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As Roland Garros begins the most significant historical figure in the history of the says goodbye welcome to quick serve presented by amazon prime we are going to run through some of the results but the story of the day of this year of this tournament's history is won Rafa Nadal out of Mallorca, his 14 titles. and the proper goodbye that he was given today on the center court that he made so much history.
I'm just going to cruise through some of the results real quick for those of you tuning in. Sabalenka rolls. Queen win through. Musetti wins in straights. Ben Shelton, tough five-setter. Came back from two sets to one down. Slight tweak of the ankle not something I'm completely worried about based on on on what I want
Spitalina threw. Pecci Paracard threw in four sets in front of the home crowd. Has not been winning a ton. Tiafoe got through a tricky one. Paulini threw. Tommy Paul drops the first. Wins in four over Moeller. It was his first. Ever. Three out of five set match. Schneider. Sneaky. Sleeper for this event. Went through. Vekic. Quinton Hollis.
Mahach just retires again. JW called it last week. The guy retires uh a lot um who knows maybe i just didn't want to pass up uh the paycheck navone through so run to low through and uh we'll get you the rest of the stories tomorrow but i don't want to take up uh i don't want to take a lot of the time away from from Rafa Nadal. The way that it finished last year with Davis Cup, like many things in Davis Cup these days, they got his retirement completely wrong. It was a gift.
for him to make that the last event that he ever played to get ready on a hard court. say goodbye and it was pretty much a big nothing burger what they did disappointing all around I haven't heard one person say that it was filled with enough respect for that moment thankfully They got it right today, I thought. From giving him the stage with no one else, the simple walkout where he could soak in a 10-minute standing ovation to where we wouldn't even let him talk.
to speaking in three different languages. during his goodbye you could see him get choked up and it was it was weird I made this this drawdown between and in the biggest the biggest moment for him where i feel like he had a hard time getting through it was was right before he spoke to uncle tony who is you know his is his right hand man uh uncle family taught him the game taught him how to compete taught him all the
the most important things of which we saw with Rafa throughout the years. But it was weird when push came to shove and it got tough in his speech. He kind of looked down, focused on the words written in front of him and kind of got on with the next thing, right? It was almost what we became accustomed to when he got into those tough moments. Playing I was I was super touched. I thought the little details that the tournament got right and huge round of applause the shirts
that were Merci Rafa, the little upper deck with the heart, with the white shirts and the Rafa, it made it feel very personable. It felt like it met the moment. I was really touched by when they brought out all the people that were I don't want to say assigned to him, but helped him throughout the years. So I recognized some of the physios.
that were in there so match goes late even though he has his own team it's people keeping the training rooms open making sure that they have the things that he needs to put a foot back together the infrastructure to let his team do work. I know there were some people from the food services team that were there. I recognized a couple of the drivers.
Right. So I'm assuming he probably had the same people that picked him up in the car and, you know, got him to the courts and went through the same entrances. It made me proud of him to see how much gratitude he had for those people of which no one knew. when they walked him out on court, right? The context may be largely lost on how important the behind-the-scenes players are, especially when you win 14 times. You know, I was watching the highlights in the video like everyone else.
And I was like, this sport is so hard and physical. And watching those highlights of him getting out of the corner, just beating up his body. I thought they did a fantastic job. I think they got him, you know, the focus was on what he was saying. TNT's coverage, I think, for the most part. so far has been awesome, has been a complete upgrade from what we normally see. I think they've done a great job. I would have liked to have watched the ceremony live.
No disrespect to Francis Tiafoe, but Francis is going to play a lot of Grand Slam matches. I think we're only going to have one Rafa ceremony. In this world, I don't think you want Twitter reacting before people are seeing it live. But all in all, I thought it was full of gratitude and respect both ways. What do you do after you give someone a statue and well-deserved already?
I thought the thing with the wiping off the clay and having, you know, it almost looked like a base there with a footprint. It was so... So perfect. for the moment uh they weren't feeling fooling anyone with the messages from the you know murray djokovic and federer i think we all knew that they were standing back there um as they should but it's it was really nice and what rafa said about
Listen, we can go through battles. There are times we've come off the court where we probably don't like each other. We don't like what each other's pulled. We don't like the results. We don't like our best moments are shared with our toughest moments, largely through. The three people standing in front of him.
