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STOP, RYBAKINA HAS A PUPPY · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Have fun. Be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone else is taken.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Stay in your own lane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a little different. Isn't it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just trying to be Oprah right now.
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  Speaker 2: Stay in your lane is never said in a positive way.
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  Speaker 1: I say it to myself all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Stay in your lane?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Bullshit.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, don't try and be anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: You say that in traffic because you're a lady Asian driver.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I did a gig on Sunday and we were carpooling.
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  Speaker 1: And I said to Thornton, Dave Thornton, I'll drive if
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  Speaker 1: you want. And he was a firm, it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: The high pitch?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, all good. And then I think I
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  Speaker 1: clocked another look from the other passenger that was like
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  Speaker 1: a side eye, like, yeah, don't let her drive. Well,
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: to be fair, the last time I drove Thornton home
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  Speaker 1: from Tralgon, which is like three hours, four hours from Melbourne,
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  Speaker 1: I did have the high beams on.
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  Speaker 2: The whole way.
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  Speaker 1: For most of the way home.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to another Pod Labor Arena.
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  Speaker 1: What a time.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back to my co-host with the mo-host, Lizzie Hu.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here and it feels summery in Melbourne. It feels summery.
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  Speaker 2: It is nice out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a 28 degree day. Melbourne Park is buzzing.
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  Speaker 2: It is buzzing. You know, there's all this new staff
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  Speaker 2: coming in. We were talking to a guy. downstairs, who
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  Speaker 2: I knew from Perth, that's now working for the Australian Open.
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  Speaker 2: And he was very nervous. He had a little backpack on.
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  Speaker 2: It was like his first day of school. So I
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  Speaker 2: bullied him. I locked him in his locker.
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  Speaker 1: And he's missing his first day. We'll let him out
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  Speaker 1: after the episode. We have had some breaking news, though,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: that has.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that we might be going on a break.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, that is breaking news as well.
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  Speaker 2: Breaking seismic news. But, you know, we've worked hard one
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  Speaker 2: day a week all year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need time off.
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  Speaker 2: We need some time off.
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  Speaker 1: We've got our long service leave.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 1: But, no, we need to gig. We need to do
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  Speaker 1: some tours.
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  Speaker 2: See our friends and family.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's been tough.
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  Speaker 2: We've been in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: Life without children is really hard, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it is the best.
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  Speaker 1: You have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard in the fact that I have to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get out of bed around 11 a.m.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: What's your usual wake-up time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, these days earlier, because I'm working on another show,
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  Speaker 2: but usually I'll roll out of bed 9.30, 10. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: And then the worst thing I do is grab the
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  Speaker 2: phone and crawl back in. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: then scroll. I feel like such a piece of shit.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Well, I do that at 6 a.m., so
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's worse.
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  Speaker 2: You're an early riser.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: I am an early riser. I've got a dog, so
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  Speaker 1: I get up, walk dog, go to gym, and then
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: I nap. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a napper, Lizzie. Big napper. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No nappies for me. Ooh, that sounds weird.
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, it does sound very strange with his big boy pull-ups.
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: Mike Goldstein.
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  Speaker 3: Tennis news after Mike reveals his biceps.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want me to roll the sleeves?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. Hey, gun show. Whoa. My God.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, another edition of Podlabor Arena. What a year it's been, Lizzie.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm doing this like a wrap-up. Wow,
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: so many things have happened. Travis Kelsey got married to
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 1: Did that only happen this year? Yeah. Far out. I know.
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  Speaker 1: That feels like the oldest news.
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  Speaker 2: I guess them getting engaged was, but yeah. Andy Lee
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  Speaker 2: got married to Beck Harding.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that was the real wedding coming out
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  Speaker 1: of New York.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Demonard got married to Katie Bolter.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. That's huge. Was there another tennis wedding? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Paul and Paige Lorenz.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Content creator, not influencer.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Fritz breakup.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor Fritz breakup. All the gossip.
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  Speaker 1: It has been a really gossipy year for tennis.
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  Speaker 2: It has, but I mean, like you hinted at earlier,
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  Speaker 2: seismic news in the relationship world in tennis that we
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  Speaker 2: will get into in a bit. Yeah, so I should
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  Speaker 2: say this will be the last episode for the year.
