WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.480 --> 00:00:03.399 Do you see this behind me? You know this isn't 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.679 a virtual background. By the way, I've actually had a 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:10.439 billboard sized poster review put up on a roundabout in Croydon. 4 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:15.320 This is it and that can make my finger disappear. 5 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.000 Like the way it just frames the bald head. Well done. 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.480 It gives me a little white outline of the bald head, 7 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:27.320 didn't it does? 8 00:00:27.399 --> 00:00:28.199 Yeah? Actually? 9 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:31.760 Oh yeah, good in it? 10 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:32.280 That is good. 11 00:00:32.359 --> 00:00:44.880 Yeah, let's do it. Podcast number one of the week 12 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:49.000 Jamie Murray announced his retirement. What happened in your doubles? 13 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:55.920 Your first point is just unbelievable, and I've got a 14 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.759 feeder of forehand. But it's an office worker special and 15 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:02.200 I want to do that is to almost highlight the 16 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:05.079 fact that you never had a job, so just to 17 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:07.840 see how you would feel if you were an office 18 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.879 worker like the millions of automated drones out there, just 19 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:17.200 like I was for about ten years. So anyway, Marcus willis, 20 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:17.920 how are you mate? 21 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:20.359 I'm not too bad, thank you. 22 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.680 I'm in Rome now or when in Rome? 23 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.799 When in Rome? Yeah, I haven't done that yet. I've 24 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:33.840 been biting my lip. It's very difficult trying to the original. 25 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.319 Yeah, well, when in Rome you do have to act 26 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.519 like do you remember that from Anchorman? Yeah, where he 27 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.680 just goes when in room. 28 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:44.959 I love that film so good. 29 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.760 Jesus Christ. There's a mate of mine who watched it 30 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.400 and then just straight back to the beginning watched it 31 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:52.959 all again. 32 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:55.920 Yes, it's up there for me. 33 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.599 Yeah. We spent ages just just quoted it and stuff like. Yeah. 34 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:03.120 I still think of it all the time. 35 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:10.240 Yeah, Rich Mahogany, Yeah, you know what, you know, the 36 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.560 scripting thing takes as well. 37 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.080 Oh yeah, man, how do they keep it? 38 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:34.759 Huh huh. So doesn't feel like a sorry right anyway? Tennis? 39 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:39.240 Yeah, you know that the bit that gets just just 40 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.360 quickly before before we move on to the laborious task 41 00:02:42.439 --> 00:02:46.280 of tennis, the bit that gets me in that the 42 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.840 script you know when he goes, I'm Rom Burgundy. Well, 43 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:53.719 I used to produce the Alan Brazil Breakfast Show on 44 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.960 Talk Sport and then was let's just say a late 45 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:02.120 night guy and he would get in the theme music could 46 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.719 be playing at six oh two after the news or something, 47 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.840 and he would get into the office then and you'd 48 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.159 just pass him the script and he was a really 49 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.520 good script reader. He still is I'm talking about him 50 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.080 past tense. He's still there. He's still doing it. He's 51 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.319 an excellent script reader. Whatever you give him straight on 52 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.120 and he comes straight in and do the manning Welcome 53 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:27.319 to the Alan Brail boom and he's in. But every 54 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:32.360 bit of punctuation capsule letters he would read out okay. 55 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.599 And one morning we had Big Sam Allardyce on okay 56 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:46.080 and someone had forgotten to write Sam. So Alan Brazil 57 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.560 doesn't know what he's reading out. He just reads and he's. 58 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:54.080 Like, right coming up Big Alla Dace, or been a 59 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:58.199 while since we've heard from Big Ala days and Big 60 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.199 Ala days on the shore the small. 61 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.879 Yeah, and so you know that. I'm Ron bog always 62 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.479 always takes me back to anything you gave our you 63 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.400 had to read about ten times over. Something seismic has 64 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:16.600 happened in British tennis this week. And it's seismic because 65 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:21.480 it's like two decades worth in that we're not going 66 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.199 to have a Murray involved at the top end of 67 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:29.560 British tennis. Jamie Murray's announced his retirement. Did it take 68 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:30.279 you by surprise? 