WEBVTT - Mirra Andreeva: Meeting a teen phenom

0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.960
<v Speaker 1>Hello, and welcome to the sit Down. I'm viv Christie,

0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.840
<v Speaker 1>Managing editor for Australian Tennis magazine.

0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.239
<v Speaker 2>And I'm Metrolop, a writer and editor for ozopen dot

0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.000
<v Speaker 2>Com and Viv where diving back into the archives this week.

0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.880
<v Speaker 2>Why are we bringing back this episode with Mira Andreva.

0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.479
<v Speaker 1>Well, it was a great time to revisit our chat

0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.600
<v Speaker 1>with Mira Andreva, who has recently been crowned the Roland

0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Garross Women's Champion. So it was a fascinating interview at

0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.240
<v Speaker 1>the time, speaking to a seventeen year old mirror just

0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.480
<v Speaker 1>before Wimbledon two years ago. She'd only just turned seventeen

0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.680
<v Speaker 1>but already was showing some incredible signs of becoming a

0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:38.640
<v Speaker 1>Grand Slam champion.

0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so a few weeks before that she'd had her

0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.880
<v Speaker 2>Grand Slam breakthrough. Then at Roland Garross she upset Sabalinka

0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.000
<v Speaker 2>and made her first Slam semi final. But it was

0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.760
<v Speaker 2>really interesting when we were bringing this episode back. I

0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.880
<v Speaker 2>looked at where she was in July twenty twenty four.

0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.080
<v Speaker 2>She was still outside the top twenty, she'd never won

0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.760
<v Speaker 2>a WTA title, and just after this interview she went

0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.840
<v Speaker 2>on to win her first WTO title. In Romania are

0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:06.080
<v Speaker 2>two point fifty and it's incredible to think that in

0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.039
<v Speaker 2>the two years since then she's gone on to win

0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.280
<v Speaker 2>basically at every level. She's won five hundred, she's won

0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.560
<v Speaker 2>a couple of WTA thousands, and now she's won at

0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.200
<v Speaker 2>Roland Garross and also not long after this interview she

0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.679
<v Speaker 2>won an Olympic silver medal. So just phenomenal what she

0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.000
<v Speaker 2>has achieved in such a short space of time. And

0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.520
<v Speaker 2>from world number twenty three when you chatted to her,

0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.920
<v Speaker 2>she's now cracked the top five and you know, seemingly

0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.679
<v Speaker 2>onto bigger and better things. So it's just amazing to

0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.840
<v Speaker 2>reflect where she was at the time and when she's

0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.000
<v Speaker 2>come to now.

0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.840
<v Speaker 1>Mira, thank you for your time today. It's great to

0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.200
<v Speaker 1>have you as a guest on the sit down. I

0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.720
<v Speaker 1>wonder if you could start by sharing with our listeners

0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.080
<v Speaker 1>how you had your start in tennis.

0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:47.160
<v Speaker 3>Thank you for having me.

0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:50.840
<v Speaker 4>I started playing tennis when I was six years old,

0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.000
<v Speaker 4>but I spent like three years before in the tennis

0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.240
<v Speaker 4>court because my older sister she started playing as well.

0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.160
<v Speaker 3>She will she started when she was.

0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.440
<v Speaker 4>Around five, and so yeah, since I'm three years old,

0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.840
<v Speaker 4>I've been spending some time on a tennis court. But

0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.800
<v Speaker 4>I wish I would have started earlier, but I remember

0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.080
<v Speaker 4>that I couldn't hold a racket in my hand. It

0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.600
<v Speaker 4>was too heavy and it would just keep falling down.

0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.640
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, I started when I was six. I started

0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:28.040
<v Speaker 4>in Siberia, in Krasnoyarsk, is the city where we come from,

0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.160
<v Speaker 4>and yeah, that's basically it. After we moved to south

0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:38.359
<v Speaker 4>of Russia the city named Sochi, and since then we

0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:43.519
<v Speaker 4>lived there for five six years and after now we

0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.560
<v Speaker 4>live in Khan for I don't know, almost three years now.

