June 26, 2025 • 51 mins
With The Championships upon us, our panelists pick their players in our first ever Wimbledon Fantasy Draft. Dan Imhoff and Levi Huddleston join Brie and Xave to dissect the big news of the week, including Alexander Bublik’s monumental victory over Jannik Sinner at Halle and Maya Joint's toppling of Ons Jabeur and Emma Raducanu at Eastbourne. Will Alex de Minaur be able to back his career best run at Wimbledon? Our experts give their thoughts on the Aussie’s current level coming into the major. Plus Levi breaks down the ingredients to Alexander Bublik and Marketa Vondrousova’s recent success, while we check in with Todd Woodbridge and Duncan McKenzie-McHarg in Wimbledon with their title predictions and top tips for those lucky enough to attend the third Slam of the year.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, and welcome to the tennis It's draft day. Who
will we pick in our Wimbledon fantasy teams?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Who?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Who maya on fire Aussie teen Sensation takes out the
British number one at Eastbourne and Wimbledon's Smokies, the players
nobody wants to face at the Championships.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Not having a dart out in the back.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of the No, that's all ahead with me, Brie st
you it next to me is my co host said
yea more buck, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here and you said my name right.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's really great, that's really exciting. But moving on to
the most important people across the table, We've got the
mathemagician from Match Labs, Levi Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hey, guys, it's fun to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I really like your outfit. You've really done the Wimbledon colors.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, well, you know, I try. You know, I was
looking through the wardrobe, wasn't sure what I was going
to find, and then sometimes you do find that thing.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're like, oh, that's a perfect And we did have
to explain it to our next scarce who has just
come from France, Spain and Portugal, Dan Imhoff, because he's
color blind.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Thanks, everyone knows that totally to be ashamed of.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now we know why you always wear odd socks, not.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Your own font. Feeling fresh, ready to go?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and how was the wedding that you went to overseas?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was amazing? Still recovering. That was only on this Sunday. Okay,
it's Thursday now five am in Portugal.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
That Dan, we're over forty speak for you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You guys should fine, we're not. Isn't it funny we
look the youngest?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Well, anyway, I'm wearing white because Wimbledon Levi's got proper
purple and green. Your look like you've had a lamar
on and you're wearing a dnim shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But did you think it was white? It was all
I had clean.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I think it's fair. He only hopped off a plane
Tuesday night. How was Roland Garross before we get.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Into it was incredible, as you would have all discussed
in the wash up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Both finals were great. You don't always get the men's
just finished, didn't it pretty much had to bail halfway
through for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But the ending was incredible, amazing, amazing, and the crowd
was superb.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Fell a bit sorry for sinner, but you know that's
the game.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, he'll be right, he'll be okay. Well, it's great
to have you all here. We have got a massive
WI and preview show ahead of us, Lots to get in,
so let's kick things off though by crossing to our
wonderful reporters, our very own Todd wood Bridge and Duncan
Mackenzie mccague, who are calling in to us from the
(02:40):
Tennis Australia House in Wimbledon.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yes, guys, strawberries and cream, pims and lemonade and grass
takes center stage. Wimbledon is here. It's my absolute pleasure
to be joined by a nine time men's doubles champion,
a one time mixed doubles champion, and this time of
year dinner party host.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Well, the dinner party hosting is about the Australian barbecue
that happens on the Friday of.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
That happens here Tennis Australia.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Yeah, and so this year will normally I come in
and do the interviews. I think this year Mark wood
and I are celebrating an anniversary, so I know it's
like interviewing yourself at your own wake, but I'm going
to be there.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yes, twenty five years since you won the men's doubles
in the year two thousand and thirty years since you
wanted in nineteen ninety five, What do you remember from
those years to Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Look, I think I remember, you win it once and
you think how lucky you are.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Then you come back and we want it again, and
we and we won five in a row, and I
look back at that now, going how did we do that?
We lost the final of six, and obviously I want
a few more after that, but I just I just
the thing I remember is coming back to wimbled and
feeling like I could win it again. And that was
never defending, and it's such a mindset for people when
(03:52):
you get, you know, defend your points and rankings, you go, oh,
get scared.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Can I do it?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
It never felt like that was just this great feeling
of walking down on the hill of Marriott Road from
Wimbledon Veeley's to the club.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
And just going, I love this place.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
And so I don't know why that happened, It just did,
but I'm glad it did.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
The other one is it was twenty years this tournament
that I retired, played the last match, So there's all
these numbers, thirty, twenty five, twenty Yeah, I still feel
like I'm twenty.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's a lifetime of memories. I want to talk about
the Australians. We've got thirteen and counting in the men's
and women's singles draws. I started off at the men first. Yeah,
and Alex Demono. Obviously, he experienced an incredible high this
time last year, made his first Wimbledon quarterfinal, and then
a devastating low. Couldn't play in that quarter final match
against Novak Chokovic because of that heap injury. What do
you make of Alex's chances in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I think they're good.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Obviously comes with a very different preparation. He was disappointed
with the loss in Paris and then didn't get as
many grasscourt matches as he would have liked. But for him,
I actually feel like as long as he's okay with it,
it's a great prep because he needs to refresh a
little bit.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
He was tired.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He said that he puts so much into the clay
court season. He knows he can play brilliant on grass.
The one thing he does need to do is lower
his expectation. He wants it so badly and that has
hindered him hindered his performance here in the past, so
I'm hoping very much so that he goes let it
all sort of be, not get hung up on it,
and then yes, he can definitely make a semi here.
(05:21):
Seating's going to be really important. He's just outside the
top ten now, so it depends where he falls in
the draw. But if he can keep away from those
those quarters of our Karaz and Sinner, then I think
a semi can beckon.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
It's a really exciting time in the women's game for
the Yeah, Aaria Casina, we can.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Call her our own now, and my joints just crack
the worst. I've been chatting on the port a fair
bit about Maya, you know, I.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Could say I sort of. I think it was like
thirty twenty.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
We can see her getting to so she got inside
the top fifty wins over Radakanu at Eastbourne. The only
thing for her that I worry about is that she's
experiencing these big tournaments in the main draw for the
first time, and like in Paris where she won the
week before, she's had no time to settle in and
feel the conditions of the club. I just get used
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to what it's going to be like, she's going to
come in late and she's hopefully has a little bit
more experience from what happened in Paris that she can
use here at Wimbledon, because if she does, the quality
of ball striking and what she's playing, she's just continuing
to rise. And I think if she can get through
round one, then she's off and racing. I think then
she can really let it happen. And boy, anything's possible
(06:32):
when you know you have no barriers, no fears, and
that's exactly how she's playing.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Tod I'm going to put you on the spot now,
who are going to be the champions for twenty twenty five?
You're the men's and women's.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean, I'm going with Carlos three people. I
find it hard not to be able to go with him.
You know, he has to stay healthy, injury free. If
he does, he has the confidence. Played brilliantly at Queen's.
He's just a level above on grass. Sinner has closed
the gap. I think he's very close and Novak, let's not.
You know, I know that Novak is pulling out every
(07:04):
stop to be as fit and ready as he can
be for here.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
But I think the other two just are.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
A step above and nobody volleys and moves like ol
chorasm Grass.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
For me and for the women, I think it's a
wide open tournament.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I think Saberlenka is the obvious favorite, but I think
it's going to be difficult mentally for her to recover
from what happened in Paris. I think she wants everybody
to really like to love her, to feel good for her,
and she's going to be really trying to get people
back on side after the reactions of a press conference
and the like in Paris. So I'm going to go
(07:38):
a little bit left field, not way left, but I'm
going to go with Mira Andreva.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
She's my biggest one.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I just think the way that she has been building
and if you know, sometimes women's draws can open up,
and I think she's ready to now go through and
do that. I think Coco has a great chance, but
I think going back to back might be more difficult
for Coco.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So interesting tournament no matter what.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Finally, Todd Bree came to Rolling Garross for the very
first time this year, Yes, and I hijacked her top
five and I gave her my top five for rolling Garross.
So I'm gonna put you on the spot now, Okay,
Todd's top five. How do you experience the perfect day
watching tennis here at Wimbledon.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Okay, so let's start with five. I'm going to go.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
You must go and view the queue, of course, and
snake their weight snakes down into the park, even if
you're lucky enough not to have to line up in it,
go and have a look at it.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Let's go to four. Okay. When you get in, you've
got to try pims.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Make sure there's a bit of cucumber, some orange and
mint that finishes it off beautifully delicious. Now, then you
get towards afternoon tea, so we'll go three. We'll go
strawberries and you've got to have the fresh cream. Make
sure you get the big plump ones because they're magnificent
as well. Now the next thing is you've got to
(08:54):
get out to the outside courts leader in the afternoon
and watch a bit of doubles, yep, right, because that's
where some great viewing happens, and particularly those first few
days too, where you get those matches on the outside
courts that mean so much to players that we don't
see sometimes on the center at number one court. And
finally you've got to find a way to get into
the center court. Absolutely, that is what I call the
(09:17):
mecha of tennis. This is the home of tennis. Now,
if you don't have a ticket, what do you do?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
You go up to the booth what do we call that?
The resale booth? The resale booth, and you get your ticket.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Most people get the chance to get in, and it's
unique to all of the majors that you can get
that chance to get in and spend maybe it's a
set or something late in the evening on the center court.
But don't leave without trying to get into the Senate court.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
There you go, Grand Slam Champion, LOGI nominee and now
tour guide Todd Woobridge, thanks for joining.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Good on you dunk in so Todd's called out. Andreva
is his dark horse wind. Now you pulled quite the
face there, Dan, I did.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She has matches leading in and she had I thought
she was a.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, even in Paris, I thought she was. I
thought she was a roughie to win it. Not that
there was any shame in losing in the quarters, but
she lost to boss On, which was a big upset, really,
and I thought she might have challenged golf in the semis,
but that's been and go on different surface, she'll have reset.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And yeah, she hasn't done a huge amount.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
On grass wimbling yet, but she hasn't played many either,
so you can't read too much into her record.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And what do we think about his other pick of
our chias? Is that just a no brainer? Is that
a lazy pick from Todd?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Possibly a safe bet, It's a very safe bet, y lazy. Yeah,
but you want him on your team, don't you. Well, yeah,
you're teasing out upcoming best dressed on that one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Honestly, I haven't realized about my fantasy team, and we
all know might will be the worst, don't we know?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You might get real lucky.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You know, there's traffic on the way to Wimbledon and
doesn't make it, So what.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Are you gonna take?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What do we think of Alcaraz?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard to look past his
success in the past. And I think sometimes with Alcaraz,
the hard court season is the majority of the year
and people kind of think, oh, he's down, he's not
playing as well as he was, And then it comes
to rolling Garrels and Wimbledon and then he just is
surging again. So I think it's fair to, you know,
to pick Alcaraz. He's got huge pace on his groundstrokes
(11:28):
and you know, it just opens the court up for him,
and his serve has been improving too, So yeah, I mean,
I think he was a solid pick last year and
it doesn't seem like he's he's doing better this year.
