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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"The UK waking up to the news of ash Barty world number one in the women's game, retirement from tennis. But before we kind of get into that and we're going to be talking about it at length in this episode. I do have a special guest with me. Unfortunately, Kim was not available to do this sudden sudden episode. So I brought in Chris from the cold of Prague and the Billie Jean King cup finals back onto the show to discuss the ash Barty news with me, Chris. I know you've been itching to get back into passing shot headquarters. Have you been? I'm doing well last time I was on was the Billie Jean King cup and all it took to get me back on was ash Barty retiring. I know it's been a lot has happened. A lot has happened since, but yeah, we forged our friendship at Billie Jean King cup, listeners, Chris is a massive Sloan Stevens fan, so he's been in the bit of the, he's been in the doldrums. I mean, she won a title. What? A few several weeks ago. Discovering her form. So, I mean, you must be in a little bit of before we get on to you must be a little bit more of an optimistic mood, I feel than the last time last time we spoke, definitely, last time she was what she lost to Samson over. And then still in his backpack in the game post radican with Leon opened last. She won a title, it might not have been pretty, but she found a way to win. Very similar, I think, to, you know, you should have everything slow and I really think she should, I won't hear a bad word said about her. Our list is, yeah, Chris is a big WTA fan, slain Stevens. He introduced me to Danielle Collins. I wasn't really sure what Danielle Collins was about, but then we went to Prague. We went to the Billie Jean King cup and I sort of fell in love with Danielle Collins and her just her attitude on court and I just have, I have you to thank for that. She's an icon. She's an icon and I think I opened her eyes to her ad court serve out wide and I also think that since then, in some ways, I've been trying to take credit for her success by saying I called it, I called it, there's been a few texts between us about that. But I think that was a turning point for you as well, Joel, you know? Well, exactly. You've driven my passion for WTA tennis. It's been a great time to, I think, just immerse yourself in the WTA Tour. I think that's been the same case to be honest for the last couple of years now. And let's talk about one of the biggest names on the tour, ash Barty, retiring from the world of tennis at 25 years old. World number one, Wimbledon champion, Australian open champion. She did a 6 minute video that she uploaded on her Instagram, talking to her best friend, Casey Delacroix, and yeah, it happened overnight for us. Funnily enough, I woke up at three 30 a.m. and looked at my phone as you do, and I saw the BBC News notification, which happened literally kind of 15, 20 minutes before. And as probably like many of us was in a real state of shock and I couldn't really believe it, I was messaging Friends, just not really sure what was not really sure what was happening. Yes, we thought ash Barty was on a bit of a break after the Australian open, but I certainly felt it was more of a, you know, rest and recuperate time as opposed to, I'm thinking about ending my tennis career time. I completely agree. I was very surprised, I got a text from you this morning, which was just a question mark and an exclamation mark. And no contact. So I assumed that you were actually talking about some of the Miami results and that you were up at here I am to watch Aniston over Shelby Rogers, set your alarm. And in fact, it was something much, much bigger. And I think it was a shock and I thought, and we talked about this previously that maybe she was going to stay in Australia until the fed cut tie or I did not think there would be a retirement news prior to that tie. You know, that could have been an interesting way to go out, potentially. I was pleased to see Casey and the interview. It's nice that she was diagnosed with so many great achievements together. But it was definitely a shock for everyone. And as you say, it's transcended just the tennis fans. It's front page from page news and big news in terms of women and retirement and being able to do this. And it's something that lots of people connect to. Yeah, definitely. And I mean, let's hear some of the quotes coming out of her interview. She spoke about the fact that I know in my heart this is right. I'm ready. I'm grateful for everything that tennis has given me, but I'm ready to step away, chase other dreams and put the rackets down, which really kind of that first of all, that statement really stood out for me because when she talked about chasing other dreams, it felt like this was something that had been going on in her head for a while now and it felt really in the affirmative in the sense that she's got a plan here. This is not just spontaneously making this decision. This is her thinking about what's the next chapter of my life and I think what's so fascinating with someone like an ash bar to use that she, unlike I think a lot of sports stars in particular, she is very multi talented, you know, we've seen her in the past play professional cricket. She's got a very low handicap as well in golf. She is just a very multi talented person and you combine that, I think, with her passion for her country and being at home, being with her nearest and dearest, particularly with her, you know, her family, you know, there's certainly I think other things on her agenda other than just tennis and I think this is obviously I think part of her decision making. And I find it fascinating because a lot of tennis players, I think you assume just are put in tennis from a very young age. It's very, very single minded and tennis, they're almost kind of programmed to feel like tennis is their life and you have to give absolutely everything for it in order to even to just make it as a professional player on the tour..
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"But in ball skills news while she was away, she's learned how to play cricket. For real, folks, for real. I've seen videos, she knows the instruction bowler's end. She has Carlos alcaraz speed. I'm telling you. And she's also sponsored by Alana class who had her birthday yesterday, so happy birthday for yesterday, ilana. Chris Albert Lee and Carl weing Gartner are executive producers and very much top blokes and Matt, we have shout outs. We do, we have Susan officer who is from Sydney, Australia. Oh, well, very fitting. Susan, thank you for your support. And thank you for being a shout out and a friend on a day when we need a bit of Aussie's pulling together with us all so that we can cope. Yes, hello season. Great name. Thank you very much for your support. We also have Anne Fitzpatrick o'rourke from Dublin and Anne says, I treated myself to this subscription as a wedding present to myself, so this is my first time using my new name. That's so touching, Anna. Thank you. I hope your husband is also taking either Fitzpatrick or overall whatever yours is. Answers on a postcard, let me know. Carol Matt. And finally, we have Jaffa binders who is from Hungary, but currently living in Munich and Jaffa may well be doing the dishes at the moment because she says I really hate doing the dishes. I always end up doing them super late and I generally listen to the tennis podcast while I do them. Thank you for making the time pass faster. I'm glad you had an explanation for why she might be doing the dishes because I worry that it was just she's always doing the dishes. She has no way to live your life, but I've been to Hungary Budapest one of my favorite European cities, lovely stuff. Hungry via Munich. I just love it. I love how international our audience is and I love hearing about where you're all from and what you're all doing and when you're listening. So thanks so much for letting us know. And thank you for being friends at the tennis podcast. Those of you that are because you're the people that help us do all this, produce it year round, produce all the weekly shows and these emergency shows like this one and a dailies that the grand slams were already planning our next to Grand Slam tournaments and we want to do as much as we possibly can. We've also got lots of new, exciting shows. Hopefully exciting shows anyway for Friends of the tennis podcast there's loads of them already up there as well. If you want to be able to become a friend if you're not yet, there's about 7 shows already waiting for you that aren't available anywhere else. So thanks so much for all of you for your support. We will be back on Monday, see you then..
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Boogeyman, wasn't she? She wasn't any particular players nemesis. Wasn't you removed Nadal and Federer wins another 6. Yeah, exactly. It doesn't feel like that. She was just, she had become the bar. Yeah, and I think, you know, it's just difficult to contemplate, not her not being on the tour again this year, not seeing her play again this year. I don't think we'll know the true impact of her retirement until the next few months. And maybe even years have played out whether someone takes her place as the dominant number one or whether, you know, no one's going to win two slams out of three, like she's done going forward. But what I would say is that players look to the number one as a standard setter, they look at what they're doing, and they look at the number one as an example, really, and someone who raised the bar. You know, you've got to get that good. It pushes everyone else up. Barty being so good has forced everyone else to get better. I'm sure a lot of her improvement is down to her own self motivation and whatever, but I'm also pretty certain she's been looking at ash Barty and thinking, I need to get to that level if I want to be winning the biggest titles. So it's a loss for the tour in that respect to lose your best best player. But I'm sure there are so many other good players. They will find ways to keep pushing themselves, but it's going to be, it's going to be a little shocking for a while, I think, not to have Barty around, especially as we go into kind of major season in a few months time where we've got the French Open where she's won and Wimbledon where she's the defending champion, not to have her there is going to be an immense loss. Yeah. She felt in the last 18 months like a mid 2000s Roger Federer to me in terms of her ability over the field. And I agree. It has dragged up the level. And it's going to be it's going to be fascinating, absolutely for sure. It may be maybe Simona Halep will finally get the chance to play first on center court as oh, that's defending champion. As she should have done, she should have got two in 2020, but there was a pandemic and there was talk of happening in 2021 because there was no defending champion but in the end they chose world number one ash Barty, didn't they? But I have this sort of residual sadness. It's main Halep that she never. She never had that honor. I could mention that Wimbledon and the sort of people that might think along those lines. So I'm very much happy to do. So good luck Ashbaugh. Right now it feels like we're all getting less, less social interaction, less sunlight, less depth, less time with the in laws and all that last one might not.
