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QUICK SERVED: French Open Day 10 - Alcaraz & Musetti Defeat Americans and Swiatek & Sabalenka Advance
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Andy
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JW
Yeah. Andre is going to be joining me. It's been good, good tournament here and that's a good listen. If anyone has not heard it, you chopping it up with Andre is well worth. He gave you a lot of time. It's worth the. The 90 minutes or whatever it was.
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Andy
Yeah, I was, I wasn't worried. Like, when he gets into something, it's kind of like his career if he's. If he invested. We've been talking about going into the weeds on an episode for a long time. He didn't even mention timing one time in the lead up. You know, normal. Like with Rafa. We fit into his day with that interview. Right. He had a million things going and we had an hour. Andre didn't even mention time and he didn't have much of it that day, so it was great. You know, there's no better analyst to kind of articulate balls and strikes with tennis if you get him to the right spots where he can actually expand on the why. And so if you haven't listened to that, please do. It was amazing for me, like a dream come true. You don't really get to just be selfish about your idol's time for an hour and 40 minutes for the pleasure of a listening audience. So that was pretty, pretty cool. And you know what else is pretty cool? Jw? IGA Speitek in the semifinals of Roland Garros. Again.
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JW
You like that, didn't you?
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Andy
Suck it, haters. IGA in the semis, Sabalenka in the semis. No surprise there, takeaways from those storylines at all. Jw.
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JW
I felt like Sabalenka won on points and not by knockout. She actually had fewer errors and got off to a slow start. And this was just a battle and she was up for it. She's been great. She sort of spoke about how junction win got her the last time they played in Rome and she was maybe a little tired, sort of chum the water a little bit that maybe that wasn't her best effort. She was up for this fight and just a really sort of sound, authoritative comeback win. But it wasn't like she blew her opponent off the court. This was, this was a battle and she won it. And then iga, it was just kind of a bad matchup for Svitolina. But we've talked about IGA and the, the restorative qualities of coming back to Roland Garros, another semifinal, and now we have. I mean, that's, that's a great semifinal matchup. And remember, this is the side of the draw where they have an extra day off. The other players that play tomorrow have to go back to back. So this, this should be a great semifinal.
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Andy
Yeah. On the women's side of the draw. Going back to back means it's like every other tournament they play throughout the year. Right. It's, it's, it's not as if we're looking at, you know, there's not a potential for a five and a half, six hour, you know, five setter. So I'm not too worried about the turnaround time, especially when you're looking at the players in the bottom part of that draw. They know how to play Grand Slam tennis with Maddie and Coco and company. I'm happy this semifinal is happening. This is the matchup that has. It's the two best players post Barty, post her leaving in the world. They're going to be in the conversation for the best players, best player of their generation, along with Ash Barty, kind of the post Serena of things. And this is a great matchup. And you know, for the first time ever, maybe on clay, with this matchup of which they've had a bunch of great Madrid finals and played a bunch of other times, Sabalenka the favorite on clay against IGA for the first time. Is that a crazy thing to say out loud?
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JW
Still look at what the odds makers say and if I'm not mistaken, they don't agree with that. IGA's gone from the fifth seed to the odds makers number one favorite, at least the odds I saw. IGA leads the head to head. And yeah, I mean this is IGA Roland Garros versus the number one player. And they both know, I mean, you know, I think that the head to head I don't have in front of me. I believe the head to head is 8 to 4 to IGA. So they've got a lot of matches played. Remember, Saba Linka has not won this event, but yeah, this, this should be a great match and it's, it's really nice. I mean, you know, you, you can have your favorite player and you can like player X more than player Y. It's no fun to see players struggling and playing below their capabilities. So it's nice to see IGA get back to another semi.
