AO Recap Day 10: It's All we Can Ask For

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Speaker 1: Bye, okay, hi everybody. We are who were an a stup Centers podcast with special guests at awesome person in general Andrea Petkovic. We have been doing a daily podcast for you here from the Australian Open. We hope you've appreciated. Actually, I have to say, Pecko, that's some really nice messages from people on Twitter and Instagram just thanking us for doing this every day. They're in you know, all kinds of places in Europe, but I think there was a message from Finland or in Scandinavia somewhere. So to that gentleman, thanks for writing to us and appreciating it. He's missing Australia, he's missing the Australian Open and the summer and everything. So we appreciate you guys listening, and if you wouldn't mind pushing subscribe on now that person giving us a rating. There were some people that were there. They're so cringey of you. It's so cringey of me. But you know what, it's how we survive, how we pay for coffee in the morning, you know, with all my five dollars that I get this. Actually I don't even think I get paid for any of us but I appreciate you, my friend, being here with me every single day. So I appreciate it. Because for some reason on Spotify, some people have gone on there and given us some really bad ratings because they haven't appreciated some of the things we've said about their favorite players. So they feel like they go on and they can destroy. So if you wouldn't mind going on and giving.

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Speaker 2: Us a fus, we'd appreciate it well. And just to this matter, I know how it feels. I have my faves and I get annoyed when people say bad things about them. But I think we try not to say bad things. I think we just try to put things into a perspective. That's at least how I try to do, and if I fail at that, then I apologize. But we try to explain where things come from and why we think it could be better, and we hold them and I think we said that on the last podcast already. We hold our top players to a very high standard. Yes, and that's because we respect them and we see what they are capable of. And especially you were a much more talented player than I was. But I had my limitations and so when I see so did I well, but yeah, but you know, when you then see somebody so talented with all the gifts, you want them to thrive, You want them to succeed seed, you want them to take out the best they can out of them. And I think that's just a standard we hold our top players too.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with the first match of the day then, because that's a perfect segue because you have somebody who's so talented, has so much game, and yet is a mental is getting better, and I'll give you a description of what her coach said after the match, but a little bit of a mental midget sometimes, and she'll be the first person to admit it. In Noscova, Moscoga Costchuk against Cocoa GoF. So you've got Cocoa Goff who's considered considerably not a mental midget like she is. You know, when okay, the technique breaks down on the forehand, she gets a bit frustrated. She misses some shockers, and she's had some shocking forehands yesterday, but she stays so composed and she's so in the moment, and yeah, there were times es today she kind of jested up to a crowd at her player box like she was frustrated, but in general terms, she is as good as you get when it comes to composure, especially for a nineteen year old. Yes, and then down the other end, you've got Costchuk who's just like every single point in between serbs like looking up at her coach, like yelling at poor Sandra like NonStop. But yet she's so freaking good. And I said to Sandra after the match, just a quick story, I said, oh my god, when she I literally said to her man, when she learns to shut her mouth and just play tennis and not complain and act like a twelve year old, she's going to be really good. And she goes well. The good thing is she was acting like a five year old last week, so this is an improvement. So anyway, just give me your thoughts on the match. Overall, it's pretty it was very dramatic.

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Speaker 2: It was rough, it was rough, So it's interesting that it played out that way because I called the two previous matches of Marta Kostyuk and I said to you, and she's really improved, but her behavior, I don't think that's going to get her through because I think she can win a slam one day. I really think so she's so talented. She can accelerate the ball on the back end on the forehand, still a work in progress, but she has the change of rhythm. She can play at the net. She's one of the most complete athletes out there. She's so quick. She used to be gymnast as a kid. Yeah, you can see like she's agile but also powerful. She has that combination which is very rare. Normally you see agile players that are not as powerful, or very powerful players that are not as agile.

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Speaker 1: And she has it both.