0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.560
<v Speaker 1>Already you started with when you were six, as you say,

0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.000
<v Speaker 1>and now you're seventeen, so that's barely ten years. And

0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.440
<v Speaker 1>in that time you've had wins over top ten opponents

0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.640
<v Speaker 1>including your idol on Jibur, and reached the semifinals at Rollandaros.

0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.440
<v Speaker 1>Does it ever feel like a bit of a dream?

0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.600
<v Speaker 4>At first, it did, and it still feels like a dream,

0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:11.560
<v Speaker 4>of course, because I've been watching these tournaments when I

0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.600
<v Speaker 4>was a kid on a TV having my breakfast. Before

0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.720
<v Speaker 4>I was I would go to school, so of course

0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.120
<v Speaker 4>it feels like a dream to me to be here

0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.400
<v Speaker 4>and play all these tournaments.

0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.960
<v Speaker 3>But now I.

0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.920
<v Speaker 4>Already get used to this a little bit. I start to,

0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, feel the atmosphere more, and I start to

0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.960
<v Speaker 4>kind of feel like I start.

0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.520
<v Speaker 3>To belong here. It's not like.

0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:47.120
<v Speaker 4>I'm new anymore and like new surprise or something. And yeah,

0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.400
<v Speaker 4>that felt like a dream. But now I get used

0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.680
<v Speaker 4>to this a little bit more and it just feels

0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.320
<v Speaker 4>like my life.

0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.760
<v Speaker 1>Now you're joining us at Winbooden. When you reached the

0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.360
<v Speaker 1>fourth round last year as a qualifier, how have you

0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.839
<v Speaker 1>changed as both a plier and as a person since then.

0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:07.080
<v Speaker 4>Let's say as a player, I changed. I think I

0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.680
<v Speaker 4>became more aggressive and I know what I want on court.

0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.480
<v Speaker 4>It's not like I just go there and play and

0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.880
<v Speaker 4>try to enjoy and just win as many games as

0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.480
<v Speaker 4>I can. Just now I go and I know what

0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.720
<v Speaker 4>I want and I know what I also need, if

0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.440
<v Speaker 4>I can say need. So yeah, I think that as

0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.599
<v Speaker 4>a player, I became more kind of a straightforward and

0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.400
<v Speaker 4>I feel like this not helps me, but this is

0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.839
<v Speaker 4>a bit of next level for me, a bit of

0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.520
<v Speaker 4>an upgrade. Yeah. And as a person, yeah, a bit

0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.599
<v Speaker 4>more mature, as I said once and.

0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.280
<v Speaker 3>Just and that's it.

0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.320
<v Speaker 4>Actually I'm still the same as I was last year,

0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:06.440
<v Speaker 4>maybe a bit more yeah, mature, and I don't say

0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.760
<v Speaker 4>some crazy stuff anymore, but still the same old mirror.

0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.000
<v Speaker 1>In your upgrade as a player, as you call it.

0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.240
<v Speaker 1>You reached the semi finals of Roland Garross. You had

0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:21.320
<v Speaker 1>wins there over Victoria Azarenka and Arena Sablenka. How do

0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:22.720
<v Speaker 1>you look back on that experience?

0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.120
<v Speaker 4>Of course, looking back to that, it feels amazing, especially

0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.800
<v Speaker 4>if we start with the second round match against Azarenka,

0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:38.919
<v Speaker 4>A little thriller there. I knew, I mean Grand Slam champion,

0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.680
<v Speaker 4>she has won a lot of tournaments, she has a

0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.800
<v Speaker 4>lot of experience, and I just went on court and

0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.679
<v Speaker 4>I was like, well, mirror, you gotta do your best

0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.920
<v Speaker 4>to beat her. And I felt like I did more

0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.039
<v Speaker 4>than my best and it was an amazing match. We

0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.560
<v Speaker 4>finished at one am. It was the latest finish of

0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.159
<v Speaker 4>my career, and looking back to that, I'm really really

0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:08.720
<v Speaker 4>really happy about that, and that much I think I'm

0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.279
<v Speaker 4>gonna remember it for a very very long time. And

0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:17.760
<v Speaker 4>of course much against Saballenka is also kind of a

0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.800
<v Speaker 4>thriller for me. But unfortunately I didn't really have time

0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.640
<v Speaker 4>to enjoy the moment when I was in Paris because

0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.640
<v Speaker 4>we finished pretty late and then next day I had

0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.680
<v Speaker 4>a semi final to play, so I didn't really have

0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.040
<v Speaker 4>time to enjoy the moment there. But after I took

0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.760
<v Speaker 4>some time to just realize and understand what happened. But

0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.000
<v Speaker 4>yet now it doesn't seem to me like a surprise.

