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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
And after a to Michael Burgess, it joins us.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's been a few years since I've been to the
ASP Classic, Michael, but I went a couple of days
back and watch some Grand Tennis.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Year.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
There was a couple of rain interruptions, but for the
most part I got to watch some fantastic doubles and singles.
When it's on, it's on, Michael Burgess, when it's off,
is there a more frustrating place to be? And welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I'm glad you went along, mate, and you make a
good point, especially about doubles. I always say that live
doubles is fantastic. I don't think doubles comes across as
well on TV, but when you're there live, you really
really appreciate it. So great you get along, and great
you got along mostly in the sunshine because there has
been hasn't been a terrible week in terms of rain.
There's been much worse. Of course. Twenty twenty three, but
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it's been pretty ugly with rain every day and of
course rain last night, which is what we're about to
talk about. I'm sure because the schedule's sort of been
all over the place now, it does.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Make it difficult, but that's the nature of it. This
is not unusual. Auckland weather is touch and goes jackul
and Hyde. It changes. So they've got about a bob
and weave to this. And I suppose if you complain
about that, where you probably shouldn't have a tennis tournament
in downtown Auckland, should you at this time of the year.
So what restraints have been put on and what has
to happen today in order to drive through the rest
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of the quarterfinals.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I mean, you make a good point. That's the thing. Like,
just to answer your first question, there's a lot of
tournaments have played outdoors around the world and they all
get rain and they'll get a bit of wind and
players are used to it. The players are actually complain
that much this week. But I think for us, because
we only get these tournaments once a year for a
couple for a fortnight, it seems a big deal. The
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organizers do a great job because Auckland's weather is very changeable.
We saw that yesterday with the third quarterfinal unable to
be completed, only got through a set and a half,
went off at eight pm. They tried to come back
at quarter past nine, thought they were coming back and
then the rain came again before they canceled play at
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around ten pm. So what that means means that match
between Madison Keyes and the Danish Clara Tolson will have
to restart eleven am before the fourth quarterfinal gets played.
After that, then we get into the semifinals which were
supposed to start from three pm today. That may push
back slightly, but that's the intention. So in other words,
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two players today, two of the semifinalists will have to
double up and play two matches across today And.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Tell you what, you've got tickets for today to be stoked,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well they've actually to organizers that they've been pretty innovative
on this. So what they've said is if you were
there last night to watch the quarterfinals that only got through,
only got through half a quarterfinals, that the two quarter finals.
What they've said is people were there tonight last night,
can come back this morning and actually watch the remainder
of those quarterfinals and then the people who brought tickets
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for today will be able to come in for the
afternoon from three pm. So that's a really good compromise
and it means that as many people get to watch
as much tennis as possible.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Talk about the tennis itself actually on the court, Like
I saw Madison Keys and there was a rain delay there,
but she was in tremendous form. What was it six one,
six to two, and that round of sixteen match, absolutely dominant,
even though she had a bit of a heck up.
Do you still like her to win this mic?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I do? I do. It's a lot harder for her now,
the fact you'll have to play she'll have to get
through today and she'll have to play two matches, one
and a half matches. But she's been the most consistent
player of this week. Day after the world number twenty one,
still only twenty nine. It seems like she's been around forever.
I think she's been in six made it six Grandsland semifinals,
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at Grandsland final. But yet, as you said, as you
saw the power she can generate, the consistency, the clean
hitting is something else. But what you also saw on
Friday was her fighting spirit because she if things had
to happen another way, she'd be on a plane to
Melbourne this morning. She was. She lost the first set
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to Tulsen, she was down three to one and facing breakpoint.
She comes back and then wins the next four games.
