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00:30Hello, everybody. It is July the 1st, and let me be the first weekday game show host in 2024, Dimension
00:39Christmas.
00:39That's where all roads lead to our traditional Christmas final, because this is day one of series 90, 9-0
00:47of Countdown.
00:48So for everyone watching across the nation and beyond, a very warm welcome.
00:52The journey begins today, but Rich O'Reilly with a lot less pressure, because it's the start of July, the
01:00sun's out, and Wimbledon starts today.
01:03Have you ever been?
01:04I have. I've done the schmoozing. I've done the cheats waiting. It's brilliant, isn't it?
01:09Yeah, I've done it always, actually, the Hem and Hill or Murray Mound or whatever. I'm lucky enough to see
01:16Andy Murray win on centre court, but not win Wimbledon on centre court, win the Olympic gold medal, the precursor
01:23in 2012, then win in Wimbledon in 2013.
01:27It's brilliant. It's brilliant. It's the whole country. You know, it does galvanise the whole country, doesn't it?
01:31Right, let's get over to Dictionary Corner, because we only need one Hawkeye on our centre court, and that, of
01:37course, is Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner, and alongside you, making her debut.
01:43Can't wait to talk to her, because she loves her dogs. She loves her rivers. She loves her morning TV.
01:49This is late night.
01:50This is a day off for me, I'm telling you.
01:54Ranveer Singh, welcome.
01:55Thank you, thank you.
01:58Right, let's introduce our champion, who is doing that lovely thing of going from Series 89 into Series 90.
02:05Phil Campbell, our cat lover, has already won three. 91, 102 and 77.
02:11So looking to run this week and become our first Octo Champ. How are you, Phil?
02:15Yeah, good, thanks. Yeah, nice to be back.
02:17Look, in summary, we appreciate that. It would be another club you were in, the Octo Champ Club, because you
02:23love joining clubs.
02:23I've got a list here I couldn't get to the end of. What, tennis club? Let's do that one.
02:28Well, I just play tennis in the local park, but yeah, it's good guys. Similar standards, similar age to me.
02:36Nothing too strenuous, really. But yeah, it's great to get out in the fresh air and play some tennis.
02:42Love it. Well, listen, you're taking on Ben Bradley today. He's on the other side of the net.
02:47Liz in Stoke on Trent from Wolverhampton. How are you, sir?
02:50Very well, thank you.
02:51Good. Listen, we talked a bit about sport, so let me stick with that. How did you interview Sir Alex
02:56Ferguson? How did that come about? Because you're a civil servant.
02:59Yes. So, believe it or not, when I was at uni, my degree was actually sports journalism. So I've done
03:05a bit of journalism myself as well.
03:08So I was working for a bit of work experience more than anything. Going to Premier League games, writing match
03:16reports, press conferences after the game.
03:19So, yeah, first manager I ever interviewed was Sir Alex Ferguson.
03:22First one? First one.
03:24That's difficult. How was he? Was he nice to you?
03:27He couldn't have made more time for me.
03:29Really?
03:30Yeah. Honestly, one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
03:32Right, brilliant stuff. Let's see how you managed today. Ben and Phil.
03:39And Phil, you know the score. You're picking the letters.
03:41Consonant, please, Rachel.
03:42Thank you, Phil. Start the week with G.
03:45And another consonant, please.
03:47C.
03:48And a third, please.
03:50M.
03:52A vowel, please.
03:54I.
03:55And another vowel, please.
03:56E.
03:58And another vowel, please.
03:59A.
04:01A consonant.
04:02R.
04:05Another consonant.
04:07N.
04:09And a vowel, please.
04:12A final E.
04:14At home and in the studio for the first time in series 90, let's play Countdown.
04:19We'll see you next time.
04:27Bye.
04:29Bye, bye.
04:34Bye.
04:35Bye.
04:36Bye.
04:44Bye.
04:46Bye.
04:49And that is time. Phil?
04:52Seven. And Ben?
04:53Seven, not written down. What did you not write down?
04:56Nearing. And what did you write down?
04:58Grimace. Grimace and nearing.
05:02I need two Ns for nearing, unfortunately. Sorry, Ben.
05:05OK. Ranveer, how did you get on in your debut?
05:08Creaming. Which we should point out, takes us to Wimbledon again.
05:13Strawberries and creaming. Nice.
05:15Excellent. Want the van full round. Let's get more letters, Ben.
