Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary Carillo.

This is Yannick Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello folks and welcome to a very special edition of the tennis podcast to celebrate

the launch and explain the launch of Friends of the tennis podcast. Today is the day,

well maybe yesterday is the day, depending on when you're listening to this, but for us, today is the day

that we launch Friends of the tennis podcast, which is for you a very special way to engage with the show,

support the show and get access to exclusive and what is sure to be excellent content.

And for us is a way to fund the show and ensure it keeps going. And away David, for us to auction

off our friendship, it's finally happened. Yeah, you're our friends really, but you know, we're just,

as Catherine says, we're looking for ways to engage more closely with those of you that

really, really care about the show and have backed us for many, many years via Kickstarter and

help to keep the show going and hopefully many more of you to want to come in and just help to

support it. And in return to get extra stuff from us, it is basically, Catherine, I like to think

of it as a completely blank canvas for me to just start thinking of lots of ideas for new shows and

all the stuff that we haven't got time for in our regular everyday lives. Well, suddenly we have.

Yeah, look folks, David Law has been living and breathing friends of the tennis podcast for about

two months now. A lot of thought has gone into this because this podcast is a labor of love for all

three of us. For David and I, it's been a labor of love for 10 years for Matt. It's been a labor of

love for how many years, Matt. Three since I started talking on the show and more like six since I was

in the background. Remember student Matt? Three years since Matt hot takes about Karen Hachanov,

Davis, Cup, winner. Yeah. So yeah, it look, it is a labor of love and always will be, but it is,

it's a time consuming labor of love and an increasingly time consuming labor of love, it takes up

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