 What's going on everybody? Welcome to semi-finals day sort of random semi-finalists. I mean a couple of maybe obvious picks But overall I think I mean without Jokovic in the semi-finals. It looks a little bit weird, but we do have Top 10 players in the semi-finals. So I think that's what we that's the common theme now. I did tell you yesterday I was gonna rain it's not raining yet It hasn't started raining yet, but it's dark. It's gray It's probably gonna rain So we'll suss it out what we might We'll see what happens if it rains like in the first game of the match We'll see what we do, but it's supposed to rain for a few for a few hours. So We'll see we'll see if we get underway even rubive looking at the skies gone Jesus I don't know if we're gonna start even hitting a ball here Anyways, let's get the preview if you guys haven't watched the preview here Andre Ruebler versus Taylor Fritz is the first semi-final for Monte Carlo Masters for 2023 Both guys have been very impressive to get to the semi-final stage Fritz started the tournament off as the number 8 seed And we're gonna buy in the first round in the second round he take on stand for Vrinka the former Monte Carlo champion And after a very close first set Fritz would get to win straights 7 6 6 2 in the third round he take on the informer Hechka Who transferred his very aggressive hardcore game onto the clay and after dropping the first set Fritz was able to fight back to win 4 6 6 4 6 1 to advance to the quarter-finals in the quarter-finals Fritz would take on the two-time defending champion and second seed It's the final city pass and this was by far Fritz's best match of the week dominating city pass and straight sets 6 2 6 4 to make it to the semis rubive started the tournament off There's another five seed and we got a buy in the first round in the second round he take on munar And after dropping the first set rubive would have to fight back to win 4 6 6 2 6 2 in the third round he take on countryman Hashinov number nine seed who'd been sneaking through the draw But after a close first set rubive they've got through in straights 7 6 6 2 to advance to the quarter-finals in the quarter-finals rubive would take on the qualifier Strouf who'd been the surprise of the tournament and after a very close second set rubive would eventually get through in straights 6 1 7 6 to advance to the semifinals these guys have played six times before with fritz leading the head to head 4 2 and having won their last three meetings including a very close match in Cincinnati last year But they've never played on a clay court until today having looked at the shot quality for both these guys over the last year Fritz edges out the serve with an 8.2 rubilev at 8.0 both well above tour average on the returns Fritz also edges out rubilev 7.2 to 7.0 again ahead of the tour average But on the forehand side that is where rubilev takes the edge with an 8.3 Compared to the 8.1 of fritz both again way ahead of the tour average And the backhand side is just ahead for fritz for the 7.5 to 7.3 from rubilev The rubilev is going to have to use his forehand to dictate the rallies and fritz He's going to have to use that big serve for him to get on top shot quality is a part of a range of new Insights from the team at tennis insights It is calculated in real time and analyzes each shot speed spin depth with an impact on the opponent The number of the player cards are actually the 52 week rolling averages Go check them out on twitter linked down below This is a very fun matchup and these guys have played so many times before but First time on clay and it was so impressive to see fritz taking out city pass so easily With some of those big serves that he hit i'm going to go with fritz in three sets I reckon he's going to make the final and take out rubilev Unfortunately rubilev has never won one of these big titles So i think fritz's experience might play a part as well Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to make it to the final All right, so there it is. There's the preview if you haven't seen it now you have so There you go. That's the semi quarter finals onwards. We didn't have really anything yesterday The only thing we had I guess was the upset of city pass Thanks to fritz fritz played amazing Rubilev did have a tough second set against struff, but everything else was straight forward Ruiner beating mevvedev on clay. I think we all Probably saw that coming and center beating moussedi after moussedi had the biggest win of his life. No surprise in that one All right, Taylor fritz world number 10 25 year old from the usa 6x5 right-handed 20 wins 6 losses on the year Has a title this year on hardcourts five career titles including indian wells Which is why there's the 1000 badge in the corner and you can see that his form has been Solid, you know, he hasn't lost too many matches in a row. In fact, he hasn't lost a match in a row for a while He's winning at least three matches of every loss. So Again making the quarter semi finals here very good result And andre rubilev the one number six 25 year old from russia He is six with two right-handed 13 wins eight losses on the year no titles this year But he has got 12 career titles and you can see his form kind of similar You know not losing multiple matches in a row getting a few wins and then having a loss, but he's uh He's not as solid as what fritz has been well He hasn't hasn't got the results of fritz in the last couple of tournaments. That's for sure All right for two in favor of fritz these guys have never played on a clay court very interesting Never played on a clay court Only hardcourts and fritz is one of their last three matches including both of their matches last year at 1000 level In fact three their last three matches have been at masters 1000 level So there you go. They only play at the pigs on the big stage Uh, and again master 1000 they're here again competing So the next big question is the weather. It's really dark And it looks like it's gonna rain in like the next five minutes. So let's see what we get Um Let's see what happens. We've got don't worry though. We've got I've got I've got plans Hopefully they can play at least like half the set. That'd be nice a couple of games. Lucky thing is on clay It's less maintenance to get back on court. City passes in the house by the way. It's a bit weird Um, is he standing next to uh, the f1 driver the guy from south africa? Anyways, it doesn't matter who cares. Um So, yeah, so Let's hope they can get through at least Maybe a set if we're really lucky, but they can play on clay in the rain as long as it's not pissing rain They can play in the drizzle. So just kind of a matter of how hard it's gonna rain But let's try and get through a set if we get through a set We've got plenty of time to kill with what I've got set up for you guys or what I've got set up for us During a delay anyway Fritz gonna serve first. All right chat You tell me who's gonna win. I've got fritz in three. It's pretty much 50 50 split down the middle. You tell me though I'm going with Fritz I think fritz played amazing yesterday. If he plays like that today, he'll beat roublev roublev's also been frustrated The last couple of days Which has kind of been weird because uh He's been winning pretty easily Well, at least he's been whoops All right first point and that goes out from Fritz uh fritz left 15 All right 15 off fritz with the second point So fritz just serve and fritz is forehand which was huge against scissi pass Which he smacks the forehand winner there 30 15. They're the two big things Vegas odds are pretty much down the middle 30 15 Fritz with a serve again Winner of this will play the winner of runa versus sinna, which is happening Later today that match won't start on time. I can tell you that Uh because it's going to rain. It's just a matter of when as we're back down the line of the forehand of roublev four different fritz in the net 30 old First game of the match Roublev beat Strouf the surprise packet yesterday And fritz beat scissi pass Which was the upset of the day This is so about what a fault second serve I don't care about what they were saying Zach Let's go fritz would love to see him get the dub Congrats to the bombers heard they played great. Hashtag camp story. I'll goate Yeah, we won today 30-40 by the way, that goes out from Fritz. We got a break point first game. Thank you for the five, I appreciate that, mate. Yeah, Bombers got up, we're four and one this season. Four out of, we've won four of our first five. Finally, my team is winning. Talking Bombers win, hell yeah. Hell yeah, we are. All right, 30-40. Server to the back of the Rueblev. Rueblev returns to the back of Fritz, who hit it in the net, Rueblev first game. Now, we know it's got, but we can see that it's going to rain. We're just gonna wait until it happens. But I wonder if both these guys are thinking about the rain delay. And if you are thinking about the rain delay, because Rueblev keeps looking up at the clouds, you wanna get off to a good start. Or maybe you don't, maybe you don't need to get off to a good start. Maybe it doesn't matter. Umbrellas are starting to go up a little bit as well. Couple of umbrellas are starting to go up. Hey, thank you, Chaos, for the donation. Appreciate that. Sidney Pass has left the building. He doesn't wanna get his hair wet. Okay, one love. Break to start. There is rain around. We'll go to the radar if the players stop playing, because I do have the radar ready as that goes into the net from Fritz. 15 love, 15 love as Rueblev serves again. That's a fault. Second serve, second serve in the backhand of Fritz. Backhand out from Rueblev down the line as a winner. Lovely. This is gonna be our finish to you. From Rueblev, Rueblev doesn't wanna rain delay if he keeps playing like this. 30 love, lovely backhand down the line. 30 love. And an ace out wide bang, 40 love. Nice sitting here from Rueblev, 40 love. We just served another backhand of Fritz. 40 Rueblev down the line as a winner. Two love to Rueblev in the first five minutes of match. Here we go. Two love, Rueblev. Rueblev has been hitting the lines all week, yeah. He's been angry though. That's why I'm a little worried. But I guess if he gets off to a good start here and then has to go off, he'll probably be more annoyed. But I guess you wanna rain delay throughout five love or four love. If it starts raining at four love, you'll be happy. With the lead, at least. I love 15, Fritz in the net. Fritz come out very slow. Unlike yesterday where he came out on fire against Sidney Pass. Fritz is not quite on fire here, as we've served the four out of Rueblev and Rueblev in the net. 15 all, 15 all. Again, there is rain around. It could be raining right now, I just can't see it. But we can play in the rain on clay to an extent, just when things start getting a little bit too heavy. They can play in drizzles. We had a return out of the four out of Rueblev. Good return to the back end of Fritz. Back end of Rueblev down the line is wide. Ooh, Rueblev's gone for winners. 30-15. Fritz trying to get on the board here in this first set. 30-15. Fritz with the serve out wide at the back end of Rueblev, but it's a let from Fritz. Fritz with the serve. Into the back end of Rueblev, Rueblev in the net, 40-15. Rueblev serves. Sorry, Fritz serves again to Rueblev. 40-15. Serving to the four end is a let. Serving the net from Fritz again. Second serve. Second serve, now the four end of Rueblev return goes out. It's one, two, one. Fritz on the board. Two, one. Rueblev with the break. All right, now Chad. Did anyone see my post on Twitter? Because I see the conversation in the chat and some of you are talking about what Mehvedev had to say yesterday. But did anyone see my post on Twitter? If you didn't, go check it out. Like and retweet it, but also comment on it because I wanna hear your thoughts. If you haven't seen the post on Twitter, just go check it out. But it's, look, what's happened with Mehvedev and Zverev? Well, to be honest, were they ever best friends? It didn't seem like it. I mean, if Rueblev and Mehvedev started going at each other, that would be a bit of a shame because they were actually friends. But I never felt like Mehvedev and Zverev, I felt like they were always colleagues. You know what I mean? There's a difference between a colleague and a friend. A colleague is someone you work with and a friend is someone you actually hang out with on the outside. So I'm not really surprised. I mean, look, if anything, Zverev was the one who started, right? He spoke out, he gave the frosty handshake and Mehvedev responded. So I don't think anyone should be annoyed with Mehvedev. To be honest, Mehvedev's press conference was very, very, like he just, and it was like, he answered it like an adult. Like he answered it like a father and a husband. And Zverev, who was also a dad, he kind of like, I mean, it's a bit of, a little bit unlucky for Zverev because he hasn't allowed to answer or respond because he's left the tournament because he lost. So that's a little bit of a shame, but I thought Mehvedev's response was actually pretty mature and pretty reasonable. But hey, I don't think they're gonna have big beef. I think they'll hang out next time. They'll play next time and it'll be all fine. There's definitely bigger rivalries than Zverev. Bigger beefs than Zverev and Mehvedev. That one's got about, that's got a mild spice. That's like as much spice as I take in my Indian food. Just mild, just a mild level of spice. Just a little bit of spice, just a little bit, a mild amount. Red Hot Burning Fire is, you know, Sidi Paskirios. But go check it out on Twitter and go tell me what's your favorite beef. There's a lot of beefs out there. There's a lot of different players that are, you know, have beefs with each other on the WTA as well. I'm surprised no one said Osta Penko versus Hawkeye. I mean, that's an easy layup joke, but no one said that. Can't say it now, because I said it. Love 15 as Fritz hits it in the net in the return, 15-0. Sidi Paskirios, back in the house, he's sitting closer to the front row now with a bunch of random old dudes who are probably, probably, probably important, I'm not sure. 15-0, Osta Penko to Manevic, yeah, that's one. All right, four-hand to four-hand now as that goes into the four-hand of Rubelev, back in out from Fritz, into the four-hand of Rubelev, again to the four-hand of Fritz. As Rubelev hits the four-hand down the line, the back in of Fritz, again to the back in of Rubelev, into the four-hand of Fritz, again to the back in of Rubelev sliced to the Fritz four-hand who hits a drop shot. That's a nice drop shot from Fritz. This is gonna be our thing is to you. All right, 15-30. I don't have a Twitter account to comment. That's all right. It's fine. All right, 15-30, a chance of Fritz to break back. 15-30, serve out wide at the back end of Fritz, swinging volley from Rubelev in the net. That was a terrible shot from Rubelev. 15-40, to break back. Want to level things up. 15-40, as we just served down from Rubelev in the net. Second serve. We'll serve down the back end of Fritz, back in of Rubelev down the line to the slice of Fritz, into the four-hand of Rubelev who hits it out. There's the break back. Back on serve 2-2 and Rubelev starting to get pissed off at the courts. He's not happy with the bounce of the ball. All right. Hey, thank you, Chaos, again for the donation. Appreciate that. Okay, 2-2. Unfortunately, Bulldogs will lose. That's all right, we don't go for the Bulldogs, so I'm fine with that. Unless the bombers don't lose, that's all I care about. Bulldogs, cool, whatever. Too bad. 2-2. Sucks for you, I guess. Double-fought, Fritz. My salt in there. But let me know in the chat, what is your favorite beef at the moment? What is your favorite beef? A lot of you are commenting. I love that. Appreciate it. Go follow us on Twitter if you haven't already. Tell us your favorite beef at the moment in tennis. As that goes out from Fritz, love 30. Runa versus Stan. I do love that one. Love 30, Steph versus Kirios. I love that too. One to forehand now as that goes down the line to the backhand of Rubelev. Four-one from Fritz again to the backhand of Rubelev. Into the backhand of Fritz. Rubelev with the backhand on the stretch. Fritz gets it with the backhand down the line. Rubelev with the four-one on the stretch. In the net, 15-30. City pass, Medvedev. See, that's an oldie but a classic. That's an oldie but a classic. What about Rubelev versus City pass? It's a little bit one-way with City pass throw and shade. But what about Rubelev City pass? Is that a little, that's a mini, that's a, again, that's a very low spice. It's like a, like one, it's like level one on the, on the hot wings, spice hot ones. What is it, hot ones? Spice scale. As that goes wide for Fritz, 15-40. And it's all coming from City pass. Rubev versus Kirios, there's another one. Yeah, that's another one. Potipova versus Kostuk maybe. Murray versus Venin is a classic, okay. All right, serve out wide the four-hand of Rubelev. Rubelev hits it out in the return. Still break point though, 30-40. 30-40. And serve again from Fritz. Serve down T. Great serve from Fritz in the net from Rubelev. Fritz gets the deuce. So there's a couple of break points. Two-oh, deuce. Serve from Fritz. That's a foul. Second serve. Second serve in the four-hand of Rubelev. Back and out from Fritz. Get in the back of Rubelev into the four-hand of Fritz. He hits it in the net. Another break point, advantage Rubelev. Both these guys are a little sly at the blocks. Advantage Rubelev. Serve down from Fritz. Down to the four-hand of Rubelev. The return goes into the four-hand of Fritz. Back and out of Rubelev. Get in the backhand of Fritz. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Fritz with the backhand. Get in the backhand of Fritz. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Backhand again from Fritz. To the backhand of Rubelev. The backhand of Fritz. Into the Rubelev backhand. We're just going back in the backhand. It's Fritz hits it in the net. There's the break again. Three breaks in five games. Fritz is not happy. Rubelev is trying to get excited about getting the break, but he's kind of pissed off too. Three-two, Rubelev with the break again. 15 minutes in. Zach. Beef as Rubelev versus his racket. Hisself. Yeah, that's pretty funny too. That's a funny one. All right. Getting wild. That's it. Is this like the Moussedi match? Um, no. These guys both look nervous. And also these guys, I think they're both, because we know it's going to rain, right? At some point today. In this match probably. I think they're both kind of like hesitant because they're waiting for the rain. They're waiting to go off court and then come back maybe in an hour or two. But I think they've got to realize, they've got to, you've got to just play now and forget about what happened, you know, what's going to happen. Because they do seem a little tense at the moment. But they're waiting for the rain so then they can regroup. You never know. The rain could disappear for, you know, could not even, not be here for 30 minutes and that's a set, right? So you've got to settle in as if it's not going to rain. It isn't said to done. By the way, that is the F1 guy sitting next to CityPass. CityPass is 6'4". That F1 driver is 5'4". And that's not a joke. I think he actually is 5'4". And sitting next to Steph, he's like here. It's like Steph sitting next to a child. Like a child that looks like a man. That's what it looks like. It's like sitting next to a manlet. Bit harsh. That's true. All right, three, two. It's not George Russell. George Russell is the same height as Steph, I think. George Russell is like the tallest 4'1". driver around, isn't he? Like a tall, skinny bean. Yeah, DeFries. That's the guy. Yeah, that's the guy. The new guy from, for the, yeah. Whatever it is. Yeah, the South African guy. All right, three, two. Well, is he South African or Dutch? Dutch, is he Dutch? I think maybe both. Dutch? He's Dutch, right? No, he's love 15. That goes out from Rubele. Love 15. He's Dutch. He's got like a South African Dutch act. I want to hurt him on the Netflix series. DeFries, yeah, that's it. Anyway, his love 15 is we're back in a backhand rally from Rubele to the fauna fritz. Fauna Rubele on the stretch. Goes down the line, they're back in a fritz. And fritz hits it wide. 15-0. 15-0, by the way, Daniela Hanchakova is in the house. I think, I think that's her. He's not moving. Maybe it's a statue of her. It's a mannequin. 15-0, Rubele with a serve. Into the fauna fritz. Oh, and fritz just hits it wide. 30-15. 20 minutes into this one. Anyone else see that? 30-15, he's going to serve in the backhand of fritz, return the fauna of Rubele. Fauna from fritz. Is wide. 40-15, let's get the shit out of me. Why is my power going out? That's crazy. There was just this light though. 40-15, serve in the net, second serve. Rubele, getting a 4-2 in the first. Serving to the backhand of fritz. Return goes to the backhand of Rubele. 400 for fritz. Is a winner, 40-30. 40-30. Forehand there from fritz. That's what got him the win over Sidney Bass yesterday. Forehands like that. 40-30. As Rubele serves a fault. Second serve. We're going to return for fritz. That's not bad. Rubele in the net. Fritz, forehand again. Rubele gets annoyed. And we're a deuce. Okay, Rubele's serving again. We've already had three breaks in five games. To start this match. And Rubele has led with a break already. As we had a 4-1 net down. It's out from Rubele. What's that? Terrible from Rubele. And it's advantage fritz. Advantage fritz. To take the break back and level at 3-3. First serve of the fault. Second serve. Return goes in the backhand of Rubele. Backhand from fritz. Into the backhand of Rubele. Into the backhand of Fritz. Again, into the backhand of Rubele. It goes down the line of the 4-1 of Fritz. 4-1 of Rubele on the stretch. Goes down the line of the backhand of Fritz. Again, into the backhand of Rubele. Fritz with the backhand. Into the 4-1 of Rubele on the stretch. And Rubele hits a very nice shot. Fritz gets it. 4-1 of Rubele inside out. Fritz gets out with the backhand. Into the backhand of Rubele. It goes down the line. Fritz running side to side. He's going to 4-1 down the line from Rubele. Backhand of Fritz. Again, the backhand of Rubele. Hit the deadline again. Fritz with a four on the stretch. Rublev with a slice. Fritz back in the rally. Forehand goes for a winner. Lovely from Fritz. He breaks back. Added three games all in the first. Lovely from Fritz. Just defending every shot. And then got the last forehand winner. We're back on serve, 3-3. Four breaks in six games. Okay. 23 minutes. Six games played. Rain around. We're waiting for it to hit the court. We're gonna serve it wide from Fritz. Lovely serve. 15 love. Fritz has not been in front yet in this game. He's been down two love. And level at 2-2. Then got broken to 3-2. Now 3-3. He hasn't been in front yet. Rublev has been the better player to start this match but Fritz with the backhand in the net. 15-0. Thomas Johansson in the house, by the way. He's gonna serve now from Fritz. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rublev. Rublev hits it out. Just a nothing backhand. 30-15. Fritz with the serve. Trying to stay in front. 30-15. And an ace down the tee. What was it a fault? It was a fault. It was a fault. Second serve. That isn't called a fault. I don't know what the hell... I mean, did we really need to get out of the chair and look at that one? It was out by like this much. I'm just like, is it this mark? The one that's out by this much? Yes. Second serve. Second serve out wide at the backhand of Rublev. Good return to the forehand of Fritz. But Fritz's forehand's too good. Lovely forehand on the stretch. 40-15. Fritz trying to stay in front. Well, get in front, I should say, for the first time. 40-15. Fritz with the serve. Into the backhand of Rublev. Backhand from Fritz down the line. Another winner. Fritz has found his winners. And he leads now for the first time in the semi-final. 