September 4, 2025 • 42 mins
From Wimbledon dreams on her childhood bedroom wall to Slam finals and a chapter in Ash Barty’s memoir, Casey Dellacqua has done it all. In this episode, Georgie and Abby catch up with the tennis legend, commentator, mum of three, and all-around gem.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here at too Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
This land was never seated, always was, always will be.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think that's how it goes good. Hello, and welcome
to do good sports sports news told differently. I'm Georgie Tunney.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thank goodness you are because I'm happy jelly, And if
this was Freaky Friday, it would be a really weird world.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm so good. I'm thinking maybe I missed my calling
and I should have been a trombone in a different line.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Are they going to leave that in?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Or is it gonna sound? But now they have this intro.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow, that's how you really bully produces into leaving weird
content in Sorry team, I'm well. I was just reading
the weekend's paper and on the Saturday there was an
immense hottie on page three, and then also there was
a lift out on Sunday where you and Robin look
like supermodels?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Why thank you? Why thank you? Yep photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I know how uncomfortable that shit makes you. You would
not know.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I mean, you genuinely look like a bloody supermodel. I
like literally opened the paper and I'm like, Okay, what's happened?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm like, gor Gie, because you are the start.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Sorry, Ron's there is a wonderful prop You are bloody amazing.
Thank you amazing, Because of course the amazing rate starts
on Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes, the amazing race is almost upon us, dear listeners,
And don't you worry. I'm sure Joemy and I will
be having a lot to say next week after the
first episode.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
How many nights a week is it on?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is a question I should know the answer to.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want to say one, but it could be five.
Actually filming, it's so much filming. I'm so excited to
actually just see the final edit because when you're actually racing,
you've only got your camo and the soundo just with you,
and you never see what is happening with all the
other teams. Of course not so I'm I've only heard
what happened to them by them telling me. So there's
(02:02):
so many people in the first episode who were like, oh, yeah,
we walked by ourselves for an hour down a random road,
and I'm like, I hope that makes it in.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I'm so curious because you're on the other side of TV.
So I've done reality shows before I'm the host, and
they're like, oh, it's finished shit of a week, and
I'm like, ah, tonight because I don't have to do
any of the ship things, whereas you're now the person
that's sitting in the chair of G I hope we
get a nice edit.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I know it's wild. I've never done.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Reality only you were employed by the network.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
The edit.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
At least you might be a sure might be a
shot there.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Roberts done every reality TV show known to man. He
was meant to be my coach through on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He was os Idle Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, he's done Celebrity Apprentice. Did he really he
actually looks upon it really fondly?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, yep, does he actually know? He does loved it.
He loved it. He still talks about it. He's like,
that's why I became friends with Derm. That's how I
know Wendyll, That's how I.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Like, He's just get to demo bray y.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, drops all weird names to me. Oh yeah he actually, yeah,
he actually genuinely really loved that. What else has he done?
So many things?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's about blocks three across.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He got to do Celebrity Master, chef, and I was like,
do that one learn how to cook things? And it's like,
I think you need to know how to cook. I
was like, no, you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Television. It's a mystery box. You'll work it out. It's
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So yes. But he was meant to help me temper temper,
be my best self, become like everyone's favorite root for
you will yeah, yep, yep. I don't think he was
quite bargaining for just how psychotic I would be in
certain challenge.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just loved like there was a whole like breakout
quote from the interview that you did on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was like, she likes to win. Where's the lie?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Where where's the lie? So yes, we dear listeners going
to go on a journey together the race around this
parallel race.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's a sport for sports.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I mean, if we can make parallels about tailor swift,
we sure as hell can about this.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We're sure as hell maybe that'll be in our.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Good sport bad sport. We can decide if you were
a good sport or a bad sport.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that way, and we.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Could just have an honorable mention every week, was Georgie
a good or bad sport this week, money.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
In the jut.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, I'm just gonna let you go first, because i
have a feeling that I know what yours is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Because if it's not, I'm going to make you change it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm just going to start deal listeners with good sport,
bad sport. It's a bad sport, I'm gonna say. But
I'm just gonna let this statement official statement to the
talking Brisbane Broncos are aware of a video posted by
Rhys Walsh on a social media platform. The club can
clarify that Walsh is currently renovating his home and has
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installed a brand new toilet in a brand new bathroom
which remains unused. The video represents a poor attempt at
hu posted privately by Walsh. No one should take this
video seriously or act upon the advice. Was I expecting
to ever read a statement like that from my beloved team.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But was I ever expecting my favorite player to post
a video of him drinking from a toilet bowl and
post it on social media intentionally?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I didn't think I was going to be expecting that either.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So, just to really clarify, that is the Broncos having
to put out a public press release about one of
the biggest stars in the game I in the country. Yes,
in Reese Walsh, who's playing exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So well at the moment, so well. Top four here
we go.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Who posted a video cupping water out of the toilet
with wonderfully painted fingernails, by the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Way, wonderful rednails into his own mouth, yes, claiming it
had recovery benefits for muscles.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And they've had to say, by the way, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Please please don't, please don't, but it became A healthy.
Guy at Crisis Comms at the Broncos gets a call
and they're like mates Reese Walsh, and he goes, oh,
tell me he hasn't let someone punch him in their
head again. No, no, but it is going to require
a statement. Yeah, okay, was he do you drank out
of a toilet?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What you know that meme of the dog? Everything's on fire?
If this is fine, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He doesn't get paid enough.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I feel that he's doubled down and made his insta
profile pick a plumber.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, which is actually very funny from him. Can I
just say that's very funny and I know that everyone
would know he is legitimately one of my favorite players
on Earth, and he has taken toilet humor too literally.
While I don't condone it, how he's handled it by
making those hilarious jokes with his display picture I do love.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Club honestly would just be tearing their hair out. But
I mean, the boy can play. He has played us
into a top four position baby potentially with those gorgeous nails.
And I just.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, sometimes you got to take you gotta take
these hits.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You gotta take these hits of what is going on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So my favorite take on this was b Tuda being
like Reese Walsh clearly not aware that every trade christens
the toilet that they install, which I just thought that
is both feral and accurate. And it's Reese Walsh's toilet.
You're not telling me that they're not going. Oh, by
the way, is this is what happened there? It's just
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it's a weird world.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's a different world, isn't.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Meanwhile, I had Bailey Smith in the fact that he
had to change his shoes.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What do you need to change your shoes?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He went to the All Australian wearing rebox or some
his loafers. Yes, so Steve Hawking, very senior at the Cats,
had to change his RMS with him on the night.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So Steve Hawking, who's silver, had to go around wearing
silver shoes because Bailey Smith couldn't pack his own shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who are these men? Sort your lives out?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So we better get a good sport in here.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh he's very good at sport, but Australian women's sport,
doing Australian women's sports things.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Molly Pickling World.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Champions, Oh my gosh, we love nicknamed the Pickle, twenty
two years old from the coast.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So who is she twenty two? How old am I?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I know? But also so she was twelve?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, last time I changed she was twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
She's been like teenager coming up the ring.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We have a new world champion, and of course it's
another ousy woman. We absolutely love her. In the surfing,
she came off winning the World Surf League Finals in PG.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Just stuff. And also just like I feel like we're
gonna get on the pod.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
We have to, have to, we have to. She's one
of the best interviews. She's just so excited and passionate
about life. And exactly what you think of Surfa sounds
like which is the best? Is the best?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So circle, Molly, Circle, Molly, we're gonna working that out.
She had to work for Albany, surely makes more sense
for a sports podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yep, yep, Molly, we are manifesting. Yeah, we are manifesting.
We have already manifested though for you today, deal listener,
because the guests that we have on very very strong,
even if we do say so ourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
She has walked upon as some of the most renowned
tennis surfaces, from Rod Laver's Royal Blue hardcourt to Wimbledon's
Hallowed Grass. There is no stage too big for Casey
de Laqui, with either a racket or now a microphone
in her hand. An incredible singles player in her own right,
Casey really shone, though brighter than her own smile when
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there was a friend beside her. She reached the top
three world ranking in doubles, winning a mixed double slam
at the French in twenty eleven, and also was very
well known for being the doubles partner too of Miss
Ash Party.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And if you've read Ash's book, it's actually Casey that
was like, come on, honey, maybe pick up the racket again.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So we have so much to thank Casey for.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But Georgie, that was a wonderful intro about one of
the greatest athletes our country's ever produced. I know Casey
as a spice girl from primary school on our front
lawn doing some roly polies, because that's how long I've
had the pleasure of knowing Casey d Lakhma because she
was great mates with my sister in primary school. And
I'm surprised you even got to play a single spice
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girl because my sister.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Would have played all of them. Casey, welcome to do
good sports, Cacy.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh my goodness, Casey, is this true? First off with
spice girl?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah? Look, I was always forty spice. Of course, it
was hard to get a show with Belinda around. She
was very yep, she was the leader of the trip,
so but she was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
But thank you, Georgie.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
That was such a delightful introduction, probably one of the
better ones I've ever had in my career.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So thank you, and.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thanks for bringing out Ash's book as well, because we
do joke that I've got my whole chapter in her
book as well.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So that's a real career highlight.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Too, you really do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And it's such a Again, we don't want to first
talk about Ash because you must feel like people just
want to segue into it. But I feel like she
painted such a beautiful picture of your friendship and just
how much she leant on you and loved you. It's
so special and it's an amazing book.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
If you haven't read it, it is a really inspiring
book just in terms of having so much success so
young for someone like Ash and those kind of difficulties
and her journey so look to be a small part
of her journey was fantastic. But I think for me,
what is most special is our friendship and that is
what sport is about. That is what community sports about.
