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boys. Hey everybody, and welcome to
the latest episode of The Ball Boys.
We are the tennis podcast that puts the butt in rebuttal and
the hind in hindrance. I'm your host, Paul Monkle.
I'm bringing you the insights, outbursts, giggles and wiggles
of the ATP and WTA tours. And we are coming to you on the
day of the Gay tennis Super Bowl.
Yes, I mean the Indian Wells final Sunday.
Oh, yeah, and it happens to be the Oscars.
We don't know all of the results yet, but at least one Sinner
took home some hardware today. And in some sadder entertainment
news, we are mourning the loss of Sunnydale as it was just
announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot was cancelled by
Hulu. And I'm sure you're all
thinking, wait, isn't this a tennis show?
Yes, yes it is. But I'm also willing to bet a
big portion of people who are gay for tennis are also
extremely gay for Buffy Summers. But Indian Wells has just
wrapped up. We are halfway through the
Sunshine Double. And maybe some of you in the
desert are seeing Double from their signature drink, the Drop
Shot. And now Miami's come out saying,
hey, we're not going to be overshadowed because they just
announced the love all froze. So hey, hot trend alert.
Every tournament is going to have a signature drink.
And yes, it's going to cost $10 more than it should.
Now, Indian Wells is known as the 5th Slam.
And she was slammed all right, with parking and entrance and
crowds that were nearly impossible to navigate.
But then they wrapped things up on a positive note because did
we just have one of the best final Sundays ever?
We're going to be breaking down all of that and more on today's
show. The desert was also the location
of the first ever tennis and tea dance and honestly, it
completely blew me away. I couldn't be more grateful for
everyone who was involved. It was magical.
It was a great sense of community and it really helped
me think of the theme of today's show, which of course is going
to be butts. Yes, we are talking all things
butts today on the show. Butt double S rebuttals.
No ifs, ands or buts about it. And to get us through this pile
of butts, I've got the perfect ball boy for you.
He is the official model of the latest ball boys merch.
He is a rising star in the Latta ranks and he puts the butt in.
But Paul, you can't say that it's Benjamin.
Kirsten. Hi, Ben.
Thanks so much for coming back on the show.
Hey Paul, thanks for having me back.
I, I was very excited to have you come back after your
incredible debut in the fall where I think we solved racism
and came up with the the the proper nickname for Sanyakova's
hair. There was a lot on our
shoulders. A win.
Win. Yeah, well, you have very broad
statue our shoulders now. This is your second time on the
show. You wanted to come back for
more. You can't get enough.
Yeah, I did want to come back for more.
I also had some things to add to the record after my first time
on the show, of course. Sent the episode around to my
family and my mother's first response was that she couldn't
believe that I didn't mention that she got to hit with Nick
Bullet Terry. So I'm I'm here to rectify that
if nothing else. Wait, you got to hit or she got
to hit? She got to hit when she was when
she was young. Oh, was she like a a little
tennis phenom? We we could say.
Sure, yeah. She was a tennis player and she
got she got to do a clinic with Nick Bollateri.
Oh wow, he was the first superstar coach and, and we're
actually going to be talking. Speaking of rebuttals, we will
be addressing the somewhat controversial Hottie Coach
bracket. Do we think Nick Bollateri would
have made it onto that bracket? I'm going to go with it a no for
that one. A resounding well, this was.
Before, but he's very accomplished.
This was before SPF was really a thing, but that's really cool.
So really, tennis is in your blood.
It's in the bloodlines, as they say.
Yeah. Now, also, listeners, just so
you know, Ben is very difficult to pod with because he's one of
those people with those piercing blue eyes where he's like
literally staring into my soul whenever I'm talking to him.
I'm just worried he's going to look at my soul.
All he's going to find is pictures of Jennifer Capriati, a
few of Serena Williams, and then the butts of pretty much
everyone in the top 100 of the ATP.
So Ben, I'm just going to be thinking about your butt
instead. Is that OK with you?
It is just fine. Great, because honestly, brown
eyes don't have the same effect on me as blue ones, so I think
we'll be safer with that. Ben, you have been the source of
some really important butts for me, like when you said.
But Paul, don't make that joke about Bisexual Awareness Week.
And you know, the jury's still out on that.
But I also want to give you some big props because you really
pushed me to do the tennis and tea dance last weekend.
Honestly, it could have gone either way.
I don't know if it was going to be a success or a failure.
If it was going to be a failure, I was going to give you a big
spanking. If it was going to be a success,
I was going to give you a big spanking.
Did it work out? Who can never be sure, but all I
know is I'm so glad that we did it.
It was fabulous. It was, it was an excellent
event. I'll, I'll wait my spanking
eagerly. You pulled out a great crowd.
I mean, thanks to you and the out White podcast for for all
the arrangements. Coach B ran in a wonderful live
ball session. I'm a little miffed that Kian
had such a loud cheering section.
Good for Kian and it was great. I'm I'm new to the LA Tennis
Association or LATA and there were a couple of other Lata
folks there. So it was really fantastic to to
mill about. And then, of course, we were
blessed with, you know, drag and cocktails and sunshine.
Yeah, and that that was the whole thing.
It's like, look, yes, we love tennis, but there's more to do
on a tennis court than just play tennis.
So, yeah, we had a couple of fabulous drag Queens.
We had Anya Body and CC Russell, Anya came out dressed as a
tennis ball, Cece's number, where she mixed in Sabalinka's
grunt into a Beyoncé song. Just dead, absolutely dead.
So girls, thank you. And it was it was great to meet
a range of people there. Like it was broad audience
people in their mid to late early 30s and 40s.
Hi John, loved meeting you. I cannot wait for you to come on
the show. So don't think that you've
gotten away from me and Ben. I got to say also you've got
some good game. Like you're pretty good, like
you're solid strokes. Your partner though, was there?
Yes, he's pretty good, Max. He is, he's a very gifted
athlete and he's played a lot of sports and so he just has this
natural way of winding up and swinging through his forehand.
Yeah. He'll, he'll go very far with
that. He's got he's got a future,
although he did just start a new job at Vanity Fair.
So yeah, shout out to shout out to him.
He. Might not be joining the tour,
but he's at the Oscars right now.
He's he is at the venue for the Oscars party.
Oh. That bitch.
Yeah, yeah. Is he in a look like?
Is he like? Oh, he's, he's, he's wearing a
tux. I, I think in his role, you show
up, you know, in this sort of black tie, but he's just did up
with a, a silver bow tie, a little pocket square.
