Speaker 1: Right, it's we're straight in now, we're life from Wimbledon again.
Speaker 1: Day two of us being face to face, skin to
Speaker 1: skin contact is what we're getting right now.
Speaker 2: Very important team bonding.
Speaker 1: So we are one day away from your match, but
Speaker 1: you've just told me maybe not one day.
Speaker 2: No, it's a Wednesday Thursday start.
Speaker 3: It's always been a Wednesdale Thursday start, depending on results
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of singles guys in the double
Speaker 3: straw and just trying to work out the schedule. So
Speaker 3: I could be waiting till eight thirty nine tonight to
Speaker 3: find out if I'm playing tomorrow or not, which is
Speaker 3: great fun.
Speaker 1: But Billy Harris, your partner played yesterday and came through
Speaker 1: the first round of the singles, didn't he.
Speaker 4: You've spoken to.
Speaker 2: Him, I have, Yeah, I'm hitting with him in a
Speaker 2: bit actually.
Speaker 1: And he must be. He played well, didn't he.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think he got the job done, very very convincing me.
Speaker 3: So that was that was good.
Speaker 1: And as we speak now, Bublic is on and he's
Speaker 1: your part of your doubles opponents tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What kind of alternatives and permutations could happen there?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he could.
Speaker 3: He's assessed all at the moment, he could lose this
Speaker 3: match and decide he doesn't want to hang around for
Speaker 3: doubles and pull out, and then we'll play an alternate pair.
Speaker 3: Chabali's yet to play as well, Kabali Chibally. I don't
Speaker 3: know how you pronounce it. If there's any Italians, please
Speaker 3: let me know in the comments. So, yeah, it really
Speaker 3: depends if I do play tomorrow. Obviously, Billy will play
Speaker 3: a singles first, so it won't be till later. They
Speaker 3: never put a doubles on before a singles if the
Speaker 3: same players involved. But it's a wasting game and there's
Speaker 3: a lot of people in the same position, you know,
Speaker 3: there's yeah, the singles players kind of playing on different days,
Speaker 3: so it just you just have to be patient and wait.
Speaker 3: And as you can imagine, my phone's full of people
Speaker 3: asking when I'm playing and what caught among Yes, so
Speaker 3: I don't know, right, And actually you'll know the same
Speaker 3: time as I do, and the schedule gets released on
Speaker 3: the web and then I'll get an email half an hour.
Speaker 4: Later, right, great, so great.
Speaker 3: Anyone who's wondering. Yeah, there's a big archive of my WhatsApps.
Speaker 3: At the moment, I'm ignoring people check the woe with
Speaker 3: a website.
Speaker 1: How hard is that for you in terms of like
Speaker 1: preparation Mentally, It's fine.
Speaker 3: You know, I speak to the people that i'm you know,
Speaker 3: I speak to all through the year. I follow my
Speaker 3: progress and then I do have a look at the
Speaker 3: archives and if it's you know, someone who needs to know,
Speaker 3: then I'll reply.
Speaker 2: But if it's you know, it's tough.
Speaker 3: But yeah, my coach said yesterday, I put your phone away,
Speaker 3: like we're here to play tennis.
Speaker 1: But for you to prepare for a match for tomorrow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have like a match day preparation? Do you
Speaker 1: have something that you go through and yeah, the match
Speaker 1: doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean tonight now I'm just yeah, hitting gor
Speaker 3: so I'm playing some doubles practice points later and then yeah,
Speaker 3: I will wait to see if I'm playing tomorrow. And
Speaker 3: then you put your match warm up, so you hit
Speaker 3: for half an hour five minutes.
Speaker 2: Get your body loose.
Speaker 3: If we play Thursday, I'll do another double session tomorrow
Speaker 3: and same thing on Thursday. You have to be quite flexible,
Speaker 3: especially around these big tournaments. I mean the ATPs are
Speaker 3: they've got a lot more to do. With than you know,
Speaker 3: when you turn up a challenge of the sixteen pairs
Speaker 3: and you know you're going to play Tuesday, Wednesday and
Speaker 3: very likely Wednesday.
Speaker 4: And is Billy are you practicing with Billy today?
Speaker 2: I am having a practice set.
Speaker 4: Here or rains Park here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you use Billy's name, you get what you want.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised when no on center actually go and kick
Speaker 3: yannikoff in a minute.
Speaker 2: No singles guys obviously have.
Speaker 3: Priorities here, priority here as they're still in the tournament,
Speaker 3: so they get to book courts.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so are you first or one of the outside courts?
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
Speaker 3: So from saturday's the last chance you can hit on
Speaker 3: the match court here. Sunday they prepare them and everything's
Speaker 3: Arangue or range Park. But you know, as you get
Speaker 3: further into this tournament, there's less and less at rains Park.
Speaker 1: Really, I mean, it's just seems so tough from like
Speaker 1: the outsider's point of view that you have to kind
Speaker 1: of get like a you're on Amber alert and then
Speaker 1: you just get the buzz of oh, we're on five hours.
