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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 Matt Trolope, a writer at ozova dot com and

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by my colleague Australian Tennis Magazines Vive Christy Hey.

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Speaker 2: Vib Hey, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Great to be here with you for another week.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and thank you for setting up this week's interview

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Speaker 1: that we have with an Australian tennis legend turned administrator

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Speaker 1: who's also written a book about clay court tennis. Tell

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Speaker 1: us who I've got on this week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So this week we chat with Paul McNamee, who

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Speaker 3: is the author of the book Welcome to the Dance.

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Speaker 3: And for anyone who has never quite appreciated the beauty

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Speaker 3: and the romanticism of competing on a clay court, this

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Speaker 3: is a great lesson. You'll learn a lot about the

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Speaker 3: most beautiful clay courts in the world and also about

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Speaker 3: why clay is such an important surface for learning tennis.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you'd interviewed Paul a couple of times before, but

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Speaker 1: I'd never met him or interviewing before. I just remember

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Speaker 1: him in growing up in my childhood as the Australian

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Speaker 1: Open tournament director. So it was fantastic to get an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to chat to him this week, and here it is.

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Speaker 3: Paul, thank you for joining us on the sit down.

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Speaker 3: You're joining us during the clay court season, clearly a

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Speaker 3: season that you came to love so much so that

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Speaker 3: it became a topic of your book. Welcome to the dance.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the dance. That's right, the clay court season.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the clay court season Europe, which is kind

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Speaker 4: of the epicenter of it all. And the dance is

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Speaker 4: about how do you make a tennis ball dance? And

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Speaker 4: when the dancer meets the dance, that's where you really

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Speaker 4: get the flow and really get the beautiful part of

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Speaker 4: the sport. So I really think there's inherent beauty in

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Speaker 4: the clay court game, and if you're a master of

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Speaker 4: that art, then you can make a tennis ball dance,

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Speaker 4: as we've seen Raffa do of course, and the young

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Speaker 4: version in al Karez and all of the other great players.

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Speaker 3: So you make it sound like an absolute love affair,

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Speaker 3: but you didn't always have such a love of clay.

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Speaker 3: Describe your first experience of competing on clay.

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Speaker 4: My first experience was actually in qualifying at Roland garral

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Speaker 4: So in the first round because I played on Onto

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Speaker 4: played on European clay. I was only eighteen years of age.

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Speaker 4: I got into qualifying, went over there. I was the

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Speaker 4: number one junior in Australia, had won the juniors in

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Speaker 2: Thinking I was pretty good.

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Speaker 4: I hadn't played on clay, but he I can servant

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Speaker 4: BALI I've got my stuff.

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Speaker 2: And I played a forty one year old guy.

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Speaker 4: From Bolivia who I thought, well, you know, he's probably

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Speaker 4: I can't clay, but you know, if I'm in trouble,

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Speaker 4: I can beat him on fitness and speed because I'm

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Speaker 4: only eighteen, I'm quick, et cetera, et cetera. And the

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Speaker 4: first set he just gave me a lesson. I thought, wow,

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Speaker 4: I mean he was giving me angles drop shots. I

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Speaker 4: didn't know I was doing so then I thought the

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Speaker 4: second set, I'll just hit every ball back and make

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Speaker 4: sure that it's a war of attrition and I'm going

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Speaker 4: to win on a fitness.

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Speaker 2: Well, then he just played the angles a.

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Speaker 4: Drop shot really quickly when I wasn't expecting it. If

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Speaker 4: I try to play one on him, he seemed expecting

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Speaker 4: and I lost six one, six two, and I just

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Speaker 4: I was humiliated. I walked off with my tail between

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Speaker 4: my legs and I just couldn't believe what a different

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Speaker 4: it was actually on court Philip chatrias court Central at

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Speaker 4: Roland Garralds, which for qualifyings extraordinary that they were using

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Speaker 4: rod labor Arena, the surface area. So I can honestly

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Speaker 4: I say I was disrobed out there. It felt naked,

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Speaker 4: basically like he is someone who has no idea and humiliated.

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Speaker 4: And as I walked off that court, I remember thinking,

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Speaker 4: I didn't run back to England. I you know, I

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Speaker 4: you know, my eyes are wide open, and just to

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Speaker 4: I mean, it was such an amazing experience for my

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Speaker 4: stayed in What's the Great Players. Rosa was still playing

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Speaker 4: which is the complete antithesis of what I was, completely

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Speaker 4: whatever his opponent seemed to do, he seemed to have

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Speaker 2: And he was in the zone.

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Speaker 4: And he went on one Paris that year in the

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Speaker 4: I don't think he lost a set that year. And

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Speaker 4: I remember I was I was going in the train back,

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Speaker 2: I remember, as I was leaving Paris, I was just thinking, I.

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Speaker 4: Wonder if I will ever have that feeling of that

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Speaker 4: nestazi of knowing what I'm doing on a clay court

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Speaker 4: And it was seven long years before I ever got

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Speaker 4: back to that cenate court. I'd played on a lot

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Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera, but I hadn't played on that

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Speaker 4: I played John McEnroe seven years later at the third

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Speaker 4: I'm top fifty now, so I'm pretty good player. He's

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Speaker 2: Knew he'd stuffed John. I mean, he was a bloody

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Speaker 4: So I thought, but you know, it's not his best surface.

