Hey everybody, and welcome to the latest episode of The Ball
Boys. We are the tennis podcast that
puts the can we possibly jam one more tournament and one more
round in the schedule before the players revolt in Canada?
And the since we're at it, let's throw in a pun for the Western
and Southern Open that started before the Canadian Finals in
Cincinnati. I'm your host, Paul Monkle.
I'm bringing you the insights, outbursts, giggles and wiggles
of the ATP and WTA tours. We are deep in the summer swing
and the long national nightmare of waking up extremely early for
European results is officially over.
And today, we've got some love stories for you.
We have players sliding into each other's DMS like they're
sliding into a drop shot. We've got first dates to go with
first serves. I don't know, maybe we're all
just inspired by the Naked Gun reboot, which came out just last
week and ended up giving us the best real life love story of the
year. I am so happy about Pam Anderson
and Liam Neeson finding each other.
And who knows, maybe they can be a late entrant into the US Open
Mixed Double S, because honestly, it seems like anyone's
getting a pass this year. And so of course, with that in
mind, with everyone worked up into a lather, it's time for the
only Masters 1000 tournament that switches cities every year
just to keep the men and women separate.
Yes, it's the National Bank Open in Canada.
Nay, the Rogers Cup takes place in both Montreal and Toronto,
with the ATP and WTA switching locations each year.
Look, I've seen Orange is the New Black, I've seen Oz.
I know what happens when you keep the men and women separate
like this, but OK, if you insist.
And even though Ozempic ads were plastered on the walls of the
courts, this year, Canada debuted a bigger, girthier field
of 96 players. Literally.
And exactly what the players don't need.
You just know some management consulting twink with a
spreadsheet said, yeah, this is going to make money.
But then a lot of big names pulled out of Canada.
We end up with finals on a Thursday instead of a Sunday.
So hey, I'm curious to see was this really a success?
But also it gives me the weekend free.
So I'll be heading out to Fire Island for another kind of Open.
If you see me there, say hi. And if you see me there in the
meat rack, no, you didn't. And besides ribbing our
neighbors to the north on today's show, we have a new set
of cold plays and a new case we're trying in cross court.
Of course, we also have an updated Bay TP, which you can
see over on our Instagram. That's at TBB tennis.
Again, that's at TBB Tennis. Now to get through all this.
I'm so excited to have today's Co host back with me because she
is my absolute favorite lady ball boy.
She's an incredible author, a sportswriter, former
professional squash player. So yes, you could say I'm the
SAS to her squash. It's Ivy Pakoda.
Hey Ivy, how are you? Hey Paul, I am so excited to be
here for so many different reasons today.
Yeah, it's great to see you. It is very late where you are
because you're in Egypt. I mean, just tell me about it.
My small child is playing in the Egyptian Junior Open.
She's 10 years old. She was the last member of the
US national squad and somehow she made the quarterfinals, I
mean. Wow.
She wasn't supposed to. She just lost the US number one
of the quarterfinals a couple minutes ago.
She didn't play her best match. Except that the girl #1US,
girls, good. We can't coach him.
I just had to sit there really quietly.
But she upset the number seven seed in the round of 16.
We are in Cairo. So when you say waking up early
to check tennis scores is not the thing you're doing, I don't
even know what the hell time it is over here.
As they said, we got here, the national team coached out of
Sound. And he was like, he's Egyptian
and all the three of our five coaches are Egyptian and they're
like, Egypt is going to test you.
And I was like, I've been around the block with squash dude on
the court next to Loretta's today.
There was, I'm not making this up, a literal fist fight on the
court between the players and then between the parents
afterwards. It has to be separated.
I have seen more insanity. People begging, you're not
allowed to coach, you know, like it's managing a coach in the
point, People begging on the court during the point, telling
the player what to do. Oh, it's mental.
So it's a, it's a, it's a lot of like parents just going wild.
Especially the Egyptian families, they'll bring like a
lot of family. It won't just be a mom and a
dad. They'll be like a bunch of
women, you know, off in a traditional Muslim dress, you
know, the hijab. There's something about that
that for me, I'm like, oh, they're being modest or
whatever. And they're just going
absolutely ancient about their kids, yelling at the ref,
grabbing people. The minute their kid comes off
court, like 5 women surround him, they hustle him off It's
incredible. I mean, I love how invested the
moms are, but yeah, it's totally wild.
Yeah, everything. Pyro was crazy.
This sounds like a story because you are also an author.
The last time I saw you in person, 'cause you've been gone
so much was at the launch for your book Ecstasy, which is so I
I finished it. I ate that shit up.
It was so good I I swallowed it like a pill.
We had a whole little ball boy tennis cabal over there.
Yeah, yeah. And, and, and just like the
Egyptian women, we were all going nuts and banging on the
glasses. And, but yeah, it's, it's such a
good book. If anyone is interested.
It's called Ecstasy. It's about this wealthy family
that goes to this hotel they own in Greece and the matriarch of
the family kind of starts partying on the beach.
I'm, I'm paraphrasing horribly. And then a lot of stuff happens.
I'm not going to say what happens, but a lot of stuff
happens as as an aging partier, I didn't give you permission to
tell my life story, but I, I appreciate it.
You know, I am I I saw myself in Lena a lot, and maybe more.
Too Well, I me too. I mean, who do you think this
women are? Seriously Like how did you write
these two characters? I'm like.
I'm like, honey, I loved it. Yeah.
So listeners, maybe you're like
me and not actually getting to a Greek island the summer.
So go check out Ecstasy by Ivy Pakoda instead.
Also shout out to your dad. I love that diva.
I'm going to get him a ball boys hat as soon as possible.
And listeners, stay tuned for some merch.
It's coming. I swear it's coming.
You get some merch. I will have Loretta play at
Slosh tournament in the official ball boys attire.
Oh my God, Loretta is a ball boy.
Yes, OK, this is all happening real time folks.
Stay tuned. The March is coming in Q4, I
swear. Another quick piece of
housekeeping, Ben from over in West Hollywood.
Hi Benny. He pointed out correctly that
quarantine mute does in fact put out rap music and the last show
I was saying, you know, at least quarantine mute is not rapping
like Gaston and chap of Olive, but he does.
I put some of the music up there on our stories of their day.
So I'm sorry about that. I just have to own my my
mistake. But then I had to just bring
this up because I was looking at Mutae's Wikipedia just as as one
does, and it is listing him as 5 foot 11.
In what world is that little man 5 foot 11?
