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Alex Eala sat down with CBS Mornings this week. Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell,
Nate Burleson — the main table.



Here's what makes that interesting. CBS Mornings isn't a tennis show or a
sports channel. It's a general-audience national morning programme. You get
that seat when you've stopped being a sports story and become a person
America is curious about.


And she did it three days after LOSING. No title, no trophy — she'd just gone
out in the third round in three hours to Iva Jovic.


Asked about the pressure of carrying a whole country, she said this:

"It definitely comes with pressure. But pressure is a privilege."

She also talked about sharing a stage with Coco Gauff — who's only a year
older, and who she grew up watching on TV.



I've been covering the business side of her rise all month: the ticket data,
the sponsorship money, why Nike broke a rule for her that Federer never got.
Singapore is next on the 21st, then the Asian Games, then December in Manila.

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