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Andy
Yeah, it's just nice to. And also the match against Rebakkina, that's one that we could look back on. We don't know what's going to happen yet. And this is the if game, right? So you know, the, the what if game never ends. If she somehow wins this tournament, turns her year round, starts that march back towards that number one spot, we're going to look at that and circle it and say she did not win a lot of those type of matches in the previous 12 months and that could have turned it around. You know, that felt like winning when you weren't supposed to. That was a huge match. I can't wait for Saba, Lenka and Witek. What an absolute blockbuster there. And then on the men's side today, not without some drama. Musetti beats Tiafo. I want to start with just giving Francis props, right. Like starting this process in Monte Carlo and working his way through finding great clay court tennis. A surface that doesn't really do much for his game style. Right. I think he's a better spot server on a hard court. The backhand, you know, he's never been accused of, of, of creating a huge spin profile on that backhand. It's more flat through the court where he can take it early and the court gives him some love, chips the ball really well. None of those things really translate to clay perfectly. I think a quarterfinal result for Francis is a great springboard into the surfaces that he likes a little Better. I still think he has a lot of upside on grass that he hasn't realized yet. And obviously we've seen what he can do when he gets to Arthur S. JDM in New York. Musetti, it's, he's getting to the point where, you know, he gets to the semis. And I'm going, yeah, you know, that's, that's, that's kind of. I was, I was pretty quick through that prediction, putting him in the semis in our draw show. And I think you had him there as well. And I don't think any of it's a surprise. He, he's just playing great tennis. But we're looking at, you know, the new two. You know, is. It is Alcaraz and Sinner. Is great tennis good enough? I don't know. I think it's going to take a superhuman effort for him to kind of get through. But props to Lorenzo Medicetti. I mean, he was, I don't think he was top 30 when Queens started last year. And now he's already predefended his, his semifinal run at Wimbledon with, with this result, he can play on grass as well. He figured that out last year. It's weird to think that two years ago he was a guy that was like, oh, he can only win matches on clay, like, and maybe that was too simplistic of us, but he is really, really improved.
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JW
19 and 3 on the clay this year. That's a lot of match wins. And this was sort of, I mean, you know, let's, let's, let's spend a minute on him and then let's go back to the controversy that you mentioned glancingly. Yeah, I mean, he, this, this was a, you know, they split the first two sets. It got to five all. And then Musetti essentially said, you know, it's, it's me time. And he's also not that you get extra points for this. This is a beautiful player. God is his game just, just fluid and graceful and artistic. That one hander, the slice, he really knows his way around the surface. The sort of, you know, unfortunately or fortunately, one of the takeouts from this match is should Francis have won five matches here and not four by dint of the rule book? I don't know if you saw what, what happened in the, in the second set when Musetti. The second set that he lost. At some point in the second set, Musetti kicked, kicked a ball sort of, you know, it wasn't malicious or nefarious, but in frustration he kicked a ball and struck one of the. One of the officials behind one of the line judges behind the baseline. Keep in mind this, ironically, this is the last major at which there will be real life human line judges. But I do think all the Djokovic fans and all the fans who value consistency as a general principle are well within their rights to wonder, hey, wait a second, why did he only get a warning and Francis was asked about it? You know, Francis is in a tough spot, right? I mean, it's kind of lame to lobby heavily for your opponent, especially in a major quarterfinal, perhaps to be defaulted. Francis termed it comical. He highlighted the lack of consistency. And I, It's.
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Andy
It's.
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JW
I get it. It's problematic if you're going to start defaulting opponents from big matches for soccer kicks. But rules, Rules are rules. And if you follow the letter of the law, Francis probably should have won that match. What do you think?