I was like, no way, no freaking way.
And so I was like, I got to verify this.
I got to see him next to somebody else.
And so I looked up this photo for her this year where he was.
He had a famous handshake with Fabio Funnini, who who is listed
as 5-10. Yeah.
Yeah, but but it was amazing because like this, this, this
handshake happened when they were fight like they basically
fought at the net, which I love when people fight at net and
Phonini we're. Going to get into that later.
Oh, we sure are. Yeah.
But he he says look at me, you little pig, you piece of shit.
Like it's just, it was like one of those like, whoa.
But in the photo, he's clearly at least two inches taller than
than Mutei. So look mutay for both putting
out rap music and maybe lying about your height.
I'm sorry. This is going to impact your BTP
rankings. That's that's all I got to say.
Oh yeah, knocked out of the charts.
A5 foot 7 rapper. I don't know.
I just don't know we're. Going to bring it up.
Weigh in here with a little bit of lying about your stats.
I mean, I'm a strong lady, but you know, I'm my size.
I went to the US Open once and they lifted Serena Williams
weight as £10 less than me. I'm 5.7, she's 5.9.
And really, I was like, I was like, honey, you ate 132.
I thought you were like, I weigh more than that by far now.
But like, it was crazy. I'm also like, why are you even
listing the weight? I don't know, it's like.
Yeah, it's really weird. Who cares?
Like it's not. I mean the height.
Yes, because the height will impact what you can get to.
But or who cares about that either?
Jasmine Paolini, she's 5 foot 4. She, and you know she gets
lobbed pretty easily. But why does anyone need to know
this? We can see that she's short.
Yeah, Fair. Fair.
Yeah. I don't know.
You know, we love we love the stats, I guess.
But hey, listeners, if you catch us telling some fibs or if
you've got some some insights, if you know Serena Williams,
wait, reach out to us over at Instagram at TBB tennis.
Again, that's at TBB tennis. So let's jump in with both feet
with our lobs being, which again is a reminder to anyone out
there. It's the thing that made us a
little gayer for tennis since the last show.
And there was one just very clear lobs being for me coming
out of the men's torso. Again, the the men are in
Toronto, the women are in Montreal.
And it was the Flavio Caboli, Ben Shelton fourth round clash.
Great match, went to three sets, tiebreaker in the third set.
And again, they had another, like you were saying, like
another handshake that went awry where they talk for a long time
after Kaboli loses to Shelton. And then it continues.
And then Kaboli comes back and keeps talking.
But the entire time, Ben just, like, continues disrobing.
He's down to just wearing a pair of shorts and sneakers.
But there was something so middle America, like, I'm just
going to fight you with my shirt off.
Like, bar, bar brawl. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was like, come on, come on here, bro.
I've never seen someone take her shirt off more during a match
then Shelton. It was at least two or three per
match. Yes, it's very humid.
But I also wonder, like his sponsor on they must be starting
to worry like they're like, look, you're making it seem like
our shirts are not breathable at all because.
They're not. Have you seen those shirts?
If you ever want to entertain yourself, there's an amazing
Reddit thread about how shitty the on clothes are where they
talk about the subject. So when those clothes first came
out and like maybe two or three years ago, you could go into
Reddit and they took, described how shitty the clothes are and
how slick the people's bodies they are and make them look like
they're covered in oil. So I, I don't think they
breathe. I think they do adhere to your
body 'cause you see, like Suiate is often having to leave the
court to change and she wears those dresses.
They just look. It looks pretty gross.
All of them. I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm
thinking about Fonseca and Kaboli is also an on guy.
Yeah. And they're always looking like
a a seal coming out of an oil spill.
Like it's just. Yeah, totally.
It's. Stuck to their body like they
need to be. Like crushed up by.
Like UNICEF? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they look like they're at like, MTV spring break.
Yeah, yes. Oh my God.
MTV spring break in the 90s, That was my gay awakening.
Or you're straight awakening. I don't know.
It's like. It was like, maybe I don't want
to be straight after watching this, but I don't have choices
because I like men. But I watched.
I was like, this is my feature now.
Wait, just pause for a second here.
We have lots to discuss. But I do think instead of having
reality show at the US Open, it should have MTV Spring break at
the US Open. Oh, Oh my God.
OK yeah, like a bikini contest. Keisha Cannon Eric Nice from the
grind like Oh yeah, it's. Absolutely.
Let's just go where they're taking this immediately.
Let's class all these steps and just like bloody people grinding
in Forest Hills. That's all we want to do.
That's that's that's the US Open.
Yeah, yeah. But that freaking dating show is
just like, like the US Open is not even going to try to pretend
it has any dignity anymore. It's just like, now what?
A trash bag, that's why. That's why they need to have
spring break you. Know I love it like get Eric
needs a new phone yeah. Totally.
Yeah. What's up?
It's Eric. Nice.
He's spring. Break and it's open style.
It's so goddamn hot in our Thrash stadium because there's
no ventilation. You're going to be sweating
anyway, so you may as well be like, you know.
It's getting hot in here. Get it on, yeah.
That's going to be amazing. They're like Miami, nothing.
Exactly, exactly. Oh, you think you're trash?
We're. We'll show you.
We're going to show you at the highest prize tournament in the
world. We're going to be trash.
I know, I know, with the most prize money ever, but yeah.
Which is a bunch of sluts. Oh my God, the theme of this
year's Open is sluts. It's just like 30.
Year old bunch of sluts sluts. I mean, and we're talking about
the men here, folks, not the women, so.
Don't we are going to do a ranking at the end of the US
Open? Top ten sluts across the US Open
fans experiencing fighters. Yeah, sluts.
Sluttiest match? Sluttiest round?
Yeah, fuck yes. Sluttiest camera?
Like the Coldplay camera thing. Like it's going to be nasty.
Oh, disgusting. You're all going to need
penicillin after this. OK, great.
All right, well, awesome. Well, I think we're warmed up.
Let's jump into twit, which is this week in tennis.
It's just covering the news, the dudes, the feuds of the tour.
And like I said, we're heading up to the land of queer icons
like Céline Dion and Justin Trudeau and Anne of Green Gables
for the Canadian Open. Just as a reminder, we cannot
possibly cover every match. So if you're coming to us for
the scores, you're going to be more disappointed than any top
five double S player. Looking at the mixed double S
draw at the US Open, we're going to be talking mostly about
Canada overall take on it. Look, just as a reminder, this
is the first year they've expanded to a 96 player field
from 56 players. I don't think the players were
too pleased about this. And long term, I really hope it
I hope it doesn't stay this way. I I mean, it's kind of all those
things. Where can you unring a bell?
