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Coco Gauff Talks Advancing to Fourth Round at Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Uh, Coco Goff, you make your seventh straight major fourth round.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on the wind today. You were actually warming up
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  Speaker 1: right outside of our green room and I went out
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  Speaker 1: and I was about to go, go go, and Sloan
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  Speaker 1: ran out and said, do not do that. Am I
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  Speaker 1: allowed to do that going forward?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for me, it won't bother me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I acknowledge it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm okay, yeah, but no, it won't bother me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't mind you leaving left go.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a funny story that you told about Carlos
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  Speaker 4: Algorazo of you winning the US Open him slide in
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  Speaker 4: the DM and saying congrats and you leave on red
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  Speaker 4: until you write him back. As your camaraderie actually come
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  Speaker 4: together at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we He said he didn't remember it, so I
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  Speaker 3: had to pull up.
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  Speaker 2: The receiver man remember it that he sent this.
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  Speaker 3: So I had to pull up the receipts and be like, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not lying. He was like, why I didn't know that?
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  Speaker 3: And so we like talked a little bit, and yeah, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really remember him because at that time, like
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  Speaker 3: we just didn't interact with the other that cheer we
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  Speaker 3: were just USA only, and I didn't even remember. I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't evenware that when I had posted that photo on
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  Speaker 3: my Instagram with him in it, I didn't really know.
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  Speaker 3: I remember someone likes brought the photo up and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh my gosh, that's Carlos. I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't follow the men boys juniors. I just was
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  Speaker 3: USA only and yeah, but he's super nice and so
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  Speaker 3: he didn't take it with a grain of sawce. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm very happy that we got to clear that up,
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  Speaker 3: and I realized that, you know, he's Carlos now and
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  Speaker 3: you're Coco now.
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  Speaker 5: She's always been. Let let's talk about what's happened on
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  Speaker 5: the court, because it looks like you're managing pretty well.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this is a tricky opponent today. She takes
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  Speaker 5: a lot of balls, she plays some short balls. How
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  Speaker 5: are you feeling about where your.
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  Speaker 2: Game is at right now? Yeah? I fell in the
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  Speaker 2: first set.
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  Speaker 3: I felt I was playing a lot cleaner than I
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  Speaker 3: did the last match, and today, I mean I felt
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  Speaker 3: like I could have been maybe more aggressive in some moments.
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  Speaker 3: The conditions changed from the first set to the second,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit slower, especially on the far side, but.
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  Speaker 2: I expected her.
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  Speaker 3: I played her, It's my third time playing her, So
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  Speaker 3: she's kind of one of those players you have to
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  Speaker 3: stay mentally like on she she you know, she won't
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  Speaker 3: throw in a lot of winners or anything like that,
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  Speaker 3: but she'll force you to win those points. And so
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  Speaker 3: I was just trying not to lose the match.
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  Speaker 2: On my racket.
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  Speaker 6: Going back to that match today, dominant first set, six
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  Speaker 6: to one, second set, you go down five three thirty love,
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  Speaker 6: what's going through your head at that point? You did
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  Speaker 6: a good job to come back, But yeah, during that
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  Speaker 6: like you know, you guys, exchange break, break, break? Are
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  Speaker 6: you getting Are you starting to get nervous at all?
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  Speaker 6: Are you still confident that you're gonna find a way
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  Speaker 6: to get through.
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  Speaker 3: No, I wasn't nervous because it's like we're breaking each other,
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  Speaker 3: so I figured it was I was to do a
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  Speaker 3: break at that point anyways. So yeah, and it was
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  Speaker 3: one of those matches like, Okay, if I lose that set,
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I knew what I needed to do
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  Speaker 3: to win the third set. Obviously, I was trying to
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  Speaker 3: get it into two sets, but you know, I try
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  Speaker 3: not to panic, especially when you're up like a set.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the pressure is on them and.
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  Speaker 6: I got house money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit like that. I mean you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to think of it like always.
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  Speaker 3: Because anything can happen, but especially I just think of
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  Speaker 3: it in that perspective that I'm sure she would much
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  Speaker 3: rather be up a set than uh, you know, serving
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, well you're coming into this event with a
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  Speaker 7: lot of momentum, not only back to back finals in
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  Speaker 7: Madrid and Row one thousands, but also the escape room
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  Speaker 7: last night, so you got a lot of momentum going
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  Speaker 7: for you. Do you feel like this is your best
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  Speaker 7: feeling coming into this role.
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  Speaker 2: And girls, Yes and no.
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  Speaker 3: I felt pretty good when I made the final that year.
