Hi, this is Mary Ann Batori. I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carrillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm Laiton Huett. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah.

Hi, this is Amy Helfeld from Seattle, Washington. And you're listening to the Tennis Podcast.

Well, hello folks and thank you there to Amy Helfeld who you heard in our intro. If you're wondering why Amy sounded so cheery, it's because that intro was recorded in January of this year when things were sort of better.

And things were rather deteriorated in the year 2020 since then. But thank you Amy. I hope you haven't been only listening to the Tennis Podcast since January in hopes of hearing your intro and been disappointed with our episode until now.

Thank you very much. Great to hear your cheery voice. A reminder of a simpler and happier time. And we hope to once again return to January 2020 times again sometime in the future. What a cheery intro David.

Lovely. I delighted to hear she's from Seattle as well, home of the Seahawks. And I'm wearing my Seahawks top at the moment. So, you know, I wonder if she's a fan because if she is, she's my buddy. They won, right?

I would alternative. We're not doing American football. Not here. They won, Matt. They were they won with two seconds left on the clock last night. I was up watching it.

25 minutes in American football. So that's meaning this. Yeah, I assume there is an alternative. It's not like if you live in London, whether you know, 20 football teams that you can support depending on what region of the city you're in. I assume if you live in Seattle and you like football, you support the Seattle Seahawks.

There's not like a West Seattle sea goals. Well, Los Angeles has got two teams. Yeah, but it's really really big. Is that's presumably the exception. New York's got to as well. I like the Houston Texans and the Seattle Seahawks.

Not quite sure whether that's allowed, but that's what I'm doing. Got well, I might want to advise you to pick the same policy in in British football. David get yourself a second team.

It's just a city that's playing at the moment. It looks quite good. I think I love them. Right. Because they seem to be better than my real team. We're going to stop talking about football as much as I would love to top of the league. It's probably not a recipe for a particularly cheery podcast given how things are going for West from a film just at the moment. So should we talk about some tennis?

Yeah, that was more delayed and less enthusiastic response than I was hoping for. How are you doing, Matt? How's the jet lag without having traveled anywhere? The caravan jet lag just about over it. What a what a weird week. It's been I'll be honest. I missed the first two or three days at Rome because I was just trying to sleep as much as I possibly could.

Matt was only awoken from his post-Jewish open coma by news of Bruce Springsteen and the Street bands new single and to follow album.

Yes, and a cracking interview in Rolling Stone magazine. That was probably the highlight of the week. Yes, he's got two two dogs called Dusty and Toast.

Yes, there's the headlines. No, no, he's bothered with the rest of the article.

And then I was doing so well. And then the US Open Golf started, which was also in New York. And I ended up sort of staying up and watching that a little bit.

Matt's body clock has seen better days, basically. I've got a question about that. This golf, this golf that was won by this chap Bryson. What's his second name?

Deshambo.

Yeah, okay, so he's put on about what 40 pounds of muscle and whatever else by eating hot and working out.

Yes, a protein and and he's managed to belt drives further than any human has ever knocked the matole in the game of golf and reinvented the sport by not trying to get it on the fairway,

but banging it into the rough and then gouging it out. That's what that's what our favorite podcast in golf, no laying up tells us.

Could you do that in tennis? Is there a tennis equivalent? Could you reinvent your physique and your game and basically change the way the sport is viewed, whether it be through speed off the mark.

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