Speaker 1: Willis.
Speaker 2: Do you know who Andrew Ridgeley is? No, he is
Speaker 2: the other half of Wham, George Carricle and Andrew Ridgley.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I was on Court three watching you on Sunday,
Speaker 2: I know what it's like to beat Andrew Ridgeley.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Had a load of people look at me, and I
Speaker 2: had a few people come up to me and talk
Speaker 2: to me, but they all just want to know about you.
Speaker 2: They talk about the podcast because of you, and I'm
Speaker 2: basically Bernie Taupin who writes all of Elton John's lyrics
Speaker 2: with Elton.
Speaker 3: There's no there's no Paul Todo about Dave Almett.
Speaker 2: It was your mum and dad actually came up and
Speaker 2: and they were they were They were the ones who
Speaker 2: actually said nice things.
Speaker 1: But everyone else was.
Speaker 2: Like one person said to me, the lady sitting next
Speaker 2: to me from Edinburgh said to me, is he really
Speaker 2: like that in real life about you?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: What? And like I'm on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just I'm just putting my acting hat on.
Speaker 1: It's got a really thick, coolish accent in real life.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And he loves Kale. I love it. I don't
Speaker 3: get enough of the Kale so yeah, anyway, Nick smoothies
Speaker 3: most of the time.
Speaker 2: I know what it's like to be Andrew Ridsley. Do
Speaker 2: you want to do a podcast at those sweet little lips?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: This is the word you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Willis podcast with him, Marcus Willis and me Andrew Ridgeley.
Speaker 2: Now today we're talking wind Wooden, Arthur Ferry, Switek, sablenkaz
Speaker 2: fit Alina, Serena, all of it. I want to know
Speaker 2: what's going on and what's going.
Speaker 1: On in your head.
Speaker 2: Plus our brand new feature of getting to Know You
Speaker 2: is now in its second outing, so we really get
Speaker 2: to get under the skin. In a Cross Nixon style
Speaker 2: interview with wimbled and hero Marcus Willis, how are you mate?
Speaker 1: You're right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Yes, come come manwn to Earth's quite nice and Claverden's
Speaker 4: got talent yesterday and my son right and the drums
Speaker 4: want So I sat through two hours of that give
Speaker 4: some interesting stuff going on, some yeah, as you can imagine.
Speaker 3: And I watched the England game as well.
Speaker 1: So oh you did their wake up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I watched the first half and then
Speaker 4: and then I woke up three to one with a
Speaker 4: red card next to England and then they scored the
Speaker 4: penalty and I watched the rest of that and then
Speaker 4: kind of woke up and it was at the Talent
Speaker 4: show and then went for breakfast, and it's like when
Speaker 4: would have never happened?
Speaker 2: Oh well, look, your Wimbledon story is one that I
Speaker 2: want to hear, and I want to hear about how
Speaker 2: you dealt with playing at and going out of Wimbledon
Speaker 2: without you dragging us into your living hell. But I
Speaker 2: also want to talk about Wimbledon in general and get
Speaker 2: your view. Plus we've got getting to know you. What
Speaker 2: would you like to start with general wimbled and chit
Speaker 2: chat or getting to know you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's still getting to know.
Speaker 4: At the end, I think just yeah, yeah, because I
Speaker 4: don't know what's coming.
Speaker 3: And that's that's so organic, isn't it like.
Speaker 1: My play on your head, playing your mind, couldn't it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Rent Free.
Speaker 2: Somebody who is now nationally known but was definitely county
Speaker 2: wide known and known within tennis circles for a while
Speaker 2: is Arthur Ferry. And everyone at my tennis club is saying,
Speaker 2: did you know Arthur Ferries from Surrey?
Speaker 1: And he plays and I'm like, yeah, no, tennis a tennisist.
Speaker 3: Did you know, Yeah, he plays tennis, said, he's on
Speaker 3: the grass courts now.
Speaker 2: Now Arthur Ferry has become big time national news and
Speaker 2: Wimbledon hero twenty twenty six, but before all of that,
Speaker 2: he did a bit of care in the community because
Speaker 2: he actually partnered you didn't.
Speaker 3: He He did in Surbitons two years ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, how did that come about? How do you
Speaker 2: end up partnering for Arthur Faery?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I was, huh.
