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Jannik Sinner Eliminated 2nd Round in Historic Upset | Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Adam Lefko, John Isner, Sam Quarry, Caroline Roseenyike, Sloan Stevens.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're all sort of pinching ourselves. Did what
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  Speaker 1: we just see really happen? Despair into elation a joy
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  Speaker 1: to watch. I don't know where to start.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think we got to start with Center.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he just said it.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest upsets we've ever seen, and
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  Speaker 2: not just tennis, but in sports.
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  Speaker 1: This man lost to a player that has never made
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  Speaker 1: the third round of a major. He lost to someone
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  Speaker 1: that's never beaten a top ten ponent. He is not
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  Speaker 1: even the highest rank Sarundelo in this tournament. Yannick Center
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  Speaker 1: goes down up two sets to love. In the third set,
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  Speaker 1: up five to one, and then that for resion heat
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  Speaker 1: ninety two degrees, the hottest May twenty eighth that we
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  Speaker 1: have had in over eighty years.
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  Speaker 3: We thought we were coming on for a normal ceremony.
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  Speaker 3: It was anything fus.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, and this was a twelve o'clock match. That was
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  Speaker 2: a story to beginning of this. Hey, that's a little
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  Speaker 2: odd the Center's playing at noon, but like John said,
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  Speaker 2: all day, it's hot.
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  Speaker 3: All day long.
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  Speaker 2: Center takes the first set six', three a second set
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  Speaker 2: six to. Two it was the third, Set center up
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  Speaker 2: five to. One and this is where things got. Tricky
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  Speaker 2: this is where the cramp started For Eonic. Center IF
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  Speaker 2: i give time.
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  Speaker 4: Away what how does it? Work?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Well now if you, well we give, well if you cannot,
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  Speaker 5: play depend what you. Have you, know so either you
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  Speaker 5: get the time violation and then after it's a codeolation
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  Speaker 5: then otherwise we need to see with the physio what it.
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  Speaker 6: IS i don't know if it's this, adrason you, know
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  Speaker 6: so it's up to.
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  Speaker 5: You it's it's either we call the physio now that
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  Speaker 5: check on you and then we reason.
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  Speaker 3: Play, yeah this was.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable Yonick center actually. Left we were sitting here wondering
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  Speaker 1: what the official ruling would. Be So wrindolo's box going.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy and after that Is. Ner When sinner came, back
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  Speaker 1: it never looked like he.
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  Speaker 3: Got back on. Show he just.
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  Speaker 7: Couldn't he just couldn't recover from, that and at five
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  Speaker 7: two he.
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  Speaker 3: Started the cramp started to come. On at five.
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  Speaker 7: Two we're sitting here in the green room not even
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  Speaker 7: really paying. Attention all of a, sudden he's taking a
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  Speaker 7: medical time out at five to four in the third,
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  Speaker 7: set trying to serve it, out and at this point
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  Speaker 7: he everyone knew he was.
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  Speaker 3: In big time.
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  Speaker 7: Trouble and credit To, sirundlo he played the perfect game
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  Speaker 7: to Keep, serundo to keep excuse, me to keep center out.
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  Speaker 7: There ball after, ball, football loopy, ball high, ball drop.
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  Speaker 2: Shots he did it all and it just wore on.
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  Speaker 2: Center unless remember in the fourth set. Two even Though
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  Speaker 2: sirunulo got that fourth set six, one centner had great
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  Speaker 2: points in the First sirulo service game and the Second
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  Speaker 2: serunlo service. Games didn't get those and you can see
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  Speaker 2: kind of the the deflation come out Of center's face and.
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  Speaker 1: Mind continues here Now love, Three Love, sinner trying. Everything
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  Speaker 1: he opened the soda in midway through the fifth he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get, water and, fans Coach kal and
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  Speaker 1: everyone seeming really helpless watching him all hot and.
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  Speaker 3: One such cramps.
