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We connect by phone with our tennis correspondent from Australian Open, Piotr Haczek.

At the moment, on Monday, January 26th, actually everyone fell apart, except for Iggy and Zieliński, two tennis players with whom we tie great hopes.

Welcome, Piotr.

Well, as you said, unfortunately, the end of the tournament for Magda Linet, who in the third round of the single game did not win the title of Karolina Muchowa, and in the second round of the double game in pair with the Japanese Aoyama, after a three-set fight in the first match, Muhammad Rutliff fell in the pair.

We must add that I think that the beginning of the season for Magda was quite successful.

Quarter-final in Auckland, quarter-final in Hobart.

And the third round in the Australian Open, so she won two matches in each of these tournaments.

Also the first round in the BWL game.

She is already moving in terms of ranking of singles.

She will most likely be in the next Monday in the 39th place, so a big, big advance.

And Iga, well, Iga beat Anna Kalińska after a three-set match.

Well, this match had two faces.

To illustrate exactly what I said about Iga's game this year.

When everything comes out, Iga plays super aggressively, she is not mistaken, she is confident and it is difficult to find an opponent who is really able to beat Iga in this form.

But when the opponent takes the initiative, speeds up or also differentiates the tempo of the game, Iga unfortunately cannot find the recipes for a long time.

What we saw in the second set, where she lost 6-1.

Unfortunately, I was sitting here with one of the reporters who, after the first stage, started to come out.

I said, wait, wait.

How can it change when Iga plays so well, but it's 6-1, so you can't really see the difference on the court.

And I said, look, she called the so-called trainer.

She lay down on the court and was massaged, so we can see that she is trying to knock out Ige.

She didn't look like a injured person.

It was a tactical break, in my opinion, of course.

She tried to knock out Ige's rhythm, who looked in this direction a few times somewhere.

And at this point, some thoughts come to mind.

It is possible that in this way, Kaniyska returned to the match and played great tennis.

Iga does not exist in this second set.

And suddenly the third set under pressure, but Iga played well in the third set, just like in the first.

But here we see the irregularity in the game.

And you mentioned last time the advice from the point of view of the coach that Iga should move forward.

I don't want you to think that we are wise.

These are obvious things.

I have been playing tennis for over 40 years and these are obvious things on every level.

It's not that I make the same mistakes as players in lower ranks and even in junior tournaments.

If it's obvious for you, why can't it be changed?

It's a question for the coach.

The coach should force Inge to make some changes.

But if she wants to, that's another thing.

If she wants to change something, because Inge is the second in the world.

She won Wimbledon last year.

I think that Iga needs another player who is able to...

They said, listen Iga, we have to change this, we have to change that.

Whether it will fall in the ranking a few places down, it is not, I think, the most important thing at the moment.

We remember the year 23, 24, she won practically everything.

And that's not her goal.

Her goal is to win big helmets, big competitions, not ranking positions.

And I think she needs it.

We'll see what's going to happen in this match with Inglis.

She is definitely a favorite.

And today?

in the so-called Time Time.

She will be under pressure at the beginning, for sure.

The fans will be loudly doping their competitor Madison Inglis.

This match will of course be at the Rod Laver Arena.

I think we'll see a very aggressive Iggy tennis from the beginning.

She will continue to take the initiative, as in the first set with Karinska.

I think what should be played is to attack the return of the English services, especially the second service.

At this point, it can break these services.

She will certainly play a lot of notation from the forehand side, the English side, so that she plays in a somewhat uncomfortable situation, so that the balls bounce off very high.

Sometimes you can't see it on TV, but as soon as you sit at the height of the court or from the side of the court, in the corner, we see how high the ball flies and how it bounces off the basket.

These topspins, these lifted balls, this is the so-called progressive rotation, where it accelerates and it bounces quite high.

And then it's very uncomfortable to play with a ball that, I'm talking about the ball hitting function, where it is at the height of the shoulders or also above.

And we often see that the ball starts to break, but people who are not so involved in this sport do not know why, they simply have no form, there are simply difficult hits.

