didn't know.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: In my speedo, my cap.
Speaker 2: So again, Alcoraz and Center is separate themselves from the pack.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I think it's almost a ten thousand
Speaker 2: point difference between them and Zverev in number three at
Speaker 2: this point. So yeah, interesting to see what happens. I mean,
Speaker 2: Alka is obviously the heavy favorite to win Barcelona, and
Speaker 2: then Munich is going on at the same time.
Speaker 1: Well not playing Barcelona, by the way, I know it's
Speaker 1: a five hundred. Is it more like Carlos is playing
Speaker 1: because it's in Spain, it's more.
Speaker 5: Of a well.
Speaker 2: I also think the guy needs a break. It's insane.
Speaker 2: The turnaround from winning Miami and then yeah, transitioning to
Speaker 2: Clay and winning Monte Carlo. I think maybe only Djokovic
Speaker 2: has done that in the past, so he just take
Speaker 2: a couple five hundreds off.
Speaker 1: Why not, because yeah, what's like March May we get
Speaker 1: into French, so you want to be gearing up to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's a Rome. There's another one thousand coms yah, yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: probably both being for Rome. Yeah. And then the with
Speaker 2: Barcelona underway right now. The notable thing to happen there
Speaker 2: besides Alka is playing, is Draper is already out retired
Speaker 2: with an injury. Yeah, he's not back in form yet.
Speaker 2: And then in other clay court news, Mira Andreva won
Speaker 2: the Linz Upper Austria five hundred. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you've seen this with Andreva. She thanks, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Kind of love it, and of course I don't want
Speaker 4: to drinks anything, so I just have to say this
Speaker 4: is just like a tradition. Now for me, I want
Speaker 4: to thank myself today again for fighting until the end.
Speaker 1: For I'd love to thank me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So she's got form. She did it earlier in the
Speaker 1: year or last year. Yeah, thank to you herself. And
Speaker 1: now she's just on I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's nineteen, isn't she yeah, young, this is what
Speaker 3: they're all doing.
Speaker 2: How do you think it will be received at the
Speaker 2: end of every show if you're like, hey, guys, thanks
Speaker 2: for coming to me, but most of all, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank me.
Speaker 3: In a comedy setting, the this isn't real, but they
Speaker 3: don't know that it is.
Speaker 2: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Saying you're welcome would rule at the end of the cow.
Speaker 1: Also at the end of winning a tennis tournament, things
Speaker 1: like you you're welcome everyone, and then just walk off
Speaker 1: the course. But I don't know, something should be saved
Speaker 1: for your gratitude journal, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: She's doing the gratitude, but if you're doing.
Speaker 2: The journal to yourself, it's not getting the same you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess she's getting in the media. But this
Speaker 1: is the problem with happen What happened with the loss?
Speaker 3: What happens in the loss?
Speaker 1: She blames yelling my coaches following yeah fuck you, fuck you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah right, she went crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the opposite.
Speaker 1: It's like to her. I love her. Actually, she could
Speaker 1: be my favorite. Did she think the coaches in the win?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I higher.
Speaker 1: And it's her.
Speaker 3: First pyramid, the Maslows Pyramid Coaches a very very.
Speaker 2: Far other clay court news. Jess Pogola won the Charleston title.
Speaker 2: I like this because I think she's our I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously Coco won the French last year, but I think
Speaker 2: Pogola is the best American hope on clay this year.
Speaker 2: For taking she struggled through the Tournamentola in Charleston. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she dropped.
Speaker 1: I think she won. I think she won three matches
Speaker 1: in three sets, and I think she was a breakdown
Speaker 1: in her first three matches in every set, so I
Speaker 1: think it wasn't smooth sailing, but maybe that's the.
Speaker 2: Grit and she was the pressure of being the defending champion.
Speaker 2: So that's two years in a row winning Charleston. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tommy Paul won a clay title in Houston. What a
Speaker 2: dream boat he, I don't know, is the only American
Speaker 2: player I think on the men's side who I think
Speaker 2: could have a deeper run at the French. Because Americans
Speaker 2: do not like the clay.