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That's what high level sport's about. It's finding someone you trust,
finding someone new connect with, and also enjoying it, right,
like even what you two do on the podcast, like
just talking sport, having fun, that's what it's about. So no,
I'm very very lucky to have Ash you in my life.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Talk about some of your intros that you've received over
the course of your career and life case. Do you
ever get used to just people clapping at you?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
And it's so funny, like when you become a parent,
you're so like out of that tennis headspace where you think, like,
my kids don't care obviously what I do or what
I do in tennis or what I have done's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Rood of them.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Rude, so rude, especially when you try and give them
advice about sport and they think you don't know anything,
and I'm like, but no, this.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Is undernines, it's high performance. Okay, just understand now that's it.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And you're speaking of so life now at the moment
is a largely mum's life. We've seen you doing some
amazing commentary on stand as well.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Look, it's obviously with three young ones, it's definitely you know,
in the thick of parenting.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
But I have been so fortunate since I retired.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I work with Tennis Australia in their particularly in their
women and girls' space, So heavily involved in terms of
you know, on and off court work within tennis, which
is amazing coming from Perth. As you know, Abby, my
local tennis club was across from our high school with
our high school, you know, Kingsley Tennis Club was the
first club I was raised and highly influenced by my
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mum and Nan who got me into the sport and
my family and my dad who played footy. So I
think having now giving back in a different way is great.
And then yeah, obviously doing a lot of the media
and broadcast stuff, I do really enjoy that because it
puts a different lens in terms of you know, I
like to educate people on tennis, but also the advocacy
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piece about women in sport and you know, using your
voice as best you can to make sure that we
highlight all of the success of women in sport.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
But yeah, I love tennis. I live and breathe that.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I still you know, wake up, you know, through the night,
check results. So yeah, it's definitely such a big part
of my life.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, you talk about tennis of course, and wanting to
be an advocate for the women's game. How proud of
you are you of tennis in the fact that it
is one of the only sports in the world that
really does have equal prize money for men and women.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yeah, look, I think we have definitely I know that
women's sport has gained so much momentum. But I do
think tennis has been a bit of a leader of
the park in that sense. We you know, had incredible
trailblazers like Serena Williams, Billy Jean King, and we've been
so fortunate to have them. And big part of you know,
when you go on tour is that education around. You
get to earn that prize money, you get to have
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that privilege of playing on these big courts because of
those that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Have come before you.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
So I think that's a really big privilege to have
people in the sport. But I think here in Australia,
you know, we've got such a great history in tennis
and to now be involved kind of at the back
end of delivering programs and being on court with young
girls or whatever it might be, young boys girls, it's
it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Excuse my ignorance case, but did you ever play against
Serena Encore in any like for doubles or singles?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yes, I actually was talking about this the other day.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
The first time I ever faced Serena and Venus was
in a doubles match at the show. Both of us
in two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So I was like, that is so long ago, right, Like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Do you do you see Venus now still entering into
comps and be like, I am tired, yes, thinking about
what you're even pretending to do, Like two thousand and
three was so long ago?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you were playing?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
So long ago right like I was. I would have
been seventeen, so I was like young first, kind of
like Andy, this was when they were at their peak,
like they were ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
But yes, to now see Venus playing, I'm like, I agree.
I'm like, I'm tired.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
To see her out there playing performing at the level
that she is still like just incredible. She had such
a great run at the US Open and the double
still and I'm just like, wow, you're you're incredible, too good.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
When there's a feature film made about your career and
you're still playing. Oh, you've done enough that they won,
but you're still going did.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They did they have an aura? Ca see?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I mean it might shock you to know that Gelmy
and I have actually not stood across from them to
take them on ah yet yet.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, there's still be timed.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
There's still a chance. Did they have like a different
aura to anyone else? Or are they just humans.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Look, no, they definitely for me as a seventeen year
old young west Ossie kind of hitting one of you know,
the Strain Open, one of the slams that I dreamed
of playing at to face them as a pair. Yes,
they absolutely had an aura. I think the more that
I got to be on tour and then I played Venus,
I think of about three times in singles. I didn't
face Serena in singles, but they had an aura.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
They had this in.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
The locker room before you walked out in court, like
you just knew that they were just going to bring it.
And yeah, but they're so inspiring as well, like what
they've been able to achieve in the game and beautiful
people and always giving back in different ways. So they
definitely though had an aura, especially like I said, for
a seventeen year old young girl from Wa.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, people from WS A lot of things give us aura.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We don't have come from the streets of Woodbelle and Kingsley.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There are a lot of things we're like, Wow, that's
a large city, that's Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Wow cool, we're talking.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, when you were talking about looking forward to playing it,
something like the os Open, we'll remove the odds because
we know it would have been your favorite. But what
was your favorite Slam? Because they have such different flavors
and different energy.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, have you both ever been to any of the
other slams before?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No sponsor us.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You've got a big buck.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We really do traveling with toddlers. Let's do it. Well.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Look, I think, yeah, they do all have a different aura.
Now I'm using that word aura, but yes, they do
have a different five different feeling about them. I think
growing up I had Wimbleden for me was a massive dream. Obviously,
this shran open was like accessible and I'd been there
as a young kid and it was a big dream.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I think for wimbed and it was like this
fantasy land.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It was like those you know dream time stories that
you just think about being at. So yeah, I think
wimbed and I did. Also, Abby would know my dad
quite well. Kim he also my parents.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
My mechanic. Yes, we loved him. I loved kimmy de law. Yeah,
used camer.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
How funny he so my parents. I did paint my
room green and purple, windwed and colors back in the
day as well. So yeah, whilst I had my Spice
girls and handsome posters kind of scattered across my room
as well. But my walls I think were green and
my architraves were purple. It was the other way around,
but I had green and purple just and you know,
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like it was the one tournament that my parents would
let me stay up late. I remember sitting on the couch,
falling asleep, waking up watching Wimbleden. So I think for
me being able to play at Wimboedden was an absolute
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
To be back there the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I got to play back there with Ash in the
invitational last year in the Thetis event, but yeah, that
was super.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Fun as well. Oh my god, I can't wait for
the Oscar winning movie. That's going to be de Laco
and we go right back to childhood and see this
room again. Also Casey fun fact. Though I was by
no means a high performance athlete, I have always loved
sport and when it was the Sydney Olympics, I had
braces and decided to get green and gold brackets, which
so that's the same fourteenth though, what a terrible choice.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
What does him do that now? With these days with braces,
I know, what you mean.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The kids are all getting in visil lined no color,
they don't have any or anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But we better, we better actually get to the USO.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It was gone too far so US Open wise, Casey,
how have you rated the whole tournament currently? Because the
semis not to give away exactly when we record this,
the semis are upon us.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yes, yeah, Look, it's been US Open. It's always an
interesting tournament. I feel like over the years we've had
different winners, We've had different kind of people come through
that maybe don't put you're not expecting to have that
run so much so it's been interesting in terms of
seeing unfold. Well, if we start with the women's game,
Eager she Fiontek was my one two that I picked
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pre tournament, just having come off Wimbledon, she'd won Cincinnati,
had such a good lead in to the US Open,
but has gone down in the quarterfinals to Anasamova. And
it's a fascinating story because only five weeks ago she
beat her in the Wimbledon final six love, six love,
which you know is just a devastating loss in any
any way, let alone at a Slam final.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So then wasn't it a record breaking it was like
the final went for three minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Was smart, yes she was, and she was crying saying.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
She was so sad that her mum traveled, and then
to be able to turn it around like they're the
emotional moments of.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Sport, aren't they, And that's what's sport is. It's just funny,
like this is why I just love tennis too. It's
a really good example of saying, Okay, well this happened
five weeks ago, but look at.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
What she's done. She's took some time.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I'm sure she's gone and spoken to someone about how
that affected her, and then you know, gone through with
her team, putting in things in place, and then comes
out and redeems herself brilliantly, just goes out there, plays
her game and just takes it to Eger and has
beaten her and now into the semi finals. So that's
a really great story that I've loved following Sabalanka is
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looking good, Osaka is also looking fan fantastic.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Great to see her playing some great tennis.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
And then on the men, Just to touch on the men,
I mean, everyone's talking about El Karaz and Sinner. It's
very hard to go past either of them. And it
was awesome to see Alex have such a great run
as well. But it's really hard to go past Sinner
and El Kraz at.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This point with Alex Duminor, who sadly does not make
it to another Grand Slam semi going out in the quarters,
is that like how much of a toll would that
be taking me on him mentally? Because you can try
and brush it off and you know, I stub my
toe and I'm like, it's the worst day in the world,
But like, what is going on for him? Do you think?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah, look, I have no doubt he will be extremely disappointed,
of course, having had that opportunity once again. I just
I think if we try and put it into perspective
and only I can empathize with him because obviously I
was a player and on tour for so long, it
is so hard to make one Grand Slam quarter final,
So the fact that he has made it to so
(22:36):
many and consistently done that, I think we undervalue that
type of achievement. Even though I know he will be
extremely disappointed, and he will you know, there'll be a
lot of people talking about him not being able to
get to a Grand Slam semi final.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Why Caanti and all of that.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I think I just always try and put my feet
in someone else's shoes when especially when you've been there
and I I made a number of fourth rounds at
slams and couldn't ever get to the quarter finals, and
it's difficult. But then when you take time to reflect,
you're like, wow, that was actually a really good achievement.
