May 1, 2025 • 44 mins
It’s been a manic week in Madrid with a mass power outage causing widespread disruptions to play, while Alexander Zverev has drawn attention to a problem with the video technology being used for the electronic line calling. Grand Slam champions Todd Woodbridge and Sam Stosur join Brie Stewart and Matt Trollope to discuss the big news from Madrid, including Maya Joint, Alex de Minaur and Novak Djokovic whose immediate future is under a cloud following his straight sets defeat to Matteo Arnaldi and subsequent withdrawal from Rome. Todd also reacts to Max Purcell’s 18-month ban from the ITIA for the use of a prohibited method in December 2023. And to celebrate episode 300, Brie quizzes the panel on centuries in tennis.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, and welcome to the tennis Mayhem in Madrid. Spain's
back online after a mass power outage causes major disruptions,
Clay caught confusion, the introduction of Hawkeye has players reaching
for their phones, and Max's remorse her cell band for
eighteen months due to a doping violation. That's all I
had with me, Brice Stewart. I'm in the hosting chair
(00:25):
today is Abe's away on conference studio. So good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Not if somebody didn't I know, it's.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Been a long time time. I was here first too.
Across the table, we have got a twenty two time
Grand Slam champion at todd wood Bridge.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thank you lovely to be here. Yeah, I love this.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Every time you're hear we remind everyone that you're a
twenty two time grand Beside me, my friend and our
friend from the sit down, Matriloe.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks for having you. It's been a while since I've
been on this pod, so it's this is good to us.
Having a big group is nice.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it's so nice. And our wonderful expectant mother and
this week we won't have to cut it out when Dave,
you know, with the information we've got Sam Stowzer.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She's a Grand Slam Singles champion.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I know she's not.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Just that wipes twenty two of mine off the shop
to say, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
What are you saying? Eight time eight?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, that's pretty cool too.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It sounds all right, it's amazing, Yeah, thank you? What
a we none and that we have one?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
No grass lies, but we watch a.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Lot of it, and then we've got a headline of
our own today, which is this is our three hundredth episode.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
How exciting, right here we go the same one and go.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Imagine does.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's a lot of episodes. It's a lot of a
lot of chat.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I wonder how many of you of them you were
featured those top.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know, suspect No, I'm not as many as
you think. Yeah, yeah, I'm consistent. Yeah, I come in
and then I give my my worth. I mean it's no,
you don't want to dilute your importance.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Scarcity is like ye give chance people a chance to
be it's more weight. But it's been going for seven
years now or something. I think I believe it's seven years.
We're going in there. During the Australian Open, it was
a daily and then yeah, three years of weekly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The interesting part is just before we came in, Matt
because is this being filmed? I said, yeah, this is
always been filmed. Now he goes, oh god, God, some
product in that. You had to get yourself done.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, on that note, let's move into what's caught your eye,
So we're going to a head to you first sent Okay,
Clay caught electronic line calling, which so far it seemed
like a bit of a disaster. I mean, there's a
reason why it had never been used before because it
wasn't as accurate as.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A hardcore and showing up hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's still been proven that they've still got a way
to go before they really can use it, and the
plays trust it because that Zverev situation Saberlenka the week before,
and it's in Stuttgart.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You just can't have that. I do hope that the
tour recognize that they can't find Alex for taking the phone,
although you're allowed to take your phone out, and I mean,
it was so wrong and so blatant, and he's pointed
it out and you know, yeah, maybe he shouldn't have,
but how else are you going to get across it?
The thing was just so far out taking the wrong
(03:42):
line and so forth, So I hope they act on that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I think it's last year.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Wasn't there a situation with Taylor Fritz on one of
the other things that we can check now whether it's
leaning over the net or a double something and the
video evidence exactly, so whatever the case that was, and
they said, Okay, no, we actual we will step in
now and make that call. Maybe in this situation the
umpire does need to get out of the chair instead
of yes that might be written in the rule box.
(04:09):
Maybe this will instigate Okay, that is the rule. But
if it looks like that, we will still get out
of the home.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Can you imagine a little asterixk it says let common
sense prevail.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's what I was going to say. That's currently what
the umpire is. Are hamstrung by that rule that the
electronic line calling ruling is final, so they currently can't
come out of the chair and overrule it. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, So you know what if I was fair of
because I read some things where people are like, oh,
it's a bit immature what he's doing. Putting it on
social and whatnot. I've got to say, if I was him,
I would have done what he did because it's so
blatantly obvious and wrong of course for himself, and listening
to him speak to Muhammad as well, he was like,
(04:51):
don't change it.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's fine. I know you're not going to overrule it,
but just come and look at it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He actually kept a pretty cool head through that whole exchange.
He knew that it wasn't gonna get overturned, but he
just wanted him to come and see it so that
maybe after the fact things can get a.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Little bit better.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And that's my point about taking the photo, because it
was just platant. Yeah, so there do Roland garros usid
it was their plan. Do we know their plan? I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I didn't know it was in I believe, not camera.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this would this would make it like for them, Okay, no, no,
we'll wait. We'll wait, and that's probably a good thing.
So we'll have umpires up and down, up and.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Down a bit and bickering over the ball mark, which
is always killed me.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Can I can I explain that clay court players back
in the day, that was a skill they were They
were masters of finding a different mark. You weren't a
good clay court player unless you could do that, you know. Yeah,
But I'm haven't.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
For stuffing out of the market. But I've seen them
like looking at the same mark and the place like
it's in and there like, no, it's out because it's
doing this, and the player's like, no, but it's doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I still don't have full faith on the mark either,
because you can't tell how much a ball is squashed
and how much sand was actually around there, or how
much clay is sitting there if you're actually yeah, and
sometimes there's a really like on a very windy day
there's there's a piece near the light's got nothing left
to it and so it goes quite thin the ballmark
as opposed to when it's covered in clay. So it's
(06:27):
it's certainly not an exact science. Do I feel like
I got ripped off a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I agree with you, But at the end of that,
I think everyone knows it. Then that's that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What we're having it out with it part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I do love the fact that every time the umpire
gets out of the chair at the French Open, the
crowd starts whist league and they start dooing and how
dare you check the mark? And it kind of it
does add to the little bit exactly. And there, especially
at Roland Garross, they love it when the umpires to
get out or someone questions it is a part of.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The feel of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, I suppose we'll see what happens with Roland Garris
in the future, but obviously some problems currently like Clay
moving over to you Todd, what's been happening.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, I haven't been on the pod since we had
the Village and King Cup, and I got to really
focus on my joint in a commentary. B We had
her on chatting to her in between matches on day
two and I was just really really impressed. I didn't
see a lot of her at the AO because predominantly
(07:35):
I work on men's matches, not women's matches. I thought
her ball striking was fantastic. I think she for me
just as I watch now. She's potentially a fifteen player
in the world, and if you can get to there,
you can be better than that. And I say fifteen
for the moment, because I think she'll be fifty or
better by year's end. I also think that she needs
(07:58):
a couple of years to work on the physicality, her
physical strength, and Sam, you know, one of the best
physical athletes in the women's game, will understand totally and
I'm sure you'll be passing that on because when she
was in the extremities of the court, she was just
a little bit weak in terms of defense. So if
she starts to she can move well, but she just
needs movement dynamically from corner to corner. And you put
(08:23):
that into play and you've got a really great young
Australian player that I was so excited about. I wanted
to put that there and not put pressure on her butt.
But I thought that what I was witnessing was great
because then she goes on into Madrid, gets through qualities,
wins around, goes what five and five with Navarro. She's
(08:44):
contending against the top women in the world, and although
the scoreline for her in Bjka Cup wasn't ideal in
the first match, she was in every one of it,
it was actually a lot closer to the So I
just thought, she's contending against all those top fifty women
all and she's going to start beating more the one
thing that's exciting. She's going to all of these big
tournaments for the first time, so she's taking in so
(09:07):
much information. And that's what I impressed me as well,
because she actually was handling it all. I wasn't over
overawed by the occasion or the opponent. And I'm really
I can't wait to see if she get a good
drawer in Paris and at Wimbledon. Watch out she's she's
going to go through several rounds and really.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
One to watch love because we really saw Maya's name
come more to the front of.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The US opening.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, I remember watching.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Some of it. She hasn't even been to awful majors yet, she.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Can only go this way at the moment. All of
this is brand new.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
She lost in qualities during French and wimbled and last year,
so now she'll be main drawer. And yeah, you win
those matches in main draw it makes such a difference
to the ranking. It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's great. Yeah, and I love how quickly she plays.