4-3. Hey, thank you, Chaos for the dollar. Appreciate it. 4-3. Brian. Love Rublo so much, but can't watch his matches. Okay. Look at Chaos. I don't know what happened there. Oh, I think if your donor under a dollar doesn't read out the text. I think there's a weird glitch, I think. Thank you for the donations. Fritz about to fire up. Yeah, Steph's still injured. He only talks about his shoulder when he loses. I don't know why, it might be a coincidence, but it's annoying. It's like, if you hurt, then rest. Again, thank you so much, everybody, for following us on Twitter, I appreciate that. Now, there is a fan slam next week. Speaking of some of you were saying fan slam. Yes, I'm still in the top 20. Now, I think it's, I don't think Emily's here, but Emily, a regular in the chat. If Runa wins the tournament, she might win the fan slam, which is great to see one of our own winning the fan slam, because usually it's not necessarily people in the chat. I think Tarak was one at last two weeks ago, but we will be doing fan slams for Stuttgart and for Barcelona. So we'll get those sorted for you over the next couple of days. And then of course the big ones are going to be Madrid and Rome as well for the ladies and men. But yeah, we'll do a fan slam next week because we're going to be watching those tournaments anyway. So we'll do fan slams for both of those tournaments. Four, three. As we have served into the backhand, that's a fault from Rubellev, second serve. Second serve into the point of Fritz, back in a Rubellev on the stretch, goes wide. And it's love 15. Yeah, I know Barcelona draws already out. So is the Bosnia tournament as well. Stuttgart's not out yet, but we'll wait and see. It's probably going to come out in the next couple of hours. But yeah, I did notice that the Barcelona draw was out. Looks pretty interesting. And I love 15. The serving of the backhand of Fritz, back in a Rubellev, into the forehand of Fritz who hits a drop shot. Lovely shot, Rubellev gets it with the slice down the line though, too good. Nice from Rubellev, 15 all. How's the weather? It's going to rain. It's not raining yet, but it is going to rain. Munich's also out, nice. Yeah, having a quick look at the draw for Barcelona. Everyone gets a buy in the first round, the top 16 seeds. No real first round bangers. Yeah, no real first round epics that I can tell off the top. Even second round's a bit meh, as that goes to Rubellev, 30, 15. Even the second round, it's like qualifier versus the top seed. Third round gets a little interesting. Like a chapeau versus City Pass. But yeah, I gotta be honest, Barcelona's not going to get good until maybe quarter-finals, when the, you know, Elcrez versus, you know, Tiafa or, you know, Rude versus Hashinov, Cineversa's Moussetti or Cineversa Nori or, they didn't die. City Pass Diminor, they're not really that great matches to be honest. Yeah, Medvedev's out of Barcelona, so it was Rafa and that kind of ruined everything. Stuttgart's where it's at though, we're going to be watching that luckily. As that goes out from Fritz and it's 40, 15. Luckily we've got Stuttgart, that'll keep us busy because I'm going to be honest, Barcelona looks a little mid, looks a little meh. Especially early, there's not much going on in the first couple of days in Barcelona. Elcrez, City Pass, Cine are the only big names that I'm kind of interested in. And they don't play each other through the semis. There's been a four in a four in a rally, Rubelev trying to level things up as Fritz smacks that forehand away, 40-30. Stuttgart's going to be, yeah, Stuttgart's going to be incredible. Like that, that, I mean, that's where it's at. Stuttgart's like the ATP 1000, sorry, like the, it's kind of like the Monte Carlo of the women's tour. The first, you know, the curtain raiser of the Claycourt season for Europe, 40-30. What about the Serbia open? I mean, the Djokovic is playing, but I don't know if he will. I think Djokovic might pull out. Stan versus Nolle's second round, that would be fun. But other than that, not much going on as Rubelev levels up, 4-4 first set. You know, you got Rubelev and that's about it. Rubelev, Čoric, Ketjmenovic, really, you know, Djokovic in Serbia and Elcrez in Barcelona are the only two really big names, I guess, to watch over there. But like I said, Stuttgart's where it's at. And Stuttgart has a roof. In fact, it's inside, so we don't even have to worry about the weather in Stuttgart. We can just watch the whole tournament without any interruptions. 15-1, base down the tee. From Fritz, let's see about why that's a fault from Fritz, second serve. Second serve to the forward of Rubelev, back it up for Fritz. To the back of Rubelev, to the back of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev at the forehand is a winner. Back behind Fritz, he wasn't ready, 15-0. Now that the rain has held off for now, let's see if someone can take this first set and then, you know, if it does rain in the second set, at least have this set in their pocket. I think when they came out here, they thought we're gonna play five minutes and be out of here. I thought that too. I thought it'd be five minutes, one game and we'd be done. But they've played a half a set, now we're gonna see if someone can steal the set. Back in the back end as Rubelev goes again to the back of Fritz. For now, Rubelev, again to the back end of Fritz into the forehand of Rubelev. Back enough of Fritz on the stretch, Rubelev. The forehand drop shot, very smart, but Fritz is there with the forehand, but he hits it out. Ah, 15-30. Rubelev trying to take this set. 15-30. Munich is Vera and team. Well, Fritz and Runa are playing. Yeah, look, Munich might be interesting too, but like I said, Stuttgart is the main focus. You've got like, I think it's like eight of the top 10 are playing in Stuttgart, so. As we get a let from Fritz, 15-30, Rubelev's been in front the longest in this match. He was up two-love, and he was up three-two with a break. He's the one who's been having the better set so far. Second set, Fritz. 15-30, back end of Rubelev to the forehand of Fritz. Forehand of Rubelev, down the line to the back end of Fritz. Rubelev taken over with the back end, down the line again to the forehand of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev with the forehand, again to the forehand of Fritz, down the line, Rubelev's there with the back end. As Fritz hits the back end again to the forehand of Rubelev, into the forehand of Fritz on the stretch. In the net from Fritz, 15-40. Fritz throws his racket in the ground and says, I'm playing so bad. Yeah, he's not happy with that. He was definitely not playing the same as he was yesterday. Yesterday against City Pass, this is not, this is not the same guy at all. Okay, serve out wide the forehand of Rubelev. Rubelev hits it wide, 30-40. Saves one, 30-40. It's gonna, by the looks of it, it's gonna rain in the next 10 minutes, five minutes. So you'll want to get the first set of your Rubelev right here. Second serve coming up. Big chance for Rubelev to break and serve at the set. Second serve in the back end of Rubelev, back end from Fritz, into the back end of Rubelev, again to the forehand of Fritz. Back end of Rubelev, into the forehand of Fritz, into the open court from Fritz, right in the corner. And he saves the second one. Deuce. Or if you're Fritz, you want to hold it and then break. Steal the set. Then at least if it rains in the break, it won't matter. By the way, just for context, rain can be very light and they can still play on the clay. It's only when it starts pouring down rain when it's unplayable. But right now, it could be drizzling and they could still be fine. No umbrellas yet as we had a forehand from Fritz. Rubelev guesses right with the back end and it's a winner from Rubelev. This is going to be our biggest TV run. Fritz should have hit that somewhere else because Rubelev was there and Fritz was too close to the net to do anything with it. Advantage Rubelev. Man, Fritz already committed to the inside out forehand and Rubelev was there. And he just had to put it down on line anywhere in the court and it was good. As Fritz goes down the tee, Rubelev with a good return, Fritz back end, into the back end of Rubelev, again to the back end of Fritz. Rubelev back in the back end as Fritz goes again to the back end of Rubelev, into the back end of Fritz. Rubelev with a forehand, inside out to the back end of Fritz. Fritz hits it out, okay. There we have it. Rubelev takes the break and he loves it. It's going nuts. And he's going to serve for the first set. 36 minutes in, the rain is holding off. There are a few umbrellas going up in the stands but that might just because it's drizzling. It is, might be just a little drizzle around. Nothing heavy enough to stop the match. Light rain. Yeah, umbrellas are up but then there's a lot of non and there's a lot of people with no umbrellas. So maybe they're just a little bit more worried about their hair or something. Okay, am I watching the chess world championships? No, but tell us who wins. Tell us who wins. Go Norman. Is that his name? What's his name? Norman? No. Is that him? What's his name? I'm missing WTA tennis. Oh, next week we'll get our fix. Next week, five breaks in nice game and nine games, nice. Yeah, but the difference between this and the Moussetti match because everyone's going to compare the two. The Moussetti match was like everywhere. They both played terrible, right? It was ugly tennis. These guys are breaking each other. Not so much by ugly tennis because they're hitting winners to kind of break each other. So it doesn't feel like, yeah, there's been five breaks, but it doesn't feel like this match is horrible. You know what I mean? Just feels like they're both kicking each other, like, you know, breaking each other from good play. By the way, umbrellas are up, jackets are on, wind is blowing, it's getting hectic. Now, Rubella better hold now, get this set. As the rain is starting to set in a little bit more, Rubella serve at the set, the weather's getting worse. Has been a serve into the back and a fritz. Return goes in the front of Rubella, but it's a drop shot. That's a winner from Rubella. Lovely shot, 15 love. Again, a lot of people are starting to put on jackets. All right, serve out wide at the back and a fritz. Return goes in the front of Rubella. Lovely shot from Rubella. Fritz with the back and on the stretch. Into the front of Rubella. Again, to the front of Fritz. Rubella with the back hand, cross court on the back hand of Fritz. Back and a Rubella with the slice. That goes in the front of Fritz. And Fritz hits a winner in the open court, 15 all. I think Rubella is playing a little bit more urgent here. He's like, shit, I want to win this set before we have to sit outside, sit inside. There's people who put on ponchos or rubbish bags, whatever they look, you know what they are. You know, ponchos, it's a clear plastic bag. Same material as garbage as we got to return. Oh, what a return for Fritz. This is going to be our finish to you. The smack's a winner down the line on the forehand, one step, bang. 15-30. A lot more umbrellas than there were about five minutes ago. Lovely return. Again, it might just be drizzling annoying rain. But some people, because there's a guy in the front row, dude's not even wearing a jacket. He's just sitting there like, I don't care. Anyways, back in our from Rubella, it's wide, 15-40. This has happened so many times, three times already for Rubella in this set, he broke, he got broken, he broke, he got broken. 15-40. Serve. Now wide at the front of Fritz, good return. And Rubella hits it in the ground, there's the break back, 5-5. And Rubella's getting pissed off. Is he getting pissed off at the fact that court's getting all, maybe getting wet? And then that's Clay. I think he's complaining that the court service is bad. And maybe that the court service is a little bit hard to play. Ball's not bouncing even. 5-5. Now he's going to serve now from Fritz. Now wide at the front of Rubella, return goes in the back end of Fritz. Fritz hit the winner down the line, smart again from Fritz. Fritz has now taken the pace off the shots and he's gone for placement over power. Yesterday it was power that got in the win. So he's playing smart, Fritz. He's just got to hold serve and then maybe break Rubella or play a tie break. He's going to serve in the net, second serve. Remember, first time these guys have played on Clay. As we have the second serve, the back end of Rubella, back end up from Fritz is good. Rubella gets with the back end into the front of Fritz. Fritz hits it wide, unlucky, hit the tape and ricocheted wide. 15-all. The weather situation. Umbrellas are up. Some umbrellas. So it must be a little bit of drizzle. He'll return down from Rubella. That's good to the front of Fritz. Nice shot for Fritz. Rubella can't change direction, 30-15. You wonder if Fritz gets this game with all the chances Rubella's had, whether or not he can hold. Serve, down to the front of Rubella, the front of him from Fritz. Inside out, it was just on the line. Now Fritz with a drop shot. Rubella's going to get it with a slice. Fritz with a volley. Open quarters, a winner. Lovely from Fritz. If he wasn't six foot five, he wouldn't have hit that. He hit that at the very top of his racket. If he was six foot three, that would have been a passing shot from Rubella. Fritz lunges, yeah. If Fritz is a little shorter, that ain't going over. Rubella's starting to get pissed off and the rain in the slow-mo shot is falling. Not hard enough to stop. Ace, bang. Six-five, Fritz leads. Rubella's serving to stay in the set. Both players look at the umpire to see whether or not he wants to say anything about the courts, but no. It is definitely raining though. Not raining, but drizzling. But not enough to stop the play, which is good because we don't want to stop play right now. I mean, this match is getting interesting. All right, what's happened so far? All right, I'll tell you what's happened so far. Rubella came out of the box, broke first game, got to two-love. Then Fritz broke straight back, got to two-all. Then Rubella broke again, got to three-two. Fritz broke straight back, then led four-three for the first time. Then at four-all, Rubella broke, and then Fritz broke back as Rubella served for the set. And then just waiting to see if a couple more umbrellas are going up. And then Fritz broke back, and now he leads six-five and Rubella is serving to get to the tie break. So it has been messy, but again, it's a much better quality match than the Djokovic versus Rosetti match. The breaks have served from this match are not because of double-fault and errors. In fact, we've only had one double-fault for the match and a lot more winners to break the serve rather than someone breaking themselves, if that makes sense. A break is a break, but also there's different types of breaks. Someone can double-fault four times, get broken. Someone can hit four winners and break someone. So it's a little bit like that. Pretty good match overall, quality-wise. Six-five. The returning is better, though, obviously. Here we go, Rubella serving to stay in the set now. By the way, the steel percentage for Fritz, 53%, which is 32%, which is, well, the average is 32%. So he's way higher, way higher up on the steel percentage. Is it a back-and-back-hand rally? Into the back-and-over Rubella, which slices that into the back-and-over Fritz. Back-and-over Rubella, no, Fritz, it's a white. 15-love. By the way, with the impending rain, the tie-break is gonna be huge. The winner of the tie-break going in to possibly a rain delay after the tie-break, that tie-break's massive. You get it, it's a difference between being up a break in a set and rain. Having a set in your pocket and it rains, Rubella hits that net at 15-all. That's huge. You wanna go into a rain delay with a set in your pocket for sure. So you're gonna return now to the back-and-over Rubella, four-and-out from Fritz, sliced in the net. Rubella's 30-15. Deserves the tie-break, it does. This set does deserve a tie-break. It has been very, has been even. Fritz's first serve's been better, but Rubella has been more solid on the ground. As we return now from Fritz, that goes out, 40-15. 40-15. Rubella with a serve again to get to this tie-break. And this first set that has been, hasn't been stopped yet. And it is raining out there. 45 minutes, pretty quick set too. A little bit of serve now to the back-and-over Fritz. Return goes to the back-and-over Rubella. Back-and-over from Fritz, down the line, into the front-and-over Rubella in the net. 40-30. 45 minutes to play a tie-break is pretty quick. In fact, it's very quick. 40-30, still a chance here of Rubella to get to the tie-break. Serve it to the front-and-over Fritz, front-and-over Rubella, again to the front-and-over Fritz. To the front-and-over Rubella, Fritz hits the forehand, down the line, to the back-and-over Rubella. Back-and-over from Fritz on the stretch, goes into the front-and-over Rubella, again to the back-and-over Fritz. Rubella with a slice, that goes into the front-and-over Fritz. Who hits it down the line for a winner. Fritz doesn't want to play a tie-break. Unbelievable. He wants to play, hopefully, the start of a second set. Deuce. By the way, shout out to Fritz's girlfriend. It is raining out there, and she's like, I don't give a shit. She doesn't need no umbrella. She doesn't care. Shout out to her. More people in the stands with umbrellas who are like, oh, no. And she's just like, I don't give a shit. I'm not here for the, I don't give a crap about the weather. All right, Deuce. I can't clap for my boyfriend if I'm holding an umbrella, you know? Anyways, return goes into the front-and-over Rubella, back-and-over Fritz on the stretch. That goes into the front-and-over Rubella, again to the front-and-over Fritz on the stretch. Rubella with the back-hand. Fritz gets back in the rally, back-and-over back-and-over Rubella on the stretch with a slice. And that goes out. We got a set point. Set point, Taylor Fritz. Unbelievable, unbelievable. She's waterproof. Yeah. Okay. Advantage Fritz. We've got a set point. Distill the set. Serving to the front-and-over Fritz. Return goes in the front-and-over Rubella, back-and-over Fritz on the stretch. Into the back-and-over Rubella, again to the back-and-over Fritz. Rubella with the back-and-over again. Into the front-and-over Fritz. To the back-and-over Rubella, again to the back-and-over Fritz. Into the back-and-over Rubella. Fritz with the back-hand. Again to the back-and-over Rubella. Into the back-and-over Fritz. He's going cross over these backhands. Now Rubelle with the forehand down the line. That goes out and Fritz takes the set. Rubellev had three breaks throughout the set to lead and it gets broken to lose. Rubellev's pissed. Seven-five Fritz first set. Rubellev's gone to the bathroom. More umbrellas going up though. So that was a huge first set for Fritz. Cause if it starts raining, if it starts raining you want to go out there with the set in your hand. Now Rubellev by the way, starting to smash things on the way out. Kicking over bins and slamming towels into the box. Anyways, good first set for Fritz. Very good first set for Fritz. And he takes the first set but there were a lot of breaks in that set. But like I said, not like it was in the Moussedi-Jokovic back. Moussedi-Jokovic was like double fault got broken. Double fault got broken. These guys are breaking by hitting very good shots or at least by making the other person miss as well. All right, now I have an interesting graphic to show you guys. It's based on the last couple of seasons at Masters 1000 events. So let's go have a look at the graphic. Starting with Rubellev. You can see there that over the last three seasons since the pandemic or since COVID started in the 2020s he's made three, oh sorry, he's made five semi-finals. And he's won two out of those at the moment, two out of four semi-finals at Masters 1000 level. He made the semi-finals at Indian Wells last year. Made the semi-finals in Miami the year before. Finally Monte Carlo two years ago. You can see also the Cincinnati final back in 21. Last year, I mean, didn't do great in the Masters. You can see there he did make the quarterfinals of Madrid as well as that semi-final in Indian Wells. Actually, that's the Fritz. Funny enough in Indian Wells last year in the semi-finals. But this season he's done pretty well. Fourth round, fourth round semi-finals. So he's starting to get back on track Rubellev, sort of that, what a top eight guy should be doing. Quarterfinals of these tournaments and every now and again get to a semi. Now let's have a look at Fritz's records being lately. So you can see there he's been the quarter-final king when it comes to Masters 1000, obviously made one the tournament in Indian Wells last year. Also made the semi-finals in 21 about, so this is his third semi-final at this level. Look at the quarter-finals, quarter-final Monte Carlo last year. This year he's already made quarter-finals of Indian Wells Miami and now Monte Carlo. But Paris, quarter-final back in 21 and also quarter-final back in 22 in Sinsey. In fact, he actually beats Rubellev along the way to get to that quarter-final. So he's really, he's almost completed the set. Now you can see there he's only lost, we didn't play last year in Madrid or Rome because of injury. But man, he's trying to get the quarter-final set. Hasn't played Shanghai for a while, but we know that Shanghai's coming back this year. So there you go, there are the last few years at Masters 1000 level for these guys, pretty even I think. You know, I think, well, Rubellev will cash in those semi-finals for a title. Fritz has got the dub in the Indian Wells event. But we'll go through the other guys in the next match. I'm not gonna give all the secrets out yet. This is the Fritz era and I'm here for it. Okay, we stole the first set. And Rubellev, oh, he stole the towel. Rubellev pissed off at the table. He's gone to the bathroom, but he's come back angry. Didn't calm him down, made him worse. Pretty quick set two, 40, well it was 48 minutes as the set finished. Let's see, let's see if we can get this match done before the rain. That would be interesting. That would be very interesting. All right, seven, five first set Fritz. And Fritz serving first in the second because he stole the end of the, got the break at the end of the set. Which is always good as we're back in the back end rally. Again at the back end of Fritz. And Fritz in the net, love 15. Now, if you're just joining us. First set, Rubellev was sort of in control for the most part, for the first half of the first set. It was only the tail end of the set where Fritz kind of took over. But Rubellev was in control. Also I can confirm a couple of umbrellas have gone down. That's a good sign. Umbrellas are going down a little bit. Well, less umbrellas, the better. Love 15. Double fault Fritz. Love 15. Can serve again from Fritz. Put a little bit of a let-off in this first game. Then he serves an ace bang. Oh, is it called a fault? Oh, it's called a fault. All right, second serve. Rubellev's like, no, no, no. That was a fault. Don't give him any points. Second serve, into the back end of Rubellev. Back end up from Fritz, again to the back end of Rubellev. Into the back end of Fritz. Rubellev with the back end on the stretch. That goes down to the four on a Fritz. Good shot. Into the four on a Rubellev. Four on a from Fritz. Again to the four on a Rubellev. Into the four on a Fritz, but Rubellev hits it out again. Rubellev's four ends just a little bit crazy at the moment. 15-30, 15-30. But there has been rain. I can tell you that. It has been raining. It's not hard enough to call it off. The beauty of Clive, we're in Miami. We'd still be sitting here waiting for something to happen. As that goes out from Fritz, and it's 15-40. 15-40. Chance for Rubellev to get off to a good start in a second. As we get a let from Fritz. 