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Well, the first name is Destanee, so it was always destined that she was going to make it.

First time she ever picked up a racket, age five, all the way in Nari Warren, Australia.

And pretty remarkable just to see her journey with everything she's gone through.

And just great to see her back on the court playing at this level.

She looked great in the first round, a battle.

But I'm really intrigued to see what she does with Collins in this next match.

Collins is really solid, but I think that power that Collins hit may feed in the Destiny.

And I think Destiny is going to give her a bit of a shake up.

But a little D, we call it a little D. The dad Mark and Mom Rosie.

It's incredible journey that she's made and I hope she can keep going.

She's also doing a lot of pretty amazing stuff for Islanders because she's a bit of a, she's

from Samoan background.

So she's inspiring a lot of other girls and other Islanders to do sports and get into tennis.

Most people look at it as rugby or because they're very solid type of culture.

But so she's showing that there's other ways of getting out there.

So she's inspiring more.

So that's been really cool as well.

Yeah, we see the young player coming up and then we see the inspiration of the kids.

I like one of the more recent relatively viral videos online of little Coco Gough sitting

right behind Venus Williams.

And those things matter.

We talk with a lot of coaches and players that talk about their seminal moment, that moment

that said I want to do this.

Andy Roddick's got his story as well that says, when I was at this tournament, I saw that

and it was so cool and I said I was going to go do it.

So I think that's really important to see those players and take the young kids up to watch

them play to get inspired.

100% and it also started somewhere.

I mean, they showed Jacofe Chas Journey with his former coach when he first started as

well, right?

I mean, again, there are a lot of coaches.

If you are listening that are in the trenches that are building future stars that don't

get any accolades, don't get any recognition, just keep doing it because it is a numbers

game.

You just speak like sales and you just keep building and keep building and there is no guarantees.

If you saw Jacofe Chas in the forehand when he was a little kid and they show it, it wasn't

as flash as everyone's talking about.

But he had a drive and he had something and did she raise a ton of them?

Probably not.

Again, you just got to keep going.

I think in the player development side, if you've got an eye for it and you love it, just keep

doing it.

The recognition comes from like I had yesterday, what you know, when that last point in the

10 point tie breaker and just when she dropped a racket, everybody felt it.

You're part of the journey.

That's fine.

We need to hook you up with the coachlife.com group because they talk with coaches that

worked with players like their first coach.

That would be an interesting conversation to be had because hey, what does that take?

I like what you put is that the numbers game say, well, these coaches didn't just coach

that one player.

It wasn't like I picked out Nick Gerios and he was going to be the, it was, they worked

with thousands of players and they also happened to work with that one that happened to make

it because most players don't make it.

And when we talk about players, I mean, in my academy, you always say that it's your journey

to the player.

It's not the coach's journey.

And the coach doesn't own the player, the player owns the player.

So I used to say that all the time because the player needs to understand, you've got to

stand on that court and do it for yourself.

And I'm only going to be a pawn in the whole process.

You're going to have multiple mentors, multiple coaches, multiple inspirations, which you've

still got to be able to do it yourself.

And so that's really the key element.

I mean, I could almost replay it.

It was myself, her dad, Mark, Mom Rosie, then there was Lisa Demilio, then there was Tennis

Australia, who had multiple coaches that tried to help her.

And then she's had a bit of a rock he rode with here in and out.

And then I remember helping with Jamie Fallis, who's also in the tournament.

They found Storch's in the tournament.

There's a whole bunch of players that we all touch, but at the end of the day, the player's

doing it for themselves.

If we've been part of the journey, it just makes it more exciting as a coach.

But every day, that's what I think every coach needs to realize.

We're touching players that get this kind of result, I should say.

That makes me think of yesterday I watched the post-match interview from Taylor Fritz.

We don't always do these day-ofs.

So this is more of a current event conversation that we don't usually have it this way.

Excuse me, but the post-match interview with Taylor Fritz, where the question was, what

does it take, this 10-year-old in the stands wants to ask a question about, what does it

take to be a top five player?

I think Taylor had a very simple and straightforward answer.

It takes hard work.

It takes a lot of hard work, but it also means you've got to want it, you've got to love it,

and you've got to love that hard work.

I heard another comment, and I think Robbie Konig was talking about, shying, one of the Chinese

players.

He's six foot four, he's got the bill, he's got the talent.

They said he was the better player when he was in a academy with Daniel Medvedet, who clearly

has had the better result, the better career.

He just never got it.

The day in, the day out, the work ethic, there's so much more than just being talented.

Yeah, I mean, the dial talks about it all the time.

Every player talks about just that hard work.

You've got to be up to get up each day, every single day, and just keep going.

You can look at it in every sport, Kirby Bryant, Curry, all of them, every single sport, it's

about getting up and doing the work.

Tom Brady talks about the work all the time.

But if we talk about tennis, I can come up with a thousand different examples, but I'll

never forget Joggerridge back in 2017, I think, or 2018.

He came off the plane, I was sitting in high-sense arena.

