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Jannik Sinner on Meeting the Pope & if There's Pressure Being the Favorite | 2025 Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: That game will be enormous. What a performance we saw
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  Speaker 2: from yakub center. Excuse me, Yanic cinner. He goes out
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  Speaker 2: there six to oh in the first, it was five
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  Speaker 2: oh in the second, and me and Samer in the
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  Speaker 2: back going when is.
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  Speaker 1: The last time somebody got oh, oh and oh? Here
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  Speaker 1: at Rowland carrols.
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  Speaker 3: How many times does that happen in the history of maker.
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  Speaker 3: I know Bruguera beat champion O Edinburgh beat a guy
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many times, but we started thinking
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  Speaker 3: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I was pretty darn impressive.
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  Speaker 3: But it was right here this game that Leahga wins. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 3: the crowd game was standing ovation smiles all around, smiles
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  Speaker 3: from Jerry, smiles from his coach. He needed that because
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  Speaker 3: as a player coach, I mean, I don't know, have
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  Speaker 3: you ever been in that situation? Maybe not done, but no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: it's so and about four oh, and I'm thinking of myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, let's get a courtesy clap here, just some
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  Speaker 2: pity pity clove right now.
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  Speaker 4: Plus, he couldn't let everybody go into the Fonseca match
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  Speaker 4: feeling down the dumps for theahead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, you feel about a small as an ant
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  Speaker 3: when you're down to stick so far Grublev gets to
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  Speaker 3: walk over.
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  Speaker 2: Win with Fees having to pull out with the fractures
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  Speaker 2: in his back.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be out four to six weeks. But
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  Speaker 1: what a performance from Janick Center. Afterwards he joined us
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  Speaker 1: on the set. We had Caroline wolse Yaki.
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  Speaker 2: With us, a beautiful conversation, a confident guy, and we
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  Speaker 2: all left going, it's a good guy right there.
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  Speaker 1: As a tennis player, he is sensation. Yani Centa, Yani
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  Speaker 1: ec I needed you to clap there. I missed your
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  Speaker 1: clapp number one.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, number one player in the world,
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  Speaker 2: absolute dominating fashion. Our first time getting the chats to
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  Speaker 2: chat with you here on TNT. But I hear this
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  Speaker 2: is your neighbor, so I'm gonna let her ask the
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  Speaker 2: first question.
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  Speaker 5: One hour and thirty four minutes where you're in a
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  Speaker 5: hurry to get somewhere to the isn't a hurry to
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  Speaker 5: get to the desk?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, it was. It's nice you again. It's a
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  Speaker 4: big pleasure. Not Today's match was was amazing. No. I
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  Speaker 4: started off very well. I actually from the warm up
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  Speaker 4: I felt that I was sitting already you know, very good.
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  Speaker 4: The ball to these conditions are a bit different. They
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  Speaker 4: are a bit heavier and then you can you can
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  Speaker 4: swing a little bit freer. The ball is not going
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  Speaker 4: anywhere today, So I'm very happy about today's match. There's
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  Speaker 4: Formula one in very soon and then in the evening
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  Speaker 4: there is a football match. So it's a very sport
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  Speaker 4: today for all of us.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ask it play early so you can watch
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  Speaker 3: the events later or is that just like or when you.
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  Speaker 1: Saw the schedule, were you very relieved?
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  Speaker 4: I was relieved when I saw the schedule because tonight's
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  Speaker 4: I said, already, if I have free tonight, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: watch the football match, which I'm I'm looking forward to it,
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  Speaker 4: and so yeah, it's it's it's good for those.
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  Speaker 2: That do not realize it is going to be PSG
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  Speaker 2: and Inter. I know you're an enormous ac Milan fan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how do you handle that?
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  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I got to ask quite a
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  Speaker 4: lot about that. And look, me being Italian, I would
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  Speaker 4: like to win that an Italian team wins, and you
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  Speaker 4: know that's I think it's quite quite fair. I have
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  Speaker 4: a very good friend which is a goalkeeper of PSG,
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  Speaker 4: so you know, in both ways, I cannot really lose. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: sure it's a positive way, but in another way, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to comment on that.
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  Speaker 3: We want penalty kicks. One of the things I'm so
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  Speaker 3: impressed with you, Carlos Roger Rafanovac. You guys are the
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  Speaker 3: favorite almost every time you take the court against any player.
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  Speaker 3: Do you find that difficult at times? Being the favorite
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  Speaker 3: every time you walk on the court, know when you're
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  Speaker 3: getting the absolute best from your opponent.
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  Speaker 4: Look, honestly, I don't think we cannot compare me and
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  Speaker 4: Carlos yet to the to Rafa Roger Novak. I think
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  Speaker 4: we are still too young and our We played just
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  Speaker 4: a couple of seasons in very high level and we
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  Speaker 4: still have to show everything. But talking now from my
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  Speaker 4: side is that I just want to feel well prepared,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and then me feeling well prepared and I'm
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  Speaker 4: you know, in every situation, I kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, the Dennis is a very unexpected sport. You
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  Speaker 4: you have to find solution at times, but it's also
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  Speaker 4: a good feeling because it means that you're on the
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  Speaker 4: right spot. You You you want to show that your
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  Speaker 4: opponent that you are there every time and trying to
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  Speaker 4: show up. So it's it's it's a very different way
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  Speaker 4: of thinking. But also I'm quite happy.
