WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.439 Yeah, I do. 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:06.519 Yeah. Part my car up by the park which on 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:10.080 a small slope, and I walked into the shop to 4 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:14.320 pick up my lunch or whatever. And when I come out, 5 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:21.719 traffic it's just chaos, like it was like gridlocked, bibbing 6 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:27.079 all sorts, and I kind of just rounded the corner 7 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:32.600 and some dickhead had parked on the mini roundabout across 8 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.840 the Mini roundabout and blocked all of the cars coming past. 9 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:36.359 Hark. 10 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.399 Yeah, Like the car was just stopped in the middle 11 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.520 of the Mini roundabout, right, and I was walking. I 12 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.880 was getting closer and it was like real like people 13 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.240 are mounting the curb to try and get to work, 14 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:53.520 like it's a busy little zone anyway, And then I 15 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:59.520 realized it's my car. I don't think I put the 16 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:05.439 handbrake con when I parked up and I'd walked to Sainsbury's, 17 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:09.599 and like Herbie, the car must have been following me 18 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.959 gradually going down the hill a couple of miles an hour. 19 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.200 I've gone into Sainsbury's and it's just rolled into the 20 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.120 middle of the Mini roundabout. 21 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:26.120 No, yeah, it's followed you from the tennis club to Sainsbury's. 22 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.599 Yeah, it's a straight road. 23 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:34.560 So the thing. So the thing drove itself and. 24 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.000 It was locked, but it is in neutral and I 25 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.840 didn't put the handbrake on, so I didn't notice. If 26 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.879 I'd looked round as I'm walking, I would have seen 27 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:50.640 the car following me, like just curb crawling next to me. Anyway, 28 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.120 so I've gone into saintry I've not noticed. I've gone 29 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.400 into Saintry's, I've come out and now I'm seeing it's 30 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.840 my car. So I'm stuck in that awkward thing of 31 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:00.719 what do I do. Do I call the police and 32 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:02.879 just say someone stolen my car and they go, oh, 33 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.879 we found it on the roundabout, or do I apologize 34 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:11.280 and get in or what so? Anyway, I just thought, 35 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:14.199 head down, do it. So I just put my head down, 36 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:21.719 jumped in it and drove it off. No way, It's unreal, 37 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:22.199 isn't it. 38 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.680 That's ridiculous end up in the middle of the roundabout 39 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:27.840 as well stopped. 40 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.479 Well, luckily it must have got to the junction and 41 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:34.919 no cars coming in. It's just slowly nudged itself into 42 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.199 the middle of this roundabout and essentially blocked the roundabout 43 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.280 in two directions. 44 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:45.680 Yeah, that's quite a long wait. 45 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:52.479 Yeah, I know, I know it's driven. Maybe five hundred meters, yeah, no, 46 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.639 three hundred meters. I don't know what meter is. We've 47 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.240 brexited now about two hundred and ninety two yards. I 48 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.000 know exactly what that is. Yeah. Anyways, done that? 49 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:05.759 Okay, I can't ready beat that. Good fun, isn't it? 50 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:10.199 Good fun? Okay? Are you ready to podcast? 51 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.919 I'm ready to podcast. 52 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.400 Let's do podcasting out of our MAVs. We're going to 53 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:34.960 talk about life as a tennis player, matches, driving, losses, wins, 54 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.960 just communicating you with you through text. So it's just 55 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.560 insane and I don't think people know about it. And 56 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.439 I actually don't think a lot of people know what 57 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:47.759 the French League is. Venus Williams, why bother? The problem 58 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.159 with the Big two is now there's a Big one 59 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.879 and brand new game show for the what you're talking about? 60 00:03:54.919 --> 00:04:02.000 Willis podcast? Schwank or wank. I'm very excited to premiere that. 61 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:07.080 But anyway, Marcus Willis atp double Sensation, how are you man? 62 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:11.319 I'm very well, Thank you. I'm still sensational. 63 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.879 Yeah you got aren't you anyone else? It's weird you've 64 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.720 got that. You insist on me calling you that that's 65 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:19.279 so weird. 