 Cocoa golf just on at the moment, but we're starting a little bit earlier today because we have a special guest And I tease this yesterday some of you kind of guessed it, but I didn't tell you that you got it right So it's gonna be a surprise to most of you To do a little bit of a preview also talk about his channel Talk about the tournament in general and just if you have any questions write them in the chat I'll relay them to him. So let's get straight to it because We've actually been chatting for a while. So we'll jump on straight away. All right cold tennis is in the house Sorry, if you don't know cold tennis does What would how would you explain your channel? So, yeah, what's going on everyone? Glad to be here So cool tennis if you haven't seen my channel already. It's pretty much Video essays documentaries, however you want to call them. I like to take really weird subjects in tennis and condense them into a a certain type of 10 12-minute documentary it started out as just my favorite topics in tennis Donald Donald young especially I made a weird video about blue clay that blew up and that kind of got my channel rolling and This is pretty much what I do full-time now. So It's been an interesting journey, but it's awesome to be on here. Can thanks for having me. Yeah, no worries We love I love his stuff. I watch all of it. It's it's awesome And we've had a chat a couple of times in the past and we've actually we're just chatting We've been chatting for probably the last 20 minutes By the way goth just won so federal beyond when I love it in like 20 minutes All right, so yeah, if you have any questions in the chat Write them out. Oh every people are saying that there are subbed if you're not subject hold tennis I'll put a link in the description so you can go sub or if you go go check it out. I mean You'd be mad not to if you're not a ten if you're a tennis fan. You should be watching You'll be learning a lot out of you know history. I think you did like a Monica Salas video So you don't just do like recent, you know events You also go all the way back to history as well. So a lot of people are already sub which is good to see But yeah, we're just gonna have a general chat really so Wimbledon so far. I know you've said that you're we got you on before the Federer match because you watch a lot of Federer And how do you think his chances are though? How what do you think his chances are? You know, he's got a probably a tougher draw than someone like a jock of each But what do you reckon? What do you reckon he's gonna do? Do you reckon he can make the final? That's the dream final everyone seems to want yes So I get a bit of flack on my channel just because I try not to make it obvious how much of a Federer fan I am but uh, I am a Federer fanboy Unfortunately, I do love all the other players though. I have to say that I'd love to see Roger make a deep run again. I Think quarterfinals honestly is realistic He hasn't made a quarter for my mouth. He's made a quarterfinal this year and any time he's played in No, but that'd be fantastic but I think is People kind of you know gave him a little flack in his match two days ago because of how he played a lot of his core Hits, but I think the big thing is his footwork is really not that bad And I think it's really adapted to the grass surface, you know when you watch him at the at Roland Garros It was obvious how much he's struggling just because of how much he had to run and slide and whatnot But here, you know, he's just so good on grass his movement. It's really something We could see a quarterfinal finish semi-finals and finals I'll pray for it tonight, but uh, yeah, we'll see against gas skate today though I think I think we might see a straight set victory. I don't think we're gonna be too surprised if you see that Yeah, I mean the record between him and gas gay 18-2 And like I think I think I checked he doesn't want to set against Federer in 10 years I don't think they've played haven't played recently because of both players haven't been around I guess, but Yeah, I would be shocked if gas gay wins, but then again Manorino was supposed to lose in straight sets according to my prediction and that didn't happen. So Gas gay might get a set But I Federer should get through and then also Nori's gonna be playing Federer if he does win Federer So Nori's already in the third round. A lot of people were pretty hot on Nori and thinking that maybe Nori can do something against Fed I'm not sure. Maybe the crowd can help Nori, but Yeah, in terms of getting to the quarterfinals You got the biggest probably biggest challenges would be Medvedev because query's out now. So that's probably a good thing for Fed and Also, who else is there? Chilich as well. They're probably the two big Threats for Federer in that quarterfinal, but other than that, I mean, right. So now he goes pretty good, too I mean that could be a bit of a bit of a tough one too, but Find out today if he wins in straight sets, I mean probably back in town It's gonna be tough, you know, the thing is his draw, you know, you could say that his draw is technically somewhat open You know, you don't have Nadal on that side anymore. You know, Murray is not a huge threat I mean no backs completely on the other side of the draw So, I don't know, you know Federer can really surprise us. I think, you know, Roger has shown some of his, you know Greatness coming back in 2017 based on how he won. Well, he surprises again one one more time this year. I don't know It's gonna be interesting to see though. I think we're gonna see a surprise from Roger this tournament I think if there's one tournament, he really is going to put his all in is going to be Wimbledon You know going into Roland Garros, he even said I'm not going to win this tournament he probably