35 Burst results for "Tennis"
AP News Radio
French Open's No. 2 seed, Daniil Medvedev, loses to 172nd-ranked qualifier, Thiago Seyboth Wild
"Second seeded daniil Medvedev has lost in the first round of the French Open in 5 sets to an opponent who is ranked 172nd and was playing only his second match in the main draw of any Grand Slam tournament. Thiago sabot wield is a 23 year old from Brazil who needed to go through qualifying rounds at Roland Garros just to earn a spot in the men's bracket. He looked very much like he belonged on court Philippe chatrier on Tuesday, hitting big forehands and keeping his nerves down the stretch to win 766-726-6364. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
AP News Radio
Post-Serena, women's tennis heads to French Open led by Big 3 of Swiatek, Sabalenka, Rybakina
"All of the questions about who would step up once Serena Williams walked away from the tennis store seemed to be getting answered with three names. Arena sabalenka and Elena rabaka. As the start of the French Open approaches on Sunday, defending champions via tech is ranked number one, sabalenka is number two and is number four. A 21 year old from Poland is the reigning champion at Roland Garros and the U.S. open. A 25 year old from Belarus won the Australian open this January by beating Rebecca in the final and won Wimbledon last July. I'm geffen cool Bach.
AP News Radio
FRENCH OPEN 2023: Alcaraz, Djokovic on same half of draw; Swiatek-Gauff could be in quarterfinals
"Carlos alcaraz and the man he just replaced atop the rankings 22 time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic were placed in the same half of the French Open field in Thursday's draw and could face each other in the semifinals. The 20 year old alcaraz is seated number one at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and was automatically placed in the top section of the bracket, Djokovic is seated number three. 14 time champion Rafael Nadal will be missing for the first time since he made his debut at the clay court major in 2005, play begin Sunday at Roland Garros. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: The Threat of Artificial Intelligence
"You have you're in these meetings and these rooms what can we expect from a president Rama Swami about AI or do you not see it as a threat I do see it as a threat I do see it as a threat especially as it applies to human responses to AI So one of the greatest threats to AI then comes from actually within each of us as human beings So I'm a tennis fan and professional tenants when they got rid of line judges The first generation of AI that made the line calls you could see it with your eyes Sometimes it would be wrong but people stopped arguing about it because if it was the AI you can't argue Well now if the AI tells you how you're supposed to behave in response to the next COVID pandemic or in response to climate change will people have a natural bad habit of bending the need to that form of authority That's one of the underappreciated risks of AI as the human response to a chat GPT will now tell us on a given day How would I deal with it So here's the dilemma China will not adopt any constraints that we ourselves don't adopt So the analogy I see in the right framework then is think about it like gain of function research Gain of function research was we banded in this country but rogue actors like Anthony Fauci had it funded in places like China anyway and that led to a global pandemic but still the U.S. suffered from So with AI we can't make that same mistake We need to treat this as sort of a nuclear non proliferation framework to say to China that we're not going to constrain ourselves unless you constrain yourself but we're leading the way and in the same way we should have made sure gain of function research was banned everywhere rather than just funded through the backdoor in China I want to make sure the same thing doesn't happen with respect to AI policy either So the first thing is I would say is China has to play by the same rules that we do But second is we bring the nuclear non proliferation framework and monitoring to actually the development of potentially harmful and uncontrollable AI And at a high level that's what I would that's the way I would see this
AP News Radio
Rafael Nadal to miss French Open with hip injury, expects 2024 to be last season
"Rafael Nadal has pulled out of the French Open and says that he expects 2024 to be his last year on the tennis tour. The 36 year old has a career record of 112 and three across 18 appearances at the French Open, and he won the most recent of his record 14 singles titles there a year ago. Nadal is tied with Novak Djokovic with a men's record 22 Grand Slam titles
The Doug Collins Podcast
Doug Does Not Understand 'Sneaker Head' Culture
"Understand the tennis shoe collection fetish. I don't understand why people buy the air Jordans or the latest style, and they keep them in the box. Okay, Doug, this is where we're gonna differ. I don't get it. Doug, I am a bit, I don't want to call myself a sneakerhead 'cause I don't have the money to be one. Right. But I do have a pretty, so I have like 20 plus pairs of shoes. Okay, now it's closer to 30. Is this an investment? I mean, what we're absolutely not. Okay, the people who do it as an investment, those people are awesome. Because they're smarter than us, because they make a lot of money. Yeah. The people who have it in the box, people will always buy them. That's the thing. When I was in high school, you bought them, you ruined them, whatever. Yeah. But the people who've just buy them and keep them boxed up and untouched. The resale Doug, the resale value of shoes is so insane. This I do understand. I have, I probably have close to like 30 pairs of shoes, and that's only because I don't have enough money. If I had all the money in the world, my house would look like Foot Locker. It would. I love sneakers. I do, but I get the idea of how quick because they're selling the same shoe over and over again in different colors. It is a bit ridiculous. Yeah. But as Michael Jordan, how he feels sitting on a $1 billion.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
1986 Film "Highlander" Has a Timeless Quality About It
"It doesn't smack of being an 80s movie. I mean, some movies from this period are just dated from the first picture frame. This you don't go, oh my gosh, that's so dated. You fall into it, right? Yeah, I mean, I would say the same thing is true of like Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones, actually benefits from not being set in the 80s though. Right. So it's set in like, this is actually set in 1986 or whatever it is that the film came out. And yet it's still is able to overcome that hurdle of looking too much like the 1980s. It's possibly because he's wearing a trench coat a lot of the time. The tennis shoes are definitely 80s. Yes. Give me that. Like if you see the tennis shoes. I mean, when I watched that movie, I had a trench coat and I had to wear my tennis shoes with my trench coat. I mean, it had to be done. If highlander did it, I did it. Yeah, and the cars are maybe a little bit more, like older, like the late 60s or 70s cars, some of them. So it does kind of give a general sense of America. It's like America in the city. It's a little bit grittier. And but I think there's something good about that. I always talk about this whenever we do these films where it's not like as clean as you would expect a film to be today. There's something about the film that I love the actual celluloid, the film grain, and that sort of stuff like Star Wars. I hate to cleaned up version of Star Wars. You need to see the old actual film grain Star Wars. Yes. And this is kind of the same. The grittiness adds something to it that we just don't really get that much of today. If at all, I don't
AP News Radio
Wimbledon drops ban on Russians, lets them play as neutrals
"Russian and Belarusian tennis players will now be allowed to compete at Wimbledon as neutral athletes after the all England club reversed its ban from last year, in order to take part, the players must sign a declaration of neutrality as well as complying with appropriate conditions this includes not expressing support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and not accepting any funding from Russia or Belarus, Wimbledon's chairman, Ian Hewitt, said the decision to reverse the ban was a difficult one, and was made with the great deal of consideration, nevertheless Ukraine's foreign minister, Demi kuleba, condemned the reversal as immoral, clever called on the UK government to deny visas to the Russian and Belarusian players who have now been allowed back at Wimbledon, Karen Chammas, London
The Dan Bongino Show
Our Descendants Will See How Dumb Our COVID Rules Were
"Descendants people who are kids grandkids great grandkids they are going to look back on this and they are going to laugh at how stupid not you and I were But how dumb tyrannical and ridiculous the politicians were Do you remember this cut If you're drinking coffee put it down you're gonna spit it all I'm warning you now I'm doing the right thing Do not blame me To put anything down 'cause you're gonna this is serious This is not a this is actually happened This is not a gym dark web clip This is the NASA county New York on Long Island executive Her name was Laura Curran Things were so crazy during COVID That they felt the need to create special rules for tennis balls I swear to you this is real This is not a joke Folks this actually happened Check this out Unless they're from the same household has to bring their own tennis balls So that you don't touch other people's tennis balls With your hands you can kick their balls but you can't touch them I'm gonna blush sorry Of course if you're playing with someone in your household you can touch those tennis balls To avoid to avoid confusion between these walls or clues you can use a marker like a sharpie to mark out to put an axe to put someone's initials on them So don't worry you can kick their balls but just don't touch their balls So just to be clear you can rub their balls you could touch their balls and you can kick their balls But you just you can't touch other people's balls You can just touch your own ball Like if this happened But if you're in the same house you can touch as many balls as you want Now this happened That is not fake
ACN Newswire
AussieBum to Host Event in Support of WorldPride on Friday, 3 March 2023
"1 a.m. Sunday, February 26th, 2023. Aussie bump to host event in support of world pride on Friday, March 3rd, 2023. Sydney AU February 26th, 2023 AC and newswire Sydney based menopause underwear and swimwear brand, Aussie bum has announced its upcoming event in support of world pride, scheduled to take place at the ark, a private and exclusive tennis center located in Sydney, haberfield on Friday, 3 March 2023 Dutch on ashby, founder of Aussie bum is a supporter of Sydney's world pride celebrations fund and inclusivity Aussie bima Paz world pride event event, which takes place the day before the sissy ball, invites. Everyone to a fun filled occasion that promises to be an unforgettable experience. The party is focused on promoting equality, inclusivity, and fun. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a range of activities such as a uniquely named spectacle named the quad double slip and slide competition quad, food vans, drinks, and gifts will also be provided to ensure memorable and fun experience for all attendees. The event brings together the a sealed tika community who get to do something special for their international Friends visiting to celebrate the concluding events of the Sydney world pride festival, Jim facilities and fun under the. Sun event also features elite Jim facility which includes a sauna and circuit gym. For Pilates enthusiasts, there are past stadia off tart equipment, and for those chasing a pump, a brand new gym is on site sun, tans, and a golden glow event runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., providing attendees with ample time to soak up the sun before the Bondi beach party, Mardi Gras cissy ball, and pride march occurring on the following days. The event will be catered with iconic Aussie food, party anthem music, and guests will have the opportunity to meet some of Australia's favorite sporting and TV icons Aussie bima pass event is expected to be a highlight on the world pride calendar and attendees are encouraged to arrive early as the event will be a lockout, and spaces are limited a day of fun in the sun event is the perfect opportunity for attendees to play tennis with Australia post elite and best while enjoying a day of. Fun in the sun. The event promises to be a special and memorable occasion and with some of Australia postural business elite already on board, attendees can expect plenty of surprises and delights throughout the day a contact amp event details media inquiries on ashby, founder asi bum 6 one four one two three four 5 6 two four email C and I'll see them dot com date of event Friday, March 3rd, 2023 from 10 a.m. 1 p.m. location the arc haberfield tennis center, one 54 a Hawthorne parade, haberfield New South Wales two O four 5. Get off at Hawthorne, stop 15 minute ride. Signs will direct attendees to the private and exclusive the arc tennis center cost complimentary, limited to 500 guest sasi bum website HTTPS WWW dot AC bum dot com I'll see them Instagram HTTPS WWW dot Instagram dot com Facebook HTTPS WWW dot Facebook dot com copyright 2023 ACN newswire. All rights reserved. WWW dot ACN newswire dot com.