I thought it was a no-brainer. I knew that those three would show up if asked. You might like one player more than the other. You might not like one of the players, but you have to like the respect. that these guys show up for each other. when there's a going away party. You know, Rafa Novak did it for Roger.
You know, Murray's was a little bit tougher because we didn't know quite when it was going to happen. But hopefully that comes, you know, it would be a fitting thing at the All England Club at some point. But I thought he would just respect wins. You know, like comes and goes, respect never leaves. And if it wasn't obvious that those four, Murray, Djokovic, Federer, and at all, respect each other and can put anything aside, you know, the toughest moments of their careers, respect wins.
Twitter doesn't win, little memes don't win, little gotcha moments, little jackasses like me talking about stuff that can come and go. Respect wins. And props to those guys for showing up. They had to. Not because of any guilt. Just because they share. They've shared those moments. They understand what it takes. It's a very small room. that can understand being the favorite heading into a Grand Slam final.
doing it 14 times. I know the memories that I will take with me forever from my stupid little career and winning one time in one place and then, you know, coming up short by having a history at another place. I can't even come close to wrapping my head around what those feelings would be like and how deep that gratitude would run both ways. From me... to the fans that i played in front of and then from the fans back to me had i won 14 times In one arena. Um...
Props we needed to be able to I watched the Roger with Mary Jo Fernandez afterwards and he put in a great way like maybe we need a closure From this chapter. It was such an enormous thing I thought they got it spot on. I thought it was really great. They gave Rafa the space you could tell he was surprised at certain parts of it The gesture of the thing on the court I think was fantastic They gave him all of his flowers and it was well deserved. Seeing people crying before he even walked out.
You don't win a share of people's hearts just by playing sports, right? They're reacting to the way you did it. They're reacting to the way you did it. That's what causes emotion.
What did you guys see? Producer Mike and Techie, Sean, when you were watching, was there anything that kind of struck you? I'm biased because I've seen these guys in the ins and outs of the locker room and I've been on the other side of Nadal on clay, which is like the worst day ever but yet also it's like man it's this is this is special to see
um what did you all think from kind of outside looking in um you know i i actually watched it on max uh live because they did have like a dedicated thing to it i did think that was strange they didn't bust into the uh into the other match on TNT, so I switched over. You know what? It was Seeing his family, and I do wish TNT would have translated it, like the UN translate things live, but I use this Google translator.
thing to kind of watch it. His message to his wife, his message to his uncle, you know, his message to his family, I mean, his message to his parents was just like, I mean, it just got me. And I think having only met him the one time so briefly and he is so engaging and he really is a very warm human being. And I felt like that's exactly what that ceremony showed about him is that it was just this warmth, you know, it is something that athletic.
can do to a group of people where he felt as much love and warmth from all of those people in the stands and all the fans that have cheered him on through 14 titles. And I felt like he reciprocated that. And even just the end, taking the final lap, and then seeing his son come down, it was perfect. I don't think I've ever seen another ceremony. as perfect as that and like when they were sweeping off the clay i was like i got a little emotional about that you know like you see
Coach K gets his name on a court or something like that at Duke. You're like, oh, that's cool, but they tell you that they're going to do that. I think the reveal of that was like it got me, and seeing the way it got him, I thought was just special. And I think also like that gets swept off and. Your massive rivals are there. Yeah. Watching it with you. I thought it was, I thought it was so spot on. We'll wrap this because it's called quick serve. for a reason.
But I couldn't stop thinking about, and this thought kept going through my mind as I'm watching the montages and the other players that are there to support. Props to Alcaraz and Ferrero for clearing their day and putting on their shirts also. I thought that was really cool. Iga was sitting in front of Carlos. Iga's like the biggest Rafa fan ever.
I thought it was really cool, well-deserved, not surprising, probably expected, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't give props. And I kept thinking about... Think of the magnitude of you do 30 second intervals, right? You play a point, you take 30 seconds, you play a point, you take 30 seconds, you play a point, you take 30 seconds. 20 years later, 14 Roland Garros titles later, that's the emotion you've created with 30 seconds between excellence each time.
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