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Venus Williams Talks Serena's Return, Women's Draw at Roland-Garros & More · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: What a year it's been. We saw Venus Williams.
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  Speaker 2: She came on the set, she talked a little tennis,
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  Speaker 2: then she left, and then she played in ten events.
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  Speaker 1: She beat Peyton Stearns. I was watching that in DC
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  Speaker 1: losing my mind. I was like, I work next to
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  Speaker 1: her and she's back. Then she goes to US Open Doubles.
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  Speaker 2: She gets married, most beautiful bride you've ever seen, she
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  Speaker 2: owns the medgala.
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  Speaker 1: Heck of a year, and she's joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, clap it up again, Venus william.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty quiet, chill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but thanks for having me, guys, thanks for
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  Speaker 3: welcoming me back from last year.
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  Speaker 4: I only got to visit a few minutes with you.
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  Speaker 3: But now I'm here during like the quiet hour to fill.
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  Speaker 4: It all in.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, how was it getting back out there? That
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  Speaker 2: match was so cool to watch, But getting to play again?
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  Speaker 1: How was that for you?
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  Speaker 4: Just chaotic?
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  Speaker 3: I think that when we were a tennis player, any
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  Speaker 3: kind of athlete, right, you always got it. But learning
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  Speaker 3: to play matches again is very tough, tough, and.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I had a lot to learn, still learning.
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  Speaker 3: And also I'm a kind of player to I'm always
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  Speaker 3: adding to my game, so it makes it hard because
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  Speaker 3: I make a lot of changes and then to execute
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  Speaker 3: the changes in the match is It's very challenging, but
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  Speaker 3: I love a challenge.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little crazy, yeah crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Good crazy, yeah bad crazy, But.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was so much fun to watch that
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  Speaker 2: that place in DC, the City Open was going wild,
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  Speaker 2: and it just shows the amount of love the tennis
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  Speaker 2: world has for you, amount of love that we have
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 4: So we're so happy, Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys get a new it was there was hale.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there was hale.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, forty minutes ago, and I think the tennis God
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  Speaker 2: has heard you were coming.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: As far as like right now, ye still playing, not
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  Speaker 5: a It's not full time like you were. How's what's
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  Speaker 5: the practice schedule look like for you?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 5: You just kind of hey, you know what, I got
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  Speaker 5: a term to come up. I'm going to practice a
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  Speaker 5: little bit. Are you kind of maintaining during the weeks?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: I got to practice even harder because I'm older, I
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  Speaker 3: kind of have kept the same schedule as I keep before.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also like a perfectionist, so if I'm supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be out there two hours and I'm out three.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm like gonna play just four games, and next
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  Speaker 3: thing I know, I've played two sets. So there's definitely
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  Speaker 3: a will for perfection. But it's hard, like I have
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  Speaker 3: to balance the rest of my life with tennis, which
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  Speaker 3: is what I didn't have to do before I did,
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  Speaker 3: but now so much else is happening too. So I
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  Speaker 3: try to play when on the weeks, when I have
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  Speaker 3: a moment, but that's challenging too. When you like play,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a couple but then not for four or
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  Speaker 3: five or six weeks. But I love the game and
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  Speaker 3: maybe the best is ahead of me, right, I've got
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  Speaker 3: more years ahead of me than behind me.
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  Speaker 1: Do I follow not the major still, of course you do.
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  Speaker 1: But Madrid Rome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's so many new players right, everyone's playing well.
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  Speaker 3: It's not easy out there, and I feel like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of players to catch fire.
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  Speaker 4: In Madrid. We saw Hodar was there.
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  Speaker 3: It was so fun to see like his as Sin
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  Speaker 3: he's been coming up in the last year and the
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  Speaker 3: dad's like in the box and the whole time he's got.
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  Speaker 4: This ice face. Yeah, I don't know how he does it.
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  Speaker 4: He's like you, the only one there. Yeah, he's the
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  Speaker 4: only one there. It's very very cool.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, watching, I've been watching, so it's it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It's just crazy how well everyone's playing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Carol, you guys go back forever, we do.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I haven't seen a little bit last time.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I saw your first wedding at my first wedding. That
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  Speaker 6: was amazing. I mean we had a great time. I
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  Speaker 6: mean she looked beautiful, beautiful plays, beautiful husband, beautiful wife.
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  Speaker 6: It was it was Yes, thanks for coming. I don't
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  Speaker 6: really have any questions. I feel like it's a little awkward.