69 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:35.720 No, No, it didn't take me by surprise. No one 70 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:39.040 ever saw him hitting over the off season. I think 71 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.199 he was out in South America. He was running a lot, 72 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:43.959 doing a lot of gym, but he wasn't doing is 73 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:47.920 is tennise. He wasn't at the NTC. He wasn't pairing 74 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.240 up with people. His ranking it gone kind of below 75 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:57.079 mine either, So so yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't surprised 76 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:05.160 entirely at all. Actually, but it's sad, right because even 77 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:07.360 when I was a junior, I think Jamie was playing dubs. 78 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:09.480 I mean he was, because when I was on the 79 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.680 when I was Davis Cup water Boy, he was. He 80 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.079 was playing doubles there with Ross Hutchins and he was 81 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:18.800 playing singles. So he was already then when I was, well, 82 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:20.399 this is twenty years ago, it was already a top 83 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:25.160 dogs fair then, so this is yeah, it's strange, but 84 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.560 it's you know, I'm pretty sure he's sure about it. 85 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.920 I was out in Umag when he when he pulled out, 86 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:35.079 like I went for dinner with him the night before 87 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.199 and he then you know, I had to pull out 88 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:43.720 with ill developed pneumonia, like really seriously ill. And then 89 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.639 and then I think he from what he said, he 90 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:48.639 never picked up he didn't pick up the racket against 91 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.000 to go training, and just I guess felt that that 92 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:58.399 was it. But it must be tough, right because he's 93 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:03.560 been he's been at the top level so long. He 94 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:06.120 said he was getting anxiety by the server, wasn't enjoying 95 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.319 it turning up the tournaments. And I guess when you 96 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:14.199 have that for a prolonged period of time, that's and 97 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.040 you don't feel like you want to keep going. I 98 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:19.000 guess I guess that's it. 99 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.240 Well, there's there's he's doing loads of loads of media, 100 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.639 and he's a really good talker, isn't He's a you know, 101 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:29.879 he's a great broadcaster. So I'm sure that we're not 102 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.560 going to see the end of and and and he's 103 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.759 there to kind of endlessly talk about the Grand Slams 104 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.759 and everything else. What was he like as a person 105 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.480 compared to Andy, who always comes across as pretty serious, 106 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:47.279 pretty introverted. 107 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:49.920 Yeah, of course he's got he's got good sense of humor. 108 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:54.240 I don't know overly well, but we throw a few 109 00:06:54.279 --> 00:07:00.199 office quotes that other sometimes mainly me to him, and 110 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.600 and he's you know, my knows my coach Adam very 111 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.920 well as well. So yeah, we have a we have 112 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.279 a good laugh. But no, I'm not. I've probably got 113 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:10.720 to know him more in the last couple of years 114 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.720 than I ever did. What was he great at his 115 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.639 net game? Anything around the net just was insane. I 116 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:23.399 played him last year in Eastbourne and he's right, he 117 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.879 wasn't serving particularly well, but anything around the net it 118 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:33.839 was gone quick, gone covered a lot. That was his thing. 119 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.920 If if you could stop him coming into the net, 120 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.160 then you've got a chance. But but yeah, I don't 121 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:42.319 think he missed a volley the whole match. But but 122 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:43.680 more than that, you you. 123 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.079 Leave it more than that the net as well. 124 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:48.800 Yeah, but didn't But yeah, you love him and get 125 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:52.360 back to that as well. He just had this massive 126 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.240 reach and good read of what you were doing with 127 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.000 the return and just I mean one of those people 128 00:07:58.040 --> 00:07:59.439 you kind of you're hitting the ball and you can 129 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.759 see them ever were and it's very hard to then 130 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:06.879 focus focus on the shot. But yeah, if you I 131 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:08.959 think the tactic, well, if you keep him away from 132 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:14.000 a net, you have a chance. But yeah, he was. 133 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:17.560 He was phenomenal with his with his foot I did 134 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:19.639 I did. I did a session with him before I 135 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.120 went out to Uma, and it was all about the legs, 136 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:26.439 