 what's going on everybody welcome to the final of Madrid it's a rematch of the Stuttgart final that we had about two weeks ago same ladies number one versus number two we hadn't had it for like four years and now I've got two two events in two or three weeks and it's gonna be interesting I reckon this one's gonna be a little closer than we saw last time because last time one of the best Masters Fjord takes played all year Sabalenke didn't play bad either back in Stuttgart but I feel like on this court it seems to be favoring those kind of big hitters and if Sabalenke can serve well like she has been for the most part of this week and last week this could be very very close I'm gonna put you through the preview first what's your bet Cam I'll tell you in a second let's go to preview though because these two ladies have actually played a couple of times on the clay and well we know recently right Yggish Fjontec versus Arena Sabalenke is the women's final for the Madrid Open for 2023 and both ladies cruised for their semi-finals to get to this stage Sabalenke started the tournament off as the number two seed we're gonna buy in the first round in the second round she take on Castella who had actually beaten her earlier in the year in Miami but Sabalenke got a revenge getting through in straight sets six four six three and the third round she take on the wild card Osorio who had had some solid wins to get to this stage this was no problem for Sabalenke getting through in straight sets six four seven five in the fourth round she take on another wild card the teen sensation on Draver who had taken out Adage Maya and Lynette to get to the stage after a close first set experience showed and prevailed Sabalenke winning six three six one to get to another Madrid quarter-final in the quarter-finals Sabalenke would take on the unseated Shariff who had been very impressive to get to the quarter-finals and after dropping the first set Sabalenke would have to fight back to win two six six two six one to advance to the semi-finals and the semi-finals Sabalenke would take on the number nine seed Zachary she'd never played on a clay court and after a close first set Sabalenke would run away with it six four six one to advance to another Madrid final. Shriyantek started the tournament off that's the number one seed and we'll get a buy in the first round and the second round she take on the lucky loser grabber this was no problem for Shriyantek getting through in straight sets six three six two in the third round she take on the number twenty eight seed para but again this was no problem for Shriyantek getting through in straights six three six two in the fourth round she take on the sixteenth seed Alexandrova who had taken out Zheng in the previous round and this is where the battle started Shriyantek being up a set and a break Alexandrova coming back the fourth or third Shriyantek eventually winning in two and a half hours six four six seven six three to advance to the quarterfinals in the quarterfinals Shriyantek would take on the number twenty seven seed Martich who'd just beaten Krajikova along the way this was by far the best win for Shriyantek so far getting through in just over an hour six love six three to advance to the semi-finals in the semi-finals Shriyantek would take on the number twelve seed Kunmatova who'd just beaten Pogula in the previous round just like their last three meetings this was no different Shriyantek winning easily six one six one to advance to her first Madrid final the two ladies have played seven times before with the head-to-head lead to Shriyantek five two including their last match was actually two weeks ago in the Stuttgart final with Shriyantek getting the win if Sabalang is gonna win this one she's gonna have to use the condition to her advantage we know this court is a little bit quicker than the average clay court is a little bit quicker than the Stuttgart court as well she's gonna have to serve big hit big and try and be aggressive Shriyantek's gonna win this one she needs to limit the errors there were times in that Kunmatova match where she was under a little bit of pressure from Kunmatova and we do know that he gets Alexandrova Shriyantek did have a struggle there with that power this would be the most powerful opponent she plays for the entire week so she's going to be prepared this is such a fun matchup it's been such a long time since we've got the number one and two in the world playing each other in consecutive finals so I'm excited to see this again I reckon Sabalang might get a revenge here I think she might win in three sets I'm going with the upset I reckon Sabalang is gonna get in three sets get revenge we might go to the French open hopefully we get round three on the clay over there but let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win the final all right going with the upset let's see what happens Shriyantek you can see they're dominated lost five games in our last two matches and Sabalangka if she plays like she did against Sharif she's probably not going to win she's probably not going to be a chance but she beats Zachary only dropping the five games very convincingly in that one so this is going to be fun this is going to be very interesting to see 1v2 the second tournament in a row arena Sabalangka world number two 24 year old from Belarus she is 5 foot 11 right handed 23 wins four losses on the year two titles including the Australian Open 12 career titles including winning this title two years ago beating Ash Barty in the final the world number one at the time you can see that her form has been very solid and Igor Shriyantek the world number one 21 year old from Poland she is 5 foot 9 right handed 20 wins four losses so she's got a couple more Sabalangka's got a couple more wins than Shriyantek this year they both have two titles though this year 13 career titles for Shriyantek including a few a couple of French opens and her form has been as impressive and there's the head to head five two in favour of Shriyantek look Stuttgart we know what we've seen Sabalangka the last three years at that event struggle just cannot get there maybe it's the maybe it's the the fact there's a car on the line she hasn't been so close and she just can't get it maybe that's why she can't win Stuttgart maybe it's not about the opponents about the her own mentality but this time this is a tournament she has won and this is a tournament Shriyantek hasn't won she's trying to win her first Madrid title she said a few months ago that she really liked she really feel like she suits this place maybe it's the altitude maybe it's a bit of quick court you know we know the French open is a much slower court and that's what she's won a few times Rome next week will be a lot slower than this but Shriyantek still in the final and I guess the person that all like took Shriyantek the furthest in this tournament Alexandrova that's the match I'm looking at if Sabalangka plays like better than Alexandrova did and Shriyantek plays the same as she did against Alexandrova that's where Sabalangka may be able to get the win but it's all about mentality too she's gotta make she gotta believe she can win as well how are we chatter we ready for the big final tomorrow we've got another similar style final with a big hit a big server versing a competent clay quarter in Strouf versus Elkres that's coming out tomorrow uh this time tomorrow so we're ready to go but um man this is uh this feels like the French open final right somebody in the chat said earlier this tournament's felt like a slam it has and that's because it's a big it's a much bigger draw these tournaments and next week in Rome we're going to fill out what's in the French open again or at least another mini French open because these tournaments are now massive like they've extended the and this is the idea right this is why they extended the draw to make us all think shit this is a big deal like this is a big trophy like you've worked your arse off to get here it's taken five matches for these ladies to get to this point you're gonna win six matches or you don't have to win six matches very often to win a title but these two trophies you do now Madrid on the line she wants it coming out with some music where you reckon she listens to all right ready and waiting so excited i'm excited too it's excited very excited when's the draw come out for Rome I think comes out Monday Monday uh at some point all right today because weather is too nice not to touch grass all right enjoy outside all right she wants to go the headphones and that bloody robot I'll tell you what that robot is going to go rogue it's going to pull out a gun get it in a video game bloody hell that thing is horrific everything is that thing is horrifying I expect the umpire to just get and this is going to like donkey kick it and just go and kick the umpire over the fence I mean that's just how that's that's scary it's like hey why don't we get the don't get the robot leave the robot doesn't he's be like I feel like the robot's getting disrespected too it's like here take the balls out of the umpire and he's like oh he's trotting away he's like I'll get you oh don't you worry I'll get my friends that thing is absolutely terrifying I don't I don't want I don't I don't like it I don't like a chat I don't like it take that thing out and take off its legs I don't like it I don't want to see that thing it's horrifying um is this the fight this is the final yes it is the final uh what do you think about the ball go controversy um oh look I mean to be honest I don't care who if it's a kid an adult like I don't really care because I'm not paying attention to the to the ball kids or the ball models or whatever they call um if they change them okay if they keep them I mean I don't really care we must talk about cake gate yeah let's talk about the fact that the guy who's from Spain got a massive cake when others got small cakes I mean what are we talking about come on we've got nothing else to talk about we don't want to talk about tennis and this amazing final we're going to talk about cakes let's get over the cakes Savalanca got a small cake because she is not Spanish and Alcruz got a humongous wedding cake because he's from Spain Runa got a mud cake from the general store when it was his birthday because nobody knew who he was I mean what are you doing what are we doing big fuss out of nothing if this was in Belarus I'm sure they'd I don't know throw a parade and Alcruz would get a you know he would get a souvenir what do you want uh strip gonna win tomorrow all right we'll find that out tomorrow won't we players ready to go anonymous cam looking forward to this match all me too side note Dasha's girlfriend put a good behind the scenes youtube video on the tournament nice didn't realize the tickets were so expensive yeah I have to watch I haven't watched it yet I have to uh have to take a look at it thank you um what is the ball girl controversy please the but the okay so I'll tell you the controversy then we'll get over get past it because it's not I mean so okay so Madrid hire models to be bold people they hire models so that is the that is it they hire models they used to have I think when they first start the tournament they hired models then they went to like just like regular adults and now they've gone back to models whatever reason they did that I don't know but that is that is the that is what's up I did I watch the king's king charlie's coronation I caught bits of it um yeah the part where they were like in the church singing and I was like okay cool and he was just standing there um but yeah no I didn't I didn't watch pretty much I watched like maybe 10 minutes how do you find out that how did you find out how do you find that information out um because I'm very I look at what's a lot of tennis stuff it's on twitter I mean it's on it's it's it's barely it's a big big deal but I mean I to be honest it's just like I mean talking about the ball girl ball kids whatever the ball model whatever they're called talking about the people that pick up the balls talking about the cakes I mean I don't know it's a little it's a little like do you have any come on we can walk about what about taba linga versus frion tech let's talk about that right all right seven five seven six frion tech she wants to send a fight now okay well what taba linga is going to serve first now taba linga serve is a big massive deal we know that's going to be a huge factor in this one especially on this court you know taba linga serve pretty well uh in sook guard but frion tech was able to get the ball back and get in the rallies let's see on this little a bit of faster court faster conditions now it is kind of mid-afternoon so it's going to be you know not direct sunlight it's going to be a little bit of shade going to be playing in the shade so that might help frion tech i get a little i guess get the ball back but we'll see uh i think the whole match depends on taba linga serve of course i mean that is if taba linga doesn't serve well then taba linga will not win or will not even test frion tech frion tech just has to play the game she's been playing like there's nothing like i know we're talking a lot about taba linga to start with but it's like well because we know what frion tech's gonna do it's about how can taba linga get to frion tech's level because frion tech's already up here if frion tech plays bad then we could have a chat about like oh jeez okay but we know if frion tech plays decent she'll win it's taba linga who has to play better than her best to compete and that's where we'll get a good match or we'll get um you know one of these frion tech winning easily or you know