So yeah, I would I would give him an edge to.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That he's in a better position now than he was.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, I think so. Obviously like ebbs and flows in tennis,
but I think this this run is a bit stronger.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And the guy can volley, which we haven't always said
about spinach players in the past. I'm more traditionally better
on the clay, but he can play on any surface really,
and I'm not afraid to come to net moves as
well as anyone anticipates. So he's really the complete package,
as we saw in Paris.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I've got a question and before we move on to
the big week that we've had with the Aussies, but
on a lot of you know, literature, I've been reading for.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Literature, literature at I was on Google's Skull.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm actually paid for the pdfall literature going probably can.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But I've been reading a lot of articles about and
they always go, oh, they really moved to the net. Well,
and are we losing a little bit from some of
the modern day tennis the art of the volley?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, because it's it's more difficult now than the pace
of the shot. The modern technology, the rackets, the strings
make it a lot easier to pass someone at net,
so there's less incentive to get there.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But Olcz is someone who's still mixes it up enough
and has the power and the variety with dropshots that
he can approaching.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That a bit more than some guys.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool, Well you've just answered some questions that I picked
up from literature.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So what we will literature? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Literature. Let's move on to how good of a week
we have had for the Aussies? And Dan, did you
want to kick us off with some Maya joint?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, so touched on it.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
There Maya three to the quarterfinals in Eastbourne, and she's
had two great winds there. The one over first round
I think she beat our which is Wimbledon finalists, and
then she led I think five to three against Emma
Ratikanu failed to serve it out but still ended up
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getting across the line, which was no mean feat. You've
got the whole British crowd there, windy down on the
southern coast there. If she makes the semis, I think
she's due to play blink of her vitals.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
She'll be favorite there.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
If she made the semis, she would have made three
this year, all on different surfaces, So she's starting to
She's on the map as an awful player.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah yeah, And as Todd said from London, he will
wimbled in he has picked that. She'll just keep rising
and she's definitely someone that could be big for us trainer.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And she made good comment after beating Radakanu that she
was going for the lines and that's a good sign
if she's confident.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In making those shots.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Becau's one thing to say you're going for them, but
if you're spraying them and it's a complete disaster, then
you can't keep doing that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Explain that term for some of our less tennis.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It means hosts going for the line.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It means your margins for error smaller going you know,
you go literally for the risky bold. Yeah, not that
she's playing like completely risky tennis star still measured.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Instead of going center mass, you're trying to push the other.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
She was maneuvering Radakoni beautifully and even there was one
point she played a pretty ordinary drop shot, but she
moved and anticipated so well that she managed to whip
it past her anyway, so's she's really hitting form at
the right time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
As todd sattled after her Rebat title, she.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Struggled to then make an impact in Paris, ran into
Eiler first round, So it'll be interesting how she finds
her feet as soon she hits wimbled and which will
be a little bit different to the grass.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I also think and this could I don't know how
this will affect her in Wimbledon, but watching her against Eiler,
it looked like she was tired because she'd just run
Rabat and she's kind of doing the same thing against.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah as well, so she definitely would have been she
doubled a little bit a little bit time.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it will be exciting to see what happens next
for my joint.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
She's only nineteen, so on with and upwards.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, but what have you got for a save?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh it is time once again it's Grand Slam season.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Fantasy draft time, Fantasy fantasy fantasy tennis tennisness. We'll have
to make my own sting because and he didn't. I've
not even asking for one anyway. So fantasy draft. We've
got three teams. We've got Team Dan, Team Levi, and
Team Bree. Each of you will be selecting from the
field two men and two women who you believe will
go furthest into Wimbledon, maybe even win the thing. And
(16:30):
there are points associated, so if they get to the
second round, they get one point. If they are the
champion of the whole event, you get ten points, and
you get points along the way. So over the next
couple of weeks we'll keep tabs on this, see how
you go. It's also a little sneaky way of previewing
the event, seeing who's who in the zoo.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But it's so I can understand who is doing what.
It's gonna be fun. So we've mixed it up. It's
a snake draft order.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It doesn't really matter what that means, but basically pick
number one goes to Levi.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Whoo the girl?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Were is that your work?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Photo?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And Instagram?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No, I don't use it on dating apps.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's a nice photo.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Thank you. Maybe I should after this update.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
No, none of that. Well, I'm going to choose Carlos
Alcaaz I got first round picks rigged.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
No, I'm sorry, but the check squid.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I mean there's no money changing hands and it's fun.
Thank you, Dave, appreciate that. I mean, like I said,
it's hard to look past him. He's done so well
in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I can't not pick him as a first round pick,
and like he might.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Even if he doesn't win, he's going to go deep,
so safe bet well played.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Thank you all right, number two on our pick list.
Three M. I see you put a lot of thought
into this in advent I have.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I'm still thinking out loud. I'm giving the people some fun.
I don't know where this is a good move, but
I'm going to go without Jasmine Palini.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Pealini put on the board.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, why am I going with her? I just feel
like she's in great form. I just have a weird
spidy feeling and I'm going to go with my psychic abilities.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Cool. I mean, she's she's cool.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
She made the final last year, Yeah she did, so
that's and remember everyone was like, oh, she's not going
to win this, and she didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But they didn't think she'd go as far. But yeah,
I just got good feeling for her her time.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
All Right, Palini on the board for Team Brie.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
All right, Imhoff, all right, number one, I'm going to
go with a women's pick first.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, I did too good ones.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It just happened not one of the obvious ones, but
she has won it before. I'm going to go with
Elena Rebaka, the Rebecca. I thought about it, Okay, eleventh c.
She's a bit of an enigma. You never quite know
where she said at the moment.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Physical, but when she is on, she is arguably one
of the best in the world, particularly on grass, which
we saw in twenty twenty two when she beat on
to Birth to become the Wimblin champion.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
She's also done well there subsequent two years.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I think she made the quarters the following year, Semis
again last year, which kind of went unnoticed a bit.
But yeah, look, it depends a lot on her own
mental state. She has had a few wins on the
grass coming in. She narrowly lost to Sablenka in the
Berlin quarter finals, so that's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Not a bad result.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, and like with the nature of the draw, like
you don't need to get both champions. If you get an,
you get four to go deep.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I mean the only thing against her is she's the
eleventh seat. She's dropped out of the top ten, so
she's at the mercy of the draw. Could run into
one of the top seeds, so she did in Paris,
she ran into Eager in the fourth round.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Watching brief, Yeah, okay, round two, we're going to stick
with you Dan, Okay, hit me with your next month.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Hit me with your best shirt.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Fire away. I'm gonna sw to the men's end and
we'll go with.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Really interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
He's got a few trophies from the old Wimbi. Yeah,
kind of well known.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Ye from me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I reckon he could do well here.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yep, yep. I feel like because he's an omnipresent goat well.
He still thinks he's got another slam. He thinks he's
got another gold medal in him, so he could do it.
He wouldn't put it past him, but if there's a slam,
he might get another one out. I think Wemblin could
be his best chance. I think that's a good pick, ye.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Keep in mind is probably going to have to beat
one of for both, which is not easy to do.
But he Look, he beat Alcoraz quarterfinals at AO this year,
beat Verev quarterfinals in Paris, so he's still got.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Those big wins in him. He's thereabouts. Yeah, so I'm
going to lock him in my first men's pick. Very good,
All right, thank you, Dan Bri.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm going to make a purely strategic move here. And
also because he just brought out a song with Andrea
Forcelli and it feels appropriate to.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Honor that was that ultimately master. I love and like,
don't get me wrong, songs in my childhood, but that
was I.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Listened to it a couple of times and just couldn't
get into it. But it is a nice clash of
culture and tennis, and to honor that, I'm going to
pick Yannick Sinner.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh sorry, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
I was.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Blind, But.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Obviously he's had some good runs this year. AO champion
finalist Roland Garrison Rome twenty twenty five grass court season
so far saw him lose to Public at Halle, so
who knows what's ahead for him, but the song is
interesting and we're going with him and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
His top seed, so good pick. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like I've got to put a big one in there
from a point.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Got a big dog in there somewhere. Fair enough, Okay,
Levi hit us up with your pick number two.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, I'm going to go with a women's pick, and
I'm going to go with the number one seed a
gable anka good. Well, I was at number two soon.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, like again, going the big dog watching the
little box.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I mean, you know, she's had strong results there in
the past. She hasn't she hasn't won it yet, but
I think she's in great form. She hits the crap
out of the ball. I mean, she just slugs it.
She's got a big.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Serve and a big mouth. Lightly but she's talked a
lot back.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, you know, semi final there in Berlin. I think
I think she has a good chance of taking the title.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Honestly. Yeah, great, okay, thank you Levi. Third round. We're
going to stick with you, mister Levi. What's feeling in
your jeans?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
That's good?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Why it twice?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Because order? Yeah, hey break go read something. You stepped
on my Jane's joke I'll carry on. You just don't
get it, That's fine.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
My grandpa called me Briches growing up.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Got it, I just got it the last time I finish.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I didn't get it until it was about twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
I never.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh dear, I'm gonna have a glass water.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, but on camera that does look a lot like one,
and that's fun.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's definitely water good.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
But for my pick, I'm gonna go with Madison Keys.
I think you know, it's similar. I'm building kind of
a similar arsenal Ao champion is a lot of power there,
a lot of power, and they've been in good form recently.
It will be interesting to see how she does Wimbledon.
But I'm gonna back. I'm in back Keys.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I think she's going to be going in with a
lot of positive thoughts and really good fitness, like she's
at a pretty top notch.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Level of her game at the moment. Good one, All right,
thanks Leeby.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay, yes, okay, I want to take Draper?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Okay, Draper next up? Did you want him?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I am going with Draper because he is in good form,
although he was a bit sick recently with ton sliders
and I'm a little bit frustrated as well during his
match at Queen's when he lost to Lahechka, but he
still made it to the semi finals. So I also
think playing at Wimbledon with a home crowd could either
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be make or break, but hopefully it pushes him through.
And I think he's the hot thing right now.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, he's going to have some boisterous crowds behind him one.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I imagine how good the energy will be for his matches.