It looks great. And I have to say I'm touched
that you said no, I will not go to the Vanity Fair party.
I have to do the ball boys recording.
I know I. Believe that's what happened.
Yeah, exactly. I have these, You know, I have a
lot of commitments and my heart's here.
Yeah, your your heart belongs in the balls.
Just real quick about the tennis and T dance.
Also a quick shout out to my fellow LGBT podcast, The Body
Serve and gay tennis podcast. They were promoting it.
What do you call a group of gay tennis hosts?
A pod. So thanks guys and thanks to the
LVBL folks who were spreading the word, but also you mentioned
them gigantic shout out to out wide podcast, the partners in
crime for the event. There's no way it would have
happened without them and I am so freaking ready and excited to
do it again. So we will be doing it again
next year, folks. So if you weren't one of the
like 70 or so people that got there this year, next year it's
going to be bigger. It's going to be badder, it's
going to be ballsier. The Queens are ready and we are
going to throw down. So if you want to see some of
the action, you can also go to our Instagram, which is at TBB
tennis. Again, that's at TBB tennis.
The TBB stands for the ball boys.
So at TBB tennis and you can see some of the action and some of
the coverage from there. But it was amazing.
And stay tuned for more tennis and T dance.
But now it's time to get into some of the tennis and we're
going to start off our show like we always do with the Lobsbians.
And again, a lobsbian is just anything that made you gayer for
tennis since the last show. I'm going to jump in with the
first one. And my lobsbian is just
middle-aged women reacting. So there are two in particular
that I'm thinking of, which we're making the rounds on on
social media. When Mira Andreva lost to
Sanyakova, Look, she's she's going through it with her
ability to lose gracefully. And she was just shouting, you
know, the F word to the audience, like just fuck you.
Fuck you. Like it was like a, a, a guest
on the Maury Povich show. Like it was just like, yeah, I
don't care, Fuck you. And there was this amazing shot
of this woman whose just mouth was a gape, like, Oh my God.
Like she was, she was what, clutching your pearls?
Looks like she could not believe what she was hearing.
And that just like lives rent free in perpetuity in the ball
boy's mind. And then during the Medvedev and
Draper hindrance debacle, you and I were chatting about that
there, there was just this unbothered woman who was just
lean back and everyone was upset about the call.
And she's just like Boo Boo. And I just I, we were all her
for that one moment in time. It was excellent.
I was, I was sitting, I had my my phone on mute at A at a bar
or during over dinner watching that and I could hear her even
though my phone was muted. Exactly.
We all knew, we all know exactly what it sounded like.
And you know, times like these, we need people like that to
bring us together. So thank you.
Thank you. middle-aged women. What did?
Did you have a Lovian? Yeah, you know, you and I were
talking about this as well, but definitely have to give a shout
out to the draw of the Arizona Classic.
You know, one of the the things that happens is, is once players
get are eliminated from a tournament like Indian Wells,
they hop over to a challenger and we wound up with an
incredible draw there. Ethan Quinn did get the win over
Marcos Sharon this afternoon and in three sets.
What a great finals match. I mean, both solid players.
It's funny. Challengers used to be really
for people outside the 100, outside the 1:50, but that one
in particular, I mean, last year Fonseca beat Bublick in the
final. Like, bro, what?
And yeah, I mean, I was watching Mutae and Jerome yesterday.
Like, it's great draws. Like, I love, I love the smaller
tournaments. I do too.
I got to go to the Challenger at the end of January, a tough
balancing act because it was finals weekend of the Australian
Open. But you know, last year Spitziri
won that tournament and then by the end of the year as the top
100 player. This year we had Svida making
big moves, Sebastian Korda played it and made big moves,
Jen Brady played it. So you really get to see some
fun stories. Like, this player made it big
moves, that player made it big moves and Jen Brady played it.
I am very happy for her to be back on tour.
Very, very happy. I want her.
I want her back up in the rankings.
I do love her game. Jen Brady, it's really good to
see you back. But a little shady glass lobs
being real quick is just butts. I mean, look, the theme of the
episode is butts, but the butts were on fire in the desert.
I mean, even the baggiest shorts were no match for the derrieres,
you know, Fees his shorts baggy is all get out.
I mean, so the short short phase is over, it's done.
But the tennis butt is bigger than ever, so fees his fabric
was struggling to contain it. The wind against Carlos's
silhouette in that sort of meme that I know a lot of people saw,
even Yannick Sinner. Yannick Sinner BBL.
It's true. And listeners, stay tuned.
The next Ball Boy product, it's going to be an at home workout
that we're calling the BBL. It's called the Ball Boy's lift,
where you too can get a tennis player's ass because they're
doing something and I want a tennis player's ass.
Same. Literally, figuratively,
emotionally. So those are our lesbians.
There's so many more. I mean, God, there's so much
camp and so much amazingness that goes on, especially at
Indian Wells. But we have got to move on
'cause there's so much action to cover.
So we're going to move on to twit.
And again, we cannot possibly cover everything.
So if you're coming here for all the scores, you're going to be
more disappointed than I was when the ATP tried to charge
players and teams 5800 doll hairs per person for the charter
flight out of a frickin war zone to leave Dubai.
Girl, could you believe that they did that?
No, that's that's outrageous. Like, how insane are you?
Oh, yeah, please. We're going to help you escape a
a city being bombed, an area that is endangered, but you've
got to pay $5800 even though we don't pay you that much for a
tour. I think one player said that's
that's more than I would have won had I won the tournament.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause it wasn't just like the Medvedevs who were
stuck, which was wild. He was stuck in Dubai and still
had his run to the final of Indian Wells.
But anyway, in the name of butts, we're going to be
splitting twit into butt insurance and butt outs.
So butt insurance are the things we love.
The butt outs, not so much. So let's talk Indian Wells
overall, Mr. Benjamin. Was it a butt in or a butt out?
You know, overall it's going to be a butt in for me.
But like most things in life, there's a more nuanced picture
here. Listen, getting to be at a
tennis tournament for me is a great joy.
And I, I know we'll get into this.
Indian Wells, they're sort of one big butt out.
The major caveat of Larry Ellison and David Ellison
getting thanked in the speeches? They're very much not people
whose pockets I want to be padding.
It felt different this year. More people mentioned their
their distaste for being associated with Ellison, even
just in going to Indian Wells, than I've ever heard before.
Yeah, yeah. So like, we're on to it, but is
it too late? I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, and it's hard. It's like what's, you know, a a
tennis lover, what's? A tennis lover to do.
