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"mark knowles" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"Someone that everyone considers a tennis innovator. He was a great tennis player himself. 1980 Australian open champion, a Wimbledon singles corner finalist, right? Finally club. It's all in the club. It was number 7 in the world in singles. Number 5 in the world and doubles, 8 career ATP titles, 16 doubles titles. He's got wins over players. We know and love. Jimmy Connors arts, Stan Smith, who was just on the show a few weeks ago. Lindell. And then a coach to a lot of great players. Greg rusky, max Mayer and the beast, famous doubles teams, Richie renner, Mark Knowles, my colleague at tennis channel. And in the great Andre Agassi. His name is Brian teacher, Brian. I want to welcome you to the show. Hey, thank you. Thanks for having me. So you look at all of your roles in tennis, right? And what's interesting about this show is everyone on this show that I interview is a number one legend. Number two, an entrepreneur you're an innovator in the sport. You know, you think about we had Stan Smith on a few weeks ago and sort of revolutionized the shoe and got to shoot it as outlived his career. And when you think about your playing career in 1980, I was the open champion. And now, innovating tennis with a new app that we'll talk about later in the show to help coaches sort of connect with players, help players connect with high level coaches. You know, just an interview I want to welcome you to the show. And before we get into the app, I want to talk about a 1980 Australian open. You know, I think that Grand Slam runs our magical and very hard to get. I mean, you think about a lot of players who retired. Great players. Who failed to win the Grand Slam, right? Or players with no one in the world for years, and then only one one, like it wasn't the acke, right? It took forever to win one or like a halo. I think she 5 Grand Slam 500 before she eventually won one. Winning the title thing is back. 1980, and y'all see opium championship. Back when it was played at kuya, which is now a practice site for the Australian open.
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"I just think the way to become a professional tennis player is so costly, so expensive, such a drain on families. And that's if you're a middle class. So just imagine if you're not, right? From the grassroots level, it's very hard. It's such an international game. You know, like I said, I was fortunate to be a voluntary and get my stuff paid for to travel the world. We went and played satellites back in the day. I don't think we have satellites anymore, but played satellites in Hawaii. We played satellites in Africa, believe it or not. We played satellites all across the world. We could never afford that type of expenses. So I think for me, if they really wanted to pursue it, of course, I would support them. But I also realized maybe I'm just a little jaded. I think tennis is so hard. I think it's so hard. And it's gotten harder since I played. The game has expanded. There's so much more into it. Of course, you know, there's more money in the game, but still not you think these guaranteed contracts you see in these other sports. I mean, goodness. You sure would be nice to have a guaranteed contract. I mean, think about how much pressure that would alleviate yourself and many others. If you knew you had, you know, I remember when I turned pro, okay, I was somewhat herrell did. So I had a small contract, you know, clothing and rackets, but not like a guaranteed contract and a team sport where you're like, wow, this is nice, right? I can just focus on my body, my game, don't have to worry about paying bills and whether I can fly to the next city or I might have to drive. I just think, but on the other side, I think tennis is such a great sport. So that's why I'd like them to play even if they're I just like them to play, even if it's just recreational, I think it's a great sport. But like I said, I'd love it if they played college sense. That'd be cool. I mean, I admire, I admire the corridors and so forth. You look at Peter corda to have his son playing at such a high level after he was number two in the world. That's super cool. You know, I just think it's hard to do. It's hard to follow in the shadow of a successful parent and obviously the quarters of navigated very well. And then we have someone else. Someone else recently rude. Yeah, rude. It's incredible. I used to play against his dad for a long time. Christian and I, being a father, and as you were just asking, I'm always curious, how did they make it fun and passionate for him, right? Was it, was it intrinsic like it was for me, just because my mom grew up around tennis, I just tennis, or was it like, hey, you should play this game. It's very interesting. And I talked to Peter cordo about it a little bit at Indian Wells this year because I mean, obviously, he's got two daughters.