whatever let's see what happens though it's gonna be interesting sometimes we do see we're like with we're back in a version of fion tech we have seen you know big hitters kind of overpowerish fion tech as well so i mean that could happen but frion tech has to be off like has to be you know a little bit off the dart retires by the end of the year i think that's a shame that'd be that'd be a shame uh hey what's going on zack i want taba linga to win the trophy but i bet three sets uh chill at home watching the derby oh nice lots of sports on today uh rubelab and hashenov won the doubles i did i saw that at the end they won a super tie break nice to see they they were so they were so wholesome with their trophy uh ceremony was so cool they were so nice they were so uh so happy about like they looked so thrilled all right here we go chat the biggest match of the event the start remember this is the dirty double the dirty double what does that mean it means that you win madrid and rome the clay court dirt double that's the dirty double one of these ladies is going to have a chance to win it if they win this tournament i think if fion tech wins this event she's definitely most likely to win rome i think rome's going to be a little bit of a struggle for sabalenka but we'll find out first you're going to get through the first one the crowd's going nuts there's a massive crowd in there too which we love to see because we know that wta crowds can be lacking but there is a full house in today and that is what we want to see for a wta match here we go let me know who's going to win chat you know my pick i picked sabalenka in a revenge situation in three is we're going to back in a backhand rally first point here as we go down the line to the four under sabalenka on the stretch fion tech gets the first point of the final love 15 love 15 sabalenka serving first that could well she gets broken it could be a terrible thing she holds it'll be a great thing for her you can watch this on wta tv unfortunately we can't show it because that is that is illegal but you can hang out and uh we'll tell you i'll tell you exactly what's happening point point for point as that goes down the t and long from sabalenka first serves a fault second serve second serve sabalenka taking the time second serve into the backhand fion tech return goes long 15 all i love to see that there's a packed house there's so many people in the crowd for this one v2 clash and again like i said earlier we saw this last week or two weeks ago but we hadn't seen it since 2019 in the wta finals we're one versus two back then it was push give it takes on body so it's been a long time and i think it was something like what five six years since we saw number one and two playing a final which was back in like 2017 or something now we get a two weeks in a row is going to back and return for fion tech the four of sabalenka good shot at the four in a fion tech sabalenka forehand goes in the back and fion tech sabalenka starting to be hitting the ball big there fion tech in the net 30 15 lovely forehand now i think it was like wasn't it like wasniak yeah 2018 australian open there you go how was it hella bosniaki was that the one we talked about it last week or two weeks ago 30 15 serve about why the back and fion tech fion tech hits it wide there's the serve 40 15 40 15 sabalenka to get on the board first here two minutes in i'm having a look at the road to the finals as well when i was doing the previews and uh sat but fion tech had a much tougher road by the numbers is fion tech it's a positive winner unbelievable unbelievable as the winner first winner for her today for 40 30 fion tech's had to play uh all the every round she's played a seeded player except for the first uh the second round where she got a lucky loser she's played 28 seed pera 16 seed elegan drover 27 seed martich 12 seed kudamatova now the number two seed whereas sabalenka uh she only played a couple of seeds and that was actually she only played um sakuri everyone else was either a wild card or unseated so a big step up is we're gonna find our winner from fion tech and it's doce sabalenka's got a hit a better serve than that doce lovely forehand that'll give her confidence fion tech that is sabalenka serves not that hard to hit all right doce fion tech's family in the house dad and sister as we're served in a tea uh let from sabalenka all right sabalenka serves again sabalenka serves a fault second serve second serve taking her time she serves down the tea the back of fion tech who shanks it long sabalenka gets to advantage does anyone got any bets on this match by the way anybody got any uh anything anything on this match all right advantage sabalenka serve is a fault second serve second serve get the first game of the match serve to the back of fion tech return goes in the back into sabalenka back in his fion tech is shanked it goes in sabalenka back and crosscourt's good fion tech gets it back into the line from sabalenka is long and we're back to doce okay back to doce i feel like if sabalenka's going to get in a hitting match which fion a rally which fion tech she's got to go for the winners earlier the longer the rally goes the better fish fion tech i think we all we all can agree all right back to doce as we're to serve in the back of fion tech return the back into sabalenka for one as fion tech slice sabalenka in control with the back end inside out that's a good shot fion tech with a slice again goes long advantage sabalenka is the drop shot easier to hit uh no not for sabalenka if that's what you're saying fion tech can hear a good drop shot though sabalenka that's not something she should even she tried to do some slice backhands against sakuri was not that was not it fion tech though she's capable of hitting um hitting a variety of shots as we return now from fion tech the back of sabalenka down the line that's a winner there you go this is going to be our first game of the match seven minutes played one love sabalenka very nice hitting from her down the line there all right one love let's see if we can get more of that please again thank you so much for everybody here being here don't forget to like the video as well we're almost at 200 like 300 likes already cheers all right back to fion tech now let's see what she's got on her serve this might be a long one good hope you got your popcorn ready let's see what fion tech can do now when uh when sabalenka won this tournament back in 2021 beat bardi in the final uh if you don't know she actually lost the bardi in stook guard the week before much like this one you know lost sab uh fion tech two weeks ago she lost the bardi sabalenka two weeks before then she beats her in uh in the final in three sets and interestingly enough fion tech beat uh lost the bardi along the way when bardi made the final so kind of a little bit of a crossover there it's a bit of fault from fion tech second serve during that run by the way sabalenka was the number five c she beats vonaraeva kazakhina pagula mertens pablia chenkovah and then bardi in the final so it was a good run if you look two years back i mean kazakhina and pagula are now in the top 10 bardi of course we know who she is pablia chenkovah went on to make a french oven final two weeks later mertens is still a grand same champion doubles player um so yeah it was a it was a decent run 15 love 15 love shfion tech with a serve here's a fault second serve shfion tech serves into the back end of sabalenka and shfion tech hits the back end of the net 15 all 15 all eight minutes into this final 15 all shfion tech serves again now the court is also going to be quick fish fion tech so she might get some three points as well as fion tech serves into the front of sabalenka for nice fion tech inside out is on the line that's the top spin we're getting a challenge though so that top spin that's the difference between shfion tech and everyone else everyone else hits it with flat power shfion tech hits it with wicked spin and the ball just dips and hits the line 30 15 99 percent of players would have hit that out but that extra little bit of spin on the ball that shfion tech gets from the from the uh from the forehand and she gets the 30 15 serves a fault second serve this is where sabalenka's got to make it count the second serves second serve into the forehand sabalenka return is wide she went after it 40 15 the second serve there from shfion tech she's got a lot of spin on the serve as well 40 15 40 15 as shfion tech serves again that's a fault second serve to level things up here in this first set 40 15 shfion tech with a serve second serve goes the back and sabalenka back and shfion tech to the back end of sabalenka to the back and shfion tech back and a sabalenka on the stretch shfion tech back hand back hand with sabalenka who hits it wide and it's one one and sabalenka standing a little bit further back on the second serve she's not really getting too aggressive to start there's two second serves there she's sort of standing about a meter behind the baseline which is not really sabalenka that we expect one one all right back to sabalenka no aces yet the tough first game for sabalenka she serves in the body of shfion tech return goes in the back of sabalenka smacks a winner down the line that back end of sabalenka is brutal 15 love 15 love huge back end all right 15 love and sabalenka serves a fault second serve second serve sabalenka taking the time both ladies are actually taking their time between points second serve goes back into shfion tech back in a sabalenka again at the back of shfion tech on the stretch sabalenka in control with the forehand winner another winner sabalenka being aggressive on the serve 30 love 30 love all right another chance here for sabalenka to lead all right 30 love serving the back of shfion tech return goes in the front of sabalenka for next fion tech into the front of sabalenka down the line there's another winner three winners in a row for sabalenka this is going to be on tennis tv and it's 40 love and i'll give her all the confidence in these rallies and the thing about serving first for sabalenka as well is that she can hold serve get the scoreboard pressure be up to one and then have a crack at the return and try and break so she doesn't have the pressure of holding and then um having to break well sorry uh sorry shfion tech holding and then her having to hold will get broken you know it's serving first makes a difference especially for sabalenka wonder what happened in their match at the other day as we return now from shfion tech the back of sabalenka on the stretch she goes wide 40 15 good angled backhand from eager shfion tech now 40 15 i wonder if i can check i wonder if i'll give me that information pretty sure shfion tech served first when they when they played in stook guard right somebody could watch the void from last week because we get a ace down the tee sabalenka stays in front two one in the first no i can't go back that far bugger um actually i can go look at the video that we did the stream when we went live the other day look blah blah blah where is it all right so yeah last time they played it was shfion tech serving first so let's see if that makes any difference question the question what's up chat how are we doing how are we feeling how are we feeling um sabalenka has having a terrific use so far yeah for sure she's having an absolute blinding yeah i mean she wanted first grand slam she's edging closer to that number one spot if i had a tail i'd be wagging love to hear it uh sabalenka is out on a mission yeah she wants revenge uh if a ball is hit out a tiny bit is that still an unforced error yeah so an unforced error is is an error hit by somebody that under no pressure so if you're standing in the middle of the court and it's just sitting there and you hit it as hard as possible when it goes out by a millimeter or by a meter or by a kilometer like a foot or whatever if you're in control of the point and you hit the error that's an unforced error because you weren't forced to hit it it was unforced that makes sense whereas a forced error is when someone's making you run and you hit a you make a mistake an error hit it in the net or hit it out because you're on you know you're in in trouble and you were forced to hit the error that's what unforced and forced errors are so if it goes out by this much it's still an unforced error if you were not forced to hit it hopefully that explains things all right here we go shviantex serving two one in the first set as she serves the fold second serve second serve held strong in the first game as we will return down the back and sabalenka point up from shviantex sabalenka hitting the baseline point a forehand as shviantex on the stretch sabalenka again goes long but she went after it she just went a little too aggressive 15 love there's a double fault and unforced error yeah because nobody forced you to double fault you hit it on your you hit it yourself right the double faults probably the biggest unforced error because you know you like there's no the only pressure is like your mental your mental pressure right and yeah the opponent standing in you know close could be pressure but no nobody made you hit the double fault you hit it and you and you hit it out you know what I mean back in a backhand rally is sabalenka again to the back of shviantex backhand of sabalenka shviantex defending well sabalenka hits it in the net that was an unforced error because she was in control she hit it in the net 30 love man shviantex sabalenka is really going after it putting shviantex under pressure real quick 30 love belly low pairs in the house of course the tournament director watching on as we serve