Supposed to do, yeah, except shell out, you know, enormous
amounts of money for mediocre poke and.
And and bathrooms that don't have water.
Yeah, I was there, yeah. That was crazy.
So you were there. You told me about it and I was
like, Oh my God, that's wild. So there was no water to like,
wash your hands. Then I went.
Must have been hours after you went.
I didn't even know if it was the same bathroom, but like, I also
could not wash my hands. I think they're using all the
water to cool data centers now. But like, I don't know what's
going on. But there was no water in the
men's room. What the heck?
Larry Ellison, 5th slam, no water.
Bonkers. And don't get me started on
Venus Williams not getting water on on on at her match.
Did you see that? I did.
Where's the water? It's all going to data centers,
that's all So. Give me that bottle.
Yeah, they're like, cool. They're just pouring it on
computers now. That's what data centers do,
right? They just pour water on
computers. I think that's exactly how it
works, yeah. Yeah, I'm not a scientist, but I
think that's what it is. Yeah.
And OK, so they do call Indian Wells the 5th slam.
Do we think it's still garners that very big title?
I think so I think to to me it really stands out in terms of
its its place in the tennis calendar.
Certainly being one of the mixed men's and women's thousand level
tournaments really upsets profile for me.
I'm curious as to your thoughts on this too.
But there's a part of me that's kind of getting used to some of
the longer format thousand level tournaments, which I know has
been a big contentious subject. A lot of players really don't
like it, I know, and in a lot of ways I hear that.
But I will say there's something for me about a slightly longer
event, a 96 player draw that kind of UPS UPS the stakes.
So curious what you think about that?
Yeah, well, I mean, look, I just my default answer is they are
not inventing any more days. So you if you take from 1, you
have to give to another and they're already talking about
the changing the schedule for the upcoming Saudi Arabia
Masters 1000. I think they might get to.
Your point that would take away from South America.
Yeah, they're going to get rid of Acapulco.
They're going to get rid of maybe like a one of the clay
courts. And as everyone knows, I'm a
softy and I'm very nostalgic. And so I I get attached to
tournaments. And so when they just kind of
get swooped away, I mean, I still miss calling it the
Virginia Slims, Not that I was alive then, but you know, or
like the the Sony Ericsson Open. I just, you know, like there's
a, we get used to things and change is hard for, for tennis
players, but I mean, they're just the, the, the, the reality
is the reality. And so yes, I, I agree the
grandeur of a big tournament, it's like, OK, there are stakes
here, there is tension here. There's a lot, there's a lot
going on. Great, love it.
I just don't feel like the the facility of Indian Wells is that
much better than other thousand level tournaments at this point.
You know, it was like, all right, I got a $40 burger that
tasted like a brick. You know, the bathrooms don't
work and like the crowd control. I mean you were and I were
texting driving in. I was, it was, it was hellish
trying to drive in that first Friday that I went.
Yeah, yeah. And it's just like, is this and
and while, yes, we were able to sit kind of where we wanted to
in in Stadium 2, which we'll get to in a second.
As soon as you left, just the crowds and everywhere you look,
there's a line in a crowd. Where's the where's the romance?
You know, where's the cruising section?
I just, I none of that was there.
But, and that's what makes it a fist slam for me, is when you
can cruise. I will say with all of that, I
had a very fun run in that Friday.
I wanted to see Zeynep Sonem as the Turkish player, her match
against Colin Skye which was out on Court 9.
Ended up running into a friend of mine from college who I
haven't seen since 2015. That's cool.
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fun. It it, it is great, you know, if
you've been a couple times, like it is fun to kind of run into
people and what not. I mean, I tried to run into my
good friend morgues, but she just, she wasn't returning my my
texts, which is weird. I hope she's OK.
I do want to talk a little bit about just live tennis in
general, though. So look, here's where I am with
these tournaments, you know, especially these really, really
big ones. I'm not sure how necessary or
enjoyable it is to go to live tennis right now unless you have
incredible seats, which thanks to the resellers, that ain't
happening. Like I'm not paying $800.00 for,
you know, not even courtside like a, you know, a lower tier
seat. So you're up in the, so you and
I, we were up in the upper tier of Stadium 2 fine, lovely seats.
But here's the problem. We say this a lot.
Tennis, it's an individual sport, you know, it's like all
about them and the court and figuring it out.
Viewing tennis live is now a communal experience.
You are at the whims, whoever the fuck is around you.
And we had to move once because these women behind us just were
really they needed. What were they talking about?
Like their caffeine addiction. They.
Loudly. Yeah.
What did she say? She's like, I'm just like, I'm
one of those people that I need coffee when I get up.
And she was like, really burying her soul.
Like what a dumbass conversation.
Like just shut up, just shut up. Like no one cares watch the
tennis and then we move and again we're still great seats.
But then we somehow landed in the kids section where every kid
was so excited to watch Thiafo which I mean I also wanted to
mentor them of like maybe pick a better player to started.
Yelling back go Brooksby at every thiafo cheer, Yes.
I was so annoyed and the only so I was like, all right, they're
like go Thiafo. I was like, all right, go
Jensen. And you know what?
And I was rooting for Jensen. I do love Jensen Brooksby, but
he got trounced by Thiafo and honestly, Thiafo, he had a good
run. I'm I'm happy for him.
He's making his debut on the Bay TP, so look at that.
But again, you're just you're surrounded by these people.
The seats aren't great. Like watching 10, like just now
watching the finals on TVI watched it.
I got into the match. I could see it when you're a,
you know, a couple 100 feet in the air.
It's just I don't know if I don't know if live tennis is
working right now. Am I wrong?
No, you're you're not wrong. I think one of the biggest
problems here is how hard it is to get up close.
For me, there are real intangibles.
I think things I get from seeing tennis in person that I don't
get from seeing it on TV. And some of that is just like
the speed of the ball, the power that they're able to hit with.
But I also, especially as I like, try to figure out what I'm
doing with competitive tennis, looking at how players are
dealing with tense moments I find really fascinating.
And then I like getting these fun little details like
Shapavalov when he's bouncing the ball before he starts, he
bounces it backwards to fours through his legs.
Or, you know, you get little moments of player interaction
with the crowd. At the the match with Son Mez
and Colin Skye. There's quite a bit of support
for Son Mez, you know, very exciting.
And at one point Kalin Skya turns, you know, and this is an
outer court, so there's only a few rows of seating and she
turns and she just goes, well, she's preparing to serve, you
know. So, so that being said, it's
like, yes, I think it's definitely better the closer you
can get, which is a real challenge if you're trying to
see Alcaraz Sinner Pegula on the bigger sodiums.
