Beating the Book: 2024 Wimbledon Preview
Beating The Book with Gill Alexander
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4.7 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thursday morning, June 27th. |
| 0:04.4 | It is the Beating the Book podcast of Wimbledon. |
| 0:07.8 | Wimbledon, Fortnite. |
| 0:09.5 | Breakfast at Wimbledon. |
| 0:10.6 | Tennis' third major of the year on grass. |
| 0:13.2 | It's Gil Alexander. |
| 0:14.4 | It is Drew Densick, of course, as always on our tennis pods. |
| 0:18.7 | At Whale underscore Capper, the host, the co-host of both the Deep Die podcast, which he does with Andy Molitor, and NBC Sports Bet the Edge with Jay Croucher. |
| 0:28.3 | Drew, thank you as always for being here, man. |
| 0:31.2 | Appreciate it. |
| 0:31.9 | Of course, of course. |
| 0:33.1 | I love Wimbledon. |
| 0:34.9 | I wouldn't do it without you, man. |
| 0:37.0 | Drew and I were like, |
| 0:37.9 | should we do this Friday after the draw, or is that too much of the weekend thing? So we ended up on Thursday. Yeah, not long after we wrap this up, I'm headed out to the mountains. I'll be off the grid tomorrow. So I'm going to have to check on, I'm going to have to find a way to get a signal to check on the draw when it comes out. |
| 0:54.6 | So this was the only time I could pull this off. |
| 0:56.6 | So I appreciate you accommodating me. |
| 0:57.8 | Nah, man, so we're flying a little blind. But playing the role of Dan Weston, our dear friend from Vison, who does tennis picks on a daily basis as well, it's Zach Cohen first time on the podcast. How you doing, |
| 1:11.4 | Zach? Thanks for doing this, man. I'm doing well. I'm excited to be doing this for the first time. Yeah, and you just met Drew, Zach, Drew, Drew, Zach. You guys should know each other. Zach, you do tennis channel pods as well. Is that right? Yeah, I do some writing for tennis channel, And I also do a show called Tennis Betts Live, which is going to be Mondays and Thursdays throughout Wimbledon. |
| 1:30.7 | And that turns into a podcast. So, yeah, Tennis Betts Live on Spotify as well. Awesome. How do you like it? The Tennis Channel host, I was on his podcast. What is his name again? Mitch Michaels. Mitch Michaels. Good dude. Yeah, like Mitch a lot. |
| 1:45.6 | Okay. So here's the thing. And we'll start with you, Drew, because I, you know, I bet tennis based on data. |
| 1:54.2 | And so, hard courts go very well for me. Up 26 units in hard courts this year. Guess what? I've given it all back. I've given it all back on clay, but particularly here in the last few weeks, grass, and I should know this every year, the data means nothing because there isn't enough. And when I've been bad, the only thing that I've coupled that with is being unlucky. |
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