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This is our truly incredible crowd. It is a true Saturday night raulkers crowd. I cannot believe the noise they're making. Thank you guys. That was incredibly special and fitting for what's been an absolute in the words of Cameron Mamathu, bananza of a day at Wimmelden. I quite often I start the show by saying I don't know where to start. I genuinely don't know where to start tonight.
I do need a bit of help because we've just been on lockings on centre court number one with Holger Reiner and no doubt Jockovich who are going to meet in the next round. I just want to buzz and talk about those experiences.
But also it feels like we probably need to start by rowing way back in the day to the defeat of the World Number One Ega Shvontech and maybe even the news that dropped about Emma Radikarnu and Andy Murray's doubles partnership being over before a team name could even be decided upon. No matter where we start folks we'll be covering all of that.
It is truly a bananza of a day isn't it? Yeah, sure. It's quite incredible day really because I think the rain as well makes you a bit unsettled. You don't know where you are, matches are moving around, you don't know what's going to get what's going to finish. Suddenly I realised matches that I didn't even know had started were one game from the end in the fifth set.
Players I care about like Arthur Fees, he's not even going to get another mention probably. So much has happened and suddenly I realised matches that we decided today are now going to be happening tomorrow with the next round because things have been disrupted.
It feels like Ega Shvontech is the story of the day but goodness a lot has happened. Yeah I think that's right because sometimes you get days at slams where a lot happens but there may be aren't some huge stories in there as well but this was a lot happening going right until tennis only finished moments ago.
We also lost the world number one and we lost last year's finalist and no joke of it was a set down at one point. There were things happening everywhere and obviously the big bombshell news of Emma Radakarnas were drawn, took up a lot of bandwidth during the day as well. It was matches everywhere but you didn't really have time to breathe because there were stories everywhere as well and of course the football. Yeah there was a penalty shootout during the most critical moments of the day.
Did that really all happen on the same day moments? I've put my strawberry jumper on especially it felt like a strawberry jumper day. Good decision. Jude had it all in the control. All under control. Not worried about Jude's penalty. Get yourself a Jude folks from the Wimbledon shop. He never lets us down. Matt was clutching him so hard at about 7.30pm today.
Right about the time that Ega Shvontech was impressed. Exactly the time that Ega Shvontech came to press. Yeah should we talk about Ega Shvontech? She didn't do a Carlos Alcress. She wasn't watching England penalties in the shower. No no I was sort of hoping she would but Alas no. She lost today if that is an obvious if you didn't already know 366162 to Julia Puten-Saver who has who's come in here. She was the form player coming in.
She had won the title. She was the one with banks of confidence under a belt and that's exactly what it looked like today. For anyone that wasn't watching this match it's really hard to overstate how bad Ega Shvontech was during sets 2 and 3. She was extremely poor. That's not an exaggeration is it? It feels like she was particularly poor given how not poor she was in the opening set.
It wasn't for Ega Shvontech in the first set but she looked comfortable and secure and safe. I just did not foresee what ended up happening in that match. No. As soon as she got broken in the second set it was like the wheels came off and Panic set in and she lost all sense of control. Oh my goodness. We'll be closing in around 15 minutes. You've got enough going on. You're way to the exit gates and make sure you take all your belongings with you.
We all know. Hope you enjoyed your day here at Wimbledon. We see you a pleasant and safe journey home. Thank you. As I was saying Ega Shvontech once she got broken by Julia Puten-Saver at the start of that second set. She never recovered at all. It was then unforeseeers, a lot of them hitting out, hitting big. She just lost all sense of her game and her plan.
I do want to give Julia Puten-Saver her due because she played a fantastically smart match. She made an adjustment to step further back on the return and give herself a bit more time. She was also having a great mix of rushing Shvontech in a way that we've seen players do before but also disrupting with variety. There's a lot of drop shots, short slice shots. It was all just as a package, really, really good.
I felt like she gave a great answer in her press conference, kind of a nod to what you're saying about how she was the form player. She was asked if I played better on grass. She said, well, that match I played against Kokshiireto in Birmingham just a couple of weeks ago was a really good run. If you were watching that run, you knew that she was a potential dangerous opponent for Shvontech.
But still, I was surprised by the lopsided nature. Nine games in a row in the middle of this match for Puten-Saver. Honestly, I thought that was a performance that Shvontech had moved on from. I thought that was a two-year-old Shvontech performance on grass. It was very similar in a way to the Kornay loss. Same court, same kind of drama queen for the people opponent. There were some similarities and same just arafest, really, from the racket of Shvontech.
I wasn't expecting that. I thought that we've seen her in so many perilous positions this year. Even when she was down in this set, I was thinking, well, Shvontech, just win titles from match point down. We know that she's got that fight in her and we know that she can come back from difficult positions. But it never felt like that was going to be the case today. Once it got away from her, it just kept running down the hill and she couldn't get it back. It was pretty shocked, actually.
It was the performance of somebody with absolutely no confidence, with very frail confidence. If somebody was on a 20-match winning streak and is just one a grand slam was pretty extraordinary. There were some very revealing lines. Well, actually, the whole press conference was really interesting for me. I would like to shout out the journalists that attended it whilst England were in a penalty shootout. Because full disclosure, I was not one of them.
Charlie Ecclesher of the Athletic, I'm looking at you. He was a football reporter until about a month ago. And there he was in the EGASHVYONTEK press conference as Jude Bellingham was stepping up to take penalty. God, Charlie. Tip of the hat to you, my friend. As well as everybody else in there, some really revealing quotes out of EGASHVYONTEK. She said she wouldn't be analyzing the match very much because it's the last tournament on grass for a year.
And it doesn't have any bearing for her on what's coming up until the grass court season next year. It was a real revelation of how much she compartmentalises grass and just sees it totally separate to the rest of tennis in her life. And I felt like sort of stretching that onto the court. She also wasn't able to carry any of her confidence from the rest of her tennis onto a grass court.
She looked like she'd been dropped from space today and in never-one-a-grand slam, never been world number one. And I just, that compartmentalising, it feels very 90s to me. Look, it's giving Casparude. And I get that it's a journey for her on grass and she wasn't necessarily going to be winning it this year. You know, it's going to be a journey for her to get there. But I just wish she was driving the train more on that journey.
You know, she said she said she made us a mistake with her preparation this year. Should have gone to that second Taylor Swift concert. She said she made a mistake with the preparation and I was expecting her to say, I can't just rock up at Wimbledon, expect to play well. I need to be playing a warm up event. She said, no, I did too much off court stuff and then was a bit vague about what that was and said, I think I'll go on holiday next year instead.
