Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mayan Bartorri.

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

This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is James Freeman originally from Melbourne

coming to you live from New York City and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello everybody and thank you James for introducing the tennis podcast

Post-Queen's post-Hallar Berlin Birmingham and yes they all had their finals at exactly

the same time because that's what tennis does at times like this. But that was an

excellent intro. Thank you James from Melbourne via New York.

Catherine is here. Hello Catherine. Hello David. Hello Matt. How are you?

Been on holiday? Yes, I'm in my Casper Rude grass court era in that I'm not quite doing

grass court tennis yet. I've been going to concerts playing golf, doing all sorts of things but

I have brushed up on the week past in tennis and feel somewhat ready to contribute to this podcast.

Yeah, I would like to say I feel like you've done a lot more towards the grass court season

that Casper Rude has at this point. I mean I get that Novak Djokovic can just put his feet up

for two and a half weeks and then pitch up and have a few days practice and be ready to try and win

his what eight title but what is Casper Rude thinking at the moment? Are we okay with that?

Can you just do that if you've reached the French Open final and accept that maybe you're

unlikely to do that well on grass anyway? Who is less focused on tennis ahead of the grass court

season? Casper Rude or Stephanie Sitzapas? Yeah it's the pleasure on thing I'd say.

Stephanie Sitzapas does seem to have a lot going on in his world. I do struggle to follow it at times

but I have to say... David won't engage with Sitzapas. It doesn't matter how much we thrust it

to his attention in our WhatsApp group. David just sort of does an eye roll and tries to move

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