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Today we are going to do an Australian Open Wrap-Up and Justin has some thoughts.

We're going to talk about the new wave.

The new wave and I don't mean like a secret handshake.

I'm talking new players coming in, Justin wants to share some thoughts on that.

Before we do that, Justin, can we do a quick Australian Open Wrap, the one seed wins on

the men's side and an unseated female American wins on the women's side.

What are your thoughts?

Well, you know, Sinner, just too strong, too solid, too strong.

He's only, as far as I'm concerned, he's only going to get better because he's still

very young.

So we may have found a number one player that's going to be for a while.

I have had a lot of people talk about Alcaraz, how talented he is, but maybe he just can't

get it all together because he's sort of in between Kyrgios and Sinner because he's very creative

and one-up.

But I do hear that he is behind the scenes.

He likes his women and he likes his parties and he likes his…

So you're just like, as far as discipline goes, the way Sinner is disciplined, I think we're

going to see him stay there for quite some time.

He's just…

He's the real deal.

And he's now got this solid belief against who's against him.

Like, there's only two or three players right now that are going to push him.

And he's really got the upper hand right now.

So that's an easy one to talk about.

The big, the big fame as far as I'm concerned is to see her go through…

I thought it was around round two that I watched her and I was like, finally, she looks comfortable.

She believes in a swing.

She's got all these things coming together emotionally on the court.

She's got the capability of doing something for the last ten years and it all came together

in one tournament.

But I really, really hope she holds on to the experience she just gained because she knocked

off some of the best players on a female side that have all proven success and she did it

with class style and the biggest word for me is belief.

She just believes she could finally do it and she did it.

So I just think that is absolutely the biggest comment of the whole tournament is Madison

Keys.

She is just amazing.

I always knew she had it, but it was always up and down, up and down.

And finally, she just believes she could do it the whole way.

So a little bit of advice request.

Now do those of us create that belief before we've won anything.

Madison had never won a Grand Slam, but to believe you can do something like that, people

are going to call that delusional if you don't ever accomplish it.

If I'll use one of my favorite examples is ReShard Gaske.

I am certain that guy believed he was going to win a Grand Slam.

Now maybe it was because of external expectation in his case, but you had to believe it at some

point.

I thought he was going to be a dominant tennis player.

I think he believed.

But if you don't do it, is it not just delusional?

So how does a player or just a regular tennis player believe like that?

That's probably an amazing question for the reason that you're now describing what a tennis

professional is all about.

There are many of us that didn't get to that level.

And that level as far as I'm concerned is a certain level of arrogance and belief in

their skills, their talent, what they can do, their drive, their improvement all the time.

I've got to improve.

I've got to improve if you talked about Nadal Nadal.

If he writes a book, one of the things he's going to talk about is every day he just got

up in the grind happened every single day.

So it's just something that's driven in him and that's what makes a top 10 top 100 player

is you just don't stop.

And we were going to talk about the new wave, that's basically the new wave.

If you look at the average age is 27 in the men's, 25 in the women's.

If I look at the top 10 of the women's, there's multiple women on the upper sale of the

20s into their 30s in the top like 15 players in the world on the men's side majority of them

are 27 and above.

So you talk about belief, they've got to keep going and keep going and keep going and

say, I can do this.

I can do this.

I've got this.

I've got this.

Otherwise, they're up against the wall of trying to make it into the top 100.

And then here's another cool thing.

If you look at the top 100 in the men's and the women, especially the men's, it's like

all these thousands of points at the top.

And then from all the way at almost top 50, there's only just barely thousands, right?

So it really is a hunt, a go for it, a belief that you just, you don't stop.

And as long as the body can keep going, we're seeing players keep going.

I mean, Dimitrov is now 11 in the world.

And I was talking to you before this that we've got a lot of players now that just hung

in their career, hung and hung until Federer and Adal and technically a little bit of

Jockovich now is getting out of the way that they can actually now make a decent living

and try to get their rankings way up there.

So is a new wave as far as I'm concerned and what's going on?