It's not giving Wimbledon is peak tennis and one of my top priorities. I think mainly it's giving that the French open is the priority and she doesn't really think she's got the bandwidth to then follow it with Wimbledon in any other way than what she is. And actually she needs more time off. She needs to come in here and finish that. That's what Fettu, what she's saying there. She said I didn't play an event last year.
And actually if you think back, she played better last year than she has this year or two years ago. I mean this performance today, I've seen that movie before. Two years ago was virtually identical. It was the same day, third round, Saturday. It was before that Kirios Sitsapas circus. It was coming off the back of 37 match winning streak or something like that.
That was the one that ended it. It was against Alize Cône, a feisty, difficult player who's not going to give you anything and who's going to revel in making life tricky for you. And just like that day, she just kept on over hitting one after another, the four hand malfunctioning and going out. While I'm watching it, I'm thinking, well where is your tactical change appear? Where is your adjustment? And that was exactly how I felt two years ago.
And unlike two years ago, I actually thought specifically, where's your drop shot? You're hitting three or four great ground strokes against a player who's just decided, I don't care. I'm just absorbing all of them and I'm going to send them hard and deep back. And then you'll have to do it all over again and have to go for more and eventually miss. And if she'd had a drop shot like some of the other players had, Putin's ever been nowhere near them.
I didn't see one drop shot. So she looked frazzled mentally. I thought her play was terrible really for two sets. And Putin's ever was fantastic. You know, it's two things happening at the same time. And it's made me decide, I think if I went back, I've predicted Eagish Fiontech to win the title here the last this year and the previous two. I will not be doing that again next year. I don't care what she could win all the other three grand slams before then.
I will not be predicting that she's going to win one more then until she actually proves she can play on this. David's taking it first. He does make the same mistake twice, folks, but not three times. No, I'm not going to make it four times. But I mean, I think what she does, she does, you know, so many players say that grass is no longer a specialist surface because they're all the same speed. She makes it look like a completely foreign surface.
Look, there's a lot of people in the chat here and hello to everybody that is with us live saying, she's young, she's got time. Absolutely. I agree. It's just, she's not saying that. She's not saying, I'm desperate to figure this out. Just give me a bit of time. You know, she was asked how determined are you to figure this out and succeed here one day? And within the answer, she said, I'm determined at every tournament. Now, she is. And that's great. And that's why she's world number one.
But this is Wimbledon, you know? I just don't... And maybe this is British bias or romanticism from me. But I'm not sure she sees it that differently. I don't think she can because of rolling out us and the position of it in the calendar. A genuine incident away, she is wired. She actually said one quote in the press conference was, if Wimbledon was in two months time, I'd be really motivated. So do you think never then? Because the calendar ain't changing.
Well, I think if she's going for Chris Slam, then that would change the equation. She thinks it's like Wimbledon come back to me when I've got an Australian open. Maybe. And look, I think the Olympics is another complicating factor this year. You know, and that's going to be a big goal. Is that Roland Garros? She's the big favourite there. I think what's interesting is that 2022... Don't think she played a warm-up event between Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
And she hasn't done it here either. Those are the two years with her streaks. So in a way, I think it's kind of less in a way about what she does at Roland Garros. And more kind of in the build up to Roland Garros. If she's constantly going deep in all those tournaments, playing them all, winning them all, I think she just finds herself she needs a break after Roland Garros. Like, she's not going to do anything at Wimbledon even if she then did play a grass court event in between.
Because she needs a break. But I think if generally her season has looked a bit different, like it did last in 2023, she wasn't great between the Australian open and Roland Garros. I don't think she was as exhausted. So she did slip in that extra grass court event. And came here a little bit fresher. I know she just won Roland Garros, but she hadn't had this constant build up throughout the entire season of constantly going deep at all these events.
So I think the overall context of her season is sort of playing into her Wimbledon performances. But I also think there's a part of this where we are, as you said, this is a throwback. 20, 30 years ago, I don't think we would have felt quite so strongly about this. We are seeing things now through a different lens, a serena lens, a big four lens. I think it's okay if she'll take needs some time to crack this. And I know that you'll say she's not really even trying to crack this at the moment.
But I think that might come in time. I really do. I'm the one here that didn't predict her to go deep in this tournament. It's more about what she's saying and the nature of the loss. It makes me wonder if she ever will. Look, I agree with you that I think the Australian open, once she gets that, it will change things.
I also totally agree with you'll point before that and send an opportunity to make a point about two week long, 1,000 events, which I think are really contributing to the frazzling of these players. I really, really believe that's the case. And Shiontech is one of those that is pretty explicitly said that, hasn't she? Yeah, but I think the point David makes is interesting. It'd be cool if she saw it as an opportunity to improve her game generally.
Because there are areas where you still think she could get so much better. And that would surely still help her on clay and on hard. Like, she doesn't really need help on clay. She's so clearly the best and she's dominating with what she's got. And I think we'll continue to. But actually, if you look at her hard court record, it's amazing on tour. But it's not actually been all that amazing at the slams. I know she won the US Open, but what was it?
4th round at last is US Open, and then a couple of early exits at the Australian open in the last couple of years. Like, you feel like developing just her game generally, broadening it out to help her on grass, will also potentially help her on other surfaces. And if she could sort of see it through that lens, then maybe she would commit more to it. But I can't see things changing certainly until she's maybe got on Australia Open, as I say,
or just priorities change. And yeah, it just feels like this is going to be her for a little while. Just finally, on Shwante, because there is so much to cover, that line she gave Charlie, and he did push her on this to try and get her to elaborate and give some more detail the line about. She said, my tank of really pushing myself to the limit suddenly felt empty. She said, I know what I did wrong after Roland Garros. I didn't rest properly. I won't make that mistake again.
She pressed as she said, it was off court stuff that drained her after Roland Garros. And I do think that off court stuff, sponsor stuff, endorsements, commercial stuff, drains E. Gashiontech more than it would drain a lot of other top players. And that's going to be an interesting thing for her, because it's a clear move for her to become more commercial. And I see her on a lot more things. When you land it, he throw. There's a big picture of her on an Infosys billboard, isn't there?
She's got the long-com sponsorship. And I think it's brilliant. Good luck to her. But it was interesting, you know, when the line she gave about being asked to her dream dinner party guest would be. And she said, Maria Sharapova, because she'd like to quiz her on sort of how she's excelled at and juggled the commercial side of things. Like, I do think that's going to be a big battle for E. Gashiontech.
