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Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day three of the US Open where we are back at tennis podcast hours New York. It's 17 minutes past 11 p.m. And of course, there is still tennis happening. There is no back jock of it.
And last low gerr, entering a third set on the arthrashtady. It's been an eventful couple of sets so far. And there is Casper Rude and Gail Malfice entering a fourth set tie break on the grandstand court in a match that got interrupted by well first lightning and then significant rain rain that has at least fresh and conditions up somewhat at flushing meadows because it has been the most bruised.
It's a brutal day of weather today. Brutal, brutal humidity and heat. I'm pleased to report that it is kind of a one day thing. The the forecast is set to be actually pretty delightful from tomorrow onwards. But today has been punishing for podcasters and tennis players.
Although this particular podcaster was in a commentary box for a fair bit of it and at least saved the worst of it. I think you you were both outside more than I was. But everybody was coming in into the the press room or into the commentary box.
Everybody was just remarking upon it. It was it was like a day from last year and we had them several days last year. It felt like the whole thing was pretty much played in that sort of human to do humidity. You almost forget what it's like when it's not humid.
But thankfully it's it's going to be brief. Yeah, the heat rule was in effect today for the women's matches and was activated in several matches. The roof was closed on the arthoracid stadium for heat earlier on in the day and has been closed this evening for rain as well. And temperatures hit 36 degrees on the bowl but far higher than that actually on on the court where you know the heat kind of gets tracked in and it does affect the quality of the tennis very understandably so.
None of us can perform at our best in these sorts of conditions and we are seeing evidence of that before our eyes in this very moment is Lazley Gerr at retires trailing two sets to love to know about the job of it she had his own health and injury and comfort concerns throughout the course of this match. I mean he was expecting to find himself a settle at this point and in a real real battle he was in energy conservation mode David in the mid stages of that second set.
Then Gerr starts playing casino style tennis and Jim courier and you courier in commentary not here in tennis podcast hours and we're saying well looks like this is going to be a one sided set, jock of it should in total conservation mode Gerr is the best tactic here is to drag this thing out as long as possible. And now here we are watching Gerr approach his way down the players corridor looking a very dejected figure.
And I think it shows what five set tennis can be like particularly in New York how you can go through these troughs of energy I mean frankly jock of it looked short of energy and fatigued and and lethargic all the way through the match really right from the start he was complaining about niggles as well.
But when I got home and and turn it on I mean he it looked like a six one set was coming for Gerr because he got broken for three one jock of it and everything was going so quickly and yet his body was going so slowly he was moving around between points like a sloth it was like he was sleepwalking he looked as though he wasn't really with us that much and suddenly Gerr just tightened a little bit
and then he didn't break when he had break points for for a double break and then I think jock of it suddenly thought hold on if you made a couple of returns and you saw his body language change he just he was back in the room you know he suddenly there a little bit of adrenaline is all he needed to just get to love 30 suddenly he realizes I'm back and Gerr we we then discover has actually got an injury himself a shoulder injury it looked like a lot of strapping and he was having this whole set of things.
He was having this whole side worked on and at five four and he just felt inevitable and and he didn't win another game. But yeah jock of it did not enjoy tonight one bit I mean it's two sets and a bit but it was it was horrible horrible match.
And that was the benefit of the you know in theory the best slot on the schedule second in the night session that's absolutely the slot I think the jock of it should have requested having seen the forecast for today heck I would have requested it given the opportunity but it's still just so soupy isn't it even without the sun I mean the sun the sun made things basically unbearable I would say in the heat of the sun.
But take away the sun and it's still stifling out there truly stifling and it's one of those matches which very much demonstrate something we so often say about no joke of which where you you see and kind of feel how he's feeling out there every little bit of it you you get to see in his body language and that was emphasized by the sun.
And that was emphasized by the fact that clearly Lancelot Gera was also feeling a bit rubbish and miserable and he had his body strap the tape to up and he had a problem with his ab and presumably he wasn't enjoying the conditions either and yet the contrast in his body language to jock of it you wouldn't have thought it but it just goes to show that you can't you know you can't read too much into that kind of body language of jock of it and he sometimes will have those.
Those bits whereas David described he suddenly gets back in the room with us and that's enough just to sort of change the momentum of the match back in his favor but that is absolutely the style of no that jock of it which match which I enjoy watching the least sort of attritional match in hot soupy humid conditions where you just know it's just going to be a grind and a struggle and you know he's he's almost certainly going to win eventually but
it's not particularly an enjoyable brand of tennis to watch and it doesn't look like it's particularly enjoyable to play either and I think he will be absolutely delighted sort of that he's he's got through this in kind of as quick a time as he possibly could have done that's it we've seen enough of no that jock of it which over the many many years to really be able to interpret his body language and mana and facial expressions and that wasn't a no that jock of it which that was stressed at any state.
And then he's stage about actually losing that much that was a no that jock which that was having a bad time because it was unfun but I didn't see a flicker of true stress about him today.
No it was just annoyance and irritation that I longed I got a stardier doing this for me and I can understand it here's a guys when 24 mazes just want Olympic goldies and all these highs and another one is dangling a couple of weeks away if you can get to that point but in order to do that he's got to win this match and you you can't afford to sort of check out completely you have to see it with it enough and in him it just comes out as well.
