 Welcome to the final of Madrid the men's final where the women's final yesterday One of the best matches of the year for the WTA and now we have an interesting men's final Between Karlsruhe Carras the defending champion number two in the world Four more number one, you know, maybe not a surprise, you know, we probably expect him to be here to be honest But he's playing against a lucky loser and it's the first ever lucky loser to make it to a final of a master 1,000 In young Leonard Strouff Now Strouff has been good over the last couple of months if you remember Monte Carlo, we had a deep run there So maybe not soup. I mean look it's still random It may be not super out of the blue because he has kind of been in form a little bit and had some good wins Beating rude in Monte Carlo. He beat Sidney pass here, but making a final I mean not many lucky losers have done it. Remember master 1000 have been around since 1990 and he's the first man In that what 33 years to get to this stage as a lucky loser What is a lucky loser? You're probably thinking if you maybe haven't watched a week It's somebody loses in the qualifying and Then gets a second chance because someone pulls out so they get lucky even though they lost Lucky loser So he's the first one to get to the final can he be the first one to win the tournament that would be very Strange, but I reckon he's got half a chance. Let's go to preview though because if you haven't watched preview Elkraz, you know, he's had a pretty simple road and Strouff has a battle Carlos Elkraz versus yarn-landed Strouff is a final for the Madrid open for the men for 2023 And both guys have been very impressive to get to the final stage Strouff started the tournament off as a lucky loser and take on Senegal in the first round This is no problem for Strouff getting through in straight sets six three six one in the second round He take on Shelton the 32nd seed and after a fight back from a set down getting through in three four six seven six seven five In the third round he take on live it was coming off three top ten wins in the last couple of weeks And again after dropping the first set he would have to fight back to win six seven six three six three in the fourth round He take on cash in and this was a grind getting through in a long three set up seven six six seven six three To advance to the quarterfinals and the quarterfinals Strouff would take on the number four seed city pass Strouff would battle to win in three seven six five seven six three to advance to a semi-final And the semi-finals Strouff would take on the qualifier as lane Carrots of after dropping the first set Strouff would come back to win four six six three six four to become the first lucky loser To make it to a masters one thousand final Alcra's started the tournament off as a number one seed and we'll get a buy in the first round In the second round he take on Russavari and after being down a set You'd have to fight back to win two six six four six two in the third round he take on the 26 seed Dmitrov This was no problem for Alcra's getting through in straight sets six two seven five in the fourth round He take on the 13 seeds Vera the man that he beat in last year's final and this result was the same if not better With Alcra's demolishings Vera of six one six two to get to another Madrid quarter-final in the quarterfinals Alcra's will take on the number ten seed Hashinov Alcra's would get through in straight six four seven five to advance to the semi-finals The semi-finals Alcra's will take on the number 17 seed Charich A man that he'd never faced before and this proved to be too easy for Alcra's getting through in straight sets six four six three on His birthday to make it to the final these two guys have played twice before both the grand slams with the record split at 11 and Strouff having won their only clay court match at the French Open in 2021 in straight sets having a shot quality scores from tennis insights on The serve their neck and neck at a seven point six for their 52 week average But Alcra's has the lead in the returns at a six point seven compared to strouff six point six The forehand is also Alcra's favorite with an eight point one compared to the seven point seven of strouff and the backhand as well 7.6 for Alcra's and a seven point one for strouff so strouff's gonna win this one He's gonna really have to rely on the serve and he's really gonna have to pick it up on the ground strokes when the rally gets underway And the shot quality is calculated in real time by analyzing each shot speed spin depth with the impact it has on the opponent This is a new way of analyzing matches brought to you by tennis insights Do you want to check out more you can go check them out on Twitter link down in the description This is gonna be a very fun final and of course Alcra's is having a great week I reckon Alcra's gonna win this one, but I think it's gonna be a close straight set So I reckon Alcra's will get the win go back to back in Madrid Just pay me based on his experience, but I reckon strouff's gonna test him early on in this match His big hitting is gonna worry Alcra's, but I think Alcra's good enough to get the win We've done the concept below who's gonna win Madrid for this year Okay, there it is the preview again. Thank you so much everybody for Watching those previews a lot of workers into those so I appreciate all the all the love that you guys seem to give them There it is there is the semi-final quarter-final lineup We've had two of the six matches go to three sets and funny enough They've both been the strouff matches, of course Alcra's really easily dispatched Charich, you know We thought Charich might be able to put on a show, but unfortunately Was not not to be and of course Strouff had to get through Carrot's of and look Carrot's of feta feta say wasn't a hundred percent He was a little sore during that match so you know Again strouff earned it though when he played and beat Sidney pass Let's talk about strouff number six five in the world 33 year old from Germany six would fall right-handed five wins six losses on the year no titles to his name has only actually ever made I think one final on the ATP never made it never won a trophy on the ATP And he's got look he had great form in Monte Carlo We I think he made this maybe quarter finals as a qualifier I think we'll go through that as we go on but Lost the first last couple of matches coming into this and of course lost a match on the way to this final, which is weird And cast Alcra as the world Number two He's trying to get number one and he might get it if he wins this tournament today and plays Rome next week He is in the box it to being the number one player before the French open. We don't know what's going on with Djokovic That's why that is happening He is 19 years old or 20 years old now from Spain We'll have to update that next week six foot tall right-handed 23 wins two losses on the year He's only lost two matches one was that one of the ones one was the nori and one was the sinner He's got three career titles this year so three titles this year nine career titles including this tournament last year And you can see there his form has been amazing now. They play twice and They're not They're not like Dismissive matches, you know some players we've seen play Alcra's in 2020 or 21 early 21 Not the same But Struv is actually played first of all at the French open Struv got the win back there in the straight sets 2021 again a little bit early maybe a little bit too early to You know, maybe it's a little bit Too early to say that you know Alcra's was Alcra's back then but last year Alcra's had just had a very good Clay court season jumped on the clock on the grass and Struv almost took him out So and and that was that was more and look again Struv on grass you'd expect him to be good there, but man that is Interesting to see how Struv did against Alcra's and so there's confidence there from Struv He knows he can beat Alcra's on a clay court He's done it before not the same Alcra's he's played two years ago But he did beat him last year the same Alcra's that did play last year very well So let's see if Struv can use any and all of those things and remember we saw a Sabalanca win on this court yesterday A big serving hard-hitting player Struv is the same Alcra's more like a Sviantech a bit more all-round bit more of a top-spinny You know kind of player. So let's see how we go All right, how we doing chat Does anyone take a Struv in this? Does anyone bet on Struv in this? I mean that you are you are going all out there How are we? Hello? What's up? Struv gets revenge. I don't know if that's revenge ATP and WTA draw today. No, so we've got Rome coming out in like an hour. So we've got to keep it on that I'm betting on Struv. Okay. Struv has no titles zero titles Murray won a challenger Murray versus Tommy Paul on a challenger Don't know how I feel about that Not sure how I feel about that. I Mean why not have a 250 event? I'm why I'm not wearing red. I'm wearing my alternate Jersey today the final shirt, but in blue Struv will create lucky loser history. All right That'd be cool a little bit of history Murray now back in the top 45. There you go. Yeah, look, I'm worried that these 175 challenges are going to create a gap between maybe the top 100 and everybody else If you get guys like Murray and Paul winning and getting to the finals It's going to really hurt those players between 100 and you know 400 You know, it's I don't know. I don't know. We'll see how it works He's the first one they did it went to, you know, two randomish players. So I don't know I don't feel like Murray versus Paul should be a challenger final personally Personally, I think it should be a maybe a 250 final I get a get form whatever but I don't know. I don't know We'll see how it plays out Yeah, a lot of like long odds for Strip. I like chat's already on fire. Thank you for joining. It's almost at 200 likes as well Thank you for that. Yeah, and as a ranker in Haddad's Maya took out Goff Pagula in the doubles final In a bit of an upset there. So that's interesting. It's Dash's birthday. We love that. Happy birthday to Dasha. I know she's Probably not watching but hey, we love Dasha. Happy birthday to her. Everyone's got birthdays this week They can't organize a 250 well masters. I know that That's the rule but again I don't know chat. What do you think do you think it's fair That players that lose in the first rounds of these two I reckon they should have a rule if you do if you play and then maybe they'll do this eventually If you play the masters 1000 event, you can't play the challenger event That's the second half because Well, what what's happening is you get players that are going into losing in Madrid and then going to play that As a second chance and it's like, well, what about the poor 200 in the world? It didn't even get the chance to play in Madrid It's a little one. I think it's unfair for the little the lower ranked players But we'll see what happens We'll see maybe the next one Number 400 will win and that's fine Just don't want to see Murray versus I just don't want to see you know top 50 players playing in these events It's like we've got 250 events that nobody goes and watches. Why don't you go play those instead if you want some form You know go play Geneva, you know go play bloody whatever Leon Go play the small events when you know go play What else we got go play Bosnia, right? You know What you're doing in the challenges? I believe there should be no seed of players. Yeah, maybe there should be a cap, you know, no 50 If you're in the top 50, you can't play or something. I probably do that if it gets ugly But right now it's like well, it's so new whatever And plus Andy Murray coming to town is a big deal for the city. So It's good for the city. It's good for the audience. It's good for the you know the ticket sales but Is it good for the low? It's not great for the low rank players And now we won't be able to go live for the draw for the wta because it's on at the same time as the freaking final this One day tennis will get it right one day. We will not have clashes in tennis one day. We'll get the we'll get the draw right We'll get to see uh You know where they Madrid did it well, you know, they wait until stook guard and Barcelona were done and then they did their their previews or that So they did their um They did their thing Roma like now we're gonna do the wta draw during the men's final of madrid. It's like why would you what are you doing? Like why are you doing this? Why can't you just delay it like until 8 p.m. Or like, you know, you know a little bit later or do it one of the The worst part is they're not doing they don't even do them on the same day The men's final men's comes out tomorrow. The women's comes out today and it's like I think madrid had it right We've got another bloody, you know, miami situation Anyways, we'll keep an eye on it though because it will be coming out in the next uh They could have done it like two hours ago. It would have been even better If they did it two hours ago We would have been sweet Anyways I feel like i'm bitching already. All right players are on court. Let's get focused on this Match because you guys came to watch this match uh elkara is defending champion, uh has like a 20 match winning streak in spain um and struff Actually, not bad on clay. We're finding out this week. So having a look at their records career wise on this surface 80% winning record on clay for elkara's 60% in his career for struff. Now remember struff is 33. So he's basically Uh An old man at this point, uh in the finals of tournaments now struff has actually won finals just not on the atp 12 wins 19 losses challenger events counting that and futures Uh 16 wins five losses in finals for elkara 76% for him. So he's very good in this situation now against top five players In his career struff has won five lost 17 Now he's won five including one against scissi pass this week and also against rude a couple of weeks ago Elkara's well when he plays the top 100 he beats him Except for like a couple of times he's lost a couple of times, but Yeah, he's got a pretty good record against the really low ranked players inside like from the 50 to 100 So let's see Let us see is the lucky loser gonna have the luckiest run we've ever seen Because this will be the luckiest run. He's got to play this is eight. Sorry ninth match His ninth match of the week or the tournament struff Remember you gotta win you gotta win seven matches to win a slam He's about to win nine if he wins this match. He's played nine matches in two weeks Let's see match is going to start in about one minute Elkara's elected to receive serve after winning the toss He's 20 years old now the first match as a non-teenager for elkara's Strip to serve who's going to win chat you tell me You tell me chat. I've got elkara's in straights, but I think strip might make it a match I'm I think he might make it at least keep it close Don't think you'll win don't know about a set, but maybe a tie break. I'll take a tie break today I'll take a tie break 4001 rally now as elkara's goes the backhand of struff back in our elkara's into the backhand of struff Into the net from struff love 15 Over 23 and a half you reckon okay Well, by the way, some of you know because you're in the discord, but uh I can and I said this last night Yesterday's match was the second biggest match second largest stream of the year Biggest wta and only second to the Australian open finals. So thank you everybody who was in the match yesterday. It was uh There was a lot of people here It was bigger than the Australian open final. That's how crazy it was All right, love 15 first says a fault serve volley from struff. He's going to be doing that a little bit. You reckon today All right second serve second serve Double fault All right first double fault of the day Love 30 Elkara's already has a chance crowded 100 behind elkara's except for the coach's box of struff. That is probably a little more struff heavy Love 30 Love 30 is We can other serve from struff That's going to serve out why the front of elkara's great return struff picks up with the backhand Elkara's with the pass but struff with the volley and puts it away very very good hands at the net struff 15 30 15 30 It's struff usually a slow starter look, I I mean We haven't watched enough of him to know but I would say that it's more about playing he's playing at kala's elkara's That's more of the thumb probably nerves big final biggest match of his life You know his biggest final of his life 15 30 as we serve now that's a fault second serve That's why elkara's chose to receive. Yeah to put the pressure on struff first because There is definite nerves there would be I mean obviously Serves another double fault. I mean you see two double faults in the game. That's that's nerves. They're nerves right there 15 40s coach yelling at him struffed coach just Giving him a big big pep talk all right 15 40 break points the first game of the match Yeah, and still that's played a lot of three-setters. You're right. I think he's played like maybe four three-setters this week So he's had a long a lot of uh A lot of a lot more tennis in elkara's It would have served me out wide the point of elkara's return goes in the volley