10 Minutes of Tennis: Miami Open WTA / ATP 1000 RECAP

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Today is 10 minutes of tennis with World Renowned Tennis Coach Australian in Puerto Rico, Justin

Yeo.

We're going to do a little wrap up.

Chat about all the ways Justin was right.

Maybe he was wrong about something that might never know.

So Justin, Sabelenka, you were right.

Mensik, I don't think anybody saw that coming.

Sabelenka just knew she was going to be bouncing back and pounding even harder after losing

Indian Wells.

There was a guarantee, absolute guarantee unless she was injured.

But even injuries, how do you lose some two sets and 40 minutes on a court, which is half

the time some of these ladies matches are all over for her.

So she was going to come through, I thought, and punish the field and get her revenge for

Indian Wells.

The young girl didn't make it all the way.

But as we've had a podcast before, I said there's a new wave.

We're going to see a lot of variation of ins and outs and ones and twos and top 10 and

top 20.

We're seeing a lot of movement on both sides.

But that's the women side, the men side.

Exactly what I said, there's going to be a lot of movement.

I'm not saying the outward with with Jockovich because I thought he was going to take out this

title.

He looked good, he looked fit.

He looks really strong right now.

But you and I mentioned it, maybe the strength of these young boys are just faster and stronger

and just a little bit quicker and he's starting to feel it.

It does seem to me like the days when Abby C. was on his way out and Sam Press was on his

way out and Andy Ruddick was on his way out.

They just seemed to be over, they just got toppled over and then eventually said, well,

nothing else enough.

And that's what it sort of feels like at the moment with no doubt.

But man, that guy is determined to keep going and he looks so fit.

So that's why we'll see what happens in the French and Wimbledon in the US and I think

that's what he's going to do.

He's going to see out the whole year with Andy giving his best shot.

He doesn't get a title or they'll reassess and then figure out from there.

But, man, sick, well, that's an interesting one.

And the reason why I say it's an interesting one is the, we'll call him a boy, the boy admitted

to withdrawing from the tournament before the tournament started.

And in the end, because the referee was having lunch, he didn't hand in the form, got the

physio to come out and work on his knee and the guy wins the Miami Open.

I mean, talk about some news right now.

It's all over the news this morning.

And if you go back, I don't know, 10 years, 20 years, no one would admit that you had an

injury before you started the tournament.

So that's coming out a lot now, because even when Nadal had the foot problems at the French

and he continued, everyone said he was having problems and everyone problems.

It ended up being, he won the French with bad feet, foot problems.

So I don't know what that physio gave to this guy's knee, but he said that he struggled to

walk or run on a treadmill with his knee and in turns away, I don't know when's the

Miami Open.

So that to me is something that should be talked about absolutely because love to know what

the physio did.

Yeah, is that one of those backhanded self-complementes though?

He was like, well, I wasn't even thinking about playing this one because I was a little bit

injured, but we all know how that turned out.

No, he had the paper filled in.

He was ready to hand in the slip and call it a day because his knee was that sole before

the tournament started.

And he announced it publicly in the speech afterwards.

So instead of talking about all these accolations and everything else, he mentioned the story of

how lucky he is to be right where he is today, right now with a trophy when he actually had

the withdrawal slip in his hand.

He said he thinks his coach has got it somewhere and he's going to try and frame that one.

Definitely.

So, but again, the story continues.

We're seeing a wave of players coming in and out on the men's side too.

So I think it's fun.

It's interesting.

It's going to keep the spectators intrigued and not sure who's going to show up on the day

and who's going to come out and what tickets will be bought, you know, because sometimes

we used to buy tickets waiting for the final, semi-final, quarter final or the final because

that's when the top three or the big three would come in and play and you'd see the biggest

best of five or best of three matches.

Now, I think people are going to be coming at any time because now they're going to look

for men's ago in the draw.

They're going to look for all these players that are just like now, everyone could shine

and it be a good match to watch.

Well, that's my question.

What does this do for tennis?

If we say this is good for tennis because we don't just assume there's a Rafa Roger final.