40 second first serve goes in. That's a great return from Rubellev. Fritz hits it out. Rubellev breaks first game in a second. Just feels like the first set again, though. That's what he did. He started off on fire in the first set. Went up 2-11, then he couldn't hang on to the breaks. But he wins the first game of the second. One love. Again, if you haven't gone over on Twitter and seen the post I put up there over there, a lot of you have. Thank you for liking and following it. And give me your opinion. I want to know, what is the best beef in tennis right now? What do you like to see in the beefs? Which is your favorite beef in tennis? There's a lot going on. Seems like all the young guys are getting into fights. Or at least they're all getting chirpy. Except for Rune, who's chirping up at stand, but okay. Everyone else seems to be chirping at each other, all the same generation guys. All right, Rubellev, back in a backhand with Fritz here. He's got a forehand out from Rubellev. You know, the backhand of Fritz into the forehand of Rubellev. And Rubellev hits it wide. Love 15. Rune versus everyone. Yeah, my favorite beef is still Sizi Pass versus Kirios. Every time they play, it just turns into this circus. Even Kirios Mehvedev is kind of, it's not really a beef, but it is definitely a circus. They played a couple of times last year. Three times, I think last year. Of course, the most epic of the bunch being the U.S. Open, but that's not really a beef. Does anyone notice how Mehvedev gets chirpy when he starts winning too? When he's losing, he doesn't, we didn't talk, we didn't hear him last year. We didn't hear Mehvedev last year. He starts winning a couple of matches and he's like, yeah, I heard somebody tell me that Andre had not many tools in his, you know, not many, he wasn't very creative. You know, he didn't have many tools to his game. Throw a Shad at Sizi Pass and then he starts throwing Shad at Zverev with like the funny, like, did anyone see the handshake with Rune yesterday? God, it was funny. Anyways, back in a backhand. I love this Mehvedev. And look, he can do whatever he wants because he's winning. You win trophies, you can do whatever you want. Rubler, by the way, that ball goes wide but the umpire's gonna call it. He's gonna call it wide. We have drink 30. Mehvedev's comments on it, that was very, very interesting. Yeah, I think Mehvedev was actually pretty, pretty mature in his response, to be honest. But we've missed this man. I said it during the, during the resurgence in March. We've missed Mehdi. There's been a four now into the open court. That goes into the sky from Fritz. Rubler puts away the smash 30-all. Tennis is so much better when Mehvedev winning, when he's winning. I don't think we realize how much we actually missed Mehvedev being around last year. But like being like a contender last year. You know, he didn't really, he got to the straight up and final and then just disappeared. So much better having him contending for these tournaments and also just being met, being himself really, just being Mehvedev. 30-all, serve at wide is a fault. Second serve, Rubler trying to hang on to this early break. He's a character, we need that. Well, I want that. Maybe we don't need it, but I want it. Has a slice there going into the forehand of Rubler, backing up from Fritz on the stretch. Get into the forehand of Rubler. That's a good shot down the line. Fritz can't get it, 40-30. We need Mehvedev on the Netflix documentary. That's what we need him. We need him on break point season two. Sign Mehvedev, at least for season two, part two of that. That's how they release it. We need Mehvedev for break point. We're gonna serve out wide at the backhand of Fritz, backing up from Rubler, goes wide and we're a deuce. We need Mehdi on that show. All right, here we go. Deuce, Fritz trying to break back straight away. Break back straight away. Has been a return going up to the sky of Fritz and that goes into the forehand of Rubler. Now Rubler with a smash. Fritz can't get that one. Too good from Rubler. Advantage, Rubler to get to two love here in the second. Dad Vedev is the best, yeah. We love Mehvedev. He's at Bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? He's at Bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? He's at Bullshit Russian, you think- Advantage, Rubler. For now goes the backhand of Fritz, returning to the forehand of Rubler, who hits it down the line for a winner. Rubler, two love in the second. But he was up two love in the first and look what happened. There's a small thief who doesn't know how to fight. True. Rubler is sponsored. He's sponsored by Head Rackets, but I think he's got his own clothing brand. I think that's his own brand, Rubler. Isn't it called like, what's it called? Rublo? Guys, I'm a member. Thank you for being a member, I appreciate that. All right, two love. Is it Rublo? I think it's called Rublo. Man, you better shut your fuck up, okay? If you hit left and you don't say sorry, you think you're a good kid? I don't have to stop when you kept doing like this to the team. Except Bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? Zach. With the amount of money and access he has, why don't Rublev hire a psychiatrist to help him mentally? He has let his anger cost him millions over the years. Just saying. Thank you, Zach, for the 10. And appropriately, we have the Mivitiv rant as we talk about Mivitiv. Interesting, let me know in the chat, why do you think Rublev doesn't have a sports psychologist with him like, you know, someone like his fiance, right? Why do you think he has a traveling psychologist? 15-all here. Has a bit of serve. Into the back end of Rublev, back end of Fritz on the stretch. Rublev gets it with a backhand. Again, into the back end of Fritz. Into the back end of Rublev. Fritz hits it out, 15-30. Fritz is just, this is exactly like the first set. Two love Rublev, 15-30. A chance for Rublev to get a double break in this second set. It was the same as the first set. One hour played. Don't think he needs one. Okay. Too proud. Yeah, I've got a theory. I have a bit of a theory. This match is so enjoyable. Yeah, it's fun. The backhand return now to the 400 Fritz. Returning to the open court for Fritz. Lovely forehand winner, 30-all. Yeah, I've got a theory. We'll talk about it after this. 30-all. It's still not super common. That's probably one thing. Yeah, it's not really a thing that people do. Of course we're gonna watch Sinaruna. Of course, we watch everything from the quarter-finals onwards. 30-all, Fritz serves. He's just trying to get on the board here in the second, as Rublev runs right into forehand. Into the front of Fritz, who shanks it. Rublev comes in with a forehand. Into the front of Fritz. Return volley from Rublev. It's good. Fritz with a pass is too good. Rublev just a little bit hesitant coming to the net. Maybe he didn't hit the greatest of approach shots and cost him 40-30. Actually, that is an interesting, interesting perspective, interesting observation. Russians don't seem the kind of people who believe in psychologists. That's interesting. 40-30. Another serve in the net from Fritz, second serve. Second serve for Fritz to get on the board here in the second. Serve down the back end of Rublev. Return the back end of Fritz. Return to the front of Rublev. Into the front of Fritz on the stretch. Back in our Rublev cross court is wide and it's two-one Fritz down in the second, but it feels exactly like the first set again. Rublev still got a break though. Okay, here's my theory. This is what I think. I think it's definitely got something cultural because, I mean, I'm from Australia, right? There's probably a lot of people from America in the chat. Maybe a lot of people from Western Europe. Russia's different. And psychology, like maybe like admitting your, like in sports for so many years, it's all about mentality and strong mentality. Hiring someone to help you with your mentality could be seen as a weakness. So maybe Rublev, I mean, how many sports psychologists on the ATP? There's a lot more on that. There's a few on the WTA, not that many, you know? I think Jabur has one traveling. Also Shriontek, but most of the other players don't. Also on the men's side, who has a sports psychologist that goes with them everywhere? I don't think there's many. So it's not super common. Someone said it's not super common. They're all about psychology. Okay, look, I don't know anything about, I haven't been under the same. But I think it's a little bit, right? It's still uncommon. It's only probably been like the last five years or so in all other, in other sports that kind of like getting sports psychologists to help you. And also, I think a big thing is not everyone can afford getting a sports psychologist to travel with them. They've got to pay the coach already. Imagine you have to pay another person to stay in the hotel. So it's not super common and it's probably an extra expense that maybe some players don't need or don't think they need. I don't think it'll become more common. I think I do think it'll become more common as it proves success. Well, yeah, Sabalenka is another one, right? Sabalenka is another one who got a psychologist. Oh no, she got a bio mechanic. She didn't get a psychologist. She got a, she got someone to break down her game and rebuild it from the ground up, right? I don't think it was a mental thing. I think it was a, it wasn't a, she got like a bio, what was it? Biomechanical someone, right? You can do therapy online for sure. By the way, I think there is a little difference between therapy and psychology. Sports psychology and therapy is a little different. Biomechanic, yeah. You could get someone online, but it is a little different if someone's sitting in the stands, I guess to give you, I guess to give you feedback, almost instant feedback, right? As soon as you finish the match, you go down to the locker room and you have a psychologist there giving you, giving you advice straight away as opposed to getting on a Zoom call, when you get back to the hotel and blah, blah, blah, you know what I mean? So it is definitely a, or someone telling you before you walk on court, you know, mentality, you know, about your mentality and trying to help you with that. Cause when you get on Zoom in the hotel room, I want you to leave the hotel, you're going to be focusing on the match. You're not going to have a Zoom call before in the gym on the way out, right? 30, 15, has been a fault from Rubelev, trying to hold on to this break here. Serve you guys the back end of Fritz, back end slice from Rubelev, end of the back end of Fritz, end of the back end of Rubelev, he puts it wide, 30, oh! But yeah, there's probably a few factors why we don't see it more often, but it's probably different for team sports too, because team sports, you would hire a team psychologist, right? And the whole team could go see that one person, whereas in tennis, everyone's their own team, right? There's one, you know, Rubelev is a team and you know, Fritz is your own team and you've got a top one, maybe unless the ATP hired a bunch of sports psychologists, they probably do, to access for the players. Again, it's about making time for it, right? As Fritz at the back end went down the line, this is going to be on tennis TV. 30, 40. And look, some people want to figure it out themselves. You know, some people are too stubborn to ask for help, maybe. Also, the coach is supposed to play that role a little bit too. The coach has got to wear many hats. And one of those hats is psychology. As Rubelev hits a four and down the line, that's going to be a winner. He saves it and we're a deuce. You know, the coach is not just the coach of the forehand and backhand, it's also the coach of the mind, also the support, also tough love, you know, sometimes. The teacher, the psychologist, all those things. That's what the coach's role is. All right, deuce, as Rubelev serves, down to see the back end of Fritz, back end from Rubelev, again the back end of Fritz, again to the back end of Rubelev, Fritz to the back end, into the forehand of Rubelev, again to the back end of Fritz on the stretch, Rubelev to the back end again, to the back end of Fritz, Rubelev to the forehand now to the forehand of Fritz, into the forehand of Rubelev, down the line to the back end of Fritz, and Fritz hits it wide. Advantage Rubelev gets a three-one. By the way, anyone see the new Kazakina? I always, I can't pronounce her name. What's her name? Kazakina's partner's YouTube channel vlog. Very interesting episode this week. I implore everybody to go watch it. All right, and also comment and say, hey, we love you from Tennis Talk, and we want Dasher on the channel. Just put that in the, in Natalia, Natalia. Go check it out, it's really good. Talks about, talks about, it's behind the scenes stuff, but it talks, Dasher talks really about what it's like behind the scenes, traveling to tournaments, all of that stuff. And I found that so interesting. It was just 16 minutes of Dasher talking pretty much. About like, expenses, Tennis expenses, you know, drug testing. Like a lot of different things are really cool. A lot of insight that you wouldn't get, and you probably learned something from it, so go watch it. And comment on the video and say, you know, we want to see you on Tennis Talk, Dasher, we love you. As we, as we applaud and applaud around, that goes out for Rubelev. 15 love. Let's do a collab. Plea, yeah, you guys have to put the pressure on. You're like, collaborate with Tennis Talk. I already commented on it, so now I need you guys to all do it too. All right, 15 all. I already said, great video. I just need all of you to go out there and be like, yeah, Dasher, we want you on the channel. Ah, 15 all. Is it a return now to the backhand of Fritz? Backhand out from Rubelev, but Fritz hits it out. 15, 30. Now we've already got Runa. Runa's already liking our posts on Twitter, so we just need, we just need to get Dasher and we'll get Dasher and Runa on the channel. You guys have to help though. I can, I'm only one man. The only way we get these players to know who we are is you guys got to go out there and promote for us. We've all got to go out there and spread the word. If I go out there and decide annoying people, they're just going to block me. So we need to ascend the cavalry. 30 all. As Rubelev just hits that wide. Get Medi on the channel. I love that. I'd love to get Medi on this. That'd be awesome. All right, 30 all. Fritz with the serve. Out wide the front of Rubelev. Great return from Rubelev. This is going to be a big TV run. Rubelev going for the double break here. 30, 40. 30, 40 to take the double break here. Serve from Fritz. There's a fault. Fritz is playing very quick pace at the moment. I think he needs to slow it down a little. Second serve. Into the front of Rubelev. Great return to the backhand of Fritz. For now, Rubelev. Again, the backhand of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev with the forehand down the line is shanked. It goes wide. Just goes wide. Deuce. What happened to Gabby Rousse? Yeah, we're still trying to get her on the channel as well. All right, Deuce. Fritz survives. It's Fritz serves. Into the front of Rubelev. Backhand out from Fritz. Is out. Revenge Rubelev. Going for this double break. More umbrellas are going up, by the way. More umbrellas are going up. The rain's getting a little heavier. It's just about to say, we've been lucky so far to get through this much tennis. Over an hour, when it looked like it was going to be, not even getting started. Is it a serve out wide? The backhand of Rubelev. Good return to the backhand of Fritz, who hits it down the line in long. There's the double break. Four-one. Rubelev. And Fritz is just complaining about something. It's not going his way. Rubelev, four-one in the second. Fritz got the first seven-five. Okay. Now, chat. We haven't done this for a while. Let's go look at the power rankings for the day. So, very interesting situation we're in today, because the power rankings actually show the four guys in the semi-finals are in the power rankings. Now, you can see there, Runa, number 14, he's the lowest in the power rankings. With Mevvedev, beating Mevvedev, that'll get him in the top 10. Runa should be in top 10 power rankings next week, when we update them on the next week's tournaments. So, you can see there, we've got Rubelev taking on Fritz, five versus seven. Now, if you don't know what the power rankings are, power rankings are based on who you beat, not necessarily what you win. As you can see there, most of the players don't even have a trophy to their name that are in the top 10, but because they play well against the big boys, or don't lose until they play the big boys, they get to stay at the top. So, you can see there's Sinner number three. Now, if Sinner does beat Runa today, he might be able to stay, I mean, Djokovic losing is great for Sinner, because if Sinner does win this title, he could be number two in the power rankings going to next week. So, interesting stuff to see how this looks next week. You can see there, we've got Fritz, so Sinner at three, Fritz at five, Rubelev at seven, and Runa at 14. Power rankings need update, Djokovic lost twice. What do you mean, Djokov? Yeah, that's what I'm saying, power rankings will update next week. They don't update daily. We update them next week after the day's play, just like the rankings. All right, here we go, 41, Rubelev has got the double break here as he serves the four on a Fritz. Return the back of Rubelev who hits it into the four on a Fritz, and Fritz isn't there. Rubelev says sorry, because he didn't mean to hit it that good. 15, love. Oh, wait, don't forget to subscribe as well, if you haven't already. Like the video as well. 15, love. You deserve that wide. Double fault. I'm probably called that one too. I'm probably going to double check, he can't. I mean, he's going to have to stick to his guns. He said it was a fault, he's not going to get out the chair and say it was in. That'd be weird. All right, love 15, it was just out, according to Hawkeye as well. Love 15, as we deserve the net from Rubelev. Second serve, second serve. We're back in return of the back end of Rubelev, four on a Fritz, into the four on a Rubelev on the stretch, that goes down the line, the back end of Fritz, into the back end of Rubelev, back end of Fritz again, down the line is a, oh, it's out. Fritz almost hit a ridiculous shot. 30, 15. Again, it just feels like in any moment now, the clouds are going to open up, it's going to start pouring rain, but I've been very lucky. There's been a four now from Rubelev to the slice of Fritz, that lob goes in. Rubelev let it bounce, that was silly. As Fritz hits a four now in the open call, Rubelev in the stretch gets it, but goes out. 30, oh. He just hesitated on the smash, Rubelev let it bounce and it bounced on the baseline. 30, oh, all right, 30, oh. Rubelev trying to stay in this, stay out with his double break. Just made a comment on Natalia's notice videos, said I heard about the channel through this channel. Ah, I love that. If they want to get into YouTube, let's get, let's collaborate, as we get a double five from Rubelev. And if we can get Dasher on the channel, then we can reach out to Mehdi through Dasher. How about that, there's the connections. To be honest, I just want to get Dasher on the channel because we love Dasher. So about why the back of Fritz, Rubelev with the forehand, as Fritz had to find inside out to the slice of Rubelev, again the forehand of Fritz, Rubelev with the pass, Fritz with the volley. Rubelev can't get it, Fritz in the net. Fritz in the net, Rubelev couldn't get it because he went in the net. Dose. Man, Fritz had that as well. That was the break back right there. Just the volley, just hit it too, too close to the, Rubelev just goes, whew, too close to the net. Just try to hit that too, too clean. As we're back in the backhand rally, Fritz down the line, the form of Rubelev, into the form of Fritz, into the forehand of Rubelev, it goes into the line of the backhand of Fritz, Rubelev with the forehand inside out, that's a great shot, and Fritz can't get it. Love that for Rubelev. He says sorry for hitting the tape, but he'll take it. Advantage Rubelev, by the way, also reaching out to Dasher, if you're a Rubelev fan, you might be able to get Rubelev on the channel because they're friends, or at least they're, they grew up, you know, they're the same age and they grew up together through the juniors and stuff. Was it a backhand out of the backhand of Rubelev? Four on it for Fritz, down the line, that's a good shot. Rubelev with the slice in the net, and we're back to Dose. Back to Dose. I said that Cam is a huge fan, and then he makes all these viewers watch Dasher. I don't force you to watch Dasher, but we watch her because we want to watch her. But it's okay because we love her too. Ah, there we go, good. Who's Dasher? Dasher is one of our channel faves. Double fault Rubelev again, this is the third double fault in this game, I think. Advantage Fritz to get back to break, one of them, serving the 400 Fritz, return goes in the 400 Rubelev, that's a good shot. Very nice from Rubelev. Unbelievable, unbelievable. And it's back to Dose. Dasher's the best, that's right. Are there any Cam fans in the tournament? Don't think so. I don't think any, I mean, maybe, I don't know. Don't think so, though. No one in the chats went to the tournament, did they? I thought Monte Carlo was a little bit out of our price range chat. At least it's out of my price range. Oh, I can't afford to go there. Back in the backhand, as that goes in the 400 Fritz, again, the back of Rubelev, 400 Fritz, into the net, Advantage Rubelev. Has anyone gone to Madrid or Rome? I feel like some of you might, some of you, didn't someone, someone in the chat a few weeks ago, didn't they say they were going to Madrid last week? Who's going, anyone going to, maybe going to one of the other events, maybe going to Barcelona next week, I don't know. Let us know. Advantage, Rubelev is going to back in for Fritz and Rubelev hits it wide, too much power from Fritz, back to Dose. Looks so different without glasses. Usually they don't wear them outside of staring at computers. So wearing glasses, I look weird to most people. It is raining still, by the way, can confirm, but it's not enough to stop the match, which is good. Means we might be able to get through both matches, even if it does rain like this. Definitely raining though, as we were back in the backhand rally, another one from Fritz into the front of Rubelev, but it goes out from Fritz, Advantage Rubelev. Get the five one in the second here, Rubelev. Advantage Rubelev, everyone's just one parlay away from Monte Carlo, all that's it. We're only just one lotto number away, aren't we? Just one, one win away, five one. Good serve by Rubelev, he gets out of trouble, but starts raining, do they usually wait for the rain to stop or move to the next match indoors? There's no chance they're playing indoors, because there's no indoor courts. What happened to yesterday's Fritz? Yeah, he's not out here as much, he's not here. Dasher played very well in Charleston, so I'm excited because Dasher's back. We'll watch her next week. Oh, umbrellas, some umbrellas are going down. We'd love to see that. Five one, so we're serving out the backhand of Rubelev, four in front of Fritz, getting to the front of Rubelev on the stretch goes wide. Love 15, man said indoors, yeah. 15, love. Oh, T. Mitt is going to Rome and Madrid, nice. You're going to go to Monte Carlo, but the train's striking France. Oh, okay, double fought for Fritz. Nice, well, keep us posted on how you think Madrid and Rome are. I think in the, where do we put, does anyone remember where we put Madrid and Rome on the tier list? I don't think we gave them, I think they were mid, right? From my mid, do we put them in, I don't think we put them in A or S, we put them in the mid. Pardon me, I was a bit of a return now, the four on of Fritz, Fritz, it's out. Man, this is bad, 15, 30. Fritz is totally dropped off in the second set. Feel like we put in B, didn't we? B tier? C tier was since he, so I don't think it was in C. Can't move on, you know. Subscribe to the second channel, video coming soon. Hopefully next week. That was what it said about why the back end of Rubelev, good return. Fritz with a slice into the four on of Rubelev, again the back end of Fritz, who hits it down the line, that's a great shot. Rubelev just gets it. Fritz with a drop shot. Rubelev with a backhand winner. Terrible drop shot from Fritz. Might as well just hit in the net. Two set points for Rubelev to take us to a third. First three setter in 48 hours almost. 