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Venus Williams, Coco Gauff & Sloane Stephens Talk Roland-Garros, Tennis Battles and Early Beginnings · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Here. The timing is perfect. Coco was walking over, Venus
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  Speaker 1: sat down, Sloane Stevens came over. We have three decades
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  Speaker 1: of excellence and three absolute jabbronis on this time. Chris
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  Speaker 1: you then San Furri, Oda Lefkow humblely sitting next to Venus,
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  Speaker 1: Williams Cocoa Golf and Sloane Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get some noise please on my television? Unbelievable? Wow,
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  Speaker 1: let us go. I'm going with Venus because she is
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  Speaker 1: the queen first, these two right here, specifically Coco, who
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  Speaker 1: just went out there and won, to match today your
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  Speaker 1: impressions of the young star who's really performing at a
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  Speaker 1: super high level as of late.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, so happy for you you're here. I'm so
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  Speaker 3: glad you came and take the time out to be
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  Speaker 3: with us here too, and just so proud of you too. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you. And she's had a great year so far.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you have big dreams to win this tournament.
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  Speaker 3: You've been so close. Yeah, and you can absolutely do it,
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  Speaker 3: but you have to do it one match at a time. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: But got the goods, you got the attitude. I know
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  Speaker 3: you want to win every point, maybe too much sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: So the passion is there and it's just more than anything,
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  Speaker 3: it's entertaining, it's entertainment. Sport is so important, but the
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  Speaker 3: entertainment factor is so important too, and you just give it,
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  Speaker 3: like everybody can feel what you're feeling. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Cocoa. Go the person to your left,
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  Speaker 1: right here? What does she mean to you? What do
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  Speaker 1: you remember watching her?
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  Speaker 2: Everything? You Serena, the reason I started this sport, and like,
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  Speaker 2: being here is surreal. I didn't know that you were
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  Speaker 2: going to be at the dest so I'm really happy
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  Speaker 2: to be here. And yeah, I'm having a little moment here,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm trying to get the words out, but honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it means a lot to be here and hear that
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  Speaker 2: from you, And yeah, I never would have thought when
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  Speaker 2: I pick up a racket, I would be here, sitting
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  Speaker 2: here with you and having this conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you're here because of you and Sloan.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many generations of girls who are picking
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  Speaker 3: up rackets and that's so important. And also we played
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  Speaker 3: doubles here. One of my doublet partners have very few,
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  Speaker 3: so to be a part of that list.
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  Speaker 1: So, and I know you're working with us at TNT.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know this was happening either. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: any of us do. This is gonna happen the stars align.
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  Speaker 1: What does this mean to you right now?
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  Speaker 4: This is incredible. I mean, obviously I interviewed Coco after
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  Speaker 4: her match today. I've hit a Cocoa when she was
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  Speaker 4: literally seven years old. So it's like just the whole
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  Speaker 4: full circle moment. I've been able to share the court
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  Speaker 4: with Venus and just to be able to be around
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  Speaker 4: both of them, and then obviously we all ended up
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  Speaker 4: at the T and T desk.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, how about that, Chris. Funny enough, You've known Cocoa
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  Speaker 1: for a very long time. I mean you saw her
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  Speaker 1: on what was it, an outdoor court in Atlanta, Union
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  Speaker 1: crossing man shout out to you across what was How
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  Speaker 1: old was she at that time?
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  Speaker 5: She was about between five and seven. I think when
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  Speaker 5: you were in Atlanta, she was still so young. Honestly,
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  Speaker 5: when I saw her start to kind of sind as
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  Speaker 5: one of the top juniors in the world, I didn't
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  Speaker 5: even realize she was the same girl who was on
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  Speaker 5: the court next to us. Wow, she actually lived in
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  Speaker 5: the neighborhood and my parents, my dad and I we
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  Speaker 5: used to just try to bum around when any free
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  Speaker 5: co five in Southwest Atlanta. So to see everything come
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  Speaker 5: full circle and to see the success that she's had,
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  Speaker 5: I've it's really special, like truly to be able to
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  Speaker 5: say I saw her from really the beginning and everything
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  Speaker 5: that she's accomplished, and she remains one of the greatest people,
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  Speaker 5: the most just humble people I've ever come across. So
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  Speaker 5: it's been really really cool to see.