0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.880
<v Speaker 4>I mean, of course, was a tough match. She had

0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.360
<v Speaker 4>some I don't know, trouble with something, probably her stomach,

0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.440
<v Speaker 4>and it was hard for me to play because she

0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.200
<v Speaker 4>called the phisio a few times and it's always hard

0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.440
<v Speaker 4>to keep your focus on a game. So yeah, I'm

0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.520
<v Speaker 4>just happy about that win, and uh yeah, happy about

0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.200
<v Speaker 4>everything that I did during French Open.

0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.920
<v Speaker 1>And you're a very artistic and creative player. You're known

0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.960
<v Speaker 1>for being very intelligent on court. That draws a lot

0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.040
<v Speaker 1>of comparisons with Martina Hingers. How do you feel when

0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:19.760
<v Speaker 1>you're compared to Martina Hingers?

0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.480
<v Speaker 4>Well, I like that it's not a bad compare not

0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:29.600
<v Speaker 4>a bad compaiment comparison. Yes, okay, so yeah, I like that.

0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.880
<v Speaker 4>I like that people see a bit of same kind

0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:39.840
<v Speaker 4>of game between us because I when I was younger,

0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.480
<v Speaker 4>I wanted to play like her because I felt like

0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.400
<v Speaker 4>we have a pretty much same a game style, but

0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.520
<v Speaker 4>she was kind of.

0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:50.360
<v Speaker 3>More aggressive than me. Me.

0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.880
<v Speaker 4>I would like play the point and build the point

0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.080
<v Speaker 4>until the last moment on the baseline until the girl

0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:02.160
<v Speaker 4>is there they're running, and me I would just finish

0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.960
<v Speaker 4>the point, and her, I feel like she she goes

0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.200
<v Speaker 4>for it and she tries to finish the ball at

0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.560
<v Speaker 4>the net and she's more aggressive. But yeah, it's it's

0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.120
<v Speaker 4>really nice that people compare us and they say some stuff.

0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:22.560
<v Speaker 4>They see the same game style, and yeah that I

0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.160
<v Speaker 4>like that. It's not bad, you know, if people compare

0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.600
<v Speaker 4>it to a Grand Slam champion. So yeah, it's it's

0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:30.160
<v Speaker 4>nice to hear.

0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.400
<v Speaker 1>It's it's thirty years since your coach Conchitta mount One

0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.840
<v Speaker 1>Wimbood And what has she told you about that time.

0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.200
<v Speaker 4>First, of course, she's she's having a bit of a

0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.480
<v Speaker 4>flashbacks this trip, and yeah, we've talked a little bit

0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.840
<v Speaker 4>about that. And I watched the final with her, she said,

0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.400
<v Speaker 4>So I put on the video from YouTube, her final

0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.400
<v Speaker 4>against Nevratilova, and she's like, no, no, no, don't watch

0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.120
<v Speaker 4>this this moment start from this score in the second set.

0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.680
<v Speaker 4>I was like, uh huh, okay, And of course I

0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:09.040
<v Speaker 4>put the moment that she didn't want on purpose. But yeah,

0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.480
<v Speaker 4>she of course tells me about the way she played,

0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.200
<v Speaker 4>but I feel like she doesn't really like to talk

0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.720
<v Speaker 4>about it because maybe she doesn't want to feel old

0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.160
<v Speaker 4>comfare to me. I don't know, but yeah, sometimes I

0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.120
<v Speaker 4>just ask her how did.

