Speaker 1: Do you know what I like about you, Marcus Willis?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: I like that you're wearing a hair band? Yeah, because
Speaker 1: only fifty percent of our podcast is able to wear
Speaker 1: a headband without looking insane.
Speaker 2: You could you could go who used to wear a headband?
Speaker 2: James Blake? You said, do it?
Speaker 1: Yes, he did, just like a fuzzy white thing rather
Speaker 1: than a you know, when he took that off, he
Speaker 1: still had the white band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you get that?
Speaker 1: Do you have like a sweat back? What are your
Speaker 1: sock marks like?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Pretty bad in the summer yere m, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Do you want a podcast?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's podcast. We should really.
Speaker 1: It's the green green grass of home, isn't it? Mate?
Speaker 1: Farewell the dirt, Hello the lawns. We're legally obliged to
Speaker 1: course to gred Wimbledon s W nineteen. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the build up to the single greatest Grand Slam of
Speaker 1: the year. We could do a little bit of review,
Speaker 1: but basically what I want to do is as many
Speaker 1: podcasts as possible with ATP star. And you've also I know,
Speaker 1: look round, Marcus Willis, but you've just moved one place
Speaker 1: up in the whole history of the ATP. Do you
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 2: One place up? Yeah, I'm sixty eight. I think I
Speaker 2: was seventy four before and tenty seven.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no no, there's a different
Speaker 1: stat one that you don't boast about enough. Okay, Zverev
Speaker 1: winning the French Open has now moved off the list
Speaker 1: of the greatest player to never win a Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: which means you have now moved one up.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, sorry, sorry obviously, Yeah, yeah, short list.
Speaker 1: He's got longer in turn, so have I Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh it's bonus for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it felt great, It felt great him winning it.
Speaker 1: Who is the greatest player to not win a Grand Slam? Now?
Speaker 1: Are we into like there? Are we going back in time?
Speaker 2: One? Like oh well yeah, yeah, because I mean the
Speaker 2: rude he's got David and people like that. But did
Speaker 2: for make a final?
Speaker 1: Ever? No? David Enko was here?
Speaker 2: Did he make a final a Slam? I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think you can be the best player never
Speaker 2: to win a Slam without making a finale. That's my rules.
Speaker 2: But don't shoot the messenger. But that's what If you're
Speaker 2: not in a final at least one, then you can't
Speaker 2: go oh, he was so close that he wasn't really, But.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised a little bit about the discourse arounds fair
Speaker 1: because people look at my tennis club like, well, he
Speaker 1: just got lucky. He's a serial choker. You know. It's
Speaker 1: only because Sinner and Alcarez one of there. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: A bit surprised by.
Speaker 2: It for me, they were there, they just lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean, how do you view this
Speaker 1: Verev Grand Slam win?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't know. It's I feel like
Speaker 2: he deserves it. We've spoken about him before. He's obviously
Speaker 2: struggle with Cinner and Alciaz. But just just because you
Speaker 2: don't have to be one of them to win a
Speaker 2: Slam doesn't mean you're not worthy. If the a they
Speaker 2: their body is not right or be they lose. It's
Speaker 2: not very as as fault. He dealt with a heat
Speaker 2: better than other players in the first week, and you know,
Speaker 2: until the final, he won every match. I think he
Speaker 2: lost two sets until the final. It's not like it's
Speaker 2: like he gagged his way there and got lucky and
Speaker 2: he won six one in the fifth and of course
Speaker 2: he's going to get tight. He's never won a Slam, Like, what,
Speaker 2: what do you expect people to just blow their way
Speaker 2: through every match they've never done something before. I think
Speaker 2: is playing very well.
Speaker 1: Right, good boy's playing very well. I think this for
Speaker 1: me is a little bit of the Nadal, Federer Djokovic
Speaker 1: hangover in the Remember when Sampras won his first Grand Slam,
Speaker 1: it's a couple of years before he wins his next
Speaker 1: Grand Slam. Yeah, and that is seen as normal right
Speaker 1: at the time. It wasn't that you are going to
Speaker 1: win Grand slams. I feel a feel for Zverev because
Speaker 1: he's obviously been in two hugely competitive eras, but he's
Speaker 1: been the best player outside of the two players, right,
Speaker 1: he's been the third. But it's almost like we expect
Speaker 1: Zverev now and everybody else who steps on a tennis
Speaker 1: court to be uninjured and absolutely mental Goliath, just like
Speaker 1: feder and adult Job, which were for twenty years. He's,
Speaker 1: you know, like it feels like him winning a Grand
Speaker 1: Slam because the top seed of you know, got ill
Speaker 1: and injured and couldn't complete his own run. That's kind
Speaker 1: of normal. When you go back over Grand Slam winners
Speaker 1: in the history of.
