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Arthur Rinderknech Talks Shanghai Final, Paris Travel Tips & More | Q&Andy
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It's gonna be great.
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We have Arthur Rinder Kenesh on the show. One of the best stories in tennis last year was the Shanghai. I wanna talk about that. I'm sure a lot of our fans have questions about that. If they, they didn't ask about that, they're out of their minds. Arthur in Paris getting ready for Roland Garros. How's everything going there?
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Well, not yet in Paris, but almost there. I'm in actually in Geneva right now, getting ready for my second round tomorrow and of course heading to, to Paris and Roland Garros as soon as I finish here to, to play this home Grand Slam.
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How does this year feel? Different? Obviously you, you know, you, you had, you know, been on tour for, for a while, but then it, it really felt like the levels changed last year, obviously at Wimbledon, you take out Zverev and then, you know, everyone's kind of favorite story last year was, was the, the crazy story where you end up playing your cousin in a final and he, you know, comes out of nowhere in Shanghai. It has to feel a little bit different when you're kind of, you know, this, this trip around the earth this year as opposed to maybe some other ones.
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Yeah, of course. I mean, the higher you are, the, the more expectations and the players are trying to beat you even more, you know, and they have nothing to lose against you, you know, so before I was playing a guy 50, I was pretty much, you know, 50, 50, and now I'm supposed to be the favorite, you know, so it's always sometimes a bit harder to play as, as a favorite on the court, but no I'm just trying to keep on focusing on myself, working on my game, my, my, you know, my fitness and, and just getting, getting better every day. So yeah, last year was a big, the second part of the year was quite, quite big for me. I played really bad first part and I played quite, quite good the second part of the year. So it was really not a weird year for me but like up and down, down and up a year of course I finished with my best ranking. So it's, it was still a very positive year and some really, really good matches along the way. Wimbledon, of course, against Verif, the, the crazy two weeks in Shanghai with, with Val also, you know, pretty pretty much a lot of great matches and, and cool weeks with my team. So really enjoy last year and hopefully we're gonna have a lot of great memories again for this year.
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As, as I watch your game, obviously the things you do well, you know, the ball, you flatten out pretty well. You come forward really well, obviously you serve really well. You run that second serve in on the body as, as well as anyone. I, you know, kind of on earth right now, it's, it's non traditional. You know, you, you, when you kick it up, it feels like you're setting up that one that you kind of run in. And, and I can relate to this question because, you know, what I did well didn't translate well to clay. What adjustments do you have to make during the clay court season? Because I assume when you get on the grass, kind of everything just instantly and kind of easily makes a little bit more sense. What have you consciously been working on during the clay court season?
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Actually, it's not that much of a difference. My previous coach used to tell me, you're going to play on clay the same way you play on hard or maybe not on grass. Grass is even a bit different. And Lucas Pui, my current coach, is also telling me we're going to keep being aggressive and go for it even though it's clay. But you're going to have to be able to, you know, to hold the ball sometimes to defend, to run, to be solid, you know, to use your slice. Everything you need to find the angles, of course, because you have more time to find the angles. But yeah, the serve, I would say the serve is probably the thing that changes a little bit the most between clay and grass, for example, because grass, you're going to slice it a lot more. When clay, you're going to kick it a lot more because the ball is going to jump on the second serve. Even jump out wide to the back end, at least for the righties. And then I jump to the body, you know, to your face. When on grass, you try to slice it and keep it low to the body or low to the forehand side for the righties again. So the serve, I think, has to be adjusted to put your game and you know, the best to set up your second shot after you serve the best way possible on clay. But I would say in the point, yeah, of course, sometimes you find higher trajectories. You know, you try to defend with a high ball and try to push your, your opponent back in the court to, to regain your, your baseline and gain some times. But when on, on grass is going to be more of a, okay, I'm going to try it. It's in or out, but I'm trying it out. You know, I'm going for it. I rip it, I'm ripping it. You know, I'm not going to play a high ball on grass. It's not going to bounce and the guy is going to be able to, to punch me right away. So that's a little few things. But for myself, I wouldn't say that. It's changing everything on my game, really. I don't know if, I don't know if you know. And currently, especially with the grass being slower and slower, it doesn't affect as much the game, I would say.