it while the forehand is sabalenka but it's a let from shviantex well we're going to use sabalenka remote in the chat if you want to use it hopefully third time is good I hope you guys like this have a link remote emoji now you can use it if you don't well we're just gonna have to get over it as we return now the foreigners shviantex that's a winner from shviantex 40 love I feel like third time's a charm she looks happy and she's smiling and you can tell it's her 40 love all right lovely shot in the corner there from shviantex here we go 40 love shviantex to level up this match she serves a fault second serve second serve she serves out why the backhand sabalenka return goes long and we're at 2-2 shviantex having a lot easier time on serve right now sabalenka is the one who's under pressure all right 20 minutes into this final a lot of talking going on with the shviantex camp shviantex getting a lot of a lot of words from the coach okay here we go sabalenka with a serve down to the back of shviantex the return goes into the forehand sabalenka it's a winner lovely forehand serve combo 15 love 15 love by the way nice touch from uh I think um I've got a triple check now I think shviantex still got the I can't tell it must be on the other side the Ukrainian flag still there's a serve out why there's a fault second serve I think she does it's on the left it's on the right side right of her hat and I was going for a while but it seems to be back 15 love sabalenka serves in the backhand shviantex shviantex went after it but it went in the net she went after it now it's on the side of the hat it's there 30 love shviantex went after that serve though she was just sending a message there to sabalenka you're going oh yeah I can get your second serve back better be good 30 love serve down to the back of shviantex return goes long 40 love sabalenka another easy game coming up here I feel like we're going to get at least a tie break right chat you reckon we're getting one tie break 40 love sabalenka serves a fault second serve man those people on the front row that paid a lot of tickets they're going to be scared by the by that sabalenka serve gone straight at them that's a scary serve 40 love servant of the backhand shviantex return goes in the backhand sabalenka down lines a great shot sabalenka man this is the two best players on the planet playing tennis these are well and truly the best one of the best cleanest matches we've seen not just for the week but for the year I mean this is better than what they played at the moment it's a better quality match than they played in stucco this just feels so much cleaner both ladies hitting multiple winners all right let's answer more questions okay winner after winner yeah both hitting winners though shviantex hit winners too shviantex the master of needs to master her inner battle juice okay yeah it's fun if this goes to a tie break who wins we're still a long way from that but bloody hell that would be uh it'd be a very interesting tie break uh why does it shviantex drop shot more often well the thing is it's a risky shot against sabalenka because if you don't hit a good drop shot sabalenka will put it away so you've got maybe she just doesn't feel comfortable enough to hit you know hit the drop shot effectively against sabalenka i'm sure she'll hit a drop shot eventually but yeah who better in the tie break uh pardon me let's just see what happens over the next couple of games i fill up right now there but either one could win the tie break based off one error from the other you know like that's if we got to a tie break now all right 22 minutes in three two sabalenka and thank you for joining us don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and like the video as well we're almost at 133k which is insane so i appreciate that we've got rome coming up next week we've got the men's final tomorrow of course so stay tuned big big tournament next week in uh in rome and hopefully both these ladies will be playing again as we're to see about why the fortice sabalenka return goes in the fortice shviantex who hits it wide love 15 okay first time the first point's been lost i think since the start of the match on the server love 15 24 minutes into this match love 15 shfiantex with the serve into the fortice sabalenka return goes in the fortice shfiantex fortice sabalenka inside out as a winner wow love 30 sabalenka's found her range love 30 we haven't had a break point yet if you're just joining a sabalenka did have a tough first game of the match on her serve but shfiantex hasn't struggled until now love 30 shfiantex with the serve out wide the fortice sabalenka good return into the fortice shfiantex sabalenka with the forehand the back end shfiantex sabalenka with the back end on the stretch now with the slice shfiantex in control back end to back end another slice from sabalenka shfiantex back end again into the back end of sabalenka down the line shfiantex forehand down the line back to the back end of sabalenka shfiantex in control back end down the line now sabalenka I guess it's right, Shryontek, forehand down the line, that's a good shot, up goes a lob from Sabalenka. It goes out though, does it? Just, just goes out from Sabalenka, 15-30. Nice point there from Shryontek. Sabalenka's some pretty good defense though. Slice backhand was much better than the one she was hitting against Sakri the other day. 15-30, Shryontek with a serve. Here's a fault. Second serve, second serve into the backhand of Sabalenka. Return goes into the backhand of Shryontek, backhand of Sabalenka, down the line, or goes over the net, forehand, Shryontek goes wide. Sabalenka got a little lucky. It hit the tape, it deviated, and Shryontek couldn't handle it. 15-40 break points, first break points of the day. And they go to Sabalenka. Now if Sabalenka's gonna win this match, she's gotta take these chances. You can't expect her to get 10 or more chances, she's gotta take every one. She's got two here though. 15-40, Shryontek with a serve, under pressure first time today. Shryontek serves. Now wide the forehand of Sabalenka, good return, Shryontek gets it, backhand of Sabalenka on the stretch. Into the forehand of Shryontek, Shryontek hits a winner. This is gonna be our biggest TV show. So clean! So clean. 30-40. I mean the return came back just as quick as a serve. And Shryontek was able to handle it, and then Sabalenka goes, bang, and Shryontek goes, I can do more. Huge hitting. So clean. All right, 30-40. One way to, that's a raffle way to save a break point. That's how Raffer does it. 30-40, still break point though. Shryontek serves. No, she doesn't. She wants to get this serve right. She serves. Into the backhand of Sabalenka, great return, Shryontek on the stretch. Backhand of Sabalenka, cross court is wide. What a shame, Sabalenka got the rally, and she was in control, but she hit the ball out. And we're a deuce. We get the deuce. Man, that's a shame. Sabalenka had the return she wanted, and she just pulled the backhand wide. Shryontek gets the deuce. Shryontek serves. A fold again, all right. Sabalenka's second serve chance. Second serve. Second serve, Shryontek. Into the forehand of Sabalenka, return goes into the backhand of Shryontek on the stretch. Shryontek now with the forehand on the stretch, but Sabalenka hits it out. Miles out. Advantage Shryontek to level things up here in the first. Advantage Shryontek to hold, serve. 30 minutes in, intense, 30 minutes. Shryontek serves to save the game. She serves down the tee, great serve. Sabalenka gets it back. Backhand Shryontek to backhand Sabalenka. Sabalenka's backhand goes long, Shryontek holds. Couple of errors there from Sabalenka from 15-40 up in the game. Couple of backhand errors in a forehand. Can't be doing those when you've got those chances. All right, three-three. Shryontek survives. All right, let's see if Sabalenka can regroup here. Into that midpoint of the set now, and this is when the grants, oh, they're both grants and champions, this is when Shryontek might pounce. A bit of serve down the tee, a fault from Sabalenka. Second serve, she could keep those serves coming. Get those serves in, second serve though. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand Shryontek. Backhand Sabalenka inside out is good. Oh, on the line and Shryontek slaps it wide. Bit of a miss hit there from Shryontek after a very nice deep ball from Sabalenka, 15-love. 15-love, Sabalenka serves again. Now a wide good serve, it comes back. Backhand now Sabalenka down the line, Shryontek with a slice on the stretch. Sabalenka comes in with a volley, puts it away, that was clean. Bloody hell, Sabalenka, we forget that she was number one in the world in doubles, once upon a time. She can volley, 30-love. Another huge rally. Shryontek just dropping her shoulders there, a little bit disappointed. It's all set up with the first serve, 30-love. Serving to the backhand of Shryontek, forward from Sabalenka to the forenish Shryontek. Into the forenish Sabalenka down the line goes wide. Sabalenka just losing her patience there, trying to hit a winner a little too early. 30-15, 30-15. Sabalenka comes in and serves again, 30-15. Served and a good serve and it goes out on the return from Igor Shryontek, 40-15. Just a frame shot wide, 40-15. Sabalenka serving again to get the 4-3 in this, in this first set. As we return now from Shryontek, Sabalenka down the line, that big serve again from Sabalenka coming to the rescue and it's 4-3, Sabalenka in the first. No chance, she's only had one bad game, Sabalenka on her serve so far. The last three games have been, she's lost maybe two points in the last three games. Okay, let's answer more questions. Yeah, Mertens was Sabalenka's doubles partner back in the day when they got to Grand Slam Glory. You are right. Shryontek wearing all black outfit today. No, no, she's got like the half, like the black around, but then like the white. It's almost like a paint splatter-ish kind of deal. Who looks better at the moment? Man, it's hard just, I mean look, Sabalenka's playing more aggressive. So if that means better, then Sabalenka's playing better. She's the one being more aggressive, but Shryontek's kind of just having to defend. So I would say Sabalenka just, based on how she's, her aggression. Cause even when she was, you know, she had break points in the last game, 15-40, she made the errors to lose that game. Whereas, you know, Shryontek didn't hit full winners to save the game, it was Sabalenka missing. So you feel like the game is on Sabalenka's racket at the moment, but that could change in a minute because look, we're getting to the serious shit. I bet a hundred on Sabo, okay? Okay, Sabalenka will use the power, okay? All right, by the way, thank you everybody for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Hey, thank you Farzan for gifting a membership. Appreciate that, mate. I don't know who got it, but someone in the chat knows who they got it. Oh, Lisa, there you go. Welcome to the, welcome. Thank you, Farzan, appreciate that, mate. It's very generous. All right, here we go. Shryontek to serve again. Last game, she had to save break points. As we've served now, the backhand of Sabalenka, four-nash Shryontek, again the four-nash Sabalenka down the line of the backhand of Shryontek, backhand of Sabalenka, into the backhand of Shryontek, that goes in, Sabalenka with a slice forehand in the net. And that's where Shryontek's gonna win these points. Just pushing Sabalenka wider and wider in the court just to make her, make her move. We know that Sabalenka's at her best when she's standing in the middle. Just make her move a little bit side to side. Gets a bit awkward. 15 love. Well, we're almost at 133K. Thank you for that. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. If you're new here, welcome. Say hello, we're all friendly. And if you do say hello and you're new, everyone will say hi back to you. So, I mean, maybe be prepared. I don't want you to get like, people, anyone get shocked in the chat, be like, holy shit, I had 20 people message me. It's like, it's a fair warning. If you do say hi, I'm new, then you will get a reply. As we serve out wide, the backhand of Sabalenka, back in Eshfiontech, into the front of Sabalenka, the forehand of Eshfiontech. Forehand of Sabalenka down the line is good. Shri Antak with a slice, backhand goes to the sky. Goes in. Sabalenka forehand inside out to winner, 15-0. Sabalenka's been doing that the last few games. Shri Antak's having to just defend in some of these points. 15-0. 15-0. Shri Antak serves again. She serves, no, she's taking her time. She needs to get that serve right. She doesn't want to miss that serve. First serve, she can't, man, she cannot get the ball toss in the right spot. I think she knows who she's serving to. That's why she's hesitating. I know who's down there. As we're back at return from Sabalenka, the backhand of Shri Antak, but a forehand from Sabalenka, again to the backhand of Shri Antak, the backhand of Sabalenka, backhand to backhand. Shri Antak is in wide. Shri Antak trying to be a bit more aggressive because Shri Antak's getting a little bit aggressive as well towards her coach. Little bit of animation from Shri Antak. Not a good thing, 15-30. And the coach is shrugging his shoulders going, I don't know what I did. Told her not to do that. Shri Antak's getting visibly frustrated. 