AO Recap Day 9: A Heaping Plate of Potatoes

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Speaker 1: Because you also don't say more school. Do you say more school? Moscow is moscool and Russian?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes we are he everyone. Welcome to the Renee Subs Tennis podcast with special guests my roommate Andrea Pekovic.

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Speaker 3: Petco Eh today mayor.

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Speaker 1: What a mediocre day?

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Speaker 3: Here we go. It wasn't a poo poo day. It was a mediocre day. There were some great matches, in particular.

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Speaker 1: John Kine Arena. That was a great thing.

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Speaker 2: That was match.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's start with Rod Labor.

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Speaker 2: The first match on Rod Labor was Diana Yastremska, the qualifier.

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Speaker 3: Now, I was like, oh a qualifier betsa.

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Speaker 2: As a ranker, I'm like, listen, Yestremska is a really good hitter of the ball.

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Speaker 3: We have known her for years. This was somebody who was once ranked twenty one in the world.

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Speaker 2: She is capable, very capable of beating anyone on their day on her day, because.

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Speaker 1: She hits the ball unbelievable. She hits about unbelievable. And listen.

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Speaker 4: When she was seventeen, eighteen years old, she had played the finals here, had lost in a here in Australian Open.

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Speaker 1: After junior Sorry and she.

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Speaker 4: Had lost a heartbreaker in the third set, seven sixth in the third.

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Speaker 3: But she having a tequila.

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Speaker 1: Renee is having a tequila. One of us is healthy.

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Speaker 4: As you could see in Renee stories, one of us is trying to take care of their body and another one is trying to not take care of their body.

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Speaker 3: I admit it. It's okay.

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Speaker 2: I just needed a little to take tonight, a little pick me up. Well, you know who else likes tequila Mannorino?

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 4: There you go, so carrys and so when she came on the on the WTA tour, she had some amazing successors. She's one, she was one title, so she really was the next big star on the horizon, and a lot of people thought she's going to be the next one of the young generation to win a Grand Slam. So I think that has to be put into context that this is why we say this is not out of nowhere. I think a lot of people expected her to make a big run at a major tournament way before now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, injuries happened. She had a ban, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she had a drug band that she in the end they took away.

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Speaker 2: She had an explanation on why and if you don't know what that explanation is, look it up.

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Speaker 3: It's a good one. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well we don't know, right, we don't know they took it away. It was ruled this way and so but she had breaks. Let's just put it this way. She had breaks, whether that be through injury or through other things. And now she seems to be hitting her astride and it really looked to me today like she was able to overpower Victoria Zarenka. I don't think I playing badly, honestly, I think she was playing okay. I just think that Yastremska came with such firepower.

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Speaker 1: She had nothing to lose. She really want to win this match today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's undertones, let's also put that out there. We got a Balerusian playing against a girl from Ukraine, so we know what's happening in the world, and so the Ukrainian players have an extra incentive when they play against any Russian or Balerussian player. And you know, you saw it today.

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Speaker 3: Yustramsker was too good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I thought it was a great postmatch interview that she gave an insight into what she was thinking. She's like, I never felt like I was going to win the match because she was down the whole time. But the biggest issue and will forever be and we had a really long discussion about this in the players restaurant, about the fact that Victoria Azarenka serve has let her down throughout her career. Without question, she would have won at least, in my opinion, six Grand Slams at least if she'd had a good, reliable serve, and it's what led her.

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Speaker 3: Down again today.

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Speaker 2: She served for the first set, She had opportunities to close out the first set, couldn't do it, whether it was a double fold or just shitty serving. In general, she served well against Ostapenko, but today she did not serve well and no first serves in barely a first serve in the court in the first set, like it was a joke.

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Speaker 3: It was like five. I think she maybe had four or five first serves in the court. I mean, you.

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Speaker 2: Cannot beat anyone not getting a first serve in the court, especially when your second service kind of crap. Right, So, I mean, I'm being tough on Victoria, but it's like, I have so much respect for her as a tennis player and a competitor but to me, it's so disheartening that she never ever improved that serf, the reliability of her serve.

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Speaker 3: At five foot eleven, she should have had a better serve.

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Speaker 2: And now if you look up her serf as a junior, her service come a long way, because it was horrendous as a junior. But we had a really interesting discussion. So I want you to tell me what you said today.