So I think it's just putting it into perspective. For Alex,
he does not like how good was his body language
(23:13):
through that whole match. He was up, he was bouncing around,
he fought for every point and honestly, like it's such
a good example of how to conduct yourself on a
tennis court when you are perhaps you know, facing adversity,
wanting to get there so bad. So yeah, I think,
well done, Alex. So it's been a great run and
he'll keep he'll keep pushing along.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He'll get there.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's so Australian to be like top ten in the world. Yeah, yeah,
when are you're going to make a semi.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Todium?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Playing so much?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Don't we because it's like you're like, oh my god,
you got bronze. Oh I don't know about that. Literally
third in the world.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Actually you've done ok like you've done okay. So yeah,
I just I really hope he gives himself a part
on the back because it's been a rough twelve months
for him. He talked about a little bit about being
burnt out, posts rolling and Garaoss. He took some time
off this time last year he was struggling with injury.
So look, I think for Alex what he's done and
achieved and continues to achieve, like backing it up in
(24:10):
tennis is so hard to do. I can't tell you
how our us it is to be on tour for
nine months of the year with big major tournaments, managing
your body, managing your emotions, being away from home. So look,
I just think he has had a great US Open,
Davis Cups up next, back.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Here in Australia, in Sydney.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
He's got a lot to look forward to, and let's
hope we can just you know, get excited for a
great summer of tennis when it comes around.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Because it was Alex iiminor that after the OS Open,
was in an interview and he sort of said it
flippantly but directly at the same time. Was that he said,
you know, I've got a week off here and that's
the first week off that I've had all year, and
then the tour demands that you need to get back
on the road, especially if you're going deep into tournaments
and playing lead up tournaments. There's so much burnout on
their bodies. Do you think that there needs to be
(24:56):
a change in the tour or is it just up
to the athletes to choose their own time to rest.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, Look, I think it's a little bit of both.
I think the schedule, especially on the men's tour, is
very long.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
There are a lot of tournaments, and they.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Play travels so much travel, which is what people really forget.
And I'm in case that you've done it, but like me,
going into stay is a milestone in itself right now,
let alone going to different slams and different time zones
across the world.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
These and when we're talking about athletes that are in
the top ten, it's all well and good if you
want to have a private jet or whatever it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Is that you're doing, because you can afford it.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
But if you're like in the lower end of the
top one hundred, which is a massive achievement, it's a
huge financial burden. To have that travel as well with
your coach. It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, it is a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
And so for those emerging players that have to do
all that, that's where it's really tough. Obviously when you
get when you get a little bit higher up the ranks,
it can become a little bit more sustainable and easy.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That owns a buffalo bills.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but other people on the jet.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yeah, it worked really hard and got there by hard
work and stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But I think, ye, of course, yeah, I think the tour.
I think the tour is long.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I think the tour is there's a lot of tournaments
and then there's also you know, you throw in some
whether it was an Olympic year last year for the
athletes that added extra you know, team events, and then
you know, there's always talk a little bit about you know,
the players playing exhibition matches and that. But then like
I also see it from that perspective, like you are
only an athlete for a very short period of time,
(26:33):
so you have to take every kind of opportunity you can,
whatever that might look like in terms of endorsements and
stuff too. So there is a lot, and I guess
ultimately it's up to the player to manage their schedule
and how they're dealing with all that. But yeah, it's
definitely it's not a It's not a sport for the
faint hearted, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I've got a two pronged question here, Casey, and it
involves Cocoa golf. It's not a sport for the faint hearted.
And that girl is linehearted. But we did see earlier
on in the tournament just the devastation that she was
working through in real time on the court, and she's
visibly upset, crying, trying to get control of her own emotions.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
A former champion that two.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So, firstly, have you ever experienced that on court, that
level of I've just broken here and I'm going to
show everyone. And two, what is it like to interview
them after the game? Yeah, because you're the one that
they first go to.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
No, it's a really great question, Georgie. And I think
watching Coco over the last week, it has been quite
difficult to watch just seeing she's only twenty one, like
can you believe her? Like she's so young at still
on the bigger stage. And I love that she shows
oneerability because we're all human, right if i've reflect on
my career. No, I probably didn't let myself do that
(27:52):
enough where I just would hold it in, hold it
in till it got to the point where I'd come
off court and explode or you know, like have a mental.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Breakdown or whatever it might look like.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
But I think, you know, it was very visible how
much difficulty she was having with her serve.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
And when you're out on a tennis court.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
And you have, especially on Arthur Ash is a huge court,
it's so overwhelming and you feel like our eyes are
on you just having to hit this serve in time
and time again, it would have just been you know,
not fun for her at all. So I think she
did a great job of you know, getting to the
fourth round and managing it as best she could.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
What was the second part of the question.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
When that happens, and when a player is going through
such a visible roller coaster and you, in your role
as commentator, you're their court side, and you know that
you're going to have to talk to them first, right,
especially if they've somehow managed to win that match and
you're there going so thoughts and feelings like how how
(28:54):
do you go about coping with that yourself?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, well, I think that's where I'm fortunate to be
able to draw on my own lived experience, and I think,
as I said, I genuinely always try and put myself
in someone else's shoes before I ask a question or
before I kind of head down a path with whatever
I'm asking someone, so and try and be empathetic. I
(29:19):
always come, try and come from a place of empathy,
especially in tennis, having been through it, and it's very
hard to I find it's difficult to be too critical,
and that when I've done a lot of things in
my career over the years as well, whether that's good
or bad, but it's just everyone's going through their own experience.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You try and just if you come with empathy.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Most of the players know that all particularly for myself,
I'm there to let them share their experience in the
best way that they can.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
So I just try and do that as best I can.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And you do it really well, it translates and everyone
can see that the warmth that comes across between you,
and again it's such a gift to have been able
to have been on the tour yourself, so that they
know it's like, ah, one of ours there is and
Georgie and I unfortunately don't have that across any code
that we just like to do. They rain understand the
lead performance, they understand the pressure. I'm like, let me
(30:12):
get the pronunciation of your name correct and we shall
move on. But you mentioned what it's like the intimidation
of something like Arthur Ash Stadium and something for mine,
I genuinely believe the rockstar event in the world is
tennis slams. When you look at the level of celebrity,
particularly wimbled and now what we're going to see in
the men's and women's finals at Arthur Rash.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It is the met Gala meat sport.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Oh yeah, Like there is the pinnacle of tickets and
it's so chic and it's but then imagine like you're
out on court having to perform.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
In front of that level is there and that level
of celebrity.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Who's the biggest celebrity And granted you would have met
like obviously Roger and Raffa in interview formats later in
life as well, which I would genuflect.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
But what what would that feel like when you knew
that there were celebrities in the crowd?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Was there ever anyone that you're like, oh my god,
they're here.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Isn't it funny? Because like I, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
A swifty like Georgie. I know you're a swifty Georgie,
but you.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Thank you, Casey, thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
But no, it's so funny because I can't say that
I'm like very much of a like anyone.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Like people to me are people.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So I don't get often overwhelmed by celebrities or I could.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Talk most of the time.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I feel like I could talk to most people, although
I did find it very I did used to go
to Perth Airport when Steven Silvanni and Anthony Koterfeedies used
to rock up and Carlton played West Coast back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I got yeah, I used to I did. Used to
do that.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Remember when you used to do that and used to
go to the airport and like get or your autographics out.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah door stop them. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Before I used to get selfies, you'd be like signed
with the paper the sharpie please work. Yeah, it was
before sharpies whatever those other ones were. Again, we didn't
have celebrities in Perth. This was as good as it
got exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
They were like my and talking about role models, like
there wasn't obviously women's sport wasn't like it was now,
so you know, often it was a lot of the
men number one. But yeah, I think like now I'm
a bit like I don't really get overwhelmed people like
I could talk to anyone basically, but can.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You drop some names of the people that you've been
in the same room with you like, well this other
people will think this is cool.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well I think I'm so it's so funny because I
find it so intimidating, Like when I have to interview
when I've had to like interview Rafa or Roger for example,
or Serena or like to me, they are like that.