all about putting this leg and position and moving from 137 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.240 there and how you plant your footwork basically. But he 138 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.639 made you know when someone's really good at something and 139 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.960 they talk about it like it's going to be easy, 140 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.960 and you just do this Smithy. Smithy did that and 141 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.720 fourhand returns to me once. He was just just do that, 142 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:51.200 just just hit it. Yeah, but he was. He was 143 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:53.559 so good at it. But yeah, I'm still trying to 144 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:55.639 implement some of the stuff we did in those couple 145 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.159 of days. But yeah, it was. 146 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.000 Got one like that. I went to a Boris Becker 147 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:06.759 masterclass once paid a fortune is. This would have been 148 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:12.639 about a year after he retired, and it was sponsored 149 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:16.320 by some champagne company or something like that, and he 150 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.360 Becker was talking about getting a head on grass and 151 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:23.799 it was so matter of fact. He was like, okay, 152 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:24.440 so what do you go. 153 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:26.799 You've got to hit one hundred and twenty odd wide 154 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:30.600 and then get into the service box that first volley. 155 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:36.240 And he had a British player at the time down 156 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.679 the other end. I'm thinking maybe an Arvin Palmer time 157 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:47.639 and Becker hit like a one twenty and was two 158 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:51.399 steps into the service box, angle volley away and he 159 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.200 did it with like a battery pack, and Mike here 160 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:56.240 was talking through it. You know. 161 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.039 So if the press is on, you've got to hit 162 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.200 the one twenty odd way and then get into the 163 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:01.799 service Buket. 164 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.279 And so I just wrote down on a notepad because 165 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:09.440 I thought I'll bring a notepad, you know, make sure 166 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.879 that I get some of this gold. I just wrote down, 167 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.559 be better and that was that. So yeah, working on 168 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.840 it still. I'm on the I'm on the practic coarter laugh. 169 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:22.480 And then pumping before. 170 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:28.480 But that's when when Becker's working with Djokovic. I think 171 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.960 they must talk a language that only they know. 172 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.000 Yeah, they must say we're all absolutely terrible. 173 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:37.559 Yeah, or just confused. 174 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:41.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, it might be confused. It might be confusion, 175 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.639 just confused by us. Just do that? 176 00:10:45.840 --> 00:10:47.759 Would would Jamie Murray make a good coach? 177 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:50.759 I think so? I think it'd be very good. Yeah, 178 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:52.679 I'm not sure how much I want to do it though. 179 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.399 Yeah. It was the traveling, isn't it. But you know, 180 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.639 he's He's a product of Louis Kaye in so many ways, 181 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:04.679 isn't he He absorbs he is he did absorb Louie's 182 00:11:04.679 --> 00:11:08.960 information so well, and Louis is not getting younger, and 183 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:13.679 I wonder if there's a role for Jamie in terms 184 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.120 of doubles players and keeping up the uh, you know, 185 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:19.519 the role of form that we've had are. 186 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:21.080 Going to be a gap for that and he'll know 187 00:11:21.159 --> 00:11:25.279 the system well. But yeah, I mean I suppose. 188 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:26.279 Yeah. 189 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:29.039 The problem is he's probably got so many options. I 190 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.559 don't even know if. 191 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:34.320 We go back through British tennis and we go overall 192 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:40.600 with Virginia Wade and Andy Murray, Tim Hemman Fred Perry, 193 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:46.240 even right, where does Jamie Murray sit in the best 194 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:47.279 we've ever had? 195 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.000 I mean, I don't know the exactly. I know he 196 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:51.600 was world number one. I know we've had a few 197 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:54.759 other world number ones. It might not be a numbers 198 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.600 the best doubles career you've had, but in terms of 199 00:11:57.639 --> 00:12:02.720 longevity and kind of what he's achieved Olympian and it's 200 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:07.240 pretty pretty tough too. I mean, how many years was 201 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.039 he top ten, top twenty in the world. It's phenomenal really. 