Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartolí. I'm Matt Vellander. This is Mary

Carillo. I'm Sandra Winkert. I'm Lighten Hutt. This is Janic Noah and you're listening to the

Tenys Podcast.

Hello folks, happy Thursday or whatever day you're listening to this podcast on. It's Thursday for

myself, David and Matt, who are all present and correct for what was so nearly going to be the

Jeremy Shardi apology podcast. He so nearly David made it into a Thursday recording. But alas,

not quite. Well, he kind of has made it into one and I think he still is owed an apology.

I really do. From me because I'm the person who said he's a Monday man. When in fact,

when he came back to perform his heroic come from behind Victory over Alex Dimonore in Monday show,

I then decided to look up the results for the rest of the year and they were actually pretty

blooming good. He was on his way to his fourth quarter final of the year and a little chat with him

in his press comments a couple of days later. As I said, isn't he a lovely bloke and yes,

he deserves an apology. We have never, never claimed he's anything but a lovely bloke just to be

clear. But we might have been too dismissive of his results in the year 2021 and today is the day

that we rectify that. Mary Krilo has been sending us clips of Will Ferrell,

waxing lyrical about Jeremy Shardi, everyone's into him, everyone's into him, including my dad

who pointedly remarks to me every time he scores a win. So if this being a Jeremy Shardi heavy

podcast isn't luring you in to listen for the next 45 plus minutes, I don't know what else will.

Matt, how you doing? I'm fine, thank you. It's our fault, really, isn't it, that we're recording

a little bit later today. Had we been recording when we usually record which is late morning,

this would have been another Jeremy Shardi live podcast because he was on my screen a couple of hours

ago. Yes, as I say, he only just missed the cut, he's just lost out to Dennis Shapavalov and to

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