Co-host/Analyst (4:19)

Just 14.

Host (4:20)

Just, just, just a casual 14 in your, your second priority. You know, just a little side hustle. 14, 14 doubles majors if, if I'm not. I think that's, I think that's.

Co-host/Analyst (4:31)

Yeah. Layla Fernandez, by the way, 22 years old.

Host (4:35)

It seemed, yeah, it seems like forever ago that she played Radicondo in the finals of this in singles. And I actually don't think it was bad for her to play in front of 14,000 on Louis Armstrong. Place was packed, going crazy and she has Sabalenka next, right. So a little bit of atmosphere before the singles matchup. But this, this was joy. This was fun. This was pure, this was no stress express or all the good type of stresses. This was fun. Loved it. Also, I've never seen more focus from Naomi Osaka. Every point up 6, 3, 51 and still super intense. Almost had that Rafa and point to point mentality. She went to the desk afterwards with, with Chris McKendree and Sloan and was kind of very matter of fact, wasn't. You know, obviously Naomi rarely kind of overshares in those types of interviews, but was just saying, like the only thing I'm real really concerned about right now is intensity. And it showed. She is playing great. Musetti rolled David Goffon. David Goffon is former top 10 player, knows how to play tennis. Musetti was opening up the shoulders. Rubleb of a Boyer in four sets. Tough four Setter One of the matches of the day. Caboli against Brooksby, 7, 6 in the fifth. That hurt. I hurt for Brooksby on this one. I thought he was going to kind of figure that one out. Props to the crowd for going out and supporting Jensen Brooksby. And Caboli just kind of has been playing a bunch of matches. Looks really match tough. That was fun to watch. And techie Sean Karen hatching off, was up two sets against Mike Shock, and then he lost in five sets to Mike Shock. And I'm glad that my Shock. There you go. Can say his own name because I was pretty confused by the spelling of it. Hatching off. Highest, Highest. C to lose. Number nine. You like that one, Mike?

Co-host/Analyst (6:35)

You want to take a stab at that one yourself?

Host (6:38)

My Chuck.

Co-host/Analyst (6:39)

There you go.

Host (6:40)

Is that it? Okay, I'll do it.

Co-host/Analyst (6:42)

Wait, so that's him actually pronouncing it. Is that from the ATP site?

Host (6:45)

It's just a random YouTube video.

Co-host/Analyst (6:47)

You're like iPhone bot.

Host (6:49)

Okay, Mike, close your eyes. Close your eyes for a second.

Co-host/Analyst (6:51)

Okay.

Host (6:51)

Okay. Now tell me if this is the recording or this is me. My jock.

Co-host/Analyst (7:02)

Is that moving on?

Host (7:04)

Okay. Bublek rolled three, three and three against school. Kate. I was a moron. Like, I picked upset special for some nostalgia. Bublek has an absolute bomb of a serve. Like he gets through service games in about 47 seconds. He was rolling today, not doing as much of the, you know, dinky drop, shoddy stuff. Was pretty intense today. He's. He's just a bomb. He drops bomb center. It's like he didn't serve well and still rolled. A guy who plays really good players, really tough. In Alexei Poprin center and Alcaraz, it's just the narrative is probably getting tired where it's these two and the rest. And then Alcaraz goes and does what he did last night, and then sinner kind of ho hums it today where it's a super comfortable scoreline and they're doing nothing to fight the narrative that it's them too. And the rest of it. Center looked very good. Some upsetting news yesterday was was Draper pulled out of the tournament with an elbow injury after not having played since Wimbledon. I hope this is nothing serious. One of the best stories of the year was Draper and Indy Wells and then Draper making the finals of Madrid through Rome. He was probably the third best player in the world this year. You know, you do not want to see this type of growth, momentum improvement and star power, frankly, sidelined by injuries. Yeah, Mike, what is.

Co-host/Analyst (8:40)

What is that? Process. Like, is he, is he saying, hey, this feels pretty good? And then he goes out and it's just, I mean, if you're, if you're dropping out of this, the last major slam of the year, you know, it must be something you're concerned about long term implications with, right?