She doesn't do that. There would have been enough time
for Tasen to wrap up that set and the match,
and we're talking about a very different scenario. So yeah,
I think she's still the player to beat, but it's
going to be very interesting today, and so she is.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The player to beat. Who's the player to beat here?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yes? Well, the car now nicely falling for Miss Noomi Osaka,
aren't they. She was really happy yesterday to get through
her quarterfinal in a three set battle against the world
number ninety two, probably a lot harder than people would
have expected. Again, she had tricky conditions, like she's had
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a week. But she's in the semifinal, and as she
pointed out, it's her first semifinal since she's come back
after the birth of her daughter. But it's also her
first semifinal since April twenty twenty two, so that's a
long time. I mean, this is a small tournament. She's
played on massive grand stages, but it means a lot.
You can see that, and you have to say that
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the scenario now benefits her a lot because she'll play
someone who's had to play this morning and get through
a quarterfinal. So you think okay Osaka could get going.
She certainly improved with every match, and if the conditions
settle a bit and this wind stops, then she is
the player that that could really test Madison Keys. Of
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of course Madison Keys gets that far. There's a lot
of what ifs.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Here, So Osaka Keys on the cards.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Osaka Keys are still on the cards, and that is,
of course the dream final, Darcy. That's probably what everyone wants.
Tennis doesn't normally go to script, is not normally the
fairy tale, but there has been in the past. We
all remember that fantastic Venus Williams Caroline Wozniaki final a
few years ago, and then there's also the Venus Williams
Anna Ivanovitch. So sometimes the two favorites do get through
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and that's still on the cards, and that would be
absolutely fantastic if it happens.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And I've been talking about this and I've been shot
down by a few people and lifted by others that
the need for a roof for the tennis center. How
important is that considering it's only two weeks of the
year when you look at the cost involved in putting
it up, Is it like because I know that when
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it comes to that the thoughts would like to do it,
and would like to do it fast, only a couple
of years, they believe, but there's just no funding. Is
it like that?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Do you think, Michael, it is possible to us? I mean,
you and I have been talking about this in the
office for probably what ten years, This sort of debate
that comes up from now and again, it's an interesting one,
isn't it. Because it is only a fortnight a year.
It's not that we have a whole lot of tennis tournaments.
But then, of course you could use the facility for
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other things. I do like the solution they they've come
up with, which is modeled on Adelaide. So it's not
a retractable roof. It'd be a permanent roof, but it's
like a canopy, like a U shape just fits over
the top, so you allow some natural light and it
looks it looks, it looks pretty good. It still means
they can be classed as an outdoor tournament because the
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sun's kind of coming in. It would certainly block off
the wind and of course the rain, and it wouldn't
actually be that expensive. There's nothing like putting a roof on,
of course a rugby stadium, and certainly not the cost
of the roofs on Wimbledon and the French Open. So
you know they're talking. I don't know what they're talking now,
to be honest, but i'd say forty to fifty million.
Maybe that can raise quite a bit of that. Privately,
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I know they're certainly interested. It would certainly offer some
security and safeguarding the schedule. But on the other hand,
the thing is, as you've probably debated on your show
this week, Das, there is tournaments like twenty twenty four,
when there's barely a drop of rain, the whole woman's
all men's and people are like and there was no
talk about a roof. So you know, this year so
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far it's been a bit unlucky. Twenty twenty three is awful,
But I've been covering this tournament in two thousand and five.
In most years you get through it pretty well, So yeah,
it's certainly. It's certainly a good point of conjecture recency bias.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I suppose I just think Glen Eden intermediate my daughter
Wien A couple of years ago. They had a really
great outdoor teff. I'm sure it didn't cost them fifty
million dollars to put a bit of tar paul on
over the top like they did. They just need to
do something cheap and easy. But that's another story for
another day. Michael Burgess, enjoy yourself. You want to read
more from the mind of Birds, you can in said
(09:15):
Herald dot Co. Dot Z is there every day covering
off the tennis for the women's straw and of course
next week when the men come to town. Birds. Thanks
very much for your time, mate, You have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Thanks Gus my pleasure mate.
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