That was probably the most intimidated that I've ever been
in terms of seeing the celebrities and stuff. Even when
(33:02):
I've played on like Rod Labor and Billy Jean King
has been in the crowd, h so you know Rod
Laver for example, Like that's when I because I'm like,
they're also going to critique how I'm playing out on
court because they've been there. They know, you know what
the game is about. But I think, yes, so, but
what I was when I brought up Taylor Swift. I
(33:23):
was like, if Taylor Swift was in the crowd, I
think that would be like I think anyone would probably
be a bit intimidated by that. But I haven't really,
I don't, I can't really off the top of my
head remember thinking. But the tennis players, they are probably
just a yeah. And my trainer back in the day,
georgiz L and Nathan Martin, they were wonderful fitness trainers.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
They also trained Magda Zabanski, who's going for her own.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Battles at the moment, God love her, but they used
to train her, and so I did a couple of
training sessions with Magda and she.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Actually came and sat in my players box one year.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
So, and obviously, being a fan of Kath and Kim,
I had this dream of being able to go on
that show and be like on her netball team or something.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But I was going to ask, I was like, were
you training with Magda or Sharon?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Story?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
And also very healthy of you to not be affected
by what's going on in the crowd. Whereas Jomy and
I would be.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Like hello, I'd literally rock up and be like I
need to break any binoculars.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Hugh Lovely to see you, Brad. Welcome here is everyone good?
Everyone selling?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's very CAZy to not be right away? Why is
there no more come off?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I feel like I want to ever.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I want feeling like when I saw the Matilda's girls,
you know, like I used to I get.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, I don't know Aussie athletes and people.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That just the fact when Matilda's sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, I wanted. I wanted to check you. Are you
okay about Jack? Yeah? There's a welfare check for Casey.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
That's big. I have to say.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Living in Sydney now, it's very, very hard to get
away from NRL foot, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Like I was lived and breathed it.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
But moving to Sydney, oh my gosh, it's so hard
to now not get immersed in NRL. But still obviously
have a soft spot for the AFL. But I have
to say I follow a lot of NRL now.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
As we should, as you should. I mean, you're with
the wrong team, I mean the Broncos. What headlines have
we been in this week? I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Is really going down the toilet? We better, we better push.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
On, we need we need to get who you think
Casey is going to win the US Open Men's and
women's singles draw, who are the winners?
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Okay, for the men's I'll just I'm going to stick
with Yannick Sinner because I picked him pre tournament, So
I'm going to go with Yannick.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I think he will.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Win the men's and then on the women's I'm going
to go with Arena Sablenka.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I think she's champion.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
She's had a bit of a rough year with if
you reflect on her Grand Slam tournaments this year, you know,
like obviously losing this Straan Open final, losing the role
in Garross final, going back to the New York as
the defending champions. So I feel like she might do
it again this year.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
She doesn't get runner up, oh yeah, doesn't love a
runner up.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
For her to be fair, that is, so I feel
like that's the realist that she's ever been. Is when
she was runner up and it was just filthy about it,
and I was like, yes, yes, yes, she played Okay,
I was horrendous.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Just exactly how you talk to your girlfriends.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
But then everyone obviously was like, you're being a little
bit disrespectful to the opponent. But she was just trying
to be self critical, like I think there's that balance there.
But one of my favorite moments from the tournament, and
I forget who said it was one of the guys
came up to.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Shakes in his hand at the end and was like, bro,
you're like AI.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Said that. It was so funny.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's immaculate because you do watch him play, and Georgie
and I have had the privilege of watching him play
at the OZ Open, and I'm like, is this broad
like just designed? Everything looks so he's the terminator beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
He's unbelievable to watch in real time.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yeah, and in that match particularly like he just annihilated
Bublik one one on one and did it like that.
And Bublic is a really good player too, but Sinna
had lost to him just not long ago, so I
think there was a bit of like, don't poke the bear.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I'm coming out for a bit of redemption as well.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
But yeah, when Sinner's apparently well, well you would have
seen that he's a great skier and he's so balanced,
and that's one thing that when you watch him on court,
with every shot he plays his core, he's like so balanced.
Hence I think when you watch him, you're just like
this guy is this guy real?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
And they're just incredible, so relatable.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
You know, Grab Skiing loves wearing Gucci, He's just the everyman.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
He stepped up the cat to center court. I think
it's pretty clear that we could talk to you all day,
Casey d'acla, but we have taken up so much of
your time and we so appreciate it. We will be
obviously seeing if you are nostrodamus and checking those predictions.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
No, I'm not actually a very I'm not a very
good predictor, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
But thank you so much for having me. Love your work,
great to chat.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Well, I mean, Grand Slam Queen of our hearts, Casey
de laqua, right there.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Also just thanks for letting me catch up with an
all family friend on work time.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Nice to hear from it.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's like, you know, where people like who's the most
famous person that you went to school with or something
like that, and you have a bunch and including Casey
de laque.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, my high school like to breed AFL players who
was like what they did, Although arguably the most famous
person who went to my school is the person who
created canvas.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Yes, that's what.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So Melanie Perkins, who's now I don't know, seven billion dollars,
had a locker diagonal from mine. So the most offensive
thing is we have the same education and she decided
to become a tech mogul.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We had the same physics teacher.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Were there any any loose change fallen down from.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Her in her year?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Looke couldn't have had a swing, even though I know
her husband Cliff lovely, But come on, anyway, we really digressed.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Life just goes a different ways sometimes.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
School, but I do if we're talking about millions, I
do have a fun pack.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Fun fact, what a seg.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The ICC have quadrupled the ODI World Cup winnings for
the women's competition to twenty one million dollars, which is
great news for the Aussies because the last time we
won it was a boofteenth of that and by that
I mean a quarter.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
How incredible. That's so good.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It will now be more than what the men's competition
was worth when it was last played, which was fifteen
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
So the winners will get six point nine million.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Oh my gosh, I love this.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So the is investing more in women's sport, which we love.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That is a fun, fun fact.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
And it's a deserving fact. Do you know what that
gay have been when you talk about we know, we
hate this word everyone women's sport. It's just sport when
you talk about men's sport, women's sport. Cricket is one
of those that has fought the fight to have a
quality for so so long and been most successful arguably
(40:30):
with it. And this is just another huge step towards.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
That literally huge. So we can't wait.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And we also had if you want to have a
listen back, we of course had Alisa Healy and Phoebe
Lytchfield on the pod.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeap who has recently just had a win as well,
Phoebe Litchfield, most recently in her T twenty series that
she plays for internationally. They were so she's yeah, she's incredible.
She's incredible, So go back and listen to that episode. Actually,
because they're the best, they're more of our friends.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, now we have many a famous friend including Casey.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You like, we would just like to thank case again
for giving up her time and again let's just wait
and see if her predictions come true. Do you think
we'll win the US Open?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
By the way, I mean, I actually think I've got
to go for my mate al Chaaz because he's aerodynamic now.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
So so purely the haircut.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, we've talked about it on this podcast previously.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
He is.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
There's a dolphin.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Should be easier to give yourself a number one than
be number one, so let's.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Not go true.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I do think that Casey's called on Saberlenka is a
is a good one.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
But I also imagine if it's Osaka, Oh we what
a story it would be story. The fact that people
go back to doing anything after having kids should be
commended the fact that she's gone back to elite sport
with a la boobu and a tou tou like.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
What yeah, yeah, hey, Venus is back on court, tell
me you can do it.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Oh God, get there.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
There's no age limit.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It ain't happening. It ain't happening until next week.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Figarte spot h
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
I think that's how it goes good. Hello, and welcome
to do good sports sports news told differently. I'm Georgie Tunney.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Thank goodness you are because I'm happy jelly, And if
this was Freaky Friday, it would be a really weird world.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm so good. I'm thinking maybe I missed my calling
and I should have been a trombone in a different line.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Are they going to leave that in?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Or is it gonna sound? But now they have this intro.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow, that's how you really bully produces into leaving weird
content in Sorry team, I'm well. I was just reading
the weekend's paper and on the Saturday there was an
immense hottie on page three, and then also there was
a lift out on Sunday where you and Robin look
like supermodels?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Why thank you? Why thank you? Yep photo shoot.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I know how uncomfortable that shit makes you. You would
not know.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I mean, you genuinely look like a bloody supermodel. I
like literally opened the paper and I'm like, Okay, what's happened?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I'm like, gor Gie, because you are the start.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Sorry, Ron's there is a wonderful prop You are bloody amazing.
