 everybody to the final of of Rome and an interesting final I don't know if we would have maybe picked this at the start of the week at least maybe half of it we would have picked possibly Runa getting to the final but then I'm never there isn't the final the clay court event which I don't think's happened since 2019 so and it's the biggest clay court event of his the biggest clay court final if he's ever played because he never made a 1000 final on the clay and he's ever made the French open finals so it's the biggest one that he's ever played on the clay and of course Runa is only two weeks or two months or two events removed from his biggest final and again in Monte Carlo doing it again here in Rome making a back to well two out of the three finals on clay this year the big finals in making to the final how are we everybody now there's rain around there's rain around I think we'll start on time but we will have a delay there's like real rain not just like this like drizzle like oh no the the lines are wet like soaking rain is gonna happen so hopefully we can get a set in before maybe that happens the doubles final if you haven't seen over on Twitter doubles final it poured rain in this in the in the ceremony we're gonna get some of that I think today which kind of sucks but hey at least we only got one match to watch and whatever we'll watch it until until it's done they'll finish today they'll finish today but let's get the preview because these two guys have actually played recently on a clay court so we have something to somebody go off and maybe have a think about who might actually win this Daniel Mehvedev versus Holger Runa the final of the Rome open for 2023 both players have been very impressive to get to the final Runa started the tournament off as the number seven seed and we're gonna buy in the first round the second round he take on the qualifier feasts there's no problem for Runa getting through in straight sets 6-3 6-3 in the third round he take on the wild cut for Nini who had taken out Murray and catch Menevich along the way but even with the crowd against him Runa would get through in straights 6-4 6-2 in the fourth round he take on another qualifier Poprin who had taken out Felix Ozealia seam along the way and after dropping the second set he would fight back to win 6-4 5-7 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals the quarterfinals Runa would take on the number one Djokovic was also the defending champion and one in this tournament multiple times of four after dropping the second set though but Runa was very impressive despite dropping the second set still able to beat Djokovic in three 6-2 4-6 6-2 to advance to the semi-final in the semi-final Runa would take on the number four seed rude who had never beaten in previous meetings and after dropping the first set he'd have to fight back to win 6-7 6-4 6-2 to advance to the final Mehvedev started the tournament off as the number three seed we get a buy in the first round the second round he take on Russivari there's no problem for Mehdi getting through in straight 6-4 6-2 and the third round he take on the 31 seed Morales we'd actually been pretty good on the clay this season the drop in the first set Mehvedev would fight back to win 3-6 6-1 6-3 in the fourth round he take on 19 seed Alexander Zverev we'd had some very big battles with this year this was very impressive for Mehvedev getting through in straight sets 6-2 7-6 to advance to the quarterfinals and the quarterfinals Mehvedev will take on the qualifier Hanfman who had taken out Rubelev and Fritz along the way but this was so far Mehdi's most impressive performance getting through in straight 6-2 6-2 to advance to a semi-final in Rome and the semi-finals Mehvedev will take on the number five city pass who had lost his last two meetings to but after a rain delayed first set Mehvedev would fight through in straights 7-5 7-5 to advance the final these two have only played the one time before and it was actually a couple of weeks ago in Monte Carlo with Runa getting the straight sets win it's a very early rivalry but based on that clay court win Runa will have the confidence going into this match having good shot quality for both these guys over the last 52 weeks on the serve Mehvedev leads with an 8.0 compared to a 7.7 for Runa it also leads in the return with a 7.7 compared to Runa 6.4 on the forehand side Mehvedev again leading with an 8.1 compared to Runa 7.7 and again on the backhand Mehvedev with a 7.7 compared to Runa 7.3 the shot quality is calculated in real time by analyzing each shot speed spin depth with the impact it has on the opponent this is a new way of analyzing matches brought to you by tennis insights you want to check out more you can go check them out on Twitter link down in the description this is such a random final with Mehvedev being in a final of a clay event it's always gonna be random and Runa making a second masters 1000 clay court event final this year I've got to go with Runa to win this one in three sets I think Mehvedev has been great this week I think he's really proved to everybody that he can play on clay and he's actually starting to enjoy playing on clay I reckon as well in the other cost below who's winning Rome this year okay so there it is the preview the final match of this event and it's been a long event two week event it's the obviously new format having an extra round for everybody to play and we'll get used to it I know it's a little bit much but we'll get used to it there it is the quarter finals on which we've actually only had a couple of three centers but yesterday a very interesting match with Mehvedev city pass always interesting something always comes out of that the Mehvedev dance meme a dance meme came out of it the city pass family drama I mean it was it might not have been the beef between the guys but there was definitely some action going on and then of course Runa root no beef just an epic match which is nice and they had a nice well that a good match I don't know if that a nice moment after the match because of course the medical timeout was the big issue in that one and both players had their say on what happened but hey that it matches epic let's hope we get something like that in this one Olga Runa number seven in the world that'll change after this week I think double triple check number 19 years old from Denmark we're gonna upgrade that because he just turned 20 this week I think right six were to right handed 22 wins nine losses on the year having one of the best one of the better seasons after a initial kind of slow start of the season really didn't play that well just start the year until kind of get the clay I guess you've got where's got a title as well in Munich a couple weeks ago for career titles including the Paris Masters go going for another 1000 event here and look at his form very very solid and I can confirm that he will be a career high number six in the world after today and if he wins today it could be number five him and since he passed will be locked on the same points but it'll come down to how many tournaments these guys played to get those points so he might even be number five if we do a little bit of backtracking a bit of math and then I'm ever death world number three if he wins today he'll be number two which means he will avoid Elkar as into the final of the French and possibly force Djokovic and Elkar is to play in the same half of the draw which I think is a big deal for Mehdi massive deal for him 27 year old from Russia six foot six right handed 33 wins four losses on the year after a very very slow start he's probably having the best season of the everybody I mean forked titles as well be wins today I'm gonna say the best player of the year even if we are on the clay 19 career titles he's trying to go for 20 and I think again he's got like a record of like 19 titles in 19 different cities so he's trying to get 20 and 20 and you see his forms being pretty good considering we are playing on dirt now there's that one they played oh sorry it's much mevvedev didn't win that it was Runa but you can see where the arrow is pointing Runa took out mevvedev and Monte Carlo a couple months ago a couple almost a couple weeks ago you could say three and four wasn't very good but mevvedev saying a lot of positive things in the press conference before he's like you know we played a couple weeks ago I feel like I'm better on clay now than I was when I played him back then which is good science for Mehdi we love to hear you know he's positive again never heard mevvedev talk this positive about clay so all the good things I think it's going to be closer than it was but the way Runa played on that I mean that day I mean mevvedev he wasn't that competitive hopefully two weeks or a couple of couple of tournaments later he's maybe got more confidence and he figured out how to beat Runa after their first meeting but we'll find out they've taken the cup is off they're throwing dirt all over over the court so a little bit of a delay but we uh we are going to be getting started before and sun's out so that's fun that's fun how we doing chat we good how am I feeling I feel great I went to the movies I had a burger for dinner it was great I had a great time and yeah nice and ready for the final ready for a big week next week got a lot of next week's not about watching matches because there's not much going on next week is about getting ready for the french so next week will be all about um all like all the stuff coming out next week is all about like kind of a guide to the french open almost let me just fix the uh fix the draw because that is the lady from yesterday clavadev is it a thing what did I see I saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3 which is really good everyone said it was good it is good it is a good solid movie I like it did I watch the double ceremony Rome is getting worse well I saw the rain I didn't I mean I didn't see the ceremony I just saw the uh the guy the guys uh on the ground the doubles guys pretending to swim that was that's all I saw but um yeah once it started starts anonymous very odd tournament so far first time watching this event and was frustrated with the overall experience once again more delays expected pouting is there a difference in courts between Monte Carlo and Rome thank you anonymous of the two yeah look rain or not rain with no roof frustrates everybody um yeah it's frustrating but um the courts I look Rome is always and again I've got a graphic that we got it's it's a little bit outdated data and I've got to get an upgrade on the data hopefully I'm chasing that down but um if you look at this Monte Carlo is a little bit faster it used to be faster than Madrid but I think now it's kind of settled down and sort of Madrid is the fastest and Monte Carlo is sort of closer to Rome but I would still say Monte Carlo is a little quicker than Rome I guess I mean I don't think Rome in the French are a pretty much neck and neck so I'd say Monte Carlo is a little quicker um but Rome and the French open are the slowest Madrid like I said I think that data is like 2020 so I'm going to try and chase down and get an update so we can get correct numbers um going forward because that's super important but this would be slower so this is going to be harder for Medvedev to to sort of hit winners but the thing I noticed yesterday with when he played Steph the big thing I noticed was Medvedev when he played in Monte Carlo what he was it looked like he was trying and also when we also what I noticed when he played Zverev in Monte Carlo as opposed to now because remember he played him Monte Carlo in here and he beat him both times he beat him better here it felt like Medvedev in Monte Carlo was like first tournament on clay you know trying to love the clay trying to figure it out and then this week he's kind of almost accepted that I'm not going to hit winners I'm not going to hit as many aces so not to get frustrated and kind of be more patient and you know play the clay game he was also moving really well yesterday too so the court service might be slower here which doesn't favor Medvedev and doesn't help Medvedev in his normal game but I feel like it's still like he's learning so much and by the way he's played he's won 10 matches on clay which is more than any time on his professional career on his ATP career he has won more matches on clay and challenger level but when he gets to like the big boy so from 2018 we'll go through it from sort of 2017 onwards when he started playing you know this level of tennis this will be the most wins he's ever had of clay actually it already is but it'll get to double digits for the first time so very interesting how he's kind of it's almost like he's embraced it like this year he's going you know what I'm not going to complain anymore I'm gonna I'm gonna figure it out he's figured it out I mean he's in a final and then the French open I mean a lot of people are going is he gonna win could he win he has to get a good draw so I'm excited uh to see how Medvedev does you know I think I still think Runa's gonna get him I just think Runa I don't know I just think Runa is a better clay courter and maybe Medvedev said that as well in the press uh but I feel like it might be closer hopefully it's closer Medvedev can uh if he's playing Elcores I don't think that would be as fun I think Elcores would destroy Medion clay but Runa yesterday did show some uh some you know that he's not untouchable and Rude obviously Medvedev have similarities in terms of grinding the baseline how about a West Coast should send them to Chasi look everyone is bad season what movie do I see I want to saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3 which was great uh if you've seen the first two Guardians movies you can see the third one without having to watch like 20 movies so that's good that's why people like it so much because it's not really as connected to the rest of the like you have to go see a certain movies but you don't have to see every Marvel movie to understand what uh what the movie's about if you see the one and two the trilogy makes sense without seeing the whole Marvel universe would you agree that clay season has been a bit odd with rain delays upsets and a few a lot of qualifiers making deep runs yeah um but Madrid we didn't have rain delays right because of the roof so we didn't notice it Monte Carlo did have delays but not really enough to be like oh this is really annoying and obviously Rome's had delays almost every day it's rain at least a little bit every day we've had maybe one or two days where it was not raining at all and it was a perfect day um up in terms of ups I mean look upsets happen I mean we go from the hard courts to the clay courts there's always going to be an adjustment and you've got to remember some players who are like the qualifiers and lucky losers who aren't making it to the final of miami and finals of indian wells and whatever they're going to play clay and there was always gonna they're always that always happens you know there's always back in 2019 which is probably the best comparison to this year in terms of clay seasons 2019 you had random matchups in the final you had for an any beating live it's in a final Monte Carlo you had you know all these kind of things happening and I think also the fact we haven't got Rafa right Rafa brings such stability like Rafa for years almost decades you know he was always like well Rafa's going to be in a final who's he going to play whereas we don't have that because Djokovic was injured and sort of everybody else is still figuring out where they stand like Elkres is not you know Elkres is there he's probably you know going to be top three for a while but he's not the guy to take everything away from everyone else right there's you know he doesn't have every you know he's still got a you know he had injuries too Monte Carlo right so yeah I mean it's a lot more open this year and I think that's normal we're just not used to it on the men's side you know like we're not used to having no goats in a final of Rome right it's just it's the it's what's going to happen I mean that's just tennis the WJ had this like two years ago three four years ago when it was like Serena was not really playing that much and we didn't know who was going to take over and now it's sort of like there's a core group of players that are taking over that'll come up you know maybe in two three years we'll get that on the men's side or maybe even quicker maybe Runa and Elkres will take over quicker or Medvedev maybe Elkres and Medvedev will be the guys they'll be the two I love this they don't play at Wimbledon that'll be so much fun I has said you guys want anything this year no here's not been a while since I since I never heard of goat term what do you mean really feel like it's the most common word in tennis tennis and then goat isn't that what will we always hear when is the final gonna start the final is gonna start in like 20 minutes yeah it's not before 2 30 p.m which is in 20 minutes so little delay but hey nice work gives us a chance to set up get ready for the final 20 years ago never used goat term I know that's it's a new it's a new thing I agree with you the word goat wasn't used in the 90s it's a new term and I feel like it's a it's a very it's used a lot in every sport two months hopefully it when the goats of sport tiger woods tom brady you know Leo Messi jockewisten dal when they all retire that word will retire with them and we won't use that word for 20 years unless somebody comes close yeah hopefully because I feel like goats are so used who's the next goat there's no sustain unless they get to 20 slams and then we can start talking about potentially being a new goat a serena as well yep um maybe it was definitely going to take over after the goats are gone I don't know about that you can't beat alcaras my alcaras is a big problem the city has lived at his bait appearance basement I don't think so um I just hope it's over quick don't want another six hour match how's the local force guys looking thank you for asking because we can go to the weather all right so here is the weather you can see uh rain green yucky goo uh remember darker the rain the worst yellow means bad and red is starting to get to like really heavy uh now just uh if you're not sitting down or if you're really you know if you're driving maybe pull over to the side of the road in fact if you're driving don't watch don't look at your phone what are you doing uh let's just go out a couple of hours forward so look oh it's it's pretty good oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh god oh no oh no hang on whoa whoa oh that's it see that's that's all right we play we play we play we can play in that we can play in that and then we are running recover so that's it about that's it about an hour's time is this what i say red red yellow orange we're getting heavy now so they can't play in this so hopefully and if i zoom in a little bit to be honest we are above that we're sort of oh no sorry take that back we're here i thought we're up here we're over here so we're sort of not getting the worst of it but it's going to be heavy there's going to be heavy rain uh coming up in about an hour uh unless you know the wind changes and then yeah but after that look there's nothing over here right so once this goes uh once this passes we should be we might be sweet um but yeah i look unless this matches over in an hour which i mean who knows we will probably get a delay just brace yourself we're probably gonna get a delay uh did this oh you see the final results for the fan slam cam um no i didn't i hasn't finished for the dudes but look if there's look in the chat luke and minoris one and two and also shoresh as well for the men so uh very nice work and on the ladies fan slam it was who took it who took home the the gold timmy took time the gold la came third niko came second i came eight that's pretty good duchy was fifth all right sharon was fourth aga was sixth okay sj with a 10 sharon was 12 dorm was 13 all right i i mean very familiar names there um god i was only 90 points away from first if i didn't pick bloody on dress cube if i picked man if i had picked uh von drussever instead of on dress cube i would have won the whole thing that's all right i'm the defending champion of the french open last year so i gotta defend my title issue thoughts on americans having a hard time hard having a great hard court season and dealing with injuries and struggling on playing with clay well americans have never played well in clay like uh for the most part on the men's side like the last time an american won a won the french open was what like the 90s like agacy right agacy in the 90s so um it's it's almost it's normal right we're used to it on the men on the women's side you know we've had you know slain stevens in a final of a french we had an isimova in the final of a french cannon was in the final of the french open a few years ago so it's a little more common uh obviously goth last year so yeah i mean it's not surprise i mean i think it's mainly probably because in america just like maybe australia don't have access to clay courts you know it's not a we don't have clay courts um to uh to learn up we we grew up on you know hard courts or uh grass courts or mainly hard courts these days right indian match time no idea whatever your time is it's 20 minutes from now is it going to rain again yes when was an isimova in the french open final sorry she was in the semis sorry semis semis semis semis semifinals of 2019 right sorry my bad she had a good run of the french sorry she went to the semis really have a good run and he signed a play soon yeah in 20 minutes i think meddy is going to take this one that would be insane that would be crazy sam what's your prediction cam my prediction is uh runa runa in three maybe in straights but today is one of those days where i would love to be wrong because i'd love meddy to win i think medvedev winning a big especially rome right if medvedev won madrid you go okay yeah you know big serve is you know got far i mean struf almost won madrid right medvedev struf they could have you know interchanged yeah okay you can see that happening but rome rome is like the mini french open and medvedev winning that i mean it it'd be insane it would turn it would turn the i think it would turn the the favoritism of the french open on its head especially beating city pass and runa who are probably up there in the top five faves you got jokovic elk res runa city pass maybe rude or sinner but if you get medvedev winning this medvedev's in that top five now and nobody would have said that even after indian wells nobody would have said medvedev is gonna get to be a favorite of the french no one because he hated playing on the slow hardcore so how the hell was he gonna like playing here but man i would love it i'm gonna go up but my pick is runa because i'm picking runa but i would love medvedev to win i would love it i think it would make things so interesting i think medvedev just because he has the experience and a monster mentality yeah i mean i mean runa's got pretty good experience too even though he's younger but yeah it's it's gonna be crazy if he if he wins today the french open is like so gonna be so weird especially because now it's like jokovic and elk res could be in the same half of the draw they could be in the top half together with medvedev down the bottom on his own like it could be so weird why did murray withdraw from the french because he was the thing is murray wasn't supposed to play on clay this season he he didn't he said i like i think he said like i'm not playing on clay and then he made like a last-minute choice to go play modicalo and then after that he played challenger and then he played another and then he just you know then he kept losing so it's probably like well rather than playing the french open and losing the first round i'll go play wimbledon where i might make it further so i can understand that i'm not shocked that he pulled out i want me to win but i don't want beardvedev okay well he shaved his beard if he wins is that going to be a thing he does like chorich he's gonna he's probably going to cut his mullet when he wins but he's just never he hasn't won yet so he's just waiting how many clay matches has medvedev won this year he's won nine nine wins two losses so far so he wins today he's got the ten which is the first time he's gone to double digits on clay uh since 2016 where he won a lot of challenger lower ranked events like if i go back to his 20 so back in 2014 15 16 he won double digit clay court matches but that was when he was you know traveling around europe playing the uh the the lower tours as soon as he jumped on the atp he could barely win matches on clay so back in 2016 he made it to the he went uh this is including a lot of qualifier matches too so he won he got to a quarter final of a challenger event uh making going through the quali so he won a lot of matches there on clay he went to a niece first round after making the through the qualies so he was qualifying for these tournaments but if you take away the quali matches he lost um or if you just take on the atp he lost he was zero in so he's one win two losses no sorry one win yeah one win two losses on the actual tour on clay so again still not a great result it was just a lot of qualifiers that he got through so his best result before this year was eight and five back in the uh back in 2019 which is when he made it a deep run at Barcelona he made the final lost the Dominic Dominic team he made it to the semis of Monte Carlo but then he lost in Madrid Rome and the French Open all first rounds and then he just went on this like four year um four year or three year um you know dislike for uh for most clay courts until this year now he's won more matches on the atp in a single season on the clay than ever before and he's about to win double digits if he gets this today what's going on mohawk welcome back wove Carl he just won't attend the second week of rg why would he not attend you mean lose if he loses yeah what do you think about Rafa retiring next year yeah i'm not surprised i think that's reasonable hey Martina's in the house Martina never had a lover absolute legend they're doing a big old ceremony now we know it's time for 10 minutes so they're doing a whole thing i don't know who oh that's um what's his name the guy that uh they named it caught after pep uh god i can't pronounce his name what's his name gotta give the respect he won but he won the french open back in the 80s i'm sorry back in the uh the 50s we learned this chat and i forgot what's his name what's his name peer peer peer uh picture picture and jelly picture and get picture and jelly right pietre and galley pietre and see i can't speak english am i i'm stupid um yeah pietre and pietre and jelly yeah you won the french up back in the labor days any news about jokovish injury no no i mean he doesn't have an injury he's over there he was injured three weeks ago and he looked fine this week hey john every time you say that fridge joke he doesn't get any funnier mate you can keep telling that fridge joke every day and it's not going to get any funnier good try though um is it raining