# Diana Shnaider Joins! Reaching a Slam Semi, The Hottie Coach Bracket & Being an F1 Fan | EP 186

An episode of [Nothing Major](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1756744318), 18 Jun 2026, 54 min.

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Have a question for the show or need some life advice? Visit https://www.nothingmajorshow.com/ and head to the Fan Participation section to submit your questions, stories, or requests for advice! On this episode of Nothing Major, Sam and Stevie take the reins and welcome Diana Shnaider fresh off her Roland-Garros semifinal run. Diana talks about the quick turnaround from Paris to grass season, why she chose NC State as a top junior, and what college tennis was really like before making the leap to the pro tour. She also breaks down her French Open run, including her win over Madison Keys, her battle with Aryna Sabalenka, and the lessons she took from reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal. Plus, thoughts on working with Sascha Bajin & life on tour. The guys finish on fan questions covering first-class travel, tennis finances, Survivor, and social etiquette. 00:00 Show Intro 00:14 Hosts and Week Preview 00:46 Meet Diana Shnaider 01:16 Name Pronunciation Story 02:33 Home in Moscow 03:36 Early Sports and Hobbies 04:46 Why NC State 10:38 College Life Shock 13:43 Dorm Life and Crowds 15:51 TV Shows and Staying 17:05 Prize Money Talk 18:04 Post College Coaching 18:54 Bandana and Style 20:22 Lefty Game Identity 21:17 French Open Breakthrough 24:39 Beating Sabalenka 27:49 Semifinal Pressure Shift 32:25 Tournament Room Requests 33:13 Coach Sasha Impact 36:00 Hottie Bracket Drama 37:07 F1 Favorites and Karting 38:41 No License Confession 40:36 Post Interview Reactions 42:18 Bracket Winner Shoutout 43:15 Life Advice Travel Class 45:17 Tennis Team Expenses 46:50 Survivor Host Debate 48:13 Retire That Story 49:19 Champ Name Dilemma 52:17 Show Wrap and Goodbye See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: All right, everyone. On today's episode of Nothing Major, we've
[0:02] Speaker 1: had an awesome interview with Deanna Schneider, and we also
[0:05] Speaker 1: have life advice and fan questions. So let's get going. Jack, John, Stevie,
[0:10] Speaker 1: and Sam. Got close a few times, never won a slam.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Nothing Major. All right, everyone. Welcome back. I got Stevie
[0:16] Speaker 1: and myself. John left us go golfing, of all things, today.
[0:20] Speaker 1: He had a very, very important tee time that he
[0:22] Speaker 1: could not miss. So he's not committed. Also got Charlie
[0:26] Speaker 1: Fox and the team at SIFT here.
[0:27] Speaker 2: And.
[0:30] Speaker 1: It's a Thursday. What's going on this week? Queens, Halle, Berlin.
[0:36] Speaker 1: But most importantly, we have a Diana, Deanna, we'll get
[0:40] Speaker 1: into that in the interview, Schneider interview. So let's get
[0:45] Speaker 1: into that.
[0:46] Speaker 3: We are pleased to be welcomed by Deanna Schneider. First
[0:51] Speaker 3: of all, I think we got your name right.
[0:53] Speaker 2: That was right. All right.
[0:55] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[0:55] Speaker 3: See, current world number 16, career high number 11, an
[0:59] Speaker 3: absolute standout at the one and only North Carolina Wolfpack.
[1:03] Speaker 3: We're going to get into that. Not sure how you
[1:04] Speaker 3: ended up there. But welcome, Deanna, and thank you for
[1:07] Speaker 3: joining us.
[1:07] Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, guys, for having me. I'm very excited.
[1:10] Speaker 3: Let's not forget the 2026 French Open semifinalists. That was
[1:15] Speaker 3: probably a big one I missed in the notes.
[1:17] Speaker 1: Your name, Deanna.
[1:18] Speaker 4: Deanna.
[1:19] Speaker 1: A lot of people call you Diana because it's D-I-A-N-A.
[1:23] Speaker 1: Does that get annoying when you hear Diana Schneider? Do
[1:26] Speaker 1: you just say yes or do you correct them?
[1:28] Speaker 4: Honestly, when I was 12 and I was just starting
[1:32] Speaker 4: learning English, I was so annoyed.
[1:35] Speaker 2: It was incredible.
[1:36] Speaker 4: I remember I was reading a story in school about actually.
[1:41] Speaker 2: The Princess Diana.
[1:43] Speaker 4: And I was like, Princess Diana, and keep going with
[1:47] Speaker 4: the story. And then the teacher was like, no, it's
[1:51] Speaker 4: Princess Diana.
[1:52] Speaker 2: And I'm like, what do you mean? It's my name.
[1:55] Speaker 4: I know how I need to pronounce my name. So
[2:00] Speaker 4: after that, when I was starting traveling, everyone's like, yeah, Diana, Diana, Diana.
[2:06] Speaker 4: I was very, very upset with that, that people can't
[2:09] Speaker 4: pronounce my name like correctly. But now I honestly already
[2:13] Speaker 4: got used to that so much that even myself and
[2:16] Speaker 4: I go to, yeah.
[2:17] Speaker 2: So outside of like traveling, I just like, ah, hey, yeah,
[2:22] Speaker 2: I'm Diana.
[2:23] Speaker 4: Like I'm so used that I honestly already don't care.
[2:27] Speaker 2: I'm Diana, Diana. Everyone in the team called me D.
[2:30] Speaker 2: So yeah.
[2:32] Speaker 1: Lovely.
[2:33] Speaker 3: Yeah, so where is home for you, Diana? I mean,
[2:36] Speaker 3: where is home for you? Where are you now? What's
[2:38] Speaker 3: life been like for you the last few days since
[2:40] Speaker 3: an incredible French Open run?
[2:43] Speaker 4: So the next day after semifinals, I flew home to Moscow.
[2:48] Speaker 4: My family lives in Moscow. So if I have an opportunity,
[2:51] Speaker 4: I try to go there. Unfortunately, now it's super hard.
[2:56] Speaker 4: It's expensive. And also it takes a.
[2:58] Speaker 2: While to go there.
[3:01] Speaker 4: So it takes me like more than eight hours just
[3:04] Speaker 4: flying time to go like from Europe basically. Spend there
[3:11] Speaker 4: like four days just with family, you know, obviously was
[3:14] Speaker 4: doing fitness, but no tennis, just doing some activities with family,
[3:20] Speaker 4: obviously other stuff. But yeah, it was quick and short.
[3:25] Speaker 4: And now I'm in Berlin ready for the grass.
[3:29] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's, that's tennis in a nutshell. You have, you know,
[3:31] Speaker 3: an unbelievable week, you make the semis of a slam
[3:33] Speaker 3: and right back to work. The, uh, the circus continues.
[3:36] Speaker 3: It's another new week, but for you, like growing up,
[3:39] Speaker 3: was tennis always your biggest passion or was there other sports, um,
[3:43] Speaker 3: you know, that kind of caught your eye, but you
[3:46] Speaker 3: gravitated towards tennis more?
[3:47] Speaker 4: Um, well, my parents, uh, wanting me to do like
[3:51] Speaker 4: some activities when I was like young. Um, I started
[3:55] Speaker 4: tennis when I was like four. So super young, I
[3:58] Speaker 4: don't remember anything. But I was doing other than tennis,
[4:02] Speaker 4: I was doing like dancing. I was also playing piano
[4:07] Speaker 4: and playing chess. So I was doing a lot of stuff.
[4:09] Speaker 1: Can you still play piano like really well?
[4:14] Speaker 2: My mom can play.
[4:15] Speaker 4: So that's why I was like, she wanted me to play.
[4:19] Speaker 4: But then I dropped dances first because I wanted to
[4:23] Speaker 4: stay more on tennis courts with other kids to play.
[4:26] Speaker 4: I was like, I don't want to go to dance classes. Like,
[4:28] Speaker 4: I want to stay on court. So I dropped dances
[4:32] Speaker 4: and then I started playing tournaments and then I dropped piano.
[4:36] Speaker 4: I still can play chess, not as good as I
[4:40] Speaker 4: could because I was like.
[4:42] Speaker 2: taking classes. Now I don't, I just, I remember just
[4:45] Speaker 2: some basic.
[4:46] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[4:46] Speaker 3: And, and, you know, for you, you know, growing up,
[4:49] Speaker 3: I mean, were you, I mean, you were a very good,
[4:51] Speaker 3: you know, junior tennis player on the, on the ITF,
[4:53] Speaker 3: you know, ranked as high at top three, if I'm
[4:55] Speaker 3: not mistaken. So how does it generally, I feel like
[4:59] Speaker 3: on the female path, when you are that good in juniors,
[5:01] Speaker 3: you kind of jump right to the pro tour. How
[5:03] Speaker 3: does someone, you know, end up, you know, in the
[5:06] Speaker 3: U S college system and more importantly, how do they
[5:09] Speaker 3: end up at North Carolina state? Not, Not trying to
[5:12] Speaker 3: be mean here, but not a traditional tennis powerhouse in NCAA.
