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Tommy Paul Talks American Tennis Players, Recovery Process & Matthew McConaughey · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: It's with my great pleasure that I'll welcome in an
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  Speaker 1: American hero. Tommy pol walked into Rolling Garros and said,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I'd like to go in the fourth round. Okay, I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: Your two hundredth career match when big time milestone for you. Also,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time since two thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: that multiple Americans are going to the fourth round. I
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  Speaker 1: do the American stuff in jest, but we're always talking,
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, how are they gonna do? You guys are
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  Speaker 1: doing it. That's got to feel pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're trying, you know. I think we have such
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  Speaker 2: a good group. We have for a while, but I
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  Speaker 2: feel like everyone's more experienced on the clay. Everyone's looking
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  Speaker 2: pretty comfortable in the clay. I'm super interested interested to
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  Speaker 2: see what happens with with Sebbi and Foe. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a great match, But yeah, man, I think we're all excited.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all believe that we can do well
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  Speaker 2: in these tournaments.
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  Speaker 3: You've been out there for ten hours and forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: That's a long time. How do you recover after three
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  Speaker 3: matches like this? How is your body feeling? Do you
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  Speaker 3: have a special restaurant you go to to carbload after that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I've just been really showing in the hotel room
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  Speaker 2: room service, keeping the legs up. But everything's been pretty
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  Speaker 2: normal in terms of my recovery, just doing ice, bath
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  Speaker 2: and treatment, and I'm prioritizing sleep, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get as much sleep as I can.
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  Speaker 4: Do you worry at all that you've been on court
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  Speaker 4: over ten hours, Like, obviously you're here to try to
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  Speaker 4: win the tournament, and if you're gonna do that, you
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  Speaker 4: have four more matches. Does that creep into your head that, hey,
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  Speaker 4: some of these other guys maybe won their first rounds
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  Speaker 4: and three I've had a couple of battles, and like
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  Speaker 4: it could get tougher as I keep going, are.
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  Speaker 2: You so many fit?
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  Speaker 4: They're just like I play fool?
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  Speaker 2: Are you almost feel I feel pretty good in terms
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  Speaker 2: of my fitness level. But yeah, I mean obviously in
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  Speaker 2: my next match, like it would be very helpful to
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  Speaker 2: win the first couple sets and try and you know,
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  Speaker 2: win quicker less court time. But I mean I'll take
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  Speaker 2: it anyway. I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sorry, it's been working, so I mean, why
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  Speaker 3: not just continue?
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to ask about the abs, like
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  Speaker 1: you we watched you get stretched out and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We were really worried about the match today. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 1: does it feel like when you're playing? Is it a tightness?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a pain?
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  Speaker 4: It's a pain.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't want to give everything away,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Every OPPONENTY plays watches this show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Alexi Popper turn off for television right now.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let me go here. Today. You're you're serving for
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  Speaker 4: the match five to four. You went down five four
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  Speaker 4: to the fifth. You went down Love forty. Sorry, Love
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  Speaker 4: thirty bad. A lot of players, myself included, you'd be
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  Speaker 4: like like, this is it's a stressful moment when you
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  Speaker 4: stress or you look cool out there, but internally you're
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  Speaker 4: just like the idea, I'm about to blow this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah kind of. I was pretty nervous.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Love thirty is not where you want to be when
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  Speaker 2: you're serving for the match. It's it's hard enough to
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  Speaker 2: serve out the match just in a normal game, but
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  Speaker 2: going down Love thirty definitely makes it more interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it came up with a four hand
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  Speaker 3: winner and then a great rally. There was there was
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  Speaker 3: a row.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that was the key that third bot, like, yeah, Tommy, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: we could take a vote on it. I think we've
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  Speaker 2: done the vote, and I think that was the third bot.
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  Speaker 3: No, but he was on the top of your bracket
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  Speaker 3: of of the best looking guys on swear. How do
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  Speaker 3: you feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, that was a tough l.
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  Speaker 3: You told me you won.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't tell you that in front of me to sing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, did you see the McConaughey tweety let's put it
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  Speaker 1: up on the screen real quick. Do you have How
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  Speaker 1: would McConaughey say this.
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  Speaker 2: I can't do accents, but I mean it's pretty cool
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  Speaker 2: that he's he's even tweeting get.
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  Speaker 1: Out of dirty in Paris.
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  Speaker 4: We're waiting for today's tweet where tweets?
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  Speaker 2: Where's he at? Have you have?
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  Speaker 1: We had McConaughey at a match.
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  Speaker 2: No, but his his wife and his son came out
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  Speaker 2: to in my first round. Really yeah, they were in Paris.
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  Speaker 2: I guess he's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Probably would we like to extend the formal invitation?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you're always welcome always. I mean we got
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  Speaker 2: to get him to the US Open or something.
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  Speaker 1: Or get on a flight tonight and get out here
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  Speaker 1: to rolling down.
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  Speaker 2: If they want to watch another five sets of tennis.
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  Speaker 4: Come on out.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tommy Paul. He only plays five sets anything else
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  Speaker 1: for TP. We don't want to take your time because
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  Speaker 1: we know we want you to rest. Disease are very important.
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Paul an American hero. Congratulations, Thank you guys,