Will we see true stress when he faces Alexi popper in in a couple of days time. Like it to be a more fun no that jock of it I'd have thought. Yeah well I think the cooler conditions that we're hoping and praying for and very much expecting over the next few days should generally make the tournament more fun. I think it will help everyone be able to play better.
Popper and I've been pretty impressed with actually these come through his two matches very convincingly you know he had a pretty comfy draw there but you know he earned that by the fact that he got himself ceded by winning in Canada and you know like he has delivered on what he needed to at this year's US Open and now he gets a hit at no about jock of it.
And you know for the was at the third time that they've played at a slam this season and obviously jock of it has won the last two and there's always been a little moment in in each of their last two matches where popper has been able to hurt him he's got weapons. But I think jock of it in better conditions will be able to hurt popper in as well and kind of open his shoulders a bit more than he did tonight.
But yeah like that's the first sort of match up test I would say for no at jock of it this tournament today was a physical test and a sort of mental one in those conditions but popper in level has been so good that he will I think threaten jock of it even though I expect jock of it to win.
And the winner of that one will face the round three match up that was set up today we were hoping it would be when the draw came out between Ben Shelton and Francis Tiafo let's get it is how Ben Shelton responded when he was asked to to look ahead to that replay of the the cause final they played here last year. He didn't know the draw did he until he was told on the court that he was playing Tiafo they were different.
Yeah I mean Tiafo crews today before Alexander Chevchenko retired early in the third set I mean there were a few retirements today you'll you'll be unsurprised to hear Shelton looked a little uncomfortable at times but came through in straight sets against Roberto Bautista he's a good today he hasn't dropped serve yet this tournament Ben Shelton.
Yeah I mean that's ultimately Francis Tiafo was asked about the main weapons of Shelton and he said look it's a serve obviously but I went into Shelton's press conference after his win over about his
and I haven't been to many press conferences of his and I was I asked him to compare and contrast himself to a year ago on the eve of his match with Tiafo a year ago what what sort of player are you now maybe that you weren't then and I mean he was really detailed with how much he he he feels he's changed he referenced his back and he feels is is more reliable he said
my first serve return is much improved he said I my second serve return was really good last year but I feel like it's much better on the first serve now and then on the serve itself he said I I'm no longer trying to hit these 147 mile in our serves I'm trying to I've realized that 134 hitting my spots
will achieve the same thing as 147 miles an hour that doesn't and and I interjecting and I said and his that to sort of save your body he said 100% he said last year my shoulder was was really in trouble as I was going along you know trying to you know the adrenaline flows
honestly and he he said you know in the the crowd a gasping if and if they see the speed gun when you're hitting it nearly 150 miles an hour and it's exciting and everybody's talking about it but he said it's not very efficient I can't I can do this all day I can do 130 in the corners all day and I'm not
even trying to hit what I can hit because I don't need to if I get if I hit the spots right so he's he's he's a real student of his own game he's I mean his dad I got chance to spend 15 minutes with his dad a year ago didn't I and Wilmeldon and then we would play that year in the US open and I was so taken with water the studious man Brian Shelton is and and how his son although he's he's got all the
Hutt's Bernie's got all the the chat and and the fun he's also a student of the game in his own way and he's desperate to to maximize his his chances it's quite interesting though I think he's got to be a little bit careful with that against TFO because I think it's the heat that shook TFO that day a year ago I don't I think TFO was doing this he was playing
within himself more and he allowed Shelton to make the show and take over and I think I think Shelton probably needs to pull out a few 145's to make the crowd gasp and get the juices flown otherwise TFO might might be the vibe of the night so it's I find it really fascinating that whilst he thinks he's improved his game for the better and a dad that's how he has you know that that could go both ways if you don't mix it up.
