WTA Finals Day 3: Coco Kept In ‘Czech’ || Marta Kostyuk & Sandra Zaniewska: Player + Coach Interview

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Andrea Petkovic (0:41)

Hello, and welcome to a new episode of The BIG T, the podcast your friends are talking about. Behind your back, I'm Andrea Petkovic, and next to me is my partner in crime, Brad Gilbert, the coach of the year, of any year, but also, and this is what I wanted to ask you, Brad, you were a former world number four, and somehow people have forgotten. What a great tennis player you were, because you've outdone yourself as a coach. Does that bother you sometimes? Because you and Juan Carlos talked a little We will be.

Brad Gilbert (1:10)

The older I get, the better I used to be. And now, I've had people come up to me once. I had a kid come up to me in Starbucks, and he goes, I know you. And I'm like thinking, and he goes, oh, I watched you in the show Red Oaks when I was Dr. Finebird.

So people now know me obviously from coaching and from TV. So in my last life, I was happy about being a player, but I'm okay that people don't know that I was a player.

Andrea Petkovic (1:39)

It doesn't matter you at all. Okay, cause I could hear you and Juan Carlos getting into it a little bit. Maybe that's a segment that I'm looking forward to, but we have a hand sanitizer du jour, Mr. Gilbert. I got you yet another one. This is my personal favorite from Touchland.

Brad Gilbert (1:55)

Not anything like, you know, my cheap Perel that's more of a lotion. These things seem to be like a spray. What do I do? Put it on the hand?

Andrea Petkovic (2:03)

Yeah.

Brad Gilbert (2:04)

Okay.

Andrea Petkovic (2:04)

Now you can see how much I really do not like.

Brad Gilbert (2:07)

Do I smell like Juan Carlos Ferreiro now?

Andrea Petkovic (2:09)

It smells so good.

Brad Gilbert (2:10)

Does it go with my lavender shirt?

Andrea Petkovic (2:11)

It goes with your lavender shirt. And you see, you off air, you told me that this doesn't fit in your pocket. It's first of all, it's much thinner. And maybe you should talk to Lorenzo Mosetti, a friend of the pod, because he can get you a man purse in Bottega Veneta. And you can put it, slide it in there. Or are you against man purses?

Brad Gilbert (2:31)

I'm a little disheveled that you would put me in the same breath as man purse. The only thing that you could maybe say is worse is that fanny pack. Or at the airport, the dude that wears the thing around his neck with the passport.

Or this is a straight red card. What do you think when you see a guy like my age and he's got the phone clip?

Andrea Petkovic (2:52)

Oh, that's a tough one.

Well, listen, you have strong opinions on fashion and still you don't want to wear a man purse. Let's consider that for the next time.

Brad Gilbert (3:03)

Can he wear a man purse?

Andrea Petkovic (3:05)

He think. I think he might. Yeah, I think he would be okay with wearing a man purse. Let's talk about the tennis. We had two great matches. They were a little more straightforward than what we saw in the last few days, but nonetheless some great quality and moments. And in the first match, it was Jess Pegula who beat Marta Kostyuk. The first set was very straightforward and the second it got a little bit more exciting.

Brad Gilbert (3:28)

At 6-2, 1-0, I was thinking, uh-oh, better get up here to the desk because Marta was really struggling. And the first game of the second set, she swung and missed on a forehand, sent a backhand in the ground, one long, but she finally started to play a little bit better, loosened up, play a little more aggressively, and had some looks in that second set. But I think Jess said that business end of the set, 5-4, she tightened up and then got the break, served it out. But I think the second match was very surprising, the way Linda, the Wimbledon champion, Linda just took it to Coco and basically blew away her second serve, winning 20 of the first 22 points against her and broke her serve four times in that first set.