Hey guys, welcome to What's the Call the podcast where sports
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I'm Andrea. And we're glad you're here.
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So let's dive in. Hey, welcome back.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. How was last week?
I mean, I feel like it was great.
It was good. You were missed, you were
missed. I feel like you would have
really enjoyed that interview. I was so bummed not to be able
to make it, but that was literally no way I could have.
I really, really was looking forward to it, and I absolutely
loved listening back to it, actually.
It was great. And yeah, I guess we're back.
We're back for another just you and I shooting the shit kind of
episode. So yeah, there is a lot that's
gone down this past week. Rome rapt Sinner won the golden
Masters. Switelina did the three peat in
Rome. She won it for a third time.
And then also my personal favorite story of the entire
tournament isn't any of that, but it's the partnership that
the tournament did with Jamelli Hospital and that produced
really like heart warming moments, I felt.
And then we're also going to have to discuss the Draper
Murray collab as well as Carlos's orange Vanity Fair
cover. Yeah.
So all that to come in today's episode.
Should we jump in? So Yannick Sinner, he's smashing
records left, right and centre it feels like these days.
Can we talk about first his outfit?
Because I thought it was pretty sick.
Darth Sinner vibes. Yeah, I thought it was cool.
Yeah, I liked it. The All Black he's playing into
the sort of main character energy that he is well,
projecting and living these last few weeks.
I mean, I can't imagine what it's like to face him right now.
Scary. Like scary.
It's, yeah, terrifying. But yeah, and he's dressing the
part as well, the sort of like don't mess with me vibe in the
all black. I always think that on the clay
looks pretty sick. Yeah, I love contrast outfits on
clay. Yeah, they look great.
So that was a small little side note, but love that it sort of
set the scene nicely for him to break all these records.
So the career golden Masters, Yannick Sinner now becomes the
second man ever to win all 9 Masters.
Won thousands at least once. Djokovic has done it.
He was 31, Sinner's 24. So it's pretty crazy.
So that's start number one. Start number 2 is that he's won
six consecutive Masters 1000 cycle dating back to Paris last
year. No one's ever done that.
And the ATP Finals. And the ATP finals.
So like technically 7 masters in a row, the sunshine double and
now the clay court triple. Crazy.
No one has done that since Nadal, which is also crazy.
And then the just the win streak itself.
He's broken the record for 34 consecutive wins on the 1000
side. All time record.
So Djokovic had done 31, right? Yeah, it's just mind blowing
crazy. And on top of that, last, sorry,
I was, like, fascinated by all of these.
But he's the first Italian man to win Rome in exactly 50 years
since Adriano Panata in 1976. And Panata actually was there at
the trophy ceremony. So that was cool.
It made Yannick emotional, which we don't often see.
That is a lot to unpack. Unpack even.
Yeah. I'm so impressed with him.
He's killing it. I am a little bored, but you
know, it is. I feel like there are also some
up and coming players who can possibly challenge him at some
point. I mean.
It's obviously that he's going to win Roland Garros.
Like I would be super surprised if he didn't.
And that again puts him in the history books as he achieves the
career slam. And then he, you know, equals
Rafa, who also is the only man to ever win all three clay
masters and then back it up with a Roland Garus win.
So crazy. You know, I guess he was
challenged. He was.
But I don't know they're,
they're even even then. I just, I just thought knew he
would win, you know? For sure.
I mean, good on Armand de Neil to push him that far in the
semis. Yeah, he took him to three,
which across that 34 match win streak, by the way, he's only
lost three sets. So one of them was that one,
which is insane. He hasn't even played, you know,
because that sounds just so exhausting and like this guy
must be physically and mentally exhausted and we can get on to
that because he did sort of have a moment where that where that
really showed. But he hasn't even had these
long, grueling, intense or that many, like intense, grueling
matches. So he's still pretty fresh for
the French, which is, yeah, again, crazy.
I feel like he keeps saying crazy but it's like.
What he's doing is sort of unfathomable.
But like you said, yeah, he's just so locked in.