Really really interesting because that was so noticeable wasn't it last year when they played how Shelton stole his thunder stole his vibe and had the crowd kind of on his side by the end and felt like he was the moment in a way that TFO had been you know all through the tournament and at the previous years US Open as well yeah that's really interesting and I think I think Shelton will know that I think Shelton as you describe David I think he's pretty
pretty smart in terms of knowing that yes this might be better for his game overall but I think he will have a sense that he needs to shift the crowd onto his side and do some some showtimey stuff against TFO like I can't wait for that it's got to be it'll be night session waiting I think Jock of it should pop in need to prepare themselves for day session I think so yeah yeah I mean everything gets a bit different than over Labor Day weekend but I still think the Friday night's
is the it's the one and I also think that Coco Gough should probably be the star show in the afternoon I was thinking that that's likely to happen in whatever the sudden weather better slot is in the afternoon if that's the night session or you all you start with it but I suspect that they'll put Sabalinka first in the night session and then follow with the two hours ago I just hope they put the men's match second and they don't make a women's match follow Shelton
yeah they're generally better at that here than than anywhere else I'm not saying they don't they don't do it but they're decent here about that kind of thing so I would I'd be pretty hopeful but the weather is is not going to be a factor in in the way that it was today conditions are going to be
lovely at least the next couple of days I was think when when Ben Shelton came on to court in the absolute peak of the day's heat on grandstand earlier against Roberto Batu Shrego I thought oh he's going to gaslight us isn't he into thinking we're we're being snowflakes about this weather because he's a Floridian and he's you know he's wearing his tank top and he's he's going to cope with it like it's nothing and there he was with an air conditioning hose up his shirt
after three games not a euphemism right should we stay with the men's draw thing is that's where we are Andre Rublev today came back from two sets to love down against Arta Rindakinesh he's had a wild grand slam year as Arta Rindakinesh you could do Colin Montage yeah you'd have this is a kick in a few times I think I mean that's got to be the highlight of of the year oh I don't know I think being told have have a nice
flight home let's just very quickly just go through the high and low lights of Arta Rindakinesh's grand slam year five set loss in Australia a retirement at Ronald Garros in the aforementioned Cizacic match where he was two sets up and Cizacic back to the chair in celebration and then barely one another game and had to retire because he stopped his talk because he stopped his talk got told to have a nice flight
home after losing to Taylor Fritz at Wimbledon and now as a loss from two sets up at the US Open against Andre Rublev that is a it's a wild year credible set of losses I have to say impressive from Rublev because two sets down feels like a long way back at the best of times but on a day like today
that must have felt like a heck of a long way back and it wasn't quick you know we was and is so red in the face and his racket was some was son assaulting you know he was he was losing it and yet he got it back impressive and he now plays Yulahetchka who also came from two sets to love down today
against the American Mitchell Krueger to in fact even more impressive this one he came from two sets and three love down having lost nine games in a row well ten games in a row would have been he had lost the second set six love and was three love down in the third I mean I casually said to Matt oh he must be injured because you know it's such a horrific school line and then your next thing you know he's on the combat trail so combat kids Rublev and Le Hetchka to play in the next round
Greeks poor and Dimitrov set up a a third round meeting today Dimitrov's got a new look have you seen that describe well he's got some his hairs looking very plush I would say who who can say what's happened there but he's certainly got a fine head of hair on him at the moment
and he's he's doing some glasses some cerebral glasses not on the court no no brough the court very much so yeah he's in his he's in his Davideira his best impression of Davide yep anyway Greeks poor Dimitrov is the next next
one is waiting for that Davideira is the ex of the woman that is speculated to be his new girlfriend right okay they won love Ireland together oh yeah I'm good you're asked because I really haven't got a clue we've just watched Taylor Fritz take apart Mito Beratini quite frankly
tight second set taken to a tie break although I I watched quite a lot of that second set and it was always Beratini the one under pressure on his serve Beratini not doing any damage really on the Taylor Fritz serve and then it goes into a tie
break and Fritz just took over I mean Mary Carrillo in commentary on this said it was major winning form from Taylor Fritz now I'm never going to disagree with with Mary I have my question marks about whether he can produce that form when the chips are down in that when the stakes are highest against a Novak Djokovic especially with the scar tissue he's built up against opponents like Djokovic but I won't argue with her assessment of his form today it it really was impressive against a man that
of course was formally in a semi final here so Fritz three to round three will probably have been pleased to see Hugo and Bear go out early on today because he can be a tricky customer but he was taken out by Francisco Comissana in four sets Brandon Nakashima backed up his Holger Runae win with one over Arthur Kazoo today just while Runaes come up his social media activity since that defeat David have you been across it yes he came up with the same stat that I did after his defeat of the
39 percent first served in no offense to my opponent but I only served at 39 percent I will do better for my fans I won't let you down again but he did compliment the weather during his during his defeat so it was a very messy
tweet and then today he's he's had a pop at the haters and we think he might mean Matt Roberts I'm a random I'm a random talking shit anyway that's that's Runa Nakashima has Lorenzo Muzetti next Muzetti having won seven five in in the third over me and me Kets Manovich I mean this confirms for
me it didn't need confirming but it confirms for me that I really think of Lorenzo Muzetti as quite a different tennis player to how I thought of him 12 months ago Me too me too he's not winning that match when it gets really tight and horrible and you have to dig in and dig deep he's not winning that a year or two ago and he played so well under pressure he was match points down in that fifth set and saved them and came up with a absolutely stunning backhand pass to get