Speaker 2: This, people forget now there's thirteen slams because of his body.
Speaker 2: He's being being a tennis players, looking after your body
Speaker 2: as well or being able to compete. And that's some people.
Speaker 2: That's luck. Some people that's their style. You know, if
Speaker 2: you look at how Nadal played, he was running an
Speaker 2: awful lot. He was diving around. He was where if
Speaker 2: someone like Federal would get injured a lot less, right,
Speaker 2: that's just fat al craz is again, carnage. He slides around,
Speaker 2: hitting balls two hundred miles an hour like he's a
Speaker 2: very physical pless So he's going to get injured sometimes.
Speaker 2: That's part of it. That's part of being a tennis player.
Speaker 2: It's not just because olcras on there. Doesn't take it
Speaker 2: away from Zev very as hung in there. He's got
Speaker 2: type one diabetes, type one, on type two, type one.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, we were attempting, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so so he's got enough to manage as well. I
Speaker 2: don't know it's people forget that as well.
Speaker 1: Just just a quick one because I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about the green green grass of home.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The overall the French Open, I felt like there were
Speaker 1: a lot of withdrawals, a lot of pullouts, especially in
Speaker 1: the doubles, as we've spoken about, But how did you
Speaker 1: view it overall as a slam? Could you mark it
Speaker 1: out of ten.
Speaker 2: As a spectator or a player.
Speaker 1: As a spectator.
Speaker 2: As a spectator, I thought it was brilliant men's and
Speaker 2: women's side. You had the qualifier and made the final. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and again you've got you've got that final. But all
Speaker 2: the top players lost early. You know, you can't take
Speaker 2: it away from Andreva because you didn't beat anyone top.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but they lost earlier. I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: I thought the doubles, you know, once games matters got played,
Speaker 2: they're really good. A bit hot the first week, but
Speaker 2: again that's interesting, that's part of it. As a player
Speaker 2: as well, I enjoyed myself. It was good.
Speaker 1: I mean, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are there were number ones. It's it's a
Speaker 2: tough match. I didn't see the final because I was
Speaker 2: traveling up here, but yeah, it was it was. It
Speaker 2: was a good, solid slam.
Speaker 1: Now they they lost the final in an hour and
Speaker 1: sixteen minutes. It was all pretty quick, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four and two that's yeah, that's not unheard of in.
Speaker 1: Double Yeah, and but hope for not only you, but
Speaker 1: for our podcast Army Here forty and forty one years old.
Speaker 1: The opponents Granolas and new is it forty and forty one?
Speaker 1: Hope that you will keep going on, my friend.
Speaker 2: I do, I do? Yeah, No, I mean there's a
Speaker 2: lot of guys reallyzy. Yes, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 2: above there's eleven or twelve above forty in the top
Speaker 2: hundred I think, and a lot of players above thirty,
Speaker 2: and a lot of players above thirty five. They were
Speaker 2: also I think, I want to say top twenty, top
Speaker 2: thirty singles players, both of them.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was going to say top thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that might help when they're standing back and railing
Speaker 2: fourhands at you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So look, you're you're on the turf. Now you're
Speaker 1: in Ilkley, which is a very well dropped How many
Speaker 1: times have you played Ilkley?
Speaker 2: A lot?
Speaker 1: You really have, haven't you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need to look back and get the numbers.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's changed a lot over the years. Obviously
Speaker 2: I played the ten k futures as they were back
Speaker 2: in the day, and the courts obviously weren't the same.
Speaker 2: The practice courts you probably wouldn't hit on. You'd rather
Speaker 2: go indoor and now the courts are lovely and it's
Speaker 2: the club's changed obviously weirdly after twenty years. There's more
Speaker 2: space in different areas and you're like, oh, every time
Speaker 2: I go back, courts are really nice. Nice just leave us.