But look, the Cincinnati Open started before the final of the
Canada Open. So it's like Venus Williams has
already lost before Victorian Boco won in Canada.
It's like this 2025 season started in 2024, as we discussed
in our first episode. Exactly.
They should start the 2026
season. Now, Yeah, yeah, you're already
late. Yeah, but they're also being so
self congratulatory. Like, the announcers yesterday
couldn't stop mentioning how this year broke records for
total attendance. No kidding.
They had 40 more players and a ton more matches and two more
days. Of course there's.
More Canadian champion, you idiots.
Yeah. And also just having a final on
a Thursday feels weird. It feels like we are, we are
cramming the schedule to like, there's no way people are going
to consistently be able to go to both of these masters going for
it if they're both going to be like this.
I think this the biggest impact that's going to be at the Asian
swing at the end of the year, like people are just not going
to play that. What you're going to see is
after the US Open, the big players are going to grass and
sell Paris Masters, WTA Finals. The only people playing that are
the people who kind of mid this year or breaking through.
No one's going to play that. It's going to hurt that part of
the season because this is a there's a lot of money here.
There's a lot of prestige and there's a lot of reason to play
these tournaments. They're warming up with the US
Open after the US Open. There's kind of zero reason to
play that. If I wasn't qualifying for the
WTA Finals, I might not play after the US Open until the
until Auckland. Yeah, I, I honestly feel like
that's what Fritz might be doing because I'm, I'm getting very
worried about Fritz because he is playing so much.
I can't believe he's playing Cincinnati.
I wish he would pull out of Cincinnati, but he's played
non-stop. I I could see a world where he
doesn't go to Asia at all 'cause he's like.
He's gonna be exhausted, that's what I'm saying.
Yeah, yeah. Right, as long as he's already
pre qualified for the ATP finals he should not go to ASA.
What's he gonna get? A couple 100 grams?
You know he's money and exhausting jet lagging.
He should visit his kid. Yeah, 'cause you know, there's
something very different about a one week tournament and a 12 day
tournament. And so doing like 'cause also,
you know, the, the, the mental, emotional, physical taxing of a
Grand Slam two weeks really intense.
But if you're now going to stack Canada and Cincinnati, that's 24
day tournament, basically 12 and 12 leading into a two.
I mean, it's just, it's too much.
It's just horrible. I hate it.
And it's a money grab. It's just like they think
they're going to make more money because they will, but it's
going to hurt the tour overall. So that's that's my my hot take
on that. So we we've been rating and
ranking the ATP Masters over the course of the year.
Where does Canada fall for you? Just thinking about it for the
ATP right now, the standings are Monte Carlo, Rome, Indian Wells,
Madrid, Miami. For Masters 1000, where would
you put Canada? I really like it in general,
like previous years has been a really one of my favourites
because it's hardcore and I I love the summer swing that, you
know, my jam. I mean, I love Indian Wells,
it's my favorite Turner of the year, but I feel that Indian
Wells doesn't have a lot of impact sometimes in the rest of
the season. The sunshine Dumble is its own
weird little nutshell. It's a.
Bubble the double bubble. Yeah, it's a bubble.
Double bubble. I really like the Canada
tournament. I don't know, I just think the
tournament shipped around for me every year.
Everyone knows that Indian Wells is the fifth base because clay
court tournaments offer often favorite clay court specialist
and those cannot be more. Oh yeah, no, I I agree.
For me, it's more the fan experience.
So I'll tell you Like this year I hated Indian Wells.
The food was terrible, the pizza was raw, the seats were
uncomfortable, the lines were endless.
Like I feel like the fan experience is not great.
It used to be the best. I know, I know.
And they've just really like Larry Ellison needs to step it
up. I put, I put Canada firmly in
the middle, above Madrid, below Indian Wells.
I like it too. Like I like all these
tournaments. It's not like all the ones at
the end are like turds. I mean, I'm trying to think
about tournaments I would go to. I mean, I hear Rome's amazing.
Our friend who you met at my party, Christ Shapiro, he always
does his clip to Rome and he says that's the best.
That was. That would be his point.
He would say that fan experience.
He would tell you that that fan experience, I'm guessing.
I'm guessing because he does his Academy there is the best.
You're right. I think Indigo has gotten chewed
gig because tennis has become a lifestyle, not a sport for
certain people. And Andy, who else has become a
victim of that? So I think that shifts the focus
back to Canada where people actually go, for the love of it,
I'm going to put it in the middle.
Yeah, yeah. Agreed.
It's good, you know, we'll see.
It's not. It could.
Be great it. Could be great.
Yeah, Yeah. So, OK, let's get into some of
the actions. So the WTA, a pretty good
tournament, a lot of lopsided matches, though, like a, a, a
player would win one round really overwhelmingly and then
get destroyed the next round almost similarly, it's hard to
like get my my teeth into some people like like Madison Keys,
Switalina, Anna Samova, all taken out real handily after
having some good wins. And you said this at the
beginning of this year too. It's like this year is just
going to be really hard to predict.
There were some really interesting Canada stories,
which is nice being on home soil for the women.
Like in Montreal we had the retirement of Eugenie Bouchard,
which again, I thought she'd retired three years ago.
So she's. Playing pickleball or something?
Yeah, yeah. But she she won a match, which
was, you know, a really nice thing for her.
And then she actually took Benchech to, I think three sets.
And she actually had said if, if she won the tournament, she
wasn't going to retire from tennis.
I don't think any one of us had to worry about her not retiring
from tennis 'cause she wasn't gonna win.
But you know. She well, maybe she could have.
This was a weird tournament. It was a weird tournament.
Her strokes have always been a little non traditional, but now
I feel like she's even more and more influenced by pickleball.
Like a lot of weird kind of like side slices at the ball.
Like it was a really tricky, tricky game that she has going
on there, which was, you know, I always love a little variety.
So that was cool. Your girl Bianca Andre Escu out
with a terrible injury. I think in the second round she
cannot catch a. Freaking way I'm going to say
something about my girl Bianca Andre Escu.
You know I would live in a sports world.
I see people being ungenerous. The minute Vicki and Boko won
her semi final or quarterfinal match, the first person I
thought on Instagram was BB saying, oh, like, you know,
miracles didn't happen. Anything could happen.
You go girl. And you would think with
everything she's been through, she was the golden girl from
Canada. It all fell apart.