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"mark knowles" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"And then there's some athlete from in Europe that you've heard of that's incredible. They're right next to you. I guess it's like being in college all over again, except everybody's a better athlete, but standing next to you. Nothing about tennis in the Olympics. In terms of meaning, I think of Andy Murray. Yeah. Right, when the Olympics. On grass. Big deal. And I think of Monica Puig. Talk about small things, right? And being the first first and only Olympic gold medalist in that country. You know, Americans like, yeah, would you take your Grand Slam over the Olympics? Right, which one would you rather have you obviously rather have a Grand Slam? Well, like you said, from a small country, you enter like royal. You become royalty to that country. No matter what it is to win a gold medal. So tell you the biggest, the biggest regret I have now over not having a medal is when you have like when you have kids, you know, there's like career day where you show up with your kids. It would be really cool to show up at a metal. That's where you come when you go. That would kind of separate you from the rest. Probably my kids get old enough. I can bring that thing, you know? Yeah. For now, my kids are like slapping the dog on the ass with the tennis racket. No interest in playing. But I tell you another, I tell you a really funny story and you think of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf two of the greatest players of all time, how many majors they have. So I was at their house a couple of years back. Believe it or not, you could walk through that entire house and never have an idea that either one ever played a sport. There's not a trophy in sight, which I really admired. I thought that you know Steffi, we all know Steffi somewhat. She's like the most humble athlete ever in arguably one of the greatest female athletes ever. So it's slightly different. There are others that have the trophy room and set everything up.
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"mark knowles" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"Which folks, that it's not telling his age, right? But what's strange is that with all of your success and your crew, you know, the gym, the Andre. And so weird for you to be playing the Linux for another country, right? Because people view you as like, American, UCLA, Floridian kind of thing. Tell me about that experience, right? Because, you know, when you play for a small country, they depend on you. You know, like, Darien king and Barbados, right? You're in The Bahamas. They like depending no matter what your ATP ranking is at the time, whether you're a single player, a double specialist, a small country depends on the guy that's gonna be taking a living on the ATP tour. Tell me about those 5 Olympics. Yeah, I mean, Olympics are special. I mean, you know, it's interesting, right? Because I told you my mom was British. So when I was about 16 years old, Great Britain made a hard push for me to play for Britain. Which financially was probably a stupid move that I didn't make that decision. This sounds crazy in today's world. The reason I didn't make the decision was it wasn't about money for me. You've been to The Bahamas. I am so bahamian. My bahamian people are the greatest people in the world. Like playing for The Bahamas has been the greatest joy of my life. And Davis Cup was always the most important, but also Olympics, man. We're in the village, you know, I'm friends with all the athletes, the track stars, the swimmers, we're a small country. You go into, you know, you go into an Olympic village coming from The Bahamas. We're opening ceremonies. We're like 30 people, right? And they're just like 3000. The other contingents, but you know, everybody's enamored by The Bahamas too, because bomb is a great place, right? The best place in the world, but they're so special. My only regret is that I don't have a medal. Came very close in Athens. Play with Mark Markland in Athens and we took out the United States and in the round of 16s took out Alex O'Brien and Jared Palmer played great and then we got in a quarterfinal match against South Africa, which was David Adams and John de jager, who, you know, we should probably beat and we end up losing. I think 22 20 and the third, like a ridiculous match murky, my guy played awesome, played great tennis. We had our chances and that was to go into the semifinals. Where we would have played Canada, Leroy Nestor, who are obviously a very good team Nestor was my partner.
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"I think for Marty, you know, that was probably the first time for him where he had a coach that was like literally, you know, I kind of told him how I felt on everything because I didn't really care if I was still working the next day. All I cared about was making an impact and really helping him. If I'm not gonna help you, dude, I don't need to travel the world. I've done that many times. And so I think that's important. I know that's a fine line and coaching, right? That's a fine line. And it's a very difficult line. Because what about Jackson? Jackson. To me. Best doubles player in the history again. History of the game. I don't know. Oh my God. The boy can play some dubs. No matter what kind of shape he's in, no matter what his singles career is doing, that it's not you're taking stock over John McCain all the time. And doves. Yeah, I'm saying in doubt. Will you tell me? I say, I didn't play against John, right? You probably did. I say yes. Listen, you know, I've got the utmost respect for Jack. I will answer your question for you and I'll give you a nice answer that will keep you out of any controversy. That is the best doubles player in the modern game. Yes. So because doubles has changed tremendously. Since McEnroe played since I played in today's game, Jack is an incredible dose player, serves extremely well, big first serve heavy kick serve. So, you know, his serve can allow even if the guy at the nets, not a great father. It can allow him to have easy volleys. And guess what? If you don't go to the net guy, you're going to the forehand of sock, which is one of the best in the history of the game. So that's nasty. Then he's got terrific hands at the net on your serve. He can hold for he's not going to make too many mistakes. He returns well and he moves. He moves on a doubles court. You know, I was actually coaching him when he and Mike Bryan played the doubles final at the U.S. open.
