Speaker 1: This could be arguably more fun than being on court
Speaker 1: for five hours.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know the film. Wait so which these things?
Speaker 3: The chorus? I mean, you've totally spoiled any fun of it.
Speaker 4: Should be perfect stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't know why. So many times we've tried, and
Speaker 5: now we've got her inside.
Speaker 3: To do an interview with Sam Stone. She's looking real
Speaker 3: confused by our little une. This is very cringe to stoer.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 3: How could you not love that energy? I hated.
Speaker 4: I really did not know what was going on. Now
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 3: That was that was hard for us too, so you know,
Speaker 3: but it's good. We really committed a.
Speaker 5: Hello, this is it actually feels worth your wearing the
Speaker 5: Australia like representing the country right now and then we're
Speaker 5: just embarrassing ourselves anything like that.
Speaker 3: Well we have an ale hat on them. We're in this,
Speaker 3: you know, we're still Australian.
Speaker 5: That means we're embarrassing like another thing, a tournament and
Speaker 5: the entire country.
Speaker 3: It's so good to have you in, Sam. I have
Speaker 3: to get this out of the way.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I was wondering if you.
Speaker 3: We actually met. I want to say twenty nineteen. I
Speaker 3: remember it pretty distinctly because I was playing Hughsey on
Speaker 3: one of the courts here at the Tennis Center and
Speaker 3: you're on the court next to us, just having a
Speaker 3: hit and Hughsy. You guys knew each other from I
Speaker 3: don't know whatever, famous people, famous people or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he introduced me to you, and uh, for
Speaker 3: some reason, hus he goes, oh, Mike goes to the
Speaker 3: US Open every year, right, And you go, oh, that's cool,
Speaker 3: and I go, yeah, just trying to make conversation, I said, yeah,
Speaker 3: have you ever been to the US And as the
Speaker 3: words we're coming out of my stupid face, I envision
Speaker 3: you beating Serena at the twenty eleven US Open, And
Speaker 3: I've never felt stupid or anymore. But you were so cool,
Speaker 3: You're like yeah, yeah, oh no, is that you you?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like a couple.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the answer of a great person to
Speaker 5: not absolutely slap you sideways in that moment right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Is that the stupidest question you've ever got from somebody?
Speaker 4: It's probably one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do you have any recollection of that moment?
Speaker 3: No, that's fine, just the brain. It's a core memory
Speaker 3: of mine.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But isn't it interesting how people live their lives. You've
Speaker 5: never thought about that again, you think about that every
Speaker 5: morning when you wake up.
Speaker 4: I don't feel bad. You can let it go now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, seven years later, what I've been absolved. It is
Speaker 3: awesome to have you in here. Yeah. Obviously you won
Speaker 3: that twenty eleven against Serena a dominant performance six two
Speaker 3: sixty three. Did you know you had it in the bag,
Speaker 3: like when the Hindrance call happened.
Speaker 1: No, jeez, that was the scariest moment I've ever had
Speaker 1: in a tennis court.
Speaker 3: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, Actually, to be honest, I didn't even.
Speaker 3: Know that rule. Okay, Oh so I.
Speaker 4: Didn't know what was going on.
Speaker 1: And then you had, you know, the twenty five people
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's kind of looking screaming and thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: this is Serena's chance now to you know, get in
Speaker 1: the match.
Speaker 3: Give some yeah, some context or anyone who might not remember,
Speaker 3: like it was a break point for you. Yeah, and then.
Speaker 4: She she yelled out, comme on before.
Speaker 1: I may or may not have could have got the ball,
Speaker 1: but the umpire said, you know, Hindrance, So she said
Speaker 1: come on before the point was over. Yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I just did not know what to do, and I
Speaker 1: just remember looking up to my plays and my manager
Speaker 1: was like, change as Jans.
Speaker 4: Because I didn't realize what I was like, do I
Speaker 4: get the point?
Speaker 2: Do I get the point?
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do, so I kind of
Speaker 1: fapped around for a little bit, pretending I needed my towel,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, we had just working things out,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I started changing agains and then the match
Speaker 1: definitely started switching, swinging a little bit.
Speaker 3: And yeah.
Speaker 1: There was then another moment a couple of games later
Speaker 1: where we're in a volley exchange and I saw I
Speaker 1: hit a volley winner past her, and then as I
Speaker 1: was turning around to go back to the baseline, I
Speaker 1: saw out of the corner of my eye she clapped
Speaker 1: it on her like, gave.
Speaker 4: Me a clap. And then I was like, oh, she
Speaker 4: doesn't hate me. I'm okay, no, seriously, that's what.