66 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:28.439 Yeah, where are you? I mean Provence in France. I 67 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.079 don't know if you call it as and Provence or 68 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:35.040 Iron Provence. I'm guessing it's the second very nice part 69 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.839 of the world, very nice part of the world. 70 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:39.920 So what's going on there? Tournament wise? 71 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.720 There is a one seven five, which is the highest 72 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.800 challenge of there is. There's six in a year and 73 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:52.199 they're between the thousands, So people losing the thousands the 74 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:56.000 ATP thousands they can come and play these, so they're 75 00:04:56.079 --> 00:05:00.639 very strong. But yeah, great tournaments. This is what like 76 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:02.079 the one I played in Phoenix. 77 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.639 With Ray Ho Yeah, of course, of course. So who 78 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:06.759 are you partnering up with? 79 00:05:07.560 --> 00:05:07.759 Hi? 80 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:14.800 I am playing with Patrick Turhatch, big serving American guy. Yeah, 81 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:17.120 last time we played together and made a two fifty 82 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:18.360 fineal in Umac. 83 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:21.720 Got a lot to live up to. 84 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:23.879 I suppose tell us about Patrick. 85 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.199 He's got an absolute missile of a surf. 86 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.000 He like, like, how big, how when you're at the net? 87 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.600 Are you ever scared it's going to hit you? 88 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.920 No, I'm just watching the opponent and see if they 89 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:38.439 guess the right way and if they don't. It's the 90 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.199 funniest thing in the world. Watch them try and climb 91 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:42.720 up the fence and try and get the serve bauck. 92 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:43.480 It's quite funny. 93 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:48.120 Like so give us an idea of what what makes 94 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.360 it big? Is it the speed or the bounce. 95 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:52.319 Or the both both he's got he's got high. 96 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.240 I don't know how tall he is, six six nine 97 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.480 or something, but yeah, he said, he sends it down. 98 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:03.360 It's not like Peshi pericard pace, but it's it's quick 99 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.000 and it's it's bouncing. 100 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.040 So if he hits the wires, they're climbing up the 101 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.480 side fence. A lot of the time. It's quite nice 102 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.600 to play behind. And I'm not going to lie like 103 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:16.360 you'll put a kicker in and the hitting back hands 104 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:16.759 up here. 105 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.279 I was just about to say it as the volleyer. 106 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.360 Oh it's great joyous, right, Yeah, it's great fun. 107 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.560 Because no one can swing on that, can they. 108 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:29.680 Well, people can try and they might get They might 109 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.600 connect with one, but on the odds of connecting with 110 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:38.240 four in a game to break pretty low. I remember 111 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.199 once we've played we lost the match, but we played 112 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:42.680 in some marina with a love forty down because then 113 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:44.959 there was one double and they connected with two returns 114 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.040 or I mess one volley up and I remember being 115 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:50.839 love forty going yeah, we're still going to probably hold here. 116 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.120 Yeah, and we didn't. Yeah, they didn't hit another return 117 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.920 in the court. So the boom boom, boom boom. 118 00:06:58.160 --> 00:06:58.839 What a weapon. 119 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:03.000 So that's that's on the clay as well. So yeah, 120 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:07.480 it's very rare. He gets broken even with me than that. 121 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:08.560 So there we go. 122 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.759 So, I mean, Patrick's about at the top of his game, 123 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:15.040 isn't it. At a moment He's in his career high 124 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:17.279 as sixty ish in the world. 125 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:20.399 Yeap sixty three, want to say sixty three sixty four? 126 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:23.319 And is he has he done that without a regular 127 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:27.319 partner as well? Are you like to Grizzled who found 128 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:27.759 each other? 129 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.000 This year he's pretty much played with the same guy, 130 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.680 I believe, Hidalgo Lefty. But yeah, I mean the last 131 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.639 couple of years he's been playing with a bunch of 132 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:43.000 different people and and yeah, I think he's got more 133 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:43.959 regular part of this year. 134 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:49.720 Hidelgo is very good player as well, So yeah, happy 135 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.199 for him. He's a really nice dude as well. 136 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.399 And yours your second American in. 137 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.800 A row, exactly, USA. 138 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:07.360 You must be fluent in American now sidewalks, trunks, jackass, Yeah, tomato. 