Speaker 4: I was actually supposed to play with Christian Harrison for
Speaker 4: the first two or three and then I'd say to
Speaker 4: Christian that we might have to split for Winby because
Speaker 4: you know of our rankings at the time. And then
Speaker 4: he got on offer for Fabericce Martin, who was ex
Speaker 4: twenty in the world, and that was kind of a
Speaker 4: week before and for him it was better to play
Speaker 4: the whole grass season with him and partner him rather
Speaker 4: than maybe one.
Speaker 3: Or two weeks for me. So you know, it was
Speaker 3: quite a last minute thing.
Speaker 4: I basically messaged a couple of guys at the LTA
Speaker 4: said look at that, I'm a partner for the grass
Speaker 4: and I'd love to play and they said well, Arthur
Speaker 4: Ferry free in Surbiton, and obviously, obviously I said yes
Speaker 4: because I've known him before he was a tennisist. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how it came about. And then the following week
Speaker 4: I was, you know, asking for other players. I was
Speaker 4: going to play with Billy Harris maybe, and then John
Speaker 4: Piers messaged me, so I played with him, and then
Speaker 4: I played with Jay for Winwoodham. But I'm going off
Speaker 4: piece here, Dave. That's how it came about.
Speaker 1: So you meet Arthur? What is it? You drop imma? WhatsApp?
Speaker 4: First of all, it kind of got arranged already through
Speaker 4: the LTA. They kind of agreed it and I can't
Speaker 4: remember I would have messaged him, yeah for sure. But
Speaker 4: he was playing singles as well, so you know, we
Speaker 4: got on court against Dominic Stricker and Reedy, the Swiss
Speaker 4: guys who were good. Strick had just come off fourth
Speaker 4: round of US, and yeah, he's I always knew he
Speaker 4: was good, but yeah, he's very very good. He's a
Speaker 4: very good doubles player as well, obviously, But like.
Speaker 2: Did you did you hit with him? So how old
Speaker 2: is he? Two years ago?
Speaker 1: What is it? I don't know what he is.
Speaker 3: He's twenty three now, so in twenty one.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one, and then you did you hit with
Speaker 2: him first and think kriiche, there's a lot of work
Speaker 2: on this ball or anything like that.
Speaker 4: Well, No, I warmed him up for his singles a
Speaker 4: couple of times and hit with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just good. It wasn't like up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're hitting with someone and a match warm up,
Speaker 4: so very rarely they go you notice too much. I
Speaker 4: know's how clean his ball strike was, how he could
Speaker 4: kind of do everything, great hands, good serve. You just
Speaker 4: notice how clean everything is. But yeah, fortunately we didn't
Speaker 4: play any points.
Speaker 1: Dave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in normal man life he's all right right height twice,
Speaker 2: but in tennis world he's sure, isn't he five nine
Speaker 2: or ten?
Speaker 3: Most tennis fairers are monsters now, aren't they?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Huge?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess he stands out on the tennis tour
Speaker 4: for being slightly short.
Speaker 2: I was always under the impression that if he was taller,
Speaker 2: he would be, you know, guaranteed chewing top one hundred,
Speaker 2: top fifty whatever. And a coach actually said to me,
Speaker 2: it's a shame for Arthur. He'd be really good, but
Speaker 2: he's short. Is it just a case of that coach
Speaker 2: is wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's to say if he were taller he'd have
Speaker 4: the same technique. It's the same low center of gravity.
Speaker 4: It's like someone said, Andy Murray, if he had a
Speaker 4: bigger second serve, he'd have been better, but you know
Speaker 4: he learned those retrieval skills and the third ball because
Speaker 4: of his second serve.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 4: You can't say it would be better if you know,
Speaker 4: someone said something about a pelkor or isn't it like
Speaker 4: if there was shorter they'd be better. It's like maybe,
Speaker 4: maybe not, but it's just kind of one of those
Speaker 4: conversations like don't really matter.
Speaker 1: Like half of our podcast only half?
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, it's like if I would you rather be
Speaker 3: a go to or a snake? Like that kind of.
Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 3: Off Now people say it as well.
Speaker 4: You know that there's this player that they're lefty or
Speaker 4: they're awkward, but if they weren't lefty, they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: that good, And you're like, yeah, but they are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that Peter crouches that one, isn't it if
Speaker 2: he wasn't six foot.
