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Nadal struggles at times during 4-set win at Australian Open
"Vince defending champion Rafael Nadal was lucky to survive the first day of the Australian open, the top seed struggling against the big serving Jack Draper before winning 6 one in the fourth set of a three hour and 41 minute battle, the Spaniard help when the English man started cramping late in the match. Francis tiafoe Sebastian caught it, Jessica poo goulder and last year's finalist Daniel Collins led the American charge on day one with all but the gola needing extra sense before advancing. I'm Graham agar's
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"In the fourth round, he beat him at the U.S. open. Yeah, I know. It's a really tough path. And I think if you're an adult fan, I think you're looking at this Grand Slam and thinking, you'd ideally want to kind of build into the tournament, ideally have a couple of easy give me matches in the opening round, maybe against a qualifier or lucky loser, but it really is one of those draws that's been handed to him where I think he's going to have to come out, he's going to have to come out relatively sharp, and I think sharper than he did show at the united cup. He's a player who is out of form. He's lost, I think that 6 of his last 7 matches and that's not the form you want. I think when you're coming in against someone like a Jack Draper, I would add to kind of Chris's points that I also think he's Jack Draper's doing very well in Adelaide. This week has the opportunity to maybe even win an ATP tour singles title, but that could also, I think, factor in that kind of transition. I think we've seen some players have really good buildups in those kind of tournaments just before the grand Sam starts, but actually they've almost kind of peaked too early. So I'll be interested to see how that kind of transition is handled by Draper, but yeah, certainly, I think Nadal has got a tricky path with potentially again nakashima, saw him do well at Wimbledon last year. And TFO. Although he's a defending champion, I can't. Think like two, I think, ahead of myself, I think, for Raphael, which is a bit of a surprise, I think, given you normally see him in the drawer and you normally just sort of pencil mark him in naturally for the second week and beyond. But at the moment, I think there's too much uncertainty there that dare I say, could you go out in week one? I think it's possible. I think it's not just the first round. It's there seems to be a number of potentially quite difficult components for him. I mean, the other bit of his draw contains Daniel Medvedev, the finalist of last year, you know, he very almost won the tournament. He's at the bottom of this section, but we've got Seb quarter, who just narrowly lost to Djokovic in Adelaide last week. They could very well meet in the fourth round. So one of them could potentially be a quarter finalist for Rafa or someone like TFO. Chris, where do you reckon Daniel Medvedev is going to fare this time around? He's made the last two finals at this event. Do you think he could make it three in a row, looking at his draw? I think we're seeing a very different Medvedev. He's no longer kind of that wall that gets back everything and I think we're seeing some cracks in his arm in the last couple of last season. I went to a couple seasons, he won a Grand Slam. Season before and reached the final. But I think he's come a bit unstuck at times. And he's had some surprising losses to some players. So I think he's someone that Nadal you wouldn't want to say Medvedev, a Grand Slam champion in quarterfinal draw, but for Medvedev, I think any match is quite a tough match for him at the moment. He is out of form and of all the people you could play in the third round. I think sub quarter is one of the people you'd want to play least based on his show, it gets Djokovic. I've actually booked Mark called to take that one and to set up a rematch with Nadal from last year's Australian open, which was 5 sets. So I think it's a really tough, really tough section. And any number of players could probably make it out of this one. So looking at the second quarter, here we've got player headlining this quarter who has done very, very well at the Australian open of recent making the semifinals in three of the last four tournaments. And that is 6 pass. Who I think personally, looking at his draw, it's not a bad draw, you know, he could potentially have the likes of Yannick sinner in his fourth round or robotics van der Zhang shop in the third. And that the other side of this court or you've got the cam nori's and the FAA is so born a courage to swell perhaps throwing a bit of a surprise. Joel, from looking at this quarter, as your money on its path to get to the semifinals again, he's recent form. What do you think? Yeah, I think he's, again, he had a very good start to the season at the united cup. He loves playing the Australian open. He's done very, very well there. In the past and you could argue that he's had those he's had those matches against big opponents at the business end of Grand Slam. So sort of heartbreak moments that I think geek has now those experiences that could potentially having had those moments now could be his time to break that duck and win his first Grand Slam. I think he is a very dangerous player I think in this top half of the draw and I think again, unlike Nadal, he's probably, I think, got quite a nice route in. He's got a few kind of qualifiers and lucky losers and wild cards around him. I think it does get tricky once he does meet the kind of bottom section in his quarter where you do have players like cam nori and born a torch. I think cam nori has been playing fantastic, he's had a really good start to the season, game playing really, really well in Auckland at the moment. He's got Felix ozier aliyah seems. So I think we'll know a bit more about cisa pass. Once he gets, I think, to kind of round forward. I think he's going to be one of these players. Maybe we don't pay too much attention to in the earlier rounds, given the quality of oppositions around him, but yeah, certainly I think when he gets to the third and the fourth round and maybe even the quarterfinals, I think there's certainly going to be some opponents there that I think we're going to really know what's his past has turned up at the Australian open. Yeah, and I mean, I'm hoping that norrie could go on a good run here. British hope and obviously in recent form like currently playing well out in Auckland.
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"And terrifying. I asked him, I said, Andre, I get the impression that you would happily play tennis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And he said yeah, yeah, but you've got me nailed over with absolutely definitely do just that. Caspar rude I asked him what makes him angry and I won't spoiler the answer tune into Prime Video to find out, but long story short, not a lot. Yes. Felix Australia scene was just starry eyed and ever polite and just so chuffed to be there. But also, you know, feeling like you can win it. I think, why not? Taylor Fritz was, you know, sounded like you'd just woken up and rolled off a beach in California. And it was an early start, actually. Maybe he's a bit of a Catherine Whitaker with early starts. But he was already in Turin when he found out that he was going to qualify for the main lineup he was obviously always planning to come as an alternate. Lost early in Paris, so obviously he's American stayed in Europe, came straight to Turin with his girlfriend. So it kind of didn't change his travel plans or anything, but he said they really had a moment and they looked at one another and he said, we made it, which is really lovely. Who else? Who am I missing? Oh, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. In very good spirits, he was quite a fair amount of time with him, which you don't always because of how in demand he and Nadal were so very light very open. I thought I asked him with a bit of trepidation about how he would reflect on his year. And he gave a bit of a laugh and he was like, oh, ups and downs. And Nadal told me that his baby son, Raphael, is here in Turin with him. Probably too young to take in any of the tennis. I would have thought, I doubt he'll make an appearance, but that's a nice thought. And he said, father hood's treating him very well. I get the impression. It's very difficult to tell with rapha, isn't it? Because he'll always say that his expectations are low, but I get the impression this is maybe kind of day to gathering for Nadal about his. Rib injury and assorted other sort of ongoing health complaints. You know, his last answer was the most telling where he said, look, I have no expectations, but equally, I can't not want to win, you know, gave this broad smile and he said, you know me. All right, I want to win. So that's going to be interesting, I think he plays Taylor Fritz in his opening match on Sunday evening. And I think we're going to learn a lot after that match. Were you suitably enthused about the events off the back of today? Because one comment you made earlier to me that really stayed with me is that because it's not a capital city and you showed me a bit of the video of the scene there and the enthusiasm that you feel like they're really into this. They're really taking this tournament to their heart. They want they want everybody to know that the tournament's here and they're proud of the city. Yeah. Look, I was gutted when the tournament made the decision to leave London. It was obviously very convenient for me. The O two was a great venue and it was a tremendous success there. But having said all that, I do think there is a lot to be said for having these kind of events in non capital cities. Because this is the biggest show in town. It's the biggest thing happening in Turin at the moment, you get the feeling that most people on the street, if asked. Would know that this is happening and would probably be able to name a few of the players or would probably say, oh yeah, I've seen I've seen a poster about that. And just the fact that the launch was happening in the main, the main Piazza and they'd created a sort of a blue cot they'd created a really theatrical situation where the players arrived individually. They walked this blue carpet with Barry's up with fans there and it felt like the center of attention and, you know, as somebody very invested in tennis, that's just wonderful to see the sport be center stage, you know? I think there's a lot to be said for it. Yeah, there sure is. Oh, I'm looking forward to it. And very much lucky forward to watching you present the show from there. Talking of a show that's on at the moment, also in Italy, the next gen semifinal between Jack Draper and Brandon nakashima is currently locked in a fourth inverted commerce set that's those short ones, and it's nakashima winning it two sets to one, as things stand, but it's a tie break in the fourth one, and it looks really, really dramatic, actually. I've got no sound on, just got the pictures, but the crowd looked massively into it. And the players are so pumped up and the coaches are going wild. I mean, this is what when that event is good to me, is when you've got two players like these two who are so hungry and desperate to break through and they're making their strides on the main tour, but they want to go head to head. They want to throw themselves at each other and see who comes out on top. And I'm really excited. I'm not sure how America and American tennis fans feel about Brandon nakashima, but I'm massively excited about Jack Draper from a British tennis point of view. He's just got it, isn't it? I don't know how far it will take him. I don't know how far his body will hold up, but God. Yeah, it's not just the fact that these British and good, it's the way he plays. It's one of my turns. Isn't it? But it's also not
