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The Tennis Podcast
"muguruza" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"It made me want to cry for her. Yeah. And it was interesting that kvitova was forehand slicing the ball. You know, she really reigned in her own game. I think sensing the nerves down the other end and took advantage of them. But then it got to the final stages of the final set tiebreak and suddenly the tennis just peaked and muguruza saved, saved a match point with a brilliant return and then passing shot winner after kvitova had served and volleyed on match point. And then convicted for herself at ten all in the tiebreak, having, as I said, kept a lid on some of her shots, just suddenly went for it on a forehand down the line, hit the winner, gave her trademark celebration, the crowd was up. It was just incredible scenes and she then won the tiebreak and kept up this incredible head to head record that she's got against muguruza and which is now 6 one in her favor. And I think for me guru, it's a particularly tough loss because she could have exercised a couple of demons. You know, she could have killed a couple of birds with one stone really by beating kvitova and also stringing together three wins, which she hasn't done all season. And closing out a really tight match. Yeah, just three. Three birds, one stone. She left the court. Yeah, we've been worried about margarita today, but she did she did just walk past this David shortly before he arrived. Wandered into the hotel with ice cream
The Tennis Podcast
"muguruza" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"So today's tennis. There's quite a lot of that to talk. Can we actually, can we start with muguruza? Because you mentioned that at the start of the show. And that had quite an effect on everybody that I saw watching it. Everybody was talking to because it was rolling back the years, not quite as dramatically as last night with Serena Williams. But in their own way, muguruza and kvitova are, I don't want to say yesterday's champions, but they aren't talked about as today's contenders for the titles. And it was just great to see the desire and the ambition and the hope and the brilliance and the skill that they have today. It was, and there was a real appreciation, I think, on the Armstrong court that these are two great champions and they were meeting pretty early in this tournament. And kvitova herself cited Serena as inspiration, saying that she watched her saving all those match points last night and sort of channeled that energy when she did. The same to win this match. She saved two match points just before the final set tiebreak. And it was just brilliant. It really was. I didn't think the tennis was always fantastic from both players. It was quite nervy. Muguruza in particular had a 5 two lead in the final set and got very, very tight. She couldn't keep a forehand in the court. No matter what sort of ball was fed to her, she was getting fed forehand slices and she was lifting the forehand long or into the net. And
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"And Emma rata were eliminated in the second round of Wimbledon Murray disappointed the crowd by losing to American John Isner in four sets Isner had been zero and 8 versus the two time Wimbledon champion Radio can who was asked by Caroline Garcia in straight sets Three time defending champ Novak Djokovic and number 5 Carlos alcaraz won their second round matches while number three Casper Roode fell Women's second seat at net cultivate and number 9 gardenia muguruza were defeated I'm Dave
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"But yeah, Monfils is out in Leon, cam nori is the top seed, PCB. Also there, a song has got a wildcard. So guru unseated. I feel like he's quite dangerous guy to potentially watch. So yeah, looking at him obviously with the Brits as well, cam nori. I think songa also in on a wild card on his route to retirement at the French Open. So yeah, he's got quite tricky one I feel against Alex molcan in the first round. So yeah, we'll see how all of those get on. And on the WTA side as well, we've got Strasbourg and Morocco Kim Strasbourg, Carolina Priscilla there. As the top seed on a wildcard Angie Kerber also there in a wild card as the second seed, Elise mertens, Sloane Stephens, Serrano castella, and curiously, Sam Stosur. Yeah, what is she doing there? I thought she'd given up singles, but she's there on a wild card, playing harmony tan, which I think was happening today. She was there on a wild card, I think is the correct tense, given the result earlier. Sorry, Joel, I know you how much of a fan you are. But yeah, I mean, fair, I think she won this event before, so maybe it's because she's a previous champion and she's just like, yeah, I'll take a wild card. Why not? Heather Watson's also there, so see what she can do. But then we've also got the tournament in Rabat. Muguruza is top seed there and Tom Lyanna vich is the second seed. So yeah, not as many high profile names in Morocco, but muguruza will be hoping to find some form because it's got a bit of a roll of late. Yeah, I get the feeling, a lot of top players have taken wildcards into the last round of tournaments before the French Open. Who have not necessarily had the clay season they were hoping, yeah, muguruza, Priscilla, particularly on the women's side. But yeah, we will see how they get on. I mean, muguruza's got what looks like quite a quite a nice draw with quite a few qualifiers and lucky losers surrounding her. So we'll see how she gets on in Morocco. But yeah, that is the end of our catch up Kim. We're going to be back at for our French Open preview, which is going to be on next episode. We're on geos is just around the corner. So I hope this can join us for that later on next week. I'm not sure quite when the draw is coming out, but we'll let people know on social media. We do actually have a little bit of a bonus with this episode because listeners who you may know Chris, who I went to the Billie Jean King cup with. We were going to go to Rome for the Italian open this season. Unfortunately, I was not able to go, but Chris has gone out there and he's done a little diary by himself, so I'm going to leave it at the end of the episode after the music. So if you want to hear a little bit about Rome on the ground from Chris and what it's like as a fan and the matches he saw, then listen on. Absolutely. And yeah, as Joe said, we'll be back before Roland Garros looking ahead to the second Grand Slam of the year. I can't believe it's here already and we go into this sort of epic phase of the season where I know we then have the grass court started straight after it all a bit hectic and everything's going on in the UK. So yeah, it's a fun time, isn't it? If only there was some sort of catch up podcast that helped tennis fans just make the most, yeah. No listeners. I hope you enjoyed listening to this latest catch up with the passing shot. Remember to subscribe to us to say up to date and all the action coming up, including the French Open, Roland Garros in Paris later on this month, you can subscribe to us on whatever device you listen to us on. We are on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all good podcasting platforms out there. You can also listen to us on the download tennis dot com app and if you like what you're hearing, then make sure to leave us a rating and comment on Apple podcasts or Spotify. And you can follow us on social media, we're on Facebook Instagram and Twitter at passing shot board. So if you don't already follow us, do give us a follow and a like and tell all your Friends about us as well as we go into the busiest stage of the Tennessee's, especially at home in the UK. We're also on an email. So.
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"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"But then again, it could have just been that super sound that has seemed to have become the biggest, the biggest trend in Melbourne park this week. I think this is only really what we're seeing on the main show, because I don't know if there anyone's suing on the outer courts. I mean, Novak Djokovic is suing Chen is a tennis Australia different kind of suit. Different sort of suing, yeah. So we were wondering if there would be booze on court if Djokovic stepped on court, but they're suing instead happening. But yeah, I think it's also only a certain subset of the crowd, mostly young men, I think, maybe the ones that would have been up in the Aussie fanatics, like back in the day. I don't think it's like the majority of the crowd. It's just a maybe a handful. They're just able to make it quite loud of their booming voices. So hopefully it's one of those fatty things that will shortly will lose interest in doing it. I mean, I'm sure they'll be present for curious and cognac doubles because they're actually playing metrics and package top seeds tomorrow. So that's a cracking doubles match. I'm sure. So if I was there, I'd be trying to get onto that core. I mean, let's look at some of the other results from today. Joel, because one player we haven't actually spoken about on the men's side is Stefan on sit surpass. He was playing Sebastian Baez, who is the young Argentinian. He was at the next gen finals at the end of last year. We hadn't really heard too much about before he played that event. And sits bus came through in four sets, he dropped the second set on a tie break to buy his but I mean, I don't really know what to expect from sits first. We weren't really predicting him before the tournament kind of thinking because of this elbow issue that he wasn't really want to go for. But perhaps he is going never dev is in his half of the draw, which I think is a natural blocking point, but should something happen to Medvedev, you know, I can see it's best perhaps sneaking through and perhaps the lack of attention is just what he needs right now. Yeah, definitely, and I don't think he'll mind having dropped a set, given the lack of lack of tennis, I think he's had recently. So I think to have minutes on court for him is a good thing at the moment that just gives him more time to play to play tennis and particularly I think post elbow surgery. I think every minute on court is going to make him feel more comfortable. So again, another player to watch. I mean, looking at the women's draw Kim, we had some big, big shocks today, a lot to talk about there. We've got muguruza and rybakina all losing all out of the Australian open at the second round. I mean, let's start with the most shocking which for me is garbine muguruza, losing to Elise corneille in straight set 6 three, 6 three, one hour, 27 minutes. I don't think muguruza manufactured a breakpoint corneille, very, very handy player, but hasn't I don't think beaten a top ten player in like a year and a half. So for me, this was very surprising. We were talking pre tournament around muguruza being one of the favorites. But just was not to be against the French woman. She does do this sometimes say me growth is she throws in a really poor match at slam and that kind of at the back of my mind I always I've never can fully trust her, which is a shame because obviously this tone last year, she was playing really good stuff, had match points against Osaka and he really did feel that she was going to be the one that would have won it if Osaka hadn't and obviously two years ago she got to the final didn't she end lost to Ken. So this is probably her worst match in a quite a few years. And she just was not at the races today, you know, serve wise, not good. I don't think she even had a break point, perhaps against cornet and corn a is one of those players. She does have a few scalps. I think sometimes she does play better against the top players and I think that's what muguruza alluded to. So she's not someone you can just rock up and play really below par and expect to get through his own her day. And I think weirdly with corneille, she was thinking about retiring. You know, she's been on the tour while, perhaps, you know, she's sort of getting to that inevitable point where she's thinking does she want to carry on? And perhaps that is making her play with a bit more abandon and just think I'm just going to go for it. She actually has the I think she's the only active player on the tour who was played 60 grand slams in a row consecutively, which surprised me because I don't really think of corneille as being like that old, but she has been around for a while, I suppose. And to have racked up that number of grand slams, like she's no mug. She knows how to play tennis. And it shows in a match like this, yeah. Yeah, she's very experienced competitor. And as you said, perhaps the thought of this being her last season on tour is sparing on her own a little bit sort of like you would have hoped Andy Murray in the sense that probably realizes that she's not got many of more of these opportunities left and as a result for her. She's just like, right, well I'm going to go out, go out swinging and yeah, she muguruza just couldn't live with her today. She only hit 16 on full series compared to muguruza who hit more than double 33. So yeah, very decent performance from corneille..