AP News Radio
The latest in sports
"AP sports on time, the top two teams in the AP's college basketball poll were in action Wednesday, both won but in opposite ways. Number one Houston jumped on tulane early and rolled past the green wave easily 89 59. Number two Alabama had to go to overtime to overtake South Carolina for good, 78, 76. Brandon Miller who took the court amid a police report linking him to a fatal shooting year, Alabama's campus scored 41 points, including the basket that tied the game in the final seconds of regulation time. Hockey with trade rumors surrounding him, the Blackhawks Patrick Kane scored two more goals to base a four three win over the stars. The islanders also won by a goal. Russell Westbrook played in Los Angeles with the Lakers until two weeks ago, and now he will play with LA's other team, the clippers signing a deal on Wednesday. Novak Djokovic says he has asked American authorities for special permission to enter the United States to play tennis tournaments in California and Florida despite being unvaccinated against the coronavirus. I'm Tom mariam AP sports.
AP News Radio
Djokovic beats Tsitsipas for 10th Australian Open, 22nd Slam
"And emotional Novak Djokovic has beaten stephanos to extend his Australian open record to ten victories from ten finals, the Serb who battled injuries earlier in the event closed out a 6 three 7 6 7 6 win that took a fraction under three hours to complete Djokovic climbed into his team box after the victory and broke down in tears before returning to the court to accept the winner's trophy. He's a huge relief because, you know, it hasn't been hasn't been smooth sailing. In addition to the title, the victory returns him to the top of the world rankings, and more significantly, secures his 22nd Grand Slam singles crown, Johnny Spanish rival, Rafael Nadal. I'm Graham agar's.
AP News Radio
Rybakina, Sabalenka to meet in Australian Open women's final
"Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rebecca has been two time former champion Victoria Azarenka to move into her first Australian open women's final and her second Grand Slam finale. The 23 year old closed out a 7 6 6 three win in an hour and 41 minutes, her big first servant powerful ground strokes in the end proving too much for the 33 year old Azarenka. Her reward is a title showdown with a 5th seat arena sabalenka, who played aggressively to end the surprising run of the unseated 30 year old magdalena her 7 6 6 two win securing her a first major final. I'm Graham agar.
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
Tommy Paul Defeats Ben Shelton in All-American QF
"Tommy. Paul has reached his first Grand Slam semifinal ended the surprising run of Ben Shelton. By winning their all American matchup 7 6 6 three 5 7 6 four at the AC open, Paul is a 25 year old from Jersey. What sport is this? Tennis. His victory makes him the first man from the funny stuff coming up. I'm sorry. From the United States to make it. To make it to the semifinals, what are you laughing at? You're going to copy it down and say it later, okay? So just pay attention. All right. He's the first one to make the final four at Melbourne park since Andy Roddick movies. And erotic movies. And Iran. Erotic movie. Nice. That was cool. Really well done. I thought you didn't like working. I don't like you. Paul will face the Joker and let's see, stephanos, CC, tissue power. Oh yeah, what it is. City city pop. Or whatever. Karen. It's a guy. His name's Karen. Huh? I don't. Is he like Eastern European or something? Yeah. But his last name. Yeah, you're not kidding, baby.
AP News Radio
Korda, 1998 Australian Open champ Petr's son, in 1st Slam QF
"22 year old Sebastian corder has reached his first major quarterfinal that after toughing at an Australian open 5 step win of the ten seater pole umbert a gadget finally securing a ten points to 7 in a super tie breaker. In X takes on the Russian Karen catch enough, fellow American Jessica bagula also reached the final 8 that after straight setting barbaric French akova. But the upsets continued, and the women's top seed Irish van tech and the 17 cocoa goth became the latest, both making fourth round exits, golf out hit by the Latvian, Yelena oster penco. I'm Graham agar's.
AP News Radio
Without Curry, Warriors make 23 3-pointers and beat Cavs
"Jordan Poole scored while Steph Curry sat as the warriors took down the Cavaliers, one 21 14. Warriors coach Steve Kerr rested curry, draymond green, Klay Thompson, and Andrew Wiggins for the final game of the club's 5 game trip. One night after a loss to Boston. Without them, pool poured in 32 points, tied to Rome finished with 22, and Dante divincenzo added 17 as Golden State one for just the 6th time in 24 road games this season. The warriors were 23 of 43 from three point range. Darius Garland had 31 points in tennis for Cleveland. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Tennis player denies using fake COVID-19 travel certificate
"A doctor is under investigation in Italy. For supplying false certificates and fake vaccine and George's name was revealed in a long list of people implicated by an Italian newspaper on Tuesday after her 6 zero 6 one win at the Australian open Georgia confirmed that she'd visited the doctor, but sent she'd done nothing wrong, adding any fault is the doctors ahead of the tournament, tennis Australia chief executive Craig titi said he was not aware of the fake certificate claims. I'm Charles De Ledesma
Dennis Prager Podcasts
America Has Become an Exporter of Bad Ideas.
"Should read my column today. It's a tennis prager dot com. It is a town hall dot com and it will circulate. Around the major. Conservative media in the course of the week. That America is the greatest exporter of bad ideas destructive ideas in the world today. Amazing, truly amazing. It never occurred to me that I would ever say that. I associated this country all of my life. With introducing not introducing with spreading good ideas to the world. But the left has taken over this country, Switzerland just announced, for example, that there are only two sexes. It's actually announced it. If you are a citizen of Switzerland, on a government form, there's male and female. Because that's all there is. They have not bought the toxicity of America's poisoning of the world because the left is poisoned America.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tennis" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Hello ladies and gentlemen, Joel here from tennis weekly headquarters and to let everyone know that the tennis weekly 2023 crowdfund is now open. The crowdfund is really, really important to us at tennis weekly headquarters because it enables us to do so many fantastic things with the podcast. Last year, we raised over 600 pounds from over 20 contributors and that enabled us to do some incredible things that without that money we just weren't able to do. So for example, we were able to hire a graphic designer and rebrand the show from the passing shot to tennis weekly podcast. We were also able to evolve the show into a three person format bringing Chris on board. And also for the first time, we did some live shows. We were at the Billie Jean King cup finals, and we had the equipment to help us record remotely in Glasgow from Scotland. So there were so many incredible things we were able to do because of the crowdfund. And of course, next season, we're looking to make the show bigger and better than ever. Some of the things we have on the horizon that we are excited about for 2023 include doing even more live shows. We'd also love to bring you more content, particularly on social media, beyond the podcast itself. And we'd also love to have more dedicated resource in the team. So we can have a more consistent voice, particularly on our social channels on Twitter throughout the Tennessee. There's only so much we could do as three at the moment, but we would love to keep expanding, keep our voice consistent and keep our presence consistent as that alternative to the traditional tennis media out there. So it's really, really important to have a crowdfund to have this crowdfund for next season. We're really, really excited at tennis weekly headquarters. And this is our listeners. This is your chance to be part of the show to help contribute. So all I will say is if you have enjoyed listening to the show this season and you want to show your appreciation to myself to Kim and to Chris as well, then please consider donating to us. We have a range of rewards as usual from show shout outs to collect a set play picks and we're also bringing back the Kim tennis weekly tea package, which includes a tennis weekly bug and some of her favorite tea bags as well. So we're bringing out all the kind of different rewards. So make sure you have a look on our crowdfunder page at all the different sorts of rewards. The link is in the description and you can also search tennis weekly crowdfunder 2023 on Google to bring it up. We understand at the moment that money can be tight coming into Christmas, the cost of living as well, particularly in the UK is affecting so many. So if you are able to, as I said, we would be massively appreciative of it because running the podcast does take a lot of time, but it also takes a fair bit of money to keep going month by month. So it would really, really help us achieve our goals and our ambitions for next season. So it's now open and it will be open for the next 5 weeks or so going into 2023. So you've got time to have a think about which tier you would like to support and again, just to say from myself, Kim and Chris, we would be very appreciative of any financial contributions that can be made. I'm going to leave it there if of course, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out on us. We'll be keeping everyone posted on how the crowdfund goes on our social media. The link remember is in the description. It's a crowdfunder page. So just click on the link. It'll take you through and you can contribute from their. So please, if you are able to and one of the part of the show, you've enjoyed episodes over the season. This is your time to give back to us through the crowdfund. And final thing to say, have a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I know it's a bit early on in the season, but yeah, we wish you well, wherever you are around the world from tennis weekly headquarters.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tennis" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Garin? Did he win one? No, Christian Gary. He won one? Yep. Pedro Martinez. Oh God. Who else could you have had? Nobody? No double news. Yep. Three. That was two. I could have had. Surely not. Where did he win the list? That must have been second week of a slam surely. Oh. It's too hard. And the final player, which was probably the most difficult, would have been a pointless answer, no doubt. Give us a clue. That was very late on in the season, wasn't it? He beat holger, and he was that Sophia? Yeah, I think so. I think you feel better about that win now. Yeah, do we say Alex de manor? Nope. We did not. Alex de menor, so yeah, Monfils, Nadal carrazzo, kokina, is public, Ramos, sausa, FAA, Opel. Oh, Riley papel, sorry. Castor rude RBA, Carlos alcaraz, Andre Rublev cam nori, Martinez, Fritz Goffin, sister pass Baez rune Djokovic, Tim van roven, bertini, her casual cerundolo musetti, cressy sinner, Alex de manor, curios, Medvedev, PCB, torch, mannarino, sonego, nakashima, nishioka, and hustler. Those were your 38 singles champions on the ATP tour this season. Wow. That was well done. And it does include Dan Evans. What Kim did do that to be fair. She did, it was impressive to manage that. Wow. Well done, guys. And I think that brings us to a close for our 2022, well, most of our episodes, isn't it? We might have a few potential surprise bonus ones, but for the main part, we are done for the year. Yes, listeners, I hope you've enjoyed listening to this quiz. The 2022 tennis weekly quiz recapping the season. And then you have a list has also been able to take a listen to any of our catch ups or our tennis weekly meets or book club series as well as our slam round by rounds. Anyone who's just supported us generally throughout the year, we really appreciate you taking the time to have a listen to our episodes. We are going to be taking a well earned break. There may be a couple of announcements coming up over Christmas so keep your eyes peeled for that, but this will be our last de facto episode before the year is out. Kim and Chris, any final words for our listeners? Just an early happy Christmas to those of you celebrating or soon be upon us and we'll be back ready for all of the exhibitions that occur over the new year, I guess or in the new year itself for the day. They'll be on they'll be here before we know it. So yeah, I think looking forward to the next couple of weeks of resting and yeah, looking forward to a new season upon us in the not too distant future. But thank you to everyone for listening. You took that a very different way than I was going to take it. That Kim, I was going to say, I'd like to thank everyone who supported me for this win. Last year, I was doing this quiz from home in this year and winning it on the podcast. So I've come a long way and thank you for this. I just need to get back in the quiz books, the tennis quiz books, I feel for the end of next season already. Some more reliable research, please. How shocking my school was. But yes, this is, we're going to, we're going to cap it there. Merry Christmas from us at tennis weekly headquarters. I know it's not even December yet, but I'm saying it now. And yeah, we look forward to seeing you for the 2023 season. One final time I'm going to say subscribe to us on your podcasting platform of choice or on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the major podcasting platforms out there. You can also listen to us on the download tennis dot com app. And if you want to show your support for the show, then why not leave us a rating or comment on Apple podcasts or Spotify. You can also follow us on social media. We are available on Facebook Instagram and Twitter at tennis weekly pod. So do give us a like and a follow if you don't already. Let us know any feedback, comments, questions for our mailbag and more on those social channels. And if you prefer, you can also email us at tennis weekly pod at Gmail dot com and don't forget to check out our website WWW dot tennis weekly dot co dot UK. And we will be back in the new year at tennis weekly headquarters for the 2023 season. So I hope you could join us for that. But for one final time, it's goodbye from Kim. Goodbye. It's goodbye from Chris. Goodbye. And it's goodbye for me. We'll see you again soon.
