Serena's Back, Evo's Done & Every Brit in the Draw — Our Full Wimbledon 2026 Preview

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What have you got academically? What did you get at school?
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I got my basic GCSEs, so maths, sports studies, English, French.
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We don't talk about geography because they told me it
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would be about capital cities, and it was about.
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Meanders and river bends. You have got basically, I don't
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think I've got an A apart.
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From in sports studies, but I've got passes and the
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rest of the part of geography and chemistry.
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Chemistry is boring.
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Wow, geography was boring because it's about population density in
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China and meanders and river bends and soil sedimentary and
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so I don't remember.
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It everyone on a daily basis. I find this stuff
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pretty useful, to be honest.
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It helps me knowing about meander's when I make all.
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Right, let's do a podcast. Welcome to what You're talking about?
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Willis with at p. Sixty five Marcus Willis and me
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is mate Dave. The grass is cut, the strawberry sauced,
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the deck shoes ready, which means it's time for the
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greatest Grand Slam of the Year. On Grand Slam of
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the Year Eve, which I am right now. I have
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got Wimbledon fever and as Pete Sam Press says nothing
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comes close to Wimbledon. Nothing. Are you feeling a bit
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buzz by it?
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Willis very very excited.
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Or someone someone I.
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Say earlier the grass is always greener at Wimbledon.
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I've got three stories that I've just put together based
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on hits, but there might be a story where you're like, no, actually,
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you don't want to do that as well, because there
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was a couple that I didn't put in that you
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might want to talk about, like the BBC extending its
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coverage of women until twenty thirty one, or the fact
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this is last year we'll get Andrew Castle telling us
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exactly who is in the Royal Box and yeah, so
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there's other little stories. But I've got Dan Evans, Jack Draper,
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Serena Williams as my top three. Serena Williams the most
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famous forty four year old in the world. Because everyone
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has to go. Serena Williams, aged forty four, that's now
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become a quadruple barreled name for her gets a wild card.
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Now I get why Valencia WTA give wild cards to
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Serena Williams because they need to sell their stadiums out.
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Because when you watch the tour. It's empty, So I
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get why Venus and Serena and whoever's coming back that
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week gets a wild card. Bums on seats Wimwooden is
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sold out infinite. It's over sold out. You can't get
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more people watching it. You can't get more people in there.
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Why is Serena Williams getting a freebie into this tournament?
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What? I mean?
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She's one at multiple times, stands getting one as well.
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I think it's more about attention of the tournament as well.
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How many people are gonna be watching her first round,
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including myself?
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Would you if you were so, I'm going to give
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you a proposal that it's on Monday. Serena is playing
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on sense call right theoretically right, She's playing on tent
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to court and on court one. You've got two players
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who are thirty five and fifty five in the rankings,
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and you've got a ticket. Which court do you go to?
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I think everyone goes to Serena because it's the unknown.
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We don't know how well she's going to play. It's
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another chance for people that maybe haven't seen her play
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before to see her play. The atmosphere is going to
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be ridiculous. I think that's why women have done it.
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It's it's something amazing that you know, we'll be talked
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about and watched globally.
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But yeah, we don't know.
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It's kind of easier to answer after we see what happens,
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isn't it.
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Yes, Yeah, I mean there's an absolute blockbuster in the
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third round of Serena against Swanchek, isn't there? Like this
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is the I mean huge, what's that Thursday Friday that
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could happen?
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Could happen?
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Yeah, I mean just I will open up a window
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and I would just shout Tennis out of it.
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I mean.
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Navratilova came back at forty seven and won her first round.
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It's all right.
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She did yeah, yeah.
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So it's not something that hasn't been done before.
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Yeah, it's and.
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I think never twenty years ago this year or twenty
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two years ago this year, but yeah, yeah she did.
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She she came back and played in the French as
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well that earlier you know, the previous slam play play
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got pumped. Yeah, and then yeah one through sir volley
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she won. I want to say love and one.
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But yeah, I mean it's it's not unheard of, it's
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just it's rare. It's rare because you know, people come
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retire anything they're retired, like when Serena retired. I didn't
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think that would be it. Honestly, No. Oh, I don't
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think about a last one either, but again, you never know.
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But I didn't have the sense I would never see
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her again.
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What's Serena Williams percentage chance of winning Wimbledon?
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You're asking me? Are you asking bet three? Six five?
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I don't know.
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Well, I'm going to ask you and then are going
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to take everything I own to Ladbrooks.
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I don't. I don't think she'll win it. I don't.
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I don't think she'll make it past the third round.
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And this could be quoted everywhere.