[5:18] Speaker 4: Well, honestly, even when I was like three in the
[5:22] Speaker 4: world in juniors, like I would never like really truly
[5:26] Speaker 4: believe that someday I'm like, you know, I'm going to
[5:27] Speaker 4: be like playing semis or French Open or like being
[5:30] Speaker 4: top 20 in the world. I feel like juniors was
[5:35] Speaker 4: just like another step. You know, you never know what
[5:37] Speaker 4: can happen like until you basically make it And I
[5:44] Speaker 4: feel like I was playing juniors, Roland Garros, and I
[5:52] Speaker 4: didn't have a coach, I didn't have a base where
[5:54] Speaker 4: to practice. So it was like just a tough situation overall.
[5:58] Speaker 4: And I was kind of afraid that we're all going
[6:01] Speaker 4: to be just like banned and I'm not going to
[6:03] Speaker 4: be able to play at all. So I was like,
[6:06] Speaker 4: me and my mom was just sitting, you know, and
[6:08] Speaker 4: I was like.
[6:08] Speaker 2: I need to have a plan B.
[6:09] Speaker 4: Like, you know, it was like worst case scenario, like
[6:13] Speaker 4: I need to have like somewhere like to practice, to
[6:17] Speaker 4: keep my level high. And actually the coaches from North
[6:24] Speaker 4: Carolina State, they never thought that I wanted to go
[6:26] Speaker 4: to college.
[6:27] Speaker 2: Yeah. So they didn't even ask me.
[6:30] Speaker 4: So just my mom had like some friends and they
[6:35] Speaker 4: had friends that reach out to the coaches there. So
[6:39] Speaker 4: just like some random connections worked. And we meet with
[6:42] Speaker 4: assistant coach at Paris. We just talked. I was like,
[6:47] Speaker 4: I want to go like professional, but you know, like
[6:49] Speaker 4: situation is hard. Like, I need to do a lot
[6:52] Speaker 4: by myself. You know, I need to, like, look for
[6:54] Speaker 4: the courts, for the coach. Like, moving around Moscow is
[6:58] Speaker 4: very hard with traffic and everything. It takes a lot
[7:00] Speaker 4: of time and effort. Like, visas and hotels. Like, I
[7:04] Speaker 4: need to do it myself. Like, it's just a lot
[7:06] Speaker 4: to handle. And they're like, yeah, we understand. Just, you know, like,
[7:11] Speaker 4: just think about it. Like, we can just, you know, say, like,
[7:15] Speaker 4: you stay for a year and then you just make
[7:17] Speaker 4: your mind, you know, if you want to just continue. Yeah.
[7:20] Speaker 4: Or if you're doing great, we're just going to just
[7:22] Speaker 4: let you go. And you just go on tour. Obviously,
[7:25] Speaker 4: it was a very hard decision because my dad was
[7:28] Speaker 4: against it.
[7:29] Speaker 2: Like, he didn't want me to go to college at all.
[7:33] Speaker 4: My mom wanted me to go. So I was just
[7:35] Speaker 4: like in the bridge setting. I was like, okay, where
[7:38] Speaker 4: do I go? And I remember like talking to my
[7:42] Speaker 4: dad and he's like, So you're 18, so you're already
[7:45] Speaker 4: like a mature grown person. So you're going to take
[7:48] Speaker 4: your first responsible decision.
[7:50] Speaker 2: And you're just going to make it your own. I
[7:52] Speaker 2: was like, Oh my God.
[7:55] Speaker 4: And now honestly, I was keep losing in like playing
[7:58] Speaker 4: like 25K and 60Ks. So I'm making qualities, you know,
[8:02] Speaker 4: losing in the first round, second round. I was like, that's,
[8:05] Speaker 4: that's not what I want. Like even I was like 300,
[8:07] Speaker 4: but I was like, no, I like, I want to
[8:10] Speaker 4: do better. And, um, I remember, like, I just wrote
[8:16] Speaker 4: a message. I was like, hey, like, I'm coming. And
[8:18] Speaker 4: I was like, it was so late. We were just
[8:20] Speaker 4: like rushing with all of the documents, like visa and everything.
[8:24] Speaker 4: It was so rushed, like last moment. But it turned
[8:27] Speaker 4: out a very important and right decision.
[8:32] Speaker 1: Did you look at any other schools? Because no offense
[8:34] Speaker 1: to NC State, because if I'm the assistant coach and
[8:38] Speaker 1: the number three junior in the world is looking at
[8:40] Speaker 1: my program and then she's like, we're coming here. I'm
[8:42] Speaker 1: going back to my AD and be like, you guys
[8:43] Speaker 1: aren't going to believe this. For some reason, the number
[8:45] Speaker 1: three player in the world is looking at NC State
[8:48] Speaker 1: and not Georgia, UCLA, Alabama. I feel almost like you
[8:53] Speaker 1: got bamboozled in going to NC State, but ultimately it
[8:56] Speaker 1: sounds like you did love it.
[8:57] Speaker 4: No, it was great. Honestly, I didn't know much about
[9:02] Speaker 4: college tennis. I knew, but I feel like there's a
[9:07] Speaker 4: huge stereotype around Europe that if you go to college,
[9:11] Speaker 4: your pro career is over. And you're not going to
[9:14] Speaker 4: be able to continue like at all. That level is
[9:17] Speaker 4: like low or whatever. And I believe in that stereotype
[9:22] Speaker 4: too until I went there and I saw like how
[9:24] Speaker 4: people are working there and like how level is so
[9:28] Speaker 4: high there. I mean, for sure, other colleges was writing me.
[9:33] Speaker 4: I feel like Baylor and like Texas A & M
[9:35] Speaker 4: was writing too. But I honestly had no idea like
[9:39] Speaker 4: about rankings or whatever. I just feel like I really
[9:42] Speaker 4: trusted like the person, like the assistant coach who I met.
[9:46] Speaker 4: We talked and I feel like it was just like
[9:48] Speaker 4: an honest conversation. And I feel like for me, it
[9:51] Speaker 4: was more important about like the team and the coaches,
[9:53] Speaker 4: like the structure overall and that they.
[9:55] Speaker 2: Understand what I want. And I didn't even care like
[9:59] Speaker 2: the jokes.
[10:00] Speaker 4: Or whatever, like how the dorms look like, because I
[10:03] Speaker 4: remember like seeing like other people coming to see the courts,
[10:07] Speaker 4: the gym, like, you know, that like the visit.
[10:10] Speaker 2: They have it. I was like, we're doing that.
[10:13] Speaker 4: I just came literally a week before juniors, you saw
[10:16] Speaker 4: us and then I went to play and that's all.
[10:18] Speaker 2: Like I didn't care about anything.
[10:21] Speaker 4: Like for me, the most important was like the coaches, uh,
[10:24] Speaker 4: that they understand and that we, and that they can
[10:27] Speaker 4: help me.
[10:27] Speaker 2: That's all.
[10:28] Speaker 1: Amazing.
[10:28] Speaker 3: Seems like a pretty like mature decision to make as
[10:30] Speaker 3: an 18 year old to like pick a school based
[10:33] Speaker 3: on like what you thought was going to be like
[10:35] Speaker 3: the best path for you as a professional. So not
[10:37] Speaker 3: everybody makes that choice. Um, But what I find super
[10:41] Speaker 3: fun and interesting, for you obviously coming over, what was
[10:44] Speaker 3: the culture shock like? Coming to North Carolina State, being
[10:48] Speaker 3: there in the fall, having football games and seeing all
[10:51] Speaker 3: the craziness of just college life. You can see it
[10:56] Speaker 3: kind of portrayed in movies, which most of the time
[10:58] Speaker 3: is not quite realistic. But how was that transition as
[11:01] Speaker 3: an 18-year-old coming over?
[11:02] Speaker 2: Honestly, it was... I did so much, to be honest,
[11:07] Speaker 2: like I haven't went on.
[11:09] Speaker 4: Any football game or other sports. I just went there,
[11:14] Speaker 4: you know, for myself, you know, to practice, to play tournaments,
[11:18] Speaker 4: obviously to play college matches. Just to keep up, like,
[11:22] Speaker 4: obviously with school and everything, it was very hard, you know.
[11:25] Speaker 4: But it was a great time, you know. I feel
[11:27] Speaker 4: like everyone at school was super nice. Like, it was,
[11:32] Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it wasn't easy. Just like combining college
[11:35] Speaker 4: matches and I was playing my tournaments at the same time.
[11:39] Speaker 4: And then I need to keep up with school.
[11:42] Speaker 2: It was a joke.
[11:43] Speaker 4: I feel second semester when we were playing already college matches.
[11:48] Speaker 2: I was crying so much. I was crying to coaches.