202 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:13.879 Onto real tennis because after the break, we want to 203 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.639 know what's happened in your doubles last week and the 204 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:23.279 video that you sent me of possibly the only point 205 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.679 last week that gets the two hundred and fifty pounds 206 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:40.120 from you've been framed. Welcome back to what you're talking about. 207 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:45.519 Willis he is in Rome? When in Rome and I'm 208 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:53.399 near Croydon, we've all got a dream what this time 209 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:57.559 of year? Well, I'm thinking about lots of people want 210 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:02.320 a villa in Croydon this time of year. But look, 211 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:04.720 there's only one way to tell. It's a It's a 212 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.960 public vote, isn't it. I think it's something that we've 213 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:11.759 got to put up. Let's talk before we talk about 214 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:14.240 why you're in Rome and things. Let's talk about last week. 215 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.200 We spoke on the previous part about coming off the 216 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:22.440 back of some difficult form, some training block. First of all, 217 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:27.759 you spoke about the fix to your volleys. Is it 218 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:29.879 completely fixed? And will nothing go wrong? Now? 219 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.399 Yeah? That's it forever Now I never have to work 220 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.840 on it again. So that's good. No, Yeah, so much better, 221 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:43.720 so much better. Yeah, in a better headspace with it 222 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.080 all as well. So I've got a plan. I'm practicing 223 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:51.480 and working on things, and yeah, i feel like I'm improving, 224 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:53.519 which is which is great. If I feel like I'm improving, 225 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:54.159 then I must be. 226 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:02.879 So who are you partnering and you in Kitty an American, 227 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:04.720 a younger American. 228 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:10.200 Right American, Yeah, early twenties, you know, good college player, 229 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:14.279 and he's already nearly top hundred. So he's doing well. 230 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.600 Yeah, so I saw that. It's a pretty pretty big rise. 231 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.000 But he's kind of just bypassed the singles, isn't he 232 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.240 He's gone straight in for the dubs. He's he a 233 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.200 double specialist. So like for for me, I told you, 234 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:27.919 I tried to. I tried to watch the match. I 235 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.080 couldn't get the stream. And for those who don't know him, 236 00:14:31.159 --> 00:14:34.440 what's he like? But I'm imagining like a six five, 237 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:37.159 big server, good volleyer type. 238 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:42.039 Yeah, he's a good all around tennis player. Actually, got 239 00:14:42.120 --> 00:14:45.559 lots of power, goes after returns. He's got some good 240 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:48.360 feel as well that will come up with these lobs 241 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:50.960 that you don't think are wrong. He sees the court 242 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:56.440 pretty well. He's just he's just got a lot of weapons. Yeah, 243 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.039 And as you say, he's a. 244 00:14:57.960 --> 00:15:01.799 Big guy, so and plane outside. 245 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:03.039 He's playing outside. I'm playing juice. 246 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.279 Yeah, just talk talk us through the first point of 247 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:08.720 a match last week that you sent me. 248 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:14.679 Yeah, second round, sorry, caught finals, I forgot God I've 249 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:16.799 had quite a good return. The guy said, volley, and 250 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.399 he's hit a half volley down the line and Ben's 251 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:23.440 kind of come across. So I look for the middle 252 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:25.960 slash into set, and I'm kind of hitting the return 253 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.440 and coming forward, and as I've seen the borco passed him, 254 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.919 I've tried to change direction. And then what appeared to 255 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.799 happen was, you know, there was something wrong with a 256 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:39.320 clay court. Someone must have put you know, washing up 257 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:42.240 liquid down it before, and I ended up kind of 258 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:45.240 eating clay but trying to rescue it two or three times. 259 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:49.200 First I had to go to my taut first point 260 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.039 in the match for the first time in history because 261 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:58.080 because yeah, I lost my footing. So we can we 262 00:15:58.120 --> 00:15:59.480 can put the video up, can't we? 263 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.480 Oh, We've got to put it up. It's brilliant. I 264 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:07.559 really really enjoyed it. I think laughing a bit at 265 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.120 your misfortune is something that I'm really enjoying more and more. 266 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.799 That's good. But it's I know, it's funny because if 267 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.320 I imagined that I was someone else, I'd find it 268 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:22.440 really really funny. Sometimes you've got to take yourself out 269 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:27.480 of yourself and laugh at someone else. Yeah, Yeah, so yeah, 270 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.240 