And and that's where, yeah, it does feel like the experience
drops off a little bit. Although I will say even from
the way high up seats of Stadium 1, Donna Vekich was wearing this
massive diamond necklace that was just like sparkling to the
to the skies. He.
Was. Oh yeah, Oh yeah.
It was like blinged out for her match.
She was like Sabalenka and your ring.
Suck it. I get that.
And also the the the energy that comes when you're watching a
live match can be really intoxicating.
You can get really swept up into it.
The challenge is like, you don't know who's going to play on your
court to afford you buy your ticket and then you see the
draw. So it's kind of like, I don't
like, but if you were able, I mean, thinking about the Ayala
and the Fonseca fans, I would love to go to one of those
matches. Because then you then your
expectations and what you're walking into you, you change.
I'm not going to be sitting here like a ratchet old homosexual.
I'm going to chill out and have fun and yell and dance.
And, you know, it's like, OK, getting into it.
One thing, just another little note about Ayala.
This is old hat by now, but what she's doing for a tennis fandom
is really something. On your recommendation, Max and
I made a little visit to the the Agua Caliente Casino in
Cathedral City. We did not find your famous slot
machine, but we had a Filipina blackjack dealer who you know
nothing else. She was pumped about Ayala.
Yeah, Oh, no, it's yeah, yeah. Darv, who was at Tennessee
dance, it's such a point of national pride and she had a
decent run. Tough loss to was it was Niskova
who kind of, I think trounced her.
So much pressure on her. I just, I worry about her a
little bit. But she's handled it great.
She seems like such a great person.
Very excited for her and what she's doing and like kind of
really galvanizing. Yeah, but that's that's a good
point. It was always sort of my like
concern around like Anschibor or even, you know, Tiafo who just
has the most incredible back story.
It's a lot. It's a lot of pressure that
around. Yeah.
But Speaking of national pride, I will say we do need some of
the US fans to get it together. And I'm not talking about, you
know, in the way Coco said where she really wants them showing
up. I'm saying you gotta figure out
when. To show up last.
Well, just like you're in the right moments.
I was one night watching a a double S match between Cash and
Tracy and Cabral and Meadler. First of all, the lights went
out during that match, which was kind of crazy.
It was the last match going on that day.
They had to feed the data center the.
Lights went out, they had bugs, but Cabral took a ball like it
got him right in the ear. And as soon as it happened,
there were tears from the crowd. Like USAUSA, it's like maybe
they were trying to. Do like an auditory test to see
his, to test his hearing like you over here an S over there
maybe. But yeah, no, that that's funny.
It, it, I, I went to the French Open maybe almost 10 years ago
now. I mean, 2017 and there was this
one woman and it was, it was an Izner match and Izner on clay.
I think it was like the second round and he was getting
trounced. Every changeover she would just
chant USAUSA and by the and everyone was like kind of like
head down, like gross. But then by the end of it, it
was like the third set he would down 2 sets to love down a break
or two. People started chanting with her
just 'cause it was hilarious, 'cause it was like bless your
heart miss thing. So anyway, I don't know live
tennis right now. I'm excited to I want to go to
the Arizona classic. I want to go to the US clay
court championships in Houston. I want to go to two 50s and five
hundreds, 1000 levels. I will probably be sitting it
out unless, you know, there's a ball boy suite with all the
balls that I can fit in my hands.
But also 11 quick tip listeners. I was telling people this at the
Tennis and T Dance. When you are buying a ticket to
one of these big stadiums, buy the cheapest, absolute cheapest
ticket that you can find. Because you know what?
Because of the resellers, half that stadium is going to be
empty. So you just get in and you sit
as close as you want. I bought the worst ticket in
stadium 2. I was in the front row of the
upper tier of stadium 2. Tickets that would have cost me
400 I got for $80.00. So you know what?
While these resellers and capitalists don't give a crap
about you, let's not give a crap about them.
And so get the cheapest ticket possible and just move on down.
But let's talk some results. So we've had a busy, busy time
the last few days. We had the semis and the finals
for both the ATP and WTA. Like I said, we're gonna talk
about some of the other matches, but just recapping the ends of
these tournaments. So the semi finals for the men,
interesting matchups. We had Carlitos, Carlos Alcaraz
against Daniel Medvedev and we had Jonak Sinner against some
German guy Zverev and Carlos had not lost a match in 2026, but he
finally lost one in a pretty convincing fashion against good
old Daniel Medvedev. I loved it.
I mean, it's interesting. I love the rise of Daniel
Medvedev. I know he's got some issues
politically. I love his personality.
I love his game. I love his game.
He did to Carlos what he did to FAA in Dubai when he wore Felix
Ojalia. See him down in that semi final.
I've never seen Carlos Alcaraz gasp before.
He was gassed. He went so far as to take a
violation because he's like, I'm just I.
He needed more time because Medvedev, he had him on a
string. It was mild to watch.
Yeah, it seems like some of the the the pressure of trying to
figure out what to do against a human backboard who's just gonna
get every ball back. And so Carlos started like so we
saw a lot more errors than we're used to seeing from him.
So many more errors and I don't know if this is like a chip in
the armor, but I, I was saying at the beginning of the year,
like I, I do not think the move away from Juan Carlos Ferrero
was a good move. And I don't know, I've never
seen him gasp before. I've never seen him more make
more mistakes. Is he training the way he used
to train? Does he have the mindset?
Does he have the people telling him the things that he needs to
hear? I don't know.
But it was a convincing win by Medvedev and and also thank God
I needed to shake up. Not that Carlos and Yannick have
met a ton of times this year, but it was like, it gets boring
when it's the same old, same old.
Like I, we need at least four or five guys in the mix.
I said it every time I go to the Eagle and I said it every time
we go to the Masters. 1004 or Five Guys minimum.
Yeah, I don't. It helps combat the sense of
inevitability, and I think that's crucial here.
Again at the Eagle. Sense of inevitability.
Yeah. And then Sinner cruises through
Zverev, which was, you know, just a delight as always.
And then we had a a final between Sinner and Medvedev
where neither one had lost a set coming into the final.
Very rare. I was pulling for Mehdi once
again. Like, I don't know what Mehdi.
He's just, he had Carlos on a string and he has my heart on a
string. I don't know what it is, but I
love Danielle Medvedev. I said it, I said it.
Sorry, Tommy Paul, but Janek wins in a couple tie breaks that
match. What'd you think?