Speaker 1: And then from that moment on then I was in
Speaker 1: full control again and ended up winning in straight sets.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and so the lesson here is don't your opponent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I told a friend of mine that story
Speaker 1: on another podcast, and she then proceeded to tell Serena
Speaker 1: that exact story. I think Serena has never clapped another point.
Speaker 5: That's amazing to be playing the US Open final and
Speaker 5: then being worried if your opponent liked you or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that came into my head and
Speaker 1: why that mattered in that moment.
Speaker 4: She doesn't hate me, Yeah, I'm all good now I
Speaker 4: can just beat her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And then you're worried about the twenty five thousand
Speaker 5: people in the crowd.
Speaker 2: They probably hated you as well.
Speaker 4: That wasn't so much of an issue.
Speaker 3: As soon as they clapped at the end.
Speaker 6: She was like, oh my god, it's all I care about.
Speaker 3: The hindrance call? Was it? So there was first set
Speaker 3: or second second, early in the second, early in the second, okay,
Speaker 3: and then she berated the chair umpire right, and you're
Speaker 3: just time you were sitting in your chair just zoning
Speaker 3: it out or actually.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I knew she was. I knew she
Speaker 1: was going at her, but because it was so loud.
Speaker 4: If you've ever been to the US.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've told you, but mine was
Speaker 5: actually there for the twenty eleven US of and final.
Speaker 3: It was it was just.
Speaker 1: It's actually so loud on that court, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: actually hear what she was saying. I knew that she
Speaker 1: was doing something, but it was like far enough removed
Speaker 1: and so loud I couldn't hear it, which was probably,
Speaker 1: I mean, such a good thing because I couldn't then
Speaker 1: actually really get involved with it, even just giving it
Speaker 1: a second to think.
Speaker 2: About anywhere inside.
Speaker 5: But how do you like process or even get prepared
Speaker 5: for that situation when you've got like Serena Williams, like
Speaker 5: one of the most famous sportsmen to ever live sports
Speaker 5: person to ever live screening fans, like a contentious call
Speaker 5: going on, and you've just got to sit there and
Speaker 5: just like get to it would be an out of
Speaker 5: body experience.
Speaker 4: You can't prepare for something.
Speaker 1: I've never been through that before that moment or after
Speaker 1: that moment. So yeah, I mean, yeah, I was just
Speaker 1: it was meant to be that day. I actually I
Speaker 1: knew I was going to win the match for the
Speaker 1: night before. Somehow I just was really confident that I
Speaker 1: was going to go there play. I knew exactly what
Speaker 1: I want to do, and somehow, Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 2: How often have you gotten that feeling when you.
Speaker 4: Know, not very often.
Speaker 1: I said I wish I had that feeling more times
Speaker 1: than only once, but at least it was for the
Speaker 1: US Open. But yeah, it was a very strange event,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean against Serena in front of a hometown
Speaker 3: crowd especially, and then her calling the chair umpire a hater, I.
Speaker 2: Believe, which is great to say to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the rules, I mean there's match point. Look at
Speaker 3: this what forehand inside out forehand to take it?
Speaker 2: Seeing you here? Is that like? Is that happiness or
Speaker 2: relief or is it like a mixture.
Speaker 4: Of both everything?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was a dream of mine to
Speaker 1: win a Grand Slam and I lost in the final
Speaker 1: of the French Open the year prior, and you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know if you're ever going to get another chance.
Speaker 1: So it's like a dream realized. It's relief, it's everything
Speaker 1: sort of rolled into one and then it all becomes
Speaker 1: a bit of a blur and you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: wish I could do that again, experience it and actually
Speaker 1: like really take it only Oh.
Speaker 3: Look at that they're not happy? Not happy? So a
Speaker 3: six two six' three? Match how long was the actual?
Speaker 3: Match the like it's going to be about an hour. Ten,
Speaker 3: yeah people paid. Ten they were there for an. Hour, yeah.
Speaker 2: A lot of Them american to see the other person
Speaker 2: win as.
Speaker 4: Well, true that's. It they were.
Speaker 3: Not do you remember celebrities were there at the. Time
Speaker 3: did you look over and see like you Disappointed Brad
Speaker 3: pitt or anybody OR.
Speaker 4: I don't remember was, honestly BUT i Think drake may
Speaker 4: have been in.
Speaker 3: It drake was there.
Speaker 5: Certified and then the next day you get to you
Speaker 5: get like part of the ceremonial.
Speaker 2: Thing you get wheeled kind of Through New York. City
Speaker 2: oh my, Goodness you've got like a trophy and there's
Speaker 2: media and.
Speaker 5: Stuff is that just LIKE i, MEAN i imagine. Winning
Speaker 5: you've got all the emotions and it's a kind of
Speaker 5: crazy whirl and then they just put you on the
Speaker 5: street with a trophy and everyone's looking at.