Him and Katie Boult like the sweethearts of English tennis.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So yeah, I'm really even.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Sweethearts of they're not together.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh sorry, I thought you were saying that they're just
both English.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No, but I am very happy with that pick, and
I'm really happy I took it off.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That actually makes it so much better.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Doesn't it. No One, no one seemed worried about Paulini's.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Worried about Paolini. I'm going to pivot, you are correct.
I'm going to pivot to the women then twice.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Because it's okay, come down, Everything's fine, it's snake orderbris
just follow the system, Dan, what's in XP.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I'm going to pivot back and clinch one of the favorites.
So I don't end up with some outsiders here and
go with golf. Yeah, Coco Loko, why not?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
She got one back and yet she was understandably a
bit exhausted after Paris lost the match on grass?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Where was that in Berlin?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Her first match that I wouldn't read into that at all.
She'll appreciate the extra time now to reset, and she has.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
A history there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
She qualified obviously, is a fifteen year old in twenty
nineteen went to the fourth round beat Venus Williams on rude.
I mean, if anything, if Paris showed us anything, it's
her fighting qualities when she's not even may not be
playing her absolute best, so she's always.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
In for me.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Mental strength, mental strengths is she's.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Got the mental strength of someone much older than herself.
She's the maturity on and off court.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That can translate into a great family. I reckon that
part of it, definite part of it. And maybe a
lot of trust and great relationship.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
With her coaching team and those around her like not
surrounded by yes people, not surrounded by those who are
trying to bring her down, unless when you speak to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You, you think you're talking to someone late twenties she's
been around six years or so on tour, but still
she's got this maturity.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And I would love to say a Saboleca golf final
like that would be pretty good on the grass.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The press conference after, haven't we seen that before? Not
this one, I've seen two now?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
All right, Well Dan, okay, hold on to your hat, Brie.
We're going to stay with Dan for his final.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm in the middle. I'd never get a double.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Correct, got you, but you never last either. Yeah, so
we'll go to my final. Men's pick.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Here we go, and it is a bit left field,
but I'm going to go with Yushi Lehechka. Oh yeah,
I know he's not top ten, he's not even top
twenty for that matter.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You have twenty third seed. But the checks do love
the grass and he showed that this week with the
run to the final in Queens.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I took a set there off El Kraz. I know
it's not slam, but yeah, he can play on the surface.
Reached the fourth round there two.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Years ago, so okay, and he could have a reasonably
friendly draw being that low seeded.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Player twenty well at the moment he's number twenty five,
so yeah, it depends a lot on the draw for him.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Which is Tomorrow Brie our time.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yeah, Tomorrow wins and queens over Draper and demon Or
on route. So there, it wasn't a soft doll foring
brainy stretch, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Good pick.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
All right, He's there so far the roughest of the
rouffies on our board, so I'll be watching that one
with breath.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That is baited. Okay, we pick the interesting pick up
over to your final pick.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
My final pick, and I'm so glad I haven't missed
out on this. But I'm guessing no one else wanted her.
I'm going with Mira Andreva, which is also who Todd
had picked. I'm going with Mirror. Firstly, I love her
and she's one of my favorite players on the tours.
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I think she's amazing. She obviously twenty twenty five highlights,
she was a champ at Indian Wells and Dubai quarter
fi finalist at Roland Garross. Her best progress Wimbledon in
the past was fourth round in twenty twenty three. Obviously,
in the past two years a lot has changed in
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her maturity, style, co all of that stuff, so she
hasn't had a great grass court season as yet because
she lost round one at Berlin. But she does play
no Kova next at the quarterfinal of bad Homburg, so she,
you know, might have some form. So I'm going with
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her and I love her a bit.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
She just has every time she's here in Melbourne. She's
just she's so good after the.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Game, she's so good. So go Mirror, I you have
all my support.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
All right, you're locked in now, bree good lit there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I think I've got a good mix, all right.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
And now for the final pick of this year's women
have finish the shark himself, Dan Danham Dan Dan Dan Denim.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
So, I mean, I know this is a bit out there,
but I'm going to go with a dark course. I'm
going to go with Alexander Bubleck.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
That's not a.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Dark horse at the moment, but like he have you
seen what he's no, you probably haven't seen what he's
been doing lately. Is performing really well?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I knew what his seed was, yeah, yeah, No, I
mean I think Bublick has, like Breeze said, he's been
on a tear and I think he's still a bit
of a dark chrus. But what he's showing out there,
I think he can go quite far. And I'm you know,
I'm hoping to get in and talk a little bit
more about that.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You do have some of your Levi's long shots coming up, Yeah,
a little bit later. So Team Levi, Albaraz, Sabelenka, Keys
and Bublock, Team Brie, Paulini, Sinner, Draper and Andreva and
Team Dan bringing it Home, Rebecca ar Djokovic, Cocoa Goff
and Leahechka the check twenty third seed. So follow along
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at home, give us your picks. See who you would
pick yourself. Which of our teams is going to win?
It won't be Bre and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Sorry, Bray, you're gonna send us to an AD break.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We're going to go to an AD break, and after
that we will check in with Levi's long.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Shot, Levi's Levi's long long long Shot.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is getting all okay, welcome back. We are going
to hand over to Levi now in a segment we
called Levi's Longsholtz, and he's going to talk about some
players that could be considered dark horses and why they
could cause some troubles at Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And also why you picked one of course, Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So you know, the work that we do, it really
focuses on game analysis, and we don't try to help
the players and the coaches understand, you know, what's happening
on the court. And so our team really focuses on
diving into that type of data. So my picks, which
I did pick this player Bubliic, Alexander Bublick, and Marquetta
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von Drusova, And so I want to really highlight Bublic
in terms of just the change that he's kind of
undergone in the last year. I mean, this is a
guy who was coming into this spring saying I'm not
sure if I'm going to continue playing tennis, and now
he's he went to Vegas and then he went to
Vegas a man and he had you love him?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, I mean put himself on my right up, Yeah,
craps to kind of center himself.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Genius.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, it's such an interesting story and if you
dive in deeper into it. Basically he was overtraining, is
what he said. He said, I was too serious about it,
and I was too robotic. I was trying to be
like the other players and I couldn't quite It wasn't
for him, and so he went to Vegas, he had
a change of a mindset, and he's come back, and
he's actually come back so strong. I mean, you look
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at his mentality and the mentality in terms of his
fortitude out there breakpoints save those are really hard. That's
a lot of pressure that's being put on you. If
you lose your serve in tennis, that's a huge blow.
Obviously up thirty percent from last year in terms of
like grass court performance, so thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
So not only is he, you know, serving really well,
but then he's fending off these points, so it's like
basically nine out of ten breakpoints he's saving.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
WHOA isn't that crazy? Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
And in order to do that, he would have to
be so multi purpose really yeah, not just you know,
get lucky with what he's been thrown at him. You'll
do the long rallies, the short rallies, go to the baseline,
the whole shebang everything.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So what's really interesting is, and I don't know if
it's part of this mentality of letting go, but he's
actually hitting harder on both wings. So he's hitting fifteen
k's harder on his forehand and his backhand, so he's increasing. Yeah,
so he's really amping it up. And if you see
the people he's playing against, they're standing farther and farther back.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They try to distorb his pace to him.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah right, but now he's pointing out the drop shots
and so now they're having to run and try to
get these drop shots. And he's known as a showman,
he knows how to do that. So he has this
pace where he's pushing them back and he's bringing them
in with these drop shots. And then, like you're talking about,
there's kind of a loss of the volley game as we.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
You know, get into this era.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But his hands are really quite good up there too,
so he'll do the drop shot, they'll run and get it,
and he'll be right there to put away the volley.
So I think, you know, his game has really changed
since his mindset changed, and I'll just yeah, I'm very
curious to see how he'll do at Wimbledon because obviously
that's a little bit more pressure.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Then his title run at Halla.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
So there's definitely a mindset shift. Because he didn't make
second weeks of slams much at all.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
In Paris. He not only made it, he then beat Draper.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Well, yeah, and I remember watching him against Alex Demanon.
I know Alex probably didn't have the best match, but
you could tell that he was a different playoff.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well, he was at about twenty last year and then
he dropped to eighty. It's only been in the last
couple months that he's actually skyrocketed back up to thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And if you look at his range, he was from
seventy six to thirty. Didn't he just crazy?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, decent run at Wimbledon. Then could scarrok at him
again towards the top ten?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Towards him no, Yeah, I mean so it's just interesting
to think about how not everything works the same way
for every player. You know, you can't be this robot
out there if that's not your personality. And I think
that's a that's an interesting story, interesting takeaway to say, Okay,
who are the robots? I think a lot of people
would think Center Yep, you know, he Djokovic. You know,
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they have these patterns and these routines and a doll.
They do the same things. They're out there training. But Bublic,
I think trying to put himself into that. You know,
he's a square trying to go into the round shape. Paul,
it's it's it's hard, and so I think it's an
interesting realization that, like, maybe I have to pivot the
way I play the game.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You've always seen him as more of an entertainer, and
while Curios held that mantle for a long time, Bublic
was often considered like a lesser version of that. But
he's clearly got the ability and just needed to unlock that.
As you said in a different manner, it's not not
one size fits all for a player that don't all
have to train exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I've seen that with our cries too. He needs more
time off.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yea get away still came back and on the title,
So yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
He partied hard, he played harder good.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And then who do we have next? Well?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, so for the second pick, I'm going with von Drosova. Yeah,
so you know, she just had the Berlin title.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
And again if she has an injury recently.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, twenty twenty four, she had surgery on her rotator
cluff after the US opened, and I can relate to that.
So I tore on my shoulder, I thought.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Because you were playing gresson tennis.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
No, no, no, he did it pay I was in
the stands. Actually, I was throwing back one of the
balls that could really get you. Yeah, I really can't
because you know, there's a lot of pressure there, but no,
I think to have that so the shoulder heels super
slow because there's very little blood flow that gets in there.
And so for her to win a title, you know,
less than a year after that is incredible and it's
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just a testament to probably how much work she had
to put in in terms of the rehab to get
her shoulder mobile and to start servying and everything like that.
So it's it's really cool to see her take that title.
