Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartotti I'm Matt's Willander this is Mary

Carillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis

podcast Well, it's 11.58 PM, which means for once I can truthfully say it is still day seven of the Australian

Open 2024 and you find us in Melbourne Park in fact more specifically where you find us is the

spot the almost X marks the spot where I watched the 2017 men's final between Roger Federer and Raffal Nidal on the big screen.

I did not know that. Happy, happy memories.

That's amazing.

Was your view of the screen better than the one we've got now?

It was slightly better, but I would call it obstructed view.

I would expect, had I purchased those tickets, I would expect them to be discounted heavily but it was an incredible

experience of course right now there is still bitter tennis still going on but of

course that hasn't stopped the food and drinks vendors from closing.

We are right now, I think, in a closed champagne bar, which feels like a terrible waste I feel like we should if we're gonna record in

champagne bars in the future that's try and make them be open we don't seem to be

without drinks though no we've run into a few lovely listeners this evening and

one of them insisted on buying us a drink and did so with a flourish I've got five gin and tonic in front of me.

So let's see how this show's going to go.

It has been, do you know what, a couple of hours ago, well a bit more than a couple

of hours ago I was thinking this is going to be, do you remember that podcast we did where it was called,

the title was, the day was rubbish but the podcast still really good or

something slightly more flowery than that I don't have a day but the pod's great

honest right that I thought we were going to have to not many people listen to that

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