Speaker 2: A lot of rain in the last few days, so
Speaker 2: I've had about an hour and a half on the
Speaker 2: crass in three days, and a lot more indoor and
Speaker 2: gym and stuff.
Speaker 1: But do you know what, I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of British tennis supporters actually realize, like people who just
Speaker 1: have a casual interest in tennis and then it comes
Speaker 1: around to summer and they're clamoring for Queen's Eastbourne and
Speaker 1: Wimbledon tickets, et cetera. I don't think they realized that
Speaker 1: there's actually a host of tournaments like Ilkley but previously Surbiton,
Speaker 1: and there's loads of practice opportunities to go and be
Speaker 1: courtside to see people hit, like at the rains Park
Speaker 1: community site at Wimbledon where Schwichek has been practicing there
Speaker 1: for a week. Yeah, just walk in, you can, you
Speaker 1: can have a coffee there. You will be meters away
Speaker 1: from the best in the world. But I don't think
Speaker 1: they realized that a club like Ilkley put on an
Speaker 1: international grade event and tickets are less than a non
Speaker 1: league football ground. You know, it's totally accessible to anyone,
Speaker 1: regardless of their income, to go and see and get
Speaker 1: up close to brilliant tennis players or.
Speaker 2: You well me, yeah, that's the downside of it. You
Speaker 2: do get some kind of intruders.
Speaker 1: And you get a full refund if they see you.
Speaker 2: Is that right to me? So yeah, that's why they
Speaker 2: keep me in the squash court until people start to leave.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's the deal I had. I signed
Speaker 2: something in maybe maybe most tournaments. Actually I'll sign something
Speaker 2: and so just don't show your face.
Speaker 1: What do it feel like being back of the grass?
Speaker 1: When was your first grass? Called hit?
Speaker 2: A couple of days ago, I mean I hit on
Speaker 2: the grass. I played two matches on the grass the
Speaker 2: day before I went to Ron and Garrass. I played
Speaker 2: the NPL finals at Rampton. M hm. So I've got
Speaker 2: a couple of masses in then. Obviously great clayprep. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: but no, no, I find grass famous last words, but
Speaker 2: I find grass. The year I qualified ten years ago,
Speaker 2: I hadn't hit a ball on grass until my first
Speaker 2: round of pre colleagues. Mm hmmm, and we got an
Speaker 2: extended warm up because it'd been raining. I find grass
Speaker 2: the easiest to jump onto. It's super windy at the moment,
Speaker 2: so I mean you're throwing the ball up and it's
Speaker 2: it's blowing everywhere, so that that's tough. But yeah, my
Speaker 2: first my first hit was just for friendship, and my
Speaker 2: first hit here was Sunday afternoon. M h windy.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Windy but side side wind, not forward and back. I
Speaker 2: don't mind so much because you can what do you do.
Speaker 1: It's coming in of the ball, Like, how do you
Speaker 1: cope in the wind?
Speaker 2: You've got to You've got to hit hard against the wind,
Speaker 2: so it comes back round like if if you hit
Speaker 2: it straight, the windows takes it to the side, So
Speaker 2: it's about countering it. But it's it's also like sometimes
Speaker 2: the wind will stop a little bit and then you've
Speaker 2: nailed one six feet wide. The serving's hard because you
Speaker 2: throw the ball up and it's moving everywhere, but there
Speaker 2: we go. I think the match courts are a bit
Speaker 2: more protected, but the practice courts are at the back.
Speaker 2: Match cords have got little stands around them, so like
Speaker 2: watching the matches, they don't. It's windy, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem to be as bad.
Speaker 1: Do you see you know that phrase about watching bambiyond
Speaker 1: ice the Do you see people that you kind of
Speaker 1: know around the tour through the year, the Clay Quarters,
Speaker 1: the full Western and Semi Western Grip Brigade. Do you
Speaker 1: see them get on the grass at Ilkley now? And
Speaker 1: are you just having a look at the corner of
Speaker 1: your eye as they look a little bit Bambi or Ice?