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"I don't think we should be too disappointed. I think what we've seen from Emma is positive in the way she handled it today. Yeah, definitely. I think given what we saw out in her first match where she nearly got double bagel to seeing how she's done with that win against Sloane Stephens, the fight and determination I think she showed against COVID nich. I think we're in a lot better position. I think we can see with her new team, her new setup. There's opportunities there to make to make improvements to kind of refine and strengthen her game and onto the next tournament. It doesn't matter if it's going to be a Grand Slam or on the WTA Tour. At the moment, it feels like the grand slams are her home and she's going to have to be able to live with the smaller tournaments and the smaller oppositions on the smaller courts. And yeah, again, it will be another back to the back to the grind situation and yeah, getting used to, I think, being a mainstay on the WTA Tour. Definitely. And I mean, let's look at what else we had. This morning, whilst we were all up and about, we obviously had on rod laver arena, big match against Daniel Medvedev and Nick curios, home favorite. And I think this kind of went the way I was expecting curios had never actually lost him ever previously, but their prior matches have been at least three years ago. And then earlier and Medvedev came through this one in four sets, 7 6 6 four four 6 6 two, so curious was able to grab that third set. But you know, I think the most exciting bit of this match for me was probably yeah, maybe that first set tiebreak, thinking, wow, what kind of way is this match going to open up and start out? And then I guess, you know, Kirby was scrubbing that crowd going wild. That was kind of quickly knitting the barred by Devin in the fourth set. But I think Medvedev overcame overcame the crowd overcame kiros antics, but curios essentially two inconsistent doesn't have the doesn't have the weapons. Yeah, it doesn't have a consistency to match someone of Medvedev's caliber. You know, he is potentially going to finish as world number one at the end of this tournament should he win it. So a golf in different I think, and that this match showed that, I think. It was really, really good performance. I think that as you said, that first set, that first set tiebreak was critical because it would have been, I think, very interesting, had Medvedev lost that tie break and gone a set down to curios because I think the crowd would have got in, I think, even earlier, but I think by the time curious did win a set in that third set, I think he was all out of energy really. I think he had to have huffed and puffed and yes he was able to get that break and win and reduce the deficit to two sets to one. But Medvedev just had a second win ready the kiosk that he was not able to deal with and he just kind of steamrolled through that four set 6 two. What I thought was kind of interesting was the end of the match. We had Jim Courier on court talking to Medvedev about his performance and Medvedev kind of talked about the crowd booing him between his first and second serve. And again, that interaction engaged with that he has with the crowd. I think he does it in a way that is not like he's not kind of flustered by it. He doesn't let it get on top of him, but he is certainly, I think aware of it. And we all know the atmosphere and Nick curios matches is sort of party and carnival football like atmosphere. But yeah, again, it was impressive that Medvedev was able to just sort of block that out and get on with it. Yeah, he did handle it well today. Despite them making noises. But I think at the end as well in the interview it sounded like the crowd were booing, which I would think I was thinking if they are booing that's incredibly rude. But I think what they were doing is that Ronaldo suing thing, which is just really strange and Jimmy it's like the new zealot chant, isn't it of the 2020 Australian open? Yeah, I mean, Jim Carrey was trying to explain to him that it wasn't booing that they were doing this thing. I don't know. I think they genuinely think they're actually building. I genuinely think I genuinely think they were. But Medvedev had to tell them in that interview to shush it because he couldn't even hear courier tried to explain what the Sioux chant was. So regardless, they were being disrespectful in that extent anyway. And I just think, I don't really get this suit thing. Why would you do a chance that sounds like boo. I don't really understand it. This is going to end up on a future like pet peeves fan pet peeves podcast episode, isn't it? Yeah, it was a bit, it was a bit there. And it did maybe think about the Australian open, just generally, and the fact that they call it or they do call it that the happy slam. I don't know, I just think this year and also a little bit of last year as well. I look at what's going on and the crowd interaction as well, yes, I know this is a Nick curios match and doesn't necessarily happen at every single match. But it just, I don't know, just doesn't it doesn't feel very happier at the moment, I don't think. And it feels like there's a lot of tension and aggro and it could be jokey. It could be a little bit more intimidating. But it could come from and I think come from the crowd at some points. But yeah, it feels like I don't know, it feels like the DNA of the tournament. I think has changed. Arguably more so than the other three slams over the last few years, potentially because of the pandemic and the vaccine situation. But yeah, it was just something I think I observed, given the interactions and all the noise that I think has been making during that match..
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"And I guess, you know, the comeback is very difficult, perhaps due to his age or just because of the nature of the beast itself. So we don't know what kind of season Federer is in store for next year. How much of him will we're going to be able to see it's a real shame. I have a sneaking suspicion, labor cup, 2022 is in London. I think he's going. I think he's going out then. Yeah, this for me is about him going out on his terms more than, you know, obviously more than him coming back and winning a Grand Slam and putting him himself ahead in the race against Djokovic to Dow. I think everyone, even the most Ardent fed fans that are past that. But certainly I think everyone wants to see him come back and go out on his terms. Now what that looks like is I'm not quite sure, but for me, I feel like that ends at the labor cup, something started and created. And it's part of his legacy. So I feel like that is a natural moment to come to go out, especially if, you know, he can't get back out on the court at center court at Wimbledon. I think the other thing we've got to recognize also is the fact that his ranking is going to drop considerably the more the more time he spends off the court. So, you know, he's going to need probably wild cards, I guess to get back onto the tour. He'll obviously be able to I guess play with a protected ranking. So I think there are all these kind of factors that play once he is able to, you know, get back out on a tennis court and feel like he is return. Feel like he is going to return. I still think we will see that, but time is I think very going to be very, very limited going forward. And to finish up today, Joel, we've had the WTA awards nominations announced for the end of season awards. So we've got certain categories. Player of the year, newcomer of the year, most improved player of the year. Come back player of the year and double steam of the year. So these will be announced, I think, in December, which is exciting, they've got a ceremony at St. Petersburg in Florida. I mean, what do you make of the nominations? Is the nominees? I should say who are you picking for each of those scatterers? If we were doing passing shots, additions of these awards, who would you? I think there are some that are quite obvious for me, player of the year, as party and doubles team of the year critique Verne's signac. Newcomer, most improved in comeback, I feel like a most interesting, because on newcomer of the year, they do have emerging on there. And I know we had a bit of an argument before recording about whether she should have been on there because I think there are players who had shown consistently more across the season than emirati, who obviously has probably hit the highest of highs, particularly in this group of nominations. But I'm certainly looking more, I think someone like a Clara torsen who I think consistently and more evenly across the season is, I think for me, kind of proved herself as I would put as newcomer of the year. Most improved. I feel like you've got to go somewhere like Paola pado or on shibo or cultivate because of the run at the end of the season. And then come back pair of the year is an interesting one, because you've got Suarez Navarro vegan and I would probably go on results wise probably go cognac, but the colossal is Navarro's story in general coming back from cancer is very, very has been very, very impressive in itself. So I think there's certainly different ways you can look at it. Yeah, absolutely. I know what you mean about RADA Kano, she has obviously that amazing tournament at the U.S. open, but I think consistency across the year someone like a clarissa and or even Lee, I love a bit of Anne Lee. I think consistently across the tour, I think they would be more deserving, but I do feel that radically will probably win it because the most amazing win in the champion four exhibition. Yeah. I think player of the year I think Barty you know, it's hard to look beyond her because although of late, you know, she hasn't really done much her win at Wimbledon and she has the most titles this year. So I think absolutely fair do's. Most improved, yeah, I think, really, I mean, Annette's conservative of late, but otherwise I would probably also say, yeah, be dosa or critique. And there's quite a lot in that category I think that's quite enough one. Doubles team of the year, I think that I think I would go with the checks as well, cheekiness and Jakob, I think they've been a star stellar team. Not going to go with Sam Stosur, Kim? Oh, well, I know you would love you love your sams days at 8 year. You should be proud she's made it onto that short list. Oh my gosh. Yes. Oh my gosh, yes. Well, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see how we'll see how our guesses do. Not long, I guess to find out until the winners of those awards. But we're going to wrap it up here for our latest catch up with the passing shot. A couple of announcements from passing shot headquarters. We have we're always obviously looking for feedback and we're interested to hear from listeners about the show this season looking forward to 2022. So we've put a link in the description to our passing shot 2021 survey. It's a couple of questions. It will take a couple of minutes. It's all anonymous..
