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One Leg Up With Tennis Pro-Turned-Artist Ted Dimond LIVE from the Detour Gallery (recorded on 8-24-24) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you well.
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  Speaker 1: If you hear that, and you will be hearing it
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  Speaker 1: a lot if you're going to the US Open, metzwella
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  Speaker 1: point of course, the stop on the l R.
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  Speaker 3: If you're hearing that and you have an appreciation for tennis,
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  Speaker 3: then I got a guest for you.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to meet tonight if you haven't metim already,
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  Speaker 1: Ted Damone. He is the artist behind the Art of Tennis,
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  Speaker 1: which was just on display at the.
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  Speaker 3: Detour Gallery this weekend. Pretty cool art. I posted some
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  Speaker 3: of it on Alex g NYC one.
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  Speaker 1: But Ted was kind enough to join me on one
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  Speaker 1: leg up with Alex Garrett, and he's got some big
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  Speaker 1: names he's been connected to in the professional tennis world.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here with Ted m One set yeah, yes, I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna do this quick day.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna an a couple of did you get your lead?
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with Ted d Congratulations on this huge exhib
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having a lot of the public out today.
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  Speaker 2: Go pick peporing my podcast. So first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: ones that kept my.
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  Speaker 1: Eye Arena Williams, a Federal and Nadal Right of course, Mcinroe, you.
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  Speaker 2: Must have a passion pretendant to be a painting about
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  Speaker 2: it right. Yeah, I was a coach and a player.
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  Speaker 5: I played professional tennis and I coached actually worked with
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  Speaker 5: John and Patrick McEnroe and helped run the McEnroe Academy
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  Speaker 5: for years.
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  Speaker 2: So that was my passion for decades. And taking your
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  Speaker 2: talent off the court into the you know, studio. Very
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  Speaker 2: what's that like to paint all these It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun, I get, you know, it's it's my passion.
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  Speaker 5: I try to capture iconic moments in tennis, and I
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  Speaker 5: know tennis so well. I've lived most of these moments,
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  Speaker 5: and I get a great reception from the players. Most
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  Speaker 5: of the players have one of my portraits. Either they've
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  Speaker 5: gotten it as a trophy or they've gotten it as gifts.
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  Speaker 2: But most of the guys have have a player for
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  Speaker 2: a trait. Anybody I might know.
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  Speaker 1: That you've coached that, we can you know, and say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you coached that guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've coached some good players. I mean some some players.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of.
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  Speaker 5: Juniors that are up and coming now that are good
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  Speaker 5: players that that you know someday are gonna you know,
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  Speaker 5: do something.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see one last thing, Well, I have here
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  Speaker 2: spin a doll. Not being in the US Open, Is
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  Speaker 2: he gonna retire?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have any insight for that or what
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  Speaker 3: what's your collage?
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  Speaker 2: I don't really have any insight. But there's no way
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  Speaker 2: that he's not going to give one more shot.
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  Speaker 5: If he's gonna retire, it's gonna be at Roland Arrows
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  Speaker 5: with a real ceremony. But you know, because it's rough,
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  Speaker 5: he's only going to commit to play and if he
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  Speaker 5: thinks he can win the tournament, he's not gonna do
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  Speaker 5: a one match and say goodbye to every better. So
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  Speaker 5: but I was, uh when Andrea, I guess he gave
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  Speaker 5: his last hour at the US Open. I was at
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  Speaker 5: every match and he walked out on the court like
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  Speaker 5: he could barely move. And the guy played, you know, epic,
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  Speaker 5: three epic matches and came back and won two matches
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  Speaker 5: in five cents.
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  Speaker 2: So you never know the runners mcenrobe, right, that would
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  Speaker 2: be so much fun to cover.
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  Speaker 3: And all that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there are great rivalries tennis. That's a
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  Speaker 2: beauty of tennis.
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  Speaker 5: There's all these great rivalries and the next generation comes
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  Speaker 5: up and now we have Alcarez and Sinner and they're
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  Speaker 5: just amazing and and it's you know, it's fun to it's.
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  Speaker 2: Fun to have a new generation and paint a whole
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  Speaker 2: new proper players.
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  Speaker 3: Well exactly hopefully that Taylor Frits up on the walls tiers.
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  Speaker 2: I did painting of Taylor. He took it though. That's well.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me, Ted, thank you for coming.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very cool and congrats it Ted Demon.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he actually did during the Masters, he
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  Speaker 1: did a golf exhibition as well.
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  Speaker 3: With his artistry.
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  Speaker 1: It was called the Art of Tennis this weekend and hey,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you'll get to meet him or see him at
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  Speaker 1: the US Open, because he seems very connected as a
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  Speaker 1: former professional tennis player. And how cool is this weekend
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  Speaker 1: or this whole upcoming two weeks, the weekend before the
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  Speaker 1: US Open and then the weeks of the US Open
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  Speaker 1: and the competition, the intensity, all in our backyard in Flushing, Queens.
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  Speaker 3: There's quite nothing like it.
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  Speaker 1: Gabby and I were on the plaza last year when
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  Speaker 1: Djokovic won again, and that was a pretty cool moment.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd outside the arena was as ecstatic as they
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  Speaker 1: were inside Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: So Ted DeMont, thanks for joining me, and who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see around the grounds at the US Open.
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  Speaker 1: Big two weeks coming up in the world of tennis,
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  Speaker 1: as we are the fourth and final leg of the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam tournament, and the question is who will have
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  Speaker 1: one leg up at the US Open or we gotta
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  Speaker 1: find out we gotta see Taylor Fritz battle at Wimbledon.
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  Speaker 3: Uh cooo golf. What can you say about her? Right,
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  Speaker 3: he's been She's been unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: All over the map. Just exciting, exciting stuff to look forward.
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  Speaker 1: To with the US Open, and yes, on the eve
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  Speaker 1: And as David always says, it's gonna turn and face
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  Speaker 1: the strange on the Alex Girtt Podcast Network, Thanks gutting
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  Speaker 1: teddim On for joining.
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