Speaker 2: It's it's not what it used to be. It's not
Speaker 2: playing as quick because of the wind as well, and
Speaker 2: the courts are nice. So I've not seen too many
Speaker 2: like you don't have to serve and volley or even
Speaker 2: slice here.
Speaker 1: Anymore, okay, right, right, So it's not like coming up
Speaker 1: about hip pipe now, yeah.
Speaker 2: Hip pip at least you've been latting kickers on the
Speaker 2: second and like getting it quite high. That it's changed, man,
Speaker 2: it's changed a lot. Whereas back in the day you
Speaker 2: get windy qualities, you get someone from splaying off South
Speaker 2: America looking great, whereas now it's it's not a great
Speaker 2: draw because they can get in a rhythm from the
Speaker 2: back and still rip the wall side to side. Obviously
Speaker 2: they're not They're not as effective, but you know, yeah
Speaker 2: you'll have Yeah, there's no there's not as many easy
Speaker 2: draws any well. I mean some people come to win
Speaker 2: Wold and qualities a day before, take the money and
Speaker 2: go with no expectation.
Speaker 1: But well, I worked at Queens for a few years
Speaker 1: during the tournament and Stanford Rinker didn't book a practice court.
Speaker 1: He just went and played his match, lost first round,
Speaker 1: and as he was walking off, he was heard to
Speaker 1: say to his coach grasses for cows and that was it.
Speaker 1: He went back to Switzerland, came back to Wimbledon, and
Speaker 1: I think he might have gone our second round of Wimbledon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's four or five weeks of the year, so
Speaker 2: people can afford to do that, right, But if you
Speaker 2: said that about clay like I do, you still got
Speaker 2: to go and play it. I mean, you don't have
Speaker 2: to win matches on grass, it doesn't affect your year.
Speaker 2: You have to on clay in hardcourt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's a short season, so people can afford to do that.
Speaker 2: I suppose. I just I don't know. I don't Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not at stands level obviously, but I find it
Speaker 2: tough to believe it. Anything. You go out there and
Speaker 2: you're okay with losing, I'm sure I'll still go and compete.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was okay with losing. I just
Speaker 1: felt that he didn't think the practice was that worth it,
Speaker 1: you know, like I just fear he was thinking some Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really put my effort in and in four weeks time,
Speaker 1: I'm back on a hardcle coming up after the break.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your grasscourt season
Speaker 1: in particular, So stay tuned if you're interested. Probably not.
Speaker 2: Go somewhere else and stick the catalog.
Speaker 1: There's other pods. Yeah, welcome back to what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Willis? He is Marcus Willis atp sixty something.
Speaker 1: I didn't do the research before, but you are sixty
Speaker 1: something and you're back on the grass. You're in ilkly
Speaker 1: at the moment. So first of all, when you're at
Speaker 1: this time of the year, do you feel like you
Speaker 1: get a little bit more heat, as in more attention?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean it hasn't started yet, but yeah you have.
Speaker 2: I guess people are around more to come watch or
Speaker 2: support when you. When I'm in Phoenix, Arizona, no one's going.
Speaker 2: Oh are you playing today, mat Like, what are you
Speaker 2: playing next week? So I think there's that reason. There's
Speaker 2: a reason that tennis only exists these four weeks for
Speaker 2: most people. H and yeah, but no, it's not been
Speaker 2: too bad.
Speaker 1: You've got more profile than most players, like a player
Speaker 1: I don't know. You take the bridge number five in
Speaker 1: doubles I haven't checked, but.
Speaker 2: Probably six in the world or something stupid.
Speaker 1: And Salisbury I was going to say, someone like him.
Speaker 1: Isn't it just a couple of slams in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is. But I would say you've got
Speaker 1: like as much, if not more profile than quite a
Speaker 1: lot of these people because of the wind Wood and
Speaker 1: Run and because of kind of how you are and
Speaker 1: how you play. So do you notice does that add
Speaker 1: any pressure to you?
Speaker 2: I don't feel it. No, it's fine. It's ten years
Speaker 2: ago now, run, so it's quite cool looking back. But
Speaker 2: as I said, I'm just I don't know, getting on
Speaker 2: with it and sort of practice out today and then
Speaker 2: you know, see where I end up the next few weeks.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, man, it's it's it is what
Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, I don't know. I'll tell you had
Speaker 2: that story which was pretty big at the time, and
Speaker 2: people remember it and then people ask me what was
Speaker 2: it like? And then what was it like? It's further
Speaker 2: and nice? What was it like? Were you nervous?
