This episode is brought to you by ServiceNow. Look, I have my dream job. I watch tennis, I think about tennis, I talk about tennis, but even dream jobs have not so dreamy parts, the stuff that gets in the way of the actual work. That's where Service Now's AI specialists come in. They don't just tell you what you should do about your busy work, they actually do it. Start to finish.

Cases closed, requests handled no extra work for you.

That way, you and your team can focus on the work that matters, which for me is explaining

at length why tennis players are the best athletes on Earth.

Sorry everyone else on Earth.

To learn how to put AI to work for people visit service now.com

everyone welcome to serve brought to you by service now subscribe because I don't know we like it we need it we want to keep doing this. Yeah, I think so. Okay. We'll keep doing it.

Uh, JW in the house, Tucky Sean, producer Mike.

What's up? It's that old midweek special on the old 12 or 13 dayer. Here we are.

Here we are. Let's just rock through the first round buys and all the

other stuff. Obviously, the biggest story from early Rome, you know, on top of continued

dominance on top of the storylines that are kind of trending from Madrid. Sabalenko loses.

Obviously, a massive story kind of shakes things up. As far as name value, Novak loses. And,

you know, I guess in a headline to Earth and, you know, everyone else, I guess those are kind of

the same, but I view them completely through a completely different lens. Let's deal with

Sabalanka's loss to Kirsteya, first, JW. Are we, like, I haven't been worried about Sabalanka in like five years. Are we, are we worried about Sabalinka? I'd say worried-ish. You know, it's one of these things where we look at things in patterns and in segments, right? And she loses to Haley-Bapis in Madrid, 7-6 and the third, it's Clay, it's an exciting match, and you're like, all right, you know, no one wins every match and good for Haley Baptiste, and you get a second back-to-back event, another tight match, different type of player, a player at a different point in their career, we can talk a little later about Christia, but 7.5 in the third.

So she goes down 7.6 in the third in one match, 7.5 in the third another. Suddenly,

she'll be the top seed. But remember, this is one of the majors she has never won, came very close

last year. I would say worried, but I would say that the plot is certainly thickened, and I think

more importantly for the rest of the field, they should get a bit of a jolt of optimism, because

this is a very different discussion than what we were having two weeks ago. I don't know. I mean,

we see this so many times, right, where where players struggle in warm-ups and then they reset,

...