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Coco Gauff Defeats Sabalenka to Win Her Second Grand Slam Title | 2025 Roland-Garros · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: We are joining right now by Chrissy evert Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: only person younger than Coco to make their second final
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  Speaker 1: here at Roland Garris. Was you you called the match
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  Speaker 1: for tnt UK your thoughts so she's able to lift
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  Speaker 1: the trophy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm so happy for her, first of all, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being an American and she is just Somebody asked me, you
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  Speaker 2: know what impressed you the most with her? And I'm saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: you mean, aside from her name, she is the most.
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  Speaker 2: She's the greatest young woman ever. But I think the
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  Speaker 2: fact that she didn't have ups and downs, and I
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  Speaker 2: think that Arena really had too many ups and downs.
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  Speaker 3: She had seventy.
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  Speaker 2: Unforced sixty unforced airs, maybe seventy.
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  Speaker 3: It was a seventy seventy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean seventy unforced airs, and she just couldn't keep
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  Speaker 2: that consistent level of high quality. And I'm impressed the
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  Speaker 2: way that Coco finally caught on to her power. In
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, Sebulenka I thought was going to.
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  Speaker 3: Wipe her off.
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  Speaker 1: It's oracle, just like her father.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it just like but but she found a way,
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  Speaker 2: and she got quicker, and she got her timing back
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  Speaker 2: and she made adjustments in her game so she could
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  Speaker 2: return those hard shots. She stayed patient, she believed in herself,
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  Speaker 2: she fought. I'm always amazed by the defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she gets balls back that nobody on the tour gets back,
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  Speaker 2: and it forces players like sabal Anca to go for
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  Speaker 2: too much, or it wears them down, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: she really extends the rallies and on clay being so slow,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it drives people crazy to have to return
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  Speaker 2: so many balls against Cocoa.
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  Speaker 1: Balla And we saw that emotion before we go to
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  Speaker 1: the highlight. I'm curious. We talked before the match about
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  Speaker 1: wind and the impact being in there.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of an impact did it have.
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  Speaker 4: On this match?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when when you heard Arena say it was worse,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm like, whoa, I mean you have to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same on both sides. I mean you have
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  Speaker 2: to make that adjustment. If you're number one in the
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  Speaker 2: world and you're number two in the world, you know
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  Speaker 2: you should know how to play on windy days by now,
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  Speaker 2: and it was swirling. Well, you know what, then you
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  Speaker 2: really have to get ready and get prepared for the
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  Speaker 2: shot quicker and you have to be aware of that
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  Speaker 2: and you have to make the court smaller and not
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  Speaker 2: go for the lines all the time. If it's that Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: so I you know, it was the same for both
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  Speaker 2: of them, and I think Coco really adapted to it
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  Speaker 2: much better.
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  Speaker 1: You've won seven of these, so I'll take your points there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: probably right. Let's go to the highlights. Caroline Coco take
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  Speaker 1: us through that first set. Early on, Caroline Seblenka had
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  Speaker 1: complete control.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, just like Christy said, we would go into this
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  Speaker 5: match expecting this type of match. Sebalenka going for her shots,
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  Speaker 5: going for her serfs, going for her returns, and she
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  Speaker 5: came out firing to start with the at four to
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  Speaker 5: one forty loves Sevelenka nada bella fault and kind of
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  Speaker 5: lost her head and started over hitting and Cocoa bab
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  Speaker 5: just stay patient. She knew what she was supposed to
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  Speaker 5: do out there. She knew getting that extra ball in
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  Speaker 5: play was going to drive Seblenka nuts.
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  Speaker 3: And we saw a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: This finesse and movement and it was beautiful, but you
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  Speaker 5: could just see Sevelenka's mood going all over the place,
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  Speaker 5: and we haven't seen that so far in this tournament. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 5: Coco's just grinding. She is hitting every single shot back.
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  Speaker 5: She's finding her back and she's attacking the back and
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  Speaker 5: she's not making a lot of double wild she's getting
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  Speaker 5: her first servant. And you can just see Coco again, steady,
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  Speaker 5: head down, no problem. Seblenka, on the other hand, screaming
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  Speaker 5: to her box, showing her emotions, and that would have
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  Speaker 5: helped Gop in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: All that being Saidbleka wins this tie break.