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"I was more like sort of mentor, strategic, analytical, you know, my talent wasn't necessarily in my hands. So it's easy for me to sit on the sideline and not be like, man, just give me the racket, I'll do it. You know what I mean? But for you, you know, that's kind of hard. What do you mean like you should have done this? Tell me how that experience was coaching those three guys. Honestly, I actually really enjoyed the coaching. So, you know, the way the coaching started towards the end of my career, Marty fish and I would have been good friends for a while and he just kind of said, hey, we were actually playing doubles. And he's like, hey, would you be interested in coaching me while you're still playing doubles and kind of, you know, I was playing a smaller schedule, a more limited schedule just because I had some kids now. And so I was like, yeah, you know, I'd like to always admire this game super talented player. And you know, it was interesting. I think the reason I enjoyed that part of coaching is, first of all, I'm pretty analytical as well. Like I was one of those guys that, I don't know, I picked things up pretty quick. I'm pretty technical, all that stuff. So I really enjoy the whole breakdown process of tennis, like looking for weaknesses. What does a guy do on big points? What are his tendencies? I love that stuff. But more importantly, I think why I really enjoyed it is because exactly what I said. Kind of my failures, you know, my ability to kind of gauge honestly what I did right in my career and what I did wrong in my career, I felt that, hey, the one thing I could really do is help somebody else, right? Like I said, it was a little late for me in singles, but it did help my doubles career once I kind of understood everything. And so Marty was kind of a prime example. You know, when I first started working with Marty, he had started to rededicate himself physically. He had the fitness going. But he didn't have quite the belief that I had an, which was interesting, right? Like I saw Marty, I saw his game, and I was like, man, you could be top ten player, like you could challenge and made, like, get to the second week of majors, you should be beaten guys like Andy Murray and these guys. And he was kind of like, really, you think so?
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"Because we talk about the academies, we talk about, you know, how now they've grown into these big businesses and 98% of the kids are going to end up going to college. I always tell people, to me, I look at a program like Florida or UCLA or USC, as like the D league in basketball. Right? You wake up, your sunshine, great facilities, great coaches, great competition every match. Practice two or three times a day, the way they run it is very individual pro like, right? You come and get to individual words, maybe you do a team, maybe come do some more stuff. So I always say, if, you know, if your kid's on the fence between UCLA somewhere else, I didn't go use that. I went to Florida now. But having practiced there a lot and been around that, that is just a great environment for an athlete. Tell us about your years at UCLA, was Billy Martin there then? Yeah, Billy Martin was the assistant, Glenn Bassett was my head coach. I mean, so it starts like this. So actually, I graduated high school at a young age at 16. I'd like to tell you it's because I was a lot smarter than the rest, but it's just because I started early. Stay at home school, right? So when I graduated 16, we actually had the voluntary traveling team. So myself, agassiz courier, Garner, a list of guys, we actually, I took a year off. We actually traveled and played professionally like, which was an incredible opportunity for us. And so I think I got, you know, I got to like 300 in the world. Andre and Jim, they obviously got top hundred. I think one of them had secured a title. I think Jim won a tournament down in Chile. And so I decided, you know, I was like, yeah, you know, my games, maybe there, but I was like, honestly, having traveled at that age, 16 years old, the world, I was like, no, I'm not really ready, so I took a year off after high school, but then I went to UCLA and part of the thing was growing up in The Bahamas. You hadn't heard it too many places. I heard a UCLA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, like, I was like a dream for that was another dream coming from a small island. Like, wow, UCLA's recruiting me. Like this is super cool, right? So when do you silly as you know the facilities were incredible, it's 78° and perfect every single day. Also back then, a lot of pros as they do now were practicing at UCLA. I used to practice with John McEnroe a lot when I was in college, which is crazy for me. I grew up watching McEnroe and Borg breakfast at Wimbledon in The Bahamas, right? So here I am, Johnny Mac calling me up. You know, I got a really funny story to my sophomore year at school. I was running with three golfers.