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"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"She's now up to I think a ranking of number three in the world. And she has become the first Spaniard as well to win the WTA singles finals in the events history. So really, really impressive stuff for big Aretha because you know, we won't really talking about her. I think going in and there is something about her in Mexico. She just loves to for some reason she just loves seems to love playing there. She has a great record in Mexico. She won Monterey 2018, 2019. So she's got like a 14 two win loss record in Mexico. So she clearly feels very at home there, very comfortable and that translates well onto the court. Yeah, she's now back up to number three in the world. I was really surprised by this, but this is her tenth singles title. I just assumed she had more than that already because she's been around for a number of years. She's one two slams and I just assumed she would have amassed more than that. And three of those have come this year. It's actually been a very, very good season for her. I was very pleased if she would, you know, I'm a big fan of muguruza and she's the only player of late who's been able to beat and that according to who has been on the form, you know, in the form of her life. So it obviously took a stellar performance from muguruza to do that. Especially at the latter end of each of those sets, she won the last four games of both of those sets coming from a breakdown in that second set to clinch the victory in two sets and prevent it going to a third and deciding set. And Kim, I just want to take partial credit as well because I didn't predict muguruza to win because I don't think I said I had Bo dosa beating we grew in semifinals. So I just want to take credit there for not predicting God being your muguruza and her doing the complete opposite. Because I swear, normally, whenever I predict my groove, she normally goes out in like the first round in collector set or I have a for winning the title and it just never happens. So yeah, I'm glad to see that happen, but yeah, it's been, again, it was a fantastic tournament. Guadalajara, great, great venue. I know a lot of people being like, just keep it in Guadalajara, the crowds have been fantastic, particularly for the night Sessions. It was I was a bit surprised. A bit taken aback actually by how full the stadiums were, but the atmosphere gained was top quality and I think the WTA will be doing very well for themselves if they're looking at that part of the world and thinking, how do we, how do we make the most of this kind of appetite for tennis? Because it is there. And again, it just added to the tournament and made it a really a really fun and thoroughly enjoyable ride throughout the throughout the event. And it was also a great week for Barbara critique and qataris and jakov, who were the top seeds. They won the WTA finals in the doubles defeating CHA and Elise mertens in straight sets. So that's their first WTA finals as a pairing. And it feels like a bit of a merry go round at the top of the women's doubles ranking, Kristin jakova is now the doubles world number one. She's taken that mantle from sea way Shea, but I swear it seems to sort of flick between them quite a lot and, you know, back in the day, it was babble Schumer denim it she was on a bit of a merry go round as well. So that's a great tournament and really happy that critique of after her great season has come away with something from the WTA finals as well because you know he's been playing a lot of tennis. It was nice that she was able to get one title. Arguably too much tennis from what I saw of her in the Billie Jean King cup in Prague. She just did not look at the race. I think she I think she ran out of juice on the single circuit, but great to see her kind of continue her doubles form because yeah, they were the out and out favorites and it's good to see them live up to their billing. I mean, Kim, just before we go to an ad break, let's just quickly talk about talk about the champions tour, which is, well, has been at the Royal Albert Hall in London this week. Before we get on to some of the matches, emirati Carney, everyone was talking about this because emirati Carney had an exhibition. She played with one of her best friends her hitting partner Gabriela Russa in an exhibition match. She won it 6 three 7 6 school line doesn't really mean anything. I think this was just a bit of a bit of a homecoming, I think, for British tennis fans who obviously clamoring ever since she won the U.S. open lady singles title earlier in the season been clamoring for any time they can get with Emma ratigan who say it was great for them, I think to go out and see what she is about and yeah, it was, yeah, it was a fun friendly good atmosphere sort of match. We can't read. We can read nothing into it. It was purely an exhibition. I've had kind of my Norden tennis friends asked me about this and I've had to sort of be like, this is very much an exhibition of exhibitions. There's nothing riding on this. But it was so great. I think to see her back out and smiling on a tennis court. Yeah, a bit of a homecoming, isn't it in celebration of her win in flushing Meadows? Bit random, I suppose to add it on to a men's ATP champions tour. But, you know, when in Rome, and also it is the last year, apparently that the ATP champion store is coming to the Albert Hall. It's been strong for 24 years. It's a great event. I've been a couple of times. It's always a bit of fun, you know, with the likes of bahrami and co so it's a shame that it's not going to be there anymore. But I was quite pleased this year that we had Nicholas and macro David Ferrer, you know, some classic Spanish players in action. We had also Thomas Berdych. She plays that we we grew up with from our generation. They've got to that age now where they are on the champions tour and yeah, some very entertaining tennis as you come to expect from an event like this. It feels a world away from the champions tour from ten years ago where I feel like it was more slightly older, you had John, you know, obviously John McEnroe played but it's very competitive and very high quality now, I think, you know, watching it on TV..
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"muguruza" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"If you would like to be introducing a show in 2022, you can do so when we launch our next round of crowd funding, a so crowdfunding, it's all going to be a bit different this next time. We'll tell you about that next week. David. 30 seconds into the pod. Yeah. However, rest assured, we will still be doing shout outs. We'll still be doing intros. We'll still be doing pet mascots all the rest of it. And yeah, if you want to have a reminder when we launch all of that in early December, go to our show notes and you can have a link there and we'll send you a reminder if you stick your email address in. But anyway, thank you to Andy because it is at the stage where the WTA finals semifinals are complete. And that's why we're back there because we've had a few days. I have to say, I don't know about you. I'm slightly struggling to keep across when we're supposed to do podcasts at the moment because we wake up to two matches having played at the WTA finals and then two hours later after we've recorded the podcast the ATP final starts in Turin. Oh, dear, dear. We've, you know, we've spent about half an hour this morning. Just trying to work out when we should record podcasts. So every other day is more or less the plan. But it's messing with my mind. Thank goodness we got yours, let's back up. Yeah, there are very few windows in the day to actually record a podcast when there's not tennis happening because of the two times ends. But yes, every other day we will be here for the rest of this week covering both events. Okay. Well, right. Well, we'll start with the WTA finals and let you know what the semifinals line up is. And it is going to be gardeny muguruza against Paola badosa. And it is going to be Maria Zachary against Annette. We will tell you about everything that went on over overnight and on the night before in those matches. In just a minute. But before that, I've just got to draw your attention to some sorcery from that Roberts in our newsletter. We do like to blow our own trumpeter on so it's broadcast when we get something right. Sometimes you have to. Sometimes you have to, and it's such a rare occurrence in my case that I take every advantage when I can. But this from Matt is quite extraordinary. In the last newsletter, from a few days ago, just before the WCA finals took place, started up. Matt wrote a WTA finals preview in the newsletter and he wrote the following. The four players I think will reach the semifinals a pile of dosa Maria Zachary and at conservators and gardenia. I mean, what? Frankly, it all feels like guesswork until we see how they adapt to the conditions. Well, not guesswork for you. But I've gone with players who I think can battle through hardship. I'm also hoping that badass and in particular muguruza with her Latin American roots, not South American David. Feed off the crowd support and energy. I mean, nailed it. That's as though you've cheated or something. So you've come back from the future. And just sort of done the newsletter with not with complete hindsight. I mean, newsletter readers will know that I am last in our predictions composition for the year. I've had a shocker. I mean, I've not got one right for months. And I've and the irony is I've made four predictions here. I've got them all right. Don't get any points for them whatsoever. But do you know often I look at a WTA draw and I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen. I mean, it's easy to say in hindsight, I actually felt fairly confident about those predictions. Just given where quite cheek if I was, given how where sapal lenka was I didn't think would really relish these conditions and Schwann tech was a real unknown. I almost put you on ticket, I suppose. But yeah, I think we've had some good matches. We've had some exciting matches, but it has panned out. I thought it would. Amazing. Amazing. We've reached that stage with it being the final group stage of the WTA finals where you get that kind of all or nothing feel to the matches. When it was Zachary against samba Lanka last night, and it was winner take all the winner goes into the semis, the loser goes home. You can not avoid that match. You can not, you need to rearrange your life in order to see that match. Whereas the other one, but user against Schwann tech with everybody known that boss was already qualified and couldn't shrink couldn't qualify. I didn't even bother watching that. I don't know what happened. I mean, I noticed 7 5 6 four. I didn't watch it. It was irrelevant, really, in terms of what goes on. Is that how you feel? Or do you just watch them all anyway if you can? I would have watched it if there was nothing else on, but of course, with the ATP finals happening at the same time, I ended up watching sits and pass Rublev, which was on it exactly the same time last night. That's infuriating. I mean, both of them starting at 8 o'clock UK time. Yeah. I know. It just sort it out. But yes, I know I didn't watch so should be on tech. Either I know it was I think it was badass birthday, wasn't it? And she was in this awkward position of knowing she was through and knowing that her match was the next day her semifinal. No, no day off. So I think from the sound of things, it was quite a physical match, you know, second set in particular was there was some grueling games in it. But I think, you know, not the worst thing in the world, but also that it didn't get stretched to three sets. Physically, yes, but I always think this is a really tough position for the player who's one two and is through already. We've seen it so many times in London at the ATP finals. Where, and you've got this player is coming out and I'm in a towel once being in this position. And it's no chance he's going to be able to kind of give a sort of 75% effort. I mean, do you remember that one where I think Andy Murray played a couple of times in the third rubber having already qualified? And then just the competitive juices kicking in and him just absolutely destroying himself ahead of the semifinals that he'd already qualified for. Yeah, it's not an ideal situation. Is it? And actually, we had a little bit of it in muguruza cultivate. It was already through the interesting thing there was muguruza had to win that match to get through to the semifinals..