05:19Consonant, please. Start with B.
05:22And a vowel.
05:24O. And another vowel.
05:27A. And a consonant.
05:30R. And another one, please.
05:33Playing itself. S.
05:36And another.
05:38D. And a vowel.
05:42E.
05:42T. And another.
05:46A.
05:48And a consonant, please.
05:51And lastly, T.
05:54Peg of a selection.
05:56And a consonant, please.
05:58And a consonant, please.
06:01And a consonant, please.
06:05And a consonant, please.
06:06And a consonant, please.
06:07And a consonant, please.
06:08And a consonant, please.
06:09And a consonant, please.
06:11And a consonant, please.
06:13And a consonant, please.
06:13And a consonant, please.
06:14And a consonant, please.
06:14And a consonant, please.
06:15And a consonant, please.
06:15And a consonant, please.
06:16And a consonant, please.
06:16And a consonant, please.
06:16And a consonant, please.
06:17And a consonant, please.
06:18And a consonant, please.
06:20And a consonant, please.
06:23And a consonant, please.
06:25Ben? Seven. Seven from you. And Phil? Eight. Oh, my goodness.
06:31Let's get the seven out. Roasted. Roasted. And what's the eight?
06:35Broadest. Broadest. Very nice indeed. Well done.
06:39APPLAUSE
06:41How did we get on there, Ranveer? We had another eight. Seaboard.
06:45Seaboard. But Susie's got one better.
06:48Yeah, there is adsorbate for nine. I know, fairly technical.
06:54It's from chemistry, a substance that is adsorbed.
06:58And adsorb is to hold a liquid or a gas on the outer surface as a thin film.
07:03Fantastic.
07:04APPLAUSE
07:07All right, first numbers round, Phil Campbell.
07:10Two large and four small, please.
07:12Two large, four small. Coming up, Phil.
07:14First one of the series is five, seven, four, six.
07:19And the big ones, 50 and 75.
07:22And the target, 713.
07:25Seven-one-three, numbers up.
07:26One, four, five, six.
07:29One, five, six.
07:31Two, five, three.
07:33Two, six.
07:35Three, six.
07:48Both one, five, six.
07:49One, four.
07:49One, five, six.
07:51One, five, six!
07:577-1-3, Phil.
07:597-1-2.
08:01One away. Ben.
08:02Yeah, really difficult one for your first numbers.
08:05Phil, off you go.
08:06Format 6 is 10.
08:07Yep.
08:08Times a 75 for 750.
08:10750.
08:11Take away the 50.
08:13700.
08:14And then add the 7 and the 5.
08:16Yep, gets you to one away, 7-12.
08:18And 7-1-3.
08:20This was a bit of a headache.
08:22Well, if you say 75 plus 50 is 1-2-5,
08:27take away 5 for 120,
08:29and then you can times it by 6 for 720,
08:32and take away the 7.
08:337-1-3.
08:34Brilliant.
08:37Let's get our first tea time teaser.
08:39It's harm boot.
08:41Harm boot.
08:42The beat asked the mirror to talk here.
08:45The beat asked the mirror to talk here.
09:04Welcome back.
09:06The beat asked the mirror.
09:08That's the way I say it.
09:09The talk here.
09:10Harm boot becomes bathroom.
09:12Bathroom.
09:13Do you laugh at me every time, Susie, that word comes off?
09:16I love it.
09:17Right, back to the game.
09:20Ben, here we go.
09:21Consonant, please.
09:23Thank you, Ben.
09:23F.
09:25And a second.
09:27L.
09:27And a vowel.
09:30I.
09:31And another one.
09:33E.
09:35And again.
09:37E.
09:39And a consonant.
09:41D.
09:42And another.
09:44S.
09:45And a consonant.
09:49N.
09:50And a vowel, please.
09:52And a final O.
09:5530 seconds.
09:56.
10:27That's time.
10:28Ben.
10:28That's six.
10:29Six from you.
10:30And Phil.
10:31Seven.
10:31And a seven.
10:32He's on fire, Ben.
10:33What have you got?
10:34Fields.
10:34And what have you got there, Phil?
10:36Fondles.
10:37Fondles.
10:38Yes, there you go.
10:39Very good.
10:40Yeah.
10:40We can go one better, though, can't we, Susie?
10:42We've got felonies.
10:44Felonies for eight.
10:45Felonies.