that was interesting. Then we went then we went fall 271 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.279 off down pretty quickly after that three juice points went 272 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.600 fall off down, so excuse it was good clay all 273 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:39.320 over my forehead and nipple and I was fall left down. 274 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:42.639 I do love when you're on the floor that the 275 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:47.279 umpire says, you're right, Yeah, you're okay. 276 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:56.240 Yeah, madam great, Yeah, you don't worry. You just stay 277 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:01.639 comfy and that chair. I'm good, but don't worry. Yeah, 278 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.519 it's it's just I hit quite a good return. I 279 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:06.599 was like, oh, it's a shame part of me. It's 280 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:09.920 like I were fifteen left down. That's not And then 281 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.680 and then the next next point I hit, but luckily 282 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:14.480 they didn't go to my forehand. But I couldn't grip 283 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:16.440 the racket because there was clai all over my grip 284 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.880 as well. So then I went to like wash everything down, 285 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:22.799 put water on my grip, came out, got broken the 286 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:30.160 juice or sorry Ben did. And then yeah, I said, 287 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:31.119 we were at four left down. 288 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.240 So this is your second round match, wasn't it? 289 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:35.440 Quarter finals? 290 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:38.079 Quarter of course? Yes, So we start in the round 291 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:41.640 of sixteen and then you in your in your first 292 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:46.680 round round of sixteen, yeah, it's quite it was important 293 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:48.440 for you to get the win, there wasn't it Just 294 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.640 surely mentally that is playing on your mind. 295 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.480 Yeah, but yeah, I suppose I lost three three matches 296 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:00.400 in a row, two match Tierekser one atp two fifty. 297 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:02.319 But it's it's the way I lost the two fifty. 298 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.119 I didn't like. I felt like I was overthinking. I 299 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:06.759 wasn't sure on stuff. And I can't be on the 300 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:10.079 tennis court if I'm not sure on what where I'm 301 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.599 going and thinking about which leg goes where, and you know, so, 302 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:16.559 so it was important. I took that time out and 303 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:18.359 trained and had a couple of days at home and 304 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:21.720 just when I worked hard, because yeah, you come out 305 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:23.839 to Portugal. I came out, I flew to Sunday morning, 306 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.519 I got up at three in the morning. I did 307 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:28.519 a session on Sunday and extra session that you know, 308 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:32.440 I normally probably wouldn't do. And yeah, we were five 309 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.839 three down and one seven five in the first set 310 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:40.960 there as well, but quite unlucky to be five three down. Yeah, 311 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:43.599 it was an important win, important win, but yeah, these 312 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.599 are especially last week. It's a one two five, It's 313 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:48.839 it's not an easy tournament. You're playing good clay players, 314 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:53.279 so you know, I had to be open minded in 315 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:55.039 the fact that every time I stepped on courter might 316 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:57.759 not win. Yeah, and it's just trying to play as 317 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:59.880 well as I can and I think, you know, I 318 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.319 can get into that mindset, then good things happen. Just 319 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.319 go and play. So yeah, we did well. We did well. 320 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.240 We won some important points. It was our first match 321 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.880 as a pair together and and yeah, came up with 322 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.480 some clutch stuff actually, but there's still there's still room 323 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:17.759 for improvement provement, which is which. 324 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:19.440 Is good with the coach as well, isn't he So 325 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.279 you are you working more as in a team almost? 326 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:27.240 Yeah, we have been this this the last few days 327 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.119 and since I started Portugal with we're there's a lot 328 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.079 of chot about how we can be efficient as a 329 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.720 as a pair rather than working on individual shots as such, 330 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.119 sort of coming up with formations in plays rather than 331 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:43.279 you know, you've got to hit a load of four 332 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.440 hands and backhands and and and served. So it's it's 333 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:50.519 you know, he's good Macaca work with the Brians, won 334 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:53.440 sixteen slams of the Brians or something, so he knows 335 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:58.720 what he's doing so that that's been really beneficial. And 336 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:05.720 yesterday with a fitness trainer, so still here to tell 337 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:10.240 the tale. Today some clay court sprints and you've got 338 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:14.480 twenty seconds off in between each one. You do six sets. 339 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:15.880 Sounds fun? 340 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.119 Not good? No, it wasn't fun. It wasn't fun. My 341 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:22.480 heart rate went to one eight six, Okay. 342 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.200 So yeah that's about your peak, isn't it. That's just 343 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:27.119 slightly over. 344 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.559 What one of one above what my maction one above. 