15-30. And when you see a coach worried, you know, because he's never usually worried. I mean, he's had nothing to worry about. She's been dominating for the last 12 months. Most part, most part anyway, for the most part. First serve to the fault, second serve, this is Sabalenka's chance. Not getting aggressive though. She's gonna stay back. Second serve. Second serve. Remember, Shri Antak does get broken here. Sabalenka serves for the first set. So there's a bit of second serve into the backhand of Sabalenka. Backhand as Shri Antak goes down the line and in the net. Wow. Shri Antak's trying to play Sabalenka's game and it doesn't work. 15-40. And Shri Antak's coach shaking his head. I reckon Shri Antak had a go at him at the last point. And he's like, he's going, I'm not telling you to do that. He's not looking happy, the coach. 15-40, another chance here. Two chances more for Sabalenka. She looks, whew, eye of the tiger. Serve. How wide is the fault? Oh, here we go. Sabalenka should just smack this one. Just step in and be aggressive. Be Serena, you know? 15-40, second serve. Steps into the front of Sabalenka. Four-nash Shri Antak again. The front of Sabalenka down the line is good. Shri Antak backhand, cross-court. Sabalenka's there with the backhand of her own. Backhand of forehand now. Sabalenka goes again to the back of Shri Antak. Into the back of Sabalenka, steps in. Shri Antak with the forehand, cross-court. Into the front of Sabalenka, down the line. To the back of Shri Antak. Backhand of Sabalenka, down the line is wide. Oh, she went for it. She's having a bit of a laugh, but she went for it. And it was there to be hit, 30-40. Sabalenka's, I mean, that goes in, bloody, it's a break. I mean, she just sprayed it wide though. Maybe a little too excited to hit that backhand. All right, still break point, 30-40. 30-40. Shri Antak needs a first serve, needs a good serve. Shri Antak with a serve. Into the body of Sabalenka, good return though. Back in the backhand, that goes out from Shri Antak. And Sabalenka breaks, five-three first set. All right. Just a little bit of extra pressure, by the way. And like I said, Shri Antak seems to be panicking in these rallies. You know, she doesn't want to rally with Sabalenka. She wants to try and hit winners. That's not what she needs to do in this match. She needs to grind Sabalenka down with long rallies. The longer the rally, the better for Shri Antak. But in that last game, she was just trying to hit winners off the second, third shot. And that is not, that is not Shri Antak. Serving the body of Shri Antak, great return. Sabalenka gets with a four-hand down the line. Shri Antak with a slice goes out, bloody hell, Sabalenka just, she nailed the serve. The return came back faster and she still got it. Love 15. So 15 love. Sabalenka serving for the first set here. Now, those who know about this matchup will know that the first set to Sabalenka hasn't really mattered too much in the past. So she hits a backhand long, Sabalenka 15-0. US Open, she won the first set, lost the second. Also the WTA finals, same thing. Won the first, lost the second, won the third that day. But again, Shri Antak's coach, he does not look happy. He looks grumpy, looks almost sad. It's not good vibes coming from the Shri Antak camp. Is that backhand goes wide? On the return from Shri Antak, 30-15. I'm not liking the energy coming from the Shri Antak camp. It's very, it's not even angry. It's like, just looks sad. Looks like he got towed off by Shri Antak. And he's like, oh, I'm just trying to do my job. 30-15, Sabalenka is an ace, bang! Man, Sabalenka, 40-15. 40-15, we've got two set points here to take the first set. To take the first set in this final. She said she wanted revenge. 40-15, Sabalenka with a serve, set point. That first serve was out by a mile. She slaps it over the face. She's like, oh, I'm trying to hit an ace, idiot. 40-15. She, Sabalenka, that was funny. All right, second serve. Second serve in the back of Shri Antak. Return goes back to Sabalenka, Sabalenka goes cross court, that's a great shot. Shri Antak hits it out! And Sabalenka wins the first 6-3. This ain't Stuttgart, there's no car on the line. Here we go. Sabalenka with the first set, 6-3. And to be honest, I wouldn't say dominated the first set, but it was definitely in control of the first set after the first game. The first game, Shri Antak was there, maybe nerves. But after that, it was Sabalenka. She was controlling the rallies, and Shri Antak getting a little bit frustrated, yelling at the coach. The coach looks, he looks like somebody told him off, which Sabalenka did. So he's not looking happy. They got to turn around that energy. Okay, nice first set from Sabalenka, but can she win another one? I don't know if she's ever beaten Shri Antak in straight sets. Let me check. Maybe back in the day, but not recently. Let me have a look. So they play seven times, right? They play, is it a third time on a clay court, I think? Let's have a look. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, sorry, fourth time on a clay court, never beaten her on clay. Shri Antak went in Rome last year, Stuttgart last year, Stuttgart this year. Now we're in Madrid. Yeah, she's never beaten Shri Antak in straight sets. The two wins have been three setters, and those two wins have been at the WTA Finals. So I mean, go figure with that one. But yeah, interesting. Indoor courts, well, no, Guadalajara is on high up a mountain and indoor courts last year in Texas, but never beaten her in straight sets. She's only ever won the first set twice in their matchups, Sabalenka, and she lost the first one, she won the first set, lost the second and third, and then the last match she beat her, she won the first six two, lost the second six two, and then won six one. Never beaten her in straight sets, Sabalenka. Never beaten her on a clay court. The two things, by the way, Shri Antak leaving the court, she's gonna have a bathroom break and we can have a chat. That's my question, the question, jerk! All right, by the way, we gotta get to 1,000 likes for this, for the final. Surely we can get to 1,000 likes, come on. Where are the Shri Antak fans out? Where are the Sabalenka fans? We gotta get to 1,000 likes. Sabalenka is on fire, I hope she can keep this up. Well, that's the thing. Can she maintain the level? By the way, Sabalenka's gonna keep the serve going. She wants to keep the serve warm whilst Shri Antak's off to the bathroom. Sabalenka, fire, yeah, Sabalenka will win Madrid, okay. Do I exercise? Not enough. Shri Antak will take her city pass break, savage. I prefer Shri Antak, okay. I like both ladies, we'll be happy for either to win, okay. We won RG, we'll get there eventually. People saying Shri Antak is just like Enon. I mean, look, the last great clay quarter on the WTA would have been Justine Enon, I guess. Like Serena was great, but she was great everywhere, right? I know Halep was a great clay quarter as well, but she didn't win as many French Opens as Justine, so yeah, let's say Justine Enon was off the top of my head, the last great clay quarter. Like Clay was her main, she won like four of them, right? Four French Opens. And I think Shri Antak is sort of that, like doing that with what she did, right? What she did back in the day. Sharapova was the last clay queen. I mean, yeah, but I mean, I guess when we're talking about similarities, I don't think Shri Antak and Sharapova have, no, they weren't very similar games. But let's actually, let's talk about that while Shri Antak comes back on court. So, wins on clay courts in their careers. We talk about Shri Antak all the time because it's such a ridiculous record. But on Sabalanga's side, she's only won 61% of her matches on clay. So she's not far from being a good clay quarter. Shri Antak with an 87% winning record on clay. She's won 98 matches on clay in her career, which is more than any other surface. If you divide indoor and outdoor hard courts, if you combine them, then hard courts are the number one. But yeah, 87% of matches on this surface. While Sabalanga, she's had three wins over the top, the number one player in the world, eight losses. Shri Antak over top five players is 58, 53%. So, you know, 58 and seven. Never been to world number one and probably won't have to unless Sabalanga takes the spot in finals. Sabalanga 58% winning record in her career, 87% winning record for Shri Antak in finals. 20 wins, three losses overall, including the small events, you know, futures, challenges, all those come up events. But man, oh man, it's crazy. It's crazy. Shri Antak, I mean, she's having a crazy start to her clay court career and just a career in general. Okay, 15 loves, Shri Antak serving first in the second. Will that make a difference? Seemed like the serving in the first set made a difference, who served first? Let's return now to the backhand of Shri Antak, backhand of Sabalanga is good. The backhand of Shri Antak, Sabalanga again with a forehand. Shri Antak defending forehand of forehand is Sabalanga, it's a wide, 30 love. That's Shri Antak, sorry, Sabalanga's gotta, you feel like gotta be careful not to, in the early part of the second set, not to let up because all of a sudden it could be, you know, 5-1 or even three love, right? One break and another hold and Shri Antak's got three love. So these first games are almost the most important games in the match for Sabalanga. Because we do see a lot of players disappear after winning a first set when they maybe didn't expect to. 30 love, Shri Antak with a serve, second serve. Goes down to see the backhand of Sabalanga. Return goes to the backhand of Shri Antak. And Sabalanga gets a slice, it goes in. But Shri Antak in the attack. Sabalanga gets us right with the backhand. Shri Antak now with a forehand, does a 360. Okay, backhand of backhand. Sabalanga gets a slice down the line but it goes long. The 360 from Shri Antak, all right. Guess we're just making things up now. 40 love, 40 love. Shri Antak tries to get off to the perfect start. And we'll have a talk about stats after this as the stats come out after this game. We'll have a chat about what the stats look like. Who's doing what and where and why and how. Has been a serve now to the backhand of Sabalanga. Return goes to the backhand of Shri Antak. Good shot down the line, slice from Sabalanga. Backhand of Shri Antak down the line again to the forehand of Sabalanga to the forehand of Shri Antak. Sabalanga forehand, again, the forehand of Shri Antak. Backhand now from Sabalanga on the stretch. Shri Antak in control, forehand in the net though. From Shri Antak, 40-15. And thank you everybody for 133k. Appreciate that, don't forget to subscribe. You haven't already, we're trying to get to 150k by the end of the year. So thank you for that, appreciate. All right, and also trying to get to 1,000 likes by the end of this match. This match deserves 1,000 likes. Quality of this match, the one versus two, a final of a massive tournament. Serve out wide to the forehand of Sabalanga who smokes a return, but it just goes out. One loves Shri Antak and the second. First game goes to the number one in this second set. Okay, eight minutes, first game, that's ridiculous. Surely not. Okay, let's go have a look at some stats in that first set. By the way, few seats up the top of the stadium, but pretty much full. Five winners from Shri Antak, eight unforced errors. That's a little high, especially considering what Sabalanga did. 12 winners, 13 errors. We know Sabalanga's playing aggressive, so the error count's gonna be up. But 12 winners, 13 errors, didn't face a break point on serve, didn't hit a double fault, two aces as well. I mean, yeah. Besides that first game of the match, that was solid from Sabalanga. Can she maintain it, though? That's the question. She's gotta keep the urgency because she does. She might have a set, but she hasn't won the match. This could be one set all in a minute. We know that. Shri Antak likes to win sets pretty quickly. All right, second serve. Into the find is a let from Sabalanga. Second serve coming up again. Second serve into the forage, Shri Antak. Good return, but it's all out. And she yells at herself there, Shri Antak. Man, like I said, Shri Antak's very, very talkative today. She's having a lot to say. And the coach is also getting a bit chatty. Why is Drucker not playing this tournament? Because he is not a female. All right, let on the first serve. Kami missed the stat. Shri Antak has eight wins, 10 losses after losing the first set on clay, okay? Thank you for that, Sam. Appreciate it, mate. It's been a fault from Sabalanga. Second serve again, 15 love. But Djokovic will be back in Rome. And also I was making a joke. He didn't play Rome because, sorry, me at true because of his injury. It was too easy. It was just low hanging fruit. It was easy for me to make a joke. Anyways, forehand there. Slice from Sabalanga. Goes the forage, Shri Antak. Drop shot, not really. It's a slice and it goes out. 30 love. Yeah, Djokovic didn't play because he's got a bad elbow. But he'll be playing in Rome at this stage. But yeah, that's why he didn't play Madrid. Hopefully he's all right for Rome. A little worried though, because, you know, Rafa's out, which is never a good thing. Djokovic kind of needs to play Rome though because of his ranking. All right, 30 love is going to serve at wide. It's a fault from Sabalanga. Second serve. W-10 number one is ranking is no way. That is impossible. 30 love. Serving in the back of Shri Antak, good return to the front of Sabalanga who hits it in the net. Shri Antak finally gets onto the second serve. 30-15. 30-15, like I said, these first few games for Sabalanga are crucial. You know, you won the first set. It's great. You've got to keep the pressure on. Serving in the back of Shri Antak, return to the back of Sabalanga, down the line is out, 30-all. It's the first time since the first game of the match of Sabalanga's been in this situation. 