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"But it's hard for me to believe that if she was happy to carry on, she could carry on for many, many more years, I would have thought unless there's something I don't know. I have to say that that's young to retire and there's a lot of life left in that career if she gets the itch again. I mean, and that's her choice. But what do you think? What's your gut feeling? Oh, I mean, to say it's young is, you know, just an extraordinary understatement, isn't it? I mean, there are 40 year olds that haven't retired. She's a, she's a whole career, younger than them. I think she, I don't think judging by that video. And I know there's, I know there's a big part of ash bhatti that she keeps from us and is entirely private and is unknowable, and I respect that. So I could be wrong here. But from that video, it seems to me like it's not in her mind at all that she might come back. I think in her mind right now, it's permanent. But I've been 25. And okay, she's an extremely mature 25, but, you know, 25 is still 25 and things that seem permanent. Seem permanent when you're 25. And I think permanency takes on a different meaning in your late 20s and early 30s. So while I don't think it is in ash Barty's mind at all. Of course it's possible. Mine's strange life changes. Things change. And she has got the type of game and the type of raw talent that I think will make it possible should she wish to come back. It just depends on where life takes her. I certainly wouldn't want to, I think her circumstances are very different to every single person you've listed there that's come out of retirement. I think there's a contentedness about her retirement that I've that I've never really heard before. But of course it's possible. Of course it's possible things that seem forever at 25. Very often aren't. I agree about the contentedness. And I would say one of the things that intrigues me is how curious she has been over the last 1824 months about how her game matches up against loads of other players and she's spoken so interestingly about the challenges of playing against some of these other top women. And figuring them out. And I love that about watching Ashbaugh. That's the thing probably I'm going to miss the most is seeing these many different types of players with huge weapons of their own, getting diffused by the game of ash Barty and her work in them out and figuring out a way to beat them. And I just can't get enough of it and I'm going to I feel really gutted that that's going to stop now and it's I wish her all the best in the world. I really do and I'm happy for her if she's happy, but I'm personally gutted about that. And I just wonder whether that is something that will just bubble away in her in years to come and make her want to have another go at putting what she's got up against what they've got. But you know, we'll see. It's all up to the one note I'd like to end on just talking about ash Barty Matt, is you mentioned the goat race earlier. And with the goat race, we always talk about Serena Williams because she's got more than 20 grand Sam titles. We talk about Steffi Graf 22. We talk about in the men's game, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, because they've got more than 20. And yet occasionally you'll come across somebody will say, well, what about rod leve? You know, he didn't play in this era. So he wasn't able to win as many. And he won what ten or 11 and Bjorn Borg and you hear these sort of conversations. Now she's only one three. But is there an argument that she could be part of that conversation in a way because of her being of being the age years and being so different? Do you will you think of her? Do you think in years to come? Yes. To quote, sorry to do this, but to quote what Billie Jean King said to me at breakfast yesterday, the tennis needs more asterisks. Absolutely. You know, those Grand Slam stats need to come with a lot more asterisks than they do. And I've had a telling off. It deserved telling off about our focus on the mages. So maybe it should be. You could have a separate metric, could you slams one per slams one per number of slammed average number of slums played per slams? No. Number of slams played per slams one. Goals per game type thing. But that still doesn't solve the too much focus on the slams. Aspect, which Billie Jean, if you're listening, hope you are. I'm working on. We're all working on. But yes, I'm very up for there being an ash Barty asterisk, along with all the other asterisks that we ought to be including more in the sport. That's what do you think? I think I will, you know, remember that when her, I don't know if this is going to sound really cheesy, but you know, kind of when her star was burning or whatever, it was burning really brightly. You know, I'll remember the last couple of years for how good ash Barty was at her best and I will think, you know, trying to line up players at their best that I've seen. I'm sure ash Barty will come into the conversation for those reasons you've said David in terms of the way her game disrupted people. You know, I remember Jessica bagula saying it at the Australian open, Ashbaugh is in everyone's head. You know, people didn't know how to beat her and they took to the court against her and couldn't deliver their best because she had a game that they didn't experience from other people and she had a game which kind of took everyone apart when she was at her best. All absolutely remember that. I think inevitably conversations around all time greatness does fall back on numbers and achievements. And yeah, we probably do need more nuanced ways to sort of separate players and think about players. So maybe Barty will be will be a help in that respect because she won't have the numbers, but we'll have the image of her playing and how good she was at her best. Well, it's huge use and well, we wish her all the best. And yeah, I'd be fascinated to see if she decides to take up another sport as well. That's another thing I'm fascinated by because I just think she's clearly so talented. You could do so much, but anyway, it's been a treat to watch her particularly the last couple of years. There's not been anybody quite like her. And yeah, just a who do you think is going to benefit from this most in terms of picking up the batter now? Do you think there's somebody that wasn't going to get through or maybe accumulate big numbers that might now? Because she's the nightmare of all nightmares as an opponent. I find it hard to think of one individual. Yeah, I wasn't thinking of it in those terms. I mean, everybody's, as I said earlier, everybody's chances in every tournament just went up a bit. But I don't think she was, she was everybody.
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Did also have this other way of doing things. And I think the way I would sum it up is she made decisions which allowed her tennis to flourish, but weren't made chiefly with her tennis results in mind. You know, she, she took breaks. She stepped away from the sport. She didn't play in 2020 when it was really tough to play. And she knew what she was sacrificing there, you know, short term in terms of the tennis, but she also knew what she was prioritizing. You know, her health, her personal happiness, the people in her life, the places she wanted to be, not caring about what other people think. And I respect the hell out of that. Got a lesson in there, isn't there not for everybody, as you say, there are people that can do it a different way, but there are probably some people that missed out on miss out in life because they don't remove themselves when it's when it's really difficult. Yeah, that's it. You know, she balanced what it takes to get to the top, which should never be underestimated. With also having, as you said, the self awareness, the self assuredness, the courage, to let it go when she doesn't need it anymore, to not be defined by it. Yeah, there's a lot of strength and courage and carving out a different path from those around you, I think. And that's what she's always done. That's what she's doing here, and it's kind of the quintessential party move, in a way, I think this. Yeah, we're doing whole podcasts on this subject, and people are writing thousands of words and everybody's doing interviews and yet I felt that ten words in a tweet from Andy Murray summed this up probably better than anybody I've heard so far, which was happy for ash party, gutted for tennis. What a player. And that really does sum it up perfectly, doesn't it? I mean, he was one of many Simona Halep Kirsten flipkens Daria saville, Shelby Rogers, who was the last person to beat ash Barty at a Grand Slam tournament said, this is an ash bharti appreciation post, the most genuine kind, gracious and inspirational person to be around. Thank you for growing our sport and representing us in such a classy way. So happy for you. I wish you the best of luck. Very excited the next time we meet will be off the court. Because I think many players have suffered at the hands of ash Barty over the years. Martin and avaris all over said dear ash, you are leaving the tennis, you are leaving tennis and the sports world quite speechless and full of praise at the same time. Enjoy this chapter of your life after tennis, we will miss you your smile and your beautiful game. Be happy champ, the Hall of Fame is waiting. Angelique Kerber Tracey Austin, Petra kvitova. It was just incredible to see this outpouring of emotion from opponents, Catherine, people that have taken, beaten at the hands of ash Barty, and yet not a bad word spoken, and hardly anybody missing. This is somebody that everybody had People whose chances of winning things just went up considerably. Yeah. Yeah, somebody that's impossible to feel any ill will towards by the sounds of things. Yeah, and that tallies with the ash Barty that we see as well, doesn't it? Yeah, I mean, quake ties it was right, wasn't he? She won't ever win the U.S. open with those balls. Very, very good point. I mean, we'll get onto the subject of whether this is for good in a minute. But assuming it is, Catherine, how are you think of her in years to come do you think when somebody mentions the name ash Barty to you? What will you miss? Just an absolute rockstar. She's retired as the reigning Wimbledon and Australian open champion. Some believable her last match was winning the Australian open on home turf. Having the trophy presented to her by her idol even gullah gong, and on a very selfish note, I'll remember the fact that I was there for that. It felt like a piece of tennis history at the time, but now it feels like an even bigger one. That's pretty epic to retire in that way. It's sad in lots of ways we've also touched upon, but how amazing to be able to say I've achieved all my dreams. And I'm going to turn my attention to new ones now. Just water rockstar. Yeah. And getting to choose when you retire is what all athletes want, I think, and it's quite rare, you know, so often it is injury. So it feels like a sad moment, but actually I think for her, you know, it is a happy one. She did everything she wanted to do in this sport, and you know, I hope now she's, well, it's kind of the middle of the night in Australia. But you know, I hope she's chugging a beer or what was it, gula gong said to her, go wet a line when she had her break. You know, she's going to do all those things and I bet she'll be showing people up on the golf course or on the cricket pitch as well in her spare time still and you know, I'm kind of excited for her because really in that video she does seem extremely extremely content and that is what you want at the end of a career. I think as hard as it was for her to come to this decision, I think tennis and ash Barty's life is not the biggest loss here. You know, it's ash Barty on tennis, which is the bigger loss, and that's probably the way around it should be. But is it over? That's not a question we can ever know for sure at this stage. But there are many, many situations that we've seen in the past Justine and is the other player that retired on the WTA Tour as the world number one in 2008, and she came back in 2010 for one year. Kim Clijsters has retired a couple of times and come back, Lindsey Davenport retired, came back, I mentioned Bjorn Borg, he made a number of comebacks, Pam shriver, tweeted today, since I never trust a tennis retirement, does anyone think that ash Barty will be back and what year? And she applauds ash Barty in brackets, but she says Australian open 2024 is my guess. Whose second or third come back from retirement? Did you enjoy the most she asks? And she names Martin and Navratilova, Billie Jean King, of course, and Martina Hingis, you may remember she left the sport when she was very highly ranked and then came back and played again. I mean, to stop at 25 Catherine when unless there's an injury that we don't know about, she has talked about how hard she's taken this physically and what's required and she doesn't have it anymore..
