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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of the sit Down.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matrolope, a writer for oz open dot com and.

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Speaker 2: I embraced you from the AO Show and brit.

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Speaker 1: Why are we sitting down with Barbora Kritiko for this week?

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Speaker 2: So Viv is still in Wimbledon, the lucky duck and

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Speaker 2: she managed to sit down with her a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago before we even knew she would win the tournament.

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Speaker 2: So you know what, I'm going to hand it over

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Speaker 2: to Viv and let's hear what they talked about.

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Speaker 3: Babora, thank you for joining us today on the sit Down.

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Speaker 3: You're joining us from Wimbledon, where, of course there's a

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Speaker 3: great history of Czech champions.

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Speaker 4: How does it feel to return to this venue?

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Speaker 5: Well, first off all, I really want to thank you

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Speaker 5: for having me. It's very nice to be bard of

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Speaker 5: bard of this, and I mean being back here in

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Speaker 5: the in a banbladd on we have where we have

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Speaker 5: a really huge histudy of another czechdennis players winning or

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Speaker 5: editching a very very far I mean, it's it's great.

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Speaker 5: It's always nice to be here because this tournament is

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Speaker 5: very very traditional and.

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Speaker 4: I like this.

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Speaker 5: I like the history of the tournament, so I'm I'm

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Speaker 5: super excited to be here and and started tournament very soon.

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Speaker 3: What memories do you have of Wimburen from when you

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Speaker 3: were growing up.

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Speaker 5: That's an interesting question because when I was growing up,

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Speaker 5: it was it wasn't really that much about wim blood

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Speaker 5: it wasn't really that much about the tennis. It was

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Speaker 5: more about the education in our house. So I guess

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Speaker 5: it was a little bit a little bit later. And

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Speaker 5: I mean the memory that I remember from Wimbladen is

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Speaker 5: more when I was like sixteen seventeen and actually trying

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Speaker 5: to play the juniors the juniors champion and playing year

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Speaker 5: on court nineteen that is not here anymore, and playing

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Speaker 5: my first round, losing the first round, and playing very

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Speaker 5: I remember I was like running to the net and

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Speaker 5: I fell on my butt, and I was very so

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Speaker 4: So these are the I mean, these are.

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Speaker 5: That this is the very first memory that you know

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Speaker 5: that I can remember of right now that's connected to

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Speaker 4: Had you played much cross court tennis before that?

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Speaker 5: No, it was actually actually first time here at the

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Speaker 5: VIM button, but the only tournament I played before there

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Speaker 5: was a rehabiton. And also I think I played there

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Speaker 5: my first match and this was my maybe second.

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Speaker 4: Can you check our listeners.

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Speaker 3: Back to your start in tennis, you said you went

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Speaker 3: from a very sporting family. How did you get started

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Speaker 5: Well, I started, well, I started. I started because I

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Speaker 5: And and I was little, I was like maybe three

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Speaker 5: we went with him so my mom could look after him.

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Speaker 4: And because I was this small, I went.

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Speaker 5: I went with my mom and and I got like

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Speaker 5: the wall. So this is I think, I mean, this

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Speaker 5: is this is how I studied. But to be honest,

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Speaker 5: I don't remember that that's how I only I only

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Speaker 5: have this, uh this from my my my family telling me.

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Speaker 3: And who would you say has been the biggest influence

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Speaker 3: in your career.

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Speaker 5: Wow, so many people definitely not just one. I mean

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Speaker 5: starting with my family, with my parents, with my brothers,

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Speaker 5: many people have been a big, big influence in my

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Speaker 3: And in your career You've had quite an unusual path

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Speaker 3: in that you thrived first in doubles, then you had

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Speaker 5: Well, the doubles definitely helped. It definitely put me on

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Speaker 5: Better to to manage to handle and it I think

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Speaker 5: Like just like mental mental help or mental support too

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Speaker 5: to be to be able to uh, I mean put

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Speaker 4: When you want roll and garls.