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Speaker 4: Well as two things. The one thing where I agree with you to extend. The thing that I don't didn't agree with you is that she didn't work on her serf. Because we had a stat in the match against O Stapenko that her serf is ten ks or seven miles an hour faster than it was last year. So clearly she is working on it, and she might not be working on the things you would work with on her, the reliability, maybe a bit different spins, a bit smoother technique.

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Speaker 1: That's what you told me you will do with her.

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Speaker 4: However, I do think she's working on it, and I do think that she's going about it because I know Vika is somebody that wants to improve every day, and I wants to improve every year, and she clearly has the stats the fact stated that she has not in the department that you would like her. So that was I think our discussion today. And I really loved this discussion. Shanda Rubin was part of it because we went hard and we discussed hard, and we debated, and there was a lot of like, I disagree, I think this, but it was so respectful. I actually getting a goosebum because it was so respectful and we were having fun and we were laughing, and in the end we basically were like, oh, we love you.

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Speaker 1: I love you guys. Okay, see you buy.

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Speaker 4: And it was so fun to talk about this in like a really hard, like passionate manner and just go aside and be like, okay, and we're still best friends because we.

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Speaker 2: All agree to an extent on certain Yes, exactly. But one thing that you talked to me about today, which I thought was really interesting. I was like, how Mike, I said, how can someone not change that serve as a junior better? And you had an interesting thought about that, particularly someone coming from Belarus.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So my that was really that was a good That was maybe the most interesting part of the discussion because I got an insight into your and Chanda's brain and you are Australian Chanda as American. You are both from federations that always had a lot of money because they own Grand Slam tournaments, so they have a lot of money to put in the youth development, to have good coaches and to be like, it's important that we build good juniors with good technique that will win US titles when they are pros, when they play ATP and WTA tournament.

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Speaker 1: Now I come from Germany.

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Speaker 4: It's not the poorest country in the world by no definition, but it's not a federation that has a lot of money. And I have strong roots in back then Yugoslavia now Serbia, so I know how these federations think. And for them, they get money from the government if they win the europe Cup under twelve, if they win TARP under fourteen, if they win a certain you know, if they become team champions in the World Cup. Those are the competitions you get money. They get money from the government because they get the funding based on performance of the juniors, and then they get youth money for this thing. So they are not going to go to Victoria and be like, hey, let's twelve. At twelve years old, she's the best junior in Europe by far, by far. I know because I was two years older and we heard when I was fourteen, we already heard there's a twelve year old and she's winning everything that was Victoria as a ranker.

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Speaker 3: And one thing that hasn't changed about her. If you go to the video back end, looks amazing.

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Speaker 2: Fourhand looks similarized, and she's feisty fuck and she does the same thing with her fingers and her hands when she loses the point.

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Speaker 3: It's classic. But your service motion is horrible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but let me finish.

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Speaker 4: So at that time, no coach will go to her and be like, Vika, you can win slams. And in order to win slams, we need to change this motion because this will take six to eight months, and we have europe Cup in three months, we have the team competition in five months, we have the junior Billygy and Kinkap in six months. I can't have you serve twenty five double falls because I changed the emotion.

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Speaker 1: So they just go with what they have.

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Speaker 4: And this was such an insight for me into your guy's different mentality who have grown up around really good coaches who invested into you long term.

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Speaker 1: And I was lucky with my dad.

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Speaker 4: My dad was coach and he always told me like, I don't care if you win juniors, don't push because once you call on the wtaight to or if you start, if you push there you'll be toast. So just hit the ball, hit two hundred unforced errors. I don't care, but don't win the europe Cup Under sixteen and then lose on the WTATO first rounds. And so I was lucky in that. But federations need, especially the coach. But parents were not We're not.

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Speaker 1: Not from tennis, right.

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Speaker 4: I think they were athletes, or one of them was an athlete, but they weren't tennis coaches. And so I think you have to consider how a federation thinks and what they expect of their juniors. And for them, every year, the new junior around the corner, they will win them titles hopefully, and those titles will give them money so they can fund their own salary.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was such a It was such an insight that Chandra and I were like, so that makes sense. But having said that, still, you know, once she got out of that and sort of making money, I think there was an opportunity for her to really work on that service motion without the hitches, and she has literally three hitches in her serf still. So anyway back to the ustream scout, she played fantastic in the end. She was down for to one in the second set and looked like, oh, it's going three sets because she won an incredibly tough first set. She played some incredible tennis to win the first set, like winners all over the place when it really mattered, and then got down for one, which is so normal, We're like, oh, here we go.