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  Speaker 1: It's an honor to be amongst us, to be sitting
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  Speaker 1: in it. Venus. You've been around Paris, You've been enjoying
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  Speaker 1: the city I have. This is the era after Ralpha.
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  Speaker 1: What is the energy right now? What are you feeling
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  Speaker 1: from this tournament in the city.
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  Speaker 3: The tournament is so many good players. It's scary how
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  Speaker 3: good players are so young. Fonseca, Wow, how old is
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  Speaker 3: he still in diapers?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: He can, Like I wish I was hitting like that
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  Speaker 3: at that age. So crazy, it's crazy. I love seeing that,
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  Speaker 3: and you can see like the new rivalries that are
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  Speaker 3: going to start forming. So I just can't wait to
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  Speaker 3: sit back. I'll be watching eating popcorn, like watching good
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  Speaker 3: tennis and the city of Paris is incredible, and I
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  Speaker 3: just I'm I'm so happy here. I could literally live here,
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  Speaker 3: but my mom and dad would not agree.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm old enough now to move away, but
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  Speaker 3: I still feel the guilt.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I understand.
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  Speaker 5: I can't, uh, Coco.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried to give you a minute to collect yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm wondering, do you have any questions.
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  Speaker 3: For venus questions?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot I could ask, but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: for me, like what drives your like passion in this sport,
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  Speaker 2: because I think you're one of the most passionate players
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  Speaker 2: to I've ever played this game seriously, and I see that
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  Speaker 2: every time you play, So I know, like being on tour,
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  Speaker 2: have my little bit experience. Being on tour is not
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  Speaker 2: always like easy. There's great moments and like some not
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  Speaker 2: so great some moments. So how do you get thrown
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  Speaker 2: through those not so great moments?
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  Speaker 3: Passion like love love the game, but also a sheer
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  Speaker 3: determination to have fun no matter what, Like you want
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  Speaker 3: to win, but you want to look back and say
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  Speaker 3: I had a good time. It's horrible to look back
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  Speaker 3: and be like I hated it. You don't want to
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  Speaker 3: remember it. You remember it like you felt sad so
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  Speaker 3: wind loser draw like that was none to and like
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  Speaker 3: making a life and a schedule that fit around happiness,
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  Speaker 3: because when you're happy, you play well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Right, so those two go hand in hand, and it's
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  Speaker 3: like a simple equation but non negotiable.
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  Speaker 1: It's his schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Everything around you has to make you happy. And it
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  Speaker 3: sounds a little selfish, but tennis players are selfish. We
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  Speaker 3: are very selfish. But we can't help it but by ourselves,
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  Speaker 3: so we have to be Yeah, but I think you're
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  Speaker 3: doing perfect, No, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I was choking earlier that all three of you come
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  Speaker 1: with it. Every single time Cocho has been rocking the
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  Speaker 1: leather jacket out on the court. I'm not bringing up
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  Speaker 1: the rackets.
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  Speaker 5: The rackets, that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: They can't be her fault. Usually my coach puts them
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  Speaker 2: in before my match, and I just thought he put
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  Speaker 2: them in there. I should have double checked that they
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  Speaker 2: were in there. And then I know, I said, I
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  Speaker 2: thought I would be able to tell by weight, But so.
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  Speaker 3: Much happened.
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  Speaker 1: That clip.
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  Speaker 2: So much happened pre match that I was just like flustered.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, I didn't realize it, but it took
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  Speaker 2: the cool loss like it made me less nervous because
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what else, Like, what's the worst that
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  Speaker 2: can happen after this?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, she just went to work. She
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  Speaker 3: got the rackets in this business.