And I think the question on everyone's mind is, Okay,
she's won at Wimbledon before, Now is she in the
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same form that she was previously? And so if we
look at kind of some of that big big picture
stuff in terms of her return game, is it as
good as we would think is expected of the top ten?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And so it actually is.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
She's winning return games about four percentage points above the
top ten at forty five percent, so's she's doing well on.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Her return game.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
And then what really makes up that return game when
you break is your breakpoint conversions, So how often are
you capitalizing on the opportunities that you have? And so
her breakpoint conversions is actually six points above the top
ten have fifty four percent. So her return game is
there and it's at the top ten level, exceeding the
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top ten level, But where she's maybe lacking a little
bit is on her serve right, So her serve is
just not going in as much as it should. It's
at you know, minus seven of the top ten. So
really what she needs to be able to do on
grass especially is to get that first serve in and
that's going to increase her ability to hold. So she
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has the ability to break with her impressive return game,
but she's really going to need to be able to
hold and get those first serves in.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
So looking at her movement, like, what's the problem that
you've been able to say using the data? Is it
her accuracy shot placement rating the other player? Yeah, So
she has this really good tactic that she uses.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So she's a lefty, right, and if you've played tennis
and you're getting served at from a lefty, what they
often do, especially on the ad side, is they'll serve
you out wide on the backhand and so you have
this really terrible choice to make. Do I either go
cross court and that's the easier shot. I'm out of position,
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but I could go cross court, but then I'm hitting
it right at their forehand. Or do I try to
go over the high point of the net and go
down the line. It's a tough choice to make, and
so often when you look at the patterns there, people
are choosing to go back cross court to her forehand.
She can open up the field and either hit down
the line, or she does this really loopy forehand back
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to the backhand, and it's just a nightmare to deal with.
So she has this really good plate. Again, when her
first serve goes in, she can set up that mechanism
where she's going to target the backhand or open up
the court and go down the line. And so I
think that could be a real strength for her. So
that's kind of where I see your strengths on the
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serve patterns. I think she could mix it up a bit.
Like I said, she likes to use those patterns of
going to the backhand. They can get a little bit predictable.
So for instance, she only hit about one percent of
serves to the forehand on the second serve on the
I think it's the deuce side. So it's like, well,
if you're not hitting that, obviously you don't want to
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hit a second serve to the forehand too often. But
if you're never doing it, it becomes easier to read
and say, oh, she's never going to hit a fourhand.
I'm just gonna think on this backhand. So yes, that's
her plan, and she's just yeah, So I think you
know she's she's got all the talent there, and she
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has what it takes. She's she's won it before. I
think that she's a real contender there, and we'll just
have to see what happens.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
The insights yourself and Simon Ray, both from Match Labs,
our in house data science gurus you bring are always
phenomenal and I have a lot to think about now
based on.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
I'll tell you what I just said. If they're both
out in the first round, you're sure shit will be
deleting this episode.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, I'll take it on board for later.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
All very useful.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You never can predict everything, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Literally your job literally the wind predictor, yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
The wind predictor. Anyway, we're going to roll into everyone's
favorite segment.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
We are your thing.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
We've got a wimbled and white squiz, and obviously we
have five questions. Okay, we're going to go with number wow. Okay,
first question. Wimbledon's streaket dress code has existed in some
form since the eighteen hundreds, But in what decade was
the predominantly white guideline first formalized in.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Writing nineteen fifties, lev nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Wrong sixties, xavior sixties, nineteen sixties, eighteen sixties, well nineteen eighties, ten,
ninety ten, nineteen eighties, Yeah no, nineteen ten, eighteen eighties,
le Ohuddlestone, Yes.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
The predominantly white concept became formalized in the late nineteenth
century as tennis grew in popularity among the upper classes.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Eighteen eighties, not THEO, not the Leader, sport down, here
we go, wild your fluros, Williams, beads in your hair.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Under the Okay, number two. Under the current Wimbledon regulations,
how wide can a colored trem or stripe be on
any piece of plate? Oh, you don't want multiple choice? Okay,
go who was in first? Dan?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Let's go with one centimeter. I think it's literally half
five mil.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Dan was right. Yeah, the colored trem rule is famously strict,
no wider than ten millimeters, which is a centimeter on
any gar. Do you know I actually dreamt about this
last night, like, and a player went out on court
and she had like colors everywhere, and I was like,
how is she getting away with this? That was my dreams?
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And whites have infiltrated me. There's a little bit of
insight by Psyche. We're going to move on to number three. Okay,
true or false? Even players underwear must be white. If
it has any false, it is false now because it used.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
To be true because didn't Wasn't there a female player
who got called out and then everyone was like, well
that's a bit stuffed up.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Well no, it's been brought in because the women spoke
about how when they're menstrating, wearing white is not ideal.
And as a woman, I can say, hand up, not ideal.
So women are now.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Women usually are playing in an attire where they can expose.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
The Yeah, we've not yet seen a man play in
a skirt, which could.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Be the year.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I know out there a nice little pleated number.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I'm into it. Okay, everyone's got one point each. We're
moving on to number four.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Where's my full button four machine? We're running here.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
The strict enforcement of the all white rule was dramatically
increased following which controversial incidents.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Dan Tatyana Golovin wearing red you know, compression shorts or underpin.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
That would be wrong. Would we like to go to
the multiple choices? Okay, we have a Serena Williams wore
a pink headband in two thousand and four. B Andre
Agassi refused to play due to the dress code. In
the early nineties see Roger Federer's orange souls in twenty
thirteen or d John Muckinroe's logo protest in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Buzz Xavier may yeah, please I reckon it's Fetterer's souls.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
It was Fetterer's orange sold shoes, made global headlines and
triggered a crackdown and an enforcement further of the rules.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Well done, nice Ques. So strict, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
It's so strict, and part of me like, yeah, you know,
that's the rules, but a part of me is like, ugh,
that's my thought.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
They're very good at keeping tradition alive. Then I'll give
them that. Okay, we're going on to our final question.
Number you are get in? Oh god, never do that again.
Number five, which famous British tennis figure once remarked, you
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can never wear too much white at Wimbledon. We have
multiple choice A Fred Perry, B Virginia Wade, C. Tim
Henman or D Sue Barker.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Let's go Sue Barker.
Speaker 8 (45:42):
You're right, so.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Sue Barker, the former player and iconic BBC broadcaster, famously
defended the tradition with that quote. The draw between Xavier
and is there.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
A choicer weapon?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Is there are?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Question?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah? Okay, let me think it's something. Do I know
something about? What year did Todd wood Bridge come runner
up in singles at wimbededed semi.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Make the final. I'm going to go nineteen ninety seven
semi finalist.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Is he right?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Questions?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
You're still figuring out the question I said wrong?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
You stuffed it up. I'm outraged. I demand to recout.
That is why I could never go to pologies birthday.
That was good.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Okay, thank you so much, guys. I always love a
book giving me some time to shine and thank you
to my team to help.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Me fact team, which as a team. Now, god, we're
just jealous. Sorry, I am incredibly jealous.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
So we're just moving on now to Ace of the Week,
and we'll start with you say.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Okay, it's my favorite part of the show. So normally
I struggle, but I have an Ace of the week.
Technically though, it's Ace of next week, which ironically I
think mine will be your Ace of the week next week.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, I'm going on holidays, so taking the fan kids
and yeah, OFFI we know what happens and you go overseas.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Yeah, everyone is pleasant, no one has any missing memories,
and they don't come back with a weird tattoo.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
It gets sick.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Last year, yeah, I might have caught a little little,
little little sliver of dengky fever. That wasn't super fun.
But no, I've got all my jabs, shots, vaccines, whatever.
Its staying nice place. No, it's gonna be hoot. And
don't think about tennis for a week. Great, I'll still
be checking on Wimban.
Speaker 8 (47:34):
How about you.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
My Ace of the week.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
It's just a small one, but I was able to
play video games with my nephew who's over in the us.
Oh that's cool, and so him and my brother we played.
So that was really cool to get on there and
just have some family time.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
So that was nice.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh god love that. Do you wear a headset?
Speaker 6 (47:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, and you just go to town. You're gonna die,
little man.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
It's a team based game, so its versus another team.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But it's pretty funny. They're like, who is this guy?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
He's terrible, he's only.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Nine, and how about you?
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Daniel im Hoff has just.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Come backack into It was about a week ago on
a trip to Mauritia with my partner.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Last week in Spain, which is not a touristy part
of Spain.
Speaker 4 (48:27):
And even less touristy on the outskirts is a little
place called El Palomar, which is the hometown of Carlos z.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Oh wow, okay, it is not a tourist hotsport whatsoever.
There is Amurror Majorca. It's our charaze from its humble,
humble beginnings, and there's one mural there.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
A woman her child got out of their car laughing
at me for even taking a photo of it. So
I don't think they really get what all the fuss
is about. It was a nice little stop one to Maurthia.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
I mean, yeah, I'll get some TV's guys. He's kind
of a big deal in the tennis world. It was
a fascinating im Hoff stopping traffic everywhere it goes. Good,
All right, I'll I'll step in here, Bree. What about yourself?
What's your age?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Guys who are going to love this? So on Saturday,
I am going to Castlemaine with one of my girlfriends
and we are going to see one of our favorite
spiritual guides, one of our favorite tarot readers, Melo, who
now operates.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Her name's Mellow mel mel Oh.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
She operates out of Castle, Maine in a cute little
witchy shop up there, and that is I. I will
come in on Monday knowing exactly what my future holds
and knowing exactly how to find the man in my dreams.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Okay, so you have you never seen her before?
Speaker 1 (49:46):
I've seen her so many times.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
So what happened?
Speaker 5 (49:48):
That?
Speaker 2 (49:48):
An issue?
Speaker 8 (49:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I just my friend this morning told me you just
need to manifest. I was like, I've been manifesting for
twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Maybe stop because I feel like Mellow looks forward to
your Yeah, exactly, I'm guessing it's a cashy guys.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
I've got multiple spiritual guides and they all see me
coming and they rub their hands to exactly anyway.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
That's really exciting for me, doesn't but also customers.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, we're going to the pub and Dumpling the Dog
is coming, so it'll be lovely.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The Railway pub particularly good.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
I think that's where we're going. Yeah, but thank you
to Dan and LEVI are amazing guests for being here today.
Save who can't wait to have you off next and
have a little break. But we are going to throw
it to our lovely production team to bring us home
and tell you what to do and we'll see you
(50:37):
next week.
Speaker 7 (50:38):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (50:39):
Hey everyone, Harps and Andy here just want to remind
you that you can watch every episode of the Tennis
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Speaker 9 (50:46):
And we have an email as well podcast at Tennis
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Speaker 2 (51:02):
Catch you later, mm hm.
