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What's up, Max? What's happening? Good to see you, man. Tell us about that heat. That was a little rough. And you're wearing a dark outfit, isn't that making it hotter? Man, wearing a dark outfit, I'm a dark dude, so none of it quite worked out today. No, but it was great. Good first round. It was tough playing Aljaz you know, no one's known what he's been up to, what he's been doing. He is a good player. We practice a lot in Boca. So, um Yeah, I mean it was tricky and obviously first round is never easy trying to get
your feet in under yourself. Happy to get it done ultimately relatively comfortable. feeling about the clay court season just in general and your prep coming in here? Yeah, obviously after Houston I had a you know, a little hurt after Houston. What happened? Uh I had a back was getting giving me some problems. Um I mean good problems cuz I was playing a lot in the front half. I was winning a lot and had to take a long time. So, I started in uh In Rome, right?
Last couple weeks weren't great, but I mean to me ultimately I mean I hate to say that I don't care too much, but I'm I know that here you three out of five get a lot of tennis to play there. You're like uh Novak now. You can just the majors. That's it, right? Yeah, I mean it's especially like on the clay court season. I mean I feel like you know, cuz three out of five is so different. You have so much more time in the match. I think you know, matches can be so different in the slam, but yeah, I mean I guess I kind of have that mentality cuz I want to get a slam.
We had Jasmine Paolini with her smile. We got you with your smile. We love it. What do you think about this though? You got to give the Max and New York some love right now, you know? You've been a lot. I need to tell the NYPD, man. Open that up so they can go back on crazy. I'm back I'm with the Knicks. All right. Good. We like to hear that. I'm with the Knicks, man. But your buddy is with Kevin Durant, right? Is that true?
KD's my guy. KD's my I mean he's one of the all-time greatest players. Someone's put a tweet out. We're following this stuff on YouTube asking if you were wearing the KD's. Yeah. I wish, man. I wish I could wear the KD's, but I don't wear the KD's, man. I should be wearing the Johnny Max, man. Yeah. Yeah, you got that right. I should be wearing the Johnny Max, trust me. What's the Yeah, the Travis look? That's what I still be rocking.
Why not? We did I tried it on the tennis court. Maybe throw your brother a bone and throw him a pair. You know, I could use Whatever you want, man. Let me ask you guys a question, man. When you guys going to, you know, talk to Steve Zacks and everything and I'm going to put you on the spot and get back on the Laver Cup train so we can go and win some. You know? You know. I recall that you said that when we left you weren't ever going to play again. What I do last year, man? What I do? That's what you're talking about.
I WON. YEAH, THEN HE WON. YOU LOOKED HORRIBLE FOR ALL OF US. I WAS LIKE, THEN HE CAN'T win without us, right? And then he get it done. Andre, shut up, Andre. It sounds like Rublev likes that navy blue kit that you wear, Francis. Francis, who you want the Wizards to take number one? We need to take AJ. I get what they're trying to do, the whole Utah connection whatever, but we need to take AJ. Like All right. yesterday.
Um He's that good and obviously Are you okay with looking at your draw after this cuz uh Jasmine didn't want to look at it. Yeah, I mean, I'm not Jasmine, bro. Hell yeah. Okay, I didn't say you were. I just wanted to double check. I think that was good for Mannarino. Ooh, look at that. All right, here's your draw. Hello, J Mac got a little bit Hurkacz versus Munar, that's Hurkacz is up a set and a break in that one right now.
Totally different match there. Totally different match. Shapo for real Bublik in there. Yeah. Got some character unpredictable players there. It's about Tsitsipas in there. He's starting to play a little better. How's your health now? Are you okay now? I'm good. And the fitness seems to be Fitness is not an issue. That's confident right there. We love to see you, Francis. We appreciate you coming by. I know you just came off the court, so They're telling us to let you go. We could keep you a whole hour, but they're saying get him out of there.
He needs to go get in the ice bath. I'll let you go. You guys going to be here the whole week? Uh yeah, we're here the whole time. So we look forward to seeing you again. going anywhere, Francis. We ain't going anywhere. of next week, potentially. that is definitely it. That would be my dream. Yeah, 100% I love seeing you guys, man. Love to see you. All the best, Francis. You're the man. You guys take care. Big flow everyone. Stopping by straight off the court.