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"Party for par for the courts? Yes. Correct. Yes. As far as right, yeah, she won Miami, she also won since cinatti. Oh, gosh, okay. Feels like a long time ago. You know, that was like the most obvious one. She has been in three master's finals this season. She won two of them. And she got to the Madrid final as well. But she lost to someone who is at the WTA finals, which haven't said. I'm just scrolling back up. It's the right thing on our reference script that will help me cheat at this. Muguruza? No. No. It hasn't. No. Madrid. Sabba linked defeated Barty in Madrid. Yeah, they were playing quite a lot, weren't they at that time of the year. Oh, God. Yes. So I mean, I have a quick guesses. I feel like Zachary got to the Indian Wells final. So if you had told me Zachary and if you had said to me, svitolina, you would have got a big no, both of those players did not reach. Oh dear. Master's finals in 2021. So we could have had. So, as you said, correctly, Dubai was muguruza defeating critique of her. Miami was ash bharti defeating Bianca andreescu. Oh, okay. Yeah. We've got Madrid, which as I said was sabalenka defeating Barty. Rome, fi on tech defeating Pliskova, that double bagel. Montreal was also Georgie defeating. So she's been a runner up twice this season. And then the two other players who lost in Cincinnati and the Indian Wells finals, I'm surprised you didn't remember this Cincinnati ash party defeated Jill Tycho. That's really memorable show. And it did wells. I mean, I actually think this is memorable. I think this is actually one of the batches of the year. Parliament Victoria Azarenka. Shall I say reason as well I really should have got that. But yes, you did get you did get par for the course. So well done. And you nearly tripped yourself up again at the final. I feel like you love getting to like one one from par for the court so they'd give them a wrong answer. So I'm impressed you know I'm impressed you didn't fall into that trap and you went with the obvious choice in Asha party. Yeah, exactly. I've got to play the strategy, right? But listeners hope you managed to do better than me, perhaps, as she played along with that one. We've got a mailbag this week as well. Dan has got in touch with us very kindly on email. He said, hey guys, love the show and loved you talking about all the new rules that are being trialed at the next gen finals. That got me thinking, which rule do you never want to see, make it on to the ATP tour proper? So which rule do you never want to see? So gosh, right. I mean, maybe we should run through what the new rules were. We've had the timed toilet breaks. One minute warm ups. Uncle coaching. Yeah. No, at scoring. One medical timeout. Yeah, I mean, for me, I think for me, there is an obvious one that I don't want to see. I think there's a lot of said do you want to see, but one absolutely I do not want to see, and that is for me. I think it's a Marmite topic for a lot of people. No ad scoring Kim, I just not a fan of it. I just like, yes, I get the shortened could shorten matches and maybe that makes scheduling easier for tournament organizers and maybe it makes it more exciting when it gets to when it gets to juice for fans where it's just a sudden death point. But for me, you know, I feel like you have to if you're getting to juice, you have to earn it a little bit more. And I feel like I want the advantage to be there because of that. And we see no add in other contacts, you know, like, doubles, for example, but I really hope I have a sneaking suspicion we may see it on the tour one day, but I really for me don't want to see it there because I just think it ruins one of the kind of nuances and strategy of closing out a game and just you know, I just don't think like shortening the game is always the answer and yeah, for me, no ad scoring yeah, it's something I don't particularly not particular. It's not particularly a great fan of, so yeah, I'm going to go no ad scoring as a rule. Yeah, I certainly don't want to see make it introduction onto the ATP, or even the WTA singles circuit. Yeah, obviously we've got a variation of that in the doubles, which is fine. You know, for regular events. No, I agree with that. I mean, for me, I would say the courtside coaching, you know, on court coaching. At the next gen they were allowed to do that throughout from the sidelines. But I wouldn't want that to become a mainstream thing on the tour because I do think that a large part of the game. You know, is a player being able to have that strategy and have that ability to turn a match around without having to have that input constantly. And I just kind of feel that it may become a bit like a, I don't know, football or I'm imagining, you know, just sort of coaches, you know, just continually having that kind of feedback and it's a bit distracting in a way as well, you know, I think, you know, part of it is working out what to do for yourself and obviously you have that discussion with your coach before and after. I think the deal on the WTA having the coach coming on, you know, every now and then I don't have a problem with that. But I think opening up from the sidelines is just perhaps a bit too much. So yeah, certainly, I think that rule should stay at the next gen for now. But you know, we wouldn't know unless you try these things. So I think it's great that they use that as a test. All for that. But thanks Dan for getting in touch. Always lovely to hear from our listeners and to hear that you're enjoying the show as well. So thank you ever so much. But let's go to Turin now Joel Turin calling is not London calling anymore. First time in 12 years that the ATP finals are not in London at the O2. Bit sad, because this time of the year, I normally rampaging around the O2 freezing my bum off in these cold. Areas around the around two is what we met at the O2 as well. They did. Years ago. At the world tour finals, which I keep telling myself, I've got it on I've got it like on a note next to me. Do not do not call world tour finals just call ATP tour finals. But yes, we are we are into it. Interestingly, there has been a lot of chat on Twitter because obviously everyone was seeing this as like, you know, this is a new opportunity for the tour finals to reinvent itself whether that's through branding or the vibe in the tone and obviously the new setting of it. But yeah, a lot of comments kind of calling out the fact that it just feels like London in Turin and that sort of sparked a debate. Because I was a bit like, you know, don't if it's not broken, you don't need to fix it. And you know, I feel like we're in that situation where it feels quite it feels quite similar. I mean, I get the court surfaces are it sounds like it's a bit faster here than where it was in London, which I think was a little bit slower, but the whole kind of look and the colors on core. I think even some of the music is the same as well. It does feel like it's a little baby is a little bit too simple to London. I'm not sure. Are they playing London calling by? No, they've just taken London out and put her in call. But I just like the first thing I think of as the overuse of that song in London, but yeah, just the green and red group. I mean, that's just on imaginative, as I said earlier. But it's only a small thing. It really doesn't matter at the end of the day. You know, there are more important things in the world. We've had a few matches already. We had the opening match, which was Medvedev and her cash for the singles. That went three sets. I mean, it's sort of been landed in summer calling that, you know, the group of death..
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"You know, he's finished the season on a high. You can go back into his training block, work on a few things. And then come out roaring to go in Australia. And again, could be could be a dangerous player to watch. I'll be interested to see how all the Americans I think get on. I think they've now got 6 Americans in the top 50, I think, which is pretty good going. So, you know, I'd be interested to see how they go about themselves when it comes to the hard courts in Australia because it seems like they've got quite a few players now. You know, maybe not necessarily in closing in on that sort of top ten spot, but certainly, you know, with Fritz, TFO port, they're all playing really good tennis at the moment. So I certainly want to watch come the start of next season. Absolutely. And let's take a quick break now, but do join us in the second half where we'll be having a look at the ATP finals, including possible withdrawal from Matteo bertini. Joe Salisbury got the better of Jamie Murray there and also all the news regarding Peng Shui and where exactly she is. So do not go anywhere. This is the passing shot with Joel and Kim supported by download tennis dot com. Now we're going to move on to a bit of a quiz section as per Joel. I think we've got half of the courts this week, which you've got up your sleeve for me. Yes, I do have a par for the quarter for you now that the season has finished. I've been able to get a question for you that is to do with the season. Just looking back, maybe a little sneak peek of what is maybe potentially to come with a passing shot end of season quiz. Further down the line. But yeah, I've got a path for the courts for you. It concerns WTA tennis. I feel like this should be I feel like this is a bit of a bank of you, actually. I think you could do quite well here. I'm excited by the end of season quizzes coming up. Enough of that, we'll be getting onto that later. Yes, okay, WTA. It depends what it is though Joel. What is the category? Okay, so I am looking for now I painstakingly went through all this ornaments and looked this up. So I want to know the 11 WTA players who played in a masters 1000 final. This season. So Dubai, Miami, Madrid, Rome, Montreal, Cincinnati, and Indian Wells, there are 11 WTA players who played across those 7 events. And I'm looking for how many you can name. And I'm going to set the pass score at I'm going to say 7. I'm going to be quite hard here. 7, I think I can do 7. I think that's a realistic. Entity. And I think this is great revision who's got to the latter stages of the big tournament. So I hope you're with me on this, and you're going to shout out names are short walking around. And Kim extra brownie points if you can tell me which event. Unless there's as well extra brownie points there. But yeah, where are you going first? So what's your what's your number one? I am going to go to Dubai first, which I believe was gardenia muguruza and Barbara critique of her. That is correct. Yes. So that's two already in the bank. So yeah, muguruza critique via muguruza won that in Dubai. So yeah. And then I'm going to go to Rome, which I think was very one sided. I think it was eager film tech double bagel in Carolina. Yes, it was yes, it was 6 love 6 love. So yeah, that's two more. So that's four correct so far. So three more to get par for the chords. So Indian Wells quite recently, Paola badosa, but I can't remember who she'd be. So just powder potato for now. Correct, yes, so that's 5. And then we had the other one that's really sprung to mind is Montreal because I think that was Camilla Georgie winning that one. Out of the blue correct yes, Camilla Georgie, won in Montreal, yeah, everyone was a bit surprised by that. Took time out from taking photos of fashionable clothes on Instagram to win a master's event. So yeah, Camilla Georgie. And then this is where I'm now struggling. So you got what you need one more to get par for the court skips. So. See, I think I think I feel like Maria Zachary got to the Indian Wells final. Is that hepatitis a beat? But I'm not I've also got obviously to run to and then Madrid who won Madrid. Oh, that is tough. And Miami did Miami. Miami, Madrid. No Toronto was in Montreal, which was. Sorry. Yes. And is there another clay one? No, I think it's just Madrid and Rome for the women. I mean, it's vital, you know, maybe get to a final, who else is there? Oh, ash bharti. Oh ash Barty won Miami, I think. Didn't she? Or was that last year? No, no, she wouldn't be..