She never got it back together. Her just cheering for her
country person like unabashedly and first out of the gate.
I I'm so cool. Also, she was, and we have to
mention that the Vicki, Vicki Imboko is a black Canadian of
African descent. Phoebe was one of the only
supporters of Black Lives Matter or Brookley on the tennis tour.
So just like this really meant a lot for me to see that she's a
real human being and I really love seeing that though.
Get your ankle back together, girl, you're playing great.
And Barbara Krakikova. I know, yeah, yeah.
And actually there was a photo going around also of her and
Vicki from maybe 3 or 4 years ago.
They've known each other for a while and so.
Oh, I didn't know that. But yeah, I just Bianca, I mean,
TikTok, she. Sprained her ankle at Miami,
too, when she was in her last comeback.
Yeah. You know, she's young.
She's like 4 Clay Potts. Yeah.
But she's got to. She's got to get going like.
She lost to her slutty friend in the qualified for the French
Open. What?
Who's the slutty? Friend.
Oh, you don't know about Bianca dresses, Slutty friend.
Carsten Branstein. Carson Branstein.
No. Her best friend from childhood
that she won, that she won the junior Wimbledon double S or the
junior Australian Open double S with, she's like this Canadian
American. She's like a glamour model.
Wow, She, she kind of has like a little bit of a Svetlana Kuznetz
of a vibe going on. Like very like what?
Pulled and yeah, yeah, it's a Svetlana Kuznetz.
That's my age. Yeah, well, yeah, Sveti Sveti's
been putting out some photos. Koozie, The koozie.
She's looking pretty. She's looking hot.
Like the Koos? Yeah.
The Koos. That leads us to the the third
Canadian to talk about and the one that I want to spend the
most time on, which is Victoria Umboko.
Her big run to the title. She takes out four Grand Slam
champions. Yeah, some of them are are more
impressive than others, but it's Canon Goff Canon.
I mean, hey, Canon was the WTA player of the year in 2020.
That's that's how weird 2020 was.
But she also takes out Goff, who is looking like crap.
That goddamn serve is all messed up again.
Total disaster. Even watching, I watched the
women's double S final in Canada and they won great for them.
But like her serve was just I was like hitting the ground
before the net. It was just really, it's a it's
a mess. And I hope she gets it together.
So in Boko, she's only 18. She's the same age as Mira
Andreva. Andreva turned 18.
So they're both the sort of young UNS on the tour.
She has gone from being outside the top 300 at the beginning of
the year to now 24th in the world.
She's the number one Canadian. She's working with Natalie
Toziat, the the 1990s Wimbledon finalist who lost to I'm
blanking on her name now, Novotna Yana Nevana.
Yana Nevana, She died. She died, Yeah, She died a few
years ago. So Nevana beat Toziak in that
final. So Toziak did some great service
because we all needed Nevana to win that.
But yeah, so she plays this final with Naomi Osaka.
The crowd was obviously on in Boko's side.
They went wild for her, which is great.
I love that Canada had this moment because they don't have a
ton of history of Canadian champions to really point to,
except for, you know, people like BB.
So there's no surprise there. I mean, Roundich, which where's
where's Milos? Is he done again?
Like I, you know, baby, baby Milos or past Pasil?
I mean, come on, It's, it's it's not, it's not great over there,
although he's so hot. Well.
There's shop of all over the FAA.
Yeah, kind of the underachievers of the of the brood.
But you know, hey, I look, oh, delayed when they're on, they're
on. Well anyway this was great for
Canada but I was really worried about Naomi because she she
looked so good the whole tournament.
But her emotions really hinge on her performance.
When she plays great, she's in a good mood.
When she doesn't win she's she's sours.
And she took the first set she looked so freaking on point.
The first set her forehand. Holy crap, she is some smacking
of crap off that ball. Like I like, like it's, you
know, the Australian Open. 2020 she's just in it.
Or 2021. She's just in it.
Not like she's Sophia Cannon. Yeah, she.
She was playing just like a young Sophia Cannon.
That too she reminds me of. But then.
But then in the second set the tides turn.
Like there's just tons of breaks.
I think they exchanged breaks the first six games and then
Invoko pulls it out and then the third set, which is not fun to
watch. It was just watching Naomi
descending into the depths of hell.
Like the last few games, it seemed like Naomi had had had
sort of thrown in the towel. But at one point she was serving
at the baseline and the crowd was going wild and she just, she
wasn't looking over at the net, she wasn't looking at her coach.
She was just staring off to the side of the court at nothing.
It was that 1000 yard stare that people get in war.
And I think she's, I think she still has some PTSD from that
Serena Williams final, her first US Open victory when the entire
U.S. Open crowd was against her.
This crowd was so against her. She just dissociated and.
I mean, I, I have a lot to say about that.
I mean, I think that's kind of pathetic if you want to know the
truth. I really like Naomi.
I, I, I think, you know, that's the game.
She's getting paid gazillion dollars to hang in there.
You know, I was at the mats in Indian Wells where someone was
like, NAO, you suck. And then she was like, I can't
believe they said that. It's just like, you know, you're
not supposed to pay attention. Like you're trained.
You're trained not to do that. Like if the stakes were lower
and if the remuneration was lower and like it was so
personal. It can't be personal at that
level. It's not personal.
She is the richest, highest paid female athlete in the world.
Maybe not this year, but in the past she has been.
She is worth more as a person than the tennis department, you
know, and I am a Osaka brand is bigger than the WTA.
Yeah. So I mean, I understand that
people have mental health issues and I completely respect that.
But also I've seen Dina say this about her.
It's just like, listen, the things that were said to us on
court were racist. And like in the press
conferences, they were really personal racist.
When people are cheering against you, you just like.
You. Can't be.
You can't be there on that stage if that's going to be a problem.
That's not professional for me. Like sure.
Like I I played smaller level squash match with 200 people
playing. They cheer against me and you're
like, this is weird and this sucks.
It's not about me. It's about the wanting their
team to win. It's hard.
I'm not saying it's not hard, but it's said she takes it so
personally and I think that's a major shortcoming.
Yeah. Oh, it is.
It's. A she's she's won four major.
She so much she played in Canadian and Canada.
She beats Serena Williams at the US Open.
But Roja Roja use that experience.
He'd be like, oh, this is nothing.
That's Serena fucking Williams. This is nobody.
Yeah, No, the I, I Wow. This is.
Is this how you talk to Loretta? Jeez.
It's like. A little bit, yeah.