The margins were so slim, which made it a real nail biter, I
think. Yeah, I think watching them, you
know, really kind of battle each other from the baseline was very
exciting. It really could have gone either
way. Oh, yeah, Mehdi was up in the
second set tie break. And then he just kind of I, I
don't know what happened, but he just shut down.
And because I think if they got to 1/3 set, although Medvedev
was starting to look a little gassed, but famously Yannick
Sinner, he Wilts like a desert flower.
So if they went to 1/3 set, who knows what would have happened.
I guess I'm happy for him. I do like Yannick Sinner a lot.
I just love. I don't know if I haven't made
it clear how I feel about Daniel Medvedev.
There's still a little question mark for me.
I love Daniel Medvedev. It seems like Sinner went out to
the desert early, and so he got to, you know, maybe acclimate to
that, the heat. A little more out in the middle
of Joshua Tree. To find your way back.
Like half a cup of water. Medvedev, his net game, I feel
like it's not, you know, it's, it's clearly not where he's he's
comfortable so. More like a more like a Niat
game. There we go.
You know, between this and even even there was like a moment in
his semi final with Carlitos where he finds himself up at the
net and he's just like oh please don't please just like don't hit
me. It's like, OK, it's funny
because like you would think with his wingspan and his
tentacles he would be great. But yeah, the closer he gets to
the net, the the less he's magic he's able to somehow.
Perform, you know, so once Sinner was able to find that
pass and felt like it really. Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, there it really. You're right.
It was a match of points. I mean, it really could have
gone either way. And, you know, I'm excited.
I'm excited for Miami. Now Novak has pulled out, which
is unfortunate. Like, look, the older Novak
gets, the more I love him and I just love that kid.
I feel like Mary Carrillo. But I think it's I think again,
it's going to be wide open. I don't know.
Is Carlos going to come back and be pissed or we also know he
loves to party in Miami? True, true.
Well, maybe that'll help his conditioning, you know?
Been dancing all night. Exactly endurance.
Yeah. Do you have a do you have a pick
for Miami? I could see it going to Alcaraz.
I mean it's hard to you know, I know that's is kind of like the
Derek were like boring pick, but it feels like after dropping
this, he's not going to let that happen again.
But who knows? Miami last year he went out to
go fan like very early yeah, yeah, I.
Don't think it's his favorite place.
I'm gonna give a a some good odds to my boy, my boys, Arthur
Fees looking so good or the guy he beat, Felix Ojay Alesim.
I think neither one of them has had a great run at 1000 levels
and I think they're due and I think they're both in form, so
depends on the draw. We'll see.
You know, I also feel like
Fonseca made real strides here and to.
See him back winning some 'cause he was out of shape.
Yeah. He did not look good in
Australia. But you didn't like the shaved
head? No, I love the shaved head, but
like, well, I mean, come on. Also, like all the shade that
Jack Draper got for that shaved head.
You know what? He threw shaded himself.
Didn't he say something like I thought I had a better hairline
than this? Oh, did he?
Oh. That's funny, something like
that. Look, I, I love a baldy, so you
know, that's, that's where I'm at.
But anyway, the women Speaking of non bald people, the women.
So the semis we had the semi finals.
Honestly, I was not impressed by either of these matches.
We had Sobolinka beating Nosekava, Rebecca beating
Svidolina. They were quality, but there was
no real tension. I don't know.
I, I, I just wasn't loud. But I will say I finally get
Noskova a little bit. She's never been my Czech girly.
I mean, you know who I love? Daniel Medvedev and the Czech
girlies. Give me a Krajikova, give me von
Druseva, give me a Mukova. Noskova, not so much, but she is
a big babe. Tennis and I like I finally like
really watched her and I was like oh wow, impressive so.
Yeah, I, I, I agree. I think it upped my, my kind of
understanding of her a little bit.
I thought, you know, at one point maybe she was kind of
like, you know, a flash at the pan having like big wins over
Ego at Grand Slams. But now, yeah, maybe I get a
little more. Yeah, I thought she was like an
Anna Czech vedazzi, but maybe she's more of like a Meskina.
We'll see. But then we get the final.
We get this final between Sablinka and Rabaka that just
happened a few hours ago. What a match.
Yeah, that was very gripping, kind of beginning to.
I mean, it was very topsy turvy. It felt like it was going to go
one way and then it swung back the other way and then I mean it
was in a real nail biter right up until the last, the last
ball. And quality, it wasn't somebody
lost it. Somebody stepped up and won it.
I mean, and it could have been either of them.
Yeah. I mean, Rabacana was up in that
third set tie break. It really could have gone her
way. And Sabalenka impressed me with
her ability to kind of right the ship at the very end.
And it was again, big babe tennis, amazing power, but not
just sort of serve body. No, there were, there were some
moments where they would be tussling and then, you know, I'm
thinking about a couple of shots from Rebekina, but she could
just switch the pattern and take a forehand down the line.
That was, you know, it was masterful.
Yeah, yeah. There was a lot of guile and
strategy and really, I mean, is this the match of the year on
the women's side so far? Yes, I think it probably is so
far I. Think so too.
This solidified them kind of as the Carlos Sonjanic like head
and shoulders, not just because they're tall, but head and
shoulders above the rest. And I'm excited about this
rivalry. It's funny, I don't I don't
really love either player. I'm not like, Oh my God, that's
my girl. But I'm excited for them because
I want tension in matches, I want tension in finals.
I don't want 6162 score lines. And the next time they meet
again, it's going to be, who knows?
It's going to be pick em. And I'm glad that Rebecca has
really kind of pulled herself back up.
And again, I mean, her whole thing with her coach and Lukov
and all that, not ideal, not ideal.
And yet she is playing the way she's playing.
Absolutely. And I kind of love that she
like, doesn't really give a fuck what you think.
Like she's just kind of like, Nah, I'm doing it this way.
And it's. Like she doesn't need me to
agree with her decision, but I kind of think it's badass that
she's doing what she wants to do.
I mean, in a way she is looking out for for herself and what
she's got to do. And yeah, it's also very
patronizing to be like, Oh my God, she's a victim.
She's like, no, I'm not a victim.
I'm just doing what I want to do.
Screw you. So yeah, OK, great.
We've solved sexism in this episode.
First episode, racism, this one, sexism.
What do we do next? Capitalism.
But real quick, let's talk about just some of our favorite butt
insurance of the tournament. So the things that we loved,
there were some great matches on the men's side until this final
between Mehdi and Sinner. The match of the tournament was
for me, Novak and Draper. That match, Oh my God, great
quality. Leaving it all out in the line.