of struff. That's a very nice shot Elkara gets with the lob Struff with the backhand volley goes long. All right Elkara's breaks first game of the match one love That's how you start the match. All right You said this very emoji is terrifying Come on. It could be worse It's not that scary is it Okay, one love elkara's breaks first game two double faults in the game and a missed volley Again, probably put it to nerves. It's already over Probably put it to nerves you reckon and that's why elkara's Elected to receive you reckon Elkara's down in the house. He's gone for his 10th title elkara's by the way. This is his 10th title He's only been on tour really for two years Like you know in the mainstream And remember if he wins today, he's five points behind jokovic going into rome and jokovic has A thousand points to defend in rome And elkara's has zero He's got a body serve great body serve from elkara's and it's 15 love 15 love four minutes into this All the way rome starts on wednesday, I think so quick turnaround elkara's won't play until the weekend though because he'll probably be playing on uh Sunday, maybe saturday sunday depending on No, I would guess he's probably gonna play sunday because Top half of the draw will play one day and the other half will play the other and if jokovic plays He'll be playing on the first saturday and then they'll put elkara's on the sunday give him an extra day off Maybe as we're back in down the line from elkara's very nice volley from struff elkara's gets it Volley against struff elkara's back in cross court Struff gets with his own backhand they're back on the baseline four down from struff on the stretch Goes in elkara's comes to the net struff with a lob that goes up And in elkara's with a smash from the baseline struff cross court goes in elkara's on the stretch again What a rally from struff this is gonna be all finished elkara's hits it long 15 all Very nice rally from struff Felly low pass Little shook a little shocked And elkara's looks a little tired after that rally. Okay Nice lob from struff And it's 15 all By the way, we're almost at 300 likes already. Thank you for that. Appreciate that 15 all 17 shot rally the last one as we to serve there. That's a fault from elkara's hit the tape and always bounce over the fence Jesus All right second serve second serve Into the form of struff what a return is it in it is 15 30 you just rockets a return 15 30 Huge return from struff Just slapped it back Jesus all right 15 30 Little chance of a struff to get Let's get the break Let's get it back. I should say 15 30 Serving the back of the struff return goes Into the back end again of struff for now from elkara's again the back hand of struff Into the back end of elkara's down the line to the form of struff on the stretch elkara's forehand drop shot Is good struff's gonna get there comes to the net elkara's the back hand Down the line smart unbelievable He waited for struff to commit and he just went boop down the line Very smart shot. All right 30 all chance now for Still a chance of her elkara's to hold as we get a serve Serving to the form of struff good return no in the net good serve from elkara's 40 30 to get the two lovely 40 30 40 30 elkara's Serving to the back in the struff goes into the form of elkara's for now from struff On the stretch elkara's goes down the line. That's a good shot back into back hand His elkara's goes again to the back end of struff into the back end of elkara's struff with the back hand Again to the back end of elkara's sliced into the forehand of struff back in elkara's again To the back end of struff on the stretch, but elkara says it long And we get to deuce Hmm we get to deuce as Elkra serves again He serves the back in the strip back in our girls drop shot. Oh It's way too good. What a drop shot advantage strut lovely drop shot Perfect drop shot strut was nowhere near advantage Elkras to get the consolidating game He serves a return goes in great return from strut. He just smacked it back Now back to deuce It's so easy for Elkras on that one. He hit a good serve too, but strut just nails the return deuce Again five minute game here. It's been a long start Almost ten minutes for two games Elkras serves into the corner strut return goes the form of Elkras and Elkras sits in the net with a break back point for strut unbelievable Advantage strut Vantage strut to get back on serve straight away No idea who that guy in the front row is, but I'm sure he's somebody that I should that somebody knows He's a guy that somebody knows All right, Vanny strut as we got a fault from Elkras second serve Please don't put scores in the chat Appreciate that don't put the scores in the chat Go scoreboard. It's all good as we're to serve now from Elkras the back of the strut strip in the net That's a waste back to deuce That's a shame Strut got onto it, but It's couldn't do anything with it Deuce I have no idea that guy is It's Kevin Bacon. I don't think it's Kevin Bacon It's it's a Spanish Kevin Bacon All right, serve Elkras is a fault second serve second serve It's Stephen Bacon All right, so it's a return of Elkras back in there from strut on the stretch Elkras forehand open court strut with a lob. He gets it, but it goes in the net Advantage Elkras To lead again What to he sorry to keep the break I should say he's already leading isn't he? To hold the break advantage Elkras Other serve coming up Now while the back end of strut backing out Elkras goes long We're back to deuce man There's a marathon games to start us off We're back to deuce eight-minute service game Can strut break back that's the question And he get this break back deuce Elkras serves Into the back of the strut return goes long great serve massive serve Ben is Elkras Anyone get any bets on this match by the way? Let me know in the chat Anybody got any bets on this one? So Feel free to enlighten us. Oh, you know keep it yourself. Whatever you want to do Don't have to tell us Advantage Elkras Serve out while the back of the strut return goes the back end of Elkras But strut hits it long and it's to love Elkras 300 and Elkras and two sets. Okay. All right Over 18 and a half got two grand on strut Love and love. All right. Well, good luck with that Hope you're not sweating too much 6-3. Okay. Yep, turkey bacon Okay It's okay We've got under 12 and 19 and a half games. Okay under 20 games. Okay. All right to love strut serves See if we can serve better than the first game as he says now the form of Elkras For now from strut to the back end of Elkras the back end of strut Elkras the four-hand again the back end of strut The form of Elkras four-hand from strut on the stretch goes in the form of Elkras it hits it wide and it's 15 love Strut's back hand is getting picked on a lot For good reason. I mean his back hand is weaker than the forehand. We know that Elkras knows that Mind you right now. So back ends working pretty well His serve isn't though. Is it a 3.7 shot quality score? Not good needs to pick it up 15 love Serving the back end of Elkras return the volley of strut Elkras with the back hand Smash from strut is there, but Elkras. Oh, we got a racket to it, but he puts it wide 30 love Elkras just having fun out there. He knows you can win this title. He knows this is his 30 love he's looking pretty comfortable out there. Elkras 30 love serve down the tee is good. Strut comes in with a volley Elkras with a lob. Is that in? Oh It's out 40 love Plus 20 strut five and a half games. Okay. A lot of people getting on this one. All right 40 love Nice game for strut. 40 love the strut serves a Fault second serve second serve Into the front of Elkras return goes down the line strut with the volley in the net too much power and spin from Elkras on the return 40 15 40 15 40 15 we get another serve From strut to get on the board here on this first set He serves that why that's a fault second serve second serve Goes in the back a form of Elkras back in there from strut to the front of Elkras again in the back end of strut But Elkras hits it out and strut gets on the board to one Elkras with a break All right, so apparently in the next 10 minutes 20 minutes the draw for Rome is gonna come out for the ladies now We're gonna have a sneak peek at it. We'll do it. We'll do it Well tomorrow we've got the draw for the men coming out. So we're gonna watch that properly, but It's a bugger they put this out at the same time but I'm gonna keep an eye on it because of course Schveontech Sabalenka they're playing so Let's have a love to see what's Where they get placed who they have to play where is like where's we're back in a right we're back in is in the draw still As far as we know So a lot of things that we have to consider. All right, what's up chat? Why do you want strut to win? Who's that someone in the chat wants to have to win probably because they're a fan Zachary's playing we're bad again. That's good. Well, that's where she won a title. Yeah, you know where she won one one title We all agree. Okay Geez you are you're asking to be Five take five More and more people over the players over 30 are doing well lately Murray final against Mehdi Strouff here Stan Had a decent result. It is that yeah, maybe make a tear Love to do it 24 hour The thing about YouTube is I either get five minutes to time out the spam or they they disappear forever and I feel like that's Need to be some people just need a day to cool off and then they can come back Feel like YouTube are a little harsh It's either like hey time them out for five minutes and I'll come back even more crazy or get rid of them forever And I'm like that's a bit harsh Some people just need a day to just chill man. Yeah, then they're fine. Yeah Maybe one day Okay To one Elkraz with the break in this first set Long first set though Zagras serves a double fault. Geez. All right All right, we're getting challenge though challenge from Elkraz here. Let's see what's up. Yeah, it was just just long Just long on the sir by the way There's a link of the chat to the fan slam the reason it's in the chat because this is probably the last time We're gonna go live. Oh, we'll go live tomorrow as well. But this is the last time Maybe the perfect time to get on the fan slam To play for Rome next week gonna play Rome next week as we don't slice there from Elkraz that goes long and it's love 30 All right, not the chance here For for stricter level things up So if you haven't or maybe you've been here in and out of the streams fan slam, it's fantasy tennis basically you pick eight players from the men or the women's draw and For the whole week you basically just Support those players. It's a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun this week dawn one I think dawn at one of the WTA. I think that's official now As that goes out from Elkraz on the return love 40 and then we have I think on the men's side it might be Tom might have won it I think but Yeah, make sure you jump on for Rome because it's gonna be a lot of fun We had a lot of fun this week with it as well. It's a lot It gets a little stressful. So, you know, but it is fun. It was fun. It's a totally luck Now don't just you're an expert Love 40 second serve. Here we go. Let's just forget the break back Level things in this first set Second serve into the back of the strip returning the lines a winner strip breaks back to to In the first what a return from struff. He's not nervous now That was a hell of a return Maybe I'll Chris has taken a little too easy 21 minutes played for games have been played and It's struck back on serve to two. All right. I'm have a look now the draw for The draw for the things coming out. All right to all Struff serves a fault second serve second serve Down to the back end of Alcra strut for the volley in the net Love 15 second serve serve volley against Alcra. That is a dangerous game Love 15. I love 15. She's done so well to get back this break Such a shame if you just gave it back to Alcra's without even Any sort of pressure as we deserve now down to the point of Alcra's return goes in the forehand of Struff back in Alcra slice through for the four-hand again cross-court Alcra's with the pass so for the volley August out of the back-hands lob Goes wide though Alcra's just with a little slice. He's like I should hit topspin It's getting annoyed Alcra's this is interesting because Shfionsek was getting annoyed at Sabalenka yesterday What about not at Sabalenka, but she was getting annoyed at herself I think Alcra's might have broken a string during that point. So he's a little pissed off Get a new bat. All right beyond Borg in the house by the way hashtag legend 15 all Struff for the serve as he goes down the tee comes back though strut for the smash Alcra's gets with a lob Sam took strut plus 3.51 stone set live when Carlos was 2 to 0 All right, thank you Sam for the donation. Thanks for the two Struff won the point by the way with a big smash and Alcra's hidden the net in the return Struff won 10 on the last 12 points. He's on a roll 30-15 First there's a fault from Struff second serve 15 Second serve out wide the back of Alcra strut there with the volley puts it away easily And it's 40-15 Struff does have a unique game You know serve volley tennis very rare Serve volley tennis on clay even rarer on this surface, you know in Madrid 40-15 is we're served on the tee. That's a fault second serve chance for Struff to win three games in a row to lead for the first time today Second serve out wide the point of Alcra's return goes into the no goes over the net, but it goes wide Hit the net on the right way through three two Struff in the first How's it rare? It has a unique because not many players serve volley It's very rare that people serve volley. So you don't really face that very much in in tennis anymore All right three two Struff beating Alcra's three zero French open true You have confidence with that for sure. I Think Struff might be able to get a set but Alcra's might activate God mode Yeah, I have a feeling look we all I think we can most of us agree that Alcra's is or Struff's capable of winning a set Especially on this faster surface Surprising Alcra's lost the last game a little bit. I honestly want Struff to win, but Alcra's God mode is unbeatable true Struff is six four and muscular. He made city pass look small when they shook hands Yeah, they're the same height Alcra's looking a little bit Worried There's not something we've seen this week except for maybe the first round. I thought Alcra's would always lead the match now Struff just one to one to love on an Alcra serve. Well, that's true Scoreboard will update in a second. Don't worry. Okay three two Struff for the lead now. He's won the last three games in a row yet The Rome drawer is coming out within the next 20 minutes. I think so Let's keep an eye on that as well 25 minutes in Alcra's with a serve. He's lost the last three games There's been a certain other back in a strip back in Alcra's the finder Struff Alcra's with the forehand into the back in a Struff the backhand of Alcra's but Struff hits it long 15 love 15 love Zocra serves again So about why the back in a strip slice goes wide 30 love 30 love By the way, um I have no idea what is going on with the ball people Yesterday, it was a bunch of Jack dudes now. It's a bunch of I know they're models But they're wearing like Three-quarter short like it with three quarter pants. I don't know what's going on three quarter trousers Anyways, volley there from Alcra's not good enough Struff comes in with a forehand cross-court winner 30 15. I don't know what's going on It's a weird idea. Just just get ball kids Just made you know, just get ball kids easy Or adults whatever All right, nice four-hand there from Struff 30 15 Serving the back in a strut return goes in the back of Alcra's strut for the backhand slice Into the front of Alcra's the four-hand of Struff and Alcra sits it out. Wow Alcra's is really Losing the momentum here, but he's lost it 30 all Chance for Struff to continue winning games in a row. Alcra's already hit seven unforced errors Just hasn't updated yet. All right Now because the struggling on the ground so extra sitting at a 9.0 on the forehand 8.8 shot quality on the backhand Alcra's down on 9 4.5 That is horrendous for Alcra's He serves in the body of Struff Struff. Is it why good serve straight into the hip of Struff? 