But should we talk about, like, the panic attack that seems to
be going down on court? I mean speculation, He hasn't
confirmed it obviously, but it looked like he is having a panic
attack like multiple times I feel like throughout the
tournament. Yeah, absolutely.
Because he's kind of shaking, and I mean visibly distressed.
I'll, I'll leave you to comment on that because you're the
expert, not in, not. The expert, but like, sorry.
Not in panic attacks in. Psychology.
No, no, I know. But like, I mean even even that,
I to me it looks like a panic attack, obviously.
There's no way of, actually. Knowing, but I didn't think it
was just cramps. I think clearly there was
something else going on and I'm also not surprised by that.
No, you know, I feel like he's kept it so together.
He's so together as a player and so but then again, like the
spotlight is on him everywhere he goes right now and he's
expected to win every single match and dominate every single
match and he's doing it and he's delivering.
But still like that has to take an emotional toll as well.
For sure. And I mean, it made it much more
special, I guess, that he did it in Rome.
But it adds even more pressure, you know, doing it at home, the
Italian presidents, you know, watching over you.
The Pope is watching over you. Everyone is watching over you.
But no, I mean, honestly, some crazy shit.
Wow, that's some really hard hitting analysis for me.
But also just to say all of that, like, I think, you know,
he's always so like steely faced.
Is that a word? Well, first of all, he was like
you said, he's taken an emotional toll.
But even like at the trophy ceremony or like after he won,
he looked emotional, which he doesn't often.
He doesn't give away his emotions very much, but he did.
I feel like he looked like he was going to start crying.
Yeah, which cute. We like to see like a human
side. Absolutely.
And I think it's healthy, too, because you can only hold things
in so much. I feel like they come out at
some point, and that's clearly what was happening.
And I also have to say, I feel like it's almost easier for him
when Carlos is around because it does just take some of the
pressure off. And now he just, yeah, he
dominates. All.
Eyes on him, so yeah. So he beat Casper Rude in the
final. Poor Casper Root, he is just the
like bridesmaid all these matches.
Yeah, I feel like Casper is just happy to be there in these
moments, but he's never really, I don't know, you never really
back him to win these kinds of matches.
No, he doesn't have like that last bit of oomph to like, close
it out right. No, and I think he went into the
final playing pretty well. I thought the first few games I
was watching those and then he just, you know, he lost some
silly points and I feel like he gave up after that and like kind
of abandoned his game plan. I mean, I don't, you know, it's
it's he's playing against Sionic Center, so you can't really
blame him that much. But he did in the beginning, at
least in the beginning of the match, I was like, oh, could
this be interesting? And then?
I mean, final score was 6464, so it's respectable, Yeah, against
Sinner, right? Kind of.
Yeah, but you, just like with Casper, always forget that he's
made three Grand Slam finals. Yeah, he has.
But yeah, he just doesn't. He can't get over the line.
I don't know why, but now I think Sinner's just like, so
locked in. Yeah, it's it's crazy.
Again, I keep, we keep saying crazy.
But also there's part of me that was like, if he's going to miss
the Gucci Cruise Show in New York, he might as well win the
title. You know, watching that coverage
as well looked intense. But yeah, it's always
interesting because like, you know, these players have these
sponsorships, but then they can't go to like lot of the big
events. Especially tennis players like
they have. It's impossible.
Two weeks off Impossible. So yeah, I'm sure they were
happy about that. But yeah, anyway, I like, you
know, I love Casper. We both love Casper.
So he's looking good, I won't lie.
I've always thought he looked good.
I like the beard, like the stubble.
He's a man, He's a dad, He's a father.
But anyway, yeah, he also made a a funny joke in his runner up
speech. What?
Yeah. So Casper basically acknowledged
the home crowd by way of sort of dragging them.
And he was like, well, Italy didn't make the World Cup.
Norway did. Obviously he didn't qualify this
year. Lost to Norway.
Right, so there we go. But I thought bold, bold because
that that's got to cut deep. I definitely does.
I feel like that's like a national trauma for them.