not yet i what made it a new dance moves he said he's not going to dance every match he was only dancing yesterday because of him like he's he didn't he didn't he didn't say that he danced because of sissy pass he said he danced to do something different and i'm like no you didn't come on he just didn't want to admit that he danced because he doesn't want to fuel any any beef but we know why he danced he's like i just wouldn't have fun on court it's like okay whatever you say the crowd like ruiner all of a sudden yeah because he's not playing italians wow they're giving martino a golden racquet which i think is just a spray painted tennis racquet okay it's not that impressive i i think i've just given it her it looks shiny and crazy but then it's like oh no they've just gone and like sprayed a gold spray paint and painted a racquet and given it like i thought it looked better at the start i thought oh whoa this is like a gold plated oh no it's just a tennis racket sprayed in gold i could have done that she's they've just gone the hardware store and bought like a can of spray paint and like painted through tennis racquet gold it looked cooler when it was like on the table no it's just like a yeah all right maybe i should do that i should grab a tennis racquet a spray painted gold that'd be pretty cool maybe it won't be maybe it won't put it oh no anonymous do you think meddy realized that for him to be considered an all-around great tennis player he had to change his stance on clay otherwise he would just be known as a hard court player um thank you anonymous uh to be honest i don't think he gives a shit um i don't think he cares about like is that Boris in the house um here it is Boris in the house um i don't think he's really bothered about like being called a great all-round tennis player or nobody i don't mean i don't think he cares i i think more it was more about probably this year like giving the clay a chance like he could have still lost first rounds of every clay court event even if he you know put in his efforts because he you know but i think this year is more about like okay i want to let's give clay a chance and he has a clay court he has clay court ability we've seen it drop shots are being great he can move well like he can you know run down a lot of shots which is you know he can play long rallies which is good for clay too um but i don't think he's like oh man i better be good on here otherwise i won't be considered i don't think he cares i think he's just like i just want to i just want to earn points because to be honest you know he is giving up a lot of points by dismissing clay right thousand points here a thousand points in Madrid a thousand points in Monte Carlo uh 500 points in Barcelona so there's like you know potentially 4 000 points and the French Open's 2 000 right so about let's say you know 6 000 points that he's not trying to do like he's not trying to win so i feel like you know that's all big waste especially when the other guys like Sidney Pass and Alcaraz and all those guys are cashing in this time of year so i think that's probably more of a reason just to kind of you know give it a chance so he can help his ranking instead of just dismissing the whole season and then like you know putting so much pressure on himself when he goes to the US and the and the Australian Open because when he goes to the US Open like last year right went to the US Open and it was like you have to win this otherwise your ranking's gonna suffer same with the Australian Open this year as soon as and i'm i reckon and i heard something very interesting Chad when i was watching Mehvedev's post match interview he said that he's not so bothered about being number one because he's more he's more bothered about winning titles because winning titles comes with ranking points which will rise to ranking right and he said that when he got out of the top 10 and he went to number 12 in the world at the start of the year that really hurt him and that's kind of where he kind of as soon as he knocked out of the top 10 he switched it over and he started winning tournaments all over the place so when he went out of the top 10 that's when the the switch kind of turned on and i think that's when he thought i don't ever want to be out of the top 10 again i don't want to have that happen again and that might be the reason why he's taking clay more seriously this year because he doesn't want to have to rely on winning the Australian Open or making the final every year as like you know that much pressure i mean that i mean as soon as he lost the Australian Open third round he lost a shit load of points right but if he had played clay last year he was injured last year but if he had have taken things more seriously he might have had more points to save him from dropping out of the top 10 which he said was a horrible feeling so i feel like it all kind of makes sense now hearing it from Mehdi's point of view of why not just because he wants you know he you know it's more about maybe the doesn't want to feel the way he felt at the start of the year so to make up and he's won a lot of points i mean he's made it you know quarter finals fourth round final here i mean he's put he's given himself a lot of buffer so then when if he does lose early in a tournament down the track it won't like he won't drop down the rankings and don't forget mevvedev has not got that many points at the u.s. Open he's got zero points at Wimbledon right that was another thing i think Wimbledon like yeah everyone's we all know that the russians are allowed to play Wimbledon are allowed to go to Wimbledon but the thing is they haven't actually some are not getting approved visas like Sabalenka is waiting on a visa approval so you know the uk and Wimbledon are like yeah russian and bellie russian players can play but if they don't get a visa they can't enter so that's a whole another thing so maybe mevvedev again is like thinking well i don't want to you know i don't know if i'm gonna play Wimbledon because things change pretty quickly you know it's out of his hands so i better play the tournaments i can play maybe that was all all uh all added in but i just love seeing him on the clay i mean it's such a such a great so great to see him like it's it's it's it's just hilarious and it's awesome like it's not like we're laughing at him we're laughing with him because he's probably laughing every time he wins a match on clay he's like what am i doing you know i like i love it well like clouds are getting dark they've just done the ceremony which was a martino martino never had a lover appreciation ceremony and now the player's gonna come out on court we're ready to go i'm afraid raffin's not coming back yeah i'll be i'll be unfortunate what's this lady talking about camp which lady i wasn't listening uh when is the match starting does anyone know and the players are gonna come out on court in three minutes god i hope it's not my if it's liani doing the doing the thing i'm can we not have liani in the final i don't want to have him in the final can we not have him as the umpire he was he was so it was so hard yesterday with him as the umpire he was such a bugger i was so annoying all right runa wearing the clay court colors meddy wearing uh where is he he's wearing oh he's just walking around doing nothing right why martina it should be what do you mean martina is way more of a goat than charpoa why no hawk iron clay because they don't they haven't installed it in this tournament they only have it in Madrid i'm just happy a new name will be finally on the trophy yeah yeah i look i know people are very nostalgic and they're gonna they're like you know sad that things are moving on without raffa and you know noley and obviously fetter is gone but i love that we're getting we're getting we're we are getting into a the new generation properly now right you know we're getting into a new generation and yeah we're still got jockovish and nadal hopefully will come back as well and we'll get a couple a couple more or hopefully another season of him but um i do like that we're getting familiar names too you know runa he's not a new he's not totally new he's been here before never has been here before you know elk res is obviously starting to become more regular city pass roublev in even rude right he's becoming more regular um so it's not it's it's good to see you know it's i like it i like that we're we're getting uh we're getting into this the next uh the next you know hopefully the next decade of tennis is going to look we have a lot of these players well i patrymoto glue behind the scenes what's my prediction my prediction is runa uh final in rome not before 430 small animation with navretale over forehand there are priorities yep i've got a feeling about this rain it better hold off there's gonna like okay well i it is gonna rain i'm just gonna warn you all now it's going to rain um it's not raining right now it's going to rain though in uh probably the next hour so they are gonna start but don't worry we've got plenty of things we've got plenty of activities i'm you know you're here yesterday you know uh you know that we don't uh we don't sit around and watch rain fall you know it's going to be more exciting it is going to start it's raining really hard cam is it raining really hard at the stadium or is it raining really hard at your house in a different part of the world because it's raining really hard in melbourne but that doesn't mean anything for rome because not raining in rome yet not well it's not raining at the tent it's not raining at the tournament yet because everyone's outside the crowd is full it's not raining at all there the chat is literally watching fake rain fall as they watch your stream well there's no rain here wish it would rain here there you go go maybe uh maybe it will all right a few umbrellas are going up though a few umbrellas are going up so that's not good but we do know it is going to rain hopefully we can get the final started moving to melbourne soon that's cool enjoy all right umbrellas are going up that's not good let me look at the radar we'll look at the radar and let's have a look all right so the umbrellas are going up but it is not terrible this is where we're at it's not it's just annoying so it's kind of like yesterday just annoying kind of rain the umbrellas are going up for some people they probably start at least i hope they start um so yeah green obviously as i said up there is uh not good it's it's in an hour or half an hour or so that it gets worse see it gets that's where that's where we're going oh no okay all right six o'clock so in like an hour and a half that's when things are going or even maybe an hour that's when things are going to get really crazy so right now we've only got you know sort of the start of a the sprinkle but it'll get worse but hopefully we can get on the way before it gets worse and maybe get half a set in very annoying stop raining yeah well i don't know how you're gonna have to ask for that i mean it's not the tournament tournament can't help you so david every time so david give us an i tell us where you're from first and also give us an idea of your location compared to the tournament because if you're going to keep coming in here and just yelling out it's raining it's thunder it's storming it's it where are you are you at right are you in rome like i'm watching there's nothing like people who aren't watching if they read your comments they're gonna think you're talking about the tournament the tournament it's not raining at the stadium at the moment it's just lightly raining give us more context mate it's raining it's pouring i'm in melbourne though so sunny day in copenhagen love that for you that's awesome there's a hurricane in austria all right thank you all right it's starting to rain this umbrella is going up and like i just showed on the radar we've got we have got um sort of i would say medium rain oh they're not going to start now now chat let's talk about it i didn't want to mention it but let's talk about it why would you do a huge ceremony and we'll cut this on all right why would you do a big old ceremony and i get it martin is a legend you know honor the legends but why would you do it knowingly by like Carlos Bernardo is the umpire so uh he is very cautious so he's not going to let the play be played if it's raining uh why would um why would why would you do a 20-minute ceremony knowing that there's gonna rain unless maybe that's what you hope you're like oh we'll just like fill in time and then when the rangers will stop but why would you waste the time you know what i mean like why wouldn't you just get started try and get started because i feel like if they started this match they would be playing in this weather like this rain is heavy but they played in worse this week it's gonna get worse but they could have at least got started because rome's uh organized is really struggling i'll tell you what the organized i don't know who the organizers are but man they've made some weird choices how do you watch all these matches even when the time zone's inconvenient because i have no life because i have no life no because i just love uh love tennis so that is why all right chat well we're not going anywhere we've got plenty of things to uh to do in the meantime like talk about stuff so covers are on which is annoying but hey it is what it is you start running the biz what running running what biz i'm good i don't want to be a tournament director screw that something boring big didn't realize how bad this rain was people dying and extensive damage to infrastructure after a year of drought folded hands italy appreciate the stream cam no thank you big mac um i'm i'm assuming you're talking about like in northern italy which is a lot of rain and craziness going up there so yeah hopefully everyone's safe for sure in uh in northern italy uh i think begullo is going to stop playing with golf now you think you think so general do you think like uh i don't i think they've got to win a slam first i mean they've come this far to not win a slam would kind of be a bit of a waste i think crashed up booing like yesterday it's only the first delay they have to get through like three hours of rain before they start booing are you getting tsunamis from the massive earthquakes along the loyalty islands no should i should i be should i be getting i don't know i mean melbourne is that a risk i think that uh this tournament is the most disrupted due to rain it is and it's not just this year i mean roam for years has been the wettest event without a roof um worse than miami i mean you thought miami was bad this happens every year i mean we haven't had a one i mean this has been the worst rain delays we've had for uh and it's really raining now and we'll keep the uh but yeah but yeah um yeah if they don't seriously invest in getting a roof or make it built like you know constructing a roof after this week or after this tournament then they'll never build a roof you know do i live in los angeles no i do not um this tournament doesn't deserve to be a masters but i they need an upgrade you know they do need an upgrade because this is i mean after last night's final being so late which could have been totally avoided had they invested in a roof like they were going to do in 2020 you know what though to be honest chat and i know like funding and governments and you know you know politics come into it you know sports you know budgets and stuff you know it's you know it's not just all about tennis but chat and i know that you know covid hit idly really hard and they've you know they had other priorities back then but can you imagine chat if they had invested in the roof like they were in 2020 because that what the plan was if you don't know the history of the law we went through this yesterday in 20 in 2018 they were going to build a roof after the 2020 competition to then have it ready for 2021 but because of covid everything disappeared and everyone forgot about it because other things were more important and rome got moved to the end of the year because of the you know because of the um suspension of tennis and stuff but could you imagine if they actually and i guess you know like i said it's probably more politics politics and stuff they took money away from sports to give it to you know hospitals because that was much more big priority but had they have man they are it's pissing down outside i mean underwater courts outside um but had i mean like covid not being we would have had a roof but if they had used that 2020 year to build the roof or at least get things started for then 21 after 21 to build the roof by 22 again we don't know about the financial situation of the tournament itself but that would have been especially when there was no fans they could have they could have made the build the roof for like during the 21's you know 21 event because there was no one there and then by 22 when everyone comes back the roof is there like they could have done it you know but like i said i think it might have had more to do with the the fact that they couldn't afford a 10 million pound a 10 million euro roof because covid hit really hard maybe you know the funds were changed like are you going to give 10 million dollars to a tennis tournament to get a roof or 10 million dollars to covid victims you give them to the people that need to stay alive right i mean the roof is who gives a shit about a roof when covid was gone crazy right but again it's like that could have we couldn't we wouldn't have been here but after this week if they don't if they i mean this is if they don't get a roof after today after this week uh this tournament then then it shouldn't be it should be we should go back to handbook because this is not a 1 000 event you can't play oh hey do a 1 300 it can't play you know like it's crazy unbelievable unbelievable i don't care about what they were saying fonts good morning please evry1 be kind today. There is a new sheriff in town and the boss, Cam, is not tolerating any complaining so zip it and ACT right. That's right. Thank you for the five. Well, I've been the sheriff for five years, but thank you. 10 million is for a roof is way low. Well, that's what 10 million euro and that's what it said on in the article we read yesterday. So yeah, wasn't so much about that. The statues are beautiful though. Yeah, I mean, cool. So get a roof and then, you know, go ahead or move it to a time where it doesn't rain. Like put it like, you know, I don't know. Hamburg has better facilities compared to Rome. So I guess we're going to do more research on this, but like the actually I'll put the banner up because I know people are going to be like, why am I just going to start? So when here's a little history, right? So why does Rome not have a roof and why aren't we playing in Hamburg that has a roof? So what happened was back in 2009, they restructured the tour. They created the Asian swing. Now, if you don't know what the Asian where the Asian swing came from, so the Asian swing was kind of a product of the ATB finals. So the ATB finals used to be in Shanghai. And then once the ATB finals moved to London, the ATP wanted to keep, you know, being in Shanghai because there was a massive, like there was so many good, you know, there was so many crowd, so much, so many people going to these tennis matches during the ATB finals, they wanted to capitalize on that. So they created the Asian swing, Shanghai being the high point. And then they built all the other tournaments around it. Now, the problem was that Shanghai, they wanted to put the Asian swing in October. Now, that's where the Madrid indoor tournament was, because back in the day, 2008 and before, you had Paris, which was always where it was, or at least the end of the year, and you had the Madrid indoor hard court event. And we all know that Madrid now is an indoor clay court event or an outdoor clay court event. So what they did is they grabbed Madrid, and they moved it into the middle of the clay court season in between Rome and Monte Carlo. They created the Asian swing in place of where Madrid was, and now it's, and then we have, you know, the end of year indoor hard courts finishing with Paris. Now that was a problem, because back in the day, the tournaments would go Monte Carlo, Hamburg, and Rome. So Hamburg was that middle 1000. So when Madrid came over, Hamburg was then removed. They were like, well, they were going to take that one away. And Hamburg sued the ATP, because they got degraded, downgraded to a, from a 1000 to a 500. And they were like, well, what the hell? You know, we've just lost a huge tournament. And they lost the lawsuit. And then, I guess, I don't know if this is exactly why, but then Hamburg now got moved out to Wimbledon when nobody's playing clay after Wimbledon, right? The clay season ends for most at the French Open. And then after Wimbledon, we're talking about US Open. So it's kind of in the, it's almost in the void of Wimbledon. And then the US, like that July period when no one really, like Wimbledon finishes, and then we're just kind of waiting for, I guess, you know, Washington and those tournaments to start. And it's kind of like in the, in the void. And it got plonked right in the void. And now players play, you know, we've had guys like Elkres playing lately, I think Rafa played back in the days, Vera, those guys play it, but it's not the tournament it was. Hamburg used to be one of the shining lights of the ATP. Now it's been chucked to the Abyss for the last 15 years. Now it does have a roof though, which this one doesn't. So it is a shame that it did get shafted when this tournament, and look, this tournament's got way more history though. That's the problem. This tournament has been around for ever. Like it's been around for like a hundred years, I think. So it's got a lot of history as well. And it looks pretty. And I guess Hamburg and Rome in terms of like cities, Rome is a lot more of like a tourist destination, I guess, like, you know, Rome, Paris, London, you know, whereas Hamburg is, you know, not really on the same level, I guess. Does that make sense? It's not really on the same level as like, Rome is like, you know, the Colosseum in like, you know, it's a huge tourist attraction. So if you're going to get rid of that, you know, maybe that's a part of the reason why Hamburg got downgraded to because it's not as popular in terms of tourists or tourist destination, I don't know. But anyway, so that's sort of like a brief history on why Rome is here and not Hamburg and all that. And then, of course, if you haven't, if you weren't here yesterday, so Rome 2018, they wanted to build a roof. The 2020 event would have finished, 2021, they opened the roof, they cut the red ribbon and they have a brand new roof that had a sound like a soundproof. It's like Wimbledon, but except you can't hear the rain hitting the roof. But of course, COVID hit and they scrapped all the plans. And they have now and last year, they started talking about a roof again. But it's just talks right now. So hopefully after this tournament, they will assess everything and go, Hmm, we had a lot of rain, maybe we should build that roof now. I reckon they'll have a roof by 2026, if not by the end of the decade, because I feel like that's the way everything's going these days. Like as tennis fans for sure, we all expect the biggest tournaments in the world to play in every condition. The Grand Slams all have roofs, multiple roofs. Some 1000 events have roofs. So a roof is almost as, I mean, look, it's like having no Hawkeye at a tournament. It's like, what are you talking about? No Hawkeye. Hawkeye is tennis as much as a roof is tennis now. So I feel like to, I mean, they're behind the times without having a roof. And also they need a bit, they wanted to build a roof so they could use this venue outside of tennis so they can make it a multi purpose venue so they can do concerts and they can play basketball and football and whatever and use it as a different sporting venue to not just an outdoor tennis venue when it rains it pours and it's terrible, right? So that's another reason they're trying to trying to justify it to the government. But yeah, anyways, that's the history. Hopefully everybody knows now and it up speed. Anyways, it's going to stop. It's going to, they've got no time to come back. Let me check Twitter. Don't worry. We've got, we have got, where is it? How on earth is a 1000 event not have a roof? See that? See people are talking about it. So that's the thing. And I know the common question, like the common answer is like, well, the other ones don't. It's like, yeah, but why don't they have a roof either, right? So again, I think it's almost like to be a 1000 event in the 2020s, you have to have a roof. Unless you are in the middle of the desert or you're in a beautiful climate where you don't get rain, if you have rain, you need a roof. Um, well, so it's not giving us any update. Man, it's funny on the amount of people just like so angry on Twitter. I get it. It's a pain. But I don't want to start till 430. Oh, that's, that was 15 minutes ago, which is wrong. Truly not the case now. Yeah, there's no, no, no word from the tournaments. No update from anybody. Yeah. All right. They just need a need to build a roof. Yeah, but that's the thing. They need money to build a roof. Roofs are not free. So that's another thing. And there's like, from my previous life, I know how long it takes projects to get done because I used to be part of projects that would never get done. I worked on projects back in the day, chap, that we work so much. We did so much work on and they just, and sometimes they just got abandoned last minute. And then I just went on to a new project. Like so many things, it's not, it's not as easy as like tennis stadium, need a roof, draw a roof, build roof, play tennis under a roof. It's not as simple. It's not, it's really not that simple. It's get funding for roof, design roof, engineer roof, design roof again, because engineer ruined roof, design roof to make it more practical, build roof, rain, build roof, it rains, delay with weather, scrap the plan, start again, do the, you know, it's not, it's not easy. Oh, I've had so many times when I've worked on so many things that didn't get built. But I got paid for it. So it's all right. It's not, yeah, look, the building process is never easy. And have you ever renovated, like if you've ever renovated a house or you've ever done, you've ever like, you know, maybe you've built your own home, right? It's never as smooth as like pay money, get plans, build house, live in house. It's never that easy. When will rain stop? Any updates? No updates as yet. Love your weather notice? Well, we don't have any updates. That's the update. That is the update. Next 20 years, no roof, no rain, no roof, no need for roof. That's a very interesting way of doing, yeah, maybe. A very interesting thing to say. Kennan in the fight in the French Open Qualies, really, that's interesting. Where does Mehdi rank in the ATV today if he wins? Number two in the world. He will be on the opposite side of the draw. Yeah. Question, will a win today change the rankings of any players? Yes, Mehdi. And Runa will be number four potentially. If number four potentially, depending on what human city pass, how human city pass so many tournaments they've played. So they'll be equal on points. So it's a big day for the rankings today. A big day. Building a house is a pain in the ace. Yeah, it is. Sure is. May the best win so very neutral I am. Mehdi, new king of play, that's funny. Article in the Washington Post says the organizer promised a roof by 2022. There you go, 2026. There you go. There you go. Hey, we just got it. We got there. 