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Author Richard Kent on First U.S. Open Without Federer (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Queens and New York. We are going to take a
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  Speaker 1: look now at some of the big features, some of
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  Speaker 1: the big themes at this year's Open, we have two
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  Speaker 1: very special guests. Jennie brand Over continues with us. She
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  Speaker 1: is a partner at DHR International. She helps important people
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  Speaker 1: find big jobs on Wall Street and in technology. And
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  Speaker 1: she's also an avid, avid tennis player in a fionado.
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  Speaker 1: She's out here every year for the Open and another
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  Speaker 1: return engagement. Richard pent He's an attorney. He's also covering
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  Speaker 1: the Open this year again, part of the media, author
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  Speaker 1: of two books. The one I particularly want to focus
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  Speaker 1: on is a federal Nadal. So Richard, welcome back, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Well, let's start though. Roger Federer is
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  Speaker 1: not here. Roba Nadal is playing well despite and has
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  Speaker 1: many injuries of late, but American tennis. When I spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Nikolaitiary, Tennis Hall of Famer, he's the guy who
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  Speaker 1: did so much to create tennis training. American tennis needs
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  Speaker 1: more investment in its young players. Jack Sock is up
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  Speaker 1: in a very important match, an American man actually advancing potentially.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to jink them at the Open. And
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Harrison on Court seventeen, with an unbelievable crowd behind him,
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  Speaker 1: is tied in the second set against Marco Baghdad as
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  Speaker 1: Solus the first set six three. I mean, those are
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  Speaker 1: two great hopes for American tennis, and Jared Donaldson a
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  Speaker 1: great story in the zone. So what's wrong with American
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  Speaker 1: tennis that we do not, especially on the men's side
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  Speaker 1: on apart from Serena and I guess we're sister to
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  Speaker 1: be anyway, we don't. We don't get further like we
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  Speaker 1: used to. Well, I think if you asked me the
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  Speaker 1: question two years ago, I would have said that young
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  Speaker 1: athletes are going into other sports, other sports that they
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  Speaker 1: deemed to be more lucrative from day one, perhaps like
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  Speaker 1: baseball or basketball or football. But if asking me today
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  Speaker 1: with SoC on the court at the at was armstrong
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  Speaker 1: and with Ryan at that beautiful court seventeen, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, American tennis looks really good right now
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  Speaker 1: and the crowd is huge here, so clearly people care
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  Speaker 1: about it. So I personally miss Federal terribly. So do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's a same kind of open that it
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  Speaker 1: was before without him? Actually Federer told me yesterday to
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  Speaker 1: misses you before. Oh my god, No, it is not
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  Speaker 1: the same type of open as it was with Roger.
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  Speaker 1: And you could just listen to interviews and I'll take
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  Speaker 1: two of them. Stand about Rika obviously from Switzerland, Rogers
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  Speaker 1: doubles partner in the Olympics, not this time but at
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  Speaker 1: the previous times, and Raphael may doubt in their post
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  Speaker 1: match interviews they incorporate Roger's name, so it shows how
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  Speaker 1: significant he is to the game. Still, his Labor Cup,
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  Speaker 1: which was announced the Wednesday before the Open started, is
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  Speaker 1: you just being discussed in the media room all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Europe against the rest of the world in Czechoslovakia Prague
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  Speaker 1: next October, and that's a federal run event. His agency
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  Speaker 1: with Tony Godsick, is running it. So Federer is somewhere
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  Speaker 1: around the numbers of this event right now, even though
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  Speaker 1: he's I don't think he's on premises today. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: do think personally that each has changed tennis and how
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  Speaker 1: people wanted to watch him and they respected him, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave an incredible image at a very senior level
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  Speaker 1: to mentor correctly in tennis. So he's missed. Can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine going to Wimbledon as I have for a Murray
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  Speaker 1: Federer match at having the crowd route for Federer. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that that is that's almost incredulous. And and let
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  Speaker 1: me give you the other example, and that's right here,
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  Speaker 1: I believe in OH five when Roddick, who was playing
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  Speaker 1: Federer in the final, Roder went ballistic after saying, this
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  Speaker 1: is my country. I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the University of Nebraska football fan. And this crowd is
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  Speaker 1: for Roger Federer and Tiger Woods of all people, the
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  Speaker 1: sitting in Federer's box, which is unbelievable. So what about
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  Speaker 1: this year? What do you think in terms of who's
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  Speaker 1: gonna who's gonna come out the victor? Well, I picked
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  Speaker 1: uh in my bracket challenge uh Andy Murray to wint it.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's playing the best tennis right now. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I would have said forty two minutes ago that Chilich
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  Speaker 1: was a strong favor to win it. He's good chance
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  Speaker 1: of losing this act today. And del Potro has far
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  Speaker 1: and away the best forehand and Dennis even if Roger
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  Speaker 1: was in the game. And in terms of popularity and revenues, though,
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  Speaker 1: do we need to have another Roger Federitor Federer? And
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you know, I mean, I'm not this in Novak,
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  Speaker 1: Djokovic or Rafa who's still playing, But do you have
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  Speaker 1: to because all these guys are getting older? Do we
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  Speaker 1: need a youngster like that coming up? And same thing
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  Speaker 1: on the women's side, Serena is not gonna play forever.
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  Speaker 1: I think in terms of do we need another Roger Federer,
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  Speaker 1: it's really the big four, And it was the Big
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  Speaker 1: four previously with Lyndelle McEnroe, Borg and Connors and now
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  Speaker 1: obviously Djokovic, Nadal, Bari and Federer. So it's it's more
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  Speaker 1: than Roger. It's it's the fact that he's a part
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  Speaker 1: of the big four. So you know, if if it
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  Speaker 1: was a Roger isolated in two years with no clear
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  Speaker 1: definable number two or number three, I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: would do much for the game. Right. Well, how about
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  Speaker 1: the women's side, what are you thinking? I'm thinking Serena's
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  Speaker 1: gonna win this. I'm I'm thinking there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pressure that was taken off of her. But when the Molten,
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  Speaker 1: I think she's got a real chip on her shoulder
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  Speaker 1: because of what happened last year against Vinci. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I I don't know how this is gonna sound. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that vinc won that match. I think Serena
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  Speaker 1: lost that match, and I think Serena is gonna win this.
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  Speaker 1: I love Madison Keys, who's playing right now. I think
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  Speaker 1: she won the first set. I'm not sure the score
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  Speaker 1: in the second set, but she's a she's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a great, great player, and Woesniaki is playing a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: I watched her in New Haven in some eight days ago,
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  Speaker 1: losing the first day, and I said, she's done. And
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  Speaker 1: now it looks like the woes Naki, who was number
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  Speaker 1: one in the world for eight weeks at one point
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  Speaker 1: in time. Little known fact of old. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics are gonna affect Serena all emotionally or mentally
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  Speaker 1: in what way? Well, she didn't. She didn't really do
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  Speaker 1: that well, correct, I think that's a long nine. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you know what. I'm a normal person, she's not,
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  Speaker 1: so I guess that doesn't affect her. Yeah. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: went to her opening press conference and it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: annesly uh. But I don't think that's going to impair
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  Speaker 1: serious performance. All right, Well, just getting started. Richard can't
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  Speaker 1: thank you so very much for joining us his uh
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  Speaker 1: feddor Nadal, one of his books on talk as well.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, so you see and you can reach
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  Speaker 1: out like that. You can. I'm sure you can find
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  Speaker 1: his book many places. He's got such a good mind
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