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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the sit Down. I'm Viv Christian,

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Speaker 1: managing editor of Australian Tennis magazine.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Matt Trolope, a writer for oz open dot Com. Viv,

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Speaker 2: why are we sitting down with Olivia Gadeki this week?

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Speaker 1: Well, Matt, it's been an incredible season for Live and

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Speaker 1: it's also been an incredible month for her. She is

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Speaker 1: fresh off reaching a first WTA final in Guadalajara, and

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Speaker 1: now she's not only a top one hundred player but

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Speaker 1: also Australia's.

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Speaker 3: Number one woman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like a whole lot of milestones have all come

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Speaker 2: together for her at once, and in the space of

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Speaker 2: a week, she's almost half her ranking. She was around

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Speaker 2: one point fifty in the world and now she's knocking

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Speaker 2: she was really surprised about it, and it also completely

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Speaker 2: changes the trajectory of her season. So let's hear what

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Speaker 2: she had to say. Olivia Gadeki, thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining us on the sit down today. Where in

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Speaker 2: the world do we find you at the moment?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 4: I'm actually here in Oklahoma, Stillwater, OSU visiting my little brother.

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Speaker 4: He just started college a couple of weeks ago, so

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Speaker 4: I thought i'd come visit and spend a bit of

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Speaker 4: time with him.

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Speaker 2: What's that like the college experience? I guess you would

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Speaker 2: have only been there for a day or so, But

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Speaker 2: I mean, have you done the US college UNI thing before?

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Speaker 4: No? I haven't, actually, And this is like my first

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Speaker 4: time coming to a college in a way too, so

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Speaker 4: it's all very new to me. And it's a pretty

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Speaker 4: cool environment. I went and saw the center and it's

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Speaker 4: like amazing facilities. And yeah, he's in very good hands,

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Speaker 4: my brother.

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Speaker 2: That's good to hear now. Obviously, one of the main

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Speaker 2: reasons we're talking to you today is because of your

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Speaker 2: performance in Guadalajara. You made the final there of the

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Speaker 2: WTA five hundred there and like an incredible week that

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Speaker 2: you started in qualifying to get to your first WTA final.

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Speaker 3: What clicked?

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Speaker 2: Why did it all work so well there on such

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Speaker 2: a big stage.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sort of a million dollar question in a way.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I think I spent two a week.

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Speaker 4: Before that five hundred tournament. They're playing a one two five,

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Speaker 4: and you know, I played. I've been playing quite a

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Speaker 4: bit this year, and I don't know, I was really

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Speaker 4: feeling myself out there. I really enjoyed the conditions and

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Speaker 4: everything about Mexico that week, and I don't know, I

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Speaker 4: was playing some great tennis and I just took every

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Speaker 4: opportunity as it came, and each day it was a

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Speaker 4: chance to you know, get out.

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Speaker 3: There, compete, enjoy it. And yeah, it came good.

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Speaker 2: In the end, It certainly did. And one thing that

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Speaker 2: was so interesting about your run after you qualified was

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Speaker 2: like the caliber of players you kept facing in the

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Speaker 2: main draw. So you beat Sloan Stevens, Daniel Collins, Martina Trevis,

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Speaker 2: and Camilla Azoria, Like these all big names on the

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Speaker 2: WTA Tours, So how did it feel to face them

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Speaker 2: and beat them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're probably one of the biggest names, like

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Speaker 4: you said, on tour, so to be able to get

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Speaker 4: quite a few great wins was amazing for my confidence.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of the time I was just taking

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Speaker 4: really enjoyed that. I just like I said before, it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially at.

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Speaker 4: That level, because I feel like I've been in that

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Speaker 4: but you don't really get to play such well. I'm

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Speaker 3: So to play back to back and you know, get

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Speaker 4: It was it was quite a you know, big confidence

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Speaker 2: And then obviously entering the final, that's a new experience

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Speaker 2: for you. And we know the Guadalajara Guadalajara tournament, it's

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Speaker 2: And how did you handle it?

