John Silk
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11,571 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
John Silk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But actually, to win five consecutive matches in the way that she did at this level is really, really hard.
And she's now top 20.
So, like, I don't think we were surprised by her eventually winning a WTA title.
I don't even think we were that surprised that she'd win a 500 on something like a hard court or even in a grass court.
But yeah.
Vance, do you have her down as a top 20 player?
Top 10 is a tough ask, though.
She's got back-to-back 1,000s to play.
And whilst I think that she certainly can beat the top players, she's going to have to.
And I'm not saying Pegula and Osaka and Svitilina aren't, because Pegula and Svitilina are...
the two of the biggest winning players on tour right now in terms of pure match wins and Ayala and Osaka we thought might be coming into form after that pretty strong Wimbledon run that she had so I guess my thing is
Okay, great.
She's beaten those players, but could she beat someone with that extra gear that they have, like a Sabalenka, a Rabakina type player?
Yeah, you kind of answered several, I was like, you gave me several questions to ask off the back of what you were saying and kind of answer them as you were going.
Because I was going to ask you about sort of what do you think Ayala has been doing better, particularly since that WTA 125.
But actually, if you look at her season, she's been racking up some really good runs in, as you said, Dubai, Indian Wells, Miami, like last 16 or further in those kind of draws is really, really impressive.
Yeah.
And that is top 20 level.
That is kind of the minimum required to be a top 20 player.
It's getting into those situations of...
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