Yeah, and if that is what she's referring to with those lines, because initially when I was reading the transcript, I wondered whether it might be like, has she gone into gym or something and done some physical stuff. But I got the same just in the end as you did there. And her agent is Max Eisenberg, who is the long time and still is the agent for Maria Sharapova and Emma Radikarno.
And I've heard him interviewed in the past talking about like defending her endorsements and saying, listen, we have a set number of days that we need to fulfill for those sponsors. But we really plan those so that they don't get in the way. That's the whole thing. And I'm sure that, and listen, they all need their time if they're going to have an arrangement with her. But picking and choosing when that is is maybe something she'd be able to just adjust a little.
Will E. Gashiontech win, Mimbleton, one day? One word? Yes. Yeah. But I don't feel as confidence today. You won't be picking it when she does. It'll be a surprise to you. No, I won't. I won't. I mean, not unless, I mean like for instance next year, she might get to the final or get to the semis and feel like she's made a massive pro, sort of move upwards. At the moment, that just felt like going back in time two years ago. It still feels to me like it's up to her whether she wins.
I don't think she's incapable, I would say. I think it will rest on her. If she decides that she does want to prioritize it and commit to it, I think she's clearly she's a good enough talent and enough of a world class player that she can play on grass. But you know, that's no guarantee I suppose. But yeah, for now, I would still say yes. Yeah. I think I think so too, but it definitely doesn't feel like a given. Oh no. No. Do you know who I think is probably quite annoyed about the result today?
Yelena Osterpanko. Yelena Osterpanko. I think she's, I think she's seething that Yulia Putin-Saver got to be the one. She was like, I had that reservation. You've gizumped me. Yeah. And she's got a much better head to head against Rontet and she has a good Putin-Saver as well. I went back and watched the Putin-Saver Osterpanko 2016 handshake yesterday. It's just do it. Just do it. All of you. It's just the best. Osterpanko is dismissing people that like totally dismiss it.
It might be the most impressive tennis I've seen this tournament. Osterpanko. But I do wonder if you know the fact that it's not what she was planning on it being this fourth round match. I do wonder if that could derail her. Yeah, it might just burst the bubble. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting one. Osterpanko Putin-Saver. I mean, I know it's not one for the casuals, is it? But if you know, you really do know and you will make a point of being present to watch it.
For sure. Let's stay with the women's draw show. Elaina Rabakina suddenly maybe becomes the favorite for the title if she wasn't before. A lot for a lot of people. She perhaps would have been before. But after beating Caroline Bosnianaki, David, six love, six one. I think she certainly elevates to that position in a lot of people's minds. Yeah, I commented on this with Tracey Austin and I was blown away. She was breathtaking today.
She was, I realize this is a small sample size, but she was as good today on grass as Igor Shfiantek is on play. It was that good. You could not engineer a tennis player more perfectly equipped to play on grass than Elaina Rabakina when she's in that sort of form. Now, she was against a player that kind of felt like a hitting partner in the way the rallies were going. I mean, this just felt like a generation difference.
And let's be honest, when Caroline Bosnianaki was winning her grand-slam title in 2018, Elaina Rabakina was just starting out, not even. So they'd never played, they'd never even shared locker rooms, I don't think, really. And you have to go back to 2010 for when Bosnianaki first became world number one, 14 years ago. And she's done perfectly respectable job in her comeback. It's not been maybe what she hoped to be, but it's been fine. But oh, my word today.
She couldn't do anything. She was just feeding balls, effectively, that Rabakina was just dismissing. And every shot was coming off. She was in a zone. She was middling everything. She hit something like 34 winners to four. And the first set was 21 minutes. Is this going to re-retire, Caroline Bosnianaki? I genuinely got to the end of the match. And there was a moment where she was six, loved one, loved Dan, then she got a game. And she smiled. And she's not, you know, she's not that player.
She's a scrapper, she's not that player who makes the song and that's about getting on the board. And her husband was in the crowd. He led the standing ovation to try to kind of, you know, raise her spirits and so forth. But Tracey Austin and the Controx were saying, you know, a year ago, Caroline was sitting next to me in this commentary box and, you know, desperately wanted to sort of try again. And look, she pushed Coco Gough, the eventual champion at the US Open to the three sets.
You know, she's done really well. But that's the sort of match that would make me, if I were her, think, okay, what am I doing this for? Wow. If Rabakina plays like that every round, she wins the Winch Wimbledon. It's just as simple as that. It's Kallon's Guy and X. She's having an awesome season, Kallon's Guy, but it's so hard to see her having the weaponry to challenge Rabakina. Rabakina would have to be off. Yeah. Which we do have to know. No, for sure. Yeah. That does that can happen.
The risk of that has not evaporated. No. Absolutely. But she looked healthy. She looked fine. She looked calm and she gave a good interview on the course afterwards. And I just thought, here's somebody who's just feeling it. And look, the previous round she was pushed to three sets. So it's worth remembering, like you say, that one zoning performance doesn't mean a tournament of them.
Well, those are the two winners matches on court one today. Over on Centricort, it was last year semi-finals, the Lena's Fittalina against the two-time finalists from the last two years. Ones Jabir, 6-1, 7-6 for Svittalina today. Just too solid for Jabir, who I do think is struggling with that knee. Sounds like the knee situation is just chronic. Now when she's managing it, she was talking about injections. After the match, she said, she wasn't saying that's why she lost.
And I think the movement was fine today. I just think she's generally kind of 90% of the player she used to be. And opponents are so good. So good. It is so tough to win slams and reach finals. I do worry, Frans Jabir, that she's not going to be on an avotner. The best chances have passed her by. It was interesting that this was her first time back on Centricort since the trauma of the final last year. And she was asked about that in the press conference afterwards.
And she said, yeah, it was tough. And it was in my mind. Yeah, I'm not going to lie to you. Yeah. And I think we saw that in the first set. I mean, just a horrible first set. She played, you know, there was a lot of shank. She wasn't timing the ball. Yeah, really, really struggled. Faced break points right at the start of the second set and held impressively. A massive reaction from her box. And I think that settled her.
And the second set struck me that it was, you know, really close and hard for and could have gone either way. But Sviterlina, who I'm impressed with as well, because, you know, the way she was talking in Paris, she was really talking about how much preparation it takes now for her to just get on court every time. And she's had some physical issues herself. And felt like she was hanging on a little bit. So I wasn't really expecting all that much of Sviterlina kind of backing up last year's run.