139 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:12.399 Yeah, tomato, Yeah, trunks and sidewalks are good. What's the 140 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:12.720 other one? 141 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:16.399 What's the most American thing he does? Does he does? 142 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.879 He wear a hat that says wild Cats on it, 143 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:21.079 high five you, and then. 144 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.920 Go yeah, that's pretty chilled up. 145 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.199 What's the most American thing he does? 146 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:37.279 Peanut butter and jam. Muld say jelly obviously, because that's 147 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:38.879 jelly and ice cream in my mind. 148 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:44.840 I've never seen him eat PBJ, but I'll ask him later. 149 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:48.200 Yeah, yeah, I got a few things to ask him. 150 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.759 I guess one, Dave as if you eat peanut butter 151 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.240 and jam and I'll say, no, what while I eat that? Yeah, 152 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.440 and then I'll say jelly, and I'll go, oh, okay. 153 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.279 Yeah yeah. As soon as soon as I hear jelly 154 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:06.440 and ice cream, obviously, wanting to speak to Jamie Murray 155 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:10.120 to help us with the ATP doubles, jelly and ice 156 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.240 cream would be one of the pairs in our British 157 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:14.120 food pairings. 158 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:18.240 Have I ever eaten jelly and ice cream together? I 159 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:18.840 don't think I have. 160 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.840 Wow, And just like that the podcast ended. It just 161 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:25.840 went our separate ways. 162 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:28.039 Yeah, maybe I'll have to try it one though. 163 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.840 Were you never a child at a party? 164 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.240 I hate Jelly and I don't know if I hate 165 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:39.840 it together. I mean I've taken a few ice creams 166 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:44.600 down in my time. I'm not a massive Jelly fan, 167 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:53.120 to be honest. Love to ask my parents. I don't 168 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:54.080 trust the way it moves. 169 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:58.039 No, no, of course not. Maybe it doesn't trust the 170 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.600 way you move me. All right, no one does, so 171 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:05.919 they just get onto Jelly. Okay, So back to the tennis. 172 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.840 Will struggle through it. Before we get back to Jelly. 173 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.639 I'll invent a quiz about Jelly in the next part. 174 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:17.240 What is so what are you expecting from this? Because 175 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:23.240 the standard in with Rayjo was really high, wasn't it 176 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.360 just like the quality that draws high? But yeah, I 177 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.840 mean you can play at that level. What's like the 178 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:33.120 big differences and what's the difference in your expectations and 179 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:34.879 the standard that you're going to face on court. 180 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.480 I don't have any expectation anymore, honestly. 181 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.960 It's now the times I thought we turned up in 182 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.200 Umag last year we played the top seis who just 183 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.360 won the previous week, and I thought I will be 184 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:50.360 home by Wednesday wind up making the final. Other times 185 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.440 I felt great in practice and then we go out 186 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.360 there and have a howler. So I don't have any expectations. 187 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.759 I just want to go and play well. But yeah, 188 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:01.720 you say it's strong. I don't know who we're playing. 189 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:03.480 It we don't find out to this evening. We could 190 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.399 be playing ten am tomorrow. The draw's not done till 191 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:10.360 three pm because you know in these events they wait 192 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:13.200 for people to lose in Madrid to then inter here. 193 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.120 And it's three pm today, so we'll find out, yeah, 194 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.879 later late this evening who we're playing, and then when 195 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:24.360 we're playing. But there's not some it's not an easy 196 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:24.759 match here. 197 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:28.480 Tell me just to shut up. Would you say you're 198 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.360 in a bad run of form at the moment. 199 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:34.960 I don't feel that, No, No. 200 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.559 I feel like on paper, yeah, the last week wasn't great, 201 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:40.759 but we were setting a break up in the first one, 202 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:43.600 let them back in and second match. 203 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.120 On paper it was a bit of a dusting. 