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"Surely they can be. They can do better than that. Khan had the tennis weekly group and the passing shot group. Exactly. Now, why don't you raise that as a point? Get some contacts with the Billie Jean King cup and then we'll be in the next gen next year. Red group, Lorenzo masetti, Jack Draper, Cheng and Dominic strucker, and then green group, Brandon nakashima, whoo at Yuri leche, Frances Francesco pesaro and Matteo are now not going to lie. I don't know an awful lot about the last two players there. Apart from the fact they must be Italian. For me, I'm looking at nakashima and I think red groups are tougher of the groups. Nakashima Draper and Mercedes for me, I think, stricker. What about you guys? Have you got your eyes on? You know what, I think this could be a great tournament for Jack Draper, I think, I think he could do really well. I also think, though, that the nature of the court they play on and the rules that they have means that it is pretty open. I think last year Carlos coming through is really impressive because there are quite a lot of distractions at this one. I think they've got rid of the doubles lines. It looks a lot smaller. It's almost a bit more of a trial event for trying out different things. So if you like your routines, you like to play on a court that looks like your regular court. You might be a bit thrown by it. So I can see some upsets here because the format is obviously not full set either. So I've enjoyed that the kind of the promotional materials have really gone in on. As kind of like the player who's going to be there that's very, very exciting, but of course, not in it, has gone to be first alternate in Turin, but yeah, for me, it could be Jack Draper's moment. It could be Lorenzo Mercedes, maybe. I mean, there are three Italians in the field, so I feel like maybe the odds are with the Italians, but should we pick an Italian? That's three out of 8. I think one for each of us. Yeah, let's all pick an Italian. I'm going to go for passaro. Okay, I'll now do this. You can have the setting. Well, yeah, we'll see. But I mean, we do have, as you said, we do have some rules in here, some new rules. We know it's a hotbed for innovation. The next gen finals. We've got quicker shot clock. So down from 25 to 15 seconds following an ace double fault or unreturned serve. What do we make of that? That is not one size fits all for every sort of point as a showing some trialing some flexibility there, aren't they? With the timing. Thank God Rafa's not there as all I can say. Yeah, I mean, I'll just hope they don't have long points because one sit down percent and I know they do shorter sets, but yeah, 15 seconds between a serve, one sit down per set. That does seem a bit brutal if it's going to be a long attritional match. So I guess they're hoping for fast, fast action. But I guess maybe they're also trying to build the next well the next next gen to just get used to being quick so that when they become fully fledged on the main tour, they're sort of used to having played at such speed, I don't know, but I don't think you can't apply this in a Grand Slam, can you? So it has its relevance and it doesn't at the same time. It does make me think it's to do with scheduling issues. You know, they just haven't got enough court time so they're like quicker shot top. Once sit down by a set that's done paying center by the hour for exactly is 9 pound an hour. I do think the shot clock though, like, if they're going to trial this for shortened points, I ace double four unreturned serve, then I feel like there does need to be some leeway for, well, if a rally goes longer than expected, then for me, I would add in add an extra ten seconds to 35 seconds. I think I know that in seems counterintuitive to this feeling that tennis should be fast and free flowing and people's attention spans are very short now, but I certainly feel like if they're going to try and bring in this more adaptive approach to the shot clock, then I feel like I need to go both ways and not just short short just because we want to get it done as quick as possible. Is it also because umpires don't actually call people on this stuff quite a lot, you know? I feel like if you try and bake it into the rules, then there's less emphasis on the umpires to obviously like make the decision there, but if you go to 35 seconds Joel, I mean add on another 60 and you're a change events. We're getting I think that would be I think normally they do make allowances when a point has gone particularly long and people are particularly tired because they aren't trying to hold up the place, so I guess it's about the intention a little bit, but if both players aren't ready, then I've never seen both players get warned. It's only one player is ready to play, right? And then the other one isn't. I think that's more where it comes from. But I mean, we love the, I love that innovation they've had it. These things in the past and seeing new things be tried and let's see how it goes. I think it won't necessarily be on the tour next year, but let's see if it can be an exciting TV spectacle this year. Yes. And from one exciting spectacle to another, you've got the Billie Jean King cup finals, which will both act this week in Glasgow. Destination Glasgow as it's been advertised. Tomorrow, so opening off with Australia against Slovakia and then Kazakhstan, Great Britain and the afternoon session. How are you going to work this guy? Are you going to pop into every session? Are you going to pick and choose? Are you going to just sort of loiter? We're going to split up. We're just going to follow the camerino wherever she goes. We don't care about all the other batches going on. Rebecca Marino is not in action until Thursday, so. Have we got some free time? Some free time. It's going to be a good one tomorrow. Yeah, it will be. We're looking forward to seeing hopefully the Wimbledon champion taking on Great Britain obviously without raducan who pulled out of the event. So that would be a bit hard. I feel like it's going to be hard for GB. With the resources we have. In theory, we shouldn't necessarily be here. We lost in the qualifying. And it's going to be fascinating to me how they handled the pressure and expectation that, yes, they're playing a very high quality field. Yes, there have been players that have dropped out, but we're not going to see you go see on tech or Jesse pigula here, for example, but having that high quality field against them in their own backyard, the pressure is on them to perform. I'm not necessarily saying that I'm expecting them to get out of their group and get to the semifinals, but they need to be, I think, putting on a good showing and I think just showing everyone that women's tennis is not just in the UK that the emirati car new service circus about her coaching actually, there's a lot more strength in depth here and this is you would say this
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"Oh, yeah, well that might put her on. My Carolina Garcia off. Who knows? Does she harbor? Longings for Andy Roddick as well. Someone needs to ask her, clearly. The empathy had on top of TA's much more than we ever could have known. Yeah, well, I mean, Roddick actually, I don't know if I've ever revealed this on the podcast. Before I started following rapha, Roddick was the person that I tended to support. Really? Because of all those Wimbledon finals that he should have won. You went on both. I know, yeah, well gel. But yes, no, jabal Garcia is lined up tomorrow. We've also got arena sabalenka in the semifinals because she came through against pisgah 6 one 7 6 today. So yeah, obviously the first set was pretty much one way, second set, a lot different and she got it done on that tie break. So a bit more of a straight, straightforward win today. She'd had previously to come back against Danielle Collins, but yeah, sabalenka has served firing much better today than it has been as we know she's had some real issues with, especially double faults this year and her serve. So she definitely made reference to that being a big improvement. But yeah, I think she was at the semi file as a Wimbledon last year, wasn't she? And we haven't seen her at that stage since. That means that the U.S. last year. So she's managed to defend. Oh, U.S. last year. At a strong end of the year last year, I'm pretty sure for the two semifinals. But he's backed it up and I think this is unfortunately the moment we have to say that Joel did actually think that she would make it to the semifinals, but I was going to say in case he does listen carefully to this episode, was he still thinking that when she was 6 two 5 one down against Kirk and epi in round two, I think maybe not, but now yes. What must caric and epi be thinking? Oh, it could have been me or I could have done. I mean, she failed to do what she normally does, which is upset a top seed. So that's the strength of sabalenka. She's broken the curse maybe now because lifted. Well, it's very impressive, 65, one, now to be in semifinals. The belief. I mean, I think a kid free people up and we didn't talk about this with catching of, but it did look like in a quite early to say an upset, but it did like Jack Draper was kind of getting the best of him. So maybe these players feel like they've got a second wind. I know that Kerber one Wimbledon from, I think she was match point down the year that she won it in an early round.
