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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yes, what is what do we got Ace? The Ace
- 0:02Speaker 1: wardrobe for today? Let's check in with Ace watch.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Classic a Cola.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Have we ever mentioned the fact that both our producer
- 0:15Speaker 1: and sound and camera guy have top knots.
- 0:19Speaker 2: We have not.
- 0:20Speaker 1: We got a couple of baristas in here.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Top knots.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Well.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Ace is less of a top knot, isn't it. It's
- 0:30Speaker 2: just a little pullback, little little pony.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Rattail, No rattail goes down and like behind the back.
- 0:40Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But it's great.
- 0:43Speaker 1: You're both rocking it. You're both like it in my book.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Now that Miteo Bertini is withdrawn from the tournament, you
- 0:50Speaker 1: guys are the biggest hunks.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Here, biggest hunks at the Yeah.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're sitting we gotta sit in today. Yeah,
- 0:56Speaker 1: Brandon and the cuckchair.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Brandon also in his A regulation polo.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, he went pants today.
- 1:07Speaker 2: On a hot day, thirty degree day and pants.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Oh, you're covered in tattoos.
- 1:14Speaker 1: And these are tattoos that the AO and Tennis Australia
- 1:16Speaker 1: would not approve.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Of Tarlie's face.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to know what these tattoos.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Are now pat your pants off joking. Well, I'm gonna
- 1:30Speaker 2: get I'm gonna get like an harassment complaints.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Shut up. I think that's impossible. Are we going? I
- 1:37Speaker 1: don't know what's happening here. Stuff, I don't know why. Well,
- 1:45Speaker 1: what an opening to the pod? What an opening to
- 1:47Speaker 1: the tournament?
- 1:48Speaker 2: My god, records were set. Over seventy thousand people, seventy
- 1:52Speaker 2: three and thirty five spectators walked through the Melbourne Park
- 1:56Speaker 2: gates yesterday. Can you believe that?
- 1:57Speaker 1: That's amazing? And none of these people can complain about
- 2:00Speaker 1: being duped that it's not opening week because it is
- 2:03Speaker 1: now opening week, proper opening.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Week, proper now is the case for the actual opening week. Yeah,
- 2:11Speaker 2: it's like these crowds weren't here. You could have come
- 2:13Speaker 2: last week.
- 2:14Speaker 1: No, but attendance records like the it's so good out there.
- 2:19Speaker 2: It is really pumping, and the weather is amazing. This
- 2:22Speaker 2: is the best weather we've had all summer, I think, so.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've seen I mean, we'll get into it.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Really with the kind of wrap up of day one,
- 2:29Speaker 1: we should also say at the top of the pod
- 2:31Speaker 1: that there is another podcast called The AO Rap. Yes,
- 2:36Speaker 1: that's our sister pod. Yeah, yeah, or like malnourished nephew, Pod.
- 2:44Speaker 1: I don't want to start a war with these people,
- 2:47Speaker 1: but they are doing a wrap up of all the
- 2:55Speaker 1: matches and just kind of a straightforward stats what happened,
- 3:00Speaker 1: who's won, who's lost.
- 3:01Speaker 2: If you're into that sort of thing.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you're if you're boring and uh you know,
- 3:06Speaker 1: oh my.
- 3:06Speaker 2: God, yeah, yeah, they sit in these seats, they could
- 3:13Speaker 2: do anything.
- 3:14Speaker 1: We'll cut all that. Yeah, listen to listen to the
- 3:18Speaker 1: al rap though, to catch up on all the happenings
- 3:22Speaker 1: of the matches that have just happened that day. But
- 3:26Speaker 1: we'll go over it as well. And we're getting tons
- 3:29Speaker 1: of emails coming in. We've gotten so much positive feed
- 3:32Speaker 1: Oh there's.
- 3:32Speaker 2: So many people that are like, who are these guys?
- 3:35Speaker 2: We like them? I like these two together. I'm like,
- 3:38Speaker 2: that's so nice. I'm really happy with that.
- 3:41Speaker 1: Usually we just get who are these guys?
- 3:43Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it, never heard of you.
- 3:47Speaker 1: And email us at pod labor at Tennis dot com
- 3:50Speaker 1: dot au. Gives your feedback, suggestions, questions, whatever. We get
- 3:54Speaker 1: a lot of nice, uh positive comments and emails, but
- 3:59Speaker 1: we like to read the mean.
- 4:01Speaker 4: One yes because we hate our yes.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Cut us to our core. But this is what we deserve. Yes,
- 4:09Speaker 1: this is from Janice. She says, I never heard anything
- 4:13Speaker 1: so unprofessional. What you are providing is cheap and rubbish entertainment.
- 4:17Speaker 2: Thank you, Janice, Thank you Janice.
- 4:20Speaker 1: That's what we're going for.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Yeah, cheap and rubbish. I mean that, that's kind of
- 4:24Speaker 2: kind of it.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to call the pod cheap and rubbish. Also,
- 4:29Speaker 1: I would like to take Janice's feedback and just you know,
- 4:33Speaker 1: drop some words, do that thing they do for movie
- 4:36Speaker 1: posters and quotes, and just have it say what you
- 4:39Speaker 1: are providing is entertainment.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Oh perfect, Janice five stars.
- 4:44Speaker 1: Yes, I'm assuming Janis is from paran and Melbourne maybe yeah, yeah,
- 4:52Speaker 1: oh from the UK.
- 4:53Speaker 2: It's Janice.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I don't want the podcat. It's a bit, isn't it.