40 30 40 30 they weren't trousers because people complain about showing too much skin That makes sense, but it looks even it looks so weird though. I mean it's It's so strange Just just be not like just get just doing do a normal tournament. Anyways return goes in the form of Alcra's that's Going long that's unlucky Alcra's at the tape again once that this the tape must be the net must be really really Strong tightly because as soon as they hit the tape they flies out of the court It's a very tight strong net. I think all right doose if you just joining us Alcra's a lot to love Struff them one the next three games As we serve it wide an ace from Alcra's bang Needed that advantage Alcra's Any joke rest to take the game stop the momentum level things up advantage First serve as a fault second serve second serve Alcra's Down into the form of Struff return the net. Okay Alcra's Levels things up three three after losing three games in a row Now it's back to Struff serve Okay All right by way ladies Rome draw hasn't started yet next on it starts. Um, well technically tomorrow, but I Guess the first round starts Wednesday, so couple days Seven volley there from Struff. Volley's not bad Alcra's hits in the net with a slice and it's 15 love and Really this match if you just joining us really was only defined by the first game because there's two double faults from Struff in The first game a couple of miss Volley's but since then Struff I mean Struff could have been up sort of 4-2 Technically if you didn't get broken that first game. There's a volley there from Struff back in our wide from Alcra's and again This relentless pressure from Struff 30 love similar to Jerry versus Carlitos. Yes We said that the other day we said hey remember the time that Rio and Rio when it was Jerry taken on Alcra's and even though It was a clay court Jerry big serving big hitting player like Struff. I mean we're watching the similar game With a serving volley though. Oh the volley goes wide from Struff 30 15 If you don't know if you didn't watch that match back in February because I mean look let's be honest no one's talking about clay court tennis and Feb but It was a pretty close three set up I think maybe Jerry got it did Jerry get injured in the final set. I can't remember Was he sort of like like hurting towards the end like fatigued But the first two sets were tie breaks Split down the middle as we return now volley again from Alcra from Struff Alcra's now with the backhand But it's not good enough and Struff puts it away. Struff is just all over the net 40 15 Yeah, they played in Rio did Jerry By the way Alcra's is just questioning everything right now Yeah, it was 7 6 to Jerry and then it was fire 7 5 to Alcra's and 6 love in the final set Alcra's ran away with it But yeah, Jerry was in that match for two and good two sets All right, Struff to stay in front with this First serve going the net second serve so conserves a double fault So crowd go wild That's the crowd we're gonna get today if you don't like it. It's kind of tough. That's just the Spanish crowd They're gonna cheer the double fault if it gets close It's this third double-fold Struff 40 30 to the chance for Struff to get back in front serve to the back of Alcra's return. Nope, it's a Fault again from Struff second serve Second serve is with a fault by the way the draw for the ladies has just come out It's coming out as we speak. I could see it. We'll go to that in a second 40 30 second serve Struff As we said now the four of Elkraz and it hits a return winner Alcra's Second serve serve value from Struff By the way, so Kenan might play Saber linker in the second round No real first round. I mean look all the unseated first round players are not really I mean Kenan and But all the seeds of you know, I mean no right. I can't right so all the unseated players are pretty a pretty un Known We'll keep it on that draw for you doose as we said don't see the back hand of Elkraz, but it's a Fault by the way on Struff in the draw, which is interesting Polar but Oso versus on Struff second round potentially. All right Second serve goes the form of Elkraz returned the fourth back in a struff in the form of Elkraz back in every struff is in the net Elkraz gets a break point Elkraz with a break point advantage Elkraz Anyone watching the Rome draw keep us updated in the chat Again, please don't put the scores in the chat. We have a we'll go scoreboard. It's all good. All right advantage Elkraz It's up a Gula Saber linker in the same half of the draw Jabir Shfi on take up the top Advantage Elkraz. That's for Rome Serve it while the backhand is a fold again man. Struff serve Holy crap. We're backing is up the top of Shfi on take in the same quarter They're in the same quarter last week in this week. It didn't work Second serve into the form of Elkraz return goes the forehand of Struff Elkraz with the final stretch It's true for the backhand cross court into the slice of Elkraz, but he hits it wide Kazakina Jabir Shfi on take we're back and are all in the same half Make sure you join the fan slam for making the counts so then when you can when we do the Rome fan slam you can join it because there's gonna be a Fan slam for Rome Pagula and golf in the same section as well same quarter All right serve now from Struff. He just saved a break point Saber linkers down the bottom she'll get Garcia in the quarter finals serve as a fault Second serve second serve Struff As he serves down the front of Elkraz return goes the backhand of Struff into the front of Elkraz still for the backhand Again in the net man bad shots from Struff. All right advantage Elkraz again Be a Jabir versus, but I'll stop it. Let's be honest. I don't think Jabir is gonna play Anyone think Jabir is actually gonna play advantage Elkraz second break point to take Back the break and lead again like you did at the start of this match serve Is another fault second serve? Oh Zachary schviantech in a fourth round That's tough for Zachary second serves a double fault There's the break you hit two double-folds in the first game got broken hit two double-folds in this game Got broken. All right. Elkraz leads 4-3. Oh Jabir Krijakova in the same section all up the top half of the draw Interesting Kudamatova's down the bottom with Goff Didn't they play did they play this week Goff Krijakova. I got Kudamatova Goff. Was that this week? No, it's Pagula. Sorry Pagula Goff wasn't All right Just watching the Rome draw as we watch this match a Dajmaa down the bottom with Garcia No unseated play is worth really watching. I don't think in the first couple of days I mean Shariff's playing Tough draw in Rome. I mean, yeah, look, let's be honest and not all those players are gonna play. I don't think Jabir plays I Would be very shocked if she played. I would I wanted to play but Cuff a calf tear is not It's not a two-week injury. It's like a six to eight week injury At that I mean it could be three months Depending on how big and how long it takes you to recover from it I haven't seen Jabir training in Madrid either in Rome either. So I haven't seen her on court or anything. So Very skeptical by Samson over up the top wish fiontech third round No, sorry fourth round Samson over versus fiontech Sakurai versus Rabak in a fourth round. I should say quarterfinals between those bunch. That's pretty crazy She's training it's an easier. Is she I didn't see any training footage Alexander over she'll take on Jabir if they play Kragikova versus Kazakina winner will play Jabir or Alexander over if we're going by the seeds. All right, I was gonna break In this first set again is good back in a backhand rally I was runs and ran it's a forehand it shanks it goes in to the front of Strouff one of my across Again at the backhand of Strouff. It's a wide 15 love Again, no idea why Rome didn't just decide to wait maybe an hour To finish because to be real. I mean they're not doing themselves any favours because everyone's watching the men's final Why wouldn't they just delay it or you know what I mean? It's kind of silly It's like when Rafa decided to withdraw during an Elkres match. You're like, you know announces withdraw. It's like The timing was terrible For me. It was terrible It's like why does it we have to get all this information at the same time? I Guess the most people are looking up tennis at that time. Maybe that's why Anyways as a rinker down the bottom with Sabalenka fourth round potentially as that goes out from Strouff 30 love. Sorry double-fold Elkres, okay That's all good 15. Oh Grows with his second double-fold of the day Oh, they catch up the top there with fiontech Svetlilina also could be oh probably a check of a Rani Winner place fiontech. What the hell back in a backhand rally's been a volley there from Elkres It's a great shot Strouff hits it wide We went for it On Drescu is also in the section of the draw with Sakurai. Oh, yes on Drescu Sakurai third round Let's go. We love that match. Don't we chat? We love that match Treveson is with Jabur, I think or without no without Lincoln drover third round when it plays Jabur potentially Okay, 30 15 on Drescu taking on Potentially taking on Krajikova versus Osta Panko third round. Oh, okay All right, third round looks bit juicy spicy Potapova gets Kudamatova third round 30 15 is going to return now goes out from Strouff and it's 40 15 On Drescu taking on Sakurai, we that's one of the best matches on tour. We've watched that every time they're played and it's been epic Every time they played Well, Zheng takes on Pliscova In the third round winner plays Pugula and Lynette takes on a Dajmaier winner plays Garcia interesting 40 15 So that why the four-on-of-shrift it's a very nice return He comes to the net now, but hits a four-hand winner and Elkres nowhere to be seen 40 30 Madison keys down the bottom with Azarenka winner plays Sabalenka Sabalenka's got a decent draw. It just depends on that last seed All right, 40 30 Elkres to get the 5-3 lead Make strifters make strouff serve Stay in the set So about what the back end is too good unbelievable Elkres massive serving gets a 5-3 By the way, Perra is gonna take on Shrion taking the third round again She might be the unluckiest lady on clay right now. She said to place Fion tech potentially three twice In two massive events Mern's she's up the top of the draw with Shrion tech as well Interesting she's got a good draw. I mean look it's Rome. It's slower Costuk and Jabir third round potentially Yeah, look Shrion takes got a nice draw I don't think there was anyone who really is a threat to Shrion take any even if who would you say Shrion takes biggest threat is at in In Rome, I mean maybe Sabalenka Taikman versus Kezakina third round interesting for now from strouff He serves to stay in the set four and a four and as I go to the back in our velcro sliced into the form of strouff Get in the back of Elkres strouff with a volley It's wide went a little bit too cutesy with the volley love 15 It was cova versus goth third round. No really. I mean look at the second round match ups Nothing crazy Pagula versus Pagoo third round Like I said, not too many unceded crazy players. I mean Ken and versus Sabalenka is interesting, but How interesting that is Martich takes on Garcia in the third round. Okay All right, serve out wide the back end of Elkres and strouff with the volley I was gonna have a slice strouff puts away the other volley though. Luckily strouff was awake 15 all Sabalenka versus Kellenina in a third round air look Nothing crazy going on with the draw No real I mean as a Sabalenka. Sorry Sakurai versus Andreski is probably the biggest win the craziest match All right, sir about wide is too good massive sir about wide from strouff 30 15 Now I gotta be honest not nothing really off the top of my head looking too insane in the first days of that event Have to wait till the third round boys and girls Men's draws tomorrow as we default second serve Second round maybe there's one or two matches, but the third rounds when things that she gets serious All right Backhand return goes from Elkres into the forehand of strouff into the back end of Elkres strouff with the back hand again The back end of Elkres drop shot is good It's gonna get there with the forehand Elkres the pass in the line Strouff's gonna get a slice Elkres comes to the net for now strouff is a lob. Oh, he's out done Elkara's He's out Elkara's Elkara's that is a hell of a lob 40-15 Strouff playing smart on that point All right. Well, that was a pretty anticlimactic draw ceremony Nothing crazy in that one. Just yeah We'll see what happens. I guess Elkers with a bit of clap of the racket feel Elkara's does appreciate a good lob Especially because he is one of the best at hitting lobs 40-15 strouff of the serve Down the tee the back end of Elkara's back in it from strouff Cross-court the back end of Elkara's with a back in from strouff but Elkara's it's at wide. All right Strouff makes Elkara's serve for the set 5-4 to Elkara's with a break. All right Chad, how we doing? How are we doing? Dalpatra and Federer the Miami Grand Prix nice Is that on today? That's on some tomorrow When did I when's it start in like a couple hours? I might be able to watch it Miami Grand Prix Just join. How's the match? It's been competitive Strouff's double-folded to getting broken. So if he didn't double-fold Would have been a lot a lot closer, but a couple hours. Okay, but strouff's been Strouff's been competitive just let himself down with two to four double-folds at you know in the two games He's been broken. So this has been a competitive set frustrating Elkara's a little bit as well. Elkara's not looking super comfortable In this first set only at the start of that when he got the early break Yeah, Shapo pulled out of Rome, which is a shame Djokovic is playing Rome at this stage if he doesn't we'll find out in the next 24 hours because the draw comes out tomorrow I think Djokovic plays Rome You think Djokovic is gonna go to the French Open after just playing two like events that he didn't do well out I don't think so nice to say strouff getting on the board. Yeah Enjoying this much match thoroughly. It's it's good Solid match. Only problem is the Miami circuit is terrible. Yeah, it's not not great Thank You duchy appreciate that 5-4 5-4 Elkara serve of the first set Now looking at the shot quality scores for the first set so far 7.3 for Elkara's On the serve on the return Elkara's at 8.8 But strouff is leading in the ground strokes Elkara's actually only at a 5.3 on the shot quality and the 5.5 on the backhand so Elkara's on the ground strokes is actually not playing that well according to shot quality 8.3 for strouff 7.2 8.3 on the forehand for strouff 7.2 on the backhand so when the rally gets started Elkara's is the one Who is not playing as well? love 15 and Interestingly enough strouff is the one who's not serving as well But then you might we might be able to say because of Elkara's returns at 8.8 Also the double-fold some strouff Alright love 15 Strouff It's the first point here Elkara serves out wide the back in a strouff return goes the back end of Elkara's back in a strouff Again to the backhand of Elkara's in the back in a strouff Elkara's with the forehand down the line is out He shanks it wow love 30 Elkara's is not on today This is not the same as the charge match He is looking a little panicked Looking a little worried Making a lot of errors love 30 chance for strouff here to maybe get the break back Love 30 Well, we're almost at 500 likes. Thank you for that As we just said don't see the back end of strouff return goes in the back end of Elkara's strouff with the forehand Cross court Elkara's gets it for one down the line of the back in a strouff Cross court of the back end of Elkara's into the for the stupid it goes out from Elkara's he hits it long and it's love 40 love 40 This is what happened when Elkara's got broken last time he went down love 40 real quick Love 40. Not sure what's wrong with Carlos today. He's so nervous. I don't think I mean, look, I think it's strouff's pressure Strouff's got big like he's hitting big. He's coming to the net. He's giving his suffocating Elkara's He hasn't Elkara's doesn't play to go like strouff this week As we had a return that goes wide from strouff and it's 15th 40 and this is why I thought it would be a close I still think Elkara's wins, but I think it's gonna be close because You know just like Rafa on a you know on a on surfaces when he plays big hitters Rafa He struggles how cause not getting his timing Because it's just hitting the ball so big And hitting the ball flat That's not giving Elkara's the time to swing at the ball. Whereas, you know We saw Russavari doing the first round remember as we return now from strouff that goes out Elkara's with a couple good serves 30 40 Whereas since then Elkara's has not played anyone that hits the ball as hard as strouff Chorich, he was just grinding the baseline Hashinov He hit you know in the second set was up 5-2 playing pretty strong It's very played very defensive Dmitrov didn't really play aggressive The only other player played aggressive against Elkara's this week was Russavari who took the first set So this is the hardest hitter that Elkara's played all week and it's you can tell he's not Feeling it at the moment as we get a 30-40 serve it to the body of strouff, but it's a fault It's a great body so he's gonna challenge Elkara's Throws up the challenge. Let's see what's up. It's fan slam free. Yes, fan slam is 100% free join now Women's draws out so we'll be ready to go that serve by the way from Elkara's was just long Second serve here's a chance big chance for strouff to get back in this set Elkara serves Into the backhand of strouff back in it from Elkara's in the corner strouff into the backhand of Elkara's a drop shot Strouff's gonna get there with the backhand down the line. It's good. So Elkara's the lob It goes in does it unbelievable it goes in cause it freaking goes in. All right back to doce Strouff just let it go. He's like yeah, whatever. He got me Don't you do win something you win a you win a hoodie. I'm gonna for the Rome draw you in a hoodie Tennis talk hoodie when you go to be on you go beyond Don't be Moderators need to be on the side of the fan. So you gotta be like, oh, you don't win anything. Come on