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Tennis Legend Andre Agassi Talks Roland-Garros, Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner & Novak Djokovic · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Last chance going out there getting a win and cementing
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  Speaker 1: himself as a true champion on clay. Eventually he would
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  Speaker 1: get that Golden Slam.
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  Speaker 2: What a moment that was.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are this is an honor for me and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to say to be surrounded by these
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  Speaker 1: Hall of famers, Lindsey Davenport, Jim Currier, Andre Agassy and Sam.
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  Speaker 3: What a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Andre, Thank you for joining us. Can't wait to work
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  Speaker 1: with you. This, I know, is a real special relationship
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  Speaker 1: both on the court. What does this place mean to
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  Speaker 1: you when you see Chatrier? This used to be the
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  Speaker 1: bull ring, right? What does all this bring back with you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? The bull rank came with some very strategic scheduling.
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  Speaker 4: There was very few people I wanted to play in
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  Speaker 4: the bull rink, and I tried to look at that
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  Speaker 4: draw ahead of time and convince whoever I needed to
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  Speaker 4: if I have to play that guy put me on
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  Speaker 4: that court. Used to be quick, The sound was unique.
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  Speaker 4: But everything's tough about winning this tournament from hour to hour, Right,
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  Speaker 4: it can be different. Condition is what it asked to
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  Speaker 4: your body? I mean Sam, by the way, it's so
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  Speaker 4: nice being as tall as you. Yeah, we boosted your
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  Speaker 4: chair uts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is what it's like. Huh No, it
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  Speaker 3: feels great to be back. It feels great to be
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  Speaker 3: back sitting next to you, then across the net.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to be on the same side of net for
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  Speaker 2: the For.
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  Speaker 3: The record, we watch the battles and you guys, great job.
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  Speaker 2: They're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 4: And the only reason why it was in earlier t
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  Speaker 4: T gave me the wrong dates of this tournament. Really, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm on my fault. I would have been here
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Craig Barry, We're gonna have to have a talk
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  Speaker 3: with you later.
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  Speaker 2: That actually fooled me for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Everything, Lindsey, I just you you were out there playing
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  Speaker 1: earlier today. What I love, what I've enjoyed is having
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  Speaker 1: all these new faces with tennis joining us at TMT.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have known each other for so long to
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  Speaker 1: now be working together on camera. What's this like for
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  Speaker 1: some Hall of famers that love this sport so much?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's one of the highlights because when you
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  Speaker 5: get to know people while you're playing on tour, sometimes
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  Speaker 5: you don't get to know them that well. But when
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  Speaker 5: you step away from the sport and you start discussing
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  Speaker 5: the sport, you really kind of gravitate towards those who
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  Speaker 5: love it, who understand it, who love to break it down,
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  Speaker 5: who are tennis nerds.
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  Speaker 3: And we've assembled a.
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  Speaker 2: Great group here.
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  Speaker 5: It's been an amazing almost two weeks here with some
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  Speaker 5: of my favorite people in the sport. Now we've got
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  Speaker 5: Andre here, it's pretty cool to pick his brain and
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  Speaker 5: see what he's feeling going into crunch time here at
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  Speaker 5: this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just to let everybody know what our plans are
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  Speaker 1: for the next few days as we have the men
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  Speaker 1: semi finals and the finals is we just want to
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  Speaker 1: hang out with you and watch tennis, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have good conversations. We're going to let the moment breathe.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to overanalyze or overproduce. It's TNT.
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  Speaker 3: We just go with the flow.
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  Speaker 2: So over analyzing can't guarantee when as Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: We want you to go very deep. Why don't we
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  Speaker 1: put up the Stella Artois order of play so we
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  Speaker 1: can see what we have tomorrow and what a final
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  Speaker 1: four we have Lorenzo Mussetti, one of the best on
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  Speaker 1: play in the world, taking on Carlos Alcarez that I
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  Speaker 1: know Andre Agassy cannot get enough up. And then the
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  Speaker 1: night match, the number one man in the world, Yannick
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  Speaker 1: Center taking on twenty four time major title champion Novak Djokovic.
