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Derrick Rose Talks Roland-Garros, Seeing His Game in Carlos Alcaraz & Retirement Life · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The youngest MVP and NBA history, a Chicago legend who
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  Speaker 1: changed the game forever. He's trading the hardwood for red clay.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get some noise for Derek ROMs. Everybody. According
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  Speaker 1: to my really in depth sources, this is not your
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  Speaker 1: first time here at Rolling No.
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  Speaker 2: This is my second time, and the first time, of course,
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  Speaker 2: was with Joe Kim Noah and his family. They blessed
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  Speaker 2: us and honored it. He was honored to be a
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  Speaker 2: part of the experience and coming in this time with
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  Speaker 2: my partners. We made the choice to come here and
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  Speaker 2: decided to be with you great guys, So thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having us.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you, brother, we do.
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  Speaker 2: You started playing tennis at an early age.
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  Speaker 3: How did you get into the sport?
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  Speaker 2: No, I played a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I heard you were sitting Come on, give up
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  Speaker 3: on a note. We have no proof to verify that,
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  Speaker 3: so you can hype it up.
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  Speaker 2: Not to be pompous. I want a trophy, wow, But seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I played a little bit. They brought the program to
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  Speaker 2: my school when I was in sixth grade. I played
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. We played that the auto show downtown
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  Speaker 2: where the McCormick Place Downtown Chicago. We played there, played
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  Speaker 2: in a few tournaments there, and we won the trophy.
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  Speaker 2: Then after that they took that program away from my school,
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  Speaker 2: and my dreams was right wiped away right from there.
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  Speaker 2: So I still love the sport. I love how the
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  Speaker 2: game is played, and I'm always intrigued whenever I see it.
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  Speaker 1: Derek, you said, this is your second time here.
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  Speaker 2: You played when you were younger.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get a feel for, like, do you
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  Speaker 1: watch tennis during the years or you just pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the majors? Do you know just a handful of players?
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  Speaker 3: You know every one of the top hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say the top hundred, but I'll watch whenever
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  Speaker 2: I can. Me and my family watch a lot. I
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  Speaker 2: love Alcaraz, Alcaraz that just started. I love how young
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  Speaker 2: I kind of can relate to him being you.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I said to the break, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Alcaraz is the Derek Rose like a ton
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  Speaker 1: of success, early, super athletic, explosive. You see yourself in them,
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  Speaker 1: play both.
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  Speaker 2: Sides of the ball. Of how he plays defense always
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  Speaker 2: goes for the ball, in which in tennis some balls
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't go after because you shouldn't waste that energy.
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  Speaker 2: But I love the attempt sometimes and he's always there.
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  Speaker 2: I love his foot speed, I love his pi, everything
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  Speaker 2: about him, his heart and he always fights. I love
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  Speaker 2: Tiafo too. I'm a U. I'm from the US, So
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  Speaker 2: I got to say tiafoa missed his game earlier, but
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  Speaker 2: keep your head up to Yafo.
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  Speaker 3: It's a huge moment for American tennis right now. Usually
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  Speaker 3: during Roland garrels, we don't do as well, but I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk. We had Novak joke bitch out here
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  Speaker 3: and he talked about his injury and the mentality. I
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  Speaker 3: think mentality across the board in all sports is really
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  Speaker 3: important and for everyone to kind of just get that
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  Speaker 3: little bit of tidbit.
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  Speaker 1: And Novak talked.
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  Speaker 3: About Kobe reaching out to him and how that really
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  Speaker 3: helped him. And I know you went through your own
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  Speaker 3: battle of injuries. Was there anyone special that reached out
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  Speaker 3: to you that just mentally just made you lock in
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  Speaker 3: that little bit when you had your doubts?
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  Speaker 2: Uh No. At that time, I was going through a
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  Speaker 2: dark time, you know. I was finding out who who
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  Speaker 2: I was as a person. I was learning self identity,
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  Speaker 2: self knowledge, and self revelation. Those three keys put me
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  Speaker 2: on my journey to ruin my hair, meet my wife,
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  Speaker 2: and creating my partners that I have now. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to break something that's already. It's working for
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  Speaker 2: me right now, so I'm gonna stick to it. Or
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  Speaker 2: when I did, when I was going through my adversity,
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  Speaker 2: I stuck to it. I really learned who I was
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  Speaker 2: as a person. I learned with what I can deal
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  Speaker 2: with while I couldn't deal with my flaws the good, bad,
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  Speaker 2: and ugly. And that's why I try to tell the
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  Speaker 2: younger guys, no matter what sports you're playing, you got
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  Speaker 2: to be able to go through all the three levels, good,
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  Speaker 2: the bad, and the ugly. The ugly can be surgery, adversity,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. Death in the family is something. The
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  Speaker 2: bad can be, you know, getting traded, et cetera. The good.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody can get through the good. But if you can
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  Speaker 2: get through those three levels and stay away from being neurotic,
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  Speaker 2: you should be good.
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  Speaker 3: And I want them to go talk to Francis right now,
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  Speaker 3: just hype them up.
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  Speaker 1: The American success that happened here was in the nineties, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and I can imagine there was a lot of Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Bulls jerseys. Even here in the nineties, there have been
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  Speaker 1: five Bulls jerseys retired. Yes, sir, you're getting your jersey
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  Speaker 1: retired by the Chicago Bulls next season. Yes, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be up there with Michael frickin Jordan. What does it
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  Speaker 1: mean for you to have that jersey lifted in a
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  Speaker 1: place where, twenty two years old, you're the MVP and
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  Speaker 1: you brought so much life to that city.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be an honor. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: it's not me that's receiving this award or receiving that
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  Speaker 2: the day or the experience. It's everybody, my teammates, the city,
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  Speaker 2: my teammates from Grammar school, high school, the Chicago area.