You gotta be gotta we're gonna pump it up fan slam is where you want to be as we get a fault from Elkara second serve second serve Almost now played here. Oh, yeah, you don't yeah, you don't have to pay you to play as we're returning there from strouff Okay, Elkara's gets advantage from love 40 down But join the fan slam Link in the chat We're doing it for Rome next week a Lot of fun advantage Elkara's Set point from love 40 down to take this first set, but it's not been easy It's had to work hard for it Alkara serves Down the tee great serve strouff gets a back find out Alkara's down the line so for the backhand It goes in the net Alkara's gets the game six four first set But hey, I'll tell you what if strouff didn't hit those double faults and he held those service games that would have Possibly been a tiebreaker even closer, but man Alkara's Alkara's is no he knows he's in a battle first set was not Simple but good win we could come back from love 40. All right six four first set Alkara's Let's go through some stats and then we'll have a chat Okay Strouff blew that game. Oh, it didn't really have much of a chance Elkara serve well six winners from Alkara's 12 errors I mean Alkara's is not playing well ten winners strouff 12 errors you expect that but four double faults from strouff. That's really What's what was the struggle eight? Unforced errors on the forehand side for Alkara's which makes sense why he's shot quality scores at a five and a half He is way down on the forehand side. I think in the preview. Didn't we say it was an eight point one? Let me triple-check. Was it an eight point one on the forehand? Yeah, an eight point one Alkara's for the last 52 weeks, so he's way below his average And on the back end he's a seven point six for the last year and he's had a six at the moment So Alkara's there if strouff didn't double fold he might have might have even lost that set But Alkara's got away with it with some good service and some great returns But so here's his his ground strokes are not there not quite there I was playing absolutely terrible. Yeah, he's not playing well I mean someone who hits six winners and 12 errors and the other guy hits 10 winners and 12 errors Usually you think the guy who hit more winners would win But Alkara's gets through that ugly set. Maybe you can turn it around in the second And play better to finish this match Does it pay to watch a Dennis TV? Of course Dennis TV is great. You can watch old matches. You can watch highlights You've got exclusive content over there. You can watch all the matches live in In the best quality it's tennis TV is epic. I Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for tennis TV. I'd be screwed. I wouldn't be able to watch a tennis. I Wouldn't be able to help talk to you guys about tennis if I didn't have tennis TV So I'm a big fan When's the draw coming out for Rome? The women's drawers just come out men's draw comes out tomorrow So stay tuned for that Okay Struff serving first in the second Let's see if Schruff can get off to a better start because remember we got broken in the first game of The first set maybe due to nerves a couple of double faults Didn't help Struff with a serve How much do I watch WTA tennis? We watch WTA tennis Like recently probably more than ATP. It's because more more intense more more interesting Okay Second serve goes in the forehand of Elkraz. Now Chris hits it out on the first point 15 love again Elkraz is not playing that well he might have on the first set but He was not playing well to get that first set. All right 15 love First service a fault second serve second serve Struff goes in the form of Elkraz return goes to the back end of Struff Elkris comes into the forehand and hits a winner. That's a better shot from Elkraz rare forehand winner 15-0 Oh, we got the 500 likes. Thank you for that appreciate Yeah, Elkraz a return shot quality is 8.8. It's ridiculously good Which is why Struff serve quality is down to a 6.4. Well, usually it's in the 7s 15-0 Struff with a serve That's a fault second serve Second serve Goes in the find of Elkraz finder from Struff is long and it's 15 30 something really interesting though so Struff's conversion score Is that a 58% sorry Elkra's conversion score is at a 58% Which means that Struff steel score is at a 42% so conversion score is when someone's winning the point and then they lose that point and the Steel score is when someone's losing the point and then they win a point they shouldn't have right they Defend really well, and then either their opponent makes an error or they hit a winner You know counter-punching kind of style as Elkra sits that long on the return 30 all so Again if you put it to the ground strokes scores of Elkraz right now He would say that because he's serving his ground stroke scores are so low He's in control of some of these points, but he's just mucking up making these errors Which is allowing Like 42% steel score is Pretty high. It's almost half the points Elkraz in control of he loses. I mean that's that's not good 30 all As we're first our fault second serve WTA is not on tennis TV But you can get WTA TV for that Serving volley from Struff very nice volley Elkraz with a pass through for the volley open court winner lucky He's told if he wasn't six foot four that would have gone past him Struff 40 30 Where is the draw for Rome? You can follow me on Twitter and I'll retweet it Jump on Twitter. I'll retweet it. I think Dutchie sent it. Did Dutchie send it Dutchie sent it All right, I'll retweet it then you can go go check it out All right good serve there return goes in the form of Struff Elkraz with a lob Struff comes in with a smash and Elkraz hits it at the ground and it's one love Struff in a second Just retweeted the draw. It's a little bit grainy, but you can you can see it So follow me on Twitter link in the there you go. Thank you, Greg Link in the there you go. Thank you Dutchie for sending me the draw I've retweeted it Okay, back to this one. I'm just reading what's going on on So wait did so wait what happened with the acceptance speech of the so wait this Pagula and goth not get a chance to speak After the doubles fine, that's a bit weird why not The stash should be winning. Yeah, you should it was just the four double faults. They got that gave them the breakaway All right, so in the back of the Struff return goes in the forehand of Elkraz back in a Struff again To the front of Elkraz into the front of Struff, but Elkers puts away the winner. There's a forehand winner Needs that to be higher needs to start hitting more of those 15 love 15 love none of the ladies got a chance to speak. That's weird. Did never never have an hashtag I'm sorry rubble of an hashtag I've definitely did a speech yesterday Because it was all over social media, so that's that's really odd Why is it because they ran out of time? I mean not really had like two hours between right as that back end goes out from Elkraz good return from Struff 15 oh, that's that's strange They had to catch a pain of Rome. Oh, did they so they wait they oh so they left they didn't they left because I had to not because They Won't allow to speak They were they'll be saying All right 15 all weird times Return there from Struff goes into the front of Elkraz the backhand of Struff into the front of Elkers Elkers is that out man Elkers is playing terrible is playing terrible 1530 Nancy says even fans names fun even if you lose badly. It's still fun. I Glad you're on but you're on board Now fan slams great. I it's been such a great addition this year We've been we've been hanging out with talking to fan slam for a while and you know we've been we did fan slams a few times last year, but this year Really loving the interaction with the fan slam it just adds that extra bit of fun in the streams, too People jumping especially the first couple of days of the stream. It's like Fan slams on fire everyone's in everyone's live And the second half it gets serious as the backhand our return goes to the backhand of Elkers and Elkers It's at wide Struff gets to two break points in the first Games of the second 1540 1540 and Elkers is not playing a good final despite the score How to get to the fan slam you can get There's a link in the chat join the fan slam My hair is being all weird today We just got a haircut 1540 serves a fault second serve Struff to take the early break in the second Second serve goes to find a strip great return Elkers gets it Struff with a four and again He unleashes the winner down the line. No Struff comes in with a volley. That's a winner though Finally Struff gets the winner took him two more shots, but he's got the break two love in the second Struff breaks early Ten minutes into the second set and more errors from Elkers that forehand is not working Did you catch that guy in the crowd eyeing the ball? Models then his girlfriend sider him wait did that really happen or you just joking all right to love This could be like how Elkers lost a sinner What's the thing? The only guy that's played as aggressive as Struff this week has been Russ of Ori and he got a set of Elkers So this was never gonna be easy for Elkers 15 love so about why does great from Struff 30 love And if like I said yesterday, I wonder if Struff did take some inspiration from Sabalenka's win yesterday 221 clicks out wide huge serve from Struff, you know the big serving big hitting lady won yesterday And maybe Struff thinks well, I can maybe do that There's a bit of accurate return in there from Elkers 40 love man Struff is running now And serve is firing 40 15 so on 10 of the last 11 points Gonna get more first serves him because when he gets it in it doesn't come back He says a fault second serve Second serve into the front of Elkers for now from Struff into the front of Elkers again At the front of Struff Alkers with the forehand, but Struff hits it long 40 15 40 15 Struff's coach very animated 40 15 as we deserve and forehand in the net from Elkers on the return. 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We haven't already From all around the world worldwide tennis is worldwide Al Gore's down three love is a big deal three love Alcares down in the second That's true if it's a return long 15 love Alcares didn't have it didn't have it his own way in the first set if you're just joining us either But the first set was six four Alcares, but that was not you arguably Strip play better just didn't Didn't serve well at times and that's where he got broken He's made up for in the second so far three love second serve a first of Alcares 15 lovers. He says a fault second serve second serve Alcares is a double fault man Lot of double faults In this match not too many aces don't expect too many aces on clay, but a lot of double faults seven between them 15 all serve again from Alcares Serve now while the for the strif return goes long good serve Alcares and I think it's worth saying I wasn't ready. He's like shrugging his shoulders gone. Oh He thought it was a let Strif thought it was a let but the umpire is like well the machine didn't beep so no 30 15 30 15 as Alcares serves Damn it's here for the strif return goes in the front of Alcares and Alcares hits it out Again, his forehand is so bad today Alcares 30 all this is so similar to yesterday's match Because Saber Lanker was getting on top of the rally. She was being aggressive and it was spooking Shriyantek Who thought oh, I better try and hit winners and strips down the same Because Alcares right now is panicking in the rallies. He's trying to hit winners off the second third shot He's not playing patient This is very similar to yesterday except not the quality was better yesterday good So there the return goes in for now Alcares the back in a strif into the front of Alcares Get in the back in a strif to the front of Alcares strif with a full hand on the stretch That goes in the front of Alcares again in the back for the strif slice. I'll just comes in the back hand down the line winner Just waited for strif to commit like a like a striker at a goalkeeper And he went the other way 40 30 but Alcares has been playing like this from the start hasn't looked Yeah, he got a break in the first game of the match, but that's just strif double-folded twice Alcares does not look comfortable today 40 30 To get on the board here. There's only one break still, but it's strif serve. You got a break And he's only been giving away double faults to give the break back as he gets a good serve out wide Alcares. All right a little bit of a shake of The racket from Alcares and his 3-1 strif in the second Left for five minutes and strif is banging. Yeah, he is firing right now Okay Men's draw comes out tomorrow for Rome. We'll watch that tomorrow Keep that Ready to go. It's gonna serve now from strif. That's our wide and it's a fault second serve second serve Into the fort of Alcares the turn goes in then net man again the forehand is just not it It's not it today Alcares 5.9 shock quality score on the forehand. He's usually in the eighth He's got one of the best forehands on tour At least in the last 52 weeks according to shock quality 8.1 but today below six which is I mean the tour average is 7.2. So he's below the tour average by a mile Server of the 400 Alcares the turn goes in the fort of strif. That's a good shot down the line Alcares with the slice in the net man strif his forehands. All right His backhands at 8.4 strif bloody hell. All right 30 love Strif is just On fire In the second set right now. He's taking advantage of the Alcares poor game So that was fault Second serve second serve into the back of Alcares great return from Alcares 3015 a rare winning return um That's all that's bad Vika Azarenka just wrote on Twitter hard to explain to Leo that His mom couldn't say hello to him at the draw at this trophy ceremony. That is so weird. Why why? Does anyone know why they didn't do it? Is it because of time constraints because that's crazy When do they never they always do ceremonies for every tool like not just Why did they not do it because it seems like everybody was Everybody wanted to do a speech. I didn't seem like anyone was in a hurry. I said 15 Serve up Why does a fault? That was a late call second serve Yeah, I feel like the doubles finished two hours before the men's finals started, right? They're gonna serve now the four of Alcares return the forehand off strif Who hits it long 30 all just got to be careful now. I Mean the men's doubles did the fine they did they did speeches So I don't know why the women's wouldn't Madrid Foolish directors It's so weird. You wouldn't be like, hey, yeah, let's let's do the fight. Let's do the Doubles do accept in speeches everywhere else, right? All right 30 all strif serves Into the forehand it's a fault. Oh second serve We've been in this position before with strif serve where he's Holding trying to hold He serves though that goes in the front of Alcrest one ever strif Goes wide and it's 34 a break back point The doubles with ladies doubles was on by her dad's Maya and Victoria Azarenka so the two two of the tallest players on tour Roger Federer is living his best life. Just saw a photo of him in the formula one Federer is living his best life While these players are grinding out on a chair squad. He's driving formula one cars All right 30 40 go on a nicks games. I saw it Go to the Met Gala. I mean Federer's is living his best life All right break point trough serves a fault second serve Strif serves horrible by the way the first ever sentence is horrible He's getting a lot of free points on the first set But he's not getting too many in return now from Alcrest goes to back end of strif in the back of the velcro Is backing up from strif again to the back end of Alcrest the back end of strif I'll go to the back end again to the back in the strif the back end of Alcrest Let's do if it's a back hand But Alcrest is it out. He's got a challenge. That was a very quick challenge from Alcrest But the way he's days been We probably did go out and it did. I mean they don't replay them very often The lines people are pretty quick pretty good with the baseline calls Okay, back. We'll get to deuce Again, Alcrest is hitting unforced errors. All right deuce strif trying to hang on First serve is a fault man. He's first serve a 38% if he was serving a little better strif he'd probably be upset in a break here as we disturb now the font of Alcrest for that from strif the back end of Alcrest Who shanks into the font of strif back in Alcrest again into the back end of strif and strif shanks it This is an ugly match Advantage Alcaraz This is ugly advantage Alcaraz To get back the break, but this is not a pretty match. It's such a shame because yesterday was such a good match So high such high quality and this match is One of the hardest ones to watch especially on the ATP Feel like we haven't watched a match like this still entertaining, but it's still it's like the quality of this match lot of errors Serve volley. Oh no Alcrest in the net with a back-end return Man and Alcrest does not make it returns. All right, we get to deuce Not very happy Alcrest there on that replay deuce strif serves Another fault man. This guy cannot get first serves in Make his job a lot easier if you had that first serve second serve Into the front of Alcrest shank return goes long again just a