And this, this is stupid. Yeah, no, I but I hate.
When female athletes cry on court, I hate it so much.
Yeah, yeah. No, look, you, you, you're spot
on. I'm not going to argue with
anything that you just said. I just maybe it's my maternal
instinct. I don't know.
But I I just felt so bad for her because you could see the
unraveling, but you're right there.
Like maybe this isn't for her, which would suck, because here's
the thing. We got a taste of Naomi that
hasn't been around for a few years with this tournament.
Like. Yeah, it was so great and her
attitude had changed and she was happy, but not like a weird
happy, but like a normal happy. But what is what is the problem?
Like there's always a problem. And like, I don't think that
that's a really cool role model for kids.
It's like I, I get in a lot of trouble with this conversation.
It's like she's crying on court, OK, She's mental health issues.
And that I'm very in favor of. I think, you know, there's been
a lot of conversation around that, but like there's always a
problem. And look at someone like, you
know, Coco golf or something like it.
They're a pain in the ass from time to time or having bad first
time matches, but they're not doing this.
You know, Satellite can be a fucking nightmare on court, but
it's just like the game if you win or you lose.
And you're right, maybe it isn't for her, but she looks great.
She looks super fit for the first time ever ever in her
entire life. She looks thick.
And getting rid of Patrick was a great idea for a coach.
She's with IGA Shvantek's former coach now, who coached IGA
through her biggest winning streak when she took over the
number one ranking. Like great, great pick as a
coach. And like we got, we saw the
results. Well, I don't quite understand.
She fired Patrick two weeks ago and suddenly hired some other
coach at his winning. I don't know what.
What's that even mean? What did this guy do in the last
two weeks that like, like, like gave her some different F clock?
What happens? Like a coach is someone who
teaches you the game of tennis, right?
Yeah, it's sort of like when you when you first go on a diet or
you first start working with a personal trainer.
The early results are the most dramatic, you know what I mean?
So it's like, so it's like he he he told her, like her his
greatest hits. Oh, you're going to do this,
this, this and this. And then it kind of it's kind of
plateau. You know, he probably like
juiced her with everything he had.
And maybe it's not the coaching that changed it.
Maybe you're right. Something changed though because
she was a depressed sad little child under Patrick Maratha glue
and now she like flourished all of a sudden.
But I said this on the last show.
Like Patrick Morata, Glow is a star.
Naomi doesn't need a star to over shadow.
No, as we've discussed 2 seconds ago, she's bigger than tennis.
She is the big star. She needs someone like this.
Tomas Victorowski. I don't know how to say his
name. Yes, he coached ego, but no
one's like, Oh my God, Tomas. I mean, look, I think it's great
results for her. It's just so sad that it had to
end on this bad note. She's getting crapped on for
that speech where she didn't congratulate in Boko, which
again, is real bad form. She was really not gracious on
that podium, which is hard to do.
Look, we saw it with Subelanca at the French Open.
She was not the most gracious. And it's just it just opens the
door to like a a ton of hate and the women tennis players get so
much more crap than the men for stuff like this.
And she's getting it like people are really like up in arms that
she didn't congratulate in Boko. And yeah, she should know She's
the veteran. You have to say Congrats, you
played well. You have to so.
Yeah, I mean, she's a goddamned mother.
She should know that. Yeah, yeah, God damn mothers.
Yeah, just the the the Naomi Osaga of it all.
Poor Naomi. There's a good podcast.
Yeah. Exactly 10 part episode Netflix
special. Then there's Naomi Osaga.
Well, hey, if if there was ever a break in the tour, maybe we
could do that. But we don't have a we gotta
keep talking about the goddamn results.
Thinking of let's switch over to ATP.
So over in Toronto, where the men were, for me, it was a case
of upstairs. Downstairs, it was like a tale
of two shitties. 1/2 was the shit and the other half I
couldn't give a shit about, which was exactly what I was
afraid was going to happen when Sinner, Alkharaz, Djokovic,
Draper all pulled out. It was like, we're left with
this 1/2 where it's Zverev and Popperin and Mickelson and
Kachunov and 1. And I was just like that
quarterfinal matchup of the top half.
I was like, I don't give a crap. I, I'm sorry, I know I should
care about everything, but I just, but then the other half,
Fritz Shelton, ADF, Diminiauer, all these guys making great
noise, having some big results for the Open.
The fourth round, we had insane three set matches.
That was the one where Shelton and Caboli fought and it was one
of the best days of men's tennis all year.
So it's really like high, low up and down.
I thought Fritz was going to take it all.
I thought we were really going to see him get that second
Masters. But he loses to Shelton in the
semis. Really a kind of a lame match.
And I'm glad that Fritz lost because he again, he's been
playing so much. He only plays at night, which is
weird. He's like full vampire and he
he, he complain, he's like, he hates the balls, he hates the
court. He does not like playing in
Canada that much. The best part of his match was
after he double faulted losing to Ben Shelton, he snapped his
slutty little racket like a twig over his knee.
He just like it was the easiest break, he and it but it wasn't
like a Medvedev Slam. It wasn't dramatic.
He was just like, I'm done with this racket.
And it was like, oh, I felt something so.
He should, he should have skipped grotto like everybody
else, just like the balls at the floor, like it's carte blanche.
It's just don't go. Don't fucking go.
Apparently you don't have to that compulsory Masters Stadium,
just whatever. It's a suggestion, not a not a
requirement. And it's just it's way too much.
He played way too much grass. He's played so much since the
French Open, like double or triple some of the other top
players. So he's just he he's burning
himself out and, and I'm worried about it.
I think that Taylor has one or two years left to win a Grand
Slam. I think he's got a shot at this
year's Open. He's got a shot.
I don't think he's a favorite, but he's got a shot.
If something happens, injury, upset, something crazy, he's got
a shot. But not if he plays deep into
Cincinnati after playing deep in like all these tournaments.
There's no way. Like, bro, aren't you tired?
Maybe it's Morgan. Maybe Morgan is like, look, we
got a brand deal in Cincinnati. I don't know.
Doing it for the gram. Yeah, exactly like I got.
I got my outfits for Cincinnati. We're going Taylor.
Yeah. You got to make it 5 rounds.
I have 5 outfits. Yeah, exactly.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Sheen is, is making me do 5 posts so yeah.
But so yeah, so still, well I know yeah, she would not be
working the Sheen but yeah. So we end up with the finals and
the final is Ben Shelton and Karen catching off because Karen
takes out Zverev in the semi finals.