Hello, and welcome to the tennis It's draft day. Who
will we pick in our Wimbledon fantasy teams?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Who?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Who maya on fire Aussie teen Sensation takes out the
British number one at Eastbourne and Wimbledon's Smokies, the players
nobody wants to face at the Championships.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Not having a dart out in the back.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Of the No, that's all ahead with me, Brie st
you it next to me is my co host said
yea more buck, I'm.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Here and you said my name right.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
That's really great, that's really exciting. But moving on to
the most important people across the table, We've got the
mathemagician from Match Labs, Levi Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hey, guys, it's fun to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I really like your outfit. You've really done the Wimbledon colors.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Well, well, you know, I try. You know, I was
looking through the wardrobe, wasn't sure what I was going
to find, and then sometimes you do find that thing.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You're like, oh, that's a perfect And we did have
to explain it to our next scarce who has just
come from France, Spain and Portugal, Dan Imhoff, because he's
color blind.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Thanks, everyone knows that totally to be ashamed of.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now we know why you always wear odd socks, not.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Your own font. Feeling fresh, ready to go?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and how was the wedding that you went to overseas?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was amazing? Still recovering. That was only on this Sunday. Okay,
it's Thursday now five am in Portugal.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
That Dan, we're over forty speak for you.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
You guys should fine, we're not. Isn't it funny we
look the youngest?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Well, anyway, I'm wearing white because Wimbledon Levi's got proper
purple and green. Your look like you've had a lamar
on and you're wearing a dnim shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
But did you think it was white? It was all
I had clean.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I think it's fair. He only hopped off a plane
Tuesday night. How was Roland Garross before we get.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Into it was incredible, as you would have all discussed
in the wash up.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Both finals were great. You don't always get the men's
just finished, didn't it pretty much had to bail halfway
through for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But the ending was incredible, amazing, amazing, and the crowd
was superb.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Fell a bit sorry for sinner, but you know that's
the game.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, he'll be right, he'll be okay. Well, it's great
to have you all here. We have got a massive
WI and preview show ahead of us, Lots to get in,
so let's kick things off though by crossing to our
wonderful reporters, our very own Todd wood Bridge and Duncan
Mackenzie mccague, who are calling in to us from the
(02:40):
Tennis Australia House in Wimbledon.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yes, guys, strawberries and cream, pims and lemonade and grass
takes center stage. Wimbledon is here. It's my absolute pleasure
to be joined by a nine time men's doubles champion,
a one time mixed doubles champion, and this time of
year dinner party host.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Well, the dinner party hosting is about the Australian barbecue
that happens on the Friday of.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
That happens here Tennis Australia.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Yeah, and so this year will normally I come in
and do the interviews. I think this year Mark wood
and I are celebrating an anniversary, so I know it's
like interviewing yourself at your own wake, but I'm going
to be there.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yes, twenty five years since you won the men's doubles
in the year two thousand and thirty years since you
wanted in nineteen ninety five, What do you remember from
those years to Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Look, I think I remember, you win it once and
you think how lucky you are.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Then you come back and we want it again, and
we and we won five in a row, and I
look back at that now, going how did we do that?
We lost the final of six, and obviously I want
a few more after that, but I just I just
the thing I remember is coming back to wimbled and
feeling like I could win it again. And that was
never defending, and it's such a mindset for people when
(03:52):
you get, you know, defend your points and rankings, you go, oh,
get scared.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Can I do it?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
It never felt like that was just this great feeling
of walking down on the hill of Marriott Road from
Wimbledon Veeley's to the club.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
And just going, I love this place.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
And so I don't know why that happened, It just did,
but I'm glad it did.
Speaker 9 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
The other one is it was twenty years this tournament
that I retired, played the last match, So there's all
these numbers, thirty, twenty five, twenty Yeah, I still feel
like I'm twenty.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
That's a lifetime of memories. I want to talk about
the Australians. We've got thirteen and counting in the men's
and women's singles draws. I started off at the men first. Yeah,
and Alex Demono. Obviously, he experienced an incredible high this
time last year, made his first Wimbledon quarterfinal, and then
a devastating low. Couldn't play in that quarter final match
against Novak Chokovic because of that heap injury. What do
you make of Alex's chances in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
I think they're good.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Obviously comes with a very different preparation. He was disappointed
with the loss in Paris and then didn't get as
many grasscourt matches as he would have liked. But for him,
I actually feel like as long as he's okay with it,
it's a great prep because he needs to refresh a
little bit.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
He was tired.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
He said that he puts so much into the clay
court season. He knows he can play brilliant on grass.
The one thing he does need to do is lower
his expectation. He wants it so badly and that has
hindered him hindered his performance here in the past, so
I'm hoping very much so that he goes let it
all sort of be, not get hung up on it,
and then yes, he can definitely make a semi here.
(05:21):
Seating's going to be really important. He's just outside the
top ten now, so it depends where he falls in
the draw. But if he can keep away from those
those quarters of our Karaz and Sinner, then I think
a semi can beckon.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
It's a really exciting time in the women's game for
the Yeah, Aaria Casina, we can.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Call her our own now, and my joints just crack
the worst. I've been chatting on the port a fair
bit about Maya, you know, I.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Could say I sort of. I think it was like
thirty twenty.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
We can see her getting to so she got inside
the top fifty wins over Radakanu at Eastbourne. The only
thing for her that I worry about is that she's
experiencing these big tournaments in the main draw for the
first time, and like in Paris where she won the
week before, she's had no time to settle in and
feel the conditions of the club. I just get used
(06:10):
to what it's going to be like, she's going to
come in late and she's hopefully has a little bit
more experience from what happened in Paris that she can
use here at Wimbledon, because if she does, the quality
of ball striking and what she's playing, she's just continuing
to rise. And I think if she can get through
round one, then she's off and racing. I think then
she can really let it happen. And boy, anything's possible
(06:32):
when you know you have no barriers, no fears, and
that's exactly how she's playing.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Tod I'm going to put you on the spot now,
who are going to be the champions for twenty twenty five?
You're the men's and women's.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Yeah, I mean, I'm going with Carlos three people. I
find it hard not to be able to go with him.
You know, he has to stay healthy, injury free. If
he does, he has the confidence. Played brilliantly at Queen's.
He's just a level above on grass. Sinner has closed
the gap. I think he's very close and Novak, let's not.
You know, I know that Novak is pulling out every
(07:04):
stop to be as fit and ready as he can
be for here.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
But I think the other two just are.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
A step above and nobody volleys and moves like ol
chorasm Grass.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
For me and for the women, I think it's a
wide open tournament.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I think Saberlenka is the obvious favorite, but I think
it's going to be difficult mentally for her to recover
from what happened in Paris. I think she wants everybody
to really like to love her, to feel good for her,
and she's going to be really trying to get people
back on side after the reactions of a press conference
and the like in Paris. So I'm going to go
(07:38):
a little bit left field, not way left, but I'm
going to go with Mira Andreva.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
I like it.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
She's my biggest one.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
I just think the way that she has been building
and if you know, sometimes women's draws can open up,
and I think she's ready to now go through and
do that. I think Coco has a great chance, but
I think going back to back might be more difficult
for Coco.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
So interesting tournament no matter what.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Finally, Todd Bree came to Rolling Garross for the very
first time this year, Yes, and I hijacked her top
five and I gave her my top five for rolling Garross.
So I'm gonna put you on the spot now, Okay,
Todd's top five. How do you experience the perfect day
watching tennis here at Wimbledon.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Okay, so let's start with five. I'm going to go.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
You must go and view the queue, of course, and
snake their weight snakes down into the park, even if
you're lucky enough not to have to line up in it,
go and have a look at it.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Let's go to four. Okay. When you get in, you've
got to try pims.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Make sure there's a bit of cucumber, some orange and
mint that finishes it off beautifully delicious. Now, then you
get towards afternoon tea, so we'll go three. We'll go
strawberries and you've got to have the fresh cream. Make
sure you get the big plump ones because they're magnificent
as well. Now the next thing is you've got to
(08:54):
get out to the outside courts leader in the afternoon
and watch a bit of doubles, yep, right, because that's
where some great viewing happens, and particularly those first few
days too, where you get those matches on the outside
courts that mean so much to players that we don't
see sometimes on the center at number one court. And
finally you've got to find a way to get into
the center court. Absolutely, that is what I call the
(09:17):
mecha of tennis. This is the home of tennis. Now,
if you don't have a ticket, what do you do?
Speaker 8 (09:22):
You go up to the booth what do we call that?
The resale booth? The resale booth, and you get your ticket.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Most people get the chance to get in, and it's
unique to all of the majors that you can get
that chance to get in and spend maybe it's a
set or something late in the evening on the center court.
But don't leave without trying to get into the Senate court.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
There you go, Grand Slam Champion, LOGI nominee and now
tour guide Todd Woobridge, thanks for joining.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Good on you dunk in so Todd's called out. Andreva
is his dark horse wind. Now you pulled quite the
face there, Dan, I did.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
She has matches leading in and she had I thought
she was a.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, okay, even in Paris, I thought she was. I
thought she was a roughie to win it. Not that
there was any shame in losing in the quarters, but
she lost to boss On, which was a big upset, really,
and I thought she might have challenged golf in the semis,
but that's been and go on different surface, she'll have reset.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And yeah, she hasn't done a huge amount.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
On grass wimbling yet, but she hasn't played many either,
so you can't read too much into her record.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And what do we think about his other pick of
our chias? Is that just a no brainer? Is that
a lazy pick from Todd?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
Possibly a safe bet, It's a very safe bet, y lazy. Yeah,
but you want him on your team, don't you. Well, yeah,
you're teasing out upcoming best dressed on that one.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Honestly, I haven't realized about my fantasy team, and we
all know might will be the worst, don't we know?
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You might get real lucky.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You know, there's traffic on the way to Wimbledon and
doesn't make it, So what.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Are you gonna take?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What do we think of Alcaraz?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's hard to look past his
success in the past. And I think sometimes with Alcaraz,
the hard court season is the majority of the year
and people kind of think, oh, he's down, he's not
playing as well as he was, And then it comes
to rolling Garrels and Wimbledon and then he just is
surging again. So I think it's fair to, you know,
to pick Alcaraz. He's got huge pace on his groundstrokes
(11:28):
and you know, it just opens the court up for him,
and his serve has been improving too, So yeah, I mean,
I think he was a solid pick last year and
it doesn't seem like he's he's doing better this year.