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  Speaker 5: But also showing up. You obviously play in so many
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  Speaker 5: different countries. Every tennis player has to be ready for
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  Speaker 5: hot weather, humid weather, cold weather, spend kind of everything.
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  Speaker 5: What is your favorite conditions to play in? Do you
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  Speaker 5: love Paris because it's so unpredictable.
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  Speaker 4: I think out of the four Grand Slams, here you
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  Speaker 4: have the most ups and downs of how things are
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  Speaker 4: because the court can change so much from one day
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  Speaker 4: to the other. Here it gets bouncing when it's hot,
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  Speaker 4: and like today it's not bouncy at all, and this
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: On hard court it is not like that.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, the difference is there, but not as big.
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  Speaker 4: So here you have to be mentally ready for everything
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  Speaker 4: and then things can change also throughout the match, not
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  Speaker 4: about today. So yeah, here is very difficult, but I
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  Speaker 4: like the atmosphere here. It's it's very nice and very
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  Speaker 4: special memories. The last year, you know, becoming number one
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  Speaker 4: in the world, and it was the first Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 4: I met quarters in a in a Grand Slam for
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  Speaker 4: the first time, so it's it's a nice tournament.
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  Speaker 1: What the last few weeks it's been for you?
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  Speaker 2: The reception you received in Rome and then you get
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  Speaker 2: to meet the Pope. Has your life changed since meeting
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  Speaker 2: the pope? You meet this man connected, well, I know
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  Speaker 2: not even what it was like. Have you noticed any
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  Speaker 2: changes since then?
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  Speaker 1: Are all the.
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  Speaker 4: Prayers I've met important people out my very young career,
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  Speaker 4: but this was something very very special. It was the
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  Speaker 4: feeling was I didn't know exactly what to say and
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  Speaker 4: then how to behave and you know, like some many
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  Speaker 4: things together, but it was very very special. And then
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  Speaker 4: this will always be with me, you know, forever.
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  Speaker 2: So I could tell having your parents there made it
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  Speaker 2: even more.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's yeah, because usually my parents did never
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  Speaker 4: show up on any kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And my brother, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it just can't compare my brother to me, like
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  Speaker 4: I'm here and here it's like, but my parents they
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  Speaker 4: were like super like emotional and they know, they were
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  Speaker 4: talking after days and days and days about this, and
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  Speaker 4: like people, they go to them and they asked, so,
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  Speaker 4: how was it? You know, it was very It was
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  Speaker 4: truly an amazing experience and for me obviously too.
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  Speaker 2: He mentioned playing would it be like one and too
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  Speaker 2: if you face the Pope, would you let him? Would
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  Speaker 2: you take it easy on him?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the result would be the same.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What if you went out there and he just smashed
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  Speaker 2: a forehand down the line.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no the Pope. Yeah, then I
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  Speaker 4: would say congrats.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of important people, coaches, Darren k Hill.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, our co worker, our co worker.
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  Speaker 3: He's been on the desk. We all love Darren. Fantastic coach.
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  Speaker 3: Great in the desk. What I want to know is
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  Speaker 3: does he do anything that's annoying? He seems perfect. We
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  Speaker 3: think he's peeve of Darren k Hill. I have to
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  Speaker 3: put you on the spot.
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  Speaker 4: So he's a very very good man, very but we
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  Speaker 4: sometimes I don't like It's like we all eat very
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  Speaker 4: healthy and he just has the French fries, so the
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  Speaker 4: or the dessert. You know that we are just watching
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  Speaker 4: him like I wish would be in your position.
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  Speaker 1: You're eating broccoli and he's brushing a Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: He has improved though, because in the beginning three years
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  Speaker 4: ago it was just like completely opposite. Now sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 4: he puts in some vegetables and then everything, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's but if it's only that the problem, then I
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  Speaker 4: have to say.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere you go an audience follows. Do you mind if
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  Speaker 2: we sign some balls and throw them out quick.
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  Speaker 4: And we can make that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's true. How is the auto these days? The autograph?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do a big J?
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  Speaker 4: I do a very do a big J and then
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  Speaker 4: just whatever whatever comes out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know at that point.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's this has been my signature since yeah, since
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  Speaker 4: I started, so I never changed it.
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  Speaker 3: You were a man, it's very easy.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get some love for you? Please? Well? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have my hands light for the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Johannick Center won the first eleven games in the match,
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  Speaker 2: never looked back, seeking his fourth major, third straight, and
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  Speaker 2: truly one of the good guys in tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate absolute pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: Apreciate good day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,