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"So we've got a bizarre muguruza semi. We've got a quantum versus either sabalenka or Zachary semi. Are you going to make a tentative fiction Joel as to, you know, after, we know you kind of three or four semifinalists who is going all the way to lift that title. It's a tricky one, isn't it? I feel like the form you gotta go with the form players, I think, and you know, I'm sensing yeah, I'm sensing for some reason I'm just sensing coming through and badosa kind of just coming through, I think that for me, very much could easily be the final. I think I actually think piza the way she's playing the baby is making me think she could be a contender for the Australian open. They come January, given, given what I've seen from her, you know, I'd love to see her against ash party in Melbourne, because I think she's playing some very, very impressive tennis. And she's playing she's playing these big match ups with some real real kind of fire and desire and I was reading that she's now 20 and 8. So one 20 lost 8 against higher ranked opponents in 2021 after she beat Maria sakurai. So it just shows that she's able to kind of elevate her game depend regardless of who the player is, if they're playing, she's playing a high rank player. She's completely fearless about it. And I think maybe that might carry her through to the finals. So I'm going to go for, yeah, but final. And maybe I've got Paola dosa winning it for some reason. Okay. So yeah, I know I know there's more probably celebrated names like muguruza, you know, is one of my fan favorites when I always make dreadful predictions for at the grand slams. So I'm going to stick away. I'm going to stay away from talking about muguruza and go for another Spaniard in Paolo pa dosa. Yeah, I feel like I'm going to attempt fate, perhaps once more. And I might predict muguruza for the final. I feel like it's going to be a muguruza cultivate rematch again. I think they're going to meet again in the final. But I feel like cultivate might get the better of her, but it will be a close three setter. But yeah, I mean, it is tough to predict. And just the dosa, yes, she has been beating her ranked opponents, but the higher she goes up the rankings, you know, the tougher that is going to be to kind of carry on that upset. But that's a bold statement read the Australian name. And I'm going to be holding you to that in two months. You can remind me that when we make something but let's move on to links now, which is obviously the WTA event taking place in Austria, T 50 event on the hard courts. We were speaking last week about Emera Khan, being the top seed in this event, Simona Halep being the second seed. Neither of those players won in the end. It was the 8th seed, Alison risk that came through to win her third career title. Quite a quite close fine or 7 5 in the third set against a Romanian lucky loser, Jacqueline Christian, who was the player who dressed up as a contestant, yes. Yeah, which we loved in Pennsylvania. So really nice to see her getting to a final after that. I know. Recent escapade? Yeah, it was a mad run, really for Jacqueline Christian because she was a lucky loser. And lucky losers in WTA finals do not happen that often. And in fact, in the final, she was bidding to become the only the fourth lucky loser to win a WTF WTA title last month and to do that strangely enough was coco Goff inlands in 2019. So I don't know, I don't know why lucky losers seem to do well here. But yeah, she did have a good big bit of good fortune then, 'cause you know, she lost in filing around of qualifying to sarren co, came through as a lucky loser. And then Peterson in round two retired. Halep gave her a walkover in the semifinals. So she had some, you know, she had some pretty nice pretty nice bits of luck, I think, happened all along the way to get to the final, but she was paying some very good tennis as well. She defeated her in the quarters, 6 three 7 6 saved a bunch of break points en route to that victory. So that was very, very impressive from her, but I mean, let's just talk about Alison risk because yeah, she's a player who I think is, you know, is one of those who is a very good tennis player, but I've always feel like we talk about her when she has like injuries and those injuries tend to kind of not her off her kind of schedule for quite a while. And I think this season, I think the first half of the season again, injuries really did not allow her to play tennis. But once she was able to kind of step foot on the court, you know, towards the end of this season. She's been playing some pretty decent ball and I think she got to the final of Porsche earlier on a few months ago where she lost to paulini of Italy. So I was quite glad to see her, you know, get to another final and come through and win. Because she does have a game, I think that is very well suited at particularly I think to an indoor hardcore. And I think that's one of the reasons that got her over the line in the final against Christian. Yeah, we always sort of associate her with grass courts as well. And actually, I think what I know she has one her talking Bosch, but I don't, I think, you know, her other title was also an article. So she hasn't only one on grass courts by any means, but yeah, she's had quite a tough injury, sort of strewn, first half of the season. But since the U.S. open, she's been on, you know, pretty good, pretty good run, really. And I think, yeah, like her her experience did probably come through and you know, she was fortunate that Daniel Collins retired in that semifinal as well as both players getting into the final with a bit of luck. I think it was a pretty rubbish day on the semifinals of one set. You would not have wanted a ticket for the semifinals, would you? Absolutely not. But yeah, I know really pleased with Alison race which is very likeable player and please for Christian getting to that stage for the first time in her career. And, you know, her game is quite exciting, quite aggressive, very powerful player. So I have to see if she can make the most of this opportunity and make inroads and perhaps you'll dress up again as well at some point in the near future. It was a bit frustrating because we hadn't all Romanian semifinal between Christian and Simona Halep, which could have been could have been quite interesting. Simona Halep did pull out with an injury. I know that I can sense from the Twitter message she put out how frustrated she was with that because she's not won a title this year and I think she'll look back on this season pretty honestly as a pretty ordinary season, maybe even a season to forget. And I think she would have been disappointed not be able to kind of step out on court and yeah, taste victory tournament, because going into the season, I don't think she would have expected to obviously be in this position..
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"Kim, we are in the thick of it. The WTA finals is heading to the semifinals stage. The ATP finals has just got started so we have got a lot of top quality tennis to talk about across the world, really, including the events in Stockholm and linz on the final events on the ATP and WTA tours. We've also got to talk about the Peng Shui controversy, the news coming out at the moment. All of the situation in the context between China and the WTA. So even though we're again at the end of the season once again, we've got so much tennis to talk about. And where better to start where no better to start than Guadalajara in Mexico, which I thought, you know, I wasn't really expecting a lot from this, you know, it felt like a loss, sort of a last minute decision to change it to Mexico and actually it's turned out to be a pretty fun event so far. It has, yeah, especially the night Sessions, the crowd are loving it, and I think it's a strong case to keep it at over in Mexico and Guadalajara. And I think, you know, the two Spaniards Spanish players doing very well, both in semifinals, perhaps it's the whole Hispanic culture there. They're loving being out in Mexico, perhaps that's boosting their chances as well. But yeah, it's been really good so far, actually. And we have had some kind of topsy turvy results, though. We were both saying when we last week that it's quite a hard one to predict because I think everyone's coming in with different levels of form. To some extent, it's kind of gone to form with qualifying through to the semis. And both recently done very well on tour. But yeah, we're not quite got the semifinal lineup sorted. We're still waiting on Maria thackeray or arena sabalenka to become that fourth person in the semifinals. But that is kind of underway today almost as we're recording. So that will be we'll have to catch up fully next week on this one, where we go. I know. We're no three of our semifinalists. And you know, it's been quite it's been quite interesting because the two form players and badosa, they were the last to qualify for the WTA finals, but they were the first into the semifinals. I think both of them also did not drop a set to qualify for the semifinals. And actually, we've seen the more Hyatt ranked players kind of struggle. And you know, although Sabo anchor is still in with a shout to get to the semis. I mean, her first match, there was like considerable rust, I think on show and you know, she really had to kind of pull it out the bag, I think, in a second match against against I think it was Schwann tech where she won the 7 5 in the third to really yeah, I think announce herself. But certainly it's taken I think a few of the players a bit longer to kind of get into kind of get into it. I mean, there's just to kind of look at them group by group. And we do have one group finish, which was the muguruza Pliskova and critique of a group. Now we said that cultivate went through. She won both her first two matches with minimal fuss, I think they were both in straight sets and then we had yeah, please give a critique of muguruza all sort of batting out for that second position. We had some very interesting matches. I've been watching some of them on hot on highlights. I don't think that the time difference has not been great for UK watches, but let's just talk about kind of muguruza versus cultivate because that was a match that happened like what a month ago I think in Russia and cultivate one it like 6 one 6 one, muguruza really needed to win that to have to confirm a place in the semis. She did so 6 four 6 four, snapped at the Estonian's 12 match winning streak. So I think she was really, really happy about that, because she lost a very tight one against push through in the first match. It was literally one point either way in the final set tiebreak. So I think she will be very, very happy with how that's turned out. Yeah, she's a fair amount of tennis this week. What were those two three setters? And yeah, almost could have been unbeaten if she'd have won that last set to our break against Frisco. Critique of her is probably played the most tennis having been in the doubles and still in the doubles as well. But yeah, muguruza first player to win against quantum seemingly a long time, but I think she was really pleased to come through that. And she was the first player all week to actually manage to break a net contrivance serve. I think she'd only come to vote only face like literally a handful of break points in her first two matches and muguruza was able to break in the opening game, which set it up nicely for her. And I really nice change from that result in Moscow, which was a bit of a thrashing. He wanted a bit of she wanted a bit of revenge, and I also think, you know, she wanted to she has come here very heavily motivated. And I think the crowd has certainly certainly helped her. I think it's certainly helped other players as well. We've seen sabalenka sort of orchestrating the cloud. I feel like the passion of the crowd and the passion that sabelle shows on court is sort of a match made in heaven, but certainly with muguruza as well. I think really, really wanted to send the fans home happy and I think that was one of her motivations really to put things right with contempt where you said they had that they had that bizarre match. I don't know if muguruza was injured or her head was wasn't there. I think in wherever it was, I think, in Russia, but muguruza coming through. I mean, just talking about push cover and critique of her who didn't go through..