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  Speaker 6: I don't I don't know what's asked.
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  Speaker 7: I heard you say that you still have a lot
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  Speaker 7: to learn at this stage as a player, and with
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  Speaker 7: someone as as much experience as you have, of course,
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  Speaker 7: and all the success you have, the Hall of Fame success,
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  Speaker 7: we know, and I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 1: Route it all off. Yeah is that really the case?
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  Speaker 1: You feel like you still have a lot to learn?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm always inspired by players, and there's always someone
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  Speaker 3: that's doing something that you need to move on, that
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  Speaker 3: you can learn from. And I think once you stop
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  Speaker 3: learning that it's best to move on. Yeah, get out
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  Speaker 3: of the game. So me watching this week, saying everyone
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  Speaker 3: play so well, watching Fonseca, like just gun from anywhere
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  Speaker 3: on the court, like he could hit at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the stadium and just gun it for a winner.
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  Speaker 4: It's wild. I love that. So it's it's just really
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  Speaker 4: inspiring for me. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout your careers, did you guys feel like to you
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  Speaker 3: were you were learning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you always learn, right, that's how we're
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  Speaker 6: oute on practice for it every day and we played
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  Speaker 6: for so many hours. I guess my question for you
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  Speaker 6: is do you love playing singles and doubles equally as
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  Speaker 6: much or do you prefer one.
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  Speaker 7: To all the other?
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  Speaker 3: Now, So here's the thing that nobody ever believes, But
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a doubles player, even though.
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  Speaker 1: I've had great success.
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  Speaker 4: I had a great partner.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it helps, like if you can like
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  Speaker 3: serve like a and return like a you know, armored tank.
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  Speaker 3: And I think our serves and returns were so good
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  Speaker 3: that it's hard to beat that. But I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually learning to play doubles this year, so I've
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  Speaker 3: actually gotten kind of good at doubles and that's been fun.
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  Speaker 4: That's been fun. I've learned a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Like there are points where I'm like, okay, slow down,
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  Speaker 3: just lob it so I can work on my positioning.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Was there a moment big news yesterday right with your
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  Speaker 5: sister coming back to play Queens in a week? Was
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  Speaker 5: there a moment six months ago, eight months ago where
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  Speaker 5: she came to you and said, Hey, Venus, I think
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna come back on tour And what was your
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  Speaker 5: reaction to that.
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  Speaker 3: No, it didn't happen like that. I think it was
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  Speaker 3: more me bullying her to come. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 3: I think that it's I think she hits every now
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  Speaker 3: and then. I never see her on the court that often,
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  Speaker 3: so we have so I don't know when she's been practicing. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I'm honest. I don't know like how her form is.
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  Speaker 3: But what I will tell you is that like she
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  Speaker 3: could hit for not for four months, and I'll be
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  Speaker 3: hitting and she'll come out and grab a racket and
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  Speaker 3: running shoes and just hits a ton out of the
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  Speaker 3: ball without ever hitting, and it's incredible. So the quality
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  Speaker 3: of her stroke is obviously there. She's I think a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a natural. She has a pretty good record.
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  Speaker 4: She knows what she's doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'd agree with that.
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  Speaker 3: She's very tenacious, so I'm not worried about like how
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  Speaker 3: she's going to play, even though I even though I
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  Speaker 3: really haven't seen her play.
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  Speaker 4: It's so crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I love that, And my first reaction was, I want
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  Speaker 2: to see you guys out there together.
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  Speaker 1: You're working on doubles. That will be cool.
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  Speaker 2: We go down memory lane, we see the footage. It
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  Speaker 2: was such an iconic moment that I think is still sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: We're going back in time.
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  Speaker 4: How did you find this footage?
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  Speaker 1: A crack staff to the files?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, I think you're showing like the best part
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  Speaker 3: the highlights. It was definitely a long man. Oh fast
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  Speaker 3: forward like eleven years later, right, Oh, good times. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for showing only my best times here.
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  Speaker 5: We had John mceroone a little while ago. It only
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  Speaker 5: showed his missus and almost.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we should try that next time. I'll come on
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  Speaker 4: air just show like all of the misses. Oh, it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, can we look at some highlights from today?
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  Speaker 1: We had some women.
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  Speaker 4: I would love that.
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  Speaker 1: We had Arita Sabalaika Naomio Osaka. Last night.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first time we had a night match
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  Speaker 2: with women in three years.
