Peter Johnston

She's someone that's finally, I shouldn't say finally reached her potential because as you said, she's still very young, but she is the former number one junior.

Conchita Martinez has been with her for a little while now and Andy Murray had a go coaching her, but so she's been a bit of a, maybe a precocious talent that's now finally realized what she's capable of doing.

Yeah, I think Precocious is right.

I mean, she certainly, the full package of the way she carries herself on and off the court.

I love her speeches are usually at the end where I'd like to congratulate myself, thank myself.

You know, it's just, it's refreshing.

And, you know, it's just, again, probably, you know, she's had her ups and downs as well, even though she's only 19.

So, you know, another massive effort and shows how

There's a lot of stories in the women's game, you know, when you've got people like Sabalenka, you've got Schneider bobbing up, beating her, and Rabakina, and Coco Goff, and Svitolina's playing great this year.

So there's a lot of stories in the women's, and she's one of the main ones now.

Yeah, it feels very even across the top sort of 20 in the world.

And just back to Trulinska for a moment, wasn't it amazing?

And I'm not sure this is a good thing, that despite being good enough to get to a French Open final, albeit as a qualifier, she didn't know how she was going to be able to afford her accommodation just to be at the French Open.

And it doesn't feel right that a sport that's played by so many tennis, so many different nations...

that we're in that situation that an athlete doesn't know how she's going to afford her accommodation.

Yeah.

Well, first at the, she would have got a per diem, which does cover a hotel.

But that being said, this is the biggest issue in the sport at the moment has been the, the top players looking for a greater percentage of revenue share from the slams.

I mean, there's fixed formulas in the tours, but the slam sort of,

determine what level they put and so that's when you do see a girl ranked 114 who you know will then go and play a tournament next week if she plays a 250 where the total prize money is 275 000 um you know it's it's having that year-round sustainability which is the biggest issue in the sport not not for the top players but at that that that next level down that personifies really what a battle it is and uh you know her life changed as a result hasn't it but