But she kind of put out a statement win in the last round against future Wimbledon champion, Nula Nima, and has now backed it up. And she's just relentless Sviterlina. She can just sort of pick on little weaknesses and, yeah, really impressive from her, but tough for Jabber. I think she needed an easier opponent in her first match back on Centre Court. I mean, kind of maybe not because then she would have been such a heavy favourite.
But I think just level wise, she needed, she needed time to recover kind of from a bad first set. And Sviterlina didn't allow that. And yeah, it's tough because I think her level through two rounds have been good. And her level coming in have been pretty good. I wasn't that high on Jabber, like throughout this season. I really thought she still wasn't in a great place and the injury with the knee as well. But I was starting to just gain a bit of confidence again.
But yeah, really, really tough scenes to be honest. Yeah, it was striking to me how not devastated she was afterwards. Obviously she was sad and disappointed. But I tuned into that press conference again, the England game was on. And there was a bloody lot happening at the time. Multi-screening is the best thing sometimes, David. It is not dereliction of podcast duty. And I tuned in. I think I turned to Matt and I said, oh my god, how traumatic is this going to be?
You know, remembering the last two years and all of that. And she was sort of fine. And I think that's indicative of how much lower her expectations were of herself at this Wimbledon. I don't think she was shocked to lose that match. She'll be losing in the third round. So, Svitalina, through to the fourth round where she'll meet Wongjin Yu, who beat Harriet Darts, came back from a certain, I think, a breakdown to one of the many very rain delayed matches from the outside courts today.
David is potentially in a sprinkler situation here. So, it could be fun, folks. We need a new wet weather position, but not for rain. So, Svitalina, Wongjin Yu, for a place in the quarter finals, Popora Kwechikovar is sneakily sneaking her way through this draw. She got a retirement today from Boothath, Bouthas Menero, of course, who beat my ketovondroshiver in the opening round. And she plays Daniel Collins next, Kraychikovar. Collins is best ever, Wimbledon, isn't it?
Already by reaching the second week here. And look, all of these people are in a section of the draw where Eagish Viontex just gone and Anstubur has just gone. And, you know, I'm kind of today's evidence, like I think Collins probably may well have beaten Eagish Viontex and quite possibly Anstubur as well. So, maybe those names weren't the threats we thought they were, but it just feels like there's been a big impact on the draw today in that top half.
I know Elena Rabatkinna has sort of laid down a statement, but Collins was really struggling. She was fall of down and then the rain came. There was post-Rangelade Daniel Collins. And I think she's real dog, eight games in a row after that. And Hadadj Maya looked troubled out there. I thought she is searching big time this season. And it's been a real struggle and it's tough to see, I think, because last year was obviously such an enormous breakthrough for her.
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School I'm wise, Matt. You were out on centre court for this. Very similar to their match at the Australian Open. Was it in reality? Very similar. It was one of those, no, ever Jockovich matches at a slam, which kind of gives you the illusion of, oh, you might be in trouble here. You know, he's lost the first set, and I think he was playing that well. They then had to put the roof on, and you think, okay, let's see where this goes. And then he absolutely cruises through sets two and three.
He's playing really well in those sets. For some reason, Popperin is engaging him in lots of backhand to backhand rallies. Terrible idea. And no, Jockovich is looking pretty imperious in those two sets. He takes the two sets to one lead. He gets a bit of a second win. And as he keeps holding serve, he's ahead in the score. And again, there's this illusion of tension building. And maybe it is tension. Maybe it isn't. You don't really know. But you've seen that Jockovich in that situation before.
You always think he's going to do it. And he gets to five all, love four to you on the Popperin serve. And you think, okay, this is the moment. But then Popperin saves all of those break points. Really impressively, one of them really long rally. The crowds involved. There's a moment where Jockovich has got the crowd going. And then Popperin gets the crowd going back to him. And Jockovich just sort of smirks at him, which usually just spells the end for the opponent, doesn't it?
And then, so we're in a tie break. And, you know, Popperin's got a big game. He's got weapons. You feel like that's potentially a dangerous situation. But then Jockovich plays one of his all-time, you know, classic brilliant tie breaks, which he said at the end was one of his best of the season so far. And he comes through, and I thought pretty impressive overall. So dominant behind his first serve.
Like, I don't think Popperin's one of the two's greatest returners, necessarily, but Jockovich was impressive behind his serve. And I think, you know, that's the foundation still. Perhaps more so than ever. But Jockovich, age 37, on grass with a bit of a knee problem. Like, he's got to be serving well, and he is. age 37, on grass knee surgery three and a half weeks ago. It remains bonkers all of it. The violin celebration. Please ask me to explain that, because I've got no idea. No, nobody can.
Nobody seems to know. Did it seem directed in any particular direction? It was over towards the boxes. So it looked quite playful and cheery. It looked like it was directed at his box. He sort of used his racket as a violin. Don't know. There was also a moment where clearly everyone was watching the football. And there was like a crowd, a rruption of noise. And Jockovich faked kicking a football. Like, he knew what was going on. He was pretty good in there. Turns out he's left footed.
Yeah. He was left footed. I don't know what we can extract from that. Something I didn't know. Something I didn't know. Something about Jockovich. Okay. He faces Holger Runer in the fourth round. A player that he has had problems with in the past. Now, Runer had problems of his own today. Found himself two sets of love down to qualify Conta Alice. But ended up winning. Coming from two sets down for the first time in his career. And it was showtime Holger Runer, David.
The match got moved to court number one when Runer was... He'd started the comeback, but he was very much not all the way back at all. He got moved when he was two sets to one up. And he just went, oh great, this is where I belong. I'll win now then, shall I? God, I love watching Holger Runer played like that. I feel like a five set date with Holger Runer late at night in the first week of a slam should be regular. Pop it in my diary four times a year. Thank you very much.
And that's when we turn up. Because last time it was at Rollingeros against Caboli. And it was the other way around. He was two sets up. He got reeled in for two sets all. We were like, okay, let's go for the fifth set. And we just had the time of our lives out there. And it was similar tonight. Both you and I were on the court in separate positions. I was talking at the time on the hill as well. But yeah, I mean, there was a race away with that deciding set.
And there was a moment where they both sort of played behind the back underneath shots like that in one rally. And Runer won it and the crowd absolutely lapped it up. It's just a really intriguing match. Because we don't really know where to know that, Chokovych is. And we know he's performing miracles really. The fact that he's doing what he's doing with that knee. But we don't know how he's going to perform when he's really pushed by a top player.