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  Speaker 7: On it's just so hard to overcome that there was
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  Speaker 7: really nothing to. Do his whole body is seedsing up on,
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  Speaker 7: him especially his. Legs he can't ben on his, surve
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  Speaker 7: he can't move side to. Side all the great center
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  Speaker 7: attributes that.
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  Speaker 3: Were never used to see. It he just couldn't pull.
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  Speaker 3: Off that was all she. Wrote once those cramps.
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  Speaker 1: Started and, now in addition To, center all of these
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  Speaker 1: other records. Fall thirty straight matches comes to an, end
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  Speaker 1: eighteen straight wins on, clay thirty four straight first week
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  Speaker 1: wins in, majors twenty three straight wins over. Lefty how
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that the last nine majors have been
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  Speaker 1: won By center Or. Alcarez that comes to a close
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  Speaker 1: One manuel So roundel Advances, CAROLINE i think the biggest
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  Speaker 1: one there earliest lost by a one seat At Roland
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  Speaker 1: garo since twenty twenty six years.
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  Speaker 3: Ago Andre, AGASSI i, mean all of.
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  Speaker 8: This is just so. Crazy we're talking yesterday about how
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  Speaker 8: big are a. Favorite he was nine eight percent chance
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  Speaker 8: of you, know winning this match, today and then he
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  Speaker 8: cramps and his body just shuts. Down WHAT i was
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  Speaker 8: most surprised about was how did he not take a
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  Speaker 8: break after the fourth, Set like you could still go
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  Speaker 8: to the, bathroom cool, down take some, ice put some cold,
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  Speaker 8: water do anything to just cool yourself. Off but he
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  Speaker 8: stayed out there and he continued to play and obviously
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  Speaker 8: didn't get. Better he also didn't take pickle. Juice there
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  Speaker 8: was a few. Things his team seemed a little bit like.
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  Speaker 8: Subdued they didn't seem like they were, yelling munch or
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  Speaker 8: trying to. HELP i don't, know it just seemed a
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  Speaker 8: little bit. Off maybe they're all just, like, wow there's
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  Speaker 8: nothing we can do at.
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  Speaker 1: This same and The kwame match had that incredible emotion
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  Speaker 1: at the, End sinners felt the.
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  Speaker 3: Opposite it was tough to watch there for the last.
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  Speaker 9: Hour it's absolutely been an emotional whirlercoaster for us here
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  Speaker 9: because Watching sinner is just. Devastating when he started shaking
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  Speaker 9: his legs and doing all this and we're, going, well
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  Speaker 9: how is this even? Happening he was up by such
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  Speaker 9: a huge, margin and it's just devastating to watch because
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  Speaker 9: you never want to see someone go out like, this
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  Speaker 9: going for, records going for the career. Slam he's played
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  Speaker 9: incredible tennis. Here winning was supposed to be winning the
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  Speaker 9: tournament in this, case and it's just devastating to. Watch
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  Speaker 9: you don't want to see someone, struggle and this was a.
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  Speaker 9: Struggle this was actually painful to.
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  Speaker 2: Watch And sinners camp knows this is an, issue, Right
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  Speaker 2: they have prepped for. This, hey they know it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be. Hot what should you do if these cramps. Come,
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  Speaker 2: SO i know you say didn't have pickle, Juice maybe
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  Speaker 2: he had something. Else it's not like they were just
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  Speaker 2: winging it out. There this is a major problem For
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  Speaker 2: Yonick center moving forward because he's got the one of
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  Speaker 2: the best teams around him and they're prepped for this,
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  Speaker 2: situation but they have no.
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  Speaker 3: Answer.
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  Speaker 8: YEAH i don't know about you, guys But i've been
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  Speaker 8: out there, sometimes mostly In, australia where it's been so,
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  Speaker 8: hot and it just heat beats down on. You and
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  Speaker 8: it's not even the. Cramps, yes you start cramping, slowly
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  Speaker 8: but then it's just a heat to your. Head like
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  Speaker 8: anything you, do you can't. Breathe everything just starts feeling,
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  Speaker 8: warm you start feeling dizzy when you throw out the
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  Speaker 8: ball to. Serve everything just you're breathing becomes really just,
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  Speaker 8: fast and THAT i think is a bigger problem than
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  Speaker 8: even the. Cramping the cramping can get by and you
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  Speaker 8: can get, through but once it hits your, HEAD i
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  Speaker 8: think that's when it's game.