Host (8:55)

Yeah, I, I think so. I. Listen, I'm, I'm no doctor, but let's, let's, let's just go through the facts of the situation. You can't, you haven't played since Wimbledon and he had to be chomping at the bit to play in hot weather on hard courts post Wimbledon. You know, those are the kind of tournaments that he's going to want to, he doesn't want to miss any tournaments, but especially those type of tournaments. You come here, you have to think that if he chose to play mixed doubles, that he was feeling pretty good. There's no world where you put extra stress on, on your body if, if it's not feeling great, plays this first round match, gets through and then pulls the ripcord. You don't really pull the rip cord unless there's a version of this injury that can be made way worse.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (9:43)

Right.

Host (9:43)

If anything, it's like, okay, if it's just sore or if it's overuse or if it's tendinitis or anything like that, you probably get through the Open and then renegotiate to pull out. It's concerning. Considering he hadn't played much going in and he seemed healthy. I didn't see him shaking out the arm and mixed double. So this sucks. Like, this is concerning because he was a massive breakout star starting with the US Open last year, right? Where he made the semis and lost to center. And then he had been playing great this whole year. So I hope Jack Draper gets healthy. I hope he gets some clarity. You try not to be negative and fear the worst, you know, but it's hard not to with someone with this much potential. You know, him and Shelton maybe enter the conversation of disruptors for these two and you just hope it doesn't go sideways. You hope that it doesn't take six months or you, doesn't take four months or whatever. It would be the other thing. Guys, you ready? Medi?

Co-host/Analyst (10:46)

Oh, no.

Host (10:47)

Little lighter in the wallet.

Co-host/Analyst (10:49)

Oh, they gave the game a little 40.

Host (10:53)

Fine, $43,000. And he deserved it, right? Like he, he stalled his own racket.

Co-host/Analyst (10:58)

And screaming at people.

Host (10:59)

I, yeah, like, I have no, like scream at people. Like the six minute delay, right. And people say I'm soft On Medi, I just find him humorous, and I think he's, like, wildly intelligent, and I kind of have a soft spot for people who maximize their ability. And he absolutely deserved the fine.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (11:16)

Right.

Host (11:16)

Like, you break that. The precedence there. You break that much stuff, even if it is your own, which we can have a conversation for another day, whether. I think that should be the case. What's your favorite find that I ever had?

Co-host/Analyst (11:27)

Yeah, when you're, like, worth it.

Host (11:29)

Yeah, I remember. I remember I was playing Richard Gasquet in Indian Wells. This is bad, guys.

Co-host/Analyst (11:37)

This is bad. I'm sorry I asked.

Host (11:39)

This is bad.

Co-host/Analyst (11:40)

No, not toss.

Host (11:44)

So I'd already gotten. I don't know if it was a warning. I don't know if I'd gotten a warning or this was for a point penalty, but I got an argument. The umpire. I don't even remember the umpire, to be honest. I wish I did. Or maybe I've blocked it out because I'm embarrassed by my own actions, which is. Which is commonplace anyways. Gasket hits a passing shot, and I'd got an argument like, two, three points later. And I caught. You know, like, when you cough something, like when you're in high school, you're like, oh, shit.

Co-host/Analyst (12:10)

Absolutely.

Host (12:11)

Yeah, I did that. But I was like. I was like, you. And then I tried to argue my way out of it with Tom Barnes, who's dear friend, tour supervisor for a long, long time, and he goes, andy, seriously. I was like, all right, all right, I said it, I said it.

Co-host/Analyst (12:33)

So unlike you. Mehdi just went straight to the mic, though. There was no coughing under his breath.

Host (12:39)

See, that's the thing where it's original. You don't often see originality in arguments, and maybe that's where I get a little blinded. Like, I wish I would have thought of the move that Mehdi did where he just ignored the umpire and went to. Went to the microphone. Like, the cleverness is great. And he earned the fine.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (12:54)

Right?

Host (12:55)

Don't.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (12:55)

Like.

Host (12:55)

You don't want to end. He's been going mental, and it's probably not great for him. And going straight to the microphone is hilarious. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, commenters. Are you guys the fun police? Like, I don't know what you want from me. Like, you know, I don't. He didn't. He didn't go crazy and call someone, like, uneducated, what, too soon?

