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The Tennis Diaries
The Grass is Greener?
1:15 - Halle or Queens?
4:03 - the live experience of tennis
5:54 - Jannik Sinner wins Halle
9:00 - quick rant about british grass season potentially becoming paywalled
10:54 - Carlos Alcaraz at Queens
13:22 - Draper V Alcaraz and Draper hype
16:20 - reflecting on Alcaraz’s season and the increase in learning to ‘suffer’
21:58 Jack Draper saves us from the Norries etc, me idealising a future mens top 4
24:37 Tommy Paul wins Queens (girlfriend makes the highlights)
28:12 Jessica Pegula wins Berlin
30:22 Eastbourne and The Curse
31:30 Emma Raducanu ?
34:!6 Layla Fernandez ?
35:25 Eastbourne final prediction
36:15 Tennis and Vogue, Serena
39:26 Andy Murray: retirement impending
47:15 Nadal hibernating on clay
49:22 Federer : 12 final days and my thoughts
1:09:20 - Swiatek’s draw
1:14:34 Gauff’s Draw
1:19:03 - Sabalenka’s draw
1:20:45 interesting women’s first rounds
1:23:46 - Sinner’s draw
1:25:33 Djokovic’s draw
1:29:19 - Alcaraz’s Draw
1:30:31 Zverev’s Draw
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