So for. Sure.
I mean, that's shocking, to be fair.
Like I'm not very well informed about football.
I wasn't even aware when I read that.
I was like, am I misreading something here?
But yeah, that's crazy. But like, did he prepare that,
you know, because he I mean, of course he was probably he knew,
you know, him winning the final as a long shot.
But like, it just yeah. Was he like already preparing
his runner up speech and like knew he was going to nag the
crowd? Do you think?
Probably. Do you think he?
I think. So or maybe, yeah, someone like,
planted the seeds so that he would like.
Yeah, I thought it was quite funny of him to do that.
Yeah. So then, OK, last mention of
this match has to go to Yannick's mom, Siglinda Sinner.
The long-suffering mother of Panic Sinner.
If you haven't seen it, look it up because like, I love her and
she lives every point. Yeah, you can tell she lives and
breathes every single point, and you'd think she'd be able to
relax a little bit now, but it doesn't seem like you know
that's the case. I feel like she hasn't been
going to the matches for very long.
She probably dislikes going. I think she likes it.
She was at Roland Gauss last year and I think that probably
traumatized her. Oh for sure, for sure.
I felt like that's bad for her. Rough, rough.
Yeah, I think she she avoids it. But like, to be fair, like I
know we've spoken about it before, like how exhausting this
tour is. I don't know how these players
aren't like half dead yet. The season is just like so
non-stop so it's like tiring just keeping up as fans to be
honest. So imagine being like the
parent. I cannot even begin to imagine.
And even the parent of him, he's winning every single match he's
playing, but she's still clearly suffering.
She's like head and hands like this.
She's like. So stressed the whole time I.
Know. But it's so sweet.
It is sweet. We love to see it.
Let's see if he continues the
Masters streak when they go to North America.
It'll be interesting to see. I'd be surprised if he plays the
1st in Canada. Do you think so?
Unless he's really dedicated to winning all.
Yeah, to doing like a calendar masters.
Yeah, I I don't know, I would be very surprised.
I feel like he really needs a break time off.
Yeah. And then?
Cincy Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see.
It's interesting actually to see to see what what decision he'll
make. Perhaps he's like, yeah, I mean,
see your side. But perhaps he's also like Yolo,
I'm the youngest I'll ever be now if I can't do it now, I'm
not going to be able to do it ever.
I. Don't know.
I don't know. Maybe.
Because there's, yeah, there's four left to go.
So let's see. Yeah, I mean, it's doable,
right? Yeah.
But I think, yeah, he would be the first man to ever do it
within one calendar year, I think.
Crazy, crazy. OK, well all will be revealed to
talk about the women. Yes.
Alina Svitolina beat Coco Golf in three sets.
It was amazing match actually watched this one.
Loved it. It was really like, yeah, a
compelling match to to watch. And it's her third Rome title.
So she won in 2017 and in 2018, and now we're, I mean, yeah, in
2026. That eight-year gap is pretty
impressive. I feel like she's really like,
you know, she's gone off, gotten married, had a child, and it's
like staging a pretty crazy comeback.
I feel like I was happy for her. I was so happy for her.
I I love her. She's great.
I love to see a woman come back after maternity leave and really
just I feel like she's killing it right now.
And totally, it's so fun to see. So yeah, I, I love seeing it.
I mean, I, I think both of us love Coco as well.
But just given Switalina's sort of position, which we just spoke
about, it's, it's great to see. Yeah, definitely, definitely.
And her path to the final is crazy.
She'd be Eaga in three sets in the semi final.
I expected Eaga to make the final.
Yeah, because there's been so much talk about Eaga, you know,
being back to her best, but and she's also pretty shaky, I feel
like mentally at the moment. So Switelina is back in the top
ten and she goes into Roland Garris, the number seven seed,
and I think she's definitely in the mix.
Yes, definitely. The women's tournament is going
to be so interesting, I feel like.
Yeah, I think more interesting than the men's side for sure.
Yeah, there are a lot of like legit contenders, I would say.