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"I was in a good place off the court. I was dating somebody. I was this. It was that, or I was healthy, or what do you think went right on those runs, right? Because it could be the draw opened up. You know what I mean? But it's always like, man, something has to go right like I have to go right to when Islam. Even in to us. Yeah, it's funny. I mean, unfortunately, I don't have a great record in finals. I'm three and 8 in men's doubles grandson files, which is I think about probably every other day, not every day, every other day. You know, but of course it would be a lot of people would love to be in 11 finals. But I think all athletes, right? Okay, I won three, if I won four, I wouldn't have been a happier. The only way it would have been active is I won 11, and then I would have thought, hey, I should have won 12. Why didn't I make a 12 final? So, but I mean, the way I kind of, the way I kind of come to terms with it, I think, is that I actually try to be non biased and really break it down. There was there was probably three more slams that we should have won between having match points being up a break in third, lucky shank mishit, you know, doubles as quick points. Those things. And there was only one that I probably shouldn't have won. So somebody owes me something for sure. But I'm okay with it. Lots of therapy. I'm getting through it. But you're right. A lot comes through, you know, having coached players that win majors. It's a long process. It's two weeks. There's a lot of people around, even if it's just doubles. The prestige of winning a major is huge. And you want that, especially somebody like myself who grew up idolizing Bjorn Borg with just watching breakfast at Wimbledon, you know, like I said, my goals were to be the number one singles player in the world. I wanted to win majors in singles. I didn't do that, which is disappointing. But hey, I'm very thankful and happy that I had the opportunity to do it and doubles. Happy that I got to get, you know, be number one in the world and doubles and number one in the world that anything is pretty special. But you still always want more. But like you said, things have to go right. I mean, on the day of the match they have to go right, leading up to it. They have to go right. And I think that's what's, wow, I mean, there are a lot of amazing things about Serena Williams and the big three on the men's side, but you think about how much they continue. They make it look easy. And it's not. I mean, you know, forget that you've got 7 different opponents. You got to prepare for 7 different opponents every other day, different. Pressures. It's just, you know, it's really difficult to win a major. And roger Rafa Novak, they're making it look rather easy and Serena has throughout her entire career as well. But you're so right. You almost, it's so cliche, but you know this. You gotta just think one match at a time. You can't ever, you know, as you know, your first thought is, okay, let's get past the first round. Because that's when you're the most nervous, you know, everyone's nervous in the first round. Everyone, including the top players. And then once you get under the bell and you feel a little more confidence than you think, okay, second week. Okay, let me try to get to the second week.
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"Had the ability to ask for one opinion about an adjustment that needs to be made. You know what I mean? 'cause all of our slams work, there weren't two and two. A 100% is a great question, right? I mean, honestly, where I lie on this, I'm against the coaching. And I understand the push for it, especially from a coaching standpoint, coaches want to be a little bit more relevant. They're good arguments as far as, you know, not just their own, but also, like you said, producing a better product, right? I mean, you know having coached some of the great players, if you could go down and tell them one strategy, it would change things enormously during a match, but what I do like about not having coaching is exactly what you just expanded upon. You know, you can go, you can have your coach go over a game plan, have everything set up. Once you get out on that court, things start to flip and things aren't, you know, your opponent all said in his back end is not weak today. He's sitting back in grade. You know, you told me you could only go cross court. Now he's going line. You got to figure it out, right? And that's what I think. I mean, tennis is one of those sports. Of course, some of the greatest athletes in the world of sports for sure, but it's still probably 80% mental game, right? And so with coaching, you take that away. And I'm probably a prime example of it. If you would have given me coaching and my singles career, I would have done way better. Way better because I would add a coach that come on the court and go, hey, dude, you know, settle down, you just get into and then I would have been able to play my tennis, right? Whereas my opponent was like, this is awesome. He's just, he's just breaking down. And that's part of it, right?