That's another thing, you know, how like like time between
points is always a bit of a bug, but for
some people, she really just gets on with it. Like
I love how she just kind of and very focused
and plays quickly as well. I think not the time
between points, but she takes the ball really early, and
she's really fun to watch. Yes, she's just all about
the tennis.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
She just want okay, you think I should do that,
I'll go do that, I'll do this, I'll do this,
And it's all about just trying to be better. And
one I have to say one quality. Obviously you got
four hands back in so blah blah blah, but she
will not let a ball go past her on the
practice court, whether it's in this.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Far or out by meter, she will run for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So she's obviously to your point about her movement and
still needs to get a little bit better in those
end ranges. Sorry, but of course she's young, she's still
developing as well. But she is putting that to practice
every single day. And the first session we had she
was absolutely gassing with her breath and I think she
(10:54):
was a bit nervous and whatever, but she still ran
for every single ball and did not let anything go
past like that is such a great quality to have
when I could tell she couldn't barely take a breath,
but she wasn't letting that one go past.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So two players that did that on the men's side
for US Latin Heart Alex dimon Or.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And do you think that would be her greatest strength
or does she have a weapon or what do you
think is going.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
To be thing?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
She can hit through people's that's her. There are moments
when I'm watching her and I could see a bit
of a Rancher Sanchez Viccario in the backhand because she
she just would move to the right and take the
backhand go pinpoint corners. Then you know, obviously I was
sitting side by side with Elena, there was a little
bit of the way Elena would take points on when
(11:40):
she was coming through you know fourand's backhands just aggressive,
not scared. So there she's kind of and I don't
think she's modeled her game on anyone in particular. They're
just the things that she seems to have naturally. So
I think in the women's game, you have to have
something that stands out. For me, it's the quality of
(12:02):
the hit and the ball striking ability to hit through players.
And so at her age, she's got a big bonus
by having what she's doing currently, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Think she's the second highest second second highest ranked teenager
in the world. Yeah, behind and Rover. Yes, oh my god,
Dala might just be ahead. I can't remember, but maybe
mine's ahead. I don't know, but she certainly was before
Miami anyway, but two or three. Yeah, so that's an
incredible step. Yeah, definitely one to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, you can listen to the sit Down next week
with Matt and viv Actually, well just Matt actually sat
down with Maya for a great chat.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So let her go off the practice, go and talk
to me.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Got to meet her properly in Brisbane. Chatted to her
for like more than half an hour, and the same
thing as what you said, Todd, like really impressed with
how she came across. She hasn't done a ton night
of media, so she told me it was her first
podcast interview, so that was we got the first one podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah history.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah. So she'll be coming up on Monday on sit Down,
so yeah, cool, look out for it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I wanted to talk about the power outage in Madrid,
which was crazy and it didn't just hit Spain, it
actually hit all of Portugal. On Monday afternoon, Miro and
Drever's match ended with the chair umpire calling the lines
as she defeated. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I had to learn that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Thank you, because I tried it earlier. Well, I tried
it last night. I was sitting at home saying it
over and over again. I don't know if it was correct,
but I got something else. It sounded better than what
I was saying. Coco Golf was in the midst of
her on court interview when the microphone just cut out,
which we watched yesterday, and it was pretty funny. Dimitrov
was serving for the match when the play had to
(13:49):
be stopped and drever quote was that this is my
first blackout. It's actually kind of fun because I've never
expected it. So it's been a really crazy time for
the countries because obviously lots of people impacted. But I
wanted to call out to storm Hunter, our very own Aussie.
I was watching her Instagram yesterday thinking, oh my god,
(14:11):
you poor thing. They got trapped on a train for
fourteen hours, so it's very good to hear that she
has now arrived in Spain and she is okay. But
I think that was probably the longest train trip of
her life. It's probably only supposed to be a couple
of hours.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That sounds claustrophobic.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, being trapped on the only thing I thought storm
Love's reading, So hopefully she had a good book and
she could have like foot hours straight.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There wasn't a lot of water, and you couldn't go
the low no, you know, that's troublesome.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't think they could open the doors of the train.
And it wasn't that the electricity came back on that
they could keep going. They had to be evacuated from
the train, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And the power didn't come back on I think until
like ten thirty or eleven that night or something. Was
it was it out for fourteen.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Hours or something. They found their way, yeah, and then
we even heard of some players who couldn't get home
from the courts. But who was it they had to
walk for two hours?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Ellen walking?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah. I think it was two thousand and three when
the whole eastern seaboard of Canada and the US had
that big blackout.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I was playing in the Bronx and it was.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Like a great place to walk home.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh my god, but we did.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was two or three in the afternoon, bright sunshine,
and they're like play cancer.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And because we had police, we're playing in the park,
so all the cops had to get into the city
to do whatever that anyway transport couldn't get to us,
so we walked from the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Back into Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was a bit of a hairy experience through different
parts of town and same thing, no water, barely could
get into the hotel. I think I was sharing a
room with Rachel McQuillan. We were on the fifteenth floor.
She'd blown out her knee and I just remember going
up and down and no kidding, running through Times Square
with a takeaway pizza with no lights on was the
(15:58):
most eerie, bizarre, and an American girl who was meant
to be staying in a friend's place could only get
in through the lift that wasn't working.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So Teran Ashley slept in her tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Clothes on our floor because she couldn't get in anywhere,
and we just were like, we'll come and stay with
us and whatever. So I absolutely no, it would and
it was so bizarre and chaotic and but yeah, eventually
you work it out.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you know, my take away from the thing that
happened in Madrid and Portugal compared to what similar scenarios.
I bet you you had money in your wallet back then.
Oh yeah, you need to travel with cash because you
This was a point that really exemplifies if you don't
(16:45):
have any money, how are you going to get anything
anywhere or whatever? Because you couldn't. I have made the
decision that, like when I go away this year, last year,
I think I went through all my European trip without
hard cash, I'm going to have some as a backup.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm very old school. I still at the airport will
like exchange two hundred dollars to have the currency just
in case I get stuck.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There was an uber driver willing to take you, you can
click him a couple of bucks to get where you needed.
Oh god is my takeaway?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah it's a good a good lesson.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But my favorite tweet during the whole experience was Alex
saying that he didn't mind being off the grid, and
Katie wrote, imagine blaming a country blackout for not texting
me back all day? Elite red flag behavior. And I'm
going to say, I know this is a side point,
but I can't get enough of their banter. It is
(17:45):
so good. There's such a funny couple and yeah but yeah,
play has resumed in Madrid and the lights are back
on as of yesterday, which is good news. Yes, and
before we go to a break, we might touch on
some of those things that happening in Madrid. Probably one
of the biggest thing is is maybe Djokovic and how
he went in Madrid. And we've now heard that he's
(18:06):
pulled out of Rome.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well about what six weeks ago or maybe just before Miami.
At the end of Miami, I made the point that
if he's going to win a major this year, he
has to play a lot of matches and he hasn't
been able to do that, and should he play Rome
and Geneva perhaps, which you did the year before. Probably
(18:27):
needs to win more. But he's now starting. Here's the
new scenario and the thing he's got to worry about.
He's now losing to people he's never lost too, and
they're all starting to go out there going, oh, this
could be my chance. Now the invincibility factor has worn
down and he's got to make that decision, which it
seems made by pulling out of Rome. I'm going to
(18:48):
go on what I've done before. I'm going to go
on my reputation, on my aura into rolling Garrison and
see if I can pull that off. It's hard though,
because physically you can see he's not bouncing back the
way that he was before. So there these are These
next five six weeks are critical for Novak. If he
(19:10):
can perform well in Paris, we'll see him stick around. Yeah,
if he doesn't Wimbledon, most definitely he's a contender and
he'll be there. But then I think the rest of
the season and his future, we're going to have to
wait and see what he decides to do. And ultimately,
(19:30):
given the way that he has spoken in the media,
he may be looking at a time where we see,
you know him join Rafa and Roger and the game
will have moved on past one of the greatest years
of all time.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, and he also speculated like, I think he's alluded
to the fact that I'm not sure if I'll be
back next year in Madrid. I could be, but maybe
not in a playing capacity or whatever. So there was
not even a commitment that, oh, yeah, I'll be back
next year. And then I said it was interesting. Rome's
tweet was like, see you next year Novak, And I
just thought to myself, well maybe not. You don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I just wonder Novak's ability to do the one percent
has been better than anybody, to be honest, Yeah, you know,
certainly he sits in the in the top one percent.
He now knows to do more by winning, Mate, he's
got to do more. Where do you find it? Where
does he find the extra one percent when he's already
(20:23):
done everything possible And perhaps he's looking at that guy,
I just got no more to give. And if he
does decide that, well, you deserve to do whatever you
want to do. But that's the hard part, now, isn't it.