out of that game and it was such an incredible scene it was caught five which was the same court that Dan Evans had won on yesterday it was the same court that Le Hechka had mounted his comeback on today and I say that was caught five but there were people on court six watching this people standing on bench and seats just to get a view it was such a great atmosphere and yeah he played so well under stress look I think Kets Manovich was really struggling
physically by the end but like big big win for Muzetti whose game isn't as effective on the hard court so I really don't think it is and he's got as you say Naka Shima next and I think that's going to be tough Naka Shima serving so well he's playing
really well and coming off the back of this is going to be tough for Muzetti but yeah great scenes out there and he whipped his shirt off at the end and displayed his muscles and like it was just it was just a fun time yeah it really was and I was pleased to see in Muzetti in a five set
fun time because that's not necessarily the sort of match that I have traditionally associated him with just wanted to mention as very tough one today three sets against Alexander Muller he has to pay post-pute catch of airy yes that was well it was discussed so he was he was suffering I imagine in the heat wasn't it and he's two sets all and then he turns around and then suddenly the thing about it for anyone who hasn't seen it is that he doesn't he's not able to get to a discrete
position on the court there's no being available it's he's sort of in motion while it happens but gets to be post-pute catch of airy now so the world is world is his oyster let's see how he gets on against Alexander's verif and just to fully round off the men's draw we've just seen Casper Rude win
through on our TV screen in front of his four sets tie break in the fourth over Gemma Fees who couldn't quite come all the way back Casper Rude playing one of the most extraordinary points you'll ever see in the early stages of that tie break I don't usually associate Casper Rude with sort of
highlight real tennis but maybe I'm doing him a disservice Matt I think you might be remember that US Open Final against Alcarez he was the one winning all the fun points I think does Montatouiner yeah he's he's a shotmaker Rude he's got a reputation as a grinder I think
because he's won most of his titles on Clay Court 250's but actually because you know his game can be quite expansive and he can he can go off his forehand and that point that that you mentioned he was scrambling all over the place reaching balls that he had no right to reach and then finished
it with an amazing cross court forehand winner and yeah it was it was stunning and that all came after Montfese was doing a lot of Montfese things during this actually to get it back to two sets to one and then they had to go off because of the lightning and like before the break the crowd out there was absolutely hyped and they came back and finished around 11 o'clock in front of a much smaller crowd but those who who stuck with it did get to see that epic Rude point
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cannon in the pod yesterday but she hadn't come into press at the time that we recorded well she came into press very late last night and we've now seen the footage of that press conference and it took me a back a little bit actually because I was expecting quite a defensive emorada connois kind of
with the walls up you know I wasn't expecting her to to really let people in or certainly not that you know room full of people in on how she was feeling and we got quite the opposite to that it was a very vulnerable emorada connois she she said I'm sad I'm really sad and she broke down as she was saying it and she wasn't defensive at all about the scheduling question she said you clearly this hasn't worked and I'm going to look at my schedule for next year
I need to do things differently because she admitted that she wasn't sharp yesterday and surely the lack of matches would have been a factor in that and obviously sounds a bit sadistic to say you know I'm pleased to see her sad but you know I think the sadness is kind of inevitable after an experience like that and I guess I'm pleased I'm pleased that she's feeling the feelings and and being vulnerable about those feelings yeah and I'm pleased that
she's recognising that this was not good preparation for Grand Slam tournament and that there was another way there was another way we'd been talking about it she didn't interqualify for too big hard court North American tournaments and she should have at least one of them and and it was a missed
opportunity and it's I still felt that it was possible she she's so talented that I thought she could come in get a win and start getting some momentum that way but then she gets a draw like Kenin followed by Pagula most likely that's a horrible draw and if you're going to have a draw like that you better be banged on it and not have any ring rust at all and she was rusty she lost the first it's six one yesterday good for her she's she's admitted that she she got
that wrong and they as a team she also said got that wrong so that needs looking at and and she's she's aware of it yeah absolutely on to matches that we saw today David you watch quite a bit of Coco Gough in action and the prime time slot on Ash this evening against Tatiana Maria what did you
make of what you saw well it was two very different sets of tennis that she played the first one was scrappy and she was not good Maria's slice and dice game is not easy to play against brand gill but who didn't mind a bit of slice and dice and Winnie Nugley himself had been preparing a all week long for this type of match by hitting I watched on court lots of slices to either wing so she was ready for it but she got and it's become a real trademark of
Gough to win a scrappy first set and maybe even lose it but then just streak away and then I when I took my courtside seed it was just at the end of that first set and I didn't see a lose another game she was really good in the second set
I tell you those courtside seats we get I mean it's probably about 10 12 rows back that we're lucky enough to get to get seats in the noise in that stadium I mean I know that they put the roof on because there was rain in the area but it's a hubbub it's like basically this was the biggest crowd of
the tournament that I've seen every seat it looked to me like and the top bowl was taken so you're talking 23 and a half thousand people and people turn up and then the contrast to Wimbledon where people are expected to be silent during the points people are not expected to be silent in that arena
and it's just a constant hubbub it's not even a low level noise it's just full-on conversations taking place everywhere and the plays going on in the meantime so it's a little strange but I was impressed with it she just she she seems so unflappable and you know you've got to carry all this weight and won the title last year you would never know she yeah she went straight out onto the practice courts afterwards she particularly practice her serve I believe
which I always think is is indirectly a real insult to the to the opponent that they've they've played in the matches and it's like you didn't give me nearly enough of a workout so I'm off the more but yeah practicing serves is less less offensive isn't it because that's you know kind of doesn't
