Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri.

I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.

This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is Aziz Bernato and you are listening to the spectacular

Tennis Podcast.

Well, hello folks and thank you very much indeed to Aziz Bernato in our intro. They're a wonderful

intro, a wonderful name, as we all know, a big fan of names with ZZN. They are instantly

interesting and exciting. So thank you Aziz Bernato for your support and for being a friend

of the tennis podcast. There was a friends episode last week paying tribute and telling the story

of Juan Martín del Potreso. Check that out. If you'd like to, we have a whole lot of stuff to cover

in today's weekly podcast. We have all to greater and lesser extent just watch the first match of

the year of World No. 1 Novak Djokovic beating Lorenzo Misedi in two straight sets. He is playing

in Dubai this week. He says he couldn't have picked a better place to start his year,

except he literally did pick a different place to start his year. But he was, I mean, honestly,

David, you watched more of this than Matt did who declared to have been watching it eating

dinner for much of the match, but we sat through it and it was pretty unremarkable. I mean,

remarkable in how unremarkable it was. It was just ruthless, efficient Djokovic like he'd never

been away. Yeah, yeah, if you rewound to any point of his mostly dominance a year ago or four

months ago, it was just typical of what we saw all year. He looked pristine, really form wise.

And I think he was boyd by a positive reception from the crowd. I think Dubai is certain kind of

crowd that maybe he won't get elsewhere necessarily. It'll be one of the interesting things to see,

won't it? When he eventually does get out in front of other crowds to see whether there's any

atmosphere empty him or particularly for him or divided. Well, there was none of that in this crowd.

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