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  Speaker 2: Write in to us at podlabor at tennis.com.au to say
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  Speaker 2: we need you back immediately. Honestly, show your support.
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  Speaker 1: Show your support. Please write us. Tell us that you
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  Speaker 1: love us. We appreciate it. Our egos are fragile, and
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  Speaker 1: we love the nurturing.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: We love the nurturing. But really, show your support. Comment
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: on our clips. Say, bring these guys back. What are
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: you doing? You've got to fly them to all the
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  Speaker 2: Grand Slams.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's most important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe if you did that, the pod would have
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  Speaker 2: been way bigger.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah. The Grand Slams plus all the 1,000 events.
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  Speaker 2: All the 1,000 events, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget those. And even the 250s if it's in
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  Speaker 2: a nice city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Tennis news for real this time.
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  Speaker 2: All right. A couple 1,000 events in the Hardcourt Asian Swing.
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  Speaker 2: Shanghai 1,000 just wrapped up with Alejandro Davidovich Fekina. taking
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  Speaker 2: out Rafa Hodar in three sets to win Shanghai. He
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  Speaker 2: beat Zverev in the previous round.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, great win.
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  Speaker 2: Which was very big. Hodar, of course, beat Medvedev in
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  Speaker 2: the previous round. And it was an all-Spanish final with
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  Speaker 2: ADF taking it out.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I love watching him. Just such a great
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  Speaker 2: defensive player. And we'll get into some little Hodar drama.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it now.
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  Speaker 1: He....
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel. He's swearing at a
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  Speaker 2: bald kid.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: No bueno.
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  Speaker 2: No bueno?
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  Speaker 1: No bueno for me.
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  Speaker 2: Especially with his... Previous history of like, did he kind
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  Speaker 2: of push the ball kid out of the way in
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  Speaker 2: the past? Remember, there's different camera angles. It was like
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  Speaker 2: the Zapruder film, right? It was like people like, did
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  Speaker 2: he push the kid from the grassy knoll? No, he
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  Speaker 2: didn't push.
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  Speaker 1: Him at all. The kid kind of got in the way,
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  Speaker 1: but he also, he's got a bit of an aggressive
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  Speaker 1: vibe about him. I feel like he needs a punching
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  Speaker 1: bag on the side of the stage, off stage, court,
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  Speaker 1: and he can just.
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  Speaker 2: lay into yeah i mean that's not a bad idea
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  Speaker 2: because usually they get out their frustration so in spanish
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  Speaker 2: he yelled give me the towel damn it i don't
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  Speaker 2: think this 10 year old chinese ball boy speaks.
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  Speaker 1: Spanish you never know but Assuming he doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the tone, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tone is universal.
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  Speaker 2: Tone is universal. It's like when you yell at your dog,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't understand what you're saying, but the tone is
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  Speaker 2: why it whimpers in the corner afterwards, right? So Hodor
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  Speaker 2: apologizing afterwards, but there's been a lot of drama with him,
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: the shoelaces thing. Obviously this, he goes, I'll have to
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  Speaker 2: be better and learn how to act on court in
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  Speaker 2: a more respectful manner.
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  Speaker 1: And all the rest.
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  Speaker 2: And in the heat of the moment, he was probably
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  Speaker 2: forgetting that the chair umpire was Spanish as well. And
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  Speaker 2: he goes, I can just say whatever the hell I want.
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  Speaker 2: That's why these guys should all learn Latin or something.
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  Speaker 1: Just swear in Latin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What is a language that the tennis world may
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  Speaker 1: not pick up on?
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  Speaker 2: Would not know at all?
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  Speaker 1: Creole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Creole.
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  Speaker 1: Creole. Bit of Creole. Maybe, yeah, like a bit of
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  Speaker 1: Mongolian or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what does Creole even sound like? I do declare,
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  Speaker 2: give me the tower, you f * * * ing.
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  Speaker 1: B * * * h. I don't know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, because they usually vent their frustration by yelling
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  Speaker 2: at the player's box or coach.
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  Speaker 1: Break a racket.
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  Speaker 2: Break a racket, do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather see him break a racket than.