He got a limo to their courts, and before going to a hotel, before doing anything, he walks

straight out the court, picked out Racken and the bag, put the hitter up the other end,

and the first rally was 118 balls.

That's fantastic.

First hit, and I just sat there, and he just literally come on the court, or just racking

out, put the hitter up the other end, and the first rally was that.

That's how you get ready to get it right.

Patrick Mary, who talks about serene and we're hit for 45 minutes with one ball.

So these things, that's what makes them where they are, top five, or top 10, and if you want

to be there, you've got to be really, really, there's got to be something special about

you, you've got to be running to work.

Last two minutes of our 10 minutes here, I want to run through the men's draw real

quick, because it looks like I've only got one really big question with it, which is seats

across.

Does he just need to switch to a two-handed backhand?

I mean, he just doesn't have it, does he?

Okay, I wasn't expecting that one.

It's just he passed through a two-handed backhand.

Come on, man.

No.

Easy.

I make it like this.

The game's bigger than him right now.

He was what?

Three in the world at one point?

I don't think anybody fears him anymore.

I think he's just got to get his edge back, that's all, but maybe not.

Look at what happened with Dominic Team, but Dominic Team was more injury-wise.

But yeah, he needs to get his weapons.

He needs to, I think they just need to go back to the drawing board a little bit.

He does have the tools.

For him and a two-handed backhand, people.

It is.

Yeah, no.

I would actually, I would probably try to strengthen the serve and get him to the net

more.

And maybe work the slice more.

But yeah, no, he has the tools.

They just need to reinvent.

Tools to be top 10.

I don't know if he's a contender.

We look at Rubelev.

Rubelev loves losing early in the majors.

What's going on there?

Yeah, again, I think there's a big wave of players coming in.

You know, that they're all hungry.

Good point.

Big wave of players is good, right?

Yeah, there's a big wave of players coming in.

They're all hungry.

When we said the top three got out of the way, which one's still going, who's not far off,

I believe.

I'm sure of that.

Joggevich looks like he's working uphill against some of these stronger, younger players.

And of course, with his age and everything he's done, I think he's doing really well.

I won't take, I'll give him credit still.

But at the same time, there is a big wave of players coming in that are hungry and it's going

to be hard to see.

I don't see how we're going to have a consistent top 10.

We're going to see a lot of in and out, like we used to see with the female tour.

I think we're going to see a lot of that.

We're going to, at least for the five years now, we're going to get a feel for in and out

in and out until we see another top two, top three, top four.

You know, and they're starting to sort out, starting to sort out some rivalries.

And the top three, I think, is going to be a lot more than that.

I think that's going to be a lot more than that.

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I think that's going to be a lot more than that.

I think that's going to be a lot more than that.

I think that's going to be a lot more than that.

That makes it more difficult for the older players to keep up with.

Especially when there's a lot of them.

I think that's what we're seeing.

We're seeing a lot of wave of a lot of hungry players.

You only have to look at the first round and look at who won.

There was not the obvious names.

We'll see how far some of them go.

Paul Kers had a great little start to the year from the States.

I think we'll see.

It's going to be very interesting, 25 in the whole world for everything these days.

10 miles will be one of them.

There you go.

I like that.

In our 13th minute of our 10 minutes of tennis.

You got picks on men's and the women's side.

Have you looked that far into to make a bold pick day three, day four?

Yes.

I think because of the way the drawer is,

I still think Senna is going to probably take it out just as fit as he is.

He just looks too clean.

I don't know how to call it.

I think he's.

I picked against him.

And you know, bit biased, but Darren K.

All in his corner.

Let's go Aussie.

Aussie, Aussie.

What about the women?

You think Coco, go off, can pull it off?

Is there an Aussie that's going to make a run?

I can't.

I can't pick a woman.

Sorry, man.

Okay.

There's too many.

I don't know about it either.

I don't personally follow it back.

No, I know.

I know enough of it.

But there's too many big hitters.

Too many women that just,

they turn on and just, you wouldn't think they'd come out and know what they just do.

The women's is very exciting.

There's all I can say because it's too hard to predict exactly who's going to dominate.

There's just too many good names.

And we got to remember it's a fresh start of the year.

So they've all had some time off.

So we'll see.

I think the women's is exciting because it's too hard to predict.

Yeah, you know.

Yeah, you know, I'm going to watch.

Yeah, it keeps you intrigued.

Right?

Like what match am I going to miss?

Who's really going to win?

Yeah.

So that's what the women's be brings you into fight.

Like, I better watch this one because you just don't know.

Like, you know, sometimes when you just know, you just don't watch because you know it's going to be over in 25, 30 minutes.

Right.

Exactly.

All right.

Well, this has been our 14 minutes of 10 minutes of 10.

A special edition talking about the Aussie open.

Maybe we'll do the same thing next week.

Absolutely, but we all my few anyway.

So it's all good.

This is true.

We took a few weeks off.

Justin, I appreciate it.

This has been 10 minutes of tennis with World R&D tennis coach Australian in Puerto Rico.

Justin, you know, thank you, sir.

We'll see you next week.

Cheers, man.

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