Speaker 4: You, yeah it.
Speaker 1: Was it was a, lot BECAUSE i MEAN i THINK
Speaker 1: i went to bed at four or something and was
Speaker 1: up at six thirty or whatever to do then the morning,
Speaker 1: show and, yeah you go from one thing to the
Speaker 1: next and the next to the, next and THEN i
Speaker 1: did a show that, night.
Speaker 2: You did a. Show we went on.
Speaker 4: The Hey Mission dye.
Speaker 1: Show they were there for their gap here AND i,
Speaker 1: remember before having to get in.
Speaker 4: The, CAR i was like, THIS i did not want
Speaker 4: to go to The i'm so.
Speaker 1: Exhausted and then got there and it was obviously amazing
Speaker 1: and great. Fun BUT i THINK i had to sleep
Speaker 1: that day and woke up with a pizza box in
Speaker 1: my bed AND i didn't.
Speaker 4: Know, YEAH i was just.
Speaker 3: Exhausted so was there you, did Hay mish And? Andy
Speaker 3: but were you, like can we just a Dre this
Speaker 3: is a crazy music the. Music it's like we've got
Speaker 3: marimba music playing through.
Speaker 5: This which is kind of as a cool element to
Speaker 5: you telling this story Of.
Speaker 3: BUT i feel Like i'm beachside In. JAMAICA i haven't seen.
Speaker 1: This i'm, like look At i'm, like, GOD i look
Speaker 1: so like. Uncomfortable i'm, like what WAS i?
Speaker 3: Wearing?
Speaker 4: Right, Anyway so.
Speaker 3: You're not a fan of the? Outfit?
Speaker 4: After, no it was good, fun it was, Great it was.
Speaker 2: Amazing did you party like that?
Speaker 4: Night we went.
Speaker 1: To Snafoo, bar which was just around the corner from our. Hotel,
Speaker 1: nobody believe it or, not nobody organized anywhere to go
Speaker 1: for dinner that night in CASE i did.
Speaker 2: Win so there was, no.
Speaker 6: Nothing there was a plane ticket home though, Likely, so,
Speaker 6: yeah we just went to a bar that my manager
Speaker 6: may have frequented a few times during the week In.
Speaker 1: Manhattan, yeah it was just around the corner from where
Speaker 1: most of us were. Staying so we took the whole back,
Speaker 1: section ordered a whole bunch of pizzas and it was
Speaker 1: actually perfect kind of way to.
Speaker 4: Celar it was, awesome was that.
Speaker 1: THERE i THINK i had maybe two or three drinks
Speaker 1: and exhausted home and.
Speaker 4: Yeah slept for a couple of hours and then had
Speaker 4: that next.
Speaker 3: Day but so it was.
Speaker 4: That it was.
Speaker 3: Great they're like taking you Through Times square and you
Speaker 3: went and did The Today show or? Whatever did you
Speaker 3: like get pictures with The elmo and the Naked? Cowboy and.
Speaker 4: If only we did like a tourist run To.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah BECAUSE i was JUST i don't know if you,
Speaker 3: know BUT i go To New york off and.
Speaker 2: Wow wow what? If?
Speaker 3: Yeah but you did The hamished And Andy. Show but
Speaker 3: was there a part of you that was, like get
Speaker 3: me On, Letterman hammished And andy a small, fry.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah you could have done the top ten letter next?
Speaker 4: Time next? Time it will be next, Time, definitely.
Speaker 3: YEAH i MEAN i was thinking and cut this if
Speaker 3: this is too, much but that's.
Speaker 2: Funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah so oh and then obviously the year doubles career is.
Speaker 3: Amazing you won on all. Surfaces do you have a? Preference?
Speaker 4: No, no, no any of? Them?
Speaker 3: Really, yeah okay.
Speaker 5: Really because like a lot of, people, OBVIOUSLY i don't
Speaker 5: know if it's their preference or their game style just suits.
Speaker 4: One DO i have a preference to play?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 4: OH i MEAN i love? Clay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah is that where you grew up?
Speaker 3: Playing, no not at.
Speaker 1: ALL i HATE i didn't grow up on it at.
Speaker 1: All and the first five years THAT i played at
Speaker 1: The French, open whether it was juniors or qualifying or,
Speaker 1: WHATEVER i didn't win a.
Speaker 4: Match so he did not have a good time on the.
Speaker 1: Clay my first trip To, EUROPE i was fifteen in
Speaker 1: the eighteen and under, team you, know playing all the
Speaker 1: junior tournaments in the lead up To French open In.
Speaker 1: Winmwooden didn't win a match on clay for six. Weeks
Speaker 1: didn't know WHAT i was. DOING i didn't win a
Speaker 1: match until the final week At wimwoden on, grass which
Speaker 1: now is kind of funny because grass was my.