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Speaker 4: It's my best surface. Now, I think I've got a

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Speaker 4: you know, I lost the tiebreak first, win the tie

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Speaker 2: Crowd went crazy. He didn't like John.

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Speaker 4: He's a brash American et cetera, et cetera. You know,

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Speaker 4: And as I'm leaving the court, you'd think I'd be

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Speaker 4: My rakings going, oh, good, prize money, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: But no, I was just thinking about the feeling I

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Speaker 2: And that's sense of fulfillment.

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Speaker 4: I've never had anything professionally as much as that in

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Speaker 2: Incredible.

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Speaker 3: A major premise of your book, of course, is that

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Speaker 3: by mastering clay, you can master all surfaces.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: Why is that the case?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's a little controversial and probably a little

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Speaker 4: I'm doing. Look now, and look the San frances and

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Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. I'm not saying they weren't great players,

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Speaker 4: but I do think there's a gap in your knowledge

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Speaker 4: if you can kind of get away with serve volting

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you can serve boli that packash, why.

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Speaker 4: Didn't need to learn how to be a greade all

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Speaker 2: So I kind of get that, but we're talking about.

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Speaker 4: Kind of more of a deeper Eastern look at this

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Speaker 4: and what is what is the holistic view of the sport?

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Speaker 4: And I think that having been able to go through

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Speaker 4: it does help a lot, I think for your your

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Speaker 4: holistic approach to the game, and then when you retire

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Speaker 4: and you're coaching, because you've gone through that whole process

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Speaker 4: and everybody has different strengths and weaknesses in their game

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Speaker 4: and as a coach, you need to match that with

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Speaker 4: the surface that they're playing. And so I'm not a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: You described earlier that you learned from watching the Stasi,

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Speaker 3: and you also in your book you talk about beyond Borg.

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Speaker 4: Well, Theo Rafa and beyond Borg far and away the

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Speaker 4: two mass grand masters. We can call them over of

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Speaker 4: chess because clay's chess at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: hardcourt is drafts. I mean they're quite different games. One

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Speaker 4: does not. So clay court is a chess board. So

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Speaker 4: the grand masters are Raphae, Nadal and beyond Borg. Next

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Speaker 4: in line will be Carlos Acaraz. How it was almost Americle.

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Speaker 4: He didn't win the French last year and he will

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Speaker 4: He's that good. This guy on clay, right, this guy

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Speaker 4: is the real deal. He's got it all. He could

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Speaker 4: win ten rolling Garross's I mean, we're not saying fourteen

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Speaker 4: like Rafa, but he's for me, he's far and away

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Speaker 4: the best player on clay. So right now, so I

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Speaker 4: you know, the last few years I've been rolling gross.

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Speaker 4: I go and watch Elk Grass because I just it

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Speaker 4: brings me joy to see a guy doing when he's

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Speaker 4: doing the drop shots, the angles, the mixing of the

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Speaker 4: power with the venesse, his all court mastery. Grew up

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Speaker 4: in Spain. He he's not linear. Janisen is linear, great play,

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Speaker 4: but linear our Gras is not.

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Speaker 2: There's a difference.

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Speaker 1: You've said a lot a lot of things that related

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Speaker 1: to chats we've had recently with other people, particularly talking

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Speaker 1: about Clay. I don't think Todd Woodbridge will be unhappy

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Speaker 1: with me saying this, but he said when he was

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Speaker 1: developing his game that he wanted to play in a

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Speaker 1: way that would lead to success at Wimbledon, because Australians

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Speaker 1: grew up obviously with that connection with Wimbledon.

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Speaker 2: He's a window.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, grass court and and so he kind of said, well,

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Speaker 1: I want the shots that will lead to success at Wimbledon.

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Speaker 3: How pleased have you been to see clay courts appearing

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Speaker 4: Very happy ten Australia really drove that. I mean I

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Speaker 4: And you might ask why, Well, the reason is is

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Speaker 4: because his forehand is such a weapon on clay that

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Speaker 4: you live in such fear of once he gets to forehand,

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Speaker 4: he's going to take control of the point that you

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Speaker 4: have to go for something very quickly in the point

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Speaker 4: to try and end it because he's going to strangle

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Speaker 4: you with his forehand, because he's so dominant in the end.

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Speaker 4: On clay the best shot wins, So in the end

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Speaker 4: Nadal wins because he's got the best shot in the

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Speaker 4: history of the game, which is his forehand. There is

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Speaker 4: no better shot in the history of tennis. That's why

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Speaker 4: he's won forteene roll in garrossis sho I write him off.

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Speaker 3: Don't write Rafa off, who is kind of returning to

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Speaker 3: form this week in Madrid.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly is.

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Speaker 3: I loved hearing Paul talk about the past, present and

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Speaker 3: future greats of clay court tennis.

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Speaker 1: You're right, and it was such an in depth chat

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Speaker 1: that we'll actually bring you a part two of our

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Speaker 1: chat with mcnamie on a later date on the sit

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Speaker 1: Down and we'll be back again next Monday. But in

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Speaker 1: the meantime, you can listen to John and the Teen

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Speaker 1: this Thursday on the Aoshow Weekly.

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Speaker 3: Details for how to contact us are in the show notes,

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Speaker 3: and please remember subscribe, rate and review.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, Bib, look.

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Speaker 3: Forward to it.

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Speaker 4: Matt