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USA Tennis Star Sebastian Korda Talks Facing Nadal, Blind Ranks Sports Siblings _ 2025 Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: John Isner here from the Nothing Major podcast here at
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  Speaker 1: the Bleacher Report studio at Roland Garros, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest with us, the number twenty three
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  Speaker 1: seeded American Sebi Korda, through to the second round in
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  Speaker 1: four sets today over Luciano Darderi.
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  Speaker 2: We're out of Major.
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  Speaker 1: For the fans out there that may not know, Sebbi's
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  Speaker 1: dad is a Grand Slam winner. He won the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight Australian Open.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna play a little game right now called
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  Speaker 2: my dad can beat you.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you the current crop of players,
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  Speaker 1: one's retired, and you're gonna tell me if your dad
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  Speaker 1: in his prime can beat these players.
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  Speaker 3: If you could be these players, Yeah, not that he's
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  Speaker 3: playing them, yes, not that.
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  Speaker 1: He's playing your dad in his prime versus these players,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them are.
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  Speaker 2: In their primes. One of them is not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Taylor Fritz, I think you could.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're taking your dad, okay, Alex Demonauer, Yeah you
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  Speaker 1: could figure him out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Think Mina was a pretty good ball striker. He was.
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  Speaker 2: He was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: He's number two in the world, and I left that out.
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  Speaker 1: His dad was number two in the world won a
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam. That's a pretty high level.
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  Speaker 2: This one. You might have trouble with Yannick Sinner.
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  Speaker 3: On a clay court. I'm not liking his chances.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well go center there. What about a fast hardcore I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean the speed of the balls nowadays is too much? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I don't maybe I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Think so okay, all right, right Jack Draper, I think
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  Speaker 1: so okay, you're like this one then Sebbi Korda.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, the last time I played my dad, I lost
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  Speaker 4: O O and we've never played against each other ever again,
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  Speaker 4: So you're taking your dad, Yeah, I will say, have okay.
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  Speaker 2: The last one is John Isner. He's chopping me up.
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  Speaker 3: I mean us Kordas are two and one against you.
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  Speaker 1: So Sebbi's breakout tournament was the twenty twenty roll on
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  Speaker 1: Garrows event right here ate the round of sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: How old were you then?
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  Speaker 1: I was I was years old, twenty years old and
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  Speaker 1: you beat me? Yeah, four second round and four sets.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no ti breakers, no tie breakers.
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  Speaker 2: I was seated. He was ranked out you.
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  Speaker 3: Were I was like two hundred, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was two hundred in the world. I was top
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  Speaker 2: twenty in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, course seven, I got I got you.
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  Speaker 2: You beat the crap out of me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the last time we played you one, so that
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  Speaker 3: one hurts a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I actually knew you were going to be really
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  Speaker 1: good because I actually played alright, and you still beat me.
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  Speaker 3: Read your served like a little kid's book out there.
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  Speaker 2: It was cold and rainy, so it wasn't good for
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  Speaker 2: me anyways. All right, moving on for also the fans out.
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  Speaker 1: There, you have two sisters that are extremely good at golf.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Corda was a top ten player and your sister
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  Speaker 1: Nelly is the number one golfer in the world. This
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  Speaker 1: is so very impressive bloodline you courters have going on.
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  Speaker 1: I want to blind I want you to blind rank
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  Speaker 1: to me. I want you to blind rank these five
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  Speaker 1: sports siblings. Okay, from one to five. I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: you one. You getta tell me where they fit in
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  Speaker 1: right away. Okay, so let's start with Travis and Jason Kelsey.
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  Speaker 1: Where would you rank them?
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  Speaker 2: One to five?
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  Speaker 3: Multiple super Bowls? So probably go two, two?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Jack and Quinn Hughes.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't won anything yet yet, so let's go. I'll
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  Speaker 4: toss I'll talk him aut four.
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  Speaker 1: Four okay, Jessica and Nellie Corda.
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  Speaker 3: Those are my number one right there?
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  Speaker 2: Number one, okay, Venus and Serena.
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  Speaker 3: I might take that back.
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  Speaker 1: Uh three, three all right, last, but not least. You're
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  Speaker 1: putting Peyton and Eli at number five?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think I think I think they deserve to
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  Speaker 3: be right up there.
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  Speaker 1: Three Super Bowls, two Hall of Famers, number five, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're they're definitely number five.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry guys, y'all sting. So one of the big stories,
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  Speaker 2: uh this week.