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Speaker 3: It's going three sets now, and.

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Speaker 2: Then she Vicka sort of didn't do enough for for one, and Streams just sort of settled again got that second win, and she was unbelievable. So congrats to her because she was really it was It's nice to see these these young women that have had these young expectations start coming through in these moments, and that was one of them today.

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Speaker 3: So I was really impressive with the way she handled.

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Speaker 4: Her and I think at six isle in the first set tybreak, I think there was the epitome of the Hall match. Vicka hid a nice return through the middle, like a high person entered shot with good depth, and yess a kind of on the back foot pulled off ale and then the.

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Speaker 1: Same thing again.

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Speaker 4: She hit like a good return on set point, had a good return. Vika actually got really good depth on it with a lot of spin and I was like, this is the perfect percentage shot.

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Speaker 1: Again like a good shot.

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Speaker 4: And then again Yamska half on the back foot, hit a forehand inside in winter at that time, so she really too good.

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Speaker 1: She took it in her own hands and she pulled it off and that was great.

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Speaker 3: Sadly for you and I both.

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Speaker 2: I was calling the Vika match and but we were keeping an eye on a clearly what was happening over Margaret court and went over it and Switzerlina was down well to love. She hurt herself in the second game of the match, something went wrong with her back, and so that was absolutely horrendous.

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Speaker 3: To see her have to default. It was it was in tears. I was in tears.

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Speaker 2: I was calling Vika's match, but we were watching it in ESPN and we went over there and we saw it when she left the court in tears, I was like, had tears in my eyes. I had to refocus, you know, I was calling the other match but it was really I feel so bad for Sinceelena.

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Speaker 3: It was a major opportunity for her in this draw.

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Speaker 1: Well it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: She She was playing a post match in like press conference where she said, everyone's like, oh, it's a good draw, and da da da da, and she's like, there's no good draw. She was like, everyone's really good. Everyone that's there deserves to be there. And she was so classy with the way she handled that really dumb fucking question.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's yeah, we can say it internally that this is a good draw. I mean there were some good draws.

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Speaker 2: You're not playing a Rebarkina in this situations or an eager Shyon Tech. But those players are there because they've beaten players that have beaten those players, and that's just the way tennis is.

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Speaker 3: So I thought she handled that really well. But Elena, God, I hope she gets better. But Monoscova, WHOA.

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Speaker 2: She's going to be dangerous because she hits.

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Speaker 3: The ball really really big.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's well.

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Speaker 4: It was actually in the last point of the first game, injured herself and she pinched a nerve in her back, in the lower back.

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Speaker 1: And she kind of bent over.

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Speaker 4: We thought it was her ankle because she grabbed her ankle, but she was just stretching it out. And then when she called the physio, I turned around to my co commentator Mark Patchy, I muted us, and I.

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Speaker 1: Was like, this is done.

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Speaker 4: Because you just have this locker room reputation and that you always talk about. And Alena Swittulina is known as a tough motherfucker. She's so pain resilient and she would rather chop her leg off than call the physio out on court, and I was I just made a gesture to Mark, this is done.

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Speaker 1: If she calls the physio, this is done.

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Speaker 4: And she tried two more games but it was virtually impossible and she had to retire.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Elena get better. But you know what the bottom line is.

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Speaker 2: You're so right about the locker room reputation because it's certain places that if they called the locker, like for training, you'd.

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Speaker 3: Be like, oh, yeah, here we go. Whereas when you.

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Speaker 2: Have someone like that called the training, like oh this is bad, dude. Like I think I called the.

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Speaker 3: Trainer twice in my whole career twenty two years.

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Speaker 2: So if I'm calling the trainer and I actually remember them, I fell at their French open and I literally like like tore fingers in, like my fingers and the trainer's like, Rene's calling, the train got to be bad. Let's get out there, because that's the reputation that people have. And so Elena, oh Man, that was that was really hard to see.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to finishes?

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Speaker 3: Looked good enough tonight. I don't know what the hell with Ocean Doda though, I mean, what the fuck kind of attitude is that going on? Was? Here's the thing, I think she was shitting herself.