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  Speaker 6: It was crazy because Coco had such a commanding lead
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  Speaker 6: in this tiebreaker, and power prevailed in this moment, and
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  Speaker 6: Satelenka was more willing to come forward.
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  Speaker 3: Even though she wasn't so successful at nuts.
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  Speaker 6: It was just the pressure at hand. But the second
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  Speaker 6: set was a complete flip of the Scridget scripts. It
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  Speaker 6: was all Coco Gop. She got up to an early
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  Speaker 6: double break. It got a little bit nervy at times
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  Speaker 6: here and there, but she was able to control the
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  Speaker 6: middle of the court and Satelanca just I think emotionally
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  Speaker 6: was depleted come this second set. So now we get
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  Speaker 6: down to the third set. All the cards are on
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  Speaker 6: the table and let's see what you got. And Coco
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  Speaker 6: just stayed steady. That's what she did throughout.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely a lot of awkwara shots the treiner. You got
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  Speaker 3: to have some chowmanship.
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  Speaker 6: Out here everybody, and that's where Coco Gop is really
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  Speaker 6: just so tough. She keeps pressure on you. She gets
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  Speaker 6: the first break here and you think Satellanca.
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  Speaker 5: Is just going to lose it.
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  Speaker 1: This emotion throughout the match, it was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: She was feeling the pressure. I mean, she was feeling
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  Speaker 2: the pressure. She was venting to her coach's box and
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  Speaker 2: they were just like, you know, I didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: to do. But really she lost control of herself and
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  Speaker 2: we haven't, like Caroline says, we haven't seen that in
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  Speaker 2: a while. She's been really wearing the number one position very.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and yet she still fought back on championship points.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this could go to Taipan name.
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  Speaker 2: It was so I mean, it was such an up
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  Speaker 2: and down match. The momentum switches were incredible. You never
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  Speaker 2: knew who is going to win the match.
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  Speaker 1: We thought that may have been out, but instead.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and then that could have been another match.
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  Speaker 3: You know, who knows.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, this is the
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  Speaker 2: young woman who kept her composure kept her consistency, and
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  Speaker 2: she just bought so hard.
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  Speaker 1: Laid on the ground covered in clay, the elation for
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  Speaker 1: her mother, the complete craziness that we know her father
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  Speaker 1: was likely going through at that time. I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: sportsmanship that Arena showed to Coco there, but Coco lifts
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  Speaker 1: the trophy.
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  Speaker 3: She deserves it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, throughout this tournament she's not played her best tennis,
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  Speaker 5: but she's found a way to win.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 5: She was down in the first set big. You could
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  Speaker 5: have thought that was going to run away from her,
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  Speaker 5: but she found a way to grind her way back.
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  Speaker 5: She found a way in these conditions every just like
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  Speaker 5: Chrissy said, they had even conditions from both sides, and
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  Speaker 5: you have to figure out a way to play. And
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  Speaker 5: Coco did that better today. And kudos to her. She
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  Speaker 5: deserves this one.
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  Speaker 3: And Snats tell the story.
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  Speaker 6: Forty eight percent first points one for Arena Sabalanca. That
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  Speaker 6: is unheard of with that big of a first serve.
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  Speaker 6: That just shows the determination of Coco golf right there.
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  Speaker 6: You're more expecting a forty eight percent on the second
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  Speaker 6: surch which it was forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: That last line seventy unforced as crazy thirty, only only
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  Speaker 2: thirty from Coco.
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  Speaker 3: You have this settle.
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  Speaker 1: I had more than thirty in the first set. Coco
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  Speaker 1: had thirty for the entire match. She's able to keep
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  Speaker 1: her cool, her composure, and afterwards she met up with
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  Speaker 1: our cool and composed Sloan steps.
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  Speaker 3: Coco.
