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Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast and thank you to Alonso Nunez in San Diego that you heard there introducing the show. David's here. Hello, David. Hello. How are we doing?

We're doing good. Thank you, David. How are you doing more to the point? Very good. I've just enjoyed watching Andy Murray win from a set from a match point down again, which I was thinking when it was happening is exactly the thing that hasn't happened for the last two years. And I'm quite sure I thought that about two or three weeks ago as well when it was against Baratini. So I quite enjoyed all that.

Well, you're now making me question my hypothesis, which was that Matt Hallomat did the tweets that just came out on our tennis podcast feed about Andy Murray beating Italians from match point down is shaking his head. Was it you David? You did a stat. Yes, it was.

It's a two point stat. Doing that twice in 2023 when we're only a few weeks into 2023 is is that worthy? I think it is. It is epics only for Andy Murray in in 2023. I think I mean, I don't know how David has done that because we have been on a video call with David since that match ended and I haven't seen him do anything that might was

embal tweeting. He's stealth. That man. Very strange because I do not think if you David is one of the world's great multi-taskers. There's you've got a lot of skills. I wouldn't put multi-tasking up there.

No, I think I think that's fair. Apart from when I stopped us getting hacked mid podcast once in one of our social media accounts, but but on this particular occasion, you may have noticed that I didn't actually start the conversation until the last two years.

I was just in the position until the very second, the timely married one, giving me just enough time to tweet the news. We were in the waiting room while you were waiting for that. Yes, yeah, we were not as glamorous a place as it sounds. Folks, the the streaming, the waiting room. Anyway, tennis has been happening. We're going to talk about all of it on on this pod. That is brought to you with on location, the premium hospitality and experience provider.

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I've never done it before. I've never gone anywhere with golf clubs before. So I did have to look up how you do it.

And I think I've I think I've made it work. So yeah, let's see if they actually turn up at the appointed time. I've been looking at I actually met I asked Catherine to see if she could help me find some golf courses and she did a four second check and discovered we were surrounded by six golf courses.

I think we're all right. Yeah, there's more golf course than there is anything else in Indian Wells. I mean, you can't, can't move for golf courses. So I think that you'll be fine.

Now in terms of tennis happening, well, literally right now, actually, I've just put the stream of Elena Rebecca and against Bianca and dress go on to my TV, which quite ludicrously is a first round match in Dubai.

Absolutely ridiculous, but brilliant. Rebecca has taken the opening set there. Six, three.

Let's talk about what happened last week, though, starting in Doha, the WTA 500 event there, one by Ega Shwantak for the second consecutive year for the loss of just wait for it, folks.

This is, this is an accurate stat. So I know you're going to hear me say it and you're going to think that can't be right.

She lost five games, all tournament and she played really good opposition.

A buy in the first round. Okay, that's not great opposition. That's still away with buys.

Second round, six love, six won over Danielle Collins, who beat her in the Australian Open semi finals last year.

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