John Silk

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11,571 appearances 32 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

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Talking Tennis · Bencic ends Eala run | In-form Gauff lies in wait | John's tip for the US Open title · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

Because um

If if like I think the ones in the Middle East are doing jobs in in hospitals and stuff and having enough financial security to be able to afford a tennis ticket, if you like.

So if the diaspora's big but that's you know, struggling to get buyers, they might well be in in London.

I'm just gonna see how many uh live in London.

We had a quarter of a million for New York.

So L London's a bit less, two hundred thousand.

And London's a good comparison because London and New York, you know, similar sizes, I guess.

But then you throw in, you know, certain natures of tournaments, even even some of the slams like maybe the French Open and Wimbledon.

Don't generate that vibe of we're gonna go here for a party as much as I think the US Open does.

I've I went to the US Open for the first time in 2016 and listen, every slam gets a lot of things wrong.

But one of the things that I did what I was pleased about in New York with my first trip there and have been ever since is that.

There's a bit more of a um a mixed, uh what's the word?

A good, you know, diaspora of people of from various parts of the world and and and ages and and and all the rest of uh um those things and and even some of the economic backgrounds can be a little bit more modest.

Maybe it's being killed off in New York 'cause I've seen some of the prices for grounds, passes, etc.

But I remember on Centre Court, or I should say Arthur Ash, 2016.

watching I remember Djokovic played um against a Polish guy four sets and there was this um American family clearly from a sort of you know more humble background they said yeah we come here every year we love it um

And I like that side of New York and I expect the Filipino crowd to come out in in big in a big way in um in New York, probably even bigger than than Paris and London, if that makes sense.

Oh yeah.

I mean it's the electricity is a word I love to use.

That's a word that I was missing in a way that that I think listen, all of these slams develop and with Paris, by the way, you can get it on the outside courts.

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