I mean you've been through it. You've got to a point.
Probably I got to a point with my own self.
You go, I can't practice more, I can't work harder.
(20:44):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly things can move past you,
and even for the greatest of all time, say, probably
we're definitely at that crossroads of all right, is this
the time which I think it's unfathoon on ball.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That you could ever get to that point when I
watch him at the moment and he's still winning matches.
But if you go back a few years when he
was he was never a bullied within a rally around
the court. You'd see him in the corners, and you know,
he could be flat out like a lizard drinking so
and be still making balls and back into neutral. If
you go back and you have a look at the
(21:21):
opening set of Mentic in Miami, he couldn't do that.
He was being blasted through the corners a little bit
like what we saw Alcoraz do in The Acres's first
one Wooden File. He just blew him away. He isn't
able to absorb as much as the firepower as he
was now. That could be two reasons for that. One.
(21:45):
Maybe he's just half a step slower. I'm not sure
that that is the case. I think the game of
this current crop coming is even bigger than anything that
he had to face before.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, well he will be thirty eight. He turns thirty
only May, doesn't he, So he'll be thirty eight when
Rolling Garrol starts. No player in the open era has
won a Slam at thirty eight. The oldest was Rosewall
at thirty seven. So that's man or woman. So if
he was to do it, that would be another incredible record.
Plus he get the twenty fifth Slam, which no one's
ever done before, so there's plenty of There is still
(22:18):
motivation because a lot of people are speculated that since
he won the gold medal at the Olympics and that
kind of like complete that was the one thing he'd
never won, and it was kind of like I achieve
that and just kind of let go and they're just
it's hard to get back again. But there is still
the cross of the all time Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I think mentally he still wants it.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He made the Australian Open semis I could have his
results when I was playing, he's having a bad run.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And then the other one I wanted to call out
and feel free to call anything else out as well
from Madrid was our very own Alex Stamenor who is
He's now won twenty four matches. He's the top match
winning guy on the tour for twenty twenty five so far,
tying with Alex Alex, tying with Ala kraz.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It's have an amazing twenty two. I see him sneaking
a SAMMI this year. One of the majors. You need
to get everything about, how good you a need a
little bit of luck with your drawer, right, You've got
to get there. But again I mentioned the big hitters.
If he can avoid some of those or they fall
out of a section of his draw he's the one
that goes through because he's got the aura at the
(23:30):
moment where you cannot get a ball past him. He
doesn't miss. His competitive spirit has already got him a
breaker serve when he walks out onto the court. Is
how I see it at the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But it's also that and it's the most open it's
been on the men's side for as long as I
can remember working in tennis. It's not consistent in the
same way. You know what do we have in Indian Wells?
The full semi finalists all bombed out in the first
round of Miami, and you've got different winners of all
the thousands, and Novak's not winning as much. Siner's not here,
(24:02):
pulled injured, and he's been inconsistent, like demon All is
the consistent one.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Our Koraz pull out. For me, it's just timing, I mean,
just to regenerate put the You know, I had a
great run, win and a final. You can't keep playing
at the level he was, but he got injured.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
In the Barcelona Final, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, supposedly you had it here first. Seriously though, I mean, yes,
if he gets a tweak, then he's got to take
your rest. But he'd be happy with his prep. Yeah,
he'd be very happy. How you get the body back
into shape, you just charge up again. You know, it's
(24:45):
like the ev you got to put it in. You
can't let it it too low. So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I did want to touch one more thing, Sidelina. I'd
be remissive me not to mention her. She is yet
to drop a set on clay this season, which you
guys can tell me that must be pretty massive.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Absolutely go through, win.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
A title two fifty and then now you know, obviously
beat Rebarkner and to be going through. I mean, I
think we've we've seen Spiderlina since her comeback be a
little bit more aggressive as a player. She's very physical
when she does play, but she's another one where if
she needs to grind out four or five, six, eight
shots whatever it may be, she can also do that.
And she's just tough day in day out. And I
(25:26):
think these kind of results are proving I'm here, I'm
still someone to be worried about.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I saw a quote from her. Someone asked her this week,
you know, how are you still managing in what motivates
you to be still playing like this level? She goes
Gail and in a way that he's still playing great
and so I've been pushing each other, which is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But how old this Fidelina? People talk about her like
she's this grizzled veteran and she's his mother. But she
had a child when she was twenty six, didn't she
Or twenty seven, she'd still only be early third. Yeah,
she's thirty, so yeah, I mean that's yeah, that's yeah.
Like she might be comparatively fresh to some of the
other mothers we've seen comeback like you convit, as was Niyakis.
They're like mid a cerber. She's half a decad younger
(26:12):
than that.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But the difference coming back after having her baby is
that she's like a bit of a different player. She
was such a counterpuncher that was unwilling to take a
chance before and then she comes back and it's a
different type of mindset, which is actually taken her to
a different level.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And one that she had to because I think tennis
talking about moving past had moved to that point, whereas
I think when was Niyaki came back, she didn't adapt
her game, and.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I don't I don't even know if was this still playing,
to be honest with you, but it's just pregnant that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, so I forget things.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, but that's really really smart from Switzerlina, and maybe
it's you know, advised from Gail and then people around
under as well, Hey we come back, you can't come
back exactly the same and hats off to her an
incredible effort.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, we're going to take a very quick break and
then we will return with a little bit. Who invited you?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We need a break, we'll come back to you.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah, the systems, the system.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What are you talking about? The tennis?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, take a break, and then we were going to
get into the quis and ace of the week and
wrap things up. We thought we'd invite any fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
No, no, no, no very much. Here. I'm currently at let
me unblur and I can show you some cool stuff.
I'm at the Singapore Cricket Club of all places.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh yes, tennis courts there. I've played on those tennis courts.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Is that weird.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Beautiful, yeah, beautiful tennis courts. There's no cricket pitch though
I'm not sure what that's about.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's very nice here and I just wanted too a
bit sweaty about three hundred. It's not sweat sadly, it's sunburn,
as you know. Bre I hit the all at the
hotel yesterday and it was a little bit overpassed and
I was a little overconfident in my own malatonin levels.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I shouldn't have been. Hey, Dave, I have a bunch
have a little tennis story about the Cricket Club, because
it has nothing really to do with when I was playing.
I was actually in Singapore commentating on the World Champion
World Championship Women's LPGA, and a group of us went
to have dinner at the club and there it was night,
and I might have had a little tiple or two,
(28:29):
and there was a group of four younger guys playing
doubles down on the court and they said, why do
you go play with them? And I said, O, God,
all right, I will. And so I go down under
the fence and I said, oh, look, you know I
used to play a little bit. Would you let me
have a hit and they've looked at me like, oh jeez,
and I said no, no, no, I could play. I could play,
(28:51):
And they go, oh, we'll just live finished a couple
of our set and then we'll yeah, okay. So I
go out there and I'm in full like I'm in
Chino's and a shirt, and I'm out playing with these
these three young guys who then finally worked out that
I could play a little bit anyway. Then I went
back to having another little tipple. I love.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
That's a good story that we're probably thinking, Oh, who's
Grandpa's It's okay, old fella.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But there you go.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
At least you didn't get some thumped by them. No.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I wasn't gonna let him win.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
No.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, I'll let you get back to your celebrations. I
just want to say a big gooday and thank you
all for your ongoing support of the show.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Sam.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Good luck with all the things that you've got upcoming.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh yeah, we've told, We've told everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Now everyone knows. Now today we won't have to.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yeah. There's so many times that I've said things and
it's just like, well that's going under the Congratulations. Huge result,
three hundred episodes, a great show.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I'm going to go back.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I think I'm up next talking about everything that is
tennis digital sport, and I'll see you later in the
week and I'm back home in Melbourne. Good luck, behave,
Thanks Simile.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
We will now take a break and we will see
you after that for the quiz and our Ace of
the Week, plus a couple other little news stories. Nice
welcome back. We wanted to touch on something that is
big news here in Australia and as well as globally,
Max Percell. Yesterday it announced that they have issued him
(30:26):
with an eighteen month banfollowing the use of a prohibited method.