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Speaker 2: And I said it to you, but I thought against the top player, she will pull herself together because you can't afford to. And this is the thing. It's not about the behavior and the yelling at the coach. We see it from other players and it spurs them on to play better. The thing is, if you want to win a Grand Slam tournament, you have to learn to manage your energies rather than your emotions. Your energies. And you could see that she was cooked. And yes, she had much tougher matches than Coco did in the previous rounds. She played much longer. She was on the court. I think the second longest of all the quarter finalists, so she had that to go through. But then especially you cannot let any ounce of energy lay on the floor. It's just not allowed. And you can see in the end it was a very hot day. Now, the match was not great. There were a lot of unforced errors. And this is what I mean by trying to put things into perspective, the reason for that. It was the first hot day in a very long time. It just affects your game. You touch the ball on the strings and it flies. It makes you insecure and you start to push the ball. And this is what we saw in the in the first between the two of them, between the two of them, So this is one the conditions changed dramatically overnight, and it just like you arrived at the new tournament and you don't feel the ball. So this is just a little bit of inside what happens in the player's mind and why it was tough to play. And they played at the hottest time. Oh my god, the others came out, it was still hot, but the shade.

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Speaker 1: Was on rod Lavery. I mean, Djokovic was like so happy that were going so long. He's like, oh, I might start in the evening. The way the two applying yes, So he got real lucky and he even said after the post match, we'll get into that match. But he said, you know, well, when the shade came over, it was a really hot day. But the Shane came out, I was like, you lucky, lucky because he was struggling. Taylor struck and one.

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Speaker 2: Thing has to be said. Marta cost Yuk played and almost and you, I know you want to talk about the tie breaks.

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Speaker 1: I leave that one to you.

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Speaker 2: But Marta cost Yuk played an almost perfect tactical match until she didn't. But she was so disciplined with battering Coco's forehand over and over and over again waiting for the shot. One really broke that stroke down and I was so impressed with her, and I think if she had just contained a bit more energy, she might have been able to hang in longer. I don't know, we don't know. She had long matches before. It was exhausting for her. But overall, a great showing from Martha Kostik, and I hope you see her on a more regular basis and these matches and these states of the tournaments.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the biggest issue for me was there were times where she did play a fairly good technical match, but when it really really really counted, she played a horrible technical match. For example, on the couple of set points, the one set point she I can't remember. Did she have two set points?

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Speaker 2: I think she had too.

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Speaker 1: Well, and one of them in particular, and maybe even the one after that. Get to give Coco a set point. She has sitters on the forehand and chose to go to the backhand and missed it like you could, and tried to go pump it like one hundred miles an hour to the forehand to the backhand right. Instead, she could have played sixty percent of a forehand to Coco's forehand and that moment, not saying it, Coco is going to miss all the time. But she had just missed a couple of really basic forehands Coco and badly shanking you know this and that or halfway up the net. And then she gets set point and choses chooses to go massively to the back end. I'm like high risk, and she didn't need to. She could have gone to the forehand, probably elicited a mistake and won the first set. And it would have been interesting if she had won the first set, because that would have put a ton of pressure on Coco. Instead, Coco gets away with it. And now on the flip side of that is Coco just hung in there. And that's what makes her so good, is that she just hangs around, you know, long enough. Second set, it looks like Coco's going to close it out up five to three, and then she got really tired again and her ball was short, and Martin kind of beware the danger of a player like Marta Costure can hit winners from anywhere when they finally say fuck it, I don't give a shit. And she started hitting winners all over the place of fight three, and Coco got really really tight short, and then Marta made played a great tie break in this circumstance. She was incredibly disciplined in the second set tiebreak. You could tell that Sandra had said focus on the forehand, we could hear in the commentary, and she did. She stayed with the forehand in like literally like a ten or fifteen ball rally. She hit almost every bolt in the forehand and then when it's super short, then you can go wherever you want. But I thought that was she tactically played the second set tie break beautifully. The mistake I think she made Coco went off the court. It was bloody hot day. Coco went off the court, changed her outfit, probably had a little word to herself in the mirror. She did say after the match that she had to be more aggressive because she knew. She'd puts it out our favorite saying you're a er a pab she did. She got tired and she knew, and so she made a concerted effort to come back in the third set, and she served bigger. She was seven miles an hour average bigger on the first serve when she came back, and she was hitting it in because I think her conviction was I'm going to make one of my best shots. And her forehand dropped a little bit in speed, but I think she was making it with depth right, so it wasn't attached to work first and the backhand was way up as well. So she The beautiful thing about Coco in the third set is that she utilized her strengths really well again and she nullified her weakness and she made the fuehand deep and that was a difference in the match. And on the other hand, Kostjuk sat at the changeover, sitting in that heat, dancing and sort of like really loose on the changeover, singing to the music, all of that sort of stuff, where she should have, in my opinion, gone off the court as well and reset, knowing that you're playing against a Grand Slam champion who's clearly fit, who's clearly going to run all day, not going to give me anything free. I think she should have gone and reset herself and said she sat on the court, and she should have won the first couple of games. But I think that lack of focus sitting there and sort of kind of almost you switching off being focused, and you know what it's like when you switch off, it's hard to switch it back on. And I don't care what anyone says. I think she made a mistake not going off the court, and I think that's what cost her and a better player coming out in the.

