Hi, this is Mary Ann Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Ravinka. I'm like Newt. I'm Andy Murray.

This is Janik Noah and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Well happy new year everybody in the words of Raffa Al Nadal. We say goodbye to a year

that is better to forget without any doubt those words quoted by our own Matt Roberts on Twitter

very perfectly to ring in the new year. So thank you Matt for bringing those words into all of our lives.

Yes and he said it with a raised eyebrow of course.

Yes better to forget. I'm not sure any of this will but hooray it's 2021. Welcome to what hopefully

will be a better year and the benchmark is low. Yeah already feels better.

We welcome into the year 2021 our first weekly pet mascot. I'm like David with the first

aggro show. I'm like waiting to burst through the zoom screen because I'm so excited about this

and in particular I mean obviously they're all wonderful. If you if you've banged

yourself a pet mascot slot in our Kickstarter then it's it's going to be great. I'm going to fall

in love with your pet. Don't worry but I am very excited about lovely Roxy who is kicking things off

for us. Roxy is owned by lovely Julie who for the past is it three years? Yeah.

Julie has been our very first Kickstarter backer. Three Pete. A three Pete. It's I always think of

that opening round on who wants to be a millionaire the fastest finger first round which I think

Julie would absolutely nail should get in the hot seat every time. Go on Julie. Go on Julie.

Julie's Roxy and she has sent us a package of content re-roxy which will be drip feeding on

our social media throughout the week. Roxy is a nearly nine year old Hava Jack which extraordinarily

is a breed of dog I was not previously aware of so I've learned something about K9s this week

which is a Havanese Jack Russell mix very appropriately very aptly for for week one

custody of Roxy is shared between Julie and her brother Peter which is the arrangement that I've

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