I wanted to get your thoughts, Todd on this and
unpack it a little bit for us and our listeners.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well. Obviously disappointing for Max and for tennis in general,
and the thing that we've got to get our heads
around with all of this. And I can't reiterate enough
to everybody that when these reports come out they are public,
(30:57):
go and read them and get all of them before
giving your opinion on them. And I think when you
do that, then when you then have the ability to
give your proper thoughts. There's a lot of people giving
a view whether it's too much too little. I think
if you can read the report the same as with
Janick Sinner and Egoschiontech, you get a better understanding that
(31:21):
every one of these cases is different and is dealt
with accordingly, and so already people are trying to put
Sinner and per Sel case together, and why is one
outcome different to the other. You must read the rulings
to find those things out. In Max's case, he was
(31:45):
not taking a banned substance of any kind with the infusion,
but it is clear within the rules that the infusion
was wrong and you weren't able to I think he's
pretty well educated in what was right and wrong, and
he missed it. And I don't know that that. I
can't mean it wasn't intentional to miss it would seem.
(32:08):
But I can just say, read it and you'll have
a better understanding and an opinion before you make a statement.
And that's all I can say about with what I've read.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Thank you for that, Todd. We can put a link
to the ruling should anyone want to read more on
that topic, and I'm sure we'll see more unfold over
the next couple of days, weeks, months, but we're going
to move on to something a little bit lighter and
one of my favorite things to do, which is breeze
top five.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
What's the topic?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, Well, to celebrate our three hundredth episode, we're doing
centuries in tennis?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Okay, centrue?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
How many centuries in tennis have there been? Or is
that the first question?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It may be one of the questions one, So for
every question you get, right, feel free to pop a
popp up?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh, just not the broken one.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Well, okay, we're ready to go. Let's get this show
on the road. Let me find my number number one question.
Novak Djokovic is on the brink of his one hundredth
ATP title, a feet achieved only by Jimmy Connors and
Roger Federer. In Which year did Federer win a personal
record twelve titles?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Do we have to buzz?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You just yell.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Do you want to pop a pop up?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Why can't I do it?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, it's called technique problems six did you say yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Which included Io, Wimbledon and US Open situation?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Anyway, okay, we're.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Going to move on from you, Matt. Number two. Now
this is a maths question and I'd like to indicate
I didn't do this. The producers did, and they are
bloody smart. So let's say I'm playing a tennis match
against Todd wood Bridge with unlimited sets. I've won the
first one hundred points of the match. What's the score?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh, okay, I can't do maths, so it's the fifth
Hang on, wait a.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Minute, it's six love six love six love six love
four love no close, ish like it's.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Twenty four points to win a six twenty four times
four would be ninety something. So how many are left?
Maybe it's two love? Yes, I did the work for you.
(34:50):
I think we got a dodgy bag.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I went four games, not four points. Yeah, first, well done.
You should have sent me trying to Todd.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You're getting killed six six class six L six Rocky.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
She's getting confident in Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Three?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And which century did Louis the tenth of France construct
the first modern style indoor tennis court.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Okay, I'm going to see in the fifteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Which would be the sixteenth century?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So no, is it?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
So?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Well? The eighth built a court at Hampton Court in
the fifteen hundreds, didn't he? So did he? So I
had to be the next late like the early century
before that?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
What would that be, Well.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That must have been the fourteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
No, well when was it thirteenth century? So Louis was
a keen player of Joe depalm. I probably said that wrong,
or real tennis, and became notable as the first person
to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. He
was unhappy with playing tennis outdoors and accordingly had indoor
in closed courts made in Paris around the end of
the thirteenth century. Wowing the history.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I jould depart. That's the one where they hit it
with the hand, right? Is that what that means?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Play tennis?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Palm could be a different word. Getting the walls.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes, doing a tennis And he was born in fourteen
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Okay, yeah, okay, so the.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Guy before I played, before he.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Played, they had to do before surface is it like
it's all sports?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, and you play off the tambour and the holes
in the wall. It's very very difficult game.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Wow, Okay, let's off and go play to four. Okay.
Another tricky one. Who was the first player born in
the twenty first century, male or female to win a
Grand Slam title, was it Alcroz, No, she was in there,
but no. Acres was in there, but no, not the first.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Born in the twenty first centuries of two thousand or beyond,
who was really young.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Coco, She's in there. Coco's in there. You've now said
all the people one, yes, you get a popper?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Come on, come on, Matt, Oh no, it's not going okay,
on to five. We'll bring the baby hard.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
On five popper Cracker.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Since since the w TWA rankings were introduced in nineteen
seventy five, five women have been ranked number one for
more than one hundred consecutive weeks. Who were the five?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
They would be Chris have it, yep, yeah, stepigraph Ye,
Monica Sells, No well Srina Williams ye, and Ashy.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yes you getta poppa you one ready?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I thought Hins was going to be in that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, thank you, thank you great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
For another quiz. But now we're going to move on
to ace of the week. Shall we say.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You got yours?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Seem so excited. I was thinking about this on the
way in, and you know, I was like, it's been
a pretty quiet week. But on Saturday went to a
bit of a party Liz's mother's group from when we
had ev there was.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Like three no, three others that we've stayed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Really they wanted to throw me a baby shower, and
so it was them and partners and all the kids
now extra siblings, and it was actually just such a
fun party. Basically everyone else was drinking. I wasn't take
but it was just a really lovely thing for them
to do for me as the partner from that group.
(39:16):
So yeah, if I got a mother's group at all
like this bunch.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'll be very, very lucky. It's kind of like what
real life's like when you finish playing tennis. Welcome to
real life.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
But no, it was really lovely Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
It was fun, amazing. So Matt, we'll move to you.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I guess. Well, speaking of Saturday nights, it's the it's
the election on Saturday, which I've got to remember. Oh
did I sorry? Okay, Well, what I was thinking was,
I was like, I'll get on the bandwagon to do
the whole early voting thing because that's becoming an.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Increasing about democratic sauce.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It Well, exactly, so there's been apparently all of these
cues at early voting stations and I just figured, well,
I'll just go back. I'll just vote on the original
day I'm doing. Hues will be smaller because everyone will
have early voted, and then I can have the democracy
sausage for our international listeners. A lot of the pole
What is that, like the polling boosts. Yea barbecues and
you can get a sausage and bread and it's great
and it's everyone amazing. Yeah, there's a website where you
(40:14):
can it's Democracy Sausage dot com and you can go
find the voting booths that have barbecue. Because of where
I used to vote didn't have barbecue. People would always
talk about, oh, my democracy sausage. I don't have a
sausage when you vote. No, not if you go to
a place that doesn't have sausages. Yeah, so find your
place that has a sausage if you haven't early voted.
(40:35):
And then that I'm going to my first election party,
like a specific when someone's hosting watch the election because
I used to work in camera and they're like the
political nerds and the play and it's also yeah slash housewarming,
so they're throwing open their doors and election party.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
What's it called that famous play?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's it's it's on election night and the removalists. I
don't anyway I find it. It's not really an ace
of the week, although I can I can say that
Wimbledon last year, UK were having their election.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I remember on the.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
First Thursday and it was a non event. It was
glorious because in the UK there's no advertising, there's no
negativity coming at you on television, there is no signs
on people's fences. They're not allowed to do that. And
I thought, how good would that be if we had
that in Australia and the text messages don't get text
(41:35):
messages they are you don't Well, it's not compulsory to
vote there, which I was very surprised about. I thought
it was no tis not and which I think maybe
they could sort that bit out. But I just thought
my ace of the week would be to have no
political advertising shoved in my face every where I go.
(41:57):
So well done to the UK on that.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, I like that too. My week is very simple.
It's getting colder here in Melbourne, especially this week it's
been a little bit chillier. I have been in Melbourne
from New South Wales for about eight years and I
love Melbourne. I hate the cold. I think I'm starting
to light the cold and it's really good news because
every winter rolls around it and I become a moaning
(42:24):
insert myrtle. Yeah, I'm oaning myrtle. And I actually am
waking up in the morning. It was like, I felt
like nine degrees this morning when I got up and
walking the dog, and I'm like, this is actually quite nice.
So I think I'm finally, after eight years acclimatized to Melbourne.
Now I'm Melbourne gone out, which is good.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
So, yeah, you're not from.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I haven't quite found that love for that yet really well,
but you're from Queensland. I think Queensland's harder. Like at
least I had a bit of like I was saying
to my friends, if it got to fourteen Newcastle, you'd like,
it is freezing here fourteen it's like, oh it's nice
and barbing my legs out anyway, on that. On that note,
(43:13):
thank you all for being here today. Happy, Thank you
to our listeners for joining us for those three hundred
and please make sure to send on to all your
friends to join in the laughs with us. Next week
we will head to Rome for another joint w t
A and A t P one thousand events. But in
the meantime, don't forget. You can watch this episode and
(43:35):
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a wonderful week in tennis. Done by the way, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Startlingly hosted Should we pop next today?