Speaker 4: Yesterday when Demetro was coming into ferries back end like
Speaker 4: he's so good at getting his feet behind it and
Speaker 4: keeping low and drilling it. If you if you're six
Speaker 4: foot two, it's much harder to hit on the run.
Speaker 4: So so yes and no.
Speaker 2: So someone who's who's seen him up close a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago, as his game evolved and changed since then.
Speaker 3: It must have done, must have done.
Speaker 4: I know he's had injury problems, like he couldn't serve
Speaker 4: how he wanted to for a while. He's not actually
Speaker 4: played a full schedule very often. Schedule schedule spends if
Speaker 4: you're lessening in the States or UK at both works. Yeah, obviously,
Speaker 4: I mean look at his results and how he's playing,
Speaker 4: But it's not everyone's that surprised.
Speaker 3: He's always had incredible ability.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what I was going to say, Like,
Speaker 1: just he now breaks the top.
Speaker 4: Hundred, Yeah, sixty in the live I think he had
Speaker 4: already before the demeter of match.
Speaker 2: And from there that's guaranteeing Grand Slams seeding in challenges.
Speaker 2: But top sixty and sixty then we're into the master's territory. Ye,
Speaker 2: are you at all surprised that this has happened to him?
Speaker 2: But if a couple of years ago I had said that,
Speaker 2: fella there center court, five sets against Gregor Dimitrov and
Speaker 2: sixty in the world, would you have gone, yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 3: It's probably in between.
Speaker 4: It's a hate when people go, oh, yeah, it was obvious,
Speaker 4: and it's never obvious, because you know, to make cause
Speaker 4: of a slam, you're going to have some tighte moments,
Speaker 4: you're going to have to play some good players. And
Speaker 4: it's yeah, sometimes it doesn't always happen like that, but yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm not over it.
Speaker 3: It's not like a oh my goodness, never saw that coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also not it was inevitable because you've got
Speaker 4: to look at his body, you've got to look at
Speaker 4: playing a full calendar. Yeah, he was playing very well
Speaker 4: at Queen's. He was unlucky not to beat Cirrindilo on
Speaker 4: the tournament. He's yeah, he's playing at the level he
Speaker 4: is and it's not like he's probably playing quite well
Speaker 4: for his norm, but he's not. He's not playing like
Speaker 4: out of his skin, you know, one percent everything. He's
Speaker 4: he's playing very measured, very solid goods.
Speaker 2: Statistically outperforming, you know, like where you see someone with
Speaker 2: fifty six percent of serves in and winning ninety two
Speaker 2: percent of points. Not to that extreme, but you get
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. He's not actually outperforming those stats. He's
Speaker 2: he's nailing it, isn't he quite?
Speaker 1: Frankly like he's just nailing it? Are there? So? So
Speaker 1: where where's his future now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got a great, great team around him. For him,
Speaker 4: it's his body. And I guess big smart with which
Speaker 4: tournaments he played, but yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean and just second week with grand steams going
Speaker 1: going forwards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he might have a few where he doesn't. He
Speaker 4: might have a few where he does. He might, you know,
Speaker 4: stay where he is from it. He might jump up.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know, but he's not. It's not
Speaker 4: like he's going to finish this tournament and you know,
Speaker 4: never win at this level again or struggle. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: know because because he's very rarely been outclassed by anyone
Speaker 4: unless he's had a shocking day. He's going to keep improving.
Speaker 4: As I say, he's got a great, great team around him.
Speaker 4: Get to work and keep keep his body.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I mean, I love Wimbledon, and I love a story
Speaker 2: like Arthur Ferry and how somebody goes from ten days
Speaker 2: ago he can walk into most Tesco Express and no
Speaker 2: one looks and now he can't. I just love it.
Speaker 2: I love what it does to people, how it changes
Speaker 2: lives and how it inspires, like all the kids at
Speaker 2: the tennis club and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So what about the women side?
Speaker 2: Srichek, Sablenka, Switzerlina, Rebeccaena all went out early.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's happened quite a bit at slams.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe not the last couple of years. You know,
Speaker 4: Sabolenka has been through and stuff. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: tricky to play out there this year, especially when more
Speaker 4: than the courts, the wind, the balls, you're going to
Speaker 4: get some upsets and we've already had quite a few
Speaker 4: Osaka beating Sabalenka in a few years ago. That wouldn't
Speaker 4: be a huge upset. We all know she can play. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's it's I found the women's Slams fascinating for a while.