didn't have as much confidence to see what he liked and Of course, he didn't give up, but you know, I don't think His back problems that he faced in Roland Garros that forced him to retire I don't think he would make that a factor into retirement if you agree. I'm not sure, but I don't know We'll see it's gonna be something else for sure. Yeah. No, I I Agree when he pulled out a French open. I was not surprised at all He pulled out because I was thinking Wimbledon's the goal. He's not coming in to win the French open people I mean people were pissed that he pulled out everyone was going oh, he's dodging. He's dodging the big name But it's like he's not gonna win the French open. So why would he bother, you know, but By the way, a lot of people are asking the chat Can we talk about genie Bouchard? There's a lot of genie Bouchard questions Yeah, what is someone said, how did you meet genie Bouchard? Yeah, so this is a this has been a longtime question And actually if you don't follow me on Twitter or even the social media is a recommend to follow me there So I have talked about it in length there. So also actually I don't think a lot of people have actually seen my face That's what I look like. Yeah, exactly my workspace essentially is actually a fairly rag tag set up To see my camera equipment and actually my weightlifting bench Left there. So it's it's nothing fancy over here. But anyway, so genie Bouchard. I'll tell the story very quickly I'll summarize it Before I started making YouTube videos full-time, I taught tennis after I graduated from school I joined a company that basically focuses on tennis management and I went from club to club around the United States I'm from the US as a either director of tennis or a tennis pro And this can disappoint a few people. So one event I went to is in California at Indian Wells And this was before the tournament started this year. I believe in 2018 or 2019, I believe and I met genie at the tournament Because my company hosted a charity type event and I was able to meet with genie and actually hit with her and if you go to the players like Stefano Sizzipas and Francis Ciotto and When that picture was taken at the end of the video was pretty much a mixed doubles exhibition type A little game you had and we had just took a photo of everyone So I hate to say I don't really know genie personally I've talked to her a handful of times at that event And I do play tennis. I was a former, you know tennis teaching pro and junior and whatnot But I don't know genie personally. It was more of a little inside joke at the end of the video So no, we're not dating. She's not my sister cousin Like I'm not her father. I've heard a lot of weird guesses and assumptions, but to clear it up. No, we're nothing more than but very minor pals if I Okay, because I didn't I didn't know that this was a thing that people were commenting on this I have seen the genie Bouchard video But I didn't know that it was such a hot topic that people wanted to like that They wanted some inside scoop that you were like, you knew her personally somehow or um, or whatever. That's Any chance of Kira's winning Wimbledon. I mean my answer is no No No, I mean obviously to say the obvious he's been out for six months It's really unlikely to see someone Aside from Roger Fedder at the 2017 Australian Open to come back for such a long hiatus and and and win Wimbledon Especially considering hasn't what is he not made it past the quarterfinals of a grand slam? I don't think no Australian Open Wimbledon Yeah, yeah, he's playing fine. Honestly Third round fourth round, maybe Is he on Novak side? Um No, I think he's down the bottom with Zverev and Baratini. I think he's in Zverev's part of the section So it's very fourth rounds potential a potential matchup. Yeah, I like Nicola actually like Karyos a lot as a player He gets a lot of flak for his attitude But I think he's actually just very real and I really respect that But no, I don't I don't really see a past fourth round finish sad to say yeah now That's I'm I'm all for that as well I don't even think even if he had like been playing for the last six months grand slam tennis I think He's got a couple of good matches five setters some epics, but I don't think he has the concentration for two weeks at this stage He just doesn't Right five sets. He just doesn't have it Which sucks because I'm a man. I'm a massive fan of him and I wish he could Who is oh here we go. This is a good question. Who is Novak's biggest active threat this tournament? That is very good question. Oh That's good. You start with this one. All right. So obviously Federer is probably The most obvious choice, but I'm gonna go with a couple of different ones now if you a lot of people in the channel probably already know That I've been popping up Zverev a Lot over the last couple of weeks And with mixed results, but I still think stashes very there's a big chance Rubellev in the quarterfinals could be a very tough opponent for Djokovic if Rubellev Doesn't have to play a five-set match against Fnini today or tomorrow. I think sorry tomorrow And then I think he might have I'm looking at the draw has Schwartzman potentially in the fourth round Rubellev So if he can get through both those matches Without having to play hard tennis and he gets a Djokovic fresh. Maybe he can do something right Shapovalov Again, if he makes it through he had a five set in the first round We saw on day one with Djokovic against Draper the lefty from from Britain Troubled Djokovic in that first set Maybe Shapo could do something. It's but again, it's like We've only seen Roger Federer really do anything against Djokovic at Wimbledon that's still left and Zverev Medvedev Baratini, they're all gonna play him in the final and if Djokovic makes the final He doesn't lose