This is the Players Box. Welcome back to the Players Box. I'm Desiree Craftchick,

alongside Jenny Brady, Madison Keys, and Jess Pagula, a friendly reminder to give our

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First of all,

congrats Jess on your 10th title and fourth WTA 1000 title.

And this is also going to be coming out around your birthday.

So happy birthday, Jess.

Early birthday.

Speaking of that match in Dubai, how was it winning there?

How was reactions, all that?

Yeah.

I mean, it was a great week.

I flew there for just Dubai and everyone was kind of like, why are you here for one tournament?

I was like, I don't know.

Like I didn't want to take another zero on my ranking and, um, travel wise, it wasn't that bad because I got to fly direct. So, uh, it definitely paid off and was worth it. Um, the, I had a really tough match with Amanda and the semis. I came back from like a set in three one. She was playing lights out and I was able to kind of dig my way back into that match. And then I felt like the final I just played like kind of perfect. It was just one of those where everything just let my way and you kind of always pray that that happens in a final, but it doesn't always happen. So I don't know know I felt like it was a typical like you get through

the really tough match and you come back and then you just kind of play really well the next day

so yeah it was a good week and we also saw that Nolze you went over to Nolsey and we're trying

to celebrate with him and he was on his phone what was was your initial reaction there? It was just funny. I like ran over quick and just like give him a hug, say thanks, whatever. And yeah, he was just like on his phone. And I was like there. And then like you see like all the camera people like standing there and like WTA people like filming it. And I was just like, I was like, hello.

And he was like, oh, sorry. And he afterwards, he told me, he's like, oh, no, I was, I took a video of like the match point. And then he's like, I was sending it to like other people. And I, he's like, I didn't realize you were going to come over so quickly. But he's like, oh my God, my phone is blowing up. Like, everybody is like, dude,

what is wrong with you? What are you doing? Like, my kids and my wife are like, why are you on your phone? This is pretty funny. It's pretty funny. Caught. Yeah, made for good, uh, good memes and

stuff. But, um, well, other than that, I know this is going to come out next week on your birthday, but do you have any birthday plans coming up?

I'm going to be in Austin. I'm going to try and play that week. We'll see how I feel in a couple days. So actually, I'll get to see Jenny, I think. Yes. Maybe. Yeah. Oh. Yay. So, yeah, I get to see Jenny on my

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