30-all. She's in big trouble now. 30-all. No break points against Sabalanga serving in the first set. 30-all. Sabalanga serves into the back of Shri Antak. Return goes in the front of Sabalanga. That's a great shot. Shri Antak with a sliced lob. In comes Sabalanga. And she pounds the smash away and says sorry to the front row. For hitting the ball too hard. All right, 40-30. Fairly low, pers in the front row. He's like, trying to hit me. Organize this bloody thing. Sabalanga was just making sure making sure that Shri Antak could never get that back. 40-30. To level things up here in the second. Sabalanga with a fault. Second serve. Second serve, Sabalanga. Serving to the back of Shri Antak, return goes in the front of Sabalanga but Sabalanga overheats it and we get the doos. All right, since the first game of the match we haven't been in the situation. All right, Sabalanga just maybe just getting a little bit ahead of herself. And it hasn't been hitting first serves in this game. Needs to hit first serves in. She serves. A fault. That was close. Second serve. Big chance for Shri Antak. Get her first break point of the day. Second serve, Sabalanga. Down to the back of Shri Antak. Return goes in the back of Sabalanga. Shri Antak in control. Four-hand in the line is in. This is going to be our biggest TV show. Shri Antak with a winner. And it's advantage Shri Antak. First break point of the day. Again, Sabalanga's serve. That's what she needed. And it happened with a big return. Deep in the court. On the backhand side and then opened up the forehand and she crossed court. Easy winner. Sabalanga nowhere to be seen. Shri Antak with a little, little fist bump as well. Advantage Shri Antak. First break point of the day. Sabalanga serves down the tee. Shri Antak shanks it back. Goes in. The back of the Sabalanga. Shri Antak with a four-hand on the stretch. Sabalanga's there with her own forehand in the net. And Shri Antak breaks. Two-love in the second. What do I say? Sabalanga had to keep the urgency, keep the pressure on. She didn't. Missed a few first serves. Sloppy errors. Now she's down to love. That ball kid is a huge. Hang on a second. I thought they said there was ball. What is it? Only for the ATP that they've got ball? Cause that's a guy. Or is he a model? He must be a male model. Dude must be at least six foot two because she was towering over Shri Antak. Anyways, I don't know what's going on. Serve. Into the four-hand of Sabalanga and Sabalanga gets it out. So wait. So when the ATP only have the ladies and the WTA have the men ball kids, or ball boys, men, whatever the, what? Is that what happens? There's only guys on court now collecting the balls. Weird as hell. It's so weird. Only the ATP of the ladies. That's creepy. And then they just put dudes on for the WTA. Anyways, 30-love. Sorry, I just saw that. I was like, hang on a second. It's weird as hell. Okay, 30-love. 30-love. Shri Antak's got the break here. So when she serves in the back of Sabalanga, return goes out, 40-love. All of a sudden, it's about to be three-love. 40-love. Good recovery here from Shri Antak. Now there's only one breaker serve. Shri Antak's not one to give up a lead. I mean, we could probably name one or two times where Shri Antak maybe had a lead, like a five-one or a five, you know, five-two lead and giving it away. It's not very often. So Sabalanga's next game is gonna be huge. Return goes long, three-love Shri Antak. Just like that. Like my soul, but they're unbelievable. There we go. There we go. Three-love. Tiga Shri Antak. All right, chat, let's have a look at... Let's go have a look at the records of these ladies in 1,000 events because Shri Antak hasn't been around that long, but she is cleaning up the big trophies. Let's have a Sabalanga, though. You can see there she's going for another Masters 1,000. She won this event back in 2021, but she hasn't won a Masters 1,000 event since 2021. You can see there also she's won Dubai slash Qatar back in the day, a 1,000 event there. There are also Shri Antak holds. We'll talk about that in a second. And she also won back either in Wuhan or Beijing back in those 1,000 events that we have during the Asian swing. And you can see there are multiple semi-finals and a couple of quarter-finals as well and very, very solid over her last, I mean, this year. Look, quarter-final, final, quarter-final, final. She does not miss the quarter-finals and that's not even including the Australian Open where, of course, she won the whole thing in January. But then look at Egas Fiontech. She has just got green, green, green. You can see there she's trying to get the first five, the first five 1,000 event. She hasn't played the Asian swing yet so she hasn't had a chance to win those events at the end of the year and she didn't play Guadalajara at the end of last year so she hasn't had a chance to win that trophy. But she didn't do great in Cincinnati or Canada but as you can see there, her best result before this week was a third round here so maybe that US Open series events before that US Open, she might be able to collect the other couple but she is trying to win the Golden Masters. The first female to do it, I think, in this current climate because it hasn't happened at least over the last 15, 20 years. I think Hingus might have won all the 1,000 events during her career at that time but they're different ones now so no one's won it as this current set. And Shion-Tek, I mean, look, she's the most likely to do it, right? I mean, she is, she's already got four out of the five, she's trying, she's four out of the nine, she's trying to win the fifth. So let's see, 15 love. Sabalink has got a set here. She's still down a break in the second but it's still only one break. We know that. Doesn't mean much in this game. First serve's a fault. Oops, sorry. Second serve. I don't know what happened there. Second serve. We'll do that later. Back at it, back at rally. Sabalink hits it to the finder, Shion-Tek. Sorry, I clicked the wrong button. And Shion-Tek hits it out, 30 love. Sorry, chat off thought I did something else. Sorry, we went back to the wrong one. Anyways, they're the power rankings, we'll talk about that soon. Anyway, sneak peek. We'll get to that later. 30 love. Serving to the back of Shion-Tek. Returning to the back of Sabalinka. Who hits a winner down the line, 40 love. 40 love. Chance to get on the board here, Sabalinka in the second. But we're not perfect, all right? This ain't tennis, channel. It's a man in his house at two in the morning yelling and screaming, all right? This is what it is, it's scuffed. We're a bit, we're a bit, we're a bit, it's a little bit scuffed. 40 love. Anyways, just pretend you didn't see that. Anyway, serve is a double fault, first of the day. Against Sabalinka, serve 40, 15. At least luckily she gets a, hits a double fault of 40 love, right? This is the worst time to hit double faults. First one of the day, I broke the illusion. Oh no, 40, 15. Serve. Down to see the back of Shion-Tek. Returning goes in the back of Sabalinka. Hits a winner down the line. Makes up for the double fault with the backhand winner. Three-one, Sabalinka on the board, Shion-Tek has the break though in the second set. Three-one. All right, another serve coming up here for Shion-Tek. Shion-Tek has faced four break points though in this match. Shion-Tek with a serve. Serve goes in the back end of Sabalinka. Four-nash Shion-Tek is wide. Love 15. Love 15. Shion-Tek's sister in the house. You can tell it's her sister because she's sitting next to her dad. They definitely have, you can definitely tell that they're related. Love 15. They keep zooming in on her face. So, love 15. First serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve, Shion-Tek. Serving the backhand Sabalinka. Return goes in the backhand of Shion-Tek. Backhand Sabalinka down the line. That's a good shot. Shion-Tek gets on the stretch. Backhand Sabalinka cross court. Shion-Tek gets on the stretch. Into the four-nash Sabalinka. Shion-Tek, great defense. Four-hand to four-hand. Now Sabalinka gets a backhand cross court winner finally. Unbelievable, unbelievable. Sabalinka gets a winner. Love 30. But man, Sabalinka did about four massive shots to get that winner. She finally got it. Chancey at the break straight back. Love 30. Love 30. Huge hitting from Sabalinka. Great defense. Shion-Tek, but it was just too, one too many. All right, love 30. Shion-Tek with a serve. It's a fault. Second serve. Just over an hour played. Enjoying this match too much. It's already been an hour. It's flying by. Second serve goes in the backhand of Sabalinka. Return to the backhand of Shion-Tek. Backhand of Sabalinka on the stretch. Shion-Tek backhand down the line. Is in. Sabalinka hits it in the net. Was it in? I think it was. Shion-Tek says yes. We're getting a challenge though. That ball was on the line. Sabalinka can't tell. It looked like it was in. Oh, it was back of the line. You cannot be serious. Back of the line. From Egas-Fion-Tek. That was close. 15-30. Risky shot from Egas-Fion-Tek. Bloody hell. All right, serve. While the backhand of Sabalinka returned the backhand of Shion-Tek down the line again. It hits the line again. From Shion-Tek. 30-all. Two massive backhands. Also, please refrain from putting scores in the chat. The chat doesn't like that. And also we've got, we have a scoreboard. So you can save your energy. Okay. 30-all. Big point here. Serve it while the four of Sabalinka return goes into the backhand of Shion-Tek. To the backhand of Sabalinka. Shion-Tek on the defense. He's got a form from Sabalinka open court. Shion-Tek with a slice. Sabalinka volleys. Shion-Tek pass. Sabalinka volleys it away. Wow. That's the doubles experience. Shion-Tek slaps herself in the leg. She wasn't happy. Sabalinka. Just attacking the net like the old days. 30-40. Huge hitting. Look, Shion-Tek had a half chance to get a backhand win up, but man, Sabalinka just bang. Hits the volley away. Break back point. 30-40. Shion-Tek just not happy about that. I mean, look, it would have been a ridiculous shot had Shion-Tek hit a pass, but... Sabalinka's tall, long arms, and can volley. 30-40. Serve into the forehand of Sabalinka. Backhand of Shion-Tek. Is a winner. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo. This is gonna be on Venus TV. Right in the corner. We get to doce. Geez. Three backhand winners from Shion-Tek have saved this game. And that was right in the corner too. Right in the corner. And I doce. Shion-Tek trying to hang on to this break. Serve into the forehand of Sabalinka. Return goes to the forehand of Shion-Tek. Forehand of Sabalinka. Again, to the forehand of Shion-Tek on the stretch. That goes out. Sabalinka's got another break point. Advantage. Sabalinka to get this break back. Advantage Sabalinka. Cam, you need to remove the Sabalinka emoji. Everyone's misbehaving with it. All right. If anybody's spamming and annoying people with emojis, please refrain. Otherwise, Dawn will get ya. Just chill. We know the Sabalinka emoji's fun. Let's just chill. Only spam when we're needed. It's annoying because I can't see the chat when people spam. All right, advantage. Second serve. Second serve. Here we go. Second serve. Big point here for Shion-Tek to try and keep this break. Sabalinka returns in the net. She just needed to stand a little bit closer. She would have hit that winner. Sabalinka back in the net. And we get the deuce. Shion-Tek survives. All right. Back to deuce. Huge game here as Shion-Tek serves. Into the back of Sabalinka return. Goes into the back of Shion-Tek. Back into Sabalinka. Get into the back of Shion-Tek. The backhand of Sabalinka. Down the line, Shion-Tek with the 4-1 on the stretch. Goes wide, man. Sabalinka's taken over the rallies again. And it's another break point to get back on serve. Sabalinka with the advantage. Shion-Tek steps up. Advantage Shion-Tek. Sorry, Sabalinka. Shion-Tek. Third break point to save here for Shion-Tek. Shion-Tek serves. Down the middle to the 4-1 of Sabalinka. Sabalinka in the net. Shion-Tek survives again. Another first serve. Unreturnable. We get to doce. One hour and 11 minutes. This match. And it's been a banger. Shion-Tek serves. Out wide the 4-1 of Sabalinka. Great return. Shion-Tek gets it. Sabalinka comes in with the forehand. Inside out. Sabalinka now with the forehand again. Down the line is another winner. Sabalinka throwing the hammer. Lady Thor. Unbelievable. That's why we call her that. Throwing the hammer. Hidden winners with that forehand. It's all our power. All right, another break point. Fourth break point of the game. Advantage. Take back this break. Shion-Tek with a serve. She serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve. This is the anticipation. Second serve. Into the 4-1 of Sabalinka. Great return. Shion-Tek gets it. Back in the Sabalinka. Into the 4-1 of Shion-Tek to the forehand of Sabalinka. Shion-Tek in the rally here. Back in the backhand. Sabalinka defending. Back in the Shion-Tek again. To the backhand of Sabalinka. Down the line. The winner. Lot of shots. Sabalinka. We're back on serve. 