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  Speaker 1: OVER i think it also calls it a question the
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  Speaker 1: scheduling of this match at. All much of our pre
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  Speaker 1: match show we talked about how unprecedented was to have
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  Speaker 1: a man playing at Shatri At now we hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: that since twenty twenty three With Caspar. Rude we haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen a number one man play there scheduled since twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen we wonder we See zverev twice at night cinner
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  Speaker 1: playing in here in the, heat and that heat played
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  Speaker 1: a huge.
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  Speaker 3: Factor it absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: DID i just think the tournament didn't want to put
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  Speaker 7: him in three straight night sessions the. Cold excuse, me
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  Speaker 7: the hot weather is going to break On. Saturday so
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  Speaker 7: he had one match in the, heat and they did.
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  Speaker 7: Again they didn't want to put him three state night right.
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  Speaker 7: Matches to be, oh this is unfair to the number
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  Speaker 7: one player in the. World obviously he play his first
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  Speaker 7: match at, night but. This had he gotten through, This
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  Speaker 7: i'm sure his third match would have been at. Night
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  Speaker 7: just wasn't the. CASE i didn't want to put him
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  Speaker 7: three times in a row in the best.
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  Speaker 8: CONDITION i wonder how much of it was actually not
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  Speaker 8: wanting to put him at, night or how much he
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  Speaker 8: was putting A french player at night in kind of their.
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  Speaker 8: Primetime maybe that's Because zverev is playing at nights, wise
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  Speaker 8: so why wouldn't the world number. One maybe it's just
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  Speaker 8: BECAUSE i think they play up against.
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  Speaker 2: HIM i think they look ahead and they assume Jan
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be here for a, while and he
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  Speaker 2: gets he's going to play two night matches the first
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  Speaker 2: week And zavera played a nine. Match he's playing another.
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  Speaker 2: One if he were to win, that we'll put him
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  Speaker 2: in the day On.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday there's a reason this is Called paris's most unforgiving.
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  Speaker 1: PLAYGROUND i also don't think the irony has lost. That
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  Speaker 1: it was on this same court a five. Setter he
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  Speaker 1: is now four and eleven in five set. Matches going
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  Speaker 1: the distance was a. QUESTION i had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: interview Ka hill. YESTERDAY i, said how do you prepare for?
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  Speaker 1: That he, said the unfortunate. Task the only chance you
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  Speaker 1: get to play five sets is at Those Grand. Slams
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  Speaker 1: and that seems to be the weakness Of Janick center right.
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  Speaker 1: Now but in every loss there's a hero.
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  Speaker 2: One you want to, chime, YEAH i got one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Too during this match, Too center's up six three six
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  Speaker 2: two five four love. Forty that's when the cramp. Started
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  Speaker 2: the referee came, down he left the court for ten.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes there was no there was no. Penalty there was
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  Speaker 2: no loss of. Serve that's another story of this whole.
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  Speaker 2: Thing he got to leave the, court go inside for ten,
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  Speaker 2: minutes come right back out and hit a first serve
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  Speaker 2: as if nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Happened, well, listen a little reaction out of use.
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  Speaker 9: Law, YES i was so. FRUSTRATED i think it's just
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  Speaker 9: that when we see these things, happen there are rules
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  Speaker 9: and there are things that we. Know you forfeit the,
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  Speaker 9: game you forfeit the. Serve he just came back out
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  Speaker 9: to the court as if nothing had ever. Happened no
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  Speaker 9: one gets to take a ten minute break and just resume.