We don't just assume Novak's going to be there or it's only going to be center Alcaraz.

You don't really know.

And I think that's been a bit of what's happened to the women's tour, sent you a post-Sarena

where we're not really sure what's going on.

Look at you said the young girl didn't make it through.

You're talking about her in Dreeva who lost in, I think the fourth round this time, but

she won the doubles.

So you do have the stars that are there.

Coco's not going to win every match.

None of these people are going to win every match.

And that's my question.

What does this do for tennis to say?

Okay, do ticket sales kind of spread out?

Do the prices of tickets of the finals maybe go down?

How does that affect the business?

Do we even know?

I don't know how that works.

Tickets were changed.

Pricing is pricing.

It's a semi-final of one of the biggest stage.

It's a final of one of the biggest stage, depending on the tournament.

But I don't really make sales go down.

I don't see it changing.

I just think where I'd say it's good for tennis is there's a wave of players all starting

to shine.

We can't seem to pick who's going to sit on top.

There is the controversy though.

Maybe Sinner could have won both of them if he was playing right now.

So that could be probably, but at the moment, he's the only one that sort of has shown any

kind of dominance over everybody and he's out right now.

And that brings more controversy.

What was he doing?

Maybe he was doing something that everyone's saying he wasn't or he was.

So there's a lot of weight going on in the news around Sinner and maybe he's got all these

titles and he's dominating because maybe he's on something.

But I don't know.

It doesn't seem right to me.

It seems normal that these are things that go in and out of players.

And I think tennis right now we're seeing a lot on mouth and female in and out on the 10s

and the 20s.

And we're going to see 50s, like people in the 50s, like I mean he was 50, rag 54 and he won

the Miami Open.

Yeah, I didn't see that.

It didn't happen.

Yeah, so it's, I find it's interesting.

I think it's cool as you have been for 20 years, we've been dominating, dominating with three

players mostly all the time and waiting for the finals to watch something cool and not really

watching the first round matches because you just know you've stuff's coming at the end.

And now you've got to be on and you've got to be ready to watch so that ups, ups, tennis,

tennis, tennis, calm or tennis channel because people are going to be looking for those

specific names now that everyone's popping up.

So I think it's, I think it's tennis is in a really cool place right now for me anyway because

even as a fettower, I still strut all, he's not in the draw, he's not playing anymore,

but I'm starting to get a little more alive now because there's so many players now to

be see and watch and to see what they're delivering and how they're playing.

The variety is huge.

I think the one thing we're not picking up on enough and the data is proving it is how

far they're back into court and then eventually how close they are to the baseline.

And then on top of that, what they aren't showing enough of is the height over the net and

the height of the bounce, which is something that they should be trying to present to people

I think because we've even seen Jacovi cheating balls that are bouncing around the service

box, but they can't attack them because it's got so much height and spin on it.

So the variety is really coming out.

And I think Andy really picking on Jacovi's to hit slice and take the pace off.

So that's another interesting thing I saw in this tournament.

Yeah, it didn't work out well for him in the final, but a little more slice.

I was looking at that the other day looking at some statistics and yet two guys playing

I don't remember who it was and they were both 7% and 6% and 4% slice and then the next match

was Dimitraff and we all know what that means, 38% slice.

And you just think, are we losing that and that's probably, I'm probably 20 years late asking

that question because yeah, a lot of it's gone.

Yeah, well, maybe Andy's preparing for the clay or preparing for Wimbledon, right?

I mean, I've got to start working on it at the highest level to be able to know how you

can perform and work it.

But I don't think I've ever seen Jacovi's hit so many slice backends, especially when

it was in his bread basket, in his zone and he would take the pace off intentionally, which

is definitely an Andy trick that they were working on.

And you need to, I mean, how often does he get to get on that stage and practice that there?

So they've got experiment in the zone at times and that was one of the interesting things

to see him doing some of these slice backends.

I agree.

Justin, we're out of time.

Thank you, Sarah.

And it's a tennis with Justin Yeo.

Thank you.

We'll see you next week.

Have a good morning.

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