15, 40. Serve is an ace. Saves one, 30, 40. 30, 40. Second serve, first serve goes out wide. Good serve again, Rubelev gets it back. Four on a from Fritz. Again at the backhand slice of Rubelev. Into the four on a Fritz, as Rubelev hits the backhand, down the line, oh, it's wide. That was almost the winner. Deuce, Rubelev knows it. So close. All right, Deuce, Fritz saves two set points. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve is a double fault from Fritz. My soul from there. It's bad from Fritz. Advantage, Rubelev. Third set point to take us to a third. Now in 25 minutes, it's been quick. Serve into the backhand of Rubelev, return the net, good serve, Fritz. Back to Deuce. Back to Deuce. The serve out wide at the front of Rubelev. Front of Fritz down the line, backhand out from Rubelev. It's down the line for a winner. Lovely shot again, Rubelev. Advantage, Rubelev. Fourth set point to take us to the third. Winner of this match plays the final against either Sinner or Runa tomorrow. Fritz serves, fault. Second serve. Second serve is a double fault and that's the set. We're going three, but Fritz completely dropped off in that second set. And Rubelev didn't give him back the break. All right, three sets. Let's go. Let's go and the rain has held off for now. Let's see if it keeps, let's see if it stays away or at least doesn't get worse. In that second set, by the way, let's go through some stats. 11 minutes from Rubelev, 12 errors. Four minutes from Fritz, 17 errors. Man, Fritz dropped off four double faults in that set for Fritz as well, including the one on set point. So Fritz just completely dropping off in that second. Rubelev played decent, but it was all Fritz losing in that one. It was all Fritz. Who do I think will win? I said Fritz in three, so I'll stick with that, but Fritz got to get better. That first, that second set was garbage. Rubelev played okay, but man, it was all Fritz playing terrible. Let's go Rubelev. Yeah, Fritz has been really disappointing that last game. Yeah, the whole set. I mean, even from the first game of that set, he just kind of fell off after the first game. Wimoruna and Cineplay after this, after this match. It's a high break final set. Ooh, that'd be lucky. I love that. That'd be lucky to start the semifinals off with a bang. Three setters already much better than yesterday's matches. Yesterday was very, very uneventful, I guess. It's not too bad. Not too bad. Ryan. Kudos to all Russian comrades in the chat. Feeperd. Thank you, Brian. For the one. What's up, British on RuneSinner? Go watch the preview. I can't remember. Go watch the preview video. Can't remember what I said. I'm sure I said something smart. Sometimes I do. Rarely. 37 minutes that second set took and it was six-one. The first set went for like 40, 48 minutes. So that second set actually went a lot longer. Almost longer than the first set, which had more games. All right, final set, people. Give me a name, Fritz or Rubelev. Who's gonna win? Who is taking out the final set of this first semifinal? I've got Fritz and I'm sticking to it. The turn goes in the front of Rubelev, backing up from Fritz on the stretch. Into the back end of Rubelev, again in the back end of Fritz, into the back end of Rubelev, again in the back end of Fritz. Rubelev at the back end, again in the back end of Fritz, the back end of Rubelev. Come on, back end of these, across court, back ends. Another one from Rubelev, into the back end of Fritz. As Rubelev goes again to the back end of Fritz, into the back end of Rubelev, into the back end of Fritz, into the forehand of Rubelev, again to the back end of Fritz, now back end of back end again. Who's gonna blink? There's another one, back end of back end, as Fritz runs right into four and inside out. Rubelev at the back end, again to the back end of Fritz, into the back end of Rubelev, to the back end of Fritz, and Fritz finally hits it out. Longest rally of the match. 15 love. Well, I rubelove serving first in a set for the first time today. You serve second in both of those sets. So serving first in this one, 28 shot rally to start the final set. First as a fault. Second serve, second serve. Into the back of Fritz, back of rubelove on the stretch. That goes into the back of Fritz, into the front of rubelove. As Fritz is defined on the stretch, that goes in the back of rubelove, into the slice of Fritz. That slice goes out. 30 love. Fritz has really got to turn around here because he was the big reason why he lost that second set. The second set was decent from rubelove, but it was all Fritz making errors. So he needs to be better Fritz if he's going to be a chance to win this match flying in the open court, into the slice of Fritz, up goes the lob, and rubelove puts it away, 40 love. Hey, thank you, Philbert for the dollar. Appreciate that. Not too bad. Not too bad. Thank you, Philbert. I appreciate that. Thank you for donating for the first time in the channel. Appreciate that. 40 love. That was a bit of fault from rubelove. Second serve. Two more umbrellas are going up. Easy Lyons person smiles. Must be hit by the ball. Second serve, now the back end of Fritz. Down the lines, a winner from Fritz. Unbelievable. Love that. 40-15. Fritz choked big time. I mean, yeah, he's dropped to his level. Completely after the first set. You wonder if he won the first set. He wasn't really supposed to win the first set. Rubelove was the one who was winning the first set for the most part, and then Fritz kind of took it at the end. As rubelove wins the first game with a nice serve. And it's one love in this final set. Yeah, rubelove should have won that first set. He had, you know, broke the lead three times, and then it was at the end when he couldn't hold serve to get into the tie break, which screwed him. Fritz just completely took a break in the second. He just completely, you know, disappeared. One love. Rubelove in the final set. If there's one, if there's one person who I want to win slams after the goal, it's rubelove. Okay. Final sin of rubelove, but sin of definitely will in tomorrow. Okay. So you're saying sin of beats a runa. Sin of versus runa. I feel like that, like this match we've seen a few times and you would say that rubelove is the better clay quarter, right? I mean, this is the match I expected Sidney pass to play yesterday. You know, a more of a, you know, close match with Fritz. Love 15. First time these guys have played on clay. So the head to head is in favor of Fritz, but the head to head doesn't have a clay. There's no clay, right? All right, love 15. We should return down to the forward of Fritz. Probably it's the back end of rubelove and rubelove in the net. 15, oh. But with sin of runa, I've got no idea what that looks like because we saw them play on indoor hard courts last year, but they didn't finish the match because, well, they all, they all but finished it. It was five, two in the final set when sin had to retire, but this is a clay court tennis match. I mean, again, it's a different surface. So it's hard to, you know, it's hard to judge. It's hard to, like even yesterday, as Fritz, it's a great serve, 30-15. Fritz and Sidney pass have played three times before, but they're never on clay. And then when they play for the first time on clay, Fritz wins, which I didn't expect, but it's different when these guys, the head to head kind of doesn't matter if it's a clay court match. If they've never played on clay and it's 4-2, it's like, well, yeah, but it's 0-0 on clay. So, you know, rubelove has a much better chance than if it was on a hard court, for example. Back in now, the four of Fritz and Fritz hits it out, 30-oh. Same with runa, it's like, well, we can't really judge that match based on the head to head because they've never played on clay. It's almost as if they haven't played before. All right, Fritz needs to at least stay in this set, not go down a break early, as he shanks that into the four of rubelove, back in now from Fritz, get into the back of rubelove into the backhand of Fritz, get into the backhand of rubelove as Fritz hits the backhand, get into the backhand of rubelove, get into the backhand of Fritz. Rubelove with the forehand now, goes out. Fritz gets a free point from rubelove, 30-40. Oh, sorry, yeah, 40-30. Rubelove, by the way, has kept his cool pretty well today. He's kept his cool pretty, pretty well. Compared to yesterday in the day before, he was like losing his mind. Rubelove has only been a little bit angry today. No smashing the rack in his foot or anything like that, as we get an ace down the tee, bang! Fritz, levels up in the final set, one-one. Spoke too bad, not too bad. Jay! Let's go, rubelove. Cam, what's been your favorite match of the year so far? Good question. Spoke too bad, not too bad. Brian! Shall we call Alcaraz, rune and sinner, the small three? Oh, that's funny. I don't know. To be honest, I... No. Um... Anyway, because I don't think they're like, look, they're small three for now. I think there's more players to come. Or there's other players in that group. Anyways, Jay, favorite match of the year. What are you guys, what's your favorite match of the year so far? I wanna hear the chat's opinion and then I'll think about it. I can't think off the top of my head. There's been a lot of matches. What's been your favorite match of the year chat? You tell me. Love 15, rune by the way, waiting in the wings. Playing against sinner, next. They're just chilling in the green room, I guess. The turn goes in the front of Rubelove. Rubelove in the net. Rubelove complaining again about the court. He's saying there's a part of the court that is not good. Love 30. Murray-Coconacus favorite match, okay. Medi vs. Jockers, Dubai. Fritz is dead in the net in the return, 15-30. Triantek beating, getting beaten by Rabakner in the Wells. Hubey-Coconacus. Paul Fritz in Accapulco. Okay. I reckon quarter vs. Jocker, which is pretty epic. Benchage, Samsonova was pretty epic. Championship point saved. I mean, you can't get much. You can't get more epic than those kind of matches, right? Some would say, I would say. Sinner, I think Sinner Elkras, my army is probably my pick as well. As that goes out from Rubelove and it's 15-40. I think three set match of the year for me. Sinner Elkras, because the level was insane. And it had everybody, like that matches, we still talk about that ridiculous point they played, right? Point of the year. But Mori-Coconacus, probably best five set matches. That goes out from Rubelove and it's a break for Fritz. That came out of nowhere because Rubelove is cruising. And Fritz found his game with some good returns. Two-one. Fritz breaks first games of the third. I think Coconacus, Mori, best five set match of the year. Based on like, you know, how they went forever and it was like the second longest match in the Australian open history and all those things. But what about women's matches? Sabalenka, Rabakano, Australia, the final was one. I mean, Medvedev's very, yes, two days ago. Pretty good. Medvedev's very overplayed two bangers already this year. Podopov, Pogula, Indy, Wells and Miami were both insane, that's true. What about Podosa versus Rabakano in Miami? That was pretty good. Mori took Coconacus five setter and Mori was going to lose and then he came back and won, yeah, that's true. I think that's Mori fans are gonna pick that one because of the comeback win, right? Petra versus Rabakano in Miami, yeah, that was all right. I wouldn't put that at the top of my list, but it was all right. Finally, I can say I love watching Fritz. You've been hanging on to that for two hours, okay? Hour and a half. By the way, Brian, the reason why I don't want to say that Elkis, Runa and Sinnera are the small three or anything to do with a big three or anything like that is because we all have short memories and back when Zverev was coming up, people were saying that Zverev, Medvedev and City Pass were gonna be the next three or the big four with team, all this shit. So every three years, there's a new big three. So a new next three, right? I don't want to say, who knows? Like I said, there's players like LaHechka who have been having a really good season. He might put his hand up all of a sudden. And then you kind of, by saying they're the small three, you're counting out pretty much everybody else. Like you're saying Medvedev and, you know, like they're still gonna be a factor. You know, Medvedev, City Pass, Zverev, they're all still gonna be here, right? So I feel like the definition of big three in tennis is a little different than NBA. You know, big three in NBA was, you know, based on three franchise players in the same team, right? Shelton as well? Yeah, you're right. Double five from Fritz, love 30. I like my salt in there. You know, I feel like Coach Aliaseem is still around. There's a lot of players that are still, you know, could. Let's just call them the new three for now. The three, the next, I mean, Medvedev, Medvedev's gotta be in there. I mean, I can't, Medvedev beats Sinner. So I mean, it's hard to say Sinner's a member of a new big three or something, you know? Anyway, that's a good shot from Fritz, 1530. People just love the hype. Yeah, yeah, people like to be like, woolly. Like, do you guys, does everyone honestly think that it's gonna be that Runa City, sorry, Runa's Vera? Shit, what's his name? As that goes out from Fritz, by the way, raining a little heavy at 1540. Is everyone like, by saying they're the next big three or whatever, small three. You're saying that Elko's, Runa and Sinner are gonna dominate the Slams for the next 10 years. You don't think there's other players that are gonna win Slams besides those three? That's really what the big three did, right? And Murray and Stan played cameos, I guess, but yeah. Back in the backhand. As we're back in now from Rubelev, again in the back of Fritz, Rubelev, to get back on serve here in the final set. Back in again, into the back of Rubelev, again in the back of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev in the forehand, into the back of again of Fritz, Rubelev in control. Goes again to the back of Fritz, Rubelev in the forehand. Again to the backhand slice of Fritz. It goes in. Rubelev forehand again, Fritz with a slice again, into the front of Rubelev. Again to the back of Fritz. Fritz is hanging on. Back into backhand now with Rubelev as Rubelev goes again down the line to the front of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev with the backhand. Again to the front of Fritz. We're back in the rally now. As we're in front of Rubelev to the backhand again of Fritz. What a rally. Another backhand down the line from Rubelev. Fritz gets it with the forehand. Again to the front of Rubelev. Back in a slice, Fritz, that goes in. The back end of Rubelev down the line. Fritz with a slice again. How has Rubelev not won the point yet? Has there been a point ever from Fritz down the line? It's a winner! Fritz turns it around! What a rally! And for about 28 of those 30 shots, Rubelev was winning until those last two shots and then Fritz won the point. 40 shot rally, Jesus! Rally of the day by a long shot. One of the rallies of the tournament for Fritz. 35 of those shots were Rubelev winning the point. And then Fritz finally took it. And then something, starting with an F, did Rubelev. I don't know, I think he said Fakina. Dabrdovich Fakina, I think he said, I'm pretty sure that's what he said, Fakina. Still a break point. 30-40. Second serve, Fritz. Second serve is into the back end of Rubelev. Good return of the back end of Fritz, back end of Rubelev down the line. That's too good, Rubelev breaks back and he roars to the crowd! Two-two final set. This is a semifinal. Couple more umbrellas are going up. The rain is just constant. But they can play on clay in the rain. Too old. The players are fire, so they're just burning the rain out of the air. It's not even touching the ground. Massive scream from Rubelev. What a semifinal. The next one's got a lot to live up to. Next one might be a little bit more better quality, but man, this match is dramatic. A lot of umbrellas. A lot of umbrellas in the front row. All right, first forehand goes wide from Fritz. 15-love, 15-love. Rubelev serves, a fault. Second serve, serve out while the back end of Fritz, return goes out, it's 30-love. These guys are playing in the rain. It's never easy. The group's gonna be all soggy. 30-love serves a fault. Second serve, return out of Rubelev, four-hand from Fritz, get out of the front of Rubelev, into the back hand of Fritz now. As we get a four-hand from Rubelev, again to the back of Fritz on the stretch. That slice goes into the front of Rubelev. Rubelev hits a winner. 40-love, much better from Rubelev now. One hour and 45 minutes played. 40-love, serve. By the way, front row of the stadium. Umbrella's everywhere. There's a lot of umbrellas. More are going up every second. As we to serve, into the front of Fritz, front of Rubelev, again to the front of Fritz slice. That one goes out, Rubelev gets back to lead, three-two in this topsy-turvy final set. They're both looking at each other, they're looking at the umpire, and they're still gonna play. No rain yet, so, so the reason why we're still playing in the rain is, one, the courts aren't wet enough to be dangerous. So, the umpire's having a chat, though, to the players asking the question. He's asking if they're still good to go. Umbrella's gonna check the lines, though, because they do get slippery. So the umpire's having a look on the ground here. This is the first time he's thought about a delay. The umpire's having a look at the line. So, the reason why, and he's asking Rubelev how he's looking, you know, you happy to play? Now, so, the reason why they wouldn't, the reason why they haven't caught it off, even though it's been raining pretty much the entire match, is it's not raining heavy enough to make puddles on the court. When there's puddles on the court, you can't play, right? You can't play in the mud. But also, the lines haven't been slippery enough for the players to feel like they're in danger, and the umpire doesn't feel like the courts are that bad that the players are in danger of hurting themselves. On a hard court, if it was raining like this, we'd be off. There's no way we'd be playing in this weather. The umpire's saying it's clay, it's not slippery. He's like, we'll keep trying for another game, and Fritz is like, oh, all right, fine. And Fritz is saying we've been playing in this all match, so he's like, why don't we just wait five or 10 minutes for it to stop raining? So they are just, do we have a time when it's gonna stop, and it says Rubelev. Can we look at a radar? So Rubelev's asking, do they know when it's gonna stop, and they're like, no. Is it gonna be in the afternoon, or is it tomorrow when it's not raining? When is it gonna be like a time? True, like, good point, though. I mean, I will tell ya. They're gonna keep playing, though. I think they're gonna keep playing. The players are on court still, so they're not gonna... But yeah, so if we're playing anywhere else on a hard court, for example, we'd not be playing. We're gonna keep playing. The players have decided not to play, so they're gonna chill, but the umpire is not calling. He's not calling any, he's like, we'll just wait a little bit longer. So an extended changeover. So it's raining, it's been raining all day, though. All right, so the umpire just said, it's coming a bit heavier now, so I think we're gonna suspend it. All right, so the players are gonna go on the cover, and the rain delay is upon us. I mean, look, we're pretty lucky, really. So it is raining, and the players are leaving the court, so the rain is heavy enough. Now, luckily, we're playing on clay, so if the players go off court and it stops in five, 10 minutes, we'll be fine. They're not putting the covers on, which is interesting, so it's not heavy enough that it's bad. Oh, are they? Are they gonna do the covers? They're not doing, it's not very urgent, so they might put the covers on just in case. But there you go, there it is. The rain delay that we were expecting. And only, you know, we've got two hours of play-ins. That's pretty good. And we're into a third set, so it's been a pretty quick match, luckily. But no, we're just gonna have to wait. We're just gonna have to wait. That's all right, we expected that. And I'm probably lucky we got two sets. Now, let's go to, of course, the radar, because that's where I'm gonna update it, hang on. Because it was supposed to rain, and it has been raining. So there's been rain on the court pretty much from the start of this match. It's been drizzling all, pretty much all the entire match. But it's just getting a little heavier now. That's why they've gone off the court. We'll get to the radar in a second. But there's only a few people with umbrellas. So it's not like, people aren't leaving the stadium. So it's not heavy enough, it's heavy, but it's not heavy enough for the players or the crowd to leave. But it is annoying. They're gonna put the covers on the court as well, which is good, smart, because if there's pools of water, they're gonna have to fix that. So I'm glad they're putting out some, they're putting out the covers just to protect the clay. Okay. Let's go have a look at the radar. So you can see here, green all around. And we are in Monaco, so we're right in the middle here. But yeah, it's been like this. You can see all of this, the rain's gone this way, right? So it's been raining the entire time. It's just that this yellow part is the heart of the heavy rain. So it's starting to get heavier because of this yellow bit. And the dark green is also heavy. So we had the light green for a while, but it's been a little dark green. So yeah, and you can tell on the camera too now, it's again, it's heavy enough to stop play, but it's not heavy enough to make people run for cover. So that's what we're dealing with at the moment. If I fast forward a little bit, you can see there, it's kind of going across. So we had this about an hour, what, about half an hour ago, or an hour ago, sorry, we're here. And it was raining an hour ago. It's been raining the whole time. But in about, well, we're gonna have a break. Okay, so maybe in about 30 minutes, it could get a little lighter. And then possibly an hour, it'll stop all together. So I think we'll come back maybe a little bit earlier than that. Yeah, we'll keep you updated with that. We're gonna stick around though, because you don't know where else to go. So rain delay. Now they put the covers on the court as well just to protect the clay. But like I said, the crowd is still standing in the rain with umbrellas. They're not leaving. They're not running for shelter yet. Some of them are leaving because it's like, what are we gonna do, sit here and do nothing? Might as well go check the grounds. But it is raining. All right, it'd probably be like the Djokovic-Moussedi rain delay. It'll be probably about an hour, if that. I'll keep you updated as well with the time when they come back, because that's also important if there's an official announcement. But again, check the radar. You can see here in about, there's a big patch of clear skies. So this is probably where we get the match finished. And then the second match, that's when we're gonna figure we might get another delay after that. So this is probably the most likely situation when we come back. We'll get a good, maybe a good half an hour to an hour of no rain. And that'll be enough to get this match done. Then the next match, whether or not that starts in the rain, we'll find out that rain is a go. Okay. All right, now chat. Now we can get into the fun stuff. So I've actually got some activities because last time this happened in Miami, we had to do this on the fly and it was a little bit last minute, like let's get something sorted. But I have come prepared. I have come prepared with some activities. So we're gonna get two activities in a second. By the way, crowd is starting to