 All right, everybody. Welcome to the French Open final, the men's final. We had the women's final yesterday. It's gonna be a very interesting match today to see if it actually trumps yesterday's finals. Yesterday's finals, one of the best finals on the WTA for a while, I mean, since probably, I mean, the Australian Open was good. I didn't have the drama of that final set though in the, as yesterday did. And Djokovic, playing for history. We all know about 23 slams, all that stuff. We're gonna talk about what happened last time these guys played on Clay, the time before that as well. We're gonna talk about what happened in the Elkhras match that Rude could learn from to potentially cause one of the biggest upsets, probably since Mervinov at the US Open in 21. We're also gonna be talking about Djokovic's struggles when it comes to trying to do things historic. And I know Djokovic fans don't wanna hear that because he's a goat and blah, blah, blah. But he has had trouble trying to win that calendar slam, the pressure, the added pressure. He's never had to be the grand slam leading, the grand slam winning leader, or the grand slam leader, whatever you wanna call it, grand slam leader because, you know what I mean? Federer got it first, then Rafa took it and now Nolay's trying to get it. So we'll see if any of that matters. Also, Rude's experience at slams has much improved in 12 months and not just slams in big tournaments in general. And also the way he looked in the semifinals is man or man, he looks so confident Rude. And if he's ever gonna get an upset over a goat and a slam, it might be today. I mean, that could, I mean, he might be able to do something crazy, Rude. But we're gonna talk all about that for the next hour. But let's get the preview first and we'll do a preview before the match as well. But let's go through how these guys got to this stage. Novak Djokovic versus Kasper Rude is a final of the men's French Open for 2023. And both guys have had to fight to get to this stage. Rude started the tournament off as the number four seed and will take on Ima in the first round. There's no problem for Rude getting through in straights, six, four, six, three, six, two. In the second round, he take on Zepiri. And after dropping the third set, Rude will get through in four, six, three, six, two, four, six, seven, five. In the third round, he take on Zong. And after losing the first set, he had to fight back to win, four, six, six, four, six, one, six, four. In the fourth round, he take on Jarry, who had had a very good clay season so far and actually beaten Rude two weeks ago. But Rude got his revenge, getting through in a close straight sets, seven, six, seven, five, seven, five to advance to the quarter finals. In the quarter finals, Rude will take on his old foe, Runa, the number six seed, the man that he beat last year at this same stage. And again, this was the same result for Rude, getting through in four, six, one, six, two, three, six, six, three to advance to another French open semifinal. In the semifinals, Rude will take on the number 22 seeds, Vera, who had had a fairytale run after the horrific injury he sustained last year in the semifinal. But Rude was way too good getting through in straights, six, three, six, four, six, love to make to another Grand Slam final. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number three seed and will take on Kovacovic in the first round. There's no problem for Nolay winning in straights, six, three, six, two, seven, six. In the second round, he take on Fucovic and after a long first set, Djokovic would win in straights, seven, six, six, love, six, three. In the third round, he take on Fakina, the 29 seed. And this was so far, Djokovic's toughest match, getting through a long straight sets win, seven, six, seven, six, six, two. In the fourth round, he take on Varius, who would play three, five setters, including beating her catch, the 13th seed along the way. This was Djokovic's easiest win, getting through in straights, six, three, six, two, six, two, to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Djokovic would take on the number 11 seed, Hashinov. And after dropping the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win in four, four, six, seven, six, six, two, six, four, to advance to the semifinals. In the semifinals, Djokovic would take on the world number one, Carlos Alcaraz, who would just beat up Sidney Pass in the quarterfinals. And after splitting the first two sets, Alcaraz would suffer from cramp, allowing Djokovic to get to the final, six, three, five, seven, six, one, six, one. These two guys have played four times or four, Djokovic winning all of the matches in straights sets. But Roode has been competitive when they've been on the clay courts. And the way Roode has looked in the last couple of days, super confident, could make it interesting. If Roode's gonna win this one, he needs to make sure he moves Djokovic around. We did see Djokovic get a little bit sore with the arm during the second set of his match against Alcaraz. So Roode really needs to work Djokovic around and make him move. Djokovic's gonna win this one. He needs to just play his normal game. He knows he can beat Roode. He's beaten him four times before. And it should be an easy match on paper. This is such a good final. It's great to see Roode in another final after 12 months being here. But I think Djokovic's gonna win this one in four sets. I think Roode's come a long way against a lot of guys. He's beating a lot of the top 10 guys these days, which he didn't usually do. But I don't think he can beat Goats just yet. I feel like he's gonna struggle and maybe get a set. But I think Djokovic wins his 23rd slam at the French Open. But let me know down in the comments below who's gonna win the final. Okay, so there it is. There's the preview. But we've got more preview to come because there's the preview of the quarterfinal's onwards. You can see there, Djokovic dropping a set in both the Hashinov and Elkres match, both the first set as well. They're the only two sets he's lost this week. And Roode, he beat Roona really without really breaking a sweat. The second, the third set was a bit more of a Roona trying to make sure he doesn't get beaten by one of his arch rivals in straight sets. And then he beats Vera pretty simply, which again, gotta be a massive confidence boost, flown under the radar completely in this tournament, Roode. I mean, nobody thought Roode was gonna make the final. It was Sinner, it was Medvedev, it was maybe Roona. It was Vera won a dream run. And Casper Roode, the only guy who's made a final out of those guys is in there. So like a final of the French. And he's here. So why are we surprised? We're not because we just underestimated him just like everybody does all the time with Roode. They're just, the disrespect is ridiculous. Let's talk about Casper Roode. He is number four in the world. He's gonna stay number four in the world after today because he's saved those points since he passed, lost a little earlier in this tournament, or didn't make up enough points to cover it. 24 year old from Norway, he's six foot tall, right handed, 16 wins, 11 losses on the year, one title as well. That is in Portugal on the clay courts. And I know he gets a lot of stick for getting 10 titles, all small titles. But it doesn't mean he hasn't got big silverware as well. He's obviously got Grand Slam semi, Grand Slam runner up trophies. He made the ADB finals final last year. He also made the Miami final last year, a little bit diversing on the hard courts. But he hasn't been great on the clay so far this year. He obviously did make a good run in Rome at the end of the clay court season, or sort of the midway through the clay court season there. In his results, he finished poorly though in Geneva where he lost kind of a bit of form. And now back to our next world number three. He's playing for world number one ranking today. I mean, not just 23 slams. He's playing for the world number one ranking as well. So there's a lot more on the line than just legacy. Also rankings, once that top is up back. 36 year old from Serbia, he's six for two right handed. 20 wins, four losses on the year. I mean, that's ridiculous that he's, how good he's been. Obviously, when the Australian open, he also won Adelaide. Hasn't got a clay court title this year though. He hasn't been great on the clay. 93 career titles, including 22 slams, two French opens. He's trying to win three slams, three out of every slam now, which no one's done. Rafa's got two out of every one, which is same as Norley, but three out of every slam. No one's done on the men's side. So again, more history on the line. And there's the head to have four, zero. Rue doesn't want to set, but we're going to talk about the two times they played on clay, because I don't think we should really, we don't really need to talk about the finals matches. Yeah, they were closer, but I don't really think we need to talk about those because, you know, the hard courts are not the same as what we're going to be dealing with today. But so the head to head, it's four, zero, right? So the last time they played on a clay court was last year, but I want to take you back to 2020. Let's talk about that match, because that was arguably Rue's best chance of beating Djokovic. He was up in that first set. So let me have a look, because of course, I did my research. I watched all the preview, all the matches that played on the clay. Also watched the Rue versus Nadal final 30 minute highlight package yesterday as well, to kind of get an idea of where Rue went wrong last year and what he can change. Because of course, Raffer at the French is the hardest task in tennis. Djokovic is a close second, but he's not Raffer. So there might be some confidence Rue can get out of last year's final, since he's not playing the same guy. So when they played in 2020, everyone remembers 2020 Rome. It was in October, it was in the much colder times, slower times. There was no crowd. Remember when we all had no crowd? Yeah, me neither. First time they played, it was Rue number 34. Djokovic was number one. Djokovic also was coming off the default of the U.S. Open. Because remember the U.S. Open was before the French Open in 2020. So Djokovic was his first tournament after the default. And watching the highlights, like a 30 minute highlight package of that, he was angry Djokovic. He was not happy in that event. And I wonder if it was maybe because of that default that happened a week or two earlier. But Rue, he actually played Rome the week before, beat Baratini, ended up losing to Rueblev, sorry, in Hamburg the week before on the clay. Lost to Rueblev in the semis and I think he went on to win the tournament. So Rue actually had better form going to that first match they played. Also, no mental scarring. Remember, the more you play these guys, the more losses you take to goats, the harder it gets, right? Harder it is to beat them. But it was the first time they played. Rue actually got a break in the first set pretty early. 3-1, went up a break. So he's gonna have to get off to a good start here today. If he's going to be any chance of getting an U.S. set. Then Djokovic broke back. And then again, but then Rue had a couple of chances to get the set at the end of the first set. Djokovic held, couple of break points again. Rue couldn't take them. Djokovic ended up winning the set 7-5 in the first, 6-3 in the second after breaking midway through. But Rue just got that lead and couldn't hang onto it. And we'll talk about that when we get to the French Open last year's final, what happened as well. Because the score looks terrible but Rue actually was winning the second set. In that match, Djokovic hit 37 winners, 19 errors, super clean second set, 17 winners. Only four errors from Djokovic in the second set against Rue in their first ever meeting. I mean, Djokovic was playing clean. Super, super clean. Djokovic did it 13 forehand errors that day. So maybe something to pick on. Rue hit 26 winners, 19 errors, 22 forehand winners and 10 backhand errors. So the errors on the backhand are something that Rue doesn't want to be able to, doesn't want to even hit backhands really today or at least not give away free points on the backhand and use that forehand. He only converted one out of the eight break points as well that day. Now, when we get to the next time they played on the clay, two years later in Rome last year in the semifinals, six, four, six, three, feels like a worse score. It kind of was. It actually was, the match was as well. One in the world, Djokovic 10 in the world Rue. So he's gone up the rankings since then. Hadn't made a Grand Slam final though. Remember, Rome before the French Open? So, you know, he hadn't made a Grand Slam final yet. Had Rue, but he had made the Miami final, which was a big deal. Djokovic broke in the first game. Straight away, Nolo was up three level with a double break. He was up five, one in 30 minutes. So Rue can't allow that to happen today. He can't give Djokovic a five, one lead in the first 30 minutes of this match because then it ain't gonna end well. So first set's gonna be crucial. Rue didn't end up breaking one of them back but he ended up losing the set six, four, two breaks to serve against the Goats, never gonna work. And then the second set, Djokovic broke it three all, won the set six, three. But there was a full crowd because of course, last year we went back to normal. And Djokovic was playing for his 1,000th career win. So there was a lot on the line that day in terms of pride. So maybe a little bit of added motivation for Nolo as well to try and do that. I know there's something on the line today but I feel like 1,000 wins and 23 slams, a little bit different in terms of pressure. 20 winners, 21 errors on that day. For Djokovic, he hit 14 forehand errors, 10 backhand errors. So his backhand wasn't great. Four out of nine break points converted. Rude played terrible. 13 winners, 20 errors. Nine forehand winners, but 11 backhand errors again. The backhand led him down. He only had one break point and converted it but he only had one chance. So Djokovic just serving was also a problem on that day. So they're the two clay court matches that they played against each other. But let's go back to 12 months ago when we talk about the final of last year's French Open because Rafa, the Goat of Clay, the God of Clay, the best player on clay to ever play on clay against Kasper Rude. His prodigy, maybe it was like master versus apprentice, right? His idol. First time he's ever played Rafa as well, Rude. Before, I mean, you've got to play him in the biggest match of your life. How's that? Nadal, hardest test in tennis. Playing Nadal at the French Open is the hardest thing in tennis, harder than anything else in the world. In terms of tennis, first slam final for Rude. First time playing his idol as well. Absolute nightmare. He did play, obviously, play Djokovic but Djokovic is not his idol. Rafa broke in the first games. Again, that slow start from Rude. That's what killed him against Djokovic the second time they played and it killed him in that first final. I mean, he went down 4-1 within like 20 minutes. So he can't be doing that. No, you can't. Like the first games of this match are huge for Rude. Huge. Rafa ended up, Rude ended up breaking back but Rafa then broke and went on to win the set anyway. Second set, Rude was up 3-1. Rude was up 3-1 in the second set. A big chance to take maybe, maybe get the set. But what happened then, we all know. 11 games in a row, Rafa won. He won the set 6-3 from 3-1 down. He then won the third set 6-love and Rude just completely fell apart. But also Rafa lifted that third set for Rafa in the match, sorry, last year. 36 winners, 19 errors from Rafa. In the final set, 14 winners, only three errors. So Rafa was just flying. Again, Rude's got to grab these leads. He's had leads against these guys. 3-1 against Rafa in the second set last year. 3-1 against, oh sorry, 3-1 against Djokovic in their first meeting and he can't get broken early. So it's either you hold serve or you get the early break. You can't go down a break early against these guys if you cast for Rude. Rude on the day, 15 winners, 32 errors in the final last year. I mean, nerves, moments. The fact that he's playing Rafa for the first time, you know, the guy that he never beaten. He actually has beaten Rafa now. So maybe he's had some confidence there, but that was huge for Rude. But we're 12 months removed from that. A lot's happened in the last 12 months. Rude's got to another final. He's got a set in the final. He got a set in last year's US Open final. Remember, he almost got two sets. He was almost up two sets at one after the third set against Elkaraz. He's got a lot more experience and what I've been seeing this week in the quarter-finals, semi-finals and hopefully in the final, he looks so, so confident. He looks so much more confident than he did playing Rafa last year. Playing Rafa last year was like, oh well, this has been good. I reckon today he's going to come in here and legitimately think he can win. I think Rude's going to come in and go, you know what, I'm not the favorite. I wasn't last year, but I'm not playing Rafa. So let's see what happens. But like I said, he can't get off for a bad start. Otherwise, yeah, he's got to win the first set. He might win the second, but he's probably going to have to win the first set to make this any kind of a contest. Let's have a chat about, what do you guys think? Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Alfred. Hey Cam, if Nadal retires as a King of Clay who will replace him, Thaim or Rude. Not team, not team. It'll be Rude. It'll be Caspar Rude who will replace him. But yeah, by the way, I think there's a doubles final on right now. So there might be a little bit of a, a little bit of a difference in what's going on. Also the Reigns might be happening. So we might get a Roof as well. Are you sure Rude could have beaten Rafa? I can't remember that. Rude was up 3-1 in the second set against Rafa last year. But then Rafa won five games in a row to win the set and then win six loves. So last year, Rude got off to a good start in the second set after probably, you know, after getting comfortable after the first set, you know, of a Grand Slam for the first time. But that's it, the Rude experience. I feel Rude's experience now will give him so much more confidence coming into this. He's gotten a set in a final now. He, obviously against Elcaraz. Remember against Elcaraz, they're playing for the number one ranking as well. So more pressure on Rude, not just the slam, but also the ranking. Rude doesn't have to worry about his ranking today. There's no ranking on the line for him. He's already number four. He's going to stay that win, lose, or draw. All the pressures on Noley, legacy, Grand Slam record, goat status. Rude's just the guy across the net. So Rude's got nothing to lose. Absolutely nothing to lose. No top ranking, no pride, no nothing. He just got nothing to lose. So I'm excited to see how Rude can deal with that. And hopefully come out here and he's going to have to play aggressive because we'll talk about it in a minute. The Elcaraz match with Djokovic, because those first two sets, you know, Djokovic was a little bit shaky. How Rude can maybe take some tips off Elcaraz. Thanks for the Rude spec. No worries. I feel like everyone's just going to count Rude out. So I mean, look, I can tell, I can give you a million reasons why Djokovic will win this match. And that's boring. Like Djokovic fans don't need me to tell them how Djokovic can win, because you guys know, how can Djokovic win this match by playing his, by playing, like it's boring. I want to tell you how Casper Rude can win this match because that's the harder thing to debate. That's the harder thing to argue because it's not supposed to happen. But it could happen. Stan Vavrinco won the French Open back in 2015. That wasn't supposed to happen either. Against a guy who hadn't lost a slam front or he was kicking ass everyone. And then all of a sudden, Stan came along with his pajama pants and went, bang, took the slam off him. How can Rude be Vavrinco 2023? That's what I want to know. That's what I'm going to try and find out for you guys. That's what I've been doing all this research. The final is over before it starts. All right, keep thinking that. We'll keep thinking that. Oh, women's doubles finals on right now. Actually just finished. And Shay, oh no, sorry, is it just finished? Or did it go to a third set? No, just finished. Oh, what a comeback from Shay and Wong. That's a good final. Rude has nothing to lose. Last year, there was a lot more pressure. He was playing Rafa the first time. First Grand Slam final, maybe a little bit of pride on the line as well, a little bit more pressure on the line because he doesn't want to embarrass himself. The only thing he can do here is be better than he was last year. Last year, he lost six love in a final. I mean, there's nothing more embarrassing than losing six love in a Grand Slam final. So he's like, well, as long as I don't get bagled, I'll be better than last year. He's also not playing Rafa. Rude is also wearing pajama shorts. Exactly, it's the power of the pajama shorts. That's, use the power of the shorts. Alcoraz who was injured. No, no, no, so Alcoraz in the first two sets at last, the semi-final, we'll talk about that and Djokovic. Not the second, third and fourth sets, they're boring. Third and fourth sets are boring. We don't talk about, we don't, Djokovic won those, we all know why, all right? Well, let's talk about the first two sets of Alcoraz versus Djokovic and how Rude can maybe take something from that. Also, how can Noley avoid playing that way and nearly going down? The first set, he got the early break, Djokovic, so that was lucky, but the second set, I mean, he was lucky to get to a seven-five and the way Alcoraz was playing, it looked like the third set, if he didn't get cramped, might have gone his way too. So in that match on Friday, 39 winners, 36 errors from Djokovic, eight aces in the entire match. In the first set, Djokovic hit four volley winners, but he hit six errors and three double faults. So how can Rude, what could, Chad, I wanna ask you the question. What could Rude take from Alcoraz that he could maybe use against Djokovic? What could he do? What's something that he could do? How could he play more important? How do you think Rude could play against Djokovic that Alcoraz does literally every time he plays anybody? What do you think he's gonna have to do? If Rude goes aggressive, Djokovic has the advantage, I reckon. If Rude's defensive, he will allow Djokovic to dictate. I think Rude has to be more aggressive like Alcoraz. And yeah, he might hit a million errors, but it's the only way he's gonna, if it works, it's gonna be interesting. If he sits back and just goes, B is a brick wall, that's not gonna work. Djokovic is the ultimate brick wall. Now there is the question of the elbow or the arm for Djokovic. Is that arm problem gonna come up again today? The only way we'll find out is if Rude, he's gotta be aggressive, but he also has to defend maybe on the Djokovic serve. So on his serve, be more aggressive, use the forehand, the weapon for Rude. But maybe on the defense when he's receiving serve, to just test out that arm of Djokovic. Extend the rally. Rude does really well. And he did that at the US Open last year. The first set of most of those matches, Rude just dragged it out. And yeah, Djokovic does that too. So the first set could go for an hour and a half. But if Rude can drag it out, I think Rude physically, from what we've seen this week, is in a little bit better shape than Djokovic. And unlike Alcoraz, Rude is not gonna fall apart physically. Rude is not gonna cramp like Alcoraz. I don't think he will. I don't think we've ever seen Rude cramp. Rude's had injuries, but not conditioning problems. Also Rude's older than Alcoraz. So he's already gone through all of that in his early 20s. He's into his 23, 24 years old now. I think Rude won't fall apart like Alcoraz. So if the first two sets are like three hours, that's fine for Rude. He can play that. He doesn't mind that. He's not gonna fall apart. Djokovic's arm, that's a question mark. He needs to make Nolay's contact point more difficult. Well, he's gotta use angles too. I think he's gotta use angles as well. So he's gotta be aggressive, bring Djokovic kind of inside the base on, sorry, push Djokovic back and then use angles to push him off the court. Get him in awkward positions. Crowd's gonna be on Rude's side, right? Another crowd's probably gonna wanna, like 23 slams, blah, blah, blah. But the underdog gets the crowd. And Rude is the ultimate underdog today. Unfortunately, last year, the underdog was Rude, but he played Raffer, and he's the only guy that, even if he's the favorite, gets the crowd. Today, I think Rude might get the crowd. So, and Djokovic, we've seen this week, doesn't like it when the crowd are getting a little bit weird. He gets a little pissed off at them. So let's see if Rude can use that crowd. Like I said, Rude's gotta get off to a good start or at least not get off to a bad start. Might not have to break in the first game, but he can't get broken. He can't go down three love in the first set. Otherwise, he ain't gonna win. He ain't gonna get any set. So he might get a set. You want me to tell you something crazy? Wong, the Chinese player, lost to Shiontake love and love, and then just won the doubles. That's actually, is that the same one? Nice. Fitness isn't a problem for Rude, exactly. So there's no, no, there's not gonna be a problem with Rude falling apart like Elkres did. So yeah, so anyway, back to the Djokovic-Elkres match. So what can Rude learn from that match what Elkres did? Well, Elkres, he had 35 wins, 50 errors. Most of those errors were in the 6-1, 6-1, third and fourth sets. So don't look at those sets because those sets are pretty irrelevant after Elkres got cramped. But Djokovic won a lot of points to the net, 25 out of 45. Now that's actually only about, well, just under 50%, but he did come to the net a lot. I don't think Djokovic is gonna come to the net as much as Rude, as much as he did against Elkres when he did against Rude. But what Rude does need to do is trying to force Djokovic to hit errors because in the second set when Djokovic lost against Elkres, eight winners, 14 errors, 17 forced errors. So Elkres was able to make Djokovic hit errors, forced errors that your opponent makes you hit. That's what Elkres, Rude's gotta do. So this is what I wanna see from Rude today if he's gonna be any chance of causing any sort of craziness. He's gotta get off to a good start or at least not get off to a bad start, not get broken, hold serve as much as possible, which unfortunately is not his strong suit, but also hope that Djokovic may be a little nervous at the occasion because the occasion is big for Djokovic. I know he's a goat, he's a beast, he's all that, but he's still gotta do something that no one's ever done on the men's side. He's gone for something that he hasn't ever had the record on his own. He's always shared the record or leveled to equal the record. So yeah, so Rude's gotta be aggressive as well. I think the longer the match goes, won't be a problem for Rude, so he can also drag it out if he needs to. Those are the kind of things, and use that forehand. The backhand for Rude is kind of, you know, he's gotta, I guess, just make sure it doesn't give away errors, but use that forehand to massive effect. And look, Djokovic, again, like I said, there's no point in me just coming on here and saying, hey, Djokovic is gonna win because of this, this and this because we all know how Djokovic's gonna win this. We all know why, we all know how, we've seen it a million times. We've never seen Rude win a slam, and that's why we're having this conversation. All right, let's answer more questions. Answer my question, the question, Djokovic! All right, all right, chat. By the way, I think this might be a little bit off. We might have another 30 minutes instead, but I don't know. Unless they push the final extra half an hour, but... There is rain on the way, so maybe there's something to do with that as well. And we'll talk about the rain, talk about the weather. I don't think the weather really favours or hurts anyone because these guys both like playing long, in slow conditions, they can both play. So I don't think it really matters. If it was Elkres Djokovic, you'd say advantage Djokovic on a slow court, but Rude, I mean, yeah, he won't be able to hit as many winners as I just said, what he would try and do, but I don't think he's too bothered if it's a slow match anyway, because that means Djokovic can't hit winners, which is more important. Rude's for a serve and forehand is no joke. Well, yeah, his serve is punchy. He's got that punchy serve. It's not a big banging serve like Medvedev or Zverev, but it is a punchy serve. I think serve volleys are gonna have to be something Rude incorporates as well. I know it's not his favourite thing to do, but keep that element a surprise. Gonna have to do the serve volley at times. Maybe do a serve volley of 40 love in a first game if he has a chance to, and just kind of put plant that in Djokovic's mind. That's what Carlos gets with Nolle, right? Variation, and some of Rude's gonna have to do, variation, all that fun stuff. Karl Mokovic did yesterday against Shriontek for a little bit. Rude's very, very good second time final. He's got three finals of slams. He's got another final since, he played Djokovic in the ATB finals final. So, you know, he's got a win against Rafa in exhibition tournament as well, which is not nothing. Bombers one. Of course we did. Of course we did. Didn't I tell you we're gonna beat up the Blues? How much did we beat him by? Did we beat him by 22 or did we beat him by more? I feel like we beat him by 30 something. We beat him by 34. Close, wins win. Rude's winning this match, okay? Well, we'll see. We'll see. I think if Rude's gonna win this, it's gonna be in four sets. If he's if, and a lot has to go wrong for Djokovic. He's gonna have to play bad. He's gonna have to get annoyed at the crowd, and that arm is gonna have to be a problem. I feel like that's like, look, can anybody name somebody that Djokovic is struggled with this week that plays like Rude? Who has Djokovic struggled with this week that is similar to Rude? Which player? Similar, not the same, but very similar. A guy that he played earlier in the tournament, Fakina. Now why does Fakina, what if Fakina and Rude have in common? Well, they both don't have massive serves, so their serve isn't a thing. But they both are very, very good at retrieving and being defensive. So maybe if Rude can, I mean, he's not as quick Rude, that's the problem. Fakina gets shots that should never come back. But that's an, it might be interesting to see, but Fakina also does like to play a little aggressive as well. So when he is on the defense, he does go for shots as well, whereas Rude, he can't be throwing the ball up, the lobs and all that trash. He's gonna have to really like, when he's on the back, like when he's on the forehand run, just go for it. Don't loop it back up and hope to get back in the rally, just go for it. Catch Djokovic off going down the line with backhands. That's gonna be huge as well. Something that Elkrez was just killing Djokovic with for the, in the second step. All those unpredictable shots. He's gotta be unpredictable, Rude. That's the thing. It's gotta be unpredictable. Fakina and Rude should be double steam. I don't know about that. Rude has to set up approaches during baseline exchanges. Yeah. Yeah, I think if Rude is gonna sit back and just like get the ball back, that's a slow death. It's not gonna work because Djokovic is the master of that. So Rude has to be a little more aggressive. He's gonna have to come to the net a bit more. Yes, he can defend well, but when he's on the defense, he shouldn't just loop the ball up, maybe try and be a counter puncher, like a real counter puncher. Counter punching is being in the defensive mode and then turning the point around. He's gonna have to do that. He can't just be defensive and then just hope Djokovic misses because the longer the match goes, the better Djokovic will probably get. That's why the first set will be really interesting because Rude's had chances against Djokovic in first set. I go back to when they played in Roman 2020. Rude had two set points. We had two set points at five four in the first set of that match that he actually broke early and got to five four held serve and then he got broken serving for the set. So he has, I mean, he'll believe that too. He'll definitely believe like, oh, hey, you know, I know I can almost get sets of you. I did that back in Rome. So he's going to have to turn it back to that. But there is a lot of pressure on Djokovic early, especially because, I mean, again, we all know how Djokovic can win this match. I'm not going to tell you how he's going to win this match because we know how he can win this match. We've seen him win a million matches. But how can Rude make it a match? That's the more interesting argument. Now, let's go back to Stambev Rinker in 2015. Randomly winning the French open, unexpectedly winning the French open back then. Djokovic won the Australian open before, and then Stan actually lost the first set and then got to the second and then third and fourth. Now, unfortunately, Rude has not got the flat shots of Stan. Stan's a little more aggressive, but there is a lot of similarities in the way that, you know, underestimated. Stan's number eight in the world at the time. Djokovic is number one. Stan was coming off beating Federer and Songa. Rude's coming off beating, you know, Zverev and Runa. Not similar players, but like similar levels of player, I guess, you know, Runa sort of that watch out at next guy and then there's, you know, Zverev been around for a while. Similar, I know beating Federer is like way better, but you know what I mean? Djokovic was coming off beating Rafa and Murray. And we're seeing him coming off, you know, beating Elkress, who's like, you know, the Wizkid. So a little bit of similarities. Unfortunately, Novak, well, unfortunately for Rude, Novak back in 2015, when he played Stan in the final, he'd come off a five setter against Murray, whereas now he's coming off a four set. It's not a long match for the first two sets. The second two sets were terrible. So it gave Djokovic a little bit of an easy break. But again, what about the 2021 final of the US Open? Going for history, like going for history is a different story. Recreating history, getting that 20 second slam this round open, equaling Rafa, that's one thing. Getting a lead on your own, that's a different thing. Kalender slam, Djokovic struggled. That French Open, where he was trying to complete the set, because remember, before that French Open that Stan stole off him, he hadn't won all the slams yet. He'd only won the three US Open women in this round open. So he was trying to go for the Korea slam that day. Everyone thought it was gonna happen because of course he beat Rafa, he beat Murray and Federer wasn't there. So again, the expectation of, this is Nolle's win. 23 slams, give him the trophy, might not be a good thing for Djokovic, especially early. So that's what I'm interested to see how Root can capitalize on that. Yeah, US Open loss was painful, exactly. But again, two moments where Djokovic was going to do something special and the moment kind of went to the opposition. I mean, Medvedev absolutely dominated Djokovic in that final. Root's not gonna be able to play on Medvedev, but that Stamber Wrenker 2015 final, I feel like Root can take inspiration from that. Also, not just going for 23 slams, he's gone for three at every slam, which no one's done. So, world no more in ranking, up for grabs, right? So again, everything points to Djokovic completing all of those things, but that's where Root can capitalize. That's what I think Root can capitalize on because there are gonna be nerves with Djokovic. It's not just another French Open final. Probably better if he actually played Alcors in the final of Djokovic, probably. It's less expectation, whereas here it's like, dude, you're gonna blitz this guy, you've never lost a set of him. Great analysis, thank you. Well, I'm just kind of spitballing what I've seen. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care what they were saying. Anonymous. Cam, I watched the Alcara stream again yesterday and I think Root has a chance if he can just keep his nerves in check. Once Carlos settled in Nol, had issues with the elbow and his serve dropped. Momentum was on Carlos' side, but body failed. Yeah, well, that's the thing. Can Root be Alcores? That's like, can Root play like Alcores? That will be a question. That will be a big question. Yeah, Medvedev hitting aces in the US Open final, it's hard to compare this occasion to that, but playing for 23 slams, I mean, doing something that no one's done. Even Rafa struggled to get to 21. Remember he was down two sets of love against Medi. So like these guys trying to get, I mean, even Roger, trying to take the record off Samper's plate of five setter. Back in 2009, does everyone remember that? Rodik almost was up two sets of love in that match. So I don't think we should underestimate the moment and how the goats, yeah, they're great, but they're also trying to do things that, no, we've never seen. And that has affected, it's affected Rafa. Luckily he passed, affected Roger. Luckily he passed. It's gonna affect Noley because we've seen it affect him in the past. The calendar slam, no one's done it since Rod Labor. He couldn't win it. So again, I don't think we should underestimate how big of a moment this is for Noley. And yes, he's got nerves of steel. Yes, he's a goat. Yes, he's a, you know, he's a mental giant. 15-40 Wimbledon 2019, but he's supposed to win this easily. But no one's ever done what he's trying to do. And that could make it interesting, especially, we might see an uncharacteristic, nervous Djokovic. That could be interesting. And if Roode comes out and goes, I got nothing to lose, and plays like that, truly, then that could be really fun for the, for the neutral fans. You better shut your fuck up, okay? You then you hit like, and you don't say sorry, you think you're a new kid. And you don't have to stop and you kept doing like this to the team. Is that bullshit Russian? You think this is normal? Todd. Is Nadal watching and is he routing for Roode? Thank you for the 10. He's not in the stands because he's got a hip problem, but he'll be watching. Remember, Roode is a part of the Rafa Nadal Academy. I would not be surprised if Rafa gave Roode a call, because to be honest, we all know, right? There's all those memes online. All the Federer Nadal fans are going for the guy who Djokovic is playing, right? All those memes, like, you know, holding Roode up being like, please don't let him get at the record. All the Rafa fans are rooting for Roode today. We know that. That's just how it was the same when all the Djokovic fans were rooting for Medi in the final last year of Australia, right? So yeah, I mean, Rafa's going to be watching, probably called Roode and was like, hey, you know, here's what you did against me last year that didn't work. Don't do that against him. Like, I would be surprised if Nadal didn't speak to Roode or at least give him a message and say, hey man, you know, because they are on the same team. They're both, you know, Roode's under the Rafa Academy. You remember that? So yeah, he was not there though. Thank you, Polis. If Rafa was in final, what your prediction would be? I'd probably pick Rafa if he was in the final against Djokovic, because Rafa is a better version, way better version of Elkraz. And if Elkraz can push Djokovic, then Rafa could beat Djokovic. So, and Rafa doesn't have the physical, like, if we, you know, I would have picked Rafa if he'd played today against Djokovic. I mean, I think a lot of people would have. But then I would have, you know, I would have depended on how Rafa got to the final. Maybe he played a five setter against some guy we didn't expect and blah, blah, blah. But I mean, yeah. If Elkraz can put Djokovic, Rafa could have beaten Djokovic. So, that's how I would have thought. But again, Rafa's not here, but Roode is here on behalf of Rafa. Roode is the representative of the Rafa Nadal Academy. He's here on behalf of the Rafa Nadal Academy. I'm rooting for Nolle 3-1. Well, that's it. My prediction is 3-1, Nolle, because I think that Roode can get one of the first two sets. And man, and I, like, I was so surprised at how good Roode looked against Barov. Like, yeah, it's Barov with maybe, you know, I don't know, maybe he just wasn't ready for it, but man, bagling someone in the semi-files of a slam, Roode doesn't do that. Roode didn't do that last year, you know? Last year. And we'll talk about how much these guys have played on court this year and blah, blah, blah. Get that stuff out of the way as well. But last year, in the road to the final for Roode, he came off, he was number, he was the number eight seed. He played a four setter against Chilich, a four setter against Roona. Lost the first set in the match against Chilich to come back and win. Rafa, of course, played, like, a quarter of an epic against Barov and then it was very good hurt. Rafa beat Djokovic along the way. Roode also came off a four setter against Hercatch, five setter against Senago, four setter in the first round against Songa. So I would say a tougher road last year in terms of how much more court time. Still a very tough road this week, though. Beat Jari who beat him last week. That's not nothing. Beat Roona who beat him in Rome. That's not nothing. Beats Verev, who he had a losing record to. So he's done three, he's beaten three guys along the way. And again, every win was confidence. Beats Jari in a very tough match. I think that was probably his toughest match out of the three because it was, you know, the longest one. It was three tie breaks and a seven-five. Over turns that. Then plays Roona who just beat him. Over turns that. Then he plays Verev with a two-one losing record. Over turns that. So he looks, and he looks so damn good against Verev. Like that was, I mean, he went from, and we watched him play Jari too. We watched him win all those three matches. Against Jari, you could tell that he was worried about the guy he was playing, but he clutched it out against Roona. He just blitzed Roona, Roona was playing terrible. But then against Verev, it was like, Jesus, okay. Maybe Verev won't beat him ever again. You know what I mean? So he just keeps getting more and more confident Roona. And he's been saying all the right things at the press conference. Like it's not, pressure's not on me, all that stuff. You know, I have nothing to lose. I'm just gonna have fun with it. Last year I was a little bit too tense. This year I'm just gonna go out there and have a little bit more fun with it. He's saying all the right things too. How can someone say Nole is not amazing on clay when he has 90 wins? Yeah, I don't know, Nole's. Nole might be the second or third best clay quarter of all time if he wins today and we do the numbers and we crunch the numbers. But yeah, again, we all know how Djokovic wins this match. We've seen him win a million of these matches, right? We know how he wins these matches. It's all about how can Roode make it a match? That's the hard thing to say. Because if I came out here and talked for an hour about you, you know, how's Djokovic gonna win? Well, he's gonna play like he does and he's gonna win. Boring, what's the point in doing that? But how can Roode get a set? How can Roode get two sets? How could Roode win? Because there are Casper Roode fans that just aren't as vocal because Casper Roode's not as vocal. Roode fans are a little bit more low key. So I speak for them. And I defend them. But that was the city pass of thing. Yep. So nothing to do with this match. I couldn't care less. Let him dance, let him do cringy dances and all that fun stuff. All right now, let's talk about this tournament for both these guys before we get started because these guys are coming on in another probably about 15 minutes time. So things are getting real. I know that says that, but it's wrong. Let me just flip that off so it's not annoying. Okay, so Roode, sorry. He's played 16 hours on court. The last match he played was two hours. One of the shorter matches he's played or shorter times on court he's played. 