Hi, I'm Ella Gina. I'm John McEnerd. I'm Bjorn Borg. I'm Racy. This is Martina and

Navratelova. This is Mark Fulkes. I'm Andy Murray. You're a listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast. We're to you in association with the telegraph and with

Euro Sport I am Catherine Mitica and at the time of recording this we have just a few hours left of our

2018 kickstarter campaign to fund this podcast throughout the tennis year. We have been completely

overwhelmed. I know we keep saying that David but we keep becoming more and more overwhelmed every

time you say it. More than 500 backers now. We finally exceeded the number of backers that we have

last year. There is still time to chip in if you want to but if you don't you know it's okay we

have reached our target. I don't want to discourage anyone from chipping in. If you feel we want to do

your bit I actively encourage that but we are pretty delighted. We're pretty delighted. We're

pretty delighted with life right now. We're sitting in Garden Square in Melbourne Park. The sun is

finally shining. I finally have sunglasses on despite the fact we're sitting in the shade because

David doesn't want to get sunbed. Well none of us want to get sunburned but David is particularly

concerned. I'm pleased with the sun that it is. About the burning Aussie sun shine. I refuse to

take my sunglasses off because it I've been here three days and it's my first opportunity to wear

them and I've not been too happy about that but all is well with the world now over at the MCG

Stone Strowway, England, a thrashing Australia in the first of the one day series brackets that

information may not be current at the time of listening. Or accurate generally. We've just waited

on Smith and Warner. We've waited a long time to be able to say that. We've had a long time for

all of it David. All this good news it's too much all at once isn't it? It is a bit. Yes it's

been an extraordinary process doing during the Kickstarter. Thank you so much. I have to just

basically get it all out of my system in the form of a blog. So if you'd like to read that.

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