And you mentioned guys earlier, like Jordan Thompson and of course you're going to key in on

the Aussies.

But then it isn't just talking about the young guys anymore.

We talk about the young Arthur Fees and the guys that are 2021 that are working their

way up.

Everybody likes the Ben Shelton conversation if you're an American.

But in this case, if you really think about some of these guys that are, you know what,

I just never was going to be the big three or the big four.

It just wasn't going to be me.

But if I can keep playing into my 30s, I can make a pretty good living and get into the

top 20 because we're not all just getting nuked in the third round by the top three guys.

That's exactly it.

So I'm sort of talking about this new wave.

As long as people can stay healthy, they're maturing later as well.

I mean, our players just got tons of maturity to go.

They've all got plenty of time too as long as they stay healthy and we're seeing that.

We're seeing players go all the way.

I mean, just like I said, but the ASCAS 40 and you still playing.

I don't know how.

But there's players out there.

And I guess my point is that we're seeing a different wave of tennis now and a lot older,

a lot older.

The younger players, yes, they're coming about.

Michelson, we've seen some of these young bucks that have just come in and they're doing

some great stuff.

But it's going to take them long time to mature to really hit the consistent amount

of wins.

So that's what I'm seeing is different now.

And I think that's the maturity that we're talking about because if we look at sometimes

it's just talent.

We're maybe back in the days and the right phrase, but you got the talent that's there.

So you've got your 20 year old that's in the top 20 or top 30 because he's just so freaking

good.

You look at Alchuraz.

He's like, he's every shot in the book.

And then you think, okay, well, what happens if he's actually mature?

And in that case, if you're a kid, if you're a junior playing, we'd be on the coach and

the parent saying, your kid's got talent.

He's got the hard work.

Where's the maturity?

We look at a Taylor Fritz and say the guy's mature.

He's focused.

He's hardworking.

And he's going to be as good as he's going to be.

He's got that maybe delusional belief.

I think one of his buddies called him the delusional concept that he's going to be a winner

at the highest levels.

But the young guys are just talented and that's fine, but to stay there takes that maturity.

And maybe there's a maturity and a combination of that delusional belief that made somebody

win on a weekend.

That's really my question.

We all can look at the superheroes of the game, but has that filtered down to me on the

weekend?

How do I believe delusional that I can beat you?

Sean Boyce is going to beat Justin Yo and I believe it when we get out there on a

weekend.

I have to believe that even if nobody else does.

Yeah, well, again, it's all about how much you're putting in.

Are you putting in the work?

Are you getting a working on the tool bag that you need?

Certain tools?

These days, it does way beyond that because now they have their data guy and their statistician

and they have all these other things that they actually look at how they can break down

their opponents and see whether, okay, I'm looking at a draw.

As I look at a draw, these are the players that I'm going to play.

These are the tool kits I need.

These are the things I'm going to practice or get in tune.

There's a lot of things you have to continue practicing and getting better and better and

better all the time.

It's not just in technique, physicality, skill.

It's to do with tactics.

It's to do with getting ready for certain court types as well because it's totally two different

games.

We're going to be moving on to Claysoon.

That's going to be a game changer.

We'll see Alcarez probably start to flip the players really east-west and we'll see whether

Cinnock can survive that.

There's a lot of flavor going on.

It's probably the best way to describe it.

You said something about what can we pass down?

Probably the biggest thing to pass down is a talent development coach from Tennessee

Australia for many years is I would say kids need to learn responsibility as quick as possible.

The more they're making them responsible parents to child or coach to child, the more they're

getting stronger and stronger and maturity skills are working.

Otherwise, everything's done for them.

The bag's been carried or the restrings or everything's been given to them.

All of that stuff is then going to make it later to mature later in their careers.

That would be the thing I would hand off to parents and coaches right now.

I'm trying to talk it early, maturity, I like it.

Justin, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

This has been 10 minutes of tennis with World Renowned tennis coach Australian in Puerto Rico.

Justin, Yeo, I appreciate your time.

Thank you, sir.

We'll see you next week.

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