345 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:32.160 Your defe levels? Yeah? Good? 346 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:37.880 Yeah, so that was good, a classic classic Friday practice. Yeah. 347 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.319 So in the second round you said, like the first 348 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:43.359 set is suddenly you're you're facing a bit of a 349 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:48.480 mountain to climb for love. But it was it was tight, right. 350 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:51.920 It was tight. Yeah, sorry, it's just got some Greek 351 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:58.480 yogurt there. Yeah, it was tight. We lost well, so 352 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:04.039 we lost three and four for all, but four to 353 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.240 two first set. We had a break point. I made 354 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:09.880 the return, opened up the angle, hit the angle, sent 355 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.119 them the wrong way, hit the tape and bounce bounce 356 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:14.640 the wrong way. So that would have been four to 357 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:19.160 three on serve back into the match. Yeah, disappointing, And 358 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:21.440 then we had break point to break back at five 359 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.160 to three as well, So it was just you know, 360 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:27.839 we got broken twice from thirty love up, once from 361 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:29.960 forty fifteen, once from thirty love, and it was just 362 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:36.079 kind of like ah, and second set, I'd say we 363 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.240 missed a lot of makeable balls by an inch or so, 364 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.319 Like I've put the chip lap over their head and 365 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.839 it landed an inch wide and you're like, you think 366 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:47.319 it's going in and it's not. 367 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:53.640 Tennis. Tennis is rubbish, isn't it. 368 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.359 Yeah, no, it can be. It was. It was. It 369 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:01.160 was frustrating because you know, I felt like we were 370 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:04.839 we were, yeah, a couple of inches off, playing very 371 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:07.880 very well, and we know this pair of this pair 372 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:10.240 are good. They won this ornament in the end as well, 373 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:14.279 so they're a good pair. They you know, wan some 374 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:16.599 big matches this year already made Semis of a two 375 00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:19.920 fifty beat hair Bear and Thompson at Aussie Open that 376 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:25.920 they're good. But yeah, in that match, there were more 377 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.960 chances could have played a little better. 378 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:35.519 Well, all of this baton ball stuff has prohibited you 379 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:39.960 having an actual job and coming up after the break. 380 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.759 It's a Federer forehand special of office working. 381 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.039 Let me just get my pen hold on. So I 382 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:54.000 need need a laptop, I need a stylus, Yeah, I do. 383 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:07.039 Welcome back to the what You're talking about Willis podcast 384 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:13.799 and act three. Here we go now Federer forehand. The 385 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:18.079 nation is gripped by this because obviously ten years ago 386 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:20.880 this year you played Roger Fedderer on Center Court, and 387 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:25.000 you know all about how beautiful Roger Fedder's forehand is. 388 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:28.559 By the way, on that coming up very soon on 389 00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:30.839 the word You're talking about Willis podcast, we're actually going 390 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:34.240 to be revisiting the run of Wimwood and twenty sixteen, 391 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.680 ten years on. We're going to delve into Marcus's vast 392 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.759 NASA like computer of a brain and get everything over 393 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.920 a three or four parts special, and we're also going 394 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:48.920 to talk to some people who were there watching and 395 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:52.079 really lift the lid and get in behind the curtain 396 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:56.759 of that run. But before that, you know exactly how 397 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.720 beautiful Roger Fedder's forehand is. And so far, we've had 398 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:07.599 federalforehand specials on school. Yeah, we've had a Federal fourhands 399 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:08.240 special on. 400 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:13.119 Films. 401 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:21.440