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  Speaker 9: Play it's not how it, happens especially For, krantz which
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  Speaker 9: we knew that it. Was he was. Cramping his whole
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  Speaker 9: body was just seizing, up which it was, Unfortunate but
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  Speaker 9: how they the umpire came down off of the chair
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  Speaker 9: and was, like what's, happening here's what we need to.
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  Speaker 9: Do like that seemed a little bit unfair to his,
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  Speaker 9: opponent and all credit to his. Opponent his opponent just
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  Speaker 9: kept his head down and kept playing and at the.
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  Speaker 3: Very last major of The Australian.
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  Speaker 1: Open is the reason why that was so questionable today
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  Speaker 1: closing the. Roof when he was down To Elliott's, ziri
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like he was getting preferential treatment there, today
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  Speaker 1: the prefer preferential treatment.
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  Speaker 8: Not, ENOUGH i will say today, though he started cramping
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  Speaker 8: at five to, one and then you, know he kind
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  Speaker 8: of kept playing and then he, said it's my. HEAD
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  Speaker 8: i feel, DIZZY i feel LIKE i can't see. Straight
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  Speaker 8: and so when that, happens you're technically not out for.
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  Speaker 8: Cramps you're out for a medical, reason and they can't
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  Speaker 8: let you play if they think you can collapse and you, know.
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  Speaker 2: But do something.
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  Speaker 8: Worse SO i think he went off the court not
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  Speaker 8: for the, cramping but for the, dizzyness for the fact
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  Speaker 8: he couldn't breathe and couldn't see.
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  Speaker 1: Straight Jonix center in the open era was the second
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  Speaker 1: largest favorite At Roland. Garros the first Was Rafael nadal
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and. Nine he also lost in that
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  Speaker 1: run in the fourth round To Robin, soderling a name
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  Speaker 1: that is etched into the history books. Forever For, center
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be One manuel So. Undelo and
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  Speaker 1: here was his postmatch interview on the.
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  Speaker 6: Court one manual, congratulation we know how much you admire
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  Speaker 6: and Respect. YANICK i want to know how did you
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  Speaker 6: end up with the, Situation AND i guess you want
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  Speaker 6: to say one world on About.
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  Speaker 4: Janick, well, yes he look to. Everyone of, course is
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  Speaker 4: tough for. Him he was leading the match LIKE i
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  Speaker 4: couldn't win more than three games by, seid SO i
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  Speaker 4: THINK i was a little bit. LUCKY i feel sorry
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  Speaker 4: for him because he deserved to win a lot of,
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  Speaker 4: matches and of course he was deserving to win this.
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  Speaker 4: Match but THEN i don't know what's. HAPPENED i think
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  Speaker 4: he was cramping maybe or maybe the. PRESSURE i don't,
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  Speaker 4: know but of course feel sorry for him and hope he.
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  Speaker 6: Recovers as An antinian player Along garrows is always the.
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  Speaker 6: Tournament you are in the third. One you must be
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  Speaker 6: very happy to go through the.
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  Speaker 4: Tournament, yeah of, Course i'm super. HAPPY i try to
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  Speaker 4: play my. Best i'm gonna keep trying to play my.
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  Speaker 4: Best of, course he's a TOURNAMENT i really like to
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  Speaker 4: play because of the clay is my best. Service SO
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  Speaker 4: i hope to be ready for the next.
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  Speaker 6: Match last, question BECAUSE i guess you need to recover
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  Speaker 6: from the next. Round On kotimo On, mattu your brother
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  Speaker 6: is playing now Against Hugo. Gaston do you know the?
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  Speaker 4: Score, NO i mean he to only two says to, one.
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  Speaker 6: So in one we are you gonna watch the end
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  Speaker 6: of the.
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  Speaker 4: Match, yeah, yeah of, Course i'm sorry for The french
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  Speaker 4: people THAT i hope my brother. Wins all the family
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  Speaker 4: here as are, supporting SO i hope he.
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  Speaker 6: Wins we wish him the base and come once, again.
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  Speaker 6: Congratulation And madame De Minsieur Juan Manuel, sevendol.