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Speaker 2: Yes, let's talk just briefly, very three sentences from you Cocos Serf Corco's forehand did not look good yesterday.

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Speaker 1: In the first she managed to turn it somewhat around.

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Speaker 2: What was up with that surf because I saw a few double faults in the bottom of the net, like almost into her own fee. Did you see any because you were courts at do you see tactically anything? I think technically, not tactically, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Think honestly, I think her boaltos was way too far ahead of her, particularly in the first serve. And if your baltos is ahead of you and she's throwing it shorter and now a little bit lower. If it's lower and in front of you, you are hitting in a part of the racket where you're not getting a racketthead speed and snap at the top, so you're missing it long a lot or in the net. I mean, she was just all over the place with her boltos yesterday. I would like to see a stat of her boltos where it was going, because it was all over the shop and I think that really hurt her. But again, I think the only thing as a coach that I would go and talk to her about is you see the way you played in the third, That's what you have to do in the next match. Just put away the first two sets. She was obviously nervous. She hadn't been pushed in this tournament at all. Really, I mean, dol Hyde was her biggest, toughest opponent and she played well, but I think I would be focusing solely on the third set. This is how you need to play, this is the mindset you need to have, and that's what you need to do going forward. I would just forget about the first two sets. Complete land, stay positive, and I know Brad he will do the same thing. So she goes up now against Sablenka. It's a rematch of the US Open final.

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Speaker 2: WHOA.

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Speaker 1: Sabka is looking fucking good. I thought she might be tested. Yesterday she played against Kujikova, who's also a former Grand Slam champion, who beat Saberlenka last year in that amazing run in Dubai where she beat the number one two three players in the world, the toughest draw of all year. But Kujikova, I don't know. She was missing a little bit yesterday. But Sablenka was so good and man. But she has one or two random games though on her surch second set where she just made horrific errors to Losis. She cannot do that against Cocoa.

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Speaker 2: Now, however, I think so what I really liked about Kraychikova, she was in the beginning, she was trying to play her game her game is take the balls on the rise almost half volley them and redirect and have.

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Speaker 1: This beautiful technique, so clean.

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Speaker 2: And Arena was playing so deep and so heavy that you can't do that, and she was missing and framing because it's just hard to play half And the thing is I played with Arena a lot of times, unfortunately for me, and I know how her brown strokes feel like. And the thing is it's not power only, especially on the forehand, is heavy that her balls are heavy. What that means is when you connect with the ball, the rotation that she puts on it pushes you back right, so you have to have your full body weight behind the ball and really push, especially if you're not as strong and Krachko as small. It's quite small.

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Speaker 1: She's pretty strong.