- 5:03Speaker 2: I don't know if Jannis is a Chimney sweet, but
- 5:08Speaker 2: I think she's probably very polshed.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Oh yeah, probably very posh. That's all right. We love you, Janis,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and if we can convince.
- 5:15Speaker 2: You we want to get you on board to.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Love us too, then we will be complete. Rot Is
- 5:21Speaker 1: Always by Piper Hide Seek Champagne, the only champagne that
- 5:24Speaker 1: Tanasi Cocinacus refuses to shoot with as he's sponsored by
- 5:28Speaker 1: another brand.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Yeah, which I was quite surprised by that he has
- 5:34Speaker 2: a champagne sponsor.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you think he's more of a beer guy.
- 5:37Speaker 2: I thought maybe a d l oh West Coast Cooler. Yeah,
- 5:41Speaker 2: something like that.
- 5:42Speaker 1: If you were sponsored by a.
- 5:43Speaker 2: Drink, would you Bundy rum? No? I don't, by wrong girl.
- 5:49Speaker 2: I think i'd be maybe some sort of pre mix
- 5:53Speaker 2: bloody Mary.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's nice.
- 5:57Speaker 2: You couldn't have too many of them.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Right because he feels sick. Yeah, I would be a
- 6:04Speaker 1: non alcoholic beer. People pretend that they like me, but they.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Actually oh and you have no effect on them.
- 6:14Speaker 1: Let's get into the headline calls. Alright, Ace, come on.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Well I didn't even find it yet. Oh god, oh Jesus.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Waiting for an ace?
- 6:29Speaker 2: Are you a sleep iceman?
- 6:31Speaker 1: Yes?
- 6:33Speaker 2: Did your alarm go up today? Iceman? O wake final
- 6:42Speaker 2: two hours code violation?
- 6:45Speaker 1: That was headline calls. The matches are coming and there's
- 6:51Speaker 1: so many The opening day, the opening round is chaos.
- 6:56Speaker 2: There's so much stuff going on. The lines are long
- 6:58Speaker 2: to get into the outside. What's that? Did you see
- 7:01Speaker 2: any game yesterday.
- 7:03Speaker 1: I did, like I I am devastated to say that
- 7:07Speaker 1: Marta Costiac.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Is out of the your favorite friend of the.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Pod, friend of the pod, some might say my future
- 7:13Speaker 1: ex wife.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Yeah, do you wish? I was.
- 7:19Speaker 1: A brutal match. This was a three tie breaks and
- 7:22Speaker 1: three tight sets. Neither player could get any momentum at
- 7:26Speaker 1: all because it was just like, there's nothing in it.
- 7:28Speaker 2: It was so even.
- 7:29Speaker 1: It was a Marta Costik playing a Jackmo Jackamo from France.
- 7:34Speaker 1: Marta rolled her ankle late in the third and deciding set,
- 7:39Speaker 1: and it was it was not happening after that, like
- 7:42Speaker 1: she fought, she fought hard, you know she after meeting me,
- 7:46Speaker 1: she has been provided with motivation and winning spirit.
- 7:50Speaker 2: It's like, I've got to get back on that podcast.
- 7:52Speaker 2: I got to see that guy.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Yeah. And when she rolled her ankle, it was one
- 7:58Speaker 1: of those brutal things where Jakoma was just playing the
- 8:01Speaker 1: next shot, not really seeing that she was down. And
- 8:04Speaker 1: then not only did she roll her ankle, but she
- 8:06Speaker 1: got hit by the ball on Jacamo's fourhand shot, so
- 8:09Speaker 1: insulted injury, and then they taped her up, tons of tape.
- 8:13Speaker 1: I just couldn't get through in the final set tie break.
- 8:17Speaker 2: I know, good luck with your recovery.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Good luck with your recovery. And then yeah, if you're
- 8:22Speaker 1: taking some time off, feel free to come back on
- 8:23Speaker 1: the pod and see. Yes what I'm not m I
- 8:28Speaker 1: being creepy at this point, I have no idea. Yeah,
- 8:33Speaker 1: any so we'll go match for match. What did you see?
- 8:36Speaker 1: What did you like?
- 8:37Speaker 2: Well, after we finished up here at the part, I
- 8:39Speaker 2: went over to ward Labor.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Labor, workout of the day, labor.
- 8:48Speaker 2: Labor, and I watched a Zverev play the young Canadian guy. Well,
- 8:53Speaker 2: it was good. He won the first set, and then
- 8:55Speaker 2: Verev I feel like, very warmed up, locked in, yeah,
- 8:59Speaker 2: locked in and uh and took it out. It was
- 9:02Speaker 2: a really great game to watch. I will say courtside
- 9:06Speaker 2: Etiquette saw a little bit of a par yesterday. Oh
- 9:10Speaker 2: yeah from these I don't know is this helpful for
- 9:13Speaker 2: a player. There are like five Canadian guys in front
- 9:15Speaker 2: of me, and one like straight out of the movies,
- 9:18Speaker 2: like an American hunk with like hair slicked back sort
- 9:21Speaker 2: of thing, really thick, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah exactly, and
- 9:27Speaker 2: he kept going like do it hescut Dowitt, He's coast
- 9:30Speaker 2: style bud Rip it, but like in between each set,
- 9:34Speaker 2: he'd be like, rip.
- 9:35Speaker 1: It butt, right, So he wasn't saying this midpoint no.
- 9:38Speaker 2: In between each set. But I thought everyone was getting
- 9:41Speaker 2: annoyed in him because he kept saying the same thing
- 9:43Speaker 2: over and I'm like, what.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Is rip rip it?
- 9:46Speaker 2: But East Coast style?
- 9:48Speaker 4: East Coast style?