We'd love to see Zverev lose before a final.
We just love. It and we love KK.
We love KK, he really brought it for that first set, especially
that first set tie break. He goes up one set over over
Ben. People are thinking like, OK,
this is probably going to be it. But then the second set Shelton
literally took catching off like almost like out of his shoes on
the second set set point. He completely like rope a doped
him. It was almost like on a
basketball court. And then he pulls out the third
set in tie break. Ben has like a scary new gear.
All of a sudden. He was always kind of like flash
brash, big serve some good points.
The way he really he demolished Fritz, he just took him out in
the semi straight sets pretty easy.
Ben is playing big Babe tennis for boys.
He is just like smacking it around.
I don't think he's my pick to win the Open but he's going to
make some noise. Do you like Ben?
I, I, you know, not really. I mean, I like he's left-handed.
I, he, he just strikes me as one of the all American Bros that
kind of bug me. I don't know.
I, I like his dad. It just helped us through
unvarnished Team USA shit that I don't like.
Like, I'm glad he won one of these things because then that's
what he's supposed to do, you know, and we've all known that
he's supposed to win one of these massive things.
I mean, I think the problem is he's going to be the Roddick to
the Federer Nadal, that he's going to be subservient to
dinner and Alfarez. And I'm just looking at that.
And maybe they'll be that Wimbledon that he'll get to the
finals and then one of them will, you know, beat him in five
and maybe he'll sneak in that slam, but that major.
But I think at the moment he's in that position.
Yeah, that's a great analogy. Like Roddick just got owned by
by Rodger mostly and then also Nadal.
So yeah, I mean, he's not going to love that as a as a career.
Ben. I don't, I don't think he's
going to be happy with kind of getting to.
The settings bit younger, but not significantly enough.
No, no. I mean, I just, I think that
he's tapped into something new in his game.
There's more consistency, I think a little more touch, a
little more sort of like ability, like a little more
skill has come out. I think he doesn't have the I
mean, it's a horrible thing to say with someone who sounds as
Ben Shelton. But like, I don't think he's the
innate talent of Cedar and Alcaraz that just like that
Genesee Qua where you can't just you can't teach that.
I mean, you could teach a very rare human being to be Ben
Shelton, but his game is teaching.
It's like not an unknown quantity.
So he's going to have to figure out, you know, like chronic,
like power. Yeah, Yeah, exactly, Exactly.
And I think it's hard to say He's not taking the right steps.
It's just is it going to be effective?
I don't know. I mean, that's the other weird
thing. Like we haven't seen Sinner or
Alcarez since Wimbledon, you know, and they barely played any
grass. They barely played since the
French Open. Cincinnati is going to be much
more of like a bellwether for what's going to happen at the
Open because everyone's there except for Djokovic and Draper,
the restaurant there. But they're kind of non factors
in my mind. I mean, maybe Draper is going to
sneak in, but I doubt it. But I did love, I mean,
contrasting the speeches. So Naomi's speech obviously
landed like a turd. But the post match speeches
between Ben and Karen were great.
After giving a speech, Ben then gave all the medals to each ball
boy one by one. It was a great moment.
And yeah, I mean, it's been a year or first.
So this was Ben's first 1000 level tournament title,
Imbocco's first tournament overall.
I don't know what the take away is from Canada because it's like
a lot of players weren't there and these random matchups in the
final that no one would have predicted.
I don't think anyone would have predicted to Ben versus catching
off final. Did we learn anything from this
tournament or is it just like, oh, that was just wild?
We learned nothing. Just the wild wild NI Guess, as
they say. I mean, I've been telling
supposed to win a match with 1000.
Then we learned that that happened, you know, like, thank
God, because I don't want to hear a lot of stories about he's
the best player to ever win a match with 1000, but they got it
then. You know, women's tennis is so
weird. Yeah, yeah, I think, I don't
think we learned that. I think we confirmed that.
Yeah. It's just a weird time on the
women's tour and hey, we'll just.
Keep a 25 year old over the hill also ran versus an 18 year old
who might never win again. Yeah, yeah, All right.
And now so, so Imboko's 24th and Naomi's 25th.
So they're like really next to each other going into the US
Open, so. Hey.
Congrats. Now it's time for cold plays.
So we introduced this segment last time on the last show based
on the the band Coldplay and their tour that was exposing
marital indiscretion. So there was some Coldplay since
the last show. Leila Fernandez had her first
date ever, which was everything about this story was weird.
Her dad asked her, hey, have you had a date yet?
And she said no. And so he's like, you should
really go on a date. And so to find a date, she asked
her followers on Instagram, hey, when I'm in Montreal, does
anybody want to go on a date again?
Weird because that's not look, yes, I like hey, I will date
anybody who follows us over at TBV Tennis again, that's at.
TBV me too. So Ivy, we will date anyone who
follows us, anyone who follows the ball boys.
But I think for someone like Leila Fernandez to be like, hey,
I'll go on a date with one of my random followers, maybe not the
safest or best idea. So she's like a virgin.
I'm I would imagine, I mean, she's never been on a date.
Maybe she's been to the Eagle. I don't know.
But like, yeah, she's she's probably.
Maybe she's in the back seat of my Jeep.
Yeah, like she's like, she's a good time gal.
I don't know. Like I don't know how but I'm
going to assume. What the hell?
Yeah, yeah, you. Knew about this date thing but I
didn't know the details. Yeah, no.
But then like the dad is like, look, you can't go On this date
unless I meet the person. Like what?
She's not going to prom. And then she's getting ready and
she's like, my sister completely roasted me, 'cause I come out in
my first outfit and like, what is this?
How does this look? And she's like, well, it looks
great if you're going on a business trip, just like, 'cause
she's wearing like she's like, she's going to fly business
class. Like it was just like she was
not. She she doesn't know how to be
like a kid. Who is the guy?
I've been trying to find it and it's like he it.
It's one of three guys that have been in some of her stories.
We don't know exactly, but I guess the date went well.
But now she's moving on to Cincinnati, so I don't know,
maybe she. I've heard weird stories about
her dad from several people, but he's real.
Like like oppressive. Like oppressive and like
controlling. Oh.
Well, well, he wants his daughter to get married I guess.
I don't know. But anyway, it was a Coldplay.
The way that her sister kind of ragged on her she was wearing
the second Coldplay is poor Hulgarune just cannot catch a
break. He slides into Veronica
Krutumatova's DMS only for her to tell him that she is too old
and too married for him. She tells this on I think it was
viz Nina's podcast. Her her fellow Russian.