Speaker 1: What does he smell like?
Speaker 2: Yeah? People like you asked like, yeah.
Speaker 1: This smells great, press the red button for the off
Speaker 1: air feederer smell come station, And do you notice that
Speaker 1: your your phone gets a little bit hotter. So the
Speaker 1: people who you haven't heard from for a little while
Speaker 1: a like, hey, mate, how you mate? Don't suppose there's
Speaker 1: any Wimby tickets floating around?
Speaker 3: Is there?
Speaker 2: I think? I don't know. I think last year, I
Speaker 2: it's tough. I think people people are more shrewd now
Speaker 2: they'll start with hey, what's your plans for the next
Speaker 2: few weeks and who you're playing with? No, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think people are necessarily after tickets
Speaker 2: the whole time. Some people just want to chat about
Speaker 2: stuff that they could probably find out online. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, like roll Garras, I'm like, I went, when
Speaker 2: are you're playing? And who? It's the time though, isn't
Speaker 2: it if I replied to if I reply to it,
Speaker 2: then I'm going to get another question. That's the thing,
Speaker 2: how are you feeling about it? Fuck? I don't know.
Speaker 2: And it's but that's the thing. It's it's when you're
Speaker 2: playing a slam you get a few messages. Yeah, when
Speaker 2: I'm playing a one two five in another content and
Speaker 2: this question stop.
Speaker 1: All Well, it's because they listen to the podcast for
Speaker 1: that kind of information.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you look at this time of year
Speaker 1: as a player is an opportunity to earn money and
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to have a points hole and push
Speaker 1: up again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've been comfortable on the grass over
Speaker 2: the years. It's an opportunity for sure. But I'm playing
Speaker 2: the tallist tournaments in the world as well. You know,
Speaker 2: if we I don't know if we're playing, you know,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't have got into Nottingham Me and Dave next
Speaker 2: week cuts Top one seventy or something for one two
Speaker 2: five Challenger. You know we are either going to be
Speaker 2: in there or potentially playing at Queen's or Queen's Calling
Speaker 2: is where you're playing the top twenty players in the
Speaker 2: world straight away, So yeah, there's an opportunity. You could
Speaker 2: also then we've got maybe potentially Eastbourne and then and
Speaker 2: then Wimbledon. So in theory, it depends on the draw,
Speaker 2: depends how we play, but there's opportunities there to make
Speaker 2: some money and some points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you mentioned it. You mentioned Dave. Who are
Speaker 1: you playing with?
Speaker 2: David Stevenson, the guy played Queens with last year and
Speaker 2: I played a bit with I want to say the
Speaker 2: previous year one one, what off second? I think that
Speaker 2: was my second one two five out in Taiwan. Yeah,
Speaker 2: good player. I think he's won one ten at the
Speaker 2: moment ranked, but you know, six six plays very well,
Speaker 2: works very hard, and I'm thinking if I'm going into
Speaker 2: the grass, so I want someone who's got a hell
Speaker 2: of a lot of weapons that I know that's British
Speaker 2: that I believe in, or do I find someone random
Speaker 2: three weeks again and I'm kind of done with the
Speaker 2: random stuff now.
Speaker 1: So do you think you might partner up with Dave
Speaker 1: beyond the grass or is that not something that you
Speaker 1: two have had to chat about.
Speaker 2: Well, I think he's playing with Cleve Harper most of
Speaker 2: the year obviously for the Grass. You know, they might
Speaker 2: not get in some of these tournaments, so I think
Speaker 2: they've split up into a certain date obviously, if you
Speaker 2: go and win wimbled and it's a discussion worth having.
Speaker 2: But you know, for the grass, it's a smart thing
Speaker 2: to do. You know, if we're going this two and
Speaker 2: two every much, I can safely say that won't be happening.
Speaker 2: But but yes, what I've realized is nothing's impossible. The
Speaker 2: planets are now to play the grass and the you know,
Speaker 2: the two pot fifty after windmed and yeah, by then
Speaker 2: it's six weeks time, isn't it. You know where you're at.