very often. So it's a tough one for me. What about you? What do you reckon? I? I'm assuming you probably think Federer maybe Ah Again, it's so hard to say I I have to say I think he's going to win the tournament I don't think that's a wild assumption by any means I Think you know players like Shapovalov and Rubellev could be huge threats to him But I don't think any player has really shown him any particular trouble at a Grand Slam Especially Wimbledon I should say He's just he's just really mastered Wimbledon, you know Federer takes takes the cake as the king of grass so to speak But you know Djokovic just has really shown his chops on every single surface imaginable and to be honest I think grass is one of his best surfaces his finesse and his He stays on his feet so well I'm not a lot of people watch footwork enough, but you know the way he moves around the court It's it's not as graceful as Roger in my opinion, but his balance and flexibility It's uncanny to be honest if I were to give him a real threat I would say Rubellev considering he's just been playing so well for two years now I think we're going to see one day. If not this tournament one day him give Novak a real good five-set match Shapovalov not as much. I don't think I Don't know I have to say Those two players I don't think Roger's unfortunately much of a threat for Novak Just just going based on fitness levels right now Yeah, who knows maybe a kudla is gonna get a nice run for his money in the next round. Yeah, maybe the yeah Maybe the qualifier give him a give him a test tomorrow. I've seen some weird things already during this tournament So maybe that happens Yeah, no, I reckon what the thing is Rubellev's never actually played Djokovic So we have no idea what that match looks like We've seen we've seen Rubellev beat Nadal, you know on clay this year Rubellev's made the quarterfinals. I think of every other slam, but he hasn't played Djokovic ever Which I think it was actually supposed to because one of your videos is on the Adria tour which well this time last year was the biggest story in tennis because there was nothing else to talk about really and That I think Rubellev and Djokovic were actually supposed to be playing in the final of that event before I got canned Because of the virus. Oh, you're right. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only time that we would have seen any sort of Match between them. So yeah, that could be I could be a little bit a little bit interesting. So yeah, all right, let's get to What time does the match start it's supposed to be starting in about 10 minutes time players are coming out on court pretty soon So we'll yeah, we'll keep you updated. Don't worry What else we had we had someone asked about how far can Mori go he's got Shapo tomorrow Um Yeah, and then he's got potentially he's got Batista a guru in the Fourth round and then potentially has well after that he's kind of got a really good draw quarter-final against either tiafo Evans Hashinov or quarter. So the next two rounds are gonna be tough for Murray But if you can get through those maybe the quarter-finals or football maybe the semis I'd Yeah, I mean, you know me and you were just talking about this right before we started the stream about how impressed We were with how Murray's been playing this year, you know, especially again talking about fitness levels You know for any of you who aren't tennis players It's it's just so tough to Come back from a long break and your strokes are going to be there The timing might be a little off, but the one thing that just takes forever to come back is that footwork those little muscles in Your legs that you don't even think about, you know, you need to kind of grow them back and retrain them to work So the footwork, you know, you understand the movements, but those little Split-step, you know quick-time movements that is that is tough and for someone like Murray to come back and and win Some amazing five-set matches. That's really really impressive and could be indicative depending on How fit he is currently I'm going in but I'm gonna be watching him with with, you know Good intent and and really see what he's got because I think he can you know Give some players run for their money this firm in and you can't discount the fact that the entire country's behind him You know right there. So yep I don't know we could see a Murray quarter-final to be honest. I'm not going to put money on it, but In my mind it's gonna happen. Yeah I mean, I've got I've had a lot of questions over the last per year or so about Murray and like Can you get back to the top ten? Can you get back to the top five? Can you win the slam again? I don't think you can do any of those but I think a run at Wimbledon If not this year eventually one more good run one, maybe one more semi-final Maybe it's this year, you know, maybe it's opening up that way, but yeah, I think Again, it's such a random such a random tournament this one and Someone has that going to the women's side now someone just asked about his body the favorite now to win. I Think so. I mean Who else is there Sabalink is kind of unproven sphiontech? Maybe That's about it. Yeah Yeah Has that has part of one Wimbledon I'm kind of blanking. No, no, she's she won the French and then she right I think her best result is a fourth round Yeah, but she's got the game to win. I mean You know, she's got all the all the shots and now she's got a pretty good draw With fidelina losing and Also Serena is out as well. So yeah, I mean the only it's it's crazy The only seeds that are really left from the top 10 there's only four seeds left. We've got Barty Sabalinka sphiontech and pliskeva and I don't think anyone thinks pliskeva is gonna win and Sabalink is still I think unproven and the other two of one French