Hi everyone, welcome back to our Love All podcast.

I'm really excited because we are getting into a fun stage of the tennis season.

We're getting to the clay court season, but we're going to talk all things, hard courts and the sunshine double.

But, Blair, where are you at the moment?

I see you're in a hotel room.

I'm in Houston one last week on the road.

And also, I love that you say a fun part of the season that we look forward to

because I definitely think that there are some people.

I won't name any names Americans who maybe aren't so thrilled to go over to the

Red Clay Claim. I was always very excited at the start of Claycourt season, but then after a while

when I realized, like, my tennis is not really going where I wanted to go. Like I did get some,

you know, a little bit of frustration in there, but definitely always really excited those

first few weeks on Clay. Yeah, no, it's actually really fun to be, just even the visual of it.

Everything looks just so good. Like Zhang Ji Zhen is here in Houston for the first time.

He was actually the first Chinese player ever to win a match at this tournament yesterday.

And he's got this, like, pink kid on with a pink headband on the red clay.

Just like the visual of it looks so fantastic. But this tournament, I know people think about

this week as Charleston Week, but we have a men's tournament as well. There's also an event in Morocco on the ATP side as well.

But this is an event that Francis Tiafo, and he's not joking, he calls this, you know,

his favorite tournament on the tennis calendar.

For a lot of the American guys in particular, this is one of their absolute favorite

weeks because the tournament

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