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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's talk a little bit of tennis now, Yes, Arena Sablanca,
she's through to the women's final. Madison Keys through to
the women's final. The boys are all playing this evening.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
But Hailey, you.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
And I, I mean this comes up all the time
for me. Did I pick the wrong career? Did you
pick the wrong career?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The money are they.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
They're going to earn a heap of money if you're
the champion. For the men and the women, they got
equal prize money. It is three and a half million
dollars for what like eight games of tennis, So.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
That's all divided by all the players. They get three
and a half million dollars. Who does the winner three
and a half million dollars for one tennis game? Locket? That,
my friend? If you lose, you get nine point that
What is that per minute? How long does the game
go for?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I mean, the women's final could very conceivably go for
less than an hour. If someone smashes the other person.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Holy crap, imagine that.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So the big dogs, we all know that they make money,
but it's the little dogs which make for the great stories.
So at a Grand Slam, you have one hundred and
twenty eight people on either side of the draw. So
the men's straw and the women's draw is one hundred
and twenty eight different players.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The cool ones are the ones that don't have the money.
So these two that are going to play in the women's.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Final, they've got a lot of cash. They've won tournaments before.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I want to pick out one as an example for
you and show you just how much money that you
get to make and how life changing this can be.
If you qualify just getting into the Australian Open, you
lose in the first round, you get bagled six love,
six love. Yeah, you're nowhere.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
You don't hit a single point that you win, but
you made it because you're part of the one hundred
and twenty eight one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars.
Are you serious? You could be off the court in
fifteen minutes. I actually reckon.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Bernard Tommick has retired in the first round of a
Grand slamper pure Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
One hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That is so much money for thirty two thousands even
more to play a game. So it goes up a
little bit incrementally, two hundred thousand if you lose. Then
next round two ninety, the one that I wanted to
talk about. There is a German woman who has never
been in the top one hundred before. She had to
go through qualifiers just to get into the tournament because
(02:07):
she's not ranked high enough to get an automatic entry right.
So she's won two games, loses the last round of
the qualifiers, books a flight home because she thinks she
has to go home. The person who was meant to
be in her spot gets injured on the day of
the game. She plays with ten minutes notice in that
one hundred and thirty two thousand dollars game, wins, wins
(02:27):
in the next round, wins the next round, makes it
through to the round of sixteen, gets absolutely rolled by
one of the best players in the world egishwantek Okay.
But she's come so far, Yes, but this German player,
even lease, has gone from booking a flight home on
like winning two thousand dollars in the qualifiers to winning
four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's a life changing amount of money for her. And
she's lovely and she had no idea about it. This
is a further she's ever been. They told her about it,
and she goes, what how much money?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
How do they not know? Though, wouldn't you go into
this going okay, because I would be prepared go okay,
so I win this, I'll get this amount of money. Like,
how do you go and just play a game and
not know how much you're going to get?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Played for the love of the game, do you though? No,
you played for the lover of money? Curios a tomic
of done.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I tried tennis once.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I remember looking at the like you know when you
go at school and you see the list of where
you are, and it was like ABC, and I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I was. I'm I was quite good at all other sports,
but I was on the U. It was a you
thing and I don't know what that meant, but I
was in the you team.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
They made a new division for you. They did so bad,
and they didn't pay you that much.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
She's crazy dollars, right, Yeah, it's good cash. Good on.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I'm they're entertaining us every single night, and well done,
even leaset take you four hundred and twenty grand back
to Germany.