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  Speaker 2: As usually, Yeah, I mean I didn't. I had sure
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  Speaker 2: determination because I was like, people are going to say
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  Speaker 2: a loss because I didn't have my rackets, So I
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  Speaker 2: was like, that's not going to be the narrative today.
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  Speaker 1: But even slow when you were interviewing Coco and you
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  Speaker 1: asked about the leather jacket, part of what you said
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  Speaker 1: about it was, you know, I think it was Serena
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  Speaker 1: and what she came. You guys have changed the way
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  Speaker 1: fashion and tennis are involved, and you've challenged the norm
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  Speaker 1: and that's not always easy. Is that something that you
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  Speaker 1: also have kept going because you've been coming with fits
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  Speaker 1: all week? I feel like sometimes you see tennis and
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  Speaker 1: it's a polo shirt. You guys have done a lot
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  Speaker 1: to change that there.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely, I think fashion is a way to express yourself
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  Speaker 4: without having to speak per se. I think in tennis
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  Speaker 4: everything has been kind of you know, status quos, white shirts, polos.
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  Speaker 4: It's very basic and I think being able to wear
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  Speaker 4: things that make you feel good and make you feel
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  Speaker 4: happy and the colors are bright and all of those things,
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  Speaker 4: it actually makes you like it brings the best out
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  Speaker 4: of you, I feel like, and it's just like another
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  Speaker 4: part of an element that you can bring and help yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's so many different elements and things that
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  Speaker 4: happen around you, but that's something that you can control
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  Speaker 4: and you can like wear bright color and feel happy
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  Speaker 4: and like love what you're wearing, love what you put on.
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  Speaker 4: I feel good, I look good. I know nobody's touching
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  Speaker 4: this fit like all of that, right, that makes a
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  Speaker 4: big difference. When you're playing an individual sport and you're
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  Speaker 4: on TV and you look back and you see yourself
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  Speaker 4: on TV, you see what you're wearing, You're like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I look good, and.
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  Speaker 1: You have people emulating the looks and copying and they're
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  Speaker 1: tagging you and photos and stuff like that, it's gotta be.
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  Speaker 4: Special, definitely. I think obviously the leather jacket, I mean
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  Speaker 4: you collab like all of those things are so special
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  Speaker 4: and it's like the first time people are doing it,
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  Speaker 4: especially in the sport kind of like going out and
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  Speaker 4: actually trying to, you know, make an effort.
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  Speaker 3: To oh there, you're right there.
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  Speaker 4: Cute fashion, Yes, we love it, just bring.
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  Speaker 3: More to the court. Yeah, Cocoa.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get to help with some of these fashion
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  Speaker 1: ideas with New Balance when you're pre tournaments?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah for sure. We're usually planning like two
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  Speaker 2: years in advance, so yeah, this a lot goes into it, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you guys being the icons.
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  Speaker 3: I knew when I was young.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm going to be that girl who
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  Speaker 2: cares about her fits, and like a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: with these birds, you have to win to.
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  Speaker 3: Like get to that point.
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  Speaker 2: It took a while, but I'm grateful to New Balance
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  Speaker 2: for letting me experiment and yeah, just showing up, like
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  Speaker 2: Sloan was saying, showing up in a place and when
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  Speaker 2: you feel good on the court, it means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And also, I feel like being a black woman in
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  Speaker 2: this sport, like so much part of our culture is
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  Speaker 2: fashion and I wanted to bring some of that and
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  Speaker 2: continue to bring some of that into our sport. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really excited to just be able to showcase this
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  Speaker 2: on the biggest stages in tennis.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's a really cool scene here to see
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  Speaker 5: three of the greatest athletes in the history of women's
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  Speaker 5: send us all sitting beside each other, Three incredibly just
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  Speaker 5: profound black women who've done great things in this sport.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of want to divert a little bit to
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  Speaker 5: something that you Cake and Venus having common escape rooms
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  Speaker 5: and we walked out and go in the Yes, I remember.