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"tennis" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"Today is the 7th of June and we are here to tell all our listeners about some very exciting news for the passing shots. We alluded to some big changes on our social media a few weeks ago that we couldn't go into at the time, but we are excited at headquarters to finally unveil the news and that news is from this day on, we are going to be rebranding the passing short tennis podcast as the tennis weekly podcast. Now, this has been in the works since the end of last season, and we genuinely feel that this is the next evolution of the podcast. When we started the podcast four years ago in terms of frequency, we were very much started out monthly and then we moved to fortnightly as the popularity of the show grew and for the last year or so we've been doing weekly content throughout the season, including our round by round during grand slams. So as we have upped our frequency, we really wanted to make that known in our name and as a result, we felt it was a no brainer to bring the word tennis into our name more and connect it with that frequency hence the tennis weekly podcast is born. Exactly, thanks, Joel. But don't worry guys, although we'll now be called tennis weekly. The passing short name will still live on, specifically as passing shot productions, which you will see as a stamp in the bottom right corner of all our artwork and will be referenced on the show. So the passing shot is by no means going for good. It's still very much going to be there. Since the beginning, we have scripted and recorded and edited and promoted all of our episodes as the passing show and we've done that ourselves. We've got over 260 episodes in the bank, but with all of that experience now, we wanted to consolidate all of this together into its own entity. So the passing shot has moved to a position signifying how we make tennis weekly rather than the explicit name of the podcast. So for everyone, as listeners, nothing changes, just our name, but the passing shot is still very much there in essence. And we're the same old Joel and Kim as well. And from today, our artwork will change for any episodes going forward. As will art social media handles and website, we will still keep the passing shot artwork on all the episodes up to this point as we feel that it's part of our history. But certainly moving forward, we will be calling ourselves tennis weekly. As a result, this means we will be known as at tennis weekly pod on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, our website will be WWW dot tennis weekly dot co dot UK and our email address will be tennis weekly pod at Gmail dot com. We will be making a few more changes over the next few weeks. So please bear with us as we roll this out and transition from the passing shot to the tennis weekly. As Kim said, nothing is changing with us. We are still Joel and Kim. We still love talking tennis and we will still be talking tennis in the future and we are not going to be changing any structure of our series so far. So we will still have our four main series. We will have our tour catch ups. We will have our round by rounds at grand slams as well as our meats and book club series.
The Tennis Podcast
"tennis" Discussed on The Tennis Podcast
"In big matches in most important matches in finals that is been built up now over a long, long time. That is how she on tech plays in finals. She plays her best tennis and at the moment, it's better than anyone's. And it's very difficult to imagine her not winning one of these finals at the moment because she just produces and it's scary good. There's no W event this week because WTA Madrid starts on Thursday and the men ATP start on Saturday. So that's going to be lovely and complicated to try and keep up with what stage of the tournament we're at. Great, thank you, tennis. It also means that there's no WTA event this week, whereas I think there are two. On the men's tour, I just and it also means can I have a moan? Can I have a moan about this? Yes, please. Okay, it also means because I remember this from Madrid last year that the women start and they get two or three days to themselves and they're sort of first second round matches. Then the men come in and what it means is that when the women's tournament gets to a really exciting stage, those matches are diluted with men's matches as well on the same order of play. But by the time the men get to their really important stage of the tournament, the women's event pretty much finished and the men's most important matches at the end of Madrid just get the order of player to themselves. And it makes it extremely complicated to follow. Why they can't just go in sync, I have absolutely no idea, but Madrid last year was a tough watch from a sort of organization perspective and it sounds like they're doing exactly the same thing again. Really excited about spending the next two weeks getting angry about that. But thank you for the refresher. Let's all take a moment though to be glad that it's a tennis tournament and not an eSports tournament. Hashtag never forget. Two years ago who won? Mary won. Did he? Two years ago. Was it marks? No. Was it Kiki balls? The Madrid open was. And he sports events. Was it David coffin? That was married. Anybody was definitely in the final. Right. Well, he could do it again, but in tennis terms, because he's taken a wild card into the Madrid open, having said that he was going to skip the whole clay court season. He's now decided that he couldn't help himself, David. The French Open. It's a funny old warmup for the grass, isn't it? He said in his statement or the briefing from his people that he wanted some top level opposition too long. Too long that in discussion with Ivan too long to go without much practice. Do you think that's a fair point, actually? I can see why you would want to. Play, I don't know. I mean, he knows better than me. Well, anyway. And carry the confidence in the good memories of winning the Madrid open two years ago, albeit in eSports. He can carry that into this year. On a console. Can I just say, I have looked it up and this is, this is a double that isn't talked about enough. Kiki Burton's one Madrid 2019 and then defended her title on eSports in 2020. Why didn't we mention that when we covered her retirement? That's unreal. Did she be Andy Murray in the final 2020? No, I think they had separate men and women. So who won the men's? I'm pretty sure it was marry. I haven't looked that up. We are doing tennis relived for Madrid E sports 2020. I'm pretty sure we promised to never speak of it again, but here we are. I really, really need to know who won now and who he beat in the final. Yes, marry one. Was it gothic? It was Goffin. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, good memory, Catherine. Thank you. Thank you very much. It's burned on my brain. It makes me laugh with chatting eSports and all of us forgot to say that Carlos alcaraz is a top ten player tomorrow. Thanks, David, for this tracking my hosting capabilities. That was lovely. I mean, that doesn't feel notable for me because he's sort of obviously already is and it's just, I don't know. I mean, you know, obviously. Also, I'm annoyed with you for throwing me under the bus. So Murray will be playing Madrid. Just on that. I mean, I got white layer talking about eSports. I was really excited for the married to have a proper break. And come back for the grass. And look, I absolutely agree, he knows best. I'm sure he's had a long hard think about it and has come to the conclusion that he needs matches and competitive matches. But together, but there was something I really liked about the idea of a break and then coming in fresh for the grass. And look, you might still be fresh, you might not win many matches in Madrid and Rome, but I don't know. I was excited about the clean break and the restart. You just couldn't help himself, they could. Anyway, it will be an added added level of intrigue going. Totally. Looking forward to it starts on Thursday, slash Saturday. In other tennis news from the week melos raonic has got married, if you want to see a weird wedding photo, head to Milos raonic social media. It looks like he's never met his wife before. But there is a lovely dog just in the corner of the photo, which salvages the whole thing. Maria Sharapova is having a baby, lovely congratulations, Maria. Any other births, deaths, marriages to report? I think the aforementioned Kiki burtons. It's had a baby. Yes. Not as big a triumph as defending her title. In 2020, but congratulations Kiki. And belated congratulations for that extraordinary feat. Anything else, folks? I have a weird bit of any other business. I was I was perplexed as to why the second court in Barcelona was called the pista Yan kodesh. Because I didn't associate Yang kodesh with Barcelona, particularly he did win that title, and it turns out what they're doing is every year they're changing the name of the second court to honor a former champion. And of course, you may think, well, the main court is already named after I found the doll. So I do wonder whether we're going to get to 20 2048 or whatever it is and the main goal and the second court will be the pista Rafa Nadal. Although just have to skip like 12 years and get straight to Kei Nishikori. He defended his title in Barcelona. No chance, really? He did. He did. That's Todd Martin, will it the one year? Oh, brilliant. So we're going to get the piece to Todd Martin. Anyone, anyone else? David from the 90s. We'll get to the final. I think so. I mean, no, I'm just going to say no, that didn't happen. Anyway, many congratulations, Milos, on your nuptials. I think that's it folks for today's bumper tennis podcast. Thank you for getting this far if you have important stuff to cover this week. So we've led ourselves waffle on for a little bit longer than usual. So yeah, hope you've enjoyed it. We have mascots and I'm using the plural deliberately because we have Bailey and we have Maddie owned by Paula Ann check check, check, lovely, Paula and check. And Bailey is a female Chinese crested powder puff mixed with a yorkie and muddy or Madison is a 15 year old male miniature poodle with dumbo is and he really.