have much to do with what what Tatiana Maria brought today but I need a practice it was really bad and particularly the first set as David described there was a very different two sets and the first one with Kogagoff was really poor a lot of double faults are really low for a serve percentage she said that she was struggling with her ball toss it was it was too low it was too fine front of her and her approach generally I think she says she serves best when she's
really aggressive on the serve and she didn't feel like she was doing that today and yeah that was that was a tricky first set she described it as annoying because of all the slicing that was coming her way she was prepared for it
but not to that level I think she thought that Tatiana Maria would mix it up a bit but it was pretty much a hundred percent slicing and yeah there was a couple of extraordinary things that happened in the game when she was serving out the first set she hit her she hit a volley that spun so much
that it hit the umpires chair and meant that Tatiana Maria couldn't get to it before before the second bounce I've never seen that before a ball veer at such direction that it actually literally went sideways and hit the umpires chair and then there was another one of those unfortunate
instances where electronic line calling stopped working and in the middle of the rally we heard that stop stop sound that we heard in the Taylor Fritz match the other week and this was bizarre because there was no ball at all that was close to any of the lines it wasn't like there was a ball that
should have been called out it just seemed to malfunction they had to replay the point but it was a point that goth was in control of and looked like she was going to win the game and the set so she had to regroup there pretty well but it's a reminder that I think you know sometimes electronic line
calling can can go down and can malfunction like that and I'm still not quite sure that tennis has figured out really what to do when that happens like it it all felt a bit weird but yeah like as David said much cleaner second set from Goff and now the real test begins because she's playing
Alina's Fittalina who as I've been bang on about all week is very much the kind of player the the quality of player that Goff has been losing to repeatedly and I think the head to head is too all Fittalina has beaten Goff
before so that's a real test just quickly on that I mentioned earlier I thought Goff might end up being the the headline match in the day session and I think Goff will be requesting that she loves hot weather now I know it's not going to be hot by today's standard it's going to be mid-20s but I
would have thought she might like some conditions as opposed to night session she might do I suspect she'd be overruled by what ESPN wants because she's there their number one but I don't know I don't know about that we'll see
well I mean my expectation is that they might they would probably split up her and Tiafow again Shelton so that they both sessions could have a real feature but we'll say we will we lost to the Wimbledon champion today this one was not circled for me I wasn't prepared for this defeat I wasn't
necessarily big on Craig cheek of it doing something significant at this tournament but today was not the day that I thought we would be losing her to Elena Gabriela Rusev first match of the day on a grandstand court beaten in straight sets by a really battling Elena Gabriela Rusev very impressive
from her but really this match was on Bob Orrick Ridge she could have rack it largely and she wasn't playing well enough to win it is the bottom line quite frankly in in in Hannah's words imagining having the best win if your career by far Elena Gabriela Rusev beating the Wimbledon champion and all
of it in the armpit dress which is what the the Adidas women's kit at this US open shell henceforth be known as disparagingly because it's egregious he thought that was a good idea it looks uncomfortable unathletic and unesthetic terrible but well done Elena Gabriela Rusev who had who reached
around she's never reached before the grand slam second round was best she'd ever done my word could you tell I didn't even need to lock that up the way she celebrated at the end she was so happy and and quite emotional about it critique of her I thought looked flushed like she was really suffering out there in those conditions and I mean that was as you said first match of the day I'd walked in maybe half an hour earlier and and it was hot enough then
you know and and the thought of spending a couple of hours in that running about forget it yeah absolutely and he does open up that section of the draw dare I say for somebody that Matt had circled pre tournament parallel a bit docer Matt she's she's keeping up the form that she's shown
all all summer long on the hard court she was very impressive today I thought against Taylor Townsend I agree yes she made it the match she wanted rather than the match that Townsend wanted you know Townsend at her best is coming forward and dominating the net and she couldn't get to the net
against but also I think you know I think she'll have some regrets Townsend that she maybe didn't take a few more risks in the first half of that match but but also was absolutely dominating Townsend second serve Townsend he once 18% behind her second serve in the match it was a total mismatch
when whenever Townsend was having to hit a second serve and but also looked to be cruising up a set and comfortable in the second set but then Townsend did start to get things going and it's quite a big crowd on Armstrong but they weren't really into it you know it was so hot it was
tough for the spectators as well to actually engage with the match you just have to sit there and survive a bit really when you're in the seats but she did start to get it going Townsend and went up a break and started using her variety but gave it back and really poor finish from Townsend
a lot of areas at the end of that match some shocking smash misses I think three that I that I saw a couple of them in the bottom of the net but but also kept shouting let it bounce you know it's really getting quite angry but I just thought why why do
keep doing this this is the same mistake and I know that my dad if he'd been watching would have been saying the same as well that says we all pet peve with tennis players when they keep missing smashes rather than letting it bounce but the DOS are really impressive I I'd circle
BOS to take out Craig Chikovar I thought that they would meet in the third round because the forms there as I said the form is really good winning in Washington a semi-final on the hard courts as well and she's kept it up it's
just the question of whether she can keep doing it match after match given given the struggles we know that she has physically but right now she's looking impressive is she in the mix no former world number two coming in on title women winning form but has never actually done that well at a
major I think at one quarter final pretty much is her best and look it was a title it was impressive it wasn't a strong field it was okay it was quite strong but it was during the Olympics you know it wasn't it wasn't you know she didn't have to go through the name she's going to have to go
