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Alexander Zverev on Why He Can Beat Jannik Sinner & Epic Match vs. Carlos Alcaraz at Australian Open · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Give us a little breakdown and what she takes down
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  Speaker 1: the jek about and she played, well you've had use
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  Speaker 1: that mic to your you can hear me, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, you don't mess around.
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  Speaker 3: I was I was watching bud Tist actually because she
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  Speaker 3: played before me a couple of times. It's like good season,
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  Speaker 3: especially against the Blanka and Madrid.
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  Speaker 2: She played. She played great there.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, there are way she saved the match points.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like I thought it hit the line there,
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  Speaker 1: but the umpires they're not using no, no electronic line.
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  Speaker 3: It's so weird because we've we've been using it for
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  Speaker 3: the entire year and now it's the only term we
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  Speaker 3: don't use it today. It was a ball and the
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  Speaker 3: umpire comes down all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what is what is she doing? What?
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  Speaker 2: No jailble a sudden? Okay, what do you what do
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  Speaker 2: you think of them not using it? Do you care?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I care because I care because I at a tough moment.
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  Speaker 2: And that's right when you took the picture with your phone, right, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that was in Madrid.
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  Speaker 3: No that I had a little bit of a tough
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  Speaker 3: moment in the final one on twenty four. Uh, when
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  Speaker 3: I had break point back in the fifth set and.
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  Speaker 1: Against hold on one second, because not that I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to love here, you said, no, it is match point.
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  Speaker 2: It was my bad. Just for a second, Just for
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  Speaker 2: a second. Just shut up for a second. Guy never
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  Speaker 2: stops talking.
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  Speaker 4: Oh speaking of me? And tight on the second missed it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you talked about the forehand earlier, John, and that's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be a big shot, but not as reliable as the
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  Speaker 1: backgund finish your short.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Carlos find up finals on Carlos will fault it
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  Speaker 3: and then yeah, yeah, I mean instead of being back
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  Speaker 3: at two all, I was down three one, so that
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  Speaker 3: one I would love to use it. Trying to line
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  Speaker 3: calling back then already no kidding, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that the rationale is for them
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  Speaker 2: not using it?
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  Speaker 4: They just like the idea of it being.
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  Speaker 3: Alter I think it's history, right, I think they want
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  Speaker 3: to keep some sort of history. I mean Wimbledon now
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  Speaker 3: changed as well this year this first time. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: just want to keep the transition.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: They should just keep it the same for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the deterrements.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe next year they'll play with wood records.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you can come back then, because we're
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  Speaker 3: not winning a single match. Then imagine someone like ra
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  Speaker 3: or Carlos for example.
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  Speaker 2: Hitting his form the way he's hitting it, that would
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  Speaker 2: be impossible.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe why he's injured now right, Wow, what a backhand there.
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  Speaker 1: But you just talked about her saving herself against Avalca
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  Speaker 1: and this.
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  Speaker 2: Is more of the same.
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  Speaker 3: She is, She's brave, She is one brave girl.
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  Speaker 4: That a strike right there looked like your two hands.
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  Speaker 1: Do you look at what you're seeing from Baptiste And
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  Speaker 1: you just said it yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You said she's brave.
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  Speaker 1: And from everything I've been hearing and talking to you
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  Speaker 1: over the years and most recently your guy Rafa Nadal,
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  Speaker 1: who you become even closer to, I believe you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be more brave, got to be I'm trying this year.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. Wow, So this one's going the distance.
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  Speaker 1: You have been trying, and I got to credit you
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bit, Sasha, because not only have you
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  Speaker 1: been trying.
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  Speaker 2: But you played, which I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong, well, we'll look at some
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  Speaker 1: of your highlight I think we did. But I thought
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  Speaker 1: you played the best match arguably your life when you
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  Speaker 1: played Carlos in a street.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me if I'm wrong, and then you uh.