Speaker 1: Does it make it more or less exciting for me?
Speaker 2: More for anyone's guests on that day in some respect.
Speaker 4: In some respects it's open and Paolini is now back
Speaker 4: in the quarters again.
Speaker 3: She had a tough couple of years. Yeah, it's you
Speaker 3: can't write people.
Speaker 1: No form at all suddenly, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: She can when on form. I find it fascinating. I
Speaker 3: find it really. I think it's what the men's lacks sometimes.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, did you see Sablenka's quote when she went.
Speaker 4: Out, Yeah I did see that. Yeah, okay, that was
Speaker 4: that was Yeah. I can relate to that certainly. Younger
Speaker 4: in my careers are completely different extreme. You know, I
Speaker 4: want to go out and get smashed.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's normal, yeah.
Speaker 1: For anyone who did.
Speaker 2: Sablenca says she's so disappointed at going out, so disappointed
Speaker 2: with her performance level, she's going to forget about tennis
Speaker 2: and she's going to go get drunk. Actually, Demneur said
Speaker 2: something very similar. Did you see those quotes?
Speaker 4: I feel bad for him, Yeah, I feel bad, not
Speaker 4: not in the sense of, you know, it's third world problems,
Speaker 4: but in the sense that, you know, he works very,
Speaker 4: very hard and it's not clicking for him how he wants.
Speaker 3: He's just it's just it's just in a sad place.
Speaker 1: Really, yes, yeah, yeah, but.
Speaker 4: I still think there's there's opportunities for him. It just
Speaker 4: won't feel like that for him at the moment.
Speaker 1: So on on how they're on that.
Speaker 2: Relating it back to you, how many times as a
Speaker 2: professional tennis player, if you felt like, I mean, stuff is,
Speaker 2: I'm having three days off, I'm going to go and eat,
Speaker 2: drink whatever. How many times has it got you? And
Speaker 2: how are they going to bounce back?
Speaker 4: It got me a lot of my between junior and
Speaker 4: twenty six face losing it hurts, right, But yeah, nowadays
Speaker 4: I'm better at processing that and some people need it
Speaker 4: like I, as you know, I don't. That's not how
Speaker 4: I deal with stuff anymore. But some people need a blowout,
Speaker 4: a bit of perspective change. I need to wake up
Speaker 4: with a sore head and manage that rather than think
Speaker 4: about tennis. I don't know, but everyone's different. Yeah, they'll
Speaker 4: they'll be back. It's it's the world class tennis players.
Speaker 3: It's fine. It's an emotional sport, right.
Speaker 4: It's you leave everything out there, you train off, and
Speaker 4: you go out there and don't perform it. It's annoying,
Speaker 4: you know. I felt that in the Mix Levels match,
Speaker 4: but I was annoyed after that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk to you about that.
Speaker 4: Because, yeah, because you train hard, you you're at wimbled
Speaker 4: and you're at a slam and you come out and
Speaker 4: you know you don't feel like it's fair.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, so Demoner says sadly, it just feels like they
Speaker 2: keep coming. It's not easy to take. You go through
Speaker 2: moments in your career, in times where you feel like
Speaker 2: there's you know, opportunities to be taken to take the
Speaker 2: next step, to make it to the next level, to
Speaker 2: become a better version of yourself, and you fall short. Constantly,
Speaker 2: you doubt yourself, You doubt whether you're going to be
Speaker 2: able to break through and what it takes to get
Speaker 2: to the next step. It's a combination of one side
Speaker 2: of me being tough for myself, but the other side,
Speaker 2: I'm being realistic. As much as I'm in a great position,
Speaker 2: the fact I want more and I'm not able to
Speaker 2: achieve more. It's a battered ideal with every day. This
Speaker 2: is another one to add to tally. I won't be
Speaker 2: playing a tournament for a while. It's really to hear
Speaker 2: a player, especially someone like him, speaks so honestly is
Speaker 2: pretty astonishing. Have you got to a point before he thought,
Speaker 2: I'm just not going to play another tournament, like I'm out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not for a while for me, but yeah, I've
Speaker 4: been there and before I won my first first features
Speaker 4: singles title years ago. He went on the family holiday
Speaker 4: for three.