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, oh,
Hello, and welcome to the tennis Mayhem in Madrid. Spain's
back online after a mass power outage causes major disruptions,
Clay caught confusion, the introduction of Hawkeye has players reaching
for their phones, and Max's remorse her cell band for
eighteen months due to a doping violation. That's all I
had with me, Brice Stewart. I'm in the hosting chair
(00:25):
today is Abe's away on conference studio. So good.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Not if somebody didn't I know, it's.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Been a long time time. I was here first too.
Across the table, we have got a twenty two time
Grand Slam champion at todd wood Bridge.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thank you lovely to be here. Yeah, I love this.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Every time you're hear we remind everyone that you're a
twenty two time grand Beside me, my friend and our
friend from the sit down, Matriloe.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thanks for having you. It's been a while since I've
been on this pod, so it's this is good to us.
Having a big group is nice.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, it's so nice. And our wonderful expectant mother and
this week we won't have to cut it out when Dave,
you know, with the information we've got Sam Stowzer.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
She's a Grand Slam Singles champion.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I know she's not.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Just that wipes twenty two of mine off the shop
to say, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
What are you saying? Eight time eight?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, that's pretty cool too.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It sounds all right, it's amazing, Yeah, thank you? What
a we none and that we have one?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
No grass lies, but we watch a.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Lot of it, and then we've got a headline of
our own today, which is this is our three hundredth episode.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
How exciting, right here we go the same one and go.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
That's very nice.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Imagine does.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's a lot of episodes. It's a lot of a
lot of chat.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I wonder how many of you of them you were
featured those top.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I don't know, suspect No, I'm not as many as
you think. Yeah, yeah, I'm consistent. Yeah, I come in
and then I give my my worth. I mean it's no,
you don't want to dilute your importance.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
No, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Scarcity is like ye give chance people a chance to
be it's more weight. But it's been going for seven
years now or something. I think I believe it's seven years.
We're going in there. During the Australian Open, it was
a daily and then yeah, three years of weekly.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Well since I've been here.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The interesting part is just before we came in, Matt
because is this being filmed? I said, yeah, this is
always been filmed. Now he goes, oh god, God, some
product in that. You had to get yourself done.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, on that note, let's move into what's caught your eye,
So we're going to a head to you first sent Okay,
Clay caught electronic line calling, which so far it seemed
like a bit of a disaster. I mean, there's a
reason why it had never been used before because it
wasn't as accurate as.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
A hardcore and showing up hasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's still been proven that they've still got a way
to go before they really can use it, and the
plays trust it because that Zverev situation Saberlenka the week before,
and it's in Stuttgart.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You just can't have that. I do hope that the
tour recognize that they can't find Alex for taking the phone,
although you're allowed to take your phone out, and I mean,
it was so wrong and so blatant, and he's pointed
it out and you know, yeah, maybe he shouldn't have,
but how else are you going to get across it?
The thing was just so far out taking the wrong
(03:42):
line and so forth, So I hope they act on that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I think it's last year.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Wasn't there a situation with Taylor Fritz on one of
the other things that we can check now whether it's
leaning over the net or a double something and the
video evidence exactly, so whatever the case that was, and
they said, Okay, no, we actual we will step in
now and make that call. Maybe in this situation the
umpire does need to get out of the chair instead
of yes that might be written in the rule box.
(04:09):
Maybe this will instigate Okay, that is the rule. But
if it looks like that, we will still get out
of the home.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Can you imagine a little asterixk it says let common
sense prevail.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's what I was going to say. That's currently what
the umpire is. Are hamstrung by that rule that the
electronic line calling ruling is final, so they currently can't
come out of the chair and overrule it. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, So you know what if I was fair of
because I read some things where people are like, oh,
it's a bit immature what he's doing. Putting it on
social and whatnot. I've got to say, if I was him,
I would have done what he did because it's so
blatantly obvious and wrong of course for himself, and listening
to him speak to Muhammad as well, he was like,
(04:51):
don't change it.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
That's fine. I know you're not going to overrule it,
but just come and look at it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
He actually kept a pretty cool head through that whole exchange.
He knew that it wasn't gonna get overturned, but he
just wanted him to come and see it so that
maybe after the fact things can get a.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Little bit better.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And that's my point about taking the photo, because it
was just platant. Yeah, so there do Roland garros usid
it was their plan. Do we know their plan? I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I didn't know it was in I believe, not camera.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this would this would make it like for them, Okay, no, no,
we'll wait. We'll wait, and that's probably a good thing.
So we'll have umpires up and down, up and.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Down a bit and bickering over the ball mark, which
is always killed me.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Can I can I explain that clay court players back
in the day, that was a skill they were They
were masters of finding a different mark. You weren't a
good clay court player unless you could do that, you know. Yeah,
But I'm haven't.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
For stuffing out of the market. But I've seen them
like looking at the same mark and the place like
it's in and there like, no, it's out because it's
doing this, and the player's like, no, but it's doing this.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I still don't have full faith on the mark either,
because you can't tell how much a ball is squashed
and how much sand was actually around there, or how
much clay is sitting there if you're actually yeah, and
sometimes there's a really like on a very windy day
there's there's a piece near the light's got nothing left
to it and so it goes quite thin the ballmark
as opposed to when it's covered in clay. So it's
(06:27):
it's certainly not an exact science. Do I feel like
I got ripped off a lot?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I agree with you, But at the end of that,
I think everyone knows it. Then that's that's what we got.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
What we're having it out with it part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I do love the fact that every time the umpire
gets out of the chair at the French Open, the
crowd starts whist league and they start dooing and how
dare you check the mark? And it kind of it
does add to the little bit exactly. And there, especially
at Roland Garross, they love it when the umpires to
get out or someone questions it is a part of.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The feel of the tournament.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, I suppose we'll see what happens with Roland Garris
in the future, but obviously some problems currently like Clay
moving over to you Todd, what's been happening.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, I haven't been on the pod since we had
the Village and King Cup, and I got to really
focus on my joint in a commentary. B We had
her on chatting to her in between matches on day
two and I was just really really impressed. I didn't
see a lot of her at the AO because predominantly
(07:35):
I work on men's matches, not women's matches. I thought
her ball striking was fantastic. I think she for me
just as I watch now. She's potentially a fifteen player
in the world, and if you can get to there,
you can be better than that. And I say fifteen
for the moment, because I think she'll be fifty or
better by year's end. I also think that she needs
(07:58):
a couple of years to work on the physicality, her
physical strength, and Sam, you know, one of the best
physical athletes in the women's game, will understand totally and
I'm sure you'll be passing that on because when she
was in the extremities of the court, she was just
a little bit weak in terms of defense. So if
she starts to she can move well, but she just
needs movement dynamically from corner to corner. And you put
(08:23):
that into play and you've got a really great young
Australian player that I was so excited about. I wanted
to put that there and not put pressure on her butt.
But I thought that what I was witnessing was great
because then she goes on into Madrid, gets through qualities,
wins around, goes what five and five with Navarro. She's
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contending against the top women in the world, and although
the scoreline for her in Bjka Cup wasn't ideal in
the first match, she was in every one of it,
it was actually a lot closer to the So I
just thought, she's contending against all those top fifty women
all and she's going to start beating more the one
thing that's exciting. She's going to all of these big
tournaments for the first time, so she's taking in so
(09:07):
much information. And that's what I impressed me as well,
because she actually was handling it all. I wasn't over
overawed by the occasion or the opponent. And I'm really
I can't wait to see if she get a good
drawer in Paris and at Wimbledon. Watch out she's she's
going to go through several rounds and really.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
One to watch love because we really saw Maya's name
come more to the front of.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
The US opening.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, I remember watching.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Some of it. She hasn't even been to awful majors yet, she.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Can only go this way at the moment. All of
this is brand new.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
She lost in qualities during French and wimbled and last year,
so now she'll be main drawer. And yeah, you win
those matches in main draw it makes such a difference
to the ranking. It's exciting.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's great. Yeah, and I love how quickly she plays.