17 hours to get, 16 hours to get to this point. Djokovic, 17 hours, 45 minutes. And that comes with the two. And that comes with those two terrible sets against Elkres that were over in like an hour. So he could have been on court 19, 20 hours had that other, the semifinal gone the way it should have. So Roode played less time on court. Also Roode's had an easier like less time to get to here. Whereas Djokovic, his matches have only gotten longer and longer as he gets to the final except for Elkres, you know, we all know. But the first two sets were very, very long. So he's had to work harder and harder as the tournament's gone on. Roode's actually gotten easier and easier. You know, he's made it, he makes it look easier and easier. You know, the Rooter match went four sets but it wasn't really four sets. You know, it was an inspired Rooner in a third set that took the third against Jerry was a long match but then against Vera, very short match. So he's not gonna be tired. Roode's gonna be as fresh as he could be. I mean, he's had the perfect semifinal where he didn't have to do much. One that played very strong, won the match without having to break much of a sweat. In the tournament so far, Djokovic five tie breaks, five wins, one tie break for Roode and one win that was against Jerry. So if they go to a tie break, that'll be interesting. The serving is pretty much identical, 65, 62% percentage of points first serves in, 73, 71% of points won. So they're both serving well. They both need to serve well today. Obviously Roode needs to serve better than usual just to get a chance. Break points one, Djokovic is 151% of the break points that he's had, Roode is 46. Now Roode's got, he's got every chance. This is so much like Mukubi yesterday. A lot of the same things apply for Roode. If you get a chance, you gotta take it. If he doesn't, if he gets a chance, he can't be oh in five. He's gotta be three in five. If he's gonna be any chance of making something crazy happen. And return points one, Roode's gotta get a bunch of those. Djokovic always does that as well. But yeah, again, it's easy to say how Djokovic is gonna win this match because we know how he wins this match. He plays tennis. But how's Roode this win this match? How, what could happen? In what world could we get Roode winning this match? Or at least making it a five setter, right? For a final, why not? Is Roode's forehand gonna be a threat? Yes, the forehand is huge. Now somebody said in the chat, forehands to the Djokovic backhand. High, loopy, spinny forehands. That is interesting. Because Djokovic has been a little bit weird on that backhand. And also, as mentioned before, Djokovic's backhand when they played last year, was it last year? No, two years ago, no, no, it was last year. He hit 10 errors on that backhand side. So the backhand is a little bit shaky when these guys play. And again, Roode attacking the backhand because Djokovic's gonna attack his backhand. So it's gonna be who's backhand's a little bit more, a little bit stronger. And again, Roode's gonna play aggressive. Otherwise, he's gonna get run over. Roode, I mean, I would love Roode to come out here and just go, like, just come out here and just throw some, like, what Elkwarez does? Just come out on fire, just bang. Don't come out here and feel your way into the match. Just come out and just go bang. Now just throw Fistel from the start. Like Conor McGregor, go, you know, use the first round to just, you know, blow your gas tank. You know what I mean, you know, Conor McGregor. Hey, thank you, Todd, for the four. Thank you for the four. Anonymous. Nol's win against Carlos is deceiving as cramps were the main factor. Saying he decisively beat Carlos hides the fact that Nol has an elbow issue and has been on court more. Head says Nol, but the heart say Roode. So that's what I keep saying, like, the first two sets of that match are the ones that we should analyze. Because the first two sets of that match is what that match was. The second two sets, Djokovic was, I mean, Djokovic still was, you know, having to work hard for some of those games, but yeah, those first two sets before the cramping. That's definitely what we should be focusing on for sure. Nol's on board today. Um, I mean, Roode's obviously gonna have Nol's. It's a big final. He's obviously gonna have Nol's. But, um, but I think, again, I got this feeling and I don't know if chat, chat, one in the chat if you have this feeling too. Roode is coming in here the best shape he could. He's like, he hasn't played as much time on court. He's played Raffer in a final at the French, which is the hardest thing to ever do. I mean, Djokovic knows that too, right? That playing Raffer is impossible here. So he's already done the, he's already played the impossible. This is not the impossible. Djokovic has lost the French open before. So I think Roode is gonna be, he's gotta be feeling like, hey, I'm half a chance here if I can do something, if I can play my crazy game. But I just don't think Roode, and like, again, we might find him two hours, Djokovic just steamrolls him, but I just feel like this is such a good chance. Also, the fact that he took a set off Elcrez at the U.S. Open almost went up two sets to one against Elcrez at the U.S. Open. We all forget that third set was very close and Roode could have done it. I feel like Roode's just gonna be coming out of going, you know what? I can do this. Whereas last year, I reckon he came out and goes, oh my God, it's Rafa Nadal. And I think he was a little bit star struck. I reckon he comes out and he goes, you know what? I can win this. I know, I've been here, I've been here. I know how to do this. And he feels a lot more comfortable. And he looks so good against Varev. Like that's very, I mean, he just looks so, like he was just like in control the whole time. There was no, there was no lead up at all. All right, let's get the preview and then we'll have a big chat because these guys, they changed the start time. Have they, someone said they're starting later. They can't be right. Are they? No, they're starting in 10 minutes. All right, let's get to the preview. If you're just joining us, welcome. Don't forget to like. We've already got 300 likes. It's gonna be a big one. But we're also gonna be on Weather Watch because if it's indoors, that could make things interesting too. But these guys, they've had different roads to get to this stage. Novak Djokovic versus Kaspar Rudd is a final of the men's French Open for 2023. And both guys have had to fight to get to this stage. Rudd started the tournament off as a number four seed and will take on Ima in the first round. There's no problem for Rudd getting through in straights. Six, four, six, three, six, two. In the second round, he take on Zeperi. And after dropping the third set, Rudd will get through in four, six, three, six, two, four, six, seven, five. In the third round, he take on Zong. And after losing the first set, he had to fight back to win, four, six, six, four, six, one, six, four. In the fourth round, he take on Jarry, who had had a very good clay season so far and actually beaten Rudd two weeks ago. But Rudd got into revenge, getting through in a close straight sets, seven, six, seven, five, seven, five to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Rudd would take on his old foe, Runa, the number six seed, the man that he beat last year at this same stage. And again, this was the same result for Rudd getting through in four, six, one, six, two, three, six, six, three to advance to another French open semifinal. In the semifinals, Rudd would take on the number 22 seed, Zverev, who had had a fairytale run after the horrific injury he sustained last year in the semifinal. But Rudd was way too good, getting through in straights, six, three, six, four, six, love to make it to another Grand Slam final. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number three seed and would take on Kovacovic in the first round. There's no problem for Nolay winning in straights, six, three, six, two, seven, six. In the second round, he'd take on Fucovic. And after a long first set, Djokovic would win in straights, seven, six, six, love, six, three. In the third round, he'd take on Fakina, the 29 seed. And this was so far Djokovic's toughest match, getting through a long straight sets win, seven, six, seven, six, six, two. In the fourth round, he'd take on Vareas. He would play three, five setters, including beating her catch, the 13th seed along the way. This was Djokovic's easiest win, getting through in straights, six, three, six, two, six, two, to advance to the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, Djokovic would take on the number 11 seed Hashinov. And after dropping the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win in four, four, six, seven, six, six, two, six, four, to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Djokovic would take on the world number one, Carlos Alcoraz, who had just beat up Sizi Pass in the quarter-finals. And after splitting the first two sets, Alcoraz would suffer from cramp, allowing Djokovic to get to the final, six, three, five, seven, six, one, six, one. These two guys have played four times or four, with Djokovic winning all the matches in straights sets. But Root has been competitive when they've been on the clay courts. And the way Root has looked in the last couple of days, super confident, could make it interesting. If Root's gonna win this one, he needs to make sure he moves Djokovic around. We did see Djokovic get a little bit sore with the arm during the second set of his match against Alcoraz. So Root really needs to work Djokovic around and make him move. If Djokovic's gonna win this one, he needs to just play his normal game. He knows he can beat Root, he's beaten him four times before. And it should be an easy match on paper. This is such a good final. It's great to see Root in another final after 12 months being here. But I think Djokovic's gonna win this one in four sets. I think Root's come a long way against a lot of guys. He's beating a lot of the top 10 guys these days, which he didn't usually do. But I don't think he can beat Goats just yet. I feel like he's gonna struggle and maybe get a set. But I think Djokovic wins his 23rd slam at the French Open. But let me know down in the comments below who's gonna win the final. Okay, so there it is. There is the quarterfinals to final run. You can see Djokovic losing two sets, losing the first set of both these matches against Hashinov and Elkrez. And of course, coming back to win both those matches. But you can see there the second set, oh sorry, the Hashinov match he lost the first set, Elkrez he lost the second set. But against Hashinov, after that tie break, he absolutely blitzed it. And against Elkrez, got a little fortunate with that cramp from Elkrez and also Root. Root lost the set to Roona, but it didn't feel like Roona was in the match after that third set anyway. So the last two matches, Root has been in total control of both those matchups. And interested to see if he can take control against Djokovic in this one. Casper Root, number four in the world, 24 year old from Norway, six foot tall, right handed. 16 wins, 11 losses on the year, hasn't been great. Didn't have a great start to the year. Had a little bit of a different schedule this year as well. Not going to South America playing clay courts and maybe that threw him off a bit. Did get a clay court title though during the very start of the season in Portugal on the clay, 10 career titles, all of those, most of those are clay court titles of course. And he had a good run in Rome, which got him some good form. And Novak Djokovic, the world number three. He will be world number one if he wins today. I think that's confirmed, right? If he wins today, he's number one, if he loses, he stays number, he'll be number two. So either way, he's going to be going up, but he has to win to stay or to get to the top spot. Again, 36 year old from Serbia, six for two right-handed, 20 wins, four losses on the year, two titles, including the Australian Open, 93 career titles, including two French Opens. He's trying to become the first man to be a three-time at every slam champion because Rafa's got two at every slam, as does Nole, so he's trying to do that, not to mention he's trying to get 23 slams. Something that nobody has done on the men's side of things and break the record that Rafa set, and Rafa broke the record that Roger set. And I mean, it's just ridiculous what we're dealing with right now. Every other tournament, we break a record. All right, four-zero in favor of Djokovic. Root has played twice on clay against Djokovic. Last time I played was the end of last year in the AWP finals final, and before that was in Rome last year as well. But like I keep saying, I've been cast for Root. I reckon we're going to get a, we're going to get a, hopefully, if he doesn't get off to a shitty start, we're going to get off to a really, we're going to have a really interesting match for the first couple of sets. I reckon the first couple of sets, Root's going to be really competitive. At least that's what I hope he does. Because it'll be boring if we just get a straight sets final like last year. At least get, hopefully for him, get off to a really interesting start, because Djokovic's going to be nervous. He's playing for something that no one's ever done. And he got nervous to the US open two years ago. He got nervous when he tried to complete the grand slam set against Dan in 2015. There will be nerves. There will be nerves. What are the Vegas odds? The odds are Root's plus 600. And I think Djokovic's plus or minus one, I don't know how it works. Djokovic is a favorite. That's how it works. If Root played like this, like last match, he's got a chance. Well, yeah, if he plays like he did in the last match and even against Runa, it could be interesting. It could be very interesting. Roland Garros looks empty. Does it? Well, maybe it's because there's nothing on outside. And you better shut your fuck up, okay? And then you hit left and you don't say sorry. You think you're a new kid? I don't want to stop. And you kept doing like this to the team. Except bullshit Russian. You think this is normal? Todd. Root's crushing wins over Roon and Zarev means this is not the same Root. This is going to be a thriller. Novak in five, underscore goat. Okay. Well, I think we could all agree unless you're a Root fan that Djokovic is probably going to win. But it's about, it's more about how can Root not get worked? Like what could Root do that makes it interesting? That's what I'm more interested in. So yeah, no way winning. Okay. You know, I picked him at the start of the tournament because it's Djokovic in a grand slam. I mean, obviously, right? But it's about how can Root not have a repeater last year? That's the big thing. All right. I hope Djokovic wears a hat. I think it's going to rain. So I don't think that will be necessary to be honest. In fact, chat, chat, chat. Chat, chat, chat. You know what time it is. It's time for the weather. So this is right now. We have rain in Paris on the way. This might be, and remember the rules of the roof, the rules of the roof. If the roof shuts, it stays shut. They don't open the roof. They don't open it if they shut it. Mid-match. So whatever happens, if they might start this under the roof. Now I don't know exactly where Roland Garros is. I think it might be somewhere around here. So it might have passed, but there is rain chat. There is rain. There is rain around. And that is, you know, look, red. Red is bad. Let's get red. So we're going to keep an eye on that as well once the roof shuts. Actually, there's more around here as well. So watch out. There is more around. So we'll keep an eye on that because it might start under the clouds, but then it might end under the roof. So we'll keep an eye. Rules of the roof. That's it. The rules of the roof, once it's shut, it does not open. So this will be, it might be half and half. I mean, to be honest, it wouldn't, like having a rain delay might actually make things more dramatic, especially if someone gets off to a better start than the other. You know, that could be interesting. Could give us a little bit of a 20 minute break to kind of digest what we saw in the first set if that happens after a first set. But we'll wait and see. We'll wait and see. Play should be out on court pretty shortly. Shut the roof. Well, that might be what they're contemplating now. Let's do we shut the roof now? Do we play the match first? And then we shut the roof later. Like they could be contemplating what they're doing with the radar. And maybe that's why we're getting a little bit less. We're waiting for a little bit more. Red is bad. Red is bad in terms of weather. Red is not what we want to see. Cam, when is roof closes more faster? Well, it depends. Cause sometimes when the roof closes, it gets humid. So I mean, last year they played under the roof for the semifinals and we saw what happened. It's very bright, the sticky court. The court actually my favorite route, if it gets a little bit sticky with that top spin. So we'll see. We'll see if the route makes any effect. Last time they played it was under a roof at the ADB finals. So it's not like they haven't played a roof under a roof before. Do you think the crowd will make loud noises when the roof, they close the roof? Yeah, they'll probably boo because that's what they do. That's what they boo everything, right? Man, you better shut your fuck up, okay? If they need to hit left and you don't say sorry, you think you're a good kid. I don't want to stop when you kept doing like this to the team. Except bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? Hobbs. F, X1 or F, X2. If you haven't seen them, you have my permission to close the stream. I have no idea what that is. I don't know what that is. Is that another code? I'm sorry, I was making tea. What was that? Are they movies? What am I missing? Chat, help me out. Help me out, chat. Help me out. Thank you for the $11, appreciate that. The crowd booing everything means the booing has less effect. Yeah. Well, Djokovic's gonna have a bathroom break. We know that. How's it going, Paul? How you doing? Djokovic will serve better with closed roof. He hasn't liked the wind that much this tournament. True. So that's why if this, okay. Here's a scenario, chat. If this starts off with an open roof and it's shitty cold weather and it's windy, that's what Rude needs to capitalize on because you're like you said, whoever said that in the chat. Djokovic hasn't been great with the wind. So if Rude can capitalize on those conditions and get an early lead before the roof gets shut or if the roof is shut beforehand, then it's whatever. But if that happens, I mean, yeah. He's got to take more advantage of that because I think Rude in a windy conditions will be, it'll help him, help him make Djokovic not be as good. Help him because Djokovic won't be as, maybe he'll be a little annoyed like we saw against a couple of guys this week. I'm from Wimbledon but live in Norway, nice. FX is a movie from the 80s. Is it like an actual movie or is it like a short for something? It comes up, when I write it in the chat, it comes up on Google, it comes up as a bike. So they've obviously changed it, okay. Maybe I have seen this actually, hang on. Nope, I haven't. Maybe I have, I don't know. I'll put on my list. It has an Australian actor. Yeah, that's why I said I think I've seen it because the lead guy's an Australian. Rude has to use his forehand deep in the court, agree. Into the backhand of Djokovic, I reckon, into the backhand. Deep forehand into the backhand of Djokovic and then if he gets a short ball, come to the net. And I know Rude doesn't like coming to the net but I think against Djokovic, you have to do things you don't like. Against goats, I mean, if you guys have been watching tennis over the last 20 years, you know that what happens with the goats is you have to red line your game is what they call it. And Rude, who doesn't, you know, just like when David Ferreira had to play these guys, what did David Ferreira have to do? Even to be a half a chance, he had to play outside his game and that's very super aggressive and all that stuff. So that's what Rude has to do today. He has to play out, he can't play his game. If he plays his normal game and doesn't do anything more, that won't be good enough. He's got to be better. He's got to be more aggressive. He's also got to hope Djokovic isn't playing well, which could be a thing. Djokovic has struggled with injury this year. We know that. At least with, well for the last couple of weeks as well, with injury, with the elbow. So there is something, especially being cold. I wonder, hmm, there is something chat off the top of my head. I wonder if being cooler conditions with the rain coming and stuff might affect Djokovic physically because he's been playing in a hot weather all week. And then if you've got something a niggling injury, especially if it's something elbow related, if things are cold, he might hurt a little bit. He might hurt him a little more. Maybe. Again, the spitball. Hey, thank you so much. Quality shot. Appreciate it. Thank you for the gifted. I think for the gifted membership. Appreciate that. Who got it? Kareen. Kareen, welcome back. I'll put the time back on because actually the timer is 22 minutes. Why is this national starting on time? I don't know. I think it might have something to do with the weather. Maybe they're holding out to see what happens. The roof is closing. Okay. So the roof is closing. I repeat, the roof is closing. The clouds ahead of dark. The roof is closing. So as per the weather, as we'll go back to the weather now, so the weather in Paris right now is ugly. So the first time this whole tournament, the weather's been terrible instead of affecting the tournament. So roof is shutting. Roof will be shut. This final will be played indoors. Who does that favor? I don't know. I mean, it favors Djokovic because it's gonna be more, maybe a little bit more controlled condition. So it helps him. But I don't think it doesn't favor Rude. I think maybe the, if it is a little bit humid inside there, because we did see last year with Zverev and Nadal. And also something interesting as well that I just picked up on. Last year in the semifinals, Djokovic didn't make the semis. So Rude played under a roof last year. Djokovic played under a roof in 2020 when he got whooped by Nadal, which again might be a bad memory to think of. But Rude did play under these conditions in the semis last year. So he might be able to use that experience over Djokovic because Djokovic doesn't have a good experience playing under a roof at Roland Garros. Remember, the roof at Roland Garros has only been a thing for a couple of years now. So Rude might actually have more experience on an indoor Roland Garros court, which is weird, which is weird. Roof has been closed officially, I repeat, the roof has been closed. So this is gonna be indoor final. Indoor clay court final. No dust finale troop. It won't be a dusty windy court, but yeah, that's gonna be interesting. That will be interesting to see how it affects this. Again, I think Rude should take confidence out of it. I think Rude should take some, so this is what they say, they're saying over on Twitter, heavier conditions inside and a lower bounce. So that's interesting. So maybe Rude can't, maybe Rude shouldn't be gone. Maybe again, Rude should be playing more aggressive, keep that ball skidding through. We'll find out, it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be very interesting. This might change things, it might not make a difference. So yeah, the final has been delayed 20 minutes because they're closing the roof. I don't know, like I said, the roof closing, it makes it different. I don't know if it's good or bad for either guy. Like we'll find out. All I know is that Rude wanna match under the roof last year and Djokovic, back in the final of 2020, lost under the roof. So that's, you know, there is that to consider, I guess. But it doesn't make it any different. I don't know, we'll find out. First time the roof will be on the final, no, no, no. Back in 2020, they played on the roof. Rafa versus Nole, and Rafa won easily. But again, I think Rafa under the roof, or Rafa in cold conditions is scary. Scarier than Rude would be, obviously. More comfortable to play, and we'll find out. We'll find out. Yep, it's rainy in the French. So this is an indoor final. Now they're not gonna open the roof. Roof stays shut for the entire match. So they will not open the roof at all. Stay, closes, they stay closed. So here we go. No back 22 slams, level will, with you know who. Yeah, we'll find out. Will Djokovic get his number one title back if he wins? Yes! So Djokovic wins. He's back to number one, baby. After only losing it for like two weeks. He gets it straight back. He's like, here you go. Do you have it for the French? I'll have it for Wimbledon. So that number one ranking comes back to him straight away. Why can't they open the roof mid-match, because that's just how they rules up. It takes time to open the roof again, because they close the roof. It takes time to close the roof, open the roof. But it also, it's just not, like it's fair if they close the roof, they keep it shut. Because they don't want interruptions more so than like anything else. Because yeah, it takes time to open the roof, and then they got to stop the match, and blah, blah, blah. So once it's closed, it's closed. And that's why they build the roofs for these conditions. I mean, the French open final could have been delayed. It's three, four years ago. I mean, in 2019, we did have a situation, if you guys remember, where we had a semi-final between team and Djokovic, and the first two sets were split, and then it rained, and they left the court, because there was no roof in 2019. So we don't have that anymore at any slams. But yeah, they closed the roof. Roof is closed. Now, do I have a little thing that I can put on my screen, or is that not a thing I've made? Cause I feel like that is important for people coming in to know. Nope, that's not it. Where is it? No, I don't think I have it. Okay, there you go. Roof is closed, which is why we have a bit, probably why we have a delay. Indoor tennis. This is gonna be an indoor match. This will be an indoor match. Roof is closed. Roof is shut. Who's playing today? And no back jokers are just playing today. The final, the French open. It's a big match. Roof is closed for the final. Just again, confirming all of those things, going into this one. So roof is getting, roof is closed, roof is closed. Dark sky's ahead, but we already called that. Like two days ago, I said that it's probably gonna be indoor finals. So there we go. Surprise, surprise. The weather actually came true. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the weather doesn't, the forecast doesn't work. And again, who's a favor? We'll find out. Because we haven't seen these guys play on indoor heart at Claycore before. Funny enough, the commentators are outside and there's no rain. Yeah, they're just preempting the rain because they don't want to have an interruption. So it's going to rain. So instead of waiting for it to rain like they do at some of the other, like Imagered for your example, they're going to try and beat the rain by closing the roof. And if it rains, then they don't have to have an interruption. Uninterrupted final, that's what they want. And that's what we're gonna get. That's what we're gonna get. By the way, we have over 2,000 people in the house. Thank you for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe. Like the video as well. Man, huge match coming up. Hey, thank you, Saturator for becoming a member. Appreciate that. Welcome. Welcome, welcome. We have a huge, huge match coming up. Any more questions? We've got about 15 minutes until the first shot to hit. Any questions, anything you guys want to throw at me? We can go through the preview again in about five minutes when we get back, we get things started running because some of you might be joining us a little bit late. We can't show the match. It's totally illegal. 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Now the humidity today in Paris in general before the roof has been shut is at 67%. So there is, by the way, the wind is actually pretty low. So the wind might not have been a problem anyway for anyone if the roof stayed open. But yeah, more humidity than ever before this week, before today. Took me a while to figure out how to become a member. That's all right, thank you for becoming a member. Appreciate it. Camp put that in the tennis bar, information tennis, a set of a tennis. Yeah, that's what we are. We are an information tennis, a set of a tennis. Will the campcast be activated? There's no such thing. And if there was a thing, there's not, it apparently doesn't work on goats according to the chat. So that sucks for your views. This year, the average match was the longest in RG history, two hours and 54 minutes, more than 1998. That's an interesting set. Well, both these guys won't mind playing long matches. Like these guys don't, there's no, there's no question, no physical question on these guys. With Elcora, I actually rewatched the start of the third set. And I don't want to put myself under pressure, but I rewatched it and I said, oh, I remember, like I looked at, and I said something like, we have seen Elcora's cramp before. Hopefully he doesn't cramp in this one. Two games later, he cramped. That's just to predict you, don't, I didn't make him cramp. It wasn't my fault. No, no, no, no, it wasn't my fault. I just went back and looked into my shit. I said that and it happened. It wasn't my fault though. I didn't, I didn't make him cramp. But we're not gonna have that problem today because Rude, I don't think we've ever watched a Rude match where he's physically fallen apart. He's had injuries, but he's never, we've never seen him get to like a four hour match and look dead at the end of it. He looks, he's physically a beast. Djokovic is obviously a physical beast. We don't even need to mention how many matches he's played that have been seven, six, five, six hours. But yeah, Rude physically much more reliable than Elcora's and others. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Parkrash. Put that in your channel bio, the information center for tennis. I will. I will. Thank you for the five. Do you think Elcora's can beat out Federer Nadal and Djokovic in Grand Slam Count? That is, that's like saying can, Sveontek beat Serena, her record. Way too early. One versus 20 versus 20 is a lot. So I'm gonna say, ask me in five years. Is there a French orchestra in court? Probably. They do things a little different at the French. They're a little fancy at the French. By the way, Andy Murray's playing, if anybody cares. Apparently he's playing a challenger event. Is that sad? I mean, I feel like it's sad. I know people are celebrating Andy Murray and being like, oh, he's winning titles. I find it kind of sad that he's winning challenges. Does anyone else feel bad? I don't know. I know it's like, oh, he's still, he's back to his winning ways. He's back to his winning ways. And it's kind of like, yeah, but he's like 35 years old and winning challenges. Like that's not the, he's going that way. Whereas the others are going this, you know what I mean? Like, should we celebrate Andy Murray winning a challenger at this stage? It's like, Vadasco, he's playing challenges. We don't talk about him. I don't know. I don't know. He won a challenger and then lost like first round the next big tournament there was. So I don't know. It's on grass, yeah. It's on grass. If he won Queens or won like a 250, I'd be more excited. And he's not ready for husband life. Oh, okay. Okay. Can Rude win? Rude can win because anybody can win anything on any day. So yeah, he can win. Is he gonna win? Probably not. But can he win? Yeah. Why am I ignoring Margaret Court's record? Because open era and amateur era are different. Open era records are more important than amateur eras. Yeah, Margaret Court won more slams than anybody else. But in the open era, Serena. And also men and women's records, I mean, why are we comparing them? We don't compare, why would we compare men and women's records anyway? It's not like Serena gets to play no-back for slams. In the open era, Margaret Court won 11 slams. So she's not even, she's top five. But 23 in the open era. 24 all time. Yeah, that's the record. But 23 open era, that's Serena. So he's trying to, Jocovic's just trying to do that for the men. I guess the big question is, if Jocovic gets 23, can Rafa get 23 later? Or is Jocovic gonna hold, is like, are we gonna ever see this record be equal? Or is it always like, Jocovic's gonna win today and he's got this, no one's gonna get him. I mean, Wimbledon's his for the taking, Australia next year. I mean, he could be on 25 by the time we get to the next French Open and when Rafa comes back, you know, might be three behind. So no Rafa fans are probably going for Casper. They should have someone famous come on and sing songs. I mean, the orchestra probably are famous in France. And they've got dancers, so they're famous but just not to tennis. I mean, what do you want? I don't know, who's famous? What Ed Sheeran? When Harry Styles come out and sing songs, what do you want? What do you want? I think it's nice. I think having an orchestra and have dancers is like a classy French Open, it's different. Whereas at Wimbledon, I think they had like some British singer last year, right? Or whenever they open the roof, I don't remember. Rafa's done, okay? Why does one close the roof because it might rain such nonsense because they don't want to have an interruption in a final. For many reasons. First of all, so the players don't get pissed off that they have to have a 20 minute delay. The players get annoyed when the tournament knows there would be rain. So they wanna try to get ahead of the rain so they have an uninterrupted final. Also the broadcasters, if there's an interruption, I mean, this is a French Open final. It's different to like when we were watching tournaments before, this is like one of the biggest matches of the tennis calendar, right? French Open final. So they don't wanna have a broadcast issue where they have a 20 minute delay where the broadcasters are screwed. So they just wanna get away from all that stuff. So there's just an uninterrupted final. And if there's a chance of rain, close the roof. I think it's fine. But they just wanna do it so it's like they don't have anything go wrong. Because remember, just like the players, I mean, everyone's watching the French Open, the broadcast has to be perfect. You know, they don't want anything, like, you know, they don't want people when there's a rain delay switching off and walk their dog and never come back. You know, like that kind of stuff. They wanna kind of keep everybody, I guess, locked into tennis for the next two, three hours. And with a delay, people switch off. I know that because we have delays all the time and we talk about it. Cam, which year French Open final was your favorite? The one, which French Open final was my favorite? Look, I loved when Federer won the French. That was fun. That was fun. Cause it was like that whole tournament was wild, that 2009 tournament. And when Federer won it was like, you know, he'd been denied by Rafa so many times. Like what was it? 05, 6, 7, 8, 9, as of 8 and then like 90, he finally got it. Like that, that was nice. When Djokovic completed in 2016, he won the, you know, won the, the, the, the Nolay slam or whatever you wanna call it. Stan winning was interesting too. I mean, Rafa getting 2020 was interesting. But yeah, probably Federer getting it. I mean, Federer getting it was like such a, it was like a four year, five year process. And that whole tournament was wild. And Novak lost early as well in that tournament. And it was, you know, it was just a win. It was like, the build up to that was like, dude, you better win now, otherwise you ain't gonna get it. And he didn't after that. Favorite Wimbledon final, 2008, 2008 when Rafa won. And we're not just because Rafa won, because that match was insane. Closely followed by 2019, closely followed. And 2012 Australian Open final, if you can ask me that as well. US Open final, I don't really have one. Maybe Del Potra winning. I mean, that was epic. That was fun. All right, about five minutes until they come out on court. Let's get this preview done for a third and final time because if you're just joining us, we had a 30 minute delay. They've done a bunch of like, you know, ceremony and all that stuff. Maybe because the doubles finished a little later than they expected. Also because they've closed the roof. The roof is shut. There is gonna be an indoor final for the first time since 2020 when they had an indoor final for the first time they had the chance to use the roof. But here is how these guys got to this stage. Novak Djokovic versus Kasper Rudd is a final of the men's French Open for 2023. And both guys have had to fight to get to this stage. Rudd started the tournament off as a number four seed and will take on Ima in the first round. There's no problem for Rudd getting through in straights, six, four, six, three, six, two. In the second round he take on Zappiri. And after dropping the third set, Rudd would get through in four, six, three, six, two, four, six, seven, five. In the third round he take on Zong. And after losing the first set, he had to fight back to win four, six, six, four, six, one, six, four. In the fourth round he take on Jarry, who had had a very good clay season so far. And it actually beaten Rudd two weeks ago. But Rudd got his revenge, getting through in a close straight sets, seven, six, seven, five, seven, five to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Rudd would take on his old foe Runa in number six seed, the man that he beat last year at this same stage. And again, this was the same result for Rudd, getting through in four, six, one, six, two, three, six, six, three, to advance to another French open semifinal. In the semifinals, Rudd would take on the number 22 seeds, Verov, who had had a fairytale run after the horrific injury he sustained last year in the semifinal. But Rudd was way too good. Getting through in straights, six, three, six, four, six love to make it to another Grand Slam final. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number three seed and would take on Kovacovic in the first round. There's no problem for Noly winning in straights, six, three, six, two, seven, six. In the second round he take on Fuchovic. And after a long first set, Djokovic would win in straights, seven, six, six, love, six, three. In the third round he take on Fakina, the 29 seed. And this was so far Djokovic's toughest match, getting through a long straight sets win, seven, six, seven, six, six, two. In the fourth round he take on Various, who would play three, five setters, including beating her catch, the 13th seed along the way. This was Djokovic's easiest win, getting through in straights, six, three, six, two, six, two, to advance to the quarter finals. In the quarter finals, Djokovic would take on the number 11 seed Hashinov. After dropping the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win in four, four, six, seven, six, six, two, six, four, to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Djokovic would take on the world number one, Carlos Alcoraz, who would just beat up Sidze pass in the quarter finals. And after splitting the first two sets, Alcoraz would suffer from cramp, allowing Djokovic to get to the final, six, three, five, seven, six, one, six, one. These two guys have played four times before, with Djokovic winning all matches in straights sets. But Root has been competitive when they've been on the clay courts. And the way Root has looked in the last couple of days, super confident could make it interesting. If Root's gonna win this one, he needs to make sure he moves Djokovic around. We did see Djokovic get a little bit sore with the arm during the second set of his match against Alcoraz. So Root really needs to work Djokovic around and make him move. If Djokovic's gonna win this one, he needs to just play his normal game. He knows he can beat Root, he's beaten him four times before, and it should be an easy match on paper. This is such a good final. It's great to see Root in another final after 12 months being here. But I think Djokovic's gonna win this one in four sets. I think Root's come a long way against a lot of guys. He's beating a lot of the top 10 guys these days, which he didn't usually do, but I don't think he can beat Goats just yet. I feel like he's gonna struggle and maybe get a set, but I think Djokovic wins his 23rd slam at the French Open. But let me know down in the comments below who's gonna win the final. All right, chat, there it is. And there is the quarterfinals to final lineup. You can see there, Hashinov took a set of Djokovic, then Djokovic came back one the second, third, and kind of struggled in the fourth, but got through in four. And of course, that Alcoraz match, which unfortunately for all of us, was cruelly cut short after the second set with the third set, starting off with Alcoraz cramping, and that wasn't the same after that. And of course, Root, I mean, he dropped a set against Roonor, but really, but really Roonor didn't look like playing against Root after the, even when he won that third set, it didn't look like he turned it around. Root went back to business in the fourth, and then against Varev. Root just demolished Varev in the end of that one. Kasparud, world number four, he will be number four, win, lose, or draw. Won't change, 24 years off from Norway, he is six foot tall, right handed, 16 wins, 11 losses on the year, one title as well in Portugal on the clay courts, 10 career titles, but not to, we don't mention this enough. He has made three Grand Slam finals now, plus making the ADB finals final last year. So he's played both Djokovic and Nadal in big finals, final finals, and now he's playing this one. So I reckon he's, I don't know, I feel like he's probably less nervous this time around in his form, he's been pretty good. Novak Djokovic, the world number three, if he wins today, he's world number one, if he loses, he's number two, he's obviously gone for the 23rd slam. We'll talk about all that as well as this match progresses, 36 years off from Serbia, six foot two, right handed, 20 wins, four losses on the year, two titles, including the Australian Open, 93 career titles, including two French Opens, and you can see there his form wasn't great until Rome where he got a couple of extra wins. Four zero is the head to head between these two, two zero on the clay, but Roots had chances. He had a chance in their first ever meeting on a clay court where he actually had set points in the first set, couldn't take it, and they played last year at the 7-5 first set in the final of the ADB finals last year. So again, I think Roots should not be underestimated. That's what I'm gonna leave it up because I've talked all about how Roots can win this tournament or win this match or at least make a competitive final. We don't wanna get a repeater last year. I mean, Djokovic fans, of course you do. You wanna get a six love, six love, six love, but in terms of neutral fans and of course in terms of Root fans, we definitely want him to be competitive. So let's see as Kasparud walks out to his second consecutive French open final, his third Grand Slam final in 12 months and he looks a lot less nervous than last year. Remember, he's not playing, he played Rafa for the first time in his final last year. He hadn't played Rafa before, it was his idol. It was his first final in the slam. I mean, a lot of firsts for Root last year. This year, Roots doing it again. He's been here, done that. He's also played Djokovic four times. So that helps as well, the less nerves there because he's like, I know how to play, I've played you before. I don't know how to play you yet, but I know how, I've been competitive. So let's see, and Djokovic walking out to break the record. He's never broken this record. He's always equalled it. Remember, Federer broke the record back in 2009. Then he set the record at 20. Then Rafa broke it to get to 21 and Novak was always equalling the record. He never had the lead of the Grand Slams. Will that be a factor? Probably early. I think Djokovic will be a little nervous doing something huge. I mean, goat legacy on the line. If he wins today, it's very hard to convince anybody that he's not the goat. And if he loses, Rafa's still got a chance. Rafa might have a chance next year miraculously. So Roots playing for Rafa and Nolle's playing for legacy. So it's gonna be fun. I'm excited, Chad. I can't be in the chat, just watch without, okay? No worries. Root is shut. The roof is not shut? No, no, the roof is shut. It's just got a clear roof that you can see through. It's not a solid roof like you're showing open. It's a clear, clear roof. The roof is not, the roof is shut. They've shut the roof. They showed me photos. Hang on, do they reopen the roof? Yours, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The roof is open again. What the hell? So wait, they shut the roof and they reopened it. Why would they do that? Why would they open and shut the roof randomly? Anyways, roof is open. Okay, I'm corrected. Sorry, Chad, the roof is open. That's weird. Why would you shut the roof and then reopen it? Roof is half closed. Oh, okay, so it's half closed. It's half closed. It's half shut, just in case. It's like, oh, we're gonna close it this much and then if it starts raining, we'll shut the roof. There is rain around. So, all right, this makes it interesting. This makes it interesting. The sun's out. Well, the sun's gonna peek through the clouds but there is dark clouds around. Someone stole the remote, yeah. They closed it halfway and they're like, whoops. The roof is not fully closed. It's half shut. They closed the roof halfway, just in case. All right, Chad, here we go. They're taking photos, like I said, Ruth's been here before, he knows. He played Raffia last year. He played Alcares at the U.S. And remember, at Alcares in the U.S., he almost went up two sets of one. So, again, so this is not the same Casparudas last year. Totally different. And he's playing a guy who's got the weight of the world on his shoulders. The world is watching Nolle today because of what is at stake. Cramps are not an injury, true. Nolle wore him down, agree. I know a lot of people are saying that Alcares was injured. Alcares didn't get injured. Nolle wore him down. I mean, that's a skill in itself. We always talk about, you know, lengthening out matches and players like to play long matches and they lengthen them out on purpose. And that's what happened to Alcares. He didn't get hurt. He got cramped because Djokovic forced him past his limit. Is the glass half full or empty? Well, it depends what's in the glass. Now, again, we've got half roof closed. And we do have, we've got the weather. We'll go through the weather while we wait for these guys to get started. I don't know who is serving if Djokovic won the toss or not. But like I said at the start of this stream, Root can not go down a break early. He has to get off to a, not, he doesn't have to get a break early. He just has to not get broken early. He can hold serve early and just stay level but he can't go down a break early. Going down a break early can't be, it's done. I mean, when he's going down a break early, you can see these guys, it's over. All right, his dad's in the house. His dad, his third grandson finals a coach, his dad. So that's also a good achievement for him. All right, let's go have a look at the weather for one last time or maybe not the last time, I should say. So here is the weather you can see there, Paris right in the middle, where somewhere around here. And look at all this, there's rain. There is rain around, including this red splotch which looks like a pimple. Look, there is definite rain in the vicinity. So watch out, there could be a delay, a full delay if it starts raining anymore. But they've kept the roof open, risky choice, but hey, I guess they're semi-confident, it's not going to rain. The dull must win a third win with it. Well, he has to do an extra, doesn't he? His dad was a decent player as well. Yeah, his dad played, well, like a top 40, top 50 guy. Hashtag root spec, root spec, that's it. Hashtag root spec. And I think that after this week, even if he loses today, I think three Grand Slam Finals, I mean, like I said before, I mean, Sidney Pass has only made one, Zverev has made one. He's probably got the most Slam Finals without winning one out of the current bunch. Cause I can't think of anyone else who hasn't got more, who has got like three or more Slam Finals and hasn't won one. Cause all the other guys like Chilich has got to a bunch, but he's won one. Medvedev's got one, you know, after a few, you know, making a few Finals. Obviously, Elkres has got one. Team has got one. So Root is the best guy out, I mean, Baratini's got a final, but not a Slam. You know, like, it just feels like, after today, win, lose, or draw, Root should be respected because of what his achievement is much better than some of the other guys. Yeah, he hasn't won Masters 1000s yet, but he definitely should be respected because he's got, sorry, Sidney Pass has two. But still, three is more than two. Zverev's got one, Baratini's got one. So again, I think Root, three Grand Slam Finals in the span of a year. I mean, in the last 12 months, he's made three. Not too many people can say that. I mean, Sidney Pass made one this year and he made one two years ago. So, you know, long time between compared to Root, who's making them every other, every second event. French Open Final, not Wimbledon. US Open Final, not Australia. French Open Final, not Wimbledon. You know, like his every second event, Root's making the final of these Slams. Nothing to show for it. He's got a high ranking to show for it. I mean, he's number two in the world. He was number two in the world, he's peak. So, world ranking shows show for it. Nadal must win Wimbledon next year? Well, yeah. Was Federer the oldest winner of the Grand Slam? I think Rafa was the oldest of the French, right? Last year. So, if Djokovic wins, I think he might take that mantle. Can't remember. Nole, we retire next year. Nole, we retire after Rafa. But the year after, maybe. Root is a horrible start to the season until RG. Well, until Rome, and he did that last year too. He didn't have a, he had a better start last year than this year, but Rome seems to be where he kicks off his clay court tennis. By the way, Ibrahimovic and Mbappe, both in the house. Huge, crazy tennis, crazy footballs. All right, chat. Kasparovic's gonna serve in his first game and the first 30 minutes of this match is where Root needs to be competitive. If he's gonna do something crazy, it starts at the start. He can't warm himself up into this match. He's gotta start out of the blocks like a racehorse. Sprint out. This is a marathon, but you gotta sprint out of the blocks if you cast a Root. All right, chat. Jake Gyllenhaal in the house as well. Some say I look like him. Just stop it, you know, we're different people. Leave us alone. And I have a beard now, apparently. Okay, here we go, chat. Who's gonna win? I've got Djokovic in four. I think Root can get one of the first two sets and that's it. Tom Brady in the house. Jesus. All right, here we go. First point of the final. Djokovic hits in the net and the crowd go wild because you know where the crowd are. Crowd in Norwegian today. 15, love. Who's gonna win, chat? Djokovic in three, Djokovic in three. Root, root, root. Okay. Okay, you do resemble him. Stop it. No-lay, no-lay. Okay, Root in five. All right, Root wins the first point. 15, love. He serves out to the back end as a fault. Root serve, he needs to hold serve, but he doesn't need to hit aces and stuff. That's not his thing. But he needs to hold. Second serve. Out wide, the back end of Djokovic. Back end from Root into the forehand of Djokovic. Forehand from Root into the forehand again of Djokovic and the forehand of Root on the stretch. Djokovic to the forehand in the open court. Root's gonna get in with a slice. Good change up is Djokovic is the drop shot. Root's running, comes to the net. Back end slice. Djokovic volleys, Root puts it away. This is gonna be on tennis TV, Root. 30, love. Nice hands in the net again. Something that I said, if Root's gonna make this interesting, the net has to be his friend. How is Kam Kers coming? What are you talking about? There's no such thing. Djokovic just stands there by the way, just like as a target. Lucky it's not Kam Noriam, all right? Too soon. Okay, 30, love. Serve as a fold. Second serve. Second serve as a return goes into the back end of Djokovic, back end from Root into the forehand of Djokovic, into the back end of Root. Back end from Noelle, drop shot again is in the net and it's 40, love. So Djokovic already starting to try a little variety on his end. 40, love. First game of the match. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Greatest of all times, goat. Linda. Let's see if I can get my shower before this match starts. Well, hopefully you're here now. Thank you, Linda, for the 20. We get some solutes for Linda. 40, love is gonna back end now from Djokovic into the front of Root, who smacks a winner. That is a confidence start. One love, Root, in the pajama stripy pants. Not the same as mine, but close enough. We're both wearing pajamas. All right, who was the last, does anyone remember the last man to beat Djokovic in pajamas? That's a bit of unwanted trivia. First game to Root, and that's a solid start. Thank you, Linda, for the 20. Appreciate that. Giovanni. Even in chaps, let's go Root in five. Enjoy. All right, thank you, Giovanni, for the donation. Appreciate that. Thank you again for the two bucks. All right, Root in five. I mean, if we get any five setter, I think that would be, it would make up for the lack of five set match that we didn't get with the Elkores Djokovic match. This match could be better than Elkores Djokovic in scoreline. Could be. It has potential. All right, Djokovic serving. The first game to Kasparud. Tom Brady's in Nole's box. Interesting. All right, one love. Root, Djokovic serves. Fault. Second serve. Second serve. Nole bounces the ball. Second serve. Out wide the front of Root. Return goes in the front of Djokovic. Root with the backhand. Cross court at the backhand of Djokovic into the backhand of Root. Again to the backhand of Nole. Oh, sorry, front of Nole. He runs around. Root hits his own forehand. Djokovic hits the backhand. To the backhand of Root. Again to the backhand of Djokovic. Root with the forehand on the stretch. Slice goes in. Djokovic comes. No, he stays back. He doesn't come to the net at all. Forehand out from Djokovic on the stretch. Root, drop shot in the net. Not a bad idea, but execution was terrible. 15, love. Now we are gonna keep it on the weather because the weather is a factor. Well, we're almost at a thousand likes already. Thank you so much everybody for joining. 15, love. Getting Brady in the box is a bad move. Why? Because it's, why? Is that a bad, is that a bad idea? 15, love. Djokovic with the serve. Down to the front of Root. Return goes in. Backhand at Djokovic. The backhand, slice of Root. As Djokovic hits the forehand, into the forehand of Root. Again to the forehand of Djokovic. Root gets the point. No, he in the net, 15-0. Weather cam on duty, that's it. They had rain a little bit of rain before, but they didn't close the roof. They've half closed it in preparation for rain. So they are, they must be watching. 15-0. Now the serve coming up. 15-0, Djokovic with the serve. Served in a tee, Root gets a racket to it, but it goes wide and Djokovic's nice serve. That's going to be something that he's going to have to work on today. 30-15, you like the cup? You can buy this in the tennis talk store if you want. 30-15, Djokovic serves again. Down to the tee, the forehand of Root. Return goes in the backhand of Djokovic. Backhand at Root, on the stretch. Into the forehand of Djokovic, who hits it wide, 30-0. Now this is where Root has to be good. Might be a half chance, but he's got to be, I mean, look, this is where goats are goats, right? We expect big serves here, but there's just something Root needs to at least make this point count. Try and get the ball back, try and get in the rally. Let's see if Djokovic can serve that big serve. Norway steps up, go the bombers, let's go Simon. Serve into the backhand of Root. Return goes into the forehand of Djokovic. Root with the forehand again to the forehand of Djokovic. Into the forehand of Root, as Djokovic hits the forehand into the forehand again of Root, but Djokovic hits it out. Root's getting a lot of topspin on that forehand as we're ripping through the ground. We got a break point for Root, 30-40. To take the first break of the day, 30-40. And the crowd are a little bit confused. They're kind of like Nole, I think, but also Casper. 30-40, Djokovic to serve under pressure first time today. This is where Root needs to take these points. He's almost got to be perfect on break point chances. Serve into the front of Root, good return goes in. The front of Djokovic, Root with the backhand is a bit of a moon ball. Djokovic gets with the point down the line, Root with the slice is long. Root made an error. Going for those moon balls. You get those break points, he's got to be aggressive. He's a little too safe. And Djokovic made him pay, back to Deuce. Root shaking his head there, been like, man. That's not the play. That's not the play. Deuce, Djokovic serving again. Standing further back than Rafa, I mean. He's trying to out, he's trying to be Rafa and Nole. He's going to serve to the backhand of Root. Return goes into the backhand of Djokovic, backhand of Root. Again to the backhand of Djokovic, the backhand of Root. As Djokovic hits the forehand into the front of Root, to the backhand of Djokovic is Root. Again with the forehand down the line to the forehand of Djokovic on the stretcher. He hits it wide, man. Root's got another break point here. Advantage Kasper to take the first break of the day. Now, does he get more aggressive? He was aggressive there. He went down the line with the forehand that was, then shanked by Nole, so he's got to be aggressive on these break points. Yeah, you might lose him, but if you're going to lose him, you might as well do it on your terms instead of just letting Djokovic bully you. Here we go, second chancement. Root to get to the good start. Advantage Root. Djokovic for the serve. Our wide good serve. Root gets it back for now. Djokovic, open court too good. He just kicked it out wide. It was way too far out wide for Root to recover. Yannick Nohr in the house, by the way. Last French champion on the men's side here. So we've got legends in the house. We've got movie stars. We've got football stars. Everybody's here. By the way, if you want to watch this match, we unfortunately can't show it because it's illegal. But if you want to watch the match, just tell us where you're from. And somebody in the chat can point you in the right direction. If you're in Australia, you can watch it on channel nine. If you're in Europe, I think Eurosport might have it. So everywhere else, I have no idea. Djokovic with an ace. Down the tee, bang. Advantage Nohr. Advantage Djokovic to level things up here in the first part of this match. No such thing as a camp curse. Don't know what you're talking about. Okay, advantage Nohr. Bouncing the ball. Djokovic serves. Down the tee, the forehand of Rude, forehand from Djokovic into the forehand of Rude. Again at the forehand of Djokovic, Rude with the backhand. Cross court, Djokovic gets it. Back into backhand, it's Rude. Goes down the line, that's a good shot. Djokovic on the stretch with the forehand in the net. There it is again, a little more aggression. From Rude and we're back to Deuce. Back to Deuce. This is a big chance for Rude. As I said, he's got to take the break points. He's had two. One of them he had a chance on. I mean, one of them he was in the rally. Djokovic trying to figure out where the sun is. It's behind the clouds. All right, Deuce. Another serve coming up here for Nohrley. Serve out wide to the form of Rude. Return goes in. Djokovic inside out, forehand is a winner. That first serve, clutch. Sets it up again. The last two points he's played. Djokovic down in trouble. Serves well. Advantage Djokovic. Take the game and level things up. We've got 6,000 people in the house. Appreciate that. Almost 1,000 likes already. Thank you for this humongous final. Djokovic goal for history is to serve out wide the backhand of Rude. For now, Djokovic cross court in the form of Rude. Again, to the form of Djokovic on the stretch. He's in the net, man, Rude. Again, with the angle, I mean, variation. And it's back to Deuce. Here's the start. Six errors already. Yeah, Djokovic made some unforced errors. All right, Deuce. Two break points here of Rude, wearing pajama pants like Stamper Wrinker in 2015. As he serves out wide, Djokovic to the form of Rude. Return goes in. Djokovic comes into the form again. Puts it away and again. There's a third time he's done that. Big first serve, forehand winner. The one-two punch. Advantage Nolle. There's not much Rude can do there. I mean, just get the ball back in play and hope he misses the forehand. Is Men's 10 over if Djokovic wins? He wins Men's 10 surely. Why would it be over? What do you mean over? Is it a goat debate? Maybe, but tennis always, tennis is forever. Advantage Djokovic. As he serves a foul, second serve. Long game here, second game of the match. Second serve, Djokovic. He serves in the form of Rude. Return is a winner from Rude. Oh, there you go. There's the aggression. Inside out forehand winner into the back end of Djokovic. Nolle's nowhere near. Now we're back to Deuce. That's the Rude play. Just ripped it. All right. All right. We see you. Back to Deuce. Huge. That sends a message. All right, back to Deuce. Thank you, Mike, for the nice words. Appreciate it. All right, Djokovic serves a fault. Hang on. Second serve is Rude gonna rip it. Is Rude gonna rip it? Second serve into the back end of Rude. Four now from Djokovic. Into the form of Rude. Again to the form of Djokovic. Rude gets the point again. Djokovic hits it wide. Nolle, his forehand is off. He's hit some winners on the forehand, but he's hit a lot more terrible shots on the forehand. Advantage Rude for a third time in the game, and Rude's gotta get this. You gotta get this one. He's also probably hoping that Djokovic misses the first serve. That'll help. All right, advantage Rude. Break point again to start this match. Seven unforced errors for Djokovic. And I reckon about four of those are forehands. Here we go. Advantage Rude. Djokovic serves into the back end of Rude. Bit of a moon ball. Djokovic swinging volley is good. Rude gets it with a lob. Djokovic with a smash. It's shamed and it's out. That smash. We know it's his worst shot. So does Casper. He wins the first break. Two love. Casper Rude. And his dad loves it. Oh, this is going better than last year. Don't know if he has that accent, but imagine that in a Norwegian accent. I don't know how the Norwegian accent is. Two love. 15 minutes in. Rude gets the first break of the tournament. Well, for the first break of the day. Little bit early. Little bit much. 11 minute service game that last one. And this is exactly what Rude needed to do. Now can he hold? Because he's had the break against these guys before and he gives it back. He says a fault. Second serve. We all forget that he was up 3-1 in the second set against Rafa last year before everything went wrong. He also was up a break early against Djokovic in their first ever meeting. Has been a serve to the backhand of Djokovic. Backhand at Rude. Into the backhand of Nolle. Into the backhand of Rude. Djokovic backhand. Again, to the backhand of Rude. Into the backhand of Djokovic. This is going backhand to backhand. Rude trying to get some more spin on it. As he goes down the line to the front of Rude. That's the weapon. Has been backhand of Djokovic again. Rude with the backhand shank. Goes in. Nolle hits a 4-hand in the net. That 4-hand is not it, bro. 15-love. Nolle's 4-hand is not it. 15-love. Unless he hits it off a big first serve. Hey, Tom Brady, get off your phone or get out of the box. What are you doing? Six unforced errors already for Nolle on the 4-hand side. 15-love. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Goran's butt in his nails. Yeah, no surprise. Second serve in the backhand of Djokovic. Good return. Backhand out Rude. Oh, he's wide, is it? It was close. The umpire says, yeah, it's out. That's unfortunate for Rude. Just goes wide. Oh, just not enough spin. 15-all. Rude's sick of being dissed. Yeah, I mean, he gets disrespected so much, Casper Rude. He's out here trying to prove everyone wrong. 15-all. Rude with the serve. Djokovic has an arm injury. Let's not start. It's only 20 minutes in. We don't need to start with excuses. Give Rude some respect. He's playing well. And Djokovic is playing bad, but hey. Rude looks more confident at the moment. He's gonna find a fine rally. Rude again to the front of Djokovic. Into the front of Rude. Again to the backhand of Nolle. Rude with the backhand. Into the front of Nolle, which is a problem. But he goes in this time. Rude gets it. Fond of Djokovic again. Rude gets it with his own forehand. Rips across court. Djokovic on the stretch. Rude comes in. Forehand. Whoa, it's wide. It's wide. He had the open court and he hit it out. 15-30. What a shame. He played such a good point, Rude. And then he just went. And he knows it. He's like, you can't be doing that. 15-30. Man, he tried to rip it. Djokovic was running the wrong way. I mean, it could have gone anyway. He could have just hit a drop. He could have hit a slice. He could have hit a half pace. Could have hit a left-handed. 15-30. Rude under pressure. Djokovic is only going to get better from here. We know that. Serve. Down the tee. Good serve. Djokovic gets it back. Rude, forehand. Into the backhand of Djokovic. Into the backhand of Rude. Is Djokovic at the backhand? Into the backhand again of Rude. Into the backhand of Nolle. Rude with the backhand on the stretch. Djokovic looking more powerful as he goes down the line. But it's in the net on Nolle. Again, Djokovic is just kind of like reaching for it. Blaming the bounce, 30-all. But here we go. This is where, again, Rude needs to be clutch against the most clutch. Against the guy that saved championship points many times or even match points many times to win tournaments. He's got to win the points that Djokovic loves to win. 30-all. 20 minutes in. Serve to the backhand of Djokovic. Return goes in the front of Rude. Down the line's good. Djokovic gets it. But he hits it long, Djokovic. And it's 40-30. A chance for Rude to get to three-love in his first set. The perfect final. Tom Brady. Does he know the rules? He looks, he looks bored. Is that what he's googling? It's like this. How to play tennis. I think Tom Brady knows what's going on. He's bored. He's like, why am I sitting in the middle? What happens if I need to pee? 40-30, serve out one as a fault. Second serve. Who's the lady in the pink? Is that his girlfriend? Wife? I don't know his life. I don't know. I know he's a goat. That's all I know. I know that Tom Brady's a goat. That's all I got. All right. 40-30, serve out one as a double fault from Rude. I'm going to be clowning on Tom Brady all day. I'm sorry, chat. If you're a fan of the Patriots, don't take a personal. I mean, if you're looking on your phone in the final of a slam, you probably shouldn't be there. You're wasting space. Give us your chair. All right. Brady Googling what's deuce mean? All right. Serve out one from Rude is a fault. Second serve. He's probably Googling who is Casper Rude. Why? Djokovic was supposed to win, right? Why is he down two lover? Who's this guy down the other end? Is he all right? Second serve into the backhand of Djokovic. Backhand out from Rude. Into the backhand of Djokovic. Into the backhand of Rude. Down the line's good from Rude. Djokovic gets with a four on the stretch. Rude, four on the line is a winner. Bang! Straight down that line from Rude. And he's using that backhand down the line. And then he just rips the forehand. Advantage Rude. He's gotten all they run. I mean, he's, he's taking Alcarez tips. That's what he's doing. He's not coming to the net and doing drop shots, but he's taking his, he's taking some tips of Alcarez. And he looks a lot better than he did this time last year. Advantage Rude. Serve out wide, Djokovic gets it, but it's a let. First serve again. Advantage Rude. First serve out wide. Djokovic returns in the net. Three love Rude. Now, great start for Rude. Terrible start for Djokovic. Let's make sure we don't just say one thing and it's not the other. No one's playing bad. It is a bad start for Djokovic. And as mentioned, didn't have a great start of the US Open Final 21 when he was gone for history, gone for calendar slam. These moments affect everyone, you know? But if Djokovic starts playing better, he'll get back. We all know that. Djokovic can only get better. This is the worst start he could have probably played. But Rude has taken advantage and he needs to win this set now because getting a break at the start of the set and then losing the set, nobody's gonna remember the time that you got three love in the first set. Everyone's gonna remember if you won the first set. So Rude has to win this first set now and he's got off to the good start thanks to Nolay's errors. Now, let's answer questions. That's my question! The question, jerk! All right. After the new tennis talk, what's going on? BTW, some interesting matchups in Stuttgart. Thank you, Brian. Hey, we're gonna keep an eye on that next week. You spelt too bad. DiMario. Tom is clearly Joker fan and lost interest. By the way, the umpire's having a chat to Djokovic here. What's going on? I don't know when Nolay's asking for more towels. No idea. The umpire's talking to the ball kids. All right. For Casparude, the match starts now because he's now gonna defend his lead. Because Djokovic is like, all right, we've had three games, 23 minutes. You've got your break. Now Djokovic is gonna start chasing. This is the wolf chasing the rabbit. The rabbit got a head start, but he's gotta keep running. Three love, Rude, to start us off. But the wolf is putting on some, he's putting on some wristbands and he's gonna start chasing this rabbit. He's like, you go, you go, you go. This is where Rude's gonna start playing his better, he's gonna play better, Rude, now. Because we all know Nolay's can chase down a lead. All right, three love. But Rude, the match starts now. Three love, Djokovic. Rude, yeah, Rude, Rude it. Rube it. Rude the Rube it. All right, three love. Casparude off to a good start, serving solid. Breaking serve more importantly. But Nolay, I feel like he just flipped a switch as we had a four now from Djokovic. Open court is a winner. 15 love. I feel like he's just flicked the switch in that change of hands. He put on a new wristband. 15 love, 24 minutes in. Keep running, rabbit, yeah, that's it. Run, rabbit, run. 15 love, serve now, Djokovic. Out wide, the back end of Rude. Into the forehand of Djokovic, Rude hits it out. 30 love. But the thing is, it's not about Rude getting a double break, it's about Rude holding serve. So he might not win this game, he might actually get whooped in this service game, but he has to keep serving well. Because like Mokovic yesterday, we saw Mokovic yesterday got the lead, got the two love lead, then got broken. Got the four, three lead, then got broken. You gotta hang on to it as Rude hits it out. Serve volley, Djokovic, interesting. 40 love. Yeah, he just turned on the arc reactor. And Iron Man is here. 40 love. Djokovic to get on the board. Serve is a let from Nolle. Serve is a let. Am I Rude fan? No, I'm a tennis fan. I wanna have a good final. And it's more interesting if Rude wins the first set, because then we can see Djokovic play his best to win the title. Serve at wide, Rude gets it back with a lob. Djokovic lets it go long. That was easy. No more easy games, I think. Djokovic is not gonna give away three points now. You're gonna have to win them yourself. No more handouts for Rude. Three-one, Djokovic on the board. Now here's the test. Can Rude hold with the wolf chasing him down? Three-one. This is gonna be interesting. Rude's been pretty solid. I mean, the first game he was really solid. Second game, little struggle. But he's gotta hold here, because this is where he's gone wrong in the past. And we talked about it earlier. Against Raffer and Nolle, when he gets a lead, he gives it back. Has been a four now from Rude. That goes in the front of Djokovic, into the back end of Rude. Back end of Nolle, again to the back end of Rude, to the back end of Djokovic. Rude with the forehand, cross-court. Djokovic running, running, running on the stretch, gets it. But it goes wide, nice again from Rude. And you know what? Djokovic knows that too. He knows. Like he's sitting at the change of ends at three. Love going. All right, you might be feeling pretty good about yourself. But also, you should be very nervous, because I haven't even started playing tennis yet. You know what I mean? Like, Djokovic is sitting back on, okay, you got a three, lovely, that's cute. And he just mentally just flicks the switch. And I mean, look what happened with Hashinov, right? Hashinov looked good for two sets, and then the tie break. It was all done. First says the fault from Rude, second serve. Second serve in the back end of Djokovic. Back end from Rude, into the forehand of Djokovic. For one end from Rude, down the line. Djokovic with a lob. Rude with a smash, he's gonna let it bounce. And he puts it down in a way. Djokovic can't get it back. We can, but he hits it out. 30 love. Man, is that aggression from Rude, the forehand? 30 love. Now, for those who don't, weren't here at the start, Rude has been in this position before against Djokovic. The first time they ever played in Rome, 2020. We'll talk about it after this. But I'll tell you what happened that day, and how Rude can try and not repeat that. 30 love. Serve that wide, good serve. Djokovic gets it back, Rude with a little flick backhand. Djokovic is there with the back end of his own. Rude with a forehand, cross court and wide. 30, 15. 30, 15. Nearly 20, or nearly 30 minutes into this one. Half of that was Djokovic playing, getting broken. 30, 15. Rude with a serve, into the net. Second serve. Second serve, Rude, into the forehand of Djokovic. Return goes in, the forehand of Rude. Djokovic with a forehand on the stretch, gets it into the front of Rude. Again to the front of Djokovic, Rude on the defense. Find a forehand, as Djokovic goes again to the front of Rude. Into the front of Djokovic, Rude with a backhand slice on the stretch again. Djokovic forehand, as Rude hits another slice on the stretch. Djokovic find again, as Rude with a backhand. Into the backhand of Djokovic, down the line is long from Norway. Wow. Terrible error from Djokovic on the backhand. He just over-hit it. Totally out of position, 40, 15. He just got there and then he just went bleh. He doesn't miss those. Maybe he kicked up a little more than he thought. He maybe got to a little too early. He hit it about shoulder height, a little too high. Man, Djokovic has a bad error. Anyways, 40, 15. And Norway almost fell over as well. So that happened. Six backhand errors from Djokovic as well. Rude serves, a fault. Get the 4-1 here in the first set. Second serve. Down the tee. Oh, it's a body serve. Good body serve. 4-1 from Rude down the line, that is perfect. And Rude turns around and gives a little fist bump to his coach's box. That's what we want to see from Rude, a little emotion. Now, Rude's been here before and he knows it. He's been here before. He's been 4-1 up against Djokovic in the past. Actually, it was 3-1. But back in 2020, the first set he ever played against Djokovic on a clay court, actually in general, it was up 3-1 with a break early on. Got the early lead. But then he was serving for the set at 5-4 and got broken. And then Djokovic ended up winning the set. So Rude had, has been in this position before, against this man, and as I mentioned before, also against Rafa last year in the French Open Final, in the second set he was up 3-1. So Rude has had leads against Goats on clay, but he hasn't been able to finish it. And that's the thing. He's gotta make it count. Because Djokovic only gonna get better. We know that. No way he's only getting better. Mike! Cam is holding his business pen. I, yep, I always have my trusty pen. It's a part of my arm. Okay, Rude is gonna win this in straight sets. I don't know about that. I mean, it's only a matter of time before Djokovic decides to play tennis. By the way, dark clouds, it's raining. It looks like it's raining in the distance. So we might, the roof is open, but that could change. That could change. Totally disrespecting Rude. Who's, yeah, who's disrespecting Rude? Who am I supporting today? I picked Djokovic in four. Djokovic in four. Let Rude have a chance. I mean, the people that are just counting out Rude, or getting angry at Rude. I mean, Djokovic is playing bad. So Djokovic fans shouldn't be upset by Rude. Rude is playing solid, but Djokovic can lift. So don't get scared in all A-fans. I mean, you're probably not, but this is just a bad start for Djokovic. 15 love. Remember, the wolf was chasing down the rabbit, and the rabbit's hanging onto that break. Someone tells me if we get to five, two, or even the next game for Rude, four, two, the service game could be a little tricky. Someone tells me Djokovic's gonna have a chance to break back in this set. It's whether or not Rude can hold is the question. As that goes in the net 30 love, Djokovic serving a lot better in the last couple of games since the break. Now they didn't shut the roof. They only half shut it for, you know, just in case it was raining, but it's not raining yet. So let me know in the chat. One in the chat if you think Rude's got the first set. Two, if you think Djokovic comes back to win the first set. 30 love. A lot of the crowd are making noise. They're talking to the players like the players in a conversation. The players aren't there to talk to you, mate. Just shut the hell up. 30 love. First service, a let. It's like, hey, Norley, blah, blah, blah. Dude, he's busy. He's trying to play tennis. Just shut the hell up. Norley ready to retire. God, that's a crazy statement. Serving to the back end of Rude. Return goes in. Djokovic forehand is into the slice of Rude to the forehand of Djokovic. Rude guesses right with the pass, but it's wide. And it's 40 love. 40 love. A lot of ones in the chat. So a lot of people think Rude's gonna wrap the first set up, okay? Okay. A few twos though. I mean, there's a few Norley fans, obviously still here that know who Djokovic is. Djokovic has been down this before. He knows how to come back. He's not playing Elkiraz. 40 love. Remember, Elkiraz would have won this set. Rude is not there yet. Here's a long way away from being done. Serve out wide as an ace. No, it's a let, I think. No, it's a fault. Second serve. Djokovic's arm looks fine, by the way. No problems at this point. No visible problems. As we're back in from Rude to the front of Djokovic. Rude with the backhand. Again, to the front of Djokovic and to the front of Rude on the stretch. Djokovic, fine, goes again in the net. And it's 40-15. Run, rabbit, run. Rude's attitude is good. Like I said, when he plays Vera, Rude looks so confident. He looks so much better. And he looks like the next game we'll find out or the next couple of games we'll find out how confident Rude is. But coming into this final is a lot different than last year. Still playing the goat, but it's a lot different than last year for Rude. As we're to serve now from Djokovic, serving volley, his Rude hits a wide, okay. Djokovic holds pretty easily again, 4-2 Rude, with the break. But here we go, this. Djokovic jogs, jogs to the back of the court. Again, every single service game, he's got to hold two more service games, Rude. If he's gonna get off to the best start he can. 4-2, who sponsors the mugs? This is in the tennis talk store. Me, we sponsored the mugs. I sponsored the mugs. All right, this might be the biggest game in the match for Rude. First serve is a fault. Second serve, he's got to hold here. He has to hold here. Serve, down the tee, to the back of Djokovic. 4-0 from Rude, into the backhand. Off Djokovic, Rude with the forehand. Again, to the back of Djokovic. Rude, very aggressive on the forehand as he goes cross court, Djokovic on the stretch, shanks it, Rude swinging volley, Djokovic guesses right, Rude with the volley, drop volley is good. And Djokovic can't get it. There you go. This is gonna be on tennis TV. Little bit of Elk-a-Rez in that, 15-love. Aggressive on the forehand, and then just solid. I mean, Rude can volley. He doesn't like to, but he can if he needs to. That was a lovely drop volley. Shades of Elk-a-Rez in that one. Flashbacks, the Friday. 15-love. And he got a credit, Rude, for how he's handling things right now on his side. Despite Djokovic playing terrible, you know, Rude's doing his thing as we had a forehand Rude. That's a good shot. Djokovic gets it. Rude comes in with the backhand, but he shanks it. He's gone for the hard volley. Andre Agassi style, but he shanked it. 15-all. Trying to take time away from Nolay, but probably should have just panicked. That was definitely a panic. 15-all. Rude serves again. He's gone off to the perfect start in this final. He's been a little lucky that Djokovic has come out slow. Serve at wide, hell of a serve. Djokovic gets it though, falling out from Rude. To the backhand of Djokovic. Rude with a forehand, again to the backhand of Djokovic. Rude with a forehand, again to the backhand of Djokovic. Into the front of Rude. As Djokovic hits a backhand. Again to the backhand of Rude. And Djokovic again with a backhand to the backhand of Rude. Rude hits it out. 15-thirty. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. 15-thirty in Barpe. And Ibrahimovic in the house. Didn't Ibrahimovic retire? Right, he retired, right? 15-thirty. And Tom Brady in the box of Djokovic. 15-thirty. Rude with a serve. This is a massive serve. Need to first serve. And he hits it in the net. Second serve. Second serve. Into the backhand of Djokovic. Return goes in the backhand of Rude. Djokovic with the backhand down the line. Rude's there with his own forehand. Djokovic's forehand is good. Rude's on trouble. As we've got a forehand going into the front of Djokovic. Rude with the backhand on the stretch. Slice. Djokovic comes in. Forehand to the backhand of Rude. Lob. Djokovic smash. Shanks it again. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Two shanks smashes from Djokovic in this match. And everyone, all the crowd was like, What? Oh my God. Goran's like, am I out of a job? 30 all. Two smashes miss now. It's a problem. Just missed timed, no way. 30 all, Rude. Rude gets a lifeline. By the way, Rude is winning the majority of the long rallies. Eight shots or more is one eight out of 11. Rude serves into the backhand of Djokovic. Return goes in the front of Rude. Front of Djokovic again to the front of Rude. Down the line from Rude is wide. Don't mind that. Going for it, but missed timed. Miss hit. 30-40, break point Djokovic. Get back on serve. What's going on, James? How you doing? All right. By the way, anyone laughing at Djokovic just started this match? If you're a Rafa fan, you shouldn't laugh because Rude was up 3-1 against Rafa last year. So just saying. 