Speaker 3: Weeks in America.
Speaker 4: I didn't pick up a racket, and I came back
Speaker 4: and won, had a great start for the year. You know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you just need to take a little bit of
Speaker 4: time away because you get so wrapped up and everything,
Speaker 4: and yeah, sometimes you need to push through and just
Speaker 4: keep going. And sometimes it might be really good for
Speaker 4: him to step away. I know he's getting married soon,
Speaker 4: and it's nice to, yeah, take a bit of a
Speaker 4: step away, but it's brutal, and it's more often than
Speaker 4: not you're gonna not play your best tennis when you're
Speaker 4: thinking like that.
Speaker 2: Well, somebody did take a step Away's Serena Williams now.
Speaker 2: I was courtside for this as I posted on the
Speaker 2: in stuff, something I found astonishing. Obviously, they close the
Speaker 2: roof and stuff so they get the lights on favor Serena.
Speaker 2: Before Serena come out, they announced like a boxing world
Speaker 2: champion was coming out against a bum. It was ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen coming up at six, fifteen, twenty three or
Speaker 2: twenty four time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams.
Speaker 1: And her opponent.
Speaker 2: Then they played a montage on the big screen of
Speaker 2: Serena winning stuff. Then the doors open and you could
Speaker 2: forget she was actually playing another human being. Everything was
Speaker 2: set for the for them to bottle out on the girl,
Speaker 2: for them to scare her opponent.
Speaker 1: Right. Did you see Serena in the practice area.
Speaker 3: A couple of times?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're walking around her with a family or
Speaker 4: team or whoever. There's a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: She travels not alone, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she doesn't travel lightly. There's a big team there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Is there an air of superiority or is it something
Speaker 2: that Wimbledon did.
Speaker 3: Didn't see her enough to notice.
Speaker 4: That, but it's something wimbled and do and they did too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's I don't think it's they
Speaker 4: want her to win. They want her to play well
Speaker 4: for her, do everything for her and no matter you
Speaker 4: know who the opponents are. And they admitted that, you know,
Speaker 4: when she they were going to put a double for
Speaker 4: Saturday when typically it's played first or Friday latest for
Speaker 4: women's first round, and they said, you know, we're going
Speaker 4: to do everything power to harder here because we want
Speaker 4: to hear and that's that's the system. That's the that's
Speaker 4: just what it is. Whether we agree with it or not.
Speaker 1: Does it gross you out a bit that there's two tier.
Speaker 3: I'm used to it now. I mean, there's the stuff
Speaker 3: going on this week.
Speaker 4: We'll chat about it a bit with the with the
Speaker 4: doubles and you know, the way you understand how things work,
Speaker 4: it's it's it's not just tennis, right, you probably look
Speaker 4: at FIFA, you probably look at any big organization.
Speaker 3: It's it's not a fair system. It's not a fair world.
Speaker 1: Tennis.
Speaker 2: Tennis is just a microcosm of the reason that Prince
Speaker 2: Andrew and behind bars basically, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's that's a That's another thing you've just
Speaker 4: mentioned that it's lem enough. Yeah, it's a bit different
Speaker 4: because Serena's actually, you know, one a lot of tennis tournaments.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, rather than being an unemployed German billionaire. What's
Speaker 2: the with Serena. I'm not editing that with Serena, do
Speaker 2: you think so? I'll give you an example. When I
Speaker 2: went for Talk Sport, we had Elton John come in once.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we had people from Elton John Incorporated
Speaker 2: coming in telling us how to speak to mister John
Speaker 2: where he sits.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Right, Elton John come in as the most normal geezer
Speaker 2: you'd ever met in your life. He loves football, loves it.
Speaker 2: He knows what's going on in the Conference South. He's
Speaker 2: huge Watford, former owner and chairman of Watford on that
Speaker 2: Graham Taylor amazing run, and he's a massive football fan.
Speaker 2: He insisted on making his own tea and Elton John,
Speaker 2: you realize the employees, Yeah, you're coming back with me,
Speaker 2: Elton right. So anyway, he's he's just he was perfect,
Speaker 2: really like exemplary behavior. It's Serena the same. It's Rena herself.