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Yeah. You mentioned Luca Pui, you know, Top Former top 10 player, Grand Slam semifinalist. How's he hitting him these days? Is he still, you know, let's say you play 10 baseline games. Does he get one or two?
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Well, if he could play, probably he will for sure take me down on some 10 point game. But the thing is, he's still struggling with his right wrist. He got great. He got actually two big injuries at the beginning of last year. He broke his Achilles. I don't know if you guys remember, you saw it online. At some point he played the challenger in the final and in the middle of the final he ran for a drop shot. And the typical thing for Achilles, we don't like to talk about it.
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No, don't talk about it. We'll skip to the next thing.
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Lost everything. But this thing went really well. After even just only three, four months, he was capable of running again. And he went really quick. And that's not an issue at all today. He's been able to run and do everything but the wrist. He got surgery at the same time. Pretty much his wrist was kind of screwed up and as he Got the Achilles broken. He was like, okay, I just might just use this time to do the surgery on my wrist that I had to do in the past few months already. So he did it, but he actually didn't work that well yet. So he's struggling to hit forearms as of today. So we can hit some back in Cross Court. 10 points. You know, we can. He can serve, but it's not that great. Also, we hit sometimes, but, yeah, for now, he's more on the slow side and trying to figure out what to do with his wrist.
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He was fun to watch. I want you to say hello for us. He was always so much fun.
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Amazing player and a great guy as well. I'm lucky he's helping me right now, and we'll see how it goes in the future. But wish him only the best.
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Perfect producer. Mike.
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Yes.
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The whole point of Q and Andy is not for me to ask questions the whole time.
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You're asking great questions.
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I mean, I'm sorry.
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I mean, they were pretty good, man.
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The hell you want from me?
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Before we get into the questions, you know, as a reminder to the fans, if you want to be featured in the show, send your questions to askandyrvpodcast.com hit us up in the DM. Send us a video, please. Hit us up in the comments. Subscribe and you can get questions inside the show, like, right now. Do it, which is great.
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The suspense is killing me. Mike. Get to it.
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Okay.
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So Kobe wants to know more about your serve. He said you seem to have more of an open body position than most players. And your left foot moves right when you jump. Is that mainly for counterbalance or rotation control?
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That's right. First part of the question, he's totally right for the. For the second part, trying to explain it, I'll say. I mean, Andy knows better than anybody, you know, the. The service is a. Is a natural. Natural movement for. For each and every player, you know, and you don't really know why you're doing it this way at the beginning, but you do it this way, and then you just try to work your way. The. The best way possible, technically, to. To make it, you know, efficient. The best. The best as possible. Yeah, I'm starting the. My. My serving position really facing the net. But as I toss the ball, I always. I mean, I work on it, of course, to get this. This shoulder movement rotation, and I try as I toss the ball to. To. To think about putting my right elbow behind me so I get all this possibility of slicing, of kicking and. And trying to hide a little bit My, My, my spot where I'm gonna serve. But I can't really say. I, I. The two options. I don't, I mean, I don't really know what, what's really. Because of what I'm doing it. But yeah, that's more of the inside of my serve to, to, to. To focus. I feel better starting facing the, the net. I tried sometimes to even to bounce the ball being sideways. And I'm, I'm feeling. I mean, it's been too long that I'm serving this way that I can't change it now. So it's just a matter of.
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I, I think serving has to be the most personal thing in tennis. Like, you would never, you would never teach someone to. Like I had half emotion. And then he faces his, you know, his front foot as his toys are pointing at you. I don't know that you would take someone and make them serve that way. But I think, I think serving more than to, To Arthur's point, serving maybe more than anything in tennis has to be kind of personal and at. I mean, I'm not huge on, you know, future feelings dictating outcomes, but I think specifically for serving, I think it, the start of it has to feel kind of natural. Otherwise you, you'd feel like you're, you're, you're fighting yourself.
