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

Hi I am Craig Elliot Shapiro and you are listening to the tennis

podcast which sees us reassemble altogether, Catherine Whitaker, Matt Roberts and Billy Jean

is on the shoulder of Catherine right now.

And Billy Dean having a quick look at me,

as I say that.

And yes, how are we all doing Catherine back from Malica

flying visit yeah rather more flying than I then I wish it had been to be honest. I was extremely

taken with my 24 hours in Malaga and it's made me hungry to go back next year at the time that I was making arrangements

to go out there to host the qualifiers draws for the Billy Jean King Cup and Davis Cup I just couldn't face, I was in, oh my God, all I need is to wash my pants mode and the thought

of going away again was, you know, I wanted to keep extra travel to a minimum and I wanted to be able to get Billy Jean back and everything, but second I landed in Malaga and saw 20 degrees and glorious sunshine and just felt the great vibes and saw Matt and had a plate of

ham on. Yeah, I regretted all my choices, but there's next year.

There's next year, which is exactly what we were trying to say to Matt a year ago when he was

bedridden with the flu. Happy to say he's smiling away having just been at the

Davis Cup final and you look a rather different character right now Matt. I think

you've had a decent week.

I've had a lovely week, yeah, a really great week for all the reasons Catherine has described.

Malaga is a very good place to be at this time of the year if you don't get flu.

And the event has been really good.

I think it exceeded my expectations, has been better than past editions of the Davis Cup finals that I've been to.

And yeah, I've had a really good time.

And yeah, just a, always just a slightly weird feeling on the final day of the tennis season.

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