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Speaker 2: I think it's the biggest court she's played on in the biggest moment of a career. And some people they handle their nerves with anxiety and trying to do too much and like you know, screaming and yelling at the crowd or screaming kneeling at their coach.

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Speaker 3: And then there's some that just look like they don't care.

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Speaker 2: There's some people their way of handling stress is like they don't care.

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Speaker 3: And that was her tonight, and I'm like, what are you doing?

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Speaker 4: Well that aside, I think she might have also been a little bit hurt because her leg was chapped.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 4: That aside, she spent thirty percent of her energy fighting her opponent and seventy percent of her energy fighting with her coach because I was sitting courtside and I could hear her after every single point going.

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Speaker 3: Like Ahrett, Ahrette, stop it, stop it, stop it. The guy is just sitting there like a statue, Like.

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Speaker 1: What do you want him to? Adrett? Should he stop breathing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Like I die? Should he die?

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Speaker 1: What are you?

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Speaker 2: What does he have to Is that going to be our new shirt tomorrow? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Srett? Why you want me to die? I was. I would go, Okay, I'm stopped breathing for you exactly.

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Speaker 4: He was literally every time they showed him, and every time I looked at when you sit courtside, you kind of have to get up, so I would always get up and look at him, and it seems on TV he wasn't moving, and he wasn't moving.

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Speaker 3: At at one point.

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Speaker 2: He was about to say something to her and she wasn't looking at him, and he kind of stepped back and he was like, Okay, well, I can't really do anything if you're not gonna look at me.

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Speaker 4: Every single point between serfs, she would miss a surf go around be.

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Speaker 1: Like, ah, you should have purpose it.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, you can say, I can't serf, I'm not feeling well. This is a lot. You can say all that, get it out off your chest, but don't tell him to arette breathing, because then we have a situation and we need to call a medical team.

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Speaker 3: You need to get the end.

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Speaker 4: My boyfriend was sitting there like it's nobody's business, trying to support her with like a statue hasque face, and she's just like yelling at him to areth.

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Speaker 1: It was a scene.

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Speaker 4: It was tough to call. It was tough to call, but you're absolutely right. Every player has a different type of defense mechanism. When she ain't good, when emotions overwhelmed them and situations overwhelmed them, and you could see she was up and down right, then she raised her hand when she wanted to go, and then she didn't try again. Then she tried so hard and played well, So it was just I.

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Speaker 1: Think she was dealing with herself.

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Speaker 3: But the better player went through in Chin one Chin win chang, and she looked good. I mean, she played solid.

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Speaker 2: She played within herself because she knew that her opponent was self destructed left.

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Speaker 4: Right, and she was really good in I thought she was really good in restraining her energy and keep containing it, because there was one point where Dodan really tried and she just remained cool, like neutralized the pace, didn't like fist pump, but didn't go crazy, didn't show any negative emotions. And she was struggling on surf today a little bit, so I think she had like forty serfs.

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Speaker 1: It was really really bad, but she got away with it.

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Speaker 4: There was just no energy, There was no energy going anywhere. It was all within herself and that will help her.

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Speaker 3: In the next that's the important thing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if you know that you're beating your opponent and they are beating themselves, don't beat yourself.

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Speaker 3: And that's what she did tonight. So too good from her.

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Speaker 2: Nice to see Kelln Skayer get through. You know, look, Peelini is one of my favorite players.

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Speaker 3: I love her.

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Speaker 2: She's like five foot three and she's just so fun to watch and she was the twenty sixth seed, so she's had a great twelve months.

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Speaker 3: But Killan Sky as this player that.

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Speaker 2: Has been on the verge of like breaking through and she just cannot quite get over the line. She's had some good wins, but she just can't get over the line. And one of the things that I want to stress about Kellen Skaya is that she has been with her coach, Patricia Tarabini for years, like we're talking like over four years, and it's unfortunate that a lot of these players don't hang in there with certain coaches. And I love the fact that this former player and Patricia Tarabini has been with Kellen Skaya.

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Speaker 3: They train in Miami.

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Speaker 2: She's put so much time and effort into and every conversation I've ever had with Patricia Tarabini, she's always so positive about Kellan Skuya's efforts and her work ethic and.

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Speaker 3: Just trying to pick the right shot at the right time. And she's just.