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"Half of the court makes a big difference. So what you were number one in the world end up. One three out of four slams. What do you think? Was the biggest thing that you were missing or needed to do differently looking back on it to maybe have that success translate more into the top ten single career? Yeah, that's a great question. You know, I think it's hard. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I mean, I didn't come from much, right? We didn't have much money growing up at all. So I kind of, you know, as we see with a lot of athletes that are successful, it was my way out, right? I put a lot of pressure on myself and I was my worst enemy. So quite frankly, I kind of know that I underachieved and singles as hard as that is to admit. I'm older now, more mature. I know that I underachieve. I was a top hundred player, but I should have been a lot better. And the reason I didn't do better is totally because of my mental approach, but too much pressure on myself just didn't, you know, and as you know, Kamal, you've been out on the tour and you've worked with so many great players, you know, Grand Slam champions, it seems easy, but it's really not. You know, I mean, and there was a time, I think, you know, I started to really, truly believe I was working with Jose Hague says, having some big wins and be Rio, so be cured, and I was starting to really get some wins that validated what other people were saying, but more importantly, finally, I was starting to believe. And for me, I got injured. I had a big injury. I broke a rib in my back, and I was out for ten months. So that actually, you know, it sounds crazy, but it actually came at the worst time for me because I had finally kind of mentally, my game was really good, it was playing good tennis, but more importantly, I had
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"So I wasn't, I wasn't aware that I was really missing anything, but Andre felt like he was missing something. So it was a big sacrifice for him. So I think it depends on the individual. And I also think it depends on the parenting as well. Wonderful pistachios is a complete protein providing all 9 essential amino acids. Wonderful pistachios is one of the highest protein snack nuts. Wonderful pistachios comes in a variety of flavors and sizes, perfect for enjoying with the family, Friends, or taking them on the go. Visit wonderful pistachios dot
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"mark knowles" Discussed on The Tennis.com Podcast
"So my parents weren't so sure ten years old, your kid going away. You know, back then, there's no cell phones or anything, no facts. There's nothing. I used to get Nick makes a joke. This little blond kid would I'd have to get like a little, I'd have to get like a stepladder to put a quarter in the phone booth, you know, we had these phone booth, which anyone listening probably doesn't know what that is. But it was something we used to use back in the day back in 1981. You know, to call back home. So, you know, it's not like today where your FaceTiming and you can feel close. You are far, and we didn't have much money at all growing up. So I only came home twice a year. That was a Christmas and for summer. That was it. So I was very lucky that I had the support system. I had a couple other bahamians. They looked out for me. I still remember it to this day. Some of the older guys, you know, there were three to 5 years older than me. So they were my protection is a little ten year old pip squeak. I got picked on a lot. But I had some big brothers that would take care of things for me. So that's how I ended up at voluntary. You know, if it wasn't for Nick pole Terry, I'd probably wouldn't have become a professional to give me that opportunity, a full scholarship, as I mentioned. We had no money growing up. We could never afford to go to a place like that. So to get that opportunity and it was very strict when I first went, which was great, taught me so much discipline and determination. I loved my time there. I mean, obviously, it's been well spoken of Andre's time. There are him writing a book and so forth and Jim Kerr as well. But I really loved it there. It was an opportunity. I knew I would never get again, probably, and being in a small country like the bomb is you don't get options like that. So it was really my mindset. I'm going. And I'm thankful that I did. Now, let's take on academies, 'cause you know I run small academy in Chicago and I feel always like caution parents. You know, you got the big academies that have been 75 to a hundred grand a year. Always say, if you really belong there and you really have a shot, you probably get some level of scholarship. And if you gotta pay full freight, probably
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"And then the minute I could walk, I would venture down to one of the courts where there was a wall. And I would just hit tennis balls against the wall, literally all day. Like people would tell me stories as I got older. Like, wow, you're that little blond kid that just stayed out and hit on the wall for like 12 hours a day. But you know, the good part about it was, like I said, my parents ran these great junior programs. I mean, it's all relative, right? It's a small country. Not the many resources, but the good news is they ran all these great summer camps, so a lot of my Friends were there as well. So they weren't necessarily a serious about tennis as I was, but it was also a nice atmosphere. It was a lot of fun, which I think is important, you know. I mean, we see all the all the kids today and all the professionals and we all think about what's the right path. How do you get to the professional level? And for me, the two things that are super important is you got to have the love and the passion. If you don't have those two things at some point, I think just kind of the motivation runs out, choices start coming into your life. And, you know, for me, I think back and it was really all about tennis, but it wasn't, it wasn't in a way. My parents never forced me to hit one tennis ball. I just loved it. You know, I gravitated to it at a very young age. And I grew up in that atmosphere. It was fun. We had summer camps and my Friends, so I love the sport from a really young age. And so I consider myself fortunate because as things developed, you know, we actually had some good tennis players. Obviously, you know, you know the man himself, roger Smith, slinger. You know, he was my guy, but my mom kind of taught him how to play tennis. So we had this relationship. There were some other players, you know, that didn't make it on the circuit that were good juniors. Michael Knowles, Darren Roberts, Sterling cook. We had some really good players Sterling cook played at university of South Carolina. You know, they went and represented The Bahamas at sunshine cup, which is a big team competition pre orange bowl. They don't have it anymore. I remember my dad was actually the coach one time. I was just a little kid kind of trotting along, but you know, I had so many great influences around me. I had older people that really kind of perpetuated my love and passion for the game. My family was always super supportive and so I think that really helped me a lot, even though I didn't have the resources that maybe somebody from a larger country like the United States or Australia or Spain, I just love tennis, so and the people around me that were closest to me also loved the game and it didn't really matter what level they played that didn't have to be at the best level. Didn't have to be a top junior per se, but we kind of all got together, right? It was all about that experience. And those relationships, you know, my times with roger Smith when I first turned pro him showing me the ropes on tour. I mean, they were so valuable at the times that I spent with him just, you know, having somebody to kind of teach me the ropes and kind of learn about the tour. So and obviously I went to Baltimore at a really young age, so I was in that professional landscape, you know, my best friends at voluntary Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, other guys like Martin blackman, David Cass, David whedon.