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"Here with a veteran, a fan favorite in multiple places around the world. She's had the pleasure of playing in multiple eras and is a person people look to mentor and for advice. Andrea petkovic. Thank you for having me, although veteran and multiple era. You're already put me down in two seconds. That's okay. Well, let me tell you. It's not a put down, because that's just more time on tour means bigger fan base. Yeah, that's true. When I was coaching, people would call me, hey, can you give me a picture with peck a bitch? Like a picture with me and peck a vision sent to you? No, it hurt by herself. And I was like, no, it's creepy. I'm not going to ask her for a picture. So you can tell them you know there's a thing it's called Google pictures. I know, right? So I get requests about you and Georgie. Oh, really? No, interesting. And we are nothing alike. How does Georgie look in person? You know? So we were talking. All right. We can just wave. So we were just talking about how you had the pleasure of playing in multiple eras. And that doesn't make you feel old. A little old, but it's okay. I'm still, you know, in the side of me, I still have a fountain of youth that is welling up every now and then. And you just want a title. So clearly the fountain of youth is like there. Yeah, I'm in my fourth spring. Of my tennis career already. So like, to have a long career like that. I mean, one of the things when I look at you, I think about number one professionalism. Number two, positivity. And like I always tell you, you're an adult. And you're like, what do you mean I'm an adult? It was like the depth of the conversation that you have, just on a whim is hard to come by, right? In a sport full of, you know, young people. So what do you think has been the key to you having such a long and successful care? I just long, but long and successful. Well, there are, I think there are a few things, I think, resilience is one big part of it because if you have a career that's so long, there will be down. There will be values that you have to go through. And I think in that moment, if you just stick with it, and that's the best advice sometimes girls ask me younger girls ask me like, how did you come back after your injuries or how did you get back to the highs after all these setbacks? And it's kind of really simple and really hard at the same time. Just keep doing it. Just stick with it. And I think the hardest thing because I've seen many of my colleagues that were around my age younger, a little older that have retired now and I'm still playing. And I was ready to retire too, but then something inside of me still wanted to do this what I love most and it's tennis. I love playing. I love competing. I think that's also maybe a difference. There are a lot of girls who love playing tennis, but sometimes the competition can be like a war of attrition after a while and after so many years. And I still thrive in this competitive environment. I love to I love the tough moments and matches. I love the stress and I think that's what keeps me going, but yeah, I know it's not a thing that lasts forever and it makes me sad at the same time sometimes. Oh wow. So we've seen Kim Clijsters like retire and come back three times. So how many times have you considered retirement? And did like boredom bring you back or you just said the competitive, but how many times you sit home and says, eh, I want to go do photography now. Well, I wish I could make nice photographs my Instagram would be better. But I had to, I think big moments and I talked to a lot of my colleagues and I think a lot of them had it. And it's when a woman turns around 28 29 as a tennis player, I think that's the first time you sort of have to ask yourself questions that you maybe haven't ask yourself before. And that's like, do I want a family biology is kicking into play? You start to get a little more tired. I felt when I was 28, 29, I all of a sudden felt this strange strange knew I had these strange new thoughts. Oh, my God, I missed everything in my life. I had no youth. I had no partying. I had no crazy college phase. I can't be a doctor anymore. I can't be a lawyer anymore. All these strange thoughts came to me when I was 28, 29, and that was probably the time when I was closest to retiring. And then I took a month off. I just spent a month in New York. It's one of my favorite cities. I sort of did everything that I could do when I'm not on tour. Go to bed when I want to drink a beer when I want to, you know, not have to eat gluten free sugar free whatever. I just did whatever I wanted. And after a month, I was okay. And then I came back and I was fresh again and once I think overcame that that was great. And then the last three, four years I was close just because my knee was not great and that's really hard, I think when you're somebody like me who loves to be professional and who loves to do everything they can each day to be in the best spot to perform well if your body doesn't allow you to do this. And that was really tough for me. I could practice well for two weeks and then I had three or four days where my knee would swell up. And so during the pandemic, I had the opportunity to have a little procedure done. And since then, that's my fourth spring. Since then, exactly my Nisa much better the inflammation has settled a little bit. I have more range. I can flex it better and stretch it better. So I think that's why also I was able to win another title this year and play well again. So you talked about you taking that month off to sort of just regroup and just have a normal life. And now, you know, you read now about the younger players or some of them are struggling with the press or just the pressure in that kind of thing. Is that something you would advise them to do? Because it's kind of hard, right? You got now in the contract you have minimum play requirements. You got premier mandatories. You have all these things where it's like, no, you got to play. Even if you're not ready to play. You know, what is your recommendation to somebody young players who are feeling like overwhelmed a lot more easily? Well, you know, I think the curse of humanity in general is just that we experience we have as humans would have really helped us when we are young and have the body and physics to do all the things that we want to do. And then when you have the experience, the mental experience of putting things into perspective, that's when your body starts to decline. And if you can find the sweet spot somewhere there, that's perfect, right? But so I know how these younger players are feeling because I've been there in the same position when I was 22 23. And once you're older, you know that it's really only up to you. You don't have to play the mandate, even if it's mandatory, and yes, we'll drop a few spots in the rankings, but it doesn't in the end, it doesn't matter because in the long run, if you think about what's going to be in 5 years and 6 years, if you're happy, you're still going to play tennis. And if you're as talented as these young girls, you will still be in the top. You don't have to be three or 5 or 7 right now if you can be that for ten more years if you take a break now. But this is something you know when you're older and just something that you know when you've experienced all the ups and downs. And so it's just what I think that's just part of being young and being an experienced and just going through life with, you know, taking everything at face value and everything is so overwhelming. You just have to get through it. And I hope these young players do. I know that they have more skills than we did back then. I think meditation, a mental strength, people who help you with that are much more common than it used to be when I started playing ten, 12 years ago, there was no such thing. We just sort of had to get through it and swim through the crap in a way. And but now they have more, I think possibilities to work on that, and I hope they use all these opportunities that they have. I have a plumber. So my plumber, every time something goes wrong on my house, I always have a car, I pick them up, and I say, why don't you do this? And why don't you do that? His response to me for ten years has been all the same. He says, keep living youngster. So that's kind of like when you were talking, I was thinking about, you know, the young generation and how they kind of know everything. And now you're looking back like you realize it's not that important. Well, I think also this what's really interesting, I remember when I was 1819 20, it's a really interesting mental state that you're in because at one on one side, you think you're invincible and the world belongs to you and you're the queen or the king of the world and everyone should bow to you. On the other hand, you have so little knowledge compared to what you will acquire over the course of the coming years, but you don't know that. So I think this tension between thinking you're on top of the world and that things go wrong is really hard to come by and that's something that what's being an adult all about, I think combining this thing of still believing in oneself, but also acquiring this humility that you need to go through life in a certain kind of just taking things as they are and accept them and make the best out of it. So you've had a chance to play with great players. The clyster there in the past, the Elena jock itch, you got Sarah pulver. I want to ask you about a couple different answers. Who from that era, did you just sort of could never figure out what it was like ten times and she made me all ten times. But then she loses somebody that would always be. Who from that era like gave you trouble? Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you two anecdotes to this, or not anecdotes, but two things to this. So two players I was never able to beat, but I was always very close and Halep. And all of my matches against them when three sets, and I always lost 7 5 7 6 in the third. And the funny thing about that is that I'm not even that mad about it because the reason why I lost is because I feel or I think that's like part of my personality is that I think when it's an important moment I want to take responsibility and I want to go for the shots. And both of these players were once again Halep at the opposite of me where they are like, okay, this is an important moment. I'm not going to give her anything. So these two things are not really working well together because I was going for things. There is nothing I can really tell myself that I did wrong. I went for my shots, but because they were so endurant and more solid than I was they would always beat me in these tight moments. So that's one thing. And the other thing I had two matches in all of my career, where I felt if I even if I had played the best tennis that I was able to play that day, I still would have lost. And that was again Serena when she was going for the Grand Slam. I played her in Toronto, and the upcoming tournament to her final feat was supposed to be at the U.S. open. She then lost da Vinci. But I played her in the first round. And I played okay, I didn't play great. I played okay. I lost 6 two 6 two, but throughout the whole match, the feeling was, even if I played my best today, I will have no chance. This is how many levels above she is above me, right? That was a really weird feeling because I've never had that before. And then the other time was against Naomi Osaka and Beijing when she won, I had qualified and I was playing really well, actually. And the same result I lost 6 to 6 two. And I played again, okay, not great, but okay, and I still felt like if I played the greatest tennis of my life, I was still not be able to lose. And finally, enough, I don't know. I mean, you've been around, maybe you'll believe me. Every other match I always felt one opening at one point. Sometimes I went through it. Sometimes I turned it around sometimes I managed to win the match is sometimes not, but you have every in every match, no matter how easy you lose it, there's an opening. There is a tension you feel the other player go through. There is something where you can still turn it around. Not with Serena and Naomi, those were the two matches I didn't feel like I could win no matter how I played. So is that what keeps you going today? I mean, I still enjoy watching you play. I actually enjoy all the people that come to watch you play and you're like, gazing at you. If you want to try to give me a hum, what's up? They're all jealous because I got to kiss on the cheek from pectoralis. So is that what you're doing Corona Corona is like fist bump. But is that what keeps you going like the belief that other than maybe one or two players like today like a halla in Osaka that everybody else you feel like on a good day if I'm healthy and playing well, you got a chance? Is that what keeps you? I think it's part that it's part the feeling that I have when I walk on a court and there is a great audience and it's a beautiful court and it's I feel like there is a sort of energy that combines everyone involved and it's not only the players. It's the chair umpire. It's the lines, men and women. It's the ball boys. It's the audience. There is some kind of energy that transpires when everyone is in the match and is playing. It's like we're all one big ball of energy in that moment. And this is something that because I have done other things in life. I know there is no such thing. And any other way of life, I think, at least. And the fact that I'm so competitive that I still want to win and if I feel like I can, I'm not gonna not gonna give up. So one of the things that I think keeps you so humble and helps you sort of stay out here and travel the world is your off court activity. Photography, you're writing. Tell us one thing about yourself. So, like, when you retire, you're going to do more of this. Well, I think I'm probably going to be a writer. It comes very, very easy to me. I do some TV stuff back at home. And that comes quite easy to me too, but it's not as fun to me. Strangely, I don't know why. I know I do it well, and I know I'm good at it, but it's just, I don't know, it's like I just don't feel a 100% fulfilled when I do it. And with writing, it's a whole different thing. It's maybe the only other thing and besides tennis where I feel, oh, this is what I'm meant to do in a way. And strangely enough more than tennis because tennis was always also work for me. I'm not the most natural gifted player in the world. I have certain gifts and I have certain talents..