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  Speaker 1: Here at Roland Garros.
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  Speaker 2: This morning, some young ones came out and put on
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  Speaker 2: a show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the highlights. Mira Andreeva the nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Year old against Sarona Cristea the thirty six year old.
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  Speaker 2: A different battle of generations. But venus, tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you see because Mira won this and I think fifty
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  Speaker 2: six minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, incredible. She's really been progressing and she has a
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  Speaker 3: great variety in her game. But you're stay at two
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  Speaker 3: and she said the best year of her career. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't she already swings freely. But maybe knowing
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  Speaker 3: that she might not be here next year because I
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  Speaker 3: think we all hope she'll stay, maybe that helps her
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  Speaker 3: swing free year.
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  Speaker 4: But definitely not her day to day mirrors everywhere. Look
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  Speaker 4: at her. She plays doubles two, so she covers.
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  Speaker 2: Her net, well she does. But Mira went out there.
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  Speaker 2: It was a bagel in the first, six' three in the.
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  Speaker 2: Second but what a year it has been For. Cristeia,
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  Speaker 2: carol you believe that she could totally come, back that
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  Speaker 2: it has been such a phenomenal year.
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  Speaker 1: That maybe it brings her a. Back we'll wait and
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  Speaker 1: see what she. Says she's been adam and she's.
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  Speaker 6: Done but, YEAH i think she's, saying you, know even
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  Speaker 6: though this is the best year of my, Career i'm
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  Speaker 6: not planning on coming. BACK i do think it's. Hard
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  Speaker 6: right when you get your highest, ranking you're playing so,
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  Speaker 6: well it's hard to say goodbye to the.
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  Speaker 4: Top of your.
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  Speaker 1: Game she was asked the.
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  Speaker 2: Presser so let's see what she said about the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of coming back for one more.
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  Speaker 8: Season, YES i am speaking to my. DECISION i think
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  Speaker 8: change in my. Mind i'm just very grateful and how
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  Speaker 8: the year is going and the Way i'm. PLAYING i
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  Speaker 8: think that longevity of my, career it's one of the
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  Speaker 8: Things i'm.
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  Speaker 6: The most proud.
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  Speaker 8: Of i've never. EXPECTED i will play above. Thirty to be,
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  Speaker 8: Honest paris will always be. Special is the grand SLAM
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  Speaker 8: i grew up. With is the one where you always
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  Speaker 8: dream coming From, romania playing on, clay growing up on
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  Speaker 8: this surface is the one you dream to, win you.
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  Speaker 8: Know so it's been only. Special AND i Love, PARIS
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  Speaker 8: i love the, PEOPLE i love everything.
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  Speaker 4: Here so she's sticking to.
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  Speaker 2: It andreeva, though and olliver you thirty four wins on
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  Speaker 2: tour this, year the most of anyone on THE wta
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  Speaker 2: another win on, clay where she also has the most.
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  Speaker 2: Wins she also has maybe the most youthful, exuberance so
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  Speaker 2: much so that she's Quoting Snoop dogg in her press.
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  Speaker 1: COMFORT i don't know what it, is but we gotta
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  Speaker 1: take a.
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  Speaker 9: Lesson there's SOMETHING i really appreciate WHEN i see. You
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  Speaker 9: it's every time you win a, trophy you say thank
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  Speaker 9: you to the, crowd thanks to your, team and thanks to.
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  Speaker 9: Myself thanks to you is important for you, too because
• 10:02
  Speaker 9: you work so much every day to be able to
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  Speaker 9: play on the biggest schools in the. World how important
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  Speaker 9: it is for you to be nice with.
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  Speaker 10: Yourself, Well i'll be, honest, like at first THAT i
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  Speaker 10: said the, SPEECH i just Saw Snoop dogg say it
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  Speaker 10: ON i don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Wherever when he was receiving an.
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  Speaker 10: Award so for the first couple of TIMES i kind
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  Speaker 10: of stole it just to you, know make a. Joke
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  Speaker 10: but then AFTER i kind of realized that it's actually.
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  Speaker 10: True we also have to thank ourselves for the work
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  Speaker 10: that we do on the, court and for how much we,
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  Speaker 10: sacrifice and for how much we, practice and for how
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  Speaker 10: much we. Work SO i felt, like you, know, now
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  Speaker 10: it's just WHAT i really want to tell myself almost every.