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  Speaker 1: Happened just yesterday with raf and Adal having a retirement
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  Speaker 1: ceremony right here on court.
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  Speaker 2: Fleep, shatrier are heard a rumor? Now? Is it true
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  Speaker 2: that you named a pet after Roughing at All?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? It was a cat.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah when obviously growing up, I loved it all.
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  Speaker 4: I loved you too, John, but yeah, that was my
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  Speaker 4: guy and we had a pet cat and parents asked
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  Speaker 4: what we.
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  Speaker 3: Want to name it. I was like, first one, roughing
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  Speaker 3: at All.
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  Speaker 2: That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And the year we talked about when you beat me
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, you played him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I played him in twenty twenty in the round
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  Speaker 4: of sixteen. Right here, I played him. That was actually
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  Speaker 4: my dream match was. It was to play him at
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  Speaker 4: the French Open. I mean, this is the most dominant
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  Speaker 4: person I think of anything.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a dream result?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it was to win, but I don't
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really liking my chances when Squirrel. I think
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  Speaker 4: it was like one, two and two maybe, But I
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  Speaker 4: was breaking the third. I was breaking the third.
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  Speaker 2: Your ass kicked?
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  Speaker 3: How did you hold, sirp Well, I was down five zero,
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  Speaker 3: and I swear he gave me a game. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: swear I've never been six zero. I've never asked if
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  Speaker 3: I swear he gave me game.
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  Speaker 4: I had break points in the first game though, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: but but yeah I got uh, I got I got
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  Speaker 4: rinsed out there a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'll say your og dream was to play in
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  Speaker 1: the NHL. I'm a big hockey guy. You're a big
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  Speaker 1: hockey guy. We bonded over that. We bonded over hockey, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than we bond over tennis. You had
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  Speaker 1: a very special guest at your match today. Can you
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  Speaker 1: tell everyone who was at your match and how cool
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  Speaker 1: that was?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the biggest beauties in the NHL. Nathan McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, sent me a texts I think he was
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  Speaker 4: playing the World Championships over here, asking if he could
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  Speaker 4: come out.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, without without a doubt I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was scrambling the fund credentials and it was really cool.
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  Speaker 4: I met him today, took a photo with him, straight
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  Speaker 4: to the fantasy group chat fantasy hockey with you know,
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  Speaker 4: with mister Johnisner over here, and yeah, that takes up
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  Speaker 4: half of our time, doesn't Did.
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  Speaker 1: You feel like extra inspiration to play well for for
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  Speaker 1: Nate dog out there.
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  Speaker 2: On the court.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta you gotta throw a little extra extra into
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  Speaker 4: it when Nathan comes out.
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely, absolutely, Okay. What you played hockey up until
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  Speaker 1: what age exactly eleven? Why did you eventually check down
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  Speaker 1: to full time tennis?
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  Speaker 3: My dad coach Roddick Stepenick, who was my coach at
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  Speaker 3: one point.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: He played Novak uh Center courts in New York on
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  Speaker 4: Arthur Rash and O nine and already my parents were
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  Speaker 4: like telling me, you got to pick and choose what
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  Speaker 4: you want to do. It's getting a little too much
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  Speaker 4: driving everywhere and doing all different kinds of sports. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: fell in love with with the atmosphere. Then and went
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  Speaker 4: home and told my dad, I'm playing tennis, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, love it? That was it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were a very very good hockey player from uh,
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  Speaker 1: from what I hear your dad told me about your kids.
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  Speaker 2: My kids will they will they might play hockey.
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  Speaker 1: They will play a fourth line definition pushing them into hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, I got a lot of kids. They might
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  Speaker 2: play a little tits little hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Last one, you gotta give us three names not named yourself,
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  Speaker 1: Joannick Center or Carlos Alcarez that you think could possibly
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  Speaker 1: win here this week on the men's side at rolling Garrols.
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  Speaker 1: Give us three names outside of yourself, Carlos and Yank
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  Speaker 1: with the jack Draper.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, hold Garoon, you're taking a late wild card.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm out. Who do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I think? Muscetti?
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  Speaker 3: You think so?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think if he top ten in the
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  Speaker 2: four quarters, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think he Yeah, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Got a good little draw.
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  Speaker 3: Would you agree with Yeah? I go I gossetis all right?
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  Speaker 2: Draper runa Mussetti? Yeah, good list. I like yourself, Carlos
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  Speaker 2: and Yonk ahead of those three.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you. Best of luck, dude. Thanks. I appreciate it,