0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.920
<v Speaker 3>It feel like? And what did you do there? And

0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:26.720
<v Speaker 3>what do you do then?

0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.400
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, she shares some experience and emotions with me,

0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.080
<v Speaker 4>and it's really really nice to hear what she was

0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.560
<v Speaker 4>going through that time. And yeah, she's gonna play Legends

0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:43.480
<v Speaker 4>Mixed doubles and she said, don't you ever come to

0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.520
<v Speaker 4>my match? I was like, why, but I want to

0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.920
<v Speaker 4>support you. She's like, no, I don't want to see

0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.720
<v Speaker 4>you there. And so it'll be on a second week.

0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.240
<v Speaker 4>I hope I'm still gonna be here, and I have

0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.400
<v Speaker 4>a plan. I'm gonna prepare a piece of paper, a

0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.160
<v Speaker 4>huge piece of paper. I will write con Chita Martinez,

0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.839
<v Speaker 4>let's go, and I will go to her match and

0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.680
<v Speaker 4>I will waive this piece of paper that said like

0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.320
<v Speaker 4>that she can see me and I will be her

0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.040
<v Speaker 4>number one fan. So yeah, that will be nice if

0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.400
<v Speaker 4>we're still gonna be here.

0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.960
<v Speaker 1>That speaks a lot about the strength of your relationship. Yeah,

0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.439
<v Speaker 1>you've reached the second week of the Australian Open. When

0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.400
<v Speaker 1>and Roland Garros every Grand Slam surface, which one do

0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:31.520
<v Speaker 1>you must love to play on?

0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.679
<v Speaker 4>Well, that's actually really hard question. Before I would say

0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.880
<v Speaker 4>clay right away, but now I when I play on hardcourt,

0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.040
<v Speaker 4>I miss clay court so much. But when I play

0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.200
<v Speaker 4>on clay court, I want to go back on hardcore

0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:53.040
<v Speaker 4>because yeah, just like the sound when somebody plays on hardcourt.

0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.480
<v Speaker 4>But when I play on on on heart or on clay,

0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.800
<v Speaker 4>I want to go on grass because I really like

0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:04.200
<v Speaker 4>the sound when the people play and when they move

0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.720
<v Speaker 4>on court.

0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:05.840
<v Speaker 3>It's so soft.

0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:11.080
<v Speaker 4>And it actually depends but yeah, I don't even have

0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.080
<v Speaker 4>a favorite service actually because it also depends on a

0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.560
<v Speaker 4>time and on how I feel. So yeah, it's a

0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.720
<v Speaker 4>really complicated question for me, but I would say that

0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:22.880
<v Speaker 4>I love them all.

0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.160
<v Speaker 1>Are you still studying and do you still high chemistry?

0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.160
<v Speaker 4>Yeah? Yes, I still study, but now luckily we have

0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.000
<v Speaker 4>summer holidays at school. Yeah, and I still don't really

0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.680
<v Speaker 4>like chemistry because well that's really hard for me to

0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.840
<v Speaker 4>understand and I don't really have time to really go

0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:42.520
<v Speaker 4>into it.

0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.600
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, probably when after. I don't know.

0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.280
<v Speaker 4>Maybe when I finished my career, I will be like

0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.960
<v Speaker 4>forty forty three. Maybe then I will have a wish

0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.440
<v Speaker 4>and desire to go and study chemistry, But I don't

0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.480
<v Speaker 4>think so. So yeah, I'm still studying and luckily I

0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.480
<v Speaker 4>don't have to do anything now anymore.

0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.240
<v Speaker 1>When we talked earlier in the year at Brisbane and

0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.480
<v Speaker 1>you were reading Gone with the Wind at the time,

0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:10.439
<v Speaker 1>are you still.

0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.760
<v Speaker 4>Reading, I'm reading second part. Yes, so don't tell me

0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.160
<v Speaker 4>what's gonna happen. But yeah, I enjoy reading sometimes. It

0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.440
<v Speaker 4>really helps me to put some nervous moments aside and

0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.920
<v Speaker 4>to focus. And I when I read, I have I

0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.280
<v Speaker 4>think I have a pretty good imagination. So when I read,

0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.000
<v Speaker 4>I have like pictures and everything in my head, and

0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.360
<v Speaker 4>I imagine that I'm there and I'm reading and just

0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.560
<v Speaker 4>looking at them kind of like I'm with them.