Speaker 2: When she's walking around, does she give the air of
Speaker 2: somebody who's who's above it or is she just got
Speaker 2: people around her room, fluffing about.
Speaker 1: On the practice court.
Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna feel like I'm sitting on the fence.
Speaker 4: But but I don't know her. She's never really around
Speaker 4: people that much. Got a team around us, quite protected.
Speaker 4: I don't know what she goes on a daily basis
Speaker 4: with people and media and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But this is quite closed off. I've never really heard her.
Speaker 1: Speak to another player.
Speaker 3: I've not heard it. Yeah, I've not really been around
Speaker 3: her that much.
Speaker 2: Who's like the most popular player in that change in
Speaker 2: the changing room? Areas like who's always like high fiving
Speaker 2: and stuff like.
Speaker 4: This, I've got I've got to say, Roger Federer is
Speaker 4: like very very liked. He seems to be kind to
Speaker 4: everyone and has time for people and stuff like that. Raffer,
Speaker 4: you know what passed him when I played singles or
Speaker 4: years ago, he said hello to me and me and
Speaker 4: Jenny just lovely fella. But again that there are there
Speaker 4: are moments. They probably are human, right, they probably think
Speaker 4: just just want to just but you advocate, bab and
Speaker 4: sit by myself and I'm.
Speaker 2: Not trying to like push you into something controversial. But
Speaker 2: you don't get that air of Serena.
Speaker 1: You don't get.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. No.
Speaker 4: I think she keeps herself to herself. I think she's
Speaker 4: very very confident, and she's she's not shy to say
Speaker 4: to tell people what she's achieved. And yeah, no, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I haven't seen her around sort of yeah,
Speaker 4: looking to looking for eye. Can't doctor to say hello
Speaker 4: to people, good morning or anything like that. But again, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know who her hit her
Speaker 4: is right now, like he'll he'll have a better idea,
Speaker 4: we'll get him one. But she she's closed off, is
Speaker 4: what i'd say.
Speaker 3: And for what For? I can probably understand why.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 4: Oh cool baked beans justice would be good on court,
Speaker 4: but sorry, yeah it's orange then, but then wimblehem will
Speaker 4: be an issue, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah? But otherwise you're wearing black a lot.
Speaker 4: And I guess you normally sweat cold to cool you down,
Speaker 4: don't you.
Speaker 3: I'm sweating hot gravy, and yeah.
Speaker 4: I think beans just logistically, I was thinking about taste
Speaker 4: and what I could do with it because I ate
Speaker 4: chicken a lot, So you know, turn the temp up
Speaker 4: and just drip it off my arm or something.
Speaker 3: Fingers onto the chicken. Yea, never pay for gravy again.
Speaker 1: Going to go down.
Speaker 4: So I'm such a professional tennis player, I think being
Speaker 4: u S would better, Wouldn't.
Speaker 1: It fair enough?
Speaker 2: And this is exactly why this feature is important, because
Speaker 2: now we know how you.
Speaker 3: Tick thinking about my career.
Speaker 2: First, Okay, would you rather There's a lot of this
Speaker 2: is a lot of would you rather? Would you rather
Speaker 2: have knee caps that squeak like a dog toy? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: or a thimble sized ye or a thimble of mayonnaise
Speaker 2: come out of your bum when you high five or
Speaker 2: fist pump someone.
Speaker 3: So double this is the problem.
Speaker 1: So I I live in a high fiveless world. I
Speaker 1: don't need to.
Speaker 2: High five ye a lot, you're in a five yea
Speaker 2: I saw with This was actually with Heather Watson on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I noticed you did it three times during one point,
Speaker 2: and that's where I wrote the question in my head
Speaker 2: of a thimble of mayonnaise coming out your bum?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think the kneecaps because I'm not
Speaker 4: far off that anyway. Really no change. Yeah, one of
Speaker 4: them clicks a lot and then it stops running there.
Speaker 3: I don't know why I've.
Speaker 2: Got one of them, funny knees just every now and
Speaker 2: then it just goes and then it stops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got funny n.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you're saying, kneecap, doctor, kneecap? Would you rather
Speaker 2: fart the east Enders or cough up one pound coins?