Speaker 4: Worst surface and it was the only ONE i want
Speaker 4: to match.
Speaker 1: On then but THEN i, YEAH i realized that my
Speaker 1: tennis was actually good on clay and became my favorite.
Speaker 2: Surface, clincked why.
Speaker 3: Is it sliding in the? Shot is it the sliding and.
Speaker 1: The way THAT i played the spin on my, forehand
Speaker 1: and it was just it was conducive to playing. Well
Speaker 1: and THEN i just, YEAH i loved. It so, Yeah
Speaker 1: i'm the only bad, yet.
Speaker 4: Just you need lots of pairs of.
Speaker 5: Socks Because that's What i'm going to, say BECAUSE i
Speaker 5: play WHEN i go play on clay At Fitzroy north tennis,
Speaker 5: COURTS i hate the clay Because i'm just so worried
Speaker 5: about my shoes are getting.
Speaker 2: Dirty everything's getting. DIRTY i don't want to slide for you.
Speaker 5: KNOW i want some kind of synthetic surface THAT i
Speaker 5: can just you, know go about MY i can't go
Speaker 5: to the cafe after just covered in.
Speaker 4: Clay, no it's the only.
Speaker 5: Downfall, yeah BUT i don't know that's WHY i haven't
Speaker 5: won A French.
Speaker 3: Well what do you think about the fact, THAT i,
Speaker 3: mean in electronic line calls now are in a lot
Speaker 3: of the clay court tournaments and lead, up but The
Speaker 3: french is still, No we're just going to have adults
Speaker 3: pointing At mars and the dirt.
Speaker 5: And then plays arguing With that's kind of the drama,
Speaker 5: though like as a spectator to watch it as, well
Speaker 5: do like.
Speaker 3: It BUT i MEAN i would your thoughts, like do
Speaker 3: you think they should have the electronic line calls or
Speaker 3: just keep it.
Speaker 1: TRADITIONAL i think the clay it is relatively, obvious whether
Speaker 1: it's in or. Out the electronic line calls a FANTASTIC
Speaker 1: i think it's great for tennis that we've now got
Speaker 1: it and there's no element you know of human era
Speaker 1: and all that for the other surfaces where you can't
Speaker 1: see a. Ballmark BUT i kind of like the drama
Speaker 1: and all of, that THE uppi getting out and you, know,
Speaker 1: pointing and especially at The, french because the crowd there
Speaker 1: are just they're so they love you or then they'll
Speaker 1: just turn on a dime and hate you if you
Speaker 1: question anything that's going, on.
Speaker 2: And you're, like you, know like, ME.
Speaker 1: I won't question of line call BECAUSE i don't want
Speaker 1: you to build. Me BUT i kind of like that
Speaker 1: drama of, it you, know all happening.
Speaker 4: THERE i guess it.
Speaker 1: Does, yeah now the electronic you don't have to rely
Speaker 1: on plays to also stop it and all of, that
Speaker 1: which is.
Speaker 4: Good but, ye, YEAH i don't.
Speaker 3: Know YEAH i. Missed the high guy was, Great, yeah.
Speaker 3: Exciting and THEN i, mean obviously there's less people on
Speaker 3: court now because you don't have any wine judges out,
Speaker 3: there but that also added an element to it as.
Speaker 3: WELL i, mean you know who's in the ballant, now,
Speaker 3: Bandy i'm going to kick? Now you, Know?
Speaker 5: Serena is there an umpire's, union like if they ever
Speaker 5: unionized to be, like, yo can we back off on the?
Speaker 2: Technology, well it's.
Speaker 3: True, YEAH i was coming for us.
Speaker 5: All, Yeah, god damn, it not, me not my.
Speaker 2: Comedy, HEY i could never do.
Speaker 3: This so you're here obviously coaching for The Billy Jean King.
Speaker 3: Cup it's a qualifier this. Week a lot of great.
Speaker 3: Players Talia gibson has had a great run in The Sunshine. Double,
Speaker 3: yes do you think she'd like us calling Her? Gibbo
Speaker 3: do you guys call Her?
Speaker 2: Gibbe, well we.
Speaker 1: Talked about this at dinner because we've Got Tarlie gibson
Speaker 1: and then Now Orange girl hitting Partners Tylie. Akina so
Speaker 1: it's getting a little Bit. Tarlie they spell it, differently
Speaker 1: but you don't know that when you're saying the. Name
Speaker 1: SO i was, like WELL t AND T k Or
Speaker 1: gibbo BECAUSE i saw it DURING ao hold up a
Speaker 1: sign saying my nicknames be Your.