204 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.240 But you know, we had five break points, didn't break 205 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:50.600 lost a couple of games from forty to fifteen, and 206 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.120 then you know they say served us off the court 207 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.279 a little bit. So I feel personally, like, my performances 208 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.679 have been okay, not outstanding, but so not poor. 209 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:06.440 So this was always, you know, likely to happen at 210 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:11.000 some point this year. I've tried to play, you know, 211 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:11.919 the strongest tournaments. 212 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.919 I can five hundred qualities ATPs one seven fives, and 213 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:19.559 I haven't got a regular partner yet, and that's you know, 214 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:24.720 that's that's something I'm working on. But you know, you 215 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:28.200 take a step up and play the stronger events, you 216 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:32.200 can lose a few matches potentially, So that's the risk 217 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.000 I take. And I'd much rather play play an event 218 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:37.879 like this than lose and make it, you know, fine 219 00:12:37.919 --> 00:12:40.960 of a seventy five and you know, pick up fifty 220 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.559 more points. But actually it's a bit more of a 221 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.559 shock when you come to play these pairs. I want 222 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:49.720 to be playing these pairs regularly, and that that's the 223 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.159 advice I've been given. That's the advice I'm taking. In Yeah, 224 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:55.679 I'm not too I'm not too down about it, to 225 00:12:55.759 --> 00:13:00.000 be honest. I've one two out of my last four matches. 226 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.559 It's not the end of the world. Lost some good pairs, 227 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.679 Yeah no, it's not. I mean I've had I remember 228 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.399 I lost six or seven in a row at challenge 229 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:12.120 at seventy five level a couple of years ago. 230 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:13.679 So it's. 231 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:18.600 You know that, I suppose I'm having better problems now 232 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:20.320 than I did last year or year before. 233 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.759 As someone who's trying to get a little bit better 234 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.960 is former Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, who's lost her 235 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:30.799 tenth singles match in a row. I want to get 236 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:43.960 your view of that after the break. Welcome back to that. 237 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.720 What you're talking about Willis podcast with him? What are 238 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:52.440 you talking about? Willis and me? Dave. Venus Williams Marcus 239 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:57.360 lost her tenth singles match in a row at the 240 00:13:57.399 --> 00:14:01.720 Madrid Open. I'm reading this off the BBC website. She's 241 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:03.759 the first former number one to lose ten matches in 242 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.600 a row since the rankings were published first time in 243 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:11.759 nineteen seventy five. We don't know this right because you 244 00:14:11.799 --> 00:14:15.120 don't know her. What on earth is she doing and 245 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:16.080 why is she bothering? 246 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.440 Oh, she might just enjoy playing. And I'm guessing some 247 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:25.759 of these matches have been competitive. 248 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.519 I mean she hasn't won. She hasn't won last July 249 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.679 where she beat Peyton Sterns at the Washington Open. 250 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:40.240 Okay, she's only played ten matches since, right, so she's 251 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:45.120 not playing every week. I wonder, yeah, how much he's 252 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:51.840 making an appearance through this tournament. What are we expecting 253 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.480 as it just turn up and dust people after not 254 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:55.840 being playing tennis for help. 255 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:59.879 It's actually actually an interesting fact is that she's got 256 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.919 a old card obviously for this. She came down from 257 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.279 she came back from three love in a second set 258 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:12.080 to but she's Williams basically had won six of her 259 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:19.240 eight Grand Slam titles before her opponent was born. So 260 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:21.799 it's I mean, it's a total generation clash, isn't it. 261 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.799 This is like me getting a win now over Rod Labor. 262 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:30.159 So what is god? I hope, I hope I would, 263 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:40.480 but yeah, chances there So okay, So look, you've we 264 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.240 can't speak for her, right and no doubt if she 265 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:45.159 did load of press, she's going to be asked this 266 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:50.600 all the time. Is there's just something that doesn't sit 267 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:54.600 right with me watching somebody who was such a dominant 268 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.279 world number one feeled that, you know, just so such 269 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.720 a massive turning point for tennis when a young Venus 270 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.039 came on the scene and obviously serena kind of surpassed her. 271 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.759 I feel it's a bit tragic now watching her at 272 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:15.559 forty five, just going into tournaments and losing. Who cares, 273 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:16.399 it's her life. 274 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.039 I'm kind of yeah, the second thing you said, really, 275 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.080 I don't lose. I think it's cool he's still playing. 