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"We weren't intending to do a tennis podcast today, but I woke this morning to a message from Catherine, saying, oh my God, Barty. And I didn't know what that meant. So I went to that a very quick look, and it's said that ash Barty aged 25 Wimbledon, Australian open champion and the reigning world number one. Had retired, and actually had to check the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st, and that this was a joke. I genuinely did, but that's how surprised I was at this news. So we've hastily convened Catherine Whitaker Matt Roberts and myself, David lore and Billie Jean, who's back from her. Her other home with Catherine's brother, Catherine back from Indian Wells, and yeah, this wasn't exactly the news you were expecting to be talking about. Literally about 12 hours after landing, Catherine. I mean, it's shocking enough as it is, what's it like with 8 hours of jet lag? Yeah, I was hoping not to have to be lucid today. And this is a bit of a blow in many ways. So bear with me, folks. Yeah, it is a huge shock. And yet at the same time, I don't want to be just too downhearted about it because frankly it's not about me. It's not about us. We're going to make it about us, so I'm telling you. But I mean, it's about ultimately ash Barty, who released this news in an interview on her Instagram page that she'd done with Casey Delacroix and you may remember Casey dal aqua, her longtime doubles partner, a very close friend of hers, somebody who had actually helped her return to the sport after the previous time that she had out of it when she was struggling and she decided to move away from the sport. Some years ago and she had 18 months away and Casey de lacquer eventually said to me, you know, come out and just have a hit with me and let's get out there and look what it's led to. It's led to years and years of success and from what we've heard from ash Bard in her own words today her fulfilling all of her own court dreams and this appears to have really taken hold when she won Wimbledon last year. She said that that was such a dream come true that she changed her perspective, she said she just had a gut feeling and spoke a lot to her team about it, but just felt, I'll give it the Australian open because I feel like that's one achievement that I've still yet to tick off that I really, really need to tick off. And so she did that. And she won the Australian open pretty straightforwardly as we were able to tell you all about during our Australian open daily shows. But it does appear that it was pretty final immediately. She didn't play Indian Wells and Miami as we know. She pulled out of those events. She said her body wasn't ready for it and actually she referenced her body and in this interview as somebody who knows what it takes to be at the top now and just doesn't have anything left in the tank and that's a startling thing to hear from somebody of whose age 25 and who just seems such an incredible physical specimen such a wonderful tennis player. She makes the game look easy, but this was the end for her. And yeah, I was immensely surprised. I've heard one or two over the years beyond Borg moving away from the sport at the age of 26 when he was still at the top, but this is very different Catherine. Don't you think this is a, this is a player who doesn't outwardly have appeared to have gone through a terrible recent experience or been worn down by it that we could see, but, well, she's telling us something different. What was your immediate reaction to this news? Well, all I can think about is the fact that she played and won the Australian open with this in her mind. Okay, it sounds like from what she said in that interview with Casey Delacroix that she hadn't confirmed or crystallized the decision, but she also made it very clear that it first occurred to her and occurred to her pretty strongly after Wimbledon. And she resolved to have a crack at the Australian open. But I can't stop thinking about the fact that she won the Australian open on home soil with this looming over her and the additional pressure of this potentially being her only shot at it and her only reason for still holding a tennis racket. What a woman to have done that and to have to have set that narrower goal for herself. I'm going to have one crack at winning the Australian open and then I'll probably retire and she just went out and did it. I also can't think about the sliding doors scenario of what if she hadn't lost the Australian open because okay she was the favorite, but I don't think it was ash Barty over the field. I don't think it was odds on that she was going to do that..
AP News Radio
Top-ranked Barty retires at 25, goes out on her own terms
"RT is twenty five the number one women's player in the world her next move will be retiring from tennis the retirement announcement comes just two months after party won the Australian Open the first time I've actually said that out loud and yeah it's it's hard to say but I'm sorry happy and I'm so ready party says it's time to chase other dreams I don't have that in me anymore I don't have the the physical drive the emotional want and and kind of everything it takes to to challenges over the very top level anymore party announced her engagement to trainee golf professional Gary kiss sick in November right now she says she spent and has nothing more to give that for me is is success I've given absolutely everything I can party left the tour for nearly two years in twenty fourteen because of burnout switching to professional cricket before returning to tennis I met Donahue
No Challenges Remaining
"barty " Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"Racket stuff and strings that they're very, very as tactical as you would think a Barty and technical as a Barty team would be like the smallest of details to whether she's the best person to narrate conditions on a court, like she notices when I can't remember what tournament was like, it was, but she was like, oh yeah, I know you could definitely, the minute you step on, you can sense the grit. You can sense this and that. And meanwhile, there's a lot of other players just like, oh, just play, which, honestly, maybe it's better for them. Some work. Now it's yeah, because it's rina, for example. Anytime she gets asked the question about the conditions for the balls. She's like, I don't know. I grew up basically. She's always playing with frozen eggshells for balls. I don't care what the balls are like. I'll hit anything and they'll be a winner. The most the most eye rolls I've ever gotten is when I don't think about it. And I would consistently ask Serena about the conditions. And she would just always just be like, Courtney. We've done this. It's not. I'm like, I know. I just it was a habit. I apologize. I don't know why I asked. But you know, to the extent that that is the case. I mean, the U.S. open does flavor favor a flatter hitter. It doesn't necessarily favor spin, even Bianca, she hits a flat forehand. The games of the games of the people who have succeeded at the U.S. open yes they succeed off and away from New York, but they are players who don't play like ash. And that was tied to a player like ash. Well, yes, that's also true. And so I just, yeah, I and do these the same balls in New York and Cincinnati. Yeah, that was the thing. That was the point where I thought, well, that's a bit Bologna. I'm not going to buy it. Is that like, you won since he, with your brain fried. Because said that they should have shut it down after Wimbledon. She was just completely out of it. After that, but she goes and she wins Cincinnati. And she served for the match against Rogers. And if she wins that match, who knows, given the way that that tournament eventually played out at the U.S. open court, she would have played rata Kano, and I remember thinking at the time when ash when ash looked like she was going to it was radically right? Yeah, I was ridiculous. I'm just trying to counteract. It was fourth round. We were forced around a time that he sent quarters for a bench and then. Sacked. No. Let's go. No, no. No. No, who is her semi. Sec. Sex, I guess. Yeah, yeah. So yeah, so if ash closes out, maybe a very different tournament, right? So I think we all know that ash Barty is good enough to win the U.S. open. That's just not even a question. She's won Miami. She's one since he. But if they're putting her on night session, maybe that's a completely different kettle of fish. Session. Maybe it's different. How leptin it is, where she sort of noise and hubbub of New York and the Wimbledon over there. And maybe maybe that's something that bardi is not as easily custom to those sort of ambiance, of course things can matter in New York for players. And she said like it, her role and Garros run, it just happened so fast. She didn't have time to think about it. Like, there wasn't the day off, marinating on what you're trying to accomplish where the noise can get into it. Wimbledon is quiet. There is no noise. Even Melbourne this year quieter. Generally speaking, of a robot, you know, and everything like that for her. Yeah, I was gonna say that the media circus when I went to Barney's pre press, I was one of only one or two reporters in the room physically at her press and I was like, what is happening here? But in this certain way, actually one interesting angle, which I've heard instead a few times, I do think actually way back. She benefited from the joker's debacle, like that created a lot of cover that gave people something else to talk about when they otherwise would have been really starting the drum beat for birdie. I think that was a lot. That was not dead. That was a lot of columns. It flew a lot of cover over Barty. That didn't involve her. Yeah. You know? So, yeah. We can get more and less than each other living room and stuff. We can use that as a transition to the men. Which obviously not in the tournament, famously, you may have heard. But that left and I guess actually, here's a good segue. Djokovic pulled out when I was doing a radio hit or TV hits whatever. The comment I would get a lot was, oh, this leaves open the doll, the door for Rafael Nadal, who also is one 20 grand slams. And I left. Always always was like, yeah, you know, it goes technically, you know, Robin is there and he did what a tournament he beat next to you, Chrissy. But you know, and he also did that term. No one big. Anyway, beat some beats in people, but I guess maybe. No, I just can't remember where we played. I'm just making up names. Maybe it was Frank. We'll find out. Okay, I'm curious. But there was a whole thing of like, it's kind of very typical kind of Serena way of like people who are more casual observers who are trying to tell the story of a tournament. Hone in on the most familiar name left in the draw and make it about that. And what's crazy about this is that Rafa actually wanted. His draw was workable. It gave him a good sort of path to get into it. He avoided a potential fourth round and he could have gotten it to razza, which I had circled when the drunken man is someone that could have been like danger for him. Cross it goes down to mannarino. So he avoids that. Yeah, he had a little bit of space in some prep time before he didn't have to play Sarah who lost the chapel. I was a totally tough opponent and completely legit real. That's not a big break getting. I should pull off in a quarterfinal. Not the way shopping was playing. No, it's been an easy round. This was very much edible thing. He played a hatch off, who's someone who's had tough times with before, but that was a win where he actually started waking up. They're playing gear on and he had a half in the first two rounds. So also say Rafa took this sort of like really casual idea and made it reality and that's why it shouldn't happen this way. It shouldn't happen but I'm sure I'm sure I'm guessing not that I care of this. I'm guessing like bookmakers lost a lot of money on this tournament because someone who's like the casual like, oh, I know Rafa. Oh, I'll put some money on Rafa. Those bets don't usually work out. Those are usually kind of sucker. That's honestly depending on someone like the doll would win this tournament. But hey, he did. And he went to the finals incredible. But we'll get to the sort of just a more big picture rough run. According, what do you make of Rafa making his way through this tournament and leaving with his our buddy Beth an adult news? And I agree with this actually in a lot of ways. She's like more than the 21 grand slams. I'm just happy that Rafa won a second Australian open. Yeah. Yeah. I heard that a lot from Rafa fans. I hosted this impromptu Twitter spaces after the final that went for 6 hours. We'll get to this, but you're still talk.