I mean, some of those rallies were so insane.
Again, I I have a history of being a little indifferent
towards both of these men because of their politics and
just, you know, various legitimate reasons.
But I was into it. It's it was pretty hard to deny.
I mean, the the level that they each produced was incredible.
And, and of course, I mean, there was the point scene around
the world where, you know, I think Djokovic had to run up to
the net two times, retrieve a far lob and then still, you
know, managed to eat the point out over Draper.
It was really something else. I mean, yeah.
And those are the points that people used to just kind of give
up on and be like, OK, they won. Now it's like, oh, no, I can
defy physics and I can get to this ball before it drops.
Like, whoa. You know, we talk a lot about
how the tennis racket has changed.
I feel like the tennis shoe has changed too.
There's more grip. It's easier to get stop and
start and slide. And it's like we didn't do that
before. I it's impressive.
Also a quick shout out. I got to say to Lerner Tien, his
match with Davidic Fukina was fantastic.
I feel really bad for Davidic Fukina just because I really
want him to get he wasn't going to win this tournament.
I want him to win a freaking tournament, but he has such a
history of tough losses. Yeah.
It makes me sad. Yeah, I mean, I'll never forget
Demon or like, comforting him in tears at the DC Open, but yeah.
My heart, my Shayla. Yeah, yeah, we can hopefully one
day see Davidovich, Vikina get one.
But major, major shout out to Lerner TN.
That was that was where Max Knight beelined as soon as we
showed up to the tournament, to his, his first match out there
on in Round 2. He's he's incredible to watch.
I mean his his, his spot surveying, his sort of ability
to find the angles. Going back to the live tennis
debate, I think that someone like Lerner, TN is much more
impressive live than on TV. On TV, the serve's not a ton of
pop, and it's like, yeah, it's a good, solid game.
But I, I, I feel like seeing that live, you see the mechanics
much more closely. And.
Yeah, yeah. All right, I'll give you that
one. Just this one time.
We also had some great runs. We've mentioned these a little
bit, but Fonseca, great to see him get some wins under his
belt. I got to say though, his first
round match, I forget who he played the first round, but
Stadium was half full. I've never seen a Fonseca match
not filled to the gills and again I think it's because the
resellers so Boo but but great to see him back.
Yeah, his wins then over also Kachanov and Tommy Paul.
They were great matches. Yeah, I know.
And like, look, my husband Tommy Paul, I can never root against
him, but he got, he got pretty handily taken to the woodshed by
to the to the chipper by Fonseca.
So yeah, yeah. And we talked about him a little
bit about Thiafo. Great Ron.
He destroyed Kaboli after Kaboli just beat him at that Acapulco
final. I'm still not a fan of his game.
His serve motion drives me insane.
You don't serve like that, do. You absolutely not.
But maybe I maybe I should. It might improve whatever I'm
doing. You know one thing about Tiafo,
though, his the the speed of his racket head, the way he just
like, whips it around. It's it's impressive.
He whips that thing around like, yeah, nobody's business.
The run of the tournament though was definitely Talia Gibson on
the women's side. Qualifier from Australia makes
it to the quarterfinals. She beats 3 seeds.
Grant said. It was, I think it was Paulini
and Towson and, and she actually had a, a tough out against no
scuba. I think they went three sets.
I mean, it is fun. Like I, I need these people to
change up the narratives. Every tournament there's one and
it's one of my favorite things. It's like, who's going to who's
going to be the story of this tournament?
And Talia Gibson? Who the hell would have thought
that at the beginning of this? Yeah, yeah, no, that was
definitely a fun story. I know she's at the belle of the
ball currently, but Boko also played great.
And one, one thing I really loved was watching her, seeing
how much better she did this time against Sabalanka than at
the Australian Open. So I I love a sort of Arc like
that as well. And then cartel, you know, is
nice to see after that run at Wimbledon last year, but a a
shame it ended with with an injury.
But I also like to see someone who's like, yeah, they made a
deep run. Will you will you see them
again? And we did.
On the women's side, it was kind of plagued by these.
Not only sort of one hit wonders where they'd win a title, but
even just someone who'd make a deep run.
And then it's like, I never heard the name Svetlana
Peronkova again. It's just like, and it's hard to
get invested in that when it's like, Oh my God, it's just so
chaotic. Yeah, I love that in Boko is
really established. I mean, she's a top ten player
now. She's not just a flash in the
pan. And and you know, I hope Talia
is the same Cartel. Absolutely.
Cartels are having a moment and the last butt in is butt double
S, So there was a lot of great superstar double S teams on the
men's side. I've never seen a stacked draw
like this, so I'm going to list off these freaking teams.
Novak and Sitsipas, those crazy cousins Rinder, Connect and
Vashiro. Medvedev and TN, which I think
there's a buddy movie there. Medvedev and TN like they played
each other a lot and I was I love that they like paired.
It's like what an odd couple. Love it.
Totally. Khachinov and Rublov, Sarundolo
and Dardari like woof my my clay court kings Opalka and Sinner.
I'm sorry, Opalka, who famously said that Double S is for failed
singles players, is like, I'm gonna play with Sinner.
I just, I love that Double S is getting some love.
Was that the ball boy effect? I mean, so several episodes last
year, the ball boys were talking about the importance of Double
S, the enjoyment of Double S Suddenly you're all gonna be in
Double S for the wells. I don't know.
Thanks, guys. I'm glad you listen.
Call in. Come on the show anytime but.
Even in the mixed we had Kaboli and Benchich.
Oh yeah, when they. Yeah.
And they won the whole title. They did, with the tiny little
trophies. Girl just don't give a trophy
that mixed double S trophy. They're gonna.
They couldn't lose that. Oh, honey.
But the good thing is I don't think they need to check that
they, they, they can put that in their purse and walk through TSA
with no worries. A listener was Dming me and she
was like, the only thing worse would have been if they like had
to share one 'cause it was just like, like the tiniest little
baccarat. Put a finger on it.
Yeah, just like Boop. I saw that movie Hoppers last
night. Have you heard?
And there are many different animal kings with like little
crowns. And I was like, oh, that's a
little crown for the Ant. It's just like a tiny little
little trophy, but. It needs to be at least 3 1/2
times bigger than this. It needs to What is the school
for ants? But then it was also funny to
watch a lot of these superstar teams bottomed out early because
look, Double S is not just two singles players.
I didn't see the whole match of Sinner playing Double S, but the
highlights of Sinner playing Double S, he did not know where
to go, what to do, how to communicate.