leave. So they are sick. They're not gonna sit in the rain if they don't have to. They're gonna go get some food. But we have activities. Another tier list. Yes, we have another tier list. So today's tier list in a wet rain activity day is based on a certain type of player, the one slam wonder. So we are going to rank. I've picked a bunch of players that have won one slam. If you don't know what a one slam wonder is, a one slam wonder is a player who won one trophy, one grand slam trophy in their career and never won another one. One slam wonders. We're gonna rank the one slam wonders. I'm sure you can name, actually chat. Name a one slam wonder. Give people who don't know what a one slam wonder is. Well, who's a one slam wonder? Give us a name. Give us a name. Emirotikanu. There you go. Gaston Gaudio. Dominic Teem. Andy Roddick. There you go. All right, you got a few names. Carlos Alcarez. That's a bit harsh. Sophia Kennan. Pat Cash. Del Potro. Savalenca, yeah, technically, yeah. Andrescu. Michael Chang. All right, so there's a couple of names. So that's the players who have won one grand slam. Now, to make this fair, because let's be honest, we wanna make it fair. We can't just be like, Savalenca's only won one. Well, yeah, of course she has. She just got one like a month ago. We've got a couple of rules for this. So the first rule is, players who haven't won their second slam in the last five years are one slam wonders. So if you have not won a slam for five or more years, or your second slam, or you haven't won another slam in the five years since your first, then you are a one slam wonder. So that means anyone in the last five years who's won their first slam and only slam is not eligible to make it fair. It's not fair if you're just, it's not fair to call Elkara's a one slam wonder, right? So that means Carlos Elkara's is not on the list. Dominic Teem is not eligible. Medvedev, Krajikova, Rabakina, Savalenca. Andrescu, Rotucanu and Kennan are not part of this list. So they're not the one slam wonders. They've had to be five or more years, all right? So that's not, it's not fair on them. But yes, Osta Panko is on the list because her first slam and only slam was over five years ago. Same with Sloane Stevens. She is also on this list. And a lot of other players are on this list as well. So let's go to the list of one slam wonders. Now we'll do some special mentions as well, but let's have a look at the list. And this is how we're gonna rank them chat. We're gonna rank them by, should have won more slams. Unlucky not to win another. So maybe got injured, for example, about right. So yeah, they got one slam and they deserve one. And that's, you know, that's fine. Lucky to get one. So lucky with the draw or maybe, you know, players pulled out or maybe they played in a weak era and then a total fluke. So they were never supposed to win a slam and everything went their way that week. And they were, the total fluke random never came back, never did it again. You know what I mean? Never got to the finals of a slam again, never made a final before that, never became a slam, even a contender after that. So we have got a long list. And I'll give you a sneak peek of the list here. These are the players we have picked. There are actually a lot of one slam wonders when I did the research for this. So honourable mentions. Subhaka, one slam wonder, honourable mention. Mimi Jaijusovic, Chris O'Neill, Barbara Jordan, Virginia Rizzici, Kerry Reed, Yana Novotna. These are very hard names. That's why they're honourable mentions. All one slam wonders. Eva Majoli, Andreas Gemino, Adriana Panetta, Roscoe Tanner, Vedis Gerulaitis, Brian Teacher, Andreas Gomez, Michael Stitch, Albert Costa and Manuel Orantis, all honourable mentions. So on the list we have Marion Bartoli, we have Pat Cash, we have Michael Chang, Marin Chilich, Juan Martín del Potro, Mark Edmondson, Juan Castrero, Gaston Gaudio, Goran Ivanizovic, Anna Ravanovich, one slam wonder. Thomas Johansson, we have Sebastian Cortes' dad, Peter Corta, we have Richard Krycek, Conchino Martinez, Carlos Moya, Thomas Muster, Anastasia Moschina, Yannick Noah, Yelena Rostepenko, Flavia Panetta, Andy Roddick. I think that's Gabriella Sabatina, Tini, I think that's who that is, Francesca Schiavoni, Sloane Stevens, Sam Stoza and Caroline Wozniaki. So they are the one slam wonders. Now we've got to figure out where the hell we put them. Let's start with an obvious one, Oster Penko. I feel like we should get the ones that are still active, get them out of the way first. Oster Penko, chat, where should we put her? Should we put her in total fluke? Should we put her in lucky with the draw that she had at the time? Should we put her in about rights? Should we put her in unlucky not to get more or should we have a category that should have had more, like 100% should get more. Oster Penko, first up, where should we put her? Now we're gonna go through a couple of their records and stuff, so we're gonna go through a few things. Lucky to get one, lucky with the draw. So we're talking in the middle here, you're saying in the middle here. There are no flukes, oh, there are. There are flukes. I don't think she's a fluke. Now she's never made a final sense, but she has made quarter-finals since. About right, lucky with the draw. Now I guess the first thing is, who the hell did she play to win the French Open? Let's go through that first. Who did she play? I'll tell you who she played. Because if she beat big names, I think we gotta start, maybe give her a little bit more specter, she could do it again maybe. All right, so, in her maiden French Open in 2017, when she was a, I think she was a teenager, right? What'd you want? She was unseated and she came out of nowhere, she beat Shereco in the first round, Puig in the second, Shereco in the third. Sand Stoes are in the fourth round. She then beat Wozniaki, Bozinski, and also Halep in the final. So she beat some decent names there, three Grand Slam champions along the way. And a gold medalist at the Olympics too. So she beat some big names. I don't know, half these people, well that's the whole reason we're doing this. Luckily there's a whole chat, not just you doing this list, there's a whole chat to do to help you out. She beat Halep in the final, which was huge. So what do you reckon? I don't think she was lucky with the draw, because that was a pretty tough draw. Total fluke? Well, she has done things since then. No, she's been, she's won Dubai, right? She's done, you know, she made a quarter final that Australian Open this year. I don't know if she's a total fluke, because that would suggest that she wasn't anywhere near in any other slam, right? She would just, she lost first round of every other slam ever since. That hasn't happened. Unlucky not to win again, you reckon? You reckon she's up to here? I've got to be honest, I think she's about right. At the moment, she's about right. Because unlucky not to win again, she hasn't really been in another final, or in a semi. Lucky with the draw, well her draw was actually pretty, pretty tough. I've got to put her on about right. She has a slam, she might win another one, but I don't think she was a total fluke. I think about right is about right. Okay, now, who should we pick next chat? Which player should we pick next? I think we should go with an oldie, but a goodie. Let's go with an oldie. And when I say oldie, I mean like an older, like back in the day player, not like a, not a recent one. Yeah, she also made the semis of Wimbledon, there you go. So yeah, about right. Yannick Noah, yes. Let's go with Yannick Noah. So another French open, one slam wonder. Yannick Noah, actually the last Frenchman to win the French open, straight away. Let's give him a rating out of, where should we put him? Where should we put him? Where should we put Yannick Noah? Where should we put him? I don't know him. Well, that's the whole reason. He's the flashy Frenchman. He was like, he was Montfies before Montfies. He was the original Gayle Montfies. The original French showman. Kind of there with Henri Lacan, I guess with showman. About right, you reckon? A fluke. All right, so let's go through. First of all, he won in 1983. He's only French open. He made the semifinals of the Australian Open in 1990. He made a bunch of US Open Quarter Finals as well. And made a semifinal, so he never made it to another final. So I don't think he was unlucky not to win again because he never really, he won the French Open, but he never really got close again. Semifinals in the Australian Open in his final year on tour, but he never really had another chance. He shouldn't have won more. I don't think he should have won more. He was number three in the world at his peak. So he never was world number one, a world beater. Not on top of the world. So I guess, he's not in the top two, right? He's on the top category up here. Now, who did he beat to win the tournament? That's the question. Was he lucky to get the draw? Was it a lucky draw? So he was the number six seed at the time. He beat Jared in the first round. A lot of these names I won't even know. Petsche in the second. Dupree in the third. Then he beat Alexander in the fourth round. So four unseeded players to get to the quarter finals. And then in the quarter finals, he beat Yvonne Landel. He beat Christoph Rostrovaslan, and then he beat Mats Vellano in the final. So he did not have an easy draw. That was not lucky. Mats Vellano and Yvonne Landel, both won French Opens, and that is not an easy draw. So he didn't get lucky with the draw. So was he a total fluke? Or was he about right? What do you reckon, Chad? I don't know if he was a total fluke because he was number three in the world. He was sort of up there. He also was number six in the world or number six seed at the tournament. So he wasn't unseeded and random. I reckon he's about, I don't think we put him up here as well. I don't think about right. Because I don't think he was unlucky not to win again because he never really had a chance. The guys that were unlucky not to win again are the ones that maybe got to a final and the ones that should have won one more, well, we'll get to them. There's definitely a guy that I know that we should put there. Okay, who should we pick next, Chad? Who should we pick next? What player should we pick? Should we go to maybe get out of the French open and pick a one slam wonder and a different slam maybe? Who should we take next? Skiavoni and Panetta? Gaudio and Roddy? Johansson? Ivanovic? You know what we'll do? We'll save them, we'll save the big names till last or at least we'll do a big name soon, but not yet. I think we should go with, let's go with Skiavoni. I like, she's a French open. We'll go with someone else. Let's go with Panetta. All right, we'll go with Panetta, semi-recent. So Flavia, Panetta, give me where should she be? Where should she go? Flavia, Panetta, where do you put her? Chad, straight away, first thought, where do we put her? Flavia, Panetta. One, I think the U.S. opened in 2014? Is it 2014? Possibly? 15, 2015. Where do we put her? Fluke? No idea, that's all right. This is all about learning. So you'll learn something new if you don't know who they are. By the way, it is raining, no time that it's coming back. We don't know, it's still raining. We'll wait and see. Total Fluke, she retired without playing another slam. Okay. The score is one set all and three, two in the third on serve. Fluke, one slam wonder, Fluke, about right. Okay, so let's go through this again. So she never made another final. So I don't think we can put her at the top. She only ever made one other quarterfinal of a slam. She never, she only made another quarterfinal. And that quarterfinal was at the Australian Open. Now, she actually did surprisingly well at the U.S. Open. She got to six quarterfinals, two semi-finals in the one of the tournament. So her record at the U.S. Open was actually really good. So maybe not a total fluke at the U.S. Open, because she was a contender there for a while. Did she get lucky with the draw though? I can tell you who she beat. So Pineda, number 26 seed. She beat Garda Sova, Nikolascu, Chetkovska, then she beat Stozer in the fourth round. In the quarterfinals, she beat Kovitava, then she beat Hellup in the semis and she beat Vinci in the final. Did she get lucky with the draw? Not really. I mean, Hellup is number two seed, five seed Kovitava. So not lucky with the draw, but she didn't play another slam after that. So it was really, but she made a semi-final before. The three previous U.S. Opens, quarterfinals, semi-final, quarterfinal, then she won. So at the U.S. Open, she was in the quarterfinals for a long time. She made four quarterfinals in her fourth one. She won the whole thing. Call her a fluke. I feel like it's between fluke and about right. Now we've got to start comparing her to the players that are in about right. Is she the same as Yannick Noah and Osta Panko? Probably not right. Totally random fluke. All right, Chet, you've spoken. Total fluke. I've got to be honest. When she won, I had no idea who the hell she was. I was like, who's that? Never heard of her before. Never seen her before that. Total fluke. For me. I knew about her, but I didn't think she was like, I didn't think she was a contender. Why is it suspended? It's raining. Matches, it's raining. For me, it was total fluke. Because look, her highest ranking as well. Let's just talk about that because that's important. She was number six in the world. That was her highest ranking. So she was, you know, thereabouts. And that was after the U.S. Open. So before the U.S. Open, what was her best ranking? What was her ranking before the U.S. Open? That's a good. Was she up the top of the rankings before the U.S. Open, or was it just after the U.S. Open? She reached Korea High and that was it. Because that's also something. If she was like never in the top 10 and then she won the U.S. Open, that is, again, I would say a bit of a fluke. So, at the end of 20, there. So before, she made the top 10 in 2009 at number 10, but she was never in the top 10 until she won the U.S. Open. And once she won the U.S. Open, that's when she got into the top 10. So she ended the year in the top 10. Year end rankings a little bit different. And so she ended her career in the top 10. 2014, what was she in, she was in the 14. She was kind of like that. She was hovering around the kind of 10 to 15 or 10 to 20 before that. So I put her in, I think total fluke, totally random. I mean, a little bit unlucky, I guess to put her there, but what do you think we should put her in about right? Lucky with the draw, she played Halep though. Well, Serena lost in the semis and that's lucky, you reckon. All right, let's give her a little, okay, we'll put her here then. Lucky with the draw. Now she did beat Halep and she did beat Caviteva, but she didn't have to play Serena. More of a random than a fluke. Okay, lucky with the draw. It's more luck than fluke. Yeah, fluke. So maybe we should change it then. Let's do this. How about we do this? Lucky draw slash random. So not total fluke, because fluke is like, is that better? Total fluke is like someone like number 100 in the world wins a slam and never to be seen again. So a lucky draw slash a random. That's a good, I think that's pretty good. I think we're happy with that. Now, let's talk about a total fluke or let's talk about somebody else. Let's talk about Mark Edmondson. Some of you might not even know who the hell that is. He is the last person to win the Australian Open for the men in Australia. The last Australian Open champion for the men. Mark Edmondson. He's got a black and white photo. The only one with a black and white photo, it's been a long time chat. It's been a while. Where should we put him? Where should we put Mark Edmondson? Mark Edmondson. Where should we put him? He played in the era, by the way, just to give you a bit of context. He played in the Rod Labor era, right? He was in the John Newcombe Rod Labor. Like he played with those guys in the 70s, early 70s. Now I'll tell you straight away. He made the semifinals of Wimbledon six years later, never made it past the third round, made it to a couple of quarter finals of Australia after winning the Australian Open. So he didn't really, it was a good doubles play, but he never really came back to that Australian Open win. Now in that draw, he did actually have a really good week. He beat Rosewill, the number one in the semis, and he beat John Newcombe, the number two in the final. I don't think Rod Labor played that yet. Can't see Labor's name. So he took out a couple of big boys in the finals, but he was never to be seen again. Six years later, made a semifinal, that is random. Made a Wimbledon semi-later. By the way, plays himself, of course, still raining, no, doesn't look like it hasn't stopped yet. What's the score did he beat Newcombe? He beat him in four sets in that final. He beat Rosewill in four and he beat Newcombe in four. Now maybe it's because we're, we're, you know, I guess most of us wouldn't have seen him. We're probably gonna put him in the same category. Random, okay, I don't think he should be up the top. I don't think he's in the same category as Oster Penko and Noah, who are about right, you know? I think, I don't think Edmondson, I think it was a shock when he won. It was a shock that he won. Didn't, did he have a lucky draw? Was he random or do we put him as a total fluke? I'll tell you what, at the time, he was unseeded too. So when he won the Australian Open, he was not seeded. He was not seeded. So he was a totally unseeded, random player. He never got into the top 10. He reached number 15 in the world at his best. He never hit the top 10. His win-loss record in his career was 50% and he only won six career titles. So at the time, he was, he wasn't considered a Grand Slam contender. I think we have to put him in fluke because he never did it again and he never even reached the top 10. I mean, that's a big difference. I think that's what we've got to start making the difference is he even won the Australian Open, didn't make the top 10. And he was unseeded at the time, so he wasn't even considered, yeah, it was pretty flukey. And I think he would admit that. I think he'd admit that. Okay, because random would be someone who was considered a contender, but maybe not the top contenders, right? All right, so fluke it is. Now, who is next, chat? Who should we go to next? Which player should we pick next? Which player should we pick next? Yeah, and back in the early 70s, not everyone played this show in Open, you're right. All right, should we get the big obvious one out of the way? Should we get the big obvious one out of the way? By the way, the rain seems to have stopped. We will be continuing this list over the rest of the Claycord season because we've got a lot to get through, but... Let's do Andy Roddick. Let's do Andy Roddick. All right, chat, where should Andy Roddick be? I think this one's easy. I don't even think we need to go through this. Where do we put Roddick? He won the US Open in 2003. He made multiple Wimbledon finals. He actually made another US Open final. He was world number one, you know, world number one. Where should we put Roddick? Unlucky. Now, unlucky not to win again is someone who maybe was injured. Just a little hint. There may be future people. What do we reckon, chat? Should have won more. He should have won Wimbledon. He should have won 2009 Wimbledon. I think Andy Roddick, without even having to talk about it, I think Andy Roddick's up the top. 100% should have won more. Was he unlucky? Yes, but he also, I mean, he should have won more. He was world number one. There was a lot of chances. 2000, like he lost the Federer, which is unlucky, but he should have won more. I think out of all the once land wonders that we have on this list, he is the one that he shouldn't be on this list. That's what should have won more means. It means that you shouldn't be a once land wonder. Shouldn't be here. You should have won two or more. So I think Roddick, does that make him the ultimate once land wonder? Maybe, no, probably not. Maybe, should have won more. Unlucky, but also should have won more. Definitely not a fluke. Obviously not a fluke. Dude was number one in the world. Everyone thought he was gonna be the next Sampris. All right, that was easy. That was an easy one. Okay, let's go to one that's a little bit tougher. Let's have a look. Hmm, who should we take next, Chad? Who should we take next? I feel like we should go back in time. Just get, I think we should get rid of the, not too many oldie-oldies out there. I think that's all the 70 players out there, should we go back into the 90s? I'm not a 90s player. I wanna see Sabatini. Okay, let's do Sabatini, because I'm not 100% sure about where we should put Sabatini. So Sabatini won the US Open back in the day. By the way, thank you for subscribing. Welcome, Rain Delay. They're taking the covers off though, slowly. So we're gonna be coming back on probably in the next, hopefully the next 20 minutes. And the clay is gonna be dry and they're gonna come out and play. So this is the break in play, but we've got the tea, let's go on. So make sure you subscribe. Okay, Sabatini. Argentinian player, I believe. See, I'm Gabriella Sabatini. Doesn't look a day over 30, to be honest. She won the 1990 US Open. She also made the final of Wimbledon back in 1991. And she made the semifinals in four Australian Opens and five French Opens. She was as high as number three in the world before winning the US Open. She won 27 titles. She won 77% of her matches. Chat, with that information, where should we put her? Where should we put her, Chat? Where, she beat Steffi Graff in the final of the US Open back in 1990. She was number five seed as well. So she was one of the players that was supposed to win. According to the ranks, number five in the world. That gives you, I mean, you're up there with the contenders, you beat Steffi in the final. That's, what are we reckon, Chat? About, right? I don't know, I think she should be higher than that. Should have won more. I feel like she should have won more. I was gonna say, unlucky not to win again, but I think she should have won more. She definitely retired way too early. Unlucky not to win again. Okay, so I guess unlucky, right? So there's two things that unlucky, unlucky not to win again means, right? One is, you were injured. And we'll get to the guy that was injured and unlucky not to win more. We'll talk about him later. But unlucky is also maybe, we should say, is also the fact that in the semifinals and the finals you played, you were unlucky in the area you played. You lost to the same player over and over. Maybe you played Steffi, right? In the nineties, when Steffi was dominating, you're unlucky that you didn't, you know, you should have won more, but then Steffi got in your way. We could probably say that about Roddick, but Roddick had that chance at Wimbledon. So he had a chance to win another one and he didn't. So I guess it comes down to this. Wimbledon 1991, she made the final of Wimbledon after winning the US Open the year before. She lost to Steffi who beat her, who she beat, you know, before. It was eight, six in the third. That kind of gives me Roddick better at 2009 vibes. That gives me Roddick, you know what I mean, chat? Like Roddick should have won 2009 Wimbledon. Sabatina or Sabatini, maybe should have won Wimbledon 1991 based on the eight, six in the third. Good memory, good Google. Can't, I can't take credit for that. Good Googling. I think she should be up there with Roddick, to be honest. Unlucky not to win again, but she had a lot of chances to win again. If you have, if you've made that many semifinals and finals, you don't win another one. You should have won more. Like unlucky is like, you know, you made maybe another final or, you know, whatever and you were just maybe a little unlucky because you played a goat. She made so many semifinals in her career, chat. She made one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 semifinals of slams over 10 years. She won, made three finals, won one. She should have won more. She should have won way more. She should have won about four. She should have won more. She's up there with Roddick. The fact she has won is ridiculous. She should have won way more. You can't have that many chances and not have won more. Unlike, you can only be unlucky so many times. You can't be unlucky for 10 years in semifinals. 