through here most likely I'd still be surprised if she won the title but I do think she can match her best Grand Slam performance and get the quarters or maybe the semis well it certainly has opened up for her that section of the draw as has as a renkers little section of the draw she beat
Clara Burrell this evening coach by Greg Rzezki of course she plays one your fan next she posted a I don't know if you saw this David she's got a migraine this evening I did see that yeah for and knowing what they they've done to you and my wife suffers from them as well I feel for horrible I I
during my first commentary session of this Olympics on the gymnastics I Thomas Martin etcher varied live on air that's why your commentary was so good for the next few yeah few weeks you were post-pute Catherine I feel ready to tell that
story now nobody at the time knew they were listening to post-pute Catherine it was all those hours of research it was it was the puking it was the migraine yeah I really wish Victoria Zarenka well I mean she she was suffering from it on the court and she was really struggling with that
so that is that's incredible and as I say nothing's a given but that section is opening up a little bit for her arena sabre linker very comfortable today 64 6 1 she plays a Catherine Alexandra next who was not comfortable today against Jovich what is Jovich's first name Eva Eva
Americans are getting very excited about her yes she's 16 she's clearly very good you know she she had a chance is to win that much again today and get into around three at 16 years old as a world card so you know that's that serious
talent nothing's given but sabre linker against Alexandra it'll be in around three I mean she sort of sabre linker light as she's beaten sabre linker there's a lot of players in sabre linker section who she doesn't have great records again which is interesting because I think she's playing the
best tennis out of anyone right now she seems so happy in light did you see the nice of her with the little yes it's adorable it was really lovely for anybody that hasn't seen and it is all over the internet so many of you probably have but a little a little girl came to this match dressed as a
arena sabre linker and and startlingly accurately yeah the full kit she had a a transfer well I can only hope it's a transfer tattoo I think so if a replica of sabre linker's tiger tattoo and the exact same position on her inner forearm she had the dress she had the hair she was
absolutely adorable and sabre linker just just loved it tough scene for Tommy Paul and Eddie yeah move over Eddie Eddie's been a bit shafted there I think well yes because like this girl and her parents were front row like they had the perfect seats like even at the change of ends when sabre linker was sitting down on the banks you could see her in the in the shot as well and it was it was perfect and sabre linker was amazing with her afterwards she was it was
adorable really you know mature to take photos and signed everything and was just genuinely lovely it was really good Alex Demenore had one as well didn't he yeah he got himself on Amazon Prime doing interviews they're it they interviewed him as a pundit Amazon Prime's gone downhill Matt yes since I left so yeah I think it's she's she's gonna take some stopping sabre link she's serving really well that was impressive but look bronze Eddie is not Alexandra that is gonna be a big
step up for sabre linker for sure yeah three all that had to head against Alexandra but interesting yeah Jun-Chen Wen needed a set and a heat break on the grandstreln court earlier to find her game but when she did she was pretty unstoppable against Erica and Draver she said in her press conference afterwards I would like to be starting these matches better she said that's twice now I've been poor in opening sets you know she was handily beaten by anus and over in the
opening set wasn't she she said yeah I would like to be making better starts to these matches and she was also asked about the the Chinese American support that she's been getting at her matches something I've noticed and lots of people are picking up on she gets a lot of support here Jun-Chen Wen
and she she said the us open feels like home and she's super comfortable here and it's in large part because of that so yeah I think it's not it's not sabre linker like convincing stuff from Jun-Chen Wen because she is having bad patches she's a she's a messy tennis player I find Jun-Chen Wen it's quite it feels like she it's a high-wire act always but the top level is startlingly good and she is finding it more and more consistently just not in opening sets
demeanor is one of a champion she walks around the court like she owns the thing and I don't mean that in an arrogant way just and there's a conviction about her now yes the tennis didn't necessarily match that conviction in the first set of these two matches but I'd probably expect her to iron that out and it's actually this sort of where obviously the stroke she's got the ability but some players have just got that ability just rise to the occasion and get
better on a big stage and I think she's one of them she'll need to David because she's got future Wembleton champion Yulene Mayer next what does Hannah think is who she going for in that one let us know Hannah Hannah of course is the one that anointed Yulene Mayer
a future Wembleton champion and until the day that Yulene Mayer retires that prediction will be valid it's on absolutely it's a few years already that's how much smarter Hannah is than all of us she's made she's made instead of slightly outrageous prediction but one that
we can't make fun of for several years whereas I was just go ahead a date almost you know I've got a hundred presents right so far of my predictions all wrong Donna Vekitch won today very convincing against grip min and it was it was quite a tussle throughout most of the first set
but again once once Vekitch got a teeth into this she's you know she's she's keeping up that form Vekitch I know there's only a couple of rounds and it's grip min and but I was impressed with it today she doesn't always love heat and humidity it likes she had to play in and I thought there was
real composure about her she got paint and stones next to got the better of Daryk as a keener and I don't want to speak for Pam but I think that they might have preferred and teen Vekitch might have preferred the match up against Kassakina just you know you can get the first strike in
against Kassakina and you can dominate that second serve. Sterns is a is a different prospect that's that that's suddenly a very intense contest and Sterns brings it she's got she's got heavy strokes herself she's been quite quiet recently Sterns but back at the start of the year she was
playing all these epics and was really seemingly on the rise but she's she's really got it together it's a very good win against Kassakina could have been more convincing actually got broken when she was serving for the match but then
managed to to come through the tie break instead and yeah like I really think Vekitch Vekitch could have a work cut out there against Sterns that's going to be tough but I would I'd love to see a Vekitch Junqin when fourth round the Olympic gold medal rematch that is that's looming now and that would be that would be great to see in in this tournament.