That's another thing, you know, how like like time between
points is always a bit of a bug, but for
some people, she really just gets on with it. Like
I love how she just kind of and very focused
and plays quickly as well. I think not the time
between points, but she takes the ball really early, and
she's really fun to watch. Yes, she's just all about
the tennis.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
She just want okay, you think I should do that,
I'll go do that, I'll do this, I'll do this,
And it's all about just trying to be better. And
one I have to say one quality. Obviously you got
four hands back in so blah blah blah, but she
will not let a ball go past her on the
practice court, whether it's in this.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Far or out by meter, she will run for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So she's obviously to your point about her movement and
still needs to get a little bit better in those
end ranges. Sorry, but of course she's young, she's still
developing as well. But she is putting that to practice
every single day. And the first session we had she
was absolutely gassing with her breath and I think she
(10:54):
was a bit nervous and whatever, but she still ran
for every single ball and did not let anything go
past like that is such a great quality to have
when I could tell she couldn't barely take a breath,
but she wasn't letting that one go past.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So two players that did that on the men's side
for US Latin Heart Alex dimon Or.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And do you think that would be her greatest strength
or does she have a weapon or what do you
think is going.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
To be thing?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
She can hit through people's that's her. There are moments
when I'm watching her and I could see a bit
of a Rancher Sanchez Viccario in the backhand because she
she just would move to the right and take the
backhand go pinpoint corners. Then you know, obviously I was
sitting side by side with Elena, there was a little
bit of the way Elena would take points on when
(11:40):
she was coming through you know fourand's backhands just aggressive,
not scared. So there she's kind of and I don't
think she's modeled her game on anyone in particular. They're
just the things that she seems to have naturally. So
I think in the women's game, you have to have
something that stands out. For me, it's the quality of
(12:02):
the hit and the ball striking ability to hit through players.
And so at her age, she's got a big bonus
by having what she's doing currently, and I.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Think she's the second highest second second highest ranked teenager
in the world. Yeah, behind and Rover. Yes, oh my god,
Dala might just be ahead. I can't remember, but maybe
mine's ahead. I don't know, but she certainly was before
Miami anyway, but two or three. Yeah, so that's an
incredible step. Yeah, definitely one to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, you can listen to the sit Down next week
with Matt and viv Actually, well just Matt actually sat
down with Maya for a great chat.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So let her go off the practice, go and talk
to me.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Got to meet her properly in Brisbane. Chatted to her
for like more than half an hour, and the same
thing as what you said, Todd, like really impressed with
how she came across. She hasn't done a ton night
of media, so she told me it was her first
podcast interview, so that was we got the first one podcast.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah history.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah. So she'll be coming up on Monday on sit Down,
so yeah, cool, look out for it.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I wanted to talk about the power outage in Madrid,
which was crazy and it didn't just hit Spain, it
actually hit all of Portugal. On Monday afternoon, Miro and
Drever's match ended with the chair umpire calling the lines
as she defeated. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I had to learn that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Thank you, because I tried it earlier. Well, I tried
it last night. I was sitting at home saying it
over and over again. I don't know if it was correct,
but I got something else. It sounded better than what
I was saying. Coco Golf was in the midst of
her on court interview when the microphone just cut out,
which we watched yesterday, and it was pretty funny. Dimitrov
was serving for the match when the play had to
(13:49):
be stopped and drever quote was that this is my
first blackout. It's actually kind of fun because I've never
expected it. So it's been a really crazy time for
the countries because obviously lots of people impacted. But I
wanted to call out to storm Hunter, our very own Aussie.
I was watching her Instagram yesterday thinking, oh my god,
(14:11):
you poor thing. They got trapped on a train for
fourteen hours, so it's very good to hear that she
has now arrived in Spain and she is okay. But
I think that was probably the longest train trip of
her life. It's probably only supposed to be a couple
of hours.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That sounds claustrophobic.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, being trapped on the only thing I thought storm
Love's reading, So hopefully she had a good book and
she could have like foot hours straight.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
There wasn't a lot of water, and you couldn't go
the low no, you know, that's troublesome.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I don't think they could open the doors of the train.
And it wasn't that the electricity came back on that
they could keep going. They had to be evacuated from
the train, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And the power didn't come back on I think until
like ten thirty or eleven that night or something. Was
it was it out for fourteen.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Hours or something. They found their way, yeah, and then
we even heard of some players who couldn't get home
from the courts. But who was it they had to
walk for two hours?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Ellen walking?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah. I think it was two thousand and three when
the whole eastern seaboard of Canada and the US had
that big blackout.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I was playing in the Bronx and it was.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Like a great place to walk home.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh my god, but we did.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It was two or three in the afternoon, bright sunshine,
and they're like play cancer.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
And because we had police, we're playing in the park,
so all the cops had to get into the city
to do whatever that anyway transport couldn't get to us,
so we walked from the Bronx.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Back into Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was a bit of a hairy experience through different
parts of town and same thing, no water, barely could
get into the hotel. I think I was sharing a
room with Rachel McQuillan. We were on the fifteenth floor.
She'd blown out her knee and I just remember going
up and down and no kidding, running through Times Square
with a takeaway pizza with no lights on was the
(15:58):
most eerie, bizarre, and an American girl who was meant
to be staying in a friend's place could only get
in through the lift that wasn't working.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So Teran Ashley slept in her tennis.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Clothes on our floor because she couldn't get in anywhere,
and we just were like, we'll come and stay with
us and whatever. So I absolutely no, it would and
it was so bizarre and chaotic and but yeah, eventually
you work it out.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
But you know, my take away from the thing that
happened in Madrid and Portugal compared to what similar scenarios.
I bet you you had money in your wallet back then.
Oh yeah, you need to travel with cash because you
This was a point that really exemplifies if you don't
(16:45):
have any money, how are you going to get anything
anywhere or whatever? Because you couldn't. I have made the
decision that, like when I go away this year, last year,
I think I went through all my European trip without
hard cash, I'm going to have some as a backup.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I'm very old school. I still at the airport will
like exchange two hundred dollars to have the currency just
in case I get stuck.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Well, I feel like if.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There was an uber driver willing to take you, you can
click him a couple of bucks to get where you needed.
Oh god is my takeaway?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah it's a good a good lesson.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
But my favorite tweet during the whole experience was Alex
saying that he didn't mind being off the grid, and
Katie wrote, imagine blaming a country blackout for not texting
me back all day? Elite red flag behavior. And I'm
going to say, I know this is a side point,
but I can't get enough of their banter. It is
(17:45):
so good. There's such a funny couple and yeah but yeah,
play has resumed in Madrid and the lights are back
on as of yesterday, which is good news. Yes, and
before we go to a break, we might touch on
some of those things that happening in Madrid. Probably one
of the biggest thing is is maybe Djokovic and how
he went in Madrid. And we've now heard that he's
(18:06):
pulled out of Rome.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Well about what six weeks ago or maybe just before Miami.
At the end of Miami, I made the point that
if he's going to win a major this year, he
has to play a lot of matches and he hasn't
been able to do that, and should he play Rome
and Geneva perhaps, which you did the year before. Probably
(18:27):
needs to win more. But he's now starting. Here's the
new scenario and the thing he's got to worry about.
He's now losing to people he's never lost too, and
they're all starting to go out there going, oh, this
could be my chance. Now the invincibility factor has worn
down and he's got to make that decision, which it
seems made by pulling out of Rome. I'm going to
(18:48):
go on what I've done before. I'm going to go
on my reputation, on my aura into rolling Garrison and
see if I can pull that off. It's hard though,
because physically you can see he's not bouncing back the
way that he was before. So there these are These
next five six weeks are critical for Novak. If he
(19:10):
can perform well in Paris, we'll see him stick around. Yeah,
if he doesn't Wimbledon, most definitely he's a contender and
he'll be there. But then I think the rest of
the season and his future, we're going to have to
wait and see what he decides to do. And ultimately,
(19:30):
given the way that he has spoken in the media,
he may be looking at a time where we see,
you know him join Rafa and Roger and the game
will have moved on past one of the greatest years
of all time.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, and he also speculated like, I think he's alluded
to the fact that I'm not sure if I'll be
back next year in Madrid. I could be, but maybe
not in a playing capacity or whatever. So there was
not even a commitment that, oh, yeah, I'll be back
next year. And then I said it was interesting. Rome's
tweet was like, see you next year Novak, And I
just thought to myself, well maybe not. You don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I just wonder Novak's ability to do the one percent
has been better than anybody, to be honest, Yeah, you know,
certainly he sits in the in the top one percent.
He now knows to do more by winning, Mate, he's
got to do more. Where do you find it? Where
does he find the extra one percent when he's already
(20:23):
done everything possible And perhaps he's looking at that guy,
I just got no more to give. And if he
does decide that, well, you deserve to do whatever you
want to do. But that's the hard part, now, isn't it.
I mean you've been through it. You've got to a point.
Probably I got to a point with my own self.
You go, I can't practice more, I can't work harder.
(20:44):
Maybe that's it.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly things can move past you,
and even for the greatest of all time, say, probably
we're definitely at that crossroads of all right, is this
the time which I think it's unfathoon on ball.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That you could ever get to that point when I
watch him at the moment and he's still winning matches.