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Okay, it'll be amazing if she does.
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And again if it happens, you go, okay, I mean
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it'll be unlikely when your first tournament back on a
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singles court to be someone top ten in the world,
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which is.
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What she's gonna have to do.
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Right, Yeah, of course, And if she does, it's it's
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is she amazing or is there a problem in women's depths?
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And I don't think it's the latter, based on what
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we've seen the French Open. I think it's exciting in
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the women's game. I think anyone could be at anyone
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on their given day, you know, within reason.
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Well, Serena gets a wildcard. Dan Evans rather unfairly doesn't
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get a wild card. Lots of the discourse I've seen
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online is about, you know that that's disrespectful to someone
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who basically for two decades now being our second or
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first best player, rather than talking about that. In particular,
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it's going to be Dan Evans's last Grand Slam. He's
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playing in the doubles. Tell me your first encounter with Dan.
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I don't know when it was, but I mean it was.
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It was good under fourteen, it was nationally good. We
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played each other a lot. Yeah, I know, had a
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lot of very good matches. I think the last couple
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he did me over when he was going on his
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going on his rampage to the top thirty in the
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world and I was kind of slowing down a bit.
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He beat me in prequelity six and six. For the
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time before that, I think he beat me five and
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two somewhere. But before that there was a lot of
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six and the thirds, a lot of six and six.
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There's some great matches because our styles were. I don't know.
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It made for some great matches, but I mean we
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had battles ever since we were thirteen fourteen, I want
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to say.
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And he just strikes me. I don't know him at all.
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He strikes me as such a character. Yeah he is.
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Is he Larry?
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Yeah, there's not a filter. He doesn't lie, he doesn't
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hold back. If he thinks something, he says it. But
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he's often right about stuff. Yeah, he's funny, like when
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he's around, you know about it, you know about it,
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and he's Yeah, he's pretty witty with his humor as well.
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So yeah, has there it's interesting. It's not knowledge of
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the games incredible as well.
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Right of course. Yeah, No, I mean he's got great
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views actually, and he's going to be one of these
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people who you kind of eternally wish that a governing
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body would get him involved. But he's going to ruffle
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some corporate feathers. I would say, which could you know,
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cut his nose off despite his face a little if
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he's looking.
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But he won't care about that.
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He won't. It will never change because that's just who
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he is and it's refreshing.
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And what have you two ever butted heads on call
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off court. Has there been.
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We've had some drama. Yeah, we've had a few words.
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The stuff, but it's heat at the moment, stuff like
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it's always fine five minutes after all.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We used to have play fights all the time and
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slap each other about a bit and it was all
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in good spirits.
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It's just funny. It's just it was just it was
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just fun.
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It was honestly some of the most fun times I've
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had as he's been there.
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And at the Aussie Open this year he was in
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the same locker room as you, wasn't He was in
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the opposite you for a little bit in the qualifying
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like you were. He was in the qualifying And is
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it going to be a shame that from Wimbledon onwards
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it's just another one of your stable mates that you
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won't be knocking around with every now and then and
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bumping into.
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Yeah, no, it will be.
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It's there's not many guys that play like him. He
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was always great to watch. If ever I was playing
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a match and he was on the telly, I'd stick
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it on because I like watching him play. You know.
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He came to the Netty volley where he was brave.
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He defended really where I've read the game, well, you know,
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got really stuck into matches as well.
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So I'll miss watching him play. I missed.
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I think he'll still be around a bit. I think
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he's coaching. Coaching a little bit, is what I think
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he's doing.
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Will he make a good coach, Yeah, I think so,
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very good on his knowledge base.
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Yeah, but knowledge base, but there's actually the ability to
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get stuck in. And his mentality was very very good.
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I know sometimes people saw him snap or whatever, but
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he he was a very very good fighter, and I
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think some of some of the people he'll be coaching
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will need that.
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So do you think he's going to end up with
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a younger British player something like that?
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And I don't know who who will end up with,
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but I think he'd be a waste of knowledge and
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experience if he didn't end up on the toy yet.
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Well, and fun as.
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Well if he was in your team.
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The off court stuff is fun as well, oh mad
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little games you play in the players lounge and and
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and the commentary of that. Yeah, I hope to see
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I'd like to like to see him around.
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I think I think he'll stay in the game.
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I hope so well. I mean I've always really admired him.
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As I said, don't know him at all, but admired
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him as a player. And as you said.
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Get him on here, We'll get him on here to
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come on. I'd love to play, but not talk about
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his game.
