00:00I'm going to go right to the audience for questions
00:05Questions please
00:07Hands in the back
00:09Congratulations
00:11Layla, how much are you growing
00:13Sitting next to someone like Venus
00:16In that chair
00:17But playing also alongside her
00:19On the court
00:20I'm growing a lot actually
00:25I feel like my team members
00:28And even my family
00:29Says like wow
00:31You are growing just by
00:34Playing with Venus
00:36Learning from her
00:37I mean you know
00:39You may not say much
00:41On the bench
00:43But whatever you say
00:44I'm like kind of a sponge
00:45And just kind of soaking everything in
00:47And you know it's a huge opportunity for me
00:50To just learn from such a great champion
00:55A legend like you
00:56Thank you
00:58Congrats ladies
01:00And Venus
01:01I'm not sure if you answered this
01:02But at the beginning
01:04Why did you say yes
01:06When Layla's team
01:08Or Layla
01:08Asked you to play the doubles
01:10With her
01:11Well
01:12At first I was thinking no
01:16Because I was like
01:16I'm not very good at doubles
01:18I haven't played a lot of tennis
01:20In general I'm like oh my god
01:22I don't want to
01:22I don't want to get out there
01:23And be making mistakes
01:25But then
01:25An hour later
01:27I was like I think I want to
01:29So I'm so glad that
01:32At first I was just thinking like
01:34I don't know if I can actually do it
01:36And then I was thinking
01:37Okay maybe I can
01:38Maybe we have
01:39You know a chance
01:40To just get in the draw
01:41So I'm so grateful for
01:44Obviously the USTA
01:45For the wild
01:45Did we get a wild card?
01:47I think so
01:48Yes
01:48I believe it was a wild card
01:49I never look at the draw
01:50But I just assumed
01:51It's obviously a wild card
01:52Because I don't really have a ranking
01:54And I'm just grateful
01:57For the experience
01:58Because I'm also growing
01:59In this time
02:00And it's nice to have
02:01The support of Layla
02:02Who's obviously been playing great
02:04Over the last few years
02:05To be able to have
02:07A strong partner
02:08For the moments
02:08When I'm
02:09You know
02:10Not at my best