Speaker 1: Why is there something about freedom that they don't like
Speaker 1: about the clay? Freedom like freedom, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: on a different surface, if you're a chance to run around,
Speaker 1: you know, whereas the clay is free, the clay. You've
Speaker 1: got to play to the clay, you know. The clay
Speaker 1: is like, you've got to work with the clay.
Speaker 2: We love freedom and we're all about bringing freedom to
Speaker 2: the rest of the world, and we're doing it one
Speaker 2: country at a time by bombing them.
Speaker 1: I think that's Trump's foreign policy. He's trying to eradicate
Speaker 1: clay from every country around the world.
Speaker 2: And it's because they didn't grow up playing on it.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a rare surface. And the last
Speaker 2: American men's player to win was Agacy nineteen ninety nine
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: French and the hair piece.
Speaker 2: Hair piece, Yeah, you're still rocking the wig. Yeah so yeah.
Speaker 2: And Tommy Paul, if we're on bald, watch.
Speaker 7: It look a little really watch actually what we need
Speaker 7: a bold American to take back the trophy from the serendipitous.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do love Tommy Paul though, Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: hope he does go deep.
Speaker 2: The Tommy Paul memory from the Australian Open was when
Speaker 2: I was dressed up as as Naomi Osaka and the
Speaker 2: netting and I passed Tommy Hall Tommy Paul in the
Speaker 2: hallway and he goes, what are you fucking bee keeper?
Speaker 1: Did you say anything to him and all looked at
Speaker 1: you and said it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's a beautiful.
Speaker 1: Every Grand Slam till the end of time.
Speaker 2: He rules.
Speaker 3: You need to get him on.
Speaker 1: That would be weird though, if you're going to do
Speaker 1: media commitments and then you just.
Speaker 3: Will post this guy.
Speaker 2: And everything. Yeah, indoors if.
Speaker 1: You like, what is it? I got into tennis for
Speaker 1: different reasons?
Speaker 3: How are they doing it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This is interesting. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 2: the footage of Rafa Nadal coaching Ega Chavantek. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's not her coach by any means, but he's still
Speaker 2: at the Rafa Nadal Academy giving Ega tips. Obviously, she's
Speaker 2: had kind of a bad twenty twenty six so far,
Speaker 2: she fired her coach. Raff is out there giving her tips,
Speaker 2: and she's pretty dominant on clay. So is this going
Speaker 2: to be the difference?
Speaker 1: Is she going to be what do you reckon? He
Speaker 1: said though? To get it done? Like, is it just
Speaker 1: one tip?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: More just hit it? Hit it a bit different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's oh. If circumstance dictates hit it softer.
Speaker 2: You could be a coach. Dude that has good stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I don't know, like I think Sabolenka is still
Speaker 2: the favorite for the women's on the French side, but
Speaker 2: for the French Open. But Egos wanted multiple times before
Speaker 2: the surface.
Speaker 1: I love it. She bounces back. But rappers like in
Speaker 1: a rarefied, like he's too big to become a coach,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, he's not going to sit in
Speaker 1: a box.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be like, just pay for the academy fees.
Speaker 1: He sends her an invoice and be like, hey, so
Speaker 1: there's dorm rooms you can bunk. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe he'll do like virtual tennis, but like golf style.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah yeah, just like indoors and they're just
Speaker 1: hitting into it. He gets She.
Speaker 3: Gets a message every now and then going like, hey,
Speaker 3: change your shot.
Speaker 1: I mean that would be good coaching if he could
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: So he'll hologram in like to park it.
Speaker 3: She'll just have a face a phone in her box.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's just on the on the phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That was better, better good, a better good forehead.
Speaker 2: Put on a spin on the forehead.
Speaker 1: He's like AI to full head of hair as well,
Speaker 1: and that was bald watch. But this old bloke that
Speaker 1: cracked the top hundred, Letty Marco trungle Letty thirty six
Speaker 1: years old. I love that we're calling him old, but
Speaker 1: it does mean I have a shot.