135k. That's like 20k this year. Hell yeah. Hello, everybody is new. Welcome. We're on the 15k away chat for the big 150. Love that. Thank you so much for joining us. Make sure you subscribe. We haven't already. Also, we're almost at 500 likes, which is cool considering we've done nothing. What do I think about the Mehdi dance? I thought it was hilarious and I thought it was great. I thought it was perfect. I loved it. How many 1,000 events have roofs? Madrid, Shanghai, Paris. And don't forget, each player has also got Angle's Answer along with Family Double. Okay, I'm confused. Isn't this better for Mehdi because of his mental strength compared to Runa? Am I I'm thinking wrong? I mean, maybe. I don't think they haven't started. So if they had started the match and somebody had got an early break, then it would be indifferent, you know, be interesting. But because they haven't started, I don't think this will affect Runa's mental strength that much because they'll just come back and like, hopefully, next hour and just play the final an hour later from scratch. So they haven't even done a warm up. I mean, they would have done warm ups, like warm ups, like stretching and whatever, and eating food and hydration and stuff. But they haven't played any tennis yet. So they haven't even gone out on court. So they haven't had that entrance or anything. So it would feel like, like, yeah, they haven't started yet. Whereas if they had gone out on court, maybe even warmed up, it would have been a little bit more to kind of mentally, it would be a little bit different. But because they didn't even leave, like enter the court, I don't think there's a problem. You ever have got mental? No, look, I think, I don't know where Runa, how does Runa not have a good mentality? I mean, I think Runa's got a fine mentality. Can we gonna do the Medi dance if he wins? I did it yesterday. In real time, when he won, he started dancing. I was, you watch that. Medi started dancing. He won't dance again, because he said he didn't, he said it won't be a regular thing. It'll just be today. We don't, I wonder why he just danced yesterday. I don't know. I don't think Novak will win RG, but Wimby will be a different story, but let's see. This match, win Medi, okay? Runa has a champion mentality and a killer instinct, exactly. Runa is sulky. He almost gave up yesterday. Not good mentality. He looks nervous all the time. I don't agree with that. That's not what I see from him. Rami! I thought they had fans in 2021. Did they? Anonymous! Can't imagine buying tickets to an event like this, which isn't cheap and then having multiple delays and having to sit in puddles of cold rain. Miserable. Yeah. Did they have fans in 2021? They might have had like, like half fans. You know what I mean? Like, you remember 2021, where it was like, we had like groups of fans, but they weren't allowed, they weren't allowed of capacity, full capacity. It was like 50% or something. Maybe. Yeah, look. Another reason they need to build a roof, because people aren't going to buy tickets if they can't see the match. Whereas today, they could have paid and they could have, you know, everyone would have, maybe the final sold out no matter what, but you'll guarantee to match with a roof. You know? Also broadcast rights. I mean, you know, having this delay then pushes everything else for, you know, you can't guarantee when this match is going to be played for broadcasting, for television. So yeah, I mean, that's a whole nother thing. But yeah, I mean, yeah, they got to get one. Obviously. Sam. Cam meta as 60% fav in these conditions and odds show it. Went into deep insights and rune MC win was due to warm these conditions are not favorable to rune and in contrast favor meta. Fair enough. Yeah, well, that's interesting. Well, this is going by the bedding. So the bedding is almost 50 50, which I think was a little strange because I thought, I thought rune would be a little bit more of a, of a favorite considering their last meeting on clay. But yeah, maybe the conditions favor meta a little bit, maybe. Yeah, it'll be interesting. Interesting to see if that works out. Nuggets are three nil up. Yeah. I know they're three zero up against, against the Lakers. I bet they will give no back a heart the hardest draw and Elcora is an easy route to the final. They might play in each other's draw. So you never know. They might play each other. Pro tennis should always be played indoors on composite ultimate surface. Okay. Who's the new big three? Nobody, no one, and nowhere. Mehdi have been on the rise for a while as well. Well, Mehdi's having a great season. I mean, it's just, we just didn't know what to expect if he could, you know, on the clay, right? Because whenever you watch him, right, he plays well in Australia plays well in, you know, he does okay in Indian Wells, Miami. And then the clay season, he goes missing from April to May. Also, April to June. And then he comes back for the grass a little bit. And then he comes back for the US. So there's always like a two, three month period where Mehdi goes missing. He was injured last year, but the year before that, he just lost every week. He hated it. But this year, he's actually, you know, he's a serious contender, which is not what I, I mean, it shows how how tennis is very much mental. You know, if you've come in with a better mindset, you can get to finals. And also beating clay quarters on the way. I mean, it's not like Mehdi have come in here beating nobody. He has beaten some, some play, you know, city pass, one of the best clay quarters has gone around. No, they haven't cleaned the net yet because it's still raining. And also it's not, it's not the same up by us. So they're not gonna, they're not gonna clean the, clean the net unless Carlos Bernatis is also a net cleaner. When will they hold the draw for RG? I think it's on Thursday. Mehdi has plus 2000 to win the French. I think that's insane. That's pretty crazy. His daughter changed his attitude. No, I don't think his daughter changed his attitude. I think it was him dropping out of the top 10 changed his attitude because he wasn't playing great when he had his daughter off like the ATB finals wasn't great. He went on like a five match losing streak at the end of last year. And I think once he dropped out of the top 10, that's when he realized, oh, I don't want to be here again. Why can't they play medium rain? Because the lines get slippery. And then things get, things are dangerous. And also they don't want to put two, two, you know, top 10 guys in risk of getting rolling an ankle and really hurting themselves. All right, chat. Oh, chat. Good signs. Let's grab a look at the weather. All right, chat. So it's starting to lighten up. Look, starting to lighten up that yellow patches starting to disappear. The worst might be beyond us. See, look at here because the weather's gone this way. So we've got nothing going on here, nothing coming over the Adriatic Sea. So we might be okay. The yellow might be going away. Which is good because we yellow is bad. So there is still light rain, you know. Look, I take it back. I take it back. Everybody run for cover. It's going to get worse. I take it back. It sucks. It's going to get worse, but it looks okay for now. It looks okay. It looked okay for like a second. It's going to get, it's going to get worse before it gets better. But will they play before it gets worse? I don't know. Best meteorologist ever. Yeah, look, I should have probably like checked in an hour if it was going to get worse before I said it was fine. Don't worry, chat. We're not, you know, I'm not going to leave you. All right, now I'll show you. Okay, okay. Here we go. All right. So this is what's happening in about an hour and a half. We've got yellow, which of course yellow is bad. Yellow is bad. Orange is bad. Green is not bad. But again, as I said, nothing here. So it's okay. We've got nothing in here. Here is fine. Just going to get you through this, through this yellow. To be honest, it's going to be a night match. It's going to be a night match. Once we get past that yellow patch. So okay, so we're right, we're right here, right? So it's probably going to lighten up and then it's going to be okay. And then it's going to probably in the next 20, 30 minutes get a little crazy and then in about an hour, it's going to be like crazy, crazy like it just was. And then hopefully it's fine. Yellow is bad. Yellow blob is bad. So it's going, it was supposed to be starting at 4 p.m. It's probably going to be starting at maybe at, well, if we're going to be realistic, probably 637 p.m. So maybe an hour or two. We will get to tier list. We've got plenty of time. I just want to just chill though. Not plenty of time to get to one. Do some fun activities while we wait. After 10 to 15 years, we will only be able to rank next big three if that happens. Yeah, we got to, I mean, look, the big three wasn't called the big three until probably they got to 10 slams, right? I mean, it was Rafa versus Federer, right? And then it was Djokovic because he kind of got to 10. And we were like, well, we got the five to 10. Oh, there's three big three players. But yeah, you can't call a big three if they've not, if they've got one slam between them. But, you know, Djokovic, sorry, Alkreis, Sina, Runa have got one slam. So, I mean, if we're going to go by that, then Zverev, Siti, Pass and Mevedev are the next big three or the current big three. Because I mean, you know what I mean? So big three should be when three players have got at least five to 10 slams. Maybe. Not too bad. Simply grace. Cam, did you see TT he video of Rabakina's coach saying Panko called Alayna A, F and B? Thank you for the five. I didn't see the video, but I've heard about it. Yeah, I've heard about Panko saying things, but we watched that and she was saying things. We couldn't hear her, but she was doing a lot of things. She was saying a lot of things and Rabakina was taking offense to some of it, which if Rabakina reacts to somebody, you know something happened and she reacted. So, and of course, I mean, look, Panko's done, Panko, are we surprised? People are saying Panko should be banned. That's crazy. That's crazy. Why would Panko get banned for swearing? I mean, yeah, swearing at someone's not nice, but why would she get banned? Maybe fine, but I don't think she should be banned. Getting banned for saying words. I mean, can you imagine you get, I mean, people swear all the time. Cam has a sleep schedule when you have to stay up all night to watch tennis. Actually, not that bad. To be real, that's pretty good. It's not as bad as you think, Chad. It's been frustrating tournament, can't wait for IG already. Yeah, Rome has been the toughest tournament of the year. Give me a chat, out of the five big events we've had, Australian Open, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, sorry, out of the five 1000s we've had, Monte Carlo, Indian Wells, Miami, Madrid and Rome, can you rank them from best to worst? Best being one, worst being five. Give me your rankings, your five, and then I'll tell you mine. So out of the five 1000s we've had, give me your best to worst this year, not in the whole of the history, just this season. Maybe it's because you like the matches, maybe it's because you hate the rain, whatever reason you have, but give me your five in order of one to five. Indian Wells, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Miami, Rome, okay, so Indian Wells being the first, okay. Indian Wells number one probably, okay. Rome five, Madrid four, Monte Carlo three, okay. All right, put them all in one, instead of writing it one at a time, yeah there we go, that's about, Indian Wells, Madrid, Miami, Monte Carlo, Rome, okay. Indian Wells, Madrid, Monte Carlo, Miami, Rome, Madrid number one for, for Cambed, Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Miami, Rome, okay. Madrid, Indian Wells, Monte Carlo, Miami, Rome, that seems to be a common thing, either Madrid or my, or Indian Wells number one or two. Yeah, I've got to think, I've got to have a think about it, because I know, I mean, look, Rome is the easy one at five, because we're literally going through this hell right now together. I feel like Miami had better matches, so that's why it might be better, might be ahead of it. Like Rome had the rain, Miami had the rain, so they both had shitty weather, but the matches like that Ciner Alcárez match, when we got to the tennis, it was a lot better. Like this week from the quarter finals almost, Djokovic, Runa, great match, a good match, I wouldn't say great, good match, and then Runa, Rude, good match, everything else has been basic, whereas in the men's side, we had, you know, we had this Alcárez versus Ciner, we had, I've got to remember, that one being the stand, I mean, one of the matches of the year. Who else played? I mean, even Medvedev, Hashino went to three sets, we had, what else do we have? No, to be honest, we actually didn't have that many good matches, maybe that's why I can't remember. That's an interesting, I don't know, I feel like, but then Miami had better women's matches. On the women's side, we haven't had that many good matches, I guess, since, I mean, we've had three setters with Kalanina, but not really anything else, Fiontech match was, that was tough. Yeah, I would say, Rome five, because of recency bias, Miami are close four, so they're very close together, just because of Alcárez, Ciner, Miami's better, just because of that, because we don't have any matches like that here, we haven't had any good matches like that. We had the Alcárez upset, crazy this week, but no matches of the year for me this year, in this tournament yet, maybe today, then Monte Carlo three, Monte Carlo three, or maybe Madrid three. I feel like Indian Wells was one, Monte Carlo three because they didn't have the ladies, Madrid number two, and then Indian Wells one, because Madrid had the one two, one versus two in the final, but in the semis of Indian Wells, we had like a very strong semi-final lineup, like the tournament, like we had Zachary Sabalenko, Fiontech Rebacon, and the final was a rematch of Australia on the ladies side, and then on the men's side, we had, you know, Mehvedev and Alcárez in the final, we had Ciner Alcárez, we had, you know, Tiafo having a really good run, we had, I think Ciner Fritz was a good match, if I can remember, so yeah, I feel like Indian Wells had better matches than Madrid, which makes it better for me, and Monte Carlo didn't have the ladies, so that kind of meant that the men's matches all had to be good, and some of them were, and yeah, so that's my, so Indian Wells one, I would put Madrid two, Monte Carlo three, Miami four, and Rome five. It's still raining, rain delayed, starts the men's final, okay, so the covers are off, and they're gonna start play in 20 minutes, so apparently they're gonna start in 20 minutes according to the internet, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, let me show you the radar, and we'll see if that's actually true. I guess you have Stuttgart, well Stuttgart's not a 1000 event, so it's hard to, like, Monte Carlo's, yeah, I mean, this year Monte Carlo suffered without having WTA, because WTA this year has been fire. We had WTA probably be up in, probably top two. We need to bring carpet courts back, Federer Nadal pressured the ATV to scrap that, but also injuries happen, so we'll do more activities when it rains again, because it's gonna rain again. This is only gonna be the first delay, I, I'm sorry to bring bad news, but it's only, it's only the first rain delay of the bunch, because it's going to be more rain delays. Spammers are, like, flies in the summer. Yeah, we'll try and get onto it. Dubai is 1000 for the women, no? Yeah, it is. I mean, Dubai's probably, I mean, Dubai's a tough one, because, I mean, look, we can put Dubai, I think Dubai was better than Monte Carlo, but not as good as Miami, not good as Indian Wells and Madrid. Again, because it didn't have the ATP at the same time, it wasn't a crossover event. It was, you know, it was a separate event. I know it's, you know, not only a WTA event, but it's, it's not, you know what I mean? It's not like a big, big 1000 event, like it, like on the men's, like, like today, you know, we don't have both ladies and men playing at the same time. It's just like a small event for the men, and also every other year it changes, which I'm not a fan of. I think it just gets too confusing. Now, they only come back in like, in like 15 minutes. So according to, if it gets delayed, we will get to the tier list. Now, we have an interesting tier list today, chat. A new tier list, because we finished yesterday, we finished the tier list yesterday. So we have a new, new tier list, because we finished the one slam one to tier list yesterday. Today's one actually is kind of interesting. So if we, hopefully we get, we might even get it done if we have, we have more delays. Could be a new record of rain delay length, maybe. Now yesterday was pretty brutal. A very famous, very famous, so correction agents is just different. I'm confused. I am not, I'm confused. Now we don't have the RG tier list because, because the RG tier list, I haven't had time to put together, but we have got a tier list for, that we were talking yesterday. A little bit, RG tier list is a little bit too, there's too much going into it. All right, weather. All right, chat. So here we are. Like I said, pretty good, right? I mean, you know, the rain seems to have stopped, right? We've probably got, this is what, so this is when we, we're going to start about 530. So this is 530 time, right? So this is now and then it's getting better. But then at about six o'clock, the yellow starts to form and then, bang. So if they start at 530 on the dot, they might get maybe 20, 30 minutes, but then it's going to rain again and yellow is bad. Yellow is bad, but we might be fine after that because look over here, there's not that much. So hopefully this will pass and, I mean, look, I would love it if they just started, but unfortunately it is going to rain again. And that's when we'll do, hopefully they get, I just wanted them to start. If they start, we'll watch a couple of games, it'll rain, we were expecting it. So, you know, at least when we expect rain, we don't feel like it's as frustrating. Chat, do you remember the, I don't know if you guys were there for this. Some of you might have been. Back in the day when we didn't know we didn't have access to radars. My God. And we used to just like have to wait for announcements. Now these days, we don't need to wait for the tournament to tell us what's happening. We can, I can tell you, or at least we can do our own research. Thank God. Because I remember back in the no radar days, geez, they were brutal. Okay. Oh, apparently there's some interesting news yesterday. So we said yesterday that in the women's final, both ladies wanted to play yesterday. Apparently Kalanina didn't. And they didn't give her an option. So it was said yesterday that the Rebecca Kalanina wanted to play. This is by Diego on Twitter to play yesterday evening that they were given a choice. And they decided despite the rain delays to play later that hour. Kalanina actually said in the press conference that they had no choice. There was no other option. And they couldn't have been scheduled for today. So that's interesting. I wonder where I don't know where the information came out that both players wanted to play. I mean, it just kind of became a, it almost like somebody said it in the chat and then it just became a thing. But like covers are off and the net is up. And they're going to get, they're going to really try and get this match started. So yeah, interesting. Would it have made a difference? Probably. I think it would have made a difference for Kalanina for sure, had they played today. But then again, today is the rain delays. We've just obviously the rain delays are not, it's not a nice sunny day today. So it's, yeah, that's interesting. They didn't give like, they would have had a better rain delay. They would have had a better, would they have a better chance today though? Because if this men's match keeps getting delayed, it might finish at like 9pm and then the women's match would have been, they would have had to play on Monday. So maybe it's better they didn't play, they did play yesterday. Maybe the tournament got something right. Because the rain, the rain delays, they are still, still happening. If the organizers did a radar check, they could have started later, everybody could have had a coffee. You know what they should have done? They should have played straight after the doubles or at least straight, no maybe not straight after because it rained in the doubles ceremony, but they should have started as soon as it stopped raining after the doubles, which might have been an hour earlier than they said on the tickets, but that they would have got play if they started maybe, you know, maybe, again, maybe an hour, but maybe after the rain delay after the doubles instead of waiting, because when they, when they were, when they were on the court, it was, or when they were, when we started the broadcast, it was sunny. Maybe they could have done it while there was sun, right? Rome is usually sunny when like all year round or this week, this week it's, it always rains chat. We have rain delay since we've been watching this tournament since 2019 and I keep getting notifications on Instagram because I must have posted on Instagram a lot in 2019 and 2020 and 21. In 21 and 19, it was rain delays every day, every other day. So it's just this time of year. It's this time of year just for some reason. It just kills everything. To be fair, Rome up and doesn't have a weather, have a weatherman cam. Well, thank God I went to meteorology school coming in handy now, that degree that I got from meteorology class. I did it as an elective. You know, it was a bonus credit. So I went to meteorology. If it wasn't for that, then I wouldn't be able to tell you all this very complicated explanations on graphs and radar, radars. Because look, it's very, I don't want to bamboos. I'm trying to dumb it down for everybody because it's really, really hard. It's a really, really difficult thing to explain that yellow is bad and green is light. And it's, I mean, I'm trying to make it so, I mean, look, I don't want to blow your minds. So difficult. But that's what I'm here for. Luckily, I did that class back in my, you know, imaginary degree. It depends on ages that two family one circle. Leo, I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you talking to, are you talking to someone in the chat? Like, what are you? Are you in the wrong chat? Are you? I'm so confused. Am I? Is anyone else following along? Every time I read something from Leo, it's like Wimbledon tickets. What? What are we doing? Am I having a stroke? Is it me? It must be me. Did I pass out for like five minutes and then everyone went on a tangent? I don't know what's going on, mate. Cam, you look like the kind of guy who'd master the craft of meteorology. Thanks. I mean, it's pretty simple, I think. But in all honesty, I mean, as a tennis coach, especially in Melbourne, you have to know how weather patterns work because if it rains, you don't play tennis. So I guess my coaching, my knowledge of weather comes from coaching. Okay, cool. It's not just me then. I don't worry. I mean, it's just the ramblings of a chatter. I mean, I don't know what's going on. What is your prediction for the final of the French Open? It depends on the draw. It depends on today's match. Because I don't know. If Alcárez does, if Alcárez Jokovic is playing the same half, it might be different. Ask me in 24 hours. Ask me on Friday. Rain drops keep falling on my head. Do they? The fact that Karatsev needs to play qualifies the French Open is so odd to me. Ah, it is what it is. They didn't give me a wild card, so it's not like he'd done it before. Not like he hasn't done it before. I understand Cam lived in wet tropics for years, did a market store, cyclone season, always check the radar, you're not alone. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. I mean, part of the job as a coach is like as a club coach is you look outside and if it starts raining at like two o'clock in the afternoon, you start getting calls from all the parents or calls from all the students being like, are we playing today? Are we playing today? And you have to look at the radar to make sure because if you say the worst thing about what I like as a tennis coach at the level I coach at, which is like, you know, I don't coach Roger Federer with the coaching that I do, you've got a, the worst thing is to say, no, we're canceled today. Two, it's raining. We're not going to have lessons today. And then at 430, when you're supposed to be in the middle of coaching, the sun comes out because the radar showed that weather was just passing. It's a worse feeling because then people the next week say, oh, we could have done coaching. It's like, yeah, I know. So you always like, we always have to make a judgment call as, as tennis coaches. I mean, if you're in the UK and you're a coach, a club coach, you have the same problem, I guess, but it's like, you've got to make the judgment call because it's like, well, if I cancel lessons and the sun comes out, then I wasted a week of coaching. I could have coached that week. You know what I mean? So that's probably where my extensive knowledge of weather radars comes from. Paying the arse, worse feeling, nothing worse than saying, no lessons today, it's raining and then it stopped raining and everyone's like, but you said it was going to rain. It's the worst. It is the worst. Not as bad as spammers, though. That's worse. That's much worse. Dawn, just can't start, you know, culling the spammers. Let's just start pruning the spammers from the chat. I think we should start doing that. Like we should have a one-strike policy for spamming. That's what we should do because it doesn't help and they keep coming back. They don't learn. Don't learn their lesson. Remember when the bombers won by a point? Sheila, thank you for making me smile. Yes, I do. I was there. We were there. You were here and I was, I am excited. I've been watching highlights of it all day. Love it. Cam, you're addictive. What do you mean? I'm addicted? I'm a dickhead. What? What are you trying to say? That'd be rude. Don't tell me. I already know all these things. Are you a clay court coach? I'm just a tennis coach for all surface. I mean, yeah, I've coached on clay. Why is Novak struggling? Okay, so Novak's struggling. He struggled with injury, which is why he lost against Moussedi. He struggled with injury and maybe form when he, that's why he lost against Leivich. And he just had a bad attitude when he played Runa from what I noticed. No injury, but just a bad attitude and Runa was hungry. He played a hungry young guy. So I don't know if he, I think he's struggling. First it was injuries and a little bit of form on clay. Then he came up against a Red Hot Runa. So that's, that's sort of how I, how I see Djokovic's struggles, I guess. Runa ranking of his wins, possibly four, depending on a count back system. Because him and Siti Pass will be on the same points and a count back means if you've got the same amount of points as somebody else, but you've played less tournaments, you then, no, hang on, no, if you've won more points at 1,000 events, then you are higher ranked. Is that how it works, Chad? Remind me, yes. So that means Siti Pass will still be number four, I think, because he's played more 1,000 events in the last 12 months. And that's how it works, right? I can't, I mean, you're like a drug, you create addiction to your channel. Thank you, Rosa. Is that a good thing? Hey, there's worse thing to be addicted to, right? Then, I mean, look, if you like fun, you can hang out here. We love fun. Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun. Everything's fun. Yeah. Okay. Slams and Masters total. Okay. So it gets a count back. So Siti Pass has been better because Runa was, I mean, this time last year, Runa was unknown. To the most part. And then the French Open, he announced himself to the world. So I would say Siti Pass, mainly due to the Australian Open final would be still ahead of Runa on the rankings, despite being equal points. Yeah. Do I like Cottage Pie? Sure. To be fair, I probably hear Cannes voice more than I hear my families. That's EJ. That's, that's, that's your, that's your, I don't know. Yeah. Hello, Cam. Why don't you do Discord calls right now? Hey, Rami, thank you. Because we're going to get started in about 10 minutes, apparently. Anonymous. Tennis TV implied that the women's final had to occur due to broadcasting rights and issues that may have occurred if tickets were held over to next day. This all goes back to the need for a roof. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. I mean, Andy Roddick said it as well on Tennis Channel. I was watching that today and he said like there was a lot of more like, it wasn't as simple as make the match tomorrow because there's a lot of, I mean, let's say the crowd yesterday was sold out for the women's final. You can't just grab this crowd and give them tickets for tomorrow because there's already people sitting in these seats tomorrow or today. So you would have a double up on tickets and what do you play one final, get rid of the crowd, bring in the new crowd. There's delays in that. It could have been a shit show. Yeah. So there's a lot of things, I mean, a lot of things are probably above our pay grade. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Linda. Thanks. Thank you for the 20. Can we get some salutes for Linda please? Thank you, Ira for the 10. Appreciate that as well. Very generous. You don't have to donate guys. Thank you though. Appreciate the support. And now it hasn't started yet. They are trying to get on court though. That is what's happening. They're trying to get out on court in the next five minutes. I will warn you, they are going, there is going to be more rain. If hopefully it's not as bad as the rate I suggest. So that's a good thing if it's, you know, if I say there's more rain and it doesn't, there's no rain, then that's good. But there's, they're going to try and start. They're going to try and start this final. I'm going to, I'm guessing 30 minutes of, like we're going to start now. And then in 30 minutes of my reign again. So we hopefully will get some tennis, but it's going to rain again. So just to, just prepare yourselves because the radar is, is giving us, giving us a hard time. All right. So they should be coming out any moment now to start this, to start warming up for this final. Cam is your voice on AO 2023 movie? The thing you talked about before. Cam is your voice in the AO movie? No, it's not. I don't think it is, unless they ripped my voice to put it on there. It was on the, it was on the Miami preview. Miami, was it the Miami promo or something? Which was weird? It was weird. It was a weird, it was weird. By the way, Boris Becker in the house, keeping the, the shaved head look from the, the, you know, from the, what do you call it? What's a nice way of saying prison? From the, what's a cool way of saying prison chat? From the, the slammer is keeping the shaved head look. All right. Here we go. Chat, Patrick Motoglu ready to go. He's ready to coach. Mehdi's coming out. Here we go. We're going to get started chat. Hopefully we're going to get this show on the road and hopefully we're going to get things going. Now we're going to do the preview again because I'll tell you what, it's been a minute. And you, somebody might be coming in going, Cam, what's the head to head between the two? I'll tell you, or I'll show you in this preview. Daniel Mervit versus Holger Bruno, is the final of the Rome Open for 2023. Both players have been very impressive to get to the final. Runa started the tournament off as the number seven seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round, he take on the qualifier feasts. There's no problem for Runa getting through in straight sets. 6-3, 6-3. In the third round, he take on the wild cut for Nene, who had taken out Murray and Ketch Menevich along the way. But even with the crowd against him, Runa would get through in straights. 6-4, 6-2. In the fourth round, he take on another qualifier, Popperon, who had taken out Felix Ozealia Seymour along the way. And after dropping the second set, he would fight back to win. 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Runa would take on the number one, Djokovic, who's also the defending champion and a one in this tournament multiple times of four. After dropping the second set though, but Runa was very impressive. Despite dropping the second set, still able to beat Djokovic in three, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to advance to the semi-final. In the semi-final, Runa would take on the number four seed, Rude, who had never beaten in previous meetings. And after dropping the first set, he'd have to fight back to win. 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the final. Mevedev started the tournament off as the number three seed. We get a buy in the first round. And the second round he'd take on Russavari. There's no problem for Medi getting through in straight, 6-4, 6-2. And the third round he'd take on the 31 seed, Morales. He'd actually been pretty good on the clay this season. To drop in the first set, Mevedev would fight back to win. 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. And the fourth round he'd take on 19th seed, Alexander Zverev. He'd had some very big battles with this year. This was very impressive for Mevedev. Getting through in straight sets, 6-2, 7-6 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Mevedev would take on the qualifier Hanfman, who had taken out Rube Levin Fritz along the way. But this was so far Medi's most impressive performance, getting through in straights, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to a semi-final on Rome. In the semi-finals, Mevedev would take on the number five City Pass, who had lost his last two meetings too. But after a rain delayed first set, Mevedev would fight through in straights, 7-5, 7-5 to advance to the final. These two have only played the one time before, and it was actually a couple of weeks ago in Monte Carlo, with Runa getting the straight sets win. So it's a very early rivalry, but based on that claycore win, Runa will have the confidence going into this match. Having good shot quality for both these guys over the last 52 weeks, on the serve, Mevedev leads with an 8.0, compared to a 7.7 for Runa. He also leads in the return with a 7.7, compared to Runa 6.4. On the forehand side, Mevedev again leading with an 8.1, compared to Runa 7.7. And again on the backhand, Mevedev with a 7.7, compared to Runa 7.3. The shot quality is calculated in real time by analyzing each shot's speed, spin, depth, width, and the impact it has on the opponent. This is a new way of analyzing matches, brought to you by Tennis Insights. Do you want to check out more? You can go check them out on Twitter, link down in the description. This is such a random final. With Mevedev being in a final of a clay event, it's always going to be random. And Runa, making a second Masters 1000 clay court event, final this year. I've got to go with Runa to win this one and three sets. I think Mevedev's been great this week, and I think he's really proved to everybody that he can play on clay, and he's actually starting to enjoy playing on clay, I reckon, as well. Let me know down in the comments below, who's winning Rome this year. All right, there's a preview done and dusted. So, they're on court. They're warming up. There's blue skies. But as I said, don't get, you know, don't get too excited. Let's keep a lid on it because it might rain again. It's going to start in three minutes. Mevedev's going to serve first. They're on the court. They're warming up. But there's rain expected again. So stay tuned. Now, we do actually have some interesting news as well that I've just seen talking about retractable roofs, talking about, where's the bloody roof? Get the roof, Rome, you bastards. We've actually got roof confirmation by 2026, which is really fun. So let me read the article to you. Italian Open Organizers promise, they promise, a roof by 2026. So not next year, not the year after, but two more tournaments without a roof, and then they're going to get a roof. The arena could also be used for indoor sports like basketball and volleyball, as well as do indoor concerts, which is kind of what we spoke about back in the article yesterday with 2018's ideas for the roof as well that fell through. At the conclusion of one of the wetter editions at the tournament, Italian Open Organizers have promised to install a retractable roof over the tennis court by 2026. The roof is coming, says the CEO of the Italian Government Agency, Sporti Salut, set on Sunday, which is today. The feasibility plan has been approved, that's a good sign, that means it's actually happening, or at least it's actually starting, and it will be a futuristic project that will make the center court usable year-round. On Saturday, the semi-final between Mervit and City Pass was suspended for nearly four and a half hours, which pushed the women's final to nearly be, to back nearly at 11 p.m. The start of the men's final today, featuring Runa against Medi, has also been delayed by Rain. Eight to 11 months are still required to obtain necessary building permits for the roof, then construction will go ahead in 18 to 24 months, which breaks taking during the tournament in 24-25. So there you go. We thought that that would be the case, and it actually was. Well, it actually is. Now, so I can give a little bit of insight into this, because I've been involved in projects, I've been involved in big commercial projects before in a previous life. The feasibility plan is a good thing. That's good. It's been approved. That's good. That's the hardest thing. Getting things approved is the biggest pain in the ass waiting around for people to sign documents and say, I like it. That's the worst part of the whole design process, and that. So that's a good thing. The feasibility plan has been approved. That means we're already getting started. The process is the wheels are in motion. So, and they just said they're building necessary building permits, which means they've got to draw. They haven't got any plans, obviously. They haven't drawn a sketch of the roof to see what it looked like. The architects probably doing that. And because I'm like, I still like, I still get joy from infrastructure projects. That's why I like architecture the first place. So we're going to keep an eye on this because I love to see upgrades at not just at sporting events, but in general, just in like cities and houses and life. So we're going to keep an eye on this over the next probably 12 months to see what it actually looks like because that's the next thing. They'll put out plans. They'll get them. You know, they're going to get them approved. And then they'll start building. And like they said there, they'll start building probably in maybe 18 to 24 months. Once all the planning, you know, it's not just a matter of like drawing a roof. It's, you know, about facilities. You know, they have to restructure things. They have to take things down. Do they have to, you know, restabilize the stadium? Like, are they going to re, are they going to just build something over the top? Or are they going to like cut down all of this and, you know, restructure the top tier and make it bigger or make it more seats, less seats. You know, retractable roof means there's more components. So you've got to have like, you know, more mechanics, more, you know, all kinds of things. So they said they're going to start hopefully start construction between 18 and 24 months, which means that will be hopefully starting in, well, next year. They'll probably start have a plan in action. So have like drawing so we can look at them. And then in 2025, they probably would have already started. You see a lot of like scaffolding and a lot of cranes around the stadium, maybe. And they'll keep playing tennis even though, kind of Wimbledon. Remember when Wimbledon, Wimbledon ripped off, they put a roof on, they ripped off the top tier and then they put the roof on. There might be a tournament where the, where it looks a bit weird. Anyways, enough about that. At least that's a good sign. And hey, we complained enough and it seemed to have worked. The more we moan, the better it is for the game, apparently. Who said making noise is bad for tennis? Mevvedev serving first. Who's winning this match chat? You tell me. Don't tell me it's raining. It's not raining yet. He's going to rain again though. So just don't, don't, don't get mad. I've warned you. Trigger warning, it's going to rain again. It's not a matter of if it's when. How long are we going to, how much tennis are we going to play before that rain though? That's the question. All right, 15 love. Medi was the first point. So I just want everyone to make sure when it does rain, I don't want anyone to go crazy in the chat. I want you all to be like, he said it was going to happen. It happened. So just brace yourselves. Hold on to something. As we return now to the back of Mev, Rube 11, Rube, who? Bruna goes in the net. 30 love. So hopefully we get a set. If we get a set in, I'll be pretty, pretty pleased. Hopefully we can get this first set ready to go. Serve is good. The return is not. And it's 40 love. Mevvedev. Taking no time to get the first game of this match. He's waited long enough. All right. 40 love. Is it serving the back end of Bruna? Back end of Mevvedev. Hit the tape goes in. Bruna with the forehand. Medi gets it with the four end of his own. Into the four of Bruna. Bruna in the net. Medi first game. One love in a minute. Hey, if every game is a minute, we'll be out of here in an hour. Okay. And everybody, thank you everybody for sticking around as well. Appreciate the patience. I try my best to keep you all interested and entertained. So hopefully you weren't too bored. And time flies. It's already, we've already been live for like two hours. Literally haven't watched anything until now. So hopefully you've, hopefully you're not falling asleep. Well, hopefully you've learned something. Maybe you learned something about the roof. Maybe you've learned something about why, why Rome didn't get a roof until now. All right. Bruna to serve. One, zero. Medvedev. To start off this final. Sir. Out wide the four end of Medvedev. Slice goes in the net. 15 love. I'll serve there from Bruna. Camcurson full effect. If Medi wins. Boy, Medi, we're done. Now today's one of those days where look, I picked Bruna, but I was, I wanted to pick Medvedev. And I think probably a lot of people like that as well. Like I picked Bruna because that's the sensible pick. And people, I mean, it's probably one person listens to what I, maybe, maybe nobody listens to what I pick. But one person might have taken my pick serious. So I had to, I don't want to just pick Medvedev for the fun. I had to take a little more serious. So I said Bruna was going to win. But I, like I said, I wouldn't, I would not mind if I'm wrong today because I'd love to see Medvedev win. That would just turn the tennis world on its head. It'd be weird. So random to be like Medvedev the Rome champion. You'd be like, okay. That would be, it would turn the tennis world on its head. 15 all. Bruna serves an ace. I serve from Bruna. 30-15. 30-15. Bruna tries to level things up here first game of the match. Also, if you're just joining our city pass, Medvedev beat city pass to get here. Bruna beat Rude to get here. That was yesterday. Now, Bruna had a better match, had an easier match up because he got to play the whole, sorry, he had a nicer time because he got to play a whole match. Medvedev had delay after delay after delay, but it didn't actually, well, it didn't affect him. He actually wanted straight sets. Bruna hit the lovely volley away. And it's 40-15. Something city pass didn't do enough yesterday. Something he didn't do enough yesterday, 40-15. I feel like city pass, I'm below, I think city pass yesterday. Medved played great. But a lot of the reason was because of the family drama. Just getting in his head, which is like, he was battling against Daniel Medvedev and his mom at the same time. Like it was just like, it was just not, you're not focused exactly. As that goes out from Medi and Bruna, 1-1. Like he was not, I mean, there was a whole part of the second set where city pass was just totally, he wasn't even in the game. He was out of the game. Mentally, he was just off. But Bruna's mom's like, I'm not going to get in your way. Win this tournament, son. And he will try. Anonymous. At great crazy info, Medi facing Alcaraz. Sinner and Brun at M1000 this year. Fire thumbs up. Fire thumbs up indeed is Bruna. Gets the first point here. Love 15. Is the net clean? I hope so. Love 15. The drop shot from Medi not good enough. Hit the top of the net. He is trying to do a lot of those drop shots which I love. Because he has had drop shots. I mean, who remembers back on the hard courts? He was trying to do drop shots on hard courts. So he was preparing for the clay back in like March. Love 15. Second server to the back end of Bruna. Back end out from Medvedev. Into the forehand of Bruna. As Medvedev hits the forehand. Long and it's love 30. Love 30. But yeah, Medi facing Alcaraz. Sinner and Bruna in 1000s this year. That's true. He played Bruna in Monte Carlo. He's played Bruna here. He played Karatsov in Madrid though. So he hasn't played just the top guys. He's going to return out of the back end of Medi. Falling out from Bruna on the stretch. Goes into the forehand of Medvedev. Bruna with the backhand slice. Into the back end of Medi. Again to the back end of Bruna. Bruna hits a wide 15-30. Also Medvedev. I feel like Sidney pass yesterday wasn't slicing enough. He was just going like back end to back end and then 400. Like Sidney pass. Like the tactics weren't there. I feel like Bruna is going to mix things up a lot more than Steph did yesterday. And the benefit is Patrick Moritoglu might be the difference in this match too. Because Patrick Moritoglu can, no Sidney passes game because of course he was been there for a while with him. He would be able to look at Sidney passes mistakes and say straight away this is what he did that why Medvedev beat him. And this is what you can't do unless you want to lose. You know what I mean? So Moritoglu might be the big difference for Bruna. As that goes wide on the forehand volley. 30-all. Does that make sense Chat? Like Sidney, like Patrick Moritoglu can analyze the Sidney pass Medvedev match as better than anybody almost because he was, he's been like he almost, well he taught Sidney pass a lot of what he knows right? So he'd be able to break down and go oh you know Medvedev was beating Sidney pass this way. So don't let Medvedev do that to you. Or do this to avoid getting beaten by that. You know what I mean? So that could be a big difference too. 30-all. And already Bruna's coming to the net a lot more than Steph did. Or at least it feels like he has. He's been a little more aggressive as Medvedev hits a, that's okay it's nice. Bruna sends it out but the umpire saying it's good and Carlos Bernades is not getting out the chair. Bruna's saying it's long. Now Carlos Bernades has made errors before. In fact he was right in that corner that he made an error earlier in the week against somebody. Was it for Bruna? Hawkeye says it's just in the corner. Just for the correct call by the umpires. Returning out from Bruna to the front of Medvedev. Into the front of Bruna as Medvedev hits backhand. Again to the front of Bruna on the stretch. Medvedev with the forehand again. Now it goes to the backhand now Bruna into the backhand of Medvedev. Bruna with the backhand again. Drop shot is good but Medvedev with the forehand. Guest is right though Bruna with a lob but it's wide. And Medvedev gets the lead again. 2-1. Medvedev's working a lot harder earlier. What's the divisive beard? What? No idea. All right 2-1 Medvedev. Was it charged since he passed it was a bad call. Oh yeah it was. That was the one. Yeah because it was right in the corner and he called it long. That was when charged yeah charged when charged was in the match too. When he had a chance to break almost. Well yeah that was the charge. Thank you for the donation. Sorry refreshing to see player drastically improve progress on a surface of struggle growth. Yeah I mean Dusty for sure. Great to see Medvedev do this. Camille definitely on the AO movie at the five minute mark. Am I? I haven't I haven't watched it so like my voice is on it or they rip the stream. I was I saw it was coming out tonight but I didn't watch it. Let me have a listen. What part? Hang on. Hang on. Chanda Ruman talks. Robbie Koenig. Carlos Algar is out of the astraldobe. That's me! Chad I said that. It was my words. I'm in it for three seconds. We're famous. There it is. Confirm chat. We are famous. How the... Hang on. Why are all the tournaments ripping my voice off? What are we doing? Maybe it's AI. Maybe it's it might be it might be AI. Fifteen love. That's weird as hell. God damn chat. Three seconds of me saying Carlos Alcar is out of the astraldobe and open big news chat. Yay! We're famous chat. As we return now the finder of Runa hit the front of Medvedev. Fifteen love here. As we return again to the finder of Medvedev into the back end of Runa. Again to the front of Medvedev. Slice goes into the front of Runa at the back end of Medvedev. Into the back end of Runa. As Medvedev hits the back end. Again to the back end of Runa and Runa in the net with a slice drop shot. There's 15 all. That's the second, that's two chat. First we're on the Miami promo. Now we're in the we're in the astraldobe movie chat. Made a big that's it. A two second audio clip of me saying something about Alcaraz. That's so weird. If I watched it and if you hadn't told me I was gonna go watch that later. That would have been a massive shot. Anyways good server Runa 30 15. Woo let's go. I said chat. Did I say chat in the actual thing? Did you guys get a mention? Hang on. Is that true? Oh no I don't I don't mention chat. Sorry chat. You didn't get a mention. I'm sorry chat. Now it was me just talking about Calus Alcaraz pulling out of this round up. 30 15. I didn't say chat in the promo. Not that I could in that in that movie. I couldn't hear it. Anyways back to the match 30 15. That's cool. That's kind of cool. Thank you whoever mentioned in the chat. We're famous. All right 30 15. As the fault was served by Runa. Second serve coming up. Second serve is a... Wait hang on was that it? Wait hang on. Hang on. Was that in? Was that serve called in by the first? Was the first serve called in? Hang on. Did Calus Alcaraz make a mistake? I think he made a mistake chat. So it should have been a second serve. Anyways whatever. 40 15 didn't matter. He won the point anyway. Man we're going to get Hawkeye. If they're going to build a new roof, build Hawkeye too. I wonder if the ATP and WT are going to fund Hawkeye on all courts. If they're going to be have to like give players or give tournaments a... Like a thing. As that goes, why for many it's two two. Bernardo's made a mistake and still the ball that was in. Yeah okay so the first serve was a fault. Bernardo said it was in. So that would... So maybe they've got screwed out of a second serve. Return there. Roona served the first serve again. And ended up winning the point. So that's not great from... And that was a bad call. I mean if he said it was in, it was out by this much. That wasn't even close. So I don't know what the hell he's looking at. Has been a serve from Medi. That's a fault. Take a serve. Sun's coming out. What the hell is that? I don't think we've seen the Sun here at all. Two two. Is he double fault? Medi. Double fault first point of the fifth game. Love 15. Love 15. Can we do a tier list of chair empires? I don't know half of them so... We only know the ones that make mistakes because... We call that... We know them by name. So there's not too many umpire tier lists with like last five minutes. 15-0. Nice serve from Medi. Serving to the back end of Roona. 4-0 Medvedev to the 4-hand of Roona. To the back end of Medvedev. Roona with a 4-hand again. To the back end of Medi. As Roona hits a 4-hand again. To the back end of Medvedev. Back end of back end as... Medvedev goes down the line this time. To the front of Roona. Medvedev with a 4-hand. Into the back end of Roona. Into the front of Medvedev. As Roona hits a 4-hand again. To the front of Medi. Into the back end of Roona. As we get on the back end of back end exchange. Medi in the net with his back end. And it's 15-30. Roona with a fist bump. No break points yet. But this might be a chance. 15 minutes in. 15-30. First serve is a fault from Medvedev. Second serve. Double fault. Two double faults from Medvedev. Medvedev with my soul from there. Two double faults. And now it's two break points for Holger Roona. Check getting Fred Scraps here. What do you mean? As we were serving the 4-hand of Roona. But Roona hits in the net. Okay he's going to have a look though Roona. Medi hit a great serve and Roona says yep. Now it hit the line. 30-40. Medi saves one. And that serve was on the line. Hawkeye says confirms. Getting dark by the way chat. 30-40. Serve goes in the 4-hand of Roona. Return is wide. And the umpire say Roona saying was that out? It was just wide apparently according to everybody. Deuce. Medvedev survives. Yep. Hawkeye says it was wide as well. As we serve out Y the 4-hand of Roona. Roona in the net. Nice serve from Medvedev. Advantage Medi. We've got Boris Becker in the house. He is watching. As we serve out Y the backhand slice of Roona. Medvedev is swinging volley. Hey Medi wins 4 points really quickly. And gets back to lead. Nice from Medi. Speaking of Boris. Speaking of Boris. By the way Blue Sky is overhead for now. Hopefully for a long time. Did Boris ever win this? Boris Becker. Boris Becker made the final against in 94 lost to Pete. Never won the trophy though. Lost to Pete in three sets. Remember when the finals were five sets? I know I said every year every tournament but it was. So yeah he beat Ivanovich along the way to get to the final but ended up lost losing to Pistol Pete. In the final in straight sets. 