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"Now having to compete against them? Like, oh my God, what was this girl? I don't know. I hope I had some impact, but I also had it. You know, when I started in the tour, and I was playing against Venus and Serena and Maria and all of these players that I've watched when I was a junior player and I also felt like that. And they also had an impact in me so it would be amazing that for the next generation, they can look up to me or learn from what I did good, what I did. But whatever. But yeah, it's great. I think it's a change of generation. Now I'm seeing the U.S. open final this young girls fresh and fearless and you can start seeing that, okay, I'm not the young one anymore. I'm like, okay. There's younger now. So as a coach, I find it hard when the new generation comes. And then fresh out of their juniors and they've never played on hawkeye courts. It's harder to scout. You don't have the you like try to find old clips on YouTube. How do you feel now with the young generation? Because I feel like a learning process. You know, you've got to see how they play, you get to know how they handle the pressure. Do you feel a little more pressure on playing a young players? Because, you know, like I always see people playing Coke cars, like nobody wants to lose to the young player. Right to the baby. You know, there is a certain advantage and but it's hard because, you know, sometimes everybody says the experience is very important. And it is. But the more experience you have, the more you know. And the more you know them where you think, right? So I feel like it's great to have the experience because you know how to handle things and more mature. But at the same time, I'm like, sometimes I wish I was like younger and more unconscious of everything. You know, you think less, you just go out there and play and give it all, and that's it. But yeah, you definitely never want to lose to a younger player, but this is tennis. So if they have a good day at today's level, you're home. You go out. Go to the next tournament. Totally. Yeah. So you're one of the people who have been able to win a slam. And then one another's land. And, you know, when I look at the new generation of Grand Slam champions, having seen what happens afterwards, I worry for them, right? And I'm like, oof. Here's what's going to happen, how they gonna handle it. What advice having successfully done to a final, want to slam, then one woman after that, what advice would you give to a first time Grand Slam champion? Well, I think you're so right that, you know, it can be the beginning of everything or the end. Because it can be so affected by the success. And there is nothing harder than to manage success, but also not success. You know, they're both are so difficult and fragile to just to deal with I felt I can only speak about myself, no, but I mean, it was a process I have to say, I went through ups and downs. Also, I believe that if I could do it once, I could do it again. So I was super sure that I can do it, you know, if I want a major, I can win two, and I can win three is just putting the puzzle together and working hard and it will come. But yeah, I wasn't 18 when I won my first Grand Slam. I think that helps. But yeah, definitely, it's very important to have a good team around you, team that keeps you where you have to be. So you now have the recipe on how to set yourself up for the weeks. In order to be successful, I need this, this and this. What are those things? And it's obviously the team's job to set it all up. It's the coach's job to find the perfect practice. We don't want to practice that person. She's not going to like that kind of ball, right? What are sort of your cues to setting yourself up to have a successful sort of tournament? Well, the recipe I wish I had perfectly, but I think you gotta do your homework. You get to prepare well. That's for sure, no matter what you're doing, that gives you that confidence of having done your job, or at least what you can control. I feel like you've got to work also on your mental side. You know, you've got to go through all of those days that you don't feel to train and all of those moments where you're like, oh, I wish I want to go to the mall or whatever. So you have to you have to feel like you have done your part. Once you go to the tournament, because once you're there, it's just about handling the nerves and handling your energy. You've got to be fresh for when the match starts and not empty already. But yeah, I don't feel I have the recipe because then you have to execute that. One thing is to get ready, but then the other part is to go out there and execute everything you've been working. So that's the hard part. Sometimes you have to find ways and sometimes you don't find them and you get, you know, you know how it is. It's hard. Yes. So talking about the recipe, I'm actually just some questions because the fans want to get to know you. So hotel or air-b-n-b. Well, really depends, but I would say I would say hotel. Roof open or closed. Open. Wimbledon, court 18 or court three. Chord three. I'm just gonna say neither stadium. Choose between these two. Bananas are bars. Bananas. Here's the one. Breakfast at Wimbledon or breakfast in Asia. Breakfast. In Wimbledon or in Asia, I actually love Asian food. But because it's so special in Wimbledon, I go for women. It's like an experience. Okay, team dinner or eat solo. Team dinner. On the airplane, sit together or separate. Separate. Yes. You don't have to answer this, but you could say another drink. Gatorade powerade. Oh. Skater it? I have a choice. People people are like, yeah, either one. Hawkeye or real bounce. I think hawkeye, that's technology. Come on, let's support technology. Yeah. Favorite tournament that's not a Grand Slam. Favorite tournament. That's hard. There was many nice Romans. I'm thinking, favorite tournament. Let's say the canyon wells. Come on. That's a beautiful tournament in the wells. All right, and my last one is, the one player when the draw is being made, you're like, please let me play this girl. Who's the one player? Oh, I can't say that. I can't say that. Not even my coach, I think knows that. I keep it for me. I'm sorry. I respect that. You don't want to give them an ad. They're like, ah, she doesn't like playing me. So thank you for joining the show. It's been fun having you. This is like one of the few times we've had like.
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"Very special guests this week. But before we talk to them, let's talk about what happened last week. We've got a yet another young gun emerging, taking advantage of a draw where there was no Novak, no Rafa. No fear. Yana center. Going all the way to the title last week and taking out Diego Schwartzman, two and two in the final. And probably one of the most impressive performances I've seen of his young career. And now we'll be another under 21 in the top 15 on the ATP side. On the women's side, we see a net condivi. In Moscow, coming back from a set and three love down to take a title and continues her red hot streak since July. We've always known she was deceptively athletic. Patiently aggressive. But last week was just a great display of her mental fortitude. How you can be a set in three love down and gain point and continue to fight and look up and see yourself in the third set, holding the trophy. Congratulations to in that contribution. And now for our first guest, two time Grand Slam champion. One of the most popular Spanish athletes on the cover of vogue, garbine muguruza. She opens up about what it was like to get to a Grand Slam final and lose it. It took the next year, get to a Grand Slam final. And when it beats Serena Williams, what the lob and what it felt like to see that ball hang in the air before finally drop on match point for her first Grand Slam title. And then I talked about what happens after you won a Grand Slam. The time in between her French Open title and her run to woman in the very next year. What happens? How life changes? How she has been able to have quite honestly keep it on track through coaching changes through all the obligations we hear grandstand champions to talk about are being muguruza has weathered the storm and been pretty consistently in the top ten. Welcome to the tennis dot com podcast. We are here with one of the greatest players. Today's era, this is a French Open champion, a Wimbledon champion, a celebrity off the court. I recently started following on Instagram and saw your photo shoots and stuff. I was like, I didn't know you had that in you. I've been in muguruza. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. So the first time I heard about you was at the French Open. I think we lost in the forefront that year. And I went home. And then I remember the lob in the finals. And he beats arena. I know how like you're sitting on the side as a coach, just on the sideline and that ball goes in and you start gripping your seat and you come up, up, up, and like please go and please go in. Tell me what you were thinking when the ball was hanging in the air. Well, I love playing lobs. I don't know why. And that was the highest level I've ever played. And I don't know, I think everybody was in shock because the umpire was ensure Serena was like, was it in or not? And I was just so nervous and that's the way I won a tournament. What a weird way, right? I know. You expect like a winner like an ace. But who cares? I got it. It was well, I think the entire that was the best way because when the whole stadium is in suspense is like, it's out, it's in. It's out. And even Serena's like, oh, it's out. You wish, right? I think that added even more to the suspense. And tell me how life changed after that because I remember 2017 when someone U.S. open the next day it was like life is completely different. Tell me how life changed. Honestly, my life didn't change, because my close team and my surrounding didn't change. I definitely felt the popularity. But it's something that it didn't has never bothered me. It did affect me a little bit in terms of being more busy and having to prioritize and keep focusing on my tennis player. You know, and I have to focus on that. Because, you know, there's a lot of candies here and things to do and you know, you can easily start training less, let's say. But I don't know. It took a long time actually to sink it in and realize that when a major and at the beginning, I was a little bit, I don't know, shocked until I'm like, you know what? Yeah, I did it. And I was seeing videos and photos. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I have a French Open, like, come on, start believing in it. But yeah, it was a process. Like for everyone, I guess. Because you know, as a kid, I ever kid like, oh yeah, I want to turn pro. I want to win a Grand Slam. And then you get there and you're like, oh my God, it's like really happening. And you get kind of like scared. And always used to say, one of my old coaches used to say, fear is false expectations appearing real. And I remember like, you know, you get the night before and you're like, oh my God, it's kind of like, I mean, I know I said I could do it, but I didn't really think I could do it. But now I'm here, so I gotta do it. Did you feel like, oh my God, was the night before? How did you feel? I actually didn't doubt a lot because I had experience already a final that I lost in Wimbledon against Serena on 2016. So I knew what playing a fine of a Grand Slam was. And I knew that nobody was going to remember the finalist. Because everything that matters, it's the trophy and who wins it. And so I went to that French Open final against the same opponent feeling more confident on that surface. It wasn't grass. It was clay court. And I'm like, okay, here I can do more damage. And I didn't doubt. I was super confident after the whole winning all of the matches and I didn't feel that nervous actually. So you know, I think for Americans, the U.S. open is like the Super Bowl of our sport. To be an American one U.S. open. You know, the Spanish players own the clay. Do you think that winning the French was like sort of the perfect storm? Because back where you're from. That's like what you all grew up on. You all know how to work that clay better than any other country in the world. Yeah, I mean, when you're a little and you're practicing in Spain, you know, when you're playing the point, they're like, all the coaches would be like, imagine you're playing in French Open. Imagine you're there, imagine this is the match point of rolling garos. You know, so it's like, yeah, on an everyday conversation. So I grown up seeing all the Spanish players winning that tournament and yeah, it was like I have to win a major, which one would I prefer? Obviously, French Open. To start to start. So you're very versatile in terms of sports. You've had the opportunity to interact with celebrities and sports. So my brother, all my best Friends played in the NBA. And we always ask a question, what was your first big purchase after you got the bag? I Rolex. Yes. And now you get them for free. Well, I was always so since I was little, I was always, you know, my whole family loved the brand and I said, okay, one year when I can save some money, or I feel like I can do it. I'm going to go to the store. I'm going to purchase one. And so that was my guess, yeah, the first thing that really had a special value to me. So now there's a lot of Spanish up and coming players. You got Paula but those side, you got all these young talents. And I think your success has inspired them. Do you have any contact with the next generation or do you know the impact that you've had on that class? And how is it.