Speaker 4: GIBBO i don't really like.
Speaker 1: Gibbo oh but you said that, Right and she's, like,
Speaker 1: yeah BUT i don't really like it sounds like and
Speaker 1: we will not call You.
Speaker 5: GIBBO i kind of think maybe this is an unpopular,
Speaker 5: opinion but it's not your choice what your nickname.
Speaker 6: Is.
Speaker 5: Whatever i'm sort of starts calling you and it's like an, Oh.
Speaker 2: Gibbo it's LIKE i think she's. Ghibbo can you please
Speaker 2: pass that?
Speaker 3: On? WELL i, Will, Yeah, well because there's also another
Speaker 3: awesome name on the, team Storm, hunter.
Speaker 2: Which is like crazy.
Speaker 3: AMAZING i mean that. Name she's From, perth right and
Speaker 3: you're from The Gold. Curves is Storm hunter's still the
Speaker 3: Most bogan name you've ever.
Speaker 1: Heard there's only ever going to be one Storm. Hunter,
Speaker 1: yeah it's.
Speaker 5: Amazing, god it does look like you're you're looking at
Speaker 5: the flight log of a jet stuff flight TO bali
Speaker 5: like sor of course they're the Storm hunter on this.
Speaker 5: Flat how do you, think BECAUSE i feel like In,
Speaker 5: australia obviously The Australian open roles.
Speaker 2: Around we're a tennis loving.
Speaker 5: Nation but then obviously people are, like, Oh i've got
Speaker 5: my tennis, fix and then they kind of, reset you,
Speaker 5: know they don't followed as passionately as they do when
Speaker 5: the tennis is on in the early part of this,
Speaker 5: year and when things like The Davids, Couple Billy Jing
Speaker 5: coup are. ON i feel, like how do we get
Speaker 5: the country to stand up and pay more attention.
Speaker 4: To it doing podcasts like this right.
Speaker 2: Well where the heroes are hundreds of.
Speaker 3: Listeners no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: No, WELL i mean obviously that's the.
Speaker 1: Thing it is hard In australia because we have such
Speaker 1: an amazing month of tennis and it's all around the.
Speaker 1: Country everyone gets into, It Like melbourne just goes crazy
Speaker 1: and it's like a festival carnival now whether you, know
Speaker 1: come and watch a ball hit or.
Speaker 4: Not so you kind of.
Speaker 1: Have all of that and then you know our Events
Speaker 1: Billy Drinking cup And Davis cut pop up periodically every
Speaker 1: now and, then but we haven't played In melbourne for
Speaker 1: fifteen years in this, event so we played In brisbane
Speaker 1: a lot and some other cities Around australia and sometimes
Speaker 1: we've got to play, overseas so, yeah we just got
Speaker 1: to get it out there and know, that you, know
Speaker 1: we've got great tennis here again in these coming days and,
Speaker 1: yeah come out and.
Speaker 3: Watch is the timing of it tough with the clay
Speaker 3: court swing starting to get players to come all the
Speaker 3: way down here and then probably go play whatever tournament
Speaker 3: for the Clay was it hard to convince anyone or
Speaker 3: was it like, no this is it and it's going
Speaker 3: to lead up to something.
Speaker 1: Great, yeah our players never have a problem coming. Home
Speaker 1: and to be, honest this is kind of a week
Speaker 1: or two weeks where Our australian players do want to
Speaker 1: come home anyway Because i've just been through The Middle,
Speaker 1: east through THE us for five to eight weeks and
Speaker 1: then this is their chance to come home for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks before they go To europe and probably
Speaker 1: away for the next four or five. Months so generally
Speaker 1: our players want to come home, anyway and then if
Speaker 1: they can come home and play, this it's, like, oh happy.
Speaker 1: Days WHEREAS i know The brits weren't too, pleased but
Speaker 1: having to get out in the plane.
Speaker 2: And see what are The brits happen.
Speaker 4: About it's just one more thing to complain.
Speaker 3: About but that works to your, advantage right.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and THAT'S i think that's the beauty of this
Speaker 1: home and away format and they've kind of gone away
Speaker 1: from it in the what once we get through this qualifying,
Speaker 1: match if we, win then we go into the, finals
Speaker 1: which is held In. China, now so you've got eight
Speaker 1: teams all playing off in the one.
Speaker 4: City and.
Speaker 1: It's cool to have everyone, there but you also then
Speaker 1: missed that home and away with the. Final we played
Speaker 1: a final Against france In perth in twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: it was crazy. Atmosphere it was amazing and unfortunately lost
Speaker 1: in the deciding match and it was one of the
Speaker 1: most heartbreaking Bats i've ever played and, whatever but the
Speaker 1: atmosphere and the crowd and everything was. Amazing and you
Speaker 1: don't get that necessarily playing in neutral ground?