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  Speaker 1: That first match up, I have a feeling that you two, you're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be in the booth. That's the word we're hearing.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get in there and chop it up.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give it a go. Man, this talks at tennis.
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  Speaker 2: What are we going to be looking at when you
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  Speaker 2: think about that matchup and you think about Alcaraz and Mussetti.
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  Speaker 2: What's the first thing that pops into your head about
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  Speaker 2: that matchup? Permission to make a point that is totally
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  Speaker 2: off topic. Mussetti is the best looking guy left in
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  Speaker 2: the drama.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, start, he might be the best.
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  Speaker 4: Looking guy in the whole tournament before this tournament started,
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: I ran into him in New York and I said,
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, I just I can't. I introduced myself. I said,
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  Speaker 4: can I just take a picture with you? Because I
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  Speaker 4: have to prove to my wife, who doesn't believe me
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  Speaker 4: that every lady I've talked to says you're.
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  Speaker 3: Easy on the eyes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I took a picture next to
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  Speaker 4: my big bald, ugly head, and it's like.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll keep it fitte.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, she she doesn't have a thing for Italians,
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  Speaker 4: but she absolutely thought he was good looking to amazing.
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  Speaker 4: So in addition to the attractiveness, so his game lives
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  Speaker 4: up to his looks. Let's put it that way. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I think his game is a beautiful game. The artistry
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  Speaker 4: in it, the creativity in it, the ability to make
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  Speaker 4: magic happen seemingly out of nowhere, the ability to offset paces,
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  Speaker 4: the ability to sort of generate. I mean, he brings
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  Speaker 4: back to one hander like a dream, right Like, every
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  Speaker 4: time he hits it, I just feel like, just can
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  Speaker 4: you just see that again in slow motion? You know,
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  Speaker 4: plays plays a little passive for me. He can't generate,
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  Speaker 4: and he can't he likes matches to come to him though.
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  Speaker 4: That's the only thing that scares me about the matchup.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he tends to want to settle into a point.
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  Speaker 4: He wants to defend his movement.
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  Speaker 3: His epic.
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  Speaker 4: His competitive competitiveness is epic, but his movement on clay
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  Speaker 4: as falling flowers.
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  Speaker 3: He's never really out of position. Even if you bleed him.
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  Speaker 4: But the deal is he tends to get a little
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  Speaker 4: bit passive early in the point and kind of let
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  Speaker 4: the point unfold. And if you let him get away
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  Speaker 4: with that, that's a problem. I thought, Tiaffo. Respect to
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  Speaker 4: the American men. God, it's so nice to see the
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  Speaker 4: tournament they've had. Yeah, but like Francis has a game
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  Speaker 4: that can that can hurt Massti, right, but on clay
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  Speaker 4: he only kind of gets one shot at that. Messti
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  Speaker 4: is a movement that can offset that one intensity and
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  Speaker 4: then turn it into a point that drags on and
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  Speaker 4: just let the movement and the experience of making that
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  Speaker 4: ball dance away from Tiafa. So he's taking heavier risks
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  Speaker 4: sort of comes into factor. Well, that's not going to
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  Speaker 4: be the case with Alcaraz. I mean if he lets
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  Speaker 4: Alcaraz settle into dictating play, and if we have a
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  Speaker 4: day like this where it's a little heavy, which by
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  Speaker 4: the way, I think helps Alcaraz because Alcaraz can't seem
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  Speaker 4: to govern himself. So if the weather is heavy enough
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  Speaker 4: to govern him and he has the freedom to hit
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  Speaker 4: out in his ball, I mean he can absolutely do
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  Speaker 4: some damage with blows.
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  Speaker 3: I mean his.
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  Speaker 4: Left jab is like a straight right. It's pretty incredible
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  Speaker 4: to watch.
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  Speaker 3: I know that.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Andre is one of those guys that asks for homework,
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  Speaker 1: which is incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Stop talking about me like I'm not here, you, Carlos Alcaraz.
