Speaker 1: We want to die if we want to get in
Speaker 1: depth around the tennis obviously, but the big question, the
Speaker 1: tough one.
Speaker 2: How good is bread and butter?
Speaker 3: Very good? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I try and avoid eating it nowadays because empty color
Speaker 4: is But sometimes it's not empty. Sometimes it's just good
Speaker 4: and leaving me alone.
Speaker 1: Right, I've been on a tennis court today for ten
Speaker 1: hours and I've got another two hours to go. Bread
Speaker 1: and butter is the only thing going to get me
Speaker 1: through this. It's let me put that in another way.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing I'm allowed right now to get
Speaker 1: me through this.
Speaker 4: No, I understand that. And sometimes the cheaper the bread
Speaker 4: the better, and the whiter the bread the better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I need processed just bread and butter.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I want to podcast out your sweet little lips.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sir, I finished my watermelon.
Speaker 5: Now, Hello, and welcome to what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Will Us He's at P sixty something or other and
Speaker 2: Wimbledon's second rounder, Marcus Willis. I'm just his Maine day Now.
Speaker 1: The podcast designed to let daylight in upon magic the
Speaker 1: real life of a traveling pro, an honest pro.
Speaker 2: All right. It's not private jets. It's more scoda Ubers.
Speaker 1: But Marcus Willis, you've only gone and put yourself in
Speaker 1: the second round of a Grand Slam you and shit, did.
Speaker 3: It very naughty as with that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for those for those who didn't watch the match,
Speaker 1: and you can because you can select fire the BBC,
Speaker 1: you can select which cart. Didn't look like you were
Speaker 1: going to go into a second round of a Grand
Speaker 1: Slam at some point, did it?
Speaker 3: No, No, it didn't.
Speaker 4: But you know, I've played enough matches to know that,
Speaker 4: you know, a couple of minutes or a couple of
Speaker 4: points can change everything, and ultimately that's what happened.
Speaker 3: In the end.
Speaker 4: But you know, you're playing incredible tennis pairs on the
Speaker 4: other side of the court, multiple Grand Slam champion, former
Speaker 4: one number one, as close as last year was in
Speaker 4: the final of the final of t Ring. Not the
Speaker 4: Crisps are in the tennis one. So yeah, so you
Speaker 4: blead very very good tennis pair. So it's like sometimes
Speaker 4: you can play alright and lose, and we are two
Speaker 4: points away from losing, we're six all in a tiebreak.
Speaker 4: You know they've set a very good you know, reflect
Speaker 4: shot off a smash and ended up going to the
Speaker 4: court and then we win the set, and then you know,
Speaker 4: then the Mattress live.
Speaker 3: Then I suppose.
Speaker 1: Did you say anything to Dave or was there anything
Speaker 1: like I'm thinking the end of that first set. Was
Speaker 1: there any reaction to the score line and the way
Speaker 1: the match was kind of seemingly going.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we took a toilet break. There's only so much
Speaker 4: you can say. You just so that's gone.
Speaker 3: From now on, we we.
Speaker 4: Crack on and find the spots on our serve and
Speaker 4: hang in there and stayed up and just focus on
Speaker 4: what we can control. But you know, he didn't say
Speaker 4: too much, so he knows that.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 4: It's just a case of trying to find a bit
Speaker 4: better form when you're in that in that scenario.
Speaker 2: What about your own personal performance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, I mean I was pretty happy with
Speaker 3: our play.
Speaker 4: There are a couple of technical things that, you know, positional, positional.
Speaker 3: Things I wasn't happy with.
Speaker 4: I suppose early in the first got picked up a
Speaker 4: couple of times, just too far back. But in terms
Speaker 4: of server return, bodying and performance and energy, I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, I played very well yesterday.
Speaker 1: So the match turns round and I watched from this
Speaker 1: like in full I watched from the start of the
Speaker 1: second set onwards. So I'd like to think that really
Speaker 1: the wind was down to me, because that's when it
Speaker 1: all turned round. I put my hand on the television,
Speaker 1: and I think that changed things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I can't tell you I was out there,
Speaker 4: but I did feel, yeah, some sort of weird presence
Speaker 4: out there, very strange presence out there was.
Speaker 2: That you Yeah, that was yeah weird. You knew that
Speaker 2: was me? Yeah, And that wasn't even my hand on
Speaker 2: the tailor. That was something else exactly.
Speaker 4: Well, my shorts went around my ankles and I had
Speaker 4: to pull them up quickly, so I thought it would
Speaker 4: be you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my call in time.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you go, second second set. All of a
Speaker 1: sudden from my side, returns became a bigger part. Like
Speaker 1: the return your return games played that they're really caused trouble,
Speaker 1: but the serving the volume, like can you pinpoint a
Speaker 1: thing that changed?