Speaker 5: Tough?
Speaker 3: Because you can't put a price on comedy, can you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But you can't just fart on command? You also can
Speaker 2: you would never.
Speaker 3: You can, Dave, you can edit your diet to give
Speaker 3: yourself more chance.
Speaker 1: Of course, you can put yourself in the best possible position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: You can't control all of the controllables of a fart.
Speaker 2: That and also, if you were like.
Speaker 3: I can also force a cough any time I want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's an uncomfortable thing to like. I think
Speaker 2: it's more than that change a pound. I think a
Speaker 2: pound is more of a.
Speaker 4: Pound soaking on a flight, wouldn't I but i'd be
Speaker 4: quite rich, which I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'll go with the farting. Always picked farting.
Speaker 2: I mean, say you're in an airport and you need
Speaker 2: to fart, and you've got to do it a bit silently.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I picked the farting because funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always funny.
Speaker 3: Even babies, it's funny, don't they know? Ye? The laugh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, even like really, if you had a baby and
Speaker 2: Einstein in the room, you can make them both laugh
Speaker 2: at once.
Speaker 1: Ye. Would you rather?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go with these standards.
Speaker 2: Rather made Would you rather have hairmade of spaghetti or
Speaker 2: hairmade of pipe cleaners?
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a spaghetti cooked.
Speaker 1: Or on cooked, half cooked al dente.
Speaker 3: It's just a bit wet. I can cut my hair,
Speaker 3: there can, yeah, grace, this question, this question wouldn't affect
Speaker 3: you at all.
Speaker 1: I choose anything, mate, Here it is, here we go.
Speaker 5: Hmm yeah, yeah, always.
Speaker 3: It's always there.
Speaker 1: So good, he's ready.
Speaker 4: I'm going spaghetti spaghetti hair again. They always sometimes there's
Speaker 4: not in the cupboard as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do I make the kids outside of tennis kit?
Speaker 2: You've either got to have soaking wet.
Speaker 1: Jeans on the worst, yeah, or pants made of tints, pants.
Speaker 3: Made of tinsel wets.
Speaker 2: It would be so scratchy around the boys in the barracks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were. But wet jeans are just horrific.
Speaker 1: You can't get horror show wet and they weigh about
Speaker 1: six known.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, tensil tensil just.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tensil pants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you get chafing with wet jeans as well.
Speaker 4: It's horrendous, man, that you could have said pretty much
Speaker 4: anything after that, wet jeans.
Speaker 3: I'm like not interested.
Speaker 1: I'd like to call your tinsil pants as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tensil pants.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have an armpit that dispenses ice.
Speaker 3: Cream or another arm pit? Question?
Speaker 1: Or an armpit that dispenses catch up?
Speaker 4: Ice cream will catch up? Can I control the flavor
Speaker 4: of ice cream? Are we just going foranilla?
Speaker 1: Yes? You can?
Speaker 3: Ice cream order? Does it come out with the hair
Speaker 3: or has it got a.
Speaker 1: Clean comes out of your body? Mate?
Speaker 4: Okay, so there might be a there might be a
Speaker 4: little hair attached to the Yeah, ice ice cream will
Speaker 4: ketch up? Probably ice cream.
Speaker 3: I'm not not mad on ketchup nowadays. It's very very
Speaker 3: few occasions where I eat ketchup. Now ice cream ice
Speaker 3: cream I like it.
Speaker 4: Like if I have a long training day and I'm abroad,
Speaker 4: I'll go and get a scoop of ice cream and.
Speaker 3: Bang, yeah, bang, there it is. What flavor would you like? Sir?
Speaker 1: Leave it to me?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, you can charge more for ice cream than
Speaker 3: you can catch up, can't you.
Speaker 2: No one's eating it, mate? Why no one is eating
Speaker 2: your armpit ice cream? I mean, yeah, there will be
Speaker 2: some perverts out there.
Speaker 4: On exactly, yeah, exactly. That's where I do most of
Speaker 4: my work.
Speaker 2: So oh, I wanted to ask you actually about your socks.
Speaker 2: I really like your socks. You're addy Dash socks.
Speaker 3: They're nice, aren't they?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Really nice?