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  Speaker 3: Yell at a ball kid.
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  Speaker 2: I like your idea of a punching bag on court,
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  Speaker 2: but I also like the idea of they just hire
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  Speaker 2: someone to stand in the corner of the court to
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  Speaker 2: absorb abuse, verbal abuse.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon people would pay for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is getting into OnlyFans territory. But only tennis fans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you pay five bucks and then you
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  Speaker 2: get to be on court. You got the best seat
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  Speaker 2: in the house. But then all of a sudden, Hodar
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  Speaker 2: is like spitting in your face.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the towel.
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  Speaker 2: Give me the towel, you fucker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, they're like, roll out the tennis gimp. And
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  Speaker 2: then you come out.
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  Speaker 1: And get screamed at. It's a weird little cock chair
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  Speaker 1: on the side of the court.
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  Speaker 3: This is Tennis News.
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  Speaker 2: The, well, staying with Shanghai. The big names, Alcaraz went
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  Speaker 2: out to, what are your faves, Zizou Berg's early in
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  Speaker 2: the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Big win for Zizou.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people complaining, players complaining about the quality
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  Speaker 2: of the balls.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this has been a running issue all year. It's
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  Speaker 1: two different manufacturers, right?
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  Speaker 2: In a tournament like this, where Alcaraz is frustrated and
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  Speaker 2: he's saying the ball would bounce up, while another would
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  Speaker 2: skid through low. And then, you know, when it's one player,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, oh, he just had an off day and
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  Speaker 2: needs something to blame, right? That's when you should vote.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't generally blame anything, though. Like, he's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good competitor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Very happy. So to see him angry, like, ooh, something
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  Speaker 1: must be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's backed up by Fritz was saying the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, Zverev. So I don't know what's going on
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  Speaker 2: because they're in China where surely all these balls are manufactured.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you're getting them straight from the source.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Timu, the Timu Balls.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the Timu Balls at the Shanghai Open.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. This is Timu Balls.
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: And then also in Wuhan, we had the A Thousand
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: event with Maja Kwalinska beating Sonia Kartal. She took out
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: her bestie, her Polish... compatriot Iga Sivantek in the previous round.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: This is awesome because Maya Kulinska was in the French
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Open final and then it was like, well, was this
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: just a crazy run, a flash in the pan? But
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: obviously not.
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  Speaker 1: She's good.
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  Speaker 2: She's good. She got that far on clay. And then
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: she's winning a thousand events now. And it would have been,
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, people were excited to see Siobhan Tech-Ostapenko. But
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: then they both went out in the semis. And then
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: it was like, oh, this is the match. But then
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: it was a killer, killer match. And yeah, Maya Kulinska
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  Speaker 2: is such a likable player.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she is.
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  Speaker 2: And if you like drop shot lob games, she's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best at it. And it just breaks opponents
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  Speaker 2: down physically and confounds them. And she also has this
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  Speaker 2: two-handed backhand slice that if I was playing that and
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  Speaker 2: she kept doing it, I would be like, give me
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  Speaker 2: that fucking towel.
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  Speaker 3: You piece of shit.
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  Speaker 2: You fucking ball kid. You dumb fuck. Your parents hate you.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: So in other tennis news. Y'all, this is huge in
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Australian tennis news. Ash Barty nominated for the Tennis Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Go Ash.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What a legend.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was always going to happen. And she,
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: of course, retired as world number one and at 25
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: years old. Yeah. So much like her career ending early,
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  Speaker 2: the podcast is wrapping up. After this episode.
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  Speaker 1: That's the feeling for our fans.
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  Speaker 2: We're retiring number one.
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: Too early. And they're going to be like, but we
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: wanted to see so much more. We wanted to see
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: you win some more Grand Slams and tour the world. Alas.
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  Speaker 2: Show your support. Get out there in droves.
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  Speaker 1: Email us at podlaver at tennis.com.au. They could pick it.
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  Speaker 2: They could come down to Tennis HQ and have a
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  Speaker 2: little protest.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, protest.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Come down and pick it at Tennis HQ. With all
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: that's going on in the world, this is the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most pressing.
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  Speaker 2: To protest.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I agree. Well done, Ash.
