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Taylor Swift has been called a modern-day Shakespeare—don’t ask by whom—and a cadre of WTA stars found out just how true that is in a hilarious new video posted on the tour’s official YouTube channel.

“Oh Juliet,” jokes Ons Jabeur at the unique challenge: given a song lyric or a sonnet, the players are tasked with parsing whether the line comes from Swift or Shakespeare.

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It turns out quite a few lyrics from Iga Swiatek’s favorite artist have a certain Shakespearian twist, leading everyone from Jabeur to Jelena Ostapenko to confuse the two artists.

“I hear you say it with a certain Shakespeare theater,” adds Jabeur to the off-camera producer.

Check out the best moments from the video above!

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