10:45Yep.
10:46Crimes.
10:47And lesioned, if you have more than one lesion, sadly.
10:52Yeah.
10:53Phil, letters, please.
10:54A consonant, please.
10:56Thank you, Phil.
10:57T.
10:58And another one, please.
11:01V.
11:02And a third one, please.
11:03S.
11:05A vowel, please.
11:07E.
11:08A vowel.
11:09U.
11:11A vowel.
11:13A.
11:14A consonant.
11:16T.
11:18A consonant.
11:20M.
11:23And a vowel, please.
11:25And lastly, O.
11:27And half a minute.
11:28M.
11:29MUSIC PLAYS
11:58Phil?
11:59Six.
12:00And Ben?
12:01Five.
12:02Five from you, what is it?
12:03Motes.
12:04Motes and the six?
12:05Ovaits.
12:07Ovaits.
12:08Yep, an ovait is a member of an order of Welsh bards.
12:13Yep, so very good indeed.
12:15Phil, you knew that.
12:16You didn't need Susie to tell you what Ovaits meant.
12:18Yeah, absolutely.
12:20We'll stick to that story.
12:21We'll stick to that story.
12:23What have we got here, Ranveer?
12:24Well, a word that to me sounds quite competitive.
12:27Yeah.
12:28Outsteam.
12:28Outsteam for eight.
12:29Love that.
12:30Yeah, one of the less likely outwards, I would have said.
12:34But it's when a ship has more steam power than the next one.
12:37Ben, genuinely, I wouldn't have many more points than zero,
12:40and I play every single day sitting here.
12:43So don't panic.
12:43Let's get more numbers.
12:44Can I get two large, please, Rachel?
12:46Yeah, and I don't want to add to the pressure,
12:47but I do know for certain that Sir Alex does watch the odd episode of Countdown.
12:51So just saying, the four little ones are 1, 4, 7 and 10,
12:58and the big one's 50 and 100.
13:00And the target to reach 634.
13:03634.
13:04Numbers up.
13:36634, the target.
13:38Another slightly tricky one here, Ben.
13:41636.
13:42636, just two away.
13:44And Phil?
13:44634.
13:45Oh, he's nailed it.
13:46Off you go.
13:47100 minus 10 is 90.
13:49And that's the trick.
13:51Times the seven.
13:52630.
13:53And I've the four.
13:54634.
13:55Well done.
13:55Well done.
13:59Excellent.
13:59Well done, Phil.
14:00And just to set the record straight,
14:03Sir Alex Ferguson, you used to watch,
14:04but for some reason about two years ago,
14:06he just stopped.
14:07Right, let's have our first chat with Ranveer Singh.
14:11And wait, hey, you're a bit like me, in a way,
14:13in that you've covered so many things.
14:15Music, news, sport.
14:17Have you got a sporting story for me?
14:19Nothing to write home about, but I'll share it with you.
14:22You'll enjoy this, Ben.
14:23And so will you, because I was on local radio.
14:26When you first start in local radio,
14:27it's like trying to pilot a plane.
14:30You go in and you've all these buttons and all these phone lines,
14:34and you've got to do it all by yourself.
14:35There's no producer, because it's local radio.
14:37And I'd just started at BBC Radio Manchester.
14:40And I was really excited.
14:42My first big drive-time show.
14:44And we had our correspondent out at some sort of Manchester United final.
14:49Now, I'm not...
14:50Some sort of thing.
14:52Anyway, so the thing is, in local radio and when you're a journalist,
14:55when you've got a correspondent, in your presenter's mind,
14:57you go, right, they're sorting that out on air.
15:00Yeah.
15:01The viewers or the listeners are safe.
15:02I'll think about the next thing, right?
15:03So you're involved, but you're also thinking about the next thing you've got to do.
15:07So then there was a pause in what this lovely reporter was saying.
15:09I thought, oh, is this the furthest they've ever got?
15:13And, of course, it was something like the Champions League.
15:15They've won the thing before.
15:17And there was this pregnant pause in the air.
15:20And I thought, what have I done?
15:21And the poor correspondent did this verbal dance to try and cover my back.
15:26But it was out there.
15:26You know, once it's on live radio, there's no editing.
15:28It's out there.
15:29The show finished at 7.
15:30And I was thinking, please let the radio manager have gone home.
15:33Maybe he hasn't heard.
15:34It's my first ever show.