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  Speaker 5: So I wanted to ask both of you specifically, do
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  Speaker 5: you have a favorite escape room experience? And Coco, don't
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  Speaker 5: be afraid to say the one in which I saved
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  Speaker 5: the day? Here, go ahead, don't remember that one doesn't
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  Speaker 5: ring a bell. No, I don't recall you didn't know
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  Speaker 5: what a floppy disc? Well, no, so you had a
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  Speaker 5: thumb drive.
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  Speaker 3: I have to show you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you put it in the computer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is experience that's a generational This is not
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  Speaker 2: my fault, like you know, But.
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  Speaker 5: Is there one that sticks out in particular?
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  Speaker 2: It was actually when we did with my family, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember. It was like my whole family and
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  Speaker 2: my uncle's there and I think I like fell on
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  Speaker 2: the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, my uncle Big Kat was there and.
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  Speaker 2: I think I fell on the ground because it was
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  Speaker 2: like a scary one and there was like a jump scare,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, that one was scary.
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  Speaker 5: And then I think.
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  Speaker 2: When you and Ben and I we did that one,
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  Speaker 2: the dragon.
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  Speaker 5: One, we had to crawl into the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one was pretty that.
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  Speaker 1: I've never done escape rooms, so I don't know this
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  Speaker 1: is one.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always down to do one, and they know that
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  Speaker 2: I love escape rooms. I think it's just fun. I
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  Speaker 2: like games and it makes me feel like I'm like
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  Speaker 2: in another world. So yeah, and I'm sure you can
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  Speaker 2: relate to.
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  Speaker 3: But she was doing it.
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  Speaker 2: We were there late, just one of the one other
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  Speaker 2: person I've never done on one other person, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I would be like they would hate me after
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  Speaker 2: he already because I'm like too.
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  Speaker 3: Mean in them.
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  Speaker 5: You get so controlling. In There's crazy, You're the.
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  Speaker 2: Only girl with two men in the room and they're
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  Speaker 2: like being dumb. Sometimes you have.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have a tendency to be the.
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  Speaker 4: Number three.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Chris were we were actually talking before you guys
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  Speaker 1: got here. Chris was talking about the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: got mentioned in the Tyler the Creator song.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, have you all.
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  Speaker 1: Been mentioned in different lyrics? And do you have a
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  Speaker 1: favorite of a song? Maybe you've been mentioned him. I
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  Speaker 1: can imagine Venus has been mentioned my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: She's in his Tia Tamara my Doja Cat. She says
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  Speaker 2: he got hits like Venus and Serena. She probably, yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 2: so one cool, But I don't know music that's my
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  Speaker 2: favorite that he's been mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: You got one.
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  Speaker 1: No to everyone out there, Sloan Stevens is the song
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, no, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean the fact that Tyler is your favorite,
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  Speaker 1: and he says it. Did you listen to it or
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  Speaker 1: did you get a text to let you know?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody sent me the video and I just like they're
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  Speaker 2: sending it because I like Tyler. They know I love Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Who was dropping new song? So I was watching it
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  Speaker 2: and then I heard him say my name and I
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: was like, whoa, this is cool. I went to his festival,
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  Speaker 2: went to his shows. I remember I brought my parents
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  Speaker 2: in one of his shows and they didn't get how
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: a dude in a blonde wig was selling out masses.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, he dropped me this song and then
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  Speaker 2: I got to meet him that after Miami Open, I
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: went to his concert and he got to meet up backstage.
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  Speaker 2: I lost to him in a race actually was faster
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  Speaker 2: than I thought, like on foot, Yeah, it was like
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  Speaker 2: it was like barefoot, kind of like I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to a concert.
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  Speaker 3: I did, But when did you end up in a race?
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  Speaker 5: Fasten?