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Speaker 1: Da da dah.

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Speaker 2: But the fact that she is now into a quarterfinal of a Grand Slam, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Just I'm happy for her, But I'm really.

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Speaker 2: Happy for Patricia Tarabini, who's invested a lot of time and effort and emotion and she's invested in this kid, and it's come to fruition in this situation. And look, she can keep going.

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Speaker 3: She's good enough.

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Speaker 2: She plays amazing tennis when she's on, and she's quick as fuck around the court. So I was really happy to see her get through comfortably today because that was a fairly comfortable match for her. So anyway, the women's are through for the day. The guys, let's face it, how.

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Speaker 3: Good did mister al Karez look today? I mean he was unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: And against mishmirk Kakman, me and mir Kidsmanovich or some I have to repeat it until the day I die. As one American announcer in Miami once called him Mishmir Kakman. So mishmirk Kakman. Maybe we should make a t shirt with my favorite players.

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Speaker 2: If anyone can work it out. But Alcaraz was just awesome today.

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Speaker 1: He and the last time, that's what I wanted to play.

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Speaker 4: The last time they played, it was a brutal match in Miami and it was really and Kkman.

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Speaker 1: I can't say it.

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Speaker 4: The game, Yes, Kisvanovich has the game that can borther because he has a good backend down the line that he can take early and he could have bothered him. But carlos Man, he looked incredible today and I still feel like he's flying under the raider.

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Speaker 1: Is that the same?

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Speaker 4: And I don't understand why, because he pulled off the same old Carlos al karaz shots and uh and I it's because he had a huge plate of potatoes next to us.

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Speaker 2: We were sitting having lunch today and I look over it and I'm like, oh my god, he is eating.

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Speaker 3: Thirty five potatoes.

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Speaker 1: He was like, he was eating two pounds of potatoes. Potatoes.

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Speaker 3: Well, shit, I got to tell you it's worked. It worked.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he looked. And so we were talking about whatever we were talking about, and we just both stopped mid sentence when we saw him come with like seven thousand potatoes.

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Speaker 1: We were like, is he going? Like did he bring sides for the tape?

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Speaker 4: That was it?

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Speaker 1: Just like, is it going to have a steak when shared with his team.

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Speaker 2: I told him I saw him as we were leaving the courts tonight, because we were leaving the same time. I said, listen, I saw the potatoes. I made fun of it in the interview and he was really funny.

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Speaker 3: But that was pre match. Last night was sushi, but but tonight he was. He was so cute.

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Speaker 2: I said, you know, the last time I saw you eating in the players restaurant, you're eating a.

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Speaker 3: Big fat cheeseburg.

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Speaker 2: He is the opposite of Novak in every way, but he's also a kid, so maybe that maybe Thatto Danil Mevedev went four sets today. I think he was a little upset, but I love the fact that he said at the end Borgus was playing really good tennis and really made him play a lot of all. He said, I was tired, Yeah, he said, at the end of the third set, I was exhausted.

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Speaker 3: But then he got a he got fired up for the set.

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Speaker 4: He had also a ten minute meltdown of emotions he sometimes has that he was up five to two and the third set he I don't know if he had match points, but he served for the for the match and had a complete meltdown there and then picked it back up.

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Speaker 1: And me too.

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Speaker 4: But I have to shout out another fucking fantastic interview. Oh you're going to say about he's just so good and I love him so much, and I I every time I see him. I found over him and he thinks I'm really weird, and Jim were he sees me, He like, you know, yes, when you you know, when you go at night as a woman, when you walk the street and like a strange man comes and.

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Speaker 1: You change this and the strange man for Jim Courier. I am the strange man for Jim.

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Speaker 4: When I come, he changes the side off the street because it's.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, you she.

00:23:18
Speaker 2: Comes with a fan again.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, Jim, no, you know what.

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Speaker 2: Everyone everyone said it to him. He had a lot of people giving him a lot of praise. But it's funny.

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Speaker 3: I asked Danil about why.

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Speaker 2: He stands so far back at the US Open last year, because I'm so interested in things like that as well, and he told me the story. He's like, listen, I was just kind of messing around a little bit with my coach, and you know, I stood back and then I made the return.

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that's actually pretty good.

00:23:44
Speaker 2: And his explanation today to Jim was so perfect, and it was so spot on, and it was so funny.