15:35I opened the door and the station manager is stood there.
15:38Lovely man called Steve Tell.
15:39He just looks at me and he goes...
15:41LAUGHTER
15:44And he just walks off.
15:45And I was thinking, that's my career over, you know.
15:47But, you know, luckily for me,
15:49I've always found that people forgive quite a lot.
15:51If you're really trying hard and you admit your mistakes...
15:54Yeah.
15:55You know, then he carried on supporting me.
15:57But, oh, crushing.
15:58Absolutely crushing.
15:59Love it, Ranvier.
16:01APPLAUSE
16:04All right, let's get back to it.
16:06Feels like always a new start
16:08once we have our first chat in Dictionary Corner like that.
16:11So that's what it is for you, Ben.
16:13Here we go.
16:14Phil, you pick the letters.
16:15Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:16Thank you, Phil.
16:17D.
16:18And a consonant.
16:20H.
16:21And a third one, please.
16:23S.
16:23Vowel.
16:25A.
16:26And a vowel.
16:28O.
16:29And another vowel.
16:31U.
16:33A consonant, please.
16:35N.
16:37A consonant, please.
16:39R.
16:40And a vowel.
16:41And lastly, I.
16:44Start that clock.
16:46S.
16:46S.
16:54S.
17:11MUSIC CONTINUES
17:16Phil.
17:17Eight.
17:18Ben.
17:19I'll just go home now.
17:20Six.
17:21What's the six?
17:22Rounds.
17:23Rounds, and what about you, Phil?
17:25Dinosaur.
17:26Dinosaur.
17:27Very well done.
17:28Sensational.
17:31Dinosaurs are sensational.
17:33Ranveer, Susie, is that it?
17:34One more eight we had.
17:35Yeah, we feel a little bit for Ben here, don't we?
17:37Because you're almost...
17:38Yeah, they're roundish.
17:41Well...
17:42Yes.
17:42It's a bit unfair, isn't it?
17:43I mean, I've never described anything or anyone as roundish.
17:48I feel like both a dinosaur and roundish at the moment.
17:51Ben, here we go.
17:52Oh, you're in charge of your own fate.
17:53Let's do it.
17:54Come on, then.
17:54Let's get on the board.
17:56Consonant, then, please, Rachel.
17:57Come on, Ben.
17:58Y.
18:01End again, please.
18:02G.
18:03End another.
18:05F.
18:06And a vowel.
18:08O.
18:10And a second.
18:11I.
18:13And again.
18:15E.
18:16And a consonant.
18:18R.
18:20A consonant.
18:22N.
18:23And a vowel, please.
18:25Lastly.
18:27A.
18:28Start that clock.
18:29And a vowel.
19:00Ben? Six. Six from you. Phil? Seven. Ben, what's the six? Regain. Regain. Phil? Fearing. Fearing, yes, the I-N
19:10-G, Susie.
19:11Yes, very good indeed. Nice. Well done. Ranveer Singh. You've got fingery. Fingery? Yes. Fingery branches of a tree, for
19:22example. That's a beautiful word. That kind of thing. It's quite nice, isn't it? We're all doing this. And there
19:27is an eight there as well from biochemistry and photography, Organifi, which is to incorporate an element into an organic
19:35compound. Right, third. Third numbers round already. Phil?
19:39Two large and four small, please, Rachel. Two large, four small. Ten points apiece coming up. I can feel it.
19:45This round, the little ones are three, six, two, three. And the big ones, 50 and 25. And you need
19:54to reach, oh, five, seven, nine.
19:57Five, seven, nine. Numbers up.
20:29And that's time. Phil? Five, seven, eight. One away. Ben? Nope. Missed it. Seven points, Phil. Off you go.
20:37Six times two times 50.
20:41Is 600. 600. Take away the 25.
20:45Five, seven, five. And then add a three. And add a three. Yep, five, seven, eight. One away.
20:49Well done indeed. Could we get one closer?
20:51If you say 25 times two is 50, add the 50 for 100 and take away three for 97, times
21:01it by six for 582 and take the second three. But not the easy one we were looking for.
21:08No.
21:10OK. Ham at wok. Ham at wok, as in W-O-K, is your second Tea Time teaser.
21:17The large cut of meat was given the axe. The large cut of meat was given the axe.
21:38Hello again. The large cut of meat was given the axe. That's the tomahawk. The tomahawk.