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  Speaker 7: Amazing match today, twenty twenty five, Roland Garrow's champion. How
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  Speaker 7: does it feel?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels great. It was tough. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: either of us are playing great, but I knew as
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  Speaker 4: soon as I stepped in the court when I felt
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  Speaker 4: that it was windy, it was going to be one
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  Speaker 4: of those matches. So I was just trying to give
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  Speaker 4: myself the best chance and fight every point.
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  Speaker 7: Before the match, I said, she's a fighter, but you're
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  Speaker 7: an even better fighter. Did How deep did you have
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  Speaker 7: to dig in order to pull that out?
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  Speaker 4: Really deep? I think especially that last game. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I was obviously very nervous, but I think that was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, something I'm really proud of, just managing to
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  Speaker 4: get another ball back and trying to play with a condition.
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  Speaker 7: So, yeah, okay, we conquered this. What's next?
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully another one? Yeah, definitely another one, but for now,
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  Speaker 4: just enjoying this one and yeah, I'm glad to get
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  Speaker 4: another title to my resume.
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  Speaker 7: Congratulations, Thank you, Coco Gol.
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  Speaker 1: A two time major champion, a Rolling Garros champion, and
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  Speaker 1: that is something history we'll never forget. An American reign
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  Speaker 1: supreme on the clay, and the congratulations are rolling in.
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  Speaker 1: First up, Billy Jean King, congrats on her second Grand
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  Speaker 1: Slam Women's singles title and her first singles title at
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Garros. Outstanding, Michelle Obama with the congrats. Your determination,
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  Speaker 1: strength and grace throughout the French Open has inspired us
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  Speaker 1: all and showed us what's possible. Proud of you. Carlos Alcarez,
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  Speaker 1: who will be in the main event tomorrow. Just like
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  Speaker 1: Coco flashed the heart, he sends it back. Many congrats,
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  Speaker 1: and there he is. Matthew McConaughey, Go Go golf, takes
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  Speaker 1: the French. Congrats on second major, first on clay, Go
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  Speaker 1: go golf. All right, all right, all right, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there are many more, but here are the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Second major title of her career, of course, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three US Open, also against the Sabolenka, also a
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  Speaker 1: set down, first US player to win Roland Garrison. Serena,
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  Speaker 1: as we've mentioned, first went over a number one in majors,
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  Speaker 1: was zero to four and now she is ten to three.
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  Speaker 1: In finals, she had just lost one to Sabolenka. It
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  Speaker 1: was an ATP Masters one thousand, sitting courtside for that
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  Speaker 1: entire match, getting to do the interview afterwards with Sloan Stevens.
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  Speaker 1: How nervous were you the entire time?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: I was nervous for both of them. Actually, it's hard
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  Speaker 7: to hit courtside and like not when you see an
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  Speaker 7: air you're.
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  Speaker 3: Like, oh, no, she shouldn't have done that. Oh she
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  Speaker 3: should have made it first serve.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, like, there's so many things that you wish you
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  Speaker 7: could be like helping them with. I'm like, just let
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  Speaker 7: me go out there and play for you, Like I
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  Speaker 7: feel like it's just so it's stressful. It's very stressful.
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  Speaker 1: So how does it feel when there's one hundred unforced hours?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, that's tough.
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  Speaker 7: It was honestly someone that came out firing all of
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  Speaker 7: her shots are working and was going amazing. She was
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  Speaker 7: hitting dropshots, she was slicing, she was doing so many things.
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  Speaker 7: It was connecting so well, and then it wasn't right,
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  Speaker 7: And I think when you have a match like that
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  Speaker 7: where you're not able to control the airrors and it
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  Speaker 7: just kind of got away from her. My biggest thing
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  Speaker 7: before the match was if she can control her emotions right,
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  Speaker 7: she can win the match. She did not control any
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  Speaker 7: emotions today and that's what lost her the match.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes when we're watching on TV and they're zooming really
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  Speaker 1: tight on their face and slow mo, what was it
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  Speaker 1: like Courtsye with the way she was communicating with her box.
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  Speaker 7: I think today she was just overly frustrated. Like when
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  Speaker 7: it was for to one, she was up, things were
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  Speaker 7: going well, it was four all, and then it just
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  Speaker 7: fell apart. Really, I think she had those emotions inside.