- 9:49Speaker 2: Rip it bud? I'm like, what are you talking?
- 9:53Speaker 1: Canadian?
- 9:54Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 9:55Speaker 2: I don't know. I felt like this guy was Canadian too,
- 9:58Speaker 2: but I didn't know what it was. And then he'd
- 9:59Speaker 2: like throw in a Vancouver but that's on the west
- 10:03Speaker 2: west coast, and then it was very confusing and his
- 10:06Speaker 2: friends were kind of getting embarrassed.
- 10:08Speaker 1: What's the East Coast of Canada of Montreal? Right? Is
- 10:11Speaker 1: that right? Geography?
- 10:12Speaker 3: Right?
- 10:14Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 10:15Speaker 2: Well yeah that's on the east Yeah.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Yeah, so the East Coast style is like a like
- 10:19Speaker 1: a poutine, yeah.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Poutine? Yeah yeah, rip it East Cold style.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:28Speaker 2: I was getting a little annoyed.
- 10:29Speaker 1: People around him getting annoyed.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Yeah, there are many many people around, just like looking around.
- 10:35Speaker 2: That's all you can do, really, is just like look around,
- 10:37Speaker 2: like when do you say something? And then I saw
- 10:39Speaker 2: a friend who was also at that match, and she
- 10:41Speaker 2: said that the people behind her were being very noisy
- 10:44Speaker 2: and they kept missing it. And then anyway, and then
- 10:47Speaker 2: I ran into other friends and they were told to
- 10:49Speaker 2: shut up by someone.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so the full spectrum, the full spectrum.
- 10:54Speaker 2: I'm like, you just gotta you just can't be annoying.
- 10:57Speaker 2: I feel like you can talk, but just don't be annoying.
- 11:00Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:00Speaker 1: It is a fine line because people are having drinks,
- 11:02Speaker 1: they're having a good time, they're getting rowdy. But then
- 11:05Speaker 1: once you're in there, you gotta shut up, dude, unless
- 11:08Speaker 1: a well time. Rip it bud, everybody RiPP it bud.
- 11:13Speaker 4: That was it.
- 11:17Speaker 2: New Fee The Coast of Feet they call it, and
- 11:24Speaker 2: they've got a kind of funky accent right over the Labrador.
- 11:29Speaker 1: So the East Coast style is doggy style.
- 11:35Speaker 2: They were just chatting.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Are these the comedians? We have friends in common?
- 11:39Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 11:39Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, hung.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Hung and all right, they're really just Asian Nani's in
- 11:45Speaker 2: the crowd, just chat.
- 11:48Speaker 1: A few too many.
- 11:51Speaker 2: I don't think they were even drinking, all right, Okay.
- 11:55Speaker 1: Well there's another heartbreaker on the women's side. Venus Williams
- 12:00Speaker 1: going out to Fairytale, didn't I just wanted a second round.
- 12:05Speaker 1: She was up four zero in the deciding third set,
- 12:09Speaker 1: and it just went It's spiral to just sad, isn't it?
- 12:12Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 12:13Speaker 3: It was.
- 12:14Speaker 1: She tightened up, Danilovich started playing great, and I was
- 12:17Speaker 1: thinking about it and I put my own stat together,
- 12:20Speaker 1: which I'm sure someone else has done. But uh, twenty
- 12:24Speaker 1: one year age difference. Obviously people have pointed that out
- 12:26Speaker 1: between Venice, Venus, Venice, Venice, Venison, Venus and Danilovich. Venus
- 12:34Speaker 1: had won Wimbledon and the US Open before Danilovich was
- 12:37Speaker 1: even born.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah, that's good stats. Well done, thank you,
- 12:45Speaker 2: well done.
- 12:46Speaker 1: That's Mike's stat corner for the day. I was gonna
- 12:51Speaker 1: I'm sure it's come up elsewhere.
- 12:53Speaker 2: Obviously it is gonna be an exclusive.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Yeah, if you con verse, no, no, someone twenty one
- 13:00Speaker 1: years older than you in any.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Sport, what would it be so that would make them
- 13:05Speaker 2: sixty three?
- 13:07Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 13:09Speaker 2: I am quite old, sixty three in any sport. An
- 13:14Speaker 2: ex professional, no, not even a professional.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Just a sixty three year old lady.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Oh, just a sixty three year old lady. See, this
- 13:21Speaker 2: is all my sports that I do. Swimming, sixty three
- 13:24Speaker 2: year old ladies really fit, because that's all like, that's
- 13:27Speaker 2: all sixty three year old ladies are doing is sport. Yeah,
- 13:30Speaker 2: all they're doing is swimming, they're golfing. I don't want
- 13:33Speaker 2: to go up to them in golf. Maybe wrestling, okay, yeah, wrestle.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Wrestle, all right, we're talking jelly.
- 13:41Speaker 2: No, I'm talking BJJ. Okay, what's that Brazilian jiu JITs
- 13:47Speaker 2: so nice?
- 13:47Speaker 4: Not that I do that now at all.
- 13:51Speaker 2: I've never been JJ in my life. But I reckon
- 13:54Speaker 2: I could take a sixty three year old.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I would take on a sixty five year old, so
- 13:58Speaker 1: that's the twenty one year age gap for me old
- 14:00Speaker 1: as well. I would take on a sixty five year
- 14:04Speaker 1: old in boxing, But I feel like there's a few
- 14:07Speaker 1: sixty five year olds that would work me for sure.
