00:00I feel like back then it was a different story, they were trying to fight for different things and we are here to bring tennis to another level, to bring attention to our sport, to help our sport grow and to have some fun and make sure that people that come in to watch us play have fun and enjoy great tennis.
00:24I feel like women already proved that we deserve equal and tomorrow I'll just show that we are capable of putting a great fight against the man and have fun.
00:37I'm going to look back at this moment and be I think proud of the way I've gone about it and I think for the sport, I think it just means unity in the sport and I think if you look in today's day and age with everything happening around the world, events like this are what needs to be happening more often.
00:54I think there's too much division and too much fighting and I'm not coming together and enough teamwork so regardless of the outcome, obviously I'm not saying I don't want to win, obviously I want to win but I think it shows that we can do some pretty incredible things together in sport and yeah, I'm going to look back at this and be super, it's pretty cool at the end of the day.
01:15It's cool to be the one person that's going to get, you know, be a part of this whole event. I mean, you know, we're from Canberra, Australia and I'm now sitting here with some of my closest friends and my peers and my team and we're in one of the most beautiful places in the world playing against Arena so we're very, very lucky.
01:30Well, just because the court is going to be shorter so I feel like he's not going to go for bigger strokes and I'll be always in attacking mode and that's my power, that's my game, that's my strength and that's how I will show my strength there.
01:43and I also got a good touch and I have a bigger target to do a fun thing.
01:49Having one serve is going to be interesting for both of us. I think our first serves are both our strengths and our weapons so it's going to be a bit of an adjustment out there.
01:58You know, obviously with the crowd, it's easy to kind of speak about it now like, oh, you're just going to roll it in but when there's however many people watching and the pressure starts,
02:05I think the one serve for both of us is going to be very interesting and we're both going to have to adjust to that.
02:09And yeah, I know that I'm going to have to run. My strength has always been unpredictability, you know, even on the men's tour and, you know, guys like Novak and Federer and Nadal,
02:19like they've struggled with not understanding how to play me at certain times because I don't even know what I'm going to do at certain times.
02:25So I'm going to try and bring something that she hasn't seen before.
02:30I've been chatting to Novak.
02:32And Novak still has a losing record against me so I'm not sure why that is your first go-to person.
02:39But that's fine. Sorry, Novak.
02:40But I feel like the last matches he played against you, he won.
02:43Okay, anyway, but yeah. So, of course, I'm going to go out there and play the style of tennis that I know is effective.
02:50But again, like, she's very good.
02:53So, I'm not taking her lightly.
02:54This event is really unpredictable and I don't know what to expect.
02:58And that's what I love because this is the feeling, you know, you chase when you play sport.
03:04Is this unpredictable situation, let's say like that.
03:09And I love to challenge myself.
03:11For me, it's a huge challenge, especially playing Nick, the guy who's unpredictable and crazy.
03:17See, that's a great training for me.
03:19And that's a great message to the girls out there.
03:23I hope they're going to watch and they're going to see how strong and tough I am to have a guy to challenge myself to play against the guy.
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