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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of The Sitdown.

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Speaker 1: I'm Matt Troloka, writer for oz open dot Com and

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 2: Breeched you it from the AO Show.

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Speaker 3: So Matt, you set down with Talia Gibson, tell me

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Speaker 3: a little bit about why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good timing actually, because just today she hit a

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Speaker 1: career high ranking of world number one hundred and twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: We chatted to her because she's been tearing up the

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Speaker 1: Australian Pro Tour. She's won three titles and she's on

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Speaker 1: a fourteen match winning streak, so we wanted to kind

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Speaker 1: of check in with her and see what was clicking

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Speaker 1: as she makes a big push towards the end of

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Speaker 1: the season ahead of the Australian Summer of Tennis.

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Speaker 2: How exciting. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Talie at Gibson, thanks so much for joining us today

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Speaker 1: on the sit Down.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me. It's good to

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Speaker 2: be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to see you. Where in the world

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Speaker 1: do we find you right now? And what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I'm currently is in Brisbane at the moment, just off

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Speaker 4: the back of coming back from Cans and come back

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Speaker 4: here to Brisbane to train for a couple weeks before

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Speaker 4: heading off to play for it for.

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Speaker 2: The next tournament.

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Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, Well, I kind of wanted to start the

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Speaker 1: bit of a woman of the moment in Australian tenets.

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Speaker 1: You're on a fourteen match winning streak on the pro too.

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Speaker 1: You've won three consecutive titles cans, as you mentioned, and

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Speaker 1: there were two in perfect I believe what's clicking so

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Speaker 1: well in your game that's allowed you to have such

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Speaker 1: good form.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not sure that I can really say,

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Speaker 4: you know, there's something that's been clicking in particular, but

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Speaker 4: I think just over the past you know, a few months,

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Speaker 4: been working really hard on and off the court, and

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Speaker 4: I think these last few weeks I've really been seeing

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Speaker 4: a lot of that work sort of paying off, which

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Speaker 4: is I think it's a really rewarding feeling. And I

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Speaker 4: have to, you know, pay a huge thanks to my

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Speaker 4: because I think, you know, without them, I certainly wouldn't

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Speaker 4: be where I am and have had the success that

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Speaker 4: I have in the past few weeks.

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Speaker 1: Tennis is such an interesting. One thing that you've got

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Speaker 1: so many options when it comes to your schedule. There's

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Speaker 1: so many places you could be. There's always tournaments happening,

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Speaker 1: So you've chosen to compete on the Aussie Pro Tour.

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Speaker 1: What are you enjoying about this particular circuit of tournaments

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Speaker 1: and why why is that your schedule?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, from early in the year, sort

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Speaker 4: of a few months ago, we were probably planning.

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Speaker 2: To, you know, stick to the Aussie Swing.

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Speaker 4: I think, you know, it's always so comforting to be

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Speaker 4: really lucky to have such a schedule that we do

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Speaker 4: in Australia. So I think, you know, you know, spend

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Speaker 4: all year traveling around the world, and I think it's

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Speaker 4: just nice sometimes to be able to just come home

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Speaker 4: and you know, play a couple of tournaments and lucky

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Speaker 4: enough for me, I was able to play a couple

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Speaker 4: it's really great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I guess with a bit of

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Speaker 1: there when's Playford.

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Speaker 4: So Playford is it'll be starting not next week but

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Speaker 4: the week after for me, okay, so pretty much the

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Speaker 4: start of the week that's when I'll be starting in Playford.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, really looking forward to that.

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Speaker 4: I'm excited to see, you know, what I'm able to

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Speaker 4: to see some results of that in Playford.

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Speaker 1: And what does is Playford your last tournament for the

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Speaker 1: How does the rest of your year look?

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Speaker 4: So Playford's not the last tournament that I'll be playing.

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Speaker 4: I'll be planning on playing Playford at Sydney, so those

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Speaker 2: So I'm planning on playing all those at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Okay, wow, I guess preparing for this interview and kind

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Speaker 1: of looking at what you've achieved lately on tour. There's

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Speaker 1: quite a lot of impressive stats that you've got, and

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Speaker 1: I just wondered if I was to read a couple too,

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Speaker 1: I want to know which one you like. The sound

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Speaker 1: of bears. So this year you've improved your ranking by

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Speaker 1: more than one hundred places. In the last twelve months,

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Speaker 1: you've won more than fifty matches on the IF circuit,

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Speaker 1: and in the past three seasons you've reached fifteen it

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Speaker 1: of singles finals and you've won more of them than

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Speaker 1: you've lost. So when you hear all of those great achievements,

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Speaker 1: what are you most proud of? I mean, it's or

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Speaker 1: is it somebody else that I've forgotten?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, you know, it's funny to hear that, because it's

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Speaker 4: not often that you sort of just take a moment

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Speaker 2: I think so so.