- 14:10Speaker 1: But I feel like if I went the other way,
- 14:12Speaker 1: I would beat this ship out of a fifteen year old,
- 14:16Speaker 1: you right, it maybe not if he knew, if he
- 14:19Speaker 1: knew how to handle himself, he'd probably Yeah.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why I'm going for j No,
- 14:25Speaker 2: I should have gone like skipping on something.
- 14:26Speaker 1: Skipping all right, those famous skipping competitions from around the world.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Oh God, if you are a sixty five year old
- 14:34Speaker 1: that wants to step in the ring with me email
- 14:36Speaker 1: in at pod labor at tennis dot at what though
- 14:39Speaker 1: I wasnis at tennis dot net at tennis dot com,
- 14:46Speaker 1: no dot gov dot ed U in the women's draw
- 14:51Speaker 1: as well. I just want to make a quick note
- 14:53Speaker 1: of this. Susan Lemonz, who I took out in the
- 14:57Speaker 1: one point slam, is out three suits and I can
- 15:02Speaker 1: only imagine it's the hangover.
- 15:03Speaker 2: From probably does that mean you would have gone through
- 15:07Speaker 2: in the women's You ran into her too.
- 15:10Speaker 1: I did. She was walking down the hall and she
- 15:13Speaker 1: was still not happy to see.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Yeah. She was like I remember you. Yeah, she doesn't
- 15:18Speaker 2: forget anyone that's beaten us.
- 15:20Speaker 1: Yeah. So Susan Lemons is out the Dutch player any
- 15:24Speaker 1: other matches hop pop out at you, Lizzie. Oh.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Last night I watched Sablanca and the Hardest Name to
- 15:32Speaker 2: Saint Dennis Rocco to Manga. Roger.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Oh, No, I think he nailed it.
- 15:37Speaker 2: That's just the last name.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 15:39Speaker 2: I didn't even write down the first name, which was
- 15:42Speaker 2: really good, Roger. I'm just gonna call a Rocket to manga,
- 15:49Speaker 2: Rocker Rocca to Manga, which is a really good game.
- 15:53Speaker 2: I think maybe Sablanca was a little bit surprised at
- 15:56Speaker 2: how she came out, but she's lefty to Mungo. I
- 16:01Speaker 2: think that through her a bit right.
- 16:03Speaker 1: Sabalanga still got it done in Straits.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was still going. Rod and Fed.
- 16:08Speaker 2: We're watching, Oh was there?
- 16:11Speaker 1: What?
- 16:12Speaker 5: What was that?
- 16:15Speaker 2: We're watching? And I don't know, I don't know if
- 16:18Speaker 2: i'd love them watching my game?
- 16:19Speaker 1: No too much?
- 16:20Speaker 2: My front row two? Great?
- 16:23Speaker 1: Uh this one. I love potent potensiva. She uh played
- 16:30Speaker 1: a match against Beatrice add Maya of Brazil and did
- 16:36Speaker 1: you see the celebration?
- 16:37Speaker 2: Yeah, it was It's a bit Danielle Collins, Yeah, yeah,
- 16:40Speaker 2: I liked it.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Putina is known as a huge personality on the tour.
- 16:47Speaker 2: What do you mean by huge?
- 16:48Speaker 1: Let's just live a huge personality. Well, I'll give you.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I'll say a direct quote from another player. Once you
- 16:55Speaker 1: played Maria Sachary last year in Germany. Do you know
- 16:57Speaker 1: the story, Yeah, the handshake at the Zachary said, no one.
- 17:01Speaker 4: Likes you, oh.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Rude.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some we like you. Yeah, we got
- 17:09Speaker 1: some feisty. I love it.
- 17:11Speaker 2: I was on the party court too.
- 17:13Speaker 1: Yeah, so Brazilian fans go nuts, of course. Yeah, so
- 17:17Speaker 1: like put and Sava trolling them with a big dance
- 17:19Speaker 1: afterwards is amazing.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it Brazilian style.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Yeah something maybe Capeera.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Maybe our challenge is sixty three year old to Capiero.
- 17:30Speaker 1: Oh you heard it here. First, I'll give the really
- 17:34Speaker 1: email address Todd Labor at cap co Tennis dot com
- 17:40Speaker 1: dot au. Is the party court a problem?
- 17:43Speaker 2: People? I think some players don't like it, right, Yeah,
- 17:46Speaker 2: maybe too loud? I quite I like the vibe. I've
- 17:49Speaker 2: watched games on the party court before in previous years.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's great for punters.
- 17:54Speaker 2: The price of the lemonade is a problem. Twenty three dollars.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Oh well, our new sponsor on today's spot podcast. I
- 18:04Speaker 1: think it's coming in tomorrow.
- 18:05Speaker 2: No way, Well, I'm gonna bring it up twenty three
- 18:12Speaker 2: dollars bere Maybe we'll.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Get him in here and we'll Yeah, just saying, just
- 18:16Speaker 1: hook us up, man, Just give us free lemonades for
- 18:18Speaker 1: the tournament. Yeah I can, and then we'll go out
- 18:20Speaker 1: there and get correct. But please drink responsibly. You will, Yeah,
- 18:28Speaker 1: but more of this, more spiciness, more beef between players.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Please bring some excitement to the game.
- 18:35Speaker 2: We love a bit of beef.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I would do at the handshake, I would do
- 18:39Speaker 1: that old school you pull your hand back and put
- 18:41Speaker 1: it three beef. Yeah. Well I'm just doing just a
- 18:45Speaker 1: real cheesy lame just yeah, and then deal with that.
- 18:51Speaker 1: The hero of the day is zanap Sonmez. This was
- 18:55Speaker 1: really sweet for helping a ball kid that passed out
- 18:57Speaker 1: with exhaustion.