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  Speaker 1: You notice to change in the backhand from last year
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  Speaker 1: to this year. He's so young but still improving. What
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  Speaker 1: did you notice when you looked at the tap?
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  Speaker 3: You didn't notice that I don't have the brains and
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  Speaker 3: the eyes that you have.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I mean I do like the adjustment
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  Speaker 4: he's made. I mean, so here's last year, right, he's
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  Speaker 4: taking the ball up higher. His right arms a little bent, right,
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  Speaker 4: so the racketead's.
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  Speaker 3: Going up long before it comes down.
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  Speaker 4: Now, when you've got a guy like this, like you
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  Speaker 4: freeze it right there, that arms slightly bent.
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  Speaker 3: He's taking it up pretty darn high. Now he has
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  Speaker 3: to drop.
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  Speaker 4: It, get underneath, pull through at the right hand and finish.
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  Speaker 4: The dude is so fast twitched that really what he
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  Speaker 4: has in his backhand there is just a variable that
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't need to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: This is a year, it's different. Look how he's taking
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  Speaker 3: this ball rage back.
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  Speaker 4: He takes it back with the straight right arm, his left,
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  Speaker 4: his way under control.
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  Speaker 3: So what happens when you take when I used to
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  Speaker 3: take the ball. It's a great way to simpliz like
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  Speaker 3: a golf swing.
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  Speaker 4: Right you get to the top of your swing, you
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  Speaker 4: have that pause, you drop in the slot, and then
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  Speaker 4: you let it go.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting himself to that spot right away.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I love about it because that not
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  Speaker 4: only gives an option to sort of settle down some misfires,
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  Speaker 4: but he can hold the ball longer. When you watch here,
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  Speaker 4: like because of what he's doing. See his racket faces
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  Speaker 4: already closed. That ball can travel deeper. That ball travels
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  Speaker 4: deeper in the strike zone. They don't know if he's
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  Speaker 4: gonna hold pull across or if he's gonna hold and
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  Speaker 4: just go inside offline, and he can just leave his
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  Speaker 4: opponent with like their jus stopping the ground. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: look at this, the guy just he can go either
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  Speaker 4: direction with it. Because intennis power and control comes from
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  Speaker 4: time spent on racket with the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care how you swing.
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  Speaker 4: If you swing like Nadal, if you swing through, you
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  Speaker 4: can keep that ball in the racket a split second longer.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking about nuances. You've got more power, you got
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  Speaker 4: more control, and you've got more deceptions.
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  Speaker 3: So you're talking about a guy who's crazy athletic.
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  Speaker 4: The issue I had with taking it back like Novak
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  Speaker 4: or taking it back like Algarez, my hands were so
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  Speaker 4: tied to my feet that once I got in that position,
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  Speaker 4: I felt like my feet stop and I needed every
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  Speaker 4: bit of action with my These guys don't need it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're so damn fast, So just getting him
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  Speaker 4: to simplify his feet are still going, but I think
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  Speaker 4: it brought down a little bit of his blood pressure
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  Speaker 4: and allows him to kind of hit the ball more.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say consistently with the spray chart that you just
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  Speaker 4: don't feel like he's gonna all of a sudden miss
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  Speaker 4: one by mileth him.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a joy also having Killer Cahill on our
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  Speaker 1: staff as well, giving us some insight for Yannix Thater.
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  Speaker 1: What a match we have afterwards? Again, this is an
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  Speaker 1: incredible forsome center Djokovic. What do you think a kind
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  Speaker 1: of a show we're going to get on shot?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I mean these guys there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of similarities. You know. They both work with an
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  Speaker 2: Italian coach named Ricardo Piatti when they were young, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of similarities in the balanced attack that
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  Speaker 2: they bring the forehand in the back end. There's no
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  Speaker 2: hole that you can really get to with these guys.
