This is the Players Box.

Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Players Box.

I'm Desirey Craftchick alongside Jenny Brady, Madison Keys, and Jess Fagula.

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So we are doing a special mini episode today because we've got a huge fourth round battle

between our very own co-hosts, Jess and Maddie.

And yes, it's the first ever podcast co-host matchup.

Maddie, your next match, fourth round, is against fellow American Jessica Bagula.

What do you think about the matchup?

It's a tough matchup.

We've only played, I think, three times on the tour now in the last couple of years.

And it's gone both ways.

We played each other last year in the Adelaide final.

And it was actually a really good match.

I've always been really impressed with just how, like, just how steady Jess is.

It's like, you know that she's always going to, like, make the best decisions, and she's

got that sneaky drop shot that you always have to be looking out for.

But it was funny because it was, two years ago when I was I was

like winning a few matches in a row and I was like making quarters I made like quarters of like

three tournaments in a row and Bjorn was like how do you feel it was like I'm in my Pagula era

like I just quarter every week all of a sudden.

So it's just always like, Jess is just always like winning.

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