I am sorry, did she really have to put him on blast like that?
Like she, Veronica Cooter have been more discreet.
I know. I think it's awesome.
What? Oh my God, I think it's amazing.
Like it, like it. I think it's cool because
clearly he didn't know anything about her and was like a lazy
guy tennis player who just saw a hot chick and was like, come out
with me. And she's like, if you had
although to research anything about my tenants or myself, you
would know my age and that I'm married.
I think she was like totally within her rights to do that.
Wow. I mean, yeah, she's within her
rights to absolutely, like, tell him that, but to then tell it
on, I don't know, to like, put it on blast in the open like I
poor hole Garuna, he just can't catch a break.
He asked out a married woman. He should have known she was
married. He plays on like they have the
same job. This is true.
OK, fine, fine, fine.
Well. But also I was like, look, if
you're gonna lob grenades, like, maybe don't.
Like, we can also talk about how you married your coach when you
were 19. But I mean, whatever, Veronica.
Yeah, that's how. She's not that old, is she?
No. And he's like 42 now.
I mean, it's like it's a whole thing, but you know.
What is she like 24? Maybe like later 20s, But yeah,
she's not she's she's too old for Holger, but she's maybe too
young for her husband. I'm just saying.
But anyway, that was a cold play.
But the the coldest play, obviously the mixed double S
we're going to get to that in a second is a is a mess over at
the US Open. But the rejiggering of one team
in particular, yes, I'm talking about Dreadosa.
So after Stefano sits a pass and Pala Bedosa break up, Jack
Draper swoops in like the fuck boy that he is and teams up with
Paula Bodosa for the mixed double S event.
I mean, look like the tennis court wasn't even cold yet.
And Jack is like, hey, you want to play like Stefanos just gets
completely tossed off the side of the road.
And I just it it felt like tacky.
It felt very like Love Island. It felt like perfect match but
just it was crazy that they were they're they are now slaughtered
in as a team Coldplay. I mean, I'm like, we'll get to
this in a second, but I think the US Open picks those teams.
No, no, really. No.
It's like, it's it's like they like like Yannick Sinner was
like, hey, Emma Navarro, do you want to play?
I mean, at least that's the story they're telling us.
Yeah, but I think they give you some kind of parameters, right?
Correct. So So for the, for the direct
entry, for the 8 direct entries based on singles rankings and
then there's 8 wild cards which is based on.
Anything. So it was just sits A paspa dosa
as well. No, they were.
They got in based on key combined singles rankings.
But like Venus and Opel, she. Needs to.
She needs to play with someone who's a top D, because Draper is
an obvious choice if that's directed by the tournament.
That's not him being a slut. I mean, Jack Draper's the frat
boy you wish you hadn't sucked in the morning.
And like Tommy, Paul's the one you're glad to do.
I'm just saying like the optics, the bed is not cold, like the
the blood is not dry. Like they're just like, OK,
Sitsipas is literally going through the worst summer of his
life and now he's going to watch his ex-girlfriend play with Jack
Draper, the hottest man on tour, if he wasn't a fucking Trump
supporter. Like that's just the worst look.
That's the worst thing to have to watch.
And that's just a Coldplay. I'm not saying it shouldn't
have. Been total Coldplay.
Coldplay. Yeah, that's a Coldplay.
Her part on Jack's part on everyone.
Like poor Steph, he cannot catch a break.
I feel like Goran probably set them up real quick.
Just want to talk about, yes, Cincinnati is coming up.
It's it's not coming up. It fucking started before the
final. It's like.
Round 2 Venus is already. On.
Yeah, seriously, it's like I they've had this huge
renovation, $260 million renovation, making a Mason.
OH, the the tennis Mecca. It's like, it is funny.
It's like Monte Carlo, Madrid, Rome, Mason, OH, Cincinnati.
It is very random, but that is one of the 9 masters locations
for the ATP. It does look great.
I guess I mean money talks. I I don't know if I'm going to
go ever, but you know, if, if they gave me a fennel cake, I
would go. I.
Don't know, I, I, I mean, I love Cincinnati.
Well, there was a great article in the New York Times this week
in The Athletic about the reinvesting in Cincinnati and
how Emma Navarro's dad. He, like, owns half of it.
Cincinnati, they put, but he was like, they're like driving
around trying to figure out who's going to volunteer at this
tournament. It was very odd.
Yeah, I read that too. So now everyone's back together
on the men's side. Is it going to be a Sinner
Alcaraz? Like, are they just so head and
shoulders above everyone else? Like that's the final?
Who knows who's going to take it?
They're so even. Do you have any predictions?
I'm scared to predict. I'm terrified.
I think there's a chance they're kind of rusty from that.
I, I, I maybe not tournament tough because I haven't played.
I think 2 setters are weird. I mean, three setters are weird,
but yeah, they'll probably win it.
On the women's side, I guess it's hard to really make any
prediction. I mean, look, just Pagula is on
the giant slide out of form Coco.
I'm so worried about her serve again.
Like she is breaking records for double faults.
She's not breaking records for anything else right now.
And it's terrible. But yeah, I mean, it's we're
we're it. It's definitely not going to be
Venus who takes it 'cause she lost.
I made a prediction on the last show that Venus, that there was
a 50% chance that Venus and Serena are going to play U.S.
Open double S, get a wild card. Am I smoking crack because
Serena's been posting posting some some hits?
And his pictures. And I think that she has always
had that sort of like little sister vibe.
She wants to be like Venus. Venus is playing again.
I don't know. I could see it because it's not
going to kill their. Body I could totally see it well
I mean the US Open is becoming an exhibition there's like a
reality show component to it there's this weird a mixed
double S thing and I think that them playing in the double S
would pretty much you know echo some of the.
It's right on brand. Yeah, exactly.
Right on brand. And then get Pam Anderson and
Liam Neeson to play. Yeah, real quick.
What, what? What time is it?
I don't know 11:49 AM in your time, we can go like for like an
hour and 20. Five, it's time for cross court.
Yes, that's right. Ladies and gentlemen, I've put
on my robe bib, then my lace front.
Judge Judy Ruth. Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I've got my gavel.
It is time for Cross Court. We're going to end our show with
a new case, a new segment where we're talking about things that
piss us off and how to fix them. It's called Cross Court.
And we, Ivy and I, we are the line judge and jury of tennis
transgressions. So this is our second case.