Thank you amazing, Because of course the amazing rate starts
on Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yes, the amazing race is almost upon us, dear listeners,
And don't you worry. I'm sure Joemy and I will
be having a lot to say next week after the
first episode.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
How many nights a week is it on?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is a question I should know the answer to.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I want to say one, but it could be five.
Actually filming, it's so much filming. I'm so excited to
actually just see the final edit because when you're actually racing,
you've only got your camo and the soundo just with you,
and you never see what is happening with all the
other teams. Of course not so I'm I've only heard
what happened to them by them telling me. So there's
(02:02):
so many people in the first episode who were like, oh, yeah,
we walked by ourselves for an hour down a random road,
and I'm like, I hope that makes it in.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I'm so curious because you're on the other side of TV.
So I've done reality shows before I'm the host, and
they're like, oh, it's finished shit of a week, and
I'm like, ah, tonight because I don't have to do
any of the ship things, whereas you're now the person
that's sitting in the chair of G I hope we
get a nice edit.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I know it's wild. I've never done.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Reality only you were employed by the network.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
The edit.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
At least you might be a sure might be a
shot there.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Roberts done every reality TV show known to man. He
was meant to be my coach through on.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He was os Idle Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, he's done Celebrity Apprentice. Did he really he
actually looks upon it really fondly?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, yep, does he actually know? He does loved it.
He loved it. He still talks about it. He's like,
that's why I became friends with Derm. That's how I
know Wendyll, That's how I.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Like, He's just get to demo bray y.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, drops all weird names to me. Oh yeah he actually, yeah,
he actually genuinely really loved that. What else has he done?
So many things?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's about blocks three across.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He got to do Celebrity Master, chef, and I was like,
do that one learn how to cook things? And it's like,
I think you need to know how to cook. I
was like, no, you don't.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Television. It's a mystery box. You'll work it out. It's
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So yes. But he was meant to help me temper temper,
be my best self, become like everyone's favorite root for
you will yeah, yep, yep. I don't think he was
quite bargaining for just how psychotic I would be in
certain challenge.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just loved like there was a whole like breakout
quote from the interview that you did on the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It was like, she likes to win. Where's the lie?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Where where's the lie? So yes, we dear listeners going
to go on a journey together the race around this
parallel race.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's a sport for sports.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I mean, if we can make parallels about tailor swift,
we sure as hell can about this.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
We're sure as hell maybe that'll be in our.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Good sport bad sport. We can decide if you were
a good sport or a bad sport.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, that way, and we.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Could just have an honorable mention every week, was Georgie
a good or bad sport this week, money.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
In the jut.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, I'm just gonna let you go first, because i
have a feeling that I know what yours is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Because if it's not, I'm going to make you change it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm just going to start deal listeners with good sport,
bad sport. It's a bad sport, I'm gonna say. But
I'm just gonna let this statement official statement to the
talking Brisbane Broncos are aware of a video posted by
Rhys Walsh on a social media platform. The club can
clarify that Walsh is currently renovating his home and has
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installed a brand new toilet in a brand new bathroom
which remains unused. The video represents a poor attempt at
hu posted privately by Walsh. No one should take this
video seriously or act upon the advice. Was I expecting
to ever read a statement like that from my beloved team.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But was I ever expecting my favorite player to post
a video of him drinking from a toilet bowl and
post it on social media intentionally?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I didn't think I was going to be expecting that either.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So, just to really clarify, that is the Broncos having
to put out a public press release about one of
the biggest stars in the game I in the country. Yes,
in Reese Walsh, who's playing exceptionally well.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So well at the moment, so well. Top four here
we go.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Who posted a video cupping water out of the toilet
with wonderfully painted fingernails, by the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Way, wonderful rednails into his own mouth, yes, claiming it
had recovery benefits for muscles.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And they've had to say, by the way, guys.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Please please don't, please don't, but it became A healthy.
Guy at Crisis Comms at the Broncos gets a call
and they're like mates Reese Walsh, and he goes, oh,
tell me he hasn't let someone punch him in their
head again. No, no, but it is going to require
a statement. Yeah, okay, was he do you drank out
of a toilet?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What you know that meme of the dog? Everything's on fire?
If this is fine, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
He doesn't get paid enough.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I feel that he's doubled down and made his insta
profile pick a plumber.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, which is actually very funny from him. Can I
just say that's very funny and I know that everyone
would know he is legitimately one of my favorite players
on Earth, and he has taken toilet humor too literally.
While I don't condone it, how he's handled it by
making those hilarious jokes with his display picture I do love.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I think the.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Club honestly would just be tearing their hair out. But
I mean, the boy can play. He has played us
into a top four position baby potentially with those gorgeous nails.
And I just.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You know, sometimes you got to take you gotta take
these hits.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You gotta take these hits of what is going on.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So my favorite take on this was b Tuda being
like Reese Walsh clearly not aware that every trade christens
the toilet that they install, which I just thought that
is both feral and accurate. And it's Reese Walsh's toilet.
You're not telling me that they're not going. Oh, by
the way, is this is what happened there? It's just
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it's a weird world.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
It's a different world, isn't.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Meanwhile, I had Bailey Smith in the fact that he
had to change his shoes.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
What do you need to change your shoes?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
He went to the All Australian wearing rebox or some
his loafers. Yes, so Steve Hawking, very senior at the Cats,
had to change his RMS with him on the night.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
So Steve Hawking, who's silver, had to go around wearing
silver shoes because Bailey Smith couldn't pack his own shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Who are these men? Sort your lives out?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
So we better get a good sport in here.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh he's very good at sport, but Australian women's sport,
doing Australian women's sports things.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Molly Pickling World.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Champions, Oh my gosh, we love nicknamed the Pickle, twenty
two years old from the coast.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
So who is she twenty two? How old am I?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I know? But also so she was twelve?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, last time I changed she was twelve.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
She's been like teenager coming up the ring.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
We have a new world champion, and of course it's
another ousy woman. We absolutely love her. In the surfing,
she came off winning the World Surf League Finals in PG.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Just stuff. And also just like I feel like we're
gonna get on the pod.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
We have to, have to, we have to. She's one
of the best interviews. She's just so excited and passionate
about life. And exactly what you think of Surfa sounds
like which is the best? Is the best?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
So circle, Molly, Circle, Molly, we're gonna working that out.
She had to work for Albany, surely makes more sense
for a sports podcast.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yep, yep, Molly, we are manifesting. Yeah, we are manifesting.
We have already manifested though for you today, deal listener,
because the guests that we have on very very strong,
even if we do say so ourselves.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
She has walked upon as some of the most renowned
tennis surfaces, from Rod Laver's Royal Blue hardcourt to Wimbledon's
Hallowed Grass. There is no stage too big for Casey
de Laqui, with either a racket or now a microphone
in her hand. An incredible singles player in her own right,
Casey really shone, though brighter than her own smile when
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there was a friend beside her. She reached the top
three world ranking in doubles, winning a mixed double slam
at the French in twenty eleven, and also was very
well known for being the doubles partner too of Miss
Ash Party.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
And if you've read Ash's book, it's actually Casey that
was like, come on, honey, maybe pick up the racket again.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
So we have so much to thank Casey for.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But Georgie, that was a wonderful intro about one of
the greatest athletes our country's ever produced. I know Casey
as a spice girl from primary school on our front
lawn doing some roly polies, because that's how long I've
had the pleasure of knowing Casey d Lakhma because she
was great mates with my sister in primary school. And
I'm surprised you even got to play a single spice
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girl because my sister.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Would have played all of them. Casey, welcome to do
good sports, Cacy.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh my goodness, Casey, is this true? First off with
spice girl?