276 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.799 I think the tournaments are obviously get giving her world 277 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:34.399 has for a reason. She's obviously selling tickets. 278 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:36.159 Yeah, I don't know. 279 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.080 I don't think she's getting She's not losing love and 280 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:42.600 love is she She's competitive in these matches, so it's 281 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.000 not like she's turning up a complete mismatch, getting smoked 282 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:50.840 and then going home. She's obviously still competitive forty five. 283 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:55.120 It's quite nice that someone's from that area still playing 284 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:59.559 tennis and you can watch them sometimes. But obviously, yeah, 285 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:03.200 it's she's not going to be the Venus Williams she was, 286 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.359 and she is winning. I don't know, but it's one 287 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.400 of those that it's like, it's pretty cool that she's around. 288 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.839 She's obviously still playing to a relatively good standard, not 289 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:22.240 obviously compared to how she was. But if she asked 290 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:24.279 me to play mix at Wimbourne and what do you reckon? 291 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:24.599 Answer? 292 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.279 Right? What else are you doing. 293 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.839 Yeah, Venus Williams. 294 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.680 Yeah, come and get me plea. There we go, Venus, 295 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.480 that was it. 296 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:43.359 No, no, But just an example, like if she asked 297 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.480 any brit Or anyone to play a mixed doubles at 298 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.440 a Slam, anyone snapping the hand off, it is Venus Williams. 299 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:51.960 What do you think the you know, when you talk 300 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.359 about appearance fees, I don't think a lot of the 301 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:00.839 layman tennis watching public realize that tournaments, obviously Grand Slams 302 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:03.920 and Masters are a little bit different in that lots 303 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:06.279 of players are playing for lots of money there anyway, 304 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.960 and they're so rankings based. There are a lot of 305 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:16.559 tournaments like Queen's, I like Birmingham and so on who 306 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:20.079 pay appearance fees to players, right so they can use 307 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:24.079 their image to sell tickets to our good friends at 308 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:29.720 Moy Shandon and American Express. So what do you think 309 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:32.759 the kind of money she's getting to turn up to 310 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:37.839 these tournaments? 311 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.400 Like, it's it's the kind of thing that I'd say 312 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:42.920 an answer and someone would laugh. 313 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.119 Be like, oh no, it's way more than that, or 314 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:51.119 it's not. It's impossible to work out. 315 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:53.079 I don't know how much these guys are paid to 316 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:56.599 play two fifties, five hundreds or stuff like that, but 317 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:57.279 I'm guessing it. 318 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.400 That makes it worthwhile for them. 319 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:06.559 Part of that appearance fee will involve like going to 320 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:09.039 a corporate lounge as well. You know. 321 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:14.480 Yeah, yeah, I've heard some things that someone's paid it's. 322 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:15.000 A five hundred. 323 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:17.720 A few years ago, this guy was top ten in 324 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.880 the world or top five even and he has plaid 325 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:26.079 a million to turn up and play this event. Yeah yeah, 326 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:27.920 but I don't know what that what that is now, 327 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.920 so I'm guessing it won't be as much as that, 328 00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:34.599 But again I might not. I might be miles off it, 329 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:36.880 but it's a it's a lot of money. If you're 330 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.799 being paid to player tournament. It's not ten grand Hero's, 331 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:43.200 it's six six figures at least I would. I would 332 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.720 guess obviously my emails again missing I'm not getting appearance 333 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:51.759 for to to play at these events. But yes, a 334 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:55.880 very top elite players that their calendar. But they also 335 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:58.279 know as singles, so you know what you're doing. But 336 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:02.559 they also know in December until the next December exactly 337 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:05.920 what they'll be playing. If their bodies are okay, well 338 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:07.799 they're not going oh or should we lay here or there? 