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Speaker 3: It was only your fifth grandsaon Mandrel. Did you surprise

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Speaker 5: Definitely, yes, definitely, definitely yes, because in I mean in check,

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Speaker 5: I mean I've in Czech Republic. I never I never

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Speaker 5: So it was it was a big surprise. But also

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Speaker 5: on the other hand, I was really really working hard

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Speaker 5: during the during twenty twenty, during the COVID and really

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Speaker 5: one hundred and and then in twenty twenty one, everything

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Speaker 5: everything clicked and so far this was this was I

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Speaker 4: It was the best year of my career.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it absolutely was your best year of your career.

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Speaker 3: Because you also won a gold medal that year, that

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Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely that year was was amazing with all the

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Speaker 3: What does that mean to represent your nation at the Olympics.

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Speaker 5: I mean, for me, any representation of my country, if

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Speaker 5: I'm playing for my country. And and I mean, I'm

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Speaker 5: I'm really I'm really enjoying that because when I mean,

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Speaker 3: There are currently eight check women inside the top one

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Speaker 3: hundred in both singles and in doubles. Do you feel

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Speaker 4: If I feel like that.

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Speaker 5: No, But I think it's maybe the question on on

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Speaker 4: Are you close as a group on tour?

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Speaker 5: No, not only no, I think it's I think tennis

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Speaker 5: I mean I was quite close with my doubles partner,

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Speaker 4: That close, that close with them.

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Speaker 3: Is it hard to have close friendships in a sport

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Speaker 5: I think it's just very individual. I think everybody is different,

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Speaker 5: I think it's fine as well. I mean, it can

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Speaker 3: Wimburon last year, you came in, you'd reached a final

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Speaker 3: the second round. Does I give you added motivation for

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean the motivation here is obviously every single year,

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Speaker 4: And I mean, but I'm not really.

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Speaker 3: And you did start your year by reaching the quarter

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean for me, Australia is very special. I

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Speaker 5: And I mean, it's great that I'm coming back. It's

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Speaker 5: about this result. And also I I with Katkabi won

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Speaker 5: mixed doubles. So for me to be honest, I have

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Speaker 5: the most trophies from Australia. So it's it's it's it's

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Speaker 5: a very very special place for me.

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Speaker 4: Whe Rather it's trophies. Where do you keep them?

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Speaker 5: Well, I have them so far right now, I have

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Speaker 5: them in my in my parents' house. Ye, But when

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Speaker 3: And just to finish up, when you look back at

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Speaker 5: What I would say, I think I mean for me

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So obviously we've proved a good luck charm for critique

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Speaker 1: of it, because you know, two weeks after they sat

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Speaker 1: to that interview back and hearing that her expectations were

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Speaker 1: quite low about the tournament. She'd had illness and injury

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Speaker 1: struggles earlier this year, and she'd said that all she

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Speaker 1: was really hoping to do was with around and then

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Speaker 1: see how she goes from there and hopefully it goes well.

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Speaker 1: She goes on the wins, you know, her second grandson title,

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Speaker 1: and it was just an incredible achievement. Incredible and I

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Speaker 1: think there's a lot about her that I learned in

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Speaker 1: listening to that interview that Viv managed to get is

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Speaker 1: she seems to be someone who has been blessed with

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Speaker 1: a very happy outlook and really positive outlook, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking about her biggest influences, her family and brothers. And

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Speaker 1: my favorite question for me was when Viv asked her,

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Speaker 1: is there anything you would change or go back and

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Speaker 1: tell your younger self, And she said she said she

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Speaker 1: had everything she needed. She was really happy back then,

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Speaker 1: so she wouldn't change a thing. She always had the

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Speaker 1: joy and it's always about maintaining that joy and being

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Speaker 1: happy and dream big and go for it. And I

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Speaker 1: just think, you know, there's something in just being light

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Speaker 1: and enjoying the present.

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Speaker 4: And I just thought it was a fantastic interview.

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Speaker 1: And she just seems so well adjusted and so down

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Speaker 1: to earth. Was really it was really great to hear

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Speaker 1: from her. And next Monday, Vive and I will be

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Speaker 1: back again with another episode of The Sea Down, but

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Speaker 1: in the meantime you could listen to bree J and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the team this Thursday on the aoshow Weekly.

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Speaker 1: Details for how to contact us are in the show notes,

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Speaker 1: and please subscribe, rate and review. Thanks so much, Matt Sea,

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