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“Rafael Jodar is a name to keep an eye on after that title run.”

“Tsitsipas crashing out of Monte Carlo raises big questions.”

“Is there a slight decline in Sinner’s baseline stability?”

“We need to look at who actually holds the best second serves.”

“Tennis IQ is about making the right choice under pressure.”

“Sinner takes him out seven six six three. He has been completely dominant since Doha, inning wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, three straight 1,000 titles. Backhand to backhand, no one can go can stay can hang with him. Not even Carlos right now. And Carlos kind of admitted that.”

“Jack is gonna be stepping away. Of course, he's our guy. We're gonna try to bring him on from time to time, but his schedule, has just proven to be too difficult, to, to show up each and every time. And we discussed it, and that's that. But, you know, we love Jack.”

“Because of that wind, it that wind affected Carlos's creativity more than it affected Sinner's, consistency. That was from Jim Courier. I think that's, like, summed it up really well. Carlos, especially in the second set, just seemed like he was couldn't find the momentum or, like, that that one miracle shot.”

“I thought it was cool that maybe before the tournament, they're interviewing Carlos, and he acknowledged that he's going to lose the Narayan ranking at some point. Whether that was Monte Carlo at some point along the clay season, he knows, basically, he has too many points to defend. Sinner doesn't have any.”

“I saw his interview on ESPN. Thought it was fantastic. Golf, tennis, so much crossover. ESPN did a great job, getting Rafa on there. Must have been weird for him to be at the masters while Monte Carlo was going on. He won that tournament, what, 10 times in a row?”

“Well, to be to be honest, I'm gonna lose the number one of the world. I don't know if he's gonna be in this, in this tournament or in the next one. So I just I defend, you know, a bunch of points that, that is gonna be really difficult to to defend all.”

“Starting with team USA heading to Belgium captained by Lindsay Davenport, the Americans are sending 18 year old Eva Jovic to make her BJK cup debut. She reached a career high of world number 16 last month and is currently the youngest player in the WTA top 20.”

“The challenge is actually that programs have been dropped. So no one's getting the opportunity because the money is going towards NIL. So I actually think it's a bit of a crisis. I think that we gotta, like, lean in big time and, and find a way to stop those programs from being dropped because those are the opportunities.”

“I've just really been maximizing every single day, putting all my effort on recovery, on doing the right things. And, obviously, we have a very, very strict guideline that we follow. It's not it's not just by, oh, I think it's fun to be on the tennis court. I I'm gonna go on the tennis court. It's because I'm allowed to.”

“On Sunday, ranked 200 in the world and playing with a wild card, the 39 year old came back from a set down to beat world number 32 Tallon Griesbauer. That made him the oldest match winner in Monte Carlo since 1973 and gave him a 145 masters one thousand match wins, the most by any French player in history.”

“If you take green clay and rub it between your fingers, it'll probably feel a little bit more like salt, like where it's kind of hard and firm. If you go to like Roland Garros, it's almost like powder, like it's like baking powder. Like they all are a little bit different. I like the thick clay because I wasn't a native mover. I feel like I could commit a little bit more. Whereas like, you know, the European clay can really like expose movement because you have to be so precise and light and like flow.”

“Clay is rare. It's not the default service in the States. Like warmer climates, there's more clay, right? You go to Florida and there's way more clay. But I always heard that, I was like, we have to do something to make our players better on clay all the time. You know, we need to play year round on clay. I'm like, I don't know, there's three Grand Slams on hardened grass. Like, are we going to commit time and resources to, like, addressing the worst of it and still have to go through RAFA? That doesn't seem smart.”

“I mean, that serve translates anywhere. Potato patch, like when you can serve 140 and then kick it over someone's head both ways. That tends to work. His ball flight on his forehand naturally has a lot of spin on it. You know, I think as the surfaces have become kind of more mono-surface, I think the entire thing is like, can Ben beat me today with his backhand? Which is tough because there's only so many people that can neutralize the serve.”

“If you have a lingering knee issue, you take the time during the parts of the year where you're probably going to be the least successful. Like, is it smart to play through it, Indian Wells and Miami? Yeah, probably your likelihood of playing through that there and getting a result, it didn't work out for him because there's no script in tennis. But yeah, I mean, if I had something bothering me, I was more likely to try to heal it during the part of the season that was the biggest struggle for me.”

“I love answering questions about the French Open. We haven't played a tournament on clay yet. It's my favorite. Zverev. I mean, he's been in the final. He's won master series on it. Like you go back and you recreate his career and you take out those names you just said, and he's looking at five or six slams.”