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I couldn't care less about that. But schwang ko wang
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with Dan Evans, I mean he's got it's perfect. I
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feel it's good. YEA one person who has transitioned into
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coaching is with Djokovic last year. Is Andy Murray's now
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with Jack Draper. From your time around British tennis as
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the grandfather of British tennis, what did you always think
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Andy Murray is going to end up as a coach.
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He's always going to add value to the game at
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some point after his career. Yeah, it would be silly
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if someone didn't tap him up.
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He seems to me like analytical super process. Yeah, like
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he just he always had the air almost like when
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you see a footballer like Jordan Henderson. Now you think
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Henderson's going to be a manager in two years, I
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can see it.
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Yeah, And I think if he's not playing the next
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World Cup.
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Yeah of course, of course. Yeah, adding that ten minute value.
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But the yeah, I can see that with Murray. And
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I'm not surprised that Jack Draper's got Andy Murray in
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his corner, are you.
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Not one bit?
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No?
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I think they'll do well to go.
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I just think Murray's playing with him, as in, is he.
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Hitting hitting with him? I saw him hitting the other day.
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Yet you were there?
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Yeah, yeah, I.
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Was at Eastbourne and he was hitting, hitting with him.
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He's still obviously outrageous.
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At the sport.
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Really, so where are you caught next to him?
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I'm walking down the hill and I see him. I'd
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just see a back end just hit the middle of
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the strings ten times in our own director where he.
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Wants kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, one of those guys.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm only on nine, but yeah ten times.
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Yeah that's Murray. So yeah, because he's like a hands
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on because I noticed that, you know, having been around comps,
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some coaches just are racket off, aren't they. They're down
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the end giving that little hug to the racket as
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a hitter gets involved. But yeah, I can see Murray
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wanting to to get the Torner grip on.
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I think it's it's but it's nice like it's a
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nice feeling hitting balls. That's what you've done all your life.
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Isn't it.
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Yeah?
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Yeah, So why wouldn't you and.
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Why wouldn't you as Draper want and he's back and
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coming back at you.
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Yeah, of course, of course. Well, I mean there's some
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of the bigger stories. There's plenty more because it's Wimbledon,
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it's the biggest Grand Slam of the year. After the break,
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I want Britwatch, which gives us a chance to play
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Bruce Faulsyth just just holding that there. This is what
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you're talking about, Willi's this is section two. This is
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britt Watch, which means next year is going to be
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a big breakthrough year for Bruce Fasythe. Yeah, I'm backing Brendy.
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We're all backing ready, So.
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The feelings going, so let's keep it going.
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The good time to bowing out. Then the music goes
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in there he is. Do you like Bruce Fullscythe Yeah.
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He's good a way, doesn't don't man personally?
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Yeah, it's past tense now obviously.
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I love I love Bruce, I love game shows. I
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like Bruce. I like everything about him. Big Bruce, Yeah,
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Big Bruce.
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Job kept the Tash all his life as well, which
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I've got a respectful.
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A lot of respect and a wig.
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Fantastic, Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Okay, I've got the Brits here,
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that's why we've got the brit watch music on. I'm
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going to rattle through it and I would love you
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to tell me everything you know from that vast NASA
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computer of a brain that you've got. Okay, So Radakano Rusick.
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I think she lost last time she played to her, So.
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Yeah, I think okay there if she's physically fit, I
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think she's hitting and I'm not sure.
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Yeah, I think she'll be all right.
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There always questions about her fitness, and there's stories in
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the paper today. Of course, she's just got to the final,
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isn't she. You know, she just got to a grad
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school final and a second round match potentially against Harriet Dart.
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That's yeah, that is that's a blockbuster. So we're saying
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Radocanu a okay on that one.
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I think.
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So. Now, Katie Boltera loves the grass. She's playing Katerina
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grant Italian. But can get tight? Can't she bolt up?
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Can start that ball toss and all sorts of suddenly
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things look nervy. I think she's gonna have too much here, you.
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Yeah, I think yeah.
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Again, I've not seen many players that don't get tight sometimes.
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I just think it's more obvious when the bulltoss goes
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with some people, but for other people they'll start pushing,
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or they'll.
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Start slapping on the feet, will start.
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But I think with Katie, when something has historically gone,
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it's been a server of bortos, and that's more obvious
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for everyone. Can you see someone throw the ball up
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the wrong way you go?
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Yeah, I think yeah.
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No, I think she's confidence playing well Ribekina a couple
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of weeks ago.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She likes the out crowd as well.
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She does.
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Yeah.
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I mean there's a lot of pressure for Britt's playing
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women and that people will never realize.
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As well.