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. So not even close in that final. But there you go. Boom boom Becker in the house. Boris can start to coach again to earn some pocket money. Now he's been high. I think he's back on Eurosport pretty quick. I don't think he's allowed. So I'm not like I'm just trying. I'm just kind of I think this is what I read. He can't go to the UK because he was he was charged in the UK. So I think he's he might have had his UK visa unless he's a citizen I'm not sure. But I think he's not allowed to be in the UK. But because he's not working with the he's not working for Wimbledon. He's working with Eurosports in Germany. Not like is that right? I don't I'm again I might have read it wrong. But I think he's not allowed to work in the UK and he's not allowed in the UK because he got deported. From like he got try like he got try like the trial was in the UK wasn't it? I think I think so he's allowed to work with tennis but he's not allowed to work in the UK. So for Wimbledon he won't be on BBC. He'd be on Eurosports Germany I think. I think I again I again I'm just I've read some things. I haven't looked into it too much. I guess we'll look into it more when when we when we get to Wimbledon. So he won't be able to go to Wimbledon. As we return now 32 Mehvedev on serving the first is we're going to find in there from Eddie and it's 15 La Veruna. Can't come back to the UK. So okay so you everyone chats confirming that it's that's true. He got deported can't come back here can't come back. That means he can't go to Wimbledon which is kind of crazy because he was like that's where he you know I guess made a name for himself right. I mean when Becca winning Wimbledon was like one of the most historic things in tennis and he can't go there you know for a while. I don't know how long maybe like five ten years whatever the deportation thing is like Djokovic was three years in Australia right. There's been a drop shot there to the backhand slice Runa with a winner. Lovely slice down the line. 30 love probably five three to five years I've been guessing. All right 30 love. Yeah he's on Eurosport Germany. I know that because I I think I saw it on Twitter but isn't there a documentary coming out Boris Becker against the world or is that something that already happened. Is that a new thing or has that been before he went to prison. I was going to serve now the four hundred. Medi and Medi hits it out. 40 love. Was there a series called Boris Becker against the against the world versus the world or something. Some series was that was that about the prison stuff or was that like outside. Was that like something else. There's been a drop volley there from Runa. Too good man that's an easy game. This is going to be on tennis TV. Runa having a much easier time on serve at the moment. Oh hang on sorry hit that out. Sorry my bad 40 15. So the the volley was it was in the net. Too fine of a cut. I couldn't see it. What went over the reaction for the crowd was very positive for that error. 40 15 as we return now from Medvedev goes long. Okay now it's three three. Runa holds and again Runa is still holding much easier than Medvedev. That's what's happening right now. Have I ever been invited to an official event to comment like commentate or just make like just what do you mean by comment like make a speech. No it sounds terrifying. No thank you. That sounds terrifying. All right Medvedev serves our fault second serve. So there's a double fault. And it's not coming up on here which is really annoying but he's hit three double faults. He's hit a lot of double faults Medvedev already three. Yeah I think it's Scott Pilgrim too but it's Boris Becker as the lead role. As that return goes wide. Nice serve from Medvedev 15 all after a double fault. So Medvedev's only one he's won he's won a lot of first serve points but unfortunately a lot of double faults as we're back in the backhand rally. Medvedev in the net again. Man Medvedev the error is 15 30. Sun's out in Rome. Yep hopefully it stays out for at least another hour. So we can get a good chunk of this match finished. As we get a return now the four and Medvedev. Medvedev puts it away 30 all nice serve. Four hand combo that's helped a lot. 30 all the serve is a fault second serve. Isn't Boris Becker the youngest male to win Wimbledon. I think so right. I think that's the hit that's here that's correct. The four and goes down the line to the four and Runa from Medvedev at 30 all big point. Runa has had two break points already but couldn't convert backhand. The backhand is that goes again to the backhand of Medvedev. Backhand out from Runa into the forehand of Medvedev. Runa hits the backhand down the line. That's a good shot. Medvedev gets with the forehand. Four and Runa down the line again goes long and Medvedev gets to 40 30. And Runa's getting a little frustrated that he's not getting these long rally winners. 40 30 16 shot rally he was 17. Yeah he won at 17. Was he the youngest? Is that confirmed? I know he was a teenager when he won. Good serve Medvedev gets out of trouble again. Four three Medvedev in front of the first set but he's had his struggles. Okay by way dark clouds overhead. There's blue sky on one side. There's dark gray scariness and the sun's in the middle. So like I said, brace yourselves. Chat because the weather might get ugly again. Congratulations to Man City, what happened? What'd they do? Did they sign a big name? Who does a long rally help? Medvedev I think. I think longer rallies help Medvedev. Because the longer the rally goes the more likely Runa is going to get impatient and hit an error. Like he did against Runa like yesterday and also in general against he does like to hit winners. Medvedev can just be that backboard. They won the Premiership, nobody cares. They just won. I'm not salty. I just don't care. Any city fans in the house? Dawn Bandom. Get him. Any city fans in the house? Banned. Get out. Okay. Well I have no idea why the crowd's going crazy. I think they're going crazy for maybe they're showing Boris Becker on this. Oh is that Jose Mourinho? Jose Mourinho's on the screen I think. There he is. He's got a haircut. He's on the screen and they're like hey you're the guy. I know he spoke about this already. Who does Jose Mourinho, who's the coach of? Or who is he coaching these days? Is it Milan or is it Roma? I mean they'd be booing him if he wasn't Roma. That makes more sense. He's the boss of Roma. He's the boss of Roma so they're like hey we love you. All right four out of four on rally. Runa. Down on the scoreboard but he's been solid on serves thus far. He's got a four now from Medvedev on the stretch to the four out of Runa. Into the back end of Medi. As Runa hits the back end. No sorry four hand. Into the four out of Medi. Again to the four hand. Oh Runa but Medi. Oh Medi hit it in. Runa. Didn't think it was good and he hits it in the net. Wow Runa hesitated. Love 15. Makes sense why he's at Rome yeah. I guess they'd boo him if he wasn't coaching a team in the city that he's sitting currently. They'd probably be like get out of our city loser. Is that how football works? People just yell. Love 15. Second serve. By the way we've got two and a half thousand people in the house. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm going to say about why the back end of Medi return is long. Medi tried to do like a little bit of a curve on that back end. That was an interesting shot. Kansas Spurs fan gets stuffed. 15-0. 15-0. By Munich is doomed bro. Who's by Munich? Whoa. Why does that matter? All right 15-0. Serve out why the four hand of Medvedev. Four out of Runa to the four out of Medi. To the back end of Runa. As we're going to back it out from Medi. Into the four out of Runa. Again to the four hand of Medvedev. As Runa hits the four hand. Down the line that's a good shot. Medi gets it with the back hand. Hits it wide 30-15. 30-5th. Who's the crowd cheering for? Ah they're pretty split at the moment. They're not really uh they haven't picked a side yet. They're pretty pretty evenly matched. 30-15. Why Arsenal can't I think you said before? Yeah because I met someone who said hey you should go for Arsenal and I said okay. That's why. Literally someone said I go for Arsenal. So do you. I'm like okay. When I moved to the UK. So I'm like I need to pick a team. And they said well I go for Arsenal. You should too. And here we are. 30-15 is going to find in there from Runa. 30-all. First time. First time today Runa. First time today that Runa has been in trouble. On the serve. Lot of errors in this match to start. Not a pretty match. 30-all. Serves a fault. Second serve Runa. Now he's got to be careful because he's serving second. And look. Medvedev breaks. He serves to the set and then it could rain. So he could be down a set Runa. Sitting in the locker room. As it rains uh soon-ish. As we're back in the backhand rally. And that goes in the net from Medvedev. Runa 40-30. I didn't expect this match to go so quick. Yeah I mean 30 minutes. We're almost a set down. My flat overlooks Arsenal Stadium. Hey that's fun. Or is it a nightmare because during game days it probably packed. You'd be like get out of my house. I used to live um. I used to go to like Fulham. Which is where the Chelsea Stadium around that area. And when everywhere would go there on like a Saturday. It used to just be packed. It was the worst. I was just like I just want to get a beer. I want to go out to the club as we're back in for a rally. I get to the backhand of Medvedev. Another backhand from Runa as a drop shot. Medvedev is going to get there with a forehand. Runa gets it with a pass. Medvedev's volley's in the net. He could have hit a winner there Medvedev. He knows it. 4-4. Runa survives the first scare of the day. That's like me at Wrigley Field. Yeah that's going to be annoying too. That's the best thing about living in the middle of nowhere. I don't have to deal with crowd people. When I used to live in the city like in the middle of Melbourne. Every day was like a like a massive crowd. Because I lived like in the center of the city. So when I go downstairs for my apartment. And I walk outside I walk into a street of just like people. Like I walk into a sea of people every day. It's the worst. But then like at night it was dead. And on the weekends same thing. Just a sea of people outside my door every day. And then after 5 p.m. it was dead. And there was no one there and I just walked out and it was like a ghost town. Love 15 is Runa hits a winner. I love living in the city but not I would never do it again. It was great for one year. Never again. It was great. And then it wasn't. It's good. It was good. I did it and now I like where I live now. Love 15. Serving the fight of Runa. Good return. Back into the stretch. Runa in control. Back into the line. It's good. Runa with the pass. I've met him with the pass. Is long? Or is it in? I think Runa's calling it in. Yeah. Great shot. Memba dev. Unbelievable. He just curled it in enough. Back of the baseline. 15 all. No I don't live in Essendon. Why would I want to live in Essendon? It's not really. It's near the airport. No thanks. Ace out wide. Again from Memba dev. 30-15. 30-5. That's intense. I don't think I could deal with that. Yeah. That's pretty brutal. There's a return now from Runa. Into the backhand of Memba dev. Runa with a slice in the net. 40-15. Memba dev. To get back in front here. Go Essendon. Long live the bombers. Let's go. We're back baby. We're not in the top. We're in the, we're in. To be in the playoffs. We have to be in the top eight of the table. We're only number nine. So we're trying to get back. But we're playing the worst team next week. So we should win next week too. There's been a flying lob there from Runa. That goes out. That's five-four. So for those who, for the one person who gives a shit about Australian football. You have to be in the top eight to make it to the playoffs. If you're number nine or to number 18, you just miss out. So top eight. I think it's kind of like NBA, right? The conference. You have to be in top eight seeds, right? Same thing. We're number nine. After this week. So we have to win. And next week we're playing, we're number nine. We're playing number 18. So we're playing the bottom team next week. So we have to absolutely wreck them. Like by a hundred, they just lost by 120 points. So the other day, if you're here yesterday, we won by one point. Today, the team that we're playing next week lost by 120 points. To a team that we beat by like 50. So we should win, right? Next week, next Saturday night, which we won't be live, but I'll be probably watching by myself when going crazy. In fact, I might actually see if I might go to the map. Or maybe I might go to the fire. Where are we playing? Are we playing in Perth? We're playing the West Coast Eagles who are garbage. Oh, we're playing in Perth. Not going to Perth. Can't go to Perth for the Saturday night and then come back here Sunday. Yeah, I thought I'd play in Melbourne. I would have bloody gone. Watch them get destroyed. Dusty, you don't even know. We're not going to get destroyed. We're going to kick their ass. Get a good percentage boost. And yeah, a couple of hours drive. Yeah, Perth's a couple of hours flying. I think it's four hours in a plane. This is a four-hour plane ride for just to go to see a sporting event, maybe. I mean, if it was a final, I might consider it, but not for a random thing. I'll just watch it on TV and enjoy the show. All right, Roona serving to stay in this set. As we said about why the front of Medvedev return goes long. 15 love. Aussie football's getting good though. Oh, it's, yeah. Hopefully, I mean, hopefully some of you get on board. It's a great sport. It's great fun to watch. A lot of fun. As we're back here, return there from Medvedev into the backhand of Roona. Point out from Medvedev again to the back of the Roona into the front of Medvedev as Roona hits the forehand on the stretch. Medvedev and Roona going forehand to forehand, crosscourt. Again from Medvedev to the backhand now of Roona. As he goes crosscourt again to the forehand of Medvedev. That's inside out, Medvedev. That's a good shot up because a love from Roona. Medvedev in control. Puts away the swing volley. 15-0. 15-0. Tie break, you reckon? Maybe. 15-0. Another serve coming up here for Roona. The last game, Roona had to battle. But he hasn't faced a break point on his serve yet. Also, weather check. We'll keep an eye on the skies because it is looking, the radar looks dodgy. We'll make sure we keep an eye on the skies. Maybe in the next 30 minutes it might rain again. Hopefully it'll take longer than that. There's a volley there from Roona. Medvedev gets it with a slice but it's in the net. Good volley. Again, I don't know why. I mean, look, last year, right, Nick Kirios showed everyone the blueprint on how to beat Donal Medvedev. And for some reason, in the last, like, since the Clay season, only Elk... I mean, actually, no, not even Elkers. Elkers was the last man to do successfully play the how to beat Medi game. Roona didn't need to do it in Monte Carlo but he can do it and I think he should do it. Like, why aren't you serve volleying more? You know, why don't you come into the net more? Why are you trying to rally with Medvedev? That's what Medi wants, right? You know, don't try and out-rally Medi. Roona hits that one out, 30-0. Like, the blueprint is coming to the net, variety, drop shots, you know, making him not giving Medvedev the baseline rallies. But unfortunately, it's not happening right now for Roona. When he's served volleys, he's pretty solid. 30-0, Medvedev, two points away from the first set. Good serve, Roona, and there's the volley, puts down the smash, Medvedev gets it with another lob. It goes out. What did I just say? What did he just do? 40-30. See, it worked! Freaking worked, Chad. 40-30, Boris Becker in the house, as mentioned, sitting front and center. He must be giving out the trophy. He's got to be giving out the trophy, surely. Patrick Motogli listening. 40-30. You don't want to serve volley every point, though, against Medvedev. You want to throw it in as he served volleys a second point, and he wins that one as well. Two serve volleys in a row, 5-5. You don't want to serve volley every point because then Medvedev's going to stop returning differently. But if you throw it in every now and again as a surprise, give Medvedev something else to think about. The two serve volleys are from 30-0, and he gets the game. It's 5-5. Yeah, Boris had a jail. Yeah, he got out of jail at the start of the year. He was only in there for like 18 months, I think. For good behavior or something, right? All right. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve goes into the find of Roona. Back in out from Roona going down the corner. Medvedev, Roona comes in with the volley. Medvedev with the back end pass is a winner. And Medvedev shrugs his shoulders and he's like, there you go, I gotcha. Don't come to that that much. Not a bad idea for Roona, but like I said, don't do it that much because otherwise, Medvedev's going to eventually catch you on a pass because Medvedev is still good at the passing shots. That was a beautiful passing shot. 15-love. Medvedev serves down to the find of Roona, who shanks it out. 30-love as Medvedev serves again. Yeah, that was a great angle on the pass for sure. As Medvedev serves and Roona slaps the ball out. I mean, that was almost a Hail Mary from Roona. 40-love as Medvedev serves again to guarantee a spot on a tie break. Serve out was a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the drop shot of Roona and Roona hits it in the net. Medvedev gets the 6-5 first set. 6-5, Medvedev. Tie break for him or he's going to be up a set in this final. All right. Okay, pretty quick match thus far. Yeah, I mean, there's not too many long rallies. It's pretty straightforward. I mean, the serve is sort of dominating this match at the moment. Yeah, not too many 30-shot rallies. I mean, I don't think we've had any over... Any, what do you call it, rallies over like 20 shots. So, not too many long rallies, good variety. A lot of errors though. The quality's not great, but the serving's really good and the errors are quick. So, we're kind of getting through this. There's not too many rallies. Yeah, no rallies at all. Yeah, there was one rally. There was one. That 16-shot rally was pretty good. This match is closer than I thought. Good on Medi. A lot of people think that Medi's got a chance of winning here. Is it Medi on beat in this season after the first set? I don't know exactly the stat, but possibly. All right, dark clouds ahead. As I said, there is rain around. Still, despite the clouds, the sun looking shiny. So, I'm looking at the radar now. I won't show you guys yet. I'll show you guys if it starts to rain. We might be okay for another hour. So, the crazy rain that was supposed to happen right now has kind of pushed away. And now it's kind of like yellow rain. That sounds weird. Yellow on the radar in about an hour. So, we might actually be okay for the next little bit, but the clouds are starting to come in. Six-five. We might get through a set. Maybe we'll get through this match. Who knows? Where can I watch this match for free? You can watch it on Tennis TV, but you have to pay for it. Back every turn from Evidev into the forehand of Runa, back into Medi, but Runa hits a winner. Medi says it's out. And he goes, actually, no, I don't know. Get the umpire out. Make him make the mistake. That's what the players do. It looks close. It looks close. If it's out, it's love 15. I think it hit the line. Yeah, it's good. It looked like it hit the line. There was no gap between the ball. And the line. 15. Love. Oh, no. It was. There was a gap. The umpire made an error. That was a winner by Runa. It wasn't... Oh, sorry. Hang on. Yeah, that was out. Medi should have won that point. Love 15. It should be love 15. Medi should have won that point. 15 love instead. It's been a find-a-find rally. Now Medidev going into the forehand of Runa on the stretch. Medidev gets it again. Into the backhand of Runa. Sliced to the forehand of Medidev. Runa with the forehand. On the stretch goes down the line. To the back of Medidev. Into the backhand of Runa. Runa from Medidev. Again, to the backhand of Runa. Sliced in the net from Runa. And it's 15. Oh, now it looked... And to me, I said, I looked like there was no gap. There was. But because they sweep the lines, it leaves like a mark either side of the actual line. So imagine this is the line. The broomstick is thicker than the line. So it makes a mark. Well, it does make a mark. So it should be love 30. Where's Hawkeye? No Hawkeye in Rome. Should be love 30. Anyways, it doesn't matter. We'll see what happens. If Medidev gets the break, it wouldn't matter anyway. But Carlos Manadas has made five errors already in the tournament. Has he? Or in this match? I don't think he's made five in this match. He's made... I don't think he's made two in this match, but he has made a lot of errors this week. In fact, every time we see an error from an umpire, it seems to be him. Or what's his name? Muhammad Liani. It's like, they're the two guys that seem to be getting it wrong. I love it how he's 30, 15, by the way. The umpire with conviction was like, it was definitely in. And then Hawkeye's like, I don't think it was. The umpire was so like, yes, yes, it was good. It was good. I mean, yeah, it was close, but it wasn't in. Crazy that they get it wrong as much as they do. Hawkeye maybe when they build a roof in three years. 30, 15, another serve coming up here for Runa. Serve out while they're backing up Medi, and Medi hits a winner. See, you can't serve volley too much, because otherwise Medi's going to figure it out. 30 all. This should be 15-40, but again, we'll figure it out. We'll see if after this game it makes any difference. This could be set point right now, but Medi might get there anyway. 30 all. Can't serve volley every time if you're ruining. You've got to keep it, you've got to keep it. You've got to keep it as a surprise. He's got to find out from Runa into the front of Medvedev. Again, to the forehand of Runa as Medi hits backhand. Cross court at the backhand of Runa, into the backhand of Medvedev as Runa hits backhand. Again, to the backhand of Medi. As Medi hits a winner, a forehand of the line. That's a great, sorry, backhand of the line. Medi comes into the net with a forehand now. Runa with a pass, Medi with a volley. Drop volley, good. Runa gets it with a lob, but it's out. We've got a set point for Medvedev. Lovely hitting from Medi, 30-40. Set point Medi to take the first. This has a very sid-de-pass Medvedev first set vibe yesterday. The way that Medi won the first set then. And hey, the drop volley worked for Medi. Nice. Very nice shot. And it's very hard to lob. It's very hard to lob Medvedev. Set point, Medvedev to take. The first set, Runa serves a fault. Second serve, second serve into the backhand of Medvedev. Four now from Runa into the backhand of Medvedev. Again, to the backhand of Runa. Drop shot is there. Medi's there with a forehand winner. There it is! First set, Klayvedev. Medvedev takes the first 7-5. And Runa is making some very questionable shots. And he gives, I think Runa just gave a sarcastic thumbs up to the coach. Turns around, he says, I'm playing so bad. Runa is not happy with how he's playing. And he's going off at Patrick Moritoglu. And Moritoglu is giving him a chatty saying, you've got to do this every time. And he's like, I'm not listening to you. Man, Runa is not having fun. All right, five winners from Runa. Nine unforced errors. Nine winners from Medvedev, 12 errors. So not a pretty set. But towards the end there, Runa is making some questionable choices. Klayvedev! All right, first set. Pardon me, goes to Medvedev. But look, Runa had more chances. I mean, he had a lot more chances on Medvedev's serve, but it was at the end when Runa just kind of fell off. Runa missed the trick. This set. He had all the opportunities in to take it, I agree. Runa and Patrick are getting into a scrap, yeah. Runa not taking his advice. Look, like I said, the serve volley tactics are good tactic, but if you do it too much against Medvedev, Medvedev's not an idiot. Medvedev's not stupid. He will, like, you know, he will figure out how to pass you eventually. So you've got to keep it as a tactic. And you can't do it every time. It can't be like, I'm in trouble. Here's a serve volley. Because then Medvedev's going to realize and go, well, don't do it. Also that drop shot at the end was trash. That last drop shot was not good. Okay. And Medvedev's wife, she loves it. She's like, yes, let's go. Yeah, that drop shot was not it. Now Runa is really dangerous. Now Runa is really dangerous. Really? Dawn, calm down. You're just going to get people annoyed. I'm just going to get annoyed at people. If you keep... Is this going to get people... We have, if you weren't, maybe, Dawn, were you here yesterday when we had that person going crazy? I don't want to get crazy people again. Let's not do that. Runa can play tennis. Okay. Look, Runa should have won that first set. I mean, he was better at the start, better in the middle, but at the end, that's when Runa made those errors. Why is Runa wearing a backwards hat? I don't know. Why is the sky blue? Runa isn't dangerous. He just might be emotional. Well, he was emotional at the end. He's gone to the bathroom. He was definitely not happy with... He wasn't happy with Patrick Moritoka at the end. Yeah, he played poor at the end. The sky's cloudy, not blue. Ah, it's blue. Some of it's blue. You can see this from a mile away. Mebedev easily going through service games while Runa wasn't shocking from hope. What? Through... Well, maybe he wasn't going easy through service games. In the middle of the set, Mebedev was having a lot more trouble on serve, but Runa wasn't taking it. Runa is dangerous when he is... He's backs up against the wall. Let's see if he's come out here with a little bit more of a chilled attitude, because he can't get angry. If he gets angry, Mebedev is just going to run over him in the second. Runa seemed to take a while to win matches at the moment. Been on court a lot the last few weeks. Well, he didn't play that well in Madrid, so he kind of got a bit more of a break back then. So... Now, Patrick Moritoka on his feet, but the thing is, if the student isn't going to listen, the coach is kind of... Has nothing to... I mean, whatever he says, it might just be going against the wall. Might as well be talking up against the wall. So... Let's see if Runa actually starts listening. Or if now he's like, Well, what you told me didn't work, so I'm going to go on my own. Runa might have gone micro-rogue, which means Mebedev will probably win. Let's see... It's not too bad. Anonymous. Cam, do you think Medi's brutal loss to Alcaraz made him realize that he needs to mix up his game more? Steph made some adjustments for the better and hopefully Medi is doing the same biceps. It's good. Good observation. United. Does Medvedev have realistic chance at French Open? That is a great question, and we can talk about that in this set. But yeah, Anonymous, look, I think losing to Alcaraz, he realized... Like, look, we all realize, right? We all know, by watching him, that Alcaraz is going to be here if he's healthy for a long time. And if Mevedev wants to win more slams, he's going to have to probably beat Alcaraz to do it. Right? So if Mevedev wants to add to his collection, Alcaraz is going to be someone he needs to figure out how to beat. So I think you might be right. You know, I think maybe that Alcaraz lost kind of went... He kind of went, shit, all right? Well, I need to... I need to do something different to beat that guy, because that's... And also Runa. I mean, he lost to Runa as well. So two losses to the young guys, and he also... He knows how to beat Sina. He's done that like five times. But yeah, losing to Runa and Alcaraz in two tournaments is Runa needs to win a love 40. Yeah, I feel... Yeah, you might be onto something. He knows that if I'm going to win these big trophies again, I need to... Either they need to lose, or I need to figure it out. And there's no point in trying to... Hope that they lose. And it was love 40. Runa, all of a sudden... This is a different guy who came out of the bathroom. Where's the other guy? Second serve. Backhand return goes in the backhand. Of Medvedev, Runa cross-court to the front of Medi. Into the backhand of Runa on the stretch. As Medi hits the backhand. Into the backhand of Runa. Into the backhand of Medvedev. Runa with the backhand. Into the backhand of Medi. Into the backhand of Runa. Medi hits it out. What the hell just happened? Where the hell did that come from? Where did that... Where was that? Like he went to the bathroom and he came back and he breaks straight away. Easily breaks. So weird. So weird. All right. Now Runa's serving. He gets the break in the second. Elkres versus Medi is future 1-2 for the coming years. I don't know if it's just going to be Elkres, Medi. I think there's going to be a couple more players involved. All right, one love. Pooping creates an advantage. Yeah, he's lighter on his feet. One love, Runa. With a break now. Serves a fault. Second serve. He's definitely come out here with a different attitude. That's for sure. Serving to the backhand of Medvedev. Runa with a forehand. Into the backhand of Medi. Into the forehand of Runa as Medi hits backhand. Slice. Into the forehand of Runa and Runa hits another winner. 