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah? Look, I was always forty spice. Of course, it
was hard to get a show with Belinda around. She
was very yep, she was the leader of the trip,
so but she was fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
But thank you, Georgie.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
That was such a delightful introduction, probably one of the
better ones I've ever had in my career.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So thank you, and.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Thanks for bringing out Ash's book as well, because we
do joke that I've got my whole chapter in her
book as well.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
So that's a real career highlight.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Too, you really do.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And it's such a Again, we don't want to first
talk about Ash because you must feel like people just
want to segue into it. But I feel like she
painted such a beautiful picture of your friendship and just
how much she leant on you and loved you. It's
so special and it's an amazing book.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
If you haven't read it, it is a really inspiring
book just in terms of having so much success so
young for someone like Ash and those kind of difficulties
and her journey so look to be a small part
of her journey was fantastic. But I think for me,
what is most special is our friendship and that is
what sport is about. That is what community sports about.
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That's what high level sport's about. It's finding someone you trust,
finding someone new connect with, and also enjoying it, right,
like even what you two do on the podcast, like
just talking sport, having fun, that's what it's about. So no,
I'm very very lucky to have Ash you in my life.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Talk about some of your intros that you've received over
the course of your career and life case. Do you
ever get used to just people clapping at you?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
And it's so funny, like when you become a parent,
you're so like out of that tennis headspace where you think, like,
my kids don't care obviously what I do or what
I do in tennis or what I have done's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Rood of them.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Rude, so rude, especially when you try and give them
advice about sport and they think you don't know anything,
and I'm like, but no, this.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Is undernines, it's high performance. Okay, just understand now that's it.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
And that's good.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And you're speaking of so life now at the moment
is a largely mum's life. We've seen you doing some
amazing commentary on stand as well.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Look, it's obviously with three young ones, it's definitely you know,
in the thick of parenting.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
But I have been so fortunate since I retired.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
I work with Tennis Australia in their particularly in their
women and girls' space, So heavily involved in terms of
you know, on and off court work within tennis, which
is amazing coming from Perth. As you know, Abby, my
local tennis club was across from our high school with
our high school, you know, Kingsley Tennis Club was the
first club I was raised and highly influenced by my
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mum and Nan who got me into the sport and
my family and my dad who played footy. So I
think having now giving back in a different way is great.
And then yeah, obviously doing a lot of the media
and broadcast stuff, I do really enjoy that because it
puts a different lens in terms of you know, I
like to educate people on tennis, but also the advocacy
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piece about women in sport and you know, using your
voice as best you can to make sure that we
highlight all of the success of women in sport.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
But yeah, I love tennis. I live and breathe that.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I still you know, wake up, you know, through the night,
check results. So yeah, it's definitely such a big part
of my life.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, you talk about tennis of course, and wanting to
be an advocate for the women's game. How proud of
you are you of tennis in the fact that it
is one of the only sports in the world that
really does have equal prize money for men and women.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yeah, look, I think we have definitely I know that
women's sport has gained so much momentum. But I do
think tennis has been a bit of a leader of
the park in that sense. We you know, had incredible
trailblazers like Serena Williams, Billy Jean King, and we've been
so fortunate to have them. And big part of you know,
when you go on tour is that education around. You
get to earn that prize money, you get to have
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that privilege of playing on these big courts because of
those that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Have come before you.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
So I think that's a really big privilege to have
people in the sport. But I think here in Australia,
you know, we've got such a great history in tennis
and to now be involved kind of at the back
end of delivering programs and being on court with young
girls or whatever it might be, young boys girls, it's
it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Excuse my ignorance case, but did you ever play against
Serena Encore in any like for doubles or singles?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Yes, I actually was talking about this the other day.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
The first time I ever faced Serena and Venus was
in a doubles match at the show. Both of us
in two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
So I was like, that is so long ago, right, Like.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Do you do you see Venus now still entering into
comps and be like, I am tired, yes, thinking about
what you're even pretending to do, Like two thousand and
three was so long ago?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Do you were playing?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (15:40):
So long ago right like I was. I would have
been seventeen, so I was like young first, kind of
like Andy, this was when they were at their peak,
like they were ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
But yes, to now see Venus playing, I'm like, I agree.
I'm like, I'm tired.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
To see her out there playing performing at the level
that she is still like just incredible. She had such
a great run at the US Open and the double
still and I'm just like, wow, you're you're incredible, too good.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
When there's a feature film made about your career and
you're still playing. Oh, you've done enough that they won,
but you're still going did.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They did they have an aura? Ca see?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
I mean it might shock you to know that Gelmy
and I have actually not stood across from them to
take them on ah yet yet.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, there's still be timed.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
There's still a chance. Did they have like a different
aura to anyone else? Or are they just humans.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Look, no, they definitely for me as a seventeen year
old young west Ossie kind of hitting one of you know,
the Strain Open, one of the slams that I dreamed
of playing at to face them as a pair. Yes,
they absolutely had an aura. I think the more that
I got to be on tour and then I played Venus,
I think of about three times in singles. I didn't
face Serena in singles, but they had an aura.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
They had this in.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
The locker room before you walked out in court, like
you just knew that they were just going to bring it.
And yeah, but they're so inspiring as well, like what
they've been able to achieve in the game and beautiful
people and always giving back in different ways. So they
definitely though had an aura, especially like I said, for
a seventeen year old young girl from Wa.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, people from WS A lot of things give us aura.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
We don't have come from the streets of Woodbelle and Kingsley.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There are a lot of things we're like, Wow, that's
a large city, that's Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Wow cool, we're talking.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, when you were talking about looking forward to playing it,
something like the os Open, we'll remove the odds because
we know it would have been your favorite. But what
was your favorite Slam? Because they have such different flavors
and different energy.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, have you both ever been to any of the
other slams before?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No sponsor us.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You've got a big buck.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
We really do traveling with toddlers. Let's do it. Well.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Look, I think, yeah, they do all have a different aura.
Now I'm using that word aura, but yes, they do
have a different five different feeling about them. I think
growing up I had Wimbleden for me was a massive dream. Obviously,
this shran open was like accessible and I'd been there
as a young kid and it was a big dream.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But I think for wimbed and it was like this
fantasy land.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It was like those you know dream time stories that
you just think about being at. So yeah, I think
wimbed and I did. Also, Abby would know my dad
quite well. Kim he also my parents.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
My mechanic. Yes, we loved him. I loved kimmy de law. Yeah,
used camer.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
How funny he so my parents. I did paint my
room green and purple, windwed and colors back in the
day as well. So yeah, whilst I had my Spice
girls and handsome posters kind of scattered across my room
as well. But my walls I think were green and
my architraves were purple. It was the other way around,
but I had green and purple just and you know,
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like it was the one tournament that my parents would
let me stay up late. I remember sitting on the couch,
falling asleep, waking up watching Wimbleden. So I think for
me being able to play at Wimboedden was an absolute
dream come true.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
To be back there the last couple of years.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I got to play back there with Ash in the
invitational last year in the Thetis event, but yeah, that
was super.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Fun as well. Oh my god, I can't wait for
the Oscar winning movie. That's going to be de Laco
and we go right back to childhood and see this
room again. Also Casey fun fact. Though I was by
no means a high performance athlete, I have always loved
sport and when it was the Sydney Olympics, I had
braces and decided to get green and gold brackets, which
so that's the same fourteenth though, what a terrible choice.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
What does him do that now? With these days with braces,
I know, what you mean.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The kids are all getting in visil lined no color,
they don't have any or anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But we better, we better actually get to the USO.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
It was gone too far so US Open wise, Casey,
how have you rated the whole tournament currently? Because the
semis not to give away exactly when we record this,
the semis are upon us.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yes, yeah, Look, it's been US Open. It's always an
interesting tournament. I feel like over the years we've had
different winners, We've had different kind of people come through
that maybe don't put you're not expecting to have that
run so much so it's been interesting in terms of
seeing unfold. Well, if we start with the women's game,
Eager she Fiontek was my one two that I picked
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pre tournament, just having come off Wimbledon, she'd won Cincinnati,
had such a good lead in to the US Open,
but has gone down in the quarterfinals to Anasamova. And
it's a fascinating story because only five weeks ago she
beat her in the Wimbledon final six love, six love,
which you know is just a devastating loss in any
any way, let alone at a Slam final.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
So then wasn't it a record breaking it was like
the final went for three minutes.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Was smart, yes she was, and she was crying saying.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
She was so sad that her mum traveled, and then
to be able to turn it around like they're the
emotional moments of.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Sport, aren't they, And that's what's sport is. It's just funny,
like this is why I just love tennis too. It's
a really good example of saying, Okay, well this happened
five weeks ago, but look at.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
What she's done. She's took some time.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I'm sure she's gone and spoken to someone about how
that affected her, and then you know, gone through with
her team, putting in things in place, and then comes
out and redeems herself brilliantly, just goes out there, plays
her game and just takes it to Eger and has
beaten her and now into the semi finals. So that's
a really great story that I've loved following Sabalanka is
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looking good, Osaka is also looking fan fantastic.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Great to see her playing some great tennis.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
And then on the men, Just to touch on the men,
I mean, everyone's talking about El Karaz and Sinner. It's
very hard to go past either of them. And it
was awesome to see Alex have such a great run
as well. But it's really hard to go past Sinner
and El Kraz at.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
This point with Alex Duminor, who sadly does not make
it to another Grand Slam semi going out in the quarters,
is that like how much of a toll would that
be taking me on him mentally? Because you can try
and brush it off and you know, I stub my
toe and I'm like, it's the worst day in the world,
But like, what is going on for him? Do you think?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Yeah, look, I have no doubt he will be extremely disappointed,
of course, having had that opportunity once again. I just
I think if we try and put it into perspective
and only I can empathize with him because obviously I
was a player and on tour for so long, it
is so hard to make one Grand Slam quarter final,
So the fact that he has made it to so
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many and consistently done that, I think we undervalue that
type of achievement. Even though I know he will be
extremely disappointed, and he will you know, there'll be a
lot of people talking about him not being able to
get to a Grand Slam semi final.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Why Caanti and all of that.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
I think I just always try and put my feet
in someone else's shoes when especially when you've been there
and I I made a number of fourth rounds at
slams and couldn't ever get to the quarter finals, and
it's difficult. But then when you take time to reflect,
you're like, wow, that was actually a really good achievement.
