Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri.

I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo. This is Pam Shriver.

This is Yannick Noah. Hi, this is William Thule from the beautiful Island of Bermuda

and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well hello folks and thank you very much to William in Bermuda there.

Friend of the podcast in our intro. Thank you William.

O to B in Bermuda right now that sounds like a very very lovely place to be.

Because the world in general is not a particularly lovely place to be right now and that includes

in lots of different ways the tennis world as well. We're going to talk about tennis.

We're going to talk about the fact that there's a new men's world number one and it's not a member

of the big four. We are going to talk about all of that but somehow they're being a new world

number one is very far from from top of the agenda. Unfortunately it's another one of those

weeks and I'm sure there'll be many more to come where the bleakness of the geopolitical landscape

is bleeding into the world of sport and it's unavoidable that we have to talk about

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, sovereign nation, players have been speaking out about it,

players have been extremely affected by it, the repercussions in the tennis world. I'm sure

we don't yet know exactly how deeply they'll reverberate. Obviously we've got a number of high

profile Russian tennis players at the moment including the new men's world number one,

the Neil Medvedev. We have under a ruble that want to title this week despite everything going on

in his home nation. Players have been pretty much unilaterally, negatively outspoken about it,

including those Russian players. I mean Mike Dixon pointed out in his article this week

that Androi Rubelev last week in Dubai awoke to discover that his country had invaded that of

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