Speaker 3: Thirty six.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Nine years young? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty six. Hey you have a shot. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could do it. Yeah yeah yeah all right, Well get
Speaker 1: me out on the ATP Tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I'll start with Hughsey next week to it first match.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Hughsy would actually kill you. Yeah shit, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: his oldest man to crack the top one hundred. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and he beat Mute Darderi and Morocco and then he
Speaker 2: lost to a nineteen year old in the final, Yodar
Speaker 2: Raphael Yodar. So the youth still triumphs over.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but you got to love it. I love
Speaker 1: a journeyman in any sport or any situation, especially I
Speaker 1: think in tennis, because you know, we talked about the
Speaker 1: big money that these top players make, but if you're
Speaker 1: just you know, trying to crack the hundred, or if
Speaker 1: you're in the top two hundred and you're playing feeder
Speaker 1: events and trying to work you up, you're not making
Speaker 1: much money like that. Also, what a journey this guy's
Speaker 1: been on to finally make the hundred. I hope he
Speaker 1: makes a bit of cash and I don't know it
Speaker 1: goes and spends it on a fancy car.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, knocked out of the first round of Barcelona. Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I tried to do a bit. Every time I
Speaker 1: do a pep up like an inspiration.
Speaker 3: They just goes just waiting for the killd.
Speaker 1: A pep up for their BILLI car and like, of
Speaker 1: course we just get knocked out immediately. I just got
Speaker 1: to stop trying to put my faith in people.
Speaker 2: Do you think that was your fault? Do you think
Speaker 2: they listened to the appen Well.
Speaker 1: It probably wasn't my fault, but it can't have helped.
Speaker 2: All right, girls, this is what we trained for. This
Speaker 2: is what the Anzac spirit's all about. It's God damn Brits.
Speaker 2: They dropped us on the wrong beach. Never forget that
Speaker 2: it helped the Brits.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, British.
Speaker 1: That was like they dropped us on the wrong beach though,
Speaker 1: like hell yeah, we did roped them back in relegation
Speaker 1: to qualify for the final.
Speaker 2: Sam Stowzer was so you know, confused by her interview
Speaker 2: and thrown off that the whole week was just out
Speaker 2: of whack.
Speaker 1: For flashed back into this room. Instead of getting the
Speaker 1: place to train. She was getting in to listen to
Speaker 1: the podcast episode, being like, can you guys make sense
Speaker 1: of this at all?
Speaker 2: She had the Banjo Guys song in her she had
Speaker 2: song my anagram anagram of Pova. Threw her off because
Speaker 2: I kept talking about her on her arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the best podcasting with Dona.
Speaker 2: I was gonna challenge her to arm wrestle, but I
Speaker 2: thought that would be beyond the panel. Oh sensuous arms?
Speaker 2: Are you pet.
Speaker 3: Destroyed?
Speaker 2: You know exactly?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Billy Jean Kin Cup happened and Australia got creamed.
Speaker 7: Cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, cool. And also the American team, I think they
Speaker 2: were playing Belgium there they're out as well. So I
Speaker 2: think the first time in a decade that both the
Speaker 2: Aussies and the Americans are not in the Billager.
Speaker 1: We've got to send that with you. Go to the
Speaker 1: Raffa Academy. Yeah, that's the only I know where get
Speaker 1: on the AI faced coach from anywhere these days.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll come in and give some tips, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just like I think we were with
Speaker 1: Sam seemed quite confident when we're in here, and I
Speaker 1: felt I would have followed her into battle.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were making fun of the Brits were like,
Speaker 2: who are they sending?
Speaker 1: I was like, they need to go to the dentists,
Speaker 1: not Australia Classic And then on my face.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we thought Tolly Gibson was in this form
Speaker 2: after the Sunshine.
Speaker 1: Swing and will they'll be chanting the new nickname?
Speaker 2: Yeah there was. She lost to a teenager. That was yeah.
Speaker 2: I was there by myself trying to do it.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Then man, no, I got I got choked up thinking
Speaker 2: about the Aussies.
Speaker 1: Become physically ill.