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Speaker 2: She's strong, but she's not as tall to you know, take it every time on that rise. It pushes your racket back, so you really have to put all your body weight into it so you can control it. And I think when you try to play these almost half waleys like Kraychikova does, it's really hard to do. And what I loved about what she tried to do in the second set, she tried to change it up. It wasn't crazy, but she tried the high ones, she tried the slices, she tried to come to the net, and maybe maybe that investment paid a bit of dividend when as a r in come saying when Arena missed a few shots, because maybe there were a lot of different paces coming at her and she just lost lost rhythm for a spree second. But it was But this also just shows you how confident Arena is right now.

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Speaker 1: It was fourth, she was up four to.

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Speaker 2: One in the second, Kraychikova comes back to four to three. It's thirty all the first like dangerous moment in the whole match, and she serves two big serfs, done five three, didn't doesn't lose the point after that, and the match was over. Yeah, And this just shows you the confidence. Whereas if you look at last year, how many times she was up a set.

00:15:11
Speaker 1: And a break.

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Speaker 2: She was up in a set and a break against Kretchikova and Dubai the match you just mentioned, love three to one exactly, and how she loses her path, loses clarity, just goes wayward all of a sudden. She didn't do that on the contrary, she dialed up and won the match. And I said it yesterday and I'm sorry if I jinxed her, but she's the player to be all one hundred, but she is ahead of the entire pack, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she plays the way she's been playing, and Coco plays remotely like she did yesterday. It will be two and two or three and three because Coco is just such a great fighter. But Coco can serve well and she can retrieve well. And the one thing about Sabolenka in that rematch from the US Sun Final is that there's not going to be twenty thousand people on Cocos. So in that match it will be very even Sabalanka very liked in this country. They love her sort of hoodspur and her humor and all that sort of stuff, and in fact she's a defending champion, but they also love Coco, so it'll be interesting mix. So I think tennis fans here in Australia are really knowledgeable and I think they'll be just I'll think they'll be really into the match, but I don't think there's going to be parochial either way. It'll be fun.

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Speaker 2: We look well, And it has to be mentioned Coco has a four to two head to have and a strong believer and had to have, so clearly, Coco has a game that puts Arena in uncomfortable positions. So that's something to keep an eye on. And this is a golden rule in tennis that I've seen over and over and over again. When you get through a terrible match, when you haven't felt one shot, when you're a good player, when you're a good player, you will play amazing the next match. That's normally because you're just happy to still be there, and you will swing freely. I'm not sure because some of the shots yesterday from yesterday from Coco looked so bad. Whether it's a technical issue, then you won't be able to swing through it. If it's a technical issue, But if she was just tight, the conditions were different and she was afraid to lose, I think she will play much better.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope she plays a lot better. She's been pretty scratchy throughout this whole tournament, so I think, you know, maybe that switch will switch now the pressure is technically off. Her technically supposed to win this match, So I seeds are concern and everyone's talking about how good sat Balanca is playing, so maybe maybe Coca will relax enough and swing through that forehand and we'll have a match on her hands. Because if it's anything like the Drama or the US Open, I'm here for it. Just really quick. The matches today we don't usually give a preview, but Chin, when Chin win Jang, I know Kate Caitlin's going to shoot me for saying that. And kilen Skaya, Noskova and Yuestramska we're going to have one of those in the two of those in the semifinals, and someone knew it's going to be in the final, so it's going to be a lot of fun. We'll obviously tell you all about it after today's play, but alth let's get to the man, go back and Fritz in the day session, I thought that Taylor had a great game plan yesterday to come out and play the first game on his serve for twenty minutes. You know what, I read one thing in the heat, Let's wear him down in the first game, and then he wins the game, and I'm like, I'm good now, that's where I wanted him. I wanted him to die with the heat, and Novak did not look good. Actually, in the heat. He really struggles in the heat. You know he's ever played a bloody day match here in like four years. Well, you know what it is.