shank Advantage strif to get to 4-1 in the second strif with a serve Down to see the front of Alcrest return goes in the front of strif Into the forehand of Alcrest strif with the forehand again to the front of Alcrest to the forehand of strif Alcrest with the backhand cross-court strif gets with his own backhand and he shanks that one out does strif back to deuce God this is Not good This is ugly as okay, not a pretty fine It's close though. Hey Unless we get a close final All right deuce again seven and a half minute game Serve out while the front of Alcrest volley from strif. Oh It's nice up because a lot from Alcaraz But it's a long good serve volley there from strif by the way I don't know what they've done, but they've changed the camera to like court side I don't know why they changed the camera angle. Maybe they had another blackout at the top but we've got like a Court side camera as well, which makes it a little awkward To see whether or not Alcrest is hitting the ball in or out That's all right Then his strif to get this 4-1 lead He serves the backhand of Alcrest falling from strif cross-court the front of Alcrest on the stretch strif with a volley hits it wide Strif had the shot he wanted and he just hits it wide back to deuce The clean hitting of yesterday is not Not here today Back to deuce and strif had a good volley there to hit as well. I mean Alcrest had a nice loopy pass which kind of was awkward to hit a high volley, but Strif got the volley that's what he wanted, but he didn't do anything with it deuce Served and see the back of Alcrest return as a volley from strif. That's a great volley from strif. Yeah, you go Not a bad return from Alcrest, but strif just digs it out and Hits him past Alcrest too. That's a very solid volley Advantage strif One of the best volleys you'll see all day Advantage strif Just needs a big first serve and he can get the hell out of this game serve Now why the backhand of Alcrest strif with the volley Alcrest out of the forehand and Strif hits it in the net. Oh, he could have left in a might have floated wide, but Alcrest throws his fist to the air, but crowd aren't really responding All right, we get back to deuce Is Alcrest gonna flick that? I think that volley might have gone wide from sorry that forehand might have gone wide for Alcrest I mean it was spinning a lot so might have spun back in, but Now back to deuce. This could be the biggest game of the match for strif He wins it. We might Extend the matches. We got a backhand out lob from Alcrest. Strif with the smash he hits it out Very smart lob from Alcrest. It's a little bit over the over this side so strif couldn't reach Advantage Alcrest 10-minute service game Crowder on their feet Haven't had much to cheer about so they'll cheer a decent lob Advantage Alcrest to get back this break Third break point of this game Strif with a serve Into the back of Alcrest volley from strif is good Alcrest with a pass strif with a volley puts it away Nice depth on the volley there from strif And Alcrest couldn't do much with that too good back to deuce and this is a very Awkward awkward match for Alcrest Because strif isn't Cressy right strif doesn't serve volley every point, but he serve volley is enough to keep you guessing, you know, you don't know when he's gonna serve volley Every now and again he served volleys maybe when Alcrest isn't expecting it and that's when you hit that's the best serve volley You hit a serve volley and you get a slash return then you just go bang So he's he's using a lot of variety strif unfortunately just can't get a first serve in To make it count as he serves second serve done to a big second serve But it's a let there are another serve coming up He was a lead on the first serve that was a second serve now down the tee Alcrest runs into forehand in the back end of Alcrest strif one of forehand is Strif goes again to the front of Alcrest strif on the stretch goes down the line and long and Alcrest gets another break point Advantage Alcaraz Advantage Alcaraz To take back the break. It's 12 minute game It has been a marathon game serve Is a fault that was a late call The umpire called it wide as well the lines person missed it second serve here We go big chance for Alcrest here Second serve Alcrest runs around into forehand into the back of the strif back into Alcrest is wide God he I don't think I've seen Alcrest play this bad One of the last time Alcrest played this bad chat. Does anyone remember I? Don't remember Alcrest playing this poor. He's lost two matches this year one was to Norrie Where he got injured in the final parts of the match the final parts of the final set which gave Norrie That edge and then he lost to Sinnoh who played an amazing match So this is the worst match he's played all year It's ugly He serves now the font of The strif and strif it's a volley out man strif had that shot to advantage Alcrest to get back this break Strif giving himself a big chat Maybe again Sash is very of at the French last year. Maybe Alcrest with a big smile on his face though. I mean he might not be playing well, but he's still happy about it He's happy to be there He's having fun either way advantage Alcrest as strif serves Down the tip of Alcrest return the form of strif Alcrest back end on the stretch goes in the net too good from strif Big hitting from strif gets him back We're back to doce Strif tries to win this Long-ass game you just joining us welcome He played bad against Moussedi in July last year on the clay. I don't know if he played bad though I can't remember it exactly. I thought Moussedi played decent return. No, it's a fault. That's unlucky Alcrest back to winner second serve second serve Strif into the font of Alcrest who shanks it wide and Strif gets to advantage Advantage strif get to 4-1 in the second. All right 15-minute service game advantage strif Strif serves the back end of Alcrest return goes in the volley of strif That's a great volley Alcrest gets out of the pass strif with the volley open call winner lovely hole from strif and He gets the 4-1 huge from strif almost as big as a break that service hold Not many people cheering, but man. That was a hell of a volley 4-1 Strif holds finally. Yeah 15-minute service game. This set's gone for 33 minutes half of that set half of this set has been that game ridiculous 4-1 in the second Okay Marathon Marathon all right, let's go to the let's have a look at these guys records at this level of tournament because strif actually making his first Final and Mars 1000 you can see there Strif's made it to a couple of quarter finals at masters 1000s before obviously back a couple weeks ago in Monte Carlo We made the quarter finals also met a quarter final in Cincinnati Back when but he didn't play you can see there most of the 1000 events at the end of the middle of last year this time last year He was absent from this event actually didn't play many of the top events I don't know what the injury if he was injured must have been injured out for pretty much the entire season last year But man into his first master 1000 final biggest final of his career and Alcaraz He is I mean look he's only been around for a couple years, but he is making the most of his Early early success. He's got three masters wins already looking for a fourth here today You can see they made quarter finals of Cincinnati and Paris last year as well He's only struggled in Monte Carlo, but he's only played at the once same with Canada But man Alcaraz is a beast you can see the Indian Wells, Miami He's already won both of those tournaments In separate years and he made the semi finals in the other two years. So man He is he is his loving is his loving being on the big stage is Is Carlitos huge the amount of grins. I mean how many players we know? Don't even have one of those trophies. He's got three and he just turned 20 Okay for one Alcaraz to serve just had a multiple break points to get back in the set couldn't take him Serving the four to strip strip in the net. We'll get the up up high camera again, which is nice. You can see what's happening 15 love You're on borg in the house Watching along It's probably gonna give out the trophy. Yeah 15 love Okay serves the back of the strip return the font of Alcaraz who shanks it all over the frame In fact, I think he did it three times before he went out. It's been Man horrible from Alcraz again on the forehand. That is his shot Not so many drop shots either. I guess he doesn't want out. He doesn't want stuff coming to the net Maybe that's why he's not hitting drop shots 15 all The ball bogs it in there like I'm gonna beat him this kid Back and return into the back end of Alcraz back and have a strough again to the back end of Alcraz the back And I'm sure who hits a winner down the line strough 15 30 It's matches like this where you wonder I know people think they're like serve valley tennis and guys like Samper's and that wouldn't have been competitive in this era But look at strough. I think you know, he's he's taking it to Alcraz on a slow, you know a slow Clay court or a slower court, which is clay You wonder if Samper's would have been maybe not against Federer Nadal Djokovic, but against the I think Samper's Would have been pretty competitive against this current generation with these you know with Medvedev and those types That's strough hits the back end wide Maybe serve volley tennis is gonna make comeback 30 all maybe it can make a comeback 30 all I mean if Samper if strough can do a serve volley style like this on a clay court And Samper's could have cleaned up on the hard courts on the fast courts, right against this new This generation without jokovic Nadal return of strough is oh is that a winner? Whoa Strough just smack the first serve away Like swatting a fly 30 40 My god, that was just disrespectful He's just like that your first serve get that trash out here That was just a disrespectful return. It was only a hundred and seventy eight kilometer serve I mean maybe a disrespectful serve from Alcraz. He's like, I don't need to hit a big serve You do 30 40 serve in the back of the strough returning the net good serve Alcraz there That was a bit faster Deuce all right Alcraz hanging on To this second set Deuce by the way, can we get to a thousand likes? Before the end of this match Maybe awesome if we get to a thousand is gonna return up from strough that slice goes in the front of Alcraz drop slice Weird as still hits a forehand to the back for about Chris stretch of now the back end slice Alcraz comes in with a swing volley through for the past but it's in the net advantage Alcaraz I Yeah, I did watch the samples documentaries very very solid I feel like there's not enough samples stuff out there, you know people forget Alcraz with the advantage As he serves only one break As we return as a fault from Alcraz second serve Okay, he's actually serving a lot of first serves in but he's not winning too many points Must be just nursing the serve in a little bit Alcraz. Maybe not trying to hit the ball hard Pardon me sir to the back end of Alcraz back in Alcraz the for the strough to the front of Alcraz get into the front of strough It's a long Alcraz stays in this set still down the break for two strough Is Alcraz gonna win? Yeah, I think I was gonna win He was down five to against Hashinov in the second set of his match in the quarter finals. So He doesn't doesn't mind to come back Thank you LA appreciate it again. Thank you so much everyone for joining us over this Not just today, but in the last last couple of weeks. It's been a hell of a turn out Remember this event Extended their draw so we had a hell of a lot more tennis to watch We've got a couple extra rounds to watch which was sick Same thing in Rome Rome's gonna be huge. It's gonna be feel like a mini slam 15 love it's gonna be a mini slam In Rome as well. So in fact Rome is gonna be more crucial for players to get formed for the French because Rome and the French open have a lot more in common 30 love not to mention it's the last big event before the French open There's the last chance for a lot of players to get a good a good chunk of points and a good result Guys like Caspar route who have played well in Rome before he needs to have a good run So about one of the four in Alcraz return goes to find of Shuff Shuff. It's it in the net 30 15 Mades of Charles Leclerc is smashing or barrel into a barrier Doesn't do that every week 30 15 is the Grand Prix on now the hell Good sir there from Struff and it's 40 15 Is it on now? The close joke All right first half as fault second serve a pre-race Starts in it 20 minutes. Okay. All right. Nice serving with Struff much easier game there Than the previous right Struff leads five two in the second If I'm not not for another 45 minutes, okay I'll just chuck it on because I'll probably watch it after this match or I'll watch it at the end of the last part of this match All right, whoops All right How are we chat? Did you see camp Stevens 1f 1 & 8? I want to WTA 125. I did see that. I just saw it on Twitter Love to see it. Love to see that and that's the thing she needs Like I feel like someone like a Sloan Stevens. She um You know going back and playing a small tournament. It's good for her because she's like 70 80 in the world Oh, no, I don't know. I'm still torn about these 175 events that The top 20 decide to go play for like to get a couple of matches It's like, you know, I don't know. I don't know if I how I feel about that I feel like it's a great. It's a great. It's great for players that are injured that are coming back from injury maybe but For someone who's just not played well. I feel like it's a bit of a It's a bit. It's a bit of it. So you didn't play while in Madrid. You shouldn't get a second chance. You should go play Rome It's not fair on the on the ones who are trying to grind the grind the challenges If Strouff wins today, what will his ranking be great question? I love that question. I'll find the answer to that question I'll tell you Elkis by the way, if he wins today, it'll be five points behind Djokovic Up the top of the tree Strouff right now as we speak is at a career high ranking 28 in the world top 30 for the first time He'll be seated at the French Open at this rate, but if he wins today, and that could happen He will be in the top 20. Actually, no, sorry light He'll be 21 in the world just outside the top 20 a head of Krinyo Buster So he is playing for a number 21 in the world if he gets there He's already seated at the French. So he's already done his job But man, he's already career high ranking If he wins today, it'd be his first ever title too. So I mean, that's that's something too 15 love No, Chris serving to stay in the set 15 love Man first time he's been in the in the top 20. Sorry, not the first time he's been in the top 30 But he's back in the top 30. He's at a career high ranking 28. Yeah, you're right 29 was his Previous best. So not the first time. He's bad. He's back in the top 30 for the first time for a long time All right, 15 love Alcrest serving to stay in the set as we get a return out Alcrest He's gonna challenge. Okay Interesting. He thought he doesn't know if the ball was in or out Alcrest He's a little bit confused if this is in he just gave away the point He's looking at the mark and it was out. Good call A rare overturn of that of the baseline 30 love yeah, it's a one one one head-to-head. All right, 30 love Anonymous, do you think Dr. Evo Kalovic can win Wimby this year include in French open? Um, no not this year Thank you for the Thank you for the two Alcrest 40 love 40 love To make Struff serve this out and take us to a third Doesn't play well Alcrest today. It's been a horrible day of Tennis for him. Is that goes in the net from Struff? Okay Alcrest does his job Struff serving for the second. Can you imagine if this was a five-setter like it used to be back in the day? God, I wish we had a five-second you imagine who else wishes this was five sets. Well, maybe not this match Who else misses the five-setters I do Bloody miss them. All right. Struff serving for the second to take us to a third Serving to the backhand of Alcrest. Volley from Struff is good. Alcrest with a four-hand pass is wide 15 love Five-setter would be very interesting if it was right now Would be interesting Even this match even if it was five sets it wouldn't be pretty but it'd be like oh, okay once at all at five you know They would never do it because Tennis is too hard these days Too intense so they wouldn't allow They wouldn't allow it, but hey Who knows we'll just reminisce on the old days 15 all I'd love a five-set final You imagine what Monte Carlo would have looked like in five sets. I mean that was looking epic and then had to have to end Tom Cruise by the way, they're four me or one 15 all See driving. Is he driving a car busy? No All right, I just find out from Alcrest is a winner. Okay, unbelievable Alcrest is starting to find that four-hand now 1530 It's so weird looking at the formula one. They're inside the stadium that they used to play the ten They were they played the tennis Except they've got rid of the stadium for the tennis and now it's just a bunch of cars So weird that they We were watching Miami in that stadium a couple of months ago 1530 serving the font of Alcrest return the font of struff back in Alcrest on