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"He came through but still fantastic. That we've got cheap. British doubles pairings. Still going strong. And we also have kim the night session. We've sort of touched the muni jackovitch brooks spe- saccharine versus on rescue wall. Are your predictions. No i named my predictions from nas site were shocking. We should really be mentioning them. We jovic brooks bears fascinating brooke. Spe- wildcard thrash night's session crowd full capacity probably going to be booing jackovitch or not applauding him not expecting see which do his Custody celebration baby after that if he wins it what. What your thoughts. How's it going guy. Yeah he hasn't been doing. That has a joke turkovich. I'm i think the long us going to get no. Yeah well. I think he's up for that. I like i think he knows that he's probably just accepted that. I think the best brooke speaking get is a set in tie-break kind of like how nishikori did i date and see anything happening beyond. I'm intrigued day to see how he will fare. I'm quite treat jamboree. Boy jason brooks because oversee. He's been getting of wins eight leeann. I haven't actually seen much fame. So i'm quite intrigued. See how he's gonna shape. It does feel anything brooks does. The is gonna be off. No it's just going to realize a joke of it. She's going to be like. And i took that personally. And then he's gonna kind of rampage through particularly if the crowd gallon his bat. We've seen in the pasta. The i think he likes. He can deal with that confrontational atmosphere. Yes he can. You can play the the gentleman and the the the the the you can play to the crowd if that being nice. But they're not not with him he certainly can handle it so certainly think jakovich coming three. I'm going to say i gonna say straight-sets i think brooks be will give a good account himself percent. I think jock fish will come through. We get into the business now and. I don't think there's going to be any more slip-ups really i think from chocolate to the final off to the semifinal maybe with with czar of the women's singles salary on the rescue wary gang with this because this feels much more much more. Even you know sacree as dumb welling grandsons association. What the semi finals at the french open on rescue overseas has been a usa pa- champion It's still a defeated. We forget which is completely stop thinking about what you have. You have you seeing this one. Yeah i like that good winning and loss round but that was against greet minin. Who's very different opponent. maria saccharine. So i'm gonna give you the edge. They like she still hasn't lost. And i think she's maybe going to be playing herself with each round into a bit more form and if she can just recapture what she did she is a guy. Then yeah i think if she. I'm gonna say undress in in straight-sets chalet but like claes a seven five seven six. Perhaps okay. I'm i'm thinking saccharine might win. This in three sets can see it for some reason i can. I can just see saccharine. Not letting go Staying very close to undress goo and just yet getting over the line somehow in in some in some sort of way perhaps yeah. I'm sure it will be. I'm sure be a very feisty affair that both both quite combative players on the call. And i don't think ondraskova will give this much lightly given all the you know the stuff. She's been history the fact that she plays so well on the big stage and the fact that she probably so many good memories of her on author ash. You know the fact that she's in the night session. I think would say that. Probably give us some confidence. But i'm so packing saccharin that undidahk in that underdog in the underdog. A little bit. So i think she revels in that position. I think going to soccer and we do have push back against puppet shankar as well. I think will come through in straight-sets she's again another player. Who solve slowly quietly going through the draw serving up as while. She's be doing it and she doesn't have a cage with sasha. Brian couldn't get into america because a visa. She say she said being coached remotely as well Which is very good so style. Coaching radius with everything going remain virtual. I mean pa probably have sympathy because she had also visa troubles. I think Earlier on i think we've Won't she she can play cincinnati. I think because if she was able to get visa visa hanna. Yeah something yes something that just have to deal with but We will. We will seem find out how that how that gets up. We'll be waking up our check. All checking on live schools to see how the how the drama unfolds tonight but sat list. I even joined listening to this round for round by round. Catch up with the passing show. Remember if you want to stay up to date on all the action to come at the serpent. Make sure to subscribe to us on.
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"muguruza" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Download. Tennis dot com. And let's move on to the men's side of drill because had a couple of results today and some from yesterday to discuss. Let's have a look at what we've seen safe today. We've had sashes zverev winning through against janik center in straight-sets six four six four seven six. They smashed kind of just had like regulation six. Four sets retinal labor until cut a bad game. that third-set was probably would have said shit. Senate will be annoyed with himself. He really should push that to four and then it could may be a bit more interesting but again ashiq. Another example of severe mental game really improving the season the fact that he was able to slam the door. yes yes. I think. Cinema hat opportunities wet. He would have expected to make them. But at the same time phys verify you shut that down and get it done in three sets not an easy opponent very impressive from him absolutely you know he said after the match you know that that was over dodgy gave me through it and You know managed to save the set points at center at and get get the job donovan in straight-sets because i she said if you're going on into a fourth well he knows they would've been embroiled. You could have got on longer but yeah gemini speaking. It was a high level kind of performance from from zverev. Bit weighed in the pace. Much press conference beat at every talking about how he'd won obviously the olympic gold and he made a comment about the. He sleeps with his gold medal because he doesn't have go friend and oversee in light of the allegations that have been going round. It just was a little over it. It would hit yet. We have an old thing to say The best thing to say yeah. We'll leave that's a we that i think But yes i mean the loss and they played a slam center. Had actually in a beaten variable are that was. When's variables was ill last year. The french but Yeah i think this was the result. This i pretty much expected. But we've say today had running a poker against loyd harris and fill that one was pretty even via poker and his pink back at his peak bag yet which came onto score again day. He was not gonna let that pink bag. Go funnily enough today. I think it had on approved a written on the side of it so i take no if he'd like written on himself because it gallery. Yeah exactly i just became a big talking point on social media She's quite off but it didn't didn't do the magic power because he did lease in four sets to to lloyd harris. He's he's quickly kind of becoming quite thing he's had some good wins hair. He's going to be upset. I always the top thirty in the world. So he's radi putting together a very impressive tournament yeah. He has been very very very very good discipline particularly his serving. I mean it his match against palca a he won ninety two percent Of points on his serve and he was having it. Seventy six percent say it sort of reminds me of the dub biz. Bertini was it was starting out What is the school season He's he's just playing one match time and is just being very very smoothly and is very impressive from him if who we call him early because of that win against the dow in in washington. Dc and east carrying on threes usa and now into the quarter-finals. It's very very good. I'm not racial where it's gonna lead him to of whether he could get to the the who knows but it was one of those matches day whereas a fan you kind of it like are they going to be eddie extended rallies these matches. 'cause we die lloyd. Harris likes to finish his finish points at the net and so does palca to be fat. Swim so you know it was maybe not one. Maybe for the the the the fans who enjoy may be a bit of point construction an extended rallies but certainly for loyd harris to get done in four sets over a palca not only only take into one tiebreak actually that that was very very impressive so you must be returning serve very well as well as a pocket didn't didn't seem to have Much answer for much answer. Very after that i yeah i saw a stat which Which say harasses. I think the seventh player who actually out aced a poker in a march along the likes of he people are is ner and medvedeva. He is he is he coming. Riches record well. I mean perhaps yeah. I mean that's going to be some beatty. I think he's quite they're just able to do more than palca was quite something he was. He has a. But i'm yeah we've go osco also against mataya bertini on at the moment as we're recording auto three love up in the second set But i haven't really been watching this avidly as we've been recording by off scouter falling over the net in the second game which was quite an interesting to say but yet we've got jovic tacoma's well against an edge and brooks bay but last night we had a match. I really wasn't sure. Which way gay. Because i thought it was again. Pretty pretty even on paper and that was francis. Tefa against phoenix oj. Elliot's seem and in the end. That was a full set win for faa from a set down four six exchange seven. Six six four so he has reached. Upper quarterfinal You know he reached the wimbledon final. And now he's reached the gold frano's hair he's actually the youngest man to have done that since dope poultry to reach back back grandson called finals over he is still a very young things about twenty s and he still say We feel like he's been around for years. It's just he through quite quite young. Well yeah and also. It's it's since since his partnership with uncle to- From the rap it's it's is really reaping rewards. Now isn't it we. It wasn't it wasn't necessarily a an instant instant fakes but certainly given the time that they have spent. They openly gelling really well together on its particularly working well at the slams and fact that he's into the quarterfinals is is very very good because this was a match. I think you know maybe a few seasons the guy particularly that third-set tie-break. I think this is much. He he may be would have lost against In front front of boisterous crowd. That third-set tie-break. It really did hang on that and he was able to come through. A six was very very impressive and he was able to kind of carry through. Because i do sometimes think whether he steps onto call a knows knows what he's doing like we know he's got his talent but does he do what to do with it and i think that's uncle. Tony has added to his game. He's he's telling him right now. You've got talent. This is what i want you to do. And i think that's what helped him against as well i think it helped him against A cfo who has had a very good run here. I think he gave a very good account of himself and again. I think it will be a realization to him again. He he can be one of those players who can reach the quarterfinals potentially Of a grand slam isn't far away from in this match. And i think it will give him good motivation in the future..
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