But if you go back a few years when he
was he was never a bullied within a rally around
the court. You'd see him in the corners, and you know,
he could be flat out like a lizard drinking so
and be still making balls and back into neutral. If
you go back and you have a look at the
(21:21):
opening set of Mentic in Miami, he couldn't do that.
He was being blasted through the corners a little bit
like what we saw Alcoraz do in The Acres's first
one Wooden File. He just blew him away. He isn't
able to absorb as much as the firepower as he
was now. That could be two reasons for that. One.
(21:45):
Maybe he's just half a step slower. I'm not sure
that that is the case. I think the game of
this current crop coming is even bigger than anything that
he had to face before.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, well he will be thirty eight. He turns thirty
only May, doesn't he, So he'll be thirty eight when
Rolling Garrol starts. No player in the open era has
won a Slam at thirty eight. The oldest was Rosewall
at thirty seven. So that's man or woman. So if
he was to do it, that would be another incredible record.
Plus he get the twenty fifth Slam, which no one's
ever done before, so there's plenty of There is still
(22:18):
motivation because a lot of people are speculated that since
he won the gold medal at the Olympics and that
kind of like complete that was the one thing he'd
never won, and it was kind of like I achieve
that and just kind of let go and they're just
it's hard to get back again. But there is still
the cross of the all time Grand Slam.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I think mentally he still wants it.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
He made the Australian Open semis I could have his
results when I was playing, he's having a bad run.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And then the other one I wanted to call out
and feel free to call anything else out as well
from Madrid was our very own Alex Stamenor who is
He's now won twenty four matches. He's the top match
winning guy on the tour for twenty twenty five so far,
tying with Alex Alex, tying with Ala kraz.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
It's have an amazing twenty two. I see him sneaking
a SAMMI this year. One of the majors. You need
to get everything about, how good you a need a
little bit of luck with your drawer, right, You've got
to get there. But again I mentioned the big hitters.
If he can avoid some of those or they fall
out of a section of his draw he's the one
that goes through because he's got the aura at the
(23:30):
moment where you cannot get a ball past him. He
doesn't miss. His competitive spirit has already got him a
breaker serve when he walks out onto the court. Is
how I see it at the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
But it's also that and it's the most open it's
been on the men's side for as long as I
can remember working in tennis. It's not consistent in the
same way. You know what do we have in Indian Wells?
The full semi finalists all bombed out in the first
round of Miami, and you've got different winners of all
the thousands, and Novak's not winning as much. Siner's not here,
(24:02):
pulled injured, and he's been inconsistent, like demon All is
the consistent one.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Our Koraz pull out. For me, it's just timing, I mean,
just to regenerate put the You know, I had a
great run, win and a final. You can't keep playing
at the level he was, but he got injured.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
In the Barcelona Final, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, supposedly you had it here first. Seriously though, I mean, yes,
if he gets a tweak, then he's got to take
your rest. But he'd be happy with his prep. Yeah,
he'd be very happy. How you get the body back
into shape, you just charge up again. You know, it's
(24:45):
like the ev you got to put it in. You
can't let it it too low. So yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I did want to touch one more thing, Sidelina. I'd
be remissive me not to mention her. She is yet
to drop a set on clay this season, which you
guys can tell me that must be pretty massive.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Absolutely go through, win.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
A title two fifty and then now you know, obviously
beat Rebarkner and to be going through. I mean, I
think we've we've seen Spiderlina since her comeback be a
little bit more aggressive as a player. She's very physical
when she does play, but she's another one where if
she needs to grind out four or five, six, eight
shots whatever it may be, she can also do that.
And she's just tough day in day out. And I
(25:26):
think these kind of results are proving I'm here, I'm
still someone to be worried about.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
I saw a quote from her. Someone asked her this week,
you know, how are you still managing in what motivates
you to be still playing like this level? She goes
Gail and in a way that he's still playing great
and so I've been pushing each other, which is quite extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But how old this Fidelina? People talk about her like
she's this grizzled veteran and she's his mother. But she
had a child when she was twenty six, didn't she
Or twenty seven, she'd still only be early third. Yeah,
she's thirty, so yeah, I mean that's yeah, that's yeah.
Like she might be comparatively fresh to some of the
other mothers we've seen comeback like you convit, as was Niyakis.
They're like mid a cerber. She's half a decad younger
(26:12):
than that.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But the difference coming back after having her baby is
that she's like a bit of a different player. She
was such a counterpuncher that was unwilling to take a
chance before and then she comes back and it's a
different type of mindset, which is actually taken her to
a different level.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And one that she had to because I think tennis
talking about moving past had moved to that point, whereas
I think when was Niyaki came back, she didn't adapt
her game, and.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
I don't I don't even know if was this still playing,
to be honest with you, but it's just pregnant that.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, so I forget things.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, but that's really really smart from Switzerlina, and maybe
it's you know, advised from Gail and then people around
under as well, Hey we come back, you can't come
back exactly the same and hats off to her an
incredible effort.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Well, we're going to take a very quick break and
then we will return with a little bit. Who invited you?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We need a break, we'll come back to you.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah, the systems, the system.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
What are you talking about? The tennis?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, take a break, and then we were going to
get into the quis and ace of the week and
wrap things up. We thought we'd invite any fun stuff.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
No, no, no, no very much. Here. I'm currently at let
me unblur and I can show you some cool stuff.
I'm at the Singapore Cricket Club of all places.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh yes, tennis courts there. I've played on those tennis courts.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Is that weird.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Beautiful, yeah, beautiful tennis courts. There's no cricket pitch though
I'm not sure what that's about.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
That.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
It's very nice here and I just wanted too a
bit sweaty about three hundred. It's not sweat sadly, it's sunburn,
as you know. Bre I hit the all at the
hotel yesterday and it was a little bit overpassed and
I was a little overconfident in my own malatonin levels.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I shouldn't have been. Hey, Dave, I have a bunch
have a little tennis story about the Cricket Club, because
it has nothing really to do with when I was playing.
I was actually in Singapore commentating on the World Champion
World Championship Women's LPGA, and a group of us went
to have dinner at the club and there it was night,
and I might have had a little tiple or two,
(28:29):
and there was a group of four younger guys playing
doubles down on the court and they said, why do
you go play with them? And I said, O, God,
all right, I will. And so I go down under
the fence and I said, oh, look, you know I
used to play a little bit. Would you let me
have a hit and they've looked at me like, oh jeez,
and I said no, no, no, I could play. I could play,
(28:51):
And they go, oh, we'll just live finished a couple
of our set and then we'll yeah, okay. So I
go out there and I'm in full like I'm in
Chino's and a shirt, and I'm out playing with these
these three young guys who then finally worked out that
I could play a little bit anyway. Then I went
back to having another little tipple. I love.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
That's a good story that we're probably thinking, Oh, who's
Grandpa's It's okay, old fella.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But there you go.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
At least you didn't get some thumped by them. No.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I wasn't gonna let him win.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
No.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Well, I'll let you get back to your celebrations. I
just want to say a big gooday and thank you
all for your ongoing support of the show.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Sam.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Good luck with all the things that you've got upcoming.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh yeah, we've told, We've told everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Now everyone knows. Now today we won't have to.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Yeah. There's so many times that I've said things and
it's just like, well that's going under the Congratulations. Huge result,
three hundred episodes, a great show.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I'm going to go back.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
I think I'm up next talking about everything that is
tennis digital sport, and I'll see you later in the
week and I'm back home in Melbourne. Good luck, behave,
Thanks Simile.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
We will now take a break and we will see
you after that for the quiz and our Ace of
the Week, plus a couple other little news stories. Nice
welcome back. We wanted to touch on something that is
big news here in Australia and as well as globally,
Max Percell. Yesterday it announced that they have issued him
(30:26):
with an eighteen month banfollowing the use of a prohibited method.
I wanted to get your thoughts, Todd on this and
unpack it a little bit for us and our listeners.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well. Obviously disappointing for Max and for tennis in general,
and the thing that we've got to get our heads
around with all of this. And I can't reiterate enough
to everybody that when these reports come out they are public,
(30:57):
go and read them and get all of them before
giving your opinion on them. And I think when you
do that, then when you then have the ability to
give your proper thoughts. There's a lot of people giving
a view whether it's too much too little. I think
if you can read the report the same as with
Janick Sinner and Egoschiontech, you get a better understanding that
(31:21):
every one of these cases is different and is dealt
with accordingly, and so already people are trying to put
Sinner and per Sel case together, and why is one
outcome different to the other. You must read the rulings
to find those things out. In Max's case, he was
(31:45):
not taking a banned substance of any kind with the infusion,
but it is clear within the rules that the infusion
was wrong and you weren't able to I think he's
pretty well educated in what was right and wrong, and
he missed it. And I don't know that that. I
can't mean it wasn't intentional to miss it would seem.