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  Speaker 7: She was very tense, and then when it started to
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  Speaker 7: come out, it was very visible. And then to her
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  Speaker 7: team she started chirping at them. She was going back
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  Speaker 7: back and forth, and then she told them someone to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Like there was a lot of things happening.
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  Speaker 7: It was a very emotional day for her, which I
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  Speaker 7: think it wasn't about the tennis. She was fighting herself,
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  Speaker 7: like she battled herself today and Coco and that's what
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  Speaker 7: made it so hard.
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  Speaker 1: How windy was it down there.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I was literally shivering. I was wrapped up in
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  Speaker 7: a blanket like a newborn. It was literally terrible.
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  Speaker 3: The wind was going back and forth.
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  Speaker 7: We were trying to figure out which direction.
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  Speaker 3: It was going.
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  Speaker 7: It was swirling, and it was going one side across
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  Speaker 7: the court. So, like she said, it was very difficult
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  Speaker 7: conditions today. And of course the roof could have been closed.
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  Speaker 7: There so many other factors that could have been a
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  Speaker 7: factor in the match, but today the main was the
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  Speaker 7: wind and that it was actually really cold.
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  Speaker 3: And I think she.
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  Speaker 7: Thought that maybe that would help her, but I don't
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  Speaker 7: think it helped her today. It actually made her hit
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  Speaker 7: miss more and hit more airs.
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  Speaker 1: And then you look at Coco, it seemed the complete opposite,
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  Speaker 1: just as someone who's seen her grow up, to keep
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  Speaker 1: that composure, to keep that stoicism, What was that like
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  Speaker 1: for you to watch?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Coco, like I said at the beginning of the match,
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  Speaker 7: I said, she's going to get out there and fight
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  Speaker 7: for her life. She's going to be so rock solid.
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  Speaker 7: She's going to out there do what she needs to do.
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  Speaker 7: She's always going to execute. She never let her lets
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  Speaker 7: her mind wander too much. She doesn't have like those
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  Speaker 7: let down in like five games, six games, seven games,
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  Speaker 7: where you're trying to figure out what's going on. Like,
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  Speaker 7: She's very steady, and I think today she knew she
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  Speaker 7: had to be steady. She knew it, she had to
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  Speaker 7: come out in the match and make so many balls.
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  Speaker 7: She knew she was going to have to run for
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  Speaker 7: her life. She knew she was gonna have to do
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  Speaker 7: all those things. And instead of getting frustrated and upset
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  Speaker 7: when it wasn't going her way, she just put her
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  Speaker 7: head down and kept running. And I think for Irena
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  Speaker 7: to kind of get in that mode, she let Irena
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  Speaker 7: play herself out of the match. And that's what Coco
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  Speaker 7: Golf does really well.
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  Speaker 1: Arina Sablanka has been the number one now in this
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  Speaker 1: reach and Stretch for about thirty three consecutive weeks, forty
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  Speaker 1: one overall. She came in as the decided favorite in
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  Speaker 1: this match, and yet Coco beats her again. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to just start how many majors is she going
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  Speaker 1: to win? But when you see this composure against this foe,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of a future do we have for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty one year old American Cocoa Golf?
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  Speaker 2: Her future well, first, of all, everyone has always been
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  Speaker 2: talking about IgA. You know her dominance on the red clay,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean cococ Can have dominance on red clay
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  Speaker 2: for sure. The way she played, I mean, she plays
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  Speaker 2: EGA's game a little bit even better. I mean she
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  Speaker 2: beat her, what six one six one couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so I think won our last time.
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  Speaker 2: I think, when I start looking at Roland Garrow's picks,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to always go for a Coco before I
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  Speaker 2: go for anybody else. But she has so many ahead
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  Speaker 2: of her. I mean we saw that at fifteen years old.
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  Speaker 2: We saw when she'd beat Venus at Wimbledon. We thought,
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  Speaker 2: this girl's going to be winning ten, twelve, fourteen major titles.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's got the game and she can stay healthy.