And I don't regard Runer as a top player currently. But I regard him as somebody who has the ability to be one. So when's that coming out? We've seen it in the past. He should be though. He should be. You should be. You should be. You should be. You should be though. You should be. You should be. You should be. It is because his game is really, really good. I mean, he lacks nothing really. So which one are we going to get? We have seen him put the. Runer will show up against Chokovych.
But we haven't seen him do it at a grand slam against Chokovych. And we'll have to see how that plays out. He did show up against it. He should have beaten his very own in Paris. Well, yeah, I mean, he was too set to one up. He was out playing him. And then he didn't win the fourth set. Tybreg and then he just fade it. So is that the play from Chokovych? If they get close, does he fade again?
You know, it's there's so many ingredients here that are tantalizing and to which I don't feel massively confident about it. Because we know Runer does have the game to really trouble him. But is he at that level at the moment? Don't know. In my head, Runer was leading that head to head against Chokovych. I'd actually totally forgotten about there two matches at the end of last year. In Dores, but I think in Paris and then Turin. And they were both three sets, but Chokovych won them both.
And he actually leads the head to head three, too. And Runer's wins were one on clay and one, obviously, the Paris and Dores title that he won. I do think Chokovych is going to win. But I agree with you that I think Runer will show up in that. I think he might have maybe a lapse too many. I just think that I'm not sure he can sustain the level required over five sets. That's what happened against Vera. Exactly. He was played out of his mind like his ceiling was way above Vera's ceiling.
But his troughs were down his ankles. I'm also not sure his ceiling will be way above Chokovych. No, no. I think he'll have moments I think they could lead to sets. Yes. I think this is where we find out where Chokovych is really at. I think so. I agree. But I don't know, just the ways he looked very content tonight at the end of that match. And he says, I'm getting better every match.
He relishes that kind of match up against a younger player and being able to slightly put them in their place a little bit. I think it's a big test, I agree. Well, I would confidently predict that that match will be on Centre Court, but that would be very Ben Shelton of me. And I could end up with aeg on my face, just like Ben Shelton did. His dreams lasted all about two and a half minutes. Yes, Ben Shelton beats Shapa Val, Dennis Shapa Val of 6-2 in a fifth set.
His third back-to-back fifth set of this Wimbledon so far. He does not have his best tennis. Certainly not consistently across a match. But he is scrapping and it is fun to watch. So he wins the match. He holds up the number five to his box, you know, to indicate five sets. It was a very 90s tennis match, wasn't it? It was, let's just call it, served, dominated. But because he was Ben Shelton, it was kind of fun nonetheless. So he holds up the five for five sets.
Does a very charismatic interview with Annabelle Croft on the talk on the court? And he has asked about the fact that his dad Brian reached the fourth round of Wimbledon 30 years ago. And he goes, we are back, big dog. It is just brilliant. And then on Solicity, he goes, yeah, I am playing, you know, Yannick Sinnernex. And I assume that is going to be on centre court. So that will be brilliant. They have put it on court one. And they announced it about two minutes after you have the court.
Which I think you will be fine with. I think court one really suited him today. Yeah, I think it does. And I think it feels like the place where stuff can happen a bit more. I think if there was an upset, it would be more likely to happen there. He is in a state of suspendue in his doubles. I thought he was going to pull out of that, you know, given he has been on the schedule every day in the singles. And he is playing three five setters.
Okay, he is not playing grueling five setters because they are quick. But he has got a shoulder injury and strapping on his knee. He said he felt great there today. He was pretty, sort of, buoyant about how he was feeling. But I really thought he was going to pull out of the doubles and then go out to play it. He used to double partner. McKenzie McDonnelld. And they tied up one set all. They were set up and then they lost a second set tie break. And then they got off the court in straight sets.
But as it is, they are suspended. So look, I don't know if that has an impact at all. He has beaten post puke sinner. He is one of the guys who got him in Shanghai. But I think sinner was perhaps just coming off that win in Beijing. But, you know, he is a disruptive force. If everything is flowing and working, and he is not quite on top of his game at the moment. And he is pretty streaky. And I do think sinner is just, I think, sinner might overwhelm him, to be honest.
I think I could, if I had to predict, I would say straight sets, sinner. There was a hundred, well, there were fewer than I think. But there was 135 mile per hour serve today from Shelton that made the whole crowd, and I was run for cover. Like, if you heard a gunshot or something, like, oh my God, I don't want that anywhere near me. And I realized that was 18 miles per hour slower than the fastest serve. He has hit this tournament, 153, which kind of passed me by, actually.
It was a couple of rounds ago. Fastest serve ever seen at Wimbledon. Crazy. Yeah, although has that been verified? Because in the press conference, they were talking about his fastest serve here being 140 something. So I was a little confused by that. It was shown on the gun, on the display, on screen. It's been a recount. But yeah, I did think it was a bit suspect. Because this is a notoriously slow gun versus, say, Queens. Which tend to produce records.
Yeah, which I was delighted about when I was in the tournament. Okay, fast anyway. Yes, fast. Thank you. Okay, so Shelton, Chapavallav, that'll be, no, Shelton, Chapavallav was today. Shelton, Sinner is tomorrow. Shelton, back on the schedule for, I think, the, is that the seventh, no, sixth day in a row. It's been on the schedule every day since Tuesday. And he played the week before Wimbledon in New Yorker. It's a lot of tennis.
Which he said was a conscious decision because he, he felt like last year, he never got going on the grass. And he thought, right, I'm going to play an extra week on the grass. He said, it didn't work because he didn't play very well in the buildup. But he's got to win more and he started feeling good. I think he just likes, just likes this place and it's kind of brought out some better, some better tennis and certainly better results.
I think fourth round for Shelton, that is, that's a, that's a good Wimbledon. And now he runs into Sinner and I don't think he'll see it as a free hit. But he can't have a swing. He can't have a swing. Yeah. Because I mean, it's already, he's shown real grit. Because I've seen a couple of the first two matches that he played and he was not playing well. And he could have gone out. And he, he's a fighter. He was better today. Like, as you said, it was streaky.
But there was a lot of good stuff. I thought his, I thought his volleys were great, generally. But I'm not sure it's enough against, against Sinner. Taylor Fritz against Alexander Sverov, a fourth round that was set up today. Sverov beating Camnory in three sort of broadly comfortable sets. But, you know, the headline of the match is the 1715 third set tie break that Sverov eventually hauled himself across the line of stars. And it wasn't, I just said broken all tournament Sverov.