15 love. By the way, does Medi have a realistic chance at the French? If he wins today, yes. If he loses today, I think he's still in the dark horse category. Like I think a lot of people are going to say, you know, I think Djokovic is going to win the French open, but Medi's my dark horse. Right? Or I think Alcors is going to win the French open or Medi's my dark horse. But if he wins today, he's not a dark horse. He's a contender. Like he is probably top four, top three favorite maybe. So, yeah, I think today if he wins, he's a contender. If he loses, he's everyone's dark horse. I mean, Chat, give me your predictions for French open. Give me a winner and dark horse. 15-0. As he serves now, Runa. Down into the backhand of Medi. Every turn goes into the forehand of Runa. Forehand of Medi. Again to the forehand of Runa. Down the line of the backhand of Medi. As Runa hits a forehand. Into the forehand of Medi. Into the forehand of Runa. Again to the forehand of Medi. Runa with the backhand on the stretch. Goes into the forehand of Medi. As Runa hits a forehand. Again to the backhand of Medi. But Runa hits it out. 15-30. Dark horse, Runa. Winner, Medvedev. Okay. I'm sorry. Winner, Jokovic. Okay. Dark horse, Runa. That's interesting. Team of dark horse. Okay. Dark horse, Rubelev. Dark horse, Vrinka. Winner, no idea. No back winner. Okay. Dark horse, Sina. Okay. Elkra's winner. Dark horse, Rubelev. Elkra's winner. Dark horse, Chorich. Medvedev and Tiafo. Okay. Medvedev wins the French at this rate. Really? I don't think he beats Elkra as to do it. You think Medvedev beats Jokovic on clay? You know, I still have some questions for me. But if he wins today, he's got to be top three favorite. I mean, he's beaten two of the top five contenders for me. He has been backhand there and the volley is nice from Runa. 30-all. And he's shattered himself. Runa trying to fire up. 30-all. 30-all as Runa serves again. Still a point here for the chance of Medvedev to get back to break straight away. All right. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Now, while the 400 Medvedev return goes out and it's 40-30, Runa's a consolator to break. I'll tell you, by the betting, I'll tell you who the favorites are for the French and where these guys fall into as well. Because it's going to change after today, depending on the winner, I reckon. Or it could change after today, depending on the winner. As Runa serves to get to two love. Serving to the backhand of Medvedev. Return slice goes in. Runa forehand is good. Medvedev gets there, but it's in the net. Two love, Runa. Okay. So, Elkerez the favorite. Djokovic second. Runa third favorite. Siddi-Pas is the fourth favorite. Sinner fifth. And then Medvedev sixth favorite. So, if Medvedev beats Runa, I think Medvedev's got to be fourth favorite. Runa's maybe still third. And then again, maybe Medvedev takes his spot. I don't know. But yeah, so it's currently Elkerez, Djokovic, Runa, Siddi-Pas, Sinner, Medvedev, Rude. For the French. So, if he beats Runa, I think Medvedev's got to be in that top three, four conversation. He beats Siddi-Pas Runa to win Rome. He's the number two seed, which I think makes a big difference too. Because the reason the one, I mean, the number one and two in the world at the moment are number one and two favorites, right? So, I think if Medvedev wins today, gets the number two, then he might be in the top three conversation. The draw will obviously change that too. You know, if Elkerez and Djokovic do the same half of the draw, Medvedev gets a bigger advantage, right? Shortens in the odds. There's been a lovely volley there from Runa. Medvedev with a backhand lob back, but it's not good enough and Runa puts away the smash. 15-0 and Runa's starting to figure it out. He's starting to figure out how to beat Medvedev. 15-0. You think Djokovic's favorite, Medvedev second, Elkerez third, Runa fourth? But I'm just going off the betting, by the way. This has not got anything to do with who I think is going to win. I think Djokovic is the favorite as well, but it's just gone off the betting. There's been a smash there from Medvedev and Runa in the net, and it's 30-15. I don't trust Runa over seven best of five setters. Yeah, that's the thing. His body hasn't proven yet. True. That's the only thing holding me back from picking him to win a French in maybe, you know, or even just in Grand Slam in general. Is that because of the net from Runa? And it's 40-15. Medvedev, 40-15. I've got an hour of this match done already. Not through. We had an hour of delay. So don't see the back end of Runa. Return goes into the forehand of Medvedev, and Medvedev puts it away, and he puts his hand to the air, and he's like, come on, let's go. Two-one. Runa with a break in the second, but Medvedev holds. Carlitos wins definitely, okay. I don't think anyone is a clear favorite. I think this is the most difficult French open to predict at the moment. Once the draw comes out, we might actually get a, it might be easy to understand, but right now, Djokovic is not in form. Elkiras with his shocking loss today, this week, I mean, that was rough. Injury troubles for other players, and then other players that aren't expected to do well at doing well. I mean, yeah, it's a, yeah. It's a wide open French open without, obviously, Rafferl Djokovic. I would love if FAA won, but he's playing terrible. Yeah, see, FAA's not playing well. Rude didn't play well until this week, you know, so it's, ah, French, it's wide open French. French open. How does Runa play in five sets? No, he does okay. I mean, he played, played a five, like he's done okay, but he does cramp in some matches. So there are times that he, you know, his body fails him, right? So that's, that's the question. And it was kind of like, I guess Alcarez winning the U.S. Open last year, winning a lot of five setters, kind of showed, oh, he can do that. But if Runa, if Runa can win a couple of five setters in a row and his body doesn't fail, then maybe he's past those. But at the moment, he, he, his body does break down at times. So is he going to be able to win two, three, five set matches against the top 10 guys in, in the French open? I mean, that's, that's a long way from winning Paris or Rome, you know? Paris last year, three set matches all the way through. It's not the same as French open five set matches for two weeks, you know? It's not that he hasn't been able to do it. It's just he hasn't been, it's not that he can't do it. It's that he hasn't been able to do it because he hasn't had many chances to play, you know, five set matches. He's still super, super young. As we had a smash there from Runa into the four-hander Medvedev. Runa with a four-hand again. Goes wide. Love 15. Love 15. Jock who's going to win the French. These newcomers lack experience. Maybe. Love 15. Serve out wide the back of Medvedev. Returning to the volley of Runa and Runa in the net. Man. Medvedev starting to get onto the returns so the serve volleys aren't as effective. They're going right down at the feet the returns. Love 30. Runa in trouble again. He's got the break. Trying to hang on to it. Love 30. Runa has won 50% of points at the net today. Eight out of 16. That is not good enough. Second serve. Second serve into the four-hander Medvedev. Back in now from Runa. Into the back of Medvedev. Runa comes to the net with a volley. Not good enough and Medvedev puts a pass in. That's again. The approach was not good enough. You can't just walk into the net and think Medvedev is going to miss. Another miss. Another terrible net approach. Medvedev is reading it too well. Love 40. Why doesn't, I don't know why Runa isn't doing an underarm serve. It's not like he needs a crowds approval. Like I, why didn't he chuck an underarm serve? Just for, just because. Medvedev standing 10 meters behind the baseline. He's shouting further back than Rafa. Why wouldn't you give him a, why wouldn't you do an underarm serve just to keep him kept? Keep him thinking, you know? Serve out wide the back end of Medvedev, 4-0 from Runa. Down the line's good. Medvedev gets up with a forehand cross court. It's into the 4-0 of Runa. Runa smacks a winner down the line. Unbelievable. Huge winner from Runa. All right. That's one saved. 15-40. How do they determine unforced errors and forced errors? So an unforced error is when you make a mistake on a shot that you should not miss. So if it's down the middle of the court and you hit the ball in the net or out with no pressure applied, that's an unforced error. A forced error is when someone makes you run and then you're in a tough situation to hit a shot. So if I hit the ball in the net because I'm running for a forehand out wide, that's a forced error. Unforced would be if I was standing, it's like routine in the middle of the court. For example, there's a 4-0 of 4-0 rally. Is that going into the net? Going into the 4-0 of Runa. Runa down the line again. That's a good shot. He comes in the net now with a volley. Mehvedev's going to get up the backhand pass and he puts it down the line again. Runa can't put away these volleys and Mehvedev gets back the break. Nice work from Mehdi. Two passing shot winners and again Runa just not doing it in the net. To all. Cam, you're on Runa. I want a 3-setter. Don't you want a 3-set match in the final? I guess if you picked Mehvedev, no. Patrick Moritogal on his feet, he's like, mate, listen to what I'm saying. Runa, like that volley was decent but I mean, when you're playing someone like Mehdi, you've got to either put it deep or you've got to angle it away. You can't put it sort of mid way through. I mean, you give Mehdi a chance. He'll try and take it, especially with the passing shots in this match. He had a lot of good passing shots. 4-0 down the line, 4-0 to the backhand of Runa, Runa in the net. Runa's got to keep his cool here. 15-love. 15-love as Mehvedev serves an ace. 30-love. Best player on the planet is Mehdi. If he wins today, he's got to be the best player of 2023 so far. Has to be. He's playing ridiculous. He's won five titles if he wins this. As that goes out for Mehdi and it's 30-15. Who wins a major first Runa or Sinner? A good question. Chad, who do you think wins a Grand Slam first? Sinner or Runa? Probably Sinner. As Mehdi serves a second to ace, does he? Okay. I would say Sinner because he lost in a five-setter last year at the friend, sorry, at the Wimbledon. And he lost, he had match points and lost at the US last year. And he's got a couple of years extra experience. So you think Sinner wins one in the next, well, possibly the next year as Runa hits that out. That was a terrible shot. It's three, two, Mehvedev back in the lead. And like we're saying before, Runa's body. I don't think Runa has, we haven't seen Runa play a lot of five-set matches. And when he has played long matches, we've seen him cramp. So we've seen Sinner go through battles and physically be able to hold up. Sometimes he breaks down but physically get through. So I mean, I'd say Sinner at this stage, but that could change if Runa makes it to the semis of the French and plays a couple of five-setters, Runa could win the US Open at the end of the year. Or Wimby, I mean, that could be something. All right, chat. Let's go have a look at 1000 event matchups because Mehvedev surprisingly, maybe not surprisingly, has actually made a good crack at every one of these Masters 1000s. Whoops, wrong one. Check this out, chat. Mehvedev has almost, almost made the quarter-finals of every Masters. Almost. By the way, the umpires having a goal at Patrick Moritoglu for talking too much with Runa. Interesting. Very interesting. Anyways, so Mehvedev with the final here, that's his best result. He beats his second round efforts a couple of years ago, but he's won five out of the nine big trophies. Not to mention, he's also won the AGB finals. So he is cleaning up at 1000 level, and if he wins today, he's only got to win, I mean, the toughest one's probably going to be Monte Carlo after today, because it's a shorter event, so more likely to play the big boys in the rounds because less likely there's upsets, right? More matches, more upsets, you know? Indian Wells, I mean, he made the final this year, but he didn't have fun there. That might be, actually, that might be the trickiest one after this week, if he can get this win. But there, look, Miami, he won this year. He's obviously got all the before that happened after this in the later part of the year, and he's got the AGB finals. So, Mehvedev's cleaning up. Let's have a look at what Runa looks like. So Runa just getting started. Made the final of Monte Carlo. He won Paris last year. He actually hadn't ever played the main draw of this event, only the qualifiers last year. So this is his best result here, but never played the Asian swing, so he didn't get a chance at Shanghai yet. But third round, fourth round, third round, second round, first round of the other one. So, still he got some room to do it. But, Chad, if Mehvedev wins this one, do you think he could win the Golden Masters? I think Medi might be able to do it. I mean, if he wins Rome, which I believe is the slowest of the bunch, Madrid with his game, Medi can win Madrid. If Sabalanke can win Madrid, if Struff can make the final, why couldn't Medi win Madrid one day? Monte Carlo, Indian Wells, the last two. I mean, Indian Wells made the final. Monte Carlo made the quarters this year. You know, maybe after this, after today he might believe that he can win that too. I mean, he's only got three to go. What's the Golden Masters? The Golden Masters is winning every Masters 1000 event in your career. So, winning, and the ATP final. So, winning 10 or 10 big events outside the slams, which is what Djokovic has done twice. I think he's the only guy to do it. Medvedev, he's slowly ticking the boxes, and I don't think anyone's really noticing. Like making the finals, and now, you know, he's obviously won half of him already, or more than half. All right, return goes in the back of Medvedev, four and half from Runa, 30-15 here, Runa. Just trying to level as we're back in there from Runa. Back in there, Medi Slice on the stretch goes in. Runa with the forehand, down the line as a winner. Nice shot from Runa, 40-15. It would be awesome, wouldn't it? Now, Rafa hasn't done it because Rafa's never won Miami. Rafa has never won Miami, I think. Is it Miami chat? Someone in the chat will know. And Federer never won Monte Carlo, so he didn't do it. And Rafa hasn't won the ATP finals, which I think is a part of the collection. All right, so then to the back end of Medi, Runa with the volley, again, terrible volley, because Medvedev's just reading the return. I tell you what Runa should do. He should do an underarm serve and serve volley. Do an underarm serve, serve volley. Underarm serve and volley. Does that make sense? That's better. 40-30. ATP finals are not included. Well, it should be. 40-30. Serve to the back end of Medvedev. Return goes in the forehand of Runa, back end of Medvedev, into the back end of Runa, again, to the back end of Medi, or Federer never won Rome either. Okay, there you go. Back end of back end. Again, to the back end of Runa, back end of Medvedev. Again, to the back end of Runa, into the back end of Medvedev. As Runa hits the forehand, again, to the back end of Medvedev. Back end from Runa, into the back end of Medi. Runa trying to level things up. He was up a break in this set. Back end of back end. This is exactly what Medvedev wants. Just going down the line now to the front of Runa, and Runa puts it wide. See, that is what Medvedev wants. Medvedev is playing... I'm sorry, Runa is playing into Medi's hands. Like, no slice back ends from Runa. Not much variation. Just constant rallies. And that's exactly, exactly what Medvedev wants. And Runa is looking tired. I mean, yeah, dude. You're playing marathon rallies against a wall. That's going to happen, mate. That's disrespectful doing an underarm serve in volley. Yeah, but I mean, it's not illegal. So, hey, why not do it just to mess up Medi's rhythm, right? Might as well do it to, um, to try and, you know, make Medvedev not stand 20 meters behind the baseline. All right, second serve, Runa. Into the front of Medvedev. Return goes into the forehand of Runa, who hits it down the line for a winner. Nice shot. Because what Runa's trying to do now is trying to punch through the brick wall. Right? And if you want to try and hit, I mean, if you want to try and hit through a brick wall, good luck. Alcarez did it. He bought the sledgehammer, but today Medvedev is a brick wall, and he is not getting many shots, missing many shots. And Runa's not hitting too many winners through him. Like, that was a rare forehand winner. Through Medvedev on the baseline. But if you hit an underarm serve, it pushes, or, you know, it pushes Medvedev forward. And you might be able to get a chance to, as he hits a lovely volley there, Runa, that's a better volley, 3-3. You know, it just gives Medvedev something to think about. Like, oh, I better not stand 500 meters behind the baseline. I better stand close, which then has its own thing. But I get it. People don't like the underarm serve, but hey, until they make it illegal, it is what it is. Lovely volley there from Runa, that was much better. Okay, 3-3. Runa's still positive, he's still throwing the fist. As Medvedev serves a fault, second serve. Second serve into the forehand of Runa, backhand there from Medvedev. Into the backhand of Runa, into the backhand of Medvedev. Again, to the backhand of Runa, as Medvedev hits another backhand. Into the Runa backhand. Into the backhand of backhand exchange. He's gone cross-court. Again, playing into Medvedev's hands. Runa, as we get another one from Runa. Again, to the forehand of Medvedev. Runa with the backhand again. Into the forehand of Medvedev. This is exactly what Medvedev wants. Runa, now doing a bit of running. As Medvedev hits a forehand. Again, to the backhand of Runa. Medvedev not hitting the ball at all. He's hitting it nice and softly, Medvedev. He's going casually cross-court. No one wants to hit a winner. Medvedev can do this all day. Captain America, backhand to backhand. As that goes down the line into the forehand slice of Runa. As Medvedev hits a forehand to the backhand of Runa. Again, to the forehand of Medvedev. Now he's taken over Medvedev. Runa, doing the running. Hits it into the forehand of Medvedev. Backhand of Runa, cross-court. Now Medvedev, again with the backhand. Into the backhand of Runa. To the forehand of Medvedev. Runa with the backhand again. To the backhand of Medvedev. Again to the backhand of Runa. Who goes in the line? That's a... Goes... Is it in? Yes! Runa puts it through. This is going to be our biggest TV run. Finally! Runa goes for something. And he hits the baseline. It looked like he hit it out, but it must have gone in. Love 15. I mean, if you want to play like that, good luck. But it worked today. It worked on that point, I should say. I wouldn't be playing that. I wouldn't be doing those rallies for like, you know, three hours. But okay. Runa punched the backhand through Medvedev. That was good. How long was that rally? It had to have been 25. At least 25 shots. Longest rally in the match. 38! Ha! 38 shots. All right, return from Runa goes in. Medvedev comes in with a swinging volley in the net. Wow, Medvedev! That was a bad mistake. Should have let it drop and bounce. Love 30. Yeah, it was a very boring rally, to be honest. Both guys were just like... And then Runa just goes smack. Love 30. Medvedev serves a fold. Second serve. Second serve. Double fold. Uh-oh. Got my salt thing there. Double fold from Medvedev. And now it's break points for Runa. Love 40. To take the break again. He broke in the first game of the second set. Love 40. Serve out wide the back end of Runa. Return is a moon ball. Medvedev swings it and hits it out! Wow! Wow! Bad errors from Medvedev. Double fold. Two forehand errors after the Runa backhand winner and it's poor three Runa in the second. And he's having a smile too, Runa. Paul! What the H was even that? Yeah. Yep. Spelt too bad. Winner Alcara's dark horse Mehdi, Nori. Fair enough. Oh, Nori. Interesting. Big Mac. Rooting for Carlos. Had that shocking loss this week but hoping the five set RG format will provide him with the extra sets to turn things around. Okay. The cramping in Miami I attribute to the humidity and heat. Paris will be different. Yeah, you might be right. Spelt too bad. Thank you, Jeffery, for the three. Appreciate that. All right, Runa with the break. And this is... Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Goat. Greatest of all times. Spelt. Goat. Janine! Brilliant. Thanks, Cam. No worries. Thank you, Janine, for the 20. Can we get some solutes for all the donations? Appreciate that. And thank you, Janine, for the 20. Um... Yeah, Winner Alcara's dark horse Mehdi or Nori. Nori's an interesting one. Um... Rooting for Carlos. I mean, look, the cramping in Miami... I don't think happens to Carlos in the French. I agree. The humidity and the weather probably hurt Carlos a lot there. But I don't think it happens. Because it didn't happen against Zverev last year. And it didn't happen against Ramos-Vernoles at the French last year. He wasn't cramping at the end of that match. So, yeah, I agree. I think the conditions in... The conditions in the French, at the French shouldn't... Oh, in Paris, I should say. They are not going to be the same. And I mean, look, Runa might benefit from the French open, as well, not being humid. Because remember in Acapulco, that's when Runa was cramping the most in Acapulco this year. And that was super humid, tough conditions. So, yeah, it might... Maybe the conditions... Five-set matches won't be as tough on the body for those guys. As they were in the three-set matches in the other events. All right, back to this. Because it's 4-3, Runa. He's got the break again as he double folds. Put my salt in there. All right, everybody's double folding. One hour, 20 minutes played. And it's... Love 15. Love 15, as we just served from Runa. That's out by a mile. Second serve. 7pm local time, by the way. Rain has stayed away since the start of the match. He's going to find out from Runa to the back of Medvedev. Again, to the front of Runa as Medvedev hits a point on the stretch. And Runa's volley is good, but Medvedev is going to get there with the backhand. But it's in the net from Medvedev. That was a better volley. Runa's starting... Oh, that was not good. Runa is starting to make faces. 15-all. What happened there for Runa? He hit a volley and then was making... Well, kind of wincing his face. Something happened there. Maybe a little bit of soreness, cramp, I don't know. Maybe it's just... Maybe this is what he does. As he serves an ace. 30-15. Runa 30-15 to get to 5-3. Runa serves again. Another fault. Second serve. Serving to the backhand of Medvedev. Runa doesn't come to the net. He hits a forehand. Into the backhand again of Medvedev. Foyanav Runa on the stretch. He's a moon ball. Backhand out from Medvedev goes cross-court. Runa gets it with the backhand of his own. Foyanav from Medvedev is wide. Man, Medvedev's hitting a lot of errors the last two games. He's shanking it a lot. 40-15. Runa to get to 5-3 in this second set. He's won 12 of the last 15 points as well, Runa. Geez. 40-15. Serve is a fault. Second serve. 40-15. Second serve. Into the backhand of Medvedev. Backhand out from Runa. Into the backhand of Medvedev. Into the backhand of Runa as Medvedev hits backhand. Into the backhand again of Runa. He's going backhand with a cross-court with their backhands. He's got another one from Medvedev. Into the backhand again of Runa. Cross-court to cross-court. Drop shot. Medvedev is in the net. It's 5-3. And again, another error from Medvedev in the last... Ever since Runa hit the backhand winner, Medvedev's hit, I think, about five errors in the last two games. At least five errors and a double fault. Struggling Medvedev. All of a sudden, I mean, he broke back. Looked like he was in, like, had the momentum and everything, but it doesn't matter now as we had a slice return from Runa. That goes to the sky. Medvedev with a swinging volley winner. He puts that one away. He missed two of those in the previous games. Finally gets one. 15 love. 15 love. Cameraman has found some random person in the crowd to look at. That's what a serve done to him. An ace. Lovely serve from Medvedev again. 