And in this way, we force ourselves, maybe not the first, maybe not the second, but three or four hits in a row, we force the opponent to make such a mistake.

We are very happy that you have this expertise and knowledge here to explain all this to us.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, you already know it now, when you are sitting in front of the TV, that it looks a little different live.

We also have Deble in front of us, and here we put all our hope in Zieliński.

Yes, Jan Dzieliński and Luke Johnson beat Pazlasek-Smith in the third round.

It was a smooth 6-3-6-4.

They played really well.

It was a team that started the game together and they looked very good at the beginning of the season.

It's a great choice of a partner by Jan Kaziński and I think they can go on in this tournament.

They are in the quarter-finals, but they are waiting for a pair of Arevalo Pavic, who will play with a pair of Krajicek Meknic.

They are very experienced Deblis, Pavic Meknic number one in the world at the moment.

So here in these quarter-finals there will be really hard matches.

Is it also today?

The pair that won the third round match will play today, and the quarterfinals tomorrow.

After the match of our IGA, Rodlej Weronina was about to go on the court with Novak Dziukowicz in the fourth round match with Jakub Mencik.

And it was supposed to be a proven form for Dziukowicz, who had very good dribbling here.

Mencik won the tournament in Auckland, just before the ASEAN Open, but he still skedded because of...

What can we expect tomorrow or Tuesday?

Carlos Alcaraz and Alex Demino will play against Schlager tomorrow.

who is at the top of this list.

Mews of Scorch yesterday and Bublik, here no one expected such a victory.

3-0 in sets, but really smooth.

Well, it seems to me that for the first time here Demino has a chance with Alcaraz in the quarterfinal, who, as we remember, lost a coach this year.

It seems to me that this is a big minus in his favor when it comes to this tournament, not having Juan Carlos Ferrero, a many-year-old coach.

So I think that Demino is not in a lost position and he can beat the number one world tennis.

At the end, a few of our listeners asked for an explanation of the terminology.

We all the time say scratching or scratching.

This term is used in Polish and it means that... Scratch is simply giving up the match.

This is walkover.

Because of contusions or other reasons, the player, we say, scratches.

So he just gives up a match without a scratch.

This is in Polish.

Walkover we also say in Polish.

Another term is drive volley, or drive volley.

Drive volley is an offensive shot made from the air, i.e.

before the ball hits the court.

It combines the features of a volley with a full attack, characteristic of a backhand shot.

It looks more or less like a backhand or forehand shot from the backhand of the back of the court.

We usually play it somewhere around 3 quarters or half of the court.

It is quite often used in women's tennis, in men's it is a little rarer.

It is very important and it is one of those hits that IGA should play more, especially where he attacks, the rival is outside the court.

He can play defensively and then move back, because the ball is going quite deep.

He can just go on the ball and play as he pleases.

Usually he has a progressive rotation, the so-called lifted rotation.

It can be flat.

We can also play him in different positions.

At the height of the hip, he will be more encouraged when it comes to...

or from the area of the shoulder or above the shoulder, depending on how the defender plays the ball.

This is a very strong hit, usually ending.

Sometimes after this hit, we finish the hit with a flat or sliced volley or with a catch, because after this hit we go forward to the net.

Thank you, Piotr, for explaining these definitions of tennis terminology.

So what, can we say goodbye to such a slogan that we wish Idze more of these drive volleys?

Yes, let's say goodbye to this slogan, we wish more drive volleys, aggressive games in the front of the court and in the world of beautiful volleys.

And let's add that after this match, the winner will already have 750,000 Australian dollars in the account.

Okay, thank you, Piotr.

In that case, we say goodbye to you until Wednesday, when you will again give us more emotions, more games, how it all looked like on the courts in Melbourne with our correspondent Piotr Haczek, Australian Open correspondent.

I talked today, on Monday, before the audition.

Thank you very much for this comment.

Thank you also and see you on Wednesday.

Thank you for your attention.

Dorota Banasiak, SBS Polish.

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