RESPECT SINNER

“I can't think of a lot of examples of so- and so got injured and it was the best thing that ever happened. I just I I cannot think of a lot of examples of that. Did Alexander Zerv's injury help him? I don't think it hurt him much. Like he came back and did a great job of getting back to where he was before, but did anything marketkedly change with Zerv post injury? No. I I would say quite definitively no.”

“In the real world, if I'm at the club, and maybe this is American terminology. I try to be a little bit sensitive to that. But if I'm at the club and someone goes, Gil, you machine. I'm like, Oh, thank you. You know, I'm I'm puffing out my chest. I'm a machine. I might even tell myself to motivate myself, let's go, you're a machine. I might be bouncing the ball, calling myself a machine as a way to sort of build myself up. Machine is good.”

“How does he handle pressure how does he deal with a big occasion? How does he deal with a big stadium? How does he deal with adversity? How good is he at developing? Are you very good at developing physically? These are all questions. What does Hodar turn into physically? What is he made of mentally? And how is he going to progress his game?”

“We we are such prisoners of the results when it comes to conditions. And as soon as a match ends, whatever the conditions were, the conditions must have helped the winner and hurt the loser. And it's often so disingenuous. Just because he didn't win the match, just because the win took away from what he was trying to do from a performance standpoint, does not change the fact that in an alternate universe, the wind could have helped Carlos Alcarass.”

“I think you need to at to a certain extent try to sink in seamlessly with the the match itself. You are supposed to be highlighting the match in a way where you almost become part of it and you blend in. And when you when your energy levels are misfit with the energy levels inside the stadium, the energy levels being brought between the points maybe by the players. I think that's a problem. I think you start to become a distraction and detract from the match in a way.”

“I am not a believer in the theory that I saw online that Yannik was adding shape on his forehand ahead of the clay court season in an attempt to prepare for the clay court season. First of all, I just don't think that that would be at all necessary. If Yannik wants to play more shape on the clay, he doesn't need to get a running start in order to do that and start doing it Miami and Indian Wells. I think it's more so that his game works on slow and that he's got a lot of great qualities on slow and that power off the ground has become a bigger contributing factor to clay court success than almost anything else these days.”

“What I can say about the Barcelona retirement is it was his knee against Tomas Martine in that first round match. So that's actually great news and in isolation there's nothing to be worried about when it comes to the Barcelona retirement. I'm much more worried about actually and I know this might sound crazy. I'm much more worried about the fact that he felt the need to pull out of Monte Carlo because what has been sort of the the the regular pattern with this particular left arm injury that he's had is uh he he at no point has been like comfortable putting the load on it and and just building up the load and just starting to play regularly.”

“I still kind of think he misses too many backhands. I don't know. Uh, and and look, he he likes to play the backhand flat and hard, and he he wants it to be threatening. I just think that he can make more. I don't view the backhand that way always. Certainly, the backhand can be damaging enough to earn him great opportunities on the forehand. All of that is true, but when he is playing Yannx and he and his backhand is beating him, I just don't think that's ever worth it.”

“Really interesting timing for you to ask this question because I was actually just talking to Stevie Johnson about this. Stevie sliced most of his backhands. I kind of asked Stevie, So, what what were your favorite conditions to play in? and he said Roland Garris on a hot day or Indian Wells. But I said, Huh, so you didn't mind bouncy conditions. You wanted bouncy conditions even though you wanted to slice your backhand all the time. And Stevie was like, Yeah, my slice would stay down in all conditions. didn't matter what the conditions were, my slice was not going to my slice was going to stay low no matter what.”

“I wanted it to tell me exactly how long it would be from Runa's Achilles tear to if he were to play Stockholm, what would the timeline be? I plugged that into AI. It didn't know what the exact date of Runa's injury was. That is not a difficult thing to figure out. This was chat GPT in this case, and I had to tell it. I had to say it was the quarterfinal in Stockholm against Greek sport and then once I gave it that help it found the exact date but initially it didn't even find the date right like that's just one example it it really needs its handheld and that's an example of it saying at least knowing like oh I don't know exactly when it was sometimes it can also just be confidently wrong.”