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Aryna Sabalenka on Playing in Expensive Jewelry & Jannik Sinner's Roland-Garros Upset · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: We have a special guest here coming in. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Very nice to see you? Welcome, nice to see you.
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  Speaker 1: You're only the second business for you. You're only the
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  Speaker 1: second person to go say hello to him. You know
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  Speaker 1: who The first one was someone someone that's won a
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  Speaker 1: few majors. I know you've won a few, Yes, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: that's so that's class.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm happy in this group.
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  Speaker 1: We're very happy to have him here.
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  Speaker 3: What were your emotions like all day because you were
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  Speaker 3: seeing this whole thing going on with Yannick and then heat,
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, tell me what you were feeling.
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  Speaker 4: I've also about for Nick. I really I'm always cheering
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  Speaker 4: for him and said to see but I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 4: he'll be back even stronger than ever, so I hope
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  Speaker 4: he's well. And yeah, that's that's tough to see, honestly
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  Speaker 4: from from the favorite to win, and but.
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  Speaker 3: For you personally, because you're trying to prepare, you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to figure out when you play.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to play like he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be done in an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was more than sure that I will go
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  Speaker 4: in court like a round three. But to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of like happy that I went a bit
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  Speaker 4: later because we played in the shade. It was a
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  Speaker 4: bit you know, a bit more chill and not that hot.
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  Speaker 4: So huh, kind of like things to turn really turn around,
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  Speaker 4: really good for me.
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  Speaker 2: But still, you know, said to.
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  Speaker 1: See a few of the people that work with us
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  Speaker 1: here that I'm trying to make us look good and
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  Speaker 1: sound good. They said to me just before we started, said,
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  Speaker 1: how do you tennis players do this? Like deal with
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  Speaker 1: these conditions? Play? So explain to everybody sort of maybe
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  Speaker 1: how your preparation changes when you know you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with extreme heat here as unusual like Australia
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  Speaker 1: were used to it, New York were used to it.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you do differently?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have to say I survived Miami a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks in July. I survived Dubai in September, which
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  Speaker 4: is like extremely hot conditions, And I have to say
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  Speaker 4: that I'm kind of like okay with this heat. But
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  Speaker 4: I'd say that I try to stay like extra hydrate it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: make sure that I drink electrolytes and uh and during
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  Speaker 4: the march, stay cool eyes all over, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: if there is a little shape, I will go there
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  Speaker 4: and kind of like cool down a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess that's everything you can do.
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  Speaker 3: I got a question for you. You have been working
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  Speaker 3: to improve your game the last couple of years. At
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  Speaker 3: what point or has it been your whole career that
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  Speaker 3: you were like, all right, because I noticed when was
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  Speaker 3: it last August? Correct me from when you hired Max Mirni. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm guessing that was sort of improve your play at net.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like it's really much needed in my game,
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  Speaker 4: especially against someone like Coco, Like, uh my opening today,
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  Speaker 4: remind me her name.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so so sorry to say.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, her first name, it's Alas.
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  Speaker 4: For that also, I mean she forced me to go
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  Speaker 4: into that, and I felt like I was good in doubles,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, game on the Net in singles a
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  Speaker 4: little bit different. So I felt like I have to
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  Speaker 4: I have to improve that. And yeah, that's that's why
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  Speaker 4: Max is there. But to be honest, it's not only
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  Speaker 4: for the NAT. He's a really smart guy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: analyzing a lot and helping a lot with different stuff
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  Speaker 4: me and Anton, so he's a big part of the team.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting used to being coming into these majors now
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  Speaker 1: is number one, you know, being the one of the favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly you're the favorite. Probably on the hardcore term, it's
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  Speaker 1: you're one of the favorites here. How does that change
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  Speaker 1: your outlook when you come into the terminal? You know
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be number one, I'm number one.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm not really focusing on that. I kind
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  Speaker 4: of like try and focus on myself. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: the moment you shift your focus over a wrong direction,
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  Speaker 4: like focusing on the ranking, and I don't know whatever,
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to help your game. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: anyway you have to go out there, you have to fight,
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  Speaker 4: you have to bring everything you have. You have to
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  Speaker 4: just like bring the level and bring the fight. So
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  Speaker 4: that's what I'm focusing on. And every time I have
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  Speaker 4: small opportunity to practice and work on something to you know,
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  Speaker 4: improve my game, to you have to bring new new things.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to work on that and just trying to
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  Speaker 4: be you know, ready for literally literally whatever on court.
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  Speaker 3: You're big on social media and you have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun. You do a lot of dances and all
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  Speaker 3: types of things. I've never been on it once in
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  Speaker 3: my life.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to get him to go on, that's better.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do you think because I was going to
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  Speaker 3: ask you because I'm debating now they're telling me I
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  Speaker 3: was trying to start the sticky.
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  Speaker 2: Huge huge, You're such a legend.
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  Speaker 3: What what do you What do you think I should
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  Speaker 3: How do you think I should approach that? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you are you doing it every day all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like on social media you have to
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  Speaker 2: be you.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like people just want to see your life
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  Speaker 4: outside of tennis whore like what you do, Like I
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  Speaker 4: don't know how your schedule looks, like things you like,
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  Speaker 4: just so people feel connected, and especially you know, next generation,
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  Speaker 4: they they know that everything is possible, that I'm just
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  Speaker 4: the same girl with the same hobbies that they have.
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  Speaker 4: I was going through the same journey that they've been
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  Speaker 4: going to and they're going through. So I feel like
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  Speaker 4: on social media you have to be yourself and you
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  Speaker 4: have to show like something outside of tennis court and
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  Speaker 4: just share your thoughts. I feel like, I mean, if
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna go out, if you're gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Go there your thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like you we need someone like you, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to a bit like some weird people out there, like
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  Speaker 4: talking tennis who doesn't know about it, who has no
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  Speaker 4: idea about tennis, and we need you know, we need
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  Speaker 4: smart the next to the right people.
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  Speaker 3: I've always loved you, Arena. I just want to say that,
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  Speaker 3: and you know you said exactly the right thing, and
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  Speaker 3: keep it up. I mean, you got another question.
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  Speaker 1: Just Lucas has something from social media mistake.
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  Speaker 2: So it wasn't an adjustment playing with such extravagant expensive jewelry,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm assuming you did not play with that.
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  Speaker 3: Growing up right outfit.
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  Speaker 4: Very jealous, I can give you some context with some tips.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, please don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I just I like to bring some fashion, some fun
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  Speaker 4: stuff on court. I feel like nowadays fashion is a
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  Speaker 4: bit too simple, and you know, I don't have that
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  Speaker 4: much opportunity to express myself. So that's why, like I
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  Speaker 4: just I don't know. I wear love and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like for us, for girls, for you guys, really awkward
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  Speaker 4: and wrong. It's important how I look and when I look,
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  Speaker 4: I performed good.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know. That's something that I love.
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  Speaker 4: Like now, when we're bringing fashion in a different way,
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  Speaker 4: I bring fashion another way.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing it all and you're playing good, you're looking good.
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  Speaker 2: I love the whoop too.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it's like a special wop right there,
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  Speaker 1: the tiger on there.
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  Speaker 3: You get to just for the record. Jewelry stuff, Luck,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much for coming appreciate all the best.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Arena, thanks for coming in all the best.
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  Speaker 2: Good Luck,