Here here just one last issue to cover from today a post that we all woke up to from Caroline Garcia who lost yesterday to Renata Zarazua she mocked up in in graphics some of the comments that she had received online following her defeat and they are just truly heinous directed at her
directed at her family anything you can imagine if the internet swamp variety of comment was there and it's totally commonplace and it was these graphics were accompanied by a very long detailed heartfelt post about how commonplace this is how ingrained it is for players to expect comments like
that a deluge of comments like that after they've lost and she laid out the clear link between betting and this sort of online behaviour and urged pleaded with tennis to examine its commercial relationship and commercial ties with betting companies and betting sponsorships and to to examine
this codependent relationship which is clearly feeding abuse online abuse that the players are experiencing every day and I'm not saying oh if tennis doesn't promote betting then nobody's going to be doing betting and nobody's going to be
spouting hateful comments online there's always going to be internet hate but to deny the link and to deny the sports association with betting as a as a fuel on on the fire is utterly absurd and I don't know why this isn't being talked about more and questions haven't been more asked as we as we see
count partnership after partnership announced between various different entities and stakeholders in the sports and and betting companies and I'm not saying you know there's a capitalist society I'm not saying there's a way to to
eliminate all morally questionable associations from from the sport but I certainly think there are there's an inquiry to be had here within the sport and that that post was was picked up on and light and promoted by just everybody pretty much certainly most prominent female players
Eagish Yontek Madison Keys Bianca Andrew Eskiew Jessica Bugu La Katie Walter Onsjiper I mean they there are more still coming in I mean people are thankful that Caroline Garcia is said this in the way she has yeah because it was detailed it had evidence it had a strong opinion and so rarely do
players put themselves out there like that and in a considered way not just around she'd really thought that through and she took her stand and I think it is it is important for her and her contemporaries to kind of hold the sport to account a little bit there and ask the question do you say you don't want to skin abuse you say that betting is is something that that nobody can do as well and then you've got these commercial relationships with betting
companies I mean it's you know we're not saying betting per se is bad and it shouldn't happen I mean I'm not killed you always lots of people enjoy it and I'm able to do it in a harmless way we decided years ago we were never going to take sponsorship from sports betting and my main motivation
for that at the time was actually because of the damage that it does to people who get addicted to it but actually when I started to think about it again I don't want to be promoting something that seems to get people to go and abuse
other people as a result of and the tennis players that we're covering I mean that it's so awful and I just think from tennis tournament and tours perspective just they should think about how that looks and how that sounds and how that feels for these players you can't have it both ways yeah look
okay probably a grand slam daily podcast isn't isn't the time to have the full examination and and inquiry of this code codependent toxic relationship that not just tennis all of sport has with with betting and what avenues out of it
there might be but do know that it it is on our radar and perhaps something that we will we will look to do a special show on or series of shows or something on at at some point and very pleased to see Caroline Garcia spot lighting the issue as she did earlier break next segue here because I do have
one last agenda item before we before we wrap things up I did a bit of a tease on Instagram earlier posted a picture of Matt taking when he boarded the subway early on today because Matt immediately caught sight of something that provoked an expression on his face that I had never before seen David
what have you what have you seen Matt and he pointed over my shoulder and I turned around with great trepidation not knowing what I would see I'm a Londoner David I'm not you know I'm I'm not a naive small town gal I'm used to seeing weird and wonderful things on public transport nothing prepared me for what I what I saw when I turned around on the subway today and so I did a tease on Instagram with the photo of Matt's face and now is the moment for the big reveal
what did you see Matt I saw a woman with a pet pigeon on her shoulder yeah that sink in she was stroking it it was so nasty Matt was like we've got to change carriage got to get out of here first Catherine was like no we've got to capture content yeah I do I've got several pictures of the women with the pigeon perched on her shoulder yeah which I which I will be posting they are it is yeah what when I when I appealed for um for guesses about what it might
have been that Matt saw extremely concerned about the number of New Yorkers that thought it might have been a snake because now I think now now we've seen snakes on some on the subway you thought pigeon was bad yeah I take a pigeon any day of the week go as some snakes I would be changing carriage
which would you have had a snake in a spider oh easily a spider oh it a spider yeah if I got on a subway and saw I mean frankly David a reptile of any kind but let's for arguments say snake draped around somebody's neck I would I would I would leave the build I would leave the train I would leave the building I would never return get on a plane yeah yeah that would be the the tournament would be ruined put it that way okay we'll try to avoid that okay but
photo of woman with pet pigeon perched on her shoulder to follow on Instagram folks there's a there's a teaser for you lots of photos of our mascot Bruno on our Instagram at the moment Bruno was had a very similar energy to me this evening he looked like he'd he was a bit over the weather today and I I feel that so thank you for that Alyssa we of course have our mascots I scored my first points today for the memory of the dearly departed Darwin David and Francis
