Julia Elbaba: Hitting Balls & Hating Girls
Berner Phone
Des Bishop
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
She was the number one college tennis player in America and the first professional athlete to come to hell. Julia discusses how she started playing tennis, how she copes with pressure situations, what it's like dating as a professional athlete, if tennis players are narcissists, what she really thinks about Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova, death threats, how she eats while competing, and who she crushes on in the Summer House cast.
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| 0:00.0 | I made a joke in the ESPN article and I was like tennis you only get paid when you win |
| 0:05.6 | That's it. Imagine if imagine if the nicks only got paid when they won |
| 0:10.0 | I |
| 0:11.0 | Love my fuckers. I'm not be partying in the club last night. I like a game. I'm sorry. They wouldn't |
| 0:30.7 | Hi guys, welcome to Burning and Hell. I am with our first ever |
| 0:36.0 | professional athlete Julia Elbaba |
| 0:39.8 | She was the number one collegiate athlete |
| 0:44.3 | Division one for NCAA's for tennis woman's tennis she won the NCAA tournament and now she's traveling the world |
| 0:51.9 | professionally and she's reached top 400 and she's still on that journey and |
| 0:56.6 | She took a break from her travels to come to hell a place that she might be familiar with Julia |
| 1:03.1 | Welcome Hannah such a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me. It's great to see you as always. Are you nervous? |
| 1:12.5 | I'm already sweating a bit actually. I'm a little nervous. I think tennis players sweat a lot |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, and clammy hands. Oh, yeah |
| 1:20.9 | You'd think we wouldn't have clammy hands because when your hands get sweaty |
| 1:24.1 | It's harder to hold the racket. Mm-hmm, but um God doesn't care |
| 1:28.5 | I actually I wasn't like and sound that I wasn't looking forward to this podcast |
| 1:32.8 | I just felt more emotion towards this podcast like this is the tennis episode and I think the first professional athlete I wanted to have on |
| 1:39.7 | I wanted it to be a tennis player and everyone makes fun of my podcast because they're like oh it's a drinking game |
| 1:45.2 | Drink whenever Hannah talks about tennis and it's like first of all you're welcome beginning. I fucked up |
| 1:51.0 | Second of all it's obviously a huge part of my life, but like |
| 1:54.9 | Talking with you is gonna go through memory lane. Oh, absolutely and like it'd be good and bad |
| 1:59.6 | I blocked out a lot of shit |
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