30-40. Served into the front of Djokovic, returning to the front of Rude. Front of Djokovic on the stretch. Rude in control with the forehand down the middle. Now Djokovic takes it back. As we're back in now from Rude, into the backhand of Djokovic. Rude with the backhand down the middle to the front of Djokovic, to the front of Rude. Again, to the front of Nolay. As Rude hits a forehand, again to the front of Djokovic. To the backhand, slice of Rude. Into the front of Djokovic. Rude with the forehand cross-court. Djokovic on the stretch. Shanks it a little bit, but it goes in. Rude down the line. That's a big shot. Rude getting aggressive again, but now he puts up a slow one as Djokovic gets it. Backhand slice Rude, not bad. Nolay with the slice back is better. As Rude goes down the line, Djokovic with the lob. That goes in. Rude's ringing volley. Nolay pass. It's a lob. Rude smash in the net. Nobody can hit a smash today. Nobody can hit a smash today. And Rude gives it back. It's 4-3 Rude. Djokovic back on serve. Both guys missing the smash today. And Nolay gets a break back and he shakes his fists. But man, can Rude recover? Because he's had the lead against Djokovic before. He's had the lead against Nadal before. He just can't never hold on to the lead. All right. Djokovic back on serve. All right. Let's ask questions. That's my question. The question, jerk. All right, by the way, 8,000 people in the house. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We've almost got 141K, which is cool. Nolay's back. He's been serving better Nolay as well. The last two games have been pretty easy. So been serving a lot better. This game will tell the tale. Now, to be honest, Djokovic is going to hold. I think Djokovic will hold here. It'll be four all. The four all game is the one that Rude has to win. Because Rude can still sneak this set. You know, you serve first in a set. You can break to win the set. So the next game for Rude on serve is going to be massive. Because I think Djokovic, Djokovic is serving much better than he was in the first game. The first game of the match, he served bad. The last next two, he served well. So I think Djokovic holds and then Rude next game is like the big one. By the way, the ice pack is leaking all over Djokovic. Rude might need a tie break now. Well, he's serving first. So that could be interesting. But like I said, the wolf was shaking. The wolf was stalking down the rabbit and the rabbit couldn't get out of it. Rabbit's still running though. Rabbit's still running. But the wolf is catching up. 4-3. Djokovic's getting out a new racket. New balls as well. So there's going to be a little bit more pace on the shots. By the way, the ball's flat enough to like two or three games apparently according to Patricio Moritoglu. So maybe Rude in the next game, his serve might be a little easier to hold if the ball's aren't as flat. But also it's going to be easy for Djokovic too because his power is only getting better. 4-3. Rude, but Nolay's back. Serve out wide. The 4-1 of Rude. 4-1 from Djokovic into the forehand of Rude. As Djokovic is the forehand again to the 4-1 of Rude who rips it down the line. Nolay with a lob, Rude comes in with a volley and puts it away. There we go, that ripping forehand from Rude. Love 15. He ripped that down the line every chance he gets. He's got to make Djokovic's slice. Good volley as well. Rude can do, he's done a couple of good volleys. The smash was terrible in the last game but the volleys have been solid. Love 15. 43 minutes into this one. Serb Nanti is good. Rude hits it in the net. Nice serve from Nolay. He's actually serving a lot of first serves in. Is Djokovic, but second serve was a problem against Elkraz and it's a problem here today too. So when he misses that first serve, that gives Rude half a chance. 15-all. Djokovic serves out wide. Rude returns with a forehand but is a let from Nolay. What a start to this final. This is what we want. This is the type of tennis we want. 15-all. Djokovic with a serve. Into the net. Okay, second serve. Second serve, Nolay. Second serve. Second serve into the front of Rude. Return goes into the front of Djokovic. Rude with a forehand. Cross court again. It's good. Djokovic just gets it. Rude, forehand. Inside-out is even better. Now he comes in with a forehand again and puts it away. His forehand is doing damage. 15-30. Here's a chance. Unexpected chance for Rude. I thought Djokovic was cruising on serve. Rude's forehand though. That's why his forehand is such a beast. He's kind of like Dominic's team. Dominic's team gets underrated topspin on the forehand. He rips it and you don't realize how high the ball bounces. By the way, Mbappe and Ibrahimovic. 100% Djokovic fans. They are not cheering. I mean, Mbappe's asleep behind those glasses. He isn't even watching. 15-30. Tom Brady's obviously an Ole fan because he's in the crowd, but he's in the box, but no one's given the Rude spect. Wake up Mbappe. 15-30. 15-30. Second serve. Here's a Rude chance. Serve out wide. The backhand of Rude. Forehand from Djokovic. Into the front of Rude on the stretch. Goes in the net. 30-all. That was a terrible shot from Rude after two great forehands. Hey, Cam. The first time I'm hearing you at this, you're great. Thank you, Sam. Appreciate it. 30-all. Welcome to all the new people. If you are new, don't forget to subscribe. We've got Wimbledon coming up next. A lot of energy. High energy into these streams, if you've been watching. So, I just get so excited. As we return now to the forehand of Djokovic, again, to the forehand of Rude. As we return to the forehand of Djokovic, down the line, Rude's backhand. Here's another bit of a moon ball from Djokovic gets to the forehand. Rude, again, with a backhand cross-court. Backhand out from Djokovic on the stretch. Goes again to the backhand of Rude. Backhand to backhand as Rude runs right into the drop shot. No way. Djokovic can't get it. This is going to be our biggest TV run. He's thinking like Alcaraz out there. 30-40. Coming to the net, doing volleys, ripping forehands, and now a drop shot. The unpredictability. Lovely drop shot from Rude. And it's 30-40, a chance for Rude to break. He's played a hell of a game here. This has been all Rude in this game. Djokovic has been broken before, but that was because he played terrible. This game has been all Rude. The drop shot, the forehands. He's taken it up to Nole in this one. 30-40. Djokovic serves. Out wide. Rude gets with the backhand. Djokovic forehand. Inside out to the backhand of Rude. He puts up a moon ball into the front of Djokovic, who's off balance. Four now Rude down the middle into the front of Djokovic. Rude with the forehand again into the front of Djokovic. To the forehand of Rude. Again to the forehand of Djokovic. Rude with the backhand now. He slices it. Confident into the backhand of Djokovic. Again to the backhand of Rude. To the backhand of Nole. As Rude hits the backhand. Into the forehand of Djokovic. Again to the backhand slice of Rude. As Djokovic hits the forehand. Again to the slice of Rude. Into the forehand of Djokovic. Down the line. Rude with the pass and the lob. Smash! Nole gets it, but he's safe. Forehand volley from Djokovic is too good though. Smart from Casper to throw up the lob. And Jokovic is trying to pump everyone up because I hit a smash, mate. You shouldn't miss him in the first place. He's missed two smashes, Jokovic. And that third smash was like, ew, don't hit it out. He got lucky with the second shot because Rude was probably expecting him to hit a little bit more muscle on that smash, not just a weak down the middle safe ball, but a volley was perfect. Back to Deuce. And then he's trying to pump up the crowd. Dude, you shouldn't miss smashes anyway. Goron's on his feet. He loves it. He's like, yep, we'll take it. All right, back to Deuce. And then the crowd's going wild. Rude shaking his head at the crowd. All right, Deuce, serve out wide as a fault from Jokovic. Second serve. Yeah, you're right. That smash wasn't really a smash. It was a high volley. Just, it was like a very safe shot from no way. But he got away with it. He got a nice, the drop volley was perfect on the second shot. All right, second serve. Second serve to the front of Rude. Return goes into the front of Jokovic. Rude with the backhand. Is a high loopy one and it's out. Again, I don't like that from Rude. Those top spinny loopy shots. Jokovic is only going to start getting better and better at smacking those away. A vantage no way to level things up here. And now with the break point chance already from Rude in this game, the next game for Casper Rude, make or break in the set. No way can hold. But no way is playing for something that no one has done. History on the line. 23 slams, winning three slams at every tournament or three at every tournament. As Jokovic hits a winner there. That's a good serve, good forehand. And he shakes the racket at Tom Brady, who I think is a stiller. No, he's awake. He's awake. He stands up. Every time he stands up, you just gotta hear like a door creaking, right? Just like, those bones are old. We're at four all. Now, the biggest game of Rude's first set. Hands down, he has to win this game or it might be a straight sets win. Rude having a chat to the umpire. Is Rude putting pressure on the umpire about the crowd? What's he talking about the crowd? Not sure. Now here we go, four, four. And I think Jokovic's family are in the, well, no, not in the front row of the box. So I don't know. It might be somewhere. I'm sure they're there. It's a historic moment. All right, four, four. Rude serves. Out wide, Jokovic returns. Rude with the forehand down the line is wide. Love 15. And Jokovic's stretching out the legs. What the hell? No way he's stretching out the hamstring. What the hell? No way. So he hit the forehand. What happened? Oh, he slipped. Oh, that was an awkward move. Let's hope he's all right. Love 15. Jokovic's stretching out the hamstring. After that slip. First there's a fold from Rude. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Jokovic. Four now from Rude. Into the front of Jokovic on the stretch. Rude. With a forehand again. That's a great shot. Jokovic gets it. Rude comes in with a volley, but it's in the net. Oh, I like it, but I don't like it. Love 30. The idea was there, but he just couldn't get in quick enough. I think he sort of hit the forehand. Oh no, he was pretty quick. He would hit the forehand, but the return, the pass was too easy. Too good. Don't mind that from Rude, but, man, he's not that good at volleys. Love 30. Remember, Jokovic was down 4-1 in this set. He's won 14 in the last 20 points in all way. Rude serves. A fold. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Jokovic. Your turn goes in the back end of Rude. Back end now, Nolle. Is good. Rude gets it with his forehand. That's a good shot. Jokovic gets it though. Into the front of Rude. Nolle in control. Forehand is good. Rude puts up a lob. It's going up. It's going in. Forehand from the baseline. Jokovic down the line. Goes into the back end of Rude. Into the back end of Jokovic. Rude with the back end again. Into the back end of Jokovic. Down the line wide from Nolle. Just threw that point away. And it's 15-30. 15-30. By the way, we're at 9,500 people in the house. Appreciate that. Don't forget to like if you haven't already. Almost at 1,500 likes. Appreciate. 15-30. That's a little chance for Nolle. Serves an ace from Rude. That's gold. 30-all. By the way, Sam, thank you for becoming a member. Appreciate that. We've almost got 640 members, which is cool. So thank you for becoming a member. Appreciate it. All right. This is the biggest point of Rude's match. He's been up 4-1. He almost got up 5-3 with a break, but he unfortunately couldn't take it. 30-all. 4-all. He's got to win this game, Rude. Otherwise, Jokovic gets the set. Rude serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. Out wide. The forward of Jokovic's return goes in. Rude half volleys it and it's not good. As Jokovic gets it. Back in our Rude. Again to the forward of Jokovic. Rude playing a little too safe. 4-1 to 4-hand. As Jokovic goes in the line. Rude there with the backhand. As Jokovic with the backhand. Again to the backhand of Rude. Into the backhand of Jokovic. Rude with the 4-hand. Cross-court. That's not bad. Jokovic gets it. Slice Rude is in the net. Rude's just, you can tell. He's just getting a little nervous. He's getting these cramp, he's not cramping. He's clamming up a little bit. 30-40. He doesn't look as free on the rallies. Rude's in the first part. He was just swinging. Going nuts, but now he's just playing a little safe. 30-40. Jokovic to take the lead for the first time in his final. Rude with a serve. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve to the backhand of Jokovic. Return goes in. Slice Rude is good to the backhand of Jokovic. Again the backhand of Rude. Jokovic with the backhand is Rude. It's a 4-hand inside out again. Jokovic on the stretch. Rude a little bit in control here as Jokovic into the backhand again. To the backhand slice of Rude. Into the forehand of Jokovic. Rude with a slice again. To the backhand of Jokovic. Into the backhand of Rude. Down the line of the 4-hand of Jokovic. He gets it. Rude with a 4-hand is good. Jokovic gets it, but hits it wide. Rude gets a freebie and Noley's down. He's got his hands on his knees or elbows on his knees. Noley looks tired. Rude took a look at him and went, okay, how you feeling? Because we know Rude can go all day. Rude is not going to cramp like Elcaraz. Jokovic is looking stuffed. Dose as Rude serves again. Huge points again for Rude here. Rude serves. Our fault. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve, Rude. Out wide the 4-hand of Jokovic. Your turn goes to the backhand of Rude. That's good to the backhand of Jokovic. Rude with a volley. And Noley's down. Noley slipped. He's getting back up though. It's alright, he just slipped. But Rude puts away the volley. Jokovic covered in dirt. Alright, advantage Rude. Noley's going to take a little extra time here because he probably needs it after what he's been going through. He's going to be like, I just need to get a little bit, I just need to take my time wiping this clay off. Now Noley went for a slide and he tripped. Man, okay, he just tripped and he's like, ah, he tripped. That was a very, that wasn't a very graceful fall. That was a very, legs in the air. I mean, that was not a, that was not a, that was not graceful. Just lost his foot, lost his footing. There was no trip. I mean, he just tripped, like slipped over. I mean, that's about it. Okay, Rude to get the lead. Goran looks confused. He's like, you're right. Slipped over like me on ice skates. It's bad. Alright, serve into the backhand of Jokovic. Find out Rude down the line. What a shot from Rude. Up goes Jokovic. Rude swinging volley. Not good enough. Noley gets it, but Rude to the smash. Rude gets the game. This is gonna be our biggest TV run. That was great from Rude. To from the breakpoint down to get the game. Got a little fortunate with the slip, but hey, Rude stays in front. Five, four in this first set, but can he win the set? That's what he has to do. Noley, he's got an ice pack on his back of the neck. He's feeling it. By the way, we've got over 10,000 people in the house. Thank you for joining us. Appreciate that. Don't forget to like and subscribe and all that stuff that YouTube people tell you to do. Okay, let's answer questions. They're questioned, jerk! Okay, he needs to win this Rude, yeah. Unbelievable, no, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Watch people claim Rude won only because Joker wasn't 100% if he wins. Any reason is good enough to keep hating on someone you don't like. Thank you to Mario for the donation, yeah. Brian! Regardless of the outcome, massive respect to Rude. Oh yeah, but I don't think Rude's out here to get respect. I think he's out here to at least win a set. I mean, he should win a set. He's been the better player in this first set. He was up 4-1, now he's up 5-4. Not winning this set would be a letdown for Rude because, I mean, he got a set off Elcra's last year in the final of the US, so he expects to win a set today. And he should. Vems! Please don't be dramatic, my heart can't take it. Vems, right. You've been here before, you know what's up. Okay, now, Novak Djokovic serving to stay in the first set. Little recap of you just joining us. Rude was up 4-1 in this set. He got a little bit lucky because Djokovic came out here very slow. Lot of errors from Nole, and there still has been. Five winners, 14 errors. That's not Djokovic that we know. By the way, Giroud is in the house as well. There you go, all the French players. But also, then Djokovic got the break back, got the 4-all after saving break point, and then Rude just held in the last game. So let's see if Djokovic can level again. Or is Rude gonna steal the set? That's what happens when you serve first. The whole French football team's in the house, all right. All right, 5-4. Djokovic serves into the front of Rude, rips the return, but it goes in. Rude with a drop shot now. Interesting, Djokovic gets it with a slice. Rude, lob, he's in. Djokovic gets it. Is it in? It's gone up, it's gone wide. Kasper Rude, that is a hell of a... That's three amazing shots. This is gonna be on tennis TV. He rips the forehand return, hit the baseline. He does the drop shot, and the lob combo brings Djokovic in. That means that was perfect. If Rude does that, I mean, that's Alcarez. That was an Alcarez play. One hour played, by the way. And don't worry, Kasper Rude fans, you know, well, why do I have to tell you? Rude doesn't get cramps. We're not gonna have an Alcarez situation with Rude. Love 15. And the sun's come out. Ooh, and the far end is where Djokovic is serving. That's where the sun's in the eyes. See what makes a difference. Love 15. Serve into the back end of Rude. Return goes in, back in at Djokovic. Drop shot is good. Rude's gonna get it. Djokovic to the lob. Rude's running back. He hits the tweener lob. Djokovic hit the volley. Rude's gonna get there with a slice. No, they slips. And it's in the net. Rude! Kasper Rude with a tweener. And he wins the point. Love 30. Djokovic was slipping and sliding all over the place. Kasper Rude. Hey, Nick Karyos, watch that. Ha ha. That was a Nick Karyos back at him. Hey, Rude doing a tweener is hilarious. That was a hell of a tweener. He was so far behind too. I mean, how'd he get the slice? And then Djokovic slipped over and tried to hit the volley on the slip. I mean, never gonna happen. Love 30. Man, Rude doing party tricks. I mean, that's insane. He wouldn't dare have done that against Rafa last year. Love 30. Djokovic serving in the sun. Nolle serves. Out wide. Rude gets it back. Fly down from Djokovic. Down the line. Rude with a slice. Djokovic with a volley. He's not gonna miss that one. 15-30. Rude just sliced it. And Nolle just went, thank you. Open court. 15-30. All right, this might be the biggest chance Rude's had all day. He's two points away from the first set here. Djokovic again, looking up at the sky. He's struggling with that sun. 15-30. Djokovic serves again. Bouncing the ball a fair few times. He serves. Out wide at the back end of Rude. Return to the front of Djokovic. Rude with the back end on the stretch. Djokovic, ooh, it goes wide from Rude. Nolle came to the net again. And Rude hits it wide, 30-all. What's with all the slipping from Djokovic? There's a dry baseline. Dry court. Dry, like the court's just dry. Changing his shoes won't matter. It's about watering the court. But the court's a little slippery. I mean, Rude hasn't slipped over, so it's more maybe just Djokovic off balance. And when you get tired, you do kind of lose your balance a bit. And Djokovic has shown that he's looking a little tired. 30-all, as Djokovic serves. A fault, here we go. This is where Rude has his biggest chance yet. 30-all, second serve, he's gotta make a count. Cause I don't know if Nolle's gonna be super generous going forward after this. Yeah, Djokovic does look clumsy. That's a good word. Clumsy is the word. As he serves out wide the front of Rude, he rips it back, but it goes out. Rude rips it out. 40-30, Djokovic. And that was not the shot Rude needed to do. He needed to make the return. 40-30. Djokovic to level things up here in the first. And again, looking at the sun, just where's the ball toss gonna go? Another serve coming up. Djokovic serves out wide. The back end of Rude, back end at Djokovic. Down the line, Rude with the passing shot lob, but it's out and Nolle's clutch from love 30 down. He takes the game, 5-5. Little shake of the racket from Nolle as well, he knows. He knows, 5-5, first set, over an hour played. It's been a hell of a long set to start off. And the crowd's going Nolle, Nolle. They're chanting his name. All right, one hour play still first set. Yep. That's fine. I mean, both these guys we know can go to the distance. Rude is not gonna cramp. We know that. Rude is a machine. He's a part of the Raffnerdall Academy. I mean, they teach him well. All right, Rude serves out wide. The front of Djokovic return goes in. The front of Rude inside out from Rude in the net. Bad error, love 15. Bad, bad error, love 15. By the way, 10,000 people in the house. Thank you, appreciate it. Hopefully we get a tie break to start off this match. I mean, what a great start that would be. By the way, thank you so much DM for becoming a member, appreciate that. Welcome, welcome. Got a couple of new members today. Thank you. Serve out wide, down the stairs, a fault from Rude. Second serve. Second serve. Rude's had his chances. Serve out wide, the back end of Djokovic. Return goes in, the front of Rude. Again, the back end of Nolle. Nolle hits it out. 15 all. Chat. One, if Djokovic is taking the set, two of you think Rude's taking the set. Nolle's yelling. He's going off of new Goran. I mean, Goran's taking his first hits. That human punching bag. 15 all. Serve now from Rude again. Down the tee, hell of a serve. It comes back. Rude rips the forehand. Djokovic's there with the slice. Rude with the volley. Down the line, smart. Smart from Rude out. Foxes. Djokovic in that one. 30, 15. Nolle thought it was gonna be a drop volley. Started running. And then Rude went, got you down the line. Smart from Rude. He's had some good volleys today, Rude. Been an interesting part of the game. Okay. Goran earns his pay. I mean, mate, you're coaching one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all time. I'll just shut up and take the money. As with a four now from Rude. Hell of a shot. Djokovic gets it, but it's in the net. Rude with a little flick inside out. That's a wrapper special. 40, 15. Little whip out wide on the forehand. Norwegian flags flying. Rude, to guarantee a tie break in this first set. 40, 15. One hour and seven minutes played first set. Served at T's and A's, bang! But it's a let. Unpire party pooper. 40, 15. Another serve here for Rude. Another serve to get to six-five. Serving to the back of the Djokovic, return goes in. Back in our Rude, cross court is good. Djokovic gets it. Rude volleys away. Rude takes back the lead and he's gonna play his first tie break or win his first set against Novak Djokovic. And he's blaming the court here. Djokovic's blaming the court and they're booing him. He's pointing at the court and saying, there's no clay over there. And they're booing him because that's what they came here. They bought the ticket, booing is guaranteed. And now he's gonna play to the umpire about calling the score. Oh, the same reason as the other guy. Remember the other, remember Liani did the same thing. He's complaining about the umpire. He's complaining about everything, Djokovic. And the umpire's like, understand what's happening. Nolleys is not happy. He's not happy, Nolleys. He's not happy. He's complaining about everything. All right, great level from Casper. Yeah, like his serving has not been great, but he's not a big server anyway. By the way, let us know in the chat where you're watching from. We've got probably a lot of people from all around the world watching. So thank you for joining us. If you are new, don't forget to subscribe. We've got Wimbledon coming up. You're into, into the grass court season. Literally, literally tomorrow, the grass court tennis season starts. So there's no break. There's no weeks off. Let's see. Let's see if Nolleys can get to this tie break. We're gonna be much better. We've got Ireland. We've got Portugal, Poland, St. Lucia, India, Croatia, Morocco, Romania, Denmark, California in the house. We've got Phoenix. We've got Germany, England, Minnesota. We've got Switzerland. Couple of Aussies in the house. We've got Michigan. We've got Philippines. We've got Norway in the house. Here we go. Here are the Norwegians out. Where are the Serbians at? We've got Morocco. We've got Vietnam. South Africa, South Korea, Sydney. UK, Brazil. We've got Phoenix. We've got Chicago, Las Vegas, Serbia. There are the Serbians. Sri Lanka, France, Canada, Lebanon. All right, Nolleys serving to get to this tie break. And he serves with a forehand now into the front of Rood. Forehand from Djokovic again to the front of Rood. Into the forehand of Nolley. Back in that slice from Rood is long, 15 love. 15 love as Djokovic serves again. One hour and 11 minutes played. It has been a long first set. It feels exactly like the Fakina match where we had the long first set, the Fuchovic match. Long first set for Djokovic. Rood played a tie break in his first set against Jarry, which was a long first set. So these guys aren't, it doesn't really favor the guy playing long first sets. Doesn't disadvantage either of a guy either. There's been a forehand to forehand rally. Again from Djokovic. Forehand inside out. Rood's there with a slice. As Djokovic hits a backhand. Again, the backhand of Rood who hits it down the line. Hey, that's a different shot. Forehand from Djokovic. Rood attacks with a backhand winner down the line. The backhand's not the thing that usually gets him the winners, but man, that's a hell of a shot. It's like when he serves an ace, it's gold for Rood. 15-0, 15-0 as his first backhand winner today, Rood. Six, five, 15-0. One hour and 12 minutes played as we had a serve down from Nolay. Down the tee is an ace. Bang, straight down the middle. 30-15. Tiebreak loading at the moment. Again, thank you for joining us. I'm almost at 140K. We've got over 10K in the house for the big finals. Thank you. Change of score, score's fixed. 30-15. You guys might be like five minutes back. Score's fine. 30-15 as Djokovic serves out wide. The backhand of Rood, return goes in. Now, Djokovic is a winner, 40-15. So we're going to have to get to a tiebreak. And this is going to be interesting. Rood's played so... I wouldn't say he's played well, but he's been very good to start. His game's been pretty good, but he's been, you know, obviously giving a lot of gifts from Djokovic. But Rood's held his nerve for the most part. He was up 4-1, he got broken back, but he held serve a couple of times to get this lead again. Now he's going to play a tiebreak if Djokovic gets the next point. Return goes into the form of Djokovic. Backhand out, Rood with a slice. Into the backhand, slice of Djokovic. Drop shot is too good, tiebreak first set. All right, chat. You know what to do. You tell me who's going to win this tiebreak. Rood's had his chances, but Djokovic has won five out of five tiebreaks this week. Rood's only played the one. He did win it. Who's going to take the tiebreak? Rood slash Djokovic. Which one? You tell me. You tell me. All right, a lot of people going with Rood. A few Nolleys. Nolleys fans are just keeping a little bit more quiet, I think. Nolleys, Nolleys, Rood, Rood, Rood. All right, let's see. Let's find out first point underway. Djokovic, whoop. And Rood. Rood's had the 4-1 lead in the match. As we're back in the backhand rally, four now from Djokovic. Into the form of Rood. Again, the form of Djokovic on the stretch. It's a winner from Nolleys. He steps it up. He steps it up. We saw it against Hatshunov and he's done it again. He's stepping it up. One love, Djokovic. What a start. Just forehand on the run. Just bang. All right, first serve is a fault. I'm sorry, first point goes to Nolleys. And Goran raised his fist. He's like, yes, finally. Don't know the guy in the suit is behind, but man, he came from dressed up. One hour, 15. This won't affect Rood physically if he loses the set, but mentally for sure. Serve out wide, the backhand of Rood. Lob goes to the sky. It's a high lob. Djokovic running back. He's going to serve volley. Not today. Has been a four now from Rood. Djokovic gets it with the forehand. Into the form of Rood. Into the form of Djokovic as Rood hits the backhand. Into the form again of Djokovic. As Rood hits the backhand down the line. That's a good shot. Djokovic on the stretch with the forehand. Rood, drop shot. Djokovic gets it. Rood, slice. Oh, he hit it straight to Noley. This is going to be on finish two. He hit it straight to Djokovic. Rood, he should have gone down the line. It would have been an easy winner. Two love, Djokovic. Oh, Noley. He just stood there and Rood went, here you go. Great hustle from Noley though. Great hustle. But Rood just, he went straight to Djokovic and he's like, get that out of here. Two love, two love. Djokovic raising the fist. It's been hard fought. But Djokovic is getting better and better. Noley serves again. It's only one mini break, but it's no back Djokovic, so it doesn't matter. Into the form, Rally. Into the form of Djokovic. To the slice of Rood. As Djokovic hits the form again. To the backhand of Rood. Into the backhand of Djokovic. Rood with the backhand. Again to the backhand of Djokovic. As Rood hits the backhand. Again to the backhand of Djokovic. Rood in control with the forehand, but he puts the door down the line in. As Djokovic gets it. Rood sets up. And he hits it out. Forehand goes wide from Rood. And Djokovic's three love in the tie break. Man. And you just felt, because we've seen this before with Rood against these guys. He gets the lead. He tries his best to hold on. But in the end, these guys are clutch. I mean, Djokovic and Nadal, there's a reason why they beat Rood, but also beat everyone else like this. You have a chance, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But I have been impressed with Rood in his first set. I mean, it's been much better than he was against Rafa. He looks so much more comfortable. But it might all be for nothing as we had a forehand from Rood. Open court, he's a win up. Good serve, good forehand combo. He gets on the board. Three one, Djokovic. Three one, Djokovic. As we get another serve from Rood. There's a crowd trying to rev themselves up. Three one. Serve out wide is a let. We've got to win this point. Stay close. Keep it interesting. Three one. Serve out wide is into the forehand of Djokovic. Rood down the line. Djokovic down with the backhand. Rood comes to the net with the volley. It's good. Djokovic passed. Rood in the net. Rood didn't do enough for the first one. Four one, Djokovic, double mini break now. Double mini break. Four one, Djokovic with two serves to come as well. Man. And it definitely feels different. Feels like, I don't know how Rood's gonna recover because Djokovic is only getting it better. Like that first, this first set so far, not the best from Nollay. And Rood's played solid. How's he gonna recover in the second Rood? Well, we've got 11,000 in the house. Appreciate that. Love that. Four one is going to serve out wide. That's a fault. Second serve. Well, we almost had 2,000 likes as well. Appreciate that. Four one. Second serve, Djokovic. He serves into the four one of Rood, back and out from Nollay. Again, to the back end of Rood is wide from Rood. Five one, Djokovic in the tie break. Five one. And the change ends. But man, five one. And look, maybe Djokovic falls asleep in the second, but someone tells me that Djokovic is only gonna get stronger. The first set, Rood had his chance. He was playing with a variety that we said he should. Took advantage of the Nollay slow start. But even that's not enough. Five one. Djokovic to serve two points away from the first set. Again, thanks for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We've almost got 141K in the house, which is 141K on the channel, which is crazy. 141,000 in the house would be insane. Five one. Djokovic to serve. Djokovic to serve. Five one. And this is why he is the goal. I mean, look, sorry, Rafa fans, Nollay's the goal. I'm sorry, yeah. Five one. Serve that wise and he's bang, six one. As Djokovic has five set points to take the first set. That's it, the king, six one. Let's see how Rood recovers in the second if he can make it interesting, but I feel like we're gonna be up two sets of love like this. Six one. Rood serves. Down the tee, it's a foul. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve. Is into the back of Djokovic, back in our Rood. Into the forehand of Djokovic, the backhand of Rood. Back in our Djokovic, again to the forehand of Rood. Into the forehand of Djokovic. Who goes in the line, Rood with a slice. Djokovic in control. Forehand is a winner and that's the first set. Seven one in the tie break. It feels like that hashtag of tie break. Flick the switch. He flicked the switch. And he's two sets away from Godness. Breaking the raffle record. Equalling the Serena record. All right, seven six, Djokovic is gonna go to the bathroom as well, but man, look. Everything went right for Rood in that first set. He got the slow start from Djokovic. He got the break early. He held early. He was up four one. But he just had to hold that one game at four two. He had to hold. Because after that, Djokovic gave him a little bit of a look, but nah, not enough. All right, by the way, Djokovic, anyone who's said things that Djokovic is gonna outlast Rood? Rood is fit. Rood is not gonna fail physically. It just is a very, it's a big mental block now because now he's gonna come back from all the chances. It's like, doesn't get much better than that for Rood in the first set. Closest he's come to beaten us, getting us set off Djokovic. Never played a tie break in Snorley. He did have a set, actually, so I'll take it back. He had a set point against Djokovic in that first meeting, but got broken. But man, Djokovic, I don't think he's getting worse than the first set. He's only getting better. So Rood's gonna have to lift or we might be out of here in a couple of more sets. This will be a five setter. Look, I said Rood, I said Djokovic did four, but that first set had to go to Rood if it was gonna happen. Because I feel like Nolay is gonna be, he's not gonna muck around in the second. He's taking the sole first, now the legs, okay? Well, the legs won't go. Rood won't lose his legs. We know that. Rood won't lose his legs. Well, wait, Rafa fans, don't cry, all right? Rafa's not done yet. He can come back and do his things. And look, you can always say Rafa fans. You can always say, well, he won the French Open and Rafa wasn't there, so it doesn't count. You can always say that, just like all the Djokovic fans are saying that Australian Open doesn't count because Nolay wasn't there, last year. So, Rafa fans, feel free to have a, you know, punch back. Don't just sit back and, you know, take it. Just punch back if you want, you know? Cause it is kind of true. You don't beat Rafa to win. Is it really a win? I don't know. It is. Just like the Australian Open last year counted for Rafa. 21 plus one is 23. That is good math. That is solid. That is solid math. That is solid math. Okay, where are the Roger fans at? Hey, look, Roger fans are on vacation. They have a loving life. Have you seen Roger Federer, dudes living his best life? He doesn't give a shit about this. He doesn't care about the records now. He's like, I got 20. 20 is more than, you know, two other guys who've got more. I've still got the third most, which is true. You know, no one can say, I'm the third best player of all time. We get stuffed. It's a lot of tennis players in the history of tennis. Yeah, Roger fans don't give a stuff there at the Formula One. Class in session. Look, I'm a little worried for Root in the second because like I said, Djokovic played average in that first set. He's only gonna get better. And if you can't get Djokovic while he's average, then it's gonna be a real tough for Root in the second set. And also like I said, mentally, mentally for Root, you know, coming from having the lead, he had the lead last year in the second set against Raffer and he lost 11 games in a row. He had the lead against Djokovic in the first time they played in the first set of the first match they played. He lost that and lost the set. So, but again, it's not really him losing the set. It's more about Djokovic coming back like a beast. Well, like Guga Querton in the house. We love that. Dude's got the thickest head of hair in the history of tennis. Dude's like 50 and he's still got like crazy hair. All right, let's, I've been ignoring the donations. So sorry, we'll get to them now, hang on. Greatest of all times, belt goat. Anonymous. Thank you for the amazing commentary. Thank you for the 50 anonymous bloody hell. Gotta be careful the French will turn on you in an instant. Just look at messy grin. True. Well, they're showing, speaking of football, they're showing Jiru in the house. Barpe was there. I don't think he's there now because he looked too bored. He probably went home, you know, he had better things to do. So thank you for the 50, appreciate that. Can we get some solutes for the $50 donation? That is insane. That is crazy. And I don't know who, unfortunately, I don't know who you were, but you know who you are and I appreciate it. So thank you for the 50 and thank you for the two. Appreciate that. Mike. No clay on court. It's stuck to Joker's shirt. Now all the clays on his shirt, he's gonna, that's why it changed. You left. Blunted. Gonna be a long match, okay, sign. Yeah, look, I reckon we go three hours and Djokovic wins the next two sets, maybe four. And look, I would love Rude to have a bit of a fight back in a, I mean, I would love to have him fight back in the second, but I think it's gonna be Djokovic from now. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Greatest of all time, goat. David. Two years ago, I was looking for something cool to watch on Eurosport. RG and Tennis goes into the brain, plus nine months, 22 days with Cam Fam. Just LouViv, it. Thank you, David for the 20, appreciate, that's very nice of you to say. I'm glad you found us. Thank you. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care what they were saying. Anonymous, thank you for the five. Appreciate that. It's felt too bad. Anonymous with the two. So odd that when Noel won the first set against Carlos, the first felt the match was far from over, however, with Rude, I feel it's only a matter of time before Noel wins crying, hope I'm wrong. Thank you. Thank you for the, for the two dollars, appreciate that. Yeah, look, I mean, yes, because Rude is not as dangerous as Carlos. Carlos is dangerous. I mean, after the second set when Carlos won it, it felt like the third was gonna go to Carlos until he got cramped. So yeah, that's why, I mean, look, the first set against Djokovic, besides everybody, I think everyone except for Carlos and maybe Nidal, I mean Nidal on a clay court. I think those are the two guys you don't want, Djokovic doesn't wanna lose the set to, first set. But everyone else, I mean, he lost the first set against Hashinov, that wasn't a problem. Even in the second set, it didn't look like Hashinov was gonna go up to love. In this set, if Rude won the first set, it would have just made it more interesting. I think it made it more, you know, wouldn't have made it harder for Djokovic. It just meant he would have had to play another set. But it doesn't feel like, you know, it doesn't feel like Djokovic is in danger. Even when he was down 4-1, I mean, I made the joke, but I was serious about the rabbit getting chased down by the wolf. And the rabbit was running, but the wolf chased him down. And we knew that because 4-1 is only one break and it's no back Djokovic and 4-1 is nothing. You need to be a five-love and maybe you can win the set. So Alcarez needs Nidal to coach him. He's got one Carlos. One Carlos is good. I don't need it. I don't need it. I mean, one Carlos is great. Don't think he needs to change his coach. By the way, I have no idea who half these people are in the house except for his dad. Hey, his dad's there. There you go. Dad's in the house, probably his mom's somewhere there. Tom Brady left. So Tom Brady's like, I need to get out of here. I wanna go sit with Mbappe. I wanna go sit with the others. Can I go sit with Mbappe and the cool kids? It's too stressful in the box. Why are you telling me to check Twitter? What's up? What happened? What do you want from me? There's nothing on Twitter. I can't see anything. It's just Djokovic, Djokovic, Djokovic. What do you want? Djokovic is still no spring chicken. Well, yeah. I mean, look, Djokovic physically, we saw him sore against Alcarez, but the thing is Alcarez was making Djokovic hit harder shots. Root's not hitting as powerful as Alcarez. So it's not as big of a problem on the arm as what Alcarez's power was doing to Djokovic on the ground strokes. All right, 7-6 first set. No back, Djokovic takes it. Root's got a massive mountain to climb now. Even just to make this interesting. Here we go. Djokovic serving, first game of the second is we're gonna serve out wide. The front of Root return goes in to the front of Djokovic, back in our Root. On the stretch, Nole, forehand again to the front of Djokovic, Root in the back of Djokovic, sliced into the front of Root. To the back of Nole, Root with the volley is in the net. Oh, he didn't hit it twice. Cause he couldn't hit the first one over. 15 love. Predictions second set shot, let me know. What do you reckon? I'm gonna go with Djokovic 6-3 in the second set. I reckon he gets the break early, hangs on and wins the set 6-3. But you tell me, what do you reckon? What do you reckon? What do you reckon? 15 love. Serve out wide, the back end of Root, forehand from Djokovic, is good. Root's there with the back end, oh, it didn't bounce, it just rolled along the ground there from Nole. That's a trick shot. 30 love. By the way, I would like a written apology to all those who said that I cursed Djokovic by picking him, so get stuffed. You can all get stuffed. No such thing as a camcurs, and there never was, never will be. So jokes on you, I was right. 