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"But it was weird because the umpire still at this moment just does not have that officially does not have that technology available to them and I feel like this is something I always keep banging on the door about, but for instant replays, it feels very bizarre that fans are a big have got more power to see something than the umpire who still is kind of powerless like officially to do something unless the player steps in because seren dolo could have very well just been like umpire didn't do anything. It's my point. It was quite a key moment in the first set. So yeah, fortunately, he's a nice bloke, so nice. Exactly. But yeah, like you said, these sorts of situations, it shouldn't really be down to whether the fans make a bit of a raucous response to the action replay. I think we should really have some kind of VAR with the ref can or the umpire and legitimately make a change. Obviously we have the challenge system, but that's only that relates to line calls. I don't think you can use it for obviously like a double bounce situation. So I think they should bring in that VAR signal, like the player can make. To the umpire just makes it really clear. We see it in other sports. It just feels like an easy way to just clear up any sort of controversy. And I do think this is still one of the things for me that is a little bit of a bug bear. On the Tories, it's something that I think is so it is so absolute I think it's quite obvious whether it's bounce or it or it is double bounce or it hasn't. But we're still not in a situation where it's just fully conclusive. Yeah, and I don't think this changed the outcome of the entire match or anything like that, but it could do, like there could be a really critical moment in a final or something where the crowd get involved and it's a big hoo ha. So I definitely think that decision making body should look at this and if you're going to be showing replays like that on the screen for all to see, then you've got to have some decision making capabilities that might come in as a result of that. So perhaps we'll have to watch the space on any developments on that one. Just going back to British players, they drove obviously Andy Murray had a good win Jack Draper also a straight sets win over a meal Sephora. Yes, FAA next. I thought the roots have already matched, you know, could have been maybe a banana skin. I thought, you know, given although drape has been a really good form, you know, I thought, could this be a bit of a tricky Draper, he beat Draper at queens. So it was a real turnaround, wasn't it? Yeah, and yeah, I mean, FAA next, who came through against the qualify from Switzerland, Rashad, this is the matter we wanted, isn't it? I think I hope it's on an agreeable time for British audiences because that would be really fun match to watch, you'll be very intriguing, encounter, and yeah, Draper very, very ruthless in his first match. At the U.S. open and yeah, with potential, I could see him. I could see him beating FAA to be quite honest. Not in straight sets, but maybe if it went for. I think it has the potential to be a real showcase of young gun talent, I think, and similar to car Lebanon, I think, against Casper Ruud. I think this is Jack Draper's opportunity to show what he can do against one of the leading next generation talents on the tour and I don't think there's been a better time, I think, for him to go and show what he can do. He's had a great season. It's all, I think, been building up to this moment when he's got the opportunity to cause a real upset. I do think he's unfortunately on the night session as well. I think on Louis Armstrong. Yeah, I'm curious to see, yeah, when I wake up in the morning, what that score, what that scoreline is going to be. Yeah, be very intriguing. Just before we touch upon today's results, I think for me, one of the matches from day one was a certain Tim van Wright haven coming back from, I think, was two sets down. He came back to win. And a million match points. In 5 sets. Yeah, I mean, what an absolute star. Really, really good stuff. He's playing Casper Ruud next. So I'm just pleased that his Wimbledon appearance in the pan. He's backed it up. And I mean, on another note, I guess the player who is trying to get back up there, Dominic team, he lost in four sets to PCB. That was always going to be a very tricky, opener for Dominic team. And I guess just proof that his level is not where it needs to be yet, but I mean, I think it was to be fair. I thought it was tricky for a new buster. It went four sets. I didn't feel like any moment at PCB was going to lose it. He's such a, he's such a hard player to face on the hard courts. He's obviously done well here previously, as has Dominic team and I really enjoyed actually watching Dominic team because I felt when I was watching him, he was just playing with freedom, you know, there was no, I think, holding back because of injuries with his wrist or whatever, he just was just letting go and yeah, I think there were a few too many unforced errors that ultimately led to defeat, but I think it was great to see him just kind of play with that freedom that I think we've time and more match play. Yeah, I think certainly we'll be seeing him further and further up the rankings. Yeah, I think it's got to come with time. Surely, slowly but surely, but let's take a short break now. We'll be back in a moment to catch up on all the action from day two. So far of the U.S. open. So do not go anywhere. Welcome back to our U.S. open round one catch up sponsored by download tennis dot com and let's look back at today's action so far from the U.S. open. Haven't had a major shock yet, Joel, have we? Apart from podcast go losing.
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"Yeah, obviously Hubert like bit tired as well and Pablo carino booster just outplaying him on the day. And what do you think Nick curios is thinking in all honesty? Because he, you know, he has tweeted he has tweeted. And this is the beauty of Twitter that things obviously live forever, but he to his tweeted, if clay didn't exist, dude wouldn't have been close to top 50. And now we're at a point where on hard courts, cranio buster has won one masters 1000 titles reached two hardcourt slam semifinals, whereas Nick curios, he's not won a masters 1000 hardcore event, and nor has he reached a hardcourt slam semifinals. So what do you think if you Nick curios? Well, I mean, I'm not Nick heroes. I wouldn't want it to be. About my view quite a lot. But he seems to love accusing people of being clay quarters. I mean, he didn't do the same for Casper Ruud. Saying, oh, he's just winning clay court titles that don't mean anything. We could accuse curios of being a grass and hold court specialist. Very true. So it's always funny how everyone's sort of signed as a clay court and people don't say, oh, they're a hard quarter. Yeah, I think it just shows that curiosity might need to look at stats and numbers. I mean, I was expecting a lot from curios this week and he didn't he didn't quite. I wasn't. I thought he was going to he looked tired, yeah. In theory I was expecting a lot, but when he then lost to her cash, who seems to set it all working. Exactly. And her cash beat him in, you know, seems to kind of get the better of curious. But yeah, I think Nick obviously needed some rest. He's played a lot of tennis lately. A lot of doubles as well. So I think maybe he's fresher for this week, but yeah, I would argue that that defeat against cash maybe will help him in the long run. I think it would have been great. I think if he had continued, he had a great win obviously against the top seed Daniel Medvedev really, really great match really fun match to watch in the second round. But yeah, I think he just ultimately just ran out of energy and I think this will do him the world of good going into Cincinnati and U.S. open when he's able to have a moment to recharge after the exertions of Washington before this week. A lot of tennis and in really kind of tough conditions as well. We've seen a lot of three matches go three hours plus this week on the men's tournament and in the women's tournament. So I don't think they were the most favorable conditions. And yeah, he still played some really great tennis, but yeah, I think just gave out on him in the end. Yeah, and understandably so. But other players, therefore, you know, had a great week as we mentioned Jack Draper, getting through to the quarters. But significantly getting that wind over stefanos sits past his first top ten win of his career. And he'll be, I think, to the top 70 in the rankings next week, which is fantastic. I know, absolutely great, great win against Cisco passes a little bit unfortunate, I think, against Monfils one through on a retirement, but a real landmark landmark week for him. It felt like Kim a landmark week for British tennis given the results we had with even Evans reaching the semifinals. I was wondering if he was going to do his own cam Dorian Indian Wells. Great way to get Tommy Paul in the quarters. I did not think that was going to happen, especially after that first set when he lost 6 one, but yeah, some real great standout performances from the Brits and yeah, that win against his surpass for Draper. I do think he was a little bit helped by cis bass there was a lot of forehand unforced errors there. I think that was over 25 plus from sister pass. So I think he was helped a little bit, but at the same time, he is going to just get better and better and better and to see him kind of come on to the tour at the top level into this tournament as a qualifier, yeah, it's very, very encouraging, isn't it? It is. It's what you need to be doing, making splashes and waves with those sorts of winds. Brits continuing their success in the doubles as well, Neil scruff ski winning the title with Wesley Cole. So 6th title together and obviously Dan Evans getting to the doubles final as well with John pierce, so having a great week all round really, but coming up short on titles for Dan. I mean, just on that because we have just had the announcement of the Great Britain Davis Cup team. Jack Draper isn't in there, Andy Murray is in there. Joe Salisbury is in there. Neil skapski isn't in there. I mean, based on these results, are you a little bit surprised by that or are you think that's fair enough team to have nori Evans Murray and Salisbury? Yeah, I mean, J Salisbury has one men's doubles slams. Whereas Neil has one mixed slams, but not a men's double slam. So arguably, you know, at the most senior stages, J Salisbury is more proven, he's been doubles world number one. So I think you kind of have to go for Joe, although of late, Neil, I think, has been the one most informative. I think it's hard not to go against the world number one doubles player, isn't it? Exactly. Even there's a part of me that I do genuinely think, I do think scup scheme arguably plays better with the other players in the team. Would you I suppose you can't not take Andy Murray, but well. I mean, I just feel that a skupski Salisbury doubles partnership makes more sense. I mean, where's Andy Murray going to come into this? Because surely nor in Evans are going to play the ceilings robbers. Well, yeah, I suppose. I mean, couldn't he just be like an honorary captain along with Leon Smith? I don't know. I want to see Andy there, obviously, but it's hard because I think there's an argument to say at the moment it would be more beneficial to have Jack Draper there than Andy Murray, you know? Yeah. And also thinking for the future, great experience with Jack Draper. So, I mean, it's a tough decision when you've got so many good players. We shouldn't be moaning because we should remember the days where it was just hemmen and rosette skin. That was it. So it was like, who else is going to join? But yeah, I mean, I think, yeah, that would be an interesting to see. And I think, obviously, Dan Evans, for the doubles rubber as well, to partner. His doubles is really come along this week this season, hasn't. I think there's been a few kind of iffy parts in the singles. He's obviously had a great week. This week, but there's been a few tournaments where I think he has been a little bit disappointing, but certainly I think one of the highlights of his season so far has been his doubles game because it's not something I really associate with Dan Evans, but he's been playing some he's been getting far in some very high profile double swords this season.
