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“And one thing that's definitely true is when you get hurt and when you get in the cycle of injury, injuries tend to happen more often. Right? And and not necessarily in Draper's case because one's an elbow and one's a a knee, so it's different parts of the body. But when you see someone who has an injured right knee and they come back and all of a sudden there's a left ankle turn, all of that shit's connected somehow.”

“I don't know. Call me crazy, but I think you could play a masters masters 1,000 in seven days if you had to. Wasn't it amazing to be able to follow a tournament and have it maintain our attention the entire time? And you build. There's drama. And it's like And there's not a lot of space there.”

“It's unfathomable that someone as good as Medvedev loses o. And everyone's like, it's not his best service. Guys want a Masters 1,000 on clay. I understand it's not his best service, but he that's it. It only is like a massive argument.”

“If I'm his coach, don't even mention points to defend. Right now, let's you know what I would do? I would say, I don't care what Earth thinks you're ranked. We're deducting those points right now. You're ranked 90. And we're gonna have the mentality of coming back where we're gonna earn our lunch every day.”

“I might let you take the tip of my pinky and cut it off before losing oh, no. I'm just telling you, like, that is that would be really hard for me to get over. Yeah. That would matter to me. That would hurt my ego so bad. And maybe that just says a lot about my own insecurities.”

“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.”