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Iga Swiatek Reveals Rafael Nadal's Advice and Reacts to Her Run at Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: He goat, come on in, you got right off the court.
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  Speaker 2: Great to see it, you got welcome, Nice job out there.
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  Speaker 1: Well done. I don't get a pleasure to see you
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  Speaker 1: in person very often. Well done.
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  Speaker 2: Have us how you doing, We'll keep we'll keep this
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  Speaker 2: quick because we know you've got a lot to do.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for jumping in and assess your match.
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  Speaker 1: Assess what happened out there today. It gets your country woman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it wasn't an easy match, especially after Miami,
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  Speaker 3: which obviously was was not good for me. I knew
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  Speaker 3: I need to, you know, bring my game and bring
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  Speaker 3: my intensity and use my top spin so you know,
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  Speaker 3: Macda can really like that's a solid player. She doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have like one particular thing that is worse. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I needed to be solid to use my powers, be
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  Speaker 3: precise and kind of build a rally, you know, make
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  Speaker 3: her run and open the court.
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  Speaker 1: You did that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you just we just showed you the break point here,
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  Speaker 2: set point now for you got her on the run.
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  Speaker 2: And how are you feeling with the new coaching team
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  Speaker 2: that you've got. Now? What's that brought to the.
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  Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I talked to him and he gave me some advice. Also,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wanted to ask him about different systems
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  Speaker 3: of coaching because I was also considering, you know, having
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  Speaker 3: two coaches and maybe at some point throughout the season,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to add one more coach to the team.
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  Speaker 3: But but because I for at the beginning, I had
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  Speaker 3: doubts about that. But I knew that Rafa sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 3: had three coaches, So I want to ask him how
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  Speaker 3: it is, you know. And also we spoke a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about Francisco, and you know, he had only positive
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  Speaker 3: things to to speak about and about the coaching style.
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  Speaker 3: It was from what he said, it was like exactly
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  Speaker 3: what I felt like I need. So so, yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: have proached Francisco, and I was happy that he could
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  Speaker 3: join the team because obviously, like making a change right
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  Speaker 3: before the clay season for me also wasn't easy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I had, you know, doubts if I'm gonna find a
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  Speaker 3: good coach so quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm happy that you first, what about the heat,
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  Speaker 1: because we saw what happened to Is that an issue
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  Speaker 1: in the past for you? Do you walk out like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, I got to get off to a
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  Speaker 1: good start here.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like it usually helped me because also the
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  Speaker 3: ball was bouncing usually higher, you know. So also on
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  Speaker 3: Wimbedown last year, it was so hot and it kind
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  Speaker 3: of destroyed the grass, which made it less uh you
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  Speaker 3: know grass. Yeah, it was more bouncy because of that.
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  Speaker 3: So I felt like it's an advantage. And also in
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnati last year, I think it was like the biggest
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  Speaker 3: test we can have. It was so hot and so
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  Speaker 3: humid like crazy. I think it was uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the weather like in China suddenly and no one really
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  Speaker 3: expected that in Cincinnati. So so after that, I felt like, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I can handle it and I can use it to
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  Speaker 3: my advantage. I would feel, I would say, here, with
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  Speaker 3: these boards that are pretty light, lighter than you know,
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  Speaker 3: what we play in Roman Madrid, you need to really
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  Speaker 3: be careful and not do too much because it's easy
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  Speaker 3: to make mistakes and on for stairs. So this is
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  Speaker 3: something that I need to adjust. But physically, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't feel like it's butttering me.
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  Speaker 2: And before we let you go, because we know you
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  Speaker 2: got to go and do some other press stuff, so
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  Speaker 2: we appreciate you coming by. But Lucas over here, but
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  Speaker 2: we're trying.
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  Speaker 1: He's a social media you know it.
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  Speaker 2: So we're trying to get John, you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: on instant. I've made it this so we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: up our game. So he's going to got a question
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  Speaker 2: for me from maybe some of the fans.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so John has been raving about the band that
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  Speaker 4: he loves, the pretenders who may make they may or
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  Speaker 4: may not be pretend. Do you have a more modern
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  Speaker 4: music recommendation for John, something that you like that he
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  Speaker 4: should listen to?
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  Speaker 1: Wow? Wow, Well, what type of music do you like?
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  Speaker 3: First of all, it's a mix before the match, listen
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  Speaker 3: to like, you know, led Zeppelin.
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  Speaker 2: Behind John Blood Zeppelin too right there behind John.
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  Speaker 1: One in the high school is my favorite by doing
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. We love to have you here.
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  Speaker 3: But off the court, you know something you people, because
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  Speaker 3: everybody loves her if it. We heard many songs, but honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I was actually here before run Girls last year on
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  Speaker 3: her show and she makes like every show like a party.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing, amazing and you know a lot of energy
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  Speaker 3: and like positivity, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, you match, Yeah, you make a good party
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  Speaker 2: for us down here in the Max. So come back
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  Speaker 2: anything appreciate you, Yeah, thank you for good By the way,
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  Speaker 2: where on you just get out for number five French Open?
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  Speaker 1: Why not one match.
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  Speaker 2: At the time?
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  Speaker 1: Costiac next?
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  Speaker 2: Who's played well on play this year? So yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: you're pretty darn good on play yourself. Thank you, you
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  Speaker 2: gets through the thanks for ground to sixteen. We appreciate
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  Speaker 2: her joining us.