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"That didn't happen. He beat Yannick sinner as well. Holger rune. And then he defeated Jack Draper and Dan Evans, the two Brits to get to the final, and he only dropped, he dropped his first set against against Dan Evans in the tournament, but yeah, he was very, very clinical up to that point. And I think a big part of that was his second serve. You saw that in the final as well. I think he protected his second serve so well. And her cash didn't win as many points, I think, as he would have liked to on the Kenya bus the second serve. And I think that was a factor throughout the week and we know him as a player who, again, from the back of the court is an absolute rock, not very easy to break down a very, very consistent player. And again, I thought that was going to be one of the deciding factors against her couch. Because her cash is a player who, on his day, is fantastic. He beat Roger Federer at Wimbledon and when his serve works and his serve in that plus one shot, I think he is a very hard player to handle. But I think also there are times where through his matches, his level drops, he's not as consistent as maybe someone like her a carreno booster is. And I think that's what happened in this final. And I think maybe fatigue was one of those reasons, but cranio pistol was just playing some lights out tennis that was unbelievable at times. There was one shot in particular which I'm sure is going to end up on the highlight reels at the end of the season when he chased the ball at the back of the court, managed to scramble it in on an ended up hitting a winner against her cash and yeah, it just shows that he is just a player who is just, it's just paying very, very good tennis. At 31 at 31 years old. Yeah, and he said afterwards, you know, that throughout this year, it's been quite difficult for him because he's lost a lot early in tournaments and to players he really shouldn't be losing to. But he's sort of managed to keep believing that he would get back up there and he is currently at his lowest ranking in about two years and obviously as a result of winning this tournament. He'll be back up to, I think, 14 in the world, which is not far off where he was this time last year, and I think with PCB, yeah, he's very, he's very consistent and he does get like a big win here or there, but what has impressed me this week is that, you know, he's beaten a number of players on the trot that he, you know, these are players he needs to be beating week in week out if he wants to keep on beating these winning these tournaments and he also got to win over Jack Draper so Jack Draper had a great tournament. Didn't he get into the quarters? I think it was and Dan Evans getting to the semi. So great week for British China's generally as well. The one thing about Corinna busta winning is I mean, how surprised are you by it? Because I think there's an argument to say, I mean, we had Taylor Fritz winning earlier in the season. We've had cam nori as a masters champion. We are getting to a point where it's not necessarily always a player from the big three or even the big two with Djokovic and Nadal obviously the Canadian open for the guys. This time around featured none of Federer Djokovic or Nadal. How surprised are you the fact that we're getting these winners at a masters level because for me it's like it's great and I love seeing first time moss is 1000 winners, but it feels like it's becoming more and more frequent whereas maybe a few years ago it was like, oh, he's going to win it now. Is it going to be federal as it could be bury? Is it going to be Djokovic or is it going to be that out? Well, there's only two of them left in that cohort at which when it really and if they're not there, then it's anyone's game. I think yeah, PCB is absolutely in that category of players that can grab a mouse's title and I've certainly see he's been to assume semis of masters before and I think looking back it's not a surprise at all really. I was the one thing I was surprised about was that her cash didn't win that final because he had never lost an ATP final going into it. You know, he was 5 and O and actually there's only two men in the open era who have won their first 6 finals do you know who those players are because I bet you for a Millie in a million years you'd never guess who they would be. Yeah, I've got an absolutely no idea, Kim. So I mean, this could have been like a part of the courts or some game, but let's put this other Ernest school bus and Martin Clinton. I mean. Great, great records, 6, 6 finals, 6 wins from 6 finals. Complete contrast to FAA.
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"He's really charming and I'm chuffed to bits for him really. And he'll face Alex demon nor in the third round who beat Jack Draper tonight on court one Draper, I mean, yeah, he lost tonight and he faded quite dramatically in set three and four. In fact, he seemed to just suddenly hit a wall, play brilliantly for the first two sets, gets to a second set tiebreak, and loses its 7 love, and it's pretty much game over from that point, gives a double breakdown in the third. Stayed with it mentally, really stayed with it, but just didn't have it physically, and he's such a physical player, that drop off his massive, but he'll get there. He's a pleaser player. So exciting. This will be good for him. Catherine and I watched the first two sets together one 7 5, the other one 7 6 the other way. And it was electric. I mean, they were both playing. Well, it's a great combination. This bulldozing big hitter who's running like crazy in Jack Draper trying to bully the opponent and demon or who's just roadrunner. Chasing everything down, staying in rallies. And he eventually outlasted him he showed Jack Draper what a pro at this level is all about and what Draper needs to get to physically if he's going to be able to maximize and fulfill his potential, but you can't get away from the excitement that Draper generates from all of us because I keep I can not watch him without thinking of Andy Roddick in terms of the way he comes to get you. He's coming after you. He's going to let you have his game. And okay he's served maybe not quite a violent as Roddick's was, but it's serious, brute force behind it. His forehand maybe even more so and that is so full of topspin. You don't know whether the ball is going to land in or out because it dips so dramatically. And he's another one of these that I think health permitting we could have a decade of moments of Jack Draper at Wimbledon because the noise that greeted the end of that first set made the hairs on my neck stand up and just instantly because it was so loud. People really love that guy. They love watching his tennis. Yeah, he's a good ticket to have, and I'm certain that this experience seeing an experiencing what's required will make him better will make him go away and get there because that's the kind of character that he is. Back to the women's draw, should we cover eager schwarze, who we've all picked at the title, I think it's impossible not to pick for the title really because of the win streak she's on, which is now up to 37. I think, which is extraordinary and continues to be extraordinary, but it's a little bit like Rafael Nadal at the moment, isn't it? It's not hugely convincing tennis. She's having she's having spells where she gets totally in command and then huge drop offs where she's spraying errors left right and center how worried should be map. Um, difficult question because she's so good now. I think the work she did in Australia actually this year where she won a lot of matches not playing her best. That was the real theme of she on tech in that tournament where she was talking about just how important it is for her to get good at that. And she sort of hasn't needed that skill ever since because she's just been at her best crashing people for the last four months or so. But I do think at the moment she's really not not that comfortable on the grass. She spoke a lot about how she likes to hit top spin with her forehand and on the grass. She's really trying to flatten it out. And it does result in a lot of errors. You can sometimes just watch her for 5 or ten minutes and it just just seems like she's missing and missing by big amounts. She was a breakdown in the first set, lost the second set. So she was, I think it was a real scare today. I think she was actually quite close to going out to a lucky loser Leslie, patina kurkova. Yeah, I think that's not the right accident that I put on there. She's Dutch. Well not to Russian. I still enjoy it. Anyway. Let's go with it. I think she'd only won one WTA main draw match. All season prior to Wimbledon. So, you know, not a player with a huge pedigree at all. I did think she played a lot better in the final set. She saved break points in the very first game of that set, seemed to relax and she did cut out the errors. But she's got quite a tough straw. It's got elysee corneille next and she will need to be better. A lot better. At least I can't like grass and knows how to cause an upset. Exactly. Has had a big win here. Yeah. Corner beats Serena Williams. Yeah. Look, she wants to obviously still the favorite for that match. But she won't win if she plays like she did today. She needs to be better. But I'm excited to see shante tested in that way. By cornet by some one who all, you know, not go, who will believe, I think, who will walk on court believing. Yeah. Do you know a word you word you came up with years ago, Catherine that I was just occurred to me in regard to elysee corneille. Gnarly. Gnarly. Definitely didn't come up with that word, but use it more than your average person, definitely. I'd never heard of it until you used it. I've definitely used it to describe Bianca andreescu before. Because I bet she is utterly gnarly..