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Speaker 4: Often you're looking forward to you know, what's next, what's

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Speaker 4: the next tournament that I'm playing, And it's not often

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Speaker 4: that you know, person, I really look back and take

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Speaker 4: thank you for saying that, because it's actually really interesting

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Speaker 4: to hear. But yeah, I think, you know, just honestly

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Speaker 4: like you said, the progress that I've made through the rankings,

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Speaker 4: you know, the amount of finals that I've made in

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Speaker 4: so it's a really rewarding feeling. And you know, setting

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Speaker 4: When I think looking back now, I can, you know,

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Speaker 4: and I'm super happy with how this year's gone. You know,

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Now I can say that I've played all of the

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Speaker 2: Couldn't be happier.

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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that. Actually, those

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Speaker 1: had that higher level success in at Wimbledon and the

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Speaker 1: you want to rounds of qualifying, and I wondered what

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Speaker 1: that particular experience was like, playing on side like in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was definitely something that I really

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, up.

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Speaker 4: Until this year, I'd competed at the AO a couple

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Speaker 4: of times, but once you move to the Grand Slams

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Speaker 4: to the different Grand Slams it was really exciting to see,

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Speaker 2: It differs and everything.

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Speaker 4: And then I think, you know, really trying to learn

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Speaker 4: from you know, everything that you experience. You know in

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Speaker 4: definitely a lot of things that I learned and will

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Speaker 4: definitely take into next year and hopefully bring out, you know,

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Speaker 1: You may have mentioned of goals before, and it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you're quite goal oriented and that it's been rewarding

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Speaker 1: hitting those steps you've made for yourself. Do you share

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Speaker 4: I think it's definitely something that I share. I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, everyone has probably their own little goals that

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Speaker 4: you know, my goals are they're not only my goals,

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Speaker 4: but they're you know, my team's goals. You know everyone

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Speaker 4: things that you know, they know what I want to achieve,

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Speaker 1: So what do you want to achieve?

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Speaker 4: I really want to achieve, you know, being the best

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Speaker 4: really like to put you know, Anne more on that

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Speaker 4: be the best player that I can be, is you

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Speaker 4: know the end goal for me.

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Speaker 1: Nice, that's good. Not everyone that's listening to this chat

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Speaker 1: might have actually ever seen you play. How would you

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Speaker 1: describe your playing style and your and your approach to tennis.

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Speaker 4: I would say that I have a very aggressive game,

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Speaker 4: and I think everyone would agree with that. I think

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Speaker 4: it's pretty obvious, you know, how I play. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: I know that's something that I'm continually working on, trying

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Speaker 4: to add, you know, more dimensions to my game. I've

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Speaker 4: always been quite an aggressive player, you know, from the baseline,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, and the last few is really trying to

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Speaker 1: Nice And did you always have that style when you started?

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Speaker 4: Since I can remember, Yeah, I can't remember playing any different,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, it's always been my game, Silence, It's just yeah,

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Speaker 4: how I grew up playing?

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Speaker 1: Really? And how did you get into the game, and

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Speaker 1: like where did you first discover it? And then obviously

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Speaker 1: you loved it enough to keep pursuing it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, Well, I started playing tennis when I was

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Speaker 4: five years old. My family does have a little bit

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Speaker 4: of background in tennis. Both my parents did play a

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Speaker 4: little bit of tennis, sort of just socially, and so

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Speaker 4: they thought that, you know, tennis was going to be

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Speaker 4: a good sport to sort of get me into. You know,

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Speaker 4: it has a great social aspect, and yeah, from as

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Speaker 4: soon as I started playing, I just really enjoyed it,

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Speaker 4: and yeah, it just took off from there.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting talking to a lot of players. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of a bit of a mixed bag as to like

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Speaker 1: how many of them will like massive tennis fans when

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Speaker 4: I think one of the things is keeping like in

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Speaker 1: It helpful at all that quite a few young assie

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Speaker 1: And I've got one last one for you, slightly abstract,

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Speaker 4: I think probably the first thing I'd say is to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then obviously the rest can take care of itself.

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Speaker 1: Yes it Ken, Well, that's amazing. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: You very much for having me. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Matt, what an amazing young athlete do here. You rattle

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Speaker 1: She does, and she sounds like someone that was really

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Speaker 3: Looking at her rankings today, it looks like potentially some

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you enjoyed it. I did. We're going to

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Speaker 1: we'll be bringing you a chat that we had with

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Speaker 1: you soon.

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Speaker 2: Bret, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: See you later.