Hi everyone, welcome back to Love All. I've been sitting in the cold for the last two weeks, but Blair, you were in Australia in the heat. What was, yeah, tell me a little bit more about the event. How did it go? Oh, my gosh. Well, let me tell you, Kim,

yes, was it blazing hot for certain days. It sure was. It was also chilly, though, in my definition of the word, chilly. They do joke that you get all four seasons. 100% that was the case.

We had, I think, the last day the high was 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and we, of course, had highs of 114 degrees Fahrenheit. So a little bit of everything. Packing was absolutely impossible. And I was thrilled, actually, that I was prepared for all of the seasons, had jackets for every day because it was

cold inside within the air conditioning when it was hot outside. Anyway, it was, but I have no

complaints. It was the best. The happy slam vibes are real. That term you hear it thrown around

and maybe it's a little bit cliche. It's totally true. Everyone's

fresh. They're coming in, feeling, I guess maybe renewed after, again, the offseason isn't long,

but it's long enough to feel fresh coming in and you don't have a year's worth of, I don't know,

history built up. And of course, history can be a good thing when you get to the U.S.

Open at that point in the season. But, man, it was just the best. I had a fantastic time. Good to hear. Good to hear. I heard there was an interesting number. I think that John Wertheim threw out on the surf podcast with Andy that he mentioned or he heard that one third of the

crowd that came in through the gates didn't even see a rally that there's so much going on

off court as well that that yeah it just becomes like a place to hang out for the for three

weeks in Melbourne it's like a giant watch party.

So like out in the food areas, I went out there for a bit.

I mean, it's standing room only and people are just watching action on the screens.

They had a concert series happening simultaneously.

I actually did a piece on that in my reporter role and it was chuckling because I was walking

into that area of the grounds.

I'm like, you could definitely tell by the way that people were dressed who was going to the

concert and who was going to the tennis.

But yeah, they do such a good job of making it one giant festival party, which I think is a great thing for tennis, because

who knows how many of those people would never come, you know, within a thousand feet of a

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