[11:51] Speaker 4: I was crying to academic advisor because I guess just
[11:54] Speaker 4: some ridiculous tough classes.
[11:57] Speaker 2: I was like, this is a joke.
[11:57] Speaker 4: I was like, like, why you gave me like I
[12:00] Speaker 4: had early American history. I was like, I don't understand
[12:05] Speaker 4: what you're talking about.
[12:06] Speaker 2: Like, I have a decent English, but like, I don't
[12:09] Speaker 2: understand what it is about. Like, guys, like, and we
[12:11] Speaker 2: wouldn't need to write an essay like every week. I
[12:14] Speaker 2: was like, no, I can't.
[12:17] Speaker 3: We had a few guys back on our team that
[12:19] Speaker 3: obviously came from South America or Europe. That was always
[12:24] Speaker 3: a trouble spot for them because they just didn't quite
[12:27] Speaker 3: grasp it. But on the tennis sides of things, you
[12:30] Speaker 3: get there in the fall of 2022. You play for
[12:35] Speaker 3: a couple months. You go down to Australia. You make
[12:38] Speaker 3: second round. And you come back for the spring season.
[12:40] Speaker 3: You come back for NCAAs the whole season. Like, that's
[12:43] Speaker 3: got to be a crazy kind of transition because you
[12:46] Speaker 3: were the first woman player inside the top 100 since,
[12:50] Speaker 3: I believe, 1993 to play college tennis, like currently, while
[12:53] Speaker 3: being ranked inside the top 100, which is not an
[12:55] Speaker 3: easy feat.
[12:56] Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like everyone was super shocked after Australia
[13:00] Speaker 4: that I went and I started playing matches. But I
[13:04] Speaker 4: told coaches, like, that.
[13:06] Speaker 2: 100%, like, I'm staying for the season. And usually I.
[13:10] Speaker 4: Try to keep my word, as I say. So for me,
[13:13] Speaker 4: like it was a big, like big deal that like
[13:17] Speaker 4: I'm not going to let these people down, you know,
[13:19] Speaker 4: like after that they helped me to have a success
[13:22] Speaker 4: that I'm just going to, hey, you know, guys, I'm sorry.
[13:24] Speaker 4: I'm just going to go and play my pro tournament.
[13:28] Speaker 4: I know that I told you that I'm going to
[13:30] Speaker 4: stay for a year, but you know.
[13:33] Speaker 2: I want to go. No, that's not about me.
[13:35] Speaker 4: So yeah, I definitely wanted to stay and I wanted
[13:38] Speaker 4: to do my best for the team to help them
[13:41] Speaker 4: to achieve some great results too.
[13:43] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. When you first came to North Carolina,
[13:45] Speaker 1: like we do a segment, European pet peeves, and we
[13:48] Speaker 1: complain about the runny eggs and the beds and the
[13:50] Speaker 1: lack of air conditioning and things like that. Are there
[13:53] Speaker 1: things in America that bothered you? Like when you came over,
[13:55] Speaker 1: you're like, why are we doing this? Like what, this is,
[13:58] Speaker 1: doesn't make sense.
[13:58] Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, my dorm was super cold.
[14:02] Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's nice though, right?
[14:05] Speaker 2: It was too cold. For me, it was extremely like,
[14:09] Speaker 2: they were like, oh my God, you Russian. Like, what
[14:11] Speaker 2: do you mean it's cold? I'm like, guys, like, it's cold.
[14:15] Speaker 4: Like, I like to, you know, just like sleep in
[14:17] Speaker 4: a t-shirt. Like, I don't like to sleep in a
[14:19] Speaker 4: sweatshirt or like in pants. No, I would always go
[14:23] Speaker 4: to AC and put it. It was always on 68.
[14:25] Speaker 4: I was like, this is too cold.
[14:27] Speaker 1: Was your roommate another girl on the team, or was
[14:30] Speaker 1: it a random student?
[14:33] Speaker 2: A non-athlete.
[14:34] Speaker 1: Wow. Do you keep in touch with that person? Because
[14:36] Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, there's some random college girl
[14:39] Speaker 1: who's like, oh, you're not going to believe this. My
[14:40] Speaker 1: old college roommate just semifinal Roland Garros.
[14:44] Speaker 4: No, usually, I mean, I would leave my dorm at
[14:47] Speaker 4: 8 a.m., and then I came back at 8 p.m.,
[14:49] Speaker 4: and I would just shut my door, and I don't
[14:51] Speaker 4: want to see anyone.
[14:53] Speaker 2: I just do like some homework and I go to sleep.
[14:56] Speaker 2: That's all.
[14:56] Speaker 4: And sometimes like my roommate would be like loud and
[15:00] Speaker 4: I would.
[15:01] Speaker 2: Be so pissed. I was like, I gotta practice tomorrow.
[15:07] Speaker 2: I need to sleep.
[15:07] Speaker 4: Like I would, half of the year I would sleep
[15:10] Speaker 4: in airports just because like the walls are so thin
[15:14] Speaker 4: that I could hear everything. And sometimes there weren't nice
[15:17] Speaker 4: things to hear.
[15:19] Speaker 1: Would you embrace yourself in, like, the college and American culture?
[15:23] Speaker 1: Would you go to any basketball games or, like, college
[15:25] Speaker 1: parties or anything like that?
[15:27] Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, I would need to be in the
[15:28] Speaker 4: mood to go because sometimes I would be just so tired.
[15:32] Speaker 4: And I was like, guys, you know, even if you're going, because, like,
[15:35] Speaker 4: my teammates would go, like, to hockey game or to
[15:39] Speaker 4: football game.
[15:39] Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm not going. I'm not a
[15:42] Speaker 2: fan of just, like, big crowds. I was like, mm-mm.
[15:46] Speaker 2: It's not today.
[15:47] Speaker 4: I'm like, I just want to be by myself watching
[15:49] Speaker 4: a TV show.
[15:50] Speaker 2: Laying in my bed.
[15:51] Speaker 1: Speaking of TV shows, can you give us like one
[15:53] Speaker 1: or two like favorite TV shows that you've watched over
[15:57] Speaker 1: the years?
[15:57] Speaker 4: Well, the first thing that each of my teammates ask me.
[16:02] Speaker 4: if I watch Stranger Things. And then I said no,
[16:05] Speaker 4: they started screaming at me and making me watch it.
[16:09] Speaker 2: So, well, Stranger Things was nice. I feel like this
[16:14] Speaker 2: was one of the best. Last year, I watched Netflix.
[16:20] Speaker 4: Department Q, like a detective TV show. It was very nice,
[16:25] Speaker 4: like I suggest. Like I love detective TV shows. Um,
[16:29] Speaker 4: and then this year I watched, uh, a hunting party
[16:34] Speaker 4: was also very nice. Like FBI agent, like this type
[16:37] Speaker 4: of things.
[16:38] Speaker 2: I like it.
[16:38] Speaker 1: Yeah. I like those shows too. Is, was there a
[16:41] Speaker 1: moment like when you were in college that you remember
[16:43] Speaker 1: you had a big result on the pros and you're like, okay,
[16:46] Speaker 1: you know what? I'm not going to go back to school.
[16:48] Speaker 1: Was it one single moment or is it just like
[16:50] Speaker 1: kind of an obvious decision over the course of a
[16:52] Speaker 1: few months?
[16:53] Speaker 2: Yeah, obvious. There was not even a thought, never.
[16:57] Speaker 4: Even after Australia, now I was like, I'm going back,
[17:00] Speaker 4: I'm going to practice, I have my matches there, my
[17:03] Speaker 4: teammates are there.
[17:05] Speaker 1: That's nice. So at Roland Garros, I love asking this question,
[17:09] Speaker 1: you made like $ 850, 000 US dollars. Are you going to
[17:14] Speaker 1: check the bank account? Because it probably hasn't hit yet, right?
[17:17] Speaker 1: It's only been over four days.
[17:19] Speaker 2: It did hit, yes.
[17:20] Speaker 1: I knew you checked, though. Of course you checked, right?
[17:22] Speaker 1: You check every day?
[17:24] Speaker 2: I receive an email, though.
[17:26] Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. You pump. So you're someone, if you have
[17:30] Speaker 1: a big result like this, you'll check the account every
[17:32] Speaker 1: few days to see if it hits?
[17:34] Speaker 2: Yes. Um, no, I'm not shaking. I mean, I just
[17:38] Speaker 2: like to check that all good.
[17:39] Speaker 4: You know, that like, I don't have any issues with
[17:42] Speaker 4: my banking or whatever. That's, uh, nothing is wrong just
[17:46] Speaker 4: to keep it like clear. Uh, but not just like
[17:48] Speaker 4: to check it like, Oh my God, I'm rich.
[17:51] Speaker 2: Like not, not for stuff like that. No, just like
[17:53] Speaker 2: for safety reasons.
[17:55] Speaker 4: All right.