the stretch So if gets with the backhand of his own Alcrest find a line So if gets with the flying down the middle to the back end of Alcrest and Alcrest dumps in the net Okay, 30 or by the way, they're playing Are they playing pickleball outside? Weird as hell at the formula one. Well, they're playing 30 all or is that is that paddle? I think they're playing paddle 30 all as we to serve. I don't know what this camera angle is. It's like so far out You can barely see they look like ants 40 30 ace from struff And he brings up set point to take us to a third struff to get to the third He serves the back of Alcrest returners into the volley of struff. It's a winner. We got three in the final, baby Three set final on the cards Lovely drug volley from struff to get the set We're going three a weird match The quality is not there But man, it's close Remember that US Open final of 2020. That's what we're sort of looking at here Not a pretty match, but a close match. I think people expect too much from Alcrest Well, Alcrest is just not playing well. Like if Alcrest was playing a little better probably win this in straight sets, but Struff in that second set by way nine winners ten errors from struff six winners ten hours from Alcrest again This is it's so funny Because this is what we expect from the WTA a lot more errors and winners So just shows that maybe we're a little blinded, you know, we give the WTA a bit of a hard time being like Oh, you know, there's always these errors and breaks and blubber Well, yeah, well, Dracovich and Dalton hit errors, but This is very error-filled the final yesterday Was a lot cleaner a lot more quality than than this, but doesn't matter because this is still three sets We love a three set up Quality doesn't always have to be there to make it an interesting match Okay upset so far in Madrid. Oh, yeah, all in Madrid. That's it. I Don't think people Some people realize that repeating your post three times is spamming repeating it five times is is ultra spam and that just Don't spam Who are the top three men's players? This year mevvedev Djokovic Elkras Right ladies final was epic ladies finals very epic. Hey, thank you Karen for coming back and or becoming a member again Thank you appreciate it. What's the longest do since the history of tennis probably 20 What about sinner No, I wouldn't put sinner in the same category because Who have won the big trophies jokovic won the Australian Open Mevvedev won Miami and Indian Wells went to Alkras and Sin I lost to both Alkras and Mevvedev and look Ruben have won Monte Carlo But I don't think Monte Carlo seen as big as Indian Wells and Miami So it's got to be those three. I mean look Alkras. No doubt. He's won three titles already going for a fourth Jokovic from what he's allowed to play You know, he's won you won two titles inside a year didn't play for a long time. They had to come back and Mevvedev I mean he went on a four three win the fourth four finals five finals in a row won four titles. So he's still So I think that maybe Maybe the sinner will be top five I'd say sin is probably top five rublev up there to city pass your throw-in somewhere Anyways 15 love we'll talk about the power rankings in this set first points of the final set. Let me know in the chat Who's gonna win this final set who's winning this final who was taking the final Let me know in the chat The turn goes in the back of Alkras find out from strife on the stretch Alkras forehand again to the corner Strouf into the back of Alkras for that from strouf goes long 30 love and a big shout from Alkras in the crowd respond He's a get a little louder Alkras get this crowd involved Can't cheer if you're not getting excited about it 30 love It's a weird match to predict You would think based on experience Alkras should win right like based on like finals experience and knowing how to win these matches We're gonna get a challenge from strouf on that ace If it's in it's an ace if it's out it's a fault You would think that You know strouf might get a little nervous because it's the first he's never won a title on The W on the ATP and that ball was just wide Good challenge from strouf second serve second serve Into the back of strouf great return winner inside our backhand winner We saw Sabalenka do that a lot yesterday 30-15 You got rouble at 4 5 is runa 6 is Steph and sinner at 7 LA I wouldn't put runa up there with those. I would put runa at 7 To be honest, I think runa's had a couple of bad I mean runa didn't start well. He's he only got good when you know sort of aquapolco That's when he made his first semi right as strouf comes to the net the lob goes out from Alkras 30. Oh, no First game of the third and Alkras in trouble 30 all Things are getting Very interesting 30 all serve now from Alkras serve from Alkras Big point to start this third he serves in the form of strouf return goes the back of Alkras return now To the form of strouf Alkras defending four and a line goes in the back in a strouf who hits it out Alkras with a big fist bump and a big shout unbelievable 40 30 he's hanging in 40 30 to take the first game of the final set serve Alkras Now why the back in the strouf strouf hits it out. Okay, Alkras gets the first game of the final set Okay, I miss Dracovic. No, well, they'll be back eventually They'll be back one day All right one love final set Um Answers in the draw Benchish Kovitava Pliskovara out It's put to push them before pull out. Okay, didn't see that Must have just happened Okay Here we go Strouf with a serve by the way strouf has a 7.5 Serve shot quality 7.2 for Alkras And strouf is well Alkras is starting to come back in the ground stroke He's four hands getting a little better as he hits that one wide 15 love Oh, we're almost at a thousand likes Almost can we get to a thousand by way. Thank you for subscribing as well. Appreciate that 150k by the end of the year is the is the is the goal has been a return out from Alkar as it goes wide 30 love 30 love Strouf trying to level Level things up in this final set in this final set strouf First of the fault second serve second serve in the form of Alkras Alkras hits it wide. Oh me 40 love 40 love he sprays it Alkras again that forehand is just not it Not today. Anyway 40 love serving the form of Alkras Alkras on the net strouf serve Gets in the first game of the second of the third one all One one in the final set Now Alkras serving first might help him when strouf starts this board They keep holding serve when we get the end of the set five four Alkar as and then strouf serving to stay in the match That's when he might get a little nervous Alkras has been in finals before and won finals more importantly strouf is not one Many finals any finals on the ATP No, one one serve second serve Into the back of the strouf back in our Alkar as wide Love 15 Love 15 Serves again. His forehand has been off all day His backhand not too much better Not it better actually not better at all. It's his back ends terrible to return from strouf. No, it's a let Another serve Serves love 15 So that why good serve strouf gets it back, but it goes long Alkras a serve hasn't had the same amount of power as it's usually has Been kind of just kind of getting the serves in by like super windy right now. The wind is really picked up So if you thought it was ugly before it's gonna get worse The wind's gonna make it worse 15 all Who can hold on in the wind? As we default second serve second serve Alkras Into the back in a strouf good return Alkras the back end on the stretch Strouf gets it back in a back-hand is open to find instead the back in a strouf one from Alkras again To the slice of strouf, but it goes in the net nice hitting from Alkras is a little less power It's smarter with that one 30 15 the crowd don't know what to do because Unfortunately Alkras is not really hitting the winners. So there's not really much to cheer about 30 15 Alkras serves a Fault Second serve I think I've been diesel talking about formula one directly knows what he saw man back in a slice into the find of Strouf to the back end of Alkras find out from strouf again to the back of Alkras the back end of strouf and that goes in there from strouf 40 15. I know it was in a bunch of car movies, but here's an actor It's like saying does he know how does he know what it is to be like a tree like does that like does he know how it is to feel How it feels to be like a tree. I don't think he does it was an act. He was an actor. He's an actor. We didn't do it He's got very big arms. I Wouldn't say this to his face Serving the back end of strouf back in out from Alkras the back of strouf down the middle of the four now Or as far from strouf Goes in the front of Alkras then the line of the back in a strouf back in Alkras with a slice That goes into the back end slice of strouf to the slice of Alkras strouf with the back hand across corporate Alkras is a why does he he's gonna challenge Technically he played Groot well, that's what I'm saying. I made a joke because he played Groot He doesn't know just because he played a you know CGI character doesn't mean he knows what it is to be a tree That serve was why sorry that shot was wide by the way Just goes wide Just goes wide from Alkras that slice 40 30 as Alkras serves to get back the lead What are they on far? Is it like fast in the furious 200 like what are they up to? It's like 10. Is it 10? Yeah, I suppose there's a fault second serve that's what they're promoting I think Now 40 30 Alkras, so I'm watching the wrong thing. I'm watching the formula one. All right 40 30 Serving the back of the strouf return goes in the front of Alkras. You hit the dental line and long Another error from Alkras And we're a douche we get to douche Alkras just can't find it today. You just can't find it Douche Valveras wins this match will be the ugliest trophies one. I mean the well It's subjective as we're to slice there into the volley of strove. It's a winner Advantage strouf he chipped and charged the coach loved it advantage strouf Together bray you're not entertained. No, not really Oh It's as far as finals go. It's not the prettiest, but it's intense now Advantage advantage strouf to get the lead With a break in the third as he serves a fold Alkras second serve second serve Alkras into the back of the strouf return goes in the back of Alkras strouf with the forehand down a lot of the back Of Alkras again the back in a strouf back into forehand now as Alkras runs around so for the backhand again Into the forehand it goes long from strouf Does it? Alkras is it does Just gonna challenge anyway Gotta be honest right now Alkras looks a little slow He's lacking a little energy that does go out from strouf by the way he survives but Alkras does look a little I wouldn't say he looks tired, but he just looks a little flat You know, he's not throwing the fist as much I mean you can't really throw the fist because you're not hitting winners, right? What are you gonna celebrate? Nothing to celebrate Served into the back of the strouf strouf shanks it there's a fist throw it throws out fist alright advantage Alkras Advantage Alkras to get the lead. He's hung over Surely Alkras didn't go out for his birthday. You can wait one more day, right? It's a weird match for sure All right advantage Alkras to take the lead in the final set He serves a fault second serve advantage over a second serve Serving the back of the strouf return the back of Alkras strouf with the backhand down the line Alkras gets with the forehand for one of them strouf on the stretch Alkras gets it the strouf hits it long Alkras goes and throws the fist of the crowd get him involved and they respond That's what they needed. They need to be cheered. Well, they needed you to cheer them to cheer back They're all their feet. All right big game from Alkras to hold two one And the final set two hours played Okay Let's answer questions The question how are we doing chat? How are we doing? Well, no way four thousand people here buddy. Oh, we're almost at a thousand likes as well. Thank you for that All right, I should always cheer for you guys especially when they're struggling. Well, that's the thing like Alkras is struggling We know that but um the crowd do need they want something to cheer for unfortunately Alkras is not providing the the the entertainment for them to get involved You know So then he's got to be you know throw his fist to them. They're like, oh, okay. Yeah, we'll cheer you Why is the men's final has less views than women's final because the women's final was number one versus two and it was also Much higher quality. This is three. This is two versus sixty five so, yeah the men's final was so the women's final was a lot a lot a Lot more intense because of the fact we had two of the best players on the plane playing Bet you've never said that Alkras is never providing not providing entertainment. I know it's so weird That's why it's so strange because usually he's playing some sort of ridiculous tennis right now. He is just Struggling I mean he's struggling Women's tennis on the rise of women's tennis is is legit right now All right, so now the point of Alkras point of struff is long and it's love 15 first point Alkras in this game Love 15 Struff serves again Alkras just needs strif to get a little shaky like he was in the first set Volley from struff goes there. Oh, what a volley from Struff. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. What a volley 15 all Lovely drop volley again from Struff. I mean he's something that Alkras hasn't had to deal with you know these volleys these unpredictable Approaches to the net There's been a fault take a serve 15 all second serve down the teeth and Alkras hit the forehand and that's a winner from Alkras. Wow He ran around the backhand just flicked the forehand enough that Struff couldn't hit it 1530 just a little bit of brilliance and Alkras can get a break That's the thing Struff's been playing, you know decent for the match But if Alkras just catches a little bit of fire This matter this set could be over pretty quick And we do know Alkras can catch fire 1530 second serve Second serve now the forehand of Alkras and Alkras hit them wide goes back to the error 30 all Just needs to get a couple of good shots in a row and he'll get a break 30 all that's served by the way from Struff was 150 kilometers. That was a slow first serve That's a that's that's a slow ball. All right first there's a fault from Struff second serve By the way, Max Verstappen is ninth on the grid. What the hell's going on? All right second serve into the front of Alkras for now from Struff into the front of Alkras the back in a struff Alkras with the backhand drop shot. Oh, it's too good There's the brilliance and he's gone. Come on get loud 3040 He hasn't done much all day Alkras. He needed that and the crowd needed that too They're like, yeah, give us something to cheer about 3040 what a drop shot. He hasn't hit too many drop shots either today 3040 Breakpoint Alkras to get The early break Struff serves a let 3040 Not great on the conversion to the break points for either guy. So it's down to another let Just over two hours played in this one by the way First of again Into the back of Alkras good return volley from Struff Alkras the pass through for the volley the volley goes out and Struff Gets broken three what Alkras and a huge shout Just a little bit of brilliance The drop shot the passing shot The volley it goes out from strumming. It was a hard volley to hit. Have you hit a win-off that would be insane But that is what Alkras needed And now the crowd are cheering his name Finally they get something to cheer about that's what he that's exactly what they've been waiting for Now cheer He's got to make sure you're playing well 3-1 Alkras with a break in the third. Okay, Alkras with a serve He serves a Fault second serve. Please don't spoil a formula one race. All right. I won't talk about it It'll probably won't be finished until like we'll be finished before it finishes anyway So we won't talk about it four-hour now drop shot there from Alkras is very nice Struff gets it Alkras with the backhand struff with the volley in the net Alkras is starting to come alive 15 love their formula ones a long way away, so we Don't worry. We won't be spoiling anything will be long gone by then Maybe 15 love Either that or be too busy watching tennis to be bothered by the cars 15 love Alkras a couple of brilliant shots that do at 30 all gets in the break As we serve down the back end of struff struff in the net 30 love When's Madrid open finish a finishes now this match the last set of the tournament right now This is the final set of the year of the event And then we go to Rome Alkras won nine of the last 11 points two points to struff in the last 11 30 love now because of the serve Into the font of struff return goes in the front of Alkras who hits it inside out struff with a slice Alkras comes in with the forehand and hits a winner and it's 40 love Alkras 40 love To get to 4-1 Alkras in the final set and if he does win this match Alkras It'll be probably one of his most hard-fought titles because yeah, he's played better players, but This is a very Very hard fought match for Alkras because he hasn't brought the level He serves out while the back in a struff return the volley of Alkras, but struff hits it out All