Speaker 2: Like the cut off like the slight angle, and I
Speaker 2: said to harry T, I might I'm going to ask
Speaker 2: you where you get you know, basically, where'd you get
Speaker 2: your socks?
Speaker 1: Because I've looked.
Speaker 2: Online I couldn't see any and what are they? And
Speaker 2: harry T went, oh, willis all you can get? Scent socks?
Speaker 2: Used socks from athletes? Oh yeah, Like.
Speaker 1: Harry T is like involved in some sort of.
Speaker 2: Only fans account where it's like, I don't know, begging
Speaker 2: Potito Starachi for some socks. Yeah, sank yeah, maybe, yeah,
Speaker 2: some swanky socks which then become anyway. Okay, so the
Speaker 2: arm pit question that was basically put in there for
Speaker 2: your mum who really enjoyed the cheese out the armpit. Okay,
Speaker 2: final question forgetting to know you. Would you have the
Speaker 2: peak Andy Murray tennis skills? So twenty sixteen Murray.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Every time you walk, you have to walk like an
Speaker 2: Olympic power walker.
Speaker 4: Huh oh, well I would they like they need a toilet?
Speaker 2: Yeah that kind of like wiggle thing. Yeah, yeah, everywhere everywhere? Yeah, mate,
Speaker 2: just pop to the fridge, pop to the loop, change
Speaker 2: of ends, bang off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh but your mate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but more people are gonna know me for I'd
Speaker 4: win stuff, sure, but then I'll be walking up to
Speaker 4: get my trophy.
Speaker 1: That also you'd also win BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Speaker 2: Oh, when Gabby Logan goes here, he is atp number
Speaker 2: one doubles and singles.
Speaker 1: It's our sports personality.
Speaker 2: Marcus, you go, you go, you make jeans on in
Speaker 2: your squeaky knees.
Speaker 4: I'd conveniently be sat down in the States on a
Speaker 4: training block.
Speaker 3: I think just doesn't like going to public events.
Speaker 4: Ray of them, Marcus, all of a sudden, less sociable.
Speaker 3: You see him less out in public nowadays.
Speaker 1: And when you do, he's always on a travelator.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Oh god it moments.
Speaker 4: I've got huge gratitude right now, and I quite like
Speaker 4: my life anyway.
Speaker 1: You take it.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that's really tough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everywhere for the rest of my life, even after
Speaker 4: I retire. I can't because any marriage skills when I retire.
Speaker 3: If you'd ask if.
Speaker 4: You hadn't asked me at sixteen years old, I'd have
Speaker 4: taken it.
Speaker 3: Now if I got five, maybe ten years.
Speaker 1: Left, I'm all right, yeah, just walk.
Speaker 4: It's not like well I still walk on my tiptoes,
Speaker 4: don't know, but but that that that walk just takes
Speaker 4: a Michael a little bit too much. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 4: i'd have anymost skills. Can I come back on the
Speaker 4: next podcast about that?
Speaker 3: Can we know?
Speaker 2: As the wizard? It has to be now or nothing.
Speaker 2: Fucking I'm the wizard that makes this work.
Speaker 4: Now I'm gonna leave it. Yeah yeah, I can't. I
Speaker 4: can't walk like that everywhere. Man, that's ridiculous. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll be eight p number sixty four.
Speaker 3: It's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, Marcus Willis, We've just got to know you, beautiful,
Speaker 1: and you time learning about you by.
Speaker 3: Getting to know interesting lucky you.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we get our listeners coming back after that.
Speaker 2: The listeners can contribute if you've got anything you want
Speaker 2: to contribute to the A question to get to know
Speaker 2: Marcus Willis, you can you just the emails in the
Speaker 2: pod just email us the.
Speaker 4: Question off we go far in im anyway, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to go watch Extenders with a bottle of ice
Speaker 4: cream and a mate.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I mean you won't be coughing up a
Speaker 2: pound coin and you know sincle pans on, but you
Speaker 2: walk normally to that sofa exactly.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, mate, it was great, let's put again soon.
Speaker 3: We will. We've got lots to catch up on t TFN.
Speaker 1: Bye you hang out, No, you hang out?
Speaker 3: Thank you for now. It's a tough enough oh nothing,
Speaker 3: all right? Yeah say those are a few of my
Speaker 3: favorite things. Sunshine go on. Sorry, Karen,