[17:56] Speaker 1: That's fair. I wouldn't check. I would've been like, yeah,
[17:57] Speaker 1: I'm rich. I just got 150 grand or 850,000 in
[17:58] Speaker 1: the account. 800, 800, not one 50. Um, that's amazing.
[18:05] Speaker 1: When you left college, who was your initial, like, you know,
[18:08] Speaker 1: you didn't have your college coach on the pro tour.
[18:10] Speaker 1: What was like, how did you find your first like
[18:12] Speaker 1: coach right when you left NC State?
[18:14] Speaker 4: It was kind of hard to be honest, like after
[18:17] Speaker 4: spending so much time with team, like to be honest,
[18:20] Speaker 4: for a few like tournaments, I felt like super lonely.
[18:23] Speaker 4: Like it felt very weird to travel by yourself without coach,
[18:27] Speaker 4: without team. It's like nine people around you, you know,
[18:31] Speaker 4: like always having fun, like, the trips and everything, like
[18:34] Speaker 4: so much memories. So yeah, it was a little bit
[18:38] Speaker 4: odd to start traveling by yourself.
[18:43] Speaker 2: But first coach was just random.
[18:45] Speaker 4: I knew the guy from juniors before and then we
[18:49] Speaker 4: tried and then obviously it didn't last long, but yeah.
[18:54] Speaker 3: It's a trial and error process, but you know, we,
[18:57] Speaker 3: I mean, everybody who knows you knows you've got a
[19:00] Speaker 3: unique look, right? The bandana gets talked about a lot.
[19:03] Speaker 3: My questions about the bandana is, who do you think
[19:07] Speaker 3: would pull it off best, male or female, outside of you?
[19:10] Speaker 3: And who has the best style outside of you on
[19:14] Speaker 3: the court? Or most unique? Because we saw Francis wear it.
[19:17] Speaker 3: I forget where it was last summer. Was that Cincinnati?
[19:20] Speaker 2: It was in Cincinnati, yeah.
[19:21] Speaker 1: During a match, Francis Tiafua wore it?
[19:23] Speaker 2: No, he told me he will. But he's a liar. Okay.
[19:28] Speaker 4: We need to make him wear it because he was like,
[19:32] Speaker 4: oh my God, outside, it's too hot.
[19:34] Speaker 2: I can't wear it outside.
[19:35] Speaker 4: And then he's like, I promise I'm going to wear
[19:37] Speaker 4: it indoors. But then I feel like he didn't play
[19:39] Speaker 4: much indoors last year, so he didn't wear it.
[19:42] Speaker 1: I got one real quick. If another player, like female player,
[19:45] Speaker 1: wore the bandana, let's say in Cincinnati, would you be like, whoa,
[19:49] Speaker 1: that's mine? look like what are you doing.
[19:51] Speaker 2: Right now i mean no i wouldn't be like.
[19:55] Speaker 1: Come on you'd be i would i would be like
[19:56] Speaker 1: no no that's i trademarked that.
[19:58] Speaker 4: You can't wear that yeah i don't know i feel
[20:00] Speaker 4: like i would be more like uh actually you know
[20:03] Speaker 4: like proud like in some certain way that someone like
[20:06] Speaker 4: also wants to like try it and um to see
[20:10] Speaker 4: if it is their style.
[20:11] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[20:13] Speaker 3: Yeah, no, imitation is a highest form of flattery. There's
[20:18] Speaker 3: some saying in there.
[20:18] Speaker 1: Imitation is the highest form of flattery. The highest form
[20:20] Speaker 1: of flattery.
[20:21] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. But a little bit more about like
[20:24] Speaker 3: your on-court identity, you know, you being a lefty, using
[20:27] Speaker 3: that kind of like heavy forehand, using the leftiness. Do
[20:30] Speaker 3: you like deliberately kind of play to be a lefty
[20:34] Speaker 3: or has your game always been this way?
[20:36] Speaker 4: Well, honestly, I feel like I need to do much
[20:38] Speaker 4: more to be more like a left-handed player. I feel
[20:42] Speaker 4: like I'm kind of lacking it.
[20:45] Speaker 3: We'll have to talk to your coach about that. We'll
[20:46] Speaker 3: get to him in a minute.
[20:48] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[20:48] Speaker 4: For sure, we definitely need to do a lot of
[20:51] Speaker 4: more work. But I feel like, honestly, I always play, like,
[20:56] Speaker 4: aggressive style. So I feel like from the childhood, like,
[21:00] Speaker 4: the first coach taught me, like, to go for my shots.
[21:04] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[21:06] Speaker 4: So it's more natural for me, but I definitely can,
[21:10] Speaker 4: can and need to use more like of my lefty
[21:13] Speaker 4: spin and like slices and all of this.
[21:16] Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean, absolutely. And, you know, kind of
[21:18] Speaker 3: using that leftiness, obviously the last, you know, at Roland Garros,
[21:23] Speaker 3: it was an incredible run to the semis. You know, you,
[21:26] Speaker 3: you're a seated player, you're expected to do, you know,
[21:28] Speaker 3: well in these events, right? Like you're one of the
[21:30] Speaker 3: best players in the world. at what point did it
[21:33] Speaker 3: start to feel different? You know, cause you know, for me,
[21:37] Speaker 3: obviously I was watching from home. Sam was covering it from,
[21:39] Speaker 3: from Paris. You know, I feel like that match against
[21:41] Speaker 3: Maddie keys was like kind of a big turning point,
[21:44] Speaker 3: you know, in just in the event with the way
[21:46] Speaker 3: you kind of responded after that second set loss, like
[21:49] Speaker 3: coming out, you played an unreal third set six. So
[21:53] Speaker 3: it just feel like the confidence like built from there.
[21:55] Speaker 3: Like that's for me, from my perspective, from the couch,
[21:58] Speaker 3: you know, what did it feel like to you during
[21:59] Speaker 3: those two weeks?
[22:00] Speaker 4: Well, honestly, I was already super happy passing the second
[22:04] Speaker 4: round because I never did it before.
[22:06] Speaker 2: So already beating.
[22:08] Speaker 4: McCartney, I was like, yes, I was already super, super pumped.
[22:13] Speaker 4: For sure, I wanted to go to the second week.
[22:15] Speaker 4: That was like the goal. Obviously, the third round was tough.
[22:22] Speaker 4: uberly tough just like from both physically and mentally um
[22:27] Speaker 4: and i feel like after that i was just me
[22:30] Speaker 4: me both and like sasha and me we were like
[22:33] Speaker 4: so excited to be in the second week you know
[22:35] Speaker 4: like uh beating uh the girl in the third round
[22:39] Speaker 4: it was such a tough match like with a lot
[22:42] Speaker 4: of being on the table I was like, oh my God,
[22:45] Speaker 4: like I had this ice cream, well-deserved ice cream after
[22:49] Speaker 4: that match. So I feel like already playing Natty, I
[22:56] Speaker 4: was already happy with overall performance. For sure, we wanted
[22:59] Speaker 4: to go for more, but definitely it was kind of
[23:03] Speaker 4: a little bit more free.
[23:05] Speaker 2: And I feel like it's always less nerves.
[23:08] Speaker 4: Playing someone who's like high ranked and already achieved so much,
[23:12] Speaker 4: you know, being a Grand Slam champion. Definitely a little
[23:15] Speaker 4: bit easier than you play someone who's like low ranked.
[23:19] Speaker 4: Less expectations, obviously. And I mean, I already lost three times,
[23:24] Speaker 4: maybe before. So I kind of knew what to expect
[23:30] Speaker 4: from her, like her game style and everything. I know
[23:33] Speaker 4: already her pretty well. But it was a great match.
[23:38] Speaker 4: I feel like I was just very focused. There was
[23:42] Speaker 4: like no negative emotions at all. Even after second set,
[23:48] Speaker 4: that great hold in.
[23:50] Speaker 2: The first game, I feel like it was massive.
[23:53] Speaker 4: I remember I was watching highlights after my.
[23:56] Speaker 2: Match and I was like, oh my God, I went
[23:58] Speaker 2: to Wally. Oh my God, what am I doing? It
[24:02] Speaker 2: was like 15-40, I went to the net. I was like... Wow.
[24:06] Speaker 2: I was typing such, I was like, that was brave.
[24:10] Speaker 2: I was like, I don't remember that. I don't remember
[24:13] Speaker 2: doing that.
[24:15] Speaker 3: When you're so locked in, you just remember the good stuff.
[24:17] Speaker 2: Yes, yes. It was a great match.
[24:19] Speaker 4: I feel like I was just going after that first
[24:22] Speaker 4: hold in the first set. I feel like I was
[24:24] Speaker 4: just like, okay, I hold my surf.
[24:27] Speaker 2: This is like what I need to do. Like, she's
[24:29] Speaker 2: a big server, so it's okay. I just need to
[24:32] Speaker 2: hold my surf. That's it.
[24:33] Speaker 4: Hold my surf and wait for opportunities to break her surf.