right, Alkras 4-1 in the final set. He's come alive Okay Whoo fire That's all it takes. He's worn out You wonder if he plays Rome your wonder Wanda We're witnessing right now Okay, this is a gutsy win for Alkras from Alkras. Yeah, it would be if he gets a win It's probably one of the the ugliest wins he's got Because usually when we watch I mean look at Barcelona last week. He couldn't do anything wrong You know he kicks it. He passes, but there was no chance How large is the mug collection? Um, I don't know. I've got a Bunch of mugs so I can drink a lot of tea when I'm live Think Alkras will win Rome. He wants the clay. I don't think Alkras will win Rome. I Don't think he's gonna I think city pass could win Rome because remember Rome is slow This is a fast court. It's no surprise. We've got you know struff Alkras Sabalenka and Fiontech in the finals, you know all can hit a hard ball So I reckon Rome's gonna be a lot slower than this week and it's gonna be a very It's gonna I reckon cast a route as a good chance next week of getting it getting a deep run because slower court and I hasn't had a great year, but you know Gives him more time on the ball. He lost Who did lose to who did who did rude lose to this week? Runa as well. Brublev, you know those guys that played well Monte Carlo Maybe expect them to do well in Rome. I Rude lost to a naughty in the first round in the second round. Okay And we said he needs to come back strong. So, you know, maybe watch out for him in in Rome FAA needs to just win a friggin match Yeah, I'm expecting I Don't know I'm not expecting Alkras to win Rome if he does that'll be incredible, but I don't expect him To win room. He made the finals. He got the semi-final maybe or the quarter-final, but Depends on his draw. I don't think you win as that goes in the net from Alcras on the passing shot 30 love Rome draw comes out tomorrow for them for the man Rome Rome draw comes out tomorrow Women's draws already out. I just put it on social media God how old I said I put it on Twitter Go check it out. It's on Twitter All right, 30 love struff just trying to hang around four to four hand rally another one from Alcras goes The find of struff Alcras starting to hit some good shots and he hits a winner on his forehand That forehand is getting better 30 15 Roob level is gonna be the number two seed. I think so 30 15 Root can't win if rude doesn't play Alcaras root can I think I think people but I'm expecting like rude to be good next week Because Ruth played well in Rome pretty much the last couple of seasons I think in 2020 played well last year. He got to the semis So I'm expecting expecting a lot from rude next week. I'm expecting to have a good run unless he plays You know Alcras in the third but in the in the quarters or something, but I double fault Get back to this because Alcras is about to get a double break here. He is six points away from winning this match 30 all struff need to serve Almost two hours and this might go two and a half hours depending on struff As he serves Down to see the back of Alcras return goes in the back end of struff goes in the line to the front of Alcras Who hits it out? Oh Alcras with a flick forehand just goes long 40 30 40 30 and struff serves a Fault no the ball was good They're gonna replay the point. Okay Struff hit a great serve and Alcras just kicking the line By the way, don't forget to join the fan slam for next week Rome fan slam next week I don't think this draws. I don't think it's out. I don't think you can pick your team yet But some you should be able to soon as we return now that goes out again from struff. No, this is This is getting sketchy for struff now Doce Just got to be really careful double break you go and come back from five one No way Alcras gives that break or gives that lead away. All right doce So about why the front of Alcras returned the volley of struff in the net Struff gets it, but it hits it in the net and it's advantage Alcaraz five points away from the dub back-to-back wins in my and Madrid His fourth Masters 1000 series event at the age of 20 years and what one day? 20 years old and one day Serve from struff down to the point of Alcras. I was in the net good serve from struff And we're back to doce back to doce Struff with another serve He's serving well like his first serves being very very effective today struff Has it to find a line at the back of Alcras passing shot? One of the best shots of the day from Alcaraz and he brings up another break point Vantage Alcaraz To get the double break and serve the match Like I said one of the worst one of the ugliest matches Alcras has ever played in a final I don't think we've seen him play this poor But that might not matter as he serves struff out why the back end of Alcras return the phone of struff Struff it's a winner. Whoo clean from struff Back to doce. All right back to doce As struff survives again still down a break though serve as a fault second serve Well, we're almost at 900 likes appreciate that There's been a second set of struff for the form of Alcras, but it's a let From struff serve again Struff trying to hang on he serves into the form of Alcras return the phone of struff Alcras with the forehand again to the form of struff cross-court forehands at the moment as Alcras goes down On the line of the back in a struff again to the front of Alcras back in a struff again to the front of Alcras It's a wide down the line. He went after it Alcras, but he missed Forehand is slowly getting better Invented struff six minute game. He's played some long service games today struff number the 15 minute game in the second set Huge get long games For struff just to hang around serve that wide struff comes in with the forehand puts it away Okay, nice hold from struff He stays in the match Follow up for two now because of the break What I think about Shrion tech's draw got to be honest I looked at the draw for like I haven't really looked at the draw enough But I mean look Shrion tech Should be fine. I mean There's not even that many crazy unseated players to worry about Yeah, I mean Like who's I mean Samson over is not not easy, but in a fourth round We're back in a minor maker, but again, it's wrong. It's slow. And I think I think Shrion take Shrion take might just She might just win like she might go undefeated like like without losing a set next week. I Expect Shrion tech to go go through Rome without dropping too many sets It's gonna be a much better much better for her 15 love good serve from Alcras It wouldn't really matter what her draw was because she's so much she's so much better in Rome Rome super fast that's Definitely Untrue As we're serving the back end of struff return goes long 30 love Alcras serving a little better as well That helps get the free points 30 love Again hasn't been the Hasn't been the cleanest final Well, we're almost at a thousand likes though you guys are you guys are ridiculous. Thank you for joining Hopefully you've enjoyed what even though this match might not be as pretty as we expect It's still being tense as we had a second serve now from Alcras 30 love the turn goes out from struff 40 love As I was getting to try to get the five two in this final set and Look strip put on a good show on the second set even the first set Unfortunately the double faults killed him in the first set. He had four double faults, which ultimately got him broken But he's been competitive struff It's not in the final set out because it's got a bit better as we're to return from stuff that goes out What does it go in? No, it goes long easy hole for Alcras. It's five two in the final set. He's one game away One game away and look again strips had a hell of a week He's had a hell of a week. He wasn't even supposed to be in this tournament let alone the final so career high ranking on the cards Massive final he's beaten some big names. He's actually having a really good clay court season He played well in Monte Carlo. He's played well here you know He's had a very nice couple of months or a couple of weeks on the clay Okay Let's answer some questions The question How are we doing shall we? We hanging in there Not the brilliance from Alcras we expect but the grit. It's a gritty win from Alcras If he gets it and again almost of almost a thousand likes appreciate that will have a speech at the end Well, if they don't That'd be crazy. I predicted this gone three nice Does he really have to go through the qualifying rounds again in Rome struff? No, I think he got he got promoted to the main drawer didn't he I? thought stuff got promoted because of withdrawals Him and carrots have I think got upgraded I think Might not be a official. I Saw it on Twitter. It must be real Right, yeah, yeah, he got he got promoted. I think I think Where'd he go? Thought I saw him in the main draw. Oh, no, he's there and it hasn't been upgraded yet anyways Five two down in the final set struff. He's trying to stay alive in the final the man. It's been a Very tough win for Alcras the struff of seven volleys. I was guessing with a lob Love goes long 15 love struff Lovely from struff serve volley tennis Okay 15 love Sure for the serve is a fault second serve second serve Second serve down the tee is an ice bang huge serve down the tee from struff 30 love 30 love Make Alcras serve for the match 30 love Serves a fault second serve second serve Is it into the back end of Alcras back in there from struff again to the back of Alcras into the form of struff struff. It's a long On the forehand and it's 30 15 struff just trying to make Alcras serve this out by the way the Miami Grand Prix they've got like a pool Like a pool party and stuff where the hell was that at the tennis all right 30 15 serve is an ace again Two aces in the game hasn't done that today Serves big but he hasn't served that many aces 40 15 To make Alcras serve for this match He serves on the tape a fault second serve second serve Into the back of Alcras return the form of struff Alcras backhand on the stretch goes in line in the form of struff Again at the form of Alcras the forehand off struff and struff hits it long 40 30 By the way, it looks like I'm looking at the Grand Prix. It looks like it's gonna start pouring rain Miami's weather shit. It was shitting for the tennis. It's gonna be shit for the formula one. Okay Still the chance here 40 30 chance for struff to just stick around He says on the tape that's a fault second serve second serve Now why the back end of Alcras struff with the volley in the net were a douche. Oh, oh Struff in trouble now two points away Alcras from the title Struff was up 40 15 in this game And still getting a little annoyed at himself. He doesn't want to go out like this Douche as struff says down the tee. That's a great serve return in the net from Alcras Advantage struff to make Alcras serve this out We'll go to the power rankings really quickly after this after this game is We're gonna serve out wide actually we'll go to the power ranks at the end of the match as I go down from Alcras five three Struff survives But Alcras is gonna serve For the match and the championship back-to-back Madrid titles. He went back to back in Rome And he's serving to go back to back in Madrid five three Alcras serving this match is kind of similar to yesterday scoreboard wise. Well, yeah scoreboard wise, but Quality definitely not the same quality. That's for sure Yesterday's final was a lot cleaner, but hey, this is just as intense And the number two in the world serving for the match Serving to the form of struff one of my okra's drop shot too good Lovely drop shot again From Alcras 15 love he hasn't done many But the ones he has done a beautiful three points away Again, don't forget to subscribe. We haven't already. We are coming back For Rome next week. If you've been enjoying Madrid, you'll enjoy Rome, too Lot of the same names a lot of a lot more names are playing in Rome according to the early Not as many withdrawals a lot of players coming back to Rome as Alcras serves an ace bang Jokovic at this stage is playing for home We're also getting sinner back for Rome, which is gonna be huge on the men's side 30 love and of course the ladies are all playing At this stage, we don't know what you burrs doing, but all the ladies have played well this week They're coming back 30 love Alcras two points away He serves the back end of struff back in America's is good still for the slice. I'll come through the volley puts it away Three championship points for Carlos Alcras By Venus Williams at the tennis. Oh, sorry at the formula one Bit of a tennis flavor. All right Here it is Carlos a Serena's there, too Hey, the Serena's there. What's up with Serena? She's uh, Miami. All right, Alcras Sorry, I got distracted 40 love he's got three championship points to take his fourth Masters 1000 He's back to back in Madrid And to keep winning in Spain he serves Out wide the back in a struff return goes out Alcras wins he falls to the floor And he goes back to back in Madrid. It wasn't pretty but he gets the job done winning ugly at its best GGs Well, let's pay a little bit of respect to shrift for a second because the man's got a career high ranking now He was a lucky loser. He lost this tournament twice and still made the final that never happens Biggest final of his life got a set pushed Alcras to the end Roger Federer on the uh in miami. I see him As Alcras wins Federer in miami interesting. All right How crazy is that for three years ago two years ago? What's his name was playing here? He wasn't at the formula one. All right. By the way, we got 2000 likes Thank you. Don't forget to subscribe. We're going to stick around for a little bit longer Just to hang out and talk about Rome as well. What's going to happen next week is Alcras going to play I think he will by the way Uh, it looks like George, uh, George Russell is all over Roger Federer at the moment and the miami Grand Prix George Russell for his fanboying over over Fed. He's like, oh, oh, Roger Well, look, we'd all be doing it too. Oh, they're talking to Federer there. Hang on. Let me hear what Federer has to say They're talking to Fed at the formula one He's gone for Lewis and George He's gone for Mercedes Federer Federer is Federer somewhere the labor cup Oh Federer is in the house Serena Federer all the tennis players are the freaking formula one Anyways Federer is going for Mercedes apparently. So, uh, there you go Federer a Mercedes fan. Okay Again, thank you so much for joining. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Um, let's have a chat. What's up chat? How we doing? How we doing a little bit of a Roger flavor at the end of that match love it They're all at the formula one. Yep the William sisters Federer Rafa's probably there Rafa's probably there somewhere hiding Um, all right Uh, thanks cam for the streams all wig. No worries. Melissa. Thank you for joining us Well la cool jay is uh Singing or I don't know what he's on No worries. Thank you for the thank you for joining us anybody who uh was here all week appreciate it Thanks for taking the time Greatest of all times felt goat Jay great commentary as always cam happy for Carlitos What do you attribute the issue with Carlos? Was it pressure weather playing style back to number one? Thank you jay for the 20 can we get some solace for jay in the chat, please uh, very generous, um I think it was just style. I think strut style Was very was it was tough. I think it took time away From elcores at times and maybe elcores elcores played poor until the end the last couple like probably about At the start of the third set that's when he actually started playing normal, but um, you know, let's say maybe just probably the aggression from The aggression from sort of the big serving The serve volley tennis as well like that, you know constant pressure to try and hit winners Um, I think that might have just struggled elcores might have struggled with that and then it just couldn't get in a rhythm but The best players in the world win even when they're not playing their best That's exactly what elcores did He clutched it exactly clutched it even though he's playing bad Uh, the depth of the one uh, the top 100. Is it an all-time high for the men? No I mean look Elcores played well enough at the end Maybe a little complacency too, you know, maybe he came out here and he thought oh, I can beat this guy, you know It's my house whatever I won this last year, but Yeah, strut wasn't mucking around and look if strut served a little better He served a little he got a few more first serves and he might have won this match. So You know strut uh strut might be especially that first set especially that first set well, because Will elcores be number one next week? It depends on jokovic. I I'm not 100 sure whether or not Look if jokovic doesn't play rome, then yes if jokovic plays rome. I think still yes elcores Which makes you think will jokovic play rome next week? If he knows he can't even be number one like there's no reason to play rome if he's still hurt, right? I don't know No way is still number one for now But next week after rome if elcores plays rome Elcores might not play rome and then that means jokovic has to win rome To stay number one again. I don't know if the math is 100 correct But at the as far as we know it's five points between them And if you play the if you