00:23:50
Speaker 3: And I just love Daniel Mevede. I think he's so funny. He's so engaging. People either like him or don't like him.

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Speaker 2: I get people say I really love his personality, but his game so ugly blah blah.

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Speaker 3: I go, guys, you have to appreciate the fact and look up Nick Curios's comments.

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Speaker 2: Nick Curious made this comment about the fact that he saw him in Genius and he was like, oh my god, who is this kid?

00:24:13
Speaker 3: He should get another job. He's like, his game was so ugly.

00:24:18
Speaker 2: He's like, who is this guy? Why is he playing tennis? His game is so bad. He was and he said he was terrible in Junius and then he goes and now what did he do?

00:24:27
Speaker 3: Oh, he's only won a Grand Slam, being number one in the world.

00:24:30
Speaker 2: He's like, it's amazing how much he has changed the last like ten years of his career.

00:24:34
Speaker 3: And I'm here for it.

00:24:35
Speaker 4: I have to say, I have to say one thing. I am such a sucker for people who play a sport in an ugly manner. They are my favorite people in the world for me. That is.

00:24:49
Speaker 1: Dan.

00:24:49
Speaker 4: He met with it Monica Lescu Mario Gomez, a soccer player from Germany. He played so ugly and always in the eighties. Six minutes he would stumble and like his right hip would somehow score a goal. Dick Novitsky, Okay, if you think about it, he doesn't have Oh it's Dick.

00:25:09
Speaker 3: No, not Dirk.

00:25:11
Speaker 1: No, it's not Dirk.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: It's Dick dag the americanized way.

00:25:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey Dirk, Yes, But don't you love these players who look like kind of lanky, they look like they should never have been athletes, but they make it work. And not only do they make it work out of this supposed weakness, they make something so unorthodox that nobody can play them.

00:25:33
Speaker 3: And I love it.

00:25:34
Speaker 2: I love watching him, I love his personality, I love his crazy, I love all of it. So I'm here for mister danil Medvedev from start to finish because I think he's great.

00:25:44
Speaker 3: Alex Zverev gets through again in five sets.

00:25:49
Speaker 2: He wins the fifth set tiebreak against cam Nori, and it was a great match, like it was super competitive. Camp played so well. He's coming into the net a little bit more. He's working with this Ozzie guy now that's helping him sort of navigate getting into the net a little bit more on Stephen Hass.

00:26:03
Speaker 3: But he played the worst tiebreak I've ever seen. The drop shot was working.

00:26:10
Speaker 2: When he was hitting that inside out one and then he just thought, oh, I'm gonna hit one cross court now and then I'm going to back.

00:26:15
Speaker 3: I was like, dude, the drop shot works from.

00:26:17
Speaker 2: Time to time, and when it works, you're like, oh that was no, Oh great shot, and then you're like.

00:26:22
Speaker 3: He missed so many balls fault in the tie break. Yeah, Vera just hit the ball in the court.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: Cam was fucking awful in the time break, and I was like, dude, where did you go during the tie break?

00:26:34
Speaker 4: And Zah is very good at putting the ball in the court when it matters, that's his biggest strength, and I was sure did.

00:26:42
Speaker 3: That in the tiebreak.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: And mister Kim Norri was horrendous in the tiebreak, which was a bummer because it was such a competitive, good match and just to finish it like that was just like, oh, okay.

00:26:53
Speaker 3: One guy that usually goes the distance every match that he ever plays.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: I mean, if there's a guy that's played more tie breaks this year or last year and gone three sets, it's ubi third couch eye adoor. He's like a five year old in a twenty five year old body. He walks, you know, he's got that pigeon toe walk, and he's like it it's like a it's like a big kid.

00:27:12
Speaker 3: It's like playing in a movie.

00:27:13
Speaker 2: You know, you're like pretending to be twenty five, but he's actually really five.

00:27:17
Speaker 3: That's what he reminds me of. And he's so nice he's so sweet.

00:27:21
Speaker 2: He wins and straight sets seven six, seven, six six four against mister caw.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: Say it, kaz Kazu, thank you. Unheard of, unheard of wild card.

00:27:30
Speaker 4: But he's no kuzzle. I meant that hub Herd three sets is unheard off.

00:27:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is unheard off, but but listen, he got the job done. He won those times.