[24:36] Speaker 4: And obviously I just had that opportunity in the second game.
[24:39] Speaker 1: When you played, I don't have in front of me,
[24:41] Speaker 1: you played Sabalenka in the quarterfinals, right? When you take
[24:44] Speaker 1: the court, when you're going into that match, do you
[24:46] Speaker 1: actually believe that you can win before the match starts
[24:49] Speaker 1: or do you gain belief as the match is going on?
[24:52] Speaker 4: I definitely was not believing that I can beat her
[24:55] Speaker 4: before the match.
[24:56] Speaker 1: That's how I used to feel too.
[24:59] Speaker 2: There was no such a feeling for me.
[25:01] Speaker 4: And honestly, even like, I mean, I was losing like
[25:05] Speaker 4: 4-1 and 5-3.
[25:06] Speaker 2: Yeah. It was very tough conditions. We were winning and everything.
[25:11] Speaker 4: I feel like in the first set, I was very
[25:13] Speaker 4: annoyed with just the situation overall because I was warming
[25:17] Speaker 4: up with a closed roof. we were actually supposed to
[25:20] Speaker 4: share it with Arina and then I didn't see her
[25:23] Speaker 4: and I was like, what is happening? And then like,
[25:26] Speaker 4: when we were finishing the warmup, they just started opening
[25:29] Speaker 4: the roof and I was like, okay, now I see
[25:32] Speaker 4: what's happening. She was warming up outside and I had
[25:35] Speaker 4: no clue that, that they're going to open the roof. Um,
[25:40] Speaker 4: but then I feel like I had also like a
[25:42] Speaker 4: lot of opportunities in the first set, um, to keep
[25:46] Speaker 4: it up with her and, uh, that I didn't use
[25:50] Speaker 4: or use it in the wrong way. So in the
[25:55] Speaker 4: second set, I don't know, something just like snapped at
[25:59] Speaker 4: 5-3 that I was like, it's already kind of over,
[26:04] Speaker 4: you know, at some point.
[26:05] Speaker 2: I was like, I mean, she's a world number one.
[26:07] Speaker 4: Like I, there's nothing to be ashamed of, like to lose, like,
[26:11] Speaker 4: you know? And I was like, I mean, I'm playing
[26:15] Speaker 4: against the wind. She's hitting hard. I'm like three meters
[26:18] Speaker 4: behind the baseline. And I'm trying, you know, to kind
[26:21] Speaker 4: of play same game style as I played Maddie, like
[26:23] Speaker 4: with higher balls, like trying to change the pace, like
[26:27] Speaker 4: make a little more of like variations, but it didn't work.
[26:30] Speaker 4: I was like, it's not working like today with this wind, like.
[26:34] Speaker 2: I just got to hit the ball.
[26:35] Speaker 4: Like I got to hit it so she can hit
[26:38] Speaker 4: it at me like harder. It's like she can push
[26:41] Speaker 4: me even more. So I just started like hitting more freely,
[26:45] Speaker 4: just going for my shots, being more aggressive. I guess
[26:50] Speaker 4: she wasn't ready that I will be still like trying
[26:53] Speaker 4: to find something different, like trying to find a different solution.
[26:56] Speaker 4: And then like mistakes from her side started creeping in.
[27:01] Speaker 2: I saw a moment, I kind of like, I was like, oh.
[27:04] Speaker 4: I'm getting closer and closer. And then like winning second set,
[27:08] Speaker 4: I was like, she haven't lost a set here. Like,
[27:11] Speaker 4: let's go. It was like my proud moment. I was like,
[27:13] Speaker 4: I won a set against world number one.
[27:15] Speaker 2: No one did it in this tournament.
[27:18] Speaker 4: I'm taking this, I'm taking this as a win. And
[27:22] Speaker 4: I feel like in the third set, I already had
[27:24] Speaker 4: that feeling what I have to do.
[27:27] Speaker 2: Kind of beat her after the second set so like.
[27:29] Speaker 4: I just gotta keep going like same like i need
[27:32] Speaker 4: to be focused like on my surf and hold my
[27:35] Speaker 4: surf and then just being like very aggressive but like
[27:39] Speaker 4: very disciplined going for an easier shot and then again
[27:42] Speaker 4: seek for the opportunity to break a surf and wait
[27:45] Speaker 4: for this moment where like she will try to go
[27:47] Speaker 4: for more it's.
[27:48] Speaker 3: Amazing match yeah i mean you talk about i mean
[27:51] Speaker 3: you know not to talk about the next match a
[27:53] Speaker 3: little bit, but how different is the feeling, you know,
[27:56] Speaker 3: going against Savalenka where you have no expectation to then
[28:00] Speaker 3: in the semis playing, you know, a qualifier. And now
[28:03] Speaker 3: you are, you know, the favorite, which doesn't happen too often.
[28:06] Speaker 3: I feel like in a sport, like in tennis, where
[28:09] Speaker 3: you get that different of a feeling. So, you know,
[28:12] Speaker 3: was the preparation any different? How did you feel kind
[28:14] Speaker 3: of going out to that semifinal match?
[28:16] Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, uh, Even when we played Sabalenka after that
[28:21] Speaker 4: crazy Janik-Sinner match, losing from 5-1, when I was losing
[28:26] Speaker 4: five laps, I was like, it's not over.
[28:28] Speaker 2: Like, it's not over. Even at the pre-match point, I
[28:31] Speaker 2: was like, it's not over.
[28:33] Speaker 4: Like, nope. And I feel like after I already won,
[28:36] Speaker 4: obviously you're so happy.
[28:42] Speaker 2: I feel like... you don't believe it.
[28:45] Speaker 4: Like, I didn't believe it that I did it, you know,
[28:47] Speaker 4: that I'm in the semis, beating Arena. And for sure,
[28:53] Speaker 4: that I need to play next day kind of, I
[28:56] Speaker 4: feel like, was a little bit... That's right. different, because
[29:01] Speaker 4: I had a tough match against Medi, where I need
[29:04] Speaker 4: to run a lot. Then I get that physical match
[29:07] Speaker 4: against Arena, where I was also running for quite a
[29:11] Speaker 4: few balls just to make that extra for her. So
[29:16] Speaker 4: I feel like physically I was already kind of getting tired.
[29:21] Speaker 4: And obviously mentally that I didn't have that just day
[29:25] Speaker 4: off where I can just kind of recharge and just
[29:28] Speaker 4: like to think about what I have to do for
[29:30] Speaker 4: the next match. Because usually I would just go on
[29:33] Speaker 4: practice score. We would like have a practice. We would
[29:35] Speaker 4: get ready for the specific opener, like what we have
[29:39] Speaker 4: to do. like talk through the tactics. And then we
[29:44] Speaker 4: didn't have that extra day. It was like, everything was
[29:47] Speaker 4: kind of rushed. It's like, We're like, okay, we're finished.
[29:51] Speaker 4: And then you have this idea that you need to
[29:52] Speaker 4: get ready for tomorrow.
[29:54] Speaker 2: You need to take care of your body. You need
[29:55] Speaker 2: to take a cool.
[29:56] Speaker 4: Down and anathesio and an ice bath. And then you
[29:59] Speaker 4: eat and then you have press. And then you just
[30:02] Speaker 4: from one thing to another thing and then you need
[30:04] Speaker 4: to call your family.
[30:06] Speaker 2: Everyone is super happy.
[30:07] Speaker 4: Your phone is just keep buzzing and buzzing.
[30:10] Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden it's 9 p.m. and
[30:14] Speaker 2: you're playing tomorrow. You're like, what?
[30:20] Speaker 4: And then you have someone who obviously came from Qualys
[30:24] Speaker 4: for show more expectations. But I feel like for me,
[30:28] Speaker 4: it wasn't more about expectation. It was just Like, completely
[30:32] Speaker 4: different game style compared to Arena. Like, a very big
[30:36] Speaker 4: switch from, like, a high pace and, like, to a
[30:39] Speaker 4: lot of variations to high balls and then, like, a
[30:42] Speaker 4: lot of slices and drop shots.
[30:45] Speaker 2: Obviously, her being a lefty. So, definitely a big switch.
[30:52] Speaker 4: And I feel like that match was so physically intense
[30:56] Speaker 4: that Like after first set, I was already like, I
[30:59] Speaker 4: was done. Like after that, like hour 20. I can't
[31:04] Speaker 4: do this for another set. Like my legs were so sore.
[31:07] Speaker 4: Like my back was getting sore. I was like, I
[31:09] Speaker 4: got to take a medical term because I just, I
[31:11] Speaker 4: can't turn my body and like, I can't run.
[31:14] Speaker 2: Like I can't breathe anymore.
[31:17] Speaker 4: And then it was a closed roof, it was raining,
[31:20] Speaker 4: so the balls got all wet and puffy. It was
[31:23] Speaker 4: kind of helping her game style more than mine.
[31:26] Speaker 2: I couldn't really finish the ball being aggressive.