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Andy
Yeah, listen, we can't equate Francis telling the truth to Francis saying he was the better player on the day and deserves to be in the semis On. On merit. But, yeah, on a technicality, sure, I can see it. I mean, I dare you to find anyone involved in tennis. Like, everyone's going to argue about this, but then we're arguing about an agreement. Do we want consistency with this rule? Do we want it to be, you know, black and white? Or do we want the gray area that leads to conversation, which is basically, if you do something dumb and it hurts or affects or hits an umpire, you're gone. Like, that's it. And then as players, if you go over the line, it's on you. Like, the responsibility shouldn't lie with the umpire. It should be, oh, I fucked up, right? Like, I messed up, Novak. And, you know, obviously, slap slamming, Slapping a ball and hitting someone in the throat is obviously way more dramatic than kicking a ball. Or, you know, I've said someone fires a ball into the stands, it can hit someone, too. We don't value the fans as much as we value the umpires. Like, the conversation never ends, and it's always kind of a stupid one, right? Like, if you do something and it's out of anger and it hits someone, and it's not supposed to either never default anyone or default everyone. Like, this middle ground is. Is kind of a dumb thing. It's useless. I don't think Francis is being catty by saying, yeah, I lost, but by the letter of the law, I could have easily won, you know, and would I like the extra money and would I like the chance to play in a Grand slam semifinal. I don't know who would criticize him for that. That's just that that's equally dumb. Like, oh, yeah, by the way, you know, pitcher, someone goes down, someone gets hurt in football, backup QB comes in, is the other team going to go, oh, no, that's, that's, that's, that's the worst. We have a great chance of winning now. Like, that's not the way sports works. You win some, you lose, some situations change. But yeah, like everyone else, I'm going to be a parrot. It should be consistent.
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JW
Oh, I'm going to disagree with you. Really?
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Andy
I want to disagree with you on that. It should be consistent.
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JW
If I am speeding into school zone, it's one thing. If I'm going the exact same speed and it's one in the morning, if I have a, you know, a call, third strike in a baseball game and the score is nine to one, if I'm at, you know, I, I think that officials in sports, and I would say authorities in general, this is sort of the Michael Lewis, this is the Michael Lewis point. We are better off in a world where there is some level of subjectivity and some sensitivity to the situation. And If I'm a 9 to 1 baseball game and a O2 pitch brushes the strike zone, I might call it differently than if it's 2, 2. If it's the last play of the Super Bowl, I may overlook the pass interference. I think that's healthy in a way. And I think if you say Lorenzo Musetti, and I know who he is and I know what he's about and I can see a kick, I think we need a little bit of subjectivity, which we do in other realms. I don't mind that the letter of the law wasn't followed and there was some context given to this. Let's go back to Francis for a second.
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Andy
No, no, no.
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JW
He handled it great.
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Andy
I want to jump in on this. I want to jump in on this.
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JW
Give Francis a pass, because Francis was great.
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Andy
Anyone who's trying to, like, create something out of nothing, Francis has handled it perfectly. I have. I simply bring on the robots. Like, I want every call to be as good as it could possibly be. I. If that's different from kicks, I understand that. But like, as a player, I've been on the other side of. I've had like a grand slam taken away from me, or at least the opportunity of a grand slam taken away from me because of a. An umpire overstepping an umpire situationally putting their head in. I had A late call in a match against Leighton hewitt at the US Open in 2001. I was playing great. They overrule the far sideline. You know, when you. When you leave it up to one person's opinion, you're more likely to get an outlier result. Right. Which lends itself to being even more unfair. Not to just Musetti. Musetti. There is something where he does it. It's his action. It seems more fair that his action could end up with. With a penalty towards him. Now, if that doesn't get put to the letter of the law, then it's almost like Francis is paying the bill because, you know, Musetti didn't square up the kick enough to hit him in the face. Like, it's just. It's just an interesting thing on the. I think about it from the other side, where it's like, I'm Francis. I'm going, well, what the fuck? Like, sometimes we kick people out, sometimes we don't. I don't know that equating something that happens once or twice a year to speeding is the thing, but bring on the robots. Let's get rid of these umpires and then we don't have to talk about it.