No Challenges Remaining
"barty " Discussed on No Challenges Remaining
"Of weird slam and she just kind of did it. You know, and it was so there was no she was so dominant in the final that it just was she had time to realize like, holy crap, this is happening. You know, a little bit. The second one was yeah. I mean, I think to understand ash and to understand ash in the Australian open, you have to understand that Wimbledon was the dream. Yeah. Winning Australian open is kind of like for the people and for the country like you guys care. I don't care that it's the Australian open. I care it's another slam and I care that for the first time of my three majors, my family's here. Like Diego reminded me this, which I didn't remember before Diego barbieri that at Roland Garros her parents flew, but they didn't get they landed in London. When her match had just started in Paris. So they didn't get to be there at Roland Garros, which I forgot. And then obviously COVID with Wimbledon. So her whole team being there, Casey, as you mentioned, if you on the court. Casey on the court, which is where we love case, you know. Oh my door, Casey. But we've got nothing but time for Casey. But yeah, you know, just this was the, in a lot of ways, the homecoming. This was ash has done all this stuff overseas, and this was our opportunity as a country and as a nation to celebrate her and to give her the love that she doesn't necessarily get overseas just because she's thousands of miles away from home. So yeah, and ultimately, it just felt like her third slam. Even because there's also, as you pointed out, the big difference between how the Fred Perry thing and the Wimbledon drought like defined British sport the 44 year drought did not define Australian sport. Like they didn't, I didn't get the sense that they treated that drought like it was as big of a deal as they had obviously the UK had treated the it's different too, but just thinking, this is not the whole point, but also elsewhere in this time. I mean, one of the other three slams actually Wimbledon in the French and Samsung U.S. open. And I think Google going Wimbledon at some point after at least at some point after Chris O'Neil won the Australian open in 78. So these are it just doesn't hold the same sort of mythos. And even compared to the French and Noah or whatever. I think maybe it's more about the uniqueness of the Fred Perry situation. I feel like I feel like in the U.S. we're aware of the Roddick thing very much. But that's also because it's like no slams since Roddick O three. I don't think it's as focused on it being the U.S. open movies are winning elsewhere. We'll start focusing on U.S. open. Yeah, I think maybe the parry thing is more unique than the Barbie thing. I think it is unique insofar as I think that Wimbledon just if you were to take the four majors and their host countries, Wimbledon means so much more as a sporting event, I feel like to Britain than Roland Garros means to France or the U.S. open means the U.S. or the Australian open means Australia. You know what I mean? Well, since about that just party is one of the thing to sort of make this make me any more sense is that Wimbledon means time to Australians. Yes. I'll show you in love when will the name mythologize it? Thank you. It means a lot to us. I mean, yeah, obviously it's still a quarter of their flag. They still really care about the UK. And they have this romanticization of Wimbledon Wimbledon still the thing for players like pat rafter Hewitt, Wimbledon, with the thing, obviously one U.S. opens and that Wimbledon latent did win a Wimbledon. And for Barty, it was Wimbledon Wimbledon was the thing. And so, yeah, so Australian and I was like, okay, I have to have this other big tournament. Kangaroo, I guess. Let's go wait and have Casey on the court. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it was lovely. It was lovely scenes and the like, it's one of those things where like when I look back on that Wimbledon final earth, the Australian open final, I will remember the four hand ash hit at two all down break point, I will remember the one 5 down deficit and then I will remember ash parties roar and I remember Casey Delacroix and then I remember ash party drinking beers with Alicia and Casey on channel 9, which stupidly became a point of controversy in Australia. I'm sorry, that was so dumb. Oh my God. Watching better know this controversial. Apparently. We know how the tabbies, the tabs can get in where they pick up, but maybe host of some show like the voice or something in Australia criticize ash party for glorifying alcohol consumption. Oh, please. And I was like, have you met in Australia? I was gonna say, have you walked down like Swanson street? On a Tuesday afternoon? Ash party is not the one that's going to go all consumption I assure you. They pull out a bucket of beers and handed one to her. Like they were. And she tried to defer and be like, I'm not drinking by myself, and then everybody grabbed a beer, and then she finally did. Yeah. Remember moments when we haven't mentioned we should definitely mention Ivan coming out on court. I shrieked. Held in the trophy. And I was actually I had been thinking, like, oh, I even saw here. And she's been a little bit away from the spotlight. And so it wasn't totally but when ash one Wimbledon, for example, she wasn't doing the number of interviews and put parents into her to do after that moment, given 50 year anniversary since her win and stuff that she's been a bit stepped step back a bit. And so just honestly not sure how she's doing or anything and then instead of seeing her come out, I had thought to myself if they haven't actually I did they haven't said who's handing out the trophy..
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Coping mechanisms. They're the mechanisms to deal with what she is feeling. And yeah, that was a massive challenge for her today. She came out. Hitting her forehand pretty badly, really. To be fair, Daniel Collins also wasn't hitting through on the forehand either. It was kind of a battle of Barty slice against Daniel Collins beautiful topspin for back hand and to be honest, in terms of the ground stroke rallies, it was Collins that was getting the better things with that back end of hers and Barty wasn't getting much from this life and it was the Barty serve that kept her in it and the body served was such a difference maker today got her out of so many as she called them in press half chances. You know, half chances that we're snuffed out for Danielle Collins. She just she had that in her pocket and that must be just such a comfort to have what was Nadal's expression about having got a note was confidence Nadal had in his pocket, isn't it? Well, she had that too. Yeah. Serving one pocket, confidence in the other pocket. I felt like there were moments in each set which freed Barty up and in the first set. It was when she saved a break point at two all, and she did so with a brilliant forehand winner because as you said, Collins in the early stages, I thought was looking pretty good. She was sort of controlling the rallies. She was getting the sort of shots she wanted. She was starting to hit sort of really deep returns, like Yorkers down at barthes feet and sort of jamming her a bit. And Barty fended that off, saved a breakpoint with the forehand, and then sort of raced through the opening set really just so it freed her up. She studied him in that forehand a lot better. And then obviously we can talk about the Collins come back in the second set, but the other moment that sort of freed by was being 5 one down in that second set. And she said impressed she was just trying to do things to get some momentum, get some rhythm for the third. And as she did that, she gradually came back into the match and the last 5 or 6 games she played. I thought was pretty much Barty at her top level in terms of finding the forehand when she needed it. Just doing everything she could to get her feet and you know they were sort of highlighted by those red shoes she were wearing. She was wearing just to get her feet in position so she could hit her forehand because we talked so much about the party slice this tournament. It's been the talk of the tournament in many ways, but it wasn't, I didn't think the shot which won her this final. It was it was the forehand, really, which she got into play and then, as you said, the serve as well. Once she had mounted that comeback, there was one hole she found herself in 5 6, 1530 down, and she hit three unreturnable serves. And she was just able to rely on those key facets of her game when she needed them. And then she just played an absolutely dazzling tie break as well. So yeah, there was just these there was a lot of tension, but managed to stay cool and yeah, just loosen up when she needed to and find her best tennis, I felt. My God was there a lot of attention though. I mean that that rod laver arena they increased the capacity today to 85%. It felt full. I mean, I could spot the odd seat here and there, but it absolutely felt full. It was utterly deafening. I mean, it was deafening by the point that Matt and I walked in and the national anthem was being sung, Matt and I were on our feet for advance Australia fair. I think we joined hoisted to our feet if we weren't. No, but I sort of do know a lot of the lyrics because I've just heard it. Lots of Australian opens. Yeah. The feeling I got was the same feeling I had when sitting in the commentary box for Andy Murray against Novak Djokovic in 2013 at Wimbledon. Everybody's been waiting for this moment. And he couldn't be playing better. She couldn't have been playing better. It was all set up. And yet, even though it was straight sets like that was, it always felt precarious. It always felt as though this could turn. And frankly, it did turn dramatically 5 one is a heck of a deficit, and also that deficit was accompanied by Collins, just unleashing danimal as she calls herself for everybody to see and showing that she's not afraid. And I think that it's then that must have been a really big challenge for Barty to not panic to maintain her composure, but also ramp up her own competitiveness. And I think what we saw on match point when she finally won it, it was almost a little bit pointed. I mean, it was a release, but it was almost like she just embodied Collins for a minute and let rip her own come on and showed Australia and showed the world that yes, while she is the most likeable champion imaginable and everybody thinks of her as the woman next door and wants to be her friend, she is such a competitor and she is not letting go either. And it's in there. And then she just unleashed. And I love that about her because I think people can underestimate just as they used to with Federer. These people are desperate to win and they will they will hold on in the tug of war and until they can't hold on anymore. Yeah, nice doesn't equal no fangs, does it? No. She's decent. She's likeable, but she's got absolutely got fangs totally. Yeah. I don't think you win ground slams without fans. We'll check with Mary. On that theory, does Marin Cilic disprove that theory don't know anyway. We'll check. Well, you can lose fangs, right? Maybe you can obtain them temporarily. If you've got coronavirus, you should eat too much. I don't know what's a hard food. Help me out here some one. I don't know. Rock? Nuts. Eat too much of that, you're fine with me. It's been anyway. That was a misadventure. How about that winning moment? And the winning feeling inside the rod laver arena. One of the beautiful things about tonight was that there was just absolutely no no edge to the atmosphere. It was as wild an intense as you can imagine. It actually exceeded my expectations in that regard. I wasn't quite prepared for how intense that atmosphere was going to be tense and intense. And yet there was just no edge to it whatsoever it was just pure joy and goodwill. There wasn't a so to be heard and that was nice. Goodness for that, yeah. And I don't look I haven't lived in Melbourne for the last two years. I haven't been here, so I don't want to pretend to understand what this city has been through. And equally, I don't want to claim that this city has been through a completely different COVID experience beyond anyone else. You know, everyone's had their own COVID experience and everyone is everyone is awful and different in various different ways. But this city has been through it and I have sensed over the past two and a half weeks that there is a collective post traumatic feeling about this city. One of great happiness as well that it is not over, but there's a feeling in a hope that certainly the worst of it is over in terms of all the months the city has spent in lockdown more than any other the world over and stricter lockdowns than in a lot of places extremely strict lockdowns. I do feel that that is a whole part of this victory in this moment, this collective release and relief in this city in this country and for that reason it feels perfectly timed to me. Yeah, and Barty being, as I said, such a non divisive figure. Everyone can get behind dashboard..