[31:29] Speaker 4: So it was a lot of long rallies, a lot
[31:32] Speaker 4: of running back and forward.
[31:35] Speaker 2: But she did play great.
[31:38] Speaker 4: Very smart tennis for the clay courts. But I knew
[31:42] Speaker 4: her actually from 2022. I knew that's going to be
[31:46] Speaker 4: a tough match, but she played great. And then I
[31:51] Speaker 4: finished the match. I mean, obviously I cried because I
[31:54] Speaker 4: was upset. I missed the opportunity to be in the final.
[31:58] Speaker 4: But overall, like after match, we talked with Sasha. I
[32:01] Speaker 4: was like, I have like no doubts. Like I have,
[32:03] Speaker 4: I left it all out there. I tried different things. Yeah.
[32:08] Speaker 2: It didn't work. She played great. I played good.
[32:11] Speaker 4: I mean, there was like a couple crazy rallies with
[32:14] Speaker 4: long match.
[32:15] Speaker 2: It was entertaining match.
[32:16] Speaker 4: So I was just, you know, proud that I showed
[32:19] Speaker 4: some good tennis and that's it.
[32:20] Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a good, that's a good mindset. Hopefully you'll
[32:23] Speaker 1: have another chance to make a final. Before we, we
[32:27] Speaker 1: got a little more. Now that you've made a semi
[32:29] Speaker 1: and you are also top 20 in the world, you're
[32:33] Speaker 1: recording this from Berlin. Are you asking for like a
[32:35] Speaker 1: suite now at tournaments? Or he's like still standard worm.
[32:40] Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, no, standard worm.
[32:41] Speaker 1: Standard worm, right? You asked for the sweet.
[32:43] Speaker 4: Well, I have some things that I kindly ask. I
[32:48] Speaker 4: like to keep my room very quiet, further from people,
[32:51] Speaker 4: further from the elevators. I have my quiet corner. I'm like, please,
[32:56] Speaker 4: just like last room, like last room.
[32:58] Speaker 2: I'm happy to walk, but please, I need to have
[33:01] Speaker 2: a quiet space.
[33:03] Speaker 1: Okay, that's an easy ask.
[33:04] Speaker 3: You're much different than Sam. When he made the semis,
[33:07] Speaker 3: he was insufferable with all his requests.
[33:09] Speaker 1: No, I wasn't.
[33:09] Speaker 3: It was too much.
[33:11] Speaker 1: I'm the most simple person in the world. I want
[33:13] Speaker 1: to talk about big Sasha, your coach, Sasha Bajin, real quick.
[33:18] Speaker 1: You guys seem like you have an unbelievable relationship. After
[33:21] Speaker 1: each match at Roland Garros that you'd win, we'd have
[33:23] Speaker 1: the cameras. You guys would go in the locker room.
[33:24] Speaker 1: You'd have this cool embrace, handshake thing. How important has
[33:29] Speaker 1: he been since he's joined you as your coach?
[33:32] Speaker 2: For sure, very important.
[33:33] Speaker 4: I feel like, obviously, there was a lot of expectations
[33:37] Speaker 4: from both of us, from him as a coach, from
[33:40] Speaker 4: me as a player, like, working together. I feel like
[33:44] Speaker 4: everyone was, like, thinking that's going to be, like, immediate success, like, straightforward.
[33:52] Speaker 2: I feel like we had.
[33:53] Speaker 4: couple of tough losses this year, which was like very tough.
[33:57] Speaker 2: Like even like many keys in Brisbane, like the.
[33:59] Speaker 4: Seven, six, six, seven, seven, six, where you, you're being
[34:03] Speaker 4: so close, but then you kind of wasn't and you
[34:07] Speaker 4: didn't get to win and it's tough.
[34:10] Speaker 2: Um, But I feel like the relationship.
[34:14] Speaker 4: Was from the beginning, super just natural and chilly, you know,
[34:20] Speaker 4: it was easy on the court, off the court.
[34:23] Speaker 2: I feel like for me, the most important that that was.
[34:26] Speaker 4: Enjoying coming on the practice, you know, um, doing the
[34:30] Speaker 4: hard work like together. Um, I feel like I understand
[34:35] Speaker 4: that we had like kind of same mindset, like same
[34:38] Speaker 4: vision of the game of what we need to do better, um,
[34:42] Speaker 4: what I can improve. Um, and, um, I feel like
[34:46] Speaker 4: that was one of the most important things that we
[34:49] Speaker 4: have the same vision. Um, And obviously he believes in
[34:53] Speaker 4: me so much. And I understand what are we working
[34:56] Speaker 4: on the court. That's not like they just go and
[34:59] Speaker 4: hit and whatever. No, we know what we're doing. We
[35:03] Speaker 4: know why are we doing. So it was just a
[35:07] Speaker 4: little hard that I know, I knew how much like
[35:10] Speaker 4: hard work we were putting into like the practices, into
[35:13] Speaker 4: the diet, into everything.
[35:16] Speaker 2: And like the.
[35:18] Speaker 4: like on tournaments, it wouldn't.
[35:20] Speaker 2: Like pay off.
[35:20] Speaker 4: Like, like it wasn't like what I would expect, you know,
[35:24] Speaker 4: after that hard work.
[35:25] Speaker 2: So it was sometimes would be hard for me also.
[35:30] Speaker 2: And I also wanted for him to have this success.
[35:33] Speaker 2: I wanted us to have that success together.
[35:35] Speaker 4: And I feel like after this, same as a French,
[35:38] Speaker 4: I was like, this is what I wanted. Like, this
[35:41] Speaker 4: is what, why we work. This is why we keep
[35:43] Speaker 4: doing this. I was like, All the people who were
[35:48] Speaker 4: like saying to me that this is not working.
[35:50] Speaker 2: This is a relationship. It's not going to work. I
[35:53] Speaker 2: was like, huh?
[35:54] Speaker 4: Like I told you this is going to work and
[35:58] Speaker 4: I'm just going to show you.
[36:00] Speaker 1: Speaking of off court relationship, we, I don't know if
[36:03] Speaker 1: you saw it during Indian Wells, we did a hottie
[36:05] Speaker 1: coaches bracket.
[36:07] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[36:07] Speaker 1: And Sasha was in it. Did he ever bring up the,
[36:11] Speaker 1: that bracket to you?
[36:14] Speaker 2: We talked about it. I didn't know.
[36:16] Speaker 4: I think he actually, I feel like my agent was
[36:20] Speaker 4: the one who sent it into our group chat. And
[36:23] Speaker 4: we were like, just like immediate, like start laughing about it.
[36:26] Speaker 2: Like just like the whole thing. I was like, oh
[36:28] Speaker 2: my God, like I couldn't believe that we're doing this, honestly.
[36:32] Speaker 1: So you might find this funny. He was in the bracket.
[36:35] Speaker 1: He lost to Matt Reed in, like, the second round.
[36:38] Speaker 1: First round. First round. Then he DM'd us asking for
[36:42] Speaker 1: proof of vote. He thought there was voter fraud in
[36:44] Speaker 1: the Hottie Bracket Challenge.
[36:45] Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
[36:45] Speaker 2: You're the lucky messest.
[36:47] Speaker 1: Yeah. Then he pulled me aside at Indian Wells.
[36:50] Speaker 2: He was very offended. He was very offended.
[36:53] Speaker 3: Was his confidence a little shaken during that swing? You know,
[36:57] Speaker 3: as he rebounded?
[36:58] Speaker 4: It was a little bit because his wife was there.
[37:01] Speaker 4: So it was, yeah. So it was a little bit,
[37:05] Speaker 4: he was a little uncomfortable there.
[37:06] Speaker 1: That's so funny. All right. We know you love F1.
[37:10] Speaker 1: The Monaco Grand Prix was over the weekend. Do you
[37:12] Speaker 1: have a favorite F1? Who's your favorite driver on the
[37:14] Speaker 1: grid right now?
[37:16] Speaker 2: Max Verstappen.
[37:17] Speaker 1: Mine too, actually. No way!
[37:19] Speaker 2: Let's go.
[37:20] Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't a nice weekend, though.
[37:23] Speaker 1: No, I know. His car broke down early. Have you
[37:25] Speaker 1: ever driven an F1 car?
[37:27] Speaker 2: No, no, no.
[37:29] Speaker 1: Do you think you could figure it out?
[37:31] Speaker 2: No clue.
[37:32] Speaker 4: We were actually thinking to go with Sasha to try
[37:35] Speaker 4: a simulator. together in like while being in Madrid, it
[37:39] Speaker 4: was actually close by, but then we just, we reached out.
[37:42] Speaker 2: Final in double.
[37:43] Speaker 4: So it was like all very rushed to the going
[37:46] Speaker 4: to the Rome. So we couldn't do it, but I
[37:49] Speaker 4: love doing karting with my younger brother.
[37:54] Speaker 2: So I don't know.
[37:55] Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it's super different compared to the karting, but.