- 18:59Speaker 2: Is think was like she went, she went to fall,
- 19:02Speaker 2: called herself, came back and was like I'm fine, I'm fine.
- 19:05Speaker 2: It was like watching a drunk friend. Yeah I'm good. No, no, no,
- 19:09Speaker 2: I'm good. And then she went to full again, hiled herself,
- 19:14Speaker 2: fell again, and then that's when the player came over.
- 19:17Speaker 1: And helped her out.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, she was a wild ride. Yeah, poor thing.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Just quickly on. Maria Sachary might have tournament.
- 19:25Speaker 2: This is crazy. I think shot of the tournament well.
- 19:29Speaker 1: After one day. Yeah, but at the end of the tournament,
- 19:31Speaker 1: who knows. I mean it was you're going to say,
- 19:34Speaker 1: there's not going to be a better shot the rest
- 19:37Speaker 1: of the tournament than her.
- 19:38Speaker 2: Around the life, it's going to be really hard to be.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Yeah, it is sick. It looks amazing.
- 19:42Speaker 2: Around the net, but quite low, quite.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Low, it was like almost like a slap shot rack
- 19:48Speaker 1: a ball squash.
- 19:49Speaker 2: Type thing around the net, and she couldn't believe it.
- 19:51Speaker 1: She couldn't believe it. And she nominated herself for a
- 19:54Speaker 1: Shot of the Tournament.
- 19:55Speaker 2: Yeah she did. Yeah, she said, what, I've been playing
- 19:57Speaker 2: tennis for how long? Twenty years or something? Yeah, I've
- 20:01Speaker 2: never hit this good.
- 20:02Speaker 1: It was amazing and I like to think, you know,
- 20:04Speaker 1: she's found some previous form due to me spotting her
- 20:08Speaker 1: at the gym every time I'm in there. Please, I
- 20:13Speaker 1: will help you with whatever lift you are doing on
- 20:17Speaker 1: the day, Maria Zachary, I don't want this pod to
- 20:20Speaker 1: come off that I'm just like a big pervert.
- 20:24Speaker 2: If you're a big pant, I'm a big there are
- 20:27Speaker 2: more of them.
- 20:27Speaker 1: But I think you could say top five hunks and
- 20:30Speaker 1: all that. But I can't be out here saying women
- 20:33Speaker 1: are nice to look at or anything like that. Who
- 20:41Speaker 1: are we talking to later in the pod today we
- 20:44Speaker 1: are Oh, we have Marta Costiak Oh. Yes, as our
- 20:47Speaker 1: interview for today. We love Marta. She was obviously in
- 20:51Speaker 1: the finals of the Brisbane tournament, and then we talked
- 20:54Speaker 1: about her heartbreaking defeat and the injury that made her
- 20:58Speaker 1: pull out of the doubles as well. So sad it is.
- 21:00Speaker 2: I want any friend of the pod to stay in. Yeah,
- 21:03Speaker 2: a friend of the pod blue blick. I can't say
- 21:06Speaker 2: any name today, A friend of the pod bublick, blue blick, bublick.
- 21:12Speaker 1: I know blue blue black. I like confusing you because
- 21:18Speaker 1: now you're gonna say blue black from no.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Blue lick.
- 21:24Speaker 1: My name is blue Blick.
- 21:26Speaker 2: I'll just see myself out.
- 21:28Speaker 1: It's like robot voice. I am blue Blick.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Yes, I am blue black. Why don't you just replace
- 21:32Speaker 2: me with a I probably get the names right at
- 21:38Speaker 2: least and have a few facts up this.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and the men Bublic did it easily against Brooksby. Yeah,
- 21:45Speaker 1: Jensen Brooksby from the US. Yeah, the boob he he
- 21:49Speaker 1: got through in Straits. Unfortunately Moote took out Assie fave
- 21:55Speaker 1: school Kate.
- 21:56Speaker 2: Oh yeah. The only to go through yesterday was t Gibson.
- 22:00Speaker 1: Gibson, Gibson.
- 22:08Speaker 2: It's happening, it is.
- 22:10Speaker 1: We'll get it. By the end of the tournament. People
- 22:12Speaker 1: are going to be doing it.
- 22:13Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to go and watch a few games,
- 22:15Speaker 2: but try and do.
- 22:15Speaker 1: It with the player that played sable Anka. So I'll
- 22:18Speaker 1: do and then you try and let me read it.
- 22:21Speaker 1: You got the name.
- 22:25Speaker 2: Rocker Tamonga, that's Roger. I'll split it up.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's a little bit. Yeah, taking out school Kate. Unfortunately,
- 22:41Speaker 1: triple Z or triple Z as you would probably say
- 22:44Speaker 1: out to Serrendolo, gone gone but not forgotten.
- 22:49Speaker 2: I love you, triple Z. We wanted him to be
- 22:51Speaker 2: a friend of the pod.
- 22:52Speaker 1: But yeah, he didn't come in and triple Z. Did
- 22:55Speaker 1: he go on straight step that score? Yeah, triple z
- 22:59Speaker 1: out and triples So that's that's a Fortunately it's a
- 23:02Speaker 1: no triple Z for the sad rest of the Australian Open.
- 23:06Speaker 1: The huge upset really on the men's side was a
- 23:09Speaker 1: British qualifier fairy taking out Flavio Coboli.
- 23:13Speaker 2: Yes, who apparently was complaining of his stomach for a
- 23:20Speaker 2: little swim in the ra in the Rah before the tournament. Well,
- 23:27Speaker 2: they don't say watery diarrhea. I'm not sure if that's
- 23:30Speaker 2: the adjective.