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"Local tennis leagues and now we're going to move back Chris to day one, the start of Wimbledon. It was, I mean, it wasn't a picturesque start to it was great. It was miserable. There was tennis, then there wasn't tennis, Kim was Kim was camping. And interestingly, actually, there weren't that as many people as she was expecting. And, you know, actually just hearing hearing some stats as well being put around on social media. Just generally attendance was quite low for an opening day, which I don't know if that core organizers by surprise, but it certainly caught me by surprise because I think they were the lowest attendance figures for the first day of a tournament since 2007. So I was sort of surprised by that because I would have thought, you know, Wimbledon surround everyone wants to get out again, unrestricted, make the most of, you know, nice day out, but it seems quite a few people stayed away. Yeah, I saw on Twitter that people were talking about, you know, the fact that there were empty stands for Andy Murray and Heather Watson, you could see it on the TV. You could an I thought, you know what? It was probably at the start of a set and people have been in there for two sets and need to go out and get something to wait. I thought it might be one of those moments. But it doesn't seem to be the case. So it seems like numbers are lower and I always thought that the first airborne model it was never worth even bothering queuing for because people have the whole weekend. They can start to queue in a Sunday, they don't have work on a Sunday or most people don't. So I think that's really telling and maybe it's a sign of, you know. Why do you think that is? I feel like it could be a combination of things. I think obviously a lot of the last year was always going to be a really, really popular one. And so I think maybe it's a case where it's like that immediate euphoria. That do you remember that cheer on said to court? Oh yeah. The vaccines and hooray for the vaccines. Yeah, it's just that euphoric feeling is getting back out there. There's always going to be a bit of a letdown, but I mean, I think you've got more theories than I do. I was just genuinely surprised because all sporting events seemed to get bigger and bigger and bigger these days. I do wonder about, you know, the cost of living at the moment in the UK and whether that has had effect on specifically kind of the queue and immediate ticket sales. I understand that people who got tickets in the ballot that wouldn't have affected them as much. But certainly I think people at the moment may be feeling the pinch. And as a result of that, they can't afford to spend a hundred quid on a nice day out at Wimbledon. And as a result of that, they've maybe stayed away from the tournament. Potentially international would think about international audiences because I know that there's a lot of masks still being born internationally and potentially especially in the U.S. so potentially that some of those international seats that would be bought traditionally by those kind of tools, I see lots of tools that people organize, maybe there's less international interest and maybe there was more last year because as you say, it was like the big get yourself back out there. You can go and you haven't been able to go for a few years, but yeah, it's very unusual at Wimbledon. Will it be interesting to see if that continues because you'd expect going on later in the tournament more exciting matches, getting towards finding out who our champions are. I hope that we do obviously get to see a 100% capacity, but yeah, a little bit of it feels like a slow start on day one. And who knows, maybe an argument again, like other grand sams like the French French Open, start on the Sunday on the weekend, you know, when people aren't necessarily working because obviously that could have been a factor as well, the fact that just a lot of people work on a Monday. So we're back in the office, maybe it's that, maybe it's that Joel. Could be that. I'll happily take some remote working from SW 19. But yeah, let's talk about the action. Center court, similar to rapha, as I said, at the beginning, had Novak Djokovic against son Wu Quan came through 6 three three 6 6 three 6 four game didn't really have it his own way the whole time was able to get it done in the end, picked up a nice little record as well, became the first man or woman first player to win 80 matches at each of the grand slams, which is very, very impressive. But yeah, another sort of surprising, slow start. But perhaps maybe not as surprising as rapha because I remember last year, Jack Draper took the first set of Novak Djokovic and so from that point of view, I wasn't I was less surprised, but you just think, world number one on his home court hasn't lost on this court. I think back to 2017 against Thomas Berdych in his quarterfinals. So again, from that perspective, still left me a little bit like, oh, what's going on here? As you said, it's not unusual. He's lost sets to say Jack Draper, brooksby, like a he does tend to lose sets to players. It feels like he does have these lapses now more than before. Where he is chucking in a set that is to his opponent. Well, I think that's actually unfair on 'cause I actually think he played very, very well in that second set. He totally deserved to win that second set to be honest. But does he deserve to win a set against an informed Novak Djokovic? No, his level. And so much higher. I do have to interrupt this announcement because Serena Williams has just lost in a third set tiebreak. In three hours and ten minutes. Oh, that is really painful. Get the violins out. Get the violins out. I'm going to find it hard, again, I find it hard to concentrate and now this game over for me, so Joel, you might be on your own for the rest of the pod, but I wish he's going to do a monologue. Yeah, exactly. We can talk more about less people in the cost of living. But I think it's definitely a case that, yeah, I wish you'd pay these born and played singles because she said she was ready to play some goals. But you're really sad about this, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. Tell your voices, your voices. I think she is probably the greatest athlete of all time, the controversial, maybe not controversial. So this is a real blow, but hopefully you should be at the U.S. open. And now back to Djokovic..
