Hi this is Billy Jean King this is Marion Bartori I'm Matt Villander this is Mary Carrillo this is Pam Shriver this is Yannick Noah

Hi this is Natanya Brown and you are listening to the tennis podcast. Well we are back folks less than 12 hours later. We are back with another

podcast Matt the Jolly Come lately is with us down the line from Zeville. Hello Matt.

Hello yes I'm I'm just doing one podcast today what a slacker.

We are the hardcore David how are you doing? Yeah I'm all right, it's so

disappointing isn't it, you know, just these kids, you know, I'm 50 and I can

be here twice in a day.

Okay, I did have a holiday last week, but still.

I very much enjoyed talking WTA tennis with Catherine, old school style,

until I realized I was searching in my mind for a fact to illustrate a point I was making and I realized

I didn't have that fact to hand at all and I didn't have the ability to go what is it Matt? It was a

stat free show map very much stat free. Thank you by the way to Natanya Brown introducing the show there love that name, Natania.

It's like a hybrid of Tanya and Natasha and Natalie and Natalia. It's everything everything all at once love that it is day one if the

the Billy Jean King Cup or rather it was day one of the Billy Jean King Cup finals

day one is just about in the books.

There is still a doubles match ongoing.

It's one of those doubles which could be a dead rubber or could be absolutely critical in deciding events in the days to come, which for me, not to start off on a on a negative but for me is one of the weaknesses

of this format that the sort of unknown dead rubberiness of some of the doubles matches. I like to know where I stand and I imagine

it's quite difficult for the players when they don't know where they stand with the significance

of those matches.

Yes, imagine getting off a 17-hour

flight from Cancun and having to play one of those doubles matches. That was

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