3-2. Wow. Massive backhand. She just went, you know what? I'm not playing a rally with you. Smokes a winner down the line. Huge. Back on serve. Jesus. These are the best players on the planet for a reason. The two best in the world for a reason. Okay, this is the best Sabalinkas played. It feels like this is the best she's played since the Australian Open Final. Because she's played there, she's won since then and she's played good matches. But this match, this is the best level we've seen from Sabalinka since the Australian Open at the Fields. Just huge hitting. All right, let's answer more questions. That's my question, jerk. Okay. Don't forget, we've got the men's final tomorrow. So, stay tuned. This is why every final should be one versus two. Yeah, well, hopefully we get more of those. Hopefully we get Djokovic versus Elkres too, you know. One versus two there. And what service is Shriontek most vulnerable? If any, probably grass. Probably grass. This match equals BME. Yeah, it does. This match, serious BME. Without a doubt, they're the two best players on the planet, exactly. Yeah, Rebakken is up there, but the way these two are playing, they compliment each other so well. I want Shriontek to play. I want revenge. That's what she said. It's exactly what she said. She wants revenge, we're not getting the Porsche. Yep, okay. Here we go. We're now in 15 minutes play. We're back on serve, and Sabalenka took that game. That wasn't Shriontek falling apart. That was Sabalenka hitting winners to get the break back. That backhand was ridiculous down the line. Okay, Sabalenka serves now. Can she level things up? Just waiting for people to stop running around. Okay, serve is a fault. Second serve, second serve, second serve. Into the back of Shriontek, return gets back into Sabalenka, who hits another winner. Sabalenka is just hitting winners everywhere right now. 15 love, 15 love, huge backhand winner again. From Sabalenka, she was three love down. Sabalenka in this set. She serves a fault. Second serve, second serve, second serve, Sabalenka. Into the Fornish Shriontek, who smacks a winner. No, gets back from Sabalenka, four to forehand. Sabalenka goes again to the Fornish Shriontek, sliced. Sabalenka comes in, forehand crosscourt. Shriontek with a pass, but it's in the net. That would have been a hell of a shot had it gone over. It was curling back in, but she didn't have the height. 30 love. All right, Sabalenka trying to level things up. This is a great match. By the way, Sabalenka, Shriontek's got a hand print on her hand from slapping herself. Great return from, she has a hand mark, like a full on hand print on her thigh from slapping herself in the leg. Remember when I said she slapped herself in the leg when she lost a point before? It left a print, a hand print, perfectly formed hand print. It's like this, it's like this, like that. Exactly like that on her leg. You know, it's 30, 15. Bloody roublev. All right, return. Oh, what a return! This is gonna be a thing. Shriontek smokes the return. 30 all, 30 all, massive return. Nothing that Sabalenka could do there. Shriontek just took one step and went bang. 30 all, this is a massive point. This is a massive point. Sabalenka needs a first serve. Shriontek needs to get the return. She does with, oh, it's a let. Ooh, 30 all. This is match of the year for me. This does feel like the biggest match since the Australian opener, like the most intense match since the OZ Open. And highest quality since then too, the final, the OZ Open. Serving the back of Shriontek return goes to four to Sabalenka, hits a winner. And it's 40, 30. It does, if this goes three sets and it keeps this level, I feel like it's gonna be up there with the Australian opener's match of the year. Because this level of quality, this quality is ridiculous. The amount of winners Sabalenka's hitting. Shriontek doing great to defend, but just getting absolutely beat up at the moment as we get a return that goes wide from Shriontek and Sabalenka's three, three. Levels things up, you know, the lack of breaks, you know, we know WTA usually has a lot of breaks. We've seen that this week, right? When we had like Sakurai versus Bagu, it was like 20 breaks. It's clean, players are holding serve. Trophy on the sidelines, anybody, who likes the trophy? It's like they got the surfboard and they bent it in half from last year. It's like someone grabbed it and they basically just like bent the trophy from last year. It's not bad, it's just not great. It's a weird looking thing, it's a weird looking sculpture. 33, in the second, serving the net from Shriontek, second serve. The old trophy was good. The old trophy was just like a vase, right? Like a glass flower pot. All right, second serve. Shriontek down the tee, the back of Sabalenka return goes wide. Just goes wide. 15 love, 15 love. And it just went wide from Sabalenka. Hawkeye confirms, everybody confirms. I can confirm, all right, serve again. Now while the back of Sabalenka, good return. Shriontek gets it into the front of Sabalenka. Shriontek running side to side and hits it out. Man, Sabalenka is making Shriontek do a lot of running. I would love to see, and I don't think we have, I mean, sometimes we have a stat. Love to see kilometer, like a meters covered. That would be such a good stat to see right now because the amount of running Shriontek's had to do in this match compared to Sabalenka just feels like she's doing a lot more defending. I would love to see distance covered in this match so far because this feels like Shriontek is running a lot. What a return, Sabalenka! Off a first serve, just goes whack. 15-30, man, getting in those steps. That's it, get those 10,000 steps. All right, massive return from Sabalenka in his 15-30. Remember, Shriontek was up three love in this set. Shriontek with a serve is a fault. Uh-oh, second serve, second serve. Huge point here for Shriontek on a second serve. She serves out wide, the back of Sabalenka return goes in, the back of Shriontek hits it wide. Shriontek just can't find the lines. And it's 15-40. Remember, Sabalenka's never beaten Shriontek in straight sets. Never beaten her in straight sets. Never beaten her on clay courts, so two things, two birds, one stone, right? 15-40, chance to go up the break now and win four games in a row. Sabalenka, Shriontek with a serve. She serves a fault, that was not very far away. Second serve, second serve. Shriontek lines up, momentum against her. She serves in the front of Sabalenka, return goes in the front of Shriontek, 14-7 on the stretch, goes into the back of Shriontek, who hits a winner down the line. The second serve was big. And it's set at the point, 30-40. 30-40, again, thanks for joining us. We're already at 1,000 likes, appreciate that. How good's WTA this year? Let me know in the chat. If you started watching Women's Tennis this year, because this year is the best way to start watching Women's Tennis, man, it is incredible, some of these players now. And then these rivalries are intense, 30-40. Still a break point. Served, down to the front of Sabalenka, return goes to the back of Shriontek, into the back of Sabalenka, back of Shriontek, into the back of Sabalenka, again, the back of Shriontek, Sabalenka backhand, into the front of Shriontek, into the front of Sabalenka, Shriontek in control, hits a backhand, cross-court, Sabalenka slice, on the stretch, gets it, Shriontek four-hand, open-court, Sabalenka gets it with a pass, but it's out! Oh, Sabalenka, she got there, but she didn't do anything with it. Could have been, I mean, Sabalenka, Shriontek could have easily gotten beaten there. She was in the, like, halfway up the net. I mean, she was nowhere near, ready to hit a volley. Shriontek was kind of walking to the net. He got a little lucky, back to Deuce. Even if Sabalenka made a volley, it probably wouldn't have worked with Shriontek. All right, we get to Deuce. Shriontek with a serve. Here's a fault. She's had a lot of break points, Shriontek. On with her serve, mainly. Couple of errors from Sabalenka at times, but Shriontek's been, needs to hold now. Is he gonna return now? The four-hand is Sabalenka, Sabalenka smacks that out. One of the worst returns she's hit all day. Advantage Shriontek to stop the momentum. All right, advantage Shriontek to stay in front. Shriontek with a serve. She serves a fault. Second serve. The first half percentage is getting going down. All right, second serve. Goes out wide, the back of Sabalenka return goes in the back of Shriontek, back in the Sabalenka. Down the line. Oh, is that a winner? We're getting a challenge. Did someone say out? We're getting a challenge. Somebody set out. Shriontek's like, they set out. And it was out just long. It cannot be serious. Yeah, it looked too good to be true. Shriontek stays in front. Man, that was a tough game. It was just long. Just long. Okay, Sabalenka though. Man, she is going crazy at the moment. Shriontek trying to just hang on. Okay, let's go to power rankings. I mean, you already saw them if you were here before. So here's the power rankings. It's about, this is based on who you beat. Not necessarily what you win. I mean, you can win trophies and that helps, but it's about who you beat. And you see there are two versus three in the power rankings and I have no doubt that after this week, these two ladies are going to be ahead of Rabakina because Rabakina had a poor week this week. So she'll drop down after losing early in this tournament and these two will go up because they're both playing each other. I got other players like Pagula. Caviteva is probably going to drop down as well. I think Pagula is going to get a lift even though she lost to Kudamatova. I think she'll still get a little bit of a boost. Zachary expect her to probably be in the top 10 of the power ranks next week, heading into Rome. All those, the red pluses, by the way, are injured players. So those players who were pulled out injured this week, you can see there are other players like Krajikova might struggle this week. Potipova as well in that top 10. So it just shows who's actually playing well at the moment and expect the next list to kind of look more like a clay court list because at the moment, it's still got a lot of the Indian Wells Miami players, you know, Caviteva being up the top because of Miami. So make sure that in Rome, it should look better in Rome and a little bit more of a clay court guideline. Before the French open, it's going to be very much the best clay courters on the planet are going to be up the top. So these two ladies probably playing for the number one spot in the power ranks. Here we go. Let's see what Sabalenka can do. She fought back from three love down. She almost got to four three. She had a couple of chances in that last game. But can she keep the momentum as we're going to return now backhand to forehand as that goes in the net from Sabalenka. Good return from Sviantec. Love 15. Love 15. Why don't emojis work? I have no idea. YouTube must be doing stuff. All right, love 15. Serving the back of Sviantec. Return the back of Sabalenka. Sviantec with the forehand on the stretch goes long. 15-0. 15-0. I think the YouTube emojis are down, but it's all right. Just don't spam them. Otherwise it looks really annoying. Otherwise it's just a bunch of words. All right, 15-0. Yeah, I think it's a YouTube thing. All right, Served and Served is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Sabalenka. Into the forehand Sviantec. Great return, Sabalenka gets it, but hits it out. 15-30. Sabalenka's got to be careful because three-all or four-three, this is the chance for Sviantec to take the lead again and serve the set. 15-30. All right, serve again. From Sabalenka. Out wide, the back of Sviantec return goes into the back of Sabalenka in the net. Wow, Sviantec just with a little, just a little tap back and the angle was good enough for Sabalenka to hit the error. 15-40. All the hard work Sabalenka's done in the last few games. About to come undone. 15-40. Served by the forehand Sviantec, hits a winner. Okay, she's back. She's got the lead again. 5-3 Sviantec. And the coach loves it. He's sticking the hand up. Go, let's go. And that's how quick things can change. Okay, Sviantec serving to go to a third. It can change just like that. And a big fist bump there from Sviantec, a big shout. Yajda indeed. Okay, one hour and 30 minutes played and we're about to go to a third. It deserves a third. Let's be honest, this is the best match of the year. Maybe the Australian Open was better, but man, the quality, the intensity, 1-v-2. Let's see what Sviantec can do in this game. Serving for the set. Serving to the back of the Sabalenka. Return goes in the net. 15-love. Get the free point to start. 15-love. Another serve coming up here. 15-love. Sviantec was up three-love in this game. Remember that. Again, thank you so much. We're almost at 1,000 likes as well before the final set. Can we get to 1,000 before the end of this set? Serve out while the back end of Sabalenka return goes long and it's 30-love. Two points away from a third. Remember Sabalenka's never beaten Sviantec on a clay court. Never beaten her in straight sets and that's probably not gonna happen now. But never beaten her on a clay court. They have played three-set matches though and Sabalenka has won. Couple of those three-setters. Sviantec serves into the front of Sabalenka. Return in the net and a big fist bump there from Sviantec. 40-love. Set points to take us to the third. 40-love. The final set. One point away. Sviantec with a serve. Out while the back end of Sabalenka return the back end of Sviantec. Sabalenka with a four-hand of the stretch goes in. Sviantec's slice. Drop shot in the net. And it's 40-15. Gonna hit your first drop shot of the day. Why not hit it at 40-love? And if you miss, it doesn't matter. 