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"Well, hello folks and welcome to the tennis podcast in what has been I think it's fair to say and this might be a gross understatement, a pretty busy week in the tennis world. We're recording on Sunday evening UK time. There have been four finals today and two semifinals due to rain and Barcelona, obviously all four of those finals happened at the same time because tennis B, Tennessee. We've done our best to watch them all and we'll be bringing you up to date with our thoughts and feelings about all of those results in due course. David's here. He's got a wee, are we hint of a tan, David? Yeah, I've got some burnt on day one, and this is the results ten days later. It's good to know that some things never change. There's something quite comforting about that Matt. You and I are the same color we were the last time we recorded a tennis podcast. Yes, and I'm actually going to somewhere which is a whole 10° colder than where I currently am tomorrow and calling it a holiday. So who knows what color I'll be next week. What does this magical destination mat? It is Northumberland. Oh, well-known holiday destination Northumberland. Yes, blank golf. Next week. Looking forward to it, but it is going to be chilly. I'm delighted to say that Pam shriver is here, folks, Pam. Have you ever been to Northumberland? I may have but I don't remember. But I have been to places 10° colder, but tomorrow I'm actually going on a four night 5 day retreat to just north of San Francisco. So quite a few of us are departing on trips. You've been out holidays. We're really chuffed to have you with us. This has been a meaty old week for tennis, and that's before we get even get into those four finals that all happened at the same time earlier on today. A lot of issues to cover here. We're going to start with first and foremost an issue that you have raised and drawn attention to so impressively and so bravely on this podcast and that the tennis world has been responding to over the course of the last few days to Steve Simon responded to it on this podcast. My interviewed him a couple of days ago. If you haven't listened to that show, I do recommend you have a listen because he covers pretty much all of the big topics and is pretty clear about about where the WTA stands on those topics Pam. What have the last few days been like for you? Well, certainly really different than any other four days for me. It's just been it's actually been very rewarding. The support I received, I think, first off, hello, Billy king. I got some really nice messages from the original Billie Jean. It sounds a little more understandable. It's okay. My dog is going to start barking too. I've been really quite supported by my peers that I played the tour with. I felt supported by the WTA Tour, my Friends, my family, both from decades ago in Baltimore, to my current Friends who I've been living in here in LA for the last 20, 25 years. I've heard from some people that I hadn't heard from in literally 35, 40 years. And no regrets, like I just feel it was the right time, but I will tell you that my education into the whole subject of sexual abuse, coach athletes, crossing boundaries, my education really just began with my podcasts that we recorded in me and wells now what 6, 7 weeks ago? Has anything about the reactions and the responses that you've had? Has anything surprised you? I don't know how set you were in your mind about what to expect after the release of that show, but is anything surprised you? Well, I kind of learned in my 14 years of a 12 step program to not have tons of expectations, just kind of take it one moment at a time. First off, it was a really interesting morning for me. It was bright and early. It was like 5 a.m. when we were, we had already moved our timetable ahead by a day because we knew that Wimbledon was going to have a big announcement regarding Russian and Belarus players. So we thought we'd get ahead of that and then when I woke up and saw that there might be another delay and I'm like, no, I didn't sleep well. It's time to release the pod had been recorded and Indian Wells back in March. No real huge surprises. One or two players who I played at the same time. I thought it was interesting they put they put tweets of support open for anyone to read just about one from Leslie Allen for an example who said, along the lines, I'm not paraphrasing it, you know, we all knew this, you know, she didn't use train wreck of a relationship, but just sort of saying they all stood by and denial and nobody did anything. And I just thought that was that was sort of her way of not really necessarily apologizing, but just saying things were very different back in that time. And what I've been really, really positively impacted by is how many parents and how many people of children who enjoy sports, children, teenagers, even young adults who have said, thank you. They think that this kind of conversation needs to come out. The storytelling and the precision of the storytelling is I remembered every step is really important to understand how it can be and then in today's world how we can create safer work environments for our young people and in this case a young tennis players. In terms of the next steps pan, which I know is one of the main, if not the main focus for you, changed, but bringing something positive from all of this. What did you make of what you heard from Steve Simon in his interview here a couple of days ago? Well, I think just like when I called Steve Simon privately to give him an advance notice of my story, he offered me at the time privately, his immediate support and anything a tour could do to help me, but also he knows he's aware that it's still a problem today. And I think that maybe my story has begun to.
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"Assess the likelihood of him winning a tenth title in two and a half weeks time? And I think there's probably two schools of thought. I know Simon Briggs. I saw tweeted today that he thinks in a world where Novak Djokovic plays the Australian open next week, as you said, still feels like we're quite a long way from having confirmation of that. But if he plays, Simon bridge thinks this could be Novak Djokovic with a point to prove a defiant Novak Djokovic, one sort of taking on the world and we've seen in the past. That's a very, very good version of Novak Djokovic on the tennis court of a dangerous version. There's perhaps also an idea that he might not be any in any fit state to compete, maybe particularly physically, you know, this has been 5 or 6 days. He spent in very un ideal circumstances not getting the preparation he would want. He's obviously supremely fit, but he's also his finely tuned and every little detail every little margin makes a difference. I should think in his preparation. So he's lost something there for sure, and also just what it's done to him mentally, I suppose there's, as I said, there's an idea that he might use all of that as fuel, but it could also, it could be too much, and of course I think we have a decent idea of what sort of reception he's going to receive, but I don't think we know quite how extreme it will be quite whether it will affect him. I think in the past when crowds have been against him, that's often been a good thing for him. He's used that, but if they're so against him, if they're distracting him, if they're interrupting him, if it's properly hostile, which we don't know, but it has got to be a possibility, then that could harm him. You know, I've spoken about reaction there. Another important thing which happened today were really ugly scenes in Melbourne after the hearing where lots and lots of people. I mean, I'm guessing a lot of them were Serbs, a lot of them were Djokovic fans for sure, gathered outside the offices, I think, where his lawyers were and they were just ugly scenes, the police used pepper spray to break up the crowd. It was real mayhem on the streets. And I must say, I did think it was disappointing that Djokovic's family did not denounce those scenes in that press conference. In fact, they did in fact they did the opposite and they sort of praised them when really that shouldn't be happening. And yeah, who knows if that will continue in tomorrow into tomorrow, whether that will be a factor in the minister's decision, you know, it's a genuine warrior what could what could happen in terms of in terms of rioting and the ugliness of those scenes if his Visa is now canceled should we talk about some tennis so that there is at least some of this podcast which is guaranteed not to go out of date because we have some results, some titles, some trophies, which are set in stone in tennis history and some really, really interesting ones, actually. We're going to start in Melbourne with the catchily title WTA Melbourne one. I'm going to tell you that after a week, I have not, I have not got to grips with the tournament titles at all. When navigating the app, I've been completely befuddled at every stage. Bring back the great ocean road yala trophy open, I say, those were halcyon days. We just didn't know it at the time. Anyway, in WTA Melbourne one Simona Halep. The Veronica could mitigate 6 two 6 three to win the title, a lovely boomerang trophy. And a happy Simona halop is such an infectious thing. And my goodness me, she looked happy with that trophy, didn't she David? Yeah, she did. And actually there was a moment when Darren Cahill was no longer her coach just walked into the stadium when she was victorious and she was just delighted to see him. And through you back to what she was like before she had injury problems and that sort of thing. It's great to see a start of the year in this vein. She ended the tournament in such great style when in the tournament comfortably in the end over Veronica could have met over, but my mind went back to watching her on Friday in the chord of finals where she was in total charge against Victoria goldy bitch, and that ended up being a real tussle. She lost the second set 7 5, and that could have been a moment that she starts tail spinning. We've seen that in the past, and she just dug in. And we'll talk about Ashbaugh later. And I think there was a similar situation with her. These players occasionally need just a match that they have to get through and then their quality and their pedigree and their experience starts to come to the fore. And halleck could be a real contender for the Australian open, but she doesn't get really talked about quite so much, I think at that tournament and particularly now, it feels like, well, she's one her big grand slams, but a bit like Angelique Kerber, who's gone in and out of the conversation and still ended up winning several grand Sam titles a year or two apart at times I think how it could be a real contender right in the mix there. Oh, he said in the mix. He's gone early with the mix, man. I thought I'd bring that back for 2022. You know, I had heard I heard retirement rumors about Simona Halep last year or certainly that she was starting to think in that direction, but I think she seems completely rejuvenated. Yeah, she looks so refreshed and maybe she's finally the perfect amount of happy. Matt, we always talk and remember, don't we, but I think we brought it up the other day. Mary quizzing her and her friendship title defense, you know, are you too happy? And maybe there is such a thing for some tennis players, but she just looks happy in her tennis. Which is a very, very good thing, I think. And I'd love to see Simona Halep beer falls at this Australian open. We also saw the return speaking of people we'd love to see beer force. If no mere sarca at WTA Melbourne one tell me what we learned about where Naomi Osaka is at this week. I think it leads on quite nicely from the discussion about Simona Halep actually, and the word that came to mind was happy. This was a much happier Naomi Osaka than the last time we saw her, which was at the U.S. open when she said she was going to take a break from the sport. She said she did take a break and it actually didn't help her fall back in love with tennis because she never fell out of love, I think. But that love for it got overshadowed by a lot of other emotions that she was feeling last year and just stepping back, taking a break, she realized what she did like about tennis. She said she's never taken a break. You know, she's just as soon as she was on the path to being a professional tennis player. That was it. This was a chance to sort of step back and I think we've seen a lot of athletes recently actually named me Osaka.