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I actually changed a few times my, My technique throughout the years, but it's been probably seven, eight years now that I'm with this one. But for example, when I went to college, when I went to Texas A and M at 18 years old, I was serving a different way. Then I changed my technique with Coach Denton at A. M for two or three years at A. M. And then I switched it again at the end of my college career to do it pretty much the one I'm doing it now. I was. Sir. Now I'm serving with. How to say, like I bring my, I bring my right foot back. I mean, back to, to me. And then I was, I was starting with the, with the, with platform static stands. You know, with static stand, I wasn't bringing my, my left. My right foot to, to my left one. When I was in college. You know, if you see some videos from back then, and I pretty much tried a little bit of everything, and yeah, now that's the way I'm feeling. At least the most comfortable and always working on very little things. But it's not, it's not something big.
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Was the person who asked the question was Kobe. Yeah, Kobe. I'm just telling you. If you get your racket set and it's all the way back and then you're thinking counterbalance motion flag, you're fucked. You got to get into it. Just as long as you can repeat it over and over and it kind of looks generally the same, then I think you're fine. What do we got next? Mike?
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Sophie on Instagram wrote us and said, can you describe the emotions before, during, and after the Shanghai final against your cousin?
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Good question.
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First of all, he started. Whenever I, I win this match point against Medvedev in the semifinal, the, the night before, I finished late and, And Val was actually on the side because as I was, you know, battling and going deep in the third set and about to. To actually win, I. He came. Came out on the court trying to just, you know, watch whatever the, the dream was about to happen. And, and whenever Medvedev double fought the second serve and I just kind of lose my leg and just fall on the court, and I look at him and I see him and we. We are final. I mean, we are in the finals. And we were. I mean, we. Some guys were starting to joke about it. We were in the, whatever, round of 16 quarterfinal, and we're like, okay, there's no, absolutely zero, zero chance that we will see each other in the final. Zero chance. We know, we know we're gonna both lose at some point, but it's fun that they even think about it. And then we are both in the quarterfinal, and then we are both in the semi final, and then I'm waiting on my match on my semi final against Medvedev, and he's playing against Djokovic, and I'm like, it's gonna be difficult to be Djokovic on the first time you play Djokovic, you know, and such the true champion that he is, and, and all the pressure you're going to get. And I'm watching a little bit of the first set, and I'm seeing Djokovic struggling, having some kind of injuries, and Val is in the match, he's feeling good and playing well and upper break early or something, and I'm like, well, getting closer. So we're getting closer to making it both in the final, and then everything's going well for him and he wins this match point. And I'm like, okay, now I. I'm winning my match and we. We are in the final and it's gonna. It's gonna happen. The thing that will never happen again ever in tennis in history. I don't think it's even Possible, I mean, they both Serendolos that are playing really well, but they. To be both of them in the final in the same master 1000, it's another story. But I was like, okay, now I beat Medvedev. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, we are, we, we are there. And I'm starting not too great. I'm feeling the, the nerves a little bit and, and then I switch the match around and, and win sets. Set two and set three. And yeah, we are there. And it was a tough night because I finished late. All the adrenalines had to get rid of it to be able to fall asleep. Thinking, of course, about the final, about the whole situation, actually feeling all right before the match. I was waiting for the match. I couldn't wait anymore. I was ready to go right away for the final after the semifinal, even though I was dead tired, I wanted to play as, as soon as possible. I couldn't wait anymore. It was just so long that I started the match well and I was actually the very little bit of, you know, freshness that I had in my body left. You know, it was for the beginning of the match and, and quickly I was, you know, because I played back to back to back the last three matches. Fought a lot against Medvedev, really physical match, and it was hot and humid, of course. So then Val took the second and the third. He played really well. And you know, the ceremony, the trophy ceremony was quite difficult, you know, with everything that happened during the two weeks. Of course we started crying myself first. I was not cramping the two weeks, but I cramped on the stand or whatever during the ceremony. So that was even more difficult because I, I sat down for a few minutes and then I tried to stand up again and my quad started pulling. So anyway, and after we actually didn't spend time together because I booked my flight trying to go back home as early as possible. And five minutes after the trophy ceremony, I was in the tournament transport to go to the Shanghai airport and I flew right away. And I actually got the flight for pretty much two minutes. It closed two minutes after we arrived because the final was still quite long and the ceremony was quite long as well. So I was like, okay, if we play less than two hours, it's gonna be fine. If we play about two hours, it's gonna be tight. We played two hours, the ceremony was quite long and I was able to make it and, and took the flight. Of course, the flight back was difficult. You know, I, I was so happy for Val, for the family and everything thinking about myself. Of course I wanted the best trophy possible, but it was still amazing week. Great result for me. A lot of great wins against huge players. So it was also confirmation for me that I was capable of being at this stage. I was gonna get my new best ranking and everything. So lot of thing to keep on building for the following weeks and this
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year I think one of the reasons obviously the story of Val going through qualys and showing up and not being, I mean lose within the two months, eight weeks prior, he had lost a guy's rank like 650 in the world. Like it's, it's the craziest story ever. But also I think the reason why people gravitated towards the story is because I think the two of you handled it with such, with such class the whole way. So I think you guys on top of just the story and you know, I guess the unlikely nature of something like that happening. I think you two did yourself a real service by the way that you all dealt with it and acted. Also, while you're telling that story, I tried to think through how bad your body must have felt to go from cramping on the stand straight into a flight overseas that lasts however many tens of hours. That must have felt great.
