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Welcome to this week's Q and Andy.

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And this is kind of like what the Q&A is about when we bring in people from the tennis universe, like the performance coach, the mental, the physical for one.

Current world number one arena Arena Sabalanka. Jason, welcome to served. How you doing? Good morning, man. I'm great. I'm just feeling good,

fresh after a big, you know, big summer for us, and now we're just trying to get ready for the

the European clay court season. Just chilling, enjoying it.

So you win in Miami and then you have a little bit, everyone says break, but there are really

no breaks, right? Because time doesn't stop for excellence. So what is kind of, after you went

in Miami, I'm assuming there's, you know, a couple days of laying low, What are you doing right now and how does the kind of lead up to Clay work after our win? Yeah, I mean, look, the process is the process. Like, win or lose, you know, obviously we always go through and, you know, what we've just done. We look at what was working well. You know, maybe what's some things that needed some work?

And then what's our plan moving forward for the next, you know, short term like these next few weeks and then longer term, like, are we on the right path still? So it's the same flow no matter what, win, lose, whatever the situation is. And like I said, we had two days off, maybe three days off, I think she had, which wasn't early days off because she's like you know obligations and photo shoots and

interviews and all that and now we we're training. So we're, you know, we're back at it on the court a couple times a day and the gym, you know, once or twice a day, just grinding away, you know, there were some new things that we were adding to her game. Oh, good. We were worried about her.

Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. I guess we were full of, full of, we were worried she wasn't going to win every time. She stepped on the court. Yeah, well, you know, that's how it is. So, well, to be honest, like a big focus for us right now is just the managing her energy a lot more, especially going into the season because you know last year was an important lesson that we're realizing you know a couple years ago

yeah she was very consistent getting deeper into the tournaments over the last few years that maybe

you know off and on a bit longer now and then last year was pretty much just if she's in a tournament

she's going to be in the final or very very close to that if not winning it and so it's a lot of matches you know and going into the clay court season last year we had you know she had you know the brisbane the strain open you know we had indian wells final Miami winning you know and then just a short time boom she's in stugart and then she went to like finals finals finals quarters you know and then do the final of french open so by the time she got to the french open i mean she was so so

exhausted because she had played so many matches and you know by time she got to the final she was

so depleted just her energy and able to control her emotions and stay focused she was just

yeah she just like ran right through her so it was really it was a good lesson for all of us

to realize like okay we should just accept the fact and expect that if we show up somewhere, we're going to get to the final and start to understand that we need to manage that as far as schedule goes, as far as all the things we do outside of the court, how she's managing all her obligations like with sponsors and whatnot. And so that's been a big focus

the last year and a half, but especially this year now coming into the, you know, French Open.

Because we've, the last three years of French Open, she showed up sick, you know, like unwell.

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