- 23:33Speaker 1: To use.
- 23:34Speaker 2: Watery, Yeah, explosive.
- 23:41Speaker 1: He did not dispatch successfully before his time. Yeah, that's sad.
- 23:48Speaker 2: But do you think if Caboli had an upset stomach,
- 23:52Speaker 2: do you think Bertini might have had an upset stomach,
- 23:56Speaker 2: because he's been pretty quiet about why he.
- 23:58Speaker 1: Oh he's gone the tournament. All right, maybe there's a baby.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Maybe they had dinner at the same restaurant to do that.
- 24:06Speaker 2: All right, my theory.
- 24:07Speaker 1: So let's name and shame which restaurant you think it
- 24:10Speaker 1: is on the Australian Open grounds.
- 24:12Speaker 2: Well, I did think that because the players all before
- 24:16Speaker 2: the tournament they have like big nights, not nights out,
- 24:19Speaker 2: but they have like brand things like my friend was
- 24:21Speaker 2: at a Gucci thing with Sinner at a really fancy restaurant.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and what.
- 24:26Speaker 2: If they get a bit of an up six stomach
- 24:28Speaker 2: after a rich meal.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's risky, but sure. And then you said
- 24:32Speaker 1: it before. They're all coming through on media day, they're
- 24:35Speaker 1: shaking a million hands.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Everyone's shaking hands. I wouldn't be I don't want to
- 24:38Speaker 2: shake their hand. And I'm not even playing.
- 24:40Speaker 1: You gotta be sanitizing.
- 24:41Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got your little sanitizer.
- 24:46Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell this story. You cut it if you want.
- 24:48Speaker 1: But a couple of years ago, when I met Jokovic
- 24:50Speaker 1: for the first time, he was clearly had a virus.
- 24:54Speaker 1: He was dripping, well, it was dripping snot and he
- 25:00Speaker 1: his voice was super hoarse and he was clearly ill
- 25:02Speaker 1: and he was one of my heroes. And he went
- 25:05Speaker 1: to shake my hand and I reeled back.
- 25:08Speaker 3: No. No.
- 25:10Speaker 1: And I was telling people later and they're like, what
- 25:12Speaker 1: is wrong with you? Like this is an icon? The
- 25:14Speaker 1: best to ever do it? I No, I do want
- 25:19Speaker 1: to who okay, who would you shake hands with it?
- 25:22Speaker 1: Even if they're visibly very sick? Who would you go
- 25:26Speaker 1: above and beyond your germ protocol for acz.
- 25:32Speaker 2: I'll look, I'll shake the hand. Yeah, I'll shake.
- 25:35Speaker 1: All of the hands and then just sanitize.
- 25:37Speaker 2: Yeah, just sanitize right, yeah, deep deep clean.
- 25:41Speaker 1: A deep claim. All right. Oh the huge segment, our
- 25:50Speaker 1: hit segment from the show This is Watch Watch.
- 25:59Speaker 2: And this popped up in my socials. Actually, I think
- 26:01Speaker 2: my Instagram is listening to me. Okay, And Merca was
- 26:06Speaker 2: wearing Marca Federer spotted wearing the very rare eighteen carrot
- 26:11Speaker 2: yellow gold Rolex Daytona with a tiffany blue toquoye stone doll.
- 26:17Speaker 2: This means nothing to me. Stone doll factory set with
- 26:20Speaker 2: trapeze cut diamonds. Do you know what they are?
- 26:23Speaker 1: And that was Watch Watch.
- 26:28Speaker 2: I just want to mention the price seven hundred and
- 26:30Speaker 2: fifty thousand USD. What's that million bucks? Wow?
- 26:38Speaker 1: Million bucks?
- 26:39Speaker 2: Still on the iPhone fourteen?
- 26:40Speaker 1: Take that, Jordan Smith, your Peasley winnings from one point
- 26:45Speaker 1: Slam can't even buy a watch that Merca feder would adorn.
- 26:52Speaker 2: Where's during the day?
- 26:53Speaker 1: Yeah? Quiet a new segment here on pod labor Arena.
- 27:01Speaker 1: This is Mike GE's passing shot.
- 27:05Speaker 2: I know this is just I usually just hear these
- 27:09Speaker 2: air Yeah, you.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Saying I complain a lot. I mean I do, but
- 27:16Speaker 1: I think it's for comedy purposes mainly. And this is
- 27:22Speaker 1: basically me, yeah, complaining about something in the tennis world
- 27:25Speaker 1: that's annoyed me. Yeah, it pissed me off. And this
- 27:28Speaker 1: one I've held on to for a walk. It's announcers
- 27:34Speaker 1: and commentators who say Alcath Yeah.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Does even al Chaz say alc See, I.
- 27:40Speaker 1: Don't know, but like he can because he's Spanish, right.
- 27:43Speaker 1: Like it's the same people who say, like they travel
- 27:47Speaker 1: and they go, I was just in Abitha, then Barcelona.
- 27:50Speaker 1: I went to Abia and.
- 27:51Speaker 2: It's like, you're from you don't even know how to say,
- 27:54Speaker 2: how were you?
- 27:55Speaker 1: Yeah, you're from Basadine in Perth. Yea, why are you
- 27:58Speaker 1: saying abia see? And the thing is like with Carlos,
- 28:03Speaker 1: I mean there's been other Spanish players, Uh, Feliciano Lopez.