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So, Megan, I had a question for you. She said, with your family so ingrained in tennis, your father's a director of a tennis club in Paris. Your mom is a former pro. Did it ever feel like tennis was just expected of you, or was it always a genuine passion?
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Well, my. Yeah, as you said, my. My parents were both into tennis. I was on the court probably. I was four or five years old. I was already on court. It was a small, small club next to Paris on clay. And, you know, I was going. My mom was teaching tennis and I was going on the side as she was teaching. I was using my little toy, you know, my little car, little cars, toy, whatever. And I was going up and down on the clay, on the, you know, the bag of clay, whatever, and, and really quickly, of course, I wanted. I grabbed the racket and, and started to hit with her a few balls and. And that's how I started. I was playing a lot of soccer as well. Being young, started early as well. I was actually probably better at soccer than. Than tennis. Younger, but at like 12, 13 years old, I had to decide between the two sports because I couldn't handle both of them anymore. I was, you know, every single day I was doing one or the other, and it was quite difficult with the school being, you know, more and more intense. So I picked tennis because pretty much of the family, it was more of a natural choice for me to pick tennis considering my parents and even some other members of my family. I don't regret it at all. It's brought me so much and can't complain about anything, but I'm still a big soccer or football fan for the Europeans and follow it a lot. It's my second passion, but that's why I started pretty much.
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I would say that's so cool. Michelle DM'd us and asked us what is an advantage of coming from college tennis that the people on tour who play juniors might have missed?
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I think they miss some years where you can have a lot of fun. Don't put pressure on yourself, on your mind, being 18 years old, traveling every single week, pay for it. Putting pressure on your parents financially also, you know, and just experience something that is team matches. Pretty much team matches, you play with your brothers. And that's totally true. You know, I wouldn't change anything that I did for any cost. And tomorrow, if I could come back to college and get this experience again, I will do it because I really loved it so much. And I often say it, but without college tennis, without Texas A and M, probably I wouldn't be the player I am today and probably not playing tennis anymore today. So it helped me a lot because I wasn't in the best top French players when I was 18 years old. And my only options to keep on playing was to go to the States. And I was really lucky. Texas A and M welcomed me the best way possible. And the coaches had some great experience. Steve Denton, the first one. So he helped me and they helped me to develop my game, take the time. I was also really skinny. You know, my body wasn't ready to play, to play the circuit at all at this age. And we worked on my fitness, we worked on my game. I developed and you know, being 20, I was a junior and Steve told me, you know what? I think you should give it a shot because you have a lot of capabilities to do something on the tour. And having my diploma, I could just relax and enjoy playing the tour without putting pressure on myself. And if it doesn't go well, then I'll move on and do another job. So it's. Yeah, I think it's a great path for, for any, any players that is not top five, ITF juniors, I would
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say, I'll say, I'll just make an assumption here. He lands with that French accent. I'm sure that did him a lot of favors there. Go ahead, Mike.
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I was going to, I was actually going to ask you a follow up. I'm like, what, what was the culture shock like going to Texas A and M? What was that like?