So yeah, I would I would give him an edge to.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
That he's in a better position now than he was.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, I think so. Obviously like ebbs and flows in tennis,
but I think this this run is a bit stronger.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
And the guy can volley, which we haven't always said
about spinach players in the past. I'm more traditionally better
on the clay, but he can play on any surface really,
and I'm not afraid to come to net moves as
well as anyone anticipates. So he's really the complete package,
as we saw in Paris.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I've got a question and before we move on to
the big week that we've had with the Aussies, but
on a lot of you know, literature, I've been reading for.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Literature, literature at I was on Google's Skull.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm actually paid for the pdfall literature going probably can.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But I've been reading a lot of articles about and
they always go, oh, they really moved to the net. Well,
and are we losing a little bit from some of
the modern day tennis the art of the volley?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yeah, because it's it's more difficult now than the pace
of the shot. The modern technology, the rackets, the strings
make it a lot easier to pass someone at net,
so there's less incentive to get there.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But Olcz is someone who's still mixes it up enough
and has the power and the variety with dropshots that
he can approaching.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
That a bit more than some guys.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool, Well you've just answered some questions that I picked
up from literature.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So what we will literature? Everybody?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Literature. Let's move on to how good of a week
we have had for the Aussies? And Dan, did you
want to kick us off with some Maya joint?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yes, so touched on it.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
There Maya three to the quarterfinals in Eastbourne, and she's
had two great winds there. The one over first round
I think she beat our which is Wimbledon finalists, and
then she led I think five to three against Emma
Ratikanu failed to serve it out but still ended up
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getting across the line, which was no mean feat. You've
got the whole British crowd there, windy down on the
southern coast there. If she makes the semis, I think
she's due to play blink of her vitals.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
She'll be favorite there.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
If she made the semis, she would have made three
this year, all on different surfaces, So she's starting to
She's on the map as an awful player.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Yeah yeah, And as Todd said from London, he will
wimbled in he has picked that. She'll just keep rising
and she's definitely someone that could be big for us trainer.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And she made good comment after beating Radakanu that she
was going for the lines and that's a good sign
if she's confident.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
In making those shots.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Becau's one thing to say you're going for them, but
if you're spraying them and it's a complete disaster, then
you can't keep doing that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Explain that term for some of our less tennis.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It means hosts going for the line.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It means your margins for error smaller going you know,
you go literally for the risky bold. Yeah, not that
she's playing like completely risky tennis star still measured.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Instead of going center mass, you're trying to push the other.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
She was maneuvering Radakoni beautifully and even there was one
point she played a pretty ordinary drop shot, but she
moved and anticipated so well that she managed to whip
it past her anyway, so's she's really hitting form at
the right time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
As todd sattled after her Rebat title, she.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Struggled to then make an impact in Paris, ran into
Eiler first round, So it'll be interesting how she finds
her feet as soon she hits wimbled and which will
be a little bit different to the grass.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I also think and this could I don't know how
this will affect her in Wimbledon, but watching her against Eiler,
it looked like she was tired because she'd just run
Rabat and she's kind of doing the same thing against.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah as well, so she definitely would have been she
doubled a little bit a little bit time.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, it will be exciting to see what happens next
for my joint.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
She's only nineteen, so on with and upwards.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, but what have you got for a save?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh it is time once again it's Grand Slam season.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Fantasy draft time, Fantasy fantasy fantasy tennis tennisness. We'll have
to make my own sting because and he didn't. I've
not even asking for one anyway. So fantasy draft. We've
got three teams. We've got Team Dan, Team Levi, and
Team Bree. Each of you will be selecting from the
field two men and two women who you believe will
go furthest into Wimbledon, maybe even win the thing. And
(16:30):
there are points associated, so if they get to the
second round, they get one point. If they are the
champion of the whole event, you get ten points, and
you get points along the way. So over the next
couple of weeks we'll keep tabs on this, see how
you go. It's also a little sneaky way of previewing
the event, seeing who's who in the zoo.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But it's so I can understand who is doing what.
It's gonna be fun. So we've mixed it up. It's
a snake draft order.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
It doesn't really matter what that means, but basically pick
number one goes to Levi.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Whoo the girl?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Were is that your work?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Photo?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And Instagram?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
No, I don't use it on dating apps.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's a nice photo.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Thank you. Maybe I should after this update.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
No, none of that. Well, I'm going to choose Carlos
Alcaaz I got first round picks rigged.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
No, I'm sorry, but the check squid.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I mean there's no money changing hands and it's fun.
Thank you, Dave, appreciate that. I mean, like I said,
it's hard to look past him. He's done so well
in the past.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I can't not pick him as a first round pick,
and like he might.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Even if he doesn't win, he's going to go deep,
so safe bet well played.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Thank you all right, number two on our pick list.
Three M. I see you put a lot of thought
into this in advent I have.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I'm still thinking out loud. I'm giving the people some fun.
I don't know where this is a good move, but
I'm going to go without Jasmine Palini.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Pealini put on the board.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, why am I going with her? I just feel
like she's in great form. I just have a weird
spidy feeling and I'm going to go with my psychic abilities.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Cool. I mean, she's she's cool.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
She made the final last year, Yeah she did, so
that's and remember everyone was like, oh, she's not going
to win this, and she didn't.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
But they didn't think she'd go as far. But yeah,
I just got good feeling for her her time.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
All Right, Palini on the board for Team Brie.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
All right, Imhoff, all right, number one, I'm going to
go with a women's pick first.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, I did too good ones.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It just happened not one of the obvious ones, but
she has won it before. I'm going to go with
Elena Rebaka, the Rebecca. I thought about it, Okay, eleventh c.
She's a bit of an enigma. You never quite know
where she said at the moment.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Physical, but when she is on, she is arguably one
of the best in the world, particularly on grass, which
we saw in twenty twenty two when she beat on
to Birth to become the Wimblin champion.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
She's also done well there subsequent two years.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
I think she made the quarters the following year, Semis
again last year, which kind of went unnoticed a bit.
But yeah, look, it depends a lot on her own
mental state. She has had a few wins on the
grass coming in. She narrowly lost to Sablenka in the
Berlin quarter finals, so that's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Not a bad result.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah, and like with the nature of the draw, like
you don't need to get both champions. If you get an,
you get four to go deep.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I mean the only thing against her is she's the
eleventh seat. She's dropped out of the top ten, so
she's at the mercy of the draw. Could run into
one of the top seeds, so she did in Paris,
she ran into Eager in the fourth round.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Watching brief, Yeah, okay, round two, we're going to stick
with you Dan, Okay, hit me with your next month.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Hit me with your best shirt.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Fire away. I'm gonna sw to the men's end and
we'll go with.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Really interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
He's got a few trophies from the old Wimbi. Yeah,
kind of well known.
Speaker 8 (20:09):
Ye from me.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I reckon he could do well here.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yep, yep. I feel like because he's an omnipresent goat well.
He still thinks he's got another slam. He thinks he's
got another gold medal in him, so he could do it.
He wouldn't put it past him, but if there's a slam,
he might get another one out. I think Wemblin could
be his best chance. I think that's a good pick, ye.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Keep in mind is probably going to have to beat
one of for both, which is not easy to do.
But he Look, he beat Alcoraz quarterfinals at AO this year,
beat Verev quarterfinals in Paris, so he's still got.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Those big wins in him. He's thereabouts. Yeah, so I'm
going to lock him in my first men's pick. Very good,
All right, thank you, Dan Bri.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'm going to make a purely strategic move here. And
also because he just brought out a song with Andrea
Forcelli and it feels appropriate to.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Honor that was that ultimately master. I love and like,
don't get me wrong, songs in my childhood, but that
was I.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Listened to it a couple of times and just couldn't
get into it. But it is a nice clash of
culture and tennis, and to honor that, I'm going to
pick Yannick Sinner.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Oh sorry, yes, and.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
I was.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Blind, But.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Obviously he's had some good runs this year. AO champion
finalist Roland Garrison Rome twenty twenty five grass court season
so far saw him lose to Public at Halle, so
who knows what's ahead for him, but the song is
interesting and we're going with him and.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
His top seed, so good pick. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Like I've got to put a big one in there
from a point.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Got a big dog in there somewhere. Fair enough, Okay,
Levi hit us up with your pick number two.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, I'm going to go with a women's pick, and
I'm going to go with the number one seed a
gable anka good. Well, I was at number two soon.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, like again, going the big dog watching the
little box.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
It's really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I mean, you know, she's had strong results there in
the past. She hasn't she hasn't won it yet, but
I think she's in great form. She hits the crap
out of the ball. I mean, she just slugs it.
She's got a big.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Serve and a big mouth. Lightly but she's talked a
lot back.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, you know, semi final there in Berlin. I think
I think she has a good chance of taking the title.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Honestly. Yeah, great, okay, thank you Levi. Third round. We're
going to stick with you, mister Levi. What's feeling in
your jeans?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Now?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
That's good?
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Why it twice?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Because order? Yeah, hey break go read something. You stepped
on my Jane's joke I'll carry on. You just don't
get it, That's fine.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
My grandpa called me Briches growing up.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Got it, I just got it the last time I finish.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I didn't get it until it was about twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
I never.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Oh dear, I'm gonna have a glass water.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, but on camera that does look a lot like one,
and that's fun.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's definitely water good.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
But for my pick, I'm gonna go with Madison Keys.
I think you know, it's similar. I'm building kind of
a similar arsenal Ao champion is a lot of power there,
a lot of power, and they've been in good form recently.
It will be interesting to see how she does Wimbledon.
But I'm gonna back. I'm in back Keys.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I think she's going to be going in with a
lot of positive thoughts and really good fitness, like she's
at a pretty top notch.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Level of her game at the moment. Good one, All right,
thanks Leeby.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Okay, yes, okay, I want to take Draper?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Okay, Draper next up? Did you want him?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I am going with Draper because he is in good form,
although he was a bit sick recently with ton sliders
and I'm a little bit frustrated as well during his
match at Queen's when he lost to Lahechka, but he
still made it to the semi finals. So I also
think playing at Wimbledon with a home crowd could either
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be make or break, but hopefully it pushes him through.
And I think he's the hot thing right now.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, he's going to have some boisterous crowds behind him one.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I imagine how good the energy will be for his matches.
Him and Katie Boult like the sweethearts of English tennis.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So yeah, I'm really even.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Sweethearts of they're not together.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Oh sorry, I thought you were saying that they're just
both English.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
No, but I am very happy with that pick, and
I'm really happy I took it off.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
That actually makes it so much better.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Doesn't it. No One, no one seemed worried about Paulini's.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Worried about Paolini. I'm going to pivot, you are correct.
I'm going to pivot to the women then twice.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Because it's okay, come down, Everything's fine, it's snake orderbris
just follow the system, Dan, what's in XP.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I'm going to pivot back and clinch one of the favorites.