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Grass season is great, fun to play at home, but
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there's this expectation that if you play anyone within your
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ranking you should win. Otherwise it's a disaster. So you know,
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she's playing a qualifiers one. Three matches not easy. Yeah,
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I think you know, if she gets out of them
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and plays the best game, sure win.
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Yeah.
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Now. Harriet Dart, aforementioned potential second round opponent of Emma
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Radakanu is playing Oster Penko. So I live four miles
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from Wimbledon. There's a chance Oster Penko nails a ball
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into the corner of the court. There's a chance it
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might hit my house.
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Yeah, so.
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Four miles is well within that radius.
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Good luck predicted this one, mate, What you're saying.
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I think she's brilliant panker. Yeah, I can't predict that.
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I can't preget that. It's just unpredictable.
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Rue, I'm gonna go six love love six six love,
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I don't think, but I don't know where. Okay, but
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I'm saying who knows? Who knows? Right, I'd like to
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see a British second round match, So let's see now.
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My favorite backhand is Diane Parry. Sweet as a nut,
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isn't it. She takes on friend Jones.
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Tough again, tough Yeah, Frank and Frans a hell of
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a competitor. Diane's incredibly talented, as we know. But yeah,
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it's not one I don't know with that.
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I don't know that.
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I know Frans better on clay historically. But it's not
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like it's not like grass is playing unbelievably quick nowadays either.
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So yeah, it'll be a scrap I.
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Think, yeah, I think, I I do my little uh
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tennis YouTube history has a lot of dying Barry's backhands
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in it, so fair enough, delete cookies and stop all the.
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Pop ups and move on, Harry Backham.
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Katie Swan against Bego what do you think? Like? Yeah,
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go on?
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What do you think that begs?
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Beggo's very experienced, been around for a while now, Yes,
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I'm thinking of Yeah, Katie's obviously playing well injury free. Uh,
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great competitor, likes grass again.
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I'm just gonna do a.
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Lot of fences with these matches because I generally don't know.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I think what we are seeing with Katie is that
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it's the road back to the kind of being in
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a big time, isn't it. You know, she's she's on
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the route upwards again, and that's not always a smooth road.
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There are bumps in that, so, like finding consistency and
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things like that is always tough, and playing against someone
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who's experienced and yeah, I mean it's going to be
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like some one's going to need patience minimum. But it's
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a tough to all, really tough.
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She's a good competitor. Yeah, I don't think that would
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be an issue. It's just yeah, can she go over
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the line? I think she can, but it's not it's
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not one of those because she's not playing a seed.
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It's easy, it's it's a hard match.
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Well, Hannah Klugman has a former Grand Slam champion, of course,
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just one of them. So we've got Hannah Klugman, Mimiso
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and Mika Steuslervich. And these are our three. You know,
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we spoke about them on the podcast a few weeks ago,
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this kind of class of two thousand and eight or something.
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It seems about twelve minutes ago for me, but I
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mean that these are seventeen eighteen year olds, and how
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do you see all of their hopes? Generally it is
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winning around huge success for all three of these players.
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Considering the draws they got them, Yeah, it would be yeah, yeah,
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it's it's not nice. I've seen their drawers, but it's great.
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It's a valuable experience regardless of the result. It really
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is playing you know, ex Randslam champions, X Grandslam finalists,
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very good players. You go out there and see where
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your games at, see how hard you can push them.
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See if you can win. But yeah, they win one
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of those matches and they'll be looking at the second round.
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It's not you know, it's dramatic for an hour after
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the match and then you know, straight into the next one.
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It just it doesn't.
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I don't think it defines their career one match, but
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they can give them a lot of confidence.
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When you were seventeen and you were stepping out there, Willis,
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did you play with more nerves less nerves? Could you
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remember what your seventeen year old brain was like? Barely mind?
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Your brain now is about six years old. Can you
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just picture what a seventeen year old brain is like?
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Yeah, I mean I wasn't playing Maine to a woman
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in that age, but but yeah, it was nerve.
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It was I.
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Felt more nerve then than I do now because I
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was less experience. But yeah, it's it's difficult. These girls
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have got far more experience than I did playing at
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the highest level. But you know, playing junior Windwood and
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when I was that age, it was nerve wrecking. It
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was a lot more dramatic in my head than it
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was in real life. Right, Yeah, you start thinking, oh
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this this matches everything, and you know it was and
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I played World. I'm a third round two years in
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a row, a year youngest for that. But little did
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I know, I had no kind of You know, if
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you win this ornament, it's there's there's been junior woman
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and champions that now don't play tennis anymore.