Speaker 2: I know, dude, the Australians and like lost those first
Speaker 2: two matches and lost the doubles the next day. It
Speaker 2: was all over. It was just dead rubbers after that
Speaker 2: and it was sad ye see, so the Aussie's not
Speaker 2: through uh yeah, well on that point of the state
Speaker 2: of Australian tennis. We had Pat Cash in the studio
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. I was away, but Lizzy was.
Speaker 2: Lizzy was in here with the cash Man. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: he had a lot to say.
Speaker 1: I wasn't here that week, but that's exciting. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: normally not opinionated about anything, not at all.
Speaker 3: No, it's very placid, Yeah, very.
Speaker 2: Chill, very dull. But the interview we did with him
Speaker 2: was red hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Next week's episode will be our chat with Pat Cash
Speaker 2: and uh yeah it was. It was very illuminating, to
Speaker 2: say the least. What a dream boat? What a dream boat?
Speaker 2: What a dreamboat? Not only is there a roughen A
Speaker 2: Doll Netflix documentary coming out, but this one I'm more
Speaker 2: excited for. It snapped that John McEnroe's default a saga.
Speaker 2: It's a four part documentary podcast series recounting the American
Speaker 2: fire brands dramatic defaulting at the Australian Open in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: What did you just I know you were reading the
Speaker 1: press relates in but what did you refer to him?
Speaker 1: A fire brand?
Speaker 2: The firebrand?
Speaker 1: A fire brand?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know that term.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that. I mean hot headed you described.
Speaker 3: As a fire brand of Australian.
Speaker 1: Have I No, that's not true, that's not true.
Speaker 3: I read it on a firebrand brand.
Speaker 1: A moody art. Yeah, that's what it should have just
Speaker 1: or the people would say the controversial John McEnroe or
Speaker 1: something like that. It's the hot headed well fire.
Speaker 2: Brands also a term that works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you dismiss the copy. It just took me
Speaker 1: by surprise as all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: This one's told through the voices of the characters who
Speaker 2: were there, including the Aussie lines woman who made the
Speaker 2: call that triggered the event, the chair umpires sent macpacking,
Speaker 2: and McEnroe himself.
Speaker 1: It's exciting to then get because I mean to be
Speaker 1: on the sidelines because if you watch McEnroe highlights, it's
Speaker 1: a psycho like I loved it. It's like makes Medvedev
Speaker 1: look like the most chill guy. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: What's the opposite of fire bran?
Speaker 1: Yeah an ice? An ice bucket seven eleven slushy? Maybe nice.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know when someone's like having a
Speaker 1: moment and you're i mean, everyone's just like on edge
Speaker 1: and it's like tippee towing around. It's like that would
Speaker 1: be like if you had to umply any of his games,
Speaker 1: That's what you'd feel like at all times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you'd be scared.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but this comes out on April twentieth. Episode
Speaker 2: one will be dropping then and uh yeah. One of
Speaker 2: the most controversial.
Speaker 1: Sorry damn it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeahybrand, one of the most firebrand decisions in Grand
Speaker 2: Slam history.
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the title of the
Speaker 3: pod fire Brand.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 6: John mcenroll had been playing very well of late, became
Speaker 6: the first man ever disqualified from a Grand Slam event
Speaker 6: for bad behavior. Earlier in the match, she had been
Speaker 6: accused of intimidating a lines woman.
Speaker 5: The bitch was yet to come when McEnroe threw his
Speaker 5: racket on the ground, which again had the central umpire busy,
Speaker 5: and then violation abuse default mister macarron.
Speaker 3: I know this is hard for people to believe that,
Speaker 3: know me, but there was some very poor officiating going on.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, my gosh. Can you imagine if socials was
Speaker 3: around back then he would have been dragged.
Speaker 1: I mean to think about his career in the social
Speaker 1: media age, would be like he would either be right,
Speaker 1: he'd either be like drag.
Speaker 3: Forgo it for threatening a lines woman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually this is uh. He's in hot water
Speaker 2: recently for some comments about women's tennis. He said, if
Speaker 2: you put the best youth player in the world against Sablenka,
Speaker 2: they would win six one, six one. But again for me.
Speaker 2: He says that is irrelevant. He loves women's tennis. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he said it would just be an overwhelming victory.