0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.240
<v Speaker 3>So yes, I sometimes I really like to read.

0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.760
<v Speaker 4>And this is a very very good book and I

0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.240
<v Speaker 4>really really like it, so yes, hopefully I can finish

0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:52.680
<v Speaker 4>it soon.

0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.280
<v Speaker 1>And you've achieved such a lot in such a short

0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.640
<v Speaker 1>amount of time. What's what's your tennis dream?

0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:04.320
<v Speaker 4>Well, of course, I think if you ask every tennis player.

0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.520
<v Speaker 4>They will say that their tennis dream probably to be

0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.400
<v Speaker 4>number one and to win a Slam, or to win Olympics.

0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.720
<v Speaker 4>But me, I would say that after I finished my career,

0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.679
<v Speaker 4>I just want to be remembered for a very very

0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.440
<v Speaker 4>long time, and I want to be remembered as a

0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.559
<v Speaker 4>champion and as a player who never never give up,

0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.240
<v Speaker 4>as a player who people look up to. And I

0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.080
<v Speaker 4>would say that this is one of my dreams that

0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.440
<v Speaker 4>I really want to accomplish and I really want them

0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.000
<v Speaker 4>to happen.

0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.280
<v Speaker 3>So, yeah, that would be awesome.

0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.760
<v Speaker 1>Oh, thank you, You're already so far into achieving that,

0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.680
<v Speaker 1>So thank you for your time today and good luck.

0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:54.200
<v Speaker 3>Thank you.

0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.040
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't that fascinating to look back, you know, she

0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.160
<v Speaker 1>was already at seventeen, having just turned seventeen. She was

0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.120
<v Speaker 1>already feeling such a sense of belonging at the top

0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.720
<v Speaker 1>of the game. And it was interesting when, you know,

0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.040
<v Speaker 1>we asked her tennis dream, and it wasn't to become

0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.040
<v Speaker 1>a Grand Slam champion. It was to be remembered as

0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.640
<v Speaker 1>a player who never gives up and people look up too.

0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.160
<v Speaker 1>So I think she's already achieved her tennis dream.

0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And she said something almost exactly the same as that.

0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.720
<v Speaker 2>Two years on, after she won Roland Garross, there was

0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.440
<v Speaker 2>the story about how she'd worked with her psychologist to

0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.800
<v Speaker 2>work on her on court demeanor and how she looked

0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.640
<v Speaker 2>up to Roger Federer and the serene aura he brought

0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.920
<v Speaker 2>to the court, and she said she made an active

0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.200
<v Speaker 2>and conscious decision to show up the right way on

0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.400
<v Speaker 2>the court and choose how she behaves on the court

0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.920
<v Speaker 2>and how she approaches matches, and the quote was, so

0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.360
<v Speaker 2>I just decided to choose to be a fighter. So

0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.840
<v Speaker 2>that is that mental approach is carrying on all these

0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.800
<v Speaker 2>years later, and it's taken her to the very top.

0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:49.080
<v Speaker 3>Of the sport.

0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:50.680
<v Speaker 1>Amazing to see.

0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.240
<v Speaker 2>Well, we'll be back again next week with another episode

0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.800
<v Speaker 2>of The sit Down. It's going to be a special

0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.400
<v Speaker 2>one where we bring you a best of Wimbledon episode.

0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.560
<v Speaker 2>So over the course of two years of our podcast,

0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.040
<v Speaker 2>we've had lots of guests talk about their Wimbledon memories

0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.800
<v Speaker 2>and we're going to bring you a snapshot of all

0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:04.400
<v Speaker 2>of them.

0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.920
<v Speaker 1>Please remember to subscribe to The sit Down so you

0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.720
<v Speaker 1>never missed an episode, and we'd love you to leave

0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.800
<v Speaker 1>us a rating and review. See you next week.

0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:12.760
<v Speaker 3>Matt see you then Viv