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Yes, of course, yeah they've got.
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Jobs and less so in Roland Garras, but you know
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they've got their careers ahead of them. I think they
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all do very well. They're very talented. It's just they
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might not win this year, and they might and I
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don't think it makes a huge difference into their development,
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to be.
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Honest, because you hear, don't you Some people say when
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they were young they played without fear, and then others
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say the opposite, Actually they grew into playing without fear
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and kind of.
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Having I don't believe any one who says they play
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without fear but you don't play fear free ever, No,
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I don't. I can't relate to that. It's just you
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might think there's nothing to lose, but I think as
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you get better, there is stuff to lose. As you
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realize you're at the level where you are, you start thinking, okay, no,
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I can beat this. Player, and I think when you're
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inexperience and young and you've got nothing to lose, Yeah,
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it's still very different when you're five four and you've
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got to serve it out. You're telling me you've got
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no nerves. Then I don't think that's true.
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No, No, Perhaps it's all just stuff that sits well
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in quick quotes and newspaper articles and yeah, that kind
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of thing as.
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Opposed to the actual performance.
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I mean, Hannah won, Hannahkogman won the first WTA main
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draw win in Nottingham last week. Mimis you did that
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last year. Meeker is national champion last year. But as
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you said, they're playing Grand Slam champs, plainly big champs.
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You know, Christ they've got tough drawers. But you've got
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to cut your teeth, and you're like, these are the
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people that they presumably want to be that themselves. So
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now they get to go and see what the difference
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is and hopefully come in with a little bit of
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an upset there.
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Yeah, you never know, you never know.
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Now a name that I don't know, I don't know
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much about Alicia Doudney, do Denny?
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Yeah? I think that, Yeah, I think that's how you say,
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American College. She goes to American College, won a lot
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of matches in the you know, since she's the pro,
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I don't know a lot about her as well.
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Isn't it funny that that American college scene, how these
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players can from the age of eighteen, they disappear for
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four years from British rankings, ratings tournaments and they go
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and play absolute top class tennis out there and kind
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of come up the radar, and then all of a
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sudden they're back in like a Jacob Fernley that you know.
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Yeah, it's what a lot of people are doing. And
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it's nice to see the girl side as well. It's
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happening happening as well. And yes, been playing the top
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events last few weeks, picked up a couple of wins
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and he's playing a list of parks.
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All right, that's right, huge.
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Huge, big hitter, you can win that. Seeing her play
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play a bit, it's good.
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I mean, it's going to be absolute banger. I would
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say they they might not be a rally in the
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00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:39.960
first four games, That's what I'm going with. I'm going
489
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:46.440
with Lord Bangleton's no rallies, not for the first four games.
490
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:50.640
Yeah, what what classifies the rally to.
491
00:27:50.599 --> 00:27:54.079
You, I think you need both need a plus one
492
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:57.599
so four yeah, yeah.
493
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:02.000
Okay, yeah, So a rally for me is like six
494
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:03.799
six shots minimum.
495
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:05.599
Wow, Well, you.
496
00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:08.759
Could go serve, return, approach and stretch miss. That's not
497
00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:09.200
a rally.
498
00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:10.359
It's just a serve and a forehun.
499
00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.319
Yeah. Okay, what do you remember your greatest rally?
500
00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:19.000
No, I couldn't.
501
00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:19.759
I couldn't put that.
502
00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:24.720
As I told you earlier, I've got tembules max, I've
503
00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:26.039
never I've never seen the eleven.
504
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.559
No.
505
00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:30.079
No, actually, when I trained with Smithy there was more
506
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.720
than that.
507
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:32.759
That.
508
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:40.359
All right, let's move on to the men's side. Did
509
00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:46.720
we do this one first? Jack Draper against Taylor Fritz Boom.
510
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:51.920
It's fen sitting, isn't it, Because I actually don't know.
511
00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.319
It's best of five. Jack's got some matches in him now,
512
00:28:57.279 --> 00:28:59.799
I don't know. Fritz is just very very good as well.
513
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:02.319
He's good at tennis, isn't he.
514
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:05.559
He's very very good and good on grass and it
515
00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.039
seems to play quite loosely.
516
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.160
But it's not going to be easy either way. I
517
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.559
think I think if Jack's got to win it, it's
518
00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:15.000
got to be in three or four.
519
00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:20.119
But again quote that because Jack can win five sets,
520
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.079
is incredibly fit. I just don't know. He hasn't played
521
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:24.559
a lot of tennis. It's quite hard to track.
522
00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.480
I wonder if we'll get that little bit of different
523
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:29.720
bounce under him, you know what I mean.