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  Speaker 2: They seen me play ever since I was in sixth
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  Speaker 2: grade and held me to a certain level and expectation
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  Speaker 2: ever since I was that young. We in Chicago we
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  Speaker 2: call that tough love, but I was used to it,
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  Speaker 2: and they held me play at a certain level because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to prove to the city and everybody that
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  Speaker 2: I was able to to get through chase my dreams.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time stay balanced and stay true to
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  Speaker 2: myself in the Chicago way and thank god I did that.
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  Speaker 2: So that day is not just for me. It's for
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  Speaker 2: everybody that watched me play, every kid that rushed home
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  Speaker 2: at seven o'clock to try to get in front of
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  Speaker 2: a TV. Whatever it was you do that gather step
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  Speaker 2: and just yam On, You're part of it, man, because
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't just me. I know that it takes a
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  Speaker 2: team to get to where I'm at, and I'm all
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  Speaker 2: about team.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Is that kind of your next step in life? Because
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  Speaker 3: now being retired and finishing off with the Knicks, your
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  Speaker 3: next step, what does that look like? Are you going
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  Speaker 3: to be reaching out to the younger generation? Are you
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  Speaker 3: going to just keep going on your path and your journey?
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  Speaker 3: What was the next steps look like?
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  Speaker 2: The next step is I'm going to use this.
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  Speaker 3: As a cheat code because I'm now in retirement.
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  Speaker 2: It's really just being myself. Like you were talking about
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  Speaker 2: before the camera came on, about just a passion, my
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  Speaker 2: passion right now on the chess league, right now I
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  Speaker 2: went medics. Carlson, the number one chess league in the
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  Speaker 2: world was like, that's lost. God shout to Magnets. But seriously,
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  Speaker 2: it was a dream. I always dreamed big and I
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  Speaker 2: love my team for always make me think macro, and
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  Speaker 2: whenever I do think uh micro, they always correct me.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a dream of mine to work with them,
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  Speaker 2: and I never thought i'd have a chance to actually
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  Speaker 2: partner with him. So at Chess League we have a
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  Speaker 2: flower shop that I'm opening up in Chicago. Of course
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  Speaker 2: because of my name Derek Rose, it plays off the
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  Speaker 2: name Steve Roses. So it's other verticals that I'm man too.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, I'm not going here to brag or be pompous.
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  Speaker 2: It's other things that I'm I'm gonna prime you about
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  Speaker 2: or later on in the future. But those are two
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  Speaker 2: things that I'm focusing on right now. First, before all
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  Speaker 2: that is at that the reason why I retired was
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  Speaker 2: because I wanted to be in my kids' lives and
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  Speaker 2: give them my undivided I grew up with my father,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm giving them my all and is working right
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  Speaker 2: now because I know that I made the right decision
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  Speaker 2: by the smiles on their faces, the way that they
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  Speaker 2: call their mom, will call my phone whenever I'm not
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  Speaker 2: around because they miss me. I know the importance of
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  Speaker 2: like just being there in their lives as a black,
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  Speaker 2: a black man.
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  Speaker 1: I will say you you came here, you were kind
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  Speaker 1: enough to come to our set. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: very important that when people are still thriving, you give
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  Speaker 1: them their roses. So if we can please give this
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  Speaker 1: man his roses while he is here, give them his
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  Speaker 1: flowers you were deserving. Oh we need roses, mister Rose
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  Speaker 1: a man right here. Thank you of course. And I
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  Speaker 1: hear that you're going to be micd up. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in there watching Carlos al Karaz Tommy Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Is this your first time that you're gonna get to
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  Speaker 1: watch Carlos live live?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, special man, I'll be recording up there. You see
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  Speaker 2: me with my phone.
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  Speaker 3: We want your insight, we want the intel he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's wearing a microphone, so he's we're gonna be recording it.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that because this was my first time going
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  Speaker 1: in there, the thing that's incredible to me. They can
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  Speaker 1: you can hear everything, and he is going to see you,
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  Speaker 1: and it's so special. And I'm telling you you are
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to give him power in this match.
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  Speaker 1: The only problem is he's taking on Tommy Paul the American.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't kind of want you to give too
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  Speaker 1: much power to Carlos south Ras. But how excited are
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  Speaker 1: you to watch that match tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very excited, man, Like I said, the experience being here,
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  Speaker 2: I always like putting myself in an uncomfortable situation, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't get comfortable with him. And this is a
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  Speaker 2: part of the journey right here, coming here, talking to
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  Speaker 2: you all, going in there. I'm an introvert or ambivert
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  Speaker 2: that's in between. So going in places where it's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, I tend to have anxiety from that,
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  Speaker 2: but because of the profession I chose tend to like
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  Speaker 2: mask it in a way. But yeah, I'm trying to grow,
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  Speaker 2: make that transformation and I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: If you need help, will be your bodyguards.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate we got you.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Rose. Thank you so much for joining us. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: the match. Derek Rose one of the best to ever
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  Speaker 1: do it. We knew he was winning championships as a
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  Speaker 1: tennis player. We're on the road to a championship here
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  Speaker 1: at Roland Garros.