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"A philanthropist, very important figure in the game, a commentator, all things tennis world team tennis champion, the resume goes on and on. But most of all, he's a good person. He helped guide Marty fish for a period of time and been a mentor to many and many different ways. Welcome to the show, Mark Knowles. Thanks. I appreciate it, man. I'm honored to be on. I'm glad I made the list, man. I love your show. I can do a great job. So I will say, I played against a bunch of bahamians in college and in juniors. And you were the first white bahamian tennis player that ever met ever. They're like, Martin knows it's from The Bahamas. I was like, he kind of had like a Montreal Toronto kind of accent. It doesn't sound behind me. Yeah, I can turn it on when I need to. I left home at a young age, I left home at ten years old. So I got that kind of American accent going a little bit, but I remember when I used to call back home to my family and my friends and my American friends, they would be gathering around me while I was on the phone. And I'm like, what are you guys doing? Give me some privacy, and they're like, no, no, wait, you're talking different. We don't understand what you're saying. I wouldn't even realize it, but you know, when I'm with my crew, when I'm with my bahamians, yeah, I speak a lot different. Yeah, man, I remember I went from Chicago to Florida in Tallahassee and, you know, Tallahassee, tons of gold teeth, country accents, and you know, after about two years, you start to develop this and you come back up north and you're like, man, why do you sound? We went for you to go to college to finish his sentences, not truncate the words. I was like, well, that's how they speak in the south, you know what I mean? So I totally get it. So tell me about going up in The Bahamas because, you know, we listen, we hear about Darien king and Sasha vickery and people who sort of grew up in that region and talked about how there's not a lot of tennis there and sort of had the had to leave and maybe come to Florida to stay with friends, give a scholarship to an academy. Talk about how you even found tennis in the region. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting, obviously it's always a huge challenge when you're coming from a really small nation, especially from an island in the Caribbean where there's not much history, but I actually was very fortunate. My mom actually is from England, and she was a tennis player. She played at Wimbledon back in the day. So she had some strong tennis roots. She was traveling. I think when she was in her early 20s, was headed to the San Francisco actually and ended up stopping off in The Bahamas. Fortunately for me, she met my dad and she never left The Bahamas. So, you know, I was fortunate to grow up there, but where it really was good for me was they ran a tennis club. My mom taught tennis. They ran a nice tennis club there. They ran a great junior program. I love tennis from a young age. I guess because I just kind of grew up around it, right? We didn't have much money growing up. So we didn't have a babysitter or anything like that. So I would literally just be in the pro shop hanging out when I was too small to kind of walk,
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"mark knowles" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"I think I haven't seen Jeanne play enough to know yet what sort of game she's got. But I would just imagine the occasion and corne is going to be doing corne things in front of the French crowd and that's going to be a nightmare to deal with. So I'd say yes. Then it's Jill Simone against Marin Cilic. She's got this incredible Seymour against Marin Cilic. You'll see monk could make the second week of the head to head. 6 one. 6 one to Simon, the only time chillage beat him was the 2014 U.S. open, which he went on to win. I would never have known that. That's amazing put the retirement ceremony on ice and under the lights tomorrow night going up against the Champions League Final, which of course is being played in Paris. It is hoga rua against Hugo Gaston, which could be the match of the day. We can double spin it over on Suzanne long that I think this is aside from that runa Gaston match I think this is the place to be or any familiar against Leo Jean Jean who we learned about on yesterday's pod. Mimic its manovich against dinner whether first really big test, I think. And where is that on clay? Takes on Veronica could emit over. Very intrigued by that. And Stefano sits a bass against Mikhail ima. Somewhat intrigued by that. On court Simone mature sabal lenko against Georgie, that could be interesting. No, can we just have a moment for Saba link Georgia? They're just going to be hitting the living daylights out of every attempted shot. No