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"Lot to all of us. It's very uplifting and it has been for a number of years now via the KickStarter. I don't think we ever really expected the reaction that we've had, and that has continued. And our goal with all of these things whenever we do a show whenever we've done anything over the last ten years is to hopefully make you all saying, oh, that was good. I really glad I listened to that and really glad I got involved with that. When Matt says that we're going to do the listening q-and-as on the Friends of the tennis podcast feed, the idea is that you'll be able to send in your emails and because you're a friend, you're already joined up. We'll be reading those emails when we try to read all of our emails anymore. But those ones will be able to put at the head and they'll be formulating the questions that we're answering on those shows. We got some other ideas for some other types of show as well that we'll engage in and try to build and this isn't going to just be where it is now. It's going to evolve. Especially when I've had a few extra David law in having ideas shocker. Well, you know, it's exciting isn't it? But for me, anyway, but yeah, we've still got a couple of listening q-and-as for this year that will be on the main tennis podcast feed and those will be recorded over Christmas. And we've got a couple of guest editors for them. We are still planning to do our review show in a few days time. So there's lots and lots that will still be coming on that feed. But yeah, I think you'll find that you will have something that already make this feel like it's worthwhile. And that is all we want at the end of the day is to produce content that you enjoy. And most, you know, just in terms of the funding and support making this making this possible. I think a lot of people think that there aren't a lot of costs involved with podcasts, CBO, just all sat on Zoom that everybody has just having a chat and making it available and yes, you know, the very bare bones of it on paper. That's very cheap to produce, but we take a lot of pride in this. We do it properly. We put a lot into it. And there are costs involved in that significant cost involved in that. We'd like once the murky pandemic fog clears, we'd like to be able to travel more to tournaments as the tennis podcast represents specifically for the tennis podcast speak to players. You know, I think everybody would agree that Matt in press conferences at events is a is a brilliant, brilliant thing. And we're like to do more of that. And PS, I don't want to embarrass Matt. But without the funding without the support, we wouldn't have Matt. Because he does have to live and support himself. He is a full-time employee of the tennis podcast, and we're absolutely delighted. That's the case, but that is made possible by you and yeah. I don't like to even think about the days before that. I don't know how we did it, but anyway, it's an unthinkable future without you Matt, sorry. I'm going to make you talk after I've just embarrassed you. Successfully embarrassed. Yes. But no, I mean, thank you really to everyone who has who has backed in the past and put me in this position and as I sort of come to imagine in the next few years without the tennis podcast either, it has become sort of everything. So if this is a way to make that continue and I hope it is, then very, very grateful for that. Heartstrings successfully pulled at NHS references done, warning not to go back too far in our archive. Have I ticked all the boxes, David? Yeah, I should perhaps just tell people what they need to do next, which is if you have a little look down in our show notes to this show, you'll see a link, which will tell you how to join the tennis podcast, the Friends of the tennis podcast. And it's should be very straightforward. We've joined up. We've done a lot of research into the best system behind this and we looked at various different platforms like Patreon and one or two other platforms that do this kind of thing, but we eventually decided to go with a company called supporting cast who had been the partners of our friends at the cycling podcast to come up with a very similar system a few years ago and they really have been wonderful allies to us and guides to us through this process. I mean, just wonderful people Richard Moore in line of Bernie and all the team at the cycling podcast. They couldn't have been more generous with their advice and insight into how this process works. And so we've really copied them, frankly, shamelessly, I have, in terms of what they've done because they've done it better than anybody. And so supporting cast effectively provide the framework for you to just pay your subscription, press a couple of buttons, and it really is just a couple of links and then the show will be added to your feed on your phone or your iPad or your computer just the way the current podcast feed is so hopefully it'll be very straightforward for you to get up and running and we'll have a dedicated friend's only email address, which you'll be able to write to us on and any suggestions for shows or questions you want to send in or thoughts on what we've talked about. That's where they should all go to and we just want to keep building what has been the most heartwarming for me anyway, community. And this is an extension of that. And yeah, all I can say is thanks so much to everybody for putting you supporting us and we'll be doing our utmost to make it worth you well. Absolutely. Here here. Yeah, link in the show notes. If you can support us, please do. We are very great. Well, we're very grateful in advance as we come to you. Absolutely nobody has done that yet because we haven't launched. But we feel confident in this. We think it's the right thing to do for the shows future and for its growth and for everybody that does support us. Thank you very much and welcome to being our friend officially. There is a bonus podcast waiting for you for join us to friends at the tennis podcast. We're just about to record that. So I can't make any bold promises about how brilliant it's going to be, but I'm sure it'll be at least of average quality, if not better. So enjoy thank you and we'll speak to you soon..
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"We're hello folks and welcome to a very special edition of the tennis podcast to celebrate the launch and explain the launch of Friends of the tennis podcast. Today is the day or maybe yesterday is the day, depending on when you're listening to this, but for us today is the day that we launch Friends of the tennis podcast, which is for you a very special way to engage with the show support the show and get access to exclusive and what is sure to be excellent content. And for us is a way to fund the show and ensure it keeps going and away, David for us to auction off our friendship. It's finally happened. Yeah, you're our Friends really, but you know we're just as Catherine says we're looking for ways to engage more closely with those of you that really, really care about the show and have backed us for many, many years via KickStarter and help to keep the show going and hopefully many more of you to want to come in and just help to support it. And in return to get extra stuff from us, it is basically Catherine I like to think of it as a completely blank canvas for me to just start thinking of lots of ideas for new shows and all the stuff that we haven't got time for in our regular everyday lives. Well, suddenly we have. Yeah, folks, David law has been living and breathing Friends of the tennis podcast for about two months now. A lot of thought has gone into this because this podcast is a labor of love for all three of us. The David knight's been a labor of love for ten years for it's been a labor of love for how many years Matt? Three since I started talking on the show and more like 6 since I was in the background. Remember student Matt? Three years since Matt's hot takes about Karen hashian of Davis Cup winner. Yeah. So yeah, look it is a labor of love and always will be, but it is it's a time consuming labor of love and an increasing lead time consuming labor of love. It takes up a lot of our time and we're very glad that that's the case. We love doing it. But we also value our time and we need to financially fund the show in order to continue it. And look, the show, the weekly show, the daily Grand Slam shows, they will still be free and David hates me saying this at the point of use just like the national health service in the UK. He would rather I haven't said that. But there we go, I've said it. It will still be democratically available, but there will be additional offerings and bonus content for those that are able and want to support us and become an official friend of the tennis podcast. Yeah, yeah. Let you say it's something that we started the show in May of 2012 in my parents dining room, having a chat about how Serena Williams would definitely win the French Open and then if this is the point David that you direct people towards ten year old archive content, we can pack this show up right now. That is not going to be incentivized anybody to be offered. But delighted to know that one of the offerings on Friends of the tennis podcast, if you so choose to subscribe today is our worst ever tennis prediction show. What a lovely trip back in time that'll be. And yeah, that's what we were doing in 2012 when I said that Serena Williams would win the French Open. And she didn't. And have I ever been allowed to remember that? But yeah, it has been a labor of love for many years now, but as time has gone on, it's increasingly taken up more and more time and I'm delighted about that to the point where, really, it's pretty much a full-time job for certainly for me. I do other things still occasionally I commentate, not as much as I used to because the rights come and go, the pandemic has happened and I don't I'm not as young as I used to be. I want to travel around the world all the time. I'd rather do this, frankly. And this will involve some travel. Of course it will, because we want to go to tournaments again when we're allowed to. And bring you the very best of these tournaments on the ground and soak it all up and bring it on the podcast and as Catherine said will still be doing weekly shows, we'll still be doing grand some days and they'll all be free for all. And it's up to you whether you want to get involved more and join Friends of the tennis podcast. But yeah, this is a twofold thing for us. It's a way for us to keep the whole show on the road to hopefully improve it. And yeah, be able to provide more and be able to provide those that actually do pay with something better and something more than maybe those that don't. And that is just the way life, isn't it? That's fair, really. So we think that's a better way to go than just saying how much we need to raise or want to generate and then just putting pressure on everybody to keep putting more, more and more in. We want to make it available to all at the point of use if you choose to pay. He's adopted my NHS language. It's happened Matt. Yes, I noticed that. I mean, so this is a change for us, isn't it? And change is often a little bit scary, I suppose, but we're really excited about it. And actually, I think what we're going to be doing is taking the best of what has worked for us with the KickStarter in the past. All of the same sort of ways to get involved with the show will still be there, shoutouts intros, mascots, et cetera, that will all still be there. We just hope that this sort of additional Friends of the tennis podcast offering will be something extra for those who sign up and so hopefully it will be taking the best of what we've had before and also improving on it in terms of those shows that will be part of the Friends of the tennis podcast offering. We are definitely going to be putting tennis relived on there, which has been a real joy actually hasn't it? Tennis relieved over the last couple of years. I was really, as we all were worried about what on earth we would talk about when there was no tennis for several months last year and what came from it was this was this new sort of show for us and I think I was unsure whether I would like tennis relive because so much of sport is about watching it in the moment, I think, and not knowing the results. And I thought, gosh, are we just going to be watching matches, we already know the results of, but actually those matches were just such a springboard for stories and interviews and we've loved those shows and we've had really good response to them. But they are the toughest shows to produce. They're the ones with the most work going into them. So we want to get more value out of them. So they'll be on the Friends of the podcast offering our Q&A shows, which we love doing as well. They'll be on their more of them, and then we're very excited about this additional show that we've come up with, which is after every Grand Slam. We can have an additional show, which I think was inspired by David's hot takes on the 2021 U.S. open this year when you both recorded a week on from radical and Medvedev's victory and it's just a chance to reflect, I think, which we don't really get during a slam because it's so in the moment. I sort of get the sense that the last thing we're going to want to be doing at the end of a slam is recording an extra podcast. But we will do it and it will be great. It will be a chance to reflect and we rarely get the men's final press conference in doing on those final shows. So just a chance to step back and take it all in. And then I'm sure we'll come up with extra shows for the Friends of the podcast as well. But that's what we're promising upfront. Great. Great. So Friends of the tennis podcast will get access to a show that Matt sounds like he's already broken. He's got to love it. Look, the bottom line is, we know that not everybody is able to support the show. I mean, some of you just won't want to. But a lot of you just won't able to be and we want the show to still be available to you if that's the case. Absolutely. But it's also the case that we would not be able to make this show without your support. Friends of the tennis podcast will make this show possible and yeah, I don't want to jinx anything, but we're very grateful to everybody that does support us to make it possible because it means an awful.