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"On, I think, you know, he'll be very happy with how his return to the game has gone. You surprised with how well he's acclimatized back to the tour, given we've seen other players, I think, have gay through surgery, come back onto the tour and they've really had to take their time, I feel finding their feet. I mean, even like Dominic team at the moment is sort of acknowledged that he's got to go back to the challenger circuit just to find more match practice. And I get that, you know, I don't feel a lot of injuries can be compared like for like, but certainly for baritone, three months off. To come back into this groove, almost like he's never left. We've been surprised by how well he's a climb ties himself winning back to back trophies? Yeah, like you said, I think every injury is different every surgery is different, but I think yeah, he's come back very fresh and fighting and just in control and calm and, you know, it would be nice if Dominic team could have done the same, but obviously his situations. He was out for a lot longer, I think baritone was out for three months, which is still a long time, but perhaps not as long as to truly affect him on a greater scale. But I think he'll be feeling fit and fresh, hopefully, going into the championships. And I mean, I think he's come back at the perfect time. You know, he loves the grass got quite evident. He's hungry. Yeah, exactly. It would be just happy to be back playing again. And I think anything will be a bonus, you know? On top of that. So, you know, unfortunately, he will lose his ranking points, regardless of what he does at Wimbledon, but I'm sure that's much rather obviously go deep and so cool, though. I don't feel like he cares. No, I think he's just sort of like super chilled, you know, and his Hugo boss. He's a very popular winner, I think at queens and he's well liked by British audiences. And I feel like he's the housewives favorite on the tour. You have said this to us before Joel is that something to do with the fact that he's quite pleasant to look at. Yeah, I don't know. Probably shouldn't be saying that's probably an appropriate, but he knows he's a nice fellow, isn't he? So I think he goes down very well in the UK and people will remember his run to the final last year and I'm sure there'll be British audiences at Wimbledon will be cheering him on to go one step further. I mean, it was nice that British audiences had someone they liked to cheer for because as you said you alluded to earlier antimatter wasn't there, had to pull out quite late on with injury. And then we didn't see many Brits go far, apart from Ryan peniston. He was there, well, our last remaining brick got to the semi, not the semi file as the quarterfinals, lost to cry out of it. In three sets. So given that coronavirus went on to reach the final, I thought that was a pretty good effort from Ryan Pennsylvania. I mean, that whole top half really did open up with Henderson's win against the top seed, Casper Ruud in the first round. I mean, I remember Kim last week, we were, we were talking about why didn't Feliciano Lopez get the wild card instead of instead of penicillin and yeah, pedestrian really justified that decision really good win against food in two tie breaks and then followed it up against seren dolo in three sets and I think he was a breakdown in that third set. So playing some really, really good tennis and he had his opportunities against carnivore. But yeah, it wasn't to be, but a great story for him. You know, I was reading up on his career and he's 26 years old. He's going to be inside the top 150 this week. So it's been great for him and he has an interesting story in the sense of, you know, he had cancer when he was a child and he had to go through surgery and chemotherapy and he's really kind of spoken about his situation and just being able to kind of raise that as a platform given his success. I think he spoke about young lives versus cancer as the organization that sent him a very nice message on his victories and yeah, it's great to see him, I think, you know, I think realizes his potential because he certainly been a player who's been around for a while. A little bit like cam nori was on the college route into tennis and yeah, it's great to see him thriving on the biggest stage on the ATP tour. Yeah, and he's got a wildcard into Wimbledon. So we'll have to see if he can, you know, how well he can do there, but I mean, he's a player that I've known the name, but I've never really properly watched him, and I didn't really know a lot about him. So yeah, really nice that he's been able to share his story and hopefully raise awareness and be a bit of a role model as well for young people with cancer talking about what he experienced, I think when he was just one year old. So obviously, you know, really positive week for Ryan peniston. You know, cam nori and Dan Evans were out in the first round. So it was good that British audiences had someone to cheer for. I mean, Jack Draper did get a win over Taylor Fritz, which was really good. And I've just got a modern actually at the moment. He's a set in a breakup against Jenson brooksby. So Jack Draper's form from this year kind of continuing, you know, he's been racking up titles on the challenger circuit. He's in the top hundred now. Yeah, after that win at Queen. So really, really positive stuff from Draper and obviously we saw him take a set of Djokovic last year at Wimbledon. So we know he loves the grass court and he's already impressed us with what he has shown when he's been given these opportunities..
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"We made these predictions before round. One happened so i have gone for came so we have jackovitch captured curb to salamanca. My picks of this. I've got djokovic winning. I think i think he will do not surprise there. I had carry catch. It'll get to the semi-finals say to see him. Go round one not gonna lie bit gutting afford it was a potential banana-skin thought he was a thought he was gonna come through it all of the all. I've got bled getting to round full. I think he might lose about t- surgery or maybe even asia. Elliot see but i think maybe similar to i think you know they carry us think that will be found out maybe by someone like an nba in terms of that frock solid wool. The dave yeah. He's what i bet. Judas i just think will maybe just have any ancestors. I'm i'm saying around four rebe live an end for the women of curb a going out in round three Which i'm feeling a little bit confident about. I think she will lose to cocoa goal of goldfish gilbert getting to the semi finals and enough got sabbath. Lanker getting to the quarterfinals. I she will lose to critique uva in the quarterfinals. Think i've she's the second seat. I don't see her getting to the final. I just think. I just think that critique of is a bit too small for saba elaine. We'll be able to be able to nullify the threat that she poses with her power. If that match happens. I have no idea if it will but that's why i go for. I know what you mean. joe. I mean an. I've gone for quite similar to be fair. I think people have obviously gone back to win. I had catch of quarterfinal. I thought it was going to get there. But least but alas rebuff. I've gone for the third round. Because i think he would be due to play front. Oh and i've got tefa to get the upset their cab. I've gone around four. Because i think that she will get through against either stevens. Oh golf i think it would be. But she's going to lead to soccer and then push. I've got semifinals leasing party and sampling of quote runner up losing bharti so we will see how that pans out but yeah we'll be updating of as it goes along and i think being three people who've got Catch not correct with the first round loss. Say well done. I think it was chrisny. Bone home. Brian and topspin lauper say weld onto ye three because much nelson baseball. So let's just quickly look at it. The night session got yokich coming up against hungary denmark and then we've got on dress gay Kind of the defending champion. Saying she wasn't there last year Against goalie based now sentencing upset with golly bitch gay. I think golly bitch condemn throw spanner in the works. Definitely an and we'd actually. I'm just looking at your jovic. Rudin that that means sounds a little bit like eat a with ruinous. Another upcoming player From from denmark Very similar sort of licking match on paper to you. Know when jackovitch faced jack draper Women another upcoming player from britain from great britain. I don't i don't envisage gruden getting nicking. Asset like jack draper did can see that can quite i can see that being quite Quite quite adamant tree and straightforward. I may even think re might be Overawed by the situation. I think he will just take it all in as an as an learning a learning experience but yeah i think certainly on ash. I think that the more interesting match might be undress versus. Call you bitch match because certainly the foam on the rescues in the moment. It's not like it was a few seasons guy wet. You would have said this. This is a match where she would just win. Retain maybe even in straight-sets. But you sat anything call you. Bishop go a chance to win in three. Yeah absolutely and then. On armstrong with allison risk against pepe tanka. And then we go taylor. Fritz against adm feel like fritz adm could be five sets I think that that's pre eat cool I think fritz. Might she come through that one but with with the home crowd advantage but we will see where we eating. I was in the morning but we'll be back in two days time thursday evening. Uk time to look back on the second round and all the action is going to happen. This is enjoyed listening to this round one round by round. Catch up with the passing shot. Remember if you wanna stay out today on all the action at.
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"A good attitude and just a couple more questions. Pedro from dunlop hound. Meet ask you what does not be using. I'm using the fx three hundred and the blue racket and is a funny story at she. Because she's bob la. Until i was fifteen and then in two thousand eighteen i met pedro Not many people using rockets on a started using Always thinking wow. This is incredible racket. I can understand why so many people that use it. But as i as i started playing with it. I think they've really picked up. Philosophy is so again mobilize iraqi and they should because the equipment in the wreckage is is is really really good. So i'm i'm very lucky to be part of the the team will be in james. Come did you convince. Simon car to switch the done love. I think we're in practice. One day he picks up iraqians start using it. Ends like wow. This is archie a very very good racket. He i think he changed this well to to the racket in. He's doing pretty well as well. So anyone else should do as well. Nice and final question. This is going out the tuesday a week one. Us open who's gonna take the man's in the women's title in your eyes. I said a few times. I think is gonna win the us. Open this year if policy in getting This year will win. I think it comes from from olympics since nazi. The houses is really big. I think it just gives him not Extra based on on on the women's side. I think aussie kobe win. In our watching She's she's very good players. Watch lots of scales Already good heading on show as well. I think my On bossy we'll check back in. Which after but jack thank you very much your time good look in your next challenger over in coamo and yet thanks for your time and best of look. Enjoy going to look forward to seeing it. Move up those rankings. Even quaker on. I hope you enjoyed that episode with jack. He seems so level headed on a look forward to some great success over the komen months and years. I'll be back next week until then enjoy the us open by..
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"It was mason. Well congrats on putting a dent on the match. Anyway you know you at least you showed up many times you know. The occasion could be too much for some players. You're definitely there to play so well done there. And why we're speaking of jock veg. Who is your goat. So we honestly be nice to me of seattle van because he's from the uk and he was always. Someone always excited to watch. when i was growing. 'cause that british press and abroad anything either on deal rafeh. You know watching raffle went on young amazing. Always used to buy was wearing stuff out. So i think him being less deal help. Stop the at both both incredible plant federal. I guess i love watching good tenants other necessarily have one favorite knife and has anything changed. Since that much from a media perspective. I guess goal exposure during those two weeks the aspect is often these two weeks event. It's back to back to grind challenges trying to get my ranking beth. Tonight year on obviously the media of it dies down a little bit because at the time of the guessing exposure and in my mind not the end of best round of got a of work today Already thinking about any of that too much to. You're you're definitely right there..