18 semifinals in 10 years and you win one slam. That's, that's just, you should have won more. You should have won more. All right, to be honest, I had no idea where we'd put her. So that was, that's interesting. We learned something new. Okay, who's next, chat? By the way, it's still raining. So they're not gonna, the covers are still on the court. Still raining. Okay, chat. Where else are we gonna put, where, who are we gonna put in next? Which one next? Pick another name. Who should we pick next? Who should we pick next? Novak's coach. Why, why would he be there? Oh, Goran. I thought you meant Vida. Goran. Goran. Moschina. I feel like we're gonna get rid of some of these guys. There's a lot of guys. Notice how there's more one slam wonders for the dudes. Interesting, right? Okay, let's go with, let's go with Chang. A lot of you gone with Chang. Let's go with Chang. All right, US Open, I'm sorry, US, American player, US player, American player. Michael Chang, he won, I think it was the 1989 French Open as a kid, right? Like as a 16 year old, right? Something like that. 1989 French Open. First American male in I think ever to win a French Open, was it? Or did Jimmy win one? Yeah, I think he was the first American to win a French Open in the Open era. Is that right? He was 17, there you go. Okay, he was 15 in the world, or 15 seed. So pretty random. So straight away, give me what do you think? Where should we put him? Where should we put him? He made a final after that. He did make finals after that, so it wasn't like he was only Grand Slam Final. I feel like it was the only Grand Slam Final, that's when we're gonna start saying the fluke word. He made it to another French Open Final, he made it to the Australian Open Final and the US Open Final. So he made it to four finals and he got the one win. I don't think he was a fluke. Cause he made another French Open Final. So I mean, fluke to me would be someone who never came back. He won at 17 and then he made a final six years later at the French Open. So I don't think he should be caught a fluke. That's, I don't think he should be a fluke. He actually made it to number two in the world as well in the mid 90s. Made it to the quarter finals of Wimbledon as well. So again, that's, he's not a fluke to me. That's not a fluke. Chang almost lost the lender in that final. He did almost lose, hey, he did. He almost lost in the final that he won, yeah. Unlucky. Jim Courier won four slams. He's not considered a one slam wonder. Three finals and four semis, I say unlucky. I don't think he should have won more. I don't think he's up there with Roddick or Sabatina who were like constantly making it to the later rounds. Now he did make semi-finals one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times in his career. He made eight semifinals. He made four finals and he got one slam. So again, I don't think he should be like, we should be like, he should have won more. If he got another one, it probably would have been nice, but I don't think there was like a disappointment that he didn't win another one. Now he did play the 1995 French Open, he lost the Muster in straight sets. We'll talk about Muster soon. He lost the Boris Becker in the 1996 Australian Open in four sets and he lost in the US Open to Pete Samperas in 1996 in straight sets. So really, he didn't really have a chance in those finals. Muster was a crazy clay quarter at the time. Agassiz Samperas, they speak for themselves. So really, probably unlucky not to win another one to me. I think unlucky not to win another one. He just came up against better players in those other finals. Lost to Samperas, lost to Agassiz. I think it's just unlucky. Unlucky because he had to play against those guys. Never really had another chance. He wasn't like not in a final. He wasn't up two sets of love in a final. You know, none of those things. So I think, I think unlucky to me because he made finals of other slams whereas Oster Penko and Yannick, no, it did not. All right, who's next? Who do we pick next chat? It's still raining. Still raining doesn't look like it's gonna stop. Not anytime soon. It is gonna stop eventually, but not anytime soon. Who should we pick next chat? He was unlucky to win one, quarter, Galio. Quarter was a total flu. All right, well, let's go with, let's go with Peter Quarter. Peter Quarter, Sebastian Quarter's dad. As most of you would probably know him as now because back then he was, back then he was here, he made a name for himself. And then we're all like, this is Peter Quarter's son. Okay, give me, where should we put him? Where should we put him? First thoughts, where should we put him? He won the Australian Open in 1998. Major number two in the world after winning the Australian Open. Where should we put him? A lot of people saying total fluke. Got bagged for doping after, defo or fluke. Ooh, that might be, that's, this is what might be controversial. All right, random cheetah, fluke. Ooh, okay. That might actually, ooh, okay. A lot of people are angry about this quarter. All right, well, let's go through it. And then we'll talk about the doping stuff. So in the Australian Open in 1998, he beat Marcelo Rios in the final. Rios, of course, famously the best player, the number one in the world that never won a slam. Now he did make the final of the French Open in 1992, which was six years previous to that. He lost to Jim Curry in straight sets. So he did make another final, earlier, like, you know, before that. So, but the problem is, he made six quarter finals. No, he won, he made two semi-finals, two finals in one-one. So really, he wasn't there that many times. So I don't think he should have won more. And I don't think he was unlucky not to win again because he probably was lucky to win one. About rights, again, I don't think we, I don't think he should be in about right because about right is for the players that like, yeah, they were supposed to win a slam and they did. He was never supposed to win a slam. Lucky, was it a lucky draw or random? Well, in the map, in the draw that he, or the tournament that he played, that he won, sorry, he beat Portis in the first round, Draper in the second, Spadia in the third, Peolini in the fourth round. He then beat Bjorkman in the quarters, Kachera in the semis, and then Rios in the final. So not, I mean, a lot of people are gonna be like, who? He didn't play Sampras, he didn't play Agassi, he didn't play Rafter, he didn't play Chang, he didn't play Moja, Muster, any, even, even Izovic or Querton. So we avoided all the big boys. Rios was a big boy, but Rios was probably supposed to win that. So I reckon he was a little lucky with the draw. I think he was lucky with the draw, very lucky with the draw. Avoid Sampras, I mean, in the nineties, you avoid Sampras, that's lucky. You got lucky. Like, avoiding, you know, Rafferon at the French, which never happened. So, yeah, Kachera beat Sampras, and then Kachera played, yeah, and then Kachera played Quarta. So if Quarta plays Sampras, it's GGs. He cheated and had to lucky draw, wow. So, okay, so let's go through the cheating, and then we can chuck him in where, down the bottom somewhere. To me, I already know where I'm gonna put him, but I'm gonna let you guys decide. So let's go through the suspension that he had. Following his quarter-final match of the 2000, so the 1998 Wimbledon against Tim Henman caught a test of positive for a banned steroid. This came to light in December of 98, when he appealed to the ITF, accepted his denial of intent and agreed not to ban him. Instead, merely withholding his Wimbledon prize money and taking away his ranking points from Wimbledon. And ensuring controversy caused the ITF to launch an appeal against its own decision. And in 1999, in January, Quarta obtained a ruling that the ITF could not appeal. So the ITF said, ah, nah, you're fine. Yeah, it was not, you know, you didn't mean to do it. And then they went, hang on a second, he didn't mean to do it. We take it back. And then Quarta in 1999 in September was banned for 12 months and stripped of all his prize money ranking points since the failed test. So everything from that night, it was pretty much from the prior year he lost. Before the ban, Quarta had already announced his retirement. That was lucky. So he retired straight after. So I have to be honest, did he win the Australian Open because he was doping? I mean, that's a question mark. Unfounded, I put him in total fluke anyway. Cheating aside, cheating aside, I put him in fluke. Or do we put him, do we though? He made the final of the French Open back in 1990. So he did make a French Open final after, but after that, he only made two finals. Never really did anything else. So another French Open. Oh yeah, French Open 92, sorry, 92. He lost to Coria in that draw. He avoided Sampris and Agassi and everyone else. He had a lucky draw there too. Didn't play anyone really that big. Lendal lost early, so he didn't play Lendal. He didn't have to play. The only seeded player he played in that tournament was Coria. So probably lucky to make another final, to be honest. And he got a lucky draw in, you say, you want like, okay, you reckon lucky draw? Lucky draw, okay, I'll put him in lucky draw. Cause Edmondson was a fluke, right? Unseeded random. I think that we can't just say everyone's a fluke because the fluke should be someone who was never expected to win, never won again. I think the fluke goes to someone. There's a lot of players on his list that are still flukes, right? Coria was there abouts. He was number two in the world at a time. He made another final, but he did get a very lucky draw. Avoid Sampris. If you don't play Sampris in the 90s, you're very lucky. And Agassi. So I'm gonna say, look, that's a controversial one, but let's put him in lucky draw. Who's next? Chat, by the way, still reigning, still going actually. Let's take a time out. Let's take a time out and have a little bit of a break. We'll get back to that in a second. But still reigning. If you're just joining us, welcome. It's still reigning. We're just going through a tier list of one slam wonders, which is those players who have won one slam and never won another one. But there's different levels to one slam wonders, right? Isn't there? There's different levels. You can be a one slam wonder who, like Andy Roddick, or you can be a one slam wonder, like other players on this list. And they're not made the same. Yeah, they're not all the same. They're not all the same. Are you including team in Mevvedev? No, we're not including players that have won a slam in the last five years. So anyone who's won a slam in the last five years is not on the list, because that's not fair. Oztapenko's had six years to win another one, so that was fair game. But anyone who's not won a slam in the last five years, it's unfair to put them on the list, especially like team and Mevvedev and stuff. Dominic team maybe in a couple of years will update this list, but at the moment, no. Dom, he's ineligible as is Roddick Canu, as is Savalenka, Rabakana, and all the other people that have won one slam later. Okay, team is not gonna win another one anyways. Well, time will tell. And when we do this list again in five years, then we can put him on that. Okay, so, I guess the next question is, how much longer is it gonna rain, Cam? Yeah, it's freaking rain. Now it looked like they were gonna take the covers off, then they changed their minds. It's currently still raining, but there is gonna be, hopefully, a spot where it stops raining. Hopefully that happens soon. Let's go to the weather. Okay, so here's the weather as we speak, we are in Monaco, we are in Monaco, and it is raining. Green means bad. Green means bad. And dark green means heavy rain. So they were playing in this stuff earlier today, but this stuff is the heavy stuff. So you can see there at the top in the thing, it says green, light green is fine, pink and red is bad. So that's where we're at. And if we just go forward a little bit, you can see there, it's still gonna rain. And then it should lighten up though, because look at all this stuff. There's a big gap here with no rain. So if we keep going, it could be fine. You can see here, this has been the last hour. We kind of got this coming through. But look, if we keep going, we should be fine, probably within the next hour, we should be back on court. So within the next hour, again, we're gonna stick around and just wait and see. It's raining in my house too, which is, ironic, ironic, coincidental. There you go, see it's gonna stop raining. That's about 6 p.m. local time. And then we are clear for the rest of the night, hopefully. So yeah, probably another hour until we get a little bit of a let up. But right now it's sort of, we're right here. So there's the, there it is. That's what's coming through. And we are in the clear probably around 6 p.m., which is about about an hour away, about an hour away. We'll stick around, we've got plenty of stuff to do. We're still gonna go through the tier list. We might even do the whole tier list. By the way, I love the fact that at the stadium, they're showing the matches from yesterday on the big screens while the rain is falling. I love that, I wish they all did that. I wish Miami did that. Play the matches that played yesterday on the big screen, why not? All right, should we get back to the tier list or do you wanna have a chat? Should we have a chat or do you wanna get back to the tier list? Let me know in the chat. We'll answer questions, throw things at me. That's my question. Let's answer more questions. I'm gonna get back to you. Question, jerk. Again, thank you everybody for subscribing. Appreciate it. I told you I had an activity for us for a rain delay. We're gonna have to do a new one if we get through this tier list. Rome is gonna rain, we all know that. Yeah, they'll be hopefully back by about 6 p.m. Or probably before, maybe before that, if it stops, they can play in the rain. It just can't play in this heavy rain. Yeah, they should be back in hopefully an hour. So Rodecana was a definition of fluke. You can sit at those not in this list. Yeah, we're not gonna put her on the list. All right, back to the list. We'll get back to the list. All right, so back to the list. So again, this is a refresher of what we're doing on this tier list. So we're doing a tier list of one slam wonders. What are one slam wonders? They're like one hit wonders, but for grand slams. So basically, if you've won one grand slam in your whole career, you will consider one slam wonder. But we do have exceptions to the rule because it's not fair to call someone who won a slam six months ago a one slam wonder. They've just won one. So give them a chance to win another. So the players that are not on this list are those who have won their first and only slam in the last five years. So Al-Qaraz is not on this list. Team, Medvedev, Krajikova, Rabakina, Sabalenka, Andrescu, Rodecana, and Kennan are not on this list. They're not considered one slam wonders yet. We'll give them five years. Once five years is done, then we'll put them on the list. If they haven't won another slam. So we will update this list as we go. Because remember, over the last five years, we haven't had a lot of random champions. So this list is going to be forever growing. So let's go to the list so far, if I can find it. Where's the list? There it is. All right, so here's the list so far. We have five categories. The top being players that should have won more. The bottom being totally random total fluke and everything in between. So you've got should have won more players that made multiple semi finals, multiple finals, or maybe even had a real close chance of winning a second but never did. Andy Roddick, the ultimate should have won more, right? I mean, he definitely should have won more. And Gabriela Sabatini also we found out should have won more. She had a lot of chances over her career to win another slam, never did, should have won more. Unlucky to win or win another one. That's someone who maybe, you know, wasn't quite, you know, we weren't like convinced they should have won more. You know, if they got another one, we would have been like, oh, that's cool. But also, you know, maybe unlucky not to get another one, but not guaranteed another one or not expected to get another one. The expectation wasn't as high. About right is someone who won a slam and they were supposed to win one, at least one. And they've won one. So we've got Oztapenko and Yanigno there. Someone who's had a lucky draw or is a little bit random. So maybe a top 10 seed or someone who's made multiple finals or semi finals at other slams or maybe a, sorry, multiple semi finals or quarter finals, maybe an outside contender like a bit of a dark horse. So random dark horse pick, lucky draw maybe with players like Serena Williams on the women's side not playing for Panetta or you know, Sepcorder avoided Sampris in the 90s. And then total fluke, Mark Edmundson, someone who completely came out of nowhere and never came back. That's a total fluke. Not expected to win a slam and never did, never came close after that or never really came close. Who's next, chat? Who have we got next? Who are we picking next, chat? If you say Delpo five times, he won't appear. I'm sorry, Ivanovic, Stevens. You got to put Delpo in the top tier. Well, I don't have to do anything but we'll find out where he goes. We're not going to do Delpo next, we're going to do Delpo last. Thomas Johansson says NATO. All right, let's do Thomas Johansson. A bit of a random one, maybe a bit of one that some people don't know. Thomas Johansson won, I think it was a 2002 Australian Open. Back in the day where Swedish player, by the way, I think coaches Serana Castella these days. Where should we put Thomas Johansson? Straight away, where does he go? I think he's actually at this event. I think we saw him yesterday, didn't we? Where should we put Thomas Johansson? Won the 2002 Australian Open. Where should we put him? He was an absolute fluke, okay? Total fluke, lucky draw. Random fluke, random. Lucky draw. Okay, so we're talking down the bottom here, so we're thinking he's going to be either down the bottom, down the bottom. Okay, about right, I don't think he's about right. I'll tell you why, straight away. Never made another final of a Grand Slam. In fact, he won 2002 Australian Open, never made it past the fourth round of the Australian Open again. Never made it past the semifinals of Islam, except making it to the 2005 Wimbledon Semis. He made two quarter finals at the US Open, never made it past the second round of the French Open. He never won, he only won one match in the French Open, and that was, sorry, total of four matches of the French. So we can't put him in about right, because he was never supposed to win a slam and he never went on to win another. Now he beat Marat Safin in that final back in Australia in 2002. As the number 16 seed, Safin was nine in the world at the time. Who did he play along the way? That's the question, did he beat the big boys or did he get lucky? He played as the number 16 seed, he played Diaz in the first round, he played Hipfool in the second, he played the 21st seed, Alan Naoui in the third round. He then played a guy, a Romanian player by the name of Voinio in the fourth round. In the quarter finals, he took on Unseated Bjorkman, then Yiri Novak in the semis, and then Marat Safin in the final. So Safin was his toughest match in that final. He avoided Leighton Hewitt who lost in the first round, Gustavo Quirton, Agassiz, Kofelnikov, Henman, Tommy Haas, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick. He didn't have to play any of those guys because they all lost before he could play them. So, I've got to be honest, I'll put him in total fluke. I don't think he's like Peter Quarter, I think he's here. He never went on to win anything else. He never even contended at a slam after, like never made a final after that, never really, I mean, let's go, I guess we can look at the Wimbledon semi he made, right? 2005 Wimbledon semi final. He lost to Andy Roddick. He beat Nelbandian to get to that final, a semi final. He beat Max Muirny to Sarovic, but he didn't really beat anybody to make it to the semi. So maybe that Wimbledon semi final was a little bit of a fluke as well. His highest ranking, number seven in the world, won nine titles. He won 54% of his matches. I feel like career record is a big deal in this category. If you've only won 54% of your matches, just over half your matches in your career, and then you win a slam, it's like, where'd that come from? Which means he should be a fluke. So I think we should put in fluke, total fluke. Now there's different levels of fluke-ness, so maybe he's probably ahead of Edmundson. Edmundson's one, probably the fluke-ist so far. Okay, who's next? Played over 600 matches as well. I only had 54%, yeah. All right, who's next? Which player should we do next? I feel like quarter, it's like you gotta put quarter in your hands and next to each other. Quarter at least made another final, right? So he kind of went on and did something else, but yeah, I think your hands in, it was a fluke, it was a fluke. Sorry, Pat, I know you're here, mate. I'm sorry, mate. At least there's an Aussie down the bottom with you, mate. Me and you, our players are down the bottom. Aussies and Swedes were fluked it. Okay, player, player, player. You wanna go with Chilich? No, let's go with Chilich. Let's go with Chilich. Marin Chilich, one of the more recent players on this list. Marin Chilich, straight away, give me a, straight away before we even guess. He's an active player too, so he's still got a chance to win another. Where should we put Chilich? Where should we put Chilich? Fluke, that's a bit harsh. Where should we put Chilich? Should have won more. You reckon he's up there with Roddick? Unlucky, you reckon? Unlucky not win another one? Okay, about right. So I agree with the chat, I think it should be between, it should be here, right? It should be here or here. About right, unlucky not to win another one. All right, let's talk about his win though. He actually won, I would say legitimately, by beating the big boys, right? If you beat a goat to win a slam, you deserve a slam. He beat Roger Federer on the way to win. He also beat Thomas Burdick in the quarter finals, who again, was a very tough player at the time. He beat Jules Simon, Kevin Anderson, and Marcus Baghdad is in the first round. So, and Kaini Shikori in the final. So, well and truly deserved to win the title. So I don't think he's a total fluke, and he didn't have a lucky draw. So, I don't think he should be put in random. Now, is he in about right, or is he in unlucky to not to win another one? So, as some of you already said in the chat, he made three finals. One of them was at the Australian Open in 2018, one of them was at Wimbledon in 2017, and of course that US Open in 2001. So, the Wimbledon final, he actually got injured. And he lost that in straight sets to Federer, but he wasn't 100%. He was injured in that final. And I think Federer made a comment in that final, if I remember, like, you know, unlucky for you not to be healthy enough to compete in this final. The Australian Open in 2018, he also played Federer. He took Federer to five sets, lost six, one in the fifth. He also made the semifinals at every slam, except for Wimbledon, two semifinals in Australia, two at the US, and one at the French. He made multiple quarterfinals. He also reached number three in the world. So, he was up there, chillage. He won 20 titles, or he's won 20 titles. 