And while like this final isn't, that isn't surprising, it's
still a final that you wouldn't, I don't know.
I love that in the on the women's side right now, it's
like, yes, there are, you know, women dominating the sport, but
you can't really predict the finals that easily.
No, you can't. You can't.
And going into, yeah, Roland Garros, I mean, Coco is the
defending champion. Swetelina is arriving off of
this Rome run. Sabalenko is obviously a bit
injured, Not quite sure what's going on with her, but.
But I imagine she really wants this.
Oh, she wants this. Yeah.
I feel like she'll stop at
nothing. But should we talk about Coco?
Maybe she was looking a bit mentally distressed.
She hit herself in the head with her racket.
That looked painful. Yeah, I feel for her.
I feel like she's also very, she's very emotive and she's
been going through maybe not like the worst.
Season. Year, but it hasn't been a great
year for her so far. No, and I feel bad like she was
she, she told the media at a press conference earlier in the
week that her serve finally felt stable because she's having
trouble with serve. But then she served 7 double
faults in the final. That was brutal.
She also went and did this TikTok trend after the final,
like, my top five horror movies or whatever.
And she like, listed and then underneath she was like, before
everyone comes for me, this is a TikTok trend.
Don't like write, go piece about, you know, what's going on
with Coco cough. Yeah, 'cause like, I feel like,
yeah, a lot of journalists don't get her often on social media.
Yeah, and don't really get sort of Gen.
Z. Gen.
Z Yeah, it's like. Social media trends.
Yeah, they didn't get it. So she was like, let's just,
let's just clarify this from the off.
But I love the picture she posted to her story of her just
disassociating at the in the ceremony at the final ceremony.
Literally no, but she's always gracious in defeat.
At the end of the day, she, you know, congratulated Swetelina
and like, gave a very humble speech, which was great to see.
So yeah, let's wrap the on court and move on to the off court.
And I've been waiting all episode to talk about it 'cause
I'm just obsessed with the story in Rome.
Already mentioned it earlier, but the initiative the
tournament ran with the Gemelli hospital in Rome, specifically
the pediatric oncology department.
So throughout the tournament, kids who are patients at the
children's cancer ward were given the chance to walk out
onto court with the players as their on court mascots, which a
lot of tournaments do, but they just, they often just pick
random kids. But they purposely partnered
with this hospital and yeah, it just made for some, really.
Like heart warming moments. I loved this, I know, such a
lovely thing to do. Yeah, I, it was, it was like
incredible to see. Yeah, there were there were 33
that stood out, I think 3 that sort of caught people's
attention the most. Three moments.
The first was obviously Sinner semi final against Medvedev.
I'm sure everyone's seen this, but if you haven't, definitely
go check it out. But yeah, the this little girl
who's just like so excited, she was so cute and like so there's
obviously 2 mascot mascots waiting for the two players that
walk out. And so Medvedev comes out first
because he's the low ranked player and he was like looking
at which one to take. And she was just like the little
girl was like pointing to the other kid.
Well, I think 1 was really set on going with Sinner.
Yeah, yeah, I. Know she was clearly she was
ready. She was ready.
She. Was ready so Daniel anyway takes
the other one and they walk off and this girl's just like she's
already there like clapping like to herself like so excited and
just like smiling back at Yannick.
It was so cute. And then Yannick walks on, takes
her hand and she is like, she's like skipping along.
Like I was just so cute. And then?
I love his face, I know, looking down at.
Her I know and he you can tell that he just like really enjoys
it as well. And then when they take a
picture at the net before the coin toss, she like struck a
little pose. So cute.
But honestly, I think it's just, it's so lovely of them to do
this because it means so much to any kid, but especially these
kids. Yeah, I'm just like contrasting
it to the walk out to Carl Miami, walk out against Subcorda
in Miami. I know, right?
The teenager who's such a little shit.
I'm important, poor guy. I'm.
Like, ungrateful kind of. Yeah, I was just trying to be, I
don't know, I mean, I'm being mean, but this is just so much
more heart warming. It really is.
