 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and we have another exhibition tournament done and dusted over this off-season The Derrilla Tennis Cup, which was happening in Saudi Arabia. That is finished with some big names playing in that event Let's go over look at all the results from that tournament. So it was a pretty unique tournament We had a first round where they played three Super tie breaks as the way to find out who would make the quarterfinals I guess the big upset was that Cam Norrie beat Nick Curios who you would expect to play really well in tie break situations So that's a pretty big upset there in the quarterfinals They played a best of three set match with a super tie break in the final set I guess the biggest upset there was Vavrenka taking out Rubelev also Norrie beat Sidney passing straight sets Which I thought was a little bit strange as well and you can see there We had Mehvedev beatings Varev good to see Varev back on a court And even though the scoreline was really one-sided to Mehvedev in that first set It was actually pretty close in that match and Fritz also beat her catch in a very close straight sets match as well In the semi-finals we had Mehvedev taking out Vavrenka and also Fritz taking out Norrie in a very close match going all the way to a super tie break and interestingly enough We actually had doubles matches between all the losers of the first couple of rounds And I guess the funniest combination there was the fact that Curios and Sidney pass were a team after what happened at Wimbledon A little bit awkward, but they have played doubles before so I guess they do know each other's games pretty well And then the final between Fritz and Mehvedev and Taylor Fritz got the win in straight sets 7 6 7 6 Mehvedev was the defending champion of this tournament back in 2019 So Fritz getting a big payday and also getting a big win over someone that he's probably gonna play a lot of next year Considering they're both top ten guys and in the doubles who be her catch who teamed up with Strikker They defeated Baratini and Rubelev which was very interesting because those two guys were probably the least talked about combination Her catch and Strikker the two guys that you would never put together Or never think you'd see together because not too many people know about Strikker and her catch I guess is more known for his singles these days than his doubles But he is a very good doubles player so they took out the doubles over the more popular Baratini and Rubelevs There you have it the Derea Cup which is a new exhibition event I guess well sort of new second one we've had over the last couple of years of course COVID shut it down for a few years And we've got plenty more exhibition tournaments to go until the Australian Open and the Australian Summer which starts at the end of this month What do you reckon about these exhibitions? Are you taking much notice? Are you watching them? Let me know down in the comments below. Are you taking the results seriously or do you take them as face value like there are Exhibition events they're not going to be serious and maybe when they play next year the results actually will go to the players that we expect to win in these sort of matchups