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. Yeah, she's nominated. She's in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the they're saying Serena was not nominated.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: Serena not in that. Oh, she's still playing.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. She's they said is a significant
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: factor on the tour this year, which I mean, that's arguable,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: but she did play. And it's just a foregone conclusion
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  Speaker 2: also as well. When people are like, why isn't she nominated? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, as if she's not going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she will be.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually in the Hall of Fame.
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: Tennis News!
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  Speaker 2: Lizzie, I don't know if this came across your desk
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: here at Tennis HQ. Stefan Milicevic, the Serbian player, cops
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: a 24-year ban for match football. We've been suggested that
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: he is eyeing off a massive 2050 comeback season.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I will just say with this, the clickbaity headlines
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: for this were tennis, Serbian tennis star. caught in match-fixing scandal.
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  Speaker 2: So everyone clicks on that going, holy shit, Serbian tennis star?
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then you're like, oh, it's Stefan Milicevic.
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  Speaker 1: It's some guy.
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  Speaker 2: It's some guy whose career high ranking was 1,338 in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Find $ 100, 000, though. That's pretty big.
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  Speaker 2: The Serbian tennis star that we all know and love,
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Novak Djokovic, the wolf. The wolf. The Wolf of Winter, even.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Wolf of Winter.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Stefan Milicevic is more the gerbil.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: The gerbil. I was going to say parrot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the gerbil of fall.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: The gerbil of fall.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Divorce news. Well, we touched on the seismic relationship news
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: in the tennis world. Lizzie, I'll let you run with
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what was... Oh, okay, we've got some music. Yeah, beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Keep playing. I came home last night and I opened
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  Speaker 1: up my phone, sat on the couch, ready for a
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  Speaker 1: little scroll. Yeah. And a post came up and it
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: was Alina Svitolina announcing that her and Gail Monfee are
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: splitting up. With this... Oh, no. Perfectly timed.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: With this beautiful photo that kind of looks like a
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  Speaker 1: heart if you outline them. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Or an upside-down butt.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Or an upside... Yeah, all that. She starts with saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is the most difficult thing I have ever had
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  Speaker 1: to share. And I was like, ooh, what's happening? And
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: then she mentions the war in Ukraine and how that's
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: taken its toll on her and how Gail was there
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: through thick and thin, basically.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to stop you for a second. Does it
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: not sound like she's announcing that Gail Monfils has passed away?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: The start of it totally does.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever had to share.
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  Speaker 2: And the picture is like, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All it needs is a... R.I.P. Yeah. 1980 something to 2026.
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  Speaker 2: So go on.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. War in Ukraine. Gail saw all of it. And
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  Speaker 1: then I feel like Elena's going through some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: And to get clear on everything, she cannot do that
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: within her marriage.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: And.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: It's over.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Not often do you get, like, a divorce or
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: a split-up announcement where it's clear that one person left
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: the other one.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he accepted the collab.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: He did. Their final collab.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Game set hats.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Game set hats.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: So this is.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Whoa, this hat news.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: This is huge.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: It keeps coming.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: What are people going to do without game set hats?