Co-host/Analyst (13:25)

No, no, actually, quite accurate.

Host (13:28)

Yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, disrespectful in a lot of his own ways. Points for originality. And yeah, he's. He spent half his paycheck on that little, little deal for us. And the biggest thing is delaying the match for six minutes at a time, freezing your opponent. Like, that's the stuff that is gamesmanship. That's the stuff that you don't really like, but if he breaks his own rackets and the microphone thing was hilarious. You can, you can comment all you want. That miss me, though. That was hilarious. I'm sorry. That was. That was great. But listen, the story that's going to get reported on from the day over and over is this Biomechanics. You know, McMillan coach this. You can see the stress just flowing out of Coco, and, And it's been amazing to see how she's dealt with the yips for like a year and a half.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (14:23)

Right.

Host (14:24)

It's. She won the French Open.

Co-host/Analyst (14:26)

Yeah.

Host (14:27)

This year. It's insane dealing with this issue. Like, it's, it's, it's weird because her saying. It's like she said in press and I, I love Coco. All cards on table. I have a hard time being unbiased when it, when it, when it comes to Coco. So let's just level set there. But the conviction with which she sat in press and was like, this is a biomechanical issue. This is not even. This is no mental issue. It's hard with the emotional sets attached to the match tonight. And you could see the buildup of whether it's attention on it, whether it's stress with training it, the focus on it. Like, yeah, it. There were. There were. It was mental.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (15:09)

Right.

Host (15:10)

Like, it. There. Maybe it's both. It's not either or. It's always both. But of course, you're human. If you get asked about something all the time and everything is reported. Yeah. At some point, it becomes something you think about. Like, there's no chance. It's not. But it was hard. I mean, she. She's able to compartmentalize. Serve. Rest of her game in an amazingly admirable way. Like, crazy. Win the French Open with. With a yippee serve.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (15:39)

Right.

Host (15:40)

Like, that's. It's unbelievable what she's accomplished. She's three in the world. She won tonight. She won tonight. She broke down on a switch over handshaking, had to take a bathroom break to kind of compose herself, and then was able to kind of find a little bit of rhythm in the second set.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (15:59)

Right.

Host (15:59)

But it can't. There are, There are issues. I mean, listen. And the other thing is, I've seen. I've seen. I spent two practices with Coco where we worked on the serve for a grand total of an hour. And for the next, you know, the first month of the season, she was serving. Unbelievable.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (16:17)

Right.

Host (16:17)

And then chips were down against Saba and that semi in Australia, you know, two years ago, and it kind of crept back in. But there's some physical parts, there's some corrections. Everyone knows she falls forward. If the ball goes too far out in front of you and you're reaching, you can't create spin.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (16:35)

Right.

Host (16:35)

When it's here, you can get the bottom of it and create spin. I think everyone knows that. I think she knows that.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (16:40)

Right.

Host (16:41)

But there's. It just pressure manifests itself in different way. And pressure is a stress test for technique. And it's something that she has been working through, is working through. I don't mind her changing something. The timeline is rough and everyone's pointing to the Sabalenka of things. I'm pretty sure Sabalenka started working on it during an off season when you have three or four weeks. Right. She's trying to do this on the fly in three or four days. It's really hard. And I have so much respect for her getting through these matches. It's amazing. And her making the call because she felt like she needed to. I'm good with all that. But to. For the expectation to be that she's going to go out and it's going to be fixed in three days. Like that. It doesn't work like that.

Co-host/Analyst (17:23)

Yeah. I mean, in the first set, she had seven double faults, 63 on first serves, 59 on first serve wins. But then she had the break. You know, she took that time when Donna Veke had the elbow getting looked at by the doctor. She went out and grabbed balls and she was ripping surfs.

Host (17:42)

She made like nine out of ten of them.

Co-host/Analyst (17:44)

Nine out of ten. And then she comes out in the second set. One double fault, 77 for first serves in 77 first.

Host (17:50)

Yeah.

Co-host/Analyst (17:50)

Wins. So it's, you know, that's not mechanics. Right. It's. It's just resetting. It's resetting level set of mine.