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"Well, thank you very much. Rose from Kingston Ontario that you heard in our intro, there rose is a friend of the pod from Canada, obviously, and just to clear something up very quickly, various different Canadian listeners have been in touch to let me know that mittens are a thing in Canadian sport and among Canadian sports fans. So I've learned something. I told you the Canadians mobilize with their emailing and apparently apparently stems from the Vancouver Winter Olympics a few years ago. Which were a very good Winter Olympics. I have to say, but we shall be dwelling on that folks because we need to talk about Ashbaugh the Australian open champion. She won through today in two sets over Danielle Collins two hard fought set she is a deserving champion as deserving a champion as they could ever be, I think she is a celebrated champion, a popular champion. I mean, I don't think popular even comes close to it. Matt and I were in the stadium in rod laver arena tonight watching ush party grit out that title and watching her receive the Daphne at cursed memorial trophy from evangel gong, which was a surprise to everyone goodness me. They kept that secret well. I genuinely think it was a total surprise to almost everybody in that stadium and it was a very well delivered moment of theater and theater theater is exactly the word I feel for what we've all been lucky enough to see tonight, but I think Matt and I feel particularly privileged that we were able to be there and PS. It's because of Friends, the tennis podcast that we were able to be there. So thank you very much. The whole night. Down to the fact that for the first time, this Fortnite, they didn't announcement saying, please put your phones on silent and make sure that they don't make any noise. I haven't heard that before this fortnight. They've been making various admin announcements about masks, et cetera. But this really felt theatrical from the word go and don't labor the analogy, but Ashbaugh definitely read the script, I think. And to be fair, Danielle Collins read the script as well because she made it a match she made it an occasion. She made it not feel like any kind of anti climax tonight. Totally, yeah, absolutely. It was a really good match. I think it looked for a long time like it was going to go three sets, of course, but in the end it was too very competitive set. Certainly the second set, it was very special being on the rod laver arena, as you said there were points of difference tonight compared to other nights. That's always going to be the case with a final. It feels different. There is a sort of tension in the air from the start, so much on the line, just the fact that the trophy is was right there at the net when they were shaking hands and having the photo taken just I don't know, it's just also intimidating, I feel and yet sort of both players really really handled it. I thought and yeah, the media seats were rammed. We've often sort of had the run of the place to be honest, but they were packed today. And yeah, I thought the atmosphere was pretty spine tingling actually really went through you when there were big eruptions whenever I sparked one points and whenever it got close and yeah, I think you said at the start of joy, there's so much joy around ash Barty. Everyone likes everyone roots for her. There's not a bad thing to say about ash bharti and I think she unites everyone and in that stadium. There's just such a warm feeling towards her tonight. It was special to be there. Yeah. I had the privilege of commentating on quite a few of these finals. And even in the role that you occupy whilst commentating, you're aware that it matters more than it feels different that every point is being hung on by everyone there and I find myself quite edgy. Myself feeling quite edgy even just watching TV and Hannah on our Twitter was really summing that up and from a party perspective as somebody who has everybody rooting for you and if she would dare think about that for a few minutes and feel like those people at home were feeling all those people that were rooting for in the stadium, she would not be able to play the sport, frankly, and so she had a real job to do on herself in that regard. I think she's done a brilliant job really of preparing itself for this moment. And I actually felt overall the occasion ended up being just about perfect because we got to see a close start. We got to see the moment Barty put the foot down and showed what she got. Then we got to see the Daniel Collins the real Daniel Collins and so did everybody in that stadium as she just decided to take them all on. And let everybody have it. Let everybody have the full Daniel Collins come on, let's go in your face experience whilst slamming backhands down the throat of ash bharti. That was her stunning to play her very best tennis for a purple patch there that got her out to that 5 one lead. And then we saw the flick of the switch of the bharti game. I compared it to Roger Federer last night, and I stand by that comparison. She has some think she has magic in her fingertips and she showed. She showed why she is separated in that regard from everybody else. And therefore we ended up with that scene at the end of a play winning the Australian open first time I've said it in my lifetime and it's a massive deal. It really felt huge. Because she didn't play her best tennis tonight, did she and I'm you know I'm not used to rush party, not looking sort of anything, but impervious to anything. You know, that's what she's, she's looked all tournament, you know? It's been sort of implausibly smooth almost. So I really enjoyed watching her challenged not just by Danielle Collins, but by the occasion and by the nerves which occasion she's got these real coping mechanisms with everything that she deals with her level of self control and all the rest of it is extraordinary, but she's not a robot. They're coping mechanisms. They're the mechanisms to deal with what she is feeling. And yeah, that was a massive challenge for her today..
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Barty wins drought-breaking Australian Open women's title
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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"That is that ball that ball variety because I think they were just too many it was just too many shots I think from her that just sat up middle of the court there to be hit and that's and you don't want to do that with Danielle Collins across the net from you. Exactly. And I think Collins, you know, I didn't quite realize this, but since she came back after that surgery last year, she has been really on it, her first two titles, which again, I would have, I think, when we saw her do that at the time, I was surprised that she hadn't already won a title. But she's got 36 ten record since coming back, which is very impressive. And now into the top ten. So I think, you know, it's just getting a bit like rapha, you know, coming back after an injury lay off, not really sure how it's gonna go. You know, I think Collins is just so grateful as well to kind of be at this stage after all her health woes. And I guess it shows what she could have done years ago if she hadn't have been hindered by her endometriosis, which must have been obviously such a big impact on her life. And I've just really pleased that she's kind of got through that side and she's now in this position. It's just you can't help, but be happy for her. You know, even if you're not particularly a fan of hers or yell it or her yelling or you know find her a bit aggressive or whatever, I just think it's such a nice story. You know Kim, you know that yell is coming out in the final against ash Barty in front of you. Yeah. I mean, let's just look, let's just kind of preview the final because ash Barty, Daniel Collins, Ashbaugh leads the head to head three one. Barty won their previous meeting in Australia in 2020 at Adelaide in a final set tiebreak. I mean, Kim, where are you on this? So is Barty just going to steamroll it? I mean, this is her third American in a row, pegula keys Collins. Arguably Collins plays a similar game to keys, but perhaps her execution is at a higher level than keys that could challenge Barty. And the other thing as well is the pressure of the situation going to get to party because and Andy Murray at Wimbledon. She's aiming to become the first home champion down under since 1978. So I feel like there's quite a few factors at play, isn't there? Definitely. I think Collins generally speaking doesn't seem to have the same usually the same sort of fear, stepping onto a court. She doesn't care what she certainly doesn't show it, yeah. And I think that is what she's what you're going to have to need a facing overwhelming home favor on her home court going for him. She's going to love it though. I think she's going to revel in that though, isn't she? I hope so, 'cause I want to say a competitive match. I don't want to say a job in 6 one 6 two by Barty like you know we want a good match and also I mean even if you're an Aussie fan, maybe you'd want a good match or not just to have it be over in an hour. They've also got an Australian doubles final following afterwards. So a lot of people will be well buoyed up for that as well. But I think I can't look beyond Barty winning, of course. I think they would have to take a real. Collapse mentally from her at the thought of what she would be about to achieve. You know, in front of her home fans. And it would have to take a supreme performance from Collins. And I both of those likely to happen to such an extent they would turn it from being Barty straight set to Collins winning. I don't think so. I think you just have to go with the kind of record going through this tournament. But what he's only been on court for about 6 hours, which is just ridiculous. Her legs are so fresh. So fresh. Yeah, I know what you mean and I think with ash bharti, she will go in as obviously the overwhelming favorite and it will almost feel like a shock if she loses a set given that I think the dominance that she has had. Yeah, but again, if you are to ask me who do I think is going to win? Who do I want to win? I still want Daniel Collins to win. I just think she's great for the tour and to add another name into the phrase at a Grand Slam champion. I think is great. I also wonder, be interesting. If Daniel Collins did win and she became one of these new Grand Slam title winners. Maybe that also will take a little bit of the focus that will obviously still be massive focus on emerging, but adding another single Grand Slam winner into the pot, perhaps takes a little bit of the focus off. So yeah, anyway, I would love to see Daniel Collins win, but at the same time, if I'm going with my head, it's got to be ash bharti. Yeah. Straight sets. It's just been relentless and I'm just a little bit, I guess it worried that Collins is just going to play it like Madison keys and she might execute a bit better.