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Their lives will be nothing.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Our listeners will feel a void in their souls.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I wonder what's happening in the world of tennis hats. Yeah.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Equally a shocking news.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Exactly. I think they decided to. Give us a long
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: service leave once Game Set Hats debuted a couple months ago.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That was the straw.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That broke the Abdo's back. This? We're paying for this?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: We're paying for Game Set Hats?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. It's genius.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh, Qinwen Zhang, no.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Qinwen Zhang.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: You say Zhang first, though, don't you?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Well, Zhang Qinwen.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Zhang Qinwen, after winning the China Open, celebrating, getting
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the photos done with the trophy and everything, and her
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: dad was on the court. And then she, little prank
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: on the old man.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Little prank on the old man. Let's have a look
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: at it.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Revealing the shiniest head i've ever seen in my life.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: It's a really under those lights.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Oh wow that thing has been greased.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: That is a fresh shave that is a for the.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Moment sparkling dome.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Oh and is i assume that's her mom you'd hope
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: so yeah yeah that is a big trophy like you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: could sit in that.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah that is a It's a nice trophy.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think the one Maya Kowalinska just won,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you'd prefer this. This is like a nice golden ball.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I like the ball. You could have a little hot
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: pot out of that.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kowalinska's looks like a.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: A pitchfork?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: A pitchfork, yeah.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Or a eggplant being born. A tampon?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Uh-oh. All right, it's time for everyone's actual favorite segment.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: It's approaching the net.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Watch, watch.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of crazy. tennis news.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Crazy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Crazy. This is probably the wildest news.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: What?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Of the week. I couldn't get over it myself.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Hit me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Alina Rabachna has a new puppy.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: So cute.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Adorable.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, look at this puppy though. It's so cute. That
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: is a cute puppy. And Rabachna doesn't really show much
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of her personal life on her socials.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So it'll probably be going on tour. It looks like
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a tiny dog. Hello, puppy.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Do we have a name for this puppy? We can
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: suggest names for the puppy.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, Elena Rabarkina's puppy. What are we going to call it?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Rabarkina.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, beautiful.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: The name of the dog is Toby.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a cute dog's name. That is a cute
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: dog's name. Oh, look at it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Little Tobes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, Tobes will hopefully see you at the Australian Open.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all getting these. Would you call them little
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: designer dogs?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're little fluffy oodle-crossy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Sort of things. Yeah, that you can put in a purse.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That you could put on a plane,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: They all are getting these dogs, and the players' boxes
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: eventually are just going to be like a kennel.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Little dogs. Yeah. Yeah. We need like a puppy daycare
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: at the Australian Open. That's an idea for the players,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a little service.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: If we're not back for a podcast, we will run
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the puppy daycare.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I 100% will run the puppy daycare. I'm serious. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: love dogs and I will look after any of the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: tennis players' dogs.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I will take them for walks and Lizzie will clean
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: up their shits.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Michael, take them for walks and hold them for ransom.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Australian Open, I'm copywriting that idea if you want me back.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: A.O. Puppy Daycare.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, A.O. Puppy Daycare. What else? Okay, Roger Federer in
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Shanghai for the Open. Huge in China, Roger Federer. A
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: lot of people say that a lot of Chinese people
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: follow China because of Roger. And this is... is how
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: much they love him over there. Let's have a look
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: at this drone show. I mean, nobody does a drone
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: show quite like the Chinese. It is a perfect Roger
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Federer backhand in drone show.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? This is what I'm saying. Like, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: would rather be huge in China than huge in the world.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Because they celebrate their celebrities.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they love it. Like almost 10 million people watch
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the live show.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: And it says 2,000 drones. 2,000 drones taking a break
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: from spying on Australia and America.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, guys. We need you at the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Roger Federer drone show if you could make your way back.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: You got to show Federer in full flight hitting one of.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: His patented one-handed backhands.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: And then he was on this floating court there as well.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Just amazing.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Right. So they have him there playing on the floating courts.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Everyone's live streaming it. And they do the drone show.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And how would you feel... The.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Ball, though, on the floating court with the drone show
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: looks like the COVID molecule.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: The corona. The corona virus.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It does look a little bit corona virus-y.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, controversial.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: All right, amazing stuff.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How would you feel after that? Like, imagine having
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: a drone show dedicated to you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: To me?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I would... That's the ultimate biggest ego.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, what would you be doing? He's he's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: aiming at backhand. What are you doing in your drone show?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Cleaning up. Puppy shit.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Cooking the perfect boiled egg. I feel like that's the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: one thing I am really good at.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Every time.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Alone in her spinster apartment, cooking a boiled egg. I