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"Braxton with ms renting stands with these top twenty guys yeah. I think it's just that engagement everything they do on and off the col- thing the just general quality is very high in everything they do. They do have the best ability. I think i think that taught level is no shortcuts. Everything has to be done very well. I guess that's the same level. But it's it's highlighted at the top level for and i'm watching. Those guys is a really good for me because you know the more exposed to that the more can learn from from other people in on what they do what they do while melissa stott said it was definitely a good thing to see nice and you mentioned murray online. A bit. how he's helped you. He's being an influence on your career to remember the first time you saw and the player the first time you met him actually yes marmon but watching. I'd never met him before he won. Wimbledon two thousand thirteen on. I was not much. He was is definitely very inspiring. Be nice for someone lot said to win. Come through the adversity. He did to get to that point which is designated m patients me and in the last few years of tonight him. He's he's really really good guy. You know you you so a win authority one of these things. He's very very down to a very knowledgeable about tennis. Overstay in any he gives me a lot of advice and I think it's been a tough years for him. But i think you know he's definitely so hungry to to wanna get control in the beyond that more than think friend young play in seeing what he's had to deal with. The mental strength is shown In august his thing the definitely can learn from Because everyone loves on these fundings just easy. Great pled stuff. That's the main thing. He's he's a great player in. It's just we just want as much fussell. Can you share or if you can share about what he said too that as resonate with you the most i think just he's easily see very tactically away. i think it's just when it comes to physically. Just he said to me the policy such a massive partly game. I think maybe when he was younger he maybe wasn't as physically strong than those few years. What he really thought strong on started to do incredibly well on the toll You know when. I think of andy now. I think of someone who's obviously environmentally strong extremely physically strong You know bid injuries. He's had the Definition not in the is that he was number one. I think i think that's the main thing. Nothing he said folks on his county especially younger. Age visits israeli key to development. We had casper route on the show a few episodes ago and bit younger the new at the time. I think when this happened but his dad had said to me. Look you need to take a year off the game with a year from the tour as junior career so he spent a year. We didn't play any matches on the junior tour to get strong because they knew it's really important so it's it's a really good point on the made t. there and so let's push this onto the wimbledon draw for this year where number one seed jock rich comes out and he gets your wildcard. Arman this coming queens and thinking about good good. Few wins confident. I'm we're in. We're when we're in writing. Which is the training any on adams looking at a screen turnaround out my headphones on and as round as the see my name appear next jock bitch and it was quite funny The nina water water experienced that was man and to be on. It's been struggling with injury a little bit. So maybe maybe at this point in monterey it was it was good to play jovic when on nineteen on on a big goal i that and get exposure. Of course you know. Wanted to gun winning stuff. I think i think it was. It was great monmouth maine indefinitely. Something i'll take on In my career official at what was the feeling walking out into the core. Just you know santa court. You're playing jackovitch here in your name. It was a great moment. And you know of of c- stroke mitch from a young agent on his mind what he's done so to begin on goal with against On that big colt was Ms very was a very good moment. Me my unit. I think of the tennis sometimes. You just on this roller coaster. Sometimes you get rewarded for your hard work. So that was a a special moments me. What was the game plan I guess it's tough. Getting some of the i think the main thing for me was the the you know. The joel came out three days before the tournament. So you had to three days Think about the five Rich Attending not really think about it too much. I want uncle. The game plan is just to to play my games best. Possibly could. I think it was very difficult because the cool was abc's streaming slippy especially to stop. He's tough to play. I think for him as well. It's tough to play. Good tenants are the side of the net on my side effects that i think he shared his quality. And maybe my level drop today and said so. Yeah it is what it is but like. I said great. Christ parents me. Just turn back. You take the first set what you didn't show show it a bit of emotion not too much until you. Well control there. What was the feeling inside. Was the heart race. Or you're like i keep this going. Yeah i mean new. I'd saved a lot of break points against So off think a couple of games lot forty on one side. I knew that he he had me a few times on the roads and also got maybe a bit lucky when he said a couple of times or whatever like that so i tried to keep a cool head and not get too excited. The i won the sata. Whatever i know. The i've got two more sets the win. I know so. I'd watched him avoided him in so many other grand slums in he might lose. The first set will the fetched three sets. Needs still think nice probably gonna chlorate back Against the young guy mazzetti. French news to down and goes on to win the match quite comfortably off the vast i definitely thought i need to keep my head down. She tried to walk into a but yeah he's just took it in.
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"jack draper" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"Senior train. And getting ready for you know from going from grand fancy g one tournaments fancy grand slams back to the futures levels I'll say i didn't do any profit training and in terms of professional staff. Until i was maybe fifteen sixteen. Still going to school when i was younger. Still doing other things. But then as soon as Tennis became a real parties me. That's when i started training full-time in it was. It was definitely a bit of a a roadblock because my body wasn't used to doing that my mind wasn't used to you know will this exposure to amazing tennis but will not hard work so it was difficult period visual in terms of out. But i think. I was lucky when i started the always on a good run of form and the ave to hit the ground. Running in the in the future is now few results straightaway. Which futures did you play in by. So my first point was in belgium and then went on the secondly to qualify and make the semis twins last year and then we were lucky at tongue. 'cause i had a couple of fifteen days in uk. Though i did. I did well in so i think i think by the end of that year or is already maybe four hundred so i got through quite quickly and then obviously we stopped with the ics. The toll ranking system. They changed it was a little bit ago apnea for a couple years after that. There was a lot of people. Mona better. put your first point. How much did it mean to you. I know you probably taught you get many more but to you. Remember the moment that much. Any pressure yemen. The on it was it was in belgium. Played the number two seed which was On i was planning to get tunnel. So i think a one in three sets in it was. It was a great moment on. It was funny. Actually because i got my first point knows looking into kicking on to the back end of the tournament then i came up against discuss second round. Who didn't miss a bull so it was it was a bit of a he didn't have a ranking anything 'cause it just it was a good reminder so men's tennis while buffets with how hot i would have to work so get policies and if you put it in very short what to use the difference between junior and senior tennis apart from the train and the hard work but the mentality these players tell us. What's the difference between you know. Playing attorney gerald fighting first family versus sixteen year old on his summer holidays at an event. Physical is a big part that the mainly just say the difference between every level is just meant mentally in. How how you with things how you deal with us. How you deal with pressure you know as i think. The mental side of the game is so so key like Going up the levels You know even now. I think i'm right to sixty in obstacle such long way to go but definitely coming from the genius. Lot was a big shock. Me in terms of coming into the men's look. I think you've done really well. You've managed to get through the future's really quickly which is important because people get stuck there for years and so well done there and you've moved through challenges and got some great results which you talk about but at what sort of team do you have. Do you work with a psychologist that now. That things are moving on so kindly Mamane coaches ryan jones often with four years now on the other side of things. Yeah the the l. Ta helped me in terms of You know support on the program who esp which they do the plays which is is great and yeah they as part of that deal have access to a psychologist but to be honest Tennessee working things out yourself. Unfailing out often learning community states yourself. Say i don't think that's a massive part of it for me. For the people is subsidy every beneficial. And sometimes i do speak to the person if i want to offload about anything on nice nice and so let's push onto this year. You had a great year this year. A bit of ups and downs. But i think mainly ups troll back to miami. You're playing at cushion. I never finance his name. Maybe you'll say it the right way kukushkin kokoschka. Now we go so yeah. You're playing great there and you collapse. Which of the video at the time quite scary but first of all. What would a temperatures like out there how we feel and before you were on court. I mean i I went into this year for the underprepared. Five lucky stars year. I also put in a good preseason not covet on january fifteenth and then all start recovery not. I didn't take any time to training block printing. I went straight into tournaments. And things. I think that was a big mistake for monklands the because for those few months i was very tight on tennis. Cool on just very sluggish in It did have a big effect on me at the time on. So when i came into miami is a great opportunity for me to play that level in practice. Amazing guys in begging someone like christian. I probably wasn't ready physically a to be able to cope with the demands of of level in those conditions. I think probably it was fifty degrees but very very high humidity. I think a lot of players struggling debts uganda's not not just myself like i. I watched a quiet. The top says they seem to be struggling a little bit as well as i wasn't alone but definitely i. I was probably ready for that at not giving on when you fell over the coleman or just happened before you know it or it was vow floral start feeling very busy and then i think i ended up playing a few more games to the point where i suggest i think march disclosed in the point. Not just i think. I just meant before Annan getting off into so being what what's going on you know. It was a bit of a shocked to be on us. The showed me that. I needed to get in good physical shape and i move on instead of experiences. Probably a good thing to me. Go kick off the israeli. It was so. Were you drinking just water. Or did you have any special salts. You were drinking at the time or is that. Has that changed. Since i was i was doing the right things i think. Maybe i was a little bit dehydrated and due to the conditions. I think the players Losing a lot of fluids on tense. Coaxes sweating so much. I thought at the time. I did the right things. I just think. That probably wasn't ready physically. And that was a big factor about it with two shows the importance of being fed and the extra strength. And whatever else you need at that higher level come on a few months. You get to queens. He obviously got things back together. Worked on your fitness on. You have to two great matches with a sinner and blake. Tell me what did it feel. Like of sleet. They're good guys to get in round one. You're comfortable on the grass. How did you feel that. They're taken down these guys. Yeah it was. It was a great moment for me. Because i think when when i think of myself being talked playoffs he'd leave walking. I can do that. The is one thing thinking it saying but it's another thing actually being adult play and the kids on a girls school. Foglia bit unrealistic It would be a much better win. If i want mom cleo hall but it was a great moment putting of hogwash to get stopped point and obviously tennessee's has ups and downs so to be someone like cinna booklet on the uncle with who's having a great year was was really special men especially Watch cleans growing up. Analysts have been been watching the likes of center in that selloff years admiring. What he's he's doing the tennis world i think he's ranked number fifteen now. I remember him from junior days. It was definitely a really good amendments may end on. It was a big confidence. Baseman confidence booster and do what he learned from these guys on the practice court now. You've got these tournaments..