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JW
Yeah, I mean, let's differentiate between where balls land on a tennis court and these subjective calls about conduct. My only point is that for situations like this, I would like to see authority figures have some sort of context and some sort of subjectivity. Let's. Carlos Alcaraz played tonight. He looked pretty good. I don't know. We can get back to this topic because I think it's interesting, but I do think it's almost preferable to have a chair umpire say, look, I'm trying to infer. And, you know, rules are rules. I get that there's a letter of the law, but it's a major quarterfinal. It wasn't an aggressive act. Do I really want to stop him? I really want to give the match away because of a kick that happened to have hit someone behind the baseline.
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Andy
The great. Then don't do it at all. If someone slams the ball into an umpire, don't do it then. Like, it's just. You might be on the side of, like, you know, now there's obviously a difference. Jw with him kicking. And, you know, I think Musetti probably should not have been kicked out in that. Kyrgio's tomahawking a racket towards the backstop after losing to Nadal as hard as he can it. Jumping and pounding the back of the court. That is a way Worse offense that has no penalty because the match was over. That's ridiculous to me. So at least some written guideline on if there's pain, if there's the possibility for pain, if there's a metal object hitting someone as opposed to a piece of felt, I don't know. But it needs to be clearer so that you and I who consume tennis all the time aren't confused by what the rules are and aren't leaving it up to one person in their mood on a given day affecting a tournament or not affecting a tournament. You know, so, so maybe there just needs to be some tightened up clarity on it. I don't disagree with you. You know, what, you know, Kyrgios did or what versus what Musetti did and you know, the penalty being the same is, is absurd to me. I completely hear you. And also, if everyone who is an expert on the game seems genuinely confused about what the rule is, then the fucking rule is a bad one, you know, or not explained in the right way. But, and this is another thing, it's like we're spending 10 minutes talking about this and we haven't gotten to Alcaraz, who is a wizard.
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JW
I was going to say the, the defending champion looked pretty good tonight.
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Andy
You want to talk about that one again, similar to Francis, props to Tommy Paul. The guy, the guy you know would, would walk over broken glass if it meant that he would get a result. This guy's been limping his way through the tournament, hasn't had full range of motion. We talked about it the other day, but just where he was when he was 18, 19 in a prospect. And where he is now when he's a grown adult who is responsible to his craft. Props to Tommy Paul. And also he was not even close to the same room as, as Alcaraz tonight. Like everyone who's in, I've been saying it at nausea. Everyone who's worried about a set against Zoomer, I'm not, I'm not worried about it. People like Wertheim, I, I just. Carlos and I think the frustrating thing when we compare him to center, Carlos plays up and down to his competition more. Right. I think he gets a little tighter against lower ranked players than Sinner does. But once he's across from someone who has caused him problems in the past, you know, he beat Novak 2, 2 and 6. And it shouldn't have been that close because he served for it in the finals of Wimbledon. Like the further he goes, his level gets incrementally better based on who's across the net. This performance was almost out of respect for Tommy Paul, but that was. That was a beating tonight.
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JW
01 in four. And we also. What did we say to you? Well, you know, it's a night match. That might help Tommy Paul. Tommy Paul's got an extra day to recover from this ab injury. You know, when he and center play back to back, it's sort of center. Last night I don't have in front of him. I think it was 1, 3 and 4 against Rublev and you're like, how in the world can anyone beat this guy? And then Carlos is like, you know What? Hold my cerveza. 0, 1 and 4 against the top 12 seed. That's pretty good, too. So in as much as we are veering and on course for this one versus two final, Bring it on.
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Andy
Hey, do you want a re redraw show because you flipped your pick to go to center because you were taken with a set against Jimmy on an odd night. Exactly. Do you want to. Do you want to re redraw? Are you still center, center chicken dinner? Or is Carlos kind of creeping into your brain a little bit?
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JW
It's so funny. I was going to ask you if you want to go all in on IGA on the double redraw, but I can't.
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Andy
I'm. I have more of an ego about it. I. If I pick Sabalenka and she's done nothing to like, I think. I don't think any less of her than I did at the. At the beginning of the tournament. I'm going to stick to it, but that's probably more just stubbornness and not, you know, thinking with clarity. But do you want. Are you sticking right now?
