Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartori. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo.

This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah. This is Chris Vaughan in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

And you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well, hello folks and welcome to your final tennis podcast of 2022. And particular hello to Chris Vaughan from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who introduced the show.

Thank you Chris. Not only for being a friend, Chris is a friend for 2023. But also for teaching David that Minneapolis is indeed in Minnesota. I said it's Chris. The intro today isn't it from Minneapolis and David said no, Minnesota.

Yeah, thanks Chris. Geography really wasn't my strong point and it was the lowest point of the very low points of the lost lawyers in the 90s. I got thrown out of the course before I even got chance to take exams.

So maybe I should maybe should take them now that I know the Minneapolis news.

David Colon, the lost law years, is a permanent fixture on our list of ideas for shows for friends of the pod, whether David will ever let it be made.

I don't know, but we will keep putting it on the list. If you'd like to become a friend of the tennis podcast, the link to do so is in our show notes.

We've got six pet mascot slots left to fill 44 have gone all of the grand slam mascots have gone all the presenter mascots have gone. We don't know who we've got yet, but we've all got someone. There was there was a brief moment where Matt informed me that to have gone and someone was left on the shelf.

Who would it have we should check with the two that had gone, who would it have been, or maybe we shouldn't put ourselves through that.

Well, we are going to have to put ourselves in that because we we ask it's a first come first served so we will know who who would have been left on the shelf.

Great, can't wait anyway.

If you would like to get one of these six pet mascots lots, then get in there quick, quite frankly. And if you'd like an intro like Chris today shout out executive producer, guest editor, all of that stuff.

The link to find out about all of it is in our show notes. This is going to be a kind of wrapping up the straggly bits of tennis news that just keep trickling in because tennis never stopped.

Type podcast. That wasn't a hard sale I just did was it, but plus hype plus.

Plus hype for 23.

I mean, I'm joking, but tennis doesn't ever stop. I mean, I think tennis is literally happening as we speak somewhere in the Middle East.

In that one where they've got the court color coding, which really doesn't show up the ball. Is it that one?

I'll be honest, I wouldn't know I've not watched any of the hashtag greatest show on a world tennis league in Dubai.

Yeah, it's exhibition season, isn't it? And then some exhibition season used to mean kind of that one sort of three day weekend long exhibition in Abu Dhabi, which was kind of a staging post wasn't it for players on route to Australia.

And it's just proliferated exhibition season it now occupies the whole off season all sort of one month of it. There's events in those on his Saudi Arabia last week wasn't there one by Taylor for it's a million dollar purse just for winning that and goodness knows which is pretty similar to what he won for winning Indian miles and goodness knows what else in in appearance for you to all the players there.

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