Speaker 4: No, I think we just got a bit more consistent,
Speaker 4: served a bit better, and you know, I think the
Speaker 4: start of the tibe it really helped us. You know,
Speaker 4: we got good lead, played a very good first point
Speaker 4: on their serve. You know, then two first serves with
Speaker 4: your fall of up and then I say, five to one,
Speaker 4: got back to six all. But you know, have we
Speaker 4: not had that lead, it might have got away from us.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we played our best tennis, I suppose in
Speaker 4: that at the end of the second set when it
Speaker 4: really mattered.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know the break we got with Thirsty
Speaker 4: Love down with new balls and we just you know,
Speaker 4: connected three very good points and then he double faulted
Speaker 4: at thirty forty and then we just you know served
Speaker 4: pretty well to close that out.
Speaker 3: From three to one.
Speaker 1: And then the third I mean that, as you said,
Speaker 1: a really a really good pair and.
Speaker 2: You're into a second round. Ye, then what happened?
Speaker 1: So the match finishes, give give an insight into those
Speaker 1: of us who are never going to play at Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: I might recall in the park.
Speaker 2: So match finishes.
Speaker 4: Then what it's different for different players, isn't it? Like
Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm Jokovich, I'm doing something very different.
Speaker 4: But for me, you know, it was came off, signed
Speaker 4: a few autographs, straight to the locker room, jump in
Speaker 4: the shower. There's a media guy there tells us we've
Speaker 4: got media going to the media up to the restaurant, eat,
Speaker 4: then went to get physio massage during the England game,
Speaker 4: and then left probably twenty minutes after.
Speaker 3: That, back back to where I'm staying.
Speaker 4: Booked everything for today, practice time, cars, sort of tickets, accreditations,
Speaker 4: stuff like that before I left, and then I woke
Speaker 4: up this morning, had a coffee, went in, had a
Speaker 4: light lunch, and then straight onto the practice court, straight
Speaker 4: in the gym, trying to the practice.
Speaker 3: Court, shower change.
Speaker 4: And I got out of there pretty quickly tonight because
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the schedule has just been released
Speaker 4: now it's popped off my phone, but you know, yesterday
Speaker 4: it wasn't released a half nine at night, so I've
Speaker 4: got to assume I'm playing first on and maybe a
Speaker 4: mix in the afternoon as.
Speaker 3: Well, because they could do that.
Speaker 4: And my experience last year was, you know, I waited
Speaker 4: on site to get things done, book transport for the
Speaker 4: next day, and sometimes you know, at four o'clock they say, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're not too far away, and then it's eight thirty
Speaker 4: at night you're still there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm out there now. I've got to yeah.
Speaker 4: Check the order of play in a second book everything
Speaker 4: for tomorrow, and then you get some food and probably
Speaker 4: get any night.
Speaker 2: So you're playing the mixed.
Speaker 1: Yeah as well, when when did that decision come about?
Speaker 4: Out a while ago we knew you were going to
Speaker 4: end up then yeah, we knew you get ended, but
Speaker 4: you don't know if you know, for whatever reason, the
Speaker 4: wildcards close. The entry closed Wednesday morning, yesterday morning, so
Speaker 4: the drawer came out there we were as we've got
Speaker 4: a work card. So I don't want to say I'm
Speaker 4: playing with you know, head of Watson, and if we
Speaker 4: don't get a warcard, you look quite silly. So yeah,
Speaker 4: obviously I'm busy playing a match and busy doing other stuff.
Speaker 4: So it's not you know, I'm in the middle of
Speaker 4: a double tour as West. It's not something else advertised
Speaker 4: or spoken about yet. But yeah, I'm playing with Heather
Speaker 4: against seeing Selinsky. I think they've won Winded and a
Speaker 4: couple of times a few slams together, so be tough.
Speaker 3: It will be fun. I don't know what I'm playing.
Speaker 3: Might be tomorrow, might be Saturday.
Speaker 2: Do you want to know because I can see it.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to know.
Speaker 2: You're gonna yacker pull me, You're gonna pull.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, you're actually playing on two courts
Speaker 1: at once time.
Speaker 3: That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: What you're going to do is it's called the Missus
Speaker 1: doubt Fire tactic. You have to drag up, pretend you're
Speaker 1: going to the toilet, go and play one game and
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 2: Like in the film Missus down Fire.
Speaker 1: You have to play two roles at the same time,
Speaker 1: switching courts ensue hilarity.
Speaker 3: That'd be fun. Just put a pause on one court
Speaker 3: and send something down on the other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one match could be doing really well, one could
Speaker 4: be going really badly, so it's not all bad.
Speaker 2: That's where the funniness comes in. So it is done.
Speaker 1: The schedule is out, okay, so you can look as
Speaker 1: soon as you've finished this, lovely. I can't believe you
Speaker 1: don't want me to tell you. Okay, tell us about
Speaker 1: your opponents next.