Host (17:58)

It's. It's both. It's all of it.

Co-host/Analyst (17:59)

Okay.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (18:00)

Right.

Host (18:00)

Like, there's. There's no. Like, you can. It's not as if there's a clean separation of church and state, physical, mental. It's all intertwined. It all works together. It's all one thing.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (18:10)

Right.

Host (18:11)

And she's able to deal and separate and compartmentalize, which is like a superpower. For an athlete, whether it's on court, off court. You know, she's, she's been as good as I've seen for someone who has this glaring thing that she has to address all the time. But you could see the stress build up out there tonight. Like, there's no way. There's, there's no way you could. I'm curious to see what she says in press. But yeah, there are big feelings there because you're exposed, right? Like your biggest insecurity is exposed and people are watching it in real time.

Co-host/Analyst (18:40)

I mean, she broke down. She broke down in the, in the post match on court. You know, she had a great saying. She said, no matter how tough it gets inside, you can do it. But you know, she's breaking down when she's saying this. And then she went to the ESPN desk and she was clearly emotional there still. But the fact is she was going and doing those things, right? Like, she's not hiding away from it. She's embracing it and facing it. I thought that was really powerful.

Host (19:02)

Yeah. I mean, it would. Listen, we can talk about serve and we can talk about concern for serve, and that's a separate conversation than Coco addressing things head on.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (19:12)

Right.

Host (19:13)

Like, she hasn't hid from anything ever, ever, ever. Head on. Dealt with it tonight was like, you know, you, it's hard to eat. Like, I'm gonna give credit for the, the mental part of it and all, but you can't. I, I just. The only thing I think I've ever disagreed. It's like, you can't separate. Like, I would love for the world to be okay. This is physical. This is mental. I, it's definitely not mental. Like, yeah, it all, it's. It all lives together. It's one thing, right? Like, and it, the serve is mental. I stood three feet from her and watched her hit 50 beautiful serves in a row. Like, I've seen it. She, she, like, she has the ability to be a great server. I do think she will be a dominant server at some point. I really do. You know, and I hope this works.

Co-host/Analyst (20:01)

Scary for her opponents.

Host (20:03)

Yeah. And the first serve percentage is higher because she's spinning it in. She's, you know, going for the middle of the box. The priority is on making it, you know, she has 125 in her arm. She can hit it that big. Like, it's, I've seen it. It's. It's absurd. And I hope this works there. The. When the good serves right now look cleaner than, than they did, you know, three weeks ago. So credit to the, to the new team. But, like, you can't create muscle memory in four days, right? Like, I think that's just an unrealistic expectation. So I don't know what we're expecting, like a magic fix. Like, there's no, there's no aspirin for this, right. Like it's going to take, it's going to take a minute, it's going to take some work. Nobody more up to the task than, than Coco Golf, right? But this is, to go seven full matches with that amount of stress is going to be very hard. But, you know, the rest of our game, it's funny because we talk about, like the best players in the world and Novak struggling and he gets through and we talk about Coco struggling and she's through.

Co-host/Analyst 2 (21:09)

Right?

Host (21:09)

Like, it's, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty amazing that there can be these glaring things, you know, Novak struggling physically the first two rounds, Coco struggling with serve and kind of with the new thing. And you can see the kind of, the mental anguish on her face and they win. They win. It's just, it's just really impressive. Can't wait for tomorrow. Thank you for watching this show. Quick Serve brought to you by Amazon Prime. Lots of hedge fiat tech almost goes down and it was like everyone was so calm. I'm like, this is Earth. This is like a, I don't know, whatever this is. This is Quick Serve brought you by Amazon Prime. We'll see you tomorrow. Support for the show comes from Amazon Prime. Prime is more than just fast free delivery. It's your go to for streaming music, movies and sports. Plus it's also a great way to connect with the things you love into skiing. Stream ski films on prime video even when the slopes are bare. Love fishing. You can get new gear delivered fast and be back by the water in no time planning your next big trip. Prime helps you get everything you need faster than you can write your out of office email. Whatever you're into, it's on Prime. Visit Amazon.comprime to get more out of whatever you're into.

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