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JW
I just want a good match. Who knew Demeter Jr. Was going to factor so prominent.
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Andy
We're not here for our opinions. We're just here to enjoy the tennis. Right, jw?
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JW
Exactly. I just want a good match. Seriously. Talk to me tomorrow. I'll switch back to center. Let's. Let's look to tomorrow's matches, shall we?
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Andy
Yeah. What do we got? I don't know. Let me pull up my app. We got a little. Little bit of. A little bit of Coco. We got a little bit of Matty Coco and Matty Keys.
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JW
Yeah. What, what, what do you think of that match?
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Andy
Like, Matty Keys has the game to bother Coco. It's just the consistency. Matty Keys is going to go up and down. Coco is going to kind of be there every point. It's just a matter of if Maddie Key serves well because I Don't think she's going to be able to defend the second serve at the clip that she can against other players because she doesn't really hit that kick. She has a great kick, but it goes into Coco's strength. Like her best serve goes into Coco's best shot on that backhand side. And I think Coco, it's going to be. Can she switch directions off that backhand side to keep Maddie where away from being set for one or two shots in a row and how much Matty's going to be able to just swing that forehand to Coco's forehand. Just based on consistency, I think I'm going Coco. And based on the buildup and the clay of things, I'll go Coco. But I mean, I don't think it shocks anyone if Maddie catches lightning in a bottle and goes out and wins that match.
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JW
Her 12th straight match in a major. No, it's really, I mean, it's funny because at some level it should be obvious, right? These are two generations of American players and they're both major champions on hard court. I mean, there are a lot of sort of overlap here. I don't know if we talk matchup. It's, it's really an intriguing matchup though, isn't it? And I, I like what you said about, I was courtside for, for Keys Hoochie be when Keys beat Kenan and staved off that match point, that kick serve. Madison Keys really underplays her clay aptitude and that, that includes the, the kick serve she gets. I, I think this could be a really intriguing match. And then, you know, for, for the other match, Mir and Dra won her doubles match today. You're 18 years old and you've got three matches to go to win that first major. How are you spending your off day? You are playing a nice match of doubles. It gets you a rematch from the Olympic gold medal match against the Italians. Andreva playing with Diana Schneider, and now she gets 300. What is the number? I think it's 361, 363 because she gets a player ranked about 250 plus spots below her in the French wild card, Lois Boisson. French, fresh off beating Jesse Pula. So Mira Andreva, things are, things are looking good for her.
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Andy
Yeah, it's. You know what, you know what, JW, you're going through that and you're 18 and off day. And is it bad that my money, my, my mind went to like money compounds over time. And she's just take, she's just like An ATM machine out there on off days creating cash with, with, with doubles, with doubles victories. Not that we're going to have to worry about her net worth in time. I like Andrea in this one. Poisson has been an unbelievable story tor ACL a week before last year as Roland Garros was set for a wild card, couldn't play in her home grand Slam French Federation doing the right thing, giving her another one even at 361, which normally isn't in kind of the periphery of contention for a wild card. But what a story this has been. I do think Andrea has too much variety. Where Boisson was mixing paces up and going hard on one and creating the spin profile by the way, creates the most RPMs so far this tournament on our forehand side Busan, which is pretty crazy if you think about who else is in the tournament iga, but Andreva Boisson was getting away with like the little chips and then the mixing up paces that fits right into what Andreva does. Well, she, she might be the best on earth at that type of stuff right now. Which is crazy to say about someone who you know is 18 years old. I like Andreva kind of going away in this one Bublek. I mean, is this the, like no one had talk about the. He's the bracket buster, I think. But what do you think about him? And I just, it's like, I think they're great and also they're playing center so they're not going to win. Like that's kind of where my head's at with, with, with him right now. Is that too simple?