And it is, it's not inconvenient to him that a lot of these matches are being played indoors. Like, that's a dream for Sverov. Yeah, it is. He is a considerably bigger threat, I think, when it's indoors. I think that, I think the longer it rains, the better his chances. Fritz has been good though. Yeah. Really, really good. And he's had two matches racing against the darkness. And he's managed to beat the darkness both times. Like the darkness piss him off.
Rindakinesh, that all by the way, Rindakinesh out of the doubles, have a nice flight home. Okay, so he's very fritz in a couple of days time. Daniel Mervvedev got yesterday's job finished at 8, no, 642. Mervvedev finished the match that started at 11am yesterday. He was annoyed with Harriet Dart. Yes, he was very annoyed with Harriet Dart for losing her lead. He was like, I've seen so many deuces. Yeah, he was like, I warmed up when Harriet Dart looked like she was going to win.
Anyway, eventually gets the job done. And then he's against Yamanetshruf, who does indeed have peroxide blonde hair. I saw it when he took the cap off for the handshake today. Did you see Fabio Feneini, I think? I'll have one of those. Well, Feneini said he lost the bet. That's why he's got his hair like that. I don't know why. Fabio Feneini is the type of guy that in his late 30s is losing bets and getting silly haircuts, of course. Daniel Mervvedev is very surprised at how well he's playing.
He's really pleasantly surprised. That's what I'm taking for Daniel Mervvedev right now. He's like, Yamanetshruf's really good. Sort of wasn't expecting to be Tim. This is going well. Will it be enough, though? Against Dimitrov. You tell me, David. No. You think Dimitrov's winning that? Yeah, too. I think I might too. Uglman Bear has set up a meeting with Carlos Alcras to mori. That match is first on centre. Took a few match points through Goam Bear. You're just a few.
I was commentating on it again. Yes. This match felt like it might have been permanently suspendu. But... Rolling, David. But Ambeer did get the job done. And I can't see him beating Alcras, but it'll be a stylish match. Yeah, I'm interested to see how he gets on, really. I'm commentating on that, actually, as well. Tomorrow, first up on centre. You out. I'll tell you. But he loves the ball down low. And so, grass is good for him.
This is the first time he's reached last 16, since his debut tournament here, 2019. So, he still should be doing better than he is, Uglman Bear. He's 16 in the world. He's won a cup of titles this year. But it's about time he really performs in the heart of a grandstand. So, he's got himself to Alcras. Can he hurt it? I think what I always think with Alcras, if he plays his best, he wins. And usually quite comfortably, but I'm intrigued by it.
Roberto Belties-Ragu, got the job done against Fabio Fennini. So, he will play Tommy Paul tomorrow. And staying with Frenchman off the back of Ambeer Chat, Artifice David. It might be happening. Well, I gave him a missed it. You've seen it not happen for so long, and then when he does... I've seen... You stuck with Tracy Austin. Which isn't the worst situation to be in. But I think I've seen probably 95% of Artifice is tennis in 2024.
And then the moment he goes and has a massive match, I find out it's happening when he's 5-3 up in the fifth. I didn't even know it was on. So, he's probably better off without me, I think it's all the taking. He's two sets of undone in that match. He did really well, and he's got Alex Dominor next to one by Walkover today. Luke Puie pulling out of that match. So, that's, you know, rhythm disruptor for Alex Dominor... I've seen him play. I've seen him play. And Fees one.
They played each other in Barcelona, and Dominor did not enjoy that day at all. But he's much better on grass. He goes in as a clear favourite. But this does feel like Fees has just matured before our eyes in the last few weeks. Something has definitely clicked. I think Sebastian Grozion is probably a big help in that regard. He was asked in the press conference whether he would have won that match last year. And he said, no. Mentally, he seems so much more stable, and he doesn't just...
If things went against him, he would just find excuses in the past and stop blaming officials. And whatever took his fancy. Now, he seems... he just seems like he's grown up a bit, really. Quite a big day for Frenchmen, actually, because Giovanni Pesci Perricard, the lucky loser, who lost to Maxime Jean-Vier in the final round of qualifying, finds him. Because he must be quite a grass court player, except he lost in the first round, I think.
Pesci Perricard, the lucky loser, is through to the second week. He beat Mirus Savori today, 27 Aces, which I actually don't think is that many for Pesci Perricard. And he plays Lorenzo Mazzetti next to his put together a very handsome grass court season. And Sammy Farrell's in Stuttgart, finalistic Queen's backing it up here. I think we can say that Round of 16 is already a good result for Mazzetti. I saw him lose to Hubert Herkatch here last year, I think it was.
Mazzetti. And so I just wonder, and having seen that, I remember thinking, you know, he does struggle to do much with these big serves. And somebody who's happy to come forward. So I kind of wonder whether that might be a problem for him. Well, Mazzetti's grass court season started against Pesci Perricard, watched them play in Stuttgart in the first round. And it was, you won't be surprised, two tie breaks, but Mazzetti won them both. And I kind of think that grass in Stuttgart is even quicker.
It's sort of old school grass. And actually, Mazzetti was the one doing a better job on return than Pesci Perricard was. Mazzetti had a load of break points, and he just couldn't convert. And then it eventually ended up in two tie breaks. And he did win at Mazzetti. But like, Pesci Perricard had nothing on return himself that day. So I think it's a really interesting match because like, just, he's a nightmare, isn't he, with that serve. Like, he's just hitting so many aces imposing himself.
And likes coming to the net as well. Absolutely. And his play to the play was such, we always talk about it, players who have freedom and are fearless. And he's that right now coming off, this kind of incredible breakthroughs had over the last few months. But I'm impressed with Mazzetti because, okay, he's not at the toughest draw. But he's quite often lost with not the toughest draw. Exactly. That hasn't always mattered. And this has been a real period of sustained good results.
Because he even going back in Paris, he played really well against Novat Jokovic as well. So this has been a really good month or six weeks or so from Mazzetti. Okay. So confirming the order of play for tomorrow, day seven at the championship. Alkarazan and Behr, open up centre court. Then Luliesan against Emma Radikarni, the qualifier, of course. Luliesan on a six-match winning streak against the last British woman, Emma Radikarni. Then it's another Emma Navarro against Coco Gopso.
There are two women's warm men's on centre court tomorrow, which is really good to see. Court number one, Jasmine Paulini starts against Madison Keys. Then it's Syna against Shelton. And then it's Dimitriov Mervere. But Dossa Vekic starts on court two. Tommy Paul against about Tista Agu is court two as well. And then I think we're going to have to scroll all the way down to court 18 for singles. No, that's it, isn't it? We already at that stage. We already there. I'm not ready.