matter how on it is. When it cools that. Yeah. David Goffin conceived her catch in Madison keys against Elena. Andre Rublev on court for teen, he's up against garine, just a big gulag against last year's semifinalist tomorrow is a done check. Casper Ruud also on court 14 against Lorenzo sonego, there's doubles action as well. We'll start covering that. In a few days time, don't worry. One other thing that we wanted to cover yesterday actually, but just didn't quite have time. It was the news that was broken in the times yesterday, the times in the UK, which is that Wimbledon are removing miss and misses from their women's honor role. Obviously, they'll do this going forward, but they're also removing references to miss and misses backdated for past champions. And obviously this is a really good thing. But it's 2022. And it's a astonishing. It is astonishing that up until now. Chris Evans 1981 title still appeared as misses J M Lloyd. And okay, she took John Lloyd's surname. But it doesn't even have her initials. It is astonishing to hear that. It really makes you feel queasy. Misses LW king is how Billie Jean King's or a couple of Billie Jean kings. I mean, thank goodness they're doing it. And thank goodness they're doing it, but also I would just say, and this is tune out now if you don't want Catherine on a soapbox, but this isn't just a Wimbledon problem. If you think it's right that this is happening, then just have a think about society and the fact that it is impossible to determine a man's marital status from his title or prefix. And yet a woman, every time you're required to provide a title, you are declaring your marital status. Yes, it is slightly more frequent now that Miz is an option. And sometimes actually don't fill in forms when Miz isn't an option just in objection. But just think about that the fact that every single time you have to do anything official whatsoever or even unofficial, sometimes you have to do it at the dry cleaner, right? I don't know what it is, inconsequential things. You have to declare your marital status because that matters to society. And that is, it's horrible. And it is just such a clear illustration of sexism and just such deeply ingrained patriarchy. So I hope this is hope this is one of these just headline things that it's not going to change things overnight, but it might just prompt people to think. Yeah, it's one of those things which it's great that it's happening, but I don't think Wimbledon should be getting a bit big pat on the back for it. I was kind of reminded of they recently in U.S. soccer greed equal pay for the men and women's teams and that's been something that's been for four by a lot of people and it's also been something that's been fought against by a lot of people. Anyway, it was a historic thing recently and makes purse who's a player for the U.S. women's national team said that she was grateful for the equal pay, thanks everyone who's made it happen, but her dad used to tell her that you shouldn't reward someone for doing something that they're supposed to do. So she wasn't going to give out any gold stars for it. It should have happened a long time ago and that's exactly how I feel here about this. Yeah. Absolutely. Here here. That is it for your second day 6 French Open tennis podcast. We'll be back with at least one tomorrow. Normally when we record two Serena Williams has gone out or something or wrap under dials last. No, we just celebrating the fact that we remembered to celebrate an anniversary for ones and it's a pretty big one to remember ten years ago we started this podcast and it's hard to believe how far we've come and that's because of you listening. Thank you for listening. Thank you for all of you that are friends of this show that make it possible for us to grow it in the way that we are. We're loving it. We are more committed to this show than we've ever been. And in the words of Billie Jean King, the best is yet to come. We have a French Open mascot Cooper hello Cooper. Cooper. We have our mascot, Carter, for me, Darwin for David. Gerald. Gerald for mat. Darwin's putting for a swap. Get moved over, I'd say. Billie Jean. David was tempted to go with English fiance to win tomorrow. Just to get some points on the board. I would have got three. Billie Jean's got Billie Jean King and ilana kloss. We have our executive producers. Chris Albert Lee and Kyle weingartner. And we have birthday shout out to Matt. We do, we have Julian shoe, Meister in Vienna. Wow. What a great like Julian beneteau. Yes, although that's Ian at the end, isn't it? This is a Julian. No. No. Yes. They've just done a fist bump. Folks. Is he Austrian? Canadian? Austria. Austrian. Who was Canadian? Mark now. No, he was Bahamas. Someone was Daniel Nestor. And he played with Mark Knowles. Yes. That's yes. We got there in the end..