30 love. And a bit of serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. Runa runs around, hits a forehand winner. That's a smart shot. Smart from Runa. Running around the backhand, hit a forehand, and then whipping it past Medvedev before he can finish the server's action. 30-15. Served into the front of Runa. Good return to the back of Runa now, to the back of Medvedev. Runa in control. Four hand to four handers. Hit the tape from Runa and Medvedev puts it away. That's unlucky for Runa. He was starting to get on top of that rally too. 40-15. Runa looking pretty spent. He looks a little tied. Maybe that's why he's playing a little more aggressive. Never heard of the Golden Masters, really? I guess because no one's really done it. Not too many players. One player has done it, right? So it's relatively a new thing. There's a bit of volley there from Runa. That's a good shot. Medvedev gets it, but Runa puts away the backhand volley. 40-30. So it's called the Korea Golden Masters, is what it's called. And it's when you win all ATP Masters 1000 events. So you've got to win Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Madrid, Italian Open, Canadian Open, Cincinnati, Shanghai, Paris Masters to do it. So far, and the one player has done it. In the history of the ATP. There's a drop shot there from Runa. Not good enough, Medvedev puts it away and makes Runa serve for the set. 5-4, Runa. Djokovic is the only man to have done it. He did it back in, well, he's done it twice, hasn't he, Chad? Yeah, Runa, Djokovic has won a record. 38 Masters 1000. He's also the one, only singles player to complete the Korea Golden Masters, which is, he did by winning Indian Wells, Miami, all those tournaments. He actually did it in 2018 when he won Cincinnati. He also did it in 2020 again when he won Cincinnati. So he was needing Cincinnati. He won that twice and that completed the set. He's also the only guy to win all the Grand Slams twice, isn't he? Is he the only guy that won the Grand, no, no, Rafa did it last year, but he was the only guy to win every slam twice as well until Rafa joined him. But yeah, but Medvedev is also, if he wins this tournament, he will be almost completing the set. Medvedev's got, he's got Miami, he's got Canada, Cincinnati, Shanghai, Paris, and maybe Rome. He's only got three to complete the set. And also, if Medvedev wins this, it'll be his sixth Masters 1000 title, which puts him as number nine on his own for most in history of Masters 1000s. So he's currently equal with Rodik, Safin, Zverev, Bekkah, Kurya, Rios, and Quirton. And if he wins today, he'll be on six, which he stands alone on six, because no one has six. Chang has seven. Muster has eight. Sampris has 11. Murray has 14. Agassi with 17. And then Federer Nadal Djokovic with 28, 36, and 38. So Medvedev, if he does win this, will start to, you know, become one of the best Masters 1000 players going around. I mean, winning five or more isn't much, but also, I mean, Kurya, Bekkah. But you've got to remember, this is also something I need to remember myself. Masters 1000s weren't a thing before 1990. So that's why you don't see Mackin row. You don't see Edberg. You don't see Volander. Landl's not there. Where are those guys? They're the best players of the history of the game. Laver. It's because 1990 was when the ATP created the system we all know today. And that is, it's almost like everyone who won those tournaments from 1990 accounts. So we lost, you know, for 20 years before, Jimmy Connors, you know, all those guys, you know, there wasn't a thing. It wasn't a thing winning Masters 1000s. As that goes in the net from Runa and Love 15, he's trying to serve for the second set. I sounded like a tour guide. I sounded like it's a tennis tour guide. Hopefully you learned something in the stream chat and I'm not just rambling. Love 15. Love 15. As many tries to break back here in the second set. And the way the first set went, you think Runa needs to break, or needs to hold here and get this second set now because if he gets broken, Mehvedev might take the match. As we're just serving out the backhand and Mehvedev return is, oh, it's just wide. Runa with a serve volley and he almost lost the point, which would have been Love 30. It's 15 all. 15 all. Just wide from Mehdi. Runa. Trying to fist bump his way to the third. Serve out wide. Goes in the corner. Mehvedev corner. Runa is, oh, he overheats it. He overheats it. He knows it. He should have gone back behind Mehvedev routine. He overheats it. And it's 15-30. Man, that was a bad miss. Bad, bad miss. And Patrick Moritoglu is saying, you've got to get now. Get this one. Now, you've got this. You're here. You've got this. 15-30. Serve out wide. The backhand of Mehvedev return to the net. Good serve from Runa. 30 all. 30 all. By the way, chat. Let me know on the chat where you're watching from. I'd love to know where everyone's from. We'll see if we can cover the world. I'm in Australia. It's 3 o'clock in the morning on a Monday. All right. 30 all. As Runa serves two points away from the third. Serve out wide. The corner of Mehvedev return goes in the corner of Runa. Down the line. The backhand of Mehvedev is out from Runa. Break point Mehvedev. Now, we've got Seattle. We've got Poland. We've got Spain, India, Serbia, Alaska. Hey, there we go. Czechia. We've got London. We've got Florida. Midday in Texas. All right. Kenya is in the chat as well. We've got Spain as well. Ireland, Syria, Vancouver, SW19 London. Hey, you're out in Wimbledon. That's awesome. Serve out wide. It's a fault. Second serve. I used to live in W5 and also SW19 as well. 30-40. Second serve. Serve out wide. The backhand of Mehvedev. Backhand now from Runa to the back of the Mehvedev. Down the line. Runa with a slice forehand. Mehvedev in control. He's hit the forehand again to the front of Runa. Runa with a moon ball. Mehvedev with a backhand cross-court. Runa's there with a backhand of his own. As Mehvedev's backhand goes again to the backhand of Runa. Into the backhand of Mehvedev. Another backhand of Runa to the backhand of Mehvedev. Into the forehand of Runa as Mehvedev hits the backhand again. Into the forehand of Runa to the backhand of Mehvedev. That backhand don't miss. Forehand to forehand. Now Mehvedev with a forehand down the line. Into the backhand of Runa. Mehvedev with a backhand on the stretch now. That goes in. Runa again goes in the net. And it doesn't miss that backhand, Mehvedev. It's a brick wall. I don't know what Runa was thinking. He just kept going there. Mehdi's like, all right. Five-five back on serve. Sloppy game from Runa. Was that the chance for Runa to get to a third? All right, here we go. Let's see what can happen here. Mehdi's serving to get in the lead and be one game away from lifting the trophy in Rome. How, where are we? What universe are we in? What happened? Do we change timelines? What's going on? Five-five, second serve Mehdi Dev. Into the back end of Runa. Back end of Mehdi. Into the forehand of Runa as Mehdi hits the backhand slice on the stretch in the net. Runa great in the corner. Love 15. Runa is getting, it's a beard. He's got, in that beard, he just like has all the answers. He's like, here. Clay caught tennis, drop shot, drop shot, passing shot. Clay caught sliding. He is all in the beard. But now he's double, now he's hitting the ball out. Love 30. Yeah, it's all in that beard. The beard gives him Clay caught strength. Beard for Dev. Love 30. Clay for Dev, do you know? We're in the Clay for Dev universe. Ha ha ha ha. All right, here we go. Mehdi, he's in trouble here though. Love 30. Second serve Mehdi. Second serve. Into the forehand of Runa. Forehand from Mehdi Dev. Down the line is good. Runa with the backhand slice. Mehdi comes in with the swinging volley. Runa's there with the pass, but it's wide. Man, Runa's shanking that wide. 15-30. Harron, 33 minutes played. And thank gosh, the rain has held off. Now, the rain is, according to the radar, is still a threat, but it might not happen until the third. If there's a third. There's been a forehand from Mehdi Dev. Down the line, that's a good shot. Runa with the lob, no, it's out. And it's 30-all. And Runa screaming at the coach's box. 30-all. What a turnaround from two weeks ago, or three, what was it, five weeks ago when these guys played. Mehdi is such a quick learner. As he serves a fault. Second serve. Six points away from winning the trophy here as he serves down the front of Runa. Return goes in the front of Mehdi Dev. Back in our Runa. Down the line to the forehand of Mehdi Dev. As Runa hits the forehand again to the front of Mehdi. Into the backhand of Runa. As Mehdi hits the backhand of forehand again to the front of Runa. It's a drop shot. We haven't seen that for a long time. And it's a winner. Where have these drop shots been? He finally gets one. This is gonna be on tennis TV, Rob. I mean, he's been playing Mehdi's game all day. And he finally hits a drop shot. And it's a winner. I mean, the ball bounces high. His court does not let it play. Like the drop shots don't bounce high if they're good. 30-40. A chance for Runa to break and then serve at the set again. And Mehdi serves an ace. All right, back to Deuce. That's his fourth ace Mehdi Dev in this set. The coach of Mehdi is not even faced. He's like, I guess that was pretty good. Great, serve again Mehdi Dev. Advantage Runa. Sorry, advantage Mehdi. Runa can't get it back. Advantage Mehdi to get the lead and be one game away from lifting the trophy here. Wild, wild from Mehdi. As he serves the fourth, second serve. Second serve. Second serve in the back end of Runa. Return goes in the back end of Mehdi Dev. Four now, Runa. Into the four on the Mehdi Dev. Again to the forehand of Runa. As Mehdi hits the forehand, again to the four on Runa. To the four on the Mehdi Dev. Into the back end of Runa. As Mehdi hits the back end. No, Runa in the net. Mehdi Dev gets the lead. And he's one game away from becoming one of the serious contenders. I mean, we're all jokes aside. You know, we're all calling him Claibornev and ah, this is so funny. Look at this. We're gonna start taking Mehdi Dev a little more serious now because he's about to beat City Pass and Runa back to back on Clay. Two guys who are very capable of Claycourt tennis. So, I think we gotta start taking him a lot more serious if he wins one more game. All right, Chapp. Whoops, wrong one. Claibornev- The question! The question! Claibornev is real. Claibornev is real. It'll be a tie break. And we thought the first set was gonna be a tie break and look what happened. By the way, we're almost at a thousand likes. Can we get to a thousand likes by the end of this game? I mean, we're almost, are we gonna get a tie break? I don't know. But can we get to the, can we get to a thousand likes? We're almost there. Runa gonna get broken again. I mean, that's what's been happening. I mean, Mehdi Dev is one. He's lost three sets. Seven, five. Sidney pass, twice, seven, five. And then now Runa once and maybe twice to win the match. Thank you, Crypto. You're just being me. No worries, Dutchie. I think I still back Mehdi in a tie. Well, yeah, if it goes to a tie break, does that make, I don't think that's any easier for Runa. I mean, it might just be delaying the inevitable. Maybe making it to six, five is enough for Mehdi. You know, he already, Runa already had his chance to win the match. So, oh, sorry, win the set. Where am I from? I'm from Australia. Now the court conditions are the same as Rome or the French. They're supposed to be, yeah. Very similar. But Mehdi Dev is just, he is playing clay court tennis. That's the biggest difference from the match that he played in Monte Carlo against Runa. Like Mehdi Dev is playing, he's sliding around. And to be honest, Runa is playing into Mehdi Dev's hands. Like Mehdi Dev is like, oh, but it's gonna rally? I can rally. Whereas Runa, you know, he's not really playing his game. Mehdi Dev's controlling all the things at the moment. Just getting the ball back and Runa's doesn't know what to do. Four now from Runa. In the net, love 15. Love 15. And Runa's trying to hit the ball through Mehdi Dev, which doesn't work. Do I like Kyrus? Yeah, Kyrus are great. Love 15. Again, thanks for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We're gonna be watching the French Open, of course. All the way through is Runa hits a terrible kick serve out to the back of Mehdi Dev. And then it's a forehand into the front of Mehdi. Into the drop shot of Runa, Runa in the net. Runa's not what to do. Love 30. Mehdi Dev's two points away. Two points away from winning Rome. What? What is this? Where are, what is going on? In what world are we in? I mean, this is Mehdi Dev's world. Where does all live in it? Claver Dev's world. Love 30. Serve out wide as a fold. Second serve. Love 30. Second serve, Runa. Second serve into the front of Mehdi Dev. Return goes in the front of Runa. Again, to the front of Mehdi. Runa with the backhand is out. We got match points. Championship points for Daniel Mehdi Dev. On a clay court. On a clay court. And he's about to win another Masters 1,000 title. And like I said, he's ticking all the boxes. He's gonna win his sixth Masters 1,000 event. There's nine in the collection and he's about to win his sixth. Love 40. Mehdi Dev championship point. He serves out wide, Runa a fold. Second serve. Second serve. Runa out wide to the backhand of Mehdi Dev. Return goes in to the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Mehdi Dev. Again, to the forehand of Runa. Who goes on the line? Mehdi on the stretch gets it. Runa in trouble. Foein goes in the backhand of Mehdi Dev. Backhand of Runa on the stretch is good. Mehdi with a drop shot. That is gonna go in the nets. That was so close. If that goes over, GGs. It doesn't. It's 15-40, one save that's starting to rain. 15-40. Not hard enough to stop. We're not gonna stop this match. Tell you what, if Runa somehow comes back it's a tiebreaker, my friend. All right, 15-40. Championship point number two. Daniel Mehdi Dev. Don't forget to subscribe. We haven't already. Appreciate everyone being here. Runa taking a little extra time here. And they're waiting for the, the umpire saying crowd, please be quiet. Here we go, 15-40. Serve out wide as a fault. Second serve, Runa. Second serve, Runa. Goes in to the backhand of Mehdi Dev. Foein out from Runa. Into the backhand of Mehdi on the stretch. Slice goes in from Mehdi Dev. Runa with a Foein down the line. Is it in? It's out. No way. The umpire called it. The umpire called it. Mehdi Dev on the ground. Klayvedev does it. It's out from Runa. The umpire made the overall. And Mehdi Dev wins Rome. Klayvedev does it. They shake hands with the umpire. GGs. Oh my God. Daniel Mehdi Dev's won his 20th title. Fifth of the year. He's the best player of the year. He's gotta be. And now, I know we've been making jokes. Klayvedev, blah, blah, blah. He is actually a chance at the French. He's number two in the world. He's number two in the world now. Djokovic goes down to number three. So not only did Nolay lose his top spot, he lost his second spot too. We could have a French open. Where Djokovic and Alcarez are up the top. And Mehdi Dev by himself down the bottom. I mean, the French open just got a hell of a lot weirder. I mean, Raph is gone and look what's happened. It's gone crazy. Everything's gone crazy. Mehdi Dev wins in Rome. That is insane. And he beats both. He beats two of the better Klaycore players in the world. The tennis world has been flipped on its head. It's crazy. He beats Sidney Pass and Runa back to back to win his first Klaycore, first big Klaycore title. 20th title in his 20th different city or whatever that is. You know that whole thing? My God, GGs. What the heck is that? I know. What a weird, what are we? This is so weird. I mean, when did Rebak in a winning, as it was kind of weird too, but Mehdi Dev winning was weirder. I thought Mehdi Dev hated Klay. Now he loves it. Man, wow. Incredible. Why didn't, I don't think anyone had Mehdi Dev in their fan slam. I mean, no one would have had Mehdi Dev in their fan slam. Not seriously. Maybe it's a joke. But man, and look, that's the second 1,000 event Runa's lost. And I think it's probably the second one he should have, I mean, this year, second final that he maybe should have won because he definitely should have won Monte Carlo. Definitely should have won Monte Carlo. And this should have been three sets. He should have won that second set serving for it. But man. Don't know Mehdi Dev. And let me just show you again, Chat. This graphic. So, look at this. Daniel Mehdi Dev, he's won Miami. He's won Canada. He's won Cincinnati. He's won Shanghai. He's won Paris. Now he's won Rome. He's got to the final of Indian Wells. Quarterfinals of Monte Carlo, Madrid semi fourth round. He's three away from the Golden Masters. I mean, the start of the year when he was playing terrible, we weren't even talking about him winning another slam. We were talking about Mehdi Dev trying to get back in the top 10. He is now only three away from the Golden Masters, which is only what Djokovic has done. No one else has done it. He could do it. I mean, what do you think? Maybe the Indian Wells might be the hardest because he hates playing on that slow hard court. But if he can win this, he can win Madrid. Right? I mean, he can win Madrid surely. Let's have a look at the power rankings as well. This will change. And Mehdi Dev's got to be number one because he's won five titles and he's come out and he's beaten two guys in the top 10 of the power ranks. Chat, is Mehdi Dev the best player of 2023? He has to be. He was the best hardcore player. And then now I think he's the best player overall because he's just won a title. He's won a massive clay title. So it's going to probably be Mehdi Dev number one, Alcarez number two, going into the French. Sinner might be pushed down with Runa going probably up to, I think Runa probably goes up to number four or three or four. Djokovic will rise after his week. Fritz and Rubellev might drop. So it might be Mehdi Dev, Alcarez, maybe Sinner, Djokovic, Runa, like not in that order, but just those five. Siddi Pass obviously will rise, losing to Mehdi Dev, Mehdi Dev's up the top. But man, what the hell? What are we, what is going on? Where are we? 2023 is weird. Chat, it's weird. Blue trophies are team trophies. So Fritz won the United Cup. We're only halfway through 2023, but at the moment Mehdi Dev is the number one. He's the best player this year. He's the best player since today. From the end of May, he is the best player of the year. French open, if he wins, if he doesn't win it, he might not have to win it to stay there. He might only have to make the quarter finals to make it worth it. Now Mehdi Dev, someone asked, what is Mehdi Dev's best result of the French? Well, he made a quarter final randomly two years ago. He was like, I hate Clay. And then all of a sudden he made a quarter final. Like, do you, do you really? Last year, he made the fourth round. He lost in the first round of the French Open for four years in a row before 21. In 2021, he went through the French Open, beating, beating as the number two player in the world, beating Bublick, Paul, Opelka, Garin, and then he lost to Siddi Pass. And then last year when he didn't even play because he was injured for the most part of the Clay Court season, he came in as the number two player in the world again, beat Bagnes, Jera, Ketchmenovich, and lost to Chilich. So, like, and Chad, like I said, the draw for the French Open is gonna be so important. So important. Mainly to see where Djokovic is, because he's the floater. Big Mac. Mehdi crushing two of the three best new gens, Sinner and Rune. Exploding head happy for Mehdi pushing through and improving his game. So good. RG will be interesting this year. Oh, so interesting. Anonymous. Why didn't Rune adjust his game plan? The template was set earlier this year. Anonymous, I have no idea. I don't know why. I think it was because he was coming to the net. So, we know like the blueprint to beat Mehdi has been, you know, has been by, you know, getting, coming to the net, hitting volleys, you know, serve volleying, you know, mixing it up. Rune did that, but it didn't work for a little bit. And I think that discouraged him. So I think when he, he only won 50% of points at the net or even less now, I guess, after the, maybe at the end of the match. But once he didn't believe that the game of coming to the net worked, he stopped doing it. And he started a rally with Mehvedev. And that's when, that's exactly what Mehvedev wants. I think he should have done underarm serve just to keep Mehvedev guessing. He didn't really hit that many drop shots, Rune, maybe two or three. Again, something that he should have done more. Bring Mehvedev to the net. Mehvedev can't volley that well. Why not bring him in? So I think there was a lot of things that Rune didn't do that probably he should have. And he played into Mehvedev hands. I mean, like rallying with Mehvedev on the baseline, doesn't matter if it's clay, grass, hard court. It could be on the moon and it wouldn't matter. Mehvedev's going to win those points pretty much every time. Ah man, but yeah. And Rune started to lose, like mentally he was, I don't know, mentally he lost. It was more that like he just, he lost faith in the game plan. I think, you know, and Patrick Morteau was like, no, stick with it. And he's like, no, get stuffed. So I think he lost hope in the game plan and he just gave up on that and, Mehvedev won. Mehvedev won. Rain delays, feud for no reason, celebrating and swimming on soil. What are you talking about? Hey, guess what? We didn't get a rain delay in this final. Yay. We were supposed to rain, which luckily it held off. It might rain in the next couple of hours, but at least we got through the final. Well, it did rain to the start. But it didn't rain at the end, thank God. We got through a full final. Yep, save score is the last match too, right? It was so weird, hey? 75, 75, exactly like the scissi pass match. Here's Fumble, yeah. Mehvedev is enjoying playing on clay this year, which is a big difference from the previous seasons. Like the fact that it was always, it was always a mental, it was always a mindset thing for Mehvedev. He hated clay. It wasn't that he couldn't play on clay, he just hated, he hated clay courts. Nothing to do with, nothing to do with his game, he's capable obviously. But yeah, just hated the clay courts and if you hate something and you go and do that thing, if you go play on the surface, you're like, well, you're gonna go in with a negative attitude, so you're not gonna probably do well. So Mehvedev has a voodoo doll for his opponents. Crazy. French Open 2023 is gonna be tricky, yeah. So let me go through the rankings because the rankings are ready. Now wild, okay, this is throwing, this is so, so random now. So Mehvedev is now number two in the world. You got Alcares, Mehvedev won two. Who the hell thought that was gonna be the rankings at the start of the year? Mehvedev was on a five-match losing streak to start the year, right? He's now won five of his six finals he's played. Alcares is number one, but only by 500 points. So Mehvedev, if he has a decent French Open and Alcares doesn't, could be number one after the French. Djokovic is number three, Rude is number four. That's the top four seats for the French, right? So what that means, it means that Alcares, Mehvedev don't play till the finals, that's great for Mehdi. Don't play Alcares until the last possible moment. But it means Djokovic will either be up the top or down the bottom. So when they do the draw on Thursday or Friday, whenever Thursday, right? When they do the draw, Djokovic being up the top or down the bottom is a big deal. Djokovic wants to be down the bottom. Mehvedev wants Djokovic to be up the top. So Alcares and Mehvedev are basically trying to avoid Djokovic and that will make a big deal because of course the top four seats play in the semis. So playing Djokovic in the semis as opposed to the final especially if Djokovic goes with Alcares, Djokovic versus Alcares and let's say Mehvedev makes the final, those guys battle. It means Mehvedev only has to play one of them, not both. So that's a big deal. And also no disrespect to Kasparud but he's not Djokovic, right? So you'd rather play Rude than Djokovic. City pass at five, Rune at six, Rube Levitt seven, Sinner at eight. That's a tough top eight. So Mehvedev's best case scenario, right? He gets Rude in his draw. He probably gets Rune, if he gets Rune, that's probably a good thing or maybe even Steph. I don't think he minds either of those guys. And he probably gets, if he gets Sinner because Sinner has never beaten him. So he has a good record over Sinner. But the big thing is don't get Djokovic. If he avoids Djokovic, I mean, look, he could have Rude, City pass, Rube Lev, and that's a good draw for Mehdi because Mehdi's beaten City pass, Rube Lev, he's got a good record against and Rude is better to play against than Djokovic even if Rude's good Claycorder still. Or he could get Rude, Rune and Sinner, which is, again, he just beat Rune. He's beaten Sinner a lot. And again, you'd rather have Rude on a Claycourt or the French in a Grand Slam than Djokovic. So the draw is gonna be huge for Mehdi and Elkaraz. Where does Djokovic fall? Because Djokovic is gonna have to play Mehdi or Elkaraz. Who gets Djokovic is gonna be the question. Also, if we go on a little further down, I mean, look, you've got Fritz, FAA, Hashinov, Tiafo, Hercatch, Nori, Chorich, none of those players. I mean, look, there's the top eight. There's a big difference between the guys I just talked about and FAA Fritz, Hashinov, going into the French, right? No one really outside of that top eight. I think we're really talking about serious contenders, are we? Nadal's not playing, Baratini's not playing, who maybe, you know, you would give as a, maybe Baratini can be dangerous sometimes. I mean, Moussetti's probably gonna be tricky. You don't wanna play him, I guess. Zverev is out of the top outside of that too. So maybe you don't wanna get Zverev in a third round, right, which could happen. Zverev's 27 in the world at this point. He might be a third-round opponent for somebody. Curious was not playing, of course. So yeah, I mean, maybe you don't wanna play Chorich, but again, Chorich has been so, so on the clay. Carrots, yeah, Carrots will be unseated first round. But yeah, I mean, it's gonna be a very interesting draw. Very, very interesting draw on come Thursday. Nobody wants to drop, yeah, there's a lot of unseated players that people don't wanna play, but yeah, when it comes to like serious contenders that you, you know, we'll get, we'll do the, don't know, in the preview on Thursday, we'll talk about all those things. When does qualifying start? I think qualifying starts tomorrow for the French. What about Curious? Curious is not playing. Draw comes out Thursday. Baratini's not playing the French, no. He pulled out. Didn't he just pull out like two days ago? What food should I have for lunch? I don't know. Medi thanked Patrick for his speech. