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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Sitdown. I'm viv Christine, Managing

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Speaker 1: editor of Austraian Tennis magazine.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Metrolope Arata, an editor for ozopen dot com

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Speaker 2: and Viv. Why are we sitting down this week with

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Speaker 2: Elena Ostapenko.

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Speaker 1: Well, Matt, we had been wanting to interview Yolena for

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Speaker 1: quite some time, so when the opportunity came up at

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Speaker 1: the Australian Open, we of course jumped at it. You know,

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Speaker 1: she's a bit of a phenomen She won the Roland

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Speaker 1: Garrels title in twenty seventeen and went on to bring

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Speaker 1: so much popularity and personality to the sport.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she definitely did, and that French Open win in

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, you reference five was not only a massive

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Speaker 2: career breakthrough for her personally, but it actually kind of

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Speaker 2: shifted the landscape of women's tennis if you remember back then.

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Speaker 2: A couple of months earlier, Serena Williams had won the

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Speaker 2: Australian Open and was kind of the dominant player in

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Speaker 2: the game, but then announced her pregnancy and stepped away

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Speaker 2: from the sport. And Ostapenko was the first major champion

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Speaker 2: in that kind of post Serena era, and it was

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Speaker 2: kind of an increased completely. It was such an open period.

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Speaker 2: After that, her win as an unseeded player inspired the

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Speaker 2: rest of the tour to show that they could win

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Speaker 2: as well. Naomi Osaka has talked about that being inspiring

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Speaker 2: for her, and a year later she won the US Open.

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Speaker 2: So it really just showed that anybody could win and

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Speaker 2: just gave the entire feel so much confidence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I guess one of the interesting things that

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Speaker 1: Elena revealed in our interview is that that success may

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Speaker 1: have come a little bit too early for her. Jolena Ostapenko,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us on the sit down here

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Speaker 1: at this Stowe Open. How does it feel to kick

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Speaker 1: off your twenty twenty six campaign with a win?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great for us round so they're always stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's not it's easy and I'm really happy. Was the

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Speaker 3: way managing the match today, And yeah, in general, I

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Speaker 3: think I was playing world today.

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Speaker 2: We don't mean to bring up an unfortunate stat, but

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Speaker 2: it was. You were on a six match losing streak

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Speaker 2: and you broke it today. So does it feel good

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Speaker 2: to get back on track and kind of get back

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Speaker 2: towards the level you know you can reach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course, and I've been like I

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Speaker 3: important just to like, even you're not playing your best

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Speaker 2: Tell us about your pre season if it was a

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Speaker 2: good one, did you do anything different or kind of

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Speaker 2: what did you focus on.

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Speaker 3: I just did a lot of fitness, So I was like,

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Speaker 3: first few weeks I was doing in Riga, and then

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Speaker 3: the other two weeks I was doing in Dubai, so

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Speaker 3: like on a halfway to Australia, almost halfway, not halfway.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I was doing like pretty much everything more

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Speaker 1: That it kind of shows just the traveling life of

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Speaker 2: To travel to and acclimatize. I guess because winters summer

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Speaker 4: Like when it's summer.

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Speaker 3: Of course, not as hot as it's going to be

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Speaker 3: I think it was a great change to go to

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Speaker 1: What do you love about Melbourne?

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Speaker 4: I just like Australia lot.

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Speaker 3: It's like really nice and the people are so friendly,

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Speaker 2: It's been a great tournament for you, my quarterfinals here

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Speaker 2: you think back to all of your Australian Opens, what

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Speaker 3: I remember the year when I made quarterfinals. I think

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Speaker 3: I played some really great matches beating Coco Golf, and.

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Speaker 4: Also probably last year playing the final.

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Speaker 3: Also, so two years in a role playing final in doubles,

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Speaker 3: it was also great experience. But of course my focus

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Speaker 1: Just on that, I'm sort of intrigued by doubles and

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Speaker 3: I think most of the time yes, because it's still

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Speaker 3: probably for example because doubles. Of course for me it's

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Speaker 3: So I think you can take it as good practice

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Speaker 1: And is it fun being out on a quote? With

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Speaker 3: Yeah, when you have a good wife with a person

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Speaker 4: So we kind of match well.

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Speaker 2: We your combination is amazing. You have so many fans

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Speaker 4: So I think, yeah, our like styles match very well.

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Speaker 2: You're obviously extremely famous. So when you broke through at

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Speaker 2: So how kind of how do you feel you are

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Speaker 3: I think it was a long time ago, and I

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Speaker 4: And that's what I'm working for, of course.

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Speaker 3: And I think, honestly, maybe as a person, if I

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's amazing achievement for such a country as

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Speaker 2: It looked like you dealt with it very well though,

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Speaker 3: I think I was some tournaments consistent, some tournaments not

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Speaker 3: I think tennis is like seventy seventy five percent mental game.

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Speaker 3: It's like everything in the head because you can play

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm trying to work more on that and

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Speaker 1: You are really loved by a diverse fan base really

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Speaker 1: just because you're so expressive and you have it seems

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Speaker 3: I'm myself. Yes, I kind of also like Arena Sablenka sometimes,

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Speaker 3: that she doesn't like to look at herself on the court,

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Speaker 1: And very authentic as well, So that must feel good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've said you've had the great process and you're

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Speaker 2: working very hard, you know, off the court, on your tennis,

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Speaker 3: Six Try to get back to top ten and try

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Speaker 3: to play more consistent.

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Speaker 4: Just yeah on the big tournaments.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck with that, and thank you for joining

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks so much, well, Matt.

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Speaker 1: That didn't disappoint. It was a lot of fun to

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Speaker 2: Oh, it sures and it was really interesting now that

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Speaker 2: I guess we talked about that. Roland Garros win when

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Speaker 2: she was twenty Well, she's now twenty eight and in

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Speaker 2: a different stage of her career and talked about her

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Speaker 2: focus has shifted to trying to be more consistent, working

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Speaker 2: on the mental side of the game, which she said

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Speaker 2: was seventy five percent of tennis. That she's targeting a

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Speaker 4: We'll be back.

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