Game, Upset, Match
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | I watch a lot of tennis. I've been watching tennis since I was a kid with my dad who watched a lot of tennis before me |
| 0:45.7 | But neither of us had ever seen anything quite like Saturday's US Open Final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka |
| 0:54.1 | No one who watches tennis had ever seen anything like it |
| 0:57.8 | Caitlin Thompson was watching the US Open on Saturday. Yes, I was she's the publisher of racket magazine |
| 1:03.8 | I am let's start before that first serve even happened Caitlin was this matchup between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka |
| 1:10.6 | Gonna be a big deal regardless of who won yes, and I'll tell you why Serena Williams has 23 grand slams total |
| 1:18.5 | Technically, she has the most grand slams of anyone male or female ever and for the kids at home who don't know what a grad |
| 1:23.6 | Slam is it's what the Australian Open the US Open the French Open and Wimbledon in the UK. Yeah, correct |
| 1:30.1 | It's the biggest tournaments of the calendar year now. There's a bit of an asterisk nested at because |
| 1:38.0 | Originally the record stood at 22 grand slams held by my girl Steffi Graff German |
| 1:44.3 | 22 nobody ever thought in our lifetimes anybody would surpass that then here comes Serena ties it breaks it and |
| 1:52.1 | Some would say a new record was invented for her to chase |
| 1:55.8 | 24 grand slams won by Margaret court who's a terrible homophob who lives in Australia |
| 2:00.3 | But nobody really considered that a big deal because Margaret court won it in the non open era |
| 2:06.3 | Will she surpass Margaret court putting into any |
| 2:09.5 | Clarity the fact that she is in fact the greatest male female to hold a racket of all time and |
| 2:15.5 | Serena won her first US Open her first Grand Slam title in |
| 2:19.6 | 1999 and she was facing off against Naomi Osaka who was |
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