21:43Now, we were talking sports journalism earlier on in the programme, and there's a thing called the commentator's curse.
21:48I feel like I could be putting it on Ben, but I'm going to say it anyway.
21:52There's no way Ben is finishing on zero. You've been really unlucky.
21:56Like, the numbers rounds have been really difficult. Some difficult letters.
21:59It's going to happen. In fact, it's going to happen now. Off you go, Ben.
22:03OK. Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ben. K. And again. S. And again, please. T. And a vowel. A. And
22:17a vowel. I. And a consonant. L. And a consonant. P. And a vowel. A. And a...
22:32Vowel, please. Lastly, O. Good luck.
22:38.
22:38.
22:38.
22:38.
23:08Goodness me. Ben. Just a six. Phil. A very risky six. Ben, this better be in the dictionary. I'm coming
23:15over there. Plats. Plats is here! Come on! Yes! On! Don't care what your word is. Go ahead. Well, I
23:26might have made it up as okapis. Okapis. I'm just not sure about the plural. Oh, no, it can be.
23:33It's usually the same, but you can put an S on. Yes, large mammals of the giraffe family. Well done.
23:38Ranveer, how did you do? We got a seven, didn't we? We did. Spatial. Spatial. Spatial awareness. Right, your letters,
23:47Phil. Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel? Thank you, Phil.
23:49S. And a second one, please. T. And a third. M. A vowel. E. And a vowel. U. And another
24:04vowel. O. A consonant, please. D. And a consonant. N.
24:14And a vowel, please. Lastly, E. Kind time.
24:22E. Kind time.
24:22E. Kind time.
24:42E. Format.
24:51E. Sheet assistance
24:52Phil? Six. Ben? Six.
24:55Telling you what, it's not over yet. It's not over yet. Phil?
24:58Demons. Demons. And Ben?
25:01Modest. And modest, yes. Very good.
25:03Very good. Six points. I bet you wish you could go back to round one now, Ben.
25:07Now you're settled. Getting the hang of it, though.
25:10Ranveer? We've got a couple of eights, haven't we?
25:12We've got demounts. Demounts. Yep, take something down.
25:16Yeah, and mudstone. Mudstone.
25:19Which is a dark rock that's formed from consolidated mud.
25:2479-12, four rounds left.
25:26There's been loads of times today Susie's had to explain words to us,
25:30but this is where we do it officially, our origins of words.
25:33Yeah, well, thanks to Andrew Barrow from Southsea,
25:35who asks about money terms.
25:38And I'm asked about these quite a lot,
25:40because they're just so rich and varied and often a little bit mysterious as well.
25:45And Andrew asks specifically about two of the more puzzling ones,
25:49Moolah and Spondulix.
25:52I was going to start with Moolah.
25:53I wish I could tell you exactly where it came from, but it is a bit of a mystery.
25:57It emerged in the 1930s as slang, and actually it was used to do with Hollywood.
26:03It said, when you click in Hollywood, the Moolah really rolls in.
26:07No-one knows where it comes from.
26:10For me, it has a slight feel of the wonderful language of the Roma people,
26:14but the jury is still out.
26:16We will be looking a lot.
26:17As for Spondulix, Spondulis, lots of different forms of that.
26:21It's actually a favourite, or was a favourite, a Bertie Worcester
26:25in P.G. Woodhouse's Jeeves novels.
26:28And the earliest records we have of it is from the 1850s,
26:31so it's been around for a while, definitely in the US.
26:34And it may come, believe it or not, from a Greek word, spondilo,
26:38which is behind several English words to do with the spine.
26:42And if you look at a college textbook from 1867,
26:45it defines Spondulix as coins piled for counting.
26:50And so it's probable that a stack of coins,
26:52to someone with a knowledge of Greek, perhaps,
26:55and a bit of a sense of humour,
26:57thought that this kind of thing resembled a spine,
27:00maybe a slightly crooked one,
27:01with each coin representing another vertebra,
27:04which is quite extraordinary.
27:05But anyway, that one survives.
27:07But so many.
27:09And I have to say, the work is not yet done,
27:11because particularly with slang, it's so slippery,
27:13it's so elusive, finding the exact origin.
27:16But we will keep going, especially with Moolah.
27:17Brilliant.
27:19APPLAUSE
27:21Great, Susie, thank you so much.
27:23Four rounds to go on today's Countdown.
27:25And Ben, you're choosing these letters.