- 28:07Speaker 1: He was never low Pez. No, yeah, and he was
- 28:11Speaker 1: never Feliciano Lopez. And I think if you're doing if
- 28:15Speaker 1: you're doing Alcorrath, you gotta be Carloath. You know, you're
- 28:19Speaker 1: saying Carlos Alcath. And then we get in our listy
- 28:23Speaker 1: people get on board, you know. Yeah, I just feel
- 28:27Speaker 1: like it's a it's a weird cultural flex or something.
- 28:31Speaker 1: For yeah, Alcaath, I'm saying the name is the Spanish.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Would say I've had.
- 28:42Speaker 1: It was a little spicy, but I enjoyed the tepth.
- 28:47Speaker 2: With that's hot. We're gonna get is going to complain
- 28:57Speaker 2: about that one, John.
- 28:59Speaker 1: This is a bit I do have an ally, and
- 29:02Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest ally of all.
- 29:03Speaker 4: Yes you do.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Yep. We spoke to Craig Tiley, the head honcho of
- 29:08Speaker 1: the entire tournament, on the pilot episode of this pod. Yep,
- 29:12Speaker 1: he agreed with me, he did, Do you say Alcarez
- 29:15Speaker 1: or Alcrath? If I go al Carath, that's off to
- 29:19Speaker 1: a few bay Alcaza. I don't like because then you
- 29:28Speaker 1: gotta double it down. You gotta say, Carlo, now you're
- 29:31Speaker 1: trying to be too you're trying to be too proper. Yeah. Anyways,
- 29:34Speaker 1: this is the first of many, but that has been
- 29:36Speaker 1: Mike GE's pathing shot.
- 29:41Speaker 2: Our guest today sadly about out of the competition.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Out of the tournament. But we saw a great chat.
- 29:47Speaker 2: We did have a great chat. It's Marta Costa, one
- 29:50Speaker 2: of your favorites.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Here she is. All right, we're already playing guess that
- 29:55Speaker 1: grunt with Marta Costua. We're straight into the ground. Let's
- 29:59Speaker 1: go of the grunt bag that was. I don't even
- 30:02Speaker 1: know who it is? Six share a pova.
- 30:07Speaker 4: No, no for sure, not no, no, no. Is this
- 30:10Speaker 4: an active player? Is there any hints?
- 30:12Speaker 2: Oh?
- 30:12Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 30:13Speaker 2: I don't know who it is.
- 30:14Speaker 5: Okay, let's try a few times. Oh my god, I
- 30:20Speaker 5: know who this is. Just yeah, I just okay, is
- 30:27Speaker 5: this is there any hints that.
- 30:28Speaker 2: I can get?
- 30:29Speaker 1: Okay, I'll just tell you it's me when I saw
- 30:32Speaker 1: a spider in the man's Okay, Yes, Marta COSTIKS so
- 30:40Speaker 1: lovely to have you here on pod Lavor arena. Yes,
- 30:44Speaker 1: thank you here, I got this one. How's your day going?
- 30:51Speaker 1: You're good?
- 30:52Speaker 4: Yes, great? I finished my practice and did some media.
- 30:56Speaker 1: So how's the media going? We hear a pop Flavor arena.
- 31:00Speaker 1: We try to be a little different.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Yeah, we are part of media, but not probably going
- 31:04Speaker 2: to be a bit different.
- 31:05Speaker 1: I like to do Yes, what question are you sick
- 31:08Speaker 1: of answering?
- 31:10Speaker 4: Depends?
- 31:11Speaker 5: I would say, like if there is end of the year,
- 31:13Speaker 5: everyone's like, so can you tell us about how do
- 31:16Speaker 5: you think your year went? And then now I played
- 31:19Speaker 5: in Brisbane and I've asked I was asked the same question, like,
- 31:26Speaker 5: so what do you think about the tournament?
- 31:28Speaker 4: Did you have any expectations? Or like how did like
- 31:31Speaker 4: you had a great week?
- 31:32Speaker 2: How do you go?
- 31:33Speaker 4: So I feel like it changes but yeah, well, like.
- 31:38Speaker 1: I said, we like to do things differently here only arena.
- 31:42Speaker 1: So how do you think you're year one? This is great?
- 31:50Speaker 2: I love it.
- 31:52Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good to have you here on the podcast.
- 31:55Speaker 1: You've been in Melbourne plenty of times. Yes, before let's
- 31:59Speaker 1: hear the your best Australian.
- 32:01Speaker 2: Accent, my accent, Yeah, this is the one that's big
- 32:08Speaker 2: on social.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Good day mate or no, I'm like, oh no, that's
- 32:22Speaker 4: quite good.
- 32:24Speaker 3: I like that.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Have you had any nicknames throughout the career?
- 32:29Speaker 5: No, my I I was always said about it because
- 32:33Speaker 5: my my name is very simple, so it's very difficult
- 32:37Speaker 5: to you.
- 32:38Speaker 4: Know, shorten it or come up with something. So just
- 32:42Speaker 4: mart I always.
- 32:43Speaker 2: Grew up here to be Motts. Matt hit it to me.
- 32:50Speaker 2: That's do you like karaoke?
- 32:56Speaker 5: I do, really I do, but it's it's actually very
- 32:59Speaker 5: funny as I did it a lot when I was
- 33:01Speaker 5: a kid, but obviously I don't. I don't remember much,
- 33:04Speaker 5: and it was always a rare occasion that it felt
- 33:07Speaker 5: like the biggest party in the world. And then I've
- 33:11Speaker 5: done a few times when I was older, and then
- 33:13Speaker 5: the last time I did karaoke was actually in Brisbane
- 33:16Speaker 5: two years ago.
- 33:17Speaker 4: This was our way of fighting jet leg.