Speaker 3: Round as the one queens.
Speaker 2: It's just grand slams and isn't it man?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a rough draw.
Speaker 4: You played Joe Slisery first round with a good partner,
Speaker 4: and then you play the guys that have just you know,
Speaker 4: one queen's they haven't dropped a set on grass yet,
Speaker 4: are very good. Yeah, and we're going to speak to
Speaker 4: the coaches kind of tonight tomorrow and come up with
Speaker 4: some thoughts. I wouldn't go as far as saying a
Speaker 4: plan because, as I say, they're pretty good. You can
Speaker 4: just they can work out. If yourself to their foeid
Speaker 4: or back out enough, they'll work out is coming. So
Speaker 4: come up with a rough plan bit and then yeah,
Speaker 4: get up tomorrow and go for it.
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking like incredibly experienced tennis players, but
Speaker 1: it's a lefty and a righty again, like to match
Speaker 1: you two as well.
Speaker 2: So like.
Speaker 1: When you say you're going to come up with the
Speaker 1: planets you said before, they can hit thirty three percent
Speaker 1: in each third of the box and they can do
Speaker 1: it at.
Speaker 2: Times they want.
Speaker 1: So is this more about kind of you controlling your
Speaker 1: controls and just making sure that your bits are.
Speaker 4: Right, absolutely as right as they can be. Whatever's in
Speaker 4: our control we'll try and implement. But that's why the
Speaker 4: coaches are the match as well, because they can give
Speaker 4: us some input as we're walking around.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not like it's not a sit down
Speaker 3: our chat about if we do this we'll win, if
Speaker 3: we do this, we'll lose. It's just how do we
Speaker 3: want to approach this.
Speaker 1: On a quick one and just before we go, because
Speaker 1: it is a touch in tonight, just a little touch
Speaker 1: and Marcus will his touch and I went, yes, I
Speaker 1: will tell me about give us an example again, just
Speaker 1: peeking in behind the curtain. What does your coach say
Speaker 1: to you? Can you remember a sentence words or anything
Speaker 1: like that when you're maybe looking like you're not going
Speaker 1: to get through.
Speaker 3: They can really say.
Speaker 4: To make you win a match, there might be a
Speaker 4: path and in terms of messing my back out return
Speaker 4: a few times and there might be a reason for
Speaker 4: that in terms of body.
Speaker 3: So they'll give you pointers in terms of you know.
Speaker 1: So they are giving you some like little technical stuff, yeah,
Speaker 1: if we need them, or is it more like trying
Speaker 1: try and serve down the town.
Speaker 3: They don't say that stuff.
Speaker 4: It's it's you know, we're not I feel like we're
Speaker 4: smart enough to work that kind of stuff out.
Speaker 3: You know, if we keep serving a tea and they.
Speaker 4: Keep hitting winners and we keep doing it, which probably
Speaker 4: shouldn't be probably deserved to lose. Okay, if you're doing
Speaker 4: something and you're lose, if you're losing for that reason,
Speaker 4: probably probably try something.
Speaker 1: Else now I find out, Okay, so tonight sleep you're
Speaker 1: going to find out which court you're on, which order
Speaker 1: you were on for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Have you practiced a tour with Heather.
Speaker 3: No, because she's got her women's doubles. I've had my
Speaker 3: men's doubles.
Speaker 4: She's playing now, I think, so you won't be practicing
Speaker 4: with practice before the match like whatever, hit chat, But
Speaker 4: no one's practicing mix right now. That's still in the men's,
Speaker 4: men's and women's respectively. It's four times a year, so you.
Speaker 3: Don't really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what can you do? Yeah, well, it's a great,
Speaker 1: great little touch in podcast. Thanks mate.
Speaker 2: Oh you probably don't know this. It's actually ten years
Speaker 2: since you played Roger.
Speaker 3: Thanks for telling me. I hadn't figured that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, and also remember the old house I used to
Speaker 1: live in, there was a next door neighbor, but one
Speaker 1: I'm passed in your number and said you'll sort out
Speaker 1: some tickets and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Anyone who wants to know. I've got hundreds of them actually,
Speaker 3: just yelling out of my back right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave your address as well, sod just knock stating
Speaker 1: the door maybe midnight between midnight and four.
Speaker 4: If you knock on the door, like tickets might just
Speaker 4: fly out anyway, right good tonight.
Speaker 3: They're in a big huddle and just handing them out
Speaker 3: to people to them.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to speak to you after the next match, mate,
Speaker 1: go and tennis, your little butt off.
Speaker 2: Tennis. Best of luck.
Speaker 4: Victor baronco on troumpone, Sergeant Major Craig Frederick on the
Speaker 4: trumpets and the composition.
Speaker 2: The Army Blues
Speaker 4: Looked back down.