It really isn't it? It's a, it's a lovely thing for
tournaments to do and you know, other others should start
thinking in a similar vein I think.
Yeah, I feel like Rome is really this year.
They, I don't know, I feel like they tried to change things up
and, and play up to the crowd and Oh yeah, make it.
I don't know. I thought it was.
I thought it was cool the way that they.
It was just so cute. And then yesterday in the final
as well, the mascot was like visibly limping and he was
really little little boy, so Sinner to like sort of almost
bend down a bit, but he also like totally slowed down his
pace and I was just like, oh, this was like, of course he was
going to do that. I mean, I would, one would hope
anyone would, but I don't know. It was just so cute, so cute to
see. And I think it's like a bit of a
moment of like, OK, I am so fortunate to be in this
position. Like, yes, you're walking out
there to try and complete the Golden Masters.
Like it's a reality check. For them, yeah, definitely.
The way Yannick handled them in particular.
I mean, maybe. I know it's got a lot of air
time, but like it just, yeah, I loved, loved to see it.
He's a sweet, sweet man. He is, he is.
It's nice that like, someone like that is also, you know,
dominating the sport because you don't need to be like an asshole
to be. Yeah.
Successful and then the third moment we need to talk about I'm
sorry I'm already dying. Luciano Darderi's semi final
walk out against rude. He so rude, comes out, takes the
hand of 1, and then Darderi comes like strutting out.
He literally looked like he'd just been booked for a sort of
Demner show. I'm like, are you walking for
Gucci in New York? Because he just stormed out of
there like blue Steel with these Emporio ridiculous Emporio
Armani sunglasses no less. Not even anything cool.
Sorry, subtle Dick, but like what are you doing?
And just completely ignore the child basically.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, he was having a main character moment.
That's crazy. I mean, I think, yeah, him being
Italian and playing in Italy and playing a great tournament, I
don't know. Not that it, you know, not that
I think he did that on purpose, of course not.
But it kind of got to his head and it just was not a good look
for him. But I also really feel for him.
Me too, because it's. Such a douche he.
Looks like such a douche and that's one way to really come
back. Like crashing back down and then
to lose and then to lose, yeah. 6161.
Oh God, yeah. It's just so embarrassing after
that whole thing, so I feel really bad for him.
I do as well and but like he was also like ordering espressos to
the core earlier in the week. I'm like, what are you on bro?
I I don't know, but he did obviously apologize.
Yeah, and there's no, you know, of course he did not see the
poor girl who's waiting for him, but.
No, And there's the the argument that they're nervous for them
match and you know, he's at home and all of that.
But like it's just also a reminder to just always stay
humble. Unlike, it's not all about you,
you know. Yeah.
And also the tournament, again, this was great on their part.
They brought the little girl, her name was Camilla.
I think back out for the coin toss at the final yesterday,
which is great. Yeah, because that's what I when
I first saw the clip, I was like, I'm I just feel bad for
the poor sweet girl who was expecting to walk out with him.
So I'm really glad they brought her back out Those.
That was the right move for sure. 100% they're doing it
right in Rome. So yeah, big fans of a Rome
tournament. I feel like every monster this
year has been, there's been like a lot of talking points.
Yeah, even despite, especially on the men's side, the same
person winning every tournament, they've they've been, they've
been great. All righty.
So big, big news announced last Tuesday, Andy Murray is joining
Jack Draper's cross court coaching team.
It's a strong British collab for the grass season no less.
Like people are going to be freaking out.
I love it too. Yeah, I feel like it's smart
too, because also, and he obviously understands the
pressure of being the British favorite.
Yes, absolutely. He understands the pressure of
that. He obviously also can't like
keep it in a in his pants and just keep away from the tennis.
He can't. Let go.
He can't let. Go.
He cannot let go. But he also obviously Draper has
been pretty injured. He's been dealing with multiple
injuries over the course of the last few months and who better
to bring in that? Andy Murray, the king of the
comeback, You mean? He literally like did insane
things with a metal hip. So he has that side of things
too. Not only like British, but also
injured. True.