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  Speaker 1: Our friends over at cal she put together the odds
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  Speaker 1: and here was a live look of how it was
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  Speaker 1: going ninety nine percent and then a precipitous. Drap this
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  Speaker 1: is just unbelievable to. Watch even when it was just
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  Speaker 1: seemingly falling, apart they still Had sinner as a. Favorite
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  Speaker 1: sundolo truly a.
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  Speaker 3: Graph that you have to look at to.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and now here is the draw absolutely wide.
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  Speaker 3: Open you gotta look At Ben shelton as someone that.
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  Speaker 3: Benefits we have the night.
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  Speaker 1: Match of rinder nsh And. Berrettini is there you had
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  Speaker 1: one question that's been on.
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  Speaker 3: Your mind this entire. Time, Yeah i'll say.
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  Speaker 7: THIS i, MEAN i think it's pretty clear That Jonick
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  Speaker 7: centner is an incredible shape and him and his team
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  Speaker 7: do an incredible job of getting him ready to compete with,
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  Speaker 7: diet with. HYDRATION i just think his genetic makeup is
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  Speaker 7: not doing him any.
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  Speaker 3: Favors you talk.
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  Speaker 7: To athletes that have light skin and red, hair they
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  Speaker 7: struggle in hot. CONDITIONS a great person to ask would
• 12:20
  Speaker 7: be our very Own Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Currier he's one who had light.
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  Speaker 7: SKIN i think there's something about light skin and red
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  Speaker 7: hair that they just struggle in these hot, conditions is
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  Speaker 7: harder for their body bodies to cool.
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  Speaker 1: Down it's been something he's dealt with us entire. Time heat,
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  Speaker 1: exhaustion long, matches pretty unbelievable to. Process i'm also Still
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  Speaker 1: kwame just won and the energy that he, had the.
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  Speaker 1: Showmanship france has a new face of. TENNIS i Know
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  Speaker 1: arthur Fees is he's not here right, now but this,
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  Speaker 1: Kid kwame is Especially you see.
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  Speaker 2: When he, WON i think it was the fourth set
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  Speaker 2: or the second third, set he kind of went down
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  Speaker 2: like two lawnmowers and then out to the. CROWD i
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  Speaker 2: mean this square behind, us this is the most crowd
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  Speaker 2: and it's been since or this place was for sure
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  Speaker 2: fact it was electric cheering their guy.
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  Speaker 1: On and When Carlos zakaaz didn't show. Up we, said
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  Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for someone to make a final and
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  Speaker 1: then lose the, center but at least they make a.
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  Speaker 1: Final now someone has an opportunity to win Rolling garos, Well,
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  Speaker 1: Novak djokovic get twenty, five Where Sasha, Vera zverev finally
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  Speaker 1: get his first. Major will someone else come up and change?
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  Speaker 1: History what a?
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  Speaker 8: TIME i, mean if You're novak or if You're zvera
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  Speaker 8: right now and you're, watching you're, thinking, yes this is my.
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  Speaker 8: Time novak hasn't been in the best shape leading up
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  Speaker 8: to this. Tournament he hasn't gotten through comfortably in his first,
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  Speaker 8: Match but at the end of the, day he's going
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  Speaker 8: to find his, RHYTHM i, think AND i think now
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  Speaker 8: that he sees an, opportunity he's going to seese. It,
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  Speaker 8: zvera the big question mark for him is when he
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  Speaker 8: has had an opportunity in the, pass he's, crumbled he's faded,
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  Speaker 8: away he's gotten, nervous he's stepped back behind the, Baseline
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  Speaker 8: and the big question is has he learned from? That
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  Speaker 8: will he step, in will he play more? Aggressive will
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  Speaker 8: he play the way that he normally plays because he
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  Speaker 8: does take him as a big favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Now When nadal lost in two thousand and, nine that
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  Speaker 1: was When federer, said this is my opportunity to win a.
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  Speaker 3: Tournament is that What djokovic is saying right, now