64% win, loss, percentage winning record. The semifinals of all the slams, sorry, he made the final of Wimbledon, sorry, semifinal of Wimbledon as well. My bad, my bad. I think chillage is unlucky not to win another one. To be honest, he's up here. I think about right would be someone who we expect to win one and they won one. Unlucky, I think he could have won another one, but I don't think he should have won another one. He was unlucky not to win another. He had another chance, couple of chances. He made a five set against Federer. He was injured in another final. He put himself in there, as Vera would say, but unlucky not to get another one. Cause he got stopped by Federer twice, got injured in a final. Definitely, I don't think we should put him up here because this is like, why the hell didn't he win another one? He won one, maybe someone say lucky, but also deserved, I think unlucky. I don't think about right, about right as someone who, you know, won a slam and then never really made it to another final. He made a final and probably should have won another. But unlucky, probably unlucky that he had to play Federer in those finals. Okay, now, who's next, Jack? Who do we pick next? Who should we pick next? I feel like we should go back in time. I feel like we should go back to the day. Should we go back to the 80s or the 90s? Let's go back in time. Pick someone from the 80s or the 90s, Jack. I think we should go back to, I feel like we should go back to 1996. I feel like we should go back to Wimbledon. I feel like we should go to Richard Krychek, who was, if you look at the record at Wimbledon in the 90s, it was Samperess, and then all of a sudden there was a blip in the middle of the 90s. You know, how the hell did Samperess not win that one? Whatever it was, he not playing and Samperess take the day off. It was Samperess, Krychek, Samperess. All right, first of all, Richard Krychek, where should he be put? He won the 1996 Wimbledon trophy. Where should we put him? In terms of, where should we put him? Richard Krychek was a fluke, okay? Samperess, he beat Samperess along the way. Well, that is that, calling him a fluke then, but he beat the guy who dominated Wimbledon. So does that make him a fluke? I feel like he earned that. Very lucky. Just first thoughts, Chad. Even if you don't know who he is, his first thoughts about, right? Let's go through the thing. All right, so at the tooth in the 1996 Wimbledon, he beat Samperess in the quarter finals. He beat Stoltenberg in the semis and he beat Washington in the finals. So he beat Samperess. And I feel like if you beat Samperess in the final, he also beat Stitch along the way. I feel like beating Samperess legitimizes it. If he didn't play Samperess and he won the tournament, he would have said lucky draw. But I think beating Samperess legitimizes it. Now, he never made a final after that. So he only ever made a final once. He won that final, and that was against Merveil, is it Merveil? Washington. He made it to a total of four semifinals and got one win. Now, he was number four in the world. He was number four in the world, sorry, number four in the world, won 65% of his matches. He made it to the semifinal this round open and the French Open and Wimbledon after winning Wimbledon and three quarter finals at the U.S. He also made it to the semifinals of the two finals. About right or a fluke or in between. I don't think he should be up here. Definitely he's not up here. He's not on this level. Is he on this level? About right? I don't think he should be on, like did he have a lucky draw? No, because he beat Sampras. If you beat Sampras, you deserve to be there. Whereas Corder, for example, didn't beat anyone to win that tournament. He didn't beat the big boys. So he got a little bit of a lucky draw. So I think about right. He beat Sampras. He never made another final, but he beat Sampras in the tournament he won, like, and by the way, if you don't know who Sampras is, it's like beating a goat to win a slam. That's what it was beating Sampras back in the 90s, especially at Wimbledon. You beat Sampras in the Wimbledon to win a trophy, you deserve it. So yeah, about right. I think that's pretty neat. I think it's neat. I like it. A good one. Good work, Charlie. That was actually easier than I thought. Now, who's next? You can't be a fluke if you beat Sampras, exactly. You beat, I mean, look, Edmondson, sorry, Edmondson did beat the top guys in the world at the time of his day, but also, I mean, by the way, not quarter, Krychak, when he won Wimbledon, he was the number 17 seeds or a bit out of the box. In fact, he was the lowest seed in the draw. It's, yeah, beating Sampras. You know, you beat the king of grass at Wimbledon and you win the trophy. It's about right. Okay, he won six miles to 1,000. He made six 1,000 won finals and won two of them as well, not random. And there you go. Thank you, Vlad, for the extra information. Who should we pick next? Martinez? Ferrero. Ooh, interesting pick. Who should we pick next? All right, let's go with Ferrero. Some of you are yelling at me, Ferrero. Okay, Juan Carlos Ferrero, the coach of Carlos Elcaraz. Where should we put him on the list? Juan Carlos Ferrero, who was number one in the world. Formal world number one, French Open Champion. Juan Carlos Ferrero. When I Google it, it says Ferrero Rocher. I would love one, but I'm a little busy. Juan Carlos Ferrero. Formal world number one, current coach of Elcaraz. I don't think it matters about Elcaraz being his coach, whatever. 2003 French Open Champion. About rights. Now, 2003, remember what happened in 2003? Roddick, Federer, Hewitt, all around the top, remember? So he played in that era. Unlucky is also a part of being in that era. About right? Or, I don't think he was a fluke. Total fluke, I think that's a bit harsh. He won the French Open. He was a clay court beast. He deserved, like he was a clay courter. It's like saying David Ferrero was, he didn't deserve a slam. It's like, what are you talking about? David, he was the David Ferrero of the early 2000s. He was the David Ferrero of the early 2000s, but he won a slam before the goats came along. He was number three in the world when he won a slam. He didn't really have to play the big boys, but then again, you know, Layton wasn't really great at the French. He beat Robredo Costa, who was a former French Open Champion. So he beat a former French Open Champion. They're not super random. He beat Tim Henneman as well, Nicholas Massou. So he did beat some big boys. So I don't think it was a total fluke. He also made it to the final of the US Open in 2003, the same year. He lost to Roddick, who's on this list. He beat Agassi in that US Open run. So, and he beat Layton Hewitt and Andre Agassi to make it the final of the French, the US Open that same year. So I don't think you should say, you could say total fluke. He also was number one in the world in 2003 before the US Open and then Andy Roddick took it. So he was number one in the world until Roddick, beat him in the US Open and then took it away from him. So he was legit. He won 16 titles, 64% winning record. About right. Should have won more. See, I'm torn between those two. Now, should he have won more? Sorry, not should have won more. I mean, unlucky or about right. He shouldn't have won more. About right. Now at the time, he wasn't, I guess he wasn't really considered. I mean, he was up there with Hewitt, but he was around Agassi. You know, Agassi was there too. He made it to the semifinals of the Australian Open 2004, where he lost to, I think lost to Safin, right? No, he lost to Federer. That's unlucky. That's unlucky. Lost to Federer in 2004. That's when Federer started flying. I guess, let me have a look at his record overall. So he made it. So 2000, he made it to the semifinals or better at the French Open until he won the French Open. And then after winning the French Open, he didn't do much. But I think he did a lot of injuries, didn't he? After he won the French Open, he made the final of the French Open in 2002 as well. So three finals, one slam, six semifinals. Couple of quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2007 and 2009. So he, you know, that's random. In 2002, he lost to Albert Costa. So he probably should have won that. I don't think he should have won the, he shouldn't have won the 2003 US Open. I think unlucky. Unlucky, because he beat, he should have probably, man, now I'm getting, now I'm torn between the top part. Well, I still reigning, still reigning. Who did he beat at the French Open back then? So he beat, he was number 11 in the world when he made the French Open final. He beat Agassiz Saffin in 2002. He beat Agassiz Saffin, Gaudio. He wasn't Gaudio, but he was. And he lost to Costa in the final. And we don't have Costa on this list, unfortunately, but I feel like Costa would have been down the bottom. About right, I think he should be higher. He made three finals, French Open twice and then the US Open. French Open back in 2002, 2003. Should he have won more? I feel like he should have won another French Open. Or was he unlucky? Because you've got to give him Bennett for the doubt. When he made his first French Open final, similar to Chilich, I agree. I think he should be next to these guys. The only difference is he's world number one, but I don't think he should be about right because I think that he was expected to win more. But unlucky that he didn't because in 2002, he made his first final and maybe was a little bit young and inexperienced, got nervous. Probably lucky to win the second one. Then he won 2003 and then in 2003 US Open. He was world number one, but I don't think he should, like I don't think people expected him to win more. You know, when he won his first, they were like, you know, he was expected to win one. But then when he won his first, when he made the final of the US Open, it was all about Roddy, right? And then Federer came along and Nadal on clay. He still had to play Hewitt and Saffon and, you know, those boys, so I think unlucky. So I put him in there. I think we got him in the right spot. Unlucky, not to win another one, but unlucky, yeah, not to win another one. All right, by the way, it looks like they've got the people coming out on court and they're going to start, hopefully Moppen or like taking the covers off. So we might be getting some tennis. Okay, good, I love this chat. Good list, good list. All right, chat. Now, who's next? Yeah, Chilich and Chang were much more unlucky than him. Yeah, but that's why we got him at like the bottom end of the unlucky. That's why he's at the bottom. Ivanovich, I feel like we should go to, it's how crazy that we don't have that many Australian Open champions that were already gone through them all, I guess. Not too many random Australian Open champions. I feel like we should go back to the Australian Open. Oh, no, sorry, back to the French Open. A lot of French Open random champions, see that? We've got one, two, three, four, five, six. A lot of random French Open champions. All right, let's go with Skiavoni. Skiavoni, by the way, they are starting to wipe off the tarp or get the rain or the water off the tarp so they can open the court. So we're gonna be back in probably the next 15 minutes or so, or maybe 20 minutes. All right, Skiavoni, tell me where she should be placed on this list. Where should Francesca Skiavoni be put on this list? Because she won the French Open back in like the early 2010s. In fact, she won it in 2010, exactly 2010. Where should she be put on this list? About right, Skiavoni, Kuznetsova, enough said, okay. About right, Fluke, lucky with those crown strokes, okay. Lucky draw, don't know her. Well, that's all right. You'll sit back and listen and you'll learn something. That's what we love about this thing. They're gonna be back on in 15 minutes. So get ready, we're gonna probably go through maybe one more player after this and then we'll get back. 15 minutes till they come back. Actually, we'll do it after this one. After this, we'll go back. We'll finish the list another time. Maybe later in the day when we get another rain delay. Okay, so, I can, so let's go with Skiavoni. So she made the French Open final in 2011. So she went to the final in 2010, she won and then she lost to Lena in the next year's final. So she did back it up straight away. But I guess all of you are asking, who did she beat to win the final back in 2010? 2010, she was 17 seed. She beat a few good names. She beat Lena in the third round. She lost to the next year. Kirillenko in the fourth round. Wasniaki, the third seed in the quarterfinals. She beat Dementi Ava, the fifth seed in the semis and then she lost as she beat Sam Serres in the seventh seed. So I don't think that's an unlucky draw. She beat three top 10 players to win the tournament. That's not unlucky. That's a skill. So straight away, I don't think she can be lucky draws out of the question. So about right or above. So she's up, she's here or up in here somewhere. Now the year after that, she lost to Lena in the final. I think she was luckier in the second one. In 2011, she beat Jankovic to get to the final. That was the biggest name she beat. And then she lost to Lena. The only top player she lost to. So she didn't have to play Kuznet server. She didn't have to play Bartoli as well. She didn't have to play Wasniaki. She didn't have to play Serena, any of those players. So I think she probably shouldn't have won the second one. Unlucky not to win again. I don't think she was lucky to win one but she didn't have a lucky draw. So about right, you think it's about right? She won one. That's about right. Let's put her in here for, let's just put it here. I think about right. Yeah, Stoze beats Serena along the way in 2010. So maybe a bit lucky, but then again, she did beat her fair share of champions too. She only lost one set at the 2010. Yeah, exactly. About right, you all say about right. I don't think she should be up here with these guys who have, you know, who would have, who should have, you know, were very, were contending it more. These guys made multiple finals after these. She didn't make it multiple, she made one more final. So yeah, probably more like here. Even probably more like here, right? I'll probably put it here. Should we do one more chat? Last one, last one, and then we'll get back to the match. They're gonna, they're just opening up the court now and in 10 minutes they're gonna come back. 10 minutes time, they're just fixing the court up, ready to go, 10 minutes away. Let's do one more. Who should we finish with that chat? Should we go the obvious one? Should we go the, not a big boy, but should we go with, should we go with a lady to finish? You wanna go with Goran? I wanna do Gaudio. I'm taking, we're going Gaudio. Match is starting in 10 minutes. 10 minutes, all right, Gaston Gaudio. We're doing it chat, we're going with Gaudio. Gaston Gaudio, let me know in the chat where should we put him? Where should we put him? Where should we put Gaston Gaudio? Now my head thinks, I know where I'm gonna put him, but I wanna just see if we can, see if we can change your minds. Don't know him, well that's it. Total fluke, you reckon? Fluke-ity-fluk, F to fluke, should have won 10. Okay, so straight away, he won in 2004. He never made it past the fourth round of a slam again. He made it to one final, one quarter final, one semi-final, never made it past the fourth round after that, or before. So literally out of nowhere, his record looks like average and then, he wins and then average, not a great start. Who did he beat the French Open, he was unseated. He beat Nalbandian, Shewatt, Correa in the final, we all know what happened in that final. So he did, and he beat Yuri Novak as well. Also Thomas Enkvest as well. So he beat some big names out of nowhere. He didn't play Federer. Federer lost early in that tournament. Rafa wasn't there yet, Rafa was one year away. And we know about the fluke, so the choke in the final by Correa, because Correa should have won that tournament. Worst slam final ever. Oh God, I wish we could watch it chat. I don't think he should be about right. I don't think it, I don't know if he got a lucky draw, because he did, he did actually beat some decent players. So I don't think he got a lucky draw. He actually beat some decent players. But I don't think it's about right. You can have it be a total fluke by having a really good week. Being a total fluke, you can, you can be a total fluke because you just had a really crazy week. And he never made it back again. By the way, he only made it up to, where was he, in the world. He was only as high as number five in the world that was after the French Open, or sorry, after the, sorry, the next year's French Open. He made it to number, sorry, sorry, not next year. The fight, he made it before the French Open in 2005. He was number five in the world. He won eight Correa titles. Did he make it to any Masters 1000 finals or anything? Did he do anything else outside of the slams maybe that were missing? Did he play well at like, no, he didn't even make a Masters 1000 final. He made it to the semifinals in Monte Carlo twice and Hamburg once. I think this is an easy chat. I think he's a total, it was a total fluke. It was probably the flukiest one out of the bunch because these guys at least made it to the quarters and semis again. He never made it back. 2004 had two really good weeks, never replicated it. Just whoop, and then crash like Bitcoin. All right, there it is chat. We'll get back to this list. We still got plenty more players. We've got Bartoli, Cash, Delpo, Ivanovich, Ivanovich, Martinez. We've also got Moyer, Muster, Moschina, Sloan Stevens, Sam Stozer, and Caroline Wozniacki. But there's the list so far, chat. Take a look. Andy Roddick and Sabatini should have won more slams than they did. They should have won more than one. Unlucky not to win another one. Chilich, Pereiro, and Chang. The players, yeah, they should have won one and they got one and that was about right. Schiavoni, Panko, Noah, Yannick Noah, and Richard Krycek. The players that got lucky, or maybe a little random. Panetta, and also Quarta, and the players that totally fluked it. Thomas Johansson, Mark Edmondson, and Gaston Goat Gaudio. Good list. Good list, chat. Give yourself a round of applause. Good list. Good list. We'll get back to that in a little bit. Okay, so players coming back in about, in about, well according to this, about five minutes, hopefully. About five minutes, in about five minutes. The covers are off, the crowd is back, the rain has stopped, or at least it's stopping. So we're coming back. Good quote, quote was an icon, yep. Thanks again, that was fun. No worries, we've still got plenty more to go. That's just, I mean, we could do another one of those. We've got plenty of ideas. But thank you everybody for sticking around. Five minutes, I'll be back. Serving has been awful in this match. Yeah, the serving hasn't been great. It has been really slow conditions, I guess you could make an excuse for that, but yeah. So far as three, two, Rubelev on serving the third, they both had breaks in this third set as well. I even forgot that we had a match going on. Well, there you go. There you go. I love this tennis rating game, or activity, yeah. Something to cover the, okay. Better than doing nothing, right? Something to kill the time. Do a lot of work on the stream, oh yeah, yeah. I do it because I mean, what's one in the morning, so what else am I gonna do? So wins this match after the lay. Who wins this match after the lay? I'm still going with Fritz in three. I'm sticking with Fritz. I think Fritz played terrible in that first couple of sets, lucky to win the first set. I think the rain delay hurts Rubelev because Rubelev was the better player. Had the momentum, and I think that Rubelev, Rubelev's momentum was stopped by the rain. Also, Rubelev was up 3-1 in that second, in the final set, and then he got broken. So, I'm sorry, 2-1 with a break, and then Fritz broke back. So, I gotta be honest, I think that Rubelev might come out here and just start panicking and get angry. I think that was a better, the rain delay was better for Fritz. I'm gonna go with Fritz to win, yeah. Good job hosting this camp, though, is Veronic. Did I pronounce that right, hopefully? It's gonna be hard for Fritz to serve right after coming back. Yeah, but at least he's serving from like, they're gonna warm up as well, Rubelev, I think they're gonna warm up, but yeah. Minora says the next list should be rank every number one in the world in the open era. Ooh, that's a good one, Minora's. Hey, am I, am I, write that down. That's actually a really good one. Thank you for that. That might be our next tier list because not every number one is the same, just like not every one slam wonder is the same, you know, Andy Roddick and Gaston Gaudio, same era, one slam wonders, they're not the same, that's not fair to say that they're the same person or in the same category, but I like their Minora's, that was a good one. If you do have any ideas, by the way, any ideas about, any ideas for tier list ideas or anything else, throw them at me. We can chuck them in, because we've got plenty, I mean, we're gonna have more delays. I'm sure we're gonna have another rain delay at some point in the next year. Plus, we'll be last. Oh, there's an ideas channel on the Discord as well. Yeah, so chuck those ideas in the Discord as well, just so I don't forget. I wrote it down, but I wrote a lot of things down. I forget to read. I'm very hungry, cooking and listening, nice. All right, by the way, it looks like the sun's gonna come out, jeez. Haven't seen that all match. Raggy, Federer and Serena's slam wins could be fun. That's good, that could be fun too. That could be really fun. Might be able to do that. Don't write that down too. Ruiner or Sinner later. Yeah, they're coming up later. I know you asked me who's gonna win. I'm gonna go with, I think I said Sinner. I think I said Sinner. All right, crowd's coming back. There's still a few umbrellas, but remember we can play in the rain. It just can't play in the heavy rain, so the heavy rain is subsided and they're coming back in about three minutes. What time is Monte Carlo now? I think it's 5.30 PM, or at least 5.20 PM. Ranked your shirts, they're all Estia. What is the best Master 1,000 in your opinion? Indian Wells, Indian Wells. Sinner vs. Rubleff final and Sinner champion, okay. Yeah, we're starting in three minutes. Players are coming out at any second now. Players are coming out at any minute now. In fact, we can turn this off because it's not even raining anymore. We'll turn this off, there we go. All right, even turn this off. Here we go, we're back, we're back. I don't remember how long we've been away for probably about an hour. Did we say an hour, an hour and a half? About an hour, hour and a bit? So we are back, and we should be okay for the rest of the night. So no more rain delays. We should be good. Let me have a look at Google Maps, weather, Google weather. I take it back. We should be good, but there might be a delay again, but that's all right. We've got plenty of things to do. The delay, it's in a favorite fritz, I agree. If you could play tennis with one player past or present, who would it be? Leighton. Leighton Hewitt. How about a 1000 Australia? That'd be fun. That'd be very fun. Includes slam-less number ones as well. Yeah, that's why I like that, I love that idea. Because there's players that have number ones without slams, and that's, that makes the list very interesting. And there's a lot of world number ones. That actually might be our next list. We're gonna go, we'll do that next. Our next rain delay activity. Who know, why no masters and 1000s on grass? They just don't have the time. Ugly shirt, cam. Yeah, that's because you don't like my teammate. Juice, just admit that you don't like the bombers. Just because we win. Just because we came to Adelaide and beat Melbourne easily. It's because we're kicking everyone's ass when we've won four out of five. It's because we're in the top four. Doesn't mean you should be getting salty. Have I seen the Barcelona draw? I have, and it looks kind of mid. It looks kind of mid. I'm not gonna lie. You could rank biggest beef and drama between players. True, but there's not enough. There's not enough though. I don't think, I don't think there's enough beef to go. I mean, there's only like four or five at the moment that we can go through. Sacramento Kings are playing the first playoff game in 16 years, let's go Kings. Kings might be my pick to win the whole thing, just for fun. Because my team, I mean, I like the Lakers, but I'm not like a big LeBron fan. And the Nets aren't in there, are they? Wait, are Brooklyn in there still? I mean, I love a fairy tale. The Nets, maybe the Nets are in there. Oh, the Nets are there. Screw that. Ooh, go the Nets. Let's go Nets. Let's go Nets. So, oh, the Nets are, oh, the Nets are the 16. We're playing, oh, we're playing Philly. So we've got Brooklyn versus that, and then we've got Boston possibly called for seven years. I'll go with the, Kings are playing Golden State. That's tough. You're playing the, you're playing the, you're playing Steph in the first round. That's crazy. I'll root for the Kings on the Western side. But if they play the Nets, it's all Nets, I'm sorry. Has to be the Nets. Cam, do you pay for Tennis TV? How are you watching this? I have used Tennis TV. Kings are no good. Why are they the third seed, but that's crazy. Surely they're gonna restart now? Yep. It's raining a little bit, but they're gonna come on in like a couple of minutes. The crowd are back. The court is ready. The umpires, lines, people are all back. We're just waiting for the players. We're just waiting for the players to come back. Okay. Boston versus Atlanta. Okay. How much is Tennis TV? 