So I think it's just putting it into perspective. For Alex,
he does not like how good was his body language
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through that whole match. He was up, he was bouncing around,
he fought for every point and honestly, like it's such
a good example of how to conduct yourself on a
tennis court when you are perhaps you know, facing adversity,
wanting to get there so bad. So yeah, I think,
well done, Alex. So it's been a great run and
he'll keep he'll keep pushing along.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
He'll get there.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's so Australian to be like top ten in the world. Yeah, yeah,
when are you're going to make a semi.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Todium?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Playing so much?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Don't we because it's like you're like, oh my god,
you got bronze. Oh I don't know about that. Literally
third in the world.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Actually you've done ok like you've done okay. So yeah,
I just I really hope he gives himself a part
on the back because it's been a rough twelve months
for him. He talked about a little bit about being
burnt out, posts rolling and Garaoss. He took some time
off this time last year he was struggling with injury.
So look, I think for Alex what he's done and
achieved and continues to achieve, like backing it up in
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tennis is so hard to do. I can't tell you
how our us it is to be on tour for
nine months of the year with big major tournaments, managing
your body, managing your emotions, being away from home. So look,
I just think he has had a great US Open,
Davis Cups up next, back.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Here in Australia, in Sydney.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
He's got a lot to look forward to, and let's
hope we can just you know, get excited for a
great summer of tennis when it comes around.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Because it was Alex iiminor that after the OS Open,
was in an interview and he sort of said it
flippantly but directly at the same time. Was that he said,
you know, I've got a week off here and that's
the first week off that I've had all year, and
then the tour demands that you need to get back
on the road, especially if you're going deep into tournaments
and playing lead up tournaments. There's so much burnout on
their bodies. Do you think that there needs to be
(24:56):
a change in the tour or is it just up
to the athletes to choose their own time to rest.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Yeah, Look, I think it's a little bit of both.
I think the schedule, especially on the men's tour, is
very long.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
There are a lot of tournaments, and they.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Play travels so much travel, which is what people really forget.
And I'm in case that you've done it, but like me,
going into stay is a milestone in itself right now,
let alone going to different slams and different time zones
across the world.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
These and when we're talking about athletes that are in
the top ten, it's all well and good if you
want to have a private jet or whatever it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Is that you're doing, because you can afford it.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
But if you're like in the lower end of the
top one hundred, which is a massive achievement, it's a
huge financial burden. To have that travel as well with
your coach. It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, it is a lot.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
And so for those emerging players that have to do
all that, that's where it's really tough. Obviously when you
get when you get a little bit higher up the ranks,
it can become a little bit more sustainable and easy.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
That owns a buffalo bills.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but other people on the jet.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yeah, it worked really hard and got there by hard
work and stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But I think, ye, of course, yeah, I think the tour.
I think the tour is long.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
I think the tour is there's a lot of tournaments
and then there's also you know, you throw in some
whether it was an Olympic year last year for the
athletes that added extra you know, team events, and then
you know, there's always talk a little bit about you know,
the players playing exhibition matches and that. But then like
I also see it from that perspective, like you are
only an athlete for a very short period of time,
(26:33):
so you have to take every kind of opportunity you can,
whatever that might look like in terms of endorsements and
stuff too. So there is a lot, and I guess
ultimately it's up to the player to manage their schedule
and how they're dealing with all that. But yeah, it's
definitely it's not a It's not a sport for the
faint hearted, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I've got a two pronged question here, Casey, and it
involves Cocoa golf. It's not a sport for the faint hearted.
And that girl is linehearted. But we did see earlier
on in the tournament just the devastation that she was
working through in real time on the court, and she's
visibly upset, crying, trying to get control of her own emotions.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
A former champion that two.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So, firstly, have you ever experienced that on court, that
level of I've just broken here and I'm going to
show everyone. And two, what is it like to interview
them after the game? Yeah, because you're the one that
they first go to.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
No, it's a really great question, Georgie. And I think
watching Coco over the last week, it has been quite
difficult to watch just seeing she's only twenty one, like
can you believe her? Like she's so young at still
on the bigger stage. And I love that she shows
oneerability because we're all human, right if i've reflect on
my career. No, I probably didn't let myself do that
(27:52):
enough where I just would hold it in, hold it
in till it got to the point where I'd come
off court and explode or you know, like have a mental.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Breakdown or whatever it might look like.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
But I think, you know, it was very visible how
much difficulty she was having with her serve.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
And when you're out on a tennis court.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
And you have, especially on Arthur Ash is a huge court,
it's so overwhelming and you feel like our eyes are
on you just having to hit this serve in time
and time again, it would have just been you know,
not fun for her at all. So I think she
did a great job of you know, getting to the
fourth round and managing it as best she could.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
What was the second part of the question.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
When that happens, and when a player is going through
such a visible roller coaster and you, in your role
as commentator, you're their court side, and you know that
you're going to have to talk to them first, right,
especially if they've somehow managed to win that match and
you're there going so thoughts and feelings like how how
(28:54):
do you go about coping with that yourself?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah, well, I think that's where I'm fortunate to be
able to draw on my own lived experience, and I think,
as I said, I genuinely always try and put myself
in someone else's shoes before I ask a question or
before I kind of head down a path with whatever
I'm asking someone, so and try and be empathetic. I
(29:19):
always come, try and come from a place of empathy,
especially in tennis, having been through it, and it's very
hard to I find it's difficult to be too critical,
and that when I've done a lot of things in
my career over the years as well, whether that's good
or bad, but it's just everyone's going through their own experience.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
You try and just if you come with empathy.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Most of the players know that all particularly for myself,
I'm there to let them share their experience in the
best way that they can.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
So I just try and do that as best I can.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
And you do it really well, it translates and everyone
can see that the warmth that comes across between you,
and again it's such a gift to have been able
to have been on the tour yourself, so that they
know it's like, ah, one of ours there is and
Georgie and I unfortunately don't have that across any code
that we just like to do. They rain understand the
lead performance, they understand the pressure. I'm like, let me
(30:12):
get the pronunciation of your name correct and we shall
move on. But you mentioned what it's like the intimidation
of something like Arthur Ash Stadium and something for mine,
I genuinely believe the rockstar event in the world is
tennis slams. When you look at the level of celebrity,
particularly wimbled and now what we're going to see in
the men's and women's finals at Arthur Rash.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It is the met Gala meat sport.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Oh yeah, Like there is the pinnacle of tickets and
it's so chic and it's but then imagine like you're
out on court having to perform.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
In front of that level is there and that level
of celebrity.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Who's the biggest celebrity And granted you would have met
like obviously Roger and Raffa in interview formats later in
life as well, which I would genuflect.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I wouldn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
But what what would that feel like when you knew
that there were celebrities in the crowd?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Was there ever anyone that you're like, oh my god,
they're here.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Isn't it funny? Because like I, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
A swifty like Georgie. I know you're a swifty Georgie,
but you.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Thank you, Casey, thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
But no, it's so funny because I can't say that
I'm like very much of a like anyone.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Like people to me are people.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
So I don't get often overwhelmed by celebrities or I could.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Talk most of the time.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I feel like I could talk to most people, although
I did find it very I did used to go
to Perth Airport when Steven Silvanni and Anthony Koterfeedies used
to rock up and Carlton played West Coast back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
I got yeah, I used to I did. Used to
do that.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
Remember when you used to do that and used to
go to the airport and like get or your autographics out.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah door stop them. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Before I used to get selfies, you'd be like signed
with the paper the sharpie please work. Yeah, it was
before sharpies whatever those other ones were. Again, we didn't
have celebrities in Perth. This was as good as it
got exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
They were like my and talking about role models, like
there wasn't obviously women's sport wasn't like it was now,
so you know, often it was a lot of the
men number one. But yeah, I think like now I'm
a bit like I don't really get overwhelmed people like
I could talk to anyone basically, but can.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
You drop some names of the people that you've been
in the same room with you like, well this other
people will think this is cool.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Well I think I'm so it's so funny because I
find it so intimidating, Like when I have to interview
when I've had to like interview Rafa or Roger for example,
or Serena or like to me, they are like that.