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Speaker 3: It was amazing.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I was so lucky to be to have

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Speaker 4: I said, makes a big, you know impact, And I

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Speaker 4: thought I played great, like great tennis, and I just

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Speaker 4: had such a great sort of year so far, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: Were you nervous for the final?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I was sick to my stomach.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was alone that week, so I was

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Speaker 4: And I hadn't like obviously I've felt nervous before, but

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Speaker 4: that was like I just felt like that was another level,

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's those those sort of moments you trained for and

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Speaker 4: it's quite hard to replicate. So to have that, you know,

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Speaker 4: so I it's a it's a feeling that I know

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you think, Olivia, that your experience or your success

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Speaker 1: I guess a big occasion like that.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can definitely say that, you know, all

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Speaker 4: those doubles matches tournaments that I've played has made a

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Speaker 4: massive difference for my singles game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I'm so glad that I've you know, given doubles a

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Speaker 1: And in terms of your game, you have such a

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Speaker 1: sort of a beautiful, well rounded all court style. How

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Speaker 4: I remember when I was quite young, I was maybe

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Speaker 4: Adam Carey, and I remember saying to him, oh, I

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Speaker 4: And so, I don't know, with him, we practiced, you know, transition,

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Speaker 4: my transition game so much so I'd say Adam Carey

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Speaker 4: of my game. And I'm so thankful because I love

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Speaker 4: there's you know, quite a few things that I can

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Speaker 4: if I need to change things. I feel like I've

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Speaker 1: I feel servant volley is are a bit of a

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Speaker 3: Not really, I'd say no, I just I just wanted

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Speaker 4: But I've realized that the serve and volley game is

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Speaker 3: So as as much as I wanted to be serve volley,

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Speaker 1: And you are now sitting at a career high ranking

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Speaker 1: of world number eighty one. How does that sound? And

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Speaker 1: you know, just how does it feel to have made

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Speaker 3: It's honestly amazing, and I.

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Speaker 4: Can't quite believe, to be honest, especially because I was

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Speaker 3: I haven't quite digested it just yet.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's been an incredible sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: The fact that I'm yeah, like I said, eighty one

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Speaker 4: And I just felt like I was in that one

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Speaker 4: know that it could change. I knew it could change

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Speaker 3: So yeah, to be eighty one in.

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Speaker 4: The world right now is incredible, and I'm just really

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Speaker 2: Well, I had a follow up question to that, and

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Speaker 2: it was about the opportunities that this new ranking opens

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Speaker 2: up for you because you've actual actually halved your ranking.

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Speaker 2: You as you said, you were in the one fifties

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Speaker 2: that might like impact your schedule or how it might

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely changed my schedule quite a bit.

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Speaker 4: I was actually planning on going back to London for

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Speaker 3: Heading to China to play tournaments there.

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Speaker 2: Which that's cool.

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Speaker 3: Is quite a schedule. Yeah, schedule changed, So I'm.

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Speaker 4: Really excited about that because that was the schedule I

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Speaker 2: It's awesome going back and kind of preparing for this

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Speaker 2: interview looking at your activity, it seemed that there was

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Speaker 2: your twenty three wins and nine losses since the beginning

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Speaker 2: of SERBERTU where I think you made the semisor the final.

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Speaker 2: I just wondered if that's where you felt a change

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Speaker 4: very well, and I was really going into that grass

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Speaker 3: I just thought, you know, I could really do something

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I think it's definitely helped, just you know,

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Speaker 1: Who else sort of counts as inspiration to you? And

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Speaker 3: Now? I would say my mom? My, Mom is my

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So, my five brothers all used to play and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel very lucky to have that, Olivia.

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Speaker 2: This is another great result in what has been an

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Speaker 4: They know that it's doable and you know, you just

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Speaker 1: So Olivia, we're learning a lot of Australianton's fans are

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Speaker 3: The person.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's one that I might need a little

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a tough one because I just feel

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Speaker 1: Just to finish off Olivia, perhaps you could say, I'll

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Speaker 3: What I'm most looking forward to I think for sure,

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Speaker 3: And of course it's been truly amazing.

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Speaker 4: Because I get to represent Australia again in November, which

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Speaker 2: Fantastic opportunity to catch up with Olivia Gadecki there and

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Speaker 2: perfect time to remind people that tickets for AO twenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a big Australian summer of

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