524
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:35.480
Yeah, he's not got a physical problem of fitnesses in
525
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:40.160
terms of lasting a long time. It's it's more he
526
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.039
hasn't done it for a while, right, He hasn't played
527
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:44.039
the best office the match since first round of US Open.
528
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:46.960
So so I don't know.
529
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:50.119
I'm obviously really looking forward to it. I think it
530
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:51.319
will be Tuesday afternoon.
531
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:56.000
Yeah, I think head head says for it, heart says
532
00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:59.960
Jack for me. But there's a bit of push pull
533
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:00.279
in that.
534
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:02.039
Yeah, Yeah, there is a bit of push for.
535
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:05.400
Like on paper, if you look at everything and you
536
00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:09.119
don't know Jack, then you go our for Richard win
537
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.000
that because there's a player here who's been out for
538
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:13.799
a while and blah blah blah.
539
00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:15.599
But it's Jack.
540
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:20.359
It's going to be a huge one. That's tea time.
541
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:22.960
That's got a tea time Tuesday written all over it,
542
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:23.839
isn't it.
543
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:25.400
Yeah, I'll be tucking into something.
544
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:28.960
Then we're canceling the news to continue with that.
545
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:34.200
Yeah, sorry, guys, Draper's sending rockets down still on the
546
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:38.599
weather for a bit. It's going to be art.
547
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:41.000
I could do. I could do all that stuff.
548
00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.799
Cam Norri against Michael Sheng now twenty twenty two, since
549
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.880
Noriy got to the semi finals at Wimbledon a while ago.
550
00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.920
But he is Cam nor right, I.
551
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.839
Mean Michael Sayings did very well in college and come
552
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:00.799
with qualities as well.
553
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.240
That's not a nice first round. It looks like a
554
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:03.960
nice one, is not.
555
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.880
You don't think like Cam is just too steady.
556
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.319
Maybe, yeah, but you've got someone who's used to playing
557
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:15.559
matches under high pressure.
558
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:19.599
He's got three matches under his belt. Good player.
559
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:25.480
Norri's first match at Winburden, it's not I don't think
560
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:25.920
it will.
561
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.720
Be a rolling nothing to lose, well, no, not.
562
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:31.039
Nothing to lose, but I just don't think it.
563
00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:33.720
I'll be surprised if Nori won two to two and
564
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.480
two or something, or you know, easily and straight sets.
565
00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.319
I'd be surprised he can.
566
00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:43.759
But I think the depth and in tennis's there's not
567
00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:47.000
many easy draws for anyone out there anymore. No, no,
568
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:48.920
I expect one or two of the sets to be tight.
569
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:57.160
Yes at least yeah, yeah yeah, Yan joined Ski came
570
00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:04.319
Caprieva your man, I mean vis yeah, mate, pronounce it.
571
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.680
So choine Sky's just cracked the he got into the
572
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:08.319
top hundred.
573
00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:11.359
He did playing for Vitamin K first round.
574
00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:19.680
Yeah kay, I mean I wonder like this is a
575
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.920
huge moment for him in terms of he's got a
576
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.680
winnable match first of all, and that paycheck comes in
577
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.319
and you've just got into the top hundred. This propels
578
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:36.079
you again, doesn't it. This is the there's a lot
579
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:37.279
of ingredients here where you go.
580
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.319
Points wise, I don't think it's that it's like forty
581
00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:40.920
or fifty points for first round win.
582
00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:44.119
Yeah, but it's good, but it's not.
583
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:47.400
Yeah, financially very good and second round of women and
584
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:47.839
blah blah.
585
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.720
But for someone hundred, someone just about top hundred.
586
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:53.839
It doesn't mean they're going to stay in top hundred
587
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:55.400
forever if they just win the first round.
588
00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.599
No, no, no, But.
589
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.799
Yeah it's winnable for VI as well. It's good.
590
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.880
Think Yeah, he's a good player, better on clay. But
591
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.480
as I said, I can't stress enough. Now you can
592
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.279
jump off a c plate, a cray a clay caught
593
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:12.720
onto a grass court in two three days and be
594
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:13.319
feeling all right.
595
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:19.119
It's not that different nowadays they've slowed everything down. I'm
596
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.519
I'm you don't eat it one volley to when I'm at.
597
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.960
I'm I'm thinking, this is uh not easy. But I
598
00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.839
think this is a he's got a real shot. He's
599
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.519
a real shot. Okay, so.
600
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:41.240
I think he does as well. But but yeah, I would.