Speaker 2: So people, are you know.
Speaker 1: The best youth player though? Did you know which Nikurios
Speaker 1: play tableca?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I guess, so it could.
Speaker 1: Be a bit closer. I'm trying to dig him out
Speaker 1: of here. I don't know why I'm trying to help
Speaker 1: him out. Go on that hill yourself, John you die?
Speaker 1: Oh you are?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not American Roe apologist.
Speaker 1: No, I love you know, I love a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff he's done. But I you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's alone on that one. Okay, As a member of
Speaker 1: the tennis media, I'm going to steer clear of that,
Speaker 1: even though I'm continuing talking about it. I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be six.
Speaker 3: It'll be six six love six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much. I think Yeah, she'll get
Speaker 1: injured in the warm up. No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're on record as saying they don't women don't play
Speaker 2: best of five because they have to get back in
Speaker 2: the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we heard that. At the end of the day
Speaker 3: taped mic is not working.
Speaker 1: Can I borrow that coffee to pour on the recording, Man,
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: This is going to be fantastic. Default from a Grand
Speaker 2: Slam in nineteen ninety Do you either of you remember
Speaker 2: the next one to happen when a player was disqualified
Speaker 2: from a tournament.
Speaker 1: It should have happened every time a player plays in
Speaker 1: Australian At the Australian Open. Opinion with Djokovic, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: at the US Open when he tried to kill someone.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, yeah that's true. He tried to kill
Speaker 1: someone in the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah he I thought he counted casually hit the ball
Speaker 2: behind him and it hit the lines.
Speaker 1: But that what I mean Djokovic is one. It's like
Speaker 1: physical contact was made back and rose the reason is
Speaker 1: just bad behavior. It sounds like a seven year old
Speaker 1: that's been sent to the naughty corner.
Speaker 2: I know, it's fascinating, like it's gonna be great. I
Speaker 2: think the Djokovic one, I know, Sam, your on record
Speaker 2: is saying it was it was good because it quieted
Speaker 2: a woman's voice.
Speaker 1: Could we just pull liquid on that podcast just there,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if I want they want to
Speaker 1: go out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's dropping April twentieth, gut around it. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be awesome?
Speaker 1: Can I just say as well?
Speaker 3: I thought and cut that bit out.
Speaker 1: Now to everyone's favorite segment.
Speaker 2: It's Anna Grandma Pova otherwise known as Mike's anagrams.
Speaker 1: Coming around. He love it well. Last week's was so
Speaker 1: bad that I started liking it.
Speaker 2: No, last week was so good. Do you think me
Speaker 2: telling Sam Stowzer she had sensuous arms was bad?
Speaker 1: That's in real life watching like seeing her face so
Speaker 1: close to her.
Speaker 2: Just go what.
Speaker 3: Where am I?
Speaker 1: My manager told me to do this podcast?
Speaker 2: Oh sensuous arms?
Speaker 1: You pt?
Speaker 2: This week we have Yannick Sinner and the letter W
Speaker 2: for the big win in Monte Carlo. So I have
Speaker 2: to set this up by saying I'm going to make
Speaker 2: a declarative statement, and then the anagram is me contradicting that. Okay,
Speaker 2: not complicated, okay at all, totally worthwhile?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right, I know what's happening.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the declarative statement is Yannick Center, what a loser?
Speaker 2: And then the anagram is jk In saying winner, whoa.
Speaker 1: Your head?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah that is cool? But could you maybe for the
Speaker 1: next forty forty five minutes just walking in through the
Speaker 1: writing processes.
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's no E and winner. Uh so there
Speaker 2: there's some background.
Speaker 3: For You've also got the JK there. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: a little bit internet slang.
Speaker 1: It's fun, it's cool and.
Speaker 2: What an episode. Thank you guys so much for being here.
Speaker 2: I love the dream team. You know, no Ace Man
Speaker 2: and it seems the dream the dream tape.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd also just like to thank me. Oh, turning up,
Speaker 3: turning up and.
Speaker 2: I'm sailboating. I am boat ship.