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JW
He did be. I just looking this up. He did beat center the last time they played. Not on, not on clay, of course. And that was pre major winning. Yannick sit. I mean if, if I told you that Buick would come back from love two sets to Alex Dimor, you'd say come on. And then if I said, oh, he's going to lose the first set to Draper and then come back and play spectacular, breathtaking, fearless tennis and win that match, you'd say now you're, now you're talking crazy. Now he gets sinner. I don't know. I mean I, I think we, we were talking about this yesterday, sort of these, these players who are high variance, they are the most likely players to have these kooky results almost by definition. But I mean Cinnaron Clay is for a guy who's played a lot of tennis, you gotta think whatever the cliche is. What did Cinderella turn into or the stagecoach turned into A pumpkin or something. You got to think the gig has got to be up here pretty soon for Bublick. But what a tournament. I can't figure this guy out. I don't know how. Well, you've sort of. I don't know. I don't know if you've spoken to him or if you've interacted with him. It's a strange. I mean, on the one hand, he collapses on the clay and say, this is the single best day of my life. And then he also says, yeah, tennis is just something I do and, you know, it doesn't. Doesn't dominate my existence. I can't figure this guy out, but he gives a great interview. He's been very entertaining here. He got every shot, and he's an athlete. He's in better shape than I thought he was. He seems to have a nice perspective. Beating Jannik Sinner after beating Diminor and Draper would be an unbelievable trifecta.
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Andy
Yeah, in. This is the type of player that I still think Sinner rolls, but like, Sinner would rather have someone where he's hitting a bunch of shots even if the player is consistently better than. Than. Than Bublek. Bublek's gonna go big on first. He's gonna. He's gonna be hitting second serves at 120. Sometimes he's gonna be hitting random drop shots off of center. Second serve. He's go coming in. This is one where he's either going to confuse and conquer for a little bit, or he's just going to be confused with what to do next, because his stock, you know, shot, rally shot staying in. He doesn't want any rally to go longer than three shots unless it's like a 30 all point or a deuce point where, you know, nerves can play into it a little bit. But his biggest weapon is going to be unpredictability, which will be fun to watch one way or the other. It either is going to lend itself to, like, center being a little, you know, off because he doesn't know what's coming, or it's going to be 2, 2 and 2, because Bublek has to push that risk so far that it just ends up ugly. But what a tournament for. For Bublek. He's a personality. I again, he's like. He's like a walking contradiction. Interview to interview. You can't really, you know, put your foot. But that's kind of why you want to listen also is because you don't know what the stock answer is going to be. And listen, we like characters, right? We like characters in our sport. It's individual. You don't play for a team. So I think it's. I think it's a great story. I completely overlooked him against Draper. I did not think that was going to go that way at all. But the confusing conquer method works for another day. I think it ends against Sinner, Sverev and Novak. What are you going to. What are you going to do? No, you're going to go first. What. What are. What. What are you going to do with this one?
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JW
Vera's beaten him five times. Eight. Five. Head to head. So he's gotten on the board a few times. And on the one hand you say, wait, this is a crazy conversation. This is the number. You know, this is the number three player in the world. He came within a set of winning this last year. He's a decade younger. What are we even doing here? And then we realize, oh, yes, we're talking about Novak Djokovic. One thing is Djokovic, that cracks me up. Look at his draw for the first four rounds. And, you know, I mean, he's. He's playing qualifiers. In the third round, he gets. It's Cameron Nori. Nice player, but outside the top 80 right now. So the first week is great, and now he's got to theoretically beat 3, 2 and 1 if he wants to win this event. But, man, Novak's looking a lot like Novak. And I do think there is, you know, I mean, I think he can handle this Verrav pace. The crowd's going to be for Novak. There's a. There's a personal relationship which always changes the dynamics of a match. I think Novak. I don't. He does not a lot of wear and tear this event. I. I mean, I'm. I'm like you. I'm out of the Novak prediction game. And yet I think Novak might win.