lost in straight straight again hi darin so much how are they fairing with you Matt we're doing okay yeah Lorenzo Mazzetti got me points today just squeaky bum time there Billy Jean is sponsored by Billy Jean King and the Lana
class hello Billy Jean hello to all the Billy Jean's hello to our top folks and executive producers Greg Chris Jamie and Jeff and over to Matt for shout outs we have Andrew Blakey in Auckland who no Andrew Blakey right Andrew he describes the tennis podcast as his guilty pleasure oh I'll
take that as a massive compliment yes I think that's a slightly back-handed no it is since why why do you feel guilty about it Andrew that's what I want to know too but I can I can make it up to you Catherine because Andrew has a nine and a
few old black Labrador Sam and they quite often listen to the pod together Sam doesn't feel guilty about it Andrew Cretzman former player Wow Andrew Murray that's going to say marry was right there yeah but he's not called Andrew very often is he and it's more imaginative Andrew's first
grand slam appearance David was the 1991 Australian open when he watched Boris Becker defeat Omar Camparazza oh yeah from yes I know Omar Camparazza from Italy 1412 in the fifth set in a match that lasted five hours and 11 minutes that the time the longest in Australian open history and he says I
finished the day sunburned but very happy oh that's good pretty epic first grand slam experience and Andrew Cretzman is a former professional male tennis player from Australia aged 52 now and his career height ranking I don't know if I come up with this was 299 what's up yes he got to 13 in the
world in doubles there so you are I bet Andrew Blakey wasn't expecting that for sure that which is a perfect shout out I would say yeah and you're not expecting Andrew thank you ever so much we've also got Susan Whitty in New York right Susan like Chris Whitty well if you do have got any others then I'm all ears why is that in any way tennis related I thought we had non-written rule that if if a name was quite unusual and we're very unlikely to come up with
a tennis name we can we can open the Susan Barberfield sure but that's okay yeah is that Sue Barker yeah well Susan would also like to give a shout out to her husband Don who is a big pod listener and likes to wear his in the mix t-shirts good man when it tends the US open so if you see us Don say hi please say hi Don yeah we love well we love meeting all lovely listeners but particularly ones in merch that's particularly excellent any tennis Don's David no so say
Chris Whitty again I need to think about it I did it did just discover that Andrew craftsman played doubles at Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2000 that's why you've heard of him I've just realized that Don and Susan are from New York and definitely don't know who Chris Whitty is no he was he was important he was the chief medical officer during the pandemic he was a big part of all our lives thank you Susan and Don and finally we have Barclay Hughes in Missouri Barclay another name
that only exists in America or certainly doesn't exist in the UK like Ian Barker the former coach of Pat Cash that's big actually because Barker he says this is my third shout out and if you still can't find a tennis Barclay someone has to sing David saved our bacon yeah he said Matt's off the hook
because he's already sang on the pod thank you Barker maybe David could sing a couple of Taylor Swift lines Catherine some spring steam I can't sing I don't know any time you've nailed it David you have you've come up with a bark yeah and I've come up with a Don now as well gone Don King the former boxing promoter who I know no let me finish who I know yeah I know what you're going to say interview in 2008 at the US Open and who did a teaser on the air for me
about the grapple in the apple and he called Jamie called Andy Murray the James Bond of tennis if you're an out Chris Whitty David definitely an out of Don King but there are definitely more Don's than Whitty's anyway but anyway Barker thank you
and like Scott Barker of being very funny on Twitter fame and being a massive anti-mary fan and yes whose tweets I share with you both on a daily basis because I find myself funny David is low key obsessed with Scott Barker he's a legend not actually that low key to be honest
he's so funny thank you Barkley thank you Susan and Don and thank you Andrew thank you to all of our friends of the tennis podcast it is an awesome order of play tomorrow not saying today was ropey but I do think there's a little bit of an imbalance between the between the the alternate days like there are more things more players I think that just leave out at you tomorrow. Sin and Michelson first on Ash Frontex she Bahara second on the night session is
Asaka Mukover. Okay right cancel everything. Yeah and then Alcribz against Bertic Van De Zanz. Group second in the night session. Mahatch Korda first on Armstrong, Plichkever Paulini, Ken in Pagula and then the night session is Marijan Medvedev and Wozniaki Zarazua. Grandstand is Putin's saver one, Mirandrava against Ashling Kruger, Duminor against Otto Vertonen and Max Pacell against Tommy Paul Max Pacell who has done his own come and get me plead to Sydney
Sweeney which I think is pretty punchy. Who Sydney Sweeney? She's an actress. Just just just accept David that that is a pretty punchy of Max Pacell. Is that like expressing his wish to like meet her? He hasn't expressly said that but I certainly get the impression he wouldn't decline. Right. Is is my interpretation of the vibe. So Max Pacell gets Tommy Paul, Thompson Herkatch, Adam Shumayar, Sereba Shtolmau, Feast Diallo and Rebecca Pange is on 17 tomorrow and it's a brickfest on
Court 5, Bolter, Draper and Evans all back to back. We're interested in to see what Dan Evans has got left in the tank after those five hours and 35 minutes yesterday. That's tomorrow. That's you lot for today's tennis podcast. Thank you for listening. We'll speak to you tomorrow. Flimsy stands slowing you down. Well, it's time to upgrade. Armadillo builds durable North American made talent stands and kiosks. We're so confident we
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