It was crazy town and I did love the cousins making a deep run.
I just I love the Rinder Connect Vashiro family, those crazy
cousins. It's so cute.
They made the final. They didn't win, but they made
the final. So those are all the buttons.
But now it's time for some of the butt outs.
The things that just kind of pissed us off and you know,
surprise, there's quite a few, but we're gonna get through them
as much as we can. The first.
But is that behind in hindrance? That hindrance call against
Draper late in the second set against Medvedev?
Everyone saw it. Everyone has opinions.
Ben, how do we feel about that hindrance?
Yeah, that's definitely a butt out for me, very much an
instance. I know you love him, but of, you
know, Medvedev finding ways to, you know, game his way and and
you know, I can't knock him for that.
That's that's it's part of the game.
But that was pretty ridiculous. It was rough.
It was terrible. I mean, no it and and he got the
brunt of it from the crowd. He got booed for anyone who did
miss it. It was deep in the second set,
and Draper had nothing in the tank for the first set, but he
was pretty even. And Medvedev hit a ball that
looked like it might have been going out, but it's electronic
line calling, so there's no in or out.
And Draper kind of raised his hands a little bit, but it was
very subtle. It was I've seen a lot worse.
And three, three strokes later, Medvedev is like, no, was that a
hindrance? Like, bro, if it didn't hinder
you, it's not a hindrance. You're still playing a freaking
point. And then the chair umpire, she
looked at, she's like, yeah, that's a hindrance.
It's the same as like when you're if your opponent's at the
net and you hit the ball at them, that's a fair play.
I think it's fair that maybe that was like, well, she said it
was a hindrance. So I'm going to take the point.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like once, you
know, it's at that point, you know, it's, it's on the umph.
But like, she made the call that she probably had to make, you
know, at which point it's, you know, Medvedev gets to say, you
know, it's not my fault. Yeah, I think other players like
a Carlos, like a Yannick, like a like a many, many other play
like a like a Alex Diminow or they would've been like no, no,
no, no, that's your point or or or replay the point or
something. But like, yeah, it didn't.
It made me love Danielle a little less for that one moment
in time. But we're back together so it's
fine. The next butt out is butt those
retirements. So I don't remember this many
WTA players having retirements. There's been a lot of like male
retirements over the years where it's like, Oh my God, half the
tours just decided now I can't do it.
But there were some high profile retirements.
You talk about Cartel went out with an injury, Coco went out
with an injury and then Senyakova.
So I got a bone to pick about this one, Sir.
So tell me if I'm if I'm crazy. But Senyakova, she has a great
win against Andreva where Andreva is losing her shit.
Then she goes on and she's playing Svitalina and she's down
611 love and she retires with a quote UN quote injury.
OK, fine, whatever. Great You're you're you're
injured. I hope you're OK.
See you in Miami. She plays double S the next day
with Taylor Townsend. They're a great double S team.
I'm very happy for them. What in the Santa Maria
Guadalupe like angels come down and heal.
You happened that one day you're better to play.
Do you think she should have been allowed to play?
I do. I mean, to me, I guess this
feels like a question about players who are in the draw for
both disciplines. I don't love a retirement.
I don't love an injury. You know, in some cases, if
you're like Sinyakova, who you know was the best, like women's
double player we've got, she knows what side of the bread of
bread, her butter. What she about your butter, her
bread is buttered on. She knows what she's going to
prioritize. She's probably like, I know I
can win this Double S trophy. Yeah.
Maybe I'll prioritize that. Well, then don't enter singles.
I mean, I'm sorry, I think she retired because she was losing
badly. And I don't think that that's
very sports. Sportswomen like to, to just be
like, well, I'm going to, I'm going to retire because there's
lots of matches where people come back.
There's lots of matches where people find a way.
Sure. If we can just retire because of
injury and then play the next day, it doesn't feel right to
me. And I love a rule.
So for me that's a butt out. Diva Miss Ramen Hair, as they
call her in China. The next butt is butt that
soundtrack. So this is minor.
I might even be like reading into it a little bit.
But so on the Tennis Channel app, they don't cut away for
commercials. You see the the changeover and
there's no announcers speaking or commentators.
You're just watching the vibes. And they have a DJ, not DJ John,
John Battles, who did the tennis and T dance.
But then this DJ and during women's matches, they're playing
very gendered music. And I just was like, wait, what?
So during the Pagula and Bensch match, they're playing.
Girls just want to have fun and during Rabacana and Kostiak they
were playing Express yourself. Like come on girls, do you
believe in love? Maybe because I thought I was
watching. They're like, OK, we need to
play this Divas of Madonna, which I love.
But then the men put our on their changeovers.
It's like Bruno Mars and just different stuff.
Am I hallucinating and delusional or is it gender DJ
music? Yeah, I don't think you're
hallucinating because I've noticed this before as well.
I think it stuck out in my mind last year even.
Obviously, right. These tournaments have their
playlists for various situations.
When I was at Cincinnati last time, I remember like there are
rain delays. They had the clearly the rain
playlist and then they had the playlist for after it rains.
I was like, here comes this. It's pretty easy to imagine that
they have some different playlists for for these matches.
And it's. Yeah.
It's just a it's an interesting choice that I've never noticed
before. And is it good or bad?
I don't know, But it was just interesting.
Yeah, I mean, I I'm here as someone who loves some like,
girl power pop. Oh.
Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, we've
got a ladies match, get the Spice Girls out there.
And it's like, if you want to be my love, it's like it's very,
it's a little, it felt a little weird.
Our last butt out is butt those outbursts.
So we already talked about Mira Andreva's complete meltdown
after losing her match. But there were so many smashed
rackets this tournament. Ega after her loss, Fritz.
Just the way Fritz breaks his racket after a loss is so sexy.
He just nonchalantly breaks it in two over his knee like it's a
twig. And it's just like, oh diva,
Rublev completely bloodied himself, hitting himself.
Rublev dude, what is going on with him?
Yeah, I thought he was kind of over some of that, but I guess
not. Yeah, like Murat is it.
He's still working with Murat, right?
I believe so, yeah. I think he needs to only go to a
sports psychologist. He doesn't need to do anything
on court. It's all between the ears and
it's rough. And then we had Arthur Fees.
The way Arthur Fees smashes A racket, does something to me.
It floods my basement. I don't know, like he it is sexy
the way he just. Brought I thought this was a
butt out section. It seems like a butt in section
for you well. You know, sometimes a butt out
can be a butt in. A wise man once said.
