Sloane Stephens

She's like, oh, I played Caroline Dolehyde.

in 2023 and it was a really tight match and I ended up losing and Caroline made the final here and I always think about that it just sounds like someone who's bought in so I like that and then Janice Chen is in here and Sloane Stephens is in here but Janice Chen has lost like 10 of her last 14 matches Sloane I always like but I need a big price to be involved in Sloane like It's not so long ago she was going off at 200 to 1 in some of these tournaments and now she's like 20 to 1.

And yeah she has her turn to form a bit.

She beat Clara Towson at the US Open and she had two wins at Cincinnati but I'm going to be skipping her here and hoping for Peyton Stearns.

Whether she's gonna be at her very best level, we'll have to wait and see.

We obviously, the week before she obviously went to New York, we saw her, um, come through a very tight game against Sloane Stephens, and then, then losing the next round there.

So yes, I th- I think, um, she's probably gonna be the right favorite, but do we wanna be getting with her at short odds? I'm not quite so sure.

But I think as a number one seed, some players may not have form or motivation coming in here, but I think she does have motivation.

We have, uh, Marta Kostyuk available at 2 to 1.

Uh, we have, uh, my screen's going a bit funny there.

Uh, we have I- Iga Swiatek at four, uh, Tereza Martincova at six, Lin- Linda Samsonova at nine, Taylor Townsend 14, Magdalena Frech 16, Peyton Stearns 16, Ridsmanova 20, Bianca Andreescu 22, Diane Parry 22, Sloane Stephens at 22, and Zarazua at 22 to 1, with Sosnovski at 28 to 1 as well.

Uh, you said that number one seed has a pretty bad, has awful record in this tournament.

I mean, a huge profile over there.

Like, my friends in America are texting me about tennis for the first time, like, well, men's tennis for the first time in years, and obviously they text me about Sloane Stephens on the weekly, but you know what I mean? I feel like who, who is the pressure on?

Ah.

It, it is, it is funny.

We literally have just mentioned how many Black girls are in the juniors program and have made their way to the tour.

Coco Gauff, Sloane Stephens, Maddie Keys, Victoria Mboko, Naomi Osaka, like, I struggle to believe that all of those names would be where they are if Venus and Serena had not done what they did.

I would love to be a part of the wave and see the wave in real time of black boys having the option and knowing that there's an option out there to play tennis and not go a route.

And nothing's wrong with the route of doing football, basketball, track and field or baseball.

Mm.

Sloane Stephens won it from nowhere.

I mean, the women's th- uh, Slams tend to have this-

Raducanu.

Can't blame the influencers for that one.

Sloane Stephens against Clara Towson in the first round.

That was such a treat to see Sloane back playing at that level.

She was down 4-2 in that first set and then I think lost maybe one more game the rest of the match.

Pagula Kennan, an All-American showdown.

Marta Kostik and Sloane Stephens.

Stevens is today.

Brendan Nakashima and Alex Mickelson.

Not much you can do there.

Sloane Stephens knocked out by Marta Kostyuk.

Certainly not a bad loss.

15 and 15 overall doesn't sound like a great top line number, but with the seeds looking as good as they've looked and the amount of American non-American crimes, it feels like we've had, uh, Nisimova and Kruger, Kenin and Venus.