Yeah, true. I also have just developed such
fondness for Andy Murray. I used to really dislike him
just because of his on court demeanor but once I started like
looking into him behind the scenes I he is one-of-a-kind.
He's so funny. And I'll never forget the
anecdote that your dad tells. I think it was in 2013, he met
Rafa in New York because they were staying in the same hotel
and he had a conversation with him and and asked Rafa who his
favorite player is to hang out with.
And Rafa said Andy Murray and I was pretty, yeah, I remember
hearing that and being like, oh, that's, you know, surprising,
but I totally believe it. Very surprised, and I didn't
believe it first, but now, not now, but over the last few years
where, you know, both you and I have become more clued in on,
like, what these personalities are like, maybe off the court.
It makes total sense. Yeah.
I think he's a lot of people's
favorite. I wouldn't be surprised.
Yeah, and he is kind of like a father figure type guy and he's
just always in the conversation, as he said, like he can't, he
can't let go and I'm glad he does.
It like me too. I'm so excited to see this
collab. I guess we'll see the first of
it, maybe at Queens. Yes.
Yeah, so now I'm excited. I really, I can't wait.
Also just like throwing it back to their car.
Video of I will walk 1000 miles or 10,000 What is it?
Is it 1000 miles? 5. 5. 100 miles. 500 miles,
whatever, however many miles. That's just too funny where, you
know, Jack Draper's there. Like, I don't know, like, like
pounding some beers and Murray's driving and they're singing the
song. It's just, I love it.
It's all coming full circle. I, I can't wait to can't wait
for the collab to go live. So yeah, let's see.
Hopefully they can also achieve something.
I know I feel so bad for Jack. I know he's had such a tough
year, so many injuries, and as you said, it'll be good for him
to be working with someone who had, you know, all these
injuries and was able to come back from them and do really
well. Yeah, to overcome them for sure.
Absolutely. Yeah.
We will be watching that duo closely.
Like, we definitely have to talk about the Carlos Vanity Fair
cover. Oh my God.
Yeah, yeah, it was the cover. Sorry.
So. Yeah, it was.
It was Vanity Fair's first ever global sports issues.
They had Carlos, they had Asia Wilson, WNBA star and Killian
Mbappe as the covers, which is like pretty stacked set of cover
stars. And I just love to see them put
tennis in the mix. Yes, we love a sports crossover.
We love a crossover and we love a moment where tennis gets
spotlight, so. Yeah, to put like tennis
alongside WDA and, you know, probably like one of the biggest
football stars. Exactly.
So it's great it. Was cool.
So what did you think about on the cover?
The sort of clay as war paint vibe.
I like it in theory. The execution I don't know.
I really like it in theory too, but I agree the execution is it
just looks like really bad fake tan.
Yes, and and just I, I think Carlos needs a rebranch in terms
of like his style. His style is, you know.
The one where he's, like, lying there with his body covered in
clay and he's like, looking back at it.
I'm like, what is this, like, big.
Please. Yeah.
No, please. Please please.
Like who? Who's advising him?
It was, yeah, it was a lot when it came off my screen.
To be fair, he had posted it in like his Miami dump and yet to
then remove it because clearly they were like, what is this?
Like remove this? It's just like him rolling
around in the clay. And now obviously it's obvious
what was that, what that was for rather.
But it also just cracks me up because, yeah, like he may be
injured, but he's still rolling around in clay and covered in
it. So.
Yes. And I thought the interview was
interesting and I thought it was interesting when he spoke about
sometimes wishing he could live a more normal life.
And then he said like, or he said exactly.
I know I'm living a dream life, a life I dreamed of, but I
sometimes wish I could have more moments to myself to do things a
normal 22 year old guy would do. And.
That makes me kind of sad. Yeah, and and he said, I play
for the little kid I used to be, just trying to have fun and make
magic on the court. Yeah, it is sad.
Yeah. Right.
Because you can tell. I think you can tell.
