Hi, I'm John McEnore and you're listening to the tennis podcast. Hi, I'm Luis Grigor de Mietrof and you're listening to tennis podcast.

Hi, I'm Matt Svillander and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast with me, Catherine Mitker, tennis broadcaster and with another tennis broadcaster David Law, David. Thank you very much for joining me.

Oh, you're very welcome. I mean, we call ourselves tennis broadcasters. That's kind of code for sit, watch tennis, talk lots and call it work brilliant.

And then pinch ourselves afterwards. Yes, neither of us have been anywhere glamorous this week for once. We've both been in our respective homes.

I'll be off somewhere plenty glamorous next week though. So no need to worry about that.

So many talking points though today. First of all, your first experience of Monte Carlo, what did you think?

I mean, there are barely words for what I think. It's certainly the location. I mean, I'd seen it on the TV obviously. Most people listening to this will have seen it on the TV.

And yet, it's still, so I knew what to expect and yet it still took my breath away. I mean, it's an extraordinary place. I think I was probably the poorest person in about an 80 mile radius by quite some distance.

And the extraordinary wealth and style and extravagance on display is really quite something. And you used to live there, David.

Tell me about what it's like to actually live in Monte Carlo because I was, you know, I can see what all the, you know, fabulously wealthy people do.

They go to the hotel, the parry and they go to the casino and they flash flash their hundred euro notes. But what does like an average person do on a Tuesday there?

Well, first of all, I should say that I didn't used to get a salary into my account. They just sort of directed it immediately to the landlord where I was staying.

And then I gave some more money. But that's what life was like for me when in my four years of living in Monte Carlo. But I do remember I was in a bit of a fitness kick unlike today where I am the disgraceful physical specimen you see before you at the moment.

In my 40s back in my 20s when I first lived in Monte Carlo and worked for the ATP. I do remember going to run or two at a weekend. And I would run around casino square, sweating all over the foraries.

And you should have seen the disdain that people looked at me with. I mean, really, you know, there were sort of bellboys at the front of the glamorous locations there looking at me with just disgust, just get away.

It's very hilly around there, David, to go running, isn't it?

It is. I always went downhill. It was an extraordinary place to spend a few years living, I mean, totally out of my comfort zone. But a great experience. I would say not really a place to live full time or long term.

And in the work there was a big expat community and you would see all sorts of famous people just wandering around with their shopping, you know, with their grocery shopping and so forth. But yeah, great place for tennis tournament though.

An amazing experience to when they start a little bit like Queens when they start the tournament build for the A-Gun Championships, you know, six weeks out, start putting up the stands.

And the same feel at the Montercala Country Club turning this year round tennis club into an international tennis venue brilliant.

They do it very successfully. I certainly would agree that I'd put it in the category of fabulous to visit, perhaps not a destination to live in.

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