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  Speaker 2: They can hurt you on both sides. But Novak's sort
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  Speaker 2: of instinct he's more of a defensive minded first player. Instinctively,
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  Speaker 2: He's worked on his offense and his offense has gotten
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  Speaker 2: unbelievably good. Center is an offense first guy, right. I
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  Speaker 2: think about it that Novak's sort of default mode is
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  Speaker 2: lock down mode, and it's knockdown mode for Center. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to knock you down. With the first chance that
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  Speaker 2: he can get, He's gonna throw punches. Now. He's been
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  Speaker 2: having his way with Novak that in their last last
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  Speaker 2: five matches, Center's won four of those. The one match
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  Speaker 2: the Novak beat him. They played twice in the same
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  Speaker 2: week they played at the tour finals in twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season. Granted, it's a faster court,
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  Speaker 2: it's indoors, this is Klay. It's going to be slow
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow because the roof looks like it might be closed,
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  Speaker 2: or even if it's not, it's going to be cold.
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  Speaker 2: Novak really nuked his forehand. He realized that he needed
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  Speaker 2: to be the offensive player offense first. There will he
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  Speaker 2: be able to hold that him. He has jumped his
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  Speaker 2: four hand speed something like six or seven miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour faster than the average, and that threw Center on
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  Speaker 2: his heels. Now Center has beating him since then, so
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  Speaker 2: that the secret's out. But I think Novak has to
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  Speaker 2: play an offense first kind of match because for so
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  Speaker 2: many years we just didn't see Novak.
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  Speaker 3: Or Roger or Rafa for that matter, play.
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  Speaker 2: Bad matches and beat themselves. Guess he's doing that Nowick
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  Speaker 2: Center does not beat himself. Alcaaz has the highest peak
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  Speaker 2: in men's tennis right now, but the highest consistent level
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  Speaker 2: of tennis. That's Janick Centers and this guy Djokovic used
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  Speaker 2: to have it, but he's been a little up and down.
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  Speaker 3: This year.
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  Speaker 2: Has been great to see him bring it back. But
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  Speaker 2: Center has so much power. He's six foot four and
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  Speaker 2: he moves great, and he's got that same type of
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  Speaker 2: flexibility with the open stance swings and the slides double A.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just glad we don't have to deal with this guys.
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  Speaker 2: Jenner dude, good only one good thing about being olds
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  Speaker 2: is we don't have to play those well.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what's bad about being old is everybody
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  Speaker 4: gets taller. He's only six three and a half. You
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  Speaker 4: lost a half inch, right, But it is just to
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  Speaker 4: add a touch. I mean, he couldn't agree more with what
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  Speaker 4: you said. But Novak's deal, what he gets on the
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  Speaker 4: tennis court has been always been a fascinating thing to me.
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  Speaker 4: It's like his instinct is to go like a boxer
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  Speaker 4: that wants to permission for a sports metaphor permission granted,
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  Speaker 4: but he's like a boxer that wants to feel the
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  Speaker 4: leather on his face.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to hit. Take your best bunch. No, he
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  Speaker 3: can handle it.
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  Speaker 4: So he gets out there and he lets you throw
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  Speaker 4: blows at it him and he fights it off. Then
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  Speaker 4: he gets a little irritated, like he keeps throwing blows
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  Speaker 4: at him.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Then he goes, I got okay, I gotta go
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  Speaker 3: in a lockdown defense. That's it.
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  Speaker 4: And then he goes into his hyper like sonic defense
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  Speaker 4: mode and he takes that kind of pounding and resist
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  Speaker 4: it and score line is closed.
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  Speaker 3: And then he gets a little pissed off at that. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: and then he goes no, no, no, Now I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: bring in a little offense.
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  Speaker 4: Then he sprinkles in the offense and the opponent says
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  Speaker 4: to himselves, wait a second, I was on offense. I
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  Speaker 4: went from hitting some winners to having to hit five
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  Speaker 4: winners to win a point, to hitting no winners. Now
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  Speaker 4: this guy's on offense. How the hell am I supposed
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  Speaker 4: to win this tennis match? He just rips your heart out.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he wants to beat your mom too, Right,
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  Speaker 3: it's like the whole family, like the whole family and
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  Speaker 3: one go.