Speaker 1: It's okay. So if he's one hundred and ten in
Speaker 1: the world, that doesn't guarantee you entry into Wimbledon, does it.
Speaker 2: No, we need a But this is what you know,
Speaker 2: I'm speaking to a couple of guys about, you know,
Speaker 2: in the in the federation. I've said, do you want
Speaker 2: me to try and find someone needs like the criteria
Speaker 2: is what it is this year and I think you'll
Speaker 2: be okay. So that's that's a we've entered. When we're
Speaker 2: in any way one eight five, which would have got
Speaker 2: us into the French for obvious reasons, and us I
Speaker 2: want to say, we would have got in the end.
Speaker 2: So so yeah, we'll just have to see.
Speaker 1: So you've got kind of an idea that there could
Speaker 1: be a Grand Slam for you both, but it's not guaranteed.
Speaker 1: And the same for Queens in a next.
Speaker 2: Week for Queens, but this Queen's qualifying as well. So
Speaker 2: they got two for Maine and one for colleagues, and yeah,
Speaker 2: my my opinion is you go for the bigger tournament
Speaker 2: and go for it rather than play the challenger. If
Speaker 2: you've got that option of colleagues, and if you lose,
Speaker 2: and you take up the chin and go on with it,
Speaker 2: because you can play a challenger any week, right, you
Speaker 2: can't play a five hundred colleagues every week. It's on
Speaker 2: your doorsteps. So if we are given the opportunity, we'll
Speaker 2: take it. If not, we go to Nottingham, but we
Speaker 2: won't find out until Friday, I guess something like that.
Speaker 1: So what does your day look like today? And then
Speaker 1: you can shoot off because I know that you've jumped
Speaker 1: on a little bit of public Wi Fi in a
Speaker 1: foyer of a hotel haven.
Speaker 2: And I've got the conference one now they went and
Speaker 2: gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Oh God in this world, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Well? No, I just said, look, I've got a very
Speaker 2: important podcast I said that without the very important bit,
Speaker 2: and I'm really struggling to connect to the internet and
Speaker 2: she was like, oh sure, so give me the password.
Speaker 2: She's lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're good.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I just have to sit in the lobby with my
Speaker 2: tennis bag on the table.
Speaker 3: It's good.
Speaker 1: So what's your day today?
Speaker 2: What's our day to day? We've got two half an
Speaker 2: hour slots booked on the grass, one up two and
Speaker 2: one up three. I think the second one is points
Speaker 2: and in between that half an hour off, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go and do our reps indoor. So reps is in service, partner,
Speaker 2: serve return, stuff like that. So we're going to try
Speaker 2: and get as many points today as we can of grass. Now,
Speaker 2: the reason we get half in our slots is because
Speaker 2: it's expected to rain. They're behind non rain and two
Speaker 2: of the courts are uncopboard, so if it does rain,
Speaker 2: they've only got three practice courts and people need that
Speaker 2: for their singles as women's here as well, So we
Speaker 2: can't get more than half an hour guaranteed the day
Speaker 2: on the grass.
Speaker 1: Which is your own court or a shared court shed shed, yeah,
Speaker 1: doubles or singles hopefully doubles.
Speaker 2: We managed doubles yesterday. So what we did was we
Speaker 2: hit indoors for the best part of an hour and
Speaker 2: the guys we're playing points with are hitting on the
Speaker 2: other court, and we went outside and just went straight
Speaker 2: into set, played played eight games and a tiebreak and
Speaker 2: then that was half an hour.
Speaker 1: Don Okay.
Speaker 2: So you've got to be yeah, you've got to be
Speaker 2: on it. But this is it's not for everyone, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: and for me I like to have a bit more rhythm,
Speaker 2: but it's just there's nothing you can do, so try
Speaker 2: and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to more podcasts and more catching
Speaker 1: up over this grass called season, hearing how the story
Speaker 1: unfolds and keeping a breast of the action. Breast cheers
Speaker 1: for today, mate.
Speaker 2: No worries, I can probably well, we'll stay in touch.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 1: You'll find conference WiFi somewhere. You always do, I always
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: It's the first time, but.
Speaker 1: I mate, Bie.
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Speaker 3: And I'm the trumpets and the composition the Army Blues.
Speaker 1: Look at that