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Speaker 2: It's really interesting, Like I never struggled in the heat. I always when it was hot, I was like, yes, this is good for me. When I got older, I think when I turned thirty two thirty three, all of the sudden it really bothered me. Now Novak always was kind of bothered by the heat, so that's different. But age, this is the one thing that switched for me from great from.

00:18:52
Speaker 1: Yes.

00:18:53
Speaker 2: Yes. It was like I was every time I would look at the weather forecast thirty five degrees.

00:18:57
Speaker 1: Come on, this is good for me. I'm fit, I can outlast anybody.

00:19:00
Speaker 2: And I turned thirty three thirty four, and all of a sudden, when it was hot, I was juggling, I was cramping.

00:19:07
Speaker 1: Was it was not good.

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Speaker 2: So age does play a factor, I think when it comes to terror or really difficult conditions. But I read one thing on social media and I was dying. And if it's you who wrote this, please let us know, because I forgot who it was because I wanted to give credit. Somebody said Taylor Fritz is playing really solid, so I guess he will lose seven five six, three six too. And it was like such astute observation because Taylor, if he doesn't learn to come to the net thing a little bit differently, he plays very good, just like Djokovic, but slightly worse, and so Novak will always come out on top, you know, That's.

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Speaker 1: How it looks, right, And he died. He died in the third and fourth sets. But I really like, I think Taylor's really improving so much. He has to, like costure, calm down with the getting frustrated. I thought, he it's pretty good yesterday because he had to conserve the energy, and sometimes when it's really hot, you do conserve the energy because you don't have energy. But I think, you know, I did have a little chat, you know, just on text with him last night, and he said, you know, once once I do the work, because I'm not sure if he could do a lot of the work in the off season. You know, he feels like he can maybe last longer because he died a little bit. But I have high hopes for him. I think last year I actually said I think he can win a Slam then through the year. Last year I was like, no, he can't because he's attitude and he gets so upset at himself. In a five set match, he can get away with it investor three because he's just better than most people. But in best of five, you're going to run up against Novak's sinners al Karazas, and they're going to chop you in five sets because they're just going to look down the other end and be like this, dude's idiots, you know what I mean, And they're just going to hang in there and they're going to win those matches. But I really I want to be positive about Taylor because I think he's I think he's taking steps in the right direction again, and I think he's going to be playing very well on the hardcourt and in the US like he did one year when he won Indian Well, so good for him, But no, man.

00:21:05
Speaker 2: We'll chop you like a Linten tree, A Linton tree, A Linten tree.

00:21:09
Speaker 1: The hell was that? Isn't that the tree? I have no idea.

00:21:13
Speaker 2: Well, I do want to say this is the best showing at a Grand Slam of Taylor Fritz in a long time.

00:21:19
Speaker 1: Right, So he is He lost to Novak in the US Open. He got chopped like a like a Linden tree, and if anyone knows what that is, let us know. But but yeah, he played great at the US Open last year, didn't lose a set, and then he just got shopped like a Linton tree by Novak. So a better effort from him here. I'm excited for him, and I think he can do well, particularly at Wemble, and I think he can do well, but if he can come into the net.

00:21:43
Speaker 2: A little bit more.

00:21:44
Speaker 1: But he's not overly comfortable, but I know they're working on it, and we'll see because these volleys are a little dodgy. I'm not gonna lie. All right, let's get to the next seven and one.

00:21:52
Speaker 2: Sorry, this is one thing I had yesterday, the observation whenever Novak was on the stretch and put like a small little I think, really what they shoul do is just play like kids in the service thing and just play the cross courts with foehands and backhands. Because whenever Djokovic was completely on the stretch and just put a small slice behind the mass, Taylor hit drop shots into his own shoe at times.

00:22:19
Speaker 1: Or just framed it.

00:22:20
Speaker 2: He has no feeling or he doesn't feel comfortable on these shots, so he pushes them and he needs that, and he has that flick with his hand.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: He has that when he's tall, though he is tall.

00:22:29
Speaker 2: But this is the one thing you really need to learn because if he plays good movers, that's what they will do. They will put these little small slices and on in Wimbledon specifically, so he needs.