27:28Consonant, please, Rachel.
27:29Thank you, Ben.
27:31G.
27:32And again.
27:34W.
27:37And again.
27:39N.
27:39And a vowel.
27:42I.
27:43And a vowel.
27:45E.
27:46And another.
27:48O.
27:49And a consonant.
27:51S.
27:52A consonant.
27:54B.
27:55And a vowel, please.
27:57And a final A.
28:00Let's play.
28:01In a moment.
28:14And a vowel.
28:16In a vowel.
28:22Go.
28:30And a vowel.
28:32Time's up, Ben.
28:33Just a five.
28:35A five there.
28:36And Phil?
28:37Six.
28:38And the six.
28:38Ben, your five?
28:39A basin.
28:40And that six?
28:41Sewing.
28:42Yeah, the ing.
28:43That's unforgivable, Ben.
28:45Unforgivable with that there.
28:46Yes, the six is there.
28:48The ing there as well.
28:49How did we get on in dictionary corner?
28:51We sort of stuck on six, didn't we?
28:52We were, yes.
28:54We'd get beyond it.
28:55Frantically searching the dictionary.
28:56I like boings.
28:58That's absolutely fine, but a word has blossomed up.
29:00With Rachel?
29:01Yes.
29:02Boing into a bunch of begonias.
29:04Amazing.
29:04Yes, begonias.
29:05There you go.
29:05Well done.
29:08A big it.
29:09A really big it.
29:11Let's get our last letters out.
29:13And it's Phil who's about to be crowned for the fourth time.
29:17Off you go.
29:18A consonant, please, Rachel.
29:19Thank you, Phil.
29:20H.
29:21A consonant, please.
29:23R.
29:24And a consonant.
29:25W.
29:26A vowel.
29:28I.
29:29And a vowel.
29:30I.
29:31And another vowel, please.
29:34U.
29:35A consonant.
29:37N.
29:38A consonant.
29:40P.
29:43And a vowel, please.
29:45Lastly, E.
29:47Last letters.
29:48ones that are now out.
30:08Oh,
30:08you up to us.ですね,
30:09the боль.
30:09To hear me.
30:10It's a fairy
30:11You up to go. Peace.
30:11albo you up to us. We hope
30:12you. You up to the
30:18that's it Phil six six from you and for you Ben I think I'm gonna try a six as
30:24well happy days both written down yeah yeah
30:27so what's your six on the right and what do you write down Ben one right
30:31excellent yeah something's on right absolutely fine yeah well done job well
30:37done right anything else wine here oh nice oh yeah because that's
30:43whi exactly there you go well done up to seven 91 18 with two rounds left final
30:51numbers around they've all been tricky today so let's see if we can get one a
30:55little bit more straightforward Ben go on that's a pretty easy one we'll go too
30:58large again please too large 98% odd are possible so come on let's get another
31:0410 points final numbers of the day 10 9 4 9 and the large ones 25 and 75 and the
31:13target oh 983 983 numbers up
31:48Ben 982
31:49one away and Phil 986 not written down three away well done you take the seven points here Ben
31:58so 75 add 25 100 times 10 1000 and then do nine plus eight sorry nine plus nine 18 and
32:07then subtract
32:07gets you to one away well done well done at 983 this is maths commentators curse because this was impossible
32:14so that's the best you could have done so well done
32:20what a role that you're on Ben in this part Phil's got 91 Ben's got 25 so Ben you can
32:28stop
32:28Phil getting a second century which would be good be good to have that last laugh
32:32Phil motivation for you as well here let's get the fingers on the buzzers let's reveal the first countdown conundrum
32:38of series 90
33:05Phil crackdown
33:08crackdown crackdown
33:11yes
33:14great stuff Phil
33:15101 halfway to becoming an octo champ after having to sit in the wings with three wins
33:21so hard almost feels like the first time again doesn't it
33:24it does yeah yeah that delay kind of helped but then got the nerves back up again so
33:29well done bit of a straight sets win up for you today
33:33but Ben I knew there was a player in there
33:36so when you sit down to watch this with your daughter Millie just started after the second
33:40break yeah forget the first break
33:43forget the first break
34:10it really is where it's ticking off do you know what I mean
34:12right thank you Suze
34:14thank you thank you Rachel
34:15new balls please for tomorrow
34:17well we don't have any new balls but we do have a new challenger
34:19same time same place tomorrow
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