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"She can use it offensively to maneuver opponents around the court is such it is such a good shot. It's sort of such quiet total mastery of the game of tennis that Barty seems to have developed at the moment. And the way she's serving and rolling through games on her serve as well, just sets her up for the rest of the game to flourish. Well, in the final, she will be playing somebody who has beaten her before in Australia. Who knows how significant that will be, but I'm sure it'll be in the mind of Daniel Corden when she takes to the court on Saturday Collins today, be eager on tech 6 four, 6 one. It was just in the zone stuff from Danielle Collins that sort of purple patch match that we all dream of having one day. Every time you unzip your bag, you think, today could be the day. It's never the day. But for Daniel Collins today, it was one of those days she was just brilliant she if possible up her level of aggression and intensity. Certainly aggression there was some stats coming up, I think, certainly on the coverage out here showing that she had added about 5 mph to her average backhand speed. She was just absolutely drilling her shots with just confidence in commitment to the extent that ego Schwann tech said after the match that that was the hardest ball she'd ever faced. In a match, she said, look, there are players that hit the ball harder than that in practice, but they usually take a lot off the ball in a match, you know, to reign in the margin for error. So, you know, I think if Collins is a big hitter, I don't think of her as one of the biggest strikes out there, but I wonder if she was just so confident. I'm feeling it so much that she was hitting the ball as big as she possibly could and just trusting that it would go in and not worrying about margin for error. Especially that backhand because she's so confident with it. That is her shot and Darren Cahill, who is there, I think, doing ESPN court side coverage. He made a little cameo pop up on eurosport, and he said, look, after the first set, he said, the first thing shown tech's got to do is stop feeding that backhand. She's got to start going to the forehand more. And next thing, you know, just as in the first set, it was three love in a blink of an eye. And the stats were coming up, and she was going way too much to the full hand to the backhand rather and just feed in that shot. And Collins was sitting on it and when she strikes the thing and often she'll go across court too, she'll give herself a maximum margin for error, hit it as hard as she possibly can. And it is like a catapult coming out of the racket and you know, you're on the defensive and actually that shot to the body, slice back and most likely will be a fascinating visual, I think, and to see where that ends up. Ego shrunk serve, I think was shown up tonight. Look, we know it's not necessarily the strongest part of her game and perhaps never will be a big weapon, but it was attacked viciously tonight, you know she was frantic was just looking stranded after the service delivery and the fact that Daniel Collins was serving sir will herself. It just, you know, as schwantz said, impressed, she just didn't really stand a chance. Given all that. But I got the impression from what she said impressed. She really knows she needs to try and beef up that so she was talking a lot about the fact that she feels there are a lot of areas she can improve with her in her game, and she's glad about that. She said, look, if there were no areas that I could improve, then that would be pretty bad news because I'd be losing like I did tonight. But it's going to be interesting. What she can do with that shot because I don't have the technical knowledge to know whether she needs to change the motion at all to get more out of it or whether it just needs time and attention. I don't know that, but I do think it needs beefing up for hardcourts. And I certainly think she is ambitious about having success on surfaces beyond clay. I also think she was not a step slow tonight, but just perhaps didn't have the energy to even try and match Collins for intensity. You know, I know probably not anybody can actually match her for intensity. But that's quite an intimidating and fearsome thing, I think, to have across the court from you and she won't take looked not up for the fight, really, not that she wasn't fighting for it out there, she was, but, you know, I'm not sure she was bare knuckle fighting the way that Danielle Collins wanted to. They're different characters, aren't they? But I mean, I think the interesting thing with Collins is I only really she had a really dug into the massively vocal come on and let's go when she started to feel.
The Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"You see them out there practicing someone hitting a slice back can to them. It's probably a bit late the day before to try to get that right. If you haven't practiced it enough now, you're probably not going to get that right. Heck of a quote that really interesting and where do we all stand on that? I mean, he surely is right. The logic, the logic holds there, doesn't it? That it is such a difficult shot to deal with. That you surely not going to nail dealing with it the night before, are you even if you're an excellent grammar, but equally if she's totally one of a kind and practice time is so limited in tennis, isn't it? You've got enough season of about three days. Is it an economic and efficient use of your time to be doing practice sessions devoted to the ash bharti slope backend? I think he's absolutely right. I think he has hit the nail on the head there, really, in terms of why nobody is able to cope with it. I think he said today she's played balti before and the slice is better than ever. She said it's deeper, it's lower and she didn't cope with it very well today, Madison keys the same way nobody has cope with it in this tournament. What surprised me a little bit, maybe it didn't surprise me, but what I think players need to do when they face Barty is try and take the slice out of the game. And I think that's way easier said than done. But I was watching this match and my mind went back to Shelby Rogers against Ashbaugh at the U.S. open last year. Shall we roaches, I don't think it's as good a player as Madison keys, but she's similar in that her plan a is hit the ball hard from the back of the core. And what she did, I had this memory of watching her come back against Barty in the U.S. open last year. And I felt like she moon bald to the party backhand and got it up really high, which is a much harder ball to slice. Forcing Barty to hit the two handed backhand, perhaps, which I don't think is as good as the slice. And I went back to have a look at Chevrolet's press conference after the match at the U.S. open. And Rogers came into that match, having lost four times in the season against Barty. So she said, what made she was asked what made the difference that you managed to get a win? And she said, tonight, going on the court, I told myself I didn't want to lose in the same way. I lost the last 5 times against her. I tried to do things differently. I mixed in some high balls. I was super patient with her slice because she's not going to miss one of them. In the second and third set, she raised her level. She's going to do that. She's world number one. But I was wanting to hit the ball harder and harder, fine winners because that's the tennis I like to play. But that's what she wants me to do, what just said. So I redirected. I used some finesse and I problem solved, and I started hitting more high balls. Like I'm in the under 12, she said, playing defense. And she said, it ended up working. And now, obviously, that is credit to party because she's making players adapt to her. She's making them go out of their comfort zone if they've got any chance of beating her. And it's not surprising that Madison keys playing a grand stand or didn't want to play a style of tennis that wasn't her comfort zone. But I think that's what bharti is making you do. I think she's making players have to adapt because otherwise she's picking them apart. They can't deal with the slice. And I guess I just thought maybe Madison keys. Maybe she tried to do that today and just couldn't and maybe it was just too good. But that does seem a blueprint there that Rogers sort of told everyone about. And I'm a bit I'm a bit surprised that no one is not tried it a little bit more because these matches are running away from them quickly. And bharti is just lulling them into play in the style of tennis. She wants them to play. That is absolutely fascinating. I wonder if ego is a factor and that's not directed at anyone in particular, but if you are playing a big match against ash bharti, if you're playing in the latter stage of a tournament, you are by definition playing good tennis because you've had to get to that big match. You've been winning with your game. So to then have to take the mental step of going, oh but the game that got me here won't be good enough today. It won't be enough won't work. I have to do something completely different. It's quite an ego hit, especially in a sport where the trend, the psychological trend is to say, I'm going to focus on my game. I'm going to bring my best tennis. I'm going to focus on me. And I totally understand that. You know, focus on what you can control, not what you can't, et cetera. You know I asked you guys about Danielle Collins, not sitting down, it changes events today. And she said, I didn't really notice. Because I'm focusing on me, and I get all that, but also, this is a tactical game, a tactical sport, and I feel the same as Matt. You know, surely stones are being left unturned here. I've heard a lot from former players coaches commentators about how difficult it is not to play the sort of tennis you want to play, because that's the thing that feels good. I want to hit the shots that feel good to me. Not the ones that don't. Even if those might be the ones that impact the opponent more effectively. And that is, I think, a really difficult mindset to get into. My mind goes back to the example of when Andy Murray first hurt Rafael Nadal by trying to hit the living daylights out of the ball, which was completely anti what he'd done all of his career that we'd witnessed to that point, which was I want to move him around and I want to play slice and I want to drop shot and do the things that I like to do. But the thing is, he was getting his clock cleaned by Rafa founded out every time he tried to do that. So he did something completely different and suddenly it was like this brainwave moment that he figured out that he could do it. And it must be such a risk in your mind though to do that in a big match like a Grand Slam semifinal. When you don't want to make a fool of yourself, do either you want to hit the ball well, I want to feel like I'm hitting the ball well. You don't actually lose all of it. That's it, isn't it? Yeah, 2016 against Djokovic. Yeah. Whereas the temple that's the template going wrong. That's an example of it going the other way. And look, I'm absolutely not saying that if someone starts moving balling to ashby, they're going to win because I think there was a sort of mix of factors at play that led to Rogers winning that match. But I'm just interested that nobody's seems to be trying it even. And because parties proving that the current style that players are going in with, she's finding it pretty straightforward to deal with she's raised her level so much that she's just picking these players apart. It is fascinating to watch the way that the slices also a great defensive shot. That was a couple of times today. Keys really did nail the forehand, and Barty just slice it back, short, broad keys in and then picked her off at the net and she can use it that way..