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Paris to College Station? Even though I was in the suburbs of Paris. But it's, it's a big change. I went for, I went on, I went, I went on a visit three months before I got there. So I got to know College Station and so everything. I actually saw Johnny Manziel, you know, playing, playing at his last semester before going pro. So it was, it was crazy, great weekend there and of course I loved it and, and committed right away. But yeah, it was big difference. Especially because when I arrived, no one of the, there was no team members that were speaking French, you know, at all. So I was only. And out of the 10 or 11 guys, it was nine Americans, which changed a lot in the following years. I came then my cousin came, then we had Carlos, who was a Canadian speaking French, a Few athletes also were speaking French, so we got to speak more French throughout the years. But when I got there, it was only Americans, pretty much Texans also. So it was. Yeah, it was a big jump for me. At the beginning, I couldn't understand much, especially not talking at all. Even though when I was saying something right, sometimes they were making me repeat again and again. I don't understand. I think that makes sense what I'm saying. And they were like, ah, we got it. But your accent, we couldn't understand, you know, so then I had to adjust the accent in the second time. But it was. Yeah, it was, I would say, for two, three months. It was a solid process. But, you know, I'm glad it went well. I had a great welcome when I arrived, and everything went well. So it was. It was great.
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Listen, the college system has created a lot of really good pros. That's the deal now. And people develop at different times. You know, some people are ready at 18, some people aren't ready till they're 24, 25. And we see that more and more and more. So we're, you know, listen, it used to be an outlier. Now we have, you know, guys are cruising from College to top 30 and playing Masters 1000 finals seemingly all the time. Now, Arthur, let's say that you have. Let's say that you have a teammate from A and M coming over to watch you at Roland Garros. They're trying to find a place on Airbnb. What neighborhood are you telling them to stay in?
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In Paris, you want to be not that far from Roland Garros, if possible. You want to enjoy the city as much as possible, but you to be closed so you don't hit the traffic. That can be pretty bad sometimes. You know, Orangaros is pretty much 50, 50 between Paris, of course, and Boulogne Biancourt, which is a little city next to Paris, and it's, you know, across these two. These two cities. And so this cities of. The city of Boulon Biancourt is actually really, really nice. It's next to the Bois Boulogne, which is the. The. The park or the wood next to Paris, the bigger one, famous one. So it's a really cool city to have airbnb there, I would say, because you can walk to Rangaros, you can take the metro, the train, and go into Paris in 20 minutes. And you can also go for a run, for a jog in this Bois Boulogne right next to it. And you can bike. There's one or Two little lakes. You have some restaurants. And I'll say it's a good setup. Otherwise, you go to the 16 district of Paris. That's the one that is connecting to Rangeros and the closest one to the site. And you will be even closer to the city center of Paris.
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I'm pretty sure that. I know one thing for certain is that the food in Paris is better than in College Station. I'll just. I just. I've just been thinking that. That.
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And it's different. You don't get this. You don't get his barbecue.
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It is fucking different. Absolutely different. That is.
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And he's a Texan.
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I'm a Texan.
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C
I can say that.
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I can say it about. I'm 30 years in Texas, so I'm allowed to say it.
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And you experience Paris quite a lot.
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Listen, I ate my way through Paris last time I was there, I'll tell you that. Listen, same teammates coming. You told them where they're staying, where are we eating? Where are you taking them?
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Restaurant wise, I mean, you will pretty much never go wrong. I mean, you go in ever. You go on Google, on Google or whatever, you check the rates. It's always. I mean, of course, if you see something, it's the 3.2 out of 5, then you will be okay. Maybe this one day we have a. We have a problem. But a lot, a lot of restaurants are at least 4.5, you know, and you have all type of food in Paris. It's, you know, you have. I personally really like, you know, Greek or Lebanese.
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Oh, cool.
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Like the type of food I really like. Yeah, of course. You have amazing Italians for the address. I don't have one on top of my head like this, but it's really, really easy to find.
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To find cultural food in the Golden Trout.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Stress is legit. It's two twins. I hope they're still healthy and. And well. But Andre took me there for the first time. That place is legit. Listen, Arthur, we've taken too much here.
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What, what we. We have to do our last question.
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Oh, you're going to do the thing?
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Yeah, yeah. So. So we do this thing and it's the random question of the day. Sean, hit the music, God damn it.
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A
Time for the random question of the day.
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People in the comments hate it, so
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I'm going to keep doing it. I hate it, too.
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I'm getting afraid.