30 love. Serve down the tee, into the back end of Root, forehand from Djokovic, into the back end of Root. As Djokovic hits the back end, but no, Root hits it in the net, 40 love. So, yep, anybody? It's not over yet? Oh, okay, all right, all right. I'll wait until the end of the match to accept apologies for all the rudeness and the bullying that I've been giving from the chat. By the way, thank you so much. God, I'm an idiot. Djokovic serves an ace, and he gets the first game, one love in the second. Strah, thank you for becoming a member. Appreciate that, thank you. Thank you, appreciate it. No way he loses the campcast. I'll tell you this, Chad. If Novak Djokovic loses this match from now, I will dress up as Mario during Wimbledon. How about that? That's how confident I am. If Novak Djokovic loses this match from now, I will dress up, I will wear a costume, and I will dress up as Mario, because I'm that confident that he's gonna win. It's two-E, come on, Chad. That's how confident I am. You curse, your curse hurts so many good players. I, you are mistaken, my friend. There has been no one this week that I've cursed. Every single person I picked this week has either won in straight sets or in a close match, which I haven't cursed anyone. You just got, I just prove it. You just got prove it, and you can't prove it, because it's not true. Because everyone I picked this week wins. I only pick winners, Chad. One in the chat, if you think I, if you agree, I only pick winners. I haven't got one prediction wrong this week. I am, I'm from the future, as we're back in, back in rally. Now I'm dying. Back end goes out from root, love 15. Love 15. Why people want two than two? Band of twos. Dawn, band of twos. I don't want to hear anyone saying that there's a curse. Band of, band of all. Can that's not true? Jesus, I'll get rid of this person. Jesus. There we go. All right, love 15. Return goes in the front of root. Djokovic comes in with a forehand, puts it away. Love 30. Love 30. Djokovic trying to get the early break here in the second, and Roode's got to feel a little bit shitty about his chance. I mean, look, mentally he had the chance, he had the lead, he was four, one up. He had to win that. He had to win that first set. Love 30. Just roll back the footage. No, I don't think I will. I don't think I will. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Love 30. As Roode serves again, second serve. One hour 34 minutes played. Serving to the back end of the forehand of Djokovic, forehand from Roode, to the forehand of Djokovic, the backhand of Roode. As Djokovic hits the forehand into the forehand of Roode, into the forehand of Djokovic, as Roode hits the backhand. Cross court, Djokovic gets with his own backhand. As Roode goes again to the backhand of Noelle on the stretch. Roode with the forehand of the open court winner. There you go, 15-30. Nice, forehand from Roode. 15-30. Sam. Camp second set score prediction. 6-3 Djokovic. Think he breaks here and he holds on and he wins 6-3. I could say 6-2, but I think it's going to be, I'm going to give 6-3. Actually, I'm going to say 6-2. I think Roode might get broken at 5-2 down as well. Serving the net, second serve. I'm going to go 6-2 Djokovic in the second set. And then Roode will recover, but he won't be too late in the third. Well, I thank you, Alexandra, for becoming a member as well. Appreciate that. Serving to the forehand of Djokovic's return is our winner. This is going to be on tennis TV, Roode. Noelle with a little fist bump, 15-40. 99, 90, let's say 95%. 23 loaning, 95%. 15-40. Serve out wide to the forehand of Djokovic, forehand from Roode is a winner. All right. We'd love to see that for Casper. 30-40. Roode looks done. Look, I wouldn't say Roode looks done. Djokovic looks better. And it was going to happen. Djokovic wasn't going to play bad for the entire match. 30-40. Still a break point here for Djokovic to take the first break of the second. Serve out wide to the backhand of Noelle. It's a moon ball. It goes into the front of Roode. Into the backhand of Djokovic and the moon ball. Into the front of Roode. As Djokovic hits the backhand again, to the front of Roode. Into the front of Djokovic on the stretch. Roode gets the point back to Doose. Good save. But Roode's been here the whole time. Djokovic was here. Now he's here. Roode either has to get better. If he stays the same, he's going to get run over. But again, take nothing away from Casper Roode. He has been so, so good. I mean, this has been his best performance in a big final so far. Like up until this point. Whatever happens next, I don't know. But up until now, this is Roode's best performance in a big final. He was better. Maybe a little... U.S. Open, maybe better. Maybe. Definitely his best performance against a goat. In the first set, he looked good, confident. He played great shots, smart shots, but Djokovic is just getting better. Again, take nothing away from Roode. Take nothing away from Roode. All right, serve now from Roode. Into the front of Djokovic. Return goes in. Roode puts up a lob. Nolay just doing everything he wants. And he puts away the smash this time. Advantage Djokovic again. Experienced in the game, yeah. I'm getting annoyed, man. Well, maybe you should, I don't know. Take a walk or something, get annoyed. Go get some fresh air. Come back in an hour if you're getting a little annoyed. Can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen, right? Advantage Djokovic to get the break in the second. Serve on tape, that's a fault. Second serve for Nolay to take the first break of the second set. Roode serves to the back of Djokovic. Back in our Roode, into the forehand of Djokovic. Roode rips the forehand, but Djokovic is there with his own forehand to the back end of Roode. Again to the backhand of Nolay. Nolay hits it out back to Deuce. And Nolay's complaining about everything at the moment. Even though he's looking better, not feel better. Tom Brady came back. Yay, do we like Tom Brady? I don't know, how do we feel about Tom Brady? Do we not care? Serve to the back of Djokovic. Four now from Roode into the forehand of Djokovic. Again to the forehand of Roode. To the backhand of Djokovic. That's a bit of a moon ball. Roode hits a forehand inside out. Djokovic guesses right with the backhand. Roode on the stretch, goes it again to the backhand of Djokovic. Into the slice of Roode. Djokovic hits the backhand again. To the forehand of Roode. Into the backhand of Djokovic. Roode with a slice. That goes into the forehand of Djokovic. Into the backhand slice of Roode as Djokovic hits the forehand of the stretch. On the stretch again, as Djokovic goes down the line, rude with the slice now, as Djokovic takes over, and he hits a four and win at Djokovic. And that was the most solid Nole point. Advantage Djokovic, and he's making hand signals. Advantage Nole! To take... ...this... ...break. Just not the same with that Brady, okay? He's a true goat. Yeah. He is. He's a goat, right? I mean, they've got a couple of goats. Alright. Here we go. Djokovic to get the break early in the second. Service of fault, sorry, into the back of the Djokovic, now backhand on the stretch. Rude, attacking with a four-hand cross-court. Djokovic gets it. Into the backhand of... ...Rude, as we had a backhand from Djokovic to the slice of Rude. Djokovic slices it back. Rude comes in the net with a drop shot. Not really, it's a slice. Backhand, Djokovic, rude with the smash. Nole, backhand. Rude with the forehand in the net. There it is, break. And he points to his head. Does no way. To be honest, I don't think it's really about his head. I think it's just about his skill. Two love. Camcurs doesn't work on goats. Camcurs is not even a thing. So, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're saying. Anyways, by the way, we're always at 141K. Thank you for that. Appreciate that. Got a lot of people in the house. 9,000 people in the house. Appreciate that. First set, I think we had about, we had 12,000 people here, buddy. We could chat. Next year, if we all get together, we all get to the tournament ourselves, because I'm not paying for your flights, but if we all get there, together, we could fill that stadium and we could all be there together. If we all get there, you have to pay for your own ticket. I'll meet you there. I'll meet you there. I'll meet you there. But if we all went, we could fill the stadium. We could all fill that stadium with a couple of extra seats, because we, you know, let's be honest, we're not going to pick the, we can't pick, we can't, I can't afford the corporate seats, but we'll sit at the top and we'll just yell and scream at each other. Can I sit next to Cam? Sure, JJ, you can sit next to me. 15 love. 7 to the 400, rude, rude. Hits it out. 30 love. 30 love. All right. 30 love. Anonymous. Alcaraz was the only threat to Noel. Unfortunately, his body isn't there yet crying. Thank you. Anonymous for the tour. Yes. That is correct. That's been nice. That was an all way 40 love. 40 love. Anonymous. Real tennis talk. What's up with Emma giving coaching lessons for $2,000? Damn. I don't know. It's, it's, hey. She's not playing right now, so she, she's making money somehow by, by, by, yeah. I mean, some people would pay that just to be in her presence. So, I mean, I don't know. 40 love. There's been a 40 now from Djokovic. That goes out 40, 15. Do you have three love here in the second? I don't know. I don't know. I mean $2,000 for a lesson from a Grand Slam champion. I mean, it doesn't sound, it doesn't sound that crazy. If she said $10,000, I'd be like, ooh. But $2,000 to be, I mean, Emma Rotacano is pretty popular. So it's like, probably cheap to be honest. As that goes into the back end of Djokovic. Drops us two good three love. No way in the second. Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I mean, 2K is kind of cheap. I'd pay 2K. Does it come with a massage? Jesus. You don't be that guy. He'll be creepy. Yeah, I mean, $2,000 to hang out, to be around a Grand Slam champion and learn from them. I mean, that's actually not terrible. Cheaper than her. Wait, what? Match is done disappointed. Rita's brain freeze. Is it $2,000 an hour? No, I think it's just $2,000 for one lesson, which will be an hour. I'm not going to sign up. What would I? I'm not going to sign up for a lesson, but I mean, there are people out there that I mean, look, $2,000 to hang out with a Grand Slam champion for an hour, learn from them, to meet Emmerato Kano. Little, you know, you know what I mean? Like a lot of people that are fans of us would would happily pay $2,000 to hang out with her for an hour. Yeah, I don't think it's I think 10 grand would be like, whoa, it's two. I mean, yeah. Coaching is expensive anyway. I mean, tennis coaching is expensive. So you're getting taught by a Grand Slam champion as a whole. Like that's that should be expensive. I mean, Jokovic's price would be a hundred million dollars. His would be like 100,000. By the way, Jiru is sitting right next to Nolay and they're totally looking like we're talking to each other. Anyways, it's in person, right? It's in person. What is it online? If it's online, then that's crazy. It's an online course. All right. Well, that's a little different. So it's a two grand online course. Okay, that's a bit much. I mean, that's a little, okay. So you don't even get to talk like it's a watch videos of her telling you how to hit tennis balls. It's not even you don't even get a Skype call or anything. It's not even like a one on one lesson. It's basically just that's okay. Three love. Cool. That's it. Is that what it is? It's an online course or is it actually like she like a zoom call three? What is it chat? As that goes into the back end and all rude hits it over the net by hitting the tape. He gets lucky. 15 love. Anyways, I thought it was in real life. Okay. 15 love as rude serves. It's three love in the second. It's jokovic hits the back and return the phone of rude back and jokovic into the phone of rude home into the phone of jokovic rude with a foreign winner. So jokovic to the phone winner straight past. Casper rude. He just stood there and stared at it. 15 all 15 all and look one in the chat. If you're not surprised this is happening. We've seen this before was so much tennis from jokovic. The first set close against anybody besides maybe Elkres and and jokku and Nadal, but when the first set is close and the underdog loses jokovic doesn't make the same mistake twice. He never I mean maybe against Fakina at the first round or the third round, but usually he runs away with a second and this is normal as a foreign goes in line from rude back and jokovic is wide. Almost vintage no way 15 all 15 all so 30 15 rude. Trying to get on the board here in the second and look he's already won more games than he did last year's final. So that's an achievement or he's equal to that. He's equal to that. He's equal to that achievement serve into the back of jokovic jokovic in the net 40 15 40 15 by the way. Thank you so much. Rodrigo for becoming a member appreciate that. Welcome 40 15 another serve coming up. Now why the 40 jokovic jokovic is that I rude on the board in the second 3 1 jokovic has the break and is cruising. I feel for rude. He's a great guy hoping he was a slam next year this year. He is reserved. Well look. I know we're calling it way early but let's be honest. Right. Scoreline suggests that jokovic won't lose from now and if he does it would be ridiculously crazy crazy that happens. Rude has played jokovic Nadal Elk resin grand slam finals three of the work. I mean look Elk resident on the same level as jokovic should know yet but in terms of nightmares they're the three worst players you want to be rather play city pass it rather play Runa rather plays very in the final right. He has got the three hardest grand slam finalists of grand slam opposition in a final right. Luckily two of them are old so that they're not going to be around for the next 10 years. One of them is going to be around for one year the other one's going to be away around for you know probably five years maximum so Rude only has to deal with Elk resin grand slams going forward and if he avoids him he might be able to get one because he hasn't I mean he showed this week beats Runa he beats Varev I mean never Devin and Claycourt final after this week I don't think people are going to think that's going to happen city pass will be interesting but I think he rates himself against city pass in a French open final that'd be fun rude city pass final one day but jokovic aces down the team 30 love but roots out of such a I mean you've had the toughest final final opponents ever I mean look at team back in 2020 team played is there even the final jokovic got defaulted so he didn't have to play him so never did play jokovic got the win which is great Alcraz got the didn't have to play jokovic or Nadal last year at US Open right so credit to Rude for getting to three finals in three in 12 months but he's played the hardest opposition like he they've given him no help in the final. But the finals been against the three or the two of the toughest guys of all time and one of the craziest talents coming through. I mean give him give him give him give him a break give him something to someone else in the final 35 and not to mention Miami last year Rude lost to Alcraz I had to be finals last year jokovic was in the fire you know like he just not getting he's just not getting that he can't take a trick in these big finals yet and always to grant the house 30 15. Can jokovic get the 30 slams I reckon he gets the 25 and then we'll talk about it. We could be talking about it this time next year. So I mean if he gets the 20 like let's say realistic right jokovic wins this he wins Wimbledon US Open I think goes to somebody else he wins Australia that's 25 French Open next year Raph is back Alcraz getting better physically better too. Might be tough. Wimbledon next year depending on what happens this year at Wimbledon jokovic should have that maybe 26 US Open next year nobody knows because you know injuries happen and maybe jokovic can win one more I don't know 30s a lot I think 30s too much 25 definitely there. The jokovic is the winner 40 15 30s a lot especially with Alcraz showing this this week that hey if his legs don't fall apart jokovic got problems here at the French against Alcraz and if jokovic I think the US Open is tough Australian Open and Wimbledon are going to be no less for at least for another year or two but I think 25 and then once you get to 25 depending on how he gets to 25 then we can assess other events because Alcraz is only getting better Runa hasn't had a crack at jokovic slam lately. Sinner you know Sinner is only going to get better so I think we'll find out and also I'm interested to see the motivation behind jokovic as he double faults because remember chat the record isn't 30 or 25 the record is 23 what happens if he achieves the record will he still have the motivation being the guy who has the record now that might he might he might remember how he and I'll talk about this in a second 40 30 because chat I want to remind you of 2020 remember what happened then I was going to serve now from jokovic down to the front of rude rude hits it out jokovic for one in the second now in 2020 jokovic wrapped up the world number one ranking in I think it was like Vienna the next match after he guaranteed number one status for the year he lost in his worst loss ever against Senegal a lucky loser at the time so I wonder if winning the French open he goes to Wimbledon going I did it I've won more slams than anybody else I've set the record will there be motivation yet to win Wimbledon again but also will he be a little shaky early because he's kind of done what he was set out to do I don't know that's what will be interesting will the mindset change now that he has the record instead of going for the record I don't know maybe it doesn't maybe he's like now I want 50 you know maybe I want to beat you know beat Serena's record or what you know maybe there is motivation there but I don't know calendar slam is definitely motivation you're right true true true true but I don't know because he's never said I want to beat Serena's record he's always said I want to have more grand slams in Nadal and Federer right he's got more grand slams of Federer he's going to have more than raffering maybe an hour's time I don't know I seriously don't know I mean we have seen him once he achieves a goal sit back and you know drink a vegan martini he wants to pass Margaret Court but he's never said that I've never heard him say I want to be better than Margaret Court because to be honest if we're going to compare the two he is better than her anyway because she has 20 years 11 in the open era and I don't think anyone saying that Margaret Court is better than Djokovic is anyone saying Margaret Court is the greatest player of all time and Djokovic is not on the you know what I mean like I don't know I'm just again I don't know I don't know the answer we'll find out we'll find out how how he looks in because now also how's he going to do with being the holder of the record because of course he doesn't want to be one ahead of referee wants to be two or three so he's comfortable but Wimbledon might be a little tricky for no way might be a little tricky now that he's ticked off the hardest thing in the history of the sport 15 love interested to find it out as root catches the ball in his racket lovely party trick 15 love 15 love as root tries to avoid getting breadsticks in the second second set prediction score I say six to by way of 9000 people in the house what's up 15 love as we deserve now the point of job back in a jokovic for now from rude to the front of jokovic into the front of rude into the backhand of jokovic back in our rude sliced long 15 all 15 all as jokovic tries to get this double break in the second I said 6 3 yeah but then I read right at one love I said 6 2 so change my mind actually I'll tell you at the end of the set what I predict how about that we'll wait until the end of the set and then I'll tell you what the set score might be in the second as we're to find out from rude in the back of jokovic that goes in the back of rude to the front of jokovic into the back end of rude sliced into the slot back in a jokovic root with the forehand down the line is good nice passing shot 30 15 Jack Gyllenhaal looks bored he's a root fan Casper root fan he clearly is not jokovic he's a rapper fan he's a rapper fan anonymous damn this is why I freaking love all cars even when cramping the dude was hitting winners and giving it his best come on rude you got a chance don't fold I thank you and on us to the five yeah I mean that's that's how crazy I mean it just shows how good Alcraz is it on the length of the five 40 15 it's kind of crazy like Alcra like you don't think jokovic looking over his shoulder at Alcraz because he's got everyone else covered we know that in Grand Slam tennis we've got everyone else covered but Alcraz is a problem no one's given jokovic a scare like that since maybe Stan many's done things but not really has been a slice there into the back end slice of jokovic slice there from rude to the back end of jokovic into the front of rude as jokovic is the forehand wide and rude gets on the board again for to jokovic in the second but yeah now Chris is going to I mean I want to see a rematch with Alcraz jokovic and I want to see it I want to see it at the US Open it might not be to the final but yeah cramping issue won't go away anytime soon yeah but by the time the US Open comes around he didn't cramp at the US Open so there was something that's changed and remember the cramping issue from what he said wasn't nutritional wasn't you know from the from the liquids he was drinking it was from nerves so the next time he plays jokovic in a big moment he's been there and done that so his body might not fail in the next time if it is based on nerves because you know the I mean just like rude today you know last year's final super nervous this year's final he can probably be like well I know I know what I'm doing today I know how it works today the ceremony all that stuff so next time jokovic and Alcraz played a slam I don't think Alcraz are going to cramp up again because of nerves I think he's going to learn from that and never have that happen again jokovic is a lovely winner 15 love jokovic is good on grass I'm not expecting much from him but I think he makes I mean I think he might sneak pardon me I don't think anyone's expecting to win but I think he might make a quarter final if he gets a good draw he might even make a semi and surprise we'll just serve out what a fault take a serve that's not scientific well I'm not a scientist mate so I don't know what you want from me do I look like a scientist? I have glasses for you I am an idiot 15 love as jokovic serves into the front of rude return goes in the back end of jokovic as rude hits a forehand again to the back end of nolle cross court is good rude with the volley cross court is a lob rude with a smash jokovic down to the forehand pass rude with the volley too good 15 all the crowd go wild because they're like hey this might not be over yet but it probably is let's see if rude can make it interesting though 15 all nice net play from rude 14 all 4-2 jokovic with only one break only one break and that's enough jokovic serves to the back end of rude return goes in forehand nolle again to the front of rude into the forehand of jokovic rude with the forehand again to the front of jokovic into the front of rude again to the front of nolle as rude hits a forehand inside out jokovic to the back end pass rude with the volley hang on up goes a lob from jokovic rude with the smash jokovic gets us right with the forehand in the net though 15-30 alright alright kaspers put up a fight we like it 15-30 love the fight jokovic is playing a lot cleaner in the second but rude is not making not going away quietly I like that let's see if we can get this break back that'd be incredible 15-30 how far were rude got the rankings it'll be number 4 in the world after today no matter what happens so he cannot be uh he can't go any higher than number 4 after this week someone in the crowd going crazy 15-30 we need a 5 setter we've had 5 setters but like a 4 setter that'd be fun rude can put up a bit of a fight get a second set or third set to the forehand from jokovic that goes in the forehand of rude which is rude hit the forehand down the line jokovic to the backhand rude gets it oh on the line rude with the backhand that one goes out 30 all is rude yells at himself first one was good second one was a little too much 30 all like I said chat if we're going to get 5 sets even 4 sets I think rude had to get the first set first set would have made it would have made things a lot more interesting for sure rude's backhand error in the second set 30 all give me an emoji in the chat of how you're feeling right now chat because I'm sure there's a lot of happy jokovic fans let me know in the chat with one emoji how you're feeling jokovic waiting for the umpire to tell the crowd to shut the hell up 30 all 30 all serve to the backhand of rude forehand from jokovic as rude hit the forehand cross court jokovic gets it with the forehand down the line into the slice of rude and it's 30 40 30 a lot of people sad a few people kind of like relieved a few a few goats in the chat a few shocks in the chat just wanted a good match a few angry faces don't know why people are angry people happy faces there you go hey look chat if you're an adult fan I get it if you're a roger fan I get it but if you're a tennis fan let's just witness his let's just enjoy this because we may never see someone win 23 slams again there's been a four now maybe raffle but we may never get anyone breaking this record again this could be the last time this record gets broken there's been a smash from rude in the net it's 5-2 jokovic in the second we've got to enjoy this chat because we've taken for granted sometimes raffle gets to 20 then he gets to 22 then jokovic gets to 22 this year this record might be one and done after this how does raffle break it again I don't think he does roger's not here this might be the last time we get this record broken might get reset by jokovic again in Australia but broken this might be the last time this this record changes hands at least for the next until we know someone else that could do it this is the last time in our lifetimes chat that this happens 23 slams may never happen again or at least never happen in the future after a raffle and no le um and also jokovic fans obviously going to have a celebration um no le and he'd be number one again as well jokovic by the way alright I see no le struggling with dogs at Wimbledon maybe I want to see if no le extend the lead that's what I want to know 23 again happen in the wj quick of the atp well yeah shriyantek might be able to do it I mean she's the closest because she's got four um but yeah why in Australia why not Wimbledon sorry I meant wait no raffle wait sorry again the next issues raffle can get it because he's not playing Wimbledon but jokovic could get to 24 at Wimbledon 25 in Australia so we'll see 5-2 as rude serves to stay in the set flash thank you flash for the two bucks appreciate it Vems after wimby he can rest so that will help with us that will help a lot he probably I don't reckon jokovic is going to play Canada I reckon he'll play since then the US um because yeah after winning Wimbledon I mean he deserves a break if he wins Wimbledon that's uh that's going to be interesting we're going to find out jokovic rude pass is a winner again rude just using the power it is pushing down the line 15 love by the way chat we're almost at 141k thank you for that appreciate we've got an extra uh almost another thousand people uh subscribe today so thank you for that there's channel ridiculous how many tennis fans there are out there that actually want to uh want to be a part of the channel and be a part of the chat which is great as that backing goes wide from rude 15 all why can't jokovic win the US because he hasn't won the US lately it's the hardest one that the one that he hasn't won lately he can of course he can but he hasn't won the US open since like 2018 so it's been a it's been a minute it's been a long time yeah default an injury and you know obviously not being able to play have been all a factor but the US and plus if he's got three out of the four I mean look at the US open back in 21 right the added pressure of the kelvin slam I mean but anyways we'll get to the US eventually as we're to find now from rude who puts it wide 15 30 15 30 two points away from a two sets of lovely in this final and the second sets gone for about what 35 minutes jokovic stretches out his legs don't think there's much to worry about there 15 30 rude will serve he serves a let min says only 10k in the chat min that's a lot 15 30 only 10k come on back at return goes in the form of rude and rude puts it wide 15 40 jokovic to take a two sets of lovely and rude and be one one set away from history from recreating history chat we've been so spoiled we've been so spoiled the last three four five years thanks to raffa roger and no and and no back as a return after no that goes out 30 40 and we'll talk about after this because we've had Roger getting to 20 in the last five years we've had raffa getting to 20 and beyond and then we've had no way coming from way behind to come up and now take the lead I mean the last five years of tennis have been insane six years we want to say 17 as well as rude it's a winner and he saves both the set points I mean federal in 2017 and 2018 what he did at that age everyone counted him out he finally got some slams at the end got to 20 first man to get to 20 ridiculous right then raffa he got there and beyond and then no way was like I mean in 2020 no way was like three behind everybody else and now he's three he's almost one in front it's crazy it's crazy is that love goes to the sky and route puts away the smash all right advantage rude advantage rude to avoid the double one in the second set and at least maybe serve first and the third which might be interesting yeah 10 slams used to be impossible I agree which is why I think a lot of people are like oh you can win 20 right now of course can win 20 we've got to start realizing that 20 is ridiculous and 10 is maybe half of realistic 10 should be the baseline like should be the should be the ceiling I mean 20 is ridiculous as we're back in the backhand rally again down the line from no way it's out okay rude rude saves the game saves two set points and he gets no way to serve it out on the second in the second set the match is over yeah Paul feels that hey thank you creatures for the super sticker appreciate it thank you unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable 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TJ! Mogusamo.Gammerzi Onisanto Ganevili, N-O-L-E-E-E-E-E. Thank you for the five, appreciate that. Greatest of all times, Mount Goat. Ray! Cam, your innovation and entrepreneurship in pioneering this platform is laudable and inspiring. Kudos. Thank you, Ray, for the 20, appreciate that. That's very generous of you to say. It's been a fine, a fine rally now. Djokovic serving for two sets of love leaders. Going to find out from Djokovic to the front of Rude. Again, to the front of Nolay, down the line. Rude with a slice, gets it. Into the back end of Djokovic, Rude. With the back end again, Djokovic there. With the back end cross-court, again to the back end of Rude. And Rude hits it long. 15, love. Thank you, Ray. That's very nice of you to say, mate. I just hope that you guys enjoy what I'm doing. As long as you guys keep showing up and hanging out, oh, I'll keep doing it. I'll keep watching tennis at two in the morning with you. 15, love. Djokovic, three points away from a two sets of love lead. Nolay serves. Into the back end of Rude. Return goes in the front of Nolay, who smacks a winner. This is gonna be on Tennis TV. Inside out for our winner, just bang, 30, love. 30, love. Hey, Payam, appreciate that. Thank you for the five gifted. I'm not sure who got them, but thank you for the five gifted, appreciate that. Here we go, congratulations to Tanya, Nikola, Manon, and also Camel, and I can't pronounce the last name, I'm so sorry. But you know who you are, you got a membership too. Thank you for that. Thank you for the five gifted, that's very generous. 30, love. Another serve coming up for Nolay. Two points away from a two sets of love lead. Over two hours played. As Djokovic serves, down the middle, Rude gets it back. Back in at Djokovic, into the forehand of Rude. As Djokovic hits the forehand inside out, Rude gets back in, again to the front of Djokovic. Back in at Rude, sliced in the net, 40, love. To take the second set, six, three. And at least Rude serves first in the third, because that could make it interesting. If he keeps holding, I mean, we saw the first set where he served first. So let's see, 40, love. Djokovic will take a two sets of love lead and be one set away from history. It's so crazy how things go. As we're to serve out wide to the backhand of Rude. Back in at Djokovic, down the line, it's too good. And there it is, two sets of love. Six, three in the second, Nolay. How crazy is this shot? I don't know, look, Rafa fans are gonna get angry, but look, just bear with me, all right? How crazy is it that Rafa broke the record in Nolay's backyard, the Australian Open. And yeah, he wasn't there, but Rafa's not here, right? And how crazy is it that Djokovic is gonna do the same thing, break that record, but in Rafa's backyard? Who would have thought that? Who would have thought that back in 2020 or in 21? I don't think anyone would have picked. Oh yeah, Rafa's gonna win the Australian Open and set the record to 21. And then Nolay's gonna break it to a year later at the French, like you would have thought it'd be all the way around. Yeah, Rafa's gonna win 21 slams at the French and Djokovic will break the record most likely in Australia. How weird is that chat that these things happen? Just when we think we know tennis, we don't know anything. All right, two sets of love. The goat song should show Djokovic, not Federer. Yeah, we might have to change it up. Anonymous. Is Novak the most unpopular of the big three? Almost every tennis player or fan site Nadal or Roger has their influence favorite. That's a tough question. Bolland in that second set, 15 winners, seven errors from Djokovic, four aces, seven winners, eight errors from Rude. Djokovic just took over. Here is what, from my point of view, what I saw, right? Roger came on to the scene, was so much better than everyone and he played a style of tennis that was like classical. Roger came out like a classical music, right? Beautiful backhand, artistic, doing things that nobody has seen with a tennis racket. Then Rafa came out and started to challenge that with a total opposite style. It was like classical music and then rock and roll. And then Nolle came in and we didn't know where, we didn't really know where he fit. And Rafa took, you know, a lot of people got the Federer beauty, beauty of Federer's game. And then a lot of people loved the intensity of Rafa's game and the fans were split between the two. And then Djokovic came along as like the third, he was almost like the awkward middle child, right? He just didn't know where he fit. And everyone was kind of like, well, we like this guy or this guy. We didn't really have a third choice. So I think that's really what happened. Like everyone had already made their choice between Roger and Rafa and then Nolle came along and couldn't get much love because the fans were already split between those two guys. So I think that might be a reason, you know, and look, but Djokovic got all his fans as well, but he was like the third awkward third wheel to that duo. It was like Roger Rafa, right? Fadal, right? And then Djokovic came in and was really, I just couldn't, he couldn't find his place in the fandom because the fans had already chosen their favorites, I think. But as time's gone on, and especially as he's gotten in the last three years, and I've noticed this as well with the chat because it definitely happens, as soon as Djokovic is starting to get closer and closer to confirming being goat, and I think today goes a long way and probably confirms it. That, almost like the image has changed. And yeah, when Djokovic does something silly, you know, the haters come out and say, whatever, whatever. But in the last probably like three to four years, it feels like people are turning around at Djokovic big time. And I know the Australian thing, you know, the Australia band thing. A lot of people, you know, got the pitchforks out and were like, yeah, get him out of here. Which I think was terrible. You know, people were just kicking him while he was down. Also the default in the US Open, a lot of people were like celebrating that, which is stupid. But I think in the last, especially when he was gone for the calendar slam, I think that really changed. He got a lot of fans that way, because he was about to do something that we, you know, Rafa and Roger never had a chance to do. And I think he definitely turned people from maybe picking, especially with Roger retiring, it helps, right? Roger's gone, but we're gonna watch these guys now. Rafa goes, and I've said this before, I reckon if Rafa, when Rafa retires and Nolle's the last one, he is gonna be the last of the golden generation. Serena's gone as well. And I think a lot of people are gonna turn to Nolle for familiarity and be like, hey, my guy's gone, my later, Serena's gone, Rafa's gone, Roger's gone. The old days are nearly gone, right? The golden era is gone, but Djokovic is still here. And I think a lot of people will jump on the Djokovic bandwagon at the end of his career, because he will be the last one of the golden generation left, right? And I think a lot of people are gonna jump on him. Now, a lot of people are gonna leave tennis, and that's fine. We'll see you when you come back one day, maybe. But I feel like a lot of people are gonna jump on Nolle because they don't wanna see the new guys win you. They wanna keep the old, that's why people jump on stand. You know, Murray, right? They're still like, oh, they're the nostalgia guys, the guys that we remember 10 years ago, 20 years ago, almost for some of them. So I feel like Djokovic's towards the end of his career is gonna get a lot more, especially with Alcarez trying to take, yes, two days ago, trying to take his record, or trying to take his, what do you call it? Take his spot in history, ruin the historical moment that we're witnessing now. I think a lot of people will jump on Djokovic because it reminds them of the good old days of Djokovic when he played Rafa and those guys. So I feel like that's gonna happen. And you might say, no, now, that's because Rafa's still here. And you're like, I still like Rafa. Yeah, okay. When Rafa's gone, I feel like people who looked in Olay is like a, as a reminder of the good old days and Rafa and Roger and Serena and 15 love, sorry, 15 all. Now, Rude, let's get back to this match and stop going back in day. But yeah, hopefully that answers the question. 15 all, Rude has to hold serve. It's not the first set all over again. He has to hold, he has to hold, he has to hold to make it competitive. Serving the back end of Djokovic's turn goes in the four line of Rude. One half of Djokovic in the stretch goes into the sky. Rude comes in with a swinging volley. Djokovic's back end into the volley of Rude. Back in at Djokovic, passing shot winner, 15-30. Easy from Noley. Sam. What is score prediction for third? One BRK or more? Six-four. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Greatest of all times. Goat. Nick. I know it's gotta be tough staying up for the French open. Put this in your coffee fund. Thank you, Nick, for the 20. That's what I'm doing tomorrow. Tomorrow, chat after this. I'm gonna grab a, I'm gonna get a breakfast and a big old coffee, because I haven't had coffee in three weeks because coffee for keen is up my voice. So I'm gonna get a well-earned coffee after these two weeks. But thank you for the 20. That's very generous. I'm gonna get some salutes for Nick. Another generous donation. 30 all. Root serves. Into the corner. Djokovic return goes out from Noley. Root says it's out and the umpire is gonna come out and confirm. And he says it is out. 40-30. But it's been a hell of a two-week chat. I've had so much fun. We've watched 51 matches. It's been a crazy week, a crazy tournament. I have 141K now. I mean, bloody hell. And who doesn't like a little bit of history on top of the end? We've watched Fiontech winning three out of four slams. Sorry, three out of four French opens in the last four years as you won three of them as Root gets the first game on love. And now we're about to witness history. And I know. And I just wanna say to the Rafa fans, I know, I get it. I get it. It's not a great moment for Rafa fans because the competitiveness of the rivalry and the fan bases don't like each other at times. But if you're not a Rafa fanatic and you're not a Roger Fanatic and you're a bit of a neutral fan or you're an admirer of tennis, soak it up because this is amazing. This is great. This is epic. This is so good. It'll be one of those where were you moments when Djokovic took 23. So hopefully everyone can enjoy that and respect that. I think respect is the big part, right? Respect the achievement. One love, Root. And if you don't, well, cry more. Okay. Not too bad. Nadal would have won the first set. Thank you, Paul. I agree. I think Rafa would have been a white top of challenge. Anonymous. Novak, obviously great player, but game isn't as exciting and something about his personality just seems cold. Carlos, my new replacement, once Nadal retires. Well, that's the beauty of tennis. There's always someone next, isn't there? I mean, when Samper's retired, everyone, a lot of people turned to Federer, I think. 15 love. But yeah, Nadal would have been more competitive than Root. I think we can agree. I mean, Elkres would have been as well. Maybe Root or would have been more competitive. 