[38:00] Speaker 2: It's super cool. Maybe, maybe one day.
[38:02] Speaker 1: If you had to pick one player from the WTA
[38:04] Speaker 1: Tour that you would trust could get in an F1
[38:07] Speaker 1: car right now and drive it around the track, who
[38:09] Speaker 1: would that be? And then also, if you had to
[38:11] Speaker 1: pick two or three other women to lead the pit
[38:14] Speaker 1: crew for that car, who would you trust for that?
[38:17] Speaker 2: I feel like to lead the pit crew is going
[38:21] Speaker 2: to be Arena.
[38:22] Speaker 1: Lead the pit crew, Arena, all right.
[38:24] Speaker 2: Then....
[38:26] Speaker 4: I feel like Jess Pegula is going to be very
[38:28] Speaker 4: good leading also.
[38:32] Speaker 1: The driver is the one we're looking at. Who do
[38:35] Speaker 1: you trust to get in the car right now and
[38:37] Speaker 1: could figure out how to drive that car around a track?
[38:41] Speaker 1: It could be you, if you want to say that.
[38:45] Speaker 2: I don't have a.
[38:46] Speaker 4: Driver's license, so I wouldn't trust myself yet on this.
[38:49] Speaker 1: You don't have a driver's license?
[38:51] Speaker 2: No, I don't.
[38:53] Speaker 1: Okay so like when you're at indian wells in cincinnati
[38:56] Speaker 1: every player gets a car do you get a car
[38:58] Speaker 1: and just like sasha or your family will.
[38:59] Speaker 4: Drive it around sasha is driving me i'm a i'm
[39:01] Speaker 4: a passenger princess are you.
[39:03] Speaker 1: Planning to get passenger princess i love it are you
[39:05] Speaker 1: planning to get a license.
[39:07] Speaker 4: I'm i'm planning but i need to first learn how to.
[39:10] Speaker 3: Drive yeah if you got into any car right now
[39:13] Speaker 3: could you drive i can't.
[39:15] Speaker 2: But obviously where's the this is I have a question.
[39:20] Speaker 1: Where would you get your drive? Where do you where
[39:21] Speaker 1: would you get your license? Could you get it in
[39:23] Speaker 1: the U.S. or Europe or Russia? Is there one place.
[39:26] Speaker 2: Easier to get it? I would need to go to
[39:28] Speaker 2: Russia for that.
[39:30] Speaker 1: Is it easier to pass a driver's test there compared
[39:33] Speaker 1: to another country?
[39:36] Speaker 4: I don't think that I'm going to be able, as
[39:39] Speaker 4: a non-American citizen, to get it in the U.S.
[39:41] Speaker 2: I'm not sure about it. I need to do some
[39:44] Speaker 2: research on that.
[39:46] Speaker 1: Um all right well we hope you get your license
[39:48] Speaker 1: i our good friend francis tiafoe i think just got
[39:51] Speaker 1: his license so it's not like a big deal oh
[39:53] Speaker 1: okay francis didn't get it maybe not just got it
[39:55] Speaker 1: but a few years ago i.
[39:56] Speaker 4: Feel like me and mira should do some uh some
[39:58] Speaker 4: lessons together so we can have it together you.
[40:01] Speaker 1: Should you know what we'll we'll actually be in cincinnati
[40:05] Speaker 1: we can like go out to like an empty parking lot.
[40:07] Speaker 3: Are you playing are you playing memphis Uh, no, I'm
[40:10] Speaker 3: going to play Washington. Cause we'll be in Memphis as well.
[40:12] Speaker 1: Cincinnati. We're going to go out to like a parking lot.
[40:14] Speaker 1: We'll work on, we'll put up cones and stuff and
[40:16] Speaker 1: we can do some, some driving.
[40:19] Speaker 2: That's going to be so fun. Oh my God. I
[40:21] Speaker 2: was going to just break all the cones.
[40:23] Speaker 1: I feel like probably that sounds about right. Um, all right, Deanna,
[40:26] Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. That was a lot of fun. Again,
[40:29] Speaker 1: congrats on Roland Garros and keep it going and we'll
[40:31] Speaker 1: see you soon.
[40:32] Speaker 2: Thank you guys. It was fun.
[40:34] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[40:34] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[40:35] Speaker 4: Bye bye. All right.
[40:36] Speaker 1: Thanks to Deanna Schneider. I always liked her prior to
[40:40] Speaker 1: that interview. She's now like one of my like top
[40:43] Speaker 1: five favorite women on tour. She was fun. Didn't you think?
[40:47] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[40:47] Speaker 3: I mean, it's been nice because I sat with her
[40:49] Speaker 3: one time really only like at a slam. We have
[40:51] Speaker 3: the same, you know, her, John, you know, we all
[40:54] Speaker 3: have the same representation. So I sat at a table
[40:55] Speaker 3: with her. Great personality. This was a couple of years
[40:58] Speaker 3: back and fun to get a chance to talk to her.
[41:00] Speaker 1: It was great.
[41:01] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[41:01] Speaker 1: Speaking of personality, personality, hers is bubbly. Hers is fun.
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[42:14] Speaker 1: We're going to go to life advice and fan questions.
[42:18] Speaker 1: Real quick, for our bracket winner for Roland Garros, it
[42:22] Speaker 1: was from Russian fan. We have a message from Russian fan.
[42:25] Speaker 1: Usually if you win that, you get to come on
[42:27] Speaker 1: the pod. He doesn't speak English. So he wrote us
[42:30] Speaker 1: a letter. I'm just going to summarize it real quick.
[42:34] Speaker 1: This guy's name is Alexey Bermistrov. He's a nuclear engineer
[42:41] Speaker 1: sector developing software for safety analysis of nuclear power plants. Whoa,
[42:46] Speaker 1: that's crazy. Basically, he loves tennis. He had Andreeva was
[42:52] Speaker 1: his pick to win it. He also had Marduk Kostiuk
[42:55] Speaker 1: going far. He loves watching tennis, loved watching John play,
[42:58] Speaker 1: big fans of the pod. One of the OG pod
[43:00] Speaker 1: guys who's listening to this. So Russia fan, Alexei, thank
[43:06] Speaker 1: you for the message. And, you know, that's what we
[43:11] Speaker 1: got from him. Now let's move on. Life advice. We're
[43:15] Speaker 1: going to start with Abby from Kentucky. She's got a
[43:18] Speaker 1: debate with her husband. Do a majority of top players
[43:21] Speaker 1: fly first class or not? Like top 20, are you
[43:24] Speaker 1: flying first class if the flight is several hours? Stevie,
[43:28] Speaker 1: top 20 players flying first class.
[43:30] Speaker 3: Good question.
[43:30] Speaker 4: Don't know.
[43:31] Speaker 3: It was never top 20. So it's kind of mean
[43:33] Speaker 3: to ask me that question. But it depends.
[43:37] Speaker 1: It depends. I.
[43:40] Speaker 3: I was a little frugal. I will say like I
[43:42] Speaker 3: would sit, you know, I was a loyal United guy. Um,
[43:46] Speaker 3: so I always sat like we have two exit rows.
[43:48] Speaker 3: I sat in the second exit row window. I like
[43:50] Speaker 3: to kind of just hunker down. So I usually wouldn't
[43:51] Speaker 3: buy first class unless like I won a tournament and
[43:54] Speaker 3: I was flying home. Then like, obviously like I'm, you know,
[43:57] Speaker 3: just clicking the first class button, but we get upgraded
[44:00] Speaker 3: a lot. It's kind of a perk of traveling 200
[44:03] Speaker 3: weeks a year. Um, so I didn't generally buy first
[44:07] Speaker 3: class tickets, but Usually got upgraded or kind of worked
[44:10] Speaker 3: the system. Sam and I, you're very good at beating
[44:14] Speaker 3: the system of airplane upgrades and whatnot.
[44:16] Speaker 1: You're good at it. Yeah. I would say top 10.
[44:19] Speaker 1: They flat out purchased the first class ticket every single time.
[44:23] Speaker 1: Maybe even up to top 15. There might be a
[44:25] Speaker 1: couple players... I might have a different answer than Stevie
[44:28] Speaker 1: that like don't fly first class all the time. And
[44:30] Speaker 1: that might be like from Madrid to Rome. Correct. Anything
[44:34] Speaker 1: over five hours, top 20, they're first class like every time.
[44:39] Speaker 3: I was on a plane going to Miami this year
[44:42] Speaker 3: to the event and we had like Rublev catching off
[44:46] Speaker 3: and these guys, they were all in the back.
[44:48] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[44:49] Speaker 3: I just thought about that.
[44:50] Speaker 1: It's surprising.
[44:51] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[44:52] Speaker 1: No, it's a... Look, even if you're top 20 in
[44:56] Speaker 1: the world, you're making good money. If a coach ticket's
[44:58] Speaker 1: $ 400 and the first class ticket is $ 2, 800, money's money.