That was probably the most intimidated that I've ever been
in terms of seeing the celebrities and stuff. Even when
(33:02):
I've played on like Rod Labor and Billy Jean King
has been in the crowd, h so you know Rod
Laver for example, Like that's when I because I'm like,
they're also going to critique how I'm playing out on
court because they've been there. They know, you know what
the game is about. But I think, yes, so, but
what I was when I brought up Taylor Swift. I
(33:23):
was like, if Taylor Swift was in the crowd, I
think that would be like I think anyone would probably
be a bit intimidated by that. But I haven't really,
I don't, I can't really off the top of my
head remember thinking. But the tennis players, they are probably
just a yeah. And my trainer back in the day,
georgiz L and Nathan Martin, they were wonderful fitness trainers.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
They also trained Magda Zabanski, who's going for her own.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Battles at the moment, God love her, but they used
to train her, and so I did a couple of
training sessions with Magda and she.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Actually came and sat in my players box one year.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
So, and obviously, being a fan of Kath and Kim,
I had this dream of being able to go on
that show and be like on her netball team or something.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
But I was going to ask, I was like, were
you training with Magda or Sharon?
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Story?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
And also very healthy of you to not be affected
by what's going on in the crowd. Whereas Jomy and
I would be.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Like hello, I'd literally rock up and be like I
need to break any binoculars.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Hugh Lovely to see you, Brad. Welcome here is everyone good?
Everyone selling?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
It's very CAZy to not be right away? Why is
there no more come off?
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I feel like I want to ever.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I want feeling like when I saw the Matilda's girls,
you know, like I used to I get.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, I don't know Aussie athletes and people.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
That just the fact when Matilda's sauce.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, I wanted. I wanted to check you. Are you
okay about Jack? Yeah? There's a welfare check for Casey.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
That's big. I have to say.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Living in Sydney now, it's very, very hard to get
away from NRL foot, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Like I was lived and breathed it.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
But moving to Sydney, oh my gosh, it's so hard
to now not get immersed in NRL. But still obviously
have a soft spot for the AFL. But I have
to say I follow a lot of NRL now.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
As we should, as you should. I mean, you're with
the wrong team, I mean the Broncos. What headlines have
we been in this week? I don't really know.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Is really going down the toilet? We better, we better push.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
On, we need we need to get who you think
Casey is going to win the US Open Men's and
women's singles draw, who are the winners?
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Okay, for the men's I'll just I'm going to stick
with Yannick Sinner because I picked him pre tournament, So
I'm going to go with Yannick.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I think he will.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Win the men's and then on the women's I'm going
to go with Arena Sablenka.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I think she's champion.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
She's had a bit of a rough year with if
you reflect on her Grand Slam tournaments this year, you know,
like obviously losing this Straan Open final, losing the role
in Garross final, going back to the New York as
the defending champions. So I feel like she might do
it again this year.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
She doesn't get runner up, oh yeah, doesn't love a
runner up.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
For her to be fair, that is, so I feel
like that's the realist that she's ever been. Is when
she was runner up and it was just filthy about it,
and I was like, yes, yes, yes, she played Okay,
I was horrendous.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Just exactly how you talk to your girlfriends.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
But then everyone obviously was like, you're being a little
bit disrespectful to the opponent. But she was just trying
to be self critical, like I think there's that balance there.
But one of my favorite moments from the tournament, and
I forget who said it was one of the guys
came up to.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Shakes in his hand at the end and was like, bro,
you're like AI.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Said that. It was so funny.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
It's immaculate because you do watch him play, and Georgie
and I have had the privilege of watching him play
at the OZ Open, and I'm like, is this broad
like just designed? Everything looks so he's the terminator beautiful.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
He's unbelievable to watch in real time.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yeah, and in that match particularly like he just annihilated
Bublik one one on one and did it like that.
And Bublic is a really good player too, but Sinna
had lost to him just not long ago, so I
think there was a bit of like, don't poke the bear.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I'm coming out for a bit of redemption as well.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
But yeah, when Sinner's apparently well, well you would have
seen that he's a great skier and he's so balanced,
and that's one thing that when you watch him on court,
with every shot he plays his core, he's like so balanced.
Hence I think when you watch him, you're just like
this guy is this guy real?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
And they're just incredible, so relatable.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
You know, Grab Skiing loves wearing Gucci, He's just the everyman.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
He stepped up the cat to center court. I think
it's pretty clear that we could talk to you all day,
Casey d'acla, but we have taken up so much of
your time and we so appreciate it. We will be
obviously seeing if you are nostrodamus and checking those predictions.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
No, I'm not actually a very I'm not a very
good predictor, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
But thank you so much for having me. Love your work,
great to chat.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Well, I mean, Grand Slam Queen of our hearts, Casey
de laqua, right there.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Also just thanks for letting me catch up with an
all family friend on work time.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Nice to hear from it.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
It's like, you know, where people like who's the most
famous person that you went to school with or something
like that, and you have a bunch and including Casey
de laque.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, my high school like to breed AFL players who
was like what they did, Although arguably the most famous
person who went to my school is the person who
created canvas.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
Yes, that's what.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So Melanie Perkins, who's now I don't know, seven billion dollars,
had a locker diagonal from mine. So the most offensive
thing is we have the same education and she decided
to become a tech mogul.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
We had the same physics teacher.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Were there any any loose change fallen down from.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Her in her year?
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Looke couldn't have had a swing, even though I know
her husband Cliff lovely, But come on, anyway, we really digressed.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Life just goes a different ways sometimes.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
School, but I do if we're talking about millions, I
do have a fun pack.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Fun fact, what a seg.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
The ICC have quadrupled the ODI World Cup winnings for
the women's competition to twenty one million dollars, which is
great news for the Aussies because the last time we
won it was a boofteenth of that and by that
I mean a quarter.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
How incredible. That's so good.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It will now be more than what the men's competition
was worth when it was last played, which was fifteen
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
So the winners will get six point nine million.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Oh my gosh, I love this.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
So the is investing more in women's sport, which we love.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
That is a fun, fun fact.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
And it's a deserving fact. Do you know what that
gay have been when you talk about we know, we
hate this word everyone women's sport. It's just sport when
you talk about men's sport, women's sport. Cricket is one
of those that has fought the fight to have a
quality for so so long and been most successful arguably
(40:30):
with it. And this is just another huge step towards.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
That literally huge. So we can't wait.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And we also had if you want to have a
listen back, we of course had Alisa Healy and Phoebe
Lytchfield on the pod.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeap who has recently just had a win as well,
Phoebe Litchfield, most recently in her T twenty series that
she plays for internationally. They were so she's yeah, she's incredible.
She's incredible, So go back and listen to that episode. Actually,
because they're the best, they're more of our friends.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, now we have many a famous friend including Casey.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
You like, we would just like to thank case again
for giving up her time and again let's just wait
and see if her predictions come true. Do you think
we'll win the US Open?
Speaker 1 (41:07):
By the way, I mean, I actually think I've got
to go for my mate al Chaaz because he's aerodynamic now.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
So so purely the haircut.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Yeah, we've talked about it on this podcast previously.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
He is.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
There's a dolphin.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Should be easier to give yourself a number one than
be number one, so let's.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Not go true.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
I do think that Casey's called on Saberlenka is a
is a good one.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
But I also imagine if it's Osaka, Oh we what
a story it would be story. The fact that people
go back to doing anything after having kids should be
commended the fact that she's gone back to elite sport
with a la boobu and a tou tou like.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
What yeah, yeah, hey, Venus is back on court, tell
me you can do it.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Oh God, get there.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
There's no age limit.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It ain't happening. It ain't happening until next week.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
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