15 love, Djokovic. Let's hope Root can make this fun. I love a tiebreak. Make Djokovic earn the history. Don't just give it to him. Volley from Nolle, too good. 30 love. 30 love. 30 love. You know why though, and going back to that last donation, $2 donation, thank you. You know why his personality is cold though? It's his upbringing. He's coming from it. Like, if you look at Federer and Nadal, they're coming from a different... Djokovic has come from a very tough beginning. Life beginning. I'm not saying tennis, I'm just in life. Back end slice there from Root into the corner. Djokovic, Root with a slice again in the net. It's 40 love. But also, like I said before with the fan bases, Djokovic came into a already divide, already rivalry with the Federer and Nadal rivalry that everyone loves, right? So I feel like Djokovic has a chip on his shoulder too. And who can blame him? Came in, trying to just be competitive against these guys and he just, it gets a lot of hate because nobody wants the third wheel, unfortunately. I mean, I remember when Djokovic used to do impressions and like pretending to share a pover and all those fun things, just to be fun, all those fun moments back in the day. And then when he started encroaching on the Federer and Nadal rivalry and started getting a little bit of, taking a little bit from them, that's when people started to be like, hey, go away. And he's probably got a chip on his shoulder from that. That's probably why he's not as, that's why he's not doing the impressions anymore. He's like, no, it's, no, no. I'm gonna win slams instead, get stuffed. One, one. But I don't think he's cold. I mean, I think that's a misconception. He's very, very generous to the new guys. If you watch him. I mean, did you see Elkras cramping yesterday or the other day? He went straight over to him. He said, take all the time you need, take the medical time out, whatever you need to do. Even though he got penalized for it, Elkras, but still, Djokovic, I feel like he, I mean, someone who's cold would have just not even bothered to see if he was okay. But nobody talks about that. It's only when Djokovic does something bad, you know? Let's do it back in now from Rude to the front of Djokovic, Rude with the volley. Hey, there you go. Nice, there you go. 15 love. He also helps a lot of people all the time. Yeah, he's very encouraging to the new guys. If you watch him lose, even when he loses like Medvedev or something, he smiles, he gives him a hug and he's like, you got me. I mean, he's very generous with the new generation coming through. He's very warm to them, you know? Very encouraging to them. Win or lose. You know, if he beats him, he, you know, he's fine. If he loses, he says, you know, he's very, very nice to them as we had a volley there from Rude, very nice to serve volley Rude. Okay, what are we doing? 30 love. Anyways, I feel like now stats won't lie. I mean, you can dislike Djokovic. I'm not going to tell you, I'm not trying to convince you to like him. Just saying, that's how I feel. But I feel that he gets a tough rap, but at the end of the day, you're going to have to deal with the fact that he is the greatest that we've ever seen. As the lob goes up, and the smash goes away from Nolle, 30-15. By the numbers, he's the greatest we've ever seen. I know some people are going to go, but Federer was prettier. Yeah, Raffer was more intense, yeah. But I feel like it's undeniable that he's got all the, he's got all the records. He's got all the records. Have I ever disliked a player? Not really, I don't dislike anyone. So I love tennis, you know? You're a rare realistic commentator. Appreciate that. 30-15, I try and think of things logically and try and keep a motion out of it. As with a backhand, oh, that goes out from Maroud on the forehand, 30-oh, 30-oh. Yeah, there's no one I dislike. My least favorite players, I mean, they don't really play. I don't really have a dislike to anybody. I get angry when someone's playing annoying, but doesn't mean I don't like them. Like FAA, I'm a big fan of him, but he annoys the hell out of me when he plays, he plays terrible. Shapo, like I get annoyed at people, but I don't dislike them. I don't get angry because I don't like them. 30-oh. As with a certain, it's in the backhand of Nolle, Rube with the forehand inside out. Djokovic gets with the backhand, into the backhand of Rude. Again to the forehand of Djokovic. Nolle puts away the winner, 30-40. Here we go, Chat. Time will tell. I don't hate Moussedi. That is a lie. He annoys me, because he's so damn talented. All right, pardon me. Djokovic with a chance to get the break in the third. Two and a half hours played. Rude serves, into the backhand of Djokovic, return the backhand of Rude, as Djokovic hits the backhand, down the line in the nets. All right, Djokovic knows he's this close. He's like, oh, how could I, maybe that was a tight backhand. Bit of a tight backhand. Nolle knows, he's like, oh, just give me the freaking trophy, I'm so close. Even Goran's like, damn it! He's gonna yell at me later for that. Serving to the forehand is a fault from Rude. Second serve, second serve. Into the backhand of Djokovic, backing out from Rude. Into the backhand of Djokovic, again to the backhand of Rude. Into the backhand of Nolle, Rude with the backhand. Down the line is good. Djokovic gets it on the stretch, but it's in the net. Good hustle from Rude, advantage, advantage. Advantage, Rude. And when Djokovic wins this match, we're gonna talk about what's next because he's just starting to cross off all those things. Most weeks in number one, male or female. Grand slam record for the men. Equal Serena, 24, I mean, 25 is a nice number. But what's next for Nolle? I mean, beating Federer's Wimbledon record probably on the horizon. Backhand, rally, and that goes in the net from Nolle, and it's two-one Rude in the 30s. Done well, Rude, to hang on. So let me, and again, this is turning into a little bit of a Novak celebration party because it is, he's about to do something incredible. I'll tell you the records that he does hold in tennis. If he wins today, he holds the most grand slams, won by any male in the history of tennis. He's also made more finals at Grand Slams than anybody else in the history of the game. He's won semifinal away from equaling Federer in terms of most semifinals in Grand Slam tennis. He's three-quarter finals away from equaling Federer there as well. And he's still gonna play another 11 Grand Slams if he's gonna equal Federer's record and Feli Lopez's record of 81 appearances at Slam. So, yeah, Djokovic, I mean, look, 11 more slams is three more years. It's probably gonna get there eventually. He also is only, in Grand Slam tennis, is only 11 wins away from beating Federer's record of 369 matches won at Grand Slam level. He's already like 30 ahead of Rafa, so that should be, he should be getting that eventually if he keeps playing this way. He is, he hasn't got as good a record as beyond Borg in terms of wins at Grand Slams, but that's because Borg's record is ridiculous. And Borg retired early. So that's, he's at 88%, Borg at 89.2%. If he wants to get most matches played at Grand Slam, he's only about 35 away from Federer in that one as well. So again, keep playing, he'll get there eventually. But man, I mean, Federer, look, he's got four more years until he gets to 40. So Federer had to 40 and kept playing. So, all of those things are still four years away. That's what, four Grand Slams, 16 Slams to cover all those bases. What else we got? He's gonna, well, with today's win, he's gonna get to 23. Not only that, he's gonna win three slams at every single. He's gonna win three of every single slam, which no one on the men's side has done. In the open era, Rafa's got two of every one. Three of every one is only gonna be one guy unless Rafa can come back and win the Australian Open again and win with it as well. As a rude serve, sorry, rude returns with a slice down the line at the front of Djokovic, into the front of Reuters, no way to backhand, cross court and Reuters slices it back into the front of Djokovic, who puts it away and it's 15 left, Reuters, two one in the final third set. Now, he's got 10 Australian Opens most ever. He won't beat Rafa's record at the French, nobody will. He is only two US Opens away from equaling the record there. It's only five US Opens there, which is kind of weird. And if he wins Wimbledon, he will equal Federer's record of eight Wimbledons. He's currently equal with Samperas. So there is those things to do. I mean, he could win two more US Opens, he could definitely win two more Wimbledons. Shroud Opens wrapped up, he doesn't need to worry about anyone taking that from him because Federer's not here and Agassi and the Lander, I don't think are making a comeback anytime soon. As we're to backhand, a fine winner from Djokovic, 30 love. So there are some records still left for him to win. Most matches won at Wimbledon, the US Open, Australian Open and French Open are still there. He's won 89 matches at the Australian Open, Federer's got 102. So if Djokovic wins the next couple of Australian Opens, he'll cover that, Wimbledon's the same, he's a little bit behind Federer there. But at the US Open, the records, Jimmy Connors has 98 wins at the US Open. Djokovic has 81, so that could be something. Jimmy Connors at the US Open is pretty much, he owns all the US Open records or equalled with Federer for the most part. So Djokovic could do something there. 30 love here is we're gonna find out from Noelle into the open call for a winner. 40 love. What else is realistic in his, yeah, he's either got the records of other stuff or he could get the record. If he wins Wimbledon this year, it'd be five in a row, which is only done by Federer and Borg. So he could do that. Federer won five US Opens in a row. I think Djokovic's gonna do that, but you never know. And matches won total on hard courts in Grand Slams. He's just behind Federer there, but you think he is the hard court king. I was gonna find a backhand rally and that's a winner from Noelle and it's 2-2. By the way, the lady sitting next to Tom Brady is Yelena Djokovic. I couldn't recognize her, that's too big. She's wearing big glasses. I couldn't see her. Yeah, so there's so many records at Slams still for Djokovic and he's this close to getting them. It's more like a matter of time if he stays healthy. But yeah, I mean, everything else he's done, he's won all the Masters 1000s. The Olympic gold medal next year is a big one as well. I think a lot of people are gonna say, hey, Cam, where's that gold medal? You're right, he needs to win the Olympics too if he wants to complete the set. But it won't mean, I mean, if he doesn't win it, I don't think it's just kind of icing on the cake. He's rude, he's a good serve, 15 love. So yeah, I mean, it's just a matter of, it's a matter of records. I mean, Djokovic is just ticking off all the records. That's what he's been doing. That's what all of them doing. That's what Raph has been doing. Roger did that, it's all about getting the records. He can't break the French Open record but the ones that he's close to breaking, he'll break those and then when he's done that, he'll probably retire. There's been a slice in the net there from Rude and it's 15-0. When all they win in three sets, yes. You will now, you will now. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, no, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Todd! Do you really think that Nadal is coming back next year? I am optimistic, yes. I am, I'm, I am optimistic, yes. 15-0. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Greatest of all time, goat. I am so stoked I found your channel. You are amazing, looking forward to Wimbledon. Thank you, Mama Rocks, Homestead for the 20. Appreciate that, thank you for that. Glad to have you, glad to have you. I'm glad a lot of people have joined us and we will be live for Wimbledon. Same energy, we're not gonna, I'm not gonna fall asleep at midnight again at all because it's two in the morning, it doesn't matter. We're gonna be excited for Wimbledon because Djokovic could get to 24 or somebody else might win Wimbledon this year which could be interesting. It's been Nolay and Roger and a little bit of Raffer as well and Andy. But I'm excited, I don't know, Wimbledon could be, could be interesting. Could be interesting. All right, 40-15, Rude to stay in front in this third set. Serving to the back end of Djokovic, 49 from Rude, is wide. 40-30. Yeah, I mean, look, Djokovic should win Wimbledon but there's a lot of people coming back to play Wimbledon. The Russian players should not be underestimated. Mevvedev, Rude, sorry, Mevvedev, Rubelev, Hashinov, Karatsiv, I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of them. As we're back at return now, the back end of Rude, 49 from Djokovic, passing shot is too good. And we get to Deuce. He's four games away from history. Kirios is coming back too, I mean, we haven't seen him all year. They're not Rude, I'm sorry, I meant Rubelev. I didn't mean Rude, I meant Rubelev. Yeah, I'm excited, I think, I think Wimbledon's gonna be kind of like the French Open this year. I think it's gonna be a little bit, it's gonna be a little bit open. You know, no Roger, no Raffer the first time at Wimbledon for, what seems like forever. Only Nole, the main stay, obviously we've got Andy, but you know, we'll see what's up. It's Rude, it's a winner advantage. You know, Stan's never been really a Wimbledon guy. We've never really seen him perform super well at Wimby, so I don't think we can look at him for answers. So it's just Djokovic. Maybe Andy, if he gets a good draw, that are the normal Wimbledon champions that we've used to seeing. But it could be, it could be interesting if Djokovic gets a tricky draw. I mean, I'm interested to see who he has to play and also who the others have got a full field now. Baratini comes back, I mean, super underrated and very unlucky last year on the grass when he pulled out because of, got COVID the day before Wimby started and he won two titles to get there. Crazy. He gets a chance, he's got an ace out wide, Rude. Stan in front, we love this for Rude. Love to see this for Rude. Okay, yeah, Chillich coming back, I think as well. Korda's winning Wimbledon, wow, okay. I'd love to see Korda Djokovic in like a third round. That'd be pretty sick, especially because Korda at the start of the year nearly took out Djokovic, so in Adelaide, so that'd be fun. I think Medvedev's gonna be underrated at Wimby. I think he's definitely someone to watch. Keeg's is always a threat, we know that. We know that. But I'm excited for Wimbledon this year. I feel like there's a little bit of, there's obviously Djokovic, but then it's like Djokovic and everybody else. It's, you know, everybody else is, anybody from the anybody else category could win. There's no obvious second, second favorite, I don't think. Who's the second favorite for Wimbledon chat? You tell me. I can't think of anyone. They're all even. Man, you better shut your fuck up, okay? You've only hit left and you don't say sorry. You think you're a new kid? I don't want to stop and you can't do anything like this to the team. Except bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? Hobbs. If Djokovic has 23 slams in 23, how many will he have in 2076? Ha, ha, ha. Oh, I don't know, I probably won't be around for that. Thank you for the, thank you for the 11, appreciate it. Yeah, but who is the second favorite for Wimbledon? Keeg's? I don't know if Keeg's is ready for Wimbledon yet. He hasn't played that much. Maybe, but then again, he didn't play much before Wimbledon last year, before the grass last year. Elkera's second favorite, maybe. Runa, okay. Mevvedev, interesting. Sinner? I mean, look, I feel like Elkera's Mevvedev, Sinner, FAA, Kirios. I feel like they're all in the same boat of like, yeah, we've seen, you know, Mevvedev two years ago played all right at Wimbledon. We saw Kirios last year. Elkera's didn't play great last year at Wimbledon. Sinner played okay, well, got to the, you know, took two sets of Djokovic. But I feel like it's like, there's like a big group of, like, there's Djokovic and then there's like a big group of like, maybe's, you know, maybe this person or maybe that person, maybe Fritz, right? Maybe Sinner, maybe Elkera's, maybe Rubella. There's a lot of maybe's after Djokovic. Djokovic is a certainty to make the final, right? Or at least maybe win the title, but who's going to play along the way? Who's going to get to the semis? Who's going to get to the final? I mean, I don't know if there's an obvious pick there. There's no obvious pick, which is refreshing. As that goes out from Rude on the return, 15 love. Oh, my sky's getting dark, anonymous. Cam, what type of players do well on grass and can you slide on grass? Seen it on clay and hard courts. Players with big serves and players, yeah, they hit the ball flatter, keeps the ball low, skids low, people with topspin don't do as good. Raph is an exception, but if you've got a lot of topspin, like Kasper Rude, don't expect him to do too much on grass. But yeah, people that he can hit a good slice can come into the net. Yeah, those types of more aggressive players that can... But then you've got Djokovic, obviously, is more of a defensive player. And you can slide on grass. It's probably not a vice, you can do hurt yourself, but you can slide on grass as Djokovic serves an ace. 30 love. Yeah, you can slide. Hello. Don't you think Noel will run out of motivation when he gets 23? I mean, what more is there to play for when you got all the records? Plus he has a family. You must have just joined, because I mentioned that an hour ago. So thank you for... Yes, I feel, I'm thinking the same. What's Wimbledon gonna look like? Is Djokovic gonna be like, ah, 123, or is he gonna be like, I want 24? Like, you know, I'm with you. I'm with you. I wanna see what the motivation level of Djokovic is like with Wimbledon, now that he almost has the record. I wanna know. Will he be hungry? I mean, I don't know if the... Has he ever said I'm gonna win 30? I feel like he's always said, I wanna win the record. I wanna get the record. What happens when you get the record? What happens when you get to 23, which is the men's record? Obviously, Serena is the ladies record. And then the all-time, including amateur record, is you gotta get to 25 to beat that, 30, 15. But I'm in the same boat. I'm interested. And maybe, look, I'm not doubting Djokovic is gonna be not hungry, but I wanna see if he is still hungry. Never know. Motivation's a weird thing. It's a funny thing. 30, 15. Was the goal 23 or is the goal 25? That's what we'll find out for Djokovic. Because I think I've ever heard him say, I wanna get 25. He's always said, I wanna be the best of all time and I wanna get the record. You get the record at 23. You don't need to get 25 to get the record for the men's side. He's not getting 30, by the way. Who anyway says he's getting 30? You've lost your mind unless he does a Korea's calendar slam in the next two years. I think 30's way too many at this point. If he gets to 27 in the next two years, then we'll talk about it. 40, 15. So about why the font of Rude return goes in the font of Djokovic, font now from Rude, into the font of Djokovic, down the line of the backhand slice of Rude that goes into the sky. And the smash is put away in Djokovic's levels. 3-3 in the second. 25 should be the goal. I think 25, I mean, look, 25 puts you as the only person to ever do that in the history of tennis in the singles. 3-3. But we'll find out. We'll find out what Djokovic looks like at Wimbledon after winning this French Open. And if the motivation extends beyond getting the record and if it goes beyond to 25, you know? 25 is a nice number. You know, quarter of a century, 25, nice round number, like nice, nice number. It's a nice number, isn't it? Margaret Court's got 24. Serena's got 23. Steffi got 22. So 25 would be the only person in the history of the sport to do that. As we just said, now the backhand of Djokovic, backhand now from Rude into the font of Djokovic, the backhand of Rude, and down the line from Rude to winner. 15 love. Rude is still kicking on here. Love to see her from Rude. Still kicking. Anonymous. Can Carlos' game translate to grass? Did well last year, but could clearly tell it wasn't his preferred surface. He also ran into his Kryptonite, aka, sinner. You're right. I reckon if he gets a decent draw, he could make the quarters. Could make a semi if everything works out. A-70, Rude. 30 love. 30 love. The line there, Rude. Lovely serve down the tee. He's just chugging along here, Casper. Just keeps, just keeping in front. Serving to the font of Djokovic, four now from Rude into the font of Djokovic. Again to the backhand, and that's a winner from Djokovic down the line. 30-15. 30-15. Lovely shot down the line. But again, Rude just hanging on. Keeping the celebrations. You keep restraining yourself? I know. That's what I do. I've been talking for five hours. That's what happens. Serving to the backhand of Djokovic, which is it out, Rude, 40-15. How's Goran look? He looks stressed. Cause he knows it's not over yet. So he's not, he's not super chill. Goran's still looking stressed. He knows the job's not done. All right, 40-15. Again, thanks for joining. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We're almost at 3,000 likes. Appreciate that. 141.1K as well. Thank you. As a return goes in the backhand, drop shot of Rude, in comes Djokovic with the four-hand winner, 40-30. 40-30. You're repeating yourself? Miles, you just repeated yourself with that. You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself. You're repeating yourself. I'm repeating you, repeating yourself. All right, four-hand from Djokovic. Lovely down the line. 40-30, Rude. He serves. Out wide the backhand of Djokovic. Four-hand Rude down the line is good. Up goes Elob from Nole. It's in, Rube of the Smash. It's a winner, Rude. 4-3. And he's still pumping the fist. Good on him. He's still fighting out. I mean, look, he won more games than he did last year, so he's already achieved that goal in the final of last year's French Open. Love to see it. All right. How we doing, chat? Will you answer my question? How we doing, chat? We're hanging in there. I know sometimes these matches, we saw it last year, right? It's sort of like the first set is, then the next set is sort of like, okay, then the third set is like, all right, we're just walking to the end. We got through the marathon and we're just like walking the last kilometer, or last mile. Walking to the finish line at this point. Let's hope Rude can, I mean, Rude, to be honest, I mean, I shouldn't be counting Rude out to win this set, to be honest. I want a girlfriend for me. Well, that's not what we do here, but you're gonna have to figure that out yourself. Good luck on your journey, though, my friend. Feder is always gonna be the goat. Now look, I mean, look at the basketball, right? Everybody has their goat. Everybody has their goat. So you're gonna have Feder, it can be your goat, that's fine. You don't have to have, Djokovic is your favorite. And he, you know, you can say Feder is your goat. Rafa is a lot of people's goats, but I have to tell you that Djokovic is the goat, because he is. Rude serve was an ace, but ruled out, I wasn't. Oh, that sucks. Okay, four, three, show the mug. What do you mean? That sounds weird. God, Mike, Mike, chill, chill. Okay, by the way, still over 9,000, over 9,000. Over 9,000 people in the chat. Love to see it. Thank you so much again. You guys have been so generous with your time. If you've been here for five minutes or seven hours, or 20 hours, thank you for spending the time. Hopefully you've had fun. Hopefully you've had a laugh. Hopefully you've been a little worried at times about your favorite, maybe losing a set or getting a little nervous. I mean, Djokovic fans, it hasn't been an easy road. To get to this stage, you know, Alcarez was a scary beast, obviously Hashinov. Rude had a tough match against Jerry. The runa match was always going to be awkward until it started. Hopefully, hopefully you've enjoyed. Are you not entertained? Hopefully you've been entertained. And we're going to do it all again, probably next week, because next week we've got more tennis. It doesn't stop. Never stops. And then next, and then the week after next, we watch all the players play on the grass, except for maybe Djokovic, who's probably going to go on to celebrate for two weeks. There's been a fine, a fine rally, rude with the past, Djokovic volleys in the net. Too casual. Way too casual from Nole. Love 15. He's three games away. By the way, is that Kevin Bacon? Is that Kevin Bacon? Or just the French one? French version of Kevin Bacon in the house. Or was it the real one? Or the French one? Which one? Love 15. Always go be careful. Don't get sloppy. History's there. It's right there. Kevin Ham. Good one. Love 15. First serve's a foul. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rude. Backhand from Djokovic to the backhand of Rude. Again to the backhand. Of Nole, Nole in the net. Ooh, okay. All right. Kasper. Love 30. He's done his job of holding. Love 30. And I think their crowd aren't booing. I think they're going roo. I don't think they're booing. They're just making a boo, a roo sound. Love 30. Djokovic to serve. Nole with a serve. Crowd just won't shut up. They're going crazy. All right. Serve. Djokovic. Rude with the backhand. Gets it back into the front of Djokovic. Rude with the front of the stretch. That goes into the front of Djokovic. He hits a tape and it goes over. And Nole says, sorry. And the crowd boo. That's booing now. It's not ruined. That's booing. They're booing Djokovic. That's a bit of shit. He hit the tape. They're like boo. It's like, oh, shut up. He apologized. 15-30. Boo is luck. Get stuffed. 15-30. Crowd is getting wrestlers. They just want to fight people. They just want to scream. All right, it's 15-30. Oh yeah, clearly Rude won. They want Rude to win the set. Djokovic with an ace. 30-all. 30-all. It's a chance of a Rude to maybe steal this set. Extend this match a little longer. 30-all. 30-all. Another serve coming up here with Djokovic. Big point. And all they bounce is a ball. He serves. Into the back end of Rude. Return goes in. Djokovic forehand is good to the back end of Rude. Into the front of Djokovic. Rude with the front of the stretch. He gets it lob. Djokovic comes in with a swinging volley. Rude gets it with a pass. But it's wide. He changed his mind. He could have gone down the line. He thought, no, go with a lob. And he shanked it. 40-30. Djokovic to level things up here in this third set. Okay. 40-30. Rude's doing all right. He's hanging in there. He's making it fun for us. Making it fun. 40-30. Djokovic to serve again. Ooh. Djokovic gets a time violation. That'll give the crowd something to make noise about. The umpire. The umpire just wants to get involved. All right. 40-30 time violation. Djokovic in the crowd went, Ooh. 40-30. And now Djokovic is like, well, bloody hell. I'm trying to serve, but they're not shutting up. It's like, I want to serve and I get a time violation from people talking. I mean, what the hell? 40-30. No way serves. Down to see the front of Rude. Rude can't get it 4-4. And he praises the racket, Djokovic. And they're giving him a cheer. But they do want Rude to get the set because they want more of them, you know, what will match. What would be a nightmare draw for Novak at Wimbledon or who would be the players he would want to avoid? Good question. Thank you for the two bucks. I mean, look, to name a couple, Elkaraaz, Mevadev, possibly Sinner, especially early in, I think the earlier in the tournament, the harder, like the first couple of rounds for Djokovic, if he gets a tough opponent, that'd be interesting. But we found out this week, the more the tournament goes on, the better Nolay gets. We saw that in Australia, we see that here. Kirios, yep, as well. Fritz could be interesting, yeah, true. All right, 4-4 as Rude tries to serve. Baratini could be awkward on a grass court. Her catch could be awkward. I mean, it's a lot of awkward players. But yeah, I think Mevadev, Elkaraaz and Kirios would be the worst case if he has to play them at any stage as we had a 4-1 rally. Again, now to the point of Rude and then Djokovic smacks a win, I love 15. He's seven points away from history chat. He is seven points away. History is only seven points away. Here we go, love 15. We've got 10,000 in the house to witness history. Thank you for that. Appreciate it as we are served now into the net. Second serve, second serve, Rude. Serves again. Second serve into the back end of Djokovic. Return goes in, Rude with the back end. Cross court at the back end of Nolay, Rude with the forehand. Down the line, that's a good shot. Djokovic there though, back in the back end as Djokovic goes again to the back end of Rude. Down the line for Rude, that's a good shot. Djokovic gets with the lob. Rude leads a bounce, it goes in. Oh no, as Djokovic hit the forehand into the back end of Rude. The advantage is gone from Rude as we had a backhand drop shot from Djokovic in the net. Rude gets the point anyway, 15-0. Rude has a good point from Rude, it's good that he won the point because it would have been really annoying for him if he hadn't, after all the good shots he hit. 15-0, and they chant Edomo in the crowd. Edomo, Edomo. 15-0, Rude with the serve. Out wide, that's a fault. Second serve, second serve. Second serve to the front of Djokovic, return the front of Rude. Front of Djokovic on the stretch, Rude ripping the forehand as he hits it again back behind Djokovic. Lovely shot, Rude, 30-15. Rips it. Cross court, he's not holding back. 30-15. And while we've been talking up Djokovic's historic achievements, Rude has been chugging along. We know Nole puts a foot down at 4-4 in sets, he's going to return now into the front of Rude, he shanks it and it goes long into 30-all. Three hours played, Kaspar Rude, he's going to have to do something special. Really special if he's going to get this set because Djokovic is on a charge. Six points from history. 30-all, serve into the back of Djokovic, return goes into the front of Rude. No, it doesn't, it goes out from Nole. And it's 40-30, 40-30. Rude to stay in front, 40-30. As we disturb that wide, Rude gets a return, forehand into the back of Djokovic. Back of now from Rude, into the backhand of Nole, again to the back of Rude. Djokovic forehand, cross court, Rude gets it on the stretch. As Djokovic hits the backhand, cross court, it's out, Rude stays in front, 5-4. Good on him. Stays in front in the third and he just holds history back a little bit longer. Okay, Rude, 5-4 in the third. All right, chat. Again, 10,000 people in the chat, thank you so much for that. I appreciate everybody who's hanging out and appreciate everybody who's witnessing what hopefully, well, in the next maybe 10, 15 minutes, is history or maybe going to a third, but going to a fourth, sorry. I think Rude deserves a set. I wouldn't be mad if we had another set, to be honest. Because Rude does deserve one. We deserve the first set. 11,000 is there now. Yeah, 11,000, sorry. 11,000 in the chat, which is insane. So again, thank you for all of that. Will GPT-5 be good enough to win a GS? Max, thank you for the dollar. I have no idea, what are you, pardon me, do you mean, I don't know who that is. Anonymous. What side about the NBA is that Bill Russell has 11 championships, yet they consider MJ the Goat as he changed and elevated the game. Is that Roger, Grin? Yeah, look, I hear that a lot as well. I mean, like, I feel like, because then Brady, he's got seven Super Bowls. So that, the seven Super Bowls, the most of the biggest trophy is what matters in that sport. You know, with Messi being the Goat, I mean, it's all the achievements. I feel like in NBA, it's a little different. I mean, MJ is considered the greatest, but he doesn't have the most trophies out of everybody. But then again, team sports different individual. Again, it's a tricky one. Like, Roger did elevate the game for sure. Without Roger, we probably don't have Rafa and Nole playing this level. Maybe at a level like this, maybe not 24, 22 slams each, maybe 15 each, but I don't know. Yeah, NBA is a team sport. We know that, yeah, true. So is soccer or football. But I don't know, I feel like with tennis, it's more about, well, it's definitely individual, right? It's individual achievements. So it's more like what Messi's done, like ticking all the trophies. And the World Cup was like the last one, you know? And same with Ronaldo, right? Messi and Ronaldo, right? There was the goat debate going into the World Cup, 30 love. And it was all about, they both have the exact same achievements, pretty much. You know, Champions League, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it was who, they didn't, they both didn't have that one thing that was left, the World Cup. And now Messi does and that's like, well, that's it. There's players with more World Cups than Messi. There's people with more French opens than Djokovic. But Djokovic doing things like winning three French opens and three everything else and no one else has done that in the men's game. Again, I don't know. I feel like it's hard to kind of, yeah, it's a tough one. But having the most slams, I think in tennis is the thing that matters most. That's what we equate to being the greatest. Because Sampras had 14, and he was the goat at the time compared to Bourg. And then Roger got to 15, and that considered him the greatest. And then Rafa got to 21. That was the greatest, you know, that was him considered the greatest men ever played. And then now Nole. So it's like, I feel like the rules are a little different for tennis. 4-1 winner there from Djokovic, and it's 5-5 in the third. And same with Serena, right? The goal, like to be the greatest, you have to be on the most slams. 23, greatest player in the opening era, ahead of Steffi, right? So in basketball, it's a little different. Because yeah, people do bring up the argument, well, Bill Russell's got 11, and Jordan's got six. So does that mean Jordan's not the goat? Well, no. But I don't know if that argument works in tennis. Because you can win rings sitting on the bench. I mean, there's probably a bunch of players that have got five rings that, you know, came on for as a sixth man. Well, I have three rings, right? As a role-player on the bench. So you can't be a role-player on the bench in tennis. You have to play the matches. As Djokovic hits the back end down the line, at 5-5, and it's in, love 15. Okay. Marguerite 24, but half of those were in the amateur era. So open era. Open era is what Serena covered. And we'll see about why the back end of Djokovic for now from Roode to the front of Nolay, to the front of Roode, into the back end of Djokovic. Roode with the back end. Again, to the back end of Djokovic, it's out from Roode. Love 30. Love 30. And look, if you want to argue that Djokovic isn't the greatest of all time, it's probably way harder to argue that he's not. Like you can make the argument that 11 rings is more than six. You can't really argue that 23 is less than 22. Like you can't, it's way harder to argue that Djokovic isn't the greatest than it is to say that he, it's harder to say that he's not. Whereas with Jordan, yeah, okay, you can make that comparison, like 11 is more than six, blah, blah. You can't really do that with Djokovic because he has everything else. No gold medal. Well, that's the icing on the cake. That's not really the be all end all. There's been a four-hander rally now from Djokovic and that's a winner. Okay, here we go. Five points away from history. Soak it up, chat. We're not gonna, we might not see this again. This record might be one and done after today. No one's gonna break this men's record after today. Djokovic might reset the record to 24 in a month, but no one's gonna overtake this record or break this record again. We saw a rapper break it. I was lucky enough to see Federer break it against Samperas. Some of you might've been lucky enough to see Samperas break it back in the 90s or the early 2000s or whenever, end of the 90s, right? Love 40, four-hander from Rude to the backhand of Djokovic. Backhand out Rude, out man to the backhand of Djokovic to the four-hander of Rude. Into the backhand of Nole. Rude with the forehand. Into the backhand again of Nole. To the backhand of Rude. Going again to the backhand of Djokovic. Rude with the backhand. Into the forehand of Djokovic. Into the four-hander of Rude on the stretch. Slyce goes in. Djokovic backhand. Rude gets it. Djokovic backhand. Rude can't get it. Djokovic is serving for history. Six-five in the third. Six-five, he's four points away from the most slams in the history of Men's Tennis. Mike. I do like to see more problems solving from Rude. Hello, Rude. Rude's played a good match. Not too bad, though. Messi equals Roger and Ronaldo equals Novak. One naturally gifted the other worked hard to rise to greatness. Oh, look, yep. We can make all the comparisons we want. But 23 is more than 20 and it's more than 22 and that's the number that matters at the moment. That's the only number. 23 is more than 22. That's what everyone's gonna say. You can make all the arguments you want. Federer was more pretty. Raffer was more whatever. 23 is more than 22. And that's what the greater than symbol will be used more on Twitter today than ever before because that's just how people roll. And that doesn't mean 22 is bad. It just means that 23 is more. Nothing wrong with 20 slams, Federer. Ridiculous. First man to do it. Raffer got to 21 first. Norway's gonna get to 23 first. So you don't feel like one achievement is not as good as the other because those other achievements are damn good. I don't think anyone's getting to 20 any time soon. All right, no back. Jokovic in three hours and eight minutes is serving for this match. Serving for this history. Again, thank you for joining. Don't forget to subscribe. We're almost at 3,000 likes. We're only a couple hundred away. Don't forget to like if you haven't already. And Kasper, oh look. So much respect for Rude. He's been so competitive in this. And even though things have looked like after the second set that it was over, he has not given up. And this score line is very competitive from Rude. Much better than last year. He's going in the right direction when it comes to French open finals. Who knows, maybe next year if he makes another one, maybe he wins the damn thing. All right, Jokovic serving for history. Six, five. Serve into the front of Rude. Return goes into the front of Jokovic. Rude with the forehand. Long, 15 love, three points away. Three points away. And it's a little different to when Rafa did it. Because when Rafa did it, he came back from two sets of love down to break the record and he beat Medvedev in an epic. This is a little more straightforward than that. 15 love. And Chad, if you've been here before, you know that we've got something ready for you for the special occasion that is to come. 15 love. Serve into the back of Rude. Return goes into the net. 30 love. You know that we're going to mark this moment with something special. As we do with every historic moment. In fact, if you want to pull the trigger a bit early, you can, there's a link in the chat. I'll link in the description. If you want to pull the trigger early, you can go check it out and you can go check it out. I'll put a link in the chat after this and I'll tell you what it's up. 30 love, two points away. He serves down to serve the back of Rude. Return goes in. Jokovic forehand is a winner. 40 love. The championship point. Novak Jokovic for 23 slams. The first male to ever do it. And again, if you're going to leave after this, make sure you subscribe for Wimbledon because Jokovic forgets a 24 there. He's the favorite. He's a massive champion there. He's trying to beat Federer. His records over there. But Novak Jokovic to break history and to be the only man to get to 23. Roger had his time. Rafa's had his time. It's no late time now, baby. Here we go. Jokovic to serve. He serves. Out wide. That's a big serve. The return goes in. Noel over the smash. Puts it down. Rude gets it back as we had a forehand from Jokovic. Open court is wide. Oh, that was tight. He knows. He knows. That forehand was the worst shot of the day. Actually, it was probably the third worst after the smashes. Chats on fire. I mean, look, I'd be shocked if it wasn't in the moment like this. One saved by Rude. And like I said, respect to Rude. Respect to Rude. I mean, hopefully he gets a nicer draw next year. He doesn't have to play a goat. He'll win a French Open one day. 40-15. Jokovic second championship point. The crowd will not be quiet. They will not be silenced. And the umpire's like, please be quiet. You can cheer when he wins. Come on. 40-15. Second championship point. Jokovic bouncing the ball. He serves. Out wide, but it's a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Jokovic. Second serve. Down the tee. Rude runs around into forehand. Jokovic to the forehand. Down the line. Cross court goes in. Jokovic backhand. Again to the backhand of Rude. Into the backhand of Nole. As Rude hits a slice. That goes in. Jokovic with a forehand. Again to the backhand slice of Rude. As Jokovic is defined into the front of Rude. On the stretch. That goes wide. Jokovic does it. History recreated. Novak Jokovic has the most grand slams that any man has ever won in the singles. GGs. And he's on the ground. He finally gets to be the top dog. Roger had his moment. Rafa had his moment. There's only one guy who has the most slams in tennis right now. And that's this guy. And look, like I said, respect to Rude. Amazing achievement to get to the final. Again after nobody considered him a chance. I mean, me included. I didn't realize he was gonna be back at final again. And he put up a good fight. But Jokovic was up for history. He wasn't gonna let this go. No chance. Three slams at every slam as well. Now, as promised, we have an historic moment. We have an historic, you can go get your pin the chat in the chat. You can go check out the Nolle 23 merch as expected or as promised. Nolle 23 merch. There you go. You can go get it. Different colors. You can get it in black. You can get it in gray. You can get it in navy. And then you can get in white. Nolle 23 merch. There you go. If you want some, there's some in the chat. We might even give some away as well. So stick around. We'll give some away. Maybe a little bit. As Novak pumps his fists in the air. We love to see it. Link in the chat to the merch if you want it. All right. Novak Jokovic becomes the only player on the men's side to get to 23 slams. And 24 is literally around the corner because of course Wimbledon is where he has been dominating the last four years. No one's come close at Wimbledon against Nolle. A couple of players have pushed him to five but he doesn't look like losing Wimbledon. Oh, he hasn't looked like losing Wimbledon for a while. I'm excited for this one. Since 2019, I think Federer was the last guy to really push him. All right. Again, Link in the chat if you want some Nolle 23 merch. Hook you guys up. And we're gonna do some giveaway. We're gonna do a giveaway a little bit later. So stick around for that if you want to get a free shirt. There you go. You can put exclamation point merch if you want to check that out as well. If you are leaving, we're sticking around. So stick around, we're gonna have a chat. We're gonna talk about what's next for Nolle. What's next for Kasparud. Now the Clay Court season is effectively over. There is Clay Court matches after Wimbledon. We know that Hamburg is still there and all that stuff but what's next for Rude? What's next? You know, made another final, third final in five tournaments at Grand Slam level. Can he play on grass? I don't think he wants to play on grass, to be honest. But man, man, just soak it in chat a little bit. Just soak it in. Just the historic moments that we've been able to witness. Not just with Djokovic. You know, him winning 10 Australian Opens was amazing earlier in the year. Obviously Raffle winning 21 slams was incredible last year. He won 22 this time last year, which was again, mind blowing. 