Svitolina Knocks Out Sabalenka || Madison Keys Joins Us

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

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Andrea Petkovic (0:26)

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Brad Gilbert (0:57)

What's happening BG, Brad Gilbert in the desert, Big T, Carson is in and I'm hearing. Did you have to do something like a drive last night, something about your keys that maybe I heard about?

Andrea Petkovic (1:14)

I didn't tell my dad this, so now he's going to hear the podcast to know the truth. I am staying at my dad's, he lives out here, and I had to have security open his front door because I left the house key back in LA.

So I drove all the way home to get the key and then came back because there's no spare inside the house.

Brad Gilbert (1:34)

So you had to do this last night, over and back?

Andrea Petkovic (1:36)

I drove back home last night and then I came this morning again.

Brad Gilbert (1:39)

Okay, so would you call that, was it an unforced error or what led to that?

Andrea Petkovic (1:44)

I got broken.

SPEAKER_1 (1:45)

You got broken, okay.

Brad Gilbert (1:46)

But you're back in the place.

Andrea Petkovic (1:47)

I'm back in. I changed the racket and here we are.

Brad Gilbert (1:51)

Okay, you got a better string job, you're ready to go.

Andrea Petkovic (1:54)

Yes.

Brad Gilbert (1:55)

Day six, okay.

Andrea Petkovic (1:56)

I want to start with some birthday trivia.

Brad Gilbert (1:59)

Birthday trivia.

Andrea Petkovic (2:00)

Tennis player birthday trivia.

Brad Gilbert (2:02)

Okay, all right.

Andrea Petkovic (2:03)

So today is November 13th. Okay. We have a very special birthday today.

Brad Gilbert (2:06)

Okay. Yeah, I don't know whose birthday is on the 13th, but I didn't check Horoscope today.

Andrea Petkovic (2:14)

So she is a one-time US Open champion.

Brad Gilbert (2:18)

Okay. Has she won any other majors?

Andrea Petkovic (2:20)

She has not.

Brad Gilbert (2:21)

Okay, so that one and only. A couple come right into my head right away on that. They're recent.

Andrea Petkovic (2:26)

Her coaches have included Torben Belz and Andrew Richardson.

Brad Gilbert (2:33)

If I had a bell, I ring it. The second one was a dead giveaway and maybe one of the worst career moves after winning as a qualifier.

Andrea Petkovic (2:44)

But he's back on the team.

Brad Gilbert (2:46)

Yeah. It only took her five years to come back. But that would be Emma Raducanu who won the US Open as a qualifier, then inexplicably got rid of the coach.

Now after five years, he's back. So maybe they can reunite and have something good happen again.

Andrea Petkovic (3:05)

Hopefully, they can run it back. But happy birthday to Emma.

Brad Gilbert (3:08)

And how old would she be?

Andrea Petkovic (3:10)

I want to say 24

Brad Gilbert (3:12)

That feels like about right.

Andrea Petkovic (3:13)

I think so.

Brad Gilbert (3:14)

Okay. Let's jump in to day six.

The semifinals are set.

Andrea Petkovic (3:21)

Semifinals are set.

Brad Gilbert (3:22)

And the big matchup, the kind of, the one that we kind of knew that we needed the result to see the last player in the semifinals, Svitolina. It had been six years since she took out Arena Sabalenka and she gets the win in three sets. What were your thoughts on that match?

Andrea Petkovic (3:41)

Yeah. I mean, I think Arena's condition mentally was up in the air going into this match. And I wanted so badly after the second set. I said, maybe she's got a little bit of fire in her. But unfortunately, in the third set, she just couldn't keep together. She seemed really frustrated the whole time and just kind of checked out, honestly. And Kredz Alina as well played some very solid tennis.

And she got the win. And she gets to see herself in the semifinals tomorrow.

Brad Gilbert (4:06)

So interesting, you know, because I'm a numbers guy. The last few times they've played, Sabalenka has been a overwhelmingly huge favorite.