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  Speaker 3: I felt pretty confident. But for sure, I would say
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  Speaker 3: definitely on a mentality aspect, yeah, I think that I
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  Speaker 3: have the you know, belief that I can beat the
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  Speaker 3: top players, and I have the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think I feel great going into it,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously just taking it one match out of time.
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  Speaker 5: I know, we got to run because we got to
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  Speaker 5: get to joke of it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this is your best service?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you can play in anything, obviously, would you say,
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  Speaker 5: Clay is your best.
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  Speaker 2: US I always thought that.
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  Speaker 3: First when I was younger, I thought it was hard
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  Speaker 3: just being American, And then I always thought that for
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  Speaker 3: some reason, my first lamb would be on clay, so
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  Speaker 3: that US open was very low.
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  Speaker 2: Kiah shock to me.
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  Speaker 3: Too, so I would say, I definitely think.
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  Speaker 2: Clay is my best surface.
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  Speaker 3: But then sometimes, like matches today, I wish the ball
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  Speaker 3: was going.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit faster in the court.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess it depends on who I play too.
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  Speaker 6: Look, can I get one more in? We saw after
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  Speaker 6: your match Sloan Stephen asked you about the escape room
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  Speaker 6: you got out with ten minutes left. How'd you k
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  Speaker 6: not got out? Is that negative energy coming into the
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  Speaker 6: match today?
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  Speaker 2: That's why I had Yeah, Yeah, it depends who you ask.
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  Speaker 3: I've noticed that when i've I've done some escape rooms
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  Speaker 3: with Taylor and he's kind of superstitious, so I felt
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  Speaker 3: a little pressure that we had to get out of
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  Speaker 3: those rooms during the night a cup. But me though,
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  Speaker 3: I was just all fun and games and yeah, honestly
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I got really lucky. So one of
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  Speaker 3: the last clues, I literally just pulled the cold because
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  Speaker 3: I was like, we're not going to get out, so
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  Speaker 3: I was like, let.
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  Speaker 2: Me just guess, and on first try I got it.
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  Speaker 2: The lady was like, you.
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  Speaker 3: Should play digit it was like six or just random
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  Speaker 3: well because it was like, oh, you had a list
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  Speaker 3: of like sixty codes and we had like three minutes left.
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  Speaker 3: So I was just like, let me just try one.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to figure it out. So then I
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  Speaker 3: got a little word. I was like, maybe I used
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  Speaker 3: tole my luck and Escape Room, and honestly today I
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  Speaker 3: kind of felt like that on those few breakpoints she
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  Speaker 3: was hitting the back of the line and then let corn.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I.
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  Speaker 6: Used it all on the Escape Room.
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  Speaker 1: One quick thing before we go, and Djokovic is about
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  Speaker 1: to start stretching. We had been up here last night
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  Speaker 1: and he was talking about how it feels very American
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  Speaker 1: right now, and it feels like a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: at home are watching a lot of people are watching
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  Speaker 1: right now. I'm curious, what would you say to all
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  Speaker 1: the people, what an amazing run for the American women,
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  Speaker 1: amazing run thus far from American women. What would you
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  Speaker 1: say to people back at home, whether it's Atlanta or Florida,
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  Speaker 1: about what's going on here right now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very special.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, this is typically a tournament we maybe
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  Speaker 3: don't have the best performance in as a country, so
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  Speaker 3: to have so many doing well, not only on the
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  Speaker 3: women's side, on the men, it does feel very American.
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  Speaker 3: And we're all rooting for each other. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean I'm there to support.
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  Speaker 2: Them and whatever they need or anything.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I think when you see other people doing well,
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  Speaker 3: it makes you want to do better. And it's just
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  Speaker 3: that extra spirit, I think, and we all root for
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  Speaker 3: each other, and yeah, I think this.
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  Speaker 2: Is very special.
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  Speaker 3: To those who are paying attention at home, maybe those
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  Speaker 3: who are tennis fans, they know that this is special.
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  Speaker 3: And to those who are not, this is very special.
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  Speaker 3: To have so many Americans in the second week at
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  Speaker 3: Rolling Girls doesn't happen too often. So hopefully we can
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  Speaker 3: continue that momentum, especially you know, for years to come
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  Speaker 3: if we have a great group of young Americans. And
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  Speaker 3: it's usually a difficult swing for us, but I think
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  Speaker 3: we all just try to do better, going to dinner
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  Speaker 3: with each other, doing escape rooms with each other, just
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  Speaker 3: to make this time in Europe a little bit more relaxing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been very special having you here for the
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  Speaker 1: very second time, returning guests, Go Go Go