Speaker 3: Well you find you find out the night before and
Speaker 3: you're straight on the phone booking, transport practice speaking to
Speaker 3: your coach, it's like a good twenty minute half in
Speaker 3: our process. Obviously everyone else is trying to bok a
Speaker 3: practice court as well, so you used to get used
Speaker 3: to it. It's it's you have a tick this, you
Speaker 3: get on with it. So yeah, there's there's a million
Speaker 3: and one things to do. But my main focus now
Speaker 3: is just be ready and focus on my tennis.
Speaker 1: I must say, standing opposite you now, you seem very
Speaker 1: relaxed about it, or far more than I would be.
Speaker 4: You're nervous at all.
Speaker 3: No, the nerves will come, you know, as I'm trying
Speaker 3: to get to sleep, which is quite quite helpful. No,
Speaker 3: sometimes the nerve nerves come not before you get to sleep,
Speaker 3: it's healthy, or the morning of your match. If I'm
Speaker 3: not nervous as there's yeah, that's so worry. But yeah,
Speaker 3: you just manage it.
Speaker 4: You just it's taking it easier as you get older.
Speaker 2: No, not necessarily.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I got really nervous playing an exhibition once in
Speaker 3: the stakes, but shaking before. You just manage it as
Speaker 3: it comes along and go back to the procession and
Speaker 3: kind of hit it out of your system in the match.
Speaker 3: You know, in the pre much warm up, but you
Speaker 3: can start matches like really nervously.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: But earlier this year after Australia, I kept it.
Speaker 3: Broken first game sometimes I hit two double faults in
Speaker 3: the game. That was a period where you know, it
Speaker 3: wasn't ideal. But it's gone now touch wood.
Speaker 4: As you slap, it happens.
Speaker 2: That it happens still the top you know, not the
Speaker 2: top top guys.
Speaker 4: But any rock of it.
Speaker 2: Early yeah, early in his career. It's very a double
Speaker 2: fault issue for a while.
Speaker 3: And Marcus Willis as well, you know, those kind of players.
Speaker 4: These guys heroes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you could have go with practice.
Speaker 4: Is there a theme for the practice for today?
Speaker 3: Just finding our just finding out that the players that
Speaker 3: work where we like to serve on bigger points, who's
Speaker 3: balls what down the middle? I think it's gonna be,
Speaker 3: you know, fairly good with Billy's a singles guy, used
Speaker 3: his strengths, you know, serves really well, really accurately, hits
Speaker 3: really well from the back, so you know we're not
Speaker 3: going to be both rushing the net all time. And
Speaker 3: then I've got to get the balance right between putting
Speaker 3: on my junkie shots and playing normal tennis like a
Speaker 3: normal human. So just finding that balance. But you know,
Speaker 3: he's great to play with. He fights his nuts off
Speaker 3: all the time and he's a good laugh. Likes his
Speaker 3: Weatherspoon's breakfast.
Speaker 2: Breakfast the cheapest, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Yeah? And does the cheap does if.
Speaker 2: It was just scrambled eggs with one hand?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure yeah sure cheap over like quality equals the best sometimes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a fine line, isn't it. Yeah, we need
Speaker 3: to come up with a chart, work this out that
Speaker 3: I'm over.
Speaker 2: The smashed a card of with chilei and poached eggs.
Speaker 4: What did you have for lunch today? Players restaurant?
Speaker 2: I had a si E bowl.
Speaker 1: That's not on the weather Swing's menu, cover.
Speaker 4: Chunky chips, and then it is no.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen any chips up there.
Speaker 3: Actually, my friend just had a Coronation chicken sandwich and
Speaker 3: a packet of crisps.
Speaker 4: Good meal deal, proper meal deal meal taal.
Speaker 2: But it's not three pounds and tell you that.
Speaker 4: And you can't sit down in a restaurant.
Speaker 3: No, it's very busy at the moment and hot. So
Speaker 3: we came to over to a ranging.
Speaker 4: Does it heat change your training? As all your preparation.
Speaker 2: Not really, it's double.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you can't train for a couple of
Speaker 3: hours and a bit of heat playing doubles.
Speaker 4: And it's not for you, really, don't Ginger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well that's different then I think you get
Speaker 3: Gingers get their own heat rule, you know, after each
Speaker 3: five games they got to go.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've heard normal people have one thing. In Ginger's another.
Speaker 2: They're allowed to play with umbrellas on their head.
Speaker 1: So that no mandatory you have to since Brexit, Yeah
Speaker 1: you have to.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm making my way sensecord a minute, and
Speaker 1: I have to go like Spider Man along the side
Speaker 1: of the buildings just in case I'm not in the shadows.
Speaker 4: It's one of the it's the Wimbledon.
Speaker 3: Way, and no one can see you that way as well, incognito.
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to speaking tomorrow on what might
Speaker 1: be the day of the match.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, yeah, we don't know yet till tonight, so
Speaker 3: it's stay tuned in to find out. Or it could
Speaker 3: be Thursday, sure, yeah, but it might rain tomorrow as well,
Speaker 3: and then it could be we just don't know.
Speaker 2: Let's just keep doing and then we've got mixed doubles.
Speaker 4: It's the day before the match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's just do that. It's always the day before match.
Speaker 4: It's always the day before. Yeah, speak to you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Bye bye.