Speaker 4: Anymore is?
Speaker 3: It as?
Speaker 5: Players how do people feel about like team tennis or
Speaker 5: representing their? Country obviously it's so singles. DOMINATED i know there's,
Speaker 5: doubles but it's still kind of a very much a
Speaker 5: solo kind of then endeavor through this kind of tennis
Speaker 5: world and then you get to play for your, country
Speaker 5: is It is it more? Exciting like is it something
Speaker 5: that players cherish like as much as singles?
Speaker 4: Tennis, yeah, yeah, yeah, no absolutely it.
Speaker 1: Is you, know it's almost first and foremost for our
Speaker 1: players to be LIKE i want to be in the.
Speaker 1: TEAM i want to be selected AND i want to
Speaker 1: play a match and like where The green And gold
Speaker 1: and win a match For. Australia so, they our players
Speaker 1: all love. IT i, think you, know depending on situations
Speaker 1: or whatever we're, from relationships and. Everything obviously that can
Speaker 1: vary from player to player and stuff like, that BUT
Speaker 1: i think on the, whole our, players men and women
Speaker 1: love playing For australia and any opportunity they get they do.
Speaker 1: It SO i think it's a really they hold it
Speaker 1: as a really kind of special thing to be able to.
Speaker 3: Do and The Billy Jean Can cup would be like
Speaker 3: THE wta counterpoint to The Davis cup in terms of
Speaker 3: like exactly yeah, yeah, yeah so like, yeah The Davis
Speaker 3: cup matches like are so rocket to, watch and same
Speaker 3: With billy Jean Kin. Cup and then now there's A
Speaker 3: United cup to THE ao and, people, yeah go nuts
Speaker 3: get behind their countries with. That and, yeah if you
Speaker 3: say you take out Great, britain what's next do?
Speaker 4: YOU i, mean, well then we go to the finals In.
Speaker 3: China, oh straight to the.
Speaker 2: Finals, yeah straight.
Speaker 1: To so there'll be seven other qualifying matches going on
Speaker 1: around the world on the Same friday And saturday coming.
Speaker 1: Up all the winners of those matches then meet In
Speaker 1: china In, september a week or two AFTER Us, open
Speaker 1: and we play off there and that's a knockout, draw so.
Speaker 4: You literally get.
Speaker 1: There if you lose your first, tie go. Home it's
Speaker 1: kind of this big build, up but you could be
Speaker 1: done in a.
Speaker 2: Day, yeah are you.
Speaker 5: Are you practicing any like motivational talks to give the,
Speaker 5: girls like any kind of like come, on rev up type?
Speaker 3: Speech are you? Watching? Yeah are you watching the dodgeball
Speaker 3: speech and throwing ranchers at?
Speaker 4: Them and you, know can you guys help, Me.
Speaker 2: We could write something for. You, yeah, yeah, yeah all, right,
Speaker 2: Girls this is what we trained.
Speaker 5: For this is what The anzac spirit is all. About
Speaker 5: those Goddamn. Brits they dropped us on the wrong. Beach
Speaker 5: never forget, that the wrong. Beach they let us out
Speaker 5: there to get. Slaughtered now we get. Payback you're the,
Speaker 5: voice try and understand.
Speaker 3: It good, luck we'll be riding on the. Beach LITTLE.
Speaker 5: I Got, OKAY i wait to get to.
Speaker 4: Practice, yeah, no we might need.
Speaker 1: THAT i mean because a couple of the players in
Speaker 1: our team have never actually played a. Match So tarlie
Speaker 1: Is gibbo.
Speaker 3: You thank? You.
Speaker 1: Yeah she was in the team Last november for the first,
Speaker 1: time but didn't play a match in that. Tie and
Speaker 1: now she's in the team again and she's now the
Speaker 1: highest ranked, player so, yeah it could be her first
Speaker 1: time actually. Playing And emerson never been in the team.
Speaker 1: Before this is the first time she's in the team as,
Speaker 1: well so she gets on.
Speaker 4: Caught so some newbies at.
Speaker 5: The highest level for the first. Time this is. Nervous
Speaker 5: this is the energy we.
Speaker 3: Want, yeah well we'll be. There we're going to Come
Speaker 3: Friday saturday and hold up Big gibbo sign.
Speaker 4: Yea and please Make.
Speaker 2: I'm getting some chance going around the.
Speaker 3: Stage Yeah tea, though is it just a letter T? Yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah but that looks Like i'm telling them where to, serve, right.
Speaker 4: True, yeah we wouldn't want to looking up there thinks
Speaker 4: she has to. Serve tea all the.