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"jack draper" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"Check after instagram account. Okay here's jack jack. Welcome to the functional tennis. Podcast how are you. I'm we'll get thank you how you. I'm very good thanks And join a great ours. Summer's day very rare. But tell me you're in italy right. Now what's the weather like there or it's Very hot very humid. Unlike england during this year seems to be the weather seems to be quite bought over that right now but here is definitely. Call your at the right place. Yeah what we're gonna do is of sleet. We have to record an episode a few months ago before whole wimbledon ting started when you to great room which offered you gave him quite a scare. You had him on his ass a few times put. Let's we'll talk about that in a while. Let's let's take a back where tennis start for you. Tennis me started with. My mom was has cellphone Family they will play tennis. Say my mom was a very good player when she was younger. I'm basically will start me a local practice full down my leg who club in the uk and saas tomorrow's born because she can leave me alone in the house. When i was little so she bought me to tennis club. while she was coaching. I would just pick up a racket and it went is narrated so you're from surrey. Certain into uk is it. Yeah i was. I was born in boston now. Is that near the national training center. Where the closest sandra to you. So connie i live in leatherhead in uk. But i'd say i'd say hamilton. Yeah from another head is about a forty minute. Drive and then also trained in north london with my coach ryan jones and simon and the rest of the guys. I must about nine and a half drive. I'm mixed between the two okay. And so how'd you. Junior career headed that evolve. We just planeloads. We manage school at the same time. Yeah i mean. I was i would say always had a bounce until i was about fifteen sixteen. I went to score. Played of other sports in tennessee. Always probably the main one. the Still played football take creek On the sports and are just as i got older. I think started playing more after news. play lots of tennis shoes on younger thing. I was in five ten zero on the fourteen on. Yeah as as as gone above. I've always done pretty well in the i-if genius I think my career high was maybe seven. I think that was based off my wimbledon run. Actually because in a lot of the other grand slams attended note today too but But yeah i had already great unique Funds was the goal always to go pro. Yeah my coach ryan on. He was very keen on me. developing early in going into the men's game things out in june by good. But i think it's not realistic in in the real world. Men's tennis things change a lot when you go into the futures and you gotta start from the bottom ready or not was his mindset and definitely boy in style in and started playing futures earlier than most people. How old were you when you started playing futures off the junior wimbledon. Not sworn i stopped this treatment. Is these women on before before With both said on that would be my lost woman while athens so i would say maybe when when i was sixteen when i started going into the futures and it was a good way to end a wimbledon final wimbledon. Tell me did you feel at home on the grass. Yeah definitely it will I've played in previous years. Played genius before whenever it got to the grand slams imaging events i always tended to sort of get a bit nervous tighten up but this time because i think i news my loss woman and i had nothing to lose really. I wasn't heidi ryan trenton. So i had level to to do it was just about sharing. I guess it was a great time to do it. And it gave me confidence to go to the rest of the year Johnson headed the mindset.
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"jack draper" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Up at Bloomberg dot com slash professional, says Bloomberg Daybreak Asia It's 45 minutes past the hour. Time for a check of sports from around the world. Here's Dan Schwartzman. Thanks, Dag. Big day Euro 2020 is three time European champion Spain overcomes an own goal 20 minutes into the match. The knock of Croatia 5 to 3, scoring twice an extra time have answered the quarterfinals. Shocker does occur, though, as defending World Cup champion France is eliminated by Switzerland five to foreign pens as killing nabobs trying to stop by goalkeeper Young summer after three or regulation in extra time. The Swiss, who now move on to the quarter finals, came back from the late 321 deficit to send the match extra time by scoring in the 81st and 90th minutes upsets going down in the first round at Wimbledon, starting out the women's draw as long Stevens beats Tennessee to Patrick of it demonstrates sets. Meanwhile, second seat arena Sabah Lanka fourth seeded Sofia Canon seven seat IGA Shi and Take an 11 seed Garbine Muguruza. All advanced the second round big ups in the men's draw as American Frances Tiafoe beats third seat Stephanos types of business straight sets to advance to the second round into Pisces coming off losing to Novak Djokovic in the finals, the French Open just a few weeks back. Speaking of the topsy Djokovic loses the first set to Jack Draper before winning the next three. Other notables to advance include 1500 rubles. Eight Cedar Berta Batista good and two time winner Andy Murray. Finally the Boston Celtics officially introducing new head coach email Udoka earlier today in a press conference, Udoka says he intends to push young stars Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown to be even better players moving forward. I'm Dan Schwartzman that your Bloomberg World Sports update Markets Headlines and breaking news 24 hours a day at.
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Wimbledon 2021: American Frances Tiafoe Upsets No. 3 Seed Stefanos Tsitsipas
"The The first first round round of of Wimbledon Wimbledon is is American American Frances Frances Tiafoe Tiafoe beats beats third third seed seed Stephanos Stephanos tutor tutor business business trade trade sets sets advanced advanced the the second second round. round. It's a business coming off, losing to Novak Djokovic in the final, the French Open just a few weeks back. Speaking of the top seed Djokovic loses the first set to Jack Draper before winning the next three of the notables to advance and good fifth seed Andrzej 11 8 seed Roberto Bautista good while two time winner Andy Murray wins his open over 24th seed Nicolas Bacillus feely
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At Wimbledon, Murray 'Can Still Play at the Highest Level'
"American players they get into Thursday upsets at Wimbledon with Sloane Stephens and Frances tiafoe both reaching the second round table currently ranked fifty seven in the world played a near flawless match to close out the third seed Stefano sits upon us romping through a straight sets win six four six four six three statements belie her current ranking of seventy three two in the hopes of Penn state and former champion Petra Kvitova closing it out six three six four men's top seed Novak Djokovic was stretched to fall by the little brick Jack draper I'm Graham like us
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