23, chat, this 10 years ago, I don't think anyone was expecting us to get this amount of slams by any one person, let alone three. It's ridiculous. And we may never see it again. So that's why I'm saying enjoy this moment, especially if you're a Novak fan, enjoy the moment. And if you're a tennis fan, just again, soak it in because we may never see this again. Never. We'll be watching 10 years from now going bloody. Where's the guy with 23? Where's the next, you know, someone gets to five, we'll be like, oh, that's, that's good enough, I guess. Gets to 10, oh, maybe. We've been so spoiled as tennis fans, but man, just ridiculous. Ridiculous, ridiculous. And to give Djokovic even more credit, the fact that he was playing, he arrived late to the party. The Djokovic, the Federer Nadal party, it started five years earlier. You know, Federer won in 2003. Djokovic won in 2008. So he had a five year head start. Now he's three ahead of him. And Rafa, he had a couple of years start as well before Nolay started getting his. So I mean, he gave them a head start and then he ran past them. It's ridiculous. And he doesn't look like he's gonna stop running because he ain't retiring anytime soon. He ain't retiring anytime soon. We know Rafa's on the edge of retirement. Nolay has no intentions at this stage of leaving. He's still got a gold medal at the Olympics to get. He obviously wants to get more slams. I think that's the only reason we think he plays. He plays for these moments. And I'm sure he doesn't wanna let these kids get, especially the Alcares, don't wanna let him get five slams until he gets out of the way, you know? Wanna keep Alcares down as long as possible before he lets him fly off and try and break records. But man, what a day. What a crazy day. What a crazy tournament. Mike. Thanks for calling the game, Cam. No worries, Mike. My pleasure. Thank you for joining us. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, no. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Jonathan. Nolay making history in a clay court as a beautiful thing for me. Red heart rose. Thank you, Jonathan, for the five. Hey, I know we got a lot of happy Djokovic fans in the house. You have to watch Rafa from the outside of Australia to watch him break the record in Djokovic's backyard. And now you get to win it on Rafa's turf. I mean, sweet redemption. Sweet, sweet redemption. Thank you, Joyce for the two bucks, appreciate that. Sweet redemption. Lacoste made him a 23 jacket, no surprise. They're ahead of it. They know, they knew, they knew. They were ready, they were, just like we were ready. For the 23, 23 slams. Can't wait for Djokovic tomorrow when Djokovic fans are confused about why people still like him. I mean, I don't think they give a shit. Djokovic fans, do you care that there's people that, Djokovic has haters? You just be like, cry more, 23. I mean, they're gonna be fine. I don't think the Djokovic fans are really gonna care if anyone doesn't like him because he's the best. He's got 23 slams. They're not gonna, they're not gonna be worried. Very poetic that Rafa-121 in Australia and Novak-123 in RG, yeah, exactly. They took over each other's, I mean, Rafa, it would have been nice for him to break it here and it would have been nice for Djokovic to break it in Australia, I mean. But yeah, all the Djokovic fans is laughing. They don't care about, anyone who hates, I mean, they're just gonna wave that 23 in front of them, so. There's no, no one's gonna be able to hate. The calendar slam is on. The calendar slam is on because Wimbledon is Djokovic is to lose. So Djokovic takes that and then he goes to America because he's allowed to play that now. Ooh, it's on. I mean, are we gonna witness more history later? If we get to 25 slams, the calendar slam, I mean, man, what else can he do? He's just gonna win that bloody gold medal and then he doesn't need to worry about anyone else. After five years, whom will fans consider goat? I mean, look, if Djokovic keeps getting more slams and distances himself from everybody else, I mean, like I said, Chad, I feel like tennis is so different. Like NBA, people are gonna make comparisons, whatever. But like, how can you argue if the guy has the biggest, most biggest trophies? I mean, I don't know how you say that he's not. Even when he was equal to Rafa, how do you say that he's not the goat? How can you not, you can't, there's no argument against Djokovic that can say that he's not. You can say I like this guy more, that's fine. You can have your own personal goat, but man, how do you deny Djokovic that? He has so many records ahead of Nadal, except for the French open record, which no one's gonna get. Djokovic, the goat of clay, Federer maybe the goat of grass, Matt, that could change, but it might be for now and then obviously know back the goat of tennis. Yep, Djokovic is also world number one. He gets back his top ranking, not to mention it only with the record, so. Nolle is now number one again, yes, exactly. No points to lose at Wimbledon either, that's true. So he's not gonna lose the ranking unless somebody like Elkrez goes past him and does better. How can you argue that Djokovic has the most poor tactics and personality? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that it's a popularity contest. I don't think goat status is about popularity, to be honest. I don't think like, well, you know, Rafa has more Instagram followers. I don't think that's considered part of the debate. Well, you know, Roger, Roger won more fan awards. Okay, cool. But 23 is more than 22. Like, again, it comes down to, he's got 23 slams. You can have your fan awards. You can have your followers, you can be more liked, but 23 is more than anything else. You know, like, again, there's just no, there's just no, you can't argue. I mean, if any Djokovic fan in the chat is gonna just say, Djokovic has 23, like, you're not gonna win that argument ever unless Rafa gets 24 or 23 and Djokovic doesn't get any more. But like I said, it's nothing against, like just because Djokovic has 23 doesn't mean Rafa's 22 is terrible. Like, that's the thing. Like Rafa fans and Federer fans and whatever, and Tennisfeld anti-Norway fans shouldn't be upset at Nolay for getting 23. They should be proud of their guy's achievement too. You know? And not trying to dismiss Djokovic. Don't dismiss Djokovic's achievements. You know, be proud of your guy, you know? Nothing isn't, yeah, 23 is more than 22, but if you're gonna argue with Djokovic fans, I mean, just be proud of your guy. Rafa getting 14, I mean, 14 French Opens. I mean, that's stupid. Nobody's gonna beat that ever. No one's gonna break that ever, you know? Thank you, Mick, appreciate it. Can Nadal reach Nolay? Okay, so let's, if we wanna say who, can Djokovic, can Rafa ever get back the record? He needs, first he needs Djokovic not to win Wimbledon. The U.S. Open, I think's up for grabs. Alkraz, Medvedev, Djokovic, the three big ones, I think. Go to Australia, Rafa comes back healthy. I don't think Rafa's gonna be winning the Australian Open next year, but he did that last year when I thought he didn't. We couldn't. Does Djokovic win the Australian Open next year? Likely. Best case scenario for Rafa to get back in this race of like Grand Slam race is hope that he loses randomly in Wimbledon. At the Australian Open, Alkraz is healthy because Rafa's probably not gonna win it, so as long as Djokovic doesn't win it, it keeps it close. And then the French Open next year, Djokovic, Rafa wins it and gets a 23. So he's kind of got, Rafa's kind of got a hope that Djokovic doesn't get one more because I don't know if Rafa's gonna win two next year in his final season. Maybe he gets the French Open, but then Wimbledon, now, US Open, I don't know. So again, if Rafa's ever gonna get this record back or equal the record, his best chance is hoping these young kids can step up while he's gone. But it's unlikely, right? But again, 22 is a freaking ton. And 14 French Opens is ridiculous. I mean, getting to 15 French Opens and just keeping that insane record out of reach for the rest of time. I mean, that's the goal. That would be the goal for Rafa for sure. Jesus, why are we, I get it. We're excited, but let's not spam. Congratulations, Nole Nole fans. Yeah, Nole fans. You guys, look, and I feel your Nole fans. You guys have been through so much shit in the last two, probably two years since the US Open where he lost to Medvedev, right? Then the Australian saga where he wasn't allowed to play his best tournament and Rafa, in his absence, took the record. It's like, it's our tournament. And then Rafa extended to 22, beating Djokovic on the way. It was two ahead. Then Nole got one back last year. And then the US Open, he wasn't allowed to play. Then Australia Redemption, and now the French Open. So Nole fans have had to sit on the sidelines and watch Rafa do it. So I totally get that Nole fans are like being hanging on for this one. They'd be like, finally, we get our record. We've been waiting for this. We've been holding this back. Bloody US Open and Australia Open not been able to give us our chance. So I totally understand why Djokovic fans are like, going nuts. Yeah, he's had to do it the hard way. He can't say he hasn't earned it. That's for sure. No doubt who's the goate now. I mean, how can you doubt it? I mean, there's no, you can't make an argument. I mean, he's got the number one record. He's got the most slams right now. I mean, I could change, but at the moment he's got the most and it doesn't look like he's gonna give it up. Yeah, I mean, there's always gonna be the argument is he the greatest clay quarter of all time? No, okay, but he is the greatest hardcore player. He will be the greatest, probably the greatest grass player too. Doesn't need to be the greatest clay court player. No, because Rafa can have that. The greatest overall player. The guy who's got three of every slam. No one's got that on the men's side. I mean, yeah, I mean, it's just so, so it would be so hard if in like 10 years time, school debates, we didn't do that in school, but you know, people do debate club. If you had to debate against Djokovic being the greatest tennis player ever, I don't know, I wouldn't want to be the person who has to debate against that because I don't have any argument. I'd be like, I concede. You've got that, you win. Why would Djokovic not lose points at Wimbledon? Because nobody earned any, nobody earned points. So nobody has points to lose. Everyone got zero. Wimbledon didn't get points, yeah, exactly. Prime Federer smokes Nolay, okay. I'm sure there's a matching time where we could look back Australian Open 2008, where that didn't happen. Yeah, you could argue that Prime Nolay smokes Federer. Like, I mean, we could go, if you want to go, I mean, you want to go back and forth. I mean, you can do that. So 2006 Federer beats Novak, okay. 2001, 15 beats Federer. Like, I mean, be careful what you type, so that nobody, you know, make sure you're, if you're gonna argue with someone in the chat, make sure you're ready for the rebuttal. Who's the go, who's my go? Serena, Serena, because I like all of them. I hope Rude can win a slam one day. He will. Rude, today, he was coming up against a guy who was doing something, trying to do something that no one's done, but he made him work for it. The second set was, you know, it was just Djokovic being Djokovic, but the first set, Rude was in that. The second set, he was up to it. So, I mean, Rude was, that's the closest, I mean, he did win a set at the US Open, but that felt like, okay, that was the most competitive we've seen Rude in a slam. Last year's final was almost forgotten now, because that was like a first-time nerves. He's getting better in these finals now, and he's getting more competitive. So, I'm excited to see Rude come back again, and hopefully get a little luck, not play one of these boys, get to play, you know, get himself up against a runer or a city pass. Rude's got a French open in him in the next, you know, 10 years, five years. Novak was playing in the third set. Was his mucking around, you reckon? That's a bit harsh. Gotta give Rude, give Rude some respect. God damn. Like, yeah, celebrate Jockermid. We really respect Rude, you know? Thanks a lot for our community tennis goad. Amazing work this week. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you everybody for joining us on a personal note. It's been a hell of a show. We're gonna stick around for a while, because it's two in the morning, I don't know where to be. Rude has done well, he's still young. He's only 24, made three Grand Slam finals. Nadal, Elk, Chris, Jockermid's three of the hardest players to play in a final of a slam. And he hasn't disgraced himself this year at all. Kam, thank you, Greg's appreciated, mate. Yeah, respect Rude. Yeah, Rude's respect for sure. I mean, we coined the term last year and I think it rings true. It's not too bad, not a mess. As tennis fans, can't we all just embrace the big three? Without Roger, the first don't think Nadal would be as great and without Nadal, I don't think Novak would have the drive to reach his full potential. They all needed each other. I agree, anonymous. That is very true. Without Federer, we don't get Nadal, without Nadal, we don't get Djokovic. Yeah, we might've got Nadal Djokovic, just like battling it out. But without Federer setting the bar and the motivation might not have been there. I mean, what if the most slams was 15? These guys might've only gotten to 18 because the motivation of getting to 20 plus wasn't there. So yeah, we never know. So well said. And that's why I'm a fan of all three. I'm also a fan of tennis history and witnessing crazy history. So, you know. But look, everyone has their favorites. So you can't argue with that too. I understand everyone has their favorites, but for me, my favorites are Curious. I just wanted him to get one. Serena had no main rival, like the big three. Yeah, I mean, Serena dominant. Well, you could argue that Serena was so much better than everyone for so long. Having no main rival wasn't because the field weren't good. It was because she was better than everyone. I mean, you can't say anything away from Serena. Then over like 15, it's like 20 years, no one could get close to her. They had people that 20 years to get within Serena's reach, no one could. Whereas when Federer raised the bar and the dial came along and went, I'm here too. So like, you know, don't disrespect Serena's records. The fact that she could be that good for that long, only Venus, yeah, only Venus, right? But the fact that Serena could be that good for that long and no one could raise their level high enough to compete, that's not her fault. That's everyone else's fault for just not being able to be a Serena, you know? Am I watching the King's Birthday match today? What's that? I'm going to sleep, I don't mean. No worries, Tihana, thank you for joining us. Who do you think will break this record? Carlos, no one, that's what I'm saying, like enjoy this because we're not gonna see this. We might see Rafa get 23, but it'd be like when Djokovic got 21 because it already happened. Like Rafa got to 21, huge moment. He got to 22, huge moment. Djokovic got to 21, ah, the other guy did it first. He got to 22, that's nice, we've already seen that. 23, it's like, oh shit, we haven't seen this. If Rafa gets to 23, it's gonna be like, ah, Djokovic did it first. You know, like, it kind of loses its shine. Like when Federer got to 20, the others got to 20, that's nice, Federer did it first. So like again, soak this in because Elcrez getting one is not even close to 23. Like, yeah, Elcrez has the potential to get to 20, but so many things can happen. So soak it up. I mean, these guys are 36, 37, and what was Federer? 38 when he won these last? So Elcrez has got 18 years to get to 20. And that's a long time, but it's also, if he's injury free, if no one gets any good, if no one comes along, like there's so many factors. What if Elcrez's biggest rival is right now 12 years old? And in five years, he hits the scene and we're like, oh shit, here's Elcrez 2.0, watch out. Or here's baby Djokovic, right? Like what, you know what I mean? Like we don't know who's coming up to challenge Elcrez yet. So we can't say that Elcrez has got the tour on luck when Djokovic is not around. Plus Djokovic is still here. So yeah, if Elcrez gets to 10, by the time he's 25, we'll talk about it. Bo. Novak also has a better head-to-head record against Rafa and Fed, and now has more slams. Goat debate over. Yeah, well, you can add, yep, you can add that cherry on top. For sure, that, you know, head-to-head, he's better than those guys. I don't think, see that's the thing with goat debates. I don't think head-to-head matters that much, because, well, it does matter a bit, but it's not like the B end, because we can't say like, oh, well, the guy from 1960s head-to-head against the 2000s guy, like, we can't compare head-to-head versus each other because some players didn't play. Right, Margaret Court and Serena never played. So we can't really compare. But that's a little icing on the cake, I guess, as well. Like, you know, he beat, he was in the hardest generation. Maybe you can say that. Mama. Noel has been the goat since 2011. I need a bit of two. Well, look, some people, yeah, I mean, fair enough. At the end, it's 22s more than 20, the 23s more than 22, more than 20. Yeah, well, that's it. I mean, that's the ending argument is that how many slams has he got? He got, he got, and that's it. And that was just so hard to debate. How do you discount somebody's extra slams? Who is another promising besides Alcoraz? Look, I mean, there's still Mevadev. He's coming good this year again. You know, can't count him out. I think Mevadev, once we get to the, Clay's over, Mevadev's back in his element. Like, I think Mevadev, yeah, he lost to Alcoraz at the Indian Wells, but I mean, we dismissed Mevadev pretty quick. Runa, obviously Runa is a very, I mean, Runa Alcoraz, we haven't seen that for a while, so let's see that as soon as possible. Sinner obviously pushed Alcoraz last year at the slams, beat him once, lost a close one to the next. So like, there is definitely Alcoraz competition. Yeah, Sinner, Runa, I mean, Medi, Steph's probably mentally so far behind now that it's gonna be too tough for him, but yeah, there's a lot of players out there that you could, that Alcoraz is gonna have to, gonna have to, you know, play. Jokovic has now won the most slams over the age 30. Yeah, that is true. Yeah, he's won what, like 11 since 30? I mean, I wanna get this right. I wanna get this right, hang on, hang on. Let me get this right and then we'll, then, you know, I don't wanna make up numbers. So he's got, where is he at? Where is he at? Where is he at? And he's won 23 in 15 years. I think we should all mention that. Whereas the other guys started earlier, remember Rafa started 2005, now it's 2023. So he had a couple of extra years on him, whereas Jokovic has done it from 2008 to now. So yeah, so since 2018, Jokovic has won one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. No, 11, I was right the first time. Two finals and he missed three tournaments. Two because of, well, one because it wasn't held and two because of politics. So yeah, he's won, since 2008, he hasn't lost before the fourth round of a major. He's lost three fourth rounds, two quarter finals, a semi-final and two finals, but he's won 11 slams. So he had, what? So 2017 onwards, after the injury, because remember he got injured in 2017, didn't play the US Open that year, came back in Australia, wasn't quite right. 2018, quarter finals of French, wasn't quite right. And then of course, ripped through everybody, won three slams in a row, then he lost the semi-finals of French, then he won another one at Wimbledon. So I mean, yeah, I mean, it's insane. Like what he's done recently, like last five years, insane. Yeah, one, sorry, one was disqualified, sorry, one, one he wasn't there for, one got disqualified, one was not held, and two got, two were politics, one was default, and one was, actually one was injury, shoulder injury at the US in 2019, retirement, and then one was not there because of COVID. No Wimbledon 2020. Yeah, Rafferkin definitely went another slam if he comes back next year and seems to be moving okay. I mean, he's got the French Open next year if he comes back from this latest hip surgery. No wonder I love Djokovic, he's also always nice and encouraging the worst for his opponent, 100%. And look, again, like I said, we're talking about the history of Djokovic because of course he's doing something that never seemed before and may never seem again, but man, Kasparud, Kasparud, he whooped Runa, he whooped Varev. I would have loved to see him play City Pass. That would have been fun. Maybe we'll get to see him play City Pass later in the year, but man, I mean, Kasparud is just so underrated, so underappreciated. What more can this man do besides maybe win a 1,000 event so everyone shut the hell up? He's one, he's made it to the three slam finals, which is some of these guys haven't made it to one. Rubelev's got zero, Zverev's got one, City Pass has got two, Mabredev's got a couple more, but he's also won one, so he's kind of in a different league. There's so many of these, Sinner's got none. I mean, you know, so I hope that Rude starts getting a little more respect as a three-time finalist, plus the A to B finals final, and if he just gets a 1,000 event, then everyone will probably shut the hell up. So hopefully, at least, you think Rude's top five for Clay? I think he's top three Clay. I mean, well, actually, hang on, Alcarez is ahead of him, but man, Rude's got to be, yeah, top five, top four, maybe City Pass ahead of him if you want to be a little bit, you know, maybe, but man, Rude's just got to get a 1,000 event and then everyone can be like, oh yeah, that makes sense. Rude guaranteed early exit of Wimbledon. Yeah, but he doesn't like Wimbledon, so that's not a surprise. That's not a shock. It's like me saying FAA was going to lose first round this tournament. It's not a shock. Nobac is the Muhammad Ali of our generation. I like that. That's a good analogy. US Open is the most prestigious hard court and Nadal beats him there to one. That's not true. There's no prestigious hard court event. The ADB finals is the, I mean, what do you mean? Australian Open is as prestigious as the US. Thank you, thank you. They're both the same. Wimbledon is the only one that's ahead of everything else. I do think Dominic Teem will ever come back to top level. I hope so. Cam, can you now affirm now that Jockerich is the Underspeed of Goat? Yeah, 100%. I mean, how do you say no, right? How do you, if anybody's, and this isn't going out to the chat, but like anyone in general, if anybody's like, well, I don't know if he's the goat, they're in denial. And you probably shouldn't listen to them because they're gonna make excuses. Well, you know, Jockerich won 10 Australian Opens. Not many people were there. Like I don't know what that you had the hell. Like anyone who says Jockerich is not the goat is lying to themselves. Or they're just very happy, they're very favored towards another guy and they're just seeing it through a different lens because they're blinded by their favorite. You know, they love Rafa or Roger, that's totally fine. But then again, then you shouldn't probably comment on the goat if you think, if you don't think Jockerich is the goat because you're a massive Roger fan, then we probably shouldn't be listening. There's no debate hereafter, exactly. But like I said, Jockerich has the, is the Underspeed of Goat doesn't mean Rafa's trash. Doesn't mean Roger sucks at all. I mean, that doesn't mean to be like one of the greatest of all time and everyone else was useless. Like that's not how it, that doesn't, that's not how it works. Just like everyone says that like Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time, doesn't mean Kobe sucks. Doesn't mean anyone else who did anything else sucks. All right. Novak's just up here and Roger and Rafa are behind him. But they're still miles ahead of everybody else, miles ahead. Novak's phenomenal considering how hard his childhood was and then piercing through Fadal. Yeah, I mean, yep. He split that rivalry up. Novak's a goat, no offense to Rood at all. They're both great. Oh yeah, I mean like Rood. I mean, like I said, Rood has proven himself again. I think even, you know, it was his closest final. Yeah, I know he won a slam, won a set last year in the U.S. But again, this is best, this is one of his better results out of the three and you know, closest match against Djokovic. Who else has lost three slam finals in one year? Exactly, Hadar, exactly. No one, not lately. So Rood has got to be up there with, you know, I mean, he's done more than some of the other guys around him. It's going to be a great week for Serbia and if, you know, with Djokovic winning the NBA next, well, what's that is, what's the NBA? I haven't even, but he looked at it. What are the nuggets? Nuggets up three, one. No, that's a Friday. Double, double celebration for Serbia. What is it, Friday? That's ages away. That's a five days away, bloody hell. It's a Friday. Lots of people heading on Nole because his father bad mouth federates. Father is, well, yeah, I mean, look, you can't condemn Djokovic for what his dad, his dad says stupid things. Can't be like, well, Nole said, though, Nole didn't say anything. His dad, his dad said his things and you can dislike his dad, but not, you know, Nole didn't say Federer sucks. Djokovic is the terminator of tennis and he's a beast. He's a beast. If you diminish Federer Nadal, then it diminishes Djokovic. Agree, without Federer Nadal, there wouldn't be a Djokovic. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, no, unbelievable, no. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Marillo. You're amazing for tennis commenting matches live. Want to know if you play tennis. Thank you, Marillo, for the five. I did last year a little bit, but I haven't played for a while. I just don't have time anymore. I'm always watching matches. But I did play a lot. Used to play a lot. Thank you for the five. Before I started this channel, I used to play a lot more. I just don't have the time. All the, like, I don't, like, I mean, I played last year and me and my mates had fun, but just don't have the drive like we used to. We've got other things. He's got my friends, our families. I've got this channel. No, it sounds sad when I say it like that. But yeah, thank you for the, I actually appreciate that. I love to play more tennis though, it'd be great. Who's your male goat? Djokovic. No, back is the goat. He's the goat. I played against the garage wall as a kid, me too. I remember betting against young, a young Norley versus Fed, nice. His head-to-head on Grand Slam's matter for goat debate. Not really, but it helps like Djokovic. I mean, you can't really debate it. I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, rapper French open beats everybody. So you can make that argument, but again, like I said, Djokovic goat and the other player only be favorite of all time. Again, no, if you're going to come in and talk like that, then you're going to make Djokovic, his achievement, not as good. If you're going to be like, oh, well, Rafa and Roger are just the favorites of all time. Then you're kind of diminishing, like what someone said, diminish Djokovic's achievements because it means that like, you should celebrate the other two forgetting Djokovic. I mean, look, Djokovic probably would admit that he wouldn't be as good as he was if it wasn't for them two. So take a note out of, take a page out of Norley's book and credit the guys who pushed him to this level. Don't diminish what the, don't, don't shit on them. All big tournaments won two times. A piece is crazy. He's done three times on the slams, which is crazy. Two times ever. I don't know if he's got to win another, what is it, since he was going to win another, another Monte Carlo, right? Three Monte Carlos and he's got it. He's got three at everything again. No worries, Tilly, thanks for joining us. Wimbledon feels like a completely different tournament these days. I hope Wimbledon, Wimbledon is going to be real fun. I'm excited. So I think Wimbledon's, like Rafa not being here, kind of opened it up for everybody, but then again, the same winner one. But I think Wimbledon's going to be open. I really want to see if Djokovic's motivation, now that he's got the record, continues. Like, is there something more, was this the goal? Like, I don't, I mean, you would expect him to keep going, but if he gets to Wimbledon, will he be a little less, will the hunger be there? Because now he's achieved, he's on the top of the mountain. You know what I mean? So we'll find out what's the next thing for Djokovic, because now people are going to ask him as well in interviews, what's the next goal now? You've reached the pinnacle, what's the next? And if he says 25, then expect him to be fine. But I'm excited. I'm excited to see what he looks like. I think it gives a lot of play. If he doesn't have the same hunger of like, I have to get that record now that he has that record, having to, extending the record is like great, but also, I mean, without Rafa chasing him, it kind of, he kind of just can kind of sit back a little bit. If Rafa was at Wimbledon, I think it would be more pressing, like, oh shit, I better get another one. But I mean, I'm excited to see what he looks like at Wimbledon, but I also think a lot of other players coming back to Wimbledon will make it really, really exciting. And maybe, out of, outside of Djokovic, an open Wimbledon, right? Crazy tournament. None of us. Nol regains the number one ranking from Carlos. Yep. How many points ahead is he now? Novak didn't get points from Wimbledon last year, and Carlos didn't get points from Al this year. He is a 400 points ahead. 400. So not a, he can't sit back and be like, oh well, because Elkres plays Halla wins. And that, if he wins Halla, Djokovic is forced to play before Wimbledon. So Djokovic is only 400 ahead. So that's sketchy. Elkres at Queens Club or Halla has to win, and he can take back the record, take back the ranking before Wimbledon. Is he gonna win one of those? Possibly not, because he's, yeah, I don't know. But, yeah. I mean, Djokovic might have to play one of those now because of that possibility. Interesting. Unpopular pillion, Djokovic doesn't win Wimbledon next. I'm interested to see how he plays. I mean, a lot of people are probably gonna be like, ah, Wimbledon's is so easy one. That's easy. He got that every year, whatever. I have a virat, I'm not gonna say that he can't win Wimbledon. He's not gonna win it. I think he will. But like I said, I wanna see what, what is next finale? Like, what's the next goal? What's the motivation? Calender slam obviously is definitely one, someone said so, yeah. But like, you know, this was the big one. This was the ultimate, like this was the I want the slam record. I'm playing for slams. I'm playing for the record. He's got it. I wanna, I don't know, I wanna see it. I don't know. I don't know what it, maybe he comes out, he kicks everyone's ass like usual. Business, he doesn't, business as usual. But I don't know. I'm excited for it though. Man, I watch it in a couple weeks time. Imagine if Nolle, no back with a smile on his face when he gets home. I mean, dude, yeah. He just predicted himself to win Wimbledon. He wants to be better than Roger, the Wimbledon darling. True, I mean, that, that getting more, more Wimbledon than Roger, true. Next game is 30, 30 is a little much, I think. It's a little, a little much. Unfortunately, the 25s, right there. 25 is right there. Wimbledon is always dicey. If you get a bad draw, yeah. If you get big servers, I mean, look at, look at the players that have beaten Jockers at Wimbledon, right? Guys like Quarry who, you know, big servers, random, random big serving guys, right? So Wimbledon, the draw is gonna be interesting to see who Jockervich has to play, but if he gets a nice draw, he's only gonna play himself in. There's a difference between not getting points after winning and not winning at all. Well, yeah, I mean, a grand slam is a grand slam. No one's gonna say Jockervich didn't win Wimbledon. Just didn't get points for it. I worry for anyone who has Rownish in the draw. Yeah, Riggs, that's gonna be scary. That'll be scary. He wants to beat Connors 109, but only with slams. Maybe. He'll probably tell us. This has been great. Congrats on all the new members and record viewers. Thank you. Yeah, we had officially 15,000 people in the chat as a match point. So that's just ridiculous. I mean, this week we've smashed records. As, like I said, on a personal note, it's ridiculous that this channel, just what I think we've had, we're doing all right. We kicked down the next door. So it's crazy. WT had much better matches than this. Yeah, people say that. I think the Elkres-Jockervich match would have been the match of the tournament had it been finished completely. I think the women's final was, Sabalenka's match against Mukova and the final for the women's was the best matches of the tournament for them. And then, but then on the men's side, I mean, match of the event. Tell me in the chat, what was the biggest, what's the best match of the tournament, you reckon? I mean, probably Sinner versus Altmire in terms of epicness. Runa versus Cerundolo was epic. Montfies played an epic at the start. Stan Kokonakis was pretty epic. What about Medvedev in the five? So we didn't really get to see too many, the WT final was epic. Yeah, on the women's side, there was a lot more, felt like a lot closer matches. We had the Jaburr match with Adadmire. Obviously the Sabalenka match was epic. We had this final was epic. I'm sure I'm missing a whole lot of others. Was this the best match? This wasn't the best match of the tournament, no. Elkres in the quarters was immense. Yeah, I mean, if you want to talk about best match in terms of like most impressive match there, for sure. Elkres whooping city pass was huge. Hopefully next year on Wind Slams, they will. They will. I want to see what Zverev does at Wimbledon. Zverev, Djokovic at Wimbledon, third round. What's that look like? What does that look like? Fakina Djokovic, yeah, that was a good match. Opinion on Mira on Drava, great. Awesome to see her play this week. Again, we saw her play golf, it was awesome. She looks scary. Do we miss Roger? Always, I saw a highlight of Roger the other day. And it was just like, it was something like Roger hitting the ball, it was at the US Open from like four years ago. And I was like, man, he just smacked the crap out of it. And I was like, just how clean he hit the ball. No one hits the ball that clean as clean as Roger. And the shot making, the variety, I mean, yeah. Just like I miss watching Rafa. I mean, the intensity, the forehand, Carlos fans still crying. No, I don't think that. Hey, his movement. Yeah, I mean, yeah, incredible, incredible. Rubella plus Medi, okay. That's why Roger is the best to a lot of people. He was classical player. Yeah, exactly. And that's fine. You can have, everyone can have their favorites. Thanks for a great four night. See you later. No worries. Thank you, Gilbert. Appreciate that. But yes, we have, we've got the ranking show coming up. So it's gonna be a lot of fun. Ranking show coming up today. Or in like a little bit. Cam is the same way. Did you embrace Novak's, what, what? Nadal's 20 second Grand Slam. You seem to have known with Morjokamich. God damn it. Are you gonna naked eyes? I'm gonna be, I'm gonna go easy on you because you've been around here for a while. So I'm not going to roast you. If you were a random chatter, I'd probably just go crazy and burn you. But I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna let that slide. Because you're probably a Rafa fan that's a little bit hurt. That's fine. So I'm gonna let it slide. But go watch the 21, the 21 slams Rafa one of these shown up in last year and then come back and talk to me. Just a question. Didn't sound like a question. Sounded like you were accusing me of not being as excited for Rafa than I was with Norley. Go check out the 21 slams and you'll see how excited I was about the record breaking. Will Elkres play Djokovic the US in final? Oh, it depends on where they ranked. You know, by that time, Elkres might be number two or he might be number four. I mean, well, Djokovic could be somewhere else. Cam is very fair. Thank you. I mean, I think I probably, Djokovic fans would argue that I got more excited when Rafa won 21 than I did today. So, you know, you can go watch that and make up your own minds. Favorite match was Alcaraz versus Novak. Nice. Great cat and mouse game for two sets before the cramps set in which was shocking. Also, Alcaraz shot surfing on clay was mind blowing. The round the legs. Yeah, there was some crazy shots at this event. Root played a great point in this one where he hit a tweener and then ended up winning the point. So that was fun. No 21, 23 shot. What are you talking about? There's a link in the chat. You want to get the 23 shot? You can. There it is. No. 23. If you notice as well, the clay is in the shape of the French, the country of France. So, French open 23, the clay. I can get it in all different colors. Go check it out. Link in the chat. Only 20 bucks as well. So, we chucked it up for 20 this time around. Go grab your historic moments. Memorabilia now. And you can still get the other stuff as well. We won, someone bought Rafa 22 the other day, which I love to think of that. Can't wait for Wimby. Yeah, Wimby's gonna be fun. Root fought a lot harder than this time. Respect. Yeah, agree. Agree. Show us your excited for Rafa face and excited for Djokovic face. Let's go watch the replays. I'm not gonna. I can't get excited fake. I'm just gonna fake excitement. It's not how tennis work. It's not how I work. I can't just be like, Rafa what? Like, this is a cringe, cringy. Australia is the champion of World Test cricket. Of course we are. Is that a shock? Of course we are. When is Keeg coming back? Tomorrow, I think. I think Kira's is playing tomorrow. I'm looking at, he's playing a woo tomorrow. And Stuttgart, so yay. Now, what's gonna happen next chat? We're not going to be doing much because I am wrecked and I need a couple of days to just chill. And I think we all do and celebrate. Celebrate a good, great clay court season because it's effectively ended. And also to regroup for what's next with Wimbledon coming up and all the main tournaments. So, yeah, we'll obviously bring content coming out because we're not going to stop, but. Yeah, next week, Stuttgart, Netherlands. There's a couple of tournaments there. Like I said, with, you know, Kira's coming back. That's fun. Who's playing on the men's side next week? So we've got Kira, Sidney Pass is playing, which is odd to see him so quickly playing on grass. Fritz, Tiafo, Kiraos. So, look, we might watch matches later in the week, but I don't have any plans on watching matches tomorrow. Medvedev, Sinner, they're all playing next week as well when we're looking at the grass. So, yeah, like I said, we're all going to take a couple of days. They're not going to play until Wednesday, most of those guys, except for Kiraos. On the women's side, I think it's nodding him, yep. Nodding him and you've got, on the women's side, Kudamatova, Samsonova, so the small, outside the top 10 names. You've got Sacri playing next week on grass. So, look, there's a couple of names there, but as I said, we need a few days. I think we need a few days to recover from the madness that has been the last couple of hours. I mean, the last couple of days, I mean, I'm still not over the Okras match. I'm still wrecked from that. They build up, I mean, Okras got cramps because he was nervous, I was nervous. Luckily, I'm sitting in a chair, so I don't cramp, but I need a few days to breathe in some fresh air and touch grass, and also probably go reply to my messages and check if my mailbox has any bills. Yeah, yeah, don't expect much the next week. I think we all deserve a break, but yeah, during the weekend, maybe next week, we'll probably watch a couple of matches just to see what the grass looks like, get our feet on the grass, and then we'll be watching the week after that. Business as usual, we've gone crazy because that's when things get real hectic. Pretty much everyone's playing in that middle week of the grass season, so that's when I'm going to go nuts. And then we'll go wimbledon the week after that, so back to the grind. Norris Law, I thank you for joining us. Now, I need to get a haircut. I need to get rid of this disgusting look. My mom always says I need a rest from the fuzzy ball. It's funny. Grass season two short day. We'll watch it. Queens and Huller is on starting at the 19th, it starts. But Berlin for the ladies is massive too, so we're going to have like a bunch of matches. No grass masters, nope, nope. So that's that. That's the answer to that question. We're going to stick around, keep asking questions. We'll debrief all the French open things, get them out of your system, celebrations, commiserations, future things. I'm not touching grass over 100 degrees outside. Okay, we'll wait until it gets dark and then maybe go outside in the nighttime. Can we'll be back looking five years younger? Probably. Hopefully. Cinematic shocking exit Fritz crazy fight with the crowd. Yep, it was pretty crazy. It was very crazy. Still can't come out of the Triantec victory hangover, yeah. I mean, that was insane yesterday. I mean, there's so many matches like in the last three, four days, I mean, the Sabalenka match is still mind blowing. Like there's just so many matches where it's like, what the hell happened? It's all a blur. Who's the biggest underachiever or overachiever? Man, that's a deep question. Why is there no buses on grass? Because I don't know, just because there isn't. They just haven't got one yet. WJ given us back to back epics for sure. Just bought Nolay 23 shirt. Hey, thank you. I'll give a shout out to those who have. If you bought the shirt, appreciate the support and support the channel. And you also get a piece of merch, which is fun. So we've got Phillip, Gigi, Mason, Robert, and Karen buying a shirt. So thank you for buying a Nolay 23 shirt. If you wanna go buy one, link in the chat. Root is my next favorite after Nolay. Nice. See you later, Ganesha. Appreciate you being here. Queen should be upgraded to 1,000 and Monte Carlo bumped down. Savage. Do you think Roger and Rafa care they have been passed? I think both of them broke the record. So I feel like they both, like if neither of them had broken the record and Jochimich had always had it, then maybe, but Rafa broke it last year. He got to 21 first. Roger got to 20. So I don't think they're too bothered. Federer's living his best life. He doesn't give a shit about tennis at all. He's off there doing whatever he wants. And I'm sure Rafa's not, you know, that bothered. Rafa fans are more hurt than, I think the fans of those guys are more upset than the players. I don't think Rafa himself is really that, like, oh, he's probably not that bothered. Rafa's treat was nice. Yeah, they're probably gonna, I mean, yeah. I mean, they're not gonna come out and be like, damn it, but they're not gonna care. Yeah, they're gonna congrats. Everyone's gonna congrats. Yeah, Berlin is a 500 event. That's it. Yeah, Rafa fan here are not hurt. Exactly. Not like a small percentage of Rafa fans will be like angry, but like, they're just the radical fans, the fanatics, right? 