Only eight singles matches tomorrow. There's junior players everywhere. I'm not ready. Okay, so that's tomorrow Emma Radikarni's second on centre court in the singles. And that brings us to the other big story of the day, away from the match court. The news that dropped at about 2pm that Radikarni is over before it even started. I had to say it, David, because I'll never be upset again. Right. Right, you curry. Let's get the more loud of us tonight. Amanda, because... Eminem. Yeah, okay.
Emma Radikarni pulled out of the mixed doubles mid afternoon citing stiffness in her wrist. Russell Fuller also reported that being scheduled fourth on court one today in the mixed doubles with Andy Murray was also a factor in her decision to pull out. Now, a bit of background from the club on that scheduling decision. Their hands were pretty tied on this because of the opponents of Emma Radikarni and Andy Murray, Zheng Shui and more specifically Marcelo Aravalo, who's also in the men's doubles.
He's a double specialist. He and partner Matte Pavic were taking on a rumour, Ah Niyudo and Sam Semvabic, those guys. Yeah. And their match yesterday didn't get completed because I don't know if you've heard, but the rain is absolutely... the weather's been horrendous. Their match didn't get completed, so they had to play early today. Marcelo Aravalo had to play two matches today, essentially. So the second one had to be late on the schedule.
It had to be put on a show court because it's Andy Murray's probable last match at Wimbledon. I don't think they had much choice. And I do think that put Emma Radikarni in a difficult position vis-a-vis her singles. And the fact that we said it yesterday, she's got a chance of winning this title. She's in the mix for the title.
Now I just want to preface discussion of this with the fact that we are so acutely aware of what a lightning rod Emma Radikarni is for opinion and very unnewanced opinion. And it does affect what we want to say about Emma Radikarni because it is so uncomfortable seeing the delight and pleasure certain people, mostly on the internet, take in seeing her make mistakes if that is how you view this. A lot of people don't. Or in her being criticised and brought down by a lot of people.
There is something pretty dark, I think, about the response out there to every move that Emma Radikarni makes that makes us deeply uncomfortable. And I really don't want to be a part of that or add to it or contribute to what I'm quite sure is a pile on. I haven't looked on Twitter or anything to see what people are saying about Emma Radikarni because my heart just sinks when I think about what that might look like. But at the same time, I don't like this.
I think this is poor from Emma Radikarni, not necessarily the prioritising of the singles. I do get that. The mistake was signing up to do it in the first place and undertaking it, likely undertaking a commitment to Andy Murray and what it would mean lightly. She took it to lightly and now she's ended up doing something which I think looks pretty poor. And I don't like saying that.
I say it with understanding of the fact that she's 21 and has been injury-blighted for her whole career and she stands on the preferences of a massive opportunity here. But I think this is a bit regrettable. Yeah, it's a shame. She shouldn't have signed up for it, logically speaking. When you look at it, it's just a bit of a shame. She's been an injury-ridden player who's missed 10 months of her career.
There were pictures circulating today of her this time last year in a bed with two arms in the air wearing casts on her wrists and another one around her ankle. Three surgeries a year ago. She's had a horrible time and I can really understand being cautious at every turn. With those injuries, I've said repeatedly, I won't judge her career at all for another year and a half until she's had a good year or so of health.
I think what's happened here is she's been asked to play with Andy Murray and she was incredibly excited to be asked. And she said, yes. I don't think she's thought it through and all for a lot more than that, to be honest. I think that's a bit of a shame. Maybe they needed to scenario plan a little bit. What if this, what if that? I don't know. Maybe they did come to an agreement between them of those sort of things. We joked about Stephanie Graff and John McHughner last night.
I really wasn't expecting that chance to be crucian in any way. I can't believe. I accidentally spoke it into existence. Yeah, I was really shook when that news dropped. I do think that it's not that big a deal personally. Andy Murray has already had his massive farewell ceremony, big match. It couldn't have been more perfect. Yes, it would have been lovely to see him play mixed doubles with Emma Adagano.
I was looking forward to it. I understand a lot of people who were going to the match that would be very disappointed I would be to. And yes, I think it's just it's a shame. But I think logically speaking, if she has got some soreness in the wrist or stiffness, then she needs to be very careful about that both for this tournament and for the long run. I exited court number one commentary box in the match that was due to be before hers. It was 20 past eight in the evening.
That is not ideal preparation for a singles match. Now you could say well, she should have thought of that. Well, she said herself of bell even played doubles. She doesn't know about this stuff. Now maybe somebody should have said, are you sure you want to be signing up to that? What happens if it's Andy Murray's final ever match and you can't play it? You know, maybe that should have happened. I think that's fair enough. But I don't think it's that big a deal.
Andy Murray has had the most wonderful send off. And I think that that's okay. It was a wonderful send off and it was perfect in so many ways. But kind of the reason he wanted to play singles this year, Andy Murray, was because he wasn't planning for last year to be his last singles match. And he wasn't planning for that doubles with Jamie to be his last match at Wimmorden. Because he thought he was going to be doing this with Emory Akane.
So there is something that's been taken away from Andy Murray there, even if it was an amazing send off the other day with Sue Barker and his brother and all those players on the court. Like that was an amazing moment. But there's no doubt that Mary wanted to play this mix doubles for sure. He's reported that the Quoters really disappointed from Andy Murray. Yeah. And then we saw Judy Murray's post on X saying that it was...
Oh, he's gone X. Given that we're reporting a serious thing, I thought I would say X. Formerly known as Twitter saying that it was astonishing. Yes. And then there was an Instagram post, a very pointed Instagram post as well from Judy quoting Serena Williams on one honor it was for her to get to play mixed doubles with Andy Murray a few years ago. And I understand why she feels in... She feels the kind of way that she obviously felt when doing those posts. I don't like that she hit send on them.
Because she understands social media and the climate and what that's going to lead to particularly for young women, particularly for a maraudicarno. And I just don't like that. Yeah, I got asked when I saw those. I think it probably... Look, we should say we don't know the state of a maraudicarno's wrist. I mean, reporting it as stiffness and so on, doesn't scream to me, injury that means that it's going to really jeopardise your tournament.