601
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.839
I if it goes four or five or bit wins,
602
00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:46.279
I wouldn't be like overly.
603
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:52.279
Shot Jacob Fernley against Alex Michelson.
604
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:58.680
Yeah, Michaelson's good, good or rounder, smart player, loads of weapons.
605
00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:03.599
Jacob's prey good as well. It depends how if.
606
00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:05.160
He goes and execute as well. But I think that'll
607
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.920
be a good match. Not going to be much slow
608
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:09.079
hitting balls going on.
609
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.480
Both both ex college as well. Both come from that scene,
610
00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.519
haven't they, I think?
611
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.280
So I don't know where Mechason went. Sure, did he
612
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:21.000
go anywhere?
613
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.960
Yeah, I've got I've got his college that he was
614
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:32.480
a college guy. So yeah, Jacob, Yeah, yeah, I think
615
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:35.119
it's possible to be both there. Mate, he can be
616
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:40.639
young and you can be old. I'm very excited for so,
617
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:44.159
I think Jacob Ferley that I saw him in the
618
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.360
fourth round against Jokovic. Was it a couple of years
619
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:50.320
ago when he really kind of burst onto the scene
620
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:55.039
for a lot of bridge tennis fans, And yeah, I
621
00:34:55.079 --> 00:35:01.199
think he's going to have a little bit too much here. Yeah,
622
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:04.239
Billy Harris.
623
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.000
Let me trumpet qualifier against Kashanov.
624
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.519
Yeah again, there's not gonna be much nudging of the
625
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:10.360
ball going on there.
626
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.639
I mean, you know Billy so well, right, So.
627
00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:19.760
I've been Karen player a few times. He doesn't mind
628
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:24.280
giving it a thump repetitively, regressively.
629
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:29.679
So what is Billy going to do against Karen.
630
00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:32.840
Kashanov probably hit it quite hard as well.
631
00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:36.480
Yeah, yeah, it's good.
632
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.360
I mean that'll be a great match. That'll be a
633
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:41.400
great match. I don't know.
634
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:43.880
If Billy goes out and executes, he can beat a
635
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.519
lot of good people. Yes, And they say, well, I
636
00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:49.920
don't know if kashov Is best surface is grass, but
637
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:53.199
he's obviously very good on it still because he serves
638
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:55.679
at one thirty and lasers balls from both sides.
639
00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:59.199
But no, I think we're in for a good match there.
640
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:01.280
I'm looking forward to that.
641
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:06.800
I think don't you think that the crowd are just
642
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.840
on the on the Billy Harris kind of train, like
643
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.199
I think people who've known him like proper tennis people
644
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:20.440
in Britain. He's a real kind of cult hero for him.
645
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:23.960
I think he's always been a hero to me though.
646
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:28.519
Ah and of course many many years ago now he
647
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.880
actually came onto this podcast as well, thought of talked
648
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.440
about his fry upright and eating tuna for seven months
649
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:35.920
or whatever.
650
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.320
Yeah McDonald's car parks for Wi Fi.
651
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:46.559
Yeah. Yeah, Arthur Ferry somebody that you've played alongside, but
652
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.440
that hasn't let him hold himself back. You know he
653
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:51.199
learned from that.
654
00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.679
Yeah, Well, a lot of people it's fight or flight, isn't.
655
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:57.039
That You come away from that and go, I never
656
00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.519
want that happen again. I better apply myself in singles.
657
00:37:03.440 --> 00:37:07.599
Uh, he's playing Jim, tell.
658
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.159
Me I'm a good combat that people.
659
00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:14.199
We'll see fairies form and go that it should be
660
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:16.440
easy on paper, but he is a good comester and
661
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:20.400
very quick. We'll fight for every point, as I say,
662
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:24.599
no easy drawers. I think, yeah, I think that'll be
663
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:28.239
a great match to watch as well. I think Arthur Arthur,
664
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.719
we'll have too much for him, but I don't. You
665
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:34.000
can't write him off. That's an animal.
666
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:40.280
Yeah, look but fairy is what he's got. Guyle, he's crafty,
667
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:45.000
he's clever, knows wimbled, and he's played it so much
668
00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:47.320
as a junior whos played loads of grass court stuff.
669
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:51.760
I've seen him play there for years in various forms.
670
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:56.320
Very good and yeah, her kind of rises to that
671
00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:59.119
as well. Some of her likes a scrap. He likes
672
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:03.320
being the underdog will like. I think he'll play some
673
00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:06.400
of his best tennis as well. But if Arthur plays well,
674
00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:11.719
he can be. As we see in at Queens, he's
675
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:13.480
very very good as well.