40-15. Still a set point here for Sviantec to take us to the third. Sviantec serves. Out while the front of Sabalenka, great return but a hit to take goes wide. We're going three, baby. In the final. Sviantec recovers. We're going to a third in Madrid. Now these two ladies have played three-setters before and it's actually two-one Sabalenka in three-set matches. The last time Sviantec won a three-set match was actually at the US Open. But it's three, it's two-one Sabalenka when it goes to a third in this matchup. Interesting. Last time they played a three-setter, Sabalenka won that one. It was six-one in the third at the WTA finals. The first match they ever played was actually a three-setter. Two-six, six-two, seven-five. Sabalenka came back from a set down to do that. The first three-setter on a clay court between these two ladies and the four matches they've played. Let me tell you the scores they've played before on the clay. Sviantec six-two, six-two. Sviantec six-two, six-one. Sviantec six-three, six-four. So not only the first set for Sabalenka today but also the first three-setter for us to watch between these two. Okay, how are we, chat? Are we good? We loving this? Give me a score out of 10. How are you feeling this match is rated out of 10? What are you gonna give this match out of 10 so far? Man, you just replayed the Sviantec slap of the leg. That's where she got that handprint, where she got that tattoo. 10 out of 10, okay. Eight, eight plus, eight, 10, 8.59 and 11. Oh, that's a good score. 9.9, all right, 9.57, 7.7. A seven, okay. All right, hard to please some people in the chat. Maybe you're waiting for a third set tie break. B plus out of 10, okay. Interesting. Eight out of 10, 9.5. Eight out of 10, it's stressful but I'm loving it, okay. 9.999. This last set has got to be a tie break. All right, Scott, we'll see. Nine out of 10, 10 out of 10. Okay, nine out of 10, little. Nine's out of 10, 8.5, 20 out of 10. 40 love out of 10. He's making up the scores now. Over 9,000. It's over 9,000. This is, I mean, look, Sabalega's power levels are over 9,000, I can, for sure. 8.5, all right, all right. If he goes on a tie break, he's got to be a 10, right. Forget a finalist at tie break. Sabalega's gone to the bathroom, so she's having her break. All right, three sets. Who could ask for more? That's it. Two best players on the planet playing a three-setter in a final of a massive tournament. That's what we asked for. Who do I think will win? Well, I said Sabalega in three, so I'm gonna stick to that, but I think we're gonna have a very close final set. I'm gonna stick to my guns because, I mean, that's just, I can't go back on my, I mean, it's on the internet. It's forever. I can't go back on my prediction. So, but I think Sabalega's playing better anyway, so I'm not too mad. But in that second set, Sabalega's serve actually went down. She was winning 70, you know, sort of 70% of the points on first-second serves. Now it's in the 60s, and their serves are almost identical. They've both got two breaks each, but obviously Sabalega's had a hell of a lot more chances. That trophy is wild. But yeah, so that's interesting that the serves kind of have now turned out to be even. But, but, but, but Sabalega is serving first in the third, and we saw her serve first in the first, and look what happened. She looked much better, much more comfortable when she had the lead than when she was fighting back in that second set. So let's see if Sabalega can hold this game. This might be the most important game in the match for Sabalega just to get off to that start. Yeah, great serving for Shriyantek. You know, she's not a big server. So 63 and 68% on her serves is decent, especially because she's playing against one of the best returners in the world, one of the hardest returners in the world. All right, Chad, who's winning the final set? Give me a score prediction. Give me a score. I'm gonna go 75 Sabalega. I reckon we're gonna get robbed of the tiebreak, but I'm gonna go 75. I reckon we're gonna get a long final set, but Sabalega might just take it at the end as we're back in a backhand rally. Shriyantek got the stretch, goes in. Sabalega, forehand, Shriyantek going, forehand to forehand, but hits it wide. And Sabalega. First point of the third, 15 love. 63 Shriyantek, 64 Sabalega. 64 Shriyantek, 61 Shriyantek. Ooh, Greg's going all out. 75 Sabalega, okay, a few people on my, on my, well, hoping for the best. As we're gonna return now to the four and Sabalega, that goes into the open court for a winner, 30 love. 64 Shriyantek, 62 Shriyantek. Tiebreak, Sabalega, 74 in the tiebreak. All right, Scott, nice. That'd be a pretty epic finale. All right, a lot of people saying 64 Shriyantek. A few 63 Sabalega as well. Six loves Shriyantek, geez, someone. Well, I'd be wild if that happened. All right, 30 love. We haven't even said the word bakery today. Doesn't feel like a bakery sort of day, does it? Bakery's closed on Saturday, I think. At this stage anyway, maybe it has a late opening. Is it a backhand return? Now the backhand of Sabalega, good return, but Sabalega's got a challenge. And it's 40 love. No challenge required, it was called out and Shriyantek didn't bother to challenge. Great serving from Sabalega, 40 love. 40 love. Get the first game here, she serves out wide a fault. Second serve, second serve. 40 love, Sabalega. Out wide, the backhand of Shriyantek, return the backhand of Sabalega who hits it wide, 40-15. Hey, we got to 1,000 likes, by the way. Thank you for that, appreciate. We give a liking to the stream, 40-15. And this does have match of the year vibes as well. Could be in the nominations for WTA match of the year. As we return now from Sabalega, Shriyantek backhand Sabalega on the stretch, Shriyantek down the line, Sabalega with a slice. Goes long, 40-30. Shriyantek with some aggression, 40-30. A chance to get, still a chance to get the first, first game of the final. Sadie Sabalega, Sabalega with a serve. Here's a fault, second serve, second serve. Out wide, the backhand of Shriyantek who hits a winner down the line, oh no. Massive return for Shriyantek from 40 love to deuce. This is not the start that Sabalega needs. Man, what a return, Shriyantek just slaps it down the line. Uh-oh. Deuce, first game. First game of the final set. Here we go, serve again. Out wide for Shriyantek, Shriyantek gets it out, Sabalega too big, too strong. Advantage, Sabalega's first serve percentage, by the way, is going down. It was in the 60s, it's going down to 59 now, she needs to lift. That serve is her weapon to set up the rest of the points. Advantage, Sabalega, she serves. A fault, man, she's trying to hit the ball too much, too hard. Second serve, second serve. Down the season, ace, oh, that's sweet. Three aces for the day and that was a second serve, ace. All right, one love, Sabalega in the third, massive. Second serve, risky, but hey, effective. Let's talk about stats in that second set, because did feel like Sabalega was getting a little wild. Five winners from Shriyantek, four errors, so more winners there from Shriyantek, two out of two break points converted. 10 winners from Sabalega, 11 on fourth errors and a double fault. Yeah, Shriyantek's serve was much, much better in that second set. Even though she did face six break points, converted only one Sabalega and that's three all game. I feel that that was the turning point. Shriyantek goes to three all. That break point, those chances, Shriyantek, that could have been the turning point. We could have been out of here by now. Had that gone the other way, so Shriyantek saved those break points, turned it around, won the set six three. Sabalega gets out of the first game, return goes in the fourth of Shriyantek, into the fourth of Sabalega, fourth of Shriyantek, again to the fourth of Sabalega down the line to the back end of Shriyantek, back end of Sabalega with Shriyantek, it's a winner. This is gonna be on tennis TV. Ridiculous winner from Shriyantek, just such an angle. 15 love, 15 love, loving back end on the line again. And Sabalega's just like with a laugh, just like, really? All right, 15 love, serving to the fourth of Sabalega, four-nash Shriyantek to the forehand of Sabalega, down the line to winner. Wow, Sabalega, wrong footing Shriyantek, Shriyantek went the other way. Sabalega went down the line, trickter. 15 all, 15 all, he's found tech. Hey, thank you, Diana. IGV less than three. There you go, less than three. All right, thank you, Diana, for the donation. Appreciate that. 15 all, as we're serving the four-nash Sabalega return, goes out, 30-15, nice serving from Shriyantek again. 30-15, 30-15, another serve coming up here for Shriyantek. 30-15, trying to level things up here, serving the four-nash Sabalega return, goes in the back end of Shriyantek, back in our Sabalega, down the line, Shriyantek there with the slice forehand on the stretch. That goes in, Sabalega cross court, goes in the four-nash Sabalega, Shriyantek gets it out. 30 all, the first test for Shriyantek in the final set. 30 all, Shriyantek needs a first serve. Sabalega ready, Shriyantek serves, a fault. Second serve, second serve, Shriyantek ready to go. Second serve, Sabalega steps in to the forehand, return goes in, the four-nash Shriyantek, Sabalega with the backhand, into the backhand of Shriyantek, back in our Sabalega, down the line, that goes in, Shriyantek gets it, four-hand to forehand, now a backhand from Shriyantek, goes out, and it's a break point, Sabalega in the first game, of Shriyantek serving the third, 30-40. Now Sabalega's gonna start converting these points, otherwise she'll lose this match, because she's had a lot of chances, a lot. She's got to take the chances, 30-40. Bonnie, you're just joining, perfect timing. The match is most intense right now, 30-40. Shriyantek with a serve, Sabalega looks ready. Serving the backhand of Sabalega, good return to the forehand of Shriyantek, forehand of Sabalega with a stretch, but it goes wide, Shriyantek hits it, all eight challenge. It looked like it might have gone wide, Shriyantek says, I've got a lot of top spin though. If it's out, it's a break, and the ball was out by a millimetre, wow! Just goes wide by Shriyantek, and it's a break, two-love. Sabalega who takes a swig of beer, I don't know what's in the cans, does anyone know? Anyone knows what's in the drink? Just took a massive swig, that just needed a little bit more top spin, it would have been a winner, but man, Sabalega breaks two-love in the third. Ha ha ha, Hawkeye was on point on that one, no corruption there, that was just two, just a millimetre wide, returning there from Shriyantek, 15-love, Pelle Russian vodka is in the drink, can you imagine? Okay, 15-love, Sabalega draws the first blood in the final set, she serves, down the tee, the forehand of Shriyantek, great return, Sabalega hits it out, on the return of the return, 15-all. Massive return Shriyantek, that was one of the biggest serves Sabalega hit as well, came back faster than it was dished out, 15-all, 15-all, Sabalega serves again, it's only one break, we know that, doesn't mean much. Sabalega serves a fold, she thought it was in, she's gonna challenge? Nah, she's gonna look at the mark and say no, second serve, now it was wide, calling Hawkeye confirming, second serve, down the tee, it's a double fold. I'm gonna put my salt in there, put my salt in there, only a second double fold of the day, 15-30, Sabalega, under pressure on serve again, 15-30, serve out wide, the back of Shriyantek, return goes long, 30-all. And Shriyantek getting a little chat to herself, nothing too animated, just a little bit of, a little bit more top spin needed, not a huge scolding like she was giving herself in the first set, 30-all, serve to the back of Shriyantek, return goes in the back of Sabalega, shanked in, four-nash Shriyantek is a winner, winner break-back point, 30-40, and Shriyantek smacking the returns off the first serve of Sabalega too, so that's not, no free points for Sabalega. Okay, to get back on serve in the final set, you're a legend Cam, you're a legend Garrett, you're a legend, mate. Serve out wide, the back of Shriyantek, back in a Sabalega demo one, that's a good shot, Shriyantek gets it, find a forehand, as Shriyantek hits another forehand to the forehand of Sabalega, Shriyantek on the stretch, gets it, Sabalega goes cross court again with a winner, huge! Hey, if you go toe-to-toe with a heavyweight, you better not miss, we're back to deuce. Sabalega goes, all right, you wanna hit the ball hard? I'll show you how to hit the ball hard. There's that hammer, there's that hammer. Lady Thor, huge forehand winner. Just when Shriyantek was getting a little big cocky with it. I'm gonna hit a winner, no, no, you're not. Shriyantek's going, I should have hit down the line. Yeah, I don't know if that maybe would have worked. Anyway, serving the four-nish Shriyantek, he smacks him, return! This is gonna be on Venus TV. That first serve is not working, it's coming back faster. Advantage Shriyantek, Jesus. These ladies are hitting some of the biggest shots of the year. Bloody hell. That shot was harder than the Sabalega last shot. Shriyantek is worthy, she's got the hammer too. Advantage Shriyantek to get back the break. First serve's a fault. Oh, Shriyantek hits the ball straight back at Sabalega, Sabalega's like, don't worry about it. Second serve. To get back on serve, Shriyantek in the final set. Second serve, Sabalega. Into the back of Shriyantek, four-nish Sabalega, cross court on the four-nish Shriyantek, who shanks it long. And it's back to deuce, we're back to deuce. But the thing is, Shriyantek has to be careful not to try and get in a slug fest because the way she got that second set was not by trying to hit winners, it was by out, like out hitting, or out moving Sabalega. Hitting a winner is great, but, well, Jesus, that would have been a ridiculous backhand return. But she's got to make sure she's not just trying to smack winners and she will hit errors then. That's what kind of cost on the first set. Trying to go too big. Second serve is Sabalega. Down to the back of Shriyantek, return goes in the back of Sabalega. Back in the Shriyantek. Into the back of Sabalega, to the forehand of Shriyantek, four-nish