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  Speaker 4: So his choice when he plays, you know, center, is
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  Speaker 4: real simple. Can he use his lockdown defense to stop
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  Speaker 4: the arsenal of ciner I just you know, I mean
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  Speaker 4: bet against Novak at your own peril. But if he
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  Speaker 4: just goes out there to lockdownuntil he gets comfortable, he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be facing somebody that can throw blows. It's
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  Speaker 4: going to be like somebody rope a dooping Mike Tyson
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  Speaker 4: in his prime.
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  Speaker 3: Right, It's like, can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: Then if he goes to offense, he needs to be
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  Speaker 4: able to do offense better than center. So the question
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  Speaker 4: is how is he going to balance that? I agree
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  Speaker 4: he needs to come out aggressive. But even if he
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  Speaker 4: comes out aggressive, is it going to be enough to
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  Speaker 4: withstand the barage that's coming from the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's funny you were talking about he could just
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  Speaker 1: fend everything off.
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  Speaker 3: Sam and I snuck down to the court side seats
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  Speaker 3: last night and we.
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  Speaker 1: Watched that forty one hit rally Savansovich where it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like there was multiple times where Alex was going to put.
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  Speaker 3: It away and Novak just kept fighting.
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  Speaker 1: I figured we could watch this route.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and why did you have to sneak? They don't
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  Speaker 3: let you in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have it like you do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm new here.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this the rep can do all day.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is he needs to have more of a
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  Speaker 4: game plan than just this against Novak. Novak's not moving,
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  Speaker 4: he's not getting doom physically, but they both with great
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  Speaker 4: back ends, and I think Alex Asashas is the best
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  Speaker 4: best best in the game possibly.
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  Speaker 5: A time.
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  Speaker 2: Good News.
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  Speaker 3: Were only about halfway through the rally, but you see
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  Speaker 3: that the first ball that goes to the forehand side,
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  Speaker 3: the dude has to back up and gives Moveac complete
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  Speaker 3: control the point. Although nobody has control the point of
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  Speaker 3: the moment.
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  Speaker 4: That's what drives me nuts. Him having to wait to
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  Speaker 4: hit a forehand. I mean, you're in control of the point.
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  Speaker 4: Oh look at these guys cover the territory. Oh, they
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  Speaker 4: make me so glad I'm sitting here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, left lindsay.
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  Speaker 3: It was a moment he stood there when he soaked
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  Speaker 3: in the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: The umpire stopped the serf clock and at that moment,
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  Speaker 1: Sam looked at me and said, that's it, Like that
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  Speaker 1: was the moment where he took it. When you're facing
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  Speaker 1: someone that has that much legacy behind them, that's another
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: part of this match. Center is so excellent. But Novak
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: has history on his side as well.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah he does.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: But I think the recent results also become pretty relevant
• 14:03
  Speaker 5: to the players in the locker room, and they'll see
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: how has Novak played the last six to twelve months,
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: What is he brought out to the court. They're going
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: to see a lot of injuries out there. Obviously, everybody
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: knows he's the greatest Grand Slam player we've had at
• 14:15
  Speaker 5: twenty four, going for twenty five.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: But I don't think it.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: Deters a player like Center who just seems to be
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: so focused on his goals and how he wants to
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: play out there earlier rounds. Yes, I think that makes
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: a big difference. I'm not sure in these last two
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: rounds it will.
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: You don't get to pick your draw, but I bet you,
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: in the heart of hearts, if you asked Novak would
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: you rather play Alcaraz than Center, he would take Alcaraz
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: all day long because of the variants, because Alcaraz can
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: kind of ride the wave up and down, and he
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: did that in Australia in the quarterfinals. Novak got hurt
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: and interactly and he was able to still work his
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: way through that match.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: Totally agree, but not only even Additionally that Alcaz hits
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: the ball that's always coming up, which gives Noveak the
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: chance to laid downhill and get more aggressive.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I mean Center hits the bull that goes through.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: We just watched whatever forty ball right, forty one forty
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: one ball rally. Those guys what let Novak off the hook?