open. So it's like Yeah, it's a tough one. I like she she should be the favorite I would expect Barty to be the favorite now, but yeah, someone said Barty's overrated She's the one number one for a reason though Yeah, you know, I've been hearing that a lot actually, you know people do comments quite often I think you honestly even Serena might have alluded to that at one period that Barty wasn't like the true kind of contender of the number one status She's amazing. I mean, she's such a good player and you know, Australia should really be proud to have such an amazing Player at number one, I think that's kind of the thing She just doesn't get enough press enough hype that really people take her seriously as the number one And maybe it's the fact that she hasn't won enough grand slams to really solidify that status But to be honest aside from the Williams sisters like what woman has won enough grand slams really be considered a number one player, you know Yeah Now I'm I think she's gonna I mean she's had, you know, yeah, there you go. You go I was gonna say she said, you know, a bumpy road a little bit this tournament already, but I mean, you know Just talking about focus, you know, it's weird again We were talking about another player Coco Goff, you know, some of these players just have the focus You can tell they're they're in it to win it So I think her and we might see some, you know, better things from from Coco as the as the tournament goes on I think both are going to be Deep runners this tournament Yeah, now I'll put my hand up and say I was one of those people that said Barty Is probably not world number one if because she kind of the players that she like, you know I think the best player she beat at the French Open for that win was Madison keys Who was like 15 in the world? Osaka has more slams. Halib's got more slam Serena. She's never beaten Serena like but You can only beat the players that are there and she's beaten she won every she beat everyone of win Miami You know, she beat everyone to win, you know, the grant of the clay court tournaments as well It's it's kind of hard and she also, you know, she's done well this time open as well. It's She's number one and with Osaka not playing. I don't think there's gonna be a change, you know, very soon Especially if Barty does well here, it's only gonna increase the gap So yeah, she might not a lot of people might not say she's the true number one because she got a bit of a free ride I guess last year with the frozen rankings, but hey She won the WTA finals in 2019 She you know, she she's definitely the best player in the world, you know, she's number one She has to be the best player people are saying Osaka is probably the true number one Yeah, I mean, I guess if they played, you know, if they played in a battle Who you know, if there was a match that would determine who's the world number one who would win that match? Probably Osaka, but it's not what it's based on. It's it's based on the whole season What's your opinion on the slippery courts? Okay, that's an interesting one That is good. Do you have any opinions on the slippery courts? Um, I think who said it. I think Kerrio said it best actually the other day in the sense that Wimbledon should be fast, you know Slipperyness aside, you know, this is how grass has traditionally been and I think what makes grass grass, you know Players don't come here to play on hard courts or clay courts They come here to play on the fast grass that really favors servers potentially serving volunteers. Yeah The fact that it's been Seemingly more slippery. I'd love to get some IBM stats as to actually is it actually more slippery? I think they actually said they're gonna do something about that. Um What exactly is causing more players to fall and if more players have been falling more and especially the serious injuries like Serena or Manorino has that been more common? I don't think I don't think so actually I think that's more just we're seeing it now. So we assume it's something new Um, I don't know. I I I like it. I like how it's Playing fast the balls are staying low in my opinion. So I don't know. I like it. I like Wimbledon being traditionally Wimbledon. What do you think? Yeah, no, I'm the same I think I actually just retweeted something a few hours ago. There was a sound bite of Kyrios Um, I had a changeover and he had the camera in his face and he was like he said Everybody at home. This court is slow and like he actually talked about the whole thing So go check that out if you haven't already. I retweeted it, but it's like Yeah, he was commenting on this is not a grass court. This is too slow And that was on the night that he played under the roof against them bear. So that not yesterday the day before Um, as for the player slipping, I mean, it's kind of like how do you how do you fix that? You know without they're being sunny weather. They've had rain all week you know It's it's it's tough, but um I think if the players that had been like if there hasn't been injuries because of the slipping It probably wouldn't be an issue because I think the court's going to get better and better, but I don't know who it was. There was a there was a A tweet. I don't know who did it. Maybe it was one of the x professional players Saying that if you can't play on grass, you know, no, no, it was Todd Woodbridge He came out with a tweet saying Grass is slippery, you know, you got to learn how to how to move on grass It's different every other surface all that kind of thing um But yeah, I mean Yeah, grass courts like it would be interesting to see at the end of the tournament how many of the big big servers Got through like opelka lost, which I think Yeah, it's huge. Yeah, and isner as well. They both lost a short guy Um, is that a result of the court's not