The last case was the billionaire who bought his way
onto the tour. We figured out that punishment,
this case, the case of the messed up mixed double S.
So this case has been evolving over the last few months.
It went from a bad idea to kind of interesting to complete
bullshit. the US Open has totally changed its mixed double
S format. So we were just recapping in a
little bit. But to get a little more
details, we're basically getting celebrity singles teams.
So there's going to be 8 teams that get direct entry based on
singles rankings only. You don't have to have any
double S history to speak of. You don't have to have any
points in the double s or any any experience, any anything.
You just have to be a top ranked singles player.
It's only 16 teams, so eight of them get direct entry.
Then the other eight teams are just called wildcards at the
sole discretion of the USTA. That's how they're picked.
So that's how Venus and Riley are getting in.
It's just like. OK, it's an exhibition.
It's an it's a fucking exhibition.
It feels more rigged than All Stars 10, and so there's not a
single male Double S player who is ranked in the top ten who is
in the draw on any team. For the women, there's only two.
There's Taylor Townsend who's playing with Shelton, and
there's Sarah Arani. She and her partner won last
year, so they're the only returning mixed Double S team.
And then we've got freaking Olga danilovich #156 Double S player
in the world playing. With Djokovic playing.
With Djokovic, what? Like where?
He mentors. He mentors her.
I've read about this. Yeah.
She's served by the side. But like this, this takes the
legitimacy out of this event so far well.
Have you ever seen Djokovic play Double S?
No, none of these. People play double S.
Yeah, like, I don't know what world we think that Emma Navarro
and Yannick Sinner is going to be a good Double S team.
Like are they? I thought he was played with
Paolini at one point they switched this to Navarro.
They've been switching it around, but no, right now it's
it's Navarro Center. Yeah, Paolini.
I don't see Paolini on the list right now.
And it's Amanda Anasimova and Hulgaruna, Rabacana and Fritz.
Oh, Stunt. Talking about AT with no
personality. I know.
Seriously. Like that's.
Fucking up Fritz Oh my God. Anasimova Rune Rabaca to Fritz
could be the worst double set in the yesterday.
It's like, OK, so I'll be honest, I am.
I am not going to be able to go to the main draw of the US Open
this year. I am going to day one of mixed
double S 'cause I got to see this just show person.
I got to see it. It's either going to be, it's
only going to be horrible, but I'm like, maybe it's going to be
good. But OK, 'cause they're also
changing the actual format of the matches so it's sets to four
games, not to six. No ads scoring A tiebreaker at 4
all. A10 point match tiebreak in lieu
of 1/3 set like. That's how my 10 year old plays.
It's at a set of men. What?
Just the world. Yeah, Yeah.
It's it's absolutely insane. And then the winning team splits
$1,000,000 and basically all the teams are getting double what
mixed double S got last year. Really.
Sorry, how can you have a tournament?
You can't get ranking points for this right?
I don't know you. Can't have a tournament that has
different scoring than other tournaments.
You can have a different tie break scoring.
This is so this is like tie break 10.
There's like a tie break 10 tournament.
Yeah, I mean, this is this is the same format that the next
Gen. Final has but I but also I'm
just so worried if there is a single exhibition style point
where they start like lobbing at each other and laughing.
That's also gonna have. If there's like those like
annoying points where they give their racket to a ball kid to
return 'cause they're like not playing.
Well, get ready. I am going to bring my gavel.
I'm bringing my gavel and I'm going to say cross court 'cause
this is bullshit. So here's my question to the
good people of this line, judge and jury, this courtroom.
Does this count as a slam if you win this?
No. Great.
I agree. 100% not, no. You know why it doesn't count as
a slam? Because you can't hand the pick
teams for a slam. It's like it's why you why you
can't get ranking points for the season ending championships
because that has been that's limited to the people who
qualified for it. You can't get additional ranking
points for playing it once. There's a limiting entrance
factor, which has been limited by the US Open here.
It cannot yield ranking points, so it cannot be a title.
Thank you. I I didn't even know all that.
So I've I've now become more learned as a judge, but I just
think like like, OK, after Emma Navarro and Yannick Sinner win
this, are we now going to be saying that like Yannick has
five grand slams or the Emma, is Emma Navarro a Grand Slam
champion if she wins this? Who's Coco playing with?
Coco is not playing is. She smart.
'Cause she's smart, she's like, I'm not going to touch that with
10 foot pole. I mean, it's it's like Emma
Roddakanu and Carlos Alcaraz are playing because the media is
trying to make them a couple a. Couple, of course just so So
what let's I mean guilty as charged for being a shit show.
Guilty as charged. So OK, so so question one,
verdict one. No, it is not a slam and it
should not be counted as a slam 2 Is there a way to fix it like
next year? What can be done?
Yeah, do it like every other slam, Like let's just go back to
the way this is done, yeah. Yeah, yeah, like I was thinking
like, OK, what are like if we're forced to do this?
Cause like, on the one hand, all of the biggest stars are now
playing mixed double S, which is rare.
So it's like, OK, like point taken.
OK, we hear you. We want to get the bigger names
playing, but how can we create a field and A and something that
just has a little more parity? I for one think that the singles
players should have to have played at least one mixed
tournament in the year leading up to it.
Like like. That's that I, I actually think
that that is the most solid thing that's been said just now.
It's like if you want to do this, you've got him done it
before. Give it yeah, give it some
legitimacy, some and like. Or at least a double S match.
You know, like a double S match. Yeah.
Yeah, and also, there's an obvious way to pair things like.
OK, let's take the, you know, number one seed male player on
singles and the number 8 seed female double S player.
Let's take the number one female singles player and #8 seeded
men's player in double S. Like there are ways to make the
matchups like not so much like friends and family.
Because it is insane to me that not a single top ten men's
double player is playing in this mixed double S format.
They don't make a ton of money and now they've lost a giant
paycheck. 1/4 of their biggest paychecks.
It's bullshit so. Bullshit.
Guilty all around, and but I think there's a way to save it.
But they've got to be more thoughtful than, hey, let's have
RuPaul's best friend race like this is bullshit.
So yeah, OK, that was cross court.
I fucking love cross court 'cause I just want to yell at
something. Now I've got a gavel.
So watch out everybody. And a doily.
Here he come. All right, well, that's our
show, Ivy. Always a blast.
Thank you so much. I know it's super late over in
Cairo. Go out, Go have fun.
Go find your daughter. Can I wait to have you on again
sometime in the fall for? Slut Roundup of the US Open
Minds. Roundup.
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