Speaker 3: Time it's just got Way. Sam Like i've watched you
Speaker 3: play for. YEARS i used to love the used to
Speaker 3: wear the wrap around sunglasses the speed. Dealers really and
Speaker 3: you say you're from The Gold.
Speaker 2: COAST i think the gold cuts are born with.
Speaker 3: Them, yeah, yeah you don't see him much, anymore those
Speaker 3: like wrap around style shades on the.
Speaker 4: Court, no they're typically.
Speaker 1: NOT i wouldn't say the most stylish things to wear
Speaker 1: outside of a tennis, court, right practical, though very. PRACTICAL
Speaker 1: i MEAN i only started wearing. IT i was like
Speaker 1: fourteen WHEN i started wearing, sunglasses just BECAUSE i wanted
Speaker 1: to be different and thought it looked. Cool and that's
Speaker 1: HOW i started doing. It and then, anyway THEN i couldn't.
Speaker 3: Stop so it looked cool on. You BUT i mean
Speaker 3: any guy who wears them and his profile pick or
Speaker 3: he's like holding a fish up not as.
Speaker 2: Cool so it's what we call a red.
Speaker 3: Flag and one other thing watching you play over the,
Speaker 3: YEARS i was always very jealous of your. Biceps do
Speaker 3: you have any tips for a peasly little man in the?
Speaker 1: Gym nobody believes, me BUT i never did bicep.
Speaker 3: Curlts that's.
Speaker 1: Natural i've done more bicep curlts since, retire AND i
Speaker 1: did not have the ARMS i HAD i ever did
Speaker 1: playing just that was just natural and it was just
Speaker 1: millions of.
Speaker 3: Ten that's, like that's.
Speaker 5: GOOD i was about to, SAY i was about to, say,
Speaker 5: lucky this is a, podcast AND i looked at the four.
Speaker 3: Oh. Man, uh same with The Billy Jean King. Cup
Speaker 3: how do you select who's playing which? Matches you, know
Speaker 3: is there? Issues there is there a competitiveness within the team.
Speaker 4: Who should be out? There, no it can.
Speaker 1: Be it actually can be really hard to pick who
Speaker 1: gets on. Court and to be, honest this was one
Speaker 1: of the hardest selections to be in the team That
Speaker 1: i've even beaten part, of because you, know usually you
Speaker 1: got one or two higher ranked and it's you, know
Speaker 1: drops and then it becomes pretty, obvious whereas this time
Speaker 1: everyone's really bunched.
Speaker 4: Together so it was actually quite hard to pick who
Speaker 4: should be.
Speaker 1: Here and then once you hear then you got to
Speaker 1: pick who's going to play the actual. Matches so, YEAH i,
Speaker 1: mean we see what's happening during the, week who is practicing,
Speaker 1: well who you, know physically good matchups with our opponents
Speaker 1: coming in coming in with very hot, form so, obviously
Speaker 1: well we've got to use it.
Speaker 3: Now so you don't just look at their ranking and go,
Speaker 3: okay our highest ranked player plays their highest ranked players.
Speaker 1: Later, well the first day our number, two our number
Speaker 1: one will play against their number, two and then vice.
Speaker 1: Versa and then the second day we played doubles, first
Speaker 1: and then it's the number ones against each, other in
Speaker 1: number twos against each, Other so they kind of switch
Speaker 1: it around during the. Thing but, look, obviously generally your
Speaker 1: highest ranked players are going to. Play but if there's
Speaker 1: a crazy matchup or something and you know they've never
Speaker 1: beaten them before or, something you might want to switch
Speaker 1: them in or. Out but LIKE i, said we haven't
Speaker 1: really got any head to heads to go on with this,
Speaker 1: event so that sort of goes out the. Window but
Speaker 1: it's really who's in, form who you think you you,
Speaker 1: know want to put out, there and who can get it.
Speaker 5: Done is it ever just a bit of your gut,
Speaker 5: feeling you, know like you're, Like i've just got to
Speaker 5: vibe this is the right. Decision they were practicing, terribly
Speaker 5: BUT i think they're going to get it.
Speaker 2: Done, no for.
Speaker 1: SURE i think there was a bit of that in
Speaker 1: the last, TIME i wasn't. THERE i was on maternity,
Speaker 1: leave But Nicole pratt was standing in his captain And
Speaker 1: i'm pretty sure she, said you, know Told maya that
Speaker 1: she was going to play the. Matches she was our
Speaker 1: number one player by many many ranking, spots and then
Speaker 1: she actually didn't have a great week on the practice,
Speaker 1: squad but put her out there and she.
Speaker 4: Won everything was.
Speaker 1: Fine but, again it's not the be all and end all,
Speaker 1: about you, know whether you're winning practice sets or. ANYTHING
Speaker 1: i hated playing practice sets and practice, matches AND i
Speaker 1: was kind of, like whatever if.