00:22:38
Speaker 1: To work on that. Yeah, that's that's a really great observation. I know that Sam, for example, struggled with that.

00:22:44
Speaker 2: Shot interesting and me too.

00:22:45
Speaker 1: That's why I had this observation, and we practiced that so much in the end where towards the end of her career, I have to say, Sam got really comfortable with that shot and did not miss it very much at all. And because when you what you need to practice is practice at but also have a specific place where you want to hit it, and when you run up to there, you don't do that so you know, so you know what you're about to. Like me running in for that shot, I was like licking my chots because I was like, yes, I'm going to get into the net. I had good feel like that didn't panic me, whereas somebody who never goes into the net, was not super comfortable. The anxiety level as are running up to it is you're freaking out because you're like, what do I hit it? What if I have to did to volley? Oh my god? You know, and so he needs to practice that and when he does, like you said, we're gonna I'm gonna let him know that you observe that. So he's well. You know.

00:23:29
Speaker 2: The thing. The difference with samdough when she's on the backhand.

00:23:31
Speaker 1: She has the feeling to counter, but on the forehand she really.

00:23:35
Speaker 2: Yes, But Taylor doesn't have that either, so he really you can see him panic and he pulled it off a few times yesterday, but you can see him.

00:23:42
Speaker 1: Going like, oh my god, what do I do? Listen? Sam? Sam will tell you that she wasn't the best with touch around the net. Yeah, so to the back end, I feel like, well, and just a few words on Novak.

00:23:53
Speaker 2: He's thirty six years old and he is outlasting a twenty something year old and this head on the court and what he's done so tremendously since he's gotten a bit older. When he saw that he lost that, he got broken in the second set and he tried a few times, I was like, I don't think I'm going to break back.

00:24:13
Speaker 1: He lets it go.

00:24:14
Speaker 2: He lets it go and then regroups for the third set. And that's what I meant when we talked about costume by managing your energies. And when he was twenty two, he didn't have to manage his energies. But now he's thirty six, and now he's managing them perfectly. And when he saw, oh, I don't think I can come back into this it's really hot, let it go, the shade will come and third and fourth.

00:24:33
Speaker 1: Online and that's exactly how it did it. And then the other guy died, which is why when people say about men's best of five is so much more difficult, and it is in a lot of ways. But also women can't afford to chuck a set away, you know what I mean, because they're into the third there's a long way it can be over like that. So anyway, all right, he's playing up against in the semifinals your favorite person, j Nick's.

00:24:56
Speaker 2: Internet, Yannicks Internet, and yes, oh my god, it was so embarrassing but also great. Yesterday the Australian Open are making an AO film.

00:25:05
Speaker 1: They call it.

00:25:06
Speaker 2: They show it before the final, and it's supposed to be like a band like this is how great the Australian Open twenty twenty four were.

00:25:13
Speaker 1: And they have all these experts quote unquote.

00:25:15
Speaker 2: Because they asked me to do it, so how much of an expert haven't they really been? So so you have to give all your all these like opinions and thoughts on who is going to win and how they played. And they asked me in pockets, right, So they didn't like talk about cocoa, gov talk about costume. They would go like talk about golf, Saballeenka and Rebeckena talk about because they want to make a summary of the entire tournament, right, And then they went like, okay, talk about Sinna, rube Lev and Djokovic please, And so I was like, well, Djokovia and rube Lev quarterfinal and then and Yannick's Internet and everyone.

00:25:53
Speaker 1: Was like cut, cut cut.

00:25:57
Speaker 3: And I've been saying it for so long, and I've been repeating it because it's my wireless My wireless network at home is Yannick Cinternet and now I cannot say Yanick Cinner anymore.

00:26:10
Speaker 2: And I said it in an official AO film and we had to cut and I had to take it from the beginning from the top.