95% of Rafa fans are gonna be normal. 95% of Federer fans are gonna be normal. And that small 5% are just gonna be angry and seething and trying to dismiss it and in denial. But 95% of the Rafa fans are like, congrats. But those, there's a 5%. There's a 5% that are gonna be like, like they're gonna freak out and they're gonna be salty and they're gonna, you know, just a little, there's a little percentage of fans. You doubt those percentages? Well, I'm giving everyone the benefit of the doubt that not everyone is crazy. That there's just a small, loud, vocal, tiny minority that's like, you know, of that, you know, about 5% of the fans are gonna be just like angry at Djokovic. How dare you take our record? You know, like just crazy people that take it to personal. It's a sport. It's for fun. Don't take it too serious. Try being an Australian. And then I'll let you talk to me. Try being an Aussie tennis fan. Try to, then we're gonna have a chat. Then you'll accept, then you won't freak out as much. You're just kind of like, ah, we just accept everything. We're never gonna be that good anymore. Yeah, look, some of you in the chat are in that 5%, but at least you admit it. You're like, oh, I'm angry. Is that fine? Do whatever you want. But I'm not gonna say Rafa fans are angry because that's not true. Hey, thank you Ray for buying some of the merch as well. Appreciate that. No era can stop no back. I mean, Alcares is getting close. Let's be real. You gotta be honest. Alcares is getting a little scary, a little close. Just appreciate Cam giving Rafa his due while Rafa was ahead in the slam race. Yeah, like I said, Rafa broke the record. That Federer set, Federer set the record. And then he's always broken the record again. Like all the three have done, the big three have just set records, broken each other's things. Like it's, it's, they've all had their time at the top of the record, you know, which is nice. I like it. It would have been a shame if like Roger had it and then Nolle had it and then Rafa didn't have it. Or, you know, if, you know, Nolle didn't have it and Rafa had it and Roger had it. They've all had their time as the best, as the most slams in the world. You know what I mean? Like it's nice that they've all had it. You know, at one point, Roger had the record. At one point, Rafa had the record and now Nolle has it. So it's like, it's nice that everyone's had their time in the sun as the most slams in the world. For a, for a while there, Rafa didn't look like he was going to get the most. You know, it looked like it was going to be Federer and then Djokovic and then nobody. And then, then obviously forever Nolle, but like it's nice that Rafa got those couple that Rafa winning last year, if he didn't, like if Djokovic played this show and maybe Rafa wouldn't have got it. So it's everyone should celebrate that their guy held that record for, you know, a few tournaments or for a few years or whatever. You know, I might start to see Venus back. Yeah, I'm excited to see what she can do. Thank you, Dawn. Thank you for buying some merch. Appreciate that. Thank you, Dawn. Alcrest could get number one ranking at Queens. Yep, if he wins Queens Club, he could be back on top. He could be back. Oh, we still got 2,000 people in the house. What's up? Love to hear it. And I love to see it. It was 2017 when Djokovic was 17 slams. I know now he's got six while they've got two combined. I mean, it's crazy, right? Are we seeing various teeny on grass? I think so. Don't know when, but I think we are. We are. Novak has the number one spot to look for out for. Well, he's got that now. So he's got it. I mean, I don't know when Noel is playing again, but I'm sure he's probably gonna play something before Wimbledon now that his number one ranking isn't locked up. Alcrest is still hanging around. I don't know if Baratini's back. I don't know. I don't know. Cam, what are your thoughts on Novak? On 30, if Novak wins Calender Slam and gets 25 this year. I think 30 is a long way away. 30 is too, like, I'm not gonna say he can't do it, but if you think 30 is the next goal, then you're gonna dismiss if he wins 25, you know? If he wins third, if he doesn't get 30, then 25 is gonna be a disappointment. So I'd rather people, especially Djokovic fans, look at 25 as like the next big thing and then go to 30. Cause that way when it gets, if you do get to 25, you will celebrate it as a massive deal, cause it is. Whereas if you look at 30 and you only get to 25, you're gonna think, oh, shit, that's not good. You know what I mean? So celebrate 25 and then look at 30. And if you don't get to 30, that's fine. But if you think 30 is the goal, then you're probably not gonna enjoy the rest. You know, you're gonna just be like, oh, he only got 26. Damn, and it's like, well, that's a pretty big deal. I mean, enjoy 23. Don't look at 30 just yet or 25 even just yet because he's just gotten the record. I mean, is it not enough? I mean, get excited for this and then, and then look at the next one. At least enjoy this one. Yeah, enjoy 23 exactly. He's got the most. I mean, enjoy it. Why does Djokovic struggle at the US Open? Well, he's at the end of the season, so he gets tired. 25 is definitely possible. 30 is surely pushing it. Yeah, 30 is if Elkarez gets injured and Mevvedev disappears, and a lot of things have to happen for a lot. I think a lot of people have to not play. Yeah. I reckon 27 is probably pretty realistic for more. But I know, Djokovic fans are saying he's gonna win this calendar slam this year. So that's, you know, 30 can't happen. Yeah, 30 can only happen if a lot of things go right over the next couple of years and Djokovic is only getting older and Elkarez is only getting better and Mevvedev's getting confident again and there's a lot of players that are just getting better. Djokovic getting older. You don't wanna see Djokovic, the sad part would be if you saw Djokovic play for three, four years, trying to get to 30 and starting to just fall off. Well, you don't wanna see Djokovic. You wanna see him end on top. So if he gets to 25 or more, you wanna see him end as like competitive in the last, you don't wanna see him play for two, three years and you don't wanna see him like fade away even though he's done great things. You know what I mean? So you don't wanna see that happen. Anonymous. Cam, for example, in other sports like Formula One, they have Ayrton Senna as the greatest with three world championships and Lewis Hamilton has seven world championships. So why in tennis grand slams matters most to be the goat? I think the people decide the goat. I thought Lewis Hamilton was the goat. Is he not the goat? I thought Lewis Hamilton was considered the greatest of all time. Am I wrong? I think every sport's different. They have different criteria. NBA, it's not just based on titles. Tennis is based on grand slams first. I think we, you win the most of the big trophies. I mean, it started when Sampris won 14. Sampris was the greatest tennis player to ever play tennis. So Federer came along. He had 14. Go, I watched a documentary about Sampris from 2003, I think it was. Go watch it on YouTube. It's on YouTube. And during that, they say he's the greatest ever do it. He's the greatest tennis player of all time. He's the greatest. 14 slams, Sampris is the goat. And then Federer came along and went, I'll hold my beer. And then Rafa said, well, you know, hold my beer. And then Djokovic said, you know, hold my vegan beer. So I think grand slam record is the most. And also, you know, weeks in number one, I think those two things are the most important. In tennis, in other sports, it's different. In other sports, there's other criteria. There's not like a set rule of who, how do you find a goat in every sport? Well, they have to do this, this and this. It's like for basketball, it's this, for this, it's this. For golf, it's that, for whatever, whatever. And for tennis, we start with the grand slams. And then we go down from there. Sabalenka Rabakina, who wins more slams? Rabakina, because she has more time. She's gonna be around for longer. Rabakina wins one more than Sabalenka. I don't know how many, but she wins one more. Nolay has been in first place since 2021. We all know this, but few admit it, okay? Cam, you prove there is no curse. Thank you. I know, finally, we can put it to bed that there is, and the Cam curse is not real. It is not real. It's not real, Chad. It's not real. It's not real. I picked Novak and I picked Svjontek to win the whole tournament. And I told you it was boring, but I also told you it was, who was gonna win, so. It's not too bad. Not a miss. Cam, everyone talking about Al-Karaz's body, injuries and cramps. Dude just turned 20 last month. Did the goats not cramp or have physical issues at 19 or 20? Yes. Rafa has a foot problem from 2005, yet he kept playing. Doctors said he shouldn't play because it was never gonna work. He had one slam when the doctors told him that. Now he is 22. Novak Djokovic, after winning the Australian Open 2008, he went like three years without winning a slam and he would retire matches due to fatigue, due to breathing, due to whatever, like due to all these things, whatever, and there was jokes, people made jokes about, what is he gonna pull out with this week? No, is he gonna pull out with a lake fall off? It was a bit of a butt of a joke for a while. He was always retiring. He's now got 23. So Al-Karaz might cramp and he might get injuries and all that stuff. Doesn't mean he can't go on and do some crazy things. Doesn't mean he can't go on and win a lot of slams. It just means that he's just got to figure out why he's cramping or why the body's a problem. He's young, I mean, he's only 20. He's only 20, I mean, you were right. Just turned 20 as well. Not like I'm a 25 for sure, 30, it's a question. Well, once you get to 25, we can then make, then we can crunch the numbers, right? Make some tougher. Well, yeah, I mean, it's probably better off him getting cramps this early in his career than, you know, down the track when it's, when he's 28 and he gets cramps, you know, what the hell is that? So it's good that he can sort it out now before things get too much. Algrist can cramp one day and next day be a beast. Well, that's the thing, we've only seen him cramping twice this year. One against Sinner in the Miami semis and then here. So it's only happened twice. I mean, he played the US Open without cramps and look at him, he kicked everyone's butt in five. So I don't know if it's a constant thing. It might just be a one-off every now and again, but if he sorts it out, then that's the only thing stopping him. Yeah, he got injured at the end of last year, but again, that's probably because he put himself through so much last year in terms of what he did, you know, physically cramped against Norrie. No, did he, I thought he got hurt against Norrie. He got hurt against Norrie. He hurt himself. I think he hurt his, did he hurt his leg? Can't remember. But yeah, he hurt himself against Norrie and pulled out of back of polka. So it wasn't cramping. I don't think it was cramp. Camp course doesn't work on goats. It doesn't even work. Camp case doesn't work. I've gotten, I got Sabalenka, Jabur, Zverev and Runa wrong. I got four predictions wrong, Chad. I got four out of a million. Wait, hang on. How many, okay, so wait, how many did I actually get wrong? The four, eight, 12, four, I got four, I got 10 out of 14, right, Chad? That's actually probably my best predictions yet. That's probably my best predictions. Actually Chad, let's do something fun. Let's go through my predictions on the second channel because I wanna see now how, how I actually, how dumb I sound. I wanna see how stupid I sound because I probably got some really bad ones and I probably have some good takes. All right Chad, we're gonna go through this together because this is fun. Where are we? Here we are. If you haven't joined the second channel, Tennis Talk Plus. Not a passing grade. Passing is 50%. And I got more than, I got, I got what? 10 out of 14. That's more than 50. I got a 71%. That's pretty damn good. If you're any, any sports better on the chat is 71% of picks not good. No, you'd kill for that. Everybody would kill for that. All right, let's go have a look at what stupidity I've, what I said at the start of the tournament. Oh God, I don't wanna do this now. I've changed my mind. All right, so there it is chat. If you wanna go follow the second channel, Tennis Talk Plus, link in the chat. All right, you ready? You're ready to hear what I have to say, what I have to say at the start of the week. And then maybe- Whoa, whoa, whoa, shut up. So the French have been starting in a couple of hours time. I thought it'd be a good idea to go through last minute predictions and not just the usual predictions of who's gonna win the tournament, but a lot more detailed predictions. And at the end of the tournament, we can see how many I get right or more likely how many I get wrong. So for this one, I think Sidney Pass is gonna have a better tournament than Mevadev. I know it's a little bit tougher, maybe with Alkreis in the way, but I don't know, I just don't feel like Mevadev is gonna have the best event, even though he is coming in with some good form. I think Sidney Pass is gonna have a better event than Mevadev in this one. Genius, one for one. All right, next. I think the qualifiers that are gonna do well on the men and women side, I think Carrotsev, who also proved in- Okay, well, he lost in the second round, so that wasn't a good take. That wasn't good. He lost the TR4, I thought he'd be better. Drew that he can do well on the clay. I think he's gonna be the best of the qualies in the men's draw. And I think on the women's side, on Drava, she's been on such a good run at the moment. She's also won a bunch of- What do you reckon, Chad? Do you reckon I got, I think on Drava was good. I mean, she got, she lost the golf, she got to the third round. You give me, do you give me on Drava? That's a good one. You reckon that's a good one? Or do you think that she should have made it further? And I, maybe I'm, I feel like I got on Drava. Maybe not. Carrots if I got wrong. Carrots if I got wrong. Yeah, one out of two. Okay, all right. Torrance on Clay, I think those two are the ones to watch and they're gonna have the best results as the qualifiers. Now, I don't know how we're gonna determine this because I don't know if we can actually find out this answer. When it comes to fastest serve, I've got to go with Bublick for the men and Sabalinka for the ladies. I think they're gonna hit big serves. I don't know if they're gonna go as far in the event as maybe some predict. I don't know if we can figure that out. Anybody know who had the fastest serves? Does anybody, anybody know? I don't, I don't know how we can figure that out. Third round is good for a quality. Okay. She could have made fourth round to be honest. Yeah, but she made third round. Is that not good enough? Is that not good enough? Third round's not good enough? I mean, anyways, we'll figure this out later. Greatest of all time is Mount Goat. Steven! Great work as always, Cam. Thank you. We appreciate what you do. Appreciate it. Is Djokovic the only player to have three grand slams for each major? Curious. Hey, thank you, Steven. Can we get some solutions for Steven in the chapter 20 of the 20? Thank you for the nice words. On the men's side, yes. Because nobody had won, Rafa had won two at everything. So did Djokovic, so he's got three at everything. That's the only guy. I don't know if on the ladies side, Serena won three of everything, but maybe. She went three, French, I don't know. Serena went three French, one, two. Yes, so Serena won three of everything. Steffi won three of everything. So he's not the only player of all time, but he's the only male to do it. Steffi has four of everything, there you go. There you go, thank you for the 20. Sorry, I didn't get to that earlier. All right, so Sabalenka in public. I mean, Sabalenka had the fastest serve. Who had the men's fastest serve? Who had the men's fastest serve? Coco Goff hit 195. I don't know the definitive answer. Tiarfo, really? Big foe had the fastest men's serve, okay. That was a bit of a random one. I mean, how do you figure that out? Look, I don't think he likes playing on clay, but doesn't mean he can't hit the biggest serve in a first round loss. Oh, here we go. The players that I think are gonna have an unseeded run making the fourth round all further, I think it's gonna be Jerry on the men's side who's been so good on the clay. I mean, come on, come on. Now, if that wasn't easy, that was easy. That was easy. That was easy. And had some really big wins on the clay this season. That was easy. On the women's side, I think Von Drusava. Okay, well, let me explain this, all right. So I picked Von Drusava, she lost in the second round. I had picked Mukava. But at the last minute, I edited out Mukava and I put in Von Drusava. I had Mukava, but I edited the video at the last minute. I'm like, you know what? No, no, no, I'm gonna pick Von Drusava. So that's my bad. Is gonna have a great run at the French Open as an unseeded player. Has made a final hit before, so she knows how to play this tournament. You don't believe me? I can show you the raw footage. I can show you the raw footage. I'll play it right now. I'll show you. You don't believe me? I'll play the audio right now. I was so, I'm so annoyed that I didn't stick with my gut on that one. I said, dumb. I feel stupid. That's gonna remember which one it is. I'll prove you, I'll show you. I'll show you. I did, I edited it out, I did. The original, my original pick was Mukava. And then I went, nah, I'm gonna go with, we go with my Drusava, because I'm stupid. Which one was it? Was this one? This one. All right, here's some raw edits. With the French, whoops. When it comes to fastest serve. Nah, that's that. Prediction, a little bit of a weird. Which one's this one? Dude, I think Shveontech would do, whoops. When it comes to fastest serve in a first round loss. Where did I put it? A little bit of a weird category. Let's see what happens. Like right or more likely, I think those two. Where'd I put it? Nah, half. The men's world number one ranked upset in the first week. And I think, oh, we're gonna, those players from each, I'm gonna show you later, Chad, I'll find it, don't you worry. I'm not getting away, I'm not giving you that one. Okay. So out of these two, I think Shveontech would do the better out of the two, better than Sabalenka will in the draw, of course, the one and two in the world. And they're both playing for the number one ranking is this time, but I'm gonna go with Shveontech to have a better run than Sabalenka this one. That was lucky. I just got away with that one. Just, whoo, just. There's a little bit of a strange category, but I'm gonna go with the Czech Republic to have them. Now, I don't think this one, I think this was America, wasn't it? Did America win this one? I can't remember. I don't think the Czech, the Czech didn't do it. The Czech players didn't do that. Most wins. Actually, that's a lie. One made the frigging final. Hang on, hang on. Who was the most winning this country? Lechka got two wins. I'm gonna have to do a recount. We'll have to figure it out, but. As a collective on the mental, we'll have to make the final, maybe. Just ahead of America, who have a lot of players as well, but I think the Czech Republic will be the most winningest country in this one. Maybe. All right, here we go. My best take, ready? All right, top 10 upsets, I think FAA, Felix Ojelecim, who's also coming in with an injury. I think he will have a big upset in the first week. But I think Coco Gough, my. Don't judge me. Don't judge me. Don't judge me. She wasn't playing well. Don't judge me. I'd be upset in the first week on the ladies side. Don't worry, Chad, it gets worse. You can laugh at me next time. Oh, here, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Pay attention. When it comes to dark horses, I'm gonna go with a Dajmaja on the. Whoa. On the ladies side, a little bit of an outside pick. She has played well on the clay in doubles. So I'm gonna say that she is my dark horse for the event. On the men's side, I'm gonna go with Karine Hash. All right. It was very good. God, this guy knows who he's talking about. I know what he's talking about. He's not bad. At Grand Slam. That's not bad. My back horses for this event. All right, that's not bad. Of course, the men's world number one ranking at stake and Djokovic and Elkara is fighting for that ranking amongst the Medvedev as well. But I think Djokovic is gonna have a better tournament than Elkara is at the French Open this year. What's the score? The scores, I'm at least 90%. All right, Chad, now don't laugh. Don't you laugh at me for this one. Don't laugh. Don't you laugh. My hot take for the event. I think Medvedev and Sabalenka are not gonna do as well as maybe everyone thinks. Of course, Sabalenka having won Madrid and Medvedev having the best season on clay for his whole career. I think both of them are gonna lose early. Maybe not the first two rounds, but I don't think they're gonna go as far as everyone thinks. I was half right. I mean, the Medvedev one's pretty good, Chad. You gotta give me that. You gotta give me that. I mean, many, many losing in the first days. I mean, that's not nothing. I mean, but the Sabalenka one's trash. Sabalenka's trash. I mean, that was my worst one. Come on, that's the worst one. Oh God, it gets worse. I'm so sorry. God damn it. I just remembered that I picked this too. Maybe he lost because of me? No, because I picked him. I didn't, that's not a curse if I made, if I predictioned. Anyways. So we're getting into the serious stuff now. Who is gonna make it into the semifinals? I think we're gonna have Shriontek taking on Jabir. I wasn't far away. That was only one set away from being true. One of the semifinals, I think Pagola and Kazakina. That was not even close. I'm gonna meet the other semifinal on the women's side on the men's side. I think it's gonna be Djokovic and Sidney Paz. I wanna apologize to all the Elkras fans out there. That was my bad. I apologize to all the Elkras fans for picking Sidney Paz. In the top half. It gets worse. The draw, and in the bottom half of the draw, I think we're gonna get Sinner taking on Runa. Okay, this is probably my worst take. I mean, I got one out of four. Sidney Paz didn't even show up to Elkras. Sinner was dead in the second round. Runa lost to Rude. I mean, no Rude spect. Pagola was a horrible pick. I mean, yeah. Look, to defend my pick, Sidney Paz, Rude. Sorry, Sidney Paz, Runa, Kazakina, and Jabir made it to the fourth and quarter finals. So it's not like they didn't, just Sinner and Pagola were terrible. In the semifinals. Steph beating Carlos. Okay, Steph beating Kaz. I apologize to all the Elkras fans, all right? I'm sorry. And then my last take, my ultimate win. And the big one. Who is going to win the tournament? I'm gonna go with the boring answers. Djokovic, Svjonsi. Thank you. I'll see you next time. I'll see you in Wimbledon. Thank you. Appreciate it. You've been great. You've been great. Thank you. Thank, no, no, no. Thank you, Chad. Thank you, Chad, for believing in me. Thank you. Thank you. Just for the record, this video came out two weeks ago. Not, it didn't come out today. It came out two weeks ago. Thank you, Chad. Thank you, Chad. Appreciate it. Thank you. I did my job. I did my job. And that's the end of the video. Well, then there's an outro, but it's boring. Not bad. I don't think I did that bad. I mean, it can only get worse. I can only get worse at Wimbledon. I'm probably gonna get like two right. But yeah. Yeah, I mean, I'm not terrible. Some of them are terrible. Sabalenko playing bad, that didn't happen. Goff not playing well, that didn't really happen. Not too bad. Yeah, not too bad. I'll take it. I'm pretty happy with that, what I said this week. With my predictions. I was pretty happy with that. Wimbledon's gonna be a whole nother thing. L.A. kept score. Okay. Why did you have to be so tough to beat a Wimbledon? Because no one else can play on grass. You have to wait for that video to come out of a Wimbledon. You have to wait. Can't wait for the Wimbledon predictions. Well, not your cameras. Now look, it's only downhill from here, Chad. You know that. This is only gonna get, I'm in a, I might never do another one again because that was actually not too bad. Thanks for the great coverage, Noah. It's Connie, thanks for joining us. Did Murray win today? Probably. Somebody said in the chat that he won the first set, I think, right? I don't know. Did Murray win chat? You tell me. How's the fan slam? I don't think it's updated yet. My fan slam is trash, but I don't know if it's updated. Wimbledon will be fine for sure. By the way, follow me on the second channel because those videos are coming out on the second channel. So, and we've got another video coming up as well on the second channel and hopefully in a week. So, if you want to follow us on the second channel and look at, we've got different stuff over there. So, we'll do those videos over there. Did you know I'm Djokovic, which, I'm Djokovic, which is the biggest fan. So, Ethan, I don't know what you're saying. I'm not sure what you're saying. Oh, Murray won. There you go. Murray won the challenger. He won the challenger. Now, Chad, I just need to prove something to, just so I keep my reputation. All right, Chad, here we go. I'm gonna play this audio because this is what happened. I should have picked her. Gonna have an unseeded run, making the fourth round all further. I think it's gonna be Jerry on the men's side. He's been so good on the clay and had some really big wins on the clay this season. And on the women's side, I think Mukova is gonna have the best run on the women's side as an unseeded player. And then I edited it out and I put Vondrussa in stead chat. I said Mukova first and then I cut it out. I'm an idiot. I said her first chat. Give me half a point. Give me half a point. I didn't trust my gut. Then I went with Vondrussa and I made it stupid. Sorry, man, I say I'm the biggest chocolate fan. Oh, nice, Ethan. Well, you must be happy. You must be happy. Oh, my God. I edited it. I think Dasher beat Vondrussa so I went against Dasher. I, it's my own fault, Chad. My own fault. But it doesn't count unless it's in the video. I missed it. I know. I could have been looking like an uber genius. I could have looked like an absolute, I would have been an absolute God of predictions. But I cut it out so it doesn't count. Doesn't count. Half a point doesn't count. I don't get no points for that. You lose the competition for that. You're gonna take it all away from me because I deleted the Mukova footage. God damn it, you got savage. You did well. I'm pretty happy with that. I'm pretty happy with that. It wasn't that bad. I didn't do that bad. Jokes aside, I didn't do that bad. I'm pretty happy with my results. Pretty happy with the predictions. Almost perfect. Almost perfect. Yeah, you always gotta trust your gut. Dasher is busy with her YouTube channel nowadays, if that's fair enough. I did, yeah. I mean, look, am I gonna parade around the streets yelling out how smart I am because I picked Djokovic to win a Grand Slam? No. Picking Djokovic to Sfiontek is that was the most boring, easy, basic pick of all time. Did anyone, I mean, like I said in the video, I'm gonna go with the boring picks. And I did. I went with the favorites and they won. So is it really that good? I don't think so. Last or should be rude? Well, I didn't pick rude. I picked Djokovic. So it's only the ones that I picked that apparently get lose. Hashtagmire were good picks. Yeah, Hadagmire was wired. When she actually got to the semis, I was like, Jesus, like I picked her kind of out. I was gonna pick Kudamatova. Thank God I didn't. Hashtagmire felt confident, but yeah, Hadagmire was a little bit of a shot in the dark. I kind of saw her draw and I thought, you know what? She's got a pretty good draw if she can get through Rabakina. Didn't have to. So I kind of picked her out of a little bit of, it was a little bit out there, but sometimes they're the ones that make for the best picks. Cam takes an ice cream truck around the neighborhood and announces his predictions. No, no, only to the chat. Only to all of you. Anyways, chat, we're gonna get, I mean, it's nearly four in the morning. I'll tell you what I'm up to now. Thanks for sticking around. Actually, you know what? Because there's still, we've still got over a thousand people in the chat, like two hours, an hour removed from the match. We're gonna do a giveaway for those people who stuck around to the very end because you guys deserve sticking around for listening to my own predictions and me indulge myself and stroke my own ego, which, you know, I will now give away some no-lay shirts. If you already bought one and you're still here and you win the competition, I'll just, I'll refund you and you know, you can have one free. All right, let me get, by the way, again, follow me on the second channel, whatever. We'll give away a no-lay shirt. Who wants a no-lay shirt? For those who are sticking around because you guys are still here after you could have left, you could have gone on with your lives, but you're still here for some reason. What are you doing here? Leave, it's over, the match is done. The French Open's done, but I'll give you something to leave with. So, how do I do this? I've forgotten how to do this. Oh, okay. All right. All right, now, if you are a member of the channel, you do get a little bit luckier, but write no-lay in the chat if you want to be a part of this giveaway. No-lay is the special key, is the special word. If you want to be a part of this, this giveaway, no-lay is, no-lay is the, what's going to do this? There we go. Kind of. Wait, is that right? Why does it look so bad? What the hell? Oh no, I remember. All right. No-lay is the special word. I don't know why it looks so weird. It must have changed their website. All right. No-lay, if you want to be a part of this, hopefully if I press this it will make it work. That's it, I'll give you another 20 seconds to get your, get your, get things going. And while we do that, well, while you guys all spam no-lay, I just want to say a big thank you to the mods. Thank you Dawn especially who's been here pretty much every day, just sorting out the chat. Thank you so much Dawn for all the hard work. It's that man Pat and have been here as well. So I appreciate those guys jumping on as well every now and again to just kind of give a hand. So I appreciate that. Thanks to all the, everyone who's been here. It's all the new members. We've got a bunch of new members that have joined. So thank you for that. All those who've donated, especially thanks to Giovanni who donated, Magdalena, all the donations like Simon today. Man, I'm going to forget so many people, but there's a lot of people who donate it every day. If you donated a dollar, I mean, thank you, you didn't have to. I mean, you can just literally sit back and watch. You don't need to give any money. This is a free stream. So you don't have to like pay your way. So I appreciate all those who did donate or gives memberships, any of that stuff. And hopefully, hopefully you'll learn something. That's my biggest thing. As long as you take something away from the stream, maybe you had a bad day and maybe you had a laugh at my expense because of my predictions are terrible. Maybe you learned something new about someone you didn't know or maybe you learned something new about someone you did know, someone of the players you did know. Appreciate all of you all being here. We had, I mean, we broke records again. I think we had, there was the biggest French open women's match ever yesterday. This match, I think we'll go down in history as one of the French open. We've got a lot of big matches because goats played a lot here. But like I said, 15,000 people here at the end of the match. Biggest match of the year so far, this one beats out Alcoraz, which is interesting. So this match actually beats out the Alcoraz, Djokovic matched the other day. So yeah, history, all that stuff. So yeah, so I appreciate all those things. All right, now, let's get to who's gonna win some shirts. Who wants a shirt? Who wants a shirt? I'm gonna figure out how to do this. All right, first winner, we're gonna do a couple is Hector. Congratulations Hector. Hector, you are now the proud owner of a Nolay 23 shirt. All you gotta do is email me, there's an email down below, send me the email with your details, the color of the shirt you want. Also the shirt size, so I can send it to you. So thank you Hector, let's go again. I'll give away a couple more, we'll give away three. All right, next, another channel member, Natural Hippy, congratulations. Members get extra luck, that's just how it works. Thank you, Natural Hippy, there you go, there you go. Actually, if you're still here, I'm sure you're still here. There you go, there's the message. Is Hector here as well? Did I see Hector in the chat? I can't see Hector in the chat. Is Hector here? Hopefully. Oh, you're here, good, good, good. Okay, again, send me an email with your details so I can send out the shirt. Don't, by the way, those who won the fan slam, I've got your hoodies on their way, so I don't know if some of you have messaged me. There are the merches on the way whoever's messaged me, emailed me. Last one, oh, it's Pat. Now, Statman Pat. Now, Statman Pat, I know, if you're still here, we can re-spin it because I know, I don't know if you want a no-lay shirt. I don't know if you want a no-lay shirt. Do you want a no-lay shirt, Pat, or do you want to give it, do you want me to re-spin? I'll give you the option, mate, because you won, so. Do you want it, do you want to win the no-lay, do you want it, mate? Because I don't know, I mean, I know you're a Federer fan at heart, so. It's up to you, mate, it's up to you. If you want it, you can. If you don't, I'll re-spin, someone else will get it. I did it for fun, oh! So, do you want to re-spin, do you want to re-spin? It's up to you, mate, you decide. It's yours if you want it. Re-spin, good lad. All right, here we go, who's gonna get it? Thanks, Statman Pat for, I know you're like Roger, so I'll hook you up with a Roger shirt, mate. Misha, there we go, Misha wins the third one. Thank you, Misha. A non-channel member, so a regular chatter, so there you go, Misha. If you're in the chat, let us know. Let us know if you're in the chat, hello. Pat, I'll talk to you offline and we can sort something else out, mate. I won't, you still won something, mate. I'll hit you up. Yeah, Misha, there you are, you are the winner. Congratulations, you are the winner of an oley shirt. Nice, there you go. So you can send that to, send me, again, all the winners, send me an email down below with your address, your color of the shirt and the size of the shirt that you want because that's why I can send it out to you. And if you want to buy the shirt, here it is, Nolay 23. You can see there it is Nolay 23, piece of history. You can buy it in all these different colors. And I think it looks best on the white because of the lines of the court, but you can buy it in black if you want as well. Supports the channel, they're only 20 bucks each. So supports the channel, all that stuff. Some of you already bought them, which is great. Shout out to all those who have bought them already. So thank you for that. And if you already bought one and you wanted the giveaway, I'll just refund you. All right, do we ship to India? Yeah, it should ship all, well, right. It should ship all everywhere, ships everywhere. I want a crew neck sweatshirt. All right, we might have to expand the store. All right, chat, we're gonna get out of here in a minute because I'm... Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, no. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Super Mario. Is Rude ever going to beat the N-boss side? That is such a good term. It is the N-boss, isn't it? He comes up against the N-boss every time. The final boss versus it was Rafa, then it was Elkres, now it's Nolay. He will. Rude will win a slam, but he has to avoid. He will avoid Rafa because Rafa is almost at the end. Djokovic won't be around too much longer, so maybe there's a chance that he avoids Djokovic. Elkres is gonna be his biggest hurdle. And if he can avoid him, Rude can win a French Open, but he has to avoid Elkres. I don't think he can go through Elkres to win it. So he's kind of got that, he's got one of those, almost like the other guys. Some of the other guys have the same thing. They can win if this guy doesn't, or if this guy loses, right? So I think that's where we're sort of at with Rude. If he does, I mean, look, if he plays City Pass, that could be something. That could be definitely something. Why are we still alive? Because this is the final livestream of the tournament. I mean, we're celebrating the achievement of Djokovic and just shooting the shit. Debrief, thanks for the company, no worries. Did Rude ever play against City Pass? I can't remember. He has, but he hasn't played against me in a slam that I can think of. Yeah, he must avoid Elkres. Can you make women's sizes? I think they're unisex, so you can, it doesn't matter. Yeah, grass starts tomorrow. I don't know when we're gonna come back. I don't have any plans, like I actually have plans to not stream next week, but like I said, we'll probably pop in at some point to watch something, but as far as I'm concerned, Tennis is off next week. Next week, you can all take the week off, you all deserve it. You've all answered, sticking around, listening to me ramble on for two freaking weeks, I'm sure you're bored. You can go out and do normal things and hang out with your friends and touch grass and breathe air, everything I need to do. I'm speaking to myself now, but yeah, go and do all those things and we'll be back probably end of next week. Plenty of stuff coming out though. We've got the ranking show coming out today. That's what I'm gonna be working on after this. We've got plenty of stuff on during the week. We'll talk about some Wimbledon stuff. We'll talk about some post French Open things. There's some updates we've got to give as well. Plenty of things to talk about post French Open, but we all can take a couple of days just to relax and sleep. And then we're back on the grass, straight up next week, bang, on the grass. Plenty of players to watch. We might watch a few later in the week, but yeah, like I said, everybody, we can all have a week, a chilled out week until things get crazy again. Because things do get crazy. We've got four weeks of hardcore grass core tennis and I mean, we're getting crazy. But the grass is getting, we're getting crazy on the grass in a couple of weeks. Thank you everybody. Again, thank you so much to the mods, Stamamp, Pat, Dawn, Ange, jumping in. Hey, Misha, thank you for becoming a member. Appreciate that. You don't have to do that. Looking around suddenly on the shirt. But we're done. French Open, French Open 2023 over and out. And look, without Rafa, tennis is still pretty good. I know Rafa being there would have been better, but no tennis, no Rafa, no problem. Tennis lives on crazy how we've had some of the craziest match of the year have happened this year, this week. The final was crazy. The semi-final for the ladies was crazy. There was obviously that Elkarez and Djokovic match which was unfortunately not the one, didn't end the way we wanted, but it started the way we expected. Hopefully we get a rematch of that soon. But so much has happened this week. Mehvedev's losing early. Sinner losing early. Sidney Pastel can't get that Elkarez win. Rude proving to everybody that he shouldn't be underestimated. Runa is maybe not there yet. Elkarez isn't physically quite there yet with some of these matchups. And on the women's side, I mean, there's just a hell of stories there as well. So very interested to see how this goes into Wimbledon, how many of these players can turn this into successful Wimbledon tournaments as well. It's not easy. Clay de Grasse, one of the hardest crossovers you can ask for. So we'll see if any of these really good French open players can go on and make the grass court season their own as well. We know Djokovic can, but the others we'll find out. I'll see you guys later in the week. Thanks for joining us. No back, Djokovic. 23 slams, history, history smashed because it's never happened on the men's side that someone's won 23 slams. Until today, 7, 6, 3, 7, 5. Kaspar Rude put up a fight. He tried his best to hang onto that record for Rafa. He tried his best holding Djokovic back, but it was just too much and Noley demolished him. Oh, it didn't demolish, that's a bit rude. Didn't demolish him, but beat him in the end in straight sets and Noley is on top of the mountain. He's the king of slams.