You can tell in the last few tournaments that he wasn't
again, like playing with joy and he'd sort of lost sight of, you
know, Carlos is someone who plays with so much joy and who
clearly loves tennis for tennis. You know, it's and it's sad to
hear that. It is because I think also when
you achieve so much so quickly, it's easy to become jaded.
I'm not saying he has, but I think almost like you then, you
know, wake up the next morning, you're like, now what?
Right. And I think it's really like
self aware of him to be making these statements and mature that
he can like articulate it, right?
Yeah, and I mean, I can't even imagine what it's like a 19 to
suddenly blow up and become a global superstar.
And he's a pretty, you know, he comes from a pretty small, yes,
it's a city in Spain. But, you know, it's, it's a
small place. Clearly he's, you know, he lived
a very small life. Yeah.
And then, you know, and now he lives this huge life.
But he's still clearly like, wants to go home all the time,
wants to live in the house. His favorite spot?
It's. Still his favorite spot.
He lives with his parents still. And while he's living the dream
and you know he's killing it in life like it's still, it can't.
It's not. It's not easy, no.
Because there's like 2 very, very different worlds as well.
Totally. And I think it it's it speaks
for him that he's so connected to his family and his hometown
and that he's, yeah, he's aware of his privilege and obviously
his success and he deserves all of it.
But that even when you're in this position, like it's tough
and you struggle, right? Absolutely.
And I think actually like in terms of you mentioned him
wanting to feel joy on the court, I feel like if he'd lost
that a little bit, this injury will probably bring it back
right sometimes. Yeah, I hope so.
And I hope having some time, real time to himself.
Obviously he's rehabbing and you know, I'm sure he's doing all
that he can to be prepared for grass.
But I think it'll be good for him.
It's probably good for him to have to have yeah time at home
and more Thea with his family, definitely them to like
reconnect with that. Should we check in pre rolling
gauss? Yes.
OK, because there are a lot of unknown quantities going into
the tournament. There are a lot of injuries.
So as we mentioned Savalenka, she has some sort of a lower
back issue, which, yeah, meant she obviously lost in room in
the third round, which is shocking for her because you
always just, you know, count her in as going at least to the
semis or the finals. So let's see how she comes into
the tournament, as you said. I mean, she's going to be going
all guns blazing for sure because she wants this one.
She hasn't won this one after last year's loss, which she did
not take well. Moussati.
Yeah. Is also out of Roland Garros
with erectus femoris tear. Yeah.
So that's like the thigh. I think it's the back of the
thigh or something I don't know but it's something I I heard of
something to do with the femur as well which is the leg like
maybe? Right, of course.
Between the leg and the the the butt or something because like
it's definitely not the back of the leg because.
Maybe there's a muscle that runs.
Yeah, because that would be the hamstring.
You know what? No one fucking cares except for
Lorenzo. But here we are trying to
dissect where the injury is, so we just Google it.
Oh my God, no. Absolutely.
Nothing. Nothing.
Yeah, but it's so sad that he had to pull out of Rome as well
because, you know, again, an Italian at home.
And now he's pulled out of rolling Gauss.
Sad and he's on clay. He's kind of, he can kill it on
clay, so. They are.
Yeah, so he's out. Holger Rooney, obviously, you
know, big words, said he was coming back for the clay.
But he's confirmed he's not going to come back until the
grass swing, which is probably a prudent decision on his part.
Yeah. Because, yeah, he had an
Achilles tear, which is not fun. Ben Zverev has some sort of a
back injury. He pulled out of Hamburg, which
is his home tournament. Hamburg is now this coming week.
So yeah, he's still going to go into Rolygarros, but let's see
where he's at. He also, I think, is having
just, like, a bit of a crisis. Like, you know, he made those
statements back in Madrid about his level and how high it is.
And then he goes into Rome and gets bageled by Darderi in like
the third round kind of crazy after making those statements.
Yeah, that's why making those statements, I feel like it's
just it's never a good idea. It's never a good idea.
He also then in the press conference blamed the court,
said This is the absolute worst court I've ever played on.
No, yeah, you just don't do that.