00:26:16
Speaker 1: I hope they use it as one of their bloppers because that would be hilarious. But anyway, Yanik played great last night. Again poor old Rube lav oh and ten in quarterfinals of Grand Slams. But he has always played arguably the best player in those quarters. He's played Novak, he's played Nadal, and the two that we thought that maybe he could have won were Chile and the Francis Tiao at the US Open. But then we also said that those two players at that time were playing incredibly well in those moments. So he's either come up with the hottest player, you know, arguably in the tournament that's you know, sort of won some big matches, or he's played the greatest players of all time. So maybe he'll just get one year where he gets lucky and he plays like a Rando in the corners and wins.

00:27:05
Speaker 2: And this is a little bit of a systemic thing as well, because he's always I think now he's making strides to be a regular top five player, but he was very often seated seven or eight. And the thing is, if you're seated seven or eight, just by the mechanics of the jaw, you will meet the first or second best player in the quarterfinals, so he's always run into them, just by the mechanics of how the seating system works. So if he can become a regular in the top five, maybe even in the top four, I think he will have much more openings that where he can get to the stage because he's good enough.

00:27:41
Speaker 1: Well, there's the issue for him to be in the top four in the world is that you've got to make semis and finals of Slams, and that's the thing. So he has to have a breakthrough moment. But aside from that, we love him. What about absolutely crazy and we love it. But Janick Sinner now playing Novak Oh, it's so much of the tournament. I mean, there's no question about that. And we haven't even once again talked really about Alcoraz and he's just sliding alorad.

00:28:05
Speaker 2: This is the best scenario for Carlos Alcoa. Honestly, nobody has him under it.

00:28:09
Speaker 1: I don't know why.

00:28:10
Speaker 2: He's playing really well and the sets he lost he lost against really good players, against Lorenzos Onnego, who came out hot in season twenty twenty four, he's playing so well, and and Carlitos he's just flying under playing flying, flying, so so good for him.

00:28:27
Speaker 1: So anyway, but Yannick had a little air pocket, air pocket or something in his rib k Jerry yesterday for a couple of games, and we were sitting here going on, no, no, no, don't don't have an injury, like you don't want to see that happen, like what happened with Switzerlina for example, so which was like hopefully just a backspasm, which you know, put her out for twenty four hours. Basically that just sucks. So we're glad that he got through that. He played really well to finish it off. He looks incredibly composed and he's coming up with some great serving, big, huge ground strokes when it counts, and he's just so impressive. So no, it's definitely going to have to bring his best. This is a guy that beat him two weeks two times within two weeks. I know it's best to three, so it's very different. But still I would say arguably that Sinner and Novak a the two best players in the world right now. And al Charaz because he did not have a great end of after Wimbledon last year, so I would say these two are the absolute two favorites. They were my favorites to win the tournament. So one of them is going to knock each other out and I think that person will probably win the tournament, although Carlos might have something to say about that. But anyway, and.

00:29:33
Speaker 2: Just the last thoughts, great future ahead of us with the Sinner al Karaz rivalry hopefully and obviously with the other great players that are pushing in the back. But hopefully that's something to look forward to. And what is really great I think I think we might see two fresh players in Djokovic and Cinner because they have two days off. Now, yeah, they have two days off, So I think that is great because you don't want to have that. We how often do we see a semifinal where one dude played six hours until three am and you're like just praying that he doesn't die on court.

00:30:06
Speaker 1: You don't want that.

00:30:07
Speaker 2: You want the best informed players. And Novak is the greatest of all time, and Janik is arguably the player of the last few months. And they will hopefully be fresh in two days and we will see great tennis.

00:30:20
Speaker 1: And that's all we can ask for that's all we can ask for. All right, guys, we are after the courts. Petko is going to play one more match today. She survived, there's no injuries, touch wood, and we'll bring it to you all on ESPN and also of course on the World Feed. So again, please subscribe, Please give us a nice rating because we'll love you even more for that. But we appreciate you listening to us once again. And for today, it's not good knocked because it's in the morning, because we were really tired last night. It is just cheers.

00:30:48
Speaker 3: Bye.