This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

VaynerNation, how are you? Very excited today for a new podcast. It is late, late,

late summer in New York City and for us, East Coaster, that means it's US Open Time

and we have a tremendous guest today talking about a subject matter that I have

a lot of passion for. I grew up loving hacking with tennis and watching it.

I still think Michael Chang's Paris run is something I think about every time the summer

starts because I'll never forget it and I've been a long time fan of tennis and as my

career has evolved, I've really become friendly with a lot of the guys and gals on the tour

and enjoy it and my guest today is one of the most significant individuals in the sport today.

Some people call him the Commissioner of tennis and I'm excited to gap with him and

really as we go on this journey of leaning into your passions and doing what you love

and really mindset, you want to talk about a sport that really leans into mindset and

even the ebbs and flows in a single match are fascinating, the highs up highs, the lows

of lows. As many of you know, Novak Joker is my favorite tennis player and I legitimately

have time, he's down two sets to love in a match. I go to social media and say, and

now it's going to start and he legitimately lands it for me eight out of ten times.

And so, Patrick, it's really a great pleasure to have you on the show.

Why don't you tell everybody who you are in a little bit about yourself and then I'll get into some questions.

Thank you Gary. I didn't know you were such a tennis fan. Happy to know.

Well, I'm a tennis fan. I really am a tennis fan. I fell in love with tennis when I was four

years old as a kid. I used to be a player when I was young and then I had to stop tennis because

my parents thought it was not a real thing. Yeah, a two risky thing. Two risky. They didn't want

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