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All right, Fritz is back. Rubella is back. We're back. We're back, baby. Here we go. My British. I'm Aussie, mate. US is about $100 annually. There you go. No, I'm not British. I am. I'm Australian. So like British, British adjacent. British reject. I'm a British reject. What are we doing the fan slam? By the way, very interesting addictive. Dan, I know, right? Fan slam is back next week. We're going to be doing Stuttgart and we're going to be doing Stuttgart and Barcelona. But I don't think Barcelona is, I can't make a draw yet. So I can't make a league. But we'll make a tennis talk, because next week we've got the two big events. So we're going to do it. So yeah, I'll try and make a league when it's available tomorrow. Thank you, Nate. I appreciate it, mate. That's a very nice thing to say. Aussie's a prison stock. That's us, yep. That's us. We're just a bunch of rejects. British rejects. When the match going to begin in about a minute or two, we're just waiting for the players to walk out on court and then they warm up and ready to go. So probably five minutes. They'll start playing again. Looking forward to it. Hopefully we'll do better. Yeah, Dan, it is addictive because you just want to, like, we're all, I think we're all starting to figure out how to play it too now. Because I'm included, right? I'm learning as we go. Like the strategies and who to pick and who not to pick. And you know, we talk about it in the discord and if you're in the discord, jump in there. I'm plays back on court, yep. Do you think Tennessee B will get, will ever get you to cover live matches interviews? I don't know, maybe. Who knows? All I know is that I fully endorse it because I mean, I talk about Tennessee B even though, even when we weren't affiliated with them. Players walking out fritz, by the way, doing this one while he walks out. So it is still raining. It is still raining, but not heavy enough. We can play in the rain as long as it's not heavy. They're back on court. Here we go. I have a strategy, but two hopeless players let me down. Yeah, Dan, my strategy was great until Baratini withdrew and then everything went to shit. Baratini withdrew and then it was all downhill from there. Okay, chat. Here we go. We're back baby. We haven't played for a total of however long, probably about an hour and a bit. A little bit over an hour maybe. But we're back. And hopefully we're back for good. So next match coming up straight after this, Sina versus Runa, coming on straight after this. So stay tuned. Sina, Runa, coming up next. Okay, gonna warm up and then we're gonna get it ready. All right, so they're just talking about the ball change once the warmup is done and all that stuff. For instance, a typical spy boy from California, what? I've won two fans lands, but not a tennis talk one, which is the dream. Yeah, Tim, yeah, there's a lot of fans. Like you can join other leagues. You can either make your own league, but yeah, the tennis talk leagues are usually, well, I'm trying to make them the biggest ones. That's why we keep playing it. So if you can win the tennis talk league with a hundred people in it, geez, that's pretty crazy. All right, they're warming up the forehands. One hour and 38 minute delay, geez, that went quick. Does anyone else think that went quick or is it just me? Or did that drag on for you guys? Hope not. No, there's no prize money for fanslam, it's all free to play. But there is a, we're gonna give away a tennis talk hoodie. In fact, I have my new tennis talk hoodie here. It came yesterday. Here it is. Ta-da! It's better in real life. It's just a little bit, oh. Just the colors are a little bit off because of the screen. But it's very nice, this is a very nice hoodie. By the way, also a longer hoodie in here. So it doesn't, some of the hoodies come up to here. This one comes down to here. So it's a little bit longer as well. They're really, really cool. I think I got it yesterday. Rocked up. So go get one if you want to get one. We're giving away one of those at the end of this. Whoever wins is the fanslam. It's a nice hoodie. It's really, it's really warm too. Really nice. You know, sometimes you get a hoodie. It's like shitty in, like it feels shitty inside. Scratchy, super soft. Just showing up after the rain delay. Well, good timing. Perfect timing to show up to this match right now. Felt like forever because I was in class. Well, there you go. For a free hoodie named three countries with the letter I. Iceland, Ireland, Israel. Where's my hoodie? Give me a hoodie. Please, please hoodie here, please. Hoodie here, please now. Thank you. Send it to the PO box, link down below. Okay. We're getting ready. Israel's no good. Israel's a country. Don't you rob me of my free hoodie from that random chatter? It's a prank bro, no free hoodie. Boo, boo, boo. I won that hoodie. All right, just send me, send me money. All right, you can just send me $1,000 instead. It'll be good. Boo. I want a free hoodie, dammit. Okay, we're waiting to go. It's still really windy, which I think favours Fritz a little bit because Rubly might get annoyed. Very windy, still shitty weather. Raffin' up playing Barcelona, yeah, that sucks. Neither is Medvedev, which sucks too. My bad, everyone. I thought we needed countries with two eyes. Oh, well, I got no idea. How many hoodies do I have? Well, this is the first one. I've ordered more, but this is the first one. I wanted to get the first one and make sure it was all good, but quality check, you know what I mean? Quality test, but they're good to go. These are tough conditions. They are tough conditions. It's gonna come down to mental battle as well with these conditions. 20 seconds before they hit the balls and start playing again. Left over pizza, jeez. I found this amazing pizza place and I'm not gonna tell you where it is because then you'll know where I live and I don't want you to know where I live because to be honest, I don't want anyone to find me. But I found this amazing pizza place. Wood, you know how I've always been saying I need to find a wood oven, like a wood oven, what is it, like a proper wood fire pizza place? I found one. Delicious, amazing pizzas. No pineapple, but amazing pizzas. Love, it's so good. And it's near my place, so I really like it. Not to know how, no, I live in Australia. Yeah, great find. This week has been great, chat. I found a great little cafe that no one really goes to which has amazing food. And then I found, and coffees, and now I've found an amazing go-to pizza place for a wet cold winter's day or night, like tonight. So yeah, I had a great barbecue, meat pizza, and also a great, they had a great margarita. Oh, it was so, so good. One bite, everyone knows the rules. All right, it's been one hour and 48 minutes until the last point was played. To be honest, maybe because we went through the tier list, it didn't feel that long. I thought, I think that was actually pretty quick, but you guys might be like, no, that can, that was a long time. Okay, well, I kept myself entertained. I'm making you hungry, my bad. Here we go, Fritz is gonna serve! In the resumption of this match, who the hell's gonna win? You tell me, chat, give. It felt shorter, yeah, I thought so. Where I was on a date, no, I was having a hate at home. Okay, Fritz with a serve. Match, ready to go. That's a fault from Fritz, second serve. Go, Fritz, go, Fritzy, Fritzy, Fritz. All right. We're gonna serve down to the back end of Rubelev. The return goes in the front of Fritz. Rubelev with the back end on the stretch goes in the line to the front of Fritz. That's a good shot. Rubelev with the forehand, again to the front of Fritz. The backhand of Rubelev, into the front of Fritz. As Rubelev hits the back end again, down the line and it's a winner, wow! The wind blew that in. That was going out and then the wind went whoop and it came back in, that was a bit lucky. Love 15. Rubelev a little lucky. Love 15, serve to the front of Rubelev. One out from Fritz, the back end of Rubelev, into the back end of Fritz. Again to the back end of Rubelev, as Fritz hits the backhand. Again to the front of Rubelev, into the backhand of Fritz. As Rubelev hits the front end of the line, that's a great shot, Fritz with a lob. The wind's gonna blow it around and blow it out. Love 30. Unlucky for Fritz because the wind didn't help him but it helped Rubelev. Love 30. Serve, into the front of Rubelev. Return to the backhand of Fritz, backhand of Rubelev, again to the backhand of Fritz. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Into the front of Fritz as Rubelev hits the front of the stretch, that's a good shot, Fritz with a slice, Rubelev. Inside our forehand, Fritz again with the backhand on the stretch down the line, that's a great shot. Rubelev gets it but it's in the net. Great pick up from Fritz. Fritz is low key a bit of a counter puncher today. He's turned around a couple of those points where he's been in a lot of trouble. A bit of a counter punching game. 15-30, all right, 15-30. Serve from Fritz, there's a fault. Second serve, yeah, Liam, I can see the smudge on the camera too, it's a little annoying. Second serve. Into the backhand of Rubelev and Fritz hits it out on the return, 15-40. I wonder if it's a little bit of rain that's like, that's still around that's kind of hitting the camera. They just need to wipe it down. The Umbrellas are going back up a little bit so it's, the Umbrellas going up. The rain and the wind is definitely back, very windy. 15-40, serve out by the forehand of Rubelev, return goes in the forehand of Fritz, who hits it, into the forehand of Rubelev. The backhand of Fritz, backhand of Rubelev, again to the backhand of Fritz, into the forehand of Rubelev, Rubelev down the line to the forehand of Fritz, the backhand of Rubelev on the stretch. In the net from Rubelev, 30-40, 30-40. What break point here? There is a little bit, a little bit, someone must have wiped it because the camera looks fine now. There's been a return, someone must have heard us chat. Liam, they must have heard you, mate, because it looks clear now. First of the net, 30-40. It's still a little wet out there and still a little very windy. Serve from Fritz. Here's a fault. Some of the Umbrellas are going down, which we'd love to see. Second serve, second serve in the backhand of Rubelev, backhand up from Fritz, into the backhand of Rubelev, again to the backhand of Fritz, Rubelev on the backhand, again to the backhand of Fritz, into the backhand of Rubelev, as Fritz hits the backhand, into the forehand of Rubelev, again to the forehand of Fritz, Rubelev with the forehand, again to the forehand of Fritz, into the forehand of Rubelev, who's in the attack of the moment, who's in the forehand to forehand rally again, backhand of Fritz on the stretch, that goes to the backhand of Rubelev, again to the backhand of Fritz, into the backhand of Rubelev, again to the backhand of Fritz, sliced to the backhand of Rubelev, Fritz in trouble, back in the backhand. As Rubelev goes again to the backhand of Fritz. Into the backhand of Rubelev. As Fritz hits the backhand again, the wind's picked up. Backhand down the line from Rubelev is good. Fritz gets up with a slice. Rubelev flying again. Fritz with a forehand on the stretch again. Rubelev backhand. As Fritz with a drop shot. Is good, but Rubelev's there with the backhand. Winner! And he breaks. 4-2, Rubelev. The wind was definitely helpful for Rubelev in that game. Rubelev breaks straight back from coming back from the nearly two hour delay. 4-2, 34 shot rally by the way. And Fritz, I mean he's broken back a few times today in the first set. He also broke back in this set when he got down a break. Remember the first set chat, it was two love and then it was two all and then it was three two and then it was three all, but so a little bit like the first set. Can Rubelev hold? That's the real question. Okay. Rubelev with a serve. Winner of this play is Runa or Sinner tomorrow in the final. Rubelev serving with new balls as he serves out wide. By the way, the camera again, every time they go away, it just keeps on getting more splatters on it. They need to figure it out. All right, serve goes in the front of Fritz and Fritz sits it out. I think Fritz is hitting with the wind. That's why he keeps on hitting everything out. Rubelev's hitting into the wind, which is probably helpful for him. Breeze is going with Fritz's shots, which is forcing him to hit him out. As that goes wide, nice serve for Rubelev, 30 love, 30 love, and Rubelev serves again. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve goes to the front of Fritz, return to the front of Rubelev, front of Fritz, down the line, with the back end of Rubelev, back end of Fritz, again to the back end of Rubelev, down the line to the front of Fritz on the stretch. Rubelev with a slice. Fritz in control, with the back end down the line, Rubelev, oh no, it goes out from Fritz. Fritz over hit it, played a good point too. 40 love, and unlucky for Fritz there again. Over hitting that back end, Rubelev 40 love. Serve out wide at the back end of Fritz. That goes out, five, two, Rubelev. Okay, he's one game away from the final Rubelev. One game away from another Masters 1000 final. Terrible ending, and that's still not over yet. But Rubelev's looking a lot more composed out there at the moment, and Fritz is struggling a little bit. Probably with a breeze, wind has kicked up big time. All right, Chows, that's the questions. That's my question! The question, sir! So we've got another match to go, by the way. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We have another big semi-final coming up. It's already been an epic first semi-final. Let's hope the second one can live up to the hype of this one. How fast are the wind blowing? Very fast. I'll tell you exactly how fast. I'll tell you exactly how fast. All right, we're talking 10 mile an hour winds. 12, sorry, 12 mile an hour winds. It's really cold out there too. Still raining as well. So we're talking 54 degrees, 12 mile an hour winds. Raining, very humid, so very slow as well. That's probably why we've got a lot of, probably got a lot of long rallies, because it's not, not getting three points with the conditions. Who do I think will win Cine Runa? I think Cine wins. I think the weather is going to spoil the Cine Runa match as well. Yeah, that's all right, we're here for that. We know what's up. If we have to go through that again, I don't think it's going to stop the match, but I think it will interrupt the match, probably. Expect a rain delay. Just like we expected one here. All right, five, two. Fritz serving to stay in the match. The conditions are miserable, I know. It's a miserable day. It's an ugly old day. It's been a four to four rally. Down the line, now the back end of Fritz, a back end from Rubelev. And the back end of Fritz down the line to the forehand, and that goes out from Fritz. Fritz is over hitting that back end again. Love 15. If it was in Miami, we wouldn't be playing. So, at least if it's miserable, we can still play on Clay, luckily. Second serve. In the back end of Rubelev, four and a half from Fritz is, ooh, on the line, is it? Yeah, great shot, Fritz. Unbelievable. Little bit lucky right in the corner, but he gets it. 15 all. Tennis should have an all-star weekend and have speed skills challenges. I would love that. That would actually be pretty awesome, to be honest. Great idea. All right, back end after Wimbledon would be a great idea when there's nothing to do. Before the US Open Series in America. Do it in America. How about that? Fritz hits it out, 15-30. All-star weekend or all-star week or whatever you wanna do before the US Open Series. While Fritz is saying it's raining too much, I can't play in this. And the umpire is saying you can still play. Fritz is asking the umpire, the crowd's gone wild. Fritz is talking about replaying a point. Then it wasn't. I think someone from outside the court might have maybe moved and Fritz was distracted by that last point. I don't know. And it's 15-30. Fritz is just really not having a good time. Since the, I think he won like three points since the resumption of play. All right, Rubelev, two points away, 15-30. He serves down the tee, good serve. Rubelev gets it back. Back in our Fritz, the back of the Rubelev. Down the line is great. Fritz with the forehand, that's in. And the slice in the ground from Rubelev. Nice shot there from Fritz. By the way, Rubelev's yelling to go, and that would have been out. If it hadn't been windy, that would have been out. 30-all serve from Fritz. There's a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the forehand of Rubelev and the Rubelev. In! He says, sorry. That ball was on the line. It was on the line. Smack bang on the line. So unlucky for Fritz, but not really. Rubelev went for the shot and he made it. So good for Rubelev. Match point for Rubelev, 30-40. Serving Fritz down the tee and now he's bang! Ha-ha! That's what you want to do on match point, just snuff it out like it never happened. Push it down, forget about it. Like your emotions, you know? Just shove them right down inside and just forget about it. Not healthy, don't do that, chat. Don't do that. Don't bury them. All right, but bury that match point. So if you're Fritz, forget that happened. Second serve now at the back end of Rubelev. That goes in the forehand of Fritz. And Fritz hits it out. Match point number two. Here we go, advantage Rubelev. Match point number two. Fritz with a serve. There's a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the back end of Rubelev and Rubelev hits it out. And that second serve was, I mean that backhand from Rubelev was not great. Not great. Deuce, serve. There's a fault. Second serve. Second serve goes in the forehand of Rubelev. Return goes in the forehand of Fritz. Forehand of Rubelev. Again to the back end of Fritz. Into the forehand of Rubelev. Again to the back end of Fritz. As Rubelev hits the back end on the stretch. Fritz in control. With a forehand cross call, but he shanks at wide Fritz. Bad shot from Fritz. Advantage Rubelev. Match point number three. Match point number three. Taking spot in the final. His second Monte Carlo Masters final. Serve. Down to see the forehand of Rubelev. Return goes in. Fritz with a forehand down the line. Rubelev with the backhand. It is good. Fritz gets it just. As we're back in every Rubelev. Again to the back end of Fritz. Into the back end of Rubelev. Sliced in the net. And Fritz survives. Back to Deuce. Rubelev screams. Not happy Rubelev. He knows he's that close. Five minute service game. Three match point save. From Taylor Fritz. He's a big first serve here. Fritz gets out of this game. He serves as a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Rubelev. Rubelev hits it out. Advantage Fritz to make Rubelev serve this out. He just saves three match points. Serve. Another fault from Fritz. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Rubelev. Return goes wide and Taylor Fritz survives. But now it's Rubelev serving for the match. Nice save there from Fritz. Three match points saved by Taylor Fritz. And now Rubelev serving for the match. Let's see if Rubelev can keep it together. Rubelev serving for the match to make it to the final. Serve. There's a fault. Second serve. Oh, the wind's going all over the place. Rubelev's not ready. Second serve. Is in to the form of Fritz. Return to the back end of Rubelev. Into the back end of Fritz. Rubelev with the forehand. Again, the back end of Fritz on the stretch. Fritz hits it out. 15 love. 15 love. What a great match. What a great semi-final to start us off. It's been high tension. That first set was very intense. There's a foul now from Fritz on the return. Foul now, Rubelev down the line. Into the back end of Fritz. Back end of Rubelev. Again, to the back end of Fritz. Into the back end of Rubelev. Down the line again. The forehand of Fritz on the stretch. Fritz hits it out. Rubelev just going after it and winning. 30 love. Top 10 clashes all round today. We've got number six and number 10. And then we've got number eight and nine playing next. We're going to serve the net from Rubelev. Second serve. It's nice to have the top 10 playing, but not the same guys as we've seen. Not the same top 10 guys every time. Back end of back end. Different surface, different players. Back end of back end again as Rubelev tries to get to match point for fourth time as we get another back in for Fritz. That goes down the line. That's out. Ooh, that was close. Rubelev is saying it was out. The umpire comes out in the chair and says, yep. That was wide match points. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. 40 love. Three more match points for Rubelev to take his spot in the final. Andre Rubelev. He's had a good week this week. He serves a fault. Second serve. By the way, don't forget to subscribe. We're coming back for the second match next. Seven final tomorrow. Serve out while the back end of Fritz return goes into the back end of Rubelev. One out from Fritz. Again to the front of Rubelev. Down the line. That's a great shot. Fritz can't get it. Rubelev's going to the final and a big shout to the sky. And he's making his second Monte Carlo in Masters final in three years. GGs. Hey look, great week from Fritz though. Took out the two time champion. And I think put himself in the thoughts of like contendership, right? You know, we should watch out for him in Madrid. You know, I think we should consider him a threat. At the French, maybe not a win up, but maybe a quarter finals at the French semi-final. I think he's put his hand in the, put his hand up as like, hey, I'm also a clay court. I can play on clay. Beating City Pass goes a long way, but Rubelev takes the dub and he's into the final, baby. All right, Andre Rubelev. Now, we've got to figure out who is going to play in this final because we've got Cineversa's Runa, the battle of the kids, the next gen already played, the new gen are coming up next. Rubelev playing in the final. By the way, Fritz is having a big chat to the umpire after this. He's having a big conversation with the umpire, Fritz. Can't hear him, but he's like, all right. I don't know what's going on. Anyways, GGs, jump over there, talk amongst yourselves. We're ready to go in the next second semi-final. But man, what a great win from Rubelev. Probably should have won the first set by all the chances he had, but hey, we all want three setters, so thank you for that. At least we got the three set up. All right, jump over there, talk amongst yourselves. Now we'll be back in a matter of minutes. I'm just gonna go get a tee and get ready for our second semi-final of the day, the first semi-final goes to Rubelev in three sets, five, seven, six, one, six, three. He takes out Taylor Fritz to make his second Monte Carlo Masters final.