339 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:09.640 It's this is our year. It's panned out. 340 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.559 The other one that I wanted to talk about in 341 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.720 just general tennis news is Carlos our Karaz out of 342 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:18.640 the French Open, confirmed with a little wrist splint on 343 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.319 Ala Cantona ninety four. Canton I had like a broken 344 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.359 wrist for about a year in my mind. Yeah, men's 345 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.799 tennis is rubbish now, isn't it because the big two 346 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:29.039 has just become a big one. 347 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:32.240 Well yeah, I mean this is a problem with a 348 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:32.640 big two. 349 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.720 You know that they there's other good players obviously, but 350 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:40.519 the ATP wants Center in our crass winning and they 351 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:43.039 want this rivalry because we had Fenner and our Jock. 352 00:20:43.119 --> 00:20:45.279 It's moth for so long and then yeah, one of 353 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:47.880 them gets injured and it's okay. 354 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:55.079 No, I think it's interesting though, it's kind of yeah. 355 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:56.359 I don't know. We'll have to see. 356 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.480 But you got zvere Is licking his lips if he's 357 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:01.839 in the other half of the drawer. He's in the 358 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:05.440 final money most of the time, Center and our crafts 359 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:09.279 are the only other beat him. 360 00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:18.480 Well, look, Djokovic beat Sinner a first set. Yeah, so 361 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:23.640 Jokovic now doesn't have to beat both of them to 362 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:30.200 win the Grand Slam at the French. And is he 363 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:32.759 is this it now? Is he just just I mean, 364 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.119 does he just need Sinner to you know, step on 365 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.440 an upturned hair brush and rule himself out so he 366 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:46.079 can get this elusive number? But are we kind of 367 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:50.720 just clutch him for narrative? On what we kind of 368 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.440 confirm is Sinner is just going to roll it. He's 369 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:59.160 not going to drop a Set're just desperate for a narrative. 370 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:01.920 I just need some story, give me some. 371 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:05.519 Yeah, I don't know. 372 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:09.440 We'll have to see you, won't we We've done our 373 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:13.279 French over review anyway. 374 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:21.680 Yeah, of course of course we have. Yeah, alchemy our 375 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:27.839 cias outcras, wasn't it And if if you lovely listeners, 376 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:33.799 if you just stay with the script. In an unbelievable twist, 377 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.279 Alchiaz actually comes back to play the French. So what 378 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.920 we're talking about that is nonsense because Marks and I 379 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:43.000 have seen the script and that's based on what we're doing. 380 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:47.359 The Naymursaka is the one. She is going to shock 381 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:50.039 you at the French with what she is wearing. Folks, 382 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:52.519 you can actually go to our YouTube channel this week 383 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.240 because that video is being uploaded a full preview of 384 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:01.240 the twenty twenty six French Open months before the tournament's 385 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.920 even happened. All right, we're not like those other losers 386 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:10.920 who wait for fact. Now, how excited are you about 387 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:12.440 schwank or wank? 388 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.279 Yeah? Very excited. 389 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.119 Like it's been like while we've been talking, I have 390 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:19.720 like a better part of my brainstory game. 391 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:20.799 When's the swank or wank? 392 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:26.240 It's after the break mate? Here it comes, okay too, 393 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:38.400 Welcome back to what you're talking about. Willis one of 394 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.720 the top three point eight million podcasts to be recorded 395 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:46.359 this week. I'm Dave, but he is Marcus Willis, and 396 00:23:46.440 --> 00:24:04.240 we are now playing schwank or wank. Hello and welcome 397 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:09.920 to schwank or wank. Eduardo schwank Is, also known as Schwanker, 398 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.079 is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina. In twenty eleven, 399 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:16.799 he reached the finals of the French Open Men's doubles 400 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:20.640 and the US Open Mixed doubles. He was coached by 401 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:26.519