Yes, exactly, tennis philosophers say.
But yes, there are lots of Butts insurance and Butts outs.
Look, was this the greatest Indian Wells ever?
Maybe not. Was this the greatest Indian
Wells final day ever? Possibly, so I'll take what I
can get out in the desert. We have a new Bay TP that is
reflecting all of the action out in the desert and that is going
to be posted over on our Instagram.
That is at TBB Tennis. Again, that's at TBB Tennis and
like I said, there's some new entries like Francis Tiafoe is
making his debut. Congratulations, Francis.
I know you've been working hard towards this, so keep up the
good work. Big foe and wait.
What time is it? Real quick.
I think it's about 6:15. No, it's time for cross court.
The cross court is back guys. We are back in session.
The court has been on recess because people were acting
appropriately, but we've got a new case in cross court and we
are opening an official inquiry now.
Like I said in my last show I moved and so I could not find my
gavel but I have my sound bowl so this is this is my new gavel
for. This is the most LA thing I've
ever seen. I couldn't find my gavel but
here's my sound bowl. And so this case we are opening
a new query. This is a query into querying
Sam queries Hottie Coach Quandary.
Yes, in case you missed it, Sam query over at the Nothing Major
pod introduced yet another freaking bracket on the heels of
last year's player bracket where they ranked all the hotties and
they missed so many and we graciously corrected it for
them. They come out with a Hottie
coach bracket for this year and I'm sorry, just like the last
year. Why are we letting these men
take our jobs? This is our wheelhouse, Ben.
Do they even know how to objectify men?
Clearly not. No, clearly not, considering
Alvaro Alcaraz wins the entire bracket.
Alcaraz. The coach who let Carlos Alcaraz
get out of shape. The coach who pushed out Juan
Carlos Ferrero to literally give the throne to the usurper of the
crown of Juan Carlos for it was like there were more subtle
power grabs in Game of Thrones than what happened in that camp.
Like I'm sorry but here are my questions.
How are they even defining hottie?
Is it a body of work or is it a hot body?
Do we have any idea? We, we don't have any idea.
First of all, I, I actually don't know how they choose the
brackets. Do they do like open voting or
are they deciding? So they laid out the bracket,
but then it was voting via stories to proceed through.
Which again, it's like, OK, get a couple of like crazy Carlito
stands. Well, that's what I was going to
say, is that, you know, it clearly feels like an instance
of everyone's love for Carlitos, whose hotness is undeniable.
Undeniable. Kind of tipping the scales here.
Your thumb is on the butt. OK, so First off, in opening our
query to make this right, we don't know how you're defining
hotness. Like I said before, I like rule.
We have to have some sort of rules here.
So how do you define hotness? I just don't know 'cause also,
what the hell has Alvaro Alcaraz really accomplished as a coach?
Like if he's taking credit for Carlos winning Australia, bitch,
I don't think so. So there's that.
Then we got to look. Next issue.
All the people that are missing, how on earth like first of all,
how did Juan Carlos Ferrero not make the list?
Yeah, that man's face is gorgeous.
Stunning and best coaching outcome in the last decade what
he did with Carlos. Like yes Carlos is very talented
but without Juan Carlos he would not have gotten to where he got
to. Carlos Moya might not be
actively coaching people right now.
Stunning. Have you seen Laura Siegman's
coach? Just Google him.
Just do yourself a little favor and listeners at home, take this
moment. Google him.
Antonio Zuka, I mean. Oh, high beard.
Like, come on, come on. Like if we're talking about
hottie coach, like, what is it? Like, how are they not there?
We've got Magnus Norman, Vavrinka's coach, who coached
him 23 grand slams and is now coaching him again on his final
year. And just as offensive as
Vavrinka not getting a wild card to Indian Wells, Magnus Norman
not getting a seated ranking in the hottie coach bracket.
It's just it's crazy. And then there's like the Gorian
Ivanisovich's and the avid Nabandian.
So this is not so much a a case that we are trying, but we're
opening an inquiry. We're gonna create a committee
and we're going to look at, OK, how are you defining A hottie
coach? And where the hell is Simone
Vagnosi? Where the hell is he?
That's all I'm saying. I don't know.
What's your take on the hottie coach debacle?
The quandary. Yeah, You know, I I think you
said it best when you open. Do they even know how to
objectify men? I think we.
It's a simple question. Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, do you know how to objectify men or not?
If you don't, then do not create a hottie bracket.
We'll need to probe deeper. How much cheaper?
I did have a salad earlier. Well, and then it just makes me
wonder what's next, because I feel like Sam Query now he's
like in the zone with a hottie bracket.
And so I'm going to steal this idea before they muck it up with
whoever the hell they're going to rank.
Because this time of year, I also get reminded what a
stranglehold Tommy Haas had at me 10 years ago, and he is the
tournament director of Indian Wells.
I think the next bracket that they're going to do, and maybe
we do it before them, should be the tournament director hottie
bracket. OK, so James Blake, is he Miami
or DC? Miami.
Miami, I mean, there are some. Ferrer is Barcelona.
Barcelona, I mean, there are some.
There are some hottie tournament directors.
So I think that we've got to do that bracket before these
straight men continue to steal our jobs.
Now that you mention it, though, we'll have to do tournament
directors. Maybe we do umpires after that.
Oh fuck yes. Oh my goodness.
The one with the really deep voice.
Better win. The woman.
There's there, there is, there's some, no one in particular.
And I got to say, this is one of the things that I miss because
of electronic line calling. But the French Open linesman,
they had a stacked roster of hotties with bleached blonde
hair and beards. They all looked like Benoit
hair. So let let's we're going to
brainstorm and and listeners, if you've got a hottie bracket that
you think we should be doing, let us know and and we will.
I will rank. And rate.
Anyone fair game. So yeah, let us know what you
think, but for now we are opening a query into querying
Sam queries Hottie coach bracket quandary.
So thank you folks. And that is our show.
Ben, thank you so much for coming back.
You're now a two time ball boy. How does it feel?
Feels wonderful. You're like, you're like the
Sally Field of ball boys. Two time winner.
We like you, we really like you. Did you have fun?
I had a great time. I would love to stamp your punch
card for 1/3 time. Would it do I get a reward if I
make it to 10? A spanking.
Beautiful. Then I'll be back.
I'll be back for the next 8 shows in a row.
And folks, we are going to be back in just a few weeks with a
new show that's going to recap the second-half of the Sunshine
Double in the land of class and sophistication that is Miami.
Until then, our balls are going back into the can.
Thanks y'all, Bye.