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Thank you for pissing off your student. Logic of seeding should be one versus four. That's not how it works. That's not how it is. It's one and two don't play and then they get split. It's just random. It's not one versus four. I know some tournaments, people think that's how it works, but it's not how it works. And I get your logic, but then again, if that's the logic we're gonna go by, then everyone's gonna, then we could just go like, well, one versus four and then five versus eight and then everything else. But I mean, it is what it is. I like it being random because it makes the draw tougher for some, you know? It makes it really tough. Someone might get, you know, the hardest plays in the top eight and the other half was not as hard. That's what the draw is all about. Medi said, Bernadis made a mistake on that last ball from Runa, who's actually in and he thanked him for that. Really? That's crazy. Carlos, the umpire gets a shot. Really? Yeah. That's great. I'm sure the umpire loves that. He's like, hey, thank you for making an error at the last on championship point. Well, Medvedev, look, Carlos Bernadis, he made a lot of errors. So, I mean, at least Medvedev pointed it out, I guess. Oh man, so weird. So crazy. So yeah, so now Medvedev is the only player on six Masters 1000s. Can number five and six be in the same half? No. I don't think so. Medvedev now sits high, top of the rankings. Yeah, he's number two in the world. Draws weren't random. Players may have an incentive to throw matches. Exactly, that's a good, that's a good, and look, let's say, like, I mean, yeah, I mean, let's talk about that. Let's say Medvedev didn't want to be number two, right? He could have thrown this match to be number three. So you know what, like, that's a very good point. It avoids players, like, because it's random, if it was one versus four, two versus three, and you had a chance to be four or three, and you want to be four because the number one is, you have a better record against the number one than number two, then there is an incentive to throw matches, true. You know? And we don't want that because then, you know, people get, then, you know, that's borderline match fixing. Or it might be blatantly match fixing. So you're right there. That's a good, that's a really good point. Did Ruiner explode physically? Not really, it was pretty chill. Is the Golden Masters overall in a year? No, overall, a career Golden Masters. A calendar Golden Masters would be every tournament in the year, but the Golden Masters is over your career, because it's pretty much impossible to do it in one year. No one's come close. They're doing it all in a single season. They'll be nuts. Good final, just two sets. Yeah, it was a competitive final. Ruiner had his moments, and Medvedev won. I mean, I said at the start, I picked Ruiner to win, but I was happy, I'm happy with Medvedev wins. I'm happy to be wrong. And I can't, it's, man, like it's mind-blowing. It makes things so, so random, it's crazy. Such a crazy thing, anonymous. Crushing defeat for Ruin after losing at Monte Carlo in Rome, only one title so far this year. Yeah, it's tough. Vims. If Novak is ready, there is nothing to fear. Yeah, yeah, look, I think Novak. Look, I think Novak and Alkarez, he didn't play, he hasn't played Alkarez on a clay called Medvedev, so I don't think that would go well. Look, Djokovic and Alkarez beat Medvedev on clay. I think we can all agree, right? Or maybe not, maybe he doesn't. But I think, I think if he plays Alkarez on clay or Medvedev, sorry, or Djokovic, totally different story to playing, you know, City Pass who had family drama, maybe a bit distracted, or Ruina who is still super young. So it's a big difference to play those guys on a clay court in five. But yeah, tough defeat. I mean, Ruina should have won Monte Carlo and he should have gotten to a third set today. So yeah, two disappointing performances, but he is playing better than he was at the start of the year. So he isn't getting better. He's had a pretty good clay season, Ruina, so far. You know, he's made two finals. He's won a title. Madrid was a let down, but overall I think he would say he's had a pretty good season on clay. Medvedev, by the way, Chat, 10 wins on clay. Did we not say, did we not? Look, Chat, I don't like to pat myself on the back much, but I'm gonna pat myself on the back. Go watch the finals of Miami in New Wales. Did I not say that Medvedev was gonna have the best clay court season he would ever have this year? Did I not say that, Chat? Did I not say that? Did I not say that I think Medvedev is gonna win more clay court matches this year than ever? Didn't think he was gonna win a title, but I did say that he was gonna play that had the best clay court season of his career this year. He's gonna be the best he's ever been on clay this year. And he's doing it. He must listen. I am from the future. Don't forget. Thank you. I get a gold star. Thank you. That's all I wanted. I just want to get, I just want somebody to give me, I just need validation. Thank you. Thank you. Well, no, like, he was doing a lot of things on the hard courts. That's why it wasn't a shot in the dark. He was hitting a lot of drop shots on the hard court. So it's kind of like he was practicing back then. So thank you for the salute. But yeah, he was, I mean, look, he's won 10 matches on the hard, on the clay courts this year, more than any other season in his, like, you know, top tier level. And that's only the beginning. He could have been 15 by the time he gets to the French, right? At the end of the French Open, he could have won, you know, 15 or maybe, you know, maybe more. Makes it to a semi-final. He's won 15 matches on clay this year, which is ridiculously good for Mevida. The saying is bad is for Djokovic. It's also bad for Elkras. Of course, it's terrible for both. If they get put in the same section of the draw, they're in the same half. That's what makes it so bad for them, you know? Elkras and Djokovic, with Mevida winning this tournament, it makes it terrible for both of them. Cause now they might have to play each other. Do you think Tomek is going to make a comeback? No, no. Can five and six can be in the same half, or can they? It's very, okay, fair enough. Thank you for the confirmation. Yeah, I haven't done the research for you. Thank you for the confirmation. What about Runa? What about Runa? Nolei won't get to a quarter-final. To be honest, Nolei haven't been informed. Yeah, but you told me my grand-same Nolei. You didn't count out grand-same Nolei? I mean, look at Djokovic before he's thrown open. He had a leg problem. He almost lost a quarter in a final. He barely scraped through winning a title in Adelaide, and then he went through the Australian Open on one leg demolishing everybody. Grand-same Nolei is the different guy. You can't, like, everything that's happened so far on the clay, Djokovic is a different guy when he hits the French open. Yeah, he had elbow problems, but they don't seem to have been a problem this week. He had to sleeve on, I think, the first round, but after that, he was pretty free. He won something, though. Yeah, but he didn't win it convincingly. Like, even if he had won, I don't know, Bosnia would we be thinking, oh, he won Bosnia? No? I'm not, I'm never gonna count Djokovic out of the slam. Even if he didn't have a great form, it's like, all right, but he's gonna walk through the French open doors and it'll get into Roland Garros. That's a different guy. Because Djokovic cares more about slams, right? We all know that. That's a common, it's been like three years. Last three years, that's all that's mattered. You know, masters are nice. You know, he's got all of them, though. He doesn't need any more, he's got Rome. You know, he doesn't need Rome, he doesn't need Madrid. But he wants more grand slams. Especially when Rafa's not around. Because Rafa won when Nole was not around. Remember? Australia opened last year. So Djokovic is gonna be totally different when he gets to the French, because he's got, he's hungrier. He's got more motivation. He wants to take the grand slam record. He wants to take it from Rafa in Rafa's house while Rafa's not home. He's gonna steal it from Rafa in his own house. You know, the Statue of Rafa's out the front. Djokovic is gonna, you know, graffiti that on their way out as he wins the French Open. You know, Nole forever. So like, you know, like totally different guy coming to the French Open Djokovic. Different mentality, different, you know, the main goal is to win as many slams as possible. Masters are nice, but slams are different. So different for Djokovic. Yeah, massive opportunity to win. It's like when, it's like when Federer beat Samperas in front of, at Wimbledon in front of his own face. But Djokovic is gonna, he's trying to win the French Open and win every grand slam three times. Which again, is another thing that nobody's ever even thought about doing. So there's a lot more to play for for Djokovic at the French than there is in Rome and Madrid or anywhere else. So yeah. So don't count Djokovic out just yet. What if Medvedev wins the French? Does he deserve a statue? I don't know, maybe. Nole won't win the French. Wimbledon maybe, okay? No, I'm not saying that he's guaranteed the French, but I'm just saying he is going to be different at the French. So anything that's happened so far for Djokovic on the clay, I don't think it's gonna happen. I mean, look, he lost, who'd he lose to? He lost to Livevich in straight sets. In a two out of three sets he lost. He lost to Moussedi in three sets. And he lost to Ruiner in three sets. So, and he didn't play Madrid. So if those are five set matches, would he have beaten, he's beaten Moussedi in five? Would he have come back to win against Ruiner two sets of one down? Ruiner was playing pretty good, so maybe not. But he's Livevich from two sets of love down. Djokovic would still go, yeah, I can come back. I can win. Because if you come back from someone, if you come back against City Pass in a final two sets of love down at the French, Livevich in a second round, you're probably believing yourself. So again, I would not be counting out Djokovic. Different, is a different guy, different guy coming in. Sinner's definitely not laughing anymore. Laughing at what? Everybody knows Nolay loses first two sets. Something different. Top half of the draw, City Pass, Djokovic, Sinner and Elkaraz. That would be so crazy. Yeah, I guess look, we're talking about like Mevvedev, right? Who does he wanna play and who does he not wanna play? Who does Elkaraz wanna not play and who does he wanna play? I gotta be real. If it's Elkaraz, Djokovic, Runa and Sinner, that is the worst draw for Elkaraz, right? Because Sinner can beat him. Runa's beaten him. Djokovic, you know, Grand Slam, Djokovic, a different guy. And then Mevvedev will get Rude, City Pass and Rubelev, who I think he would, I think it's more important that Elkaraz avoids players than Mevvedev playing whoever. Because I think Mevvedev, if he plays Runa, if he plays City Pass, if he plays Rude, Rubelev, Sinner, it doesn't really matter that much. They're all kind of like, he thinks he can probably beat all of them or maybe they can get him. I don't know. But Elkaraz, he can't play. It's gonna be so brutal if he has to play Djokovic and Runa and Sinner potentially, you know? Like, you know what I mean? Like it's way, the draw is way more important for Elkaraz than Mevvedev. Starting with Djokovic, where's he for? But then after that, you know, Elkaraz wants to play Rubelev and City Pass and Rude, right? He wants those guys. He needs those guys. That would be a good draw for him. But he could get a shit draw. And don't have to mention Djokovic, if he gets Elkaraz, right? Djokovic, Elkaraz. And then you put Runa up there as well, who Runa is just beating Djokovic, right? That would be, those three guys could be in the top half of the draw. And that's a nightmare. And then you put Sinner up there who took Djokovic to five at the Wimbledon, right? I mean, that would be an absolute nightmare if you get Elkaraz, Djokovic, Runa, and Sinner. Somebody clip this, because if that happens, we'll do like a do-do-do-do-do, like in three days time, you know? We'll do that. If that happens, it's a nightmare, and then it happens, you know? Like, we'll do that. So somebody clip this. But yeah, those four guys in the top half is a nightmare. Can you imagine? That would be the top heaviest draw ever. Well, not ever, because that was two years ago when we had Federer and Adal Djokovic in the top half. But it would be super crazy. Who is in better shape among the favorites? Well, I mean, Medvedev's a favorite, right? Um, I mean, I don't know. I still think Elkaraz and Djokovic. Again, Djokovic. Djokovic, Djokovic, Djokovic. Golden Masters, Medi. Medi could definitely win the Golden Masters. He could definitely win the Golden Masters. AO22 and FF, French Open 22 were so unbalanced. Well, unbalanced or like top heavy or bottom heavy, whatever you want to call it. I mean, maybe. Djokovic has a pending elbow problem. Djokovic had an elbow problem that he got in Monte Carlo, that he dealt with in Monte Carlo, that he took into Bosnia, that he took Madrid off four. But it didn't bother him in Rome. The elbow bothered him in the first match. But after that, his elbow didn't seem a problem. At least it didn't look like it. So I don't think the elbow is a problem going into the French. As much as it was at the start. Yes, he had an elbow problem, but I don't think it's as bad now. And losing to Runa might be a good thing because it gives him an extra week to kind of get ready, right? So I don't think, I don't think, unless he comes out on day one of the French Open with an elbow sleeve, then I'll forget everything I said. But I don't think Djokovic has got a big elbow problem going into the French. He doesn't have an injury problem. As bad as he did, you know, like I said, in Monte Carlo and Bosnia and whatever. What round do you think realistically if it's Vera over the French? It goes to his draw. I mean, he might get a third round match up with Elkraz. Right? That could happen. He could get a third round match with Djokovic because he's down in the ranks. So it comes down to Elkrz, sorry, it's Vera's draw. If he gets, best case scenario, I think if it's Vera, if it's Vera have got maybe Rueblev, maybe, maybe Mervitv. I mean, maybe he wants to take Mervitv for a third time and try and get him on the clay in the third one. I don't know, but yeah. Who's the dark horse for the French? It's hard to say Mervitv's a dark horse, right? Like, I don't think Metti's a dark horse now because he's won a big trophy. I mean... Seven different ATP 1000 for Metti. Same as Nadal, Murray and Agassi. How about that? Oh, you're counting the ADB finals. Are you counting the ADB finals? Thank you for the two. Yeah, seven different, yeah. Including the ADB finals, yeah. Sure. I just want to check something for a... Let me just check if I can do this for a second. Maybe we should start doing this as a member's... A member's, uh, exquisite. Sinner as Alcaraz as Kryptonite. Carlos just beat him at the U.S. Open but lost to him at Wimbledon decisively. Alcaraz would prefer to avoid Sinner at all cost. I agree. I agree. Members, are you in the chat? I want to see if that worked. That worked? Where are the members at? Members, get your questions. I feel like we could start doing this. Like, have a member's... A member's only section so their members get their questions at the end. We're going to sign off in a second, so... Or in like five minutes. So let's just give the members a chance so I can read their quid. If you want to be a member, it's only a dollar a month so you can be involved in the discussion still. If you want to be a member, it's up to you. You don't have to. Any questions from the members? When is the French Open draw? The French Open draw is on Thursday, I think. Or Friday. If secrecy and city pass lost, who? Sorry, Shannon, I missed that one. I don't know who... There's a typo. Who's the WTA Dark Horse? Who is the WTA Dark Horse? That's a good question. Man, Pagula? I don't know. After this week, I don't know. Coulda Metova, maybe. She's had a pretty good couple of weeks. Kyrus might be coming back for the grass. What's tennis? What tennis is next? French Open. Next week, there's tournaments but nothing worth really watching until maybe the end of the week if something, like if we get good matches but next week's pretty chill. Next week, we're taking the whole week off because we've got to get ready for the French. French is, I need to recharge. Hey, thank you, Grave. Becoming a member, I appreciate that. If Rebecca and I were allowed to get 2,000 points where would she be ranked? I think she would still be stirred but just behind Savalenka, I think. Any exciting qualities? Not really. Thank you, Perp for becoming a member. Appreciate that. Can we get some solutes for the new members, please? They'll be nice. Thank you, appreciate that. This French Open's gonna be fire. Shannon, you have, I mean, mate, this is gonna be a ridiculous French Open. Wouldn't player want a competitive run so then final they are prime? What do you mean, in reference to what? Yeah, yeah, Ryan, we're gonna be streaming the draw 100%. We do all the, like we do the draw preview show, live show, every, every, or the draw ceremony show, every single big event. So we'll definitely be doing the draw ceremony show on for the French. No worries, see you later, Diane. Thanks for joining us. Predict some ups and to the French. Oh man, it's gotta be, you gotta, the draw, I mean, gotta wait for the draw. By the way, I'm gonna give some memberships because I forgot, Zach, I know you're here, mate, somewhere, but I'm so sorry that I've totally forgot. Me and Zach were talking off before the match. We're gonna do a Zach versus Cam. He was gonna take Medvedev, I took Runa, but I forgot to mention it. So I'm gonna give five memberships because I lost because I picked Runa. So, yeah, I hope Zach's still here. I know I forgot to mention it. So five members going to five randoms. Thank you WK for becoming a member, appreciate that. So five of you in the chat who maybe are still watching this, but you can't, you wanna be a part of the conversation now as a member, thank you for becoming a member, appreciate it. Tim Heman and Martina divided, Tim thinks Elkwiz, Martina thinks Djokovic. Yeah, I think, because if they meet in the final, like Djokovic is proven, Elkwiz is still at the French open, is still unproven. There you go, Siket, Rosa, Max, Crosscourt and Narage. Welcome. There you go. Yeah, I'm with Martina. I'm still going with Djokovic just because I know he can win the French. I don't know if Elkwiz can, we haven't seen it yet. Five titles and we're not even halfway through the year. I don't know, Medvedev is on fire. Five titles in six finals plus, like five titles in his last, like seven events, right? So like, so what did he win? He won Dubai, he won Rotterdam or something. What did he win? He won Rotterdam Dubai. No, what did he win? I'm gonna get this right. I know he won an indoor tournament. Yeah, he did win Rotterdam. So he won Rotterdam, Doha, Dubai, and then he lost in the mid, so that was four, no, so it was three, then he lost in Indian was final, then he won Miami, then he's played Monte Carlo, Madrid and then lost and then won here. So yeah, five titles in eight tournaments, that's crazy. That's crazy. I mean, what a run. You expect to see Carlson Beast mode? Yeah, hopefully, that'd be ideal. I think Mehdi should take grass serious. He's capable of Winby. Yeah, if he didn't get banned last year, I think it would have been a serious threat, but unfortunately politics, but hopefully he plays this year and hopefully he gets to play. Five out of his last eight, lost in Indian was Monte Carlo, Madrid. Thank you Natalie for the confirmation. Carlitos on four titles, yep. So Mehdi's got the most titles of anybody, including Elkores, but Elkores was injured for the first month, so he kind of didn't get a chance to win a title in Australia, maybe, but still. So Mehdi has lost four matches this year, sorry, five matches this year, right? He lost to Djokovic in Adelaide. He lost to Corda at the Australian Open. Elkores in Indian Wells, Carrots in Madrid and Runa, so five losses this year, Mehdi. Elkores, Djokovic, Runa, and then two kind of random-ish losses, too. See you later, Lisa. Thank you for the nice words. I don't think Shriontek gonna win, like I really think this. Well, Shannon, the injury is huge, isn't it? The injury is such a huge deal. Such a massive deal. It's gonna be weird seeing Shriontek number in the rankings during the live rankings. Yeah, she'll be number two, isn't she? Cause she loses all those points, but she will be, I mean, look, I don't think I, we're gonna have to do the math, but I don't think Sabalenka will be number one after the French, but Wimbledon could be a thing. So looking at the live rankings, Shriontek loses 2,000 points, 6,940 points, right? I think Sabalenka loses 150 points. So Sabalenka will be, what, about 300 points ahead, 400 points, we'll say just to make it 400 points, which means that if Shriontek has to do like almost two things better than Sabalenka. So if Sabalenka wins the fourth round, Shriontek has to make the semis all better, something like that. Again, quick, might be more, she might have to go at the final, Sabalenka makes the fourth round, but yeah, it'll be a great, look, French Open is gonna have a, for the first time, I think for a long time, we're gonna have the men and women's rankings, both up for grabs, the top spot, because we've got Mehvedev trying to get to number one, Djokovic as well, and Elkraz, a three-person battle, and I mean, Rude's probably too far away, but actually he's way down because he has points to lose. So we've got a three-person battle for the French Open. In fact, Djokovic, oh no, because Elkraz and Mehdi both did pretty well last year, so they've all got points to lose. So there's a three-man battle for the number one spot at the French on the ATP, and then on the WTA, it's between, it's between the top two. So there's, I don't know if that's ever happened, have we ever had, after a Grand Slam, the number one and number one on both sides, we could have Mehvedev and Sabalenka number one, getting to number one after this tournament. I mean, is that ever, I don't know if that's happened recently, I don't think so, to change it at the top on both WTA and ATP is wild. No worries, Greggs, thanks for supporting the channel, mate, I appreciate the, I'm glad, go, if you're in the members discord, by the way, and if you are a member, jump in the discord, members only discord. Greggs has been putting articles in there, you can, he's been writing articles about all the different things going around in tennis, so go check him out. When was the last time, both the ATP and WTA number ones were Russian? Saffin, maybe Saffin and, I don't know, maybe never, I mean Saffin, Mehvedev, Kofelnikov, and then on the women's side, you have like Sharapova, but the Russian ladies didn't start, didn't get going until like 2004 and Saffin didn't reach number one after 2001, I guess, so they might not have ever been an overlap, unless there was a Russian lady in 2000, but I can't think of it. And I don't think there was a Russian number one back in the 90s for the ladies, so I don't think ever, don't think ever. Thoughts on team of the French? I just hope he gets a decent draw so we can play, you know, win a couple of matches. No worries, Maddie, see you later. We're gonna sign off in a sec because I am, I've been a four hour stream because of the, we started when the rain started. Does anyone know who Kyrus is? He's injured, he is hurt. He is not playing because he's injured. It'd be great if we get Fjontek versus Sabalenka in the final, winner is number one, that would be crazy. Would the winner be number one? I guess so, because 2,000 points, 1,200 for the runner up or 1,300 for the run. Yeah, so it would be a winner gets the French open, is number one in the world, that's right, you're right. That's right. Where can I find the member's discord? So if you click on the YouTube channel, if you're a member it says Perks and if you click on Perks it will give you a link to the member's discord. Cam, do your glasses have magnification or blue block? Blue block, I can see properly, I just, the constant staring to the screen kills my eyes. So just so my eyes don't get red and I don't look like I'm like crying. My eyes aren't, well, my eyes aren't killing me. I can touch grass, yes, I can go touch grass, yay. Thanks for your commentary, no worries, more thank you for joining us. No worries, I'm actually a true support Dundee United, nice. Where's the draw for the French? It's on Thursday. All right, chat, we're out of here, but thank you for joining us. Again, don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't already, we're gonna be back. We're not gonna be back during the week because, oh, well actually no, so we are. We're gonna be back during the week, we're gonna be watching the French open draw come out. Huge preview, of course, huge. As we do every single big event, we've done it for, we did it from this tournament, we did it for Madrid, we did it for all the other Grand Slams as well throughout the last couple of years. So make sure you join us for the live draw ceremony show coming up Thursday. We're gonna have plenty of stuff to go through and then react to the draw and see what happens. Where does Djokovic go? Is he up the top, down the bottom? Where's Rabakina? Up the top or down the bottom? Because I think that also makes a difference to someone like Ashfiontech, who hasn't had a good run against Rabakina lately. So a big, big French open coming up, and especially with guys like Mehmet and Rabakina winning Rome, it just changes everything. It changes the way I've looked at the French open coming into it in the next couple of days. But we might do a stranger in the week, later in the week depends on whatever happens with the draws that are out. But they're on the ATP 250s and they're really just mainly tournaments for players to get some form who maybe don't feel comfortable yet for the French open. So they're trying to get extra form. So we might watch if there's a good match at the end of the week. But at this stage, pretty much not watching anything except for the French open draw. And then the French open starts Sunday. This time next week, French open 2023 begins. This time next week. First round on Sunday. It's on a Sunday. Weird. But thank you for joining us. Mehmetev wins his first massive clay court event and man, Klaivarev is real. It was a joke. It was a meme. And then the meme became reality. And now it's a thing. It's a real thing. Klaivarev is real. 7575, he beats Runa after beating Sidney Pass also this week. Two of the best clay courters going around. Mehmetev took them both out in straight sets and he puts his hand up as a serious threat of the French open. And he's also the number two in the world. Back there after dropping out of the top 10 earlier in the season. So great to see Mehmetev back. He wins his fifth title as well. He takes out Runa. I'll see you guys for the French open draw on Thursday. Thursday, write it down. Thursday. I think that's when it was, chat, Thursday. I've written Thursday. I'll see you guys then. Thank you for joining. And yeah, we'll see you then.