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  Speaker 2: Time you know what it's like to see a, teenager,
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  Speaker 2: teenager teenager. Teenager you know what it's like to go
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  Speaker 2: out there having this is the weirdest part for. Me
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  Speaker 2: grown men constantly asking you questions about how you're.
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  Speaker 1: Doing and if you should be better when you see.
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  Speaker 2: Young women going through this facing, That what do you
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  Speaker 2: feel when you watch someone having success of dealing with
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  Speaker 2: all of?
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  Speaker 3: Them, YEAH i think you know a few of us
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  Speaker 3: up here relate to. THAT i think at that age
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  Speaker 3: it's just so. Fun it's just so. Fun you're doing
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  Speaker 3: everything for some of the first, time and you're so.
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  Speaker 3: Free everything's, new you don't know much, yet AND i
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  Speaker 3: think that's a beautiful. Thing and you can use it
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  Speaker 3: to your advantage because you can like kind of just
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  Speaker 3: stay out of everything and just. Play so she has
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  Speaker 3: a heck of a record this year on. CLAY i
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  Speaker 3: don't know how did you ladies feel when you were
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  Speaker 3: so of COURSE i watched you guys come. Up you
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  Speaker 3: were my ball.
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  Speaker 6: KID i THINK i played with you WHEN i was
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  Speaker 6: twelve years. Old you can't to my Clupen plan exhibition
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  Speaker 6: In denmark and we hit for like five. Minutes that
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  Speaker 6: was the coolest day ever and that made me practice even.
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  Speaker 6: HARDER i have a question for you, Though, yes so
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  Speaker 6: now at this time you were obviously the youngest one
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  Speaker 6: at one, point and now you want to do all
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  Speaker 6: this one still playing on. Tour what are your? Goals
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  Speaker 6: is it to improve when you got on? Courtny is
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  Speaker 6: it to have? Fun to win the? Tournaments what is
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  Speaker 6: your mindset every time you go?
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  Speaker 3: Out, well you know how much work goes into, this
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  Speaker 3: this tennis.
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  Speaker 4: Thing it's a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Work you, Know it's, like come, on and the other
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  Speaker 3: DAY i was, saying why don't things just stay where
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  Speaker 3: you put? It you, know you have to go back
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  Speaker 3: to practice the next day to make sure it stays.
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  Speaker 3: There so obviously the goal each and every time is
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  Speaker 3: the best get the best out of. Myself and it's
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  Speaker 3: also being able to look in the mirror and sleep
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  Speaker 3: at night knowing he gave the best effort and the
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  Speaker 3: best in the world are.
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  Speaker 4: Here to be able to compete with those of.
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  Speaker 6: Such an honor do you like practice just as much
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  Speaker 6: as you like playing the matches or is practice just
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  Speaker 6: a necessity for you to then.
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  Speaker 4: Performing a good.
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  Speaker 3: Question sometimes practice doesn't go, well AND i, think especially
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  Speaker 3: WHEN i, was you, know like Mirror indriva's, AGE i
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  Speaker 3: would let practice ruin my whole, Day like if every
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  Speaker 3: shot didn't go, right and they never, do then the
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  Speaker 3: whole DAY i was an awful mood until like three
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  Speaker 3: or four o'clock before would. Lift and this went on
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  Speaker 3: for years and, years and finally at some point in
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  Speaker 3: my twenties it's, LIKE i can't live like this. Anymore
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  Speaker 3: i've got to separate the practice from the rest of my.
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  Speaker 3: Life so being able to compartmentalize is so important for
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  Speaker 3: these players, too especially if you don't play the perfect,
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  Speaker 3: match you got to compartmentalize that match and go on
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  Speaker 3: to the next one because you played well enough to, win,
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  Speaker 3: Right so the next day is a great opportunity to do.
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  Speaker 2: That two women that were playing perfect as of, late
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  Speaker 2: big time winning streaks was our second match, Today spiddalina
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  Speaker 2: And Costjaks fidelita coming in on a ten match winning,
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  Speaker 2: Streak costyuk on a sixteen match winding. Streak she is
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  Speaker 2: reaching peak performance right.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is the winner Of rome versus the winner Of.
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  Speaker 3: Madrid oh, incredible and she has a lot of. FIREPOWER
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  Speaker 3: i heard her once, say Oh i'm. SMALLER i don't
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  Speaker 3: know where the small park comes in because she plays,
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  Speaker 3: big super fun to. Watch and also she's improved so
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  Speaker 3: much throughout the years and especially this. YEAR i think
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  Speaker 3: you can see her game improved month to month and
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  Speaker 3: it's so. IMPRESSIVE i think the rest of the draw
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  Speaker 3: has to be ready because maybe no one was expecting
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  Speaker 3: her on, paper but her record has, shown you, know
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  Speaker 3: the ten matches in a, row she's.