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  Speaker 2: She knows defense, she knows offense, she doesn't need to work.
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  Speaker 2: Her forehands looking so good now, so much better than before.
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  Speaker 2: We see her serve when she needed it. It was
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  Speaker 2: there for her, even though she had eight double faults.
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  Speaker 2: She just loves the game and she's gonna be around
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  Speaker 2: for a long long time winning majors.
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  Speaker 1: Could you see her winning Wimbledon Women in Australia and
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  Speaker 1: maybe getting a Slam a complete slam out of this.
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  Speaker 3: She already has no no, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, She's going to win all all of them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sorry, I thought you made it one year
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  Speaker 2: with Stephie Roth is the only player that did that.
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  Speaker 3: But for sure she can win on every surface.
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  Speaker 2: Well she's one on clay and she's one on hard
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  Speaker 2: that's what. So yeah, I could see definitely she can
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  Speaker 2: win one.
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  Speaker 3: Just means when you say it, no, she can.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't know if it's going to be this
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  Speaker 2: year because I'm looking at Avalanca.
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  Speaker 3: I don't thinking, oh, she didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Play last year, she was injured, she didn't play the
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  Speaker 2: year that they didn't let the Russians play. I mean
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  Speaker 2: she's missed a few years. To me, that surface is
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  Speaker 2: like her best surface, just because of her power.
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  Speaker 1: All of you ladies have started so young. To see
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  Speaker 1: this out of someone at twenty one years old, what
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  Speaker 1: does it make you feel?
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  Speaker 5: Well, today, we saw Ceblanka, for example, that can lose
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  Speaker 5: her head and Coco just doesn't have that. And normally
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  Speaker 5: when someone starts off as young, they'll have the ups
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  Speaker 5: and downs, and you know, they'll have the disappointments and
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  Speaker 5: it takes a while to come back. But for Coco,
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  Speaker 5: she's just done so well at recuperating. Once she has
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  Speaker 5: a disappointment, she's like, you know what, it happens. I
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  Speaker 5: just need to keep working moving forward. I know what
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  Speaker 5: my goal is. And I mean, she's so much more
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  Speaker 5: mature than a twenty one year old. Do you think
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  Speaker 5: she's twenty five twenty six years old? And that's why
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  Speaker 5: she's going to be on the big stage for a
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  Speaker 5: long time, why she's going to win more majors, why
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  Speaker 5: she's going to be at the top of women's game
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  Speaker 5: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: She's a winner. Though, don't you think it's because you
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  Speaker 2: young player? You young players here, I mean, don't you
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: think when you do well in the juniors that translates
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: into the pros? Because she won the junior the French
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: rope in this storm room, I think when she.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Is fifteen, twenty eighteen is the year fifteen.
• 14:32
  Speaker 6: Okay, it's definitely not a guarantee, but it definitely helps.
• 14:35
  Speaker 7: For sure.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: I think it helped her, oh for sure, that way,
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: I think that it gave her. She was a great
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: junior player, and then she got into the pros and
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a real big jump. She just smoothly got
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: it right into it, and anyway, I think that's helped.
• 14:47
  Speaker 6: It's funny because I met her the first time at
• 14:50
  Speaker 6: the twenty seventeen US Open, the year that Sloan won,
• 14:52
  Speaker 6: I made the semis.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Her dad came up to me.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: She won the juniors or lost in the finals that year,
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: if I'm remembering correctly. Dad comes up to me, it's like,
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: my daughter's name's Coco.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Two.
• 15:02
  Speaker 6: You got to meet her, and I was like absolutely,
• 15:04
  Speaker 6: like yeah, for sure, and let alone. In like two years,
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: three years, she's beating Venus Williams and all these things
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: that you just can never guess these things, but you
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: always hope that the next American is going to be
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: born right in front.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Of your eyes. And happened really quickly.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: Because Coco's making me feel very old winning this young.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've talked to Chris Eubanks and here remembers when
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Coco golf was five years old playing on a muni
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: court in Atlanta, And now she's out here doing this.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: It's pretty darn special. Can't wait to watch her for
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: years to come.