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  Speaker 1: But you didn't get as affected as you did like
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  Speaker 1: the year before when you lost, you got you beat Novack.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't play this set. But this is all me,
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  Speaker 1: So just tell me for Law. It seemed to affect
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  Speaker 1: you a lot more. He had some physical things as well.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about that, because it seemed like he's still
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  Speaker 1: been pretty consistent and positive even though you lost that
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  Speaker 1: tough one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I played, as you said, I played good
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  Speaker 3: tennis and I was doing exactly what I was told
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  Speaker 3: to do. I was you know, that's exactly. It was
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  Speaker 3: the plan that me and my team had for the
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  Speaker 3: year to be more aggressive, to be the ones dictating
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  Speaker 3: the points. And I felt like against Carlos, Yeah, You're
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  Speaker 3: never gonna be always the one that is aggressive against Carlos, right,
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  Speaker 3: because he's he has big weapons, he has big shots.
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  Speaker 3: But I was still the one that all my servo
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  Speaker 3: was dominant. When I had the chances, I was taking them.
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  Speaker 3: I was going for shots. And I lost the match
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  Speaker 3: because it was a a tough physical battle where we
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  Speaker 3: both went to our limits. I didn't lose the match
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  Speaker 3: because I backed off. I feel like even you know,
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  Speaker 3: at five four, people were telling me why didn't you
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  Speaker 3: hit the four and a bit harder? Why didn't you
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  Speaker 3: serve a bit harder? I was like, I had nothing
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  Speaker 3: left in my legs, you know, to hit the ball,
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  Speaker 3: to hit the ball hard or to be aggressive, you
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  Speaker 3: still have to find the position with your legs. If
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  Speaker 3: your legs are just not there, you're not going to
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  Speaker 3: swing just with your upper body. So I was still positive.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I was doing the right things. And
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  Speaker 3: I lost a tough match, which which can.
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  Speaker 1: Happen, I mean mentally, mentally that you stuck with it.
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  Speaker 3: That that's that's why I think I stuck with it
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  Speaker 3: because I lost a tough match, and I can handle
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  Speaker 3: losing a tough match, but playing the right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean during the match, because it's why I think
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  Speaker 1: it was one of your best, because there was so
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  Speaker 1: much going on, Like he was, you know, cramping and
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  Speaker 1: trying to deal with that. You started off, he was
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  Speaker 1: playing great, you were two cents down. You're like, what
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  Speaker 1: the hell this isn't you know happening? But you were
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  Speaker 1: still battling, you know, and that's you know, in order
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  Speaker 1: to get over the hump, you got to be thinking, well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you're thinking before we go to you, Lucas
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  Speaker 1: with your wonderful question, you got to be thinking that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, I just lost that when everyone's like,
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  Speaker 1: these guys won nine in a row, but now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Carlos is in here. Look, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm not that I'd need to jump ahead at all,
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  Speaker 1: but no.
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  Speaker 2: At all.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think it's no secret that Yannick is plain
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  Speaker 3: the best. But I do believe, and I have to
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  Speaker 3: believe it that I can beat him, even though I
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  Speaker 3: lost to him quite easily Monica, I lost him quite
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  Speaker 3: easily in Madrid. I didn't play good tennis though those
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  Speaker 3: two matches. So if I play good tennis, if I
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  Speaker 3: am the person I want to be on the court,
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  Speaker 3: like against Carlos, I would at least have chances. And
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  Speaker 3: that's what I got to tell myself. I got to
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  Speaker 3: tell myself that, you know, right now, ranking wise, because
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  Speaker 3: I got a lot of I got oh, I got
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  Speaker 3: a lot in a lot of trouble. When I said
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Yannick is the best and me with Carlos,
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  Speaker 3: me Carlos and Novak are a step behind. What I
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  Speaker 3: meant was at that moment, and in that moment, that
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  Speaker 3: was the truth. Because Carlos was injured, Novak hasn't had
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  Speaker 3: played since Indian Wall, so.
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  Speaker 2: That was the case.
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  Speaker 3: Career wise, I'm not saying that I'm there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: compare myself to them. I'm not I'm not an idiot.
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  Speaker 3: But right now, ranking wise, I'm the second highest ranked
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  Speaker 3: player here. I have to believe that I can be
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  Speaker 3: the best player in the world.
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  Speaker 4: That's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're being told that you have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things you.
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  Speaker 1: Should We thank you for coming in the one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen major wins now so.
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  Speaker 3: Right, awesome, Yeah, some guys have that one major.
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  Speaker 2: We're wishing you the best, all the best, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: coming back.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you man.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see Alexanders Rasa zere of everyone joining us
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  Speaker 2: here in the Mac Zone.