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Alexander Zverev is Under the Most Pressure to Win at Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And check this out, Sam Vera versus the field, experience
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  Speaker 1: versus opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you have ben chic fanseeka hudar, who've all
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  Speaker 2: been around for about one to three years, this is
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  Speaker 2: what the numbers are going to look like. Vera has
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  Speaker 2: been ranked, you know that three to five reign for
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  Speaker 2: the last five six years, and his numbers on that
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  Speaker 2: left side, callumn showing.
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  Speaker 3: It is now my distinct honor, my.
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  Speaker 1: Privilege to welcome jump backing road in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: I've been waiting for this palm. You're so full of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you think so.
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  Speaker 4: What I like in terms of you waiting for me,
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  Speaker 4: this all this time for me to come on the set,
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  Speaker 4: is this. This is the biggest set I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: Is a tennis evander.
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  Speaker 3: To the Last Supper.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the middle, which means I'm in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: You got to call it. What did you see from Zverah?
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  Speaker 3: How impressed were well?
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  Speaker 4: First of all, Zaverav's under more oppression than he had
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  Speaker 4: had is his life because he should win this obviously, right,
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  Speaker 4: it's right there for the taking. There's no Carlos, no Yannick,
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  Speaker 4: no Novec. So if he doesn't win it. There's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of us thinking, correct me if I'm wrong. Panel,
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  Speaker 4: You're doing a great job, by the way, I've been
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  Speaker 4: watching the whole time in the first week, especially Adam,
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  Speaker 4: You've been doing a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Really. Yeah, you have big You bring a butt there,
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  Speaker 3: so oh no, there's no butt. You guys here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he brings some youth and some energy, and
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  Speaker 4: you were here in the sauna the first week. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I love saunas, but I don't like it when I'm
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  Speaker 4: doing and on camera. So I got to commend you guys.
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  Speaker 4: And you know zevervs. He came out tight the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of matches, but he stepped up big. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that Serve is you know, well this guy, yeah, biggest
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  Speaker 4: server in the history. Sam, you could serve pretty big also,
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  Speaker 4: but this guy backs it up with some serious ground.
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  Speaker 4: He's also so to me, the way he's serving and
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  Speaker 4: actually stepping into four hands is what we've been waiting for,
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  Speaker 4: I think for the past two three, four years, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to finally do this to get over the hump, and
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  Speaker 4: I think he's going to do it. Anyone disagree with me.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with the serving. We mentioned it before. He
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  Speaker 3: came here. Ladies. You said Kasper Rude was going to
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  Speaker 3: win the other day, didn't you. Yeah, but Casper's house.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we can't listen to Sam. Sam said that
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  Speaker 5: Medvedev was going to win.
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  Speaker 3: You said that at least the biggest threat to don't
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  Speaker 3: worry about that.
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  Speaker 4: The threat to center interesting.
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  Speaker 3: But we're weird.
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  Speaker 6: Just before you got here, Joe, we're talking about serving
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  Speaker 6: that well and then backing it up with the rest
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  Speaker 6: of his game. And to be that tall and move
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  Speaker 6: around that well and return that well. He's the tallest
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  Speaker 6: best returner I've ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 2: The wait hit.
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  Speaker 6: How quiet he keeps his body for being so big
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  Speaker 6: is so impressive. He's moving around that last that match
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  Speaker 6: point is indicative of how he's playing so far in
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  Speaker 6: this tournament. Sliding for him winner straight up the line.
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  Speaker 6: He's got everything right now. He's got two days off.
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  Speaker 6: He probably would only want to prefer one day off,
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  Speaker 6: but he's looking good.
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  Speaker 3: It's his term to lose, for sure. But I agree
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  Speaker 3: with John.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he's got so much pressure on him, and
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  Speaker 5: you felt that, especially in the last match today. I
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  Speaker 5: felt like he came out there, he was nervous, but
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  Speaker 5: then he kind of figured it out and then it
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  Speaker 5: was smooth sailing from there. It's almost like watching our
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  Speaker 5: next play, you know, so much pressure's new, Well, now
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  Speaker 5: is our time when your.
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  Speaker 3: Next life.
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  Speaker 1: The next So I know he also played for the Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but hey, congratulations on the final. He also played
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  Speaker 3: for the Spurs as well.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but he was the captain of the next Okay,
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  Speaker 5: that's right, he got drafted.
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  Speaker 3: I want to put Ralph.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give him his credit, Hodar, what he
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  Speaker 1: did in this tournament, making a name, going from seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seven in the world last year to the
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  Speaker 1: quarterfinals this year. From what you saw today and also
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  Speaker 1: what you saw from the tournament, what future does he
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  Speaker 1: have ahead of it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the futures am incredibly bright. But hopefully for
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  Speaker 4: the kids listening, especially at my tennis academy, look what
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  Speaker 4: this kid did. He didn't sort of jump to the
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  Speaker 4: pros immediately. I think it affected fan sake in a
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  Speaker 4: negative way, the expectation he's finally coming into his own
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  Speaker 4: But he went to UVA for a year sort of
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  Speaker 4: got to be around kids his own age, you know,
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  Speaker 4: grow up a little bit. On his own, not have
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  Speaker 4: the pressure the spotlight on him, and so he's developed.
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  Speaker 3: In a more normal way.
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  Speaker 4: I highly recommend that, especially now that the you get
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  Speaker 4: paid to play college tennis pretty sweet, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: that's another reason not to have to jump to the
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  Speaker 4: pros right away. So this is it's a great you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's everything you've seen from him leads you to believe
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna win majors.
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  Speaker 2: You could see how important momentum is too. Kind of
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  Speaker 2: came out of nowhere three months ago, started playing well
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  Speaker 2: and it just started. It was like a snowball effect, right.
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  Speaker 2: He got better and better each match he played. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most play court matches this season at
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  Speaker 2: the RED and so you can make that when things click,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like they click fast in tennis. You see
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  Speaker 2: players on the men's side and the women's side go
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  Speaker 2: kind of from sometimes you know, one hundred two hundred
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  Speaker 2: in the world to top fifty in a span of
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  Speaker 2: six to eight months.