Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Marion Bartotti. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carrillo. This is Pam Shriver. This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is Rachel in Pam Shriver's hometown and Francis Tiafos' home state, Baltimore, Maryland, and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast introduced brilliantly there by Rachel in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, Maryland.

Home, of course, as she points out to Pam Shriver, Hello Pam and Francis Tiafos and lots of other celebrities. Can anybody name one? I feel like Baltimore is a celeb hub.

All I remember from Baltimore is that it featured as the hometown of the person in sleepless in Seattle, the Tom Hanks character, because he lived in Baltimore and she lived in Seattle.

And apparently they were very far away from one another setting of the wire as well. I won't spend some time on the tarmac at Baltimore Airport very much unexpectedly and unwelcome Lee.

But that wasn't that wasn't Baltimore's fault. It just wasn't to my destination. All my starting point at that at that moment in time. Hello, David. Hello, Matt. How are you?

All right. Yes, very well. Thank you. Likewise. Yes, very well.

Tennis is happening. It is on the screen behind me here. Carlos Alcaraz is just jogging his way to the net for a coin toss with Dan Evans.

So it's a replay of their very, very fun match at the US Open. Don't know whether to expect similar fun today. We'll be able to update you on it over the course of the podcast.

We have had some results at normal times. We had a final played on a Sunday, what a novelty. But of course Shanghai is, it's all over the place.

I do not know what round we're in, but whatever tennis has happened, we'll be covering it for you on this tennis podcast. And just before we do all of that, a reminder to you that if you're a friend of the pod, you can enter a prize draw to be in with the chance of winning.

And this is an incredible prize package semi final tickets to the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge finals in Seville on Saturday, the 11th of November.

The winner gets a pair of tickets for both sessions on that Saturday. You get two nights accommodation and return flights from any EU or UK airport devastating to have to say EU or UK.

You have until Thursday, the 12th of October at 11.59 p.m. UK time to enter the link to do so for friends will be in our newsletter this week.

And if you're a friend who doesn't get the newsletter, what are you playing at for starters? But don't worry, you can rectify that terrible situation by writing to us friends at tennispodcast.net.

And we'll send you the link if you want to buy tickets to the Billie Jean King Cup finals. The link to do so is also in our show notes. And Matt is going to be at the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge finals.

So you'll also be winning the possible chance of seeing Matt.

I'm very excited to find out what Seville's like. Matt, have you ever been there before?

Because I'm really interested in to know what that's like as a city.

I have never been to Seville. No, it's probably the one major Spanish city I haven't been to actually. So I'm very excited to go there. It's beautiful, I believe.

And hopefully there'll be put a time to explore the city. It's a great venue, I think, kind of like with Malaga for the Davis Cup finals as well. The weather should be great in November still, you know, mid-twenties, I think.

It's good for any traveling fans. It'll be a nice place to be, I just think, at that time of year.

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