Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast coming to you from Melbourne, Solly Hole and London for one final time before our daily Australian open pods begin on Wednesday,

otherwise known as one point slam day.

Between now and then, David and Matt will be traversing the entire planet,

just like Carlos Alciras and Yannick Sinner in their private jet from Seoul.

David, did you see the footage of them landing at their private terminal in Melbourne together,

trying to pretend that they'd had a, you know, a tough flight experience just like us?

But we all know that they'd just stepped off a private jet.

No, I haven't seen that.

I never seek that out because you've painted a very good picture.

I reckon Matt's seen it.

I've seen it, yeah.

They had to do the thing of being interviewed straight after a long haul flight,

but I do have slightly less sympathy because of the private jet nature of their experience.

They were like, oh, I'm so tired, so tired, still sleepy.

Like, yeah, yeah.

Good to have them in Australia, though.

They've really spent the last few days sort of encapsulating the entire landscape of men's tennis for us, haven't they?

Everybody else thrashing around for points in various parts of

Australia, in very challenging conditions, those two just having a laugh in South Korea, just

playing their own tier of the sport. It was like a computer game where they'd just unlocked a level

that nobody else had access to.

And that is the situation in men's tennis at the moment.

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