play one round in the uh in rome as a seed to play you get 10 points So even if you lose So elcores just needs to show up at rome and he gets 10 points, which is enough Even if jokovic wins the title because remember jokovic has zero points To gain You know only is a thousand points to lose though So it all will find out the next in the next couple of days Or probably tomorrow, right? I doubt jokovic will win rome. Okay Thanks for commentary, mate. See you all next tomorrow for the draw. No worries. EJ. We'll see you later Was beyond borg in the stands. He was he was he's sitting in the stands today Jokovic is still number one till the 22nd of may. Yes, so he's number one until after rome When rome finishes, that's when things could change Again, it depends if elcores plays rome if jokovic plays rome You know if one of them does and the other doesn't then we'll talk about that Look if jokovic is going to pull out a rome he'd pull out before the draw because he's done it You know, he always gets a lot of backlash when the draw Um, when he when he says i'm gonna play and then he doesn't remember last year So I think if jokovic is going to withdraw it'll be before tomorrow's draw So We'll wait and see Please explain the point system simply It's based on 52 week system. So whatever you did last year at this event is the amount of points that you Lose next week next year. So For elcores last year. He won a thousand points here. Then at the start of his tournament, he lost those thousand points But then because he won this tournament again He gained the thousand again. So one at the start of every every tournament You lose the points that you made the year before and you basically have to do it again So elcora jokovic he won rome. So next so this year He loses all the points And in order to get those points back he has to win it again to keep those points if he doesn't win He loses, you know, if he makes the final he'll lose. He'll get some of them back, but he won't get all of them back that makes sense Elcores didn't play rome So that means next this year he can play rome and he everything he wins He gets for he gets points for because he has zero points to defend That makes sense But only on 16 tournaments, right? Something like that. But uh, but with the 1000 events most of them are your best tournaments So it depends on yeah, I think it's like again, we don't want to get too complicated, but As simple as that as as simple as I can make it without drawing a drawing a picture As about as simple as I can do it Madrid to elcores feels like Monte Carlo. What's the Nadal? um No No He's won two in a row I mean, I'll tell you who's won two tournaments. Who's won two madrid's in a row Well, actually probably rafa has won all of them, right? I wouldn't say this feels like elcores's house like it did with rafa Because the difference was that with rafa Not only did he win madrid, but then he also won the other ones Yeah, Barcelona as well, right? But no, this doesn't feel like elcores's tournament to lose every year It means variables won this twice, right? Federer won it three times even during Nadal's reign and Nadal's won it One two three four times on clay. So not that many times Murray wanted a couple of the one as well jockovic's there So yeah, it doesn't really it doesn't feel like elcores's house yet. If he wins three in a row Then we could talk but Especially this one, I don't know. Look Elcores can only beat the guys who played But it felt like this tournament this madrid for the men Was not the same quality as it should have been, you know, we didn't have the goats We didn't have guys like, you know, baritini sinna It was a it was a compromise draw for sure And the best player that elcores played all week in terms of ranking was hashenov So he didn't have to play any top ten guys Not saying that it's any less impressive, but he didn't have to play any top tenors Last year was much more impressive when he beat, you know Obviously beat the two goats and then beat varev. This year he beat charich hashenov's varev demitrov out of the seeds Roussevore and struff who were unseated were the only two matches that actually Took a set off him, which is weird But you know, he didn't have to play city pass. He didn't have to play Uh rude. He didn't have to play roublev He avoided those guys. He avoided Musetti, which could have been a tough match. He avoided runa Uh, he even voted for quino, which, you know, for quino has been tough Um So, yeah, there was a lot of players even nori. He avoided nori who uh has beaten him on clay So yeah, I again, I wouldn't say I look great win for elcores. You can only beat the guys who played but I wouldn't say this is elcores his tournament to lose just yet Not the same. It doesn't feel the same as when raffa was kicking ass when raffa played on this This it was played in general. You thought shit. He doesn't lose games. It was like fiontech Last year, right Elcores a breath of fresh air In men's tennis people step up and play well against him generally His games are exciting and his great ambassador. He has great trades greatness. Yeah, for sure Loved it. We love watching. Uh, good fun. So much fun Answer me. Well, that's the first I'm not gonna answer you if you're gonna shout Uh, do you think Strouf will win a tournament now more confidence Yeah, look, I think this will give him a hell of a lot of confidence Um, will he win a tournament on clay? Probably not. You probably go and win one on uh on a grass court, maybe or You know, maybe you'll win one on the hard courts of america, but Yeah, I think strouf should get look he's 33. He doesn't have that much time left, but Um, you know, if he unless he plays until 40, but yeah strouf can win a title I mean he should he almost won this title. You know first set goes a different way. He could have won this match um Do you think elcores can make the finals of rome? it depends on the draw because Elcores hasn't played rome before In fact, I don't think he's ever played rome. So I don't think it depends. It just depends on the draw depends on the draw Let's go to the power range for a second Now this is what the power rankings looked like before this event tomorrow or the next day whenever whenever it is Before rome, this will get upgraded again Uh updated to be more of a clay court flavor. I reckon because now we've had a few about four or five weeks on clay Uh, you can see mevredev at number one elcores at two, but elcores will go to number one Yep, I've no I have a little doubt about that I think he'll go to number one winning his fourth title of the year and mevredev at elcores mevredev the hard court king elcores the clay court king this year Uh, when usually it's jockovish nadal dominating, right? Uh, there you go sinner at number three, which is you know, he'll be back next week Rubelev at four runa at five fritz at six jockovish at seven Citi pass at eight liveage at nine and hashin up at ten I expect liveage to stay where he is because he had a really good week hashin up two Um, citi pass might struggle struf's gonna go up. I think we're gonna agree with that Runa he might stick around in the top ten fritz as well. Oh, sorry fritz fritz actually had a bad loss to to song who Wasn't a bad loss in hindsight, but it was a bad loss at the time Um, so look we're gonna start seeing a little bit more of a clay court flavor expect elcores to be number one Um, Medvedev losing the character might push him down to maybe number possibly number three Uh, or number four depending on rubelev how high he rises, but um, yeah power rankings will look very interesting blue cup By the way is a team trophy Uh, united cup for the americans. That's why they have a blue trophy. Okay um Palo vindizel just flexing too many times okay, he's Talking anyways, um vindizel just playing up to the camera big time Anonymous has to be a lot of pressure on alcaras to win this match Yeah, imagine if he had lost in home country against a lucky loser the internet trolls would have crucified him Yeah, that is the pressure now for him to win every match Well, yeah, he has a lot of pressure in in madrid and and basa loner, right because he is um You know being the hometown favorite And everyone's looking for uh, everyone's looking for a um looking for raffa 2.0, right? They're like, well, we got we didn't usually see a raffa, but he's not here. So elcores is their new guy So there is a lot of pressure being spanish Hey, thank you la for coming back for another month. Appreciate that. Thanks for the great commentary Can fans the best. Thank you la. You're the best Uh, vlado back for another month as well 10 months appreciate But yeah, look because the spaniards have been so the spanish crowd has been so spoiled right With with raffa dominating their tournaments over the last You know Nearly 20 years Now elcores has come along and sort of taken his place The expectation on elcores is huge because they're like, well We expect you to win everything because you're spanish And raffa did it so you have to do it now So there's a huge expectation on elcores To be a spanish winner, you know hometown hero Elcores said he wants to win wimbledon Yeah, that'd be interesting That would be very interesting. Carlos is expected to win all tournaments. He has tremendous pressure. He has tremendous pressure I don't think elcores is expected in all tournaments I don't expect him to win rome People think he's like in the betting it's he's the favorite for the french I mean we'll find out next week if anyone steps up and decides they want to be in the conversation, but I don't expect like when he's playing in madrid at home. Yeah, he's gonna be expected to win But I don't I wouldn't expect him to win rome. Does that who thinks who's gonna who thinks elcores gonna win rome next week? You reckon elcores is gonna win rome? He's the favorite because he won this week, but He also played the last couple of weeks, you know, he's played a lot tennis lately And if you don't think it's elcores, who do you think's gonna win? Yeah, I think elcores will make it deep in rome, but I don't know if he's gonna win I don't know who he loses to but I don't know if he's gonna win Elcores gonna win rome record. I look It's such a slow surface Elcores could to be honest elcores could play somebody And lose early like third round unexpectedly remember Monte Carlo when he lost a quarter And we thought elcores was gonna win everything and he lost a quarter in the second round of Monte Carlo We're like, what the hell happened there? Quarter's great, but also we didn't expect it, right? So I don't know. I'm a little Not worried, but I'm a little I'm holding off on elcores winning rome because It's a lot slower than Madrid And he's not going to get the easy free points that he uh that he likes to get Cine for I think Cine could could win rome. Yeah, Cine could beat elcores to win rome I think city pass might get might be able to get revenge possibly in on a slow surface of rome Runa, okay. See look there are names that I think are going to be competitive for sure Rude is going to win rome. Can you imagine? Who am I picking for roma? I don't know actually. I've got to wait for the draw to come out Rubelev could win rome. Yeah, true. I want to see rubelev take on elcores. Come on now. This is getting silly I want to see them friggin play It's been too it's just taking forever We'll get them playing eventually Can elcores ever win rome? Yeah, I think he'll win rome one day, but I just don't think he's going to win rome I mean rome's going to be one of the hardest ones for him to win Because it's so slow He's not he doesn't get the free points, you know city pass looks He could lose to anybody Does he though? I mean city pass lost a fritz at Monte Carlo. He lost a he lost a struff here and he lost to elcores and Barcelona I mean Yeah, he hasn't done as well as weeks as usual, but I think I think losing a struff. I mean that was not a bad loss because struff Struff had a very aggressive game for the entire week I think I think city pass might win rome If jockovish doesn't play Rome is not as slow it's not slower than the french, but it's as it's as slow as the french What tennis players like slow surfaces? you know city pass um Nadal obviously rude, I think will would like it better Uh, yeah, no one's playing rome at this stage He hasn't pulled out yet Rome is like a 20 is like 22 on the index, right? Yeah, it's it's it was it was 22 like a few years ago, and I don't think it's changed Also, it's usually wet in Rome. So it's usually heavy conditions, you know not it's not high It's on normal altitude. So it's not going to be as far like, you know, the ball's not going to be flying through as fast So a lot of the players that played well this week Um, like I don't know well struff. I don't know But yeah, the players that got three points this week are not going to have it as easy next week Was rome or was it raining Where it's always yeah, rome's always raining. Um What's the weather next week in rome? Ah It's going to be raining Terrible weather on oh sh gah yuck Wednesday, thursday, friday sat day sunday. It's going to rain in rome. Oh god. It's going to rain for the whole week And they don't have a roof Oh chat, we're going to have to do a lot of tier list next week. It's going to be 26 degrees Celsius So it's nearly 80 degrees on tuesday and then when the actual tournament starts wednesday thursday friday It's going to be thunderstorms and rain Oh, it's going to be like consistently raining. Oh god rome's going to be a nightmare Oh god, it's going to be so hard to watch Oh god, it's going to be so hard to watch It's going to be so slow too the matches are going to be very very slow and far between because it's going to be a lot of delays Bring your umbrellas everybody in rome bring your umbrellas Oh god damn it It doesn't have a roof There are no roofs in rome. It's going to be we might not even get started until like next tuesday Tuesday week Oh god damn it. Okay They haven't got a roof They haven't got a roof Why don't they make it indoors because they don't have a roof Maybe make it indoors. How? Yeah, we've got plenty of stuff to do during rain delays. Don't worry. I got ideas I got things don't worry Sissy battles Varev who is playing better? Uh, who's better player uh city bus Man rome should move their venue. Oh man. No roof is ridiculous. I mean it rains every year in rome. We always get delays Oh god, it's going to be brutal strap yourself at least we know what's what to expect. Yeah Tennyson slow motion. Yeah, it's going to be a slow Grind you thought this week was slow some of you said well someone's in the chat the other day This tournament's taking too long Just you wait You're not gonna like rome rome's gonna be brutal There's gonna be delays. There's gonna be all kinds of shit next week It's gonna be hard to watch It's gonna be very hard to watch But i remember rome in the 2000s was Always studying like in the worlds what happened. I don't know The weather just got crap No All right, everybody. I'm out of here Formula one's gonna start. I'm gonna watch that. I'm also gonna put a video together because uh, I know I need to feed you guys content um But they even joining us. What a week. What a great week What a great two weeks because this tournament is uh, basically a mini slam at this stage um I'm on a miss Alcara seemed rattled today, but glad he was able to pull out a win Building mental strength bicep spain Bicep spain indeed. Thank you for the uh, two bucks. Thank you everybody who became a member and uh joined and donated this week appreciate All the all the donations. It's very generous Um, yeah, we're watching the draw tomorrow for rome. I have no idea when it's on but um, stay tuned Because we'll watch the men's draw tomorrow Uh for rome stay tuned for all the uh content. You know that we're gonna the ranking show comes out Uh today Every monday ranking show you guys You guys know Oh formula one just start um And then rome next week. We're gonna be starting possibly on thursday depends on the draw Uh depends on the women because women start on the month on the wednesday then men start on the friday So we might might watch something in the first couple of days But it's so hard to watch rome, isn't it because uh hard to watch these events in the first two days Because it's not usually any really massive names in the first couple of days, but We'll see what happens. We'll see uh, if if any matches and hopefully it doesn't rain that much that we can actually Watch matches when the big players start to play but uh preview draw ceremony all that stuff previews coming out as well Stay tuned for all of the rome All of the rome uh preview stuff that is going to come out because that's what we do every big event So stay tuned again. Thank you for joining us. Don't forget to like subscribe all that stuff Alcro's goes back to back in madrid 643663 It wasn't pretty But he gets the trophy anyway, and he's now a back-to-back madrid open winner. Can he get the dirty double? Winning rome. I will find out we'll find out how his draw looks We'll see who actually plays in rome as well because there's a lot of withdrawals from this tournament But hey strip created history this week and alcro's only 20 20 20 year and one day birthday Get the trophy. Is that a thing? No See ya