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“The demon win was his first career top 10 win, and then currently, he has 17 wins in his first 25 career ATP matches. That's silly. That's a better start than Nadal, Federer, Novak, Alcarez, Sinner, and Fonseca. We were talking about this on Tennis Channel. Courier gets the hat tip on this. Hodard's, like, top 20 in the rolling rankings. So this is a big week for him. He's from Madrid. He's playing Madrid. It's this real breakthrough tournament, but it's not like he came out of nowhere.”

“I had to live it. I had to live through the inconvenience of it. And for me, it created at least some sort of I always say proudly, whenever we have controversy, I can safely say that we have the most intense testing in all of sports. I love being able to say that. If I was getting woken up at 05:20 by a doorbell, and you have to provide your codes, if you have a gate to your house and the whole thing, if I was getting woken up, then that meant anyone else somewhere in the world was also having the threat of being tested, therefore, probably making the sport cleaner.”

“Arkansas, SEC school gets rid of the tennis program. The 2025 financial report for Razorback Athletics was reported. And women's tennis and men's tennis are the least of the losers of all of the sports. Football is the only one football makes significant money, made $30,000,000. Men's basketball made $4,000,000. Then women's tennis lost 1,000,000. Men's tennis lost 1,200,000. Now every other sport that's on there, men's golf, women's golf, gymnastics, volleyball, swimming, diving, soccer, softball, baseball, track and field, and then women's basketball at the very bottom all also lost more money individually.”

“Sinner pumped the gas. He's on a heater right now. Oh, he's on a heater. And listen. I know that I talk a lot of shit about the long masters one thousands. If you have confidence in a bottle and you're like center and you know you're it's gonna be you know, you play one match, you get a day off, you play it's probably easier to commit to to Madrid and Rome in that scenario. He has 24 consecutive wins in Masters one thousand events, which is the fourth longest streak in history only behind Novak who did it with 31, then again did it with 30, and then Roger did it, and then now center.”

“I mean, I guess one thing we could say and it does look like this is not a tear. And, you know, you you hear wrist and tennis, and immediately, where does your mind go? To some really dark places. Juan Martin del Potro, Dominic Thiem, never the same player. On the other hand, no pun intended. I was thinking ten years ago, Novak's trying to win Roland Garros for the first time, and what happens? He's you know, is he gonna beat Rafa? And then Rafa has a wrist injury. And we all say, Rafa misses Wimbledon. And then by August, he's winning gold medals and doubles and is playing the US Open. So we hope that's what this is.”

“I think 31 players have withdrawn or retired from the Madrid Open so far across both draws, up from 21 on Friday. 17 women are now either withdrawn or retired in Madrid. Illness clusters mid tournament hit people like, Iga, Sam Sonnava, Maddie Keys. Coco Gauff's throwing up on court and still winning. Chillis was pulled out. So it's it's definitely a little bit all over the place, in terms of people feeling ill, but Coco did say she did not eat the tacos.”

“I remember this is, like, the the shady shit that my mom. She's like, if you ever have to vomit, if you ever like, a junior tennis, it's like, you know, you you're playing in, like, San Antonio where it's a thousand degrees and you happen to play 17 matches in a day as a junior. If you ever have to vomit, go in the middle of court. It's gonna take at least twenty minutes to clean it up. Your mom your mom said that? Yeah. My mom said that. It's next level.”

“College tennis, in my opinion, outside looking in, I didn't play college tennis. I saw it. I watched it. I was around it nonstop growing up. My brother played four years at Georgia all the time. It's never been a better product. It is simply never been a higher quality of tennis to where, as a fan, if you get a chance to go to these matches, go. The number one player on a team that's top five in the country, sure as shit, like, they're gonna be in a major in the next eighteen months.”