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  Speaker 4: Ready.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and Then findelina came back as she did Against Belinda,
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  Speaker 2: benchic really pushing.
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  Speaker 1: Her in this.
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  Speaker 2: Set when we got to that Decider, caroline it was
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  Speaker 2: who was going to be able to push that ticket
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  Speaker 2: to the semifinal and it ended up being.
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  Speaker 6: Marked, yeah it looked Like switzelena really was going away
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  Speaker 6: with the. Momentum she started playing well and staying close
• 14:23
  Speaker 6: to the. Baseline she was attacking those second servant moving,
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: forward and they really have a very similar game. STYLE
• 14:30
  Speaker 6: i do think that at Times costik maybe is a
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: little more aggressive at times when it really. Matters sktelena
• 14:38
  Speaker 6: tends to go a little bit too far behind the.
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: Baseline that's this is where she gets in. Trouble on
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: this point right here is where everything changed from here on.
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: OUT i Think costik won the next seventeen out of eighteen,
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: points and nine of those were, winners and she it
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: was well deserved to go out and get to her
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: first semifinals, here.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: DON'T i feel like her movement, too is some of
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: the best on. Tour if you're just watching those highlights,
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: there some of the gets in the. Corners it's not
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: someone that she's getting to. Them she's getting there and
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: able to plant on whatever the outside leg is and
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: get back in the.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Point she's a phenomenal.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: Athlete she's always been an unbelievable. MOVER i think her
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: problem has always been in her. HEAD i feel like
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: at times she's been giving away, points so she's felt
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: like someone was pushing her and then she would just,
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: fold and she hasn't been doing that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Lately six three two six six.' two gostia gets. To.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: WIN beness i would love your thoughts on. The drawl
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: what do you? SEE here i.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: See entertainment everyone's been, playing well nothing has happened, as
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: expected and that's the way the draw works when it's
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: when it's At The. French open, this surface especially the,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: first week it was, so hot, of course played. So
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: strange the ball was bouncing, so high the surface.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: A, lot slippery more slippery because it's. So hot and
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: also people were like dying on. The court you know
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: that it was.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Crazy hot no one was prepared FOR so i think
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: that affected the tournament. A lot, the conditions not only,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: the heat but how the heat made the. Court play
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: and if you played in, the morning the ball didn't
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: go through. The court is fast you played in, the
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: afternoon is flying? Really flying you almost had to, you
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: know cover the ball more to keep. It in so
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: depending on what time you, played too the match. Was
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: different it's just really interesting. To watch as we know
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of times.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: It can be cold. And rainier you feel like you're playing.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: On MUD so i don't know Those are these have
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: been conditions where you had to survive and the people
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: who survived are now feeling.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Really confident speaking, of surviving were You impressed you just
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: talked about. The conditions there was some, long matches more
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: so on the. Men's side we saw some matches go over,
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: five hours no one, tapped out no one cramped. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: retired these the fitness level from the men and the
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: women right NOW is i feel like that is higher
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: than maybe it's.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: EVER been, i, mean centner he didn't.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Tap out that's, one example was.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: A really good one outside of.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: That one but everyone else when you for the most.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: That.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Was funny but everyone else on, a baseline, you know
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: was playing over, five hours and they were able, to survive.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: And they came back the next day, like bounce there.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Was nothing you played another.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Five, setter yep it has. Been impressive i've just been
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: wondering how. THEY recover i guess a lot of ice bass.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: EVERY hour i.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Don't know but and also there's like a cold room
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: over across. The street have you guys done that where
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: you walk into, One, way yeah the cryo.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Cold room so maybe.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: That helps.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I'm Curious arena sabolenka has been a model of consistency
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: for now eighty.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Five weeks eighty five weeks.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: At, number one Took On naomio osaka, last night really
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: had control of. That match she seems to pounce at the.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Right opportunities the pressure of being. Number one it almost
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: like it. Powers her her team is. Really strong everything
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: steems to. Be friendly i'm curious how impressed you've been of.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Her play i've.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Been impressed how, you know it's not easy to stay
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: on top of this Day and asian, women's tennis everyone's.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Playing WELL but i think the key is that she's.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: HAVING fun i think she's enjoying. THE tennis i think
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: she's enjoying. THE challenge i think she likes being. Number
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: one she likes being, up there and her game has
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: risen to, that occasion so she feels like she can
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: make any shot at.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Any time, so yeah.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: That's fun when the ball, goes in she knows how
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to put the ball in and put it in, Really.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Hard so it's fun. To see look.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: At that see she's she has a good time on
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: and off, the COURT and i think that's a big
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: part of.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Her Success, producer jeremy if you wouldn't mind throwing that
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: draw up for me, Really, quick venus if you were,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: IN it i would.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Pick, you yeah, YOU know i had a lot of,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: tragedies HERE so i would advise you never to.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Put your i'm willing to.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: LOSE money i love my friends who would you pick
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to make the run the rest of? The Way andreeva
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: kostchuk and then the four? Up top if you had to,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: pick one who do you think takes?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: This?
