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Queens and New York. We are going to take a look now at some of the big features, some of the big themes at this year's Open, we have two very special guests. Jennie brand Over continues with us. She is a partner at DHR International. She helps important people find big jobs on Wall Street and in technology. And she's also an avid, avid tennis player in a fionado. She's out here every year for the Open and another
return engagement. Richard pent He's an attorney. He's also covering the Open this year again, part of the media, author of two books. The one I particularly want to focus on is a federal Nadal. So Richard, welcome back, Thank you. I appreciate it. Well, let's start though. Roger Federer is not here. Roba Nadal is playing well despite and has many injuries of late, but American tennis. When I spoke to Nikolaitiary, Tennis Hall of Famer, he's the guy who
did so much to create tennis training. American tennis needs more investment in its young players. Jack Sock is up in a very important match, an American man actually advancing potentially. I don't want to jink them at the Open. And Ryan Harrison on Court seventeen, with an unbelievable crowd behind him, is tied in the second set against Marco Baghdad as Solus the first set six three. I mean, those are two great hopes for American tennis, and Jared Donaldson a
great story in the zone. So what's wrong with American tennis that we do not, especially on the men's side on apart from Serena and I guess we're sister to be anyway, we don't. We don't get further like we used to. Well, I think if you asked me the question two years ago, I would have said that young athletes are going into other sports, other sports that they deemed to be more lucrative from day one, perhaps like
baseball or basketball or football. But if asking me today with SoC on the court at the at was armstrong and with Ryan at that beautiful court seventeen, I've got to tell you, American tennis looks really good right now and the crowd is huge here, so clearly people care about it. So I personally miss Federal terribly. So do you think it's a same kind of open that it was before without him? Actually Federer told me yesterday to
misses you before. Oh my god, No, it is not the same type of open as it was with Roger. And you could just listen to interviews and I'll take two of them. Stand about Rika obviously from Switzerland, Rogers doubles partner in the Olympics, not this time but at the previous times, and Raphael may doubt in their post match interviews they incorporate Roger's name, so it shows how
significant he is to the game. Still, his Labor Cup, which was announced the Wednesday before the Open started, is you just being discussed in the media room all the time. Europe against the rest of the world in Czechoslovakia Prague next October, and that's a federal run event. His agency with Tony Godsick, is running it. So Federer is somewhere around the numbers of this event right now, even though
he's I don't think he's on premises today. Well, I do think personally that each has changed tennis and how people wanted to watch him and they respected him, and he gave an incredible image at a very senior level to mentor correctly in tennis. So he's missed. Can you imagine going to Wimbledon as I have for a Murray Federer match at having the crowd route for Federer. I
mean that that is that's almost incredulous. And and let me give you the other example, and that's right here, I believe in OH five when Roddick, who was playing Federer in the final, Roder went ballistic after saying, this is my country. I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'm the University of Nebraska football fan. And this crowd is for Roger Federer and Tiger Woods of all people, the sitting in Federer's box, which is unbelievable. So what about this year? What do you think in terms of who's
gonna who's gonna come out the victor? Well, I picked uh in my bracket challenge uh Andy Murray to wint it. I think he's playing the best tennis right now. Um, I would have said forty two minutes ago that Chilich was a strong favor to win it. He's good chance of losing this act today. And del Potro has far and away the best forehand and Dennis even if Roger was in the game. And in terms of popularity and revenues, though,
do we need to have another Roger Federitor Federer? And hopefully you know, I mean, I'm not this in Novak, Djokovic or Rafa who's still playing, But do you have to because all these guys are getting older? Do we need a youngster like that coming up? And same thing on the women's side, Serena is not gonna play forever. I think in terms of do we need another Roger Federer, it's really the big four, And it was the Big four previously with Lyndelle McEnroe, Borg and Connors and now
obviously Djokovic, Nadal, Bari and Federer. So it's it's more than Roger. It's it's the fact that he's a part of the big four. So you know, if if it was a Roger isolated in two years with no clear definable number two or number three, I don't think that would do much for the game. Right. Well, how about the women's side, what are you thinking? I'm thinking Serena's gonna win this. I'm I'm thinking there's a lot of
pressure that was taken off of her. But when the Molten, I think she's got a real chip on her shoulder because of what happened last year against Vinci. I mean, I I don't know how this is gonna sound. I don't think that vinc won that match. I think Serena lost that match, and I think Serena is gonna win this. I love Madison Keys, who's playing right now. I think
she won the first set. I'm not sure the score in the second set, but she's a she's gonna be a great, great player, and Woesniaki is playing a lot better. I watched her in New Haven in some eight days ago, losing the first day, and I said, she's done. And now it looks like the woes Naki, who was number one in the world for eight weeks at one point in time. Little known fact of old. Do you think the Olympics are gonna affect Serena all emotionally or mentally
in what way? Well, she didn't. She didn't really do that well, correct, I think that's a long nine. Okay, so you know what. I'm a normal person, she's not, so I guess that doesn't affect her. Yeah. Now, I went to her opening press conference and it seemed like annesly uh. But I don't think that's going to impair serious performance. All right, Well, just getting started. Richard can't thank you so very much for joining us his uh feddor Nadal, one of his books on talk as well.
There you go, so you see and you can reach out like that. You can. I'm sure you can find his book many places. He's got such a good mind for tennis. Jinny ran Over, thanks for joining his partner at d HR International, helping us dive into tennis and the excitement and the business of it as well. Coming up, our exclusive Bloomberg interview with Vladimir Putin. I'm Kathleen Hayes.
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