AP News Radio
Barty to face Collins in bid to end Australian title drought
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AP News Radio
Nadal fends off Shapovalov, advances to semis in Australia
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AP News Radio
Nadal reaches Australian Open quarterfinals for 14th time
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AP News Radio
Anisimova upsets defending champion Osaka at Australian Open
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The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"barty " Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"And I think sablin is going to have to find her pretty quickly. If she's going to mount a serious case to potentially get to the final the Australian open or maybe win it, but that feels very, very far away at the moment given her what she's shown us. So it could open up an opportunity very much so I think this bottom half for someone like Angelique Kerber's in there. Yeah, I don't know. It just feels like it could be. It could even be someone unseated. I'm not sure. But it doesn't feel like sablin maybe we'll get to this Emmys because of what we've seen so far. It could be lyudmila Sampson over. Aptly, honestly, we have seen so many different Grand Slam semifinalists on the women's side in the last however many years. So it's incredibly difficult to predict. I mean, let's try and do some predictions, though Joel. I mean, I personally, I've gone for two players right that I think I predicted a Wimbledon last year. And neither of them did anything. And I think I even had one of them to win Wimbledon, which just seems absolutely bizarre now. So I've gone for semifinals. I've gone for a sarca versus critique of her. And I've gone for rye bikina versus Kazakh keener and they're the two players I think are predicted before and I don't even know really why I'm predicting them again. I'm purely basing on recent form and getting to finals and semis of tournaments basically. Just interesting. And if you've got kind of getting to the final. I've gone for a soccer and rubber keener with a soccer winning. So I'm going for both defending champions to defend their titles. I think rybi keener is playing a scary brand of tennis at the moment. I think the question for me is whether she can keep it up. I think she's been playing I think she's showed me the best some of the best tennis outside perhaps ash Barty on the tennis court so far in the WTA Tour. So if she can keep her body together and hoping, yeah, that retirement was well that sorry that withdrawals just to kind of precaution. But yeah, it could be her breakout tournament. In terms of where I have gone in terms of my semifinals, I have gone ash Barty versus coco Goff. I think ash Barty, if that matchup does happen against no Miro soccer, I think she will come she will come through it. I just feel like she's got too many tricks of the trade to know how to deal with kind of Naomi Osaka and move her around the court where I think that's where you can sort of, I think exploit a little bit of nomi soccer in terms of her movement, potentially. So I'm going ash Barty and coco Goff. I just think again she's been playing some very good tennis at the moment. I think she got rid of early because she had that loss early on to ash Barty. So in the seasons. But I expected to come roaring back. So got Barty Goff semifinal. And then in the bottom half, I've got Simona Halep versus eager on tech. Again, I think Simona Halep is going to bounce back. She think she had the best preparation possible. And I think she's in a really nice quarter where, again, I think she's going to just be able to come through it. She might face guardian muguruza in the fourth round, but I just think that she's got a lot of experience and she knows she's knows what she's doing. And I think she's going to draw back up the rankings. So I've got Halep and should be on tech. I think coming through that fourth quarter. I just can't see sabalenka kind of living up to her billing. And I think she found tech is in the place to make the most of that. Make the most of that opportunity. And then I bought my final as a Simona.
Mark Levin
Green New Deal Is About Taking Over the Economy, Not About Climate Change
"Just going back to the green new hopes this going back to July of 2019 AOC's chief of staff chakrabarty Yeah He was in a meeting with the governor of Washington state And a reporter I'm sure many reporters but one from The Washington Post happened to be there And when they were insane was talking about climate change and chocolate Barty who apparently wrote the Green New Deal over a weekend he was like oh you think this is about China climate change I'm quoting him now The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it's now originally a climate thing at all He said it's just about it's just about changing the whole how do you change the entire economy thing You're a 100% right Changing the economy has always been a goal of theirs That's the whole impetus for Marxism in many ways right Workers of the world unite we have to own the means of production and take it away from he who actually built the business I think you're spot on with that And the media also soft pedals this stuff when they include coverage of these things So whether it's AOC whether it's Joe Biden the media is always out there doing a cover up one way or
The Tennis Podcast
US Open: Ashleigh Barty Crashes out to Shelby Rogers
"When we were recording ash body was in trump. Wasn't she to begin with we'd we'd watch that first set of hers and was really a bad set of tennis from bolton admitted as much afterwards. She said she really struggled to adjust to the night conditions. The court was much better than she was expecting. She didn't have any fail on her forehand whatsoever and her serve at the start of that match. I think she had hit five votes. After a couple of service games he was really really struggling but then as we were recording she got it together and i think we pretty much finished the podcast with her five to up in that third set and in control having taken charge looking like she was going to win and then what happened was that she loves serve twice when serving for the match and that had been a theme of how i two rounds hair. She'd lost serve both times. Seven for the action still recovered to win. She'd been insistent and have press conference that it wasn't an issue. But you know you can't argue with the evidence rarely. That's that's four times in three rounds. She's lost to serve when serving for the match and she really just didn't close the match. In the way that. I expected her to and fu credit to shelby roaches. She played exceptionally well. I thought she hung around rallies far better than i've ever really seen her. Do i think jose really big hitter and that can often not go hand in hand with consistency and she certainly has got a lot of power but she was smart with tennis. She was looping the ball up moon boiling it to the bharti back can which was just a great tactic and feels like something. The rest of the tour needs to try and adopt if they
AP News Radio
Djokovic Lets Emotions Show at US Open; No. 1 Barty Loses
"Shelby Rogers has produced the biggest win of her career becoming the only American player to reach U. S. open women's fourth round this year with a stunning six two one six seven six win over world number one ash body she finally secured the upset seven points to five in the third set tie breaker in a battle that lasted more than two hours yes I am stunned by heart rate still very much elevated I'm very excited without when American successes in the menstrual as well with Raleigh okay okay and Jenson Brooksby both reaching the last sixteen the twenty year old Brooks bay the youngest American bile to decide since Andy Roddick in two thousand and two he next takes on world number one Novak Djokovic I'm grand like us
AP News Radio
23 Down, 5 To Go: Djokovic Eyeing Calendar-Year Slam at Open
"Fans don't see another joke of it just kept alive his hopes for a calendar year grand slam moving into the US open third round with an impressive straight sets win over the Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor no problems either for the women's top seed ash Barty now into the third round without dropping a set four seed Alexander Zverev also advanced in straight sets and men's twenty two St Raleigh Palca laid the American charge reaching round three with a straight sets win of the Italian Lorenzo and was happy it was joined in die for success by Shelby Rogers Jessica pergola Jack sock and Jenson Brooksby who advanced over Tyler Fritz I'm Graham like us
AP News Radio
Djokovic Tops Teen "Ruuune!" at US Open in Calendar Slam Bid
"Men's top seed Novak Djokovic has been pushed in his opening round match at the U. S. open the Serbs are priced at only on by the aggressive play of eighteen year old hotel room there's a ranked a hundred and forty five in the world Djokovic eventually prevailed six one in the fourth women's top seed ash Barty was also pushed finally other coming Italian veteran fears on arrival six one seven six twenty four year old Maxime Cressy led the American charge into the second round with the biggest upset in the men's draw defeating the nonstate Pablo Carreno Busta in five sets I'm Graham like us
Rick Hamada
Ash Barty Is Eliminated From the Tokyo Olympics Singles Tennis Competition
"Was knocked out in the first round. She, of course, coming off for Wimbledon victory, So she's one and done in Tokyo. And that's the reason why I say it's wide open on the women's side in terms of who could possibly win a gold medal. I'll be watching very closely. I think it's easier for you just given the time difference
WBZ Programming
World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty Defeats Karolina Pliskova for First Wimbledon Title
"As the world's number one seed, claims the title in London, Ashleigh Barty defeated number eight seed Karolina Pliskova in three sets to become the new women's Wimbledon champion. This is the 25 Year Olds, first Wimbledon victory and second career Grand Slam singles title. She's the first Australian woman to reach this high honor since
The Mini-Break
"barty " Discussed on The Mini-Break
"During her five-year prime she won four major titles bari in her five-year prime. She's thus far one only two major titles but only three years in and so again. It does feel like she's on pace to do that. She ended year end number one already. Venus never did that but you know again those the numbers for venus you know she one miami title three times. She won multiple master. She want gold medal. She was fed cup champs. She was in the urine top-five every season in her five-year prime. Doesn't that sound like ashleigh. Barty is what she's on her way to do in you know again. The next level would be like adjusting and in five year prime and in was fifty three and six. She was winning eighty nine percent of her matches. She was winning. You know a fifty two percent of that events she entered Sixty seven percent of the tournaments sheets are two thirds. She was making finals. And ashley bari's not quite at that level yet but she's in the venus range. Her prime is going to look very very good and are wondering. Why do why have members of the media always discussed ashley barty in a tier of special players when she had only won one major coming into the season and she was number one ranking a lot based on the protections because she didn't play in twenty twenty but this is why we see wind. She is on the court all she's done over. These last three years is deliver results and again since the start of the twenty eighteen season. She's one hundred forty nine in forty one eleven different. Titles you wanna go since the start of the twenty nine thousand nine season which was really when she ascended to that number one spot in the world. Ashley barty will say. This is the start of her five-year prime. She's one hundred three and twenty two. She's winning eighty two percent of her matches. that's not quite venus level yet. It's not quite enin level yet but it on the pathway towards the greats of the greats and so again in terms of your dominant forces ashley. Bharti's the one to chase right now because we've seen at her grand over. these last. Two seasons australian open quarterfinals. Twenty twenty one semifinals twenty twenty. Us open round of sixteen twenty nineteen. I believe she also made the round of sixteen in twenty eighteen. She was a quarter-finalist australian open. Twenty nineteen as well round of sixteen wimbledon twenty nineteen before winning the event this season outside of a withdrawal due to injury at the twenty twenty one french open. She has made at least the fourth round at every slam since the twenty eighteen. Us open the epitome of consistency and that consistency has turned into dominant as well to slam titles multiple one thousand level titles multiple wins. You know. we're talking over the top ten opponents it since the start of twenty nineteen. I mentioned that one hundred. Three and twenty two record. Ashley barty in total. She's nineteen and seven against top ten opponents so again through two years and she still got half a season to go. She's averaging about ten wins against the up ten per season. That is historically excellent. And it's time we start remembering that about ashley barty when we discuss her time when we enter each grand slam events. She's immediately on the shortlist three players..