(32:08):
But I can just say, read it and you'll have
a better understanding and an opinion before you make a statement.
And that's all I can say about with what I've read.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Thank you for that, Todd. We can put a link
to the ruling should anyone want to read more on
that topic, and I'm sure we'll see more unfold over
the next couple of days, weeks, months, but we're going
to move on to something a little bit lighter and
one of my favorite things to do, which is breeze
top five.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
What's the topic?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, Well, to celebrate our three hundredth episode, we're doing
centuries in tennis?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Okay, centrue?
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
How many centuries in tennis have there been? Or is
that the first question?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It may be one of the questions one, So for
every question you get, right, feel free to pop a
popp up?
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Oh, just not the broken one.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Well, okay, we're ready to go. Let's get this show
on the road. Let me find my number number one question.
Novak Djokovic is on the brink of his one hundredth
ATP title, a feet achieved only by Jimmy Connors and
Roger Federer. In Which year did Federer win a personal
record twelve titles?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Do we have to buzz?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (33:25):
You just yell.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Do you want to pop a pop up?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Why can't I do it?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, it's called technique problems six did you say yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Which included Io, Wimbledon and US Open situation?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Anyway, okay, we're.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Going to move on from you, Matt. Number two. Now
this is a maths question and I'd like to indicate
I didn't do this. The producers did, and they are
bloody smart. So let's say I'm playing a tennis match
against Todd wood Bridge with unlimited sets. I've won the
first one hundred points of the match. What's the score?
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Oh, okay, I can't do maths, so it's the fifth
Hang on, wait a.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Minute, it's six love six love six love six love
four love no close, ish like it's.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Twenty four points to win a six twenty four times
four would be ninety something. So how many are left?
Maybe it's two love? Yes, I did the work for you.
(34:50):
I think we got a dodgy bag.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I went four games, not four points. Yeah, first, well done.
You should have sent me trying to Todd.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
You're getting killed six six class six L six Rocky.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
She's getting confident in Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Three?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
And which century did Louis the tenth of France construct
the first modern style indoor tennis court.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Okay, I'm going to see in the fifteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Which would be the sixteenth century?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
So no, is it?
Speaker 5 (35:32):
So?
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Well? The eighth built a court at Hampton Court in
the fifteen hundreds, didn't he? So did he? So I
had to be the next late like the early century
before that?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
What would that be, Well.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That must have been the fourteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
No, well when was it thirteenth century? So Louis was
a keen player of Joe depalm. I probably said that wrong,
or real tennis, and became notable as the first person
to construct indoor tennis courts in the modern style. He
was unhappy with playing tennis outdoors and accordingly had indoor
in closed courts made in Paris around the end of
the thirteenth century. Wowing the history.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I jould depart. That's the one where they hit it
with the hand, right? Is that what that means?
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Play tennis?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Palm could be a different word. Getting the walls.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Yes, doing a tennis And he was born in fourteen
ninety one.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Okay, yeah, okay, so the.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Guy before I played, before he.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Played, they had to do before surface is it like
it's all sports?
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Yeah, and you play off the tambour and the holes
in the wall. It's very very difficult game.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Wow, Okay, let's off and go play to four. Okay.
Another tricky one. Who was the first player born in
the twenty first century, male or female to win a
Grand Slam title, was it Alcroz, No, she was in there,
but no. Acres was in there, but no, not the first.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Born in the twenty first centuries of two thousand or beyond,
who was really young.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Coco, She's in there. Coco's in there. You've now said
all the people one, yes, you get a popper?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Come on, come on, Matt, Oh no, it's not going okay,
on to five. We'll bring the baby hard.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
On five popper Cracker.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Since since the w TWA rankings were introduced in nineteen
seventy five, five women have been ranked number one for
more than one hundred consecutive weeks. Who were the five?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
They would be Chris have it, yep, yeah, stepigraph Ye,
Monica Sells, No well Srina Williams ye, and Ashy.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yes you getta poppa you one ready?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I thought Hins was going to be in that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, thank you, thank you great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
For another quiz. But now we're going to move on
to ace of the week. Shall we say.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
You got yours?
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Seem so excited. I was thinking about this on the
way in, and you know, I was like, it's been
a pretty quiet week. But on Saturday went to a
bit of a party Liz's mother's group from when we
had ev there was.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Like three no, three others that we've stayed.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Really they wanted to throw me a baby shower, and
so it was them and partners and all the kids
now extra siblings, and it was actually just such a
fun party. Basically everyone else was drinking. I wasn't take
but it was just a really lovely thing for them
to do for me as the partner from that group.
(39:16):
So yeah, if I got a mother's group at all
like this bunch.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'll be very, very lucky. It's kind of like what
real life's like when you finish playing tennis. Welcome to
real life.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
But no, it was really lovely Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
It was fun, amazing. So Matt, we'll move to you.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I guess. Well, speaking of Saturday nights, it's the it's
the election on Saturday, which I've got to remember. Oh
did I sorry? Okay, Well, what I was thinking was,
I was like, I'll get on the bandwagon to do
the whole early voting thing because that's becoming an.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Increasing about democratic sauce.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It Well, exactly, so there's been apparently all of these
cues at early voting stations and I just figured, well,
I'll just go back. I'll just vote on the original
day I'm doing. Hues will be smaller because everyone will
have early voted, and then I can have the democracy
sausage for our international listeners. A lot of the pole
What is that, like the polling boosts. Yea barbecues and
you can get a sausage and bread and it's great
and it's everyone amazing. Yeah, there's a website where you
(40:14):
can it's Democracy Sausage dot com and you can go
find the voting booths that have barbecue. Because of where
I used to vote didn't have barbecue. People would always
talk about, oh, my democracy sausage. I don't have a
sausage when you vote. No, not if you go to
a place that doesn't have sausages. Yeah, so find your
place that has a sausage if you haven't early voted.
(40:35):
And then that I'm going to my first election party,
like a specific when someone's hosting watch the election because
I used to work in camera and they're like the
political nerds and the play and it's also yeah slash housewarming,
so they're throwing open their doors and election party.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
What's it called that famous play?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:57):
It's it's it's on election night and the removalists. I
don't anyway I find it. It's not really an ace
of the week, although I can I can say that
Wimbledon last year, UK were having their election.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
I remember on the.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
First Thursday and it was a non event. It was
glorious because in the UK there's no advertising, there's no
negativity coming at you on television, there is no signs
on people's fences. They're not allowed to do that. And
I thought, how good would that be if we had
that in Australia and the text messages don't get text
(41:35):
messages they are you don't Well, it's not compulsory to
vote there, which I was very surprised about. I thought
it was no tis not and which I think maybe
they could sort that bit out. But I just thought
my ace of the week would be to have no
political advertising shoved in my face every where I go.
(41:57):
So well done to the UK on that.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, I like that too. My week is very simple.
It's getting colder here in Melbourne, especially this week it's
been a little bit chillier. I have been in Melbourne
from New South Wales for about eight years and I
love Melbourne. I hate the cold. I think I'm starting
to light the cold and it's really good news because
every winter rolls around it and I become a moaning
(42:24):
insert myrtle. Yeah, I'm oaning myrtle. And I actually am
waking up in the morning. It was like, I felt
like nine degrees this morning when I got up and
walking the dog, and I'm like, this is actually quite nice.
So I think I'm finally, after eight years acclimatized to Melbourne.
Now I'm Melbourne gone out, which is good.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
So, yeah, you're not from.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
I haven't quite found that love for that yet really well,
but you're from Queensland. I think Queensland's harder. Like at
least I had a bit of like I was saying
to my friends, if it got to fourteen Newcastle, you'd like,
it is freezing here fourteen it's like, oh it's nice
and barbing my legs out anyway, on that. On that note,
(43:13):
thank you all for being here today. Happy, Thank you
to our listeners for joining us for those three hundred
and please make sure to send on to all your
friends to join in the laughs with us. Next week
we will head to Rome for another joint w t
A and A t P one thousand events. But in
the meantime, don't forget. You can watch this episode and
(43:35):
every other episode of the Tennis on our YouTube channel,
the Australian Open TV, And while you're there, be sure
to hit the bell and subscribe to stay across the
tennis all year, all year long. Thanks team, and have
a wonderful week in tennis. Done by the way, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
Startlingly hosted Should we pop next today?
Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, oh,
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