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"And I actually think that that may now help her in the early start parts of next year, she's already got that under a belt. Now she can build again, and her game works on kind of all the surfaces. So I'm certainly closer to thinking that she will be part of a mix at some point in my lifetime than I was this time last year. A mix just not the mix. Next question from Nick prophet on Instagram. What would tend to be like if there was only one serve? Who would benefit and suffer the most? Would this impact the women's game or the men's game more if at all? It would surely impact the men's game more? Because it's a more served dominated game more points, cheap points are one on first serve. On men's tennis then, in women's tennis, and when you reduce it to one serve, okay, you'd have the occasional moment where a player would gamble, and that would be an interesting facet to the game, but basically you'd be seeing a second a second serve almost all of the time. Yeah, I wonder whether Nick profit was Diego Schwartzman's alias because. Schwartzman sort of plays the game with one serve. You know, he is at such a disadvantage compared to most of the other players in the field. And yet he's still managed to get into the top ten. I can't really picture his serve in my mind. I don't really notice it. It's a point starter. It really is nothing more than that. I think it hits a spot quite well. He's quite accurate with it. And he certainly just as he gets the most out of all his game, I think he does get something out of his serve. But he is at a disadvantage, a massive one compared to other players and you know, if you take the serve out, he would be doing better, I believe, even better, his return stats are fantastic. I think sometimes you hear sort of non tennis people think, well, why is it two serves in tennis? Like camp pros just get the ball into the court. Shouldn't they be able to do that? And yes, of course, they can. I think it would detract from the game if you took away the second serve. I think it would take away an aspect of the game, which I enjoy, which is a great return. I try and decode a great server, you know, we've enjoyed Andy marry against John Isner or Djokovic against tsonga or Federer against Roddick. Those have been interesting elements to those matches. And I think it would take away variety, which is already diminished. But if there was any one serve, how much volley would we see? I think even less. How many net approaches end up off the back of a good first serve? Then a forehand, and then you come in. I think a lot of variety comes from the fact that you've got that first serve. I think you'd end up with way more just baseline rallies. And look, that's fine. I enjoy that. I probably enjoy that more, but I like the variety as well. And I think it would impact the men, but also it would impact the women, you know, Serena Williams is served. I think the greatest server of all time. If she only had one serve, would she have been as dominant? I think ash parties. Number one in the world at the moment. For lots of reasons, but I think her serve underpins a lot of her success as well. And leads to some of her variety the way she sets up her point with that. So I think it would look quite different tennis. And I think it would be worse if you just have one. I would like one tournament per year to feature only one serve. I feel that about a couple of aspects to the sport. You know, I wish there was a sort of a themed tournament. And I think that that could work. I think the players that I thought of that would benefit or certainly still be just as strong aside from the ones with very strong baseline games are the ones that have really reliable actions that can put loads of kick on the ball, who have just great second serves as it is. And I actually think bharati would prosper. I think Maria Zachary would. Players that can just really get the do more than just start the point with a reliable serve. I think I do think Djokovic would be even more dangerous. I think he would have had an even better career. If that was the case, I think somebody likes vero would have been nowhere near as potent, personally, because I think he wins only three points, but anything he could get more wobbly sort of thing. He couldn't do the going full out necessarily on a second serve. I don't think all the time, the way he's tended to do recently. But yeah, I'd happily have one tournament a year and try it out. I'm very on board for themed tournaments like that. Still want my one racket tournament as well. Yes. David law does the past. We've got a couple more questions. So we might have to go have to go a little, not quite quick fire. Medium paste fire, please. For remaining a couple of questions. The first comes from slash PG 22 on Instagram. Not sure what's going on there. What do you think of the electronic line judging? That we've had in recent tournaments, good bad, irritating slash takes out the faffing less drama, et cetera I mean, I'm all for taking out faffing. As we've established on this podcast, to be honest, I don't have massively strong feelings about it. I think it's fine. I don't know, I wouldn't sort of campaign for it to stay. I also am not going to march for the return of line judges as much as I feel for them in the sort of the erosion of that profession. You know, I don't think sort of stalling technological advances is the answer to that. I definitely definitely definitely am opposed to video review of a call that is not going to be changed. I find that ludicrous. But I'm aware that what they're trying to do with that is recaptured the fun of a hawk challenge. But it doesn't. It doesn't. And it doesn't. There's no fun to it whatsoever. No, none at all. It's ludicrous, get rid of it now. Get rid of it, but it's an acknowledgment that something is lost. We've lost the fun of the hawkeye challenge. Again, I don't feel that loss too keenly. I am okay with it. So I just find it hard to get riled up either way on it's a rare. It's a rare topic that I am not riled up about. Turin will be interesting in that way because they're going to have it back. They're going to have hawkeye challenges during the ATP finals..
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"To my mom. Oh. Oh, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Katherine's mom. We don't usually do birthday shoutouts, do we? It just came to me. Monday, October 25th. Unless mom, you're listening to this knot on the day of its release, in which case, belated, happy birthday. Yeah, we have got guest edited, Dave, called teen for this week's podcast, Dave has come up with some of his own questions. In fact, his 16 year old daughter rose has helped him sift through the questions that we've had in from various bits of social media. He says, roses a bit of a tennis stato. She's always correcting me on who one and where and she even has this reputation at school. In our re where they were discussing equal rights for women. Very different to the one I once I had. The teacher was asking about tennis giving equal pay at the grand slams, then stopped and asked rose if this was just her at Wimbledon or at all slams having listened to the Billie Jean King editions, rose not only knew there was equal pay, but remembered when each slam went with equal pay. We like rose, don't we? Yes. Immensely. We like Dave as well. David actually works in ten years. He runs leisure clubs, but he staged stages, tournaments that the shrouds club in the place of place of my birth. Yes. And I think not the tennis club. No. I think I might have mentioned it on the show a few years ago when I attended one of his events and he put some great events. Yeah, and he's a massive supporter of the tennis podcast. And did you know did I ever tell you that I first met Dave when I was about, oh, 12. Did I ever tell you that? No, yes. No, you have, because this isn't. Yeah, he worked at a holiday camp in East Anglia, which I was a guest at, and he was one of the sort of sports organizers and my sister had a massive crush on him. Oh, this is really about. Although I remembered it as you had a crush on his sister. Oh, that's a twist that I didn't even know about myself. As Dave see me play tennis, David. No. Has he seen that fearsome serve, boom down? No. Before the net. He hasn't. No. Okay. It's a challenge match that we have promised to enact in the future though. Okay. And I have met his daughter, and she's lovely and his whole family are lovely. And anyway, delighted to have them as our guest editors. Well, his challenge for you today, David, is a bunch of very hard hitting questions, I have to say. Dave and rose have had their editorial hats on there. They've done his proud as well, I guess that it is always do. We've got some great questions here. Some of them have come in through social media or various channels that Dave and rose have sifted through as I say so. Are we ready to crack on? Yes. Okay, the first question I would like to hit you with courtesy of Dave and rose is thus. Will we look back and think that emirati kani's phenomenal U.S. open success did more damage than good for her career. She now heads into 2022 with a huge target on her back, and with incredible scrutiny from the press, despite only playing in 5 tournaments on the WTA Tour, had she lost in the first week at the U.S. open, would she have been able to build her career in a more structured way and ultimately have been more successful? Not that that's a massive sweeping hypothetical based question or anything, but who would like to tackle that one first? Well, we do love a massive sweeping hypothetical here on the tennis podcast, don't we? I do, anyway. Look, I think she'll be fine. Personally, my expectation is that she will be fine that there will be bumps in the road that there will be moments when she finds it all a bit much or makes a decision in can't understand the degree of scrutiny or has a run of bad results. This is human nature. It is not all going to go in a straight line from anonymity to worldwide success and global fame. And this is an incredible story to start her career one that I didn't see coming and nobody saw coming and which has just changed tennis. It really has changed tennis. Certainly here in Britain, it's given in an injection of life, which, well, I think we're all thankful for people that work in the sport and everybody watched her run was inspired by an enthused by. But it is, it is interesting as a case study as to whether it will cause problems for her that wouldn't have happened, had she had a more gradual development. Personally, I think you take what you can get. You just run with it. And I think she will be fine. The other ones that have had this sort of emergence are people like Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17, out of nowhere suddenly he is just so recognized. I do get a bit concerned by the reaction the sort of instinctive reaction to any quotes about her right now. I was reading this morning to trace Austin had said something on tennis channel about her coachings about radicalis coaching situation and how she thinks she should rehire Andrew Richardson and how a familiar face, et cetera, et cetera. Suddenly that's a headline. I just. Just calm down, everybody, calm down. I mean, it's she's had one match since winning the U.S. open and I think everybody just need can dial that down a bit. And but I think ultimately, I think this will be the launchpad for her. She may have a period of maybe even a year where not much happens. And.