Such a bad luck. It's just that he needs some
serious inner work. Further proof he's going through
it. He started beefing with the
Tennis Channel online. I actually could with this.
I get to read you what he commented under one of their
posts. So basically for context, the
Tennis Channel and and the tours separately as well.
They do always these challenges for players to create content
for social media and often they ask them to do a task and
they're like, you know, they're usually quite difficult to do
and like players will fail whatever.
He commented under one of them. Just a random question at Tennis
Channel. Why do I do all of these games
and all these promotion activities with you guys, but
then every time I get something right, I get cut out of every
single one? I'm sorry, I just can't.
Just asking if you're interested in wasting my time or just hope
that I get something wrong so you can then put that in.
I know you have players that you love to hate on and players that
you love, so just please stop wasting my time then.
Thank you. Like what are you doing?
Go to rehab your back stop. Just like stop this is so dumb.
It's like, so immature and childish.
I don't know. This is like, again, a bad luck.
He obviously got so roasted for it online.
But like, OK, you're never being invited back to a Tennis Channel
video. Just like no, no self-awareness,
no self-awareness. I mean, anyone could have told
him that that was not going to go down well and.
Yeah, he still did it. And also, I mean, clearly the
social media teams are posting stuff that, you know, do well,
like they know what does well and what doesn't do well.
I'm sorry you're not delivering. Like, that's why, you know?
He's not delivering, but all these comments on the side are
giving us a lot to talk about so.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Anyway, so yeah, that was another funny, funny moment.
But I'm just like, dude, back in your box.
Yeah, last thing we should touch on before we make a final call.
Taylor Fritz. Sorry, I'm just dying.
What? He was spotted at the
Renaissance Fair in Irwindale, CA.
I got the second hand embarrassment when I saw his
story. What I.
The selfie he posted, the first selfie he posted where he's I, I
just, I got it. But this is giving like breakup
energy he's wearing. Like a full like period costume
and like eating a chicken thigh. I can't.
I mean, I kind of love it. I think it's hilarious.
It's funny, it's fine. What the nerd?
He captioned it. The nerd in me had to hit the
Renaissance Fair. This makes me so happy.
OK, I was just, I was thinking of it from the perspective of
he's been he's he's rumoured to be dating Olivia Jade, the
influencer. And I was like why would he post
this is going to give her the egg.
Oh, it's giving her the egg for sure.
She's off. It's she's off.
Like it's off. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, God, Taylor, what are you doing?
Like, I mean, he just needs to honestly, he just needs to stick
to, you know, gaming and playing tennis.
Yeah, I mean he. Is just a massive nerd, clearly.
Yeah, and we, we love a nerd, but like that, The post.
Oh my God. Yeah.
Again, if you haven't seen the post, go look at it because I'm
like, dude is going. He's definitely, yeah, going
through breakup. That's obvious.
You know, better than partying. Like, yeah, I feel like most
guys just go under. Yeah, yeah, we love a tennis
nerd. Keep going, Taylor, go to your
Renaissance pleasure fairs. So I'm going to make a final
call. This week's a fun one.
Who is the all time players box MVPI?
Guess not a family member, but for me I feel like the iconic
Anna Wintour in Roger Federer's box.
That is pretty much like every tournament.
Yeah, super fan. I I love that.
That's a great one. I would have to agree.
But I also, and I can't believe I'm saying this, Judy Murray.
Oh, of course, of course, of course.
She's a good one. I used to really like, get
annoyed when they drew her, but like, now that I know all the
back story I'm like yeah, she's MVP.
Yeah, I love. Yeah, I love Judy Murray.
Yeah, she's another icon, honestly, her and Anna together,
British women. You like to see it?
Yeah, I like that one. That was a fun question.
OK, cool. All right.
Well, that was it for this week. So yeah, next week we'll be
recording in the middle of the first round of Roland Garros.
We'll have Tamara Pren back in the chair with us.
We have all the big storylines, the first upsets, probably a
first scandal. Don't miss it.
This was what's the call? We'll see you in Paris.
We can't wait. Bye.
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