676
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:17.280
Do you think either one of them are thinking about
677
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:18.920
second round? Ben Shelton?
678
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:22.239
You never knows.
679
00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.119
Shelton obviously his top tennis is very top, but if
680
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:29.239
he's not confident on something he can he's not had
681
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:34.679
the consistency yet to guarantee him into the second week
682
00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:39.199
of a Slatin. I don't think on his on his
683
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.920
on his top day, Yeah, play Shelton on grass and
684
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:42.599
he's feeling it.
685
00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:43.880
Good luck.
686
00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:50.039
So what I want to do now, we've got about
687
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.599
five or six matches to go, five or six players
688
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:56.679
I just want you to pick out one or two
689
00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:59.159
of them that you think that is the match that
690
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:01.159
if you had the popcorn, you're going to be sitting
691
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:08.480
and watching that. We have got Jack p J Jack,
692
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:16.239
Pennington Jones, Toby Samuel, Felix Gill against your door.
693
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:19.119
All right? Is Pennington Jones playing against.
694
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:26.679
Who he has got Nakashima? Yeah, Toby Samuel's got men sick. Yeah,
695
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.880
We've got Max, Max Basing and Harry Wendelken.
696
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:34.559
So who's Wender? Can play?
697
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:41.039
Of these guys? He's got Royer, Valentine Royer. Okay, I
698
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:47.760
know Grueling, the winner of Wendalken as well, could go
699
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:50.360
on to play as Verev in the second round on
700
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.119
the center obviously, because he's gad.
701
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:59.880
Wend Royer will be a good match. Felix Gill against
702
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:01.039
will be a good match.
703
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.880
I mean, that's got just It would be lovely to
704
00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:09.360
play Jodan, now you know what I mean, like just
705
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:12.079
to just to see what all the fuss is about?
706
00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:16.480
Almost a yeah, yes and no, yeah, yeah I'd rather
707
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:18.880
not I'd rather play me. But you know what I mean,
708
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.079
what's it all about? It could be one of those
709
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:28.920
things where he's not got any grass call experience. This
710
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.000
is his first time blah blah blah, and you could
711
00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.119
get a good win, you could get like the career win.
712
00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:35.639
Oh yeah I beat him mate, Yeah yeah.
713
00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:37.519
I mean Phelix is a great combetor and he's had
714
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:40.800
some matches on grass course. Just what I would say again,
715
00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:45.119
I'll reiterate it. I can't stress enough how the speed
716
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.480
of the grass is not much different to that other
717
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:53.400
hardcore or so it won't be the speed that catches or.
718
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:56.719
The height of the ball. It's all very similar. Yeah.
719
00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:58.199
I think I think there's going to be fewer upsets
720
00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:59.639
at Winwoldon now than there ever was.
721
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:06.639
Yeah, which is a shame. And yeah talk about players.
722
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:09.360
I guess for players, they turn up and it's not
723
00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:11.880
that uncomfortable anymore, and you get a better level of
724
00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:15.239
tennis all around the year because upsets me.
725
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.639
And someone's having a shocker really most of the time.
726
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:21.840
Well, the shocking drawer Toby Samuel against men Sick. I
727
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:26.400
mean like, uh, he's going on to big things, Mensick
728
00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:30.559
and Samuel's playing ever so well and has really rafted
729
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:34.320
and climbed the ladder and stuff. But yeah, he's gonna
730
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:36.719
have to play the match of his life. Really, isn't
731
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:38.159
he to.
732
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:38.199
To beat him?
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But again experienced grass, call player, home crowd, et cetera.
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Again, they're not very nudging it around.
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Any of these matches in particular where you're you're thinking, right,
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that's the one for me, either in the women's side
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or the men's side. Is there a match, let's both
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choose a popcorn match.
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Mine's obvious, so.
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Of course I'm going to go dark Ostapenko.
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Yeah, that's also a good one.
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That's gonna be mine. So I just can't wait. As
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we said, wimble them fever, it's here. We wait all
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year and it's finally here. So there's plenty more to
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come from the words you're talking about Willis Podcast. We're
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going to be talking regularly, whether you want us or not.
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In fact or not, is what you do want and
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we're still doing it anyway.
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Our payment model is going to be very different to
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most people. You actually have to pay us to stop.
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We just keep podcasting, sending it out, and then you
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have to subscribe for us to not do one for
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a week.
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Ye can't wait to talk about your mate speech soon.
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Victor baronco on trombone, Sergeant Major Craig Frederick on the
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trumpets and the composition.
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The Army Blues walked back down