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This is a random question from Rafi. He asked, and I think this ties to what we were talking about earlier. What's the worst pronunciation of Your surname you've ever heard.
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You know what, it's from the French people.
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Come on upset because it's German.
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It's coming from the French people because in France it's more of a German sound last name, you know. So as soon as I go east of France and go to Germany, Belgium, Swiss, Austria, any of these countries, I say my name and they write it right away. I don't even need to spell it. In France it's really difficult because you need to read it. You say it. Once they try to repeat it, they can't even do it. Spanish and Italians, they can still somehow find a way and do it. In the state. It's not that bad. It's not that bad in the state.
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A
I can't believe I'm actually going to say what I'm about to say. Mike, it was a good random question of the day. I didn't see that answer coming. Yeah, thank you. I've hated that little jingle for, for, for a long time. Arthur, we know you have to run. Thank you for squeezing this in. We know it's a busy week. On top of preparing for Roland Garros, you're still playing for a title in Geneva. Hope all of it goes well. Again, thanks for telling us a little bit about Paris, where to stay, what to do. Giving us the biggest upset in Mike's random question of the day in history. That the people who have messed up his name the most are the Parisians and not the great folks in College Station.
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B
Mike, thank you very much, Andy and all the team. Cheers. Thank you.
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C
Honestly, I thought that was gonna be our only random question of the day today, but we have one more. Asked people to send in video questions and we got a video question that we have to play. Sean, roll the music one more time.
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A
This is getting ridiculous. Time for the random question of the day.
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C
This one couldn't not be in the show.
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A
I don't know what it is, so I don't know. You're just trolling me.
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C
Yes. And whoever's in the comments. Sean, play the video.
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D
Well, Andy, ask Andy. I heard yesterday when I was listening that you don't get enough video questions. So here I am, Pam Shriver beside a lake in Italy having a five day reset retreat before I start some coaching work at Roland Garros. Here's my question. I'm really leaning into mindset coaching. Probably be the last professional pivot of my career still available sometimes as a broadcaster, but I love being a co coach and I'm focusing on between the ears and I know through life experiences, through being a parent the last 21 years, suffering through a lot of grief in life and knowing how to kind of recover that, I'm much better mindset wise now than I ever was as a player. So my question to you, Andy, is describe your mindset now and how it's changed since you were a US Open champion and athlete on the ATP Tour.
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C
Great question. Okay.
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A
You know why I'm upset with you, Mike?
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C
Why?
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A
Because you're two for two in random questions of the day now. And I just wanted to.
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C
Thanks, Pam.
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A
I wanted to hate on it so much. One, what a treat. Love, Pammy. Glad that she seems so great. She's obviously been a legendary broadcaster for so long, as well as a Hall of Fame player as well as a great coach at work with Becketch. And now my favorite thing about that question, and this is like a non negotiable for a lot of people that have had success, is she's still curious about, she's like, but this might be my last pivot. Right. So I'm obsessed with mindset change.
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C
Right.
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A
I love people who are curious in spite of their past successes.
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B
Right.
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A
I don't think that's coincidental as far as the way that my mindset has changed. I'm way softer than I used to be. I know you can't believe that, but like I, I don't know, I, I am probably more patient, I think. You know, what do you, you learn from life, right? You start having kids and you understand like I went from a completely selfish existence to only a little bit of a selfish existence. Right? I don't know. You know, you look back, you, you, you, you wish you could look back and with all the kind of learnings that you have and apply them to a 19 year old version of yourself. But then does that get you to those, do the, do those learnings stick? Right. If you don't kind of learn them in the heat of the battle. Anyway, I'm, I'm a little all over the place just because I was so happy to see Pampson and a question that was great.
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C
That's it. That's all we got for you.
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A
You don't have another one? Nope.
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C
That's it, man. That's it. And thank you to everybody for sending in their questions again. Thank you, Pam, for sending in a video question. Video question.
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A
The best.
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C
I mean, from a lake, Lake Como.
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A
I don't know what's going on. How good is that though? Like, it's the, it's the okay, I'll send in. I'll entertain you. I'll send in a question. I'm next to a lake in Italy
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C
I might need to hire to help with my mental state.
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A
You can't afford pimp Trevor thanks for watching Q and and
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B
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A
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B
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