00:27:39
Speaker 4: Kazo actually played a really good match against a fellow French person in the tournament at the French Open, and he had a wildcard there and I saw him. I was like, oh, this kid, it's actually not bad because normally, you know, at the French Open, they give these randalls wild cards. You've never seen them before and you will never see them, and then you have like twenty thousand French people screaming.

00:28:04
Speaker 1: You're like, this dude is literally ranked seven thousand in.

00:28:07
Speaker 4: The world and I love him, but I have to say, but this one is really good.

00:28:11
Speaker 2: He was averaging the other day one hundred and thirty three miles an hour average.

00:28:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, he's really good.

00:28:17
Speaker 4: I saw him at the friend and I feel like Kaitlin. I feel like Kaitlin was with me for some reason. Maybe Kaitlin, have you did you see that with me maybe I have.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: The ability to answer that question right now, but anyway, that was amazing. So guys, it was a great day. Day nine over and done with. We look forward to tomorrow. And may I just add that Andrea Pekovic won her match earlier today as well with no injuries.

00:28:41
Speaker 4: Did you win?

00:28:42
Speaker 3: Oh, I think you played okay, great, but did you win?

00:28:46
Speaker 1: I did one sixty three six? Thank you very much.

00:28:48
Speaker 3: It's well done. So you're a vina.

00:28:50
Speaker 1: Yes.

00:28:51
Speaker 2: So tomorrow on the schedule, Marta Kostuk Coca goth Novak, Djokovic against Taylor Fritz Kujikaba versus Sabalanka on the bottom half of the drawing, the women's is three.

00:29:02
Speaker 3: Grand Slam champions, yes, okay, and up the top it's going to make the final.

00:29:10
Speaker 2: That's never even been to a semi so it's unbelievable, I believe, right, no one's been to a semi up there, no one, I think, so absolutely not.

00:29:18
Speaker 3: Absolutely not.

00:29:20
Speaker 2: And so kajikovas Abalanka will go at it in the night session and then Yannick Sinner and Rubib.

00:29:25
Speaker 1: I just hope that I can I get This is my goal for the Australian Open twenty twenty four is to touch Yani Sentinet's hair.

00:29:33
Speaker 3: Oh well, I can try and make that happen for you.

00:29:35
Speaker 1: So I just want to touch it like this.

00:29:37
Speaker 3: The two gingers are going at it.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: That's going to be my T shirt. I want to touch Yanick Sintenet's hair.

00:29:44
Speaker 3: Okay, So I've got a new T shirt for the day.

00:29:47
Speaker 2: But we just want to give a little shout out to Chander Reuben today because as she came up with the line of all time that we're going.

00:29:53
Speaker 3: To turn into a shirt, and because you wanted to know about how she played in her game. So she said, well, did you have any problems playing certain place?

00:30:00
Speaker 1: I asked her, like which players did you hate playing?

00:30:04
Speaker 3: And she said, pushes. I have no respect.

00:30:07
Speaker 1: I just can't respect that.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: That's right, she.

00:30:10
Speaker 2: Said, pushes. I just can't respect them. I go, oh my god, I'm making that a shirt. It's going to say pushes in the front and on the back it's going to say I just can't respect them.

00:30:18
Speaker 3: And for you at home that plays.

00:30:20
Speaker 2: Tennis, you guys know the pusher is a pain in the ass.

00:30:26
Speaker 4: Yes, So pusher, don't be a push and a world full of pushers.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: Be a hitter in a world full of pushes. Be a Chanda Reuben, be a pusher. All right, guys, So day ten tomorrow, Day nine is over and done with Brudy.

00:30:40
Speaker 3: Thanks buddy, another day in the bag. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. You'll see me on ESPN, and you'll see and here on the World Feed, you will see you.

00:30:52
Speaker 1: I'm playing at eleven air.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: Actually, if you watch ESPN Plus and you get the World Feed, you get the docent tones of Andrea Peck whisper.

00:31:00
Speaker 4: I don't know.

00:31:01
Speaker 3: I know, stop whispering.

00:31:02
Speaker 4: They can't hear you, I know, but sometimes I think that if they do, they'll tell you.

00:31:07
Speaker 3: Okay. Until then, speak up. All right, guys, thanks for everything.

00:31:10
Speaker 2: We appreciate you listening to us, and for now it's good to knocked and choose. Bye.