being fast, you know, like that kind of thing As well it could could be a factor, but again I think federa said something about it as well, but um Yeah, it's uh It's a strange one. I mean that's what's interesting that's what's interesting about tennis to my opinion You have the kind of you have the people who love uniformity who love kind of the same thing every tournament I'm a huge fan of diversity and seeing completely new things every tournament I just think it makes the game number one more interesting But also draws and new fans and that's what I love seeing for tennis drawing new fans Um, you know throwback to that blue play video I made Even though there are some inherent issues with the surface that made it just a poor surface to play on I think it did add a great deal of variety to the game and I love to see that the battle of surfaces video I made Um, and it's something kind of stupid It's you know, those two examples maybe but um, I like seeing the differences I don't want to go to again. I don't want to go to Wimbledon to see another us open I want to go to Wimbledon to see speeds, you know crazy low bounces and I don't want to see players flying over but it's like, you know going to go into an ice hockey game to see players fight, you know You don't say you go there to see that but you love to see some of that chaos go on I think women's one of the last terms to really exemplify that I'm actually making a video soon about another type of one of those Blue clay type surface things and I think it's going to be really interesting about a previous thing So, okay, keep an eye on that if you like the blue clay video because we're going to see something in the future Okay, sneak preview. That's awesome. I know right Plays around for it. So we'll get we'll get to the last question. Yeah a question that someone keeps spamming Who's the real goat? Is it marcus willis? Or is it donald young? Who is the goat? Wow, that's That's a tough one If they if they were to play in a Wimbledon final we would we'd see some theatrics. It'd be a five setter 12 all It might be one of those matches. It just never ends like the the isner mahout match. Yeah, I have to say it to all you uh English people but donald young he's the true goat It's hard to say he's If you read my twitter bio, it says donald young 2021 us open champion that's been there for about two years now so Get ready because that man's going from uh from futures to to grand slam in three months So keep an eye out for for my boy donald and he's still active, right? He's the only player like yeah Willis just retired he's he's Yeah, donald's saying under the radar for reason. He has something brewing. We DM a few times So he's got something brewing marcus. That's that's a sad retirement But uh, I'm glad to see him go with one with one great Wimbledon under his belt And the winner can play bernie tommy in the fight in the in the championship after the championship And we're gonna make a cold tennis exhibition with With you commentating cam just those three players round robin I'm not a fan of bernie. So I don't know if I can be there because I'll probably just talk shit on him Then Anyways, thanks for joining us again linked down below cold tennis. We'll definitely get you back on Yeah, if not, I know I know you said you're busy Through the rest of the tournament Yeah, so I'll have a chat with you anyway But if not probably the us open series when that comes around as well because be a better time as well I think it's a better time zone for me too. It might be early morning instead of being 2 a.m. So we'll uh, we'll get you back on because I know there's a lot of people with a lot of questions And by then probably got a couple more videos coming out. Do you have any videos that you Want to you know, I know you said you were just teasing one then. Is there any videos that are coming out? Yeah, or when's the next video is probably the best question when's the next video We should be expecting or waiting out for Yeah, yeah, I've been getting a lot of flak because I haven't made a video in quite a while and that's not Actually true. I've been making one video for a very long time. It's just uh, it's it's slow You know, it's it's you're waiting for a great one in my opinion It's going to be about a lot of people on instagram have guessed that it's going to be about why a certain country is seemingly not succeeding in tennis A certain big country is not succeeding in tennis. So you're going to see some great insight from uh from cult tennis about uh Why that is I don't know terrible terrible teaser terrible description, but it's going to be a fun video All right, good. Yeah, I guess I mean if I didn't do a live show Even if I don't do a live show for a week, I get asked. Where are you? Where are you? So Yeah, that's only a good thing. It means that people want to people want to see more of what you're doing So and I know I'm a massive fan. So I can't wait to see some more as well I appreciate it again. Awesome. Awesome. Andrew will get you on. Uh, we'll definitely get you on soon Again as well. So everybody in the chat go check out cult tennis if you haven't already I know a lot of you already said you have subscribed, which is awesome. Um, and yeah We'll get you on very soon and hopefully federo does well today for you What's the prediction today? Is it going to be straight sets fed? Straight sets take this to the book six three six two seven six. It's going to be a tough third set. So, uh, Gasky's going to pull a trick on us, but it's going to be Roger and straight sets All right, no worries Well, we'll go around the courts because there's been a lot of matches going on and then we'll come back and we'll do the preview Again, thanks, Andrew for for joining us join make sure you go follow cult tennis