Speaker 4: You win or, lose but still put.
Speaker 1: In SO i, mean if my selection was ever done
Speaker 1: on practice, MATCHES i should never have played a match
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i didn't win my practice sets that. Often but,
Speaker 1: yeah like you you've got. TO i, MEAN i have
Speaker 1: faith in all of our players, Anyway so, yeah sometimes
Speaker 1: it is a. Bat the first ONE i ever, captained
Speaker 1: we had a new player in the team first time,
Speaker 1: There Taylor, preston and we were up a couple of
Speaker 1: matches and decided to put her in to try and
Speaker 1: win us the. Tie AND i felt confident that she
Speaker 1: was going to win her.
Speaker 4: Match but it's.
Speaker 1: Still Like, oh DO i put someone new in how
Speaker 1: they're going to handle? It or do you go with
Speaker 1: your you, know seasoned player who's got all the experience
Speaker 1: just to really think you're going to get the job.
Speaker 1: Done you take a bit of a punt And ty
Speaker 1: did awesome and won and you know she won the
Speaker 1: tie for. Us so, yeah you got to you got
Speaker 1: to give the new ones a, go because otherwise how
Speaker 1: do you ever get?
Speaker 2: Started so THE gb, team what are we? Thinking what
Speaker 2: are their? Weaknesses how can we exploit? Them?
Speaker 4: Yeah where DO i?
Speaker 3: Start just, smile show them us Some australian orthodonostry and
Speaker 3: how much better it, is.
Speaker 2: Or sitting together.
Speaker 1: PERFECTLY i don't even know where to go For, no we.
Speaker 1: Can't we definitely can't count our chickens before they, hatch
Speaker 1: so to. Speak so they've got some very good. Plays
Speaker 1: a couple of their main top plays haven't. Come but
Speaker 1: to be, honest we've only Only emerson And kim have
Speaker 1: ever played two of their plays before in one match,
Speaker 1: each so there's not really a whole lot of history
Speaker 1: to go on as far as head to heads or
Speaker 1: anything like. That but now we have to absolutely bring
Speaker 1: our a game and any crazy things can happen when
Speaker 1: you're playing for your, country good and. Bad hopefully they're
Speaker 1: good for us seeing as we're at home and we
Speaker 1: want to obviously, win but they're going to be.
Speaker 2: Tough, Okay, yeah that's.
Speaker 5: Good and how much do you think the home side
Speaker 5: it's In melbourne, crowd is that going to be such
Speaker 5: a big?
Speaker 1: Factor oh, well definitely better for, us, right Although australian
Speaker 1: fat crowds they are pretty.
Speaker 4: Fair so you Know i've played.
Speaker 3: Well Ask Daniel. Collins she might.
Speaker 2: Disagree what are we getting her on the?
Speaker 3: Podcast she is busy making up stories About. BOTE i
Speaker 3: think she's.
Speaker 4: Good crazy stuff, happening, right, yeah it is.
Speaker 3: Amazing, yeah, WELL i Mean i'm pumped for. It and
Speaker 3: then so that Knocks Great britain. Out if you guys
Speaker 3: win this week and they're, done they're, done.
Speaker 1: They're, done and, well, yeah, exactly they'll be done and
Speaker 1: then they'll have to play a qualifying tie In. November,
Speaker 1: Okay so regardless of how anyone does this, week you
Speaker 1: play again later in the.
Speaker 4: Year hopefully you're in the, finals not back into qualifying.
Speaker 3: Okay and who do you want to see in the, Finals,
Speaker 3: like who do you think The aussie team has a
Speaker 3: good chance, again well probably.
Speaker 2: Anyone, yeah, yeah this, GUY i mean He's. American this
Speaker 2: guy doesn't get.
Speaker 3: It, No I'm, american But i'm Also. Australian BUT i
Speaker 3: do go to The New YORK i call it The
Speaker 3: New York American, open The Flushing. Open who would you go?
Speaker 2: For it's straight billy drink Cop Australia. America who you going?
Speaker 3: For? Oh, look tennis and? Friendship do you guys like?
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Speaker 3: In, yeah if you're In, melbourne or if you're in
Speaker 3: the country or, anywhere get, along.
Speaker 2: Get on a, plane come.
Speaker 3: Down, yeah this time of year to be watching law
Speaker 3: tennis And Australia pro tennis. Amazing, yeah and you, know
Speaker 3: Maybe i'll see at THE Us.
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Speaker 2: back into the. Podcast this Is, yeah you're.
Speaker 3: Great that was.
Speaker 4: Fun thank.
Speaker 3: You cool tennis and friendship