The Rich Eisen Show
"mark knowles" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Every once in a while and i thought oh. I gonna do something like that. I don't know what that is. You know zone but there were so many you know and then tomb was great because if you did something he went. Oh yes do that. And then walk over here. And do that. Like when i when i walk over and do the kick the trio you know i think it was. There was some joke. it might have been nice model. But then i in the f. word and i thought you know somebody told me if it's true or not. Somebody told me the sensor they used to send somebody into a screening room and pick things and go. No can't do that. Nope cancer that no. Someone told me she fell asleep during that period and missed it. I i don't know if that's true or not but so we got away with saying that man. I've got two more for you here. Michael keaton celebrity tour false true false negotiated a break in your batman contract in case the pirates made the playoffs. That's true kind of an ongoing for several movies. But by the way they all and that's when they were good but imagine doing now that go find no problem. That's the first. Yes they get from legal so but this is back when obviously we're talking about the bonds vance slide pirates right that's talking about. They were always in the gym leland. Smokin heaters in between innings type. Okay and then the last one for you. True or false you and martin mole improvise the to twenty two twenty one. Whatever it takes exchange in. Mr mom said charles totally martin's line totally mark knowles lying. He he goes what we i mean we did. I ended up saying he goes Were i'll tell you what did get improvised. Like moments before not improvised. I said the prop guys you know. I need something seen You know this guy's really insecure right now. He's panicked. I need something. I go yet tools. And you know. Like and i was looking for some tools and and either he mentioned a chainsaw. I did and he was so great. Ran random the problem scrambling around came out. And i said yeah. Yeah yeah perfect. and then. He handed me the goggles. So you want these absolutely guinea so so then we start shooting the scene in doing that and That lying you know the setup is So i'm telling them work on the house. And i don't know what i'm doing and he says so you're going to twenty and then and then i i kinda i think originally what i do was i kind of fake. I go Yeah or something like that and he says you know you should say take two twenty two twenty one you know. I think he's either. I said whatever it takes. Yeah he came up with that. Well i mean he's He's legendary as they come in mall for the fernwood tonight. I mean you you've been just this has been an amazing conversation. Michael and I i i. I barely just scratching the surface on everything spotlight byrd. Man are just incredible films. That you're in the trial of the chicago seven. I mean obviously What we just talked about as well the protege. You also have worth coming on. Net flicks is september and then dope sick. Which is yeah. I'm already making appointment viewing for that on hulu on october. Honestly i it's it's it's awfully good. It's it's really really good and man. It's it's it's gonna it's gonna be eye-opening i think For a lot of people. Before i leave you know what i keep asking her mentioned and sometimes they remember sometimes they don't And i know this is a male centric show. Probably but people don't talk about how great terry are. Was you know when mr mom mom. But and all that stuff young frankenstein people forget man she was she was you know she was. She was funny and smart weedy and quirky and charming and great look at it and there are very few people that mentioned her now like when they mentioned the really funny women so i always try to mention are no question. We were talking about again. Prior to the show which one of your films from your way back in the day filmography. We could ask you about. And i mentioned how terrific teri garr was beforehand. No no no question about it wasn't she. She was also. I think in the conversation too which is a brilliant movie that people don't talk about that coppola movie She plays them on. Doesn't she played the moment. Black beauty that that Really awesome wasn't a q. I'm not kidding. This gorgeous movie this kid and his horse. It's stunningly beautiful. Yeah and Young fraticide as you pointed out to. I don't know if you wear too but tomorrow is the thirty eight. Th anniversary of the premier of mr mom michael really. it's a fact. Wow the day before the protege. Yeah look at a tiny. That's a class a little classic. All right i'm gonna leave you alone. Michael atop the dog man. I know that you and i share that love of animals and dog my wife and i we have two beautiful rescues at home and life is good when we get a chance to connect I'd love to do this again whenever you are michael. Keaton is places open to you and enjoy the steelers season. We'll chat.