00:00A little bit like Azarenka with the game style, but, I mean, she was very aggressive today, and also with the variation of Kerber.
00:07Well, we spoke about it, and, you know, we've talked about Azarenka's focus and ruthlessness, really, through the course of this tournament.
00:16She, of course, bageled Van Oekbank and only dropped 11 games heading into this match, but Kerber just came out of the gates flying.
00:22Did you feel, I mean, the focus was palpable, wasn't it? It was there for Kerber, whereas for Azarenka just didn't really turn up in the first set.
00:31Yeah, my point of view for Kerber going into this match, it was more a mental game.
00:35You know, coming to a 6-0, head-to-head before this, you know, coming into even Australian Open, losing 6-3, 6-1 to Azarenka.
00:43And we could see that in the first set, you know, Kerber was down 4-0, sorry, Kerber was up 4-0 and Azarenka came back.
00:49But she stood there and, you know, and fought, you know, whether it was 4-0 or 5-4, Kerber was, it was a mental game for Kerber today against Azarenka.
00:59How difficult is it for a two-week tournament to maintain that focus and intensity, which we've seen from Azarenka, and which Kerber seems to have inherited as well?
01:08I mean, remind our viewers as well that this is a repeat of the final in Brisbane two weeks ago, where Azarenka just smoked Kerber off course, so revenge is a dish best served cold.
01:17But how tough is it to maintain that focus across, essentially, a two-week tournament?
01:22It's not, and it'll get tougher day by day, because the matches goes on, I mean, the quarter-final stage, semi-final stage.
01:28Yes, you know, come to the quarter-final, probably you've played more with these players, but staying focused for two weeks, you know, your mental, that's when your team comes in.
01:36And that's what makes, you know, winning a Grand Slam, it's a big ass.
01:42So Azarenka drawing on all those years of experience to save set points and to stay in the match somehow.
01:48The Kerber ultimately coming through and using just great passion and just more focus and intensity as well.
01:56We use that word intensity, but it was definitely there for the Germans.
02:00So she's through, a great day for her, she has been a Grand Slam semi-finance before, we remember, the US Open a couple of years ago.
02:08So she's no stranger to this stage of the tournament.
02:11For us, Adam, it's got to be winners against unforced errors on the right-hand side, Azarenka, not good digits there, but from Kerber, excellent.
02:18What do you make of this?
02:19Yeah, exactly, I mean, if you see the cluster percentage from both players is good, but yes, that unforced error from Azarenka.
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