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"barty " Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Wing breaks at love for to love and i believe plus for through double-fault in that first game as well and again it was three love. It was honestly four love bharti because plus it's broken in our second game as well service game before you knew it but then plus covad. You could see her sort of wake up and you know in that four love bardy service game plus breaking and in particular the love thirty points she hits this forehand winner down the line and i believe in the moment was either chrissy everett or I think it was chrissie. Evert on the call who said oh. I think that's i think we're seeing plus wake up here. She was absolutely right. She just started hitting a little bit more freely and she was broken right back immediately. Four five one but then she breaks party a second time for five to she gets her. I hold on the board four five three now. Bardy big first serves big forehands. That was the key to the match for her. And despite all of the power despite the size advantage carolina plus has from a length perspective ashleigh. Barty servant forehand as i discussed in the preview. Were the two biggest weapons in the match. And you look for bharti from a statistic standpoint wins. She was landing her first serve. He had a ton of success. Sixty one percent of those first serves go into in sixty seven percent of those points fights off six of the eight break points. She faced in the In the match those two breaks coming again or excuse me Fights off only one of the five break points. She faces but for You know again. Hits thirty third as against twenty nine on four seriously all that in west off. That was not my best statistic work. I apologize to all listeners. But the point being. I because barney got her body. Plymouth got her racquet on a bunch of i. Four hands or forehand cross-court unreturnable shots. That already hit. I wish it had forced air account on the stat total. It doesn't barbie for so many years with that serve with that forehand. Big serve out wide to And you know big serve outlined on the ad and then she'd mixing the big serve down the t. She could hit all the spots on the do side although she started avoiding that fiscal forehand on the do side return because plus was connecting with it. So well but you know get clean. I set of tennis. For ashley barty. She takes the first set six three then she breaks i in that second set to one plus plays a bad service game. She throws in a double fault. She throws in a couple of unforced errors. Bardy hits a one one big forehand in the rally to ultimately draw a ultimately earned the point. And that's her break and now it's three one bardy all of the sudden and again you felt like that was the moment..
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"barty " Discussed on The Mini-Break
"Up with the number one player in the world. In ashley barty. Who makes her second grand slam final as well and you know there was this interesting trend. It was like Twenty eighteen french open finalist wins twenty nineteen wimbledon into mona jala pan. And you know. I think that happened. Twenty seventeen something similar as well in twenty years muga. I believe who did it. In two thousand sixteen kerber yada yada yada yada yada that she made a deep run. You know the funniness of that you know this year actually bardy is the one who makes the depression so she going to end up in the winter circle. Actually barney makes it in the winter circle it will have nothing to do with that funky trend. It will simply be. Because ashley barty is the best player in the world right now just physically. The level she is hit is different than everyone else. Her ability again because angelique kerber prides herself on her physicality and in particular on these grass courts her ability to take the ball early change directions. Keep you uncomfortable. Keep you on the move to me. Every opponent she faced in her ten match win streak leading into this wimbledon semi-final. It's been every opponent. She's faced uncomfortable. And yet ashley. Barty was not uncomfortable. Ashley party was able to hit through that change of direction. And then the moment a creek or a crack in the in the In the angelique. Kerber game open. She took advantage of it. She attacked and you look for absolutely bardy in this match. Thirty eight winners against sixteen unforced air. She went eighty percent thirty six forty one on her first-serve points. She faced She she was to a five on break points off five of the six break points. She faced again only broken once she got the to break. She need one in the first set. She got it in the very first kerber service game purposes to couple of unforced. There's came on played a tentative. First game able to hit some big forehands. Find some big forehands. That mixed in with a couple of unforced. there's then look kerber. Had her shot five three. I set love ford love thirty in the game. Bardy hit two big first serve bharti hits a kerber gives an unforced error back to bardy for thirty all then bardy rare double-fault for thirty forty kerber has her break-point chance but big first serve big forehand from body to fight off that break point than another big for serve leads to a backhand error from kerber. Big first serve ace to seal the set. Six three forty surfer forehand. Were the biggest weapons on the court and kerber biggest weapon her physicality bardy could match and look kerber. Still had success moving the ball around the court. She was able to find that barney backhand whenever party through a slice her footwork so aggressive and so precise that she does have you on a string. Move you side to side. Keep you on your toes guessing. Which way she's going to go next. But you know to generate that sort of pace for bardy for kerber over the course of the two hours they were on court was just more difficult than it was for barley to do or the hour and a half there according to look for sixteen winners against twenty three unforced errors. She had to play with more aggression. You could tell midway through that i set. She's like what am i doing this. I'm playing the number one player in the world. I'm way too tentative. And she started going for a little bit more than that is why her era account was higher than her winner. Count but you have to play with that aggression. when you're playing ashley gardens..
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It’s Ashleigh Barty vs. Karolina Pliskova in Wimbledon Final
"Going to start at Wimbledon on Thursday. World number one Ash Party beat former champion Angelique Kerber in straight sets to seal her spot in the final show. Play Check Star. Karolina Pliskova, who said she didn't expect to make it to the semi final, let alone the final. She came from one set down to beat number to see the arena Sub
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Pliskova to Play Barty in Women's Wimbledon Final
"There will be a new name on the women's trophy at Wimbledon this year with the world double an ash body of the eighth seed Karolina Pliskova advancing to the ladies final it's the first time for both of them there at the all England club and both advanced in the hard hitting semifinals body produced her best form of the championship debate the two thousand eighteen champion on Julie curva closing out the match six three seven six in one hour twenty seven minutes that match was was a great level the best level I've played in quite some time and I think and he's an incredible competitor and she brought out the best in me today please go ahead to work for almost two hours before advancing coming back from a set down to beat the second seed on a separate link a six four in the third I'm Graham I got out
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No. 1 Barty to Face Pliskova in 1st Wimbledon Final for Both
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Wimbledon 2021: Kerber, Barty Advance to Semifinals, Medvedev Upset
"Well number one ash five years one through to a Wimbledon semi final showdown with former champion Angelique Kerber both advancing in straight sets it's the first time the twenty five year old body is past the fourth round at the all England club and is chasing her second career grand slam title second seed others have a link to reach her first Wimbledon semi final and next takes on the big serving Carolina please give up in delight men's second round action an inmate but I've lost his resume fourth round clash to the fourteenth seeded pope but look at falling six three in the fifth cent I'm Graham I gots
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2021 French Open Odds: Iga Swiatek Is the New Betting Favorite
"Let's get back into the openness. Now of this. French open drawn. Honestly we can go quarter by quarter and of course. Our friends at tennis. Abstract provide a fantastic draw forecast. If you know the fivethirtyeight forecasts Perhaps if you follow electoral politics or you. Just use their forecast for nba championships. Whatever it may be tennis abstracts the place to go for tennis forecasts. You look at the women's singles draw forecast coming in to this round of sixteen eagles. Fan tech is a clear favourite via the their formula to win the event. She has a twenty seven point. Six percent chance of winning that of course is based on her elo rating. She's in up there with bardi and halif and terms at the top clay-court specific yellow ribbon. She's also thirty eight now in her last fifty two matches coming in second place. Well there's been some changes now. Because i'm not gonna lie. I'm recording this friday morning. And so i know some of the results that happened currently in second right now the only other player in double digits is a lean fit alina at ten point. Nine percent chance. You've got cocoa goth at nine point. Six you've got. You know serena only one point eight. It's actually vico with a five point nine and that's the highest in that section. Actually scratch that politics dosa who has been excellent. This season nine percent chance she would technically be fourth and again that top four via their forecast schon tech spit alina goff but dosa i mean i think we all would agree. Shan't is in a tear on in her on her own. At this point in you know again her result today it was a one in one victory for her over. Rebecca peterson which is only notable. Because it was freaking one in one and you lookin' again. Her last nine results straight-sets over peterson new. Von date back to last year's french open cannon. Put a rosca travec hallett to a see through silva she's been dominant. I mean her only loss on the clay courts this year was to ashleigh barty in madrid. And you know she then went on in one room