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Home, oh wow.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Let's see now there is one PLAYER that i don't
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: even know how to pronounce.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Her name she's. A surprise don't got to worry, about
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: okay unless Her and i'm going to.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Pick, Her Yes, falling skoytt.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: You, SAID it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't i'd like to see a young gun, come
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: through so andre.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: That would be.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Really fun your first final wind loser draw is a
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: big win for her to, get there and then To
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: see sablanca play against her would.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Be fun so that would.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Be fun i'm going to. Pick that but? Who knows
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: slow who's?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: YOUR pick i.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Think the same Sablinek and andreva for.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: The final by, The.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Way, matt gala what do we think of the fit here?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Right Here?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: For?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Slow, yes, no, no no it's a. GOOD fit i just
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: wanted to.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Issue, compliments yeah so you can, Tell, ME eclipsing i.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Love it where's?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: My?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: CARD okay I also i also want to know, in
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: This like Naomi, osaka era we're wearing Like coutoure onto.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: The court how far would you have taken that in
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: your time if if you had free reign to work
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: with some of.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: THESE brands i never even thought about taking. It there
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: so she she.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Eclipsed, everyone yeah. It's fun it's, really FUN and i
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: think she, loves, IT right.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I THINK and i love to see. Your shine it was.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Really special this was the first match goes out there
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and the all black ben reveals the gold and. THE
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: shimmer i know you're a woman, of STYLE so i
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: figured it would pique.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Your, interest.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah definitely it reminds me Of Something straight AWARD the us.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Opened before so she's taking it to the.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Next level and do you think we'll see other players
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: start to do this periodically throughout.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: THE year i.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: DON'T know i don't think most players have as much
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: control over the kit. They wear so she's got the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: honor Of Being, naomi osaka so she gets to wear what.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: She wants, SO yeah i mean you're being pretty unique.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: With that you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Designed your own outfits for so. MANY years i think
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: you're yeah. Iconic, ones yeah how much time does that
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: take for you to design because you had a lot
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: of collections throughout.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: The, year yeah it takes a lot. OF time i
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: think she spends a lot of time, on it and it's.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: WORTH it i think anything that brings tennis with the highlight,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: EVERYBODY'S watching i love that because we all love.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: This sport you KNOW what.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: I love i think in, that Match we soaka goes
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: to the, court first we're all wondering If sab linka
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: was going to, match her, you know walk out outfit to.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Walk, out, nope nothing. All business love That from sablenka.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Last NIGHT but heruf is. Amazing, too no, you know
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: but she didn't walk out anything.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: With jacket she did because she had two hundred and
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: fifty carrots and diamonds wearing that she was wearing in.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: The mat men don't see this.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: FAIR enough i was looking for the, long thing you,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: know whatever like, you know like coteur. Or whatever didn't
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Have that.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: All, Business john why didn't you ever? Wear one?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Great, question yeah. Great question you don't want.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: To see oh, We saw we saw them in a
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: couple of outfits the, other day, you know wearing the.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: With.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: The hat, oh Yes.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Mash here do we want to show venus?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Those? Highlights, YEAH yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I don't want.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: To see.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: Unbelievable look at that should have been.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: So mad at each other that you were wearing the.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Same Outfit get.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Caddy going back, to like, You know naomi has a
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: little more saying when she wears we had.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Zero twinning who won? The match you'll see right here
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: basic sticking through.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: The highlights.
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: You guys us a, little FROSTY if i may, say so.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Super frosty.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you guys recovered from, this match your friendship.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: And text you're really nice to see