So I don't end up with some outsiders here and
go with golf. Yeah, Coco Loko, why not?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
She got one back and yet she was understandably a
bit exhausted after Paris lost the match on grass?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Where was that in Berlin?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Her first match that I wouldn't read into that at all.
She'll appreciate the extra time now to reset, and she has.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
A history there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
She qualified obviously, is a fifteen year old in twenty
nineteen went to the fourth round beat Venus Williams on rude.
I mean, if anything, if Paris showed us anything, it's
her fighting qualities when she's not even may not be
playing her absolute best, so she's always.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
In for me.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Mental strength, mental strengths is she's.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Got the mental strength of someone much older than herself.
She's the maturity on and off court.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
That can translate into a great family. I reckon that
part of it, definite part of it. And maybe a
lot of trust and great relationship.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
With her coaching team and those around her like not
surrounded by yes people, not surrounded by those who are
trying to bring her down, unless when you speak to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
You, you think you're talking to someone late twenties she's
been around six years or so on tour, but still
she's got this maturity.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
And I would love to say a Saboleca golf final
like that would be pretty good on the grass.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
The press conference after, haven't we seen that before? Not
this one, I've seen two now?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
All right, Well Dan, okay, hold on to your hat, Brie.
We're going to stay with Dan for his final.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm in the middle. I'd never get a double.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Correct, got you, but you never last either. Yeah, so
we'll go to my final. Men's pick.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Here we go, and it is a bit left field,
but I'm going to go with Yushi Lehechka. Oh yeah,
I know he's not top ten, he's not even top
twenty for that matter.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
You have twenty third seed. But the checks do love
the grass and he showed that this week with the
run to the final in Queens.
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I took a set there off El Kraz. I know
it's not slam, but yeah, he can play on the surface.
Reached the fourth round there two.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Years ago, so okay, and he could have a reasonably
friendly draw being that low seeded.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Player twenty well at the moment he's number twenty five,
so yeah, it depends a lot on the draw for him.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Which is Tomorrow Brie our time.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Yeah, Tomorrow wins and queens over Draper and demon Or
on route. So there, it wasn't a soft doll foring
brainy stretch, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Good pick.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
All right, He's there so far the roughest of the
rouffies on our board, so I'll be watching that one
with breath.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
That is baited. Okay, we pick the interesting pick up
over to your final pick.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
My final pick, and I'm so glad I haven't missed
out on this. But I'm guessing no one else wanted her.
I'm going with Mira Andreva, which is also who Todd
had picked. I'm going with Mirror. Firstly, I love her
and she's one of my favorite players on the tours.
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I think she's amazing. She obviously twenty twenty five highlights,
she was a champ at Indian Wells and Dubai quarter
fi finalist at Roland Garross. Her best progress Wimbledon in
the past was fourth round in twenty twenty three. Obviously,
in the past two years a lot has changed in
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her maturity, style, co all of that stuff, so she
hasn't had a great grass court season as yet because
she lost round one at Berlin. But she does play
no Kova next at the quarterfinal of bad Homburg, so she,
you know, might have some form. So I'm going with
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her and I love her a bit.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
She just has every time she's here in Melbourne. She's
just she's so good after the.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Game, she's so good. So go Mirror, I you have
all my support.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
All right, you're locked in now, bree good lit there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I think I've got a good mix, all right.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
And now for the final pick of this year's women
have finish the shark himself, Dan Danham Dan Dan Dan Denim.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
So, I mean, I know this is a bit out there,
but I'm going to go with a dark course. I'm
going to go with Alexander Bubleck.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
That's not a.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Dark horse at the moment, but like he have you
seen what he's no, you probably haven't seen what he's
been doing lately. Is performing really well?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I knew what his seed was, yeah, yeah, No, I
mean I think Bublick has, like Breeze said, he's been
on a tear and I think he's still a bit
of a dark chrus. But what he's showing out there,
I think he can go quite far. And I'm you know,
I'm hoping to get in and talk a little bit
more about that.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
You do have some of your Levi's long shots coming up, Yeah,
a little bit later. So Team Levi, Albaraz, Sabelenka, Keys
and Bublock, Team Brie, Paulini, Sinner, Draper and Andreva and
Team Dan bringing it Home, Rebecca ar Djokovic, Cocoa Goff
and Leahechka the check twenty third seed. So follow along
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at home, give us your picks. See who you would
pick yourself. Which of our teams is going to win?
It won't be Bre and we'll go from there.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Sorry, Bray, you're gonna send us to an AD break.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
We're going to go to an AD break, and after
that we will check in with Levi's long.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Shot, Levi's Levi's long long long Shot.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is getting all okay, welcome back. We are going
to hand over to Levi now in a segment we
called Levi's Longsholtz, and he's going to talk about some
players that could be considered dark horses and why they
could cause some troubles at Wimbledon.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
And also why you picked one of course, Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
So you know, the work that we do, it really
focuses on game analysis, and we don't try to help
the players and the coaches understand, you know, what's happening
on the court. And so our team really focuses on
diving into that type of data. So my picks, which
I did pick this player Bubliic, Alexander Bublick, and Marquetta
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von Drusova, And so I want to really highlight Bublic
in terms of just the change that he's kind of
undergone in the last year. I mean, this is a
guy who was coming into this spring saying I'm not
sure if I'm going to continue playing tennis, and now
he's he went to Vegas and then he went to
Vegas a man and he had you love him?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, I mean put himself on my right up, Yeah,
craps to kind of center himself.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Genius.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, it's such an interesting story and if you
dive in deeper into it. Basically he was overtraining, is
what he said. He said, I was too serious about it,
and I was too robotic. I was trying to be
like the other players and I couldn't quite It wasn't
for him, and so he went to Vegas, he had
a change of a mindset, and he's come back, and
he's actually come back so strong. I mean, you look
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at his mentality and the mentality in terms of his
fortitude out there breakpoints save those are really hard. That's
a lot of pressure that's being put on you. If
you lose your serve in tennis, that's a huge blow.
Obviously up thirty percent from last year in terms of
like grass court performance, so thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
So not only is he, you know, serving really well,
but then he's fending off these points, so it's like
basically nine out of ten breakpoints he's saving.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
WHOA isn't that crazy? Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
And in order to do that, he would have to
be so multi purpose really yeah, not just you know,
get lucky with what he's been thrown at him. You'll
do the long rallies, the short rallies, go to the baseline,
the whole shebang everything.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So what's really interesting is, and I don't know if
it's part of this mentality of letting go, but he's
actually hitting harder on both wings. So he's hitting fifteen
k's harder on his forehand and his backhand, so he's increasing. Yeah,
so he's really amping it up. And if you see
the people he's playing against, they're standing farther and farther back.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
They try to distorb his pace to him.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah right, but now he's pointing out the drop shots
and so now they're having to run and try to
get these drop shots. And he's known as a showman,
he knows how to do that. So he has this
pace where he's pushing them back and he's bringing them
in with these drop shots. And then, like you're talking about,
there's kind of a loss of the volley game as we.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
You know, get into this era.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
But his hands are really quite good up there too,
so he'll do the drop shot, they'll run and get it,
and he'll be right there to put away the volley.
So I think, you know, his game has really changed
since his mindset changed, and I'll just yeah, I'm very
curious to see how he'll do at Wimbledon because obviously
that's a little bit more pressure.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Then his title run at Halla.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
So there's definitely a mindset shift. Because he didn't make
second weeks of slams much at all.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
In Paris. He not only made it, he then beat Draper.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Well, yeah, and I remember watching him against Alex Demanon.
I know Alex probably didn't have the best match, but
you could tell that he was a different playoff.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Well, he was at about twenty last year and then
he dropped to eighty. It's only been in the last
couple months that he's actually skyrocketed back up to thirty.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
And if you look at his range, he was from
seventy six to thirty. Didn't he just crazy?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Yeah, decent run at Wimbledon. Then could scarrok at him
again towards the top ten?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Towards him no, Yeah, I mean so it's just interesting
to think about how not everything works the same way
for every player. You know, you can't be this robot
out there if that's not your personality. And I think
that's a that's an interesting story, interesting takeaway to say, Okay,
who are the robots? I think a lot of people
would think Center Yep, you know, he Djokovic. You know,
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they have these patterns and these routines and a doll.
They do the same things. They're out there training. But Bublic,
I think trying to put himself into that. You know,
he's a square trying to go into the round shape. Paul,
it's it's it's hard, and so I think it's an
interesting realization that, like, maybe I have to pivot the
way I play the game.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
You've always seen him as more of an entertainer, and
while Curios held that mantle for a long time, Bublic
was often considered like a lesser version of that. But
he's clearly got the ability and just needed to unlock that.
As you said in a different manner, it's not not
one size fits all for a player that don't all
have to train exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I've seen that with our cries too. He needs more
time off.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yea get away still came back and on the title,
So yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
He partied hard, he played harder good.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And then who do we have next? Well?
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, so for the second pick, I'm going with von Drosova. Yeah,
so you know, she just had the Berlin title.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
And again if she has an injury recently.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, twenty twenty four, she had surgery on her rotator
cluff after the US opened, and I can relate to that.
So I tore on my shoulder, I thought.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Because you were playing gresson tennis.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
No, no, no, he did it pay I was in
the stands. Actually, I was throwing back one of the
balls that could really get you. Yeah, I really can't
because you know, there's a lot of pressure there, but no,
I think to have that so the shoulder heels super
slow because there's very little blood flow that gets in there.
And so for her to win a title, you know,
less than a year after that is incredible and it's
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just a testament to probably how much work she had
to put in in terms of the rehab to get
her shoulder mobile and to start servying and everything like that.
So it's it's really cool to see her take that title.
And I think the question on everyone's mind is, Okay,
she's won at Wimbledon before, Now is she in the
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same form that she was previously? And so if we
look at kind of some of that big big picture
stuff in terms of her return game, is it as
good as we would think is expected of the top ten?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
And so it actually is.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
She's winning return games about four percentage points above the
top ten at forty five percent, so's she's doing well on.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Her return game.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
And then what really makes up that return game when
you break is your breakpoint conversions, So how often are
you capitalizing on the opportunities that you have? And so
her breakpoint conversions is actually six points above the top
ten have fifty four percent. So her return game is
there and it's at the top ten level, exceeding the
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top ten level, But where she's maybe lacking a little
bit is on her serve right, So her serve is
just not going in as much as it should. It's
at you know, minus seven of the top ten. So
really what she needs to be able to do on
grass especially is to get that first serve in and
that's going to increase her ability to hold. So she
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has the ability to break with her impressive return game,
but she's really going to need to be able to
hold and get those first serves in.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
So looking at her movement, like, what's the problem that
you've been able to say using the data? Is it
her accuracy shot placement rating the other player? Yeah, So
she has this really good tactic that she uses.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So she's a lefty, right, and if you've played tennis
and you're getting served at from a lefty, what they
often do, especially on the ad side, is they'll serve
you out wide on the backhand and so you have
this really terrible choice to make. Do I either go
cross court and that's the easier shot. I'm out of position,
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but I could go cross court, but then I'm hitting
it right at their forehand. Or do I try to
go over the high point of the net and go
down the line. It's a tough choice to make, and
so often when you look at the patterns there, people
are choosing to go back cross court to her forehand.