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, at thirty eight, you got to say something
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: has to be different than when he was thirty two.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: But what let him off the hook is every time
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: he then went to the forehand side, the red would
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: back up and then throw something in that went up again,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: where Novak can take over controlling. That's not happening against Centner.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: I mean there's no breathing. He don't know if he's
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: left handed or right handed. When he's throwing, blows off
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: either wings.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I mean you also mentioned Carlos the Olympics right here,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Novak Djokovich. Jovak Djokovic has not lost at Chatrier since
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals in twenty twenty two to Rafa Nadal because
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: he pulled out against Caspar Rude. He made the run
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Olympics here as well. We have fifteen major champions here
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: and Sam. It's pretty awesome this combination.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: He beat Djokovic twice.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: What's up with the ties, by the way, I mean,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I watch you for ten days and everybody and I
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: show up here and you're like wearing tie.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: It's semifinal.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: We gotta dress it up, you know.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: To be honest, Andre, we were a little nervous.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I brought two ties, Andre, I'll give you one.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: We didn't get that memo on this side of the table.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: We didn't get the dress up.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Now, well, we wanted to dress up for the women's
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: semi finals. We wanted to make sure that they had
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: the honor. Why don't we do little business. Stella Artois
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: are perfect serve of the day, and it was Arena
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Sablenka Lindsey.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Her game right now is top notch. Yeah, it is.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: In The roof being closed definitely helped this part of
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: her game. She was a little off early on with
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: her serve and then.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: It picked up.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Played one of the best sets of the tournament in
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: that third set.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: The serve has become such a weapon.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: The liability three years ago and she's worked so hard
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: to have her first strike tennis be the best in
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: women's tennis, whether it be the serve or the return.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Tough to defend against her power on any surface.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: You're here and I got to ask Coco, Arena, what
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: are your initial thoughts.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: My initial thoughts right off the bat is Sablenka and
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: how she's playing and trying to defend against that. Let's
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: wait to see what the weather brings. If the roof's
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: closed or open on Saturday, that could be a big
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: difference as well. Coco, the first week, the level that
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: she played probably not good enough to win this tournament.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: The level that she's shown in the last three sets
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: that she's played, the third set.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Against Keys and the two sets.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Today we're talking about a much different golf.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: And it was a joy to watch another American making
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it to the finals for the women.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: That's was very ramatically.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I love it social media. I believe we have some
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: posts or it might be a flashback actually April forty
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: seven years ago, Borg and that's really you.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: That's me with a Kavasaki racket, if you can believe.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I think that's Kawasaki. Just turned eight years old and
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: something like that. It's still my dad's haircut where he
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: stuck a bowl over my head, a little bit of
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: for real, yeah, oh yeah, and you don't you got
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: it too?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: And you actually used a ball bowl because I've always
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: heard it was a bulk and I didn't know there
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: was actually a bowl.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I want to know how critical my dad was talking
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: about turning me into some kind of tortured perfections. This paper,
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: this picture came out in the paper, and he's like,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: look at when Bord returned survey ends his knees.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Look at your knees. Oh my god. I was like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: oh my god.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: So every time I look at that picture, I'm like,
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: why am I standing so straight?
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Aren't you wearing a Jimmy Connors brand shirt. There is
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: like the.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: JC man, I'm sprouting his hair.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: You got the Connor's hair and that the tube socks
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: for the raid Allan King Tennis tournament.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: He's come to town once a year in Vega. Cool.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the great city of Las Vegas. Two
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of the best to ever do it. Tomorrow it is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: going to be the men's semifinal. Cannot wait to watch
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: those stars in action, sexiest spent alive.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Somebody let Mussetti know, just don't let it throw A
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: minute before People did. Yeah, People Magazine hone may or
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: may not be a real People Magazine cover up.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I still said at first.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: The rain has set the tempo here in Paris. We
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: are going to go stay dry and we will see
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow as we get ready for the men's semi
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: final at Roland Garros, the Cathedral of Clay, the beautiful
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: city of Paris will wait one more night as Agacy Davenport,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Courier and Query will join.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Me on the desk.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Love you guys, see you soon. We are the center
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: of the universe and we can't wait to see you tomorrow.