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Andy
Okay, I'm gonna go Novak. We. We talked about it. I can't. Like, I was. I've still. I'm. I have, like, Serendalo trauma right now from this section of the draw. Like, I just want to get away from this section of the draw because it was such a dumpster fire. And that might be offensive to dumpster fires. I'm going to go Novak. But it is. It is interesting. Like, if you rewind 10 days before Geneva or before. Or maybe it's 14 days, it's like you have no clue where he's at. He's lost six first rounds this year, but when he gets into it, and he had. But Also, like you said, he hasn't played someone in the top 80 in qualifiers and everything else. And now it's Zverev who's the defending finalist and you know, final in Australia because Novak had to pull out. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna pick against Novak. I'm just not gonna do it. Maybe until he plays the, the old Chuckster or center. But yeah, this, this will be a fun one. And I've never had so many question marks going into a match where we've seen the sample size so frequently between these two players. And I still don't know what's going to, going to happen. Right. Like we've seen a million matches as verif. We've seen more than a million matches with Novak. We know when they get deep, but I still have no clue. But I tell you what, I'm sure. Shit. Not picking against Novak again. Not on this show. Not yet.
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JW
I know. No, you, you and me both. And I, you know, Zverev, I think it was 52 minutes in his previous match when re had the injury and had to retire. And I saw Zverev maybe an hour after the match and he was, was he going to go back on the practice court and when he, he seemed a little bit out of kilter, you know, he, he advances to the next round. That's great. He doesn't have to worry about, you know, hours in the ice bath after a marathon five setter. But he, he seemed a little sort of thrown by a match that lasted less than an hour. I don't know if you've been in that position. I don't know if there's anything we should be reading into that. But very different scenario getting to a quarterfinal when you don't even have to play an hour of tennis.
- [30:53]
Andy
Yeah, it's interesting. I had it one year against Burdich. I played a set and I think it was. 0, 8. I think it was a year that I actually lost in Novak in four at the Open. It is a little weird because you kind of want that final. Mike was reading me the results. We did the quickest quick serve ever yesterday. It was like seven minutes because it'd be. I had to get home from the Andre interview. But he goes, yeah, Greeksport retired and all this stuff was going on during the, while we were filming the Andre interview. And I said, did I at least get a couple sets in? And he's like 6, 4, 3, 0. I go, that man, it could have been like weird at the end of the first set that's not. So you're looking at like 28, 29, 30 minutes of real tennis. If I'm Zverev and my body feels good, I probably just go out and hit for 30 or 40 minutes just so I can go to bed not wondering if I should have gone out and hit for 30 or 40 minutes like that. Those are kind of like the mental and gymnastics. Like it's not going to take anything out of me. I have a full day. Body feels right. Let's go ahead and hit some serves, hit some returns. Kind of feel good, practice. But this is, this is, this is a two week event. Like it never goes. There's, you know, what does Tyson say? Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth, you know, or almost get punched in. Yeah. So we'll see. But I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna bet against Novak. Keep checking in with, with John and I. I am traveling tomorrow, so hopefully you can get the quick serve. John, this is something we normally talk about offline, but here we are putting you on the spot. Thanks in advance. And tail end of Australia with the quick served. I like the tail end of the tournaments because I can actually get further into the matchups and the X's and O's and you know, first round comes and we can't break down 64 matches on each side. It's just like actually impossible. So check us out right here on Quick Serve, presented by Amazon Prime. Check out the Andre interview in the lead up to. I'm excited. He's never had a commentary job and that's coming. So that's, that's pretty exciting. Seems like it's an obvious thing that took a while to, to get there, but that'll be fun. Jw, everything else. Are you getting enough sleep now?
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JW
We're doing fine. This is fun stuff. And to your last point, Andre is going to be great. Go get him, Andre. Perfect.
- [33:11]
Andy
Thanks for watching. Quick served on YouTube but by Amazon prime. That was the cleanest exit of all time. Thanks for watching.
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