- 33:19Speaker 5: We went in the afternoon, as you know, when you
- 33:22Speaker 5: start to like really die from jet leg. We were like, okay,
- 33:27Speaker 5: let's let's hear it and we went for two hours
- 33:29Speaker 5: with my coach.
- 33:32Speaker 4: Oh my god.
- 33:33Speaker 5: We sung everything and the best was the entourage that
- 33:38Speaker 5: we were creating. With every song, we would like dance
- 33:41Speaker 5: and you know, you have this thing that like jiggles.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I don't know, Tam.
- 33:46Speaker 4: Yeah, and we would like hear the temper. It was
- 33:53Speaker 4: so funny you no, no, no, it was there.
- 33:57Speaker 1: It was there.
- 33:57Speaker 4: No, no, no, it was there. And yeah, but I
- 34:01Speaker 4: love it.
- 34:02Speaker 2: I love it.
- 34:02Speaker 4: I don't think I'm a bad singer.
- 34:05Speaker 5: Song. But the thing is, my voice is very low,
- 34:08Speaker 5: so it's difficult for me to sing anything that like
- 34:11Speaker 5: has high pitch, So I prefer songs that are a
- 34:16Speaker 5: bit lower.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Like Very White. Do you know Very White? Who's a
- 34:19Speaker 1: low pitch singer? Miley Cyrus? Can you give us your
- 34:25Speaker 1: best wrecking ball?
- 34:26Speaker 4: Oh my god, I mean like a re You're good, Yeah,
- 34:33Speaker 4: you're good, You're good.
- 34:35Speaker 1: I need some music, Okay, you do a little background music,
- 34:39Speaker 1: just beatboxing.
- 34:43Speaker 3: Come on, come on, But what was the song that
- 34:48Speaker 3: you were getting, like a wrecking ball?
- 34:53Speaker 4: No, but I prefer Flowers. Yeah, flowers.
- 35:01Speaker 2: My name in the sane.
- 35:05Speaker 4: Myself for hours say things, don't understanding.
- 35:14Speaker 2: That was my brain, painful memory.
- 35:20Speaker 4: This room is suffering.
- 35:21Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I'll let that go a little too.
- 35:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't asked anyone else this, and I'm just
- 35:31Speaker 1: will be very interested to hear your answer. Who's your
- 35:36Speaker 1: favorite chair? Umpire and your least favorite.
- 35:39Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I have one. So it's so funny.
- 35:43Speaker 5: Because like you know, we we have like different people
- 35:48Speaker 5: and sometimes on combined tournaments we have a TP chair
- 35:53Speaker 5: empires with us. So for sure I love Mahamas. So
- 35:58Speaker 5: I yeah, that's a deep and yeah it's so funny.
- 36:02Speaker 5: Then oh my god, yeah, no, no, no, I I
- 36:10Speaker 5: forgot the name.
- 36:11Speaker 2: Okay she's from.
- 36:14Speaker 4: Yeah, so this very famous French empire, very deep. Yeah,
- 36:21Speaker 4: it's like fifteen love.
- 36:25Speaker 5: So it's like and you know, he he uses this
- 36:28Speaker 5: voice grade so it's like he's like he makes the
- 36:30Speaker 5: show out of it, you know.
- 36:31Speaker 4: So it's amazing. And then I don't think I have
- 36:36Speaker 4: least favorite.
- 36:37Speaker 5: Yeah, I just have like sometimes I have some chair
- 36:39Speaker 5: empires that you know, when I see them on the court,
- 36:41Speaker 5: I'm like, oh god, I never won a match with her. Yeah,
- 36:44Speaker 5: and I'm like, it's not that something personally, it's just
- 36:46Speaker 5: like just happened. But then I went a match and
- 36:48Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, that's fine.
- 36:51Speaker 1: Well, speaking of matches, we've been wrapping up the pod
- 36:54Speaker 1: Labor Arena with our own little one point slam on
- 36:57Speaker 1: the ping pong table. Are you up for a match, yes,
- 37:01Speaker 1: you're going to be do you play well? I'm not
- 37:05Speaker 1: too man right, she's good. So what we'll do to
- 37:11Speaker 1: decide who serves? You guys, rock paper scissors? Coat and
- 37:16Speaker 1: do you go on three or four? It's all it's
- 37:18Speaker 1: different with everybody for four, all right, So you guys
- 37:21Speaker 1: rock paper scissors to decide who serves. All right, So
- 37:30Speaker 1: the steaks really quick, because we don't have a million
- 37:33Speaker 1: dollars to give out.
- 37:34Speaker 2: We're very poor here.
- 37:35Speaker 4: You are not the big yest Wait a few years, yea.
- 37:42Speaker 1: The steaks. We've been playing sting pong or paying pong.
- 37:45Speaker 1: So the person who loses the point, the other player
- 37:47Speaker 1: gets hit a ball at their back as hard as
- 37:49Speaker 1: they can.
- 37:50Speaker 4: Okay, yep I I've played these like many times. Is
- 37:54Speaker 4: it end with tennis? Both? So that's like kindergarten, you know.
- 38:05Speaker 1: Whatever? All right, Welcome back to another round of the
- 38:09Speaker 1: one point ping pong Slam. Today's competitors Marta Kostjak and
- 38:14Speaker 1: Lizzie who Marta won the rock paper scissors and is
- 38:17Speaker 1: elected to serve. Take it away, Marta. We got a
- 38:29Speaker 1: rally on our hands. This is getting tense. Who's gonna
- 38:34Speaker 1: blink first? Marta? Kstjack with the wad, all right, so
- 38:46Speaker 1: now you got to hit the ball. Oh Jonath, this
- 38:56Speaker 1: is a bit. Robbeth