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Frances Tiafoe on Advancing at Roland-Garros and Why the Wizards Should Draft AJ Dybantsa · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Man, happened? Good to see it? Man, tell us about
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  Speaker 2: that heat. That was a little rough, and you're wearing
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  Speaker 2: the dark outfit.
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  Speaker 1: Is man, We're in a dark outfit. I'm a dark dude.
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  Speaker 1: So none of it, none of it quite worked the
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  Speaker 1: other day. No, but it was great, good first round.
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  Speaker 1: It was tough playing Eliots. You know, no one's known
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  Speaker 1: what he's been up to with he is a good player.
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  Speaker 1: Were practiced a lot in Boca, So yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it was tricky and obviously first round was in ever easy,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get your feet in under yourself, happy to
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  Speaker 1: get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimately, Bat, how are you feeling about the clay court
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  Speaker 2: season just in general and your prep coming in here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously after Houston, I had, you know, a little
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  Speaker 1: little hurt. After Houston, what happened? I had bags getting
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  Speaker 1: giving me some problems, I mean good, I mean good problems.
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  Speaker 1: I was playing a lot in the front half, was
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  Speaker 1: winning a lot, and I had had to take a
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  Speaker 1: long time, so I started in in uh that room.
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  Speaker 1: The last couple weeks weren't great, But I mean to
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  Speaker 1: me ultimately, I mean, I hate say I don't care
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  Speaker 1: too much, but I'm I know that here three out
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  Speaker 1: of five get a lot tennis to place.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, uh, Novak, Now you're just the majors. That's it, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, especially especially like in the clay season.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I feel like, you know, because three to
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  Speaker 1: five is so different, you have so much more time
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  Speaker 1: in the Max. I think, yeah, you know, maxes can
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  Speaker 1: be so different in the slam. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: I guess I kind of have that mentality because I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to get this. We had Jasmine Pauline with her smile,
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  Speaker 2: We got you with your smile. We love it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about this?
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  Speaker 2: So you got to give the max some love?
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  Speaker 1: Been a lot nd man, open it up. So back,
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  Speaker 1: go back, going crazy. I'm back. I'm with the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that I'm with the Knicks, man.
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  Speaker 2: And your buddies with Kevin Durant, right, is that true?
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's one of the all time someone. Someone's
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  Speaker 2: put a tweet and we're following this stuff on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: asking if you were wearing the KDS.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I wish, man, I wish I could wear the
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  Speaker 1: kd's but were to kd's, man, I should be wearing
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  Speaker 1: a gunny Max, Man, you got that true should be wearing?
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  Speaker 2: Then Max, what said you have the Travis?
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  Speaker 1: Look that's what I steel be right?
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  Speaker 2: Why not.
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  Speaker 1: Me?
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  Speaker 2: I tried it on the tennis call. Maybe throw your
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  Speaker 2: brother a boat and throw a pair and I could
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  Speaker 2: use a pair.
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  Speaker 1: Let me what you want to ask you guys a question? Man,
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  Speaker 1: when you guys gonna you know, talk to Steve Dax
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  Speaker 1: and everything and put you on the fun and get
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  Speaker 1: back on the Labor Cup screen so we can go
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  Speaker 1: and win some you know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I recall that you said that when we
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  Speaker 2: left you were ever gonna play what I do Now
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  Speaker 2: you're talking, we looked horrible for all.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, man, they can't move with all those
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  Speaker 1: right and then get it.
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  Speaker 2: Down, shut out. It sounds like like that Blue catsup Francis.
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  Speaker 2: So you want the Wizards to take number one?
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  Speaker 1: We need to take I get what they're trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: the whole the whole Utah connection and whatever, but we
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  Speaker 1: need to take aging like yesterday, he's that good and obviously.
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  Speaker 2: And you're okay when looking at your draw after this
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  Speaker 2: because Jason didn't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Say you were I just double child. I think that
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  Speaker 2: was good for man Ano. Look at that all right,
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  Speaker 2: here's your job. A little her cotch versus no her
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  Speaker 2: cotches up a setting a break and different match there,
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  Speaker 2: different shoppo for.
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  Speaker 1: Real publick in there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, got some characters players.
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  Speaker 1: It's the boss in there. He's something to play a
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  Speaker 1: little better.
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  Speaker 2: How's your health now? You're okay now? And then the
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  Speaker 2: fitness seems.
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  Speaker 1: To be it's not initiate, that's confident right there. We'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see it.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming by. You know, you just came
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  Speaker 2: off the court. They're telling us to let you go
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  Speaker 2: keep We keep you a whole hour, but they're saying,
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  Speaker 2: get him out of there.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to go get the ice ben you got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here the whole time. We look forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing you. We ain't going anywhere, Francis at the end
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  Speaker 2: of next week. That is that is definitely that would
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  Speaker 2: be my dream.
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  Speaker 1: It was it. I love see you guys, love.
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  Speaker 2: To see all the best Francis Man. You got everyone
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  Speaker 2: stopping live straight off the court. M hm