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"Yeah i've spoken to a few comments. I mean i've had the privilege of walking with some of them are over the course of saltine tennis for example the the team for that was myself nick lester oven palmer and naomi cavity who were all very established commentators and i was kind of the new kids with their with the big dogs in our who knew what they were doing but they were really kind to me naomi cavity in particular has kept in touch and offered advice and let me use hers a sounding board and if i have questions like and nothing beats kind of hearing from people who've been there and done that and have taken the roads that you have already sar yard chats at a lot and they are me pete. Oranges has been really good to me as well. A lot of people will know pete. He's one of the big voices. Now i think particularly on the acp slide of plans yet. He's given me advice. I've done a bit of pulmonary tree with him and yeah. Hopefully as i keep progressing. I'll walk with more and more of these guys Yeah i respect for. I don't think people realize until they go to do it. That coleman tree is not so straightforward. Is it sounds obviously for people that go into. I mean for me. Y'all has come quite naturally still a long way to go but it is still is much easier to to listen to it than to do it yourself. And i have a lot of respect for the people that have have given me feedback and advice on who who teach me something new every time that i speak to them. Chris balas is another one. That's really looks out for me. Yeah i'm. I'm definitely still learning and grateful for the bits of feedback that i got along. The way just might be questioned for me on the head you not be repetitive. You know tink of different ways of saying the same thing. Because i know i list backed myself a podcast and you hear yourself saying words. So many times tried to put them out like so's one on and are very descriptive. It's trying to stop on. It's quite hard to do when you're on the job at the time when you're so involved watching the tennis that you forget and all of a sudden you go into repetition. Have you had to do courses or training for that just comes with practice and this is the big thing with with commentary. I'm not necessarily sure that you learn to do it. But as you do more of it you as you do it you don't. I don't think you take a course or something to become a common cesar Get on the mic. You do a match and you listen to other people. And that's that's how you progress at the end of the day definitely have had struggles with repetition and was that i use to death. Actually some of the players probably would giving me a bit of grief about an just ban. So of course there are was emphatic. I use them fats law. That's my favorite one at the moment. There's a lot of you got to be kidding. Me when someone has a good shot that kind of thing as these kind of things. That when i look back at matches the i've done i pick up on this. There was a time about a year. Ago where i was saying you are constantly and i listened back to the match and i thought good grief abigail. That's once every ten seconds. You just you take notes of that once you've taken north of it. You are more aware of it. So the next match. And i mean i nearly said it again. That is one of those things where at the end of the day. It's not going to matter too much but you want to keep it fresh. And you want to keep entertaining. Oh i think that's why it's so even though it's cringe-worthy at times so listen to yourself back because that's how you lawn. I think the biggest way you learn is a by doing and b by listening to what you have done an looking at what you can change for the future. Because i think there is some danger of just listening to other people and trying to model yourself on them then you become a carbon copy them and you. You lose your uniqueness and what you bring to the table. So i think the two best ways that you learn with commentary and my opinion is by doing and bu listening back true i think at the same podcast and here. You got. Listen yourself back because that's where you realize. Oh i still haven't learned you know you always on it. But i used to with ozzy open member driving a bit when it was on during the day and it had the country on the radio country and i i think wimbledon have commentaries well on the radio which i think is great because we all watch. Tv all day. Fortunately but what's the difference apart from the descriptive element of of radio. Do you one prepare radio over. Tv or preferred tv. And what are the major challenges in the differences. It's interesting because i've literally just done. Radio commentary for the first time. You mentioned that. I've just broken into atp. That's something i've been pushing for awhile. And i'd sids Cincinnati masters for tennis. Righty our last month. And it's a little bit of a culture shock compared to tv because with radi are you have to be high energy high intensity all the way along because you literally all the the consumer has. They don't have the picture they can't see anything else that's going on. They read everything from your voice. So you'll voice has to reflect at what point of the match. It is in our. If it's a key moment you have to share that. If it's a good shot have to reflect that. And you don't wanna leave too many gaps so the end of the day either because there's a lot of buzz on the background but they don't necessarily know what's going on so so with radar. It has to be constant constant constant all the way through the match and actually i did a week of tv strike after i did radar in august and immates. Tv feel sorry much more of a light job. I would say because i that following week after. Atp tennis radio. I had a week of league. And i was doing four straight matches day generally. Oh my are so i thought. Wow that's going to be intense but actually radio made it feel a lot less of a workload. I think with tv is more measures. Heads you've got to make sure that what you say is adding to the picture with radio. You are the one person describing with tv. Everything you say has to be adding to what the viewer is already seeing. They don't want to north That was a good backhand they saw. That was a good backhand. But why was it a good bag. You've got to elaborate. And that kind of thing. And i think with with tv you kind of set the scene. You give a background details. Radio people come to his show by show analysis. That's why at this point in time. That's my general view of it. As i say. I've not got as much experience radio at the mormon. I think i will be very at home with it. So the down the line a couple of other commentators said to me ahead of time that abigail. Up really good at radio because she likes to talk a lot. I took as a compliment. I definitely took more vacations to do. Well are yeah. I think the radio will quite suit me because you've probably walked sal. I don't really know when to stop talking. But i i do love. Tv as well. I was looking at moving into commentary at i think. Tv wants the big goal on radio is always to people. It's be- pretty tough job for one person like a horse commentator where you no one can work of the two works well for radio. Always car commentary on on radio when i started on tv. I was actually generally on my own for wpa matches sar. When i got to world feed coverage like team tennis on the french open. I had to get used to doing it with common sub. But yet radio's a big job. You have to do it on your own and actually. I'm glad that i was practicing at home ahead of time doing it. Completely all my arm because it meant the when you actually got doing it with someone else. It felt that easy outsider. Yeah it would be an intense job with with just the one person in the radio commentary booth nice and compared to somebody's played the tour. Some the who's coach players..
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"Tournament stephen agent. What way does that work. Yeah it depends i personally. I haven't had the nation. I don't think i've needed one necessarily to this point that does not mean that it's been straightforward at all particularly with the pandemic. That was very problematic for me because as a freelancer anyway. I'm someone at my age stopping this young with nor background in the sport it is going to take some time to build up sir for the majority of two thousand nineteen the wpa gigs. The i had maybe once or twice a month that was my main source of income source of wok. Sorry i stuck with that. But at the same time i was still volunteering at events doing social media just getting involved with any tennis event that was in the uk. In whatever capacity. the i coulds. I'm people issue and they know what you want to do. And a as a respect if you if you really put in the work and the time and the passion and yeah it was by putting myself in the right place as making sure that i was thoroughly involved in tennis whether it be coleman spacing or whether it be volunteering elsewhere that it did lead onto other opportunities sir. I got same with the lca during events in the uk and they put me forward to do common tree on the murray hr v. glasgow and september twenty nine thousand nine. So that was the challenge of the kids and also the first home intrigued. I did that. Went out on the bbc bbc online. And there's been more stuff like that amazing during a pandemic was battle of the brits team tennis which lead on from doing the elza birth tool and again it was through Stephen pharaoh actually who is was the tournament director of queen's club had hugged me on british tool and suggests that the i do the the battle of the team tennis as well. So that was encouraging. But i mean the other part of your question. Yeah it can be tough when you freelance. And you have to be prepared for weeks of nothing and just kind of hanging on trusting that you're doing the right things and that you're making the right moves because when you you might have a heavy week of walk and you enjoy and it's great and you get good feedback but then if you have two weeks of nothing you inevitably start to question and say to yourself one of my doing with my life in our because it goes against the norm of a nine zero five where you know your wages consistent. And you're our consistent and you have to trust the process and trust that the walk you put in will inevitably show itself and even now to this point where it looks like. I'm doing well. That will be weeks where i question and say am i actually on the right path but i will say looking back that every single time. That has happened every single time. I started to wonder whether i am in the right career path. Or whether i should be doing something more something has come up to tell me a keep going one. Such example of that was rolling garrels this year when i'd started suit question and basically at time. The only thing that i was walking almost the league so i thought oh. Wow well if properly goes. I'm in a bit of trouble. Up comes roland garros sir. I've definitely learned to keep going. Keep trusting and you know. I believe that if this is where i'm supposed to be and if i keep walking hob the doors will open sar. Yeah you figured out by now fabio. The i rambled quite a lot if it's too much. Just into samson all is good. The paper heard listen to you not to me so That's if you're doing that. A good job. I think so question. I have is of the commentating. You know you turn the on caros you do. Some good british stuff would they. You'd said you do the future still. Maybe players aren't as well known. It's hard to get information on. How hard is contained further players. Who aren't as well known which is not that much information you can't log. Ibm watson i'm not sure to name and get all the stats on federal on all the top guys or even bit lower ranked but when there's some the f. there that there's not a lot on how harder is commentating. It's interesting that you ask that because like almost find that easier. And i think that is in part. Thanks to where. I am when i do these events so at the moment i'm working a lot on the uk pro league in the uk for those that don't know what that is. It is a uk specific league for british players to enza as set eleven weeks across the season and play as a base in the uk can answer that and each week is in a different location in the uk. Every week vowed site. And i've got nor the players from that really well ahead of matches. I'll chat to them or a message them. I'll ask them about career. Highlights how they got into the sport allows them how they feel about the conditions of the venue. That kind of thing on the on the atp challenges. Actually well. i've done. When i was doing the birth tisch tour bassil of the brisk team tennis last summer. I was staying. Mtc so i was seeing these players like i had meals with some of them on occasion. I was in the same circles. And so actually i think that's where the relationships with them come really handy because as good for me because it makes my job easier but it's also good for them because the bed my commentary is the better is for them. They get a more accurate representation of the journey today and their ability. See and i can sell story that much vessel with the information that they give me sir. Yeah i would say that i. I've been blessed to be on site for of those low attiyah events that i've done and have been able to utilize the players themselves to get the information needed. And i think that's been great for all involved really. That's a good point you make where you're surrounded by them your chat with. You're picking up little nuggets here and there which are what people like to hear on on the tv. We've had mark petchey roby cohen. Nick makarov the podcast in the past. So you're not the first commentator. We've all being great difficult road ahead here but have any of those guys give.
