Happy U.S. Open Week. This is served, brought to you by Chase. I'm a little fired up. Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Mike? I can feel it. Talking a little bit fast. We're back in the studio together. I can feel it. I'm very excited. You can tell by the tone of my voice. I'm pumped for this episode.

Today we're on with Eric Budirac.

Maybe some of you watched him play doubles.

Maybe some of you didn't.

But a name that I've been recruiting for this show with this exact date circled because I feel like he can share a lot of insight with what goes on behind

the scenes. His playing career is very interesting. There's not a lot of D3 players who go on

to win 18 titles on tour and get ranked inside the top 20 in the world. In doubles, he'll talk

about the European club tennis, how he kind of accidentally fell into

that, was playing for ham sandwiches, and then, you know, ended up playing all of the grand

slams. And then transitioned that to, he was an ATB player council president, worked in

player relations for the U.S. Open, and is now firmly in that role on the executive team. Without further ado,

we're going to bring in Eric Boudreck. I've been excited for this interview. I think you're the

interview that I've pursued the longest since our show started. And I just find your kind of journey

through tennis. It's not typical. And I find find your kind of journey through tennis.

It's not typical.

And I find it very interesting.

So I'll just give kind of the highlights real quick.

And then we'll go kind of take a deeper dive on each thing.

Not a lot of people who end up winning 18 titles on tour start at Gustavus Adolphus College. So that's, that's one.

And then played some Euro club tennis, which I think our listeners would be happy to hear about.

There's this whole kind of underbelly of club tennis where you can go get some paychecks

while you're trying to make it that I think is is very, very interesting.

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