She can open up the field and either hit down
the line, or she does this really loopy forehand back
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to the backhand, and it's just a nightmare to deal with.
So she has this really good plate. Again, when her
first serve goes in, she can set up that mechanism
where she's going to target the backhand or open up
the court and go down the line. And so I
think that could be a real strength for her. So
that's kind of where I see your strengths on the
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serve patterns. I think she could mix it up a bit.
Like I said, she likes to use those patterns of
going to the backhand. They can get a little bit predictable.
So for instance, she only hit about one percent of
serves to the forehand on the second serve on the
I think it's the deuce side. So it's like, well,
if you're not hitting that, obviously you don't want to
(40:22):
hit a second serve to the forehand too often. But
if you're never doing it, it becomes easier to read
and say, oh, she's never going to hit a fourhand.
I'm just gonna think on this backhand. So yes, that's
her plan, and she's just yeah, So I think you
know she's she's got all the talent there, and she
(40:44):
has what it takes. She's she's won it before. I
think that she's a real contender there, and we'll just
have to see what happens.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
The insights yourself and Simon Ray, both from Match Labs,
our in house data science gurus you bring are always
phenomenal and I have a lot to think about now
based on.
Speaker 5 (41:05):
I'll tell you what I just said. If they're both
out in the first round, you're sure shit will be
deleting this episode.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
No, I'll take it on board for later.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
All very useful.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You never can predict everything, but it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Literally your job literally the wind predictor, yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
The wind predictor. Anyway, we're going to roll into everyone's
favorite segment.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
We are your thing.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
We've got a wimbled and white squiz, and obviously we
have five questions. Okay, we're going to go with number wow. Okay,
first question. Wimbledon's streaket dress code has existed in some
form since the eighteen hundreds, But in what decade was
the predominantly white guideline first formalized in.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Writing nineteen fifties, lev nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
Wrong sixties, xavior sixties, nineteen sixties, eighteen sixties, well nineteen eighties, ten,
ninety ten, nineteen eighties, Yeah no, nineteen ten, eighteen eighties,
le Ohuddlestone, Yes.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
The predominantly white concept became formalized in the late nineteenth
century as tennis grew in popularity among the upper classes.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Eighteen eighties, not THEO, not the Leader, sport down, here
we go, wild your fluros, Williams, beads in your hair.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Under the Okay, number two. Under the current Wimbledon regulations,
how wide can a colored trem or stripe be on
any piece of plate? Oh, you don't want multiple choice? Okay,
go who was in first? Dan?
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Let's go with one centimeter. I think it's literally half
five mil.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Dan was right. Yeah, the colored trem rule is famously strict,
no wider than ten millimeters, which is a centimeter on
any gar. Do you know I actually dreamt about this
last night, like, and a player went out on court
and she had like colors everywhere, and I was like,
how is she getting away with this? That was my dreams?
(43:12):
And whites have infiltrated me. There's a little bit of
insight by Psyche. We're going to move on to number three. Okay,
true or false? Even players underwear must be white. If
it has any false, it is false now because it used.
Speaker 5 (43:29):
To be true because didn't Wasn't there a female player
who got called out and then everyone was like, well
that's a bit stuffed up.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Well no, it's been brought in because the women spoke
about how when they're menstrating, wearing white is not ideal.
And as a woman, I can say, hand up, not ideal.
So women are now.
Speaker 5 (43:46):
Women usually are playing in an attire where they can expose.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
The Yeah, we've not yet seen a man play in
a skirt, which could.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Be the year.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
I know out there a nice little pleated number.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I'm into it. Okay, everyone's got one point each. We're
moving on to number four.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Where's my full button four machine? We're running here.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
The strict enforcement of the all white rule was dramatically
increased following which controversial incidents.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Dan Tatyana Golovin wearing red you know, compression shorts or underpin.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
That would be wrong. Would we like to go to
the multiple choices? Okay, we have a Serena Williams wore
a pink headband in two thousand and four. B Andre
Agassi refused to play due to the dress code. In
the early nineties see Roger Federer's orange souls in twenty
thirteen or d John Muckinroe's logo protest in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Buzz Xavier may yeah, please I reckon it's Fetterer's souls.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
It was Fetterer's orange sold shoes, made global headlines and
triggered a crackdown and an enforcement further of the rules.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Well done, nice Ques. So strict, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (45:01):
It's so strict, and part of me like, yeah, you know,
that's the rules, but a part of me is like, ugh,
that's my thought.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
They're very good at keeping tradition alive. Then I'll give
them that. Okay, we're going on to our final question.
Number you are get in? Oh god, never do that again.
Number five, which famous British tennis figure once remarked, you
(45:28):
can never wear too much white at Wimbledon. We have
multiple choice A Fred Perry, B Virginia Wade, C. Tim
Henman or D Sue Barker.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Let's go Sue Barker.
Speaker 8 (45:42):
You're right, so.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
Sue Barker, the former player and iconic BBC broadcaster, famously
defended the tradition with that quote. The draw between Xavier
and is there.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
A choicer weapon?
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Is there are?
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Question?
Speaker 1 (45:59):
Yeah? Okay, let me think it's something. Do I know
something about? What year did Todd wood Bridge come runner
up in singles at wimbededed semi.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Make the final. I'm going to go nineteen ninety seven
semi finalist.
Speaker 8 (46:19):
Is he right?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Questions?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
You're still figuring out the question I said wrong?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
You stuffed it up. I'm outraged. I demand to recout.
That is why I could never go to pologies birthday.
That was good.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
Okay, thank you so much, guys. I always love a
book giving me some time to shine and thank you
to my team to help.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Me fact team, which as a team. Now, god, we're
just jealous. Sorry, I am incredibly jealous.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
So we're just moving on now to Ace of the Week,
and we'll start with you say.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Okay, it's my favorite part of the show. So normally
I struggle, but I have an Ace of the week.
Technically though, it's Ace of next week, which ironically I
think mine will be your Ace of the week next week.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Yeah, I'm going on holidays, so taking the fan kids
and yeah, OFFI we know what happens and you go overseas.
Speaker 5 (47:08):
Yeah, everyone is pleasant, no one has any missing memories,
and they don't come back with a weird tattoo.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
It gets sick.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Last year, yeah, I might have caught a little little,
little little sliver of dengky fever. That wasn't super fun.
But no, I've got all my jabs, shots, vaccines, whatever.
Its staying nice place. No, it's gonna be hoot. And
don't think about tennis for a week. Great, I'll still
be checking on Wimban.
Speaker 8 (47:34):
How about you.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
My Ace of the week.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
It's just a small one, but I was able to
play video games with my nephew who's over in the us.
Oh that's cool, and so him and my brother we played.
So that was really cool to get on there and
just have some family time.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
So that was nice.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh god love that. Do you wear a headset?
Speaker 6 (47:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah, and you just go to town. You're gonna die,
little man.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
It's a team based game, so its versus another team.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But it's pretty funny. They're like, who is this guy?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
He's terrible, he's only.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Nine, and how about you?
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Daniel im Hoff has just.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
Come backack into It was about a week ago on
a trip to Mauritia with my partner.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Last week in Spain, which is not a touristy part
of Spain.
Speaker 4 (48:27):
And even less touristy on the outskirts is a little
place called El Palomar, which is the hometown of Carlos z.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Oh wow, okay, it is not a tourist hotsport whatsoever.
There is Amurror Majorca. It's our charaze from its humble,
humble beginnings, and there's one mural there.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
A woman her child got out of their car laughing
at me for even taking a photo of it. So
I don't think they really get what all the fuss
is about. It was a nice little stop one to Maurthia.
Speaker 5 (49:01):
I mean, yeah, I'll get some TV's guys. He's kind
of a big deal in the tennis world. It was
a fascinating im Hoff stopping traffic everywhere it goes. Good,
All right, I'll I'll step in here, Bree. What about yourself?
What's your age?
Speaker 1 (49:14):
Guys who are going to love this? So on Saturday,
I am going to Castlemaine with one of my girlfriends
and we are going to see one of our favorite
spiritual guides, one of our favorite tarot readers, Melo, who
now operates.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Her name's Mellow mel mel Oh.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
She operates out of Castle, Maine in a cute little
witchy shop up there, and that is I. I will
come in on Monday knowing exactly what my future holds
and knowing exactly how to find the man in my dreams.
Speaker 2 (49:43):
Okay, so you have you never seen her before?
Speaker 1 (49:46):
I've seen her so many times.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
So what happened?
Speaker 5 (49:48):
That?
Speaker 2 (49:48):
An issue?
Speaker 8 (49:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
I just my friend this morning told me you just
need to manifest. I was like, I've been manifesting for
twenty five years.
Speaker 5 (49:56):
Maybe stop because I feel like Mellow looks forward to
your Yeah, exactly, I'm guessing it's a cashy guys.
Speaker 1 (50:03):
I've got multiple spiritual guides and they all see me
coming and they rub their hands to exactly anyway.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
That's really exciting for me, doesn't but also customers.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah, we're going to the pub and Dumpling the Dog
is coming, so it'll be lovely.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The Railway pub particularly good.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
I think that's where we're going. Yeah, but thank you
to Dan and LEVI are amazing guests for being here today.
Save who can't wait to have you off next and
have a little break. But we are going to throw
it to our lovely production team to bring us home
and tell you what to do and we'll see you
(50:37):
next week.
Speaker 7 (50:38):
Bye.
Speaker 4 (50:39):
Hey everyone, Harps and Andy here just want to remind
you that you can watch every episode of the Tennis
on our YouTube channel, Australian Open Tv.
Speaker 9 (50:46):
And we have an email as well podcast at Tennis
dot com dot au. If you thought the show was
amazing or you thought it was terrible, we are keen
to hear from you will read it, so feedback comments,
whatever it is, get in touch with us email and
we'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Catch you later, mm hm.
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