If you play a mixed doubles with Andy Murray... I wonder if that was how it was pitched to Andy Murray, because he would probably go, you're a bit stiff are you? Have you seen me walk over the last seven years? Andy Murray might say that now, aged 37, but I remember him in 2008, three years after his debut here, pulling out of a Davis Cup tie in Argentina and his own brother saying that affects how I feel about Andy, the fact that he didn't show up for the Davis Cup tie.
Now Andy was 21. I mean, he made some decisions then that he wouldn't make now. And I think it's worth bearing that in mind. But I think, like, physically, this may well be the best thing for a maraudicarno to do for her tournament. I think it perhaps says a lot about how she sees her hopes in this tournament. Suddenly it's like, wow, okay, this drawer has opened up. There's an opportunity for me here to go really deep. I think that is part of it. But what I do wonder is...
Is it the best move for the general mood around her? If you think back to all of Maraudicarno's best tennis and best runs, even this one that she's having right now in the singles, it's been about joy. It's been about everyone being behind her and with her. And there's no doubt that this will split opinion, what she's done here. She will be pressed on it after her match tomorrow. Let's say she wins.
There might be a sort of joyous occasion, but then she'll be snapped back to this and suddenly she'll have to try and justify it in front of the press. And I just wonder whether that whole atmosphere that this might create might derail that joy and that mood that she's kind of been in at the moment. So will it necessarily end up being the best thing for her singles or would playing once with Mary quite probably losing? She's not a doubles player. Mary can barely move.
Is it a bit like you, but her catchy just got to put an underarm serving court? Right, it's kind of like that a little bit scaled up. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah. Like I understand it, but I don't like it. Same. I think the issue is that this is a very foreseeable scenario. Yes. Nothing extraordinary has happened for us to get to this point. And you do rely on the people around you. I wouldn't. When you were in Radikarno's position, you would rely on the people around you.
I would love to know that if somebody said that to her beforehand, she said, I don't know, I want to play because it's out of it. I'd love to know because that conversation did need to be happened. It did feel like a lot on her play, considering how little she's played, considering how just a few matches on clay. She spoke about being pretty fatigued. It's a grand slam and you're adding extra stuff. I think the biggest mistake was probably saying yes in the first place.
I do think it all just highlights what are sort of me against the world attitude of Radikarno has to life and to tennis, which I think is very understandable when I think about her life experience since... Well, actually, since she retired here against Isla Tomnianovic, but also, of course, since she won that US Open and how she has become that lightning rod. She's had a stalker. She's had some absolutely extraordinary life experiences. It just makes me sad.
To think that she might feel that way. I do think that there is some of that going on. I hope she's okay. I hope she's still able to enjoy this run and still receives support because lots of things can be true at the same time. I think you can not like this and wish she hadn't done this and still continue supporting her in the singles. Absolutely. That's the thing. But we live in a world where a lot of people can't make room for two things in their minds at the same time.
So you've just described her. You could be describing Andy Murray 15, 17 years ago when he was making mistakes and he was young and maybe could have thought things through. It's like, well, okay, so how do we react to that? Do we just write him off? No, we don't. I agree with you, Buzz. It's okay to accept or acknowledge mistakes or a decision that maybe wasn't the best one. Do you think Andy Murray will forgive her? Do you think this would be a Mac, we're back here again.
Do you think it's been Mac and Regraf? No, I do think he will. Did Mac and Regraf speak? Is that okay? No, I don't know. I think they do speak, I think. But I think he's probably telling you about it. They're both on the pickleball gravy train, aren't they? No, there's nothing. I do understand why Andy's disappointed. Don't get me wrong. I mean, he was looking forward to it. And it's his last one and we know how much he's hurting about having to stop playing tennis. But come on.
You've had a good run at this. It's okay. Radu Candy, RIP. So much wasted energy on trying to come up with a team name. I didn't own any David's day. No, no, it's fine because I didn't race the near future. Yeah, yeah. Radu Candy. Wow, that's going to be a question on our end of year quiz, isn't it? Something about the Radu Candy that never was. Oh my goodness, what a day. How did that all happen today? We have our lovely mascot, Maverick. Hello to Maverick and to Carol. Hope you to enjoy today.
We of course have our mascots. I got points today for the dearly departed Darwin. He was looking, looking ropy with Wang Zhenyu for a, for a moment. She had her arms strapped in several different ways. But somehow came through David and Francis. Yeah, my run ended at the hands of Cameron Norrie. So he's off to the political angle. Matt had a shocker with Conta Elise, who was too set to love up on Holda Runa. I was feeling quite smug about that pick. And why didn't I go for our to feast?
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Emily says the joy of all things tennis wouldn't be the same without Nat. Oh, that's so lovely. There's a British tennis player called Emily Appleton. Yes, I think she's in the doubles. Okay, there we are. And there was an Emily, Webley Smith. Correct. A British player, is that right? Have we got any non-British embolies? I can't think of any. Not sure. Natalie Tozier for Nat. Very good. I did steal that from Hannah on the chat. I need to confess. Lovely. Thank you to Emily and Nat.
Lovely stuff. We've also got Nicholas Orrett in Australia as well. Oh, an Australian theme. And of course, Ben Digo, Australia. Yes. Like Nicholas Keifer. Yes. And the... Nicholas LePente. Very good. The Pente Tittity. The French Esquiday. Yes, but without an H. Oh. Yeah. Nicolomou. Mo. Yep. You want to fight? Check me out. Have you thought about Nicholas Esquiday in a while? He was good. Mo is in the doubles here with someone whose name is Mansori. Just like Mansor Barame. Right.
You put together. Okay. Thank you, Nicholas. Do we know anything about Nicholas? No, other than that he's from Ben Digo in Australia. I think that sounds great. Probably again warmer than it is here. And finally, we've got Dana Prossa, who is originally from Southern California, but now lives in Oregon. Okay. Like Portland, Oregon. Well, Taylor Fritz is a Southern Californian, isn't he? He's from San Diego. What do we know? Do we know anything else about Dana? Four dogs. We know.
Good things about Dana, folks. And suddenly listening to the pod in... No, actually, no. That is not what she said. I've misread that. But apparently got a text with us in March of 2020, and emailed us lots of photos of those dogs. What a man. They probably saved on my phone somewhere. They probably got me through some dark times in March 2020. Thank you, Dana. Thank you.
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And you can find out what happens there. I was a bit mean because I gave Matthew the paper with the questions on during extra time of the football. Oh, well done. Thanks for that. It was a helpful distraction for his soul. David always has to do it at the end of the night when he's tired in the dark. Hence while Nate sticks down. Watch this space, folks. Yeah, subscribe to the newsletter. Like and subscribe.
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