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  Speaker 1: And I thought that he kindly, so he randomly was like,
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  Speaker 1: let's race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and yeah, but you know we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: a rematch next time, so I'll come prepared.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable, uh, Venus you, this crowd right here began to
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  Speaker 1: form when you came over, and what you and your
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  Speaker 1: sister did has been so incredible to change. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a direct representation of that. Their talent obviously,
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  Speaker 1: and who you are as people is who you are.
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  Speaker 1: But what what does it mean to you when you
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  Speaker 1: see someone like Coca, when you see someone like Sloan
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  Speaker 1: and you think about your father and your mother and
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  Speaker 1: your sister and the impact that you've had on this sport.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the impact starts with mom and dad, right then
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  Speaker 3: it affected Serena and I and then these ladies they
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: shine on their own. Of course, they're incredible, they're Grand
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  Speaker 3: Slam champions. So I'm so proud that that lineage of
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  Speaker 3: inspiration will continue and as a little girl I grew
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  Speaker 3: up in Compton, I just wanted to I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be at this tournament. I wanted to win this tournament.
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  Speaker 3: But then you realize so much more comes with it,
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  Speaker 3: bigger than your dreams, better than your own dreams for yourself.
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  Speaker 3: So it's fantastic. And you guys inspire me at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day too. And you guys have played
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  Speaker 3: so well against me too. These two have beat me
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  Speaker 3: and didn't care what it felt like. I was, is
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  Speaker 3: this what I deserve?
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  Speaker 1: This is actually a great moment.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, it's like actually therapy right now.
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  Speaker 2: You know when I played you, I just tried to
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  Speaker 2: pretend that it wasn't you. I was like, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to pretend that it is somebody else because I can't
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  Speaker 2: take this right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's slow when you line up against Venus and she's thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you don't care?
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  Speaker 3: What was it like though? It was awful?
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  Speaker 4: No, we's played here, And I was like, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: can't be wrong, draws, it's not it wasn't me. And
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, well.
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  Speaker 3: That much okay, it sounds about right at the French
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  Speaker 3: Open too.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, but it was it's very stressful anytime you
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  Speaker 4: pull up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh that's us, Oh that's us. We played here too,
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  Speaker 2: We played here. We all just play here.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I got soap into Yeah, we are so cute, Kobe,
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: You're so small. I was fifteen. She is it a double?
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I broke a racket this match. Venus is like she
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: did that because she had to. That's what she told
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: the rest.
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: But it was a feeling afterwards when you get the
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: w I'm sure you went up and you were excited
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: for the hug, the handshake in them all.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I mean when I played her, I told her everything at.
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: The net, remember the just chit chatty. Venus was so nice.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I I'm like, wait, what just happened? Good? Yeah, in
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: my head, I had rehearsed it. I was gonna do
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: it either way, but I didn't.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I just I was like I felt
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: like I had to say it, and like I actually
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: recently saw Serena and Vanity Fair and like I said
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: it to her in person, because I never had said
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: it to her in person. So I just felt like,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just thought that was gonna be
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: my only opportunity. So I was like I'll be if
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I wasted it and didn't say anything, I felt like
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I would have regretted it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: So you both are so humble. You deserved everyone and
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: I knew that, and it was shocking how good you
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: guys both were and are so you deserved it. I
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: can get over it now that we've talked about. Thank
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: you for sharing.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: This really did feel like the stars aligning. This felt
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: like a very special moment. This is TNT sports first
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: ever rolling gay Rospear here for at least the next
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: ten years, and for this moment to happen on day
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: five is a moment that I think this network will
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: always appreciate. Thank you guys for being here, Coco being
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a Sloan, Sam Chris the jabbronis it myself and we
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: are getting ready to get to another US woman. Sophia
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Kennon is going to be on court fourteen. We just
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: saw Joel Fonseka. But again, can we get more love
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: for the.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Ladies yet a little body?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: As TNT sports coverage of Roland Garros