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"Hi abigail welcomes two functional tennis. Podcast how are you my fabio. I'm fine thank you. How are you. I'm very good thanks. I'm really excited to hear your story. We've been falling the bid on instagram to your breakthrough into finally a bit of atp coverage. It's been a bit of a road for you. Which i'm excited to hear about but let's start off. Tell me what is your tennis background before we move into the cometary. Oh wow well. It's a short story there. I think because i had nor tennis backgrounds right at the beginning of things are neither of my parents played sport to that level. Might my mom was into tennis. When she was younger she was a fan but only to watch the sport and not to play either junior level. Oh professional level anything like that. Sorry i my first real memory of tennis. And kind of coming across it would have been i think wimbledon final two thousand seven when venus williams was playing marian ball to. That's the first vivid memory. I have of seeing tennis since i was saying the other day. I don't know how. I picked it up and quite simple minded with these things in the scoring system. Which makes no sense to a newcomer somehow managed to pick it up and realize what was going on and the next year i recognized venus signs. I realized she had a sister. As well serena which i thought was really cool in the way they dominates it and i got really into watching wimbledon for a few years which then signed into watching the french sharpen because i discovered bound television as well and i think two thousand eleven and for a time i would just watch whatever. Tennis would be shown on mainstream tv in the uk which wasn't a lot So in my mid scenes it sounds quite sad but i would spend my time literally watching live scores. And that's how. I became familiar with the players. Before i knew how they hit their forehand and backhand how good their was i got to know them through that stats tendencies and matches and just by watching the school day in day out and eventually i was watching more tennis when i walked out how to go about doing that was the back end and might scenes. And yeah i would say my mid scenes just through following the sport just through reading articles watching highlights on youtube. I became thoroughly obsessed which was kind of the road into walking and tennis myself. So yeah i came from nowhere but i was fully locked in within a few years. And did you play any tennis. Not for a while. Actually i had my first tennis lesson at about the age of fourteen or fifteen. I actually before. I had my first lesson. I went encore myself with my siblings. And i've been watching tennis for awhile at this point so i just wanted to whack every bowl. I'm very little went in the core. It was quite a sight. And i thought i i'm terrible at this but i did start having junior classes when i was fifteen sixteen and i was late to the sport but in a way that was helpful. Because you come later right and you pick it up more quickly. I think particularly if you're watching as much as i was myself still needs a lot of work as does my backhands. My four hands is consistent not devastating but it does. The job are still walking at it with the tennis. I definitely talk about a lot better than i play. It definitely talk good. Where did the move into comedy headed dot com about. Did you have any commentators. You liked back then. Yeah that's an interesting one are. I mean i'll take you back to the start so sixteen seventeen years old. I didn't really know what i wanted to do with myself as a career and i thought well i like tennis and writing was actually what i was. Good at in terms of my schoolwork. So i thought let's try and combine those who things serve for about a year i would just write features match reports et cetera for whoever would take me online for random blogs and stuff which actually leads me getting a paid writing job. Actually for a website live tennis dot com when i was eighteen and they offered me that full time that i took it part time alongside university because i was really interested in broadcasting and i kind of with all the rising i'd done and even though people me i was good at that the dream was always to common site on. I had no idea how to get into that kind of thing with roy. You hop online you make a blog you accreditation to tournament. Chicano good cigar is wasn't straightforward with broadcasting. At that point until i'm sorry i went to you name and i was still going to tournaments volunteering doing social media interviews et cetera. I started doing radio and tv and they told me at the. I had quite a natural mac so soy should think about searing father and somewhere along the line guy who shouts out his name is michael mccain a friend of mine. He was already in the industry and he was walking on a number of sports like gulf football and he did a bit of tennis as well he freelanced doing. Wgn tennis matches. But as tennis wasn't his top sport he knew the with all these outside matches he was covering on the outside courts. I probably know more about these players than heated. Because i'm a roy. And i just followed everything sar. When michael had these matches he would message me. And say hey. What do you know about x. y. Instead player and i would help him prepare for the matches so when he got a bigger job elsewhere removed on. He put me forward to the team who were in charge of getting the wpa. Freelance common sadism look abigail interested. Maybe have a listen to her. So i went to a country workshop with them and they sent me a message after saying. Yeah we think you could be good. Give it a bit of practice somewhere. It will take you on freelancing on some matches on the outside courts set a to a two fifty. I think i did for the first time so within a couple of weeks they'd got me to come and say on washington dc. It was twenty eighteen so august two thousand eighteen and that was my first match. I listened back to some of it recently. It was not good. That was a lot photographs needed making. I'm just very grateful. The people so what. I was on from that. So why could be an had the faith in me to give me that chance and our is built from them. Basically i got my foot in the door by being in the right places showing my passion and what i can do and yeah people had the faith in me to give me a shot. Un's hey pressler here. We are nice well in a while. I want you to give me some tips. Because i'm doing my first commentating gig next year in correze at the under twelve. It's determined that. I am g r. holden in some fuzzy club in bringing in players from all over the world. So it'd be commenting for the tennis channel. Wow and of never come and tell you. I've never commentated before. So we leave tips to the end but look. I need definitely need them. But since you're i w tate gig what's the progress has been slow fast. Eddie make more contacts to get more.
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"You know they are the ones with the privilege You know just just a just a tennis example recently was we've had two incidents of of plays reflexively using a homophobic slur when they've done something bad on the court you know that that link between poor performance in sports and using a using a gay slur. I think hogue aroon did it. And fabio fini did it both quite recently and they both apologized. Fanini came out wearing rainbow colors in canada. But as far as i'm aware no one no one spoke about it publicly there was no sort of. Atp player coming out and saying this is not okay and you know i was just. I was just imagining a a possible gay player in the locker room seeing that and seeing this at just complete enough to silence that it was treated with than how are they gonna feel I'd i'd have thought alone and isolated and just yeah unsafe really to be themselves so i think it can help so much when people around you speak up and you know how they feel about the subject so that when you do feel ready to come out you know they will be an ally for you. So yeah i just think there's there's probably a next step now. The players need to be taking I think pride diet. Us open helps you know i. It's what prompted me to ask the question And felix seem mentioned to survey that that the atp had had done internally so i spoke to the atp today. I message them for more information and they actually sent me a a statement about that survey. Which i'm just gonna read now. They said we can confirm that last month. The atp lgbt plus research survey for acp pliers as a key initiative on the atp serves a new program of purpose led initiatives that has been in development since last year. The lgbt plus player survey was developed together with pride.
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"tennis" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"Maybe the best in the world under nobody knows so. It doesn't matter it's about. You know who is the best at twenty two twenty three twenty four twenty five seat. You've got to keep the the end game inside all the time and put the pieces in place. I do think though even you may not playing for determines a year but you have to be near top because if you're near the top at a younger age you know you get cheese to practice with guys at the top on your end that day war. I think even you can take this as you add an international effort national level. If you see. I'm sure to kids who are in the inner circle that under under twelve if they tip over they're still being the inner circle andrey deans. They may not be national level. But i'm sure at an international level if you can get in their early improve yourself. Dente comes down to obviously. How well you plan your training for the future book. You have what it takes on its head. That's nurtured. really the timor. Angie is really important. From what i got her yeah. I think that's right if you can be plan at a level. So let's say antennas europe on the fourteen if you're able to play at category one level and you go through and you're able to play at like you know let's say top seventy itf level but you don't have to the top five. No you know you just have to be at a certain nevin experienced that level and in all be in the mix. You don't have the like. It would be very difficult. That's it the be thin category five. Atf on your last year of juniors and then to make. I think this is very difficult. I i don't know how many done that. But if you look at it through the years pretty much all the players have been good juniors. But they don't have to be the top. One percents agree and i think. Also you say top seventy. I think maybe difference with a top fifty. Juniors top fifteen junior is the toughest guys played five times warden. The top fifty guys most of the time. It's just as you say phones that he could travel all the time to wear it. And i think it's no it's also known that top ten junior grand slam winter junior does not mean. You're going to be a top wonder player. Yeah a hundred percent. Then you know if you if you look at it. I think a good way to judge. The rankin of junior is to look at the number of weeks in the rankin. Not just the ranking. So you know you can get somebody to a very high junior rank by picking the right tournaments and planning enough weeks. But it's like it's like cheating for your junior you know it's called substates. You're gonna get found that. Yeah yeah so you know. It's the number of weeks. Where did that person get their points. How many weeks did they play in us. Well they played forty weeks and the ranking seventy. You know if they if they can do that in well even less than half those weeks. I think that's a good indication then completely agree with gary. That was a very honest conversation different to our usual background. Conversations really enjoyed that. What you've been up to. Hopefully one day come back up to sweat some results. I think if you get any results with that you have every small federation called out here looking.
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"tennis" Discussed on The Functional Tennis Podcast
"We'd casper rude on the podcast a few weeks ago and that was something i want to ask them. Never tasking from a young age. If you look at his shirts he'd sponsors all over it. He'd like six or seven stickers on a shirt like so there's some of these solid talent would part of the. I think the job of a tennis player. Our tennis parent at that age is to showcase their kid and say look the wants to be a pro. He's working hard. You know to find the investment and that's unfortunately part of the job if the federation doesn't have the money. yeah yeah i on. It's look it's really tricky. And you know. I suppose the sport itself you know it would be nice to see some investment from the international governing bodies to federations to support maybe some exceptional talents and not. It have now started a program like that where they're invested in some attitude showing promise from junior who from countries that may not be able to afford. I take the system like that would be really useful. Like if you find somebody in ireland fighting feelers and exceptional talent under shown progressive edged up. Some money goes back to these players. You know because we are talking a lot of the itf level futures guys. And i know it's been great to see novak of people like you know considered well. We should be increased the prize money for these players. Then take a step further back. Look at children who can't make it because they just don't have the money. No can we do anything for these kind of children as they deserve. Deserve a right to play sport like everybody else. I think. That's a good program. Maybe the grand slams who make the enormous amount of money maybe not this year last year but maybe they should instead of everything going back into the country. Maybe they should be saying location..