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: love the image of your drone show being you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: In a bathroom.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It's actually like a sitcom. It's a whole series.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Just muttering to yourself in your apartment.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: I gotta make the perfect boiled egg. This is my
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: life's work.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And then you're just on the couch with a handful
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: of boiled eggs.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, last one for the week. Robots and tennis. They
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: keep happening. Yeah. They keep wanting to play us. And
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: now we've got a tennis robot doing a coin toss.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Let's have a look. It's very confusing. I'm as confused
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: as Merit Safin, to be honest. Let's have a look
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: at this clip.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: So here's a almost Darth Vader-esque looking robot.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But I believe this robot, it looks pretty, it's got
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a good walk on him, this robot. It's quite smooth.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's got the RoboCop kind of eye vision,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but like... It's like the red laser vision with the
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: black shiny robot outfit.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And Merit Safin just gives him a little salute.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I quite like that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: At least they've made the robot small because it moves
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: like towering over the players. And they do. They give
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: it the coin to do the coin flip.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, why let an aspiring young junior tennis.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Player who can stand.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: There with Federer and Safin flip a coin and have
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a core memory for life?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Who cares about the future of tennis?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, maybe this is the future of tennis.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, maybe every ball kid is going to be
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a robot. Every umpire could be a robot.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so when they're like, you know, AI is taking
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: our jobs, they're even taking the coin flip jobs.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: How much does Merit Safin... Want to hit this robot. Oh,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you want to lay into it. Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: He wants to break his racket on this robot.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I tripped over a Roomba the other day. And I
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: wanted to, it was like taking on Skynet.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Mike vs. Roomba. Oh, that is a YouTube series I
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: would want to see. Maybe that is our future. The
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: robots are coming for us. They've just got our voices now.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And they're just going to roll out the tennis pod
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: using our voices.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: They're going to re-pump us out.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: As AI robot podcast hosts.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see them do multiple cock chair references.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, AI can't replicate that. All right, we have a
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Quizzy Who winner.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: A new one.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: New one.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Different person.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Arash didn't get in in time.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Arash. Well, who won? Okay, sorry. Quizzy Who winner.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: The question was, a 34-minute Grand Slam final was played
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in the 1988... Tell me the slam, the players, and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the scoreline. All right, the winner is.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Well, give us the answer.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I am going to say. Oh, you can get to it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I was going to get to it. All right. I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: was building some tension. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Tell me this.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Let's slam the players in the scoreline. Okay. It's the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: French Open. Steffi Graf versus Zvereva. Double bagel. Yes. And
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the winner, one of our loyal, beautiful listeners who got
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: this correct, is Nicolas J.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Rojas.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Welcome back from California.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, Nick.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Nick. And I'm just going to read out
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: his email that he sent. He says, Michael, no hi, hello,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: just straight to the point. Michael, retire. The side in
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: baseball is used in every game. You idiot. I added
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that bit in.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Get your shit together, Goldenheimer. Do people call you Goldenheimer?
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Apparently Nicholas J.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Welzenbach does.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: 1988 French Open. Steffi Graf versus Natasha Zvereva. Six love.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Six love. This is a bit I'm really excited to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: read it. This is the best tennis slash sports pod
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: out there. Keep crushing it. Lizzie, please keep saying game
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to annoy people. Goldsmith. All right.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: He is right on every level.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You've got it. Goldsmith is going down.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you were right. And I apologize for
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: forgetting that baseball uses retire the side. And the World
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Series is on at the moment, and I've been watching,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and I still forgot. But maybe I was talking about
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: individual sports, and you should stay in your lane, bro.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, shots fired. But please keep emailing us and telling
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: us how much you love us.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Yes thank you nick.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Labor at tennis.com.au follow in nick's footsteps and get your
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: fingers on the.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Keys yes find new ceo andrew abdo's instagram account and
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: pepper him with messages saying where is pod labor arena.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Please troll him that is definitely gonna get us back
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: At the AO.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: It was the best part of the AO for people
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: who couldn't make it was feeling like, you know, they're
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: hanging out with friends.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Friends, yes.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: That are, you know.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That are funny and entertaining. Cute. Cute. Dare I say cute?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And bringing a little bit of, you know, relax-a-voo to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the tennis world.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Relax-a-voo. And I believe you have a final Quizzy Who question.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: This one I love. I mean, it's dark, but if
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: anyone can answer this without looking it up, awesome.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Gosh, it's a really dark episode. Which player killed a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: guy with a serve? I repeat, which player? Player killed
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a guy with a serve.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: He dead.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: And on that note, that is another edition of Podlabor Arena.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: For listening.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Email, email, email.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Email, email. Show your support, please. You've just been a
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: passive listener. Get behind us. Make sure we're back. See
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: you on the next one.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: That was fun.