[45:03] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[45:04] Speaker 1: So I think to give a definitive answer, top 10
[45:07] Speaker 1: is first class all the time. 10 to 20 maybe
[45:10] Speaker 1: is like a 50-50. Yep. International flights basically every time.
[45:17] Speaker 4: All right.
[45:17] Speaker 1: Good question. Next one is from Jacob Robinson from Katy, Texas.
[45:20] Speaker 1: I would love to understand the business of tennis. Example,
[45:22] Speaker 1: when a player plays at a major and they have
[45:24] Speaker 1: their team with them, is the player paying for each
[45:26] Speaker 1: team member's hotel, travel, food while at the tournament? Did
[45:29] Speaker 1: they submit expenses to someone? Just curious on how it works.
[45:34] Speaker 1: I can start on this. Yes, the player is responsible
[45:36] Speaker 1: for paying everyone's salary, food, travel expenses. That's what a
[45:41] Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize when you see, we talked
[45:43] Speaker 1: about in the episode last week, you get $ 107, 000 for
[45:46] Speaker 1: losing first round at Wimbledon. Great check, right? But you
[45:49] Speaker 1: also are paying like a coach, maybe a physio. Your
[45:52] Speaker 1: hotel room is paid for. You get a per diem,
[45:54] Speaker 1: but you might be paying your coach's hotel room. And
[45:56] Speaker 1: then like your flight, your coach's flight, if you have
[45:59] Speaker 1: a significant other, their flight. So like that starts to
[46:01] Speaker 1: chip away at that. pretty significantly but that's the biggest
[46:04] Speaker 1: difference between tennis an individual sport and a team sport
[46:07] Speaker 1: where like the team is paying for everything.
[46:09] Speaker 3: Yeah it's it's tricky because you know some tournaments or
[46:12] Speaker 3: most most tournaments will pay for your hotel but your
[46:15] Speaker 3: travel your coaches you know you're you're paying them everything
[46:19] Speaker 3: comes out of your pocket so it's kind of a
[46:20] Speaker 3: weird dynamic that you are paying your coach generally to
[46:23] Speaker 3: tell you what you don't want to hear sometimes so
[46:26] Speaker 3: it gets a It's, uh, all that comes out of, uh,
[46:31] Speaker 3: out of your own pocket. It's weird.
[46:32] Speaker 1: And they'll submit, um, like expenses. Like, you know, we
[46:36] Speaker 1: had a coach, like, here's my flight, $ 815. Here's the food.
[46:39] Speaker 1: Here's the hotel. At the end of the day, boom, boom, boom.
[46:41] Speaker 1: You know, for that last trip, you owe me, uh,
[46:43] Speaker 1: you know, $ 11, 312.
[46:43] Speaker 2: Yep.
[46:44] Speaker 1: And so, um, yeah, that's exactly how it works. All right.
[46:50] Speaker 1: Next up, Samantha from Orange County. Which host would survive
[46:54] Speaker 1: the longest on a reality show like Survivor and who
[46:56] Speaker 1: would be voted out first?
[46:58] Speaker 3: That's a good question.
[46:59] Speaker 1: We'd all be pretty bad on it. I just came back.
[47:01] Speaker 1: I was two days in the woods last week. I
[47:02] Speaker 1: hated every second of it. So I'm just going to
[47:04] Speaker 1: go ahead and remove myself from the– If.
[47:06] Speaker 3: We take it out of like an island format, like
[47:09] Speaker 3: if it's strictly like– maybe like Big Brother would be
[47:12] Speaker 3: a better scenario. Like none– the three of us would
[47:15] Speaker 3: be so– I would– I'd step one foot on an
[47:19] Speaker 3: island and be like, I'm good. I'm not an outdoorsman
[47:21] Speaker 3: to zero chance. But you give me a game show
[47:25] Speaker 3: or that where it's like you're in a house and
[47:27] Speaker 3: there's running water and food and a nice shower. I
[47:31] Speaker 3: feel like I could do pretty good.
[47:33] Speaker 1: I would trust you to make it the longest on
[47:36] Speaker 1: a show like that.
[47:37] Speaker 3: I would manipulate people. Probably not a strong suit of mine. Sorry,
[47:43] Speaker 3: it is a strong suit, but maybe not a strong
[47:44] Speaker 3: quality of mine.
[47:46] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[47:47] Speaker 3: But yes, the three of us in an outdoor survivor situation,
[47:49] Speaker 3: 30 seconds.
[47:51] Speaker 1: Yeah. John will get voted out first. He's got OCD
[47:54] Speaker 1: and he gets all weird if he doesn't have his
[47:56] Speaker 1: breakfast and stuff.
[47:57] Speaker 4: This is true.
[47:57] Speaker 3: But I feel like he would be valuable in that
[48:00] Speaker 3: setting because maybe he can reach really tall.
[48:02] Speaker 4: And get things.
[48:02] Speaker 1: Get the coconuts from the trees and things. Think about it.
[48:05] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[48:06] Speaker 1: That's a good point. All right. That was a fan question.
[48:12] Speaker 1: Let's go to life advice. John from Ohio asks, My
[48:15] Speaker 1: friends say I've told the same story so many times
[48:18] Speaker 1: that they can recite it word for word. Am I
[48:20] Speaker 1: obligated to retire the story?
[48:22] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[48:23] Speaker 1: You even know that you're telling the same story all
[48:25] Speaker 1: the time. If it's a new group, you can. This
[48:27] Speaker 1: is just– you got to have some social awareness here, John.
[48:32] Speaker 4: Right?
[48:32] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[48:33] Speaker 3: You got to retire that story unless it's like an all-timer, right?
[48:38] Speaker 3: And people are asking to hear it, right? Like, oh,
[48:42] Speaker 3: this guy has never heard it.
[48:44] Speaker 1: You know what?
[48:44] Speaker 3: A good– a good comparison would be like you and
[48:47] Speaker 3: your Russia story. You've probably told it so many times.
[48:49] Speaker 3: You never come out and talk about it, but I
[48:52] Speaker 3: feel like you get asked about it a lot. Like
[48:54] Speaker 3: if it, you know what I mean? Like if that
[48:56] Speaker 3: kind of comes up and I can tell like, you're
[48:59] Speaker 3: a little like, like I got to tell the story again,
[49:01] Speaker 3: kind of deal, but I get it. Like people want
[49:03] Speaker 3: to hear it. It's a great story, but I get it.
[49:06] Speaker 3: But you, you never outright come and just tell people like, Oh,
[49:09] Speaker 3: did you guys know I escaped from Russia? So it's, it's, um,
[49:13] Speaker 3: it's one of those things.
[49:14] Speaker 1: Yeah. I, If this is a great story, I guess
[49:16] Speaker 1: you can, but yeah, it's time to maybe move on.
[49:19] Speaker 1: uh we got one more here brad from georgia a
[49:21] Speaker 1: guy at my club has called me champ for so
[49:24] Speaker 1: long that i don't actually know if he knows my
[49:25] Speaker 1: name should i ask i'm not sure if he's mocking
[49:28] Speaker 1: me as if i'm not that great at tennis he
[49:30] Speaker 1: 100 doesn't know your name right that's an obvious one
[49:34] Speaker 1: that doesn't know um and should i ask no i
[49:37] Speaker 1: don't think he should Just keep– he's calling you champ.
[49:40] Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
[49:41] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's– I'm guilty of this. Like, I'm super guilty. Like, hey,
[49:46] Speaker 3: I'm like a big, what's up, dude? Or what's up, man? Like,
[49:48] Speaker 3: great to see you. And then, like, I panic, like,
[49:50] Speaker 3: text the wife or, like, ask anybody, like, what's that
[49:53] Speaker 3: guy's name? I've met him 50 times. I'm like a–
[49:57] Speaker 3: I'm a big proponent of that. It's not disrespectful, like,
[50:02] Speaker 3: to a certain degree. But, like, unless you, like, outright
[50:05] Speaker 3: come and be like, hey, like, hey, I– completely forgot
[50:08] Speaker 3: your name. Like, what is it? You know, you just
[50:10] Speaker 3: own up to it. Then that works out well, but
[50:12] Speaker 3: it gets, it gets tricky.
[50:14] Speaker 1: Have some sympathy for the other guy. He doesn't know
[50:16] Speaker 1: your name, Brad, you know, you don't know people's names.
[50:19] Speaker 1: We've all been in this situation. Just keep the bit going.
[50:22] Speaker 1: Let them call you champ. And, and let's move on.
[50:25] Speaker 3: It'll, it'll all solve itself in a minute.
[50:27] Speaker 4: Yeah.
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[52:19] Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed it. Again, thank you to Deanna Schneider
[52:22] Speaker 1: for joining. We'll be cheering her on like we always have,
[52:25] Speaker 1: but now like a lot more because she is the best.
[52:27] Speaker 1: And we'll be back on Monday with results from Holly, Queens, Berlin,
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