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Elliott Smith: Sports editor on the Australian Open finals, Auckland FC win and the Breakers out of playoff contention · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Elliot Smith. He's everywhere, He's everywhere all over the sport.
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  Speaker 1: He's our news talk ZBI sport expert and man, there's
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  Speaker 1: been some sport this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it. Just yeah, this is the collision, all the
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  Speaker 2: seasons sort of coming together, isn't it? And I suppose
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  Speaker 2: you you still look at the Australian Open final. It
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  Speaker 2: was a great time of the year. Two big finals
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  Speaker 2: of course over the weekend. The women's on Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: won by Madison Keys, who's been a regular visitor actually
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  Speaker 2: to Auckland through a number of seasons, beating the world
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  Speaker 2: number one Sabalinka and a really really entertaining final two
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  Speaker 2: sets to one. Last night's men's final bit more one
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  Speaker 2: way traffic, to be honest. Jarick Center, the world number one,
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  Speaker 2: beating Alexander Verev and in straight sets last night. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: have it all his own way, but pretty straightforward her.
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  Speaker 2: For Jarnicksoner, who is the world number one best player
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  Speaker 2: in the hard courts at the moment, there is the
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  Speaker 2: doping case sort of hanging over him, which is interesting
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  Speaker 2: in a fascinating backdrop to his success in recent times.
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  Speaker 2: The cream and the massuse and everything like that. The
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  Speaker 2: Court of Arbitration for sport here having an appeal in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months time. But regardless, he is showing
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  Speaker 2: what he's capable of. And Zverev had another cracket's winning
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  Speaker 2: a major, probably the best player on tour at the
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  Speaker 2: moment to have not won a Grand Slam tournament. But
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  Speaker 2: a Nixon last night remain just too good.
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  Speaker 1: I just had I'm sorry, but that's a great title
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  Speaker 1: for a book. The Cream and the missis the story
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  Speaker 1: of Oh my lord, that's brilliant and some good news
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  Speaker 1: for Auckland FC.
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  Speaker 2: It was great new It's been a busy week for them,
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  Speaker 2: three matches in seven days and they've emerged from that
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  Speaker 2: really hectic period at the top of the A League ladder.
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  Speaker 2: So this is always going to be a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an acid test for them, this new club. They've fallen
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  Speaker 2: away a little bit now they've come back up again
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  Speaker 2: in a hectic period over the last week. Two wins
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  Speaker 2: including last night ninety fifth minutes, a fifth minute I've
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  Speaker 2: at a time against Western Sydney Nadam moreno one of
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  Speaker 2: the import players getting the goal one nil, they win,
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  Speaker 2: take the three points back, so draw and two wins
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  Speaker 2: over the last week moves them back to the top
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  Speaker 2: of the A League and they just seem to manage
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  Speaker 2: to find a way, which is the really exciting thing
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  Speaker 2: about this team. They don't know when they're beat and
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  Speaker 2: don't know when they're on the cusp of losing a game.
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  Speaker 2: They risk it a point earlier in the week. So
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  Speaker 2: back to the top of the LADD which is great
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  Speaker 2: news for them.
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  Speaker 1: Remen yeah, it is going from the beautiful game to
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  Speaker 1: the very tall, fast game. The Breakers, what's.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it It's been a battling old season for the
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  Speaker 2: Breakers and you can put the calculator away, remand the
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  Speaker 2: mathematical hopes of their making the playoff are all but
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  Speaker 2: over over. They lost last night ninety four seventy eight
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  Speaker 2: to Adelaide. It's been a really poor season. They started
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  Speaker 2: really strongly, had some personnel changes to their team board
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  Speaker 2: and Tago Fall, who's a two point two seven meter import,
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  Speaker 2: just hasn't quite clicked. And with that defeat last night,
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  Speaker 2: out of the playoffs and they won't be playing any
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  Speaker 2: for the basketball. We've got two more games at home,
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  Speaker 2: but won't be making the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: They've got some huge fans though, like literally big fans
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  Speaker 1: a big following and they make that.
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  Speaker 2: And even with the fact that they're out of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: we'll still get I think decent crowds for these last
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  Speaker 2: two games back at home. I think one's Friday. One
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  Speaker 2: might be wie Ungy Day potentially, but two games home.
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  Speaker 2: They'll get a really good credit s backer in for
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  Speaker 2: both of those games, regardless of them being out of
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  Speaker 2: the pluffs. But we chance to look ahead and see
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  Speaker 2: how they rebuild for their next campaign and what players
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  Speaker 2: they bring, what players thrown on the scrap heap as
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  Speaker 2: always happens at the end of the breaker season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cheers, Elliott, Thank you so much, Elliott Smith from
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