Sabalega, cross court. Shriyantek gets it, into the four-nish Sabalega, who goes down the line, that's a shot. Slash from Shriyantek. Into the back of Sabalega, down the line of the four-nish Shriyantek, passing shot. Volley from Sabalega's good. Shriyantek with a slice. Sabalega with a volley down the line. In goes the forehand, down the line again. Sabalega with a volley again. Shriyantek with a slice in the net. And Sabalega raise their fist. As Shriyantek goes to the ground, the crowd are on their feet. They should be, possibly the point of the match. The Volley's a Sabalega solid. Left Shriyantek on the floor. Nice defense though from Shriyantek. She had a couple of chances to pass. But man, Sabalega at the net. The third volley, that cross-court backhand volley. I mean, that was the hardest one of all. Shriyantek does the splits, falls down. Vantage, Sabalega. Huge point. She serves it while the back of Shriyantek. Return to the back of the Sabalega. Four-nish Shriyantek. Cross-court to the four-nish Sabalega to the backhand of Shriyantek. Backhand of Sabalega again. To the back of Shriyantek. And hits it out. All right, three-love Shriyantek. Angrily hits the ball in the net. Yells it a coach. Again, Shriyantek's not having fun out there today. She's looking panicked. Three-love Sabalega. And remember that point. Let's see if that point was the difference. Because if Shriyantek wins that point, she could have broken back, potentially. Woo, all right. She's looking at the coach pointing at them going, what are you telling me to bloody do? What are you doing? All right, this is the time of the show where I ask you where you're watching from. Let me know in the chat. Let's see how many countries we can cover. Let's see if I can read the chat after asking this question. Let me know in the chat where you're watching from. We've probably got a few people from Europe, I guess, in the chat. Are you not entertained? Yeah. This has got match of the year vibes. Dubai, India, Southern California. We've got France, Poland, of course, from Poland. All right, London, Nigeria, Colorado, Switzerland, Romania, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Portugal in Europe. Nice, Rhode Island. We've got England in the house. We've got Thailand, Connecticut, Hungary. We've got Turkey as well. We've got Philippines. A few people from the Philippines in the chat. What's up? We've got Glasgow in the chat. We've got Sweden. We've got Quebec, Melbourne in the chat. Hey, we've got some Aussies here. What's going on? What's going on up before in the morning on a Sunday? Cam's basement. Jokes on you, I don't have one, so I don't know where you are. You're lost. We've got Russia in the chat too. We've got Antarctica. Good one. Got me. DC, Hawaii, Croatia. We've got Cameroon in the chat. We've got South Korea. It's 3 a.m. You are a savage. Also, you're smart because you knew this was going to be good. Anyone who's up between the hours of 12 and 6 a.m. right now, you know your tennis. You know. You knew this was a top clash. I mean, this is a must watch. We're going to be talking about this match pretty much for the rest of the year, at least for the rest of the clay court season. Whoever wins doesn't matter because if Shlontek comes back to win this match, bloody hell. All right. Hey, Garrett, thank you for the five. Appreciate that. Thank you. Shlontek serving three love down. And Bob with the two. Appreciate. All right. Shlontek down three love in the third. Second serve goes out. Double fold. The first double fold of the day. Grievous Shlontek. Love 15. Double break. Look, anything's possible, but double break, especially in this house, which I feel like Sabalenka feels like it's kind of her adopted home. This house. Double break would be very hard to come back from. Serving to the four and Sabalenka return goes out. Sabalenka's got to be careful, too, not to just wildly throw the racket at the ball. She's got to keep it clean. 15, all. 15, all. Hey, thank you, Bob, for the two again. Appreciate that. All right. 15, all. Shlontek serves. Into the four and Sabalenka return to the four and Sabalenka. Cross court again to the four and Sabalenka into the backhand of Sabalenka who shanks it long and it's 30-15. Now remember at the U.S. Open. Final set. Sabalenka broke early, got to four, two, and then Shlontek ran over the top of her. So Sabalenka knows that this, she has been up a break in the final set before of this match and it went wrong. Shlontek would know that, too. 30-15, Shlontek serves. A fault and that was out by a long, long way. Second serve. It's been almost two hours, Jesus. I don't want this match to end. Five set finals, anybody? Who wants a five-set final here? Just me, 30-15. As we're disturbed now, the four-hand of Sabalenka, backhand of Shlontek goes into the four and Sabalenka to the backhand of Shlontek, backhand of backhand. The Sabalenka hits it in the net, it's 40-15. Chance for Shlontek to get on the board and the third. But man, it's only one break. No one should feel comfortable. This is not over yet. All right. 40-15. Shlontek to get on the board in the final set. Remember, three-love Shlontek in that second set and it got to three-all, so. Oh, ace out wide, I think. Bang! Yes, three-one, Shlontek on the board. Big ace out wide, first ace of the day. Goes with the first double fold of the day for her. Three-one in the final set. Shlontek. Hey, Garrett. Swidetek seems out of character. I'm in Los Angeles. Thank you, Garrett, for the two. Appreciate that, mate. Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat, goat. Greatest of all time, goat. L.A. Cam's great commentary making this match even better. Fire. Thank you, L.A., appreciate it. And thank you, Udema. Your commentary is next level. Thank you for the dollar, appreciate that. Thank you, everybody, for the donations. As Sabalinga hits it out in the first point of this service game, Love 15. Thank you for the nice words. It helps when the matches are epic. I mean, it's easy to commentate this match at one versus two. This is, it's easy when the matches fire. All right, Love 15, first point of the game. Goes to Shlontek. Sabalinga serves the back of Shlontek. Fauna Sabalinga in the net. Love 30. How things can change. Love 30. And that's got stuck in the net. I mean, that was proper in the net. Love 30. Here's a big point. One break of serve just disappears. Doesn't mean anything. Love 30. Two hours played. Sabalinga serves. Down the tee, the back of Shlontek. Shlontek, ooh, was it a fault? It was a fault. Second serve. Must have been close. Second serve. Second serve, Sabalinga. Down the tee, the back of Shlontek. Good return. The back of Sabalinga in the net. Again from Sabalinga. Oh no. Love 40. This is the worst service game of the day by Sabalinga. She's been broken today, but this is the first time she's been down Love 40 in a game. Bad. Bad game from Sabalinga. Sabalinga. Just in the net. I mean, she's hit the ball in the net. Chance hit the break back. Sabalinga serves that wide. A fault. That was a late call. Second serve. Her service points winning and going down. Second serve. Second serve, Sabalinga. Out wide as a double fault. We're back on serve. Sabalinga gave the game away. Bad game. That was the worst game of the match. From either lady. Alright, Shlontek back on serve. 3-2, just like that. We knew it was going to happen. It always happens. Okay. Let's see if she can regroup. Let's see what the questions are. Any questions? That was actually bad. It was. I mean, that was the worst game. Sabalinga hit two errors. Sorry, two balls in the net. Double fault and one shank long. So, horrible game for Sabalinga. Needs to regroup quick. That was a gift. It was a gift. That's the problem with getting the break early in a set. You've got to try and hold. And when you're playing against Shlontek, try to hold serve. She's chasing you down. Like a wild animal. You've got to just keep holding serve otherwise. It's better to get the break at the end of the match. Yeah, we're going to be covering the men's final tomorrow. Don't you worry. Men's final. We've got you covered. We've been watching the men all week. Queen of double faults is back. Savage. Thank you, Darmaril. For the two. Appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, that's not the greatest nickname forever. She called herself that, right? Okay. Here we go. Back to Shlontek. It's 3-2. If you're just joining us, Sabalinga was up 3-love. Shlontek held. And then Sabalinga just completely lost the plot. In that last game. She completely fell off. Shlontek's family in the house. Dad and sister. Two hours played. And we're just getting started in this final set. Shlontek with a serve to level things up. Serving the back of Sabalinga shanks it. But it's a fault from Shlontek. Second serve. Second serve. Shlontek taking a long time. All right. Second serve. Down the tee. Or down to the front of Sabalinga. Four-nash Shlontek is long. All right. Shlontek just going a bit wild there. And it's love 15. Love 15. This umpire's voice is as silky smooth. As any umpire's voice out there. The love 15. Bloody hell. It's probably doing an ASMR channel. It'll be bloody banging. Love 15. Serve down the tee. Four-nash Sabalinga goes long. And it's 15-all. 15-all. All right. Sabalinga. Shlontek is very momentum against her. She played a terrible last game. Shlontek with a serve. She serves out wide at the front of Sabalinga. Return to the back of Shlontek. Back in at Sabalinga. Into the back of Shlontek. To the back of Sabalinga on the stretch. Shlontek in control. Four-hand. Cross-court. Sabalinga gets us right with the four-hand down the line. Shlontek backhand. Cross-court. Sabalinga's back in the rally. Back in the net though from Sabalinga. She's hitting the ball in the net so many times. I wonder if Sabalinga's starting to fade. Might be starting to get tired. Because this would be the longest match she's played this week. She did play a long match against Sharif. And I think she's never played over two hours in Madrid. Remember we were talking about that the other day, right? So Sabalinga might be starting to fade. 30-15. Serving the four-hand Sabalinga. Return to the front of Shlontek. Sabalinga with the four-hand on the stretch. Goes down the line. Sabalinga with the backhand on the stretch again. Goes wide. And Sabalinga's making a lot of errors. Shlontek, 40-15. 40-15. So this is the longest match she's ever played at this tournament. She played a two-hour match against Sharif. She played an hour and 57 minutes at the start of the tournament against Osorio. So this is the longest match at two hours and four minutes and climbing. So I wonder if she's starting to fade. 40-15. Shlontek with the fault. Second serve. She doesn't look physically tired, but she is making a lot of errors that make me think she's trying to go for too much because she doesn't want to play these long rallies anymore. 40-15. Second serve. Shlontek to level things up in the third. Serving the backhand of Sabalinga. Backhand as Shlontek is into the backhand. Sabalinga sliced. Shlontek backhand. Down the line. That's a good shot. Shlontek now with the four-hand. Down the line in the net. Too good from Sabalinga. 40-30. Cam, you did say that in Sabalinga's Sakri match that Sakri would... If Sakri forces it to two hours, Sabalinga's level could drop. Seems that that's the case here. Yeah, well, I was one match too late. One match off. I don't think she's mentally tired. I think she's physically tired. Because when you're tired, if you play tennis and you get tired, you just want to try and hit winners because you're like, I can't be bothered running. I'm not saying that Sabalinga can't go. Shlontek in the third set, but it just feels like Sabalinga's making a lot of errors, which she wasn't doing early. The only thing is that the match has gone over two hours. Shlontek looks fine. She does not look tired. 40-30 to get level here as she serves. The backhand of Sabalinga. Return goes in. The backhand of Shlontek. Sabalinga backhand. Into the backhand of Shlontek who hits a winner down the line. 3-3. Shlontek looks a lot stronger. She points to her head. She throws her fist. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Thank you. Donna for the five. Appreciate that. Thank you for the five. Three all in the final set. 35 minutes in this final set as well. So it's been a pretty long final set compared to the first. The first two sets took about 45 minutes each. This final set's already taken half an hour. Now Sabalinga can still win this match. But she has to keep holding serve. She serves out wide of fault. And that serve was not even close. Like that was... Like these serves are not close. Second serve. Second serve. She's taking her time here Sabalinga. She's got something in her eye. Second serve. It goes in the forehand of Shlontek. Forehand of Sabalinga is shank-long. Shlontek's attacking. She's attacking the returns. Love 15. Uh-oh. Watch out. Sabalinga's got to get a new racket. This is getting real dangerous now for Sabalinga. She's got three love. She's probably having US Open flashbacks. She just walked past the trophy that looks like a mess. I mean she probably didn't even notice that. That was a trophy. She's like, what's this twisted piece of metal? Can someone get this rubbish out of here? Love 15. Probably didn't even notice. She's like, is that the... What's that? Who put the sculpture here? Love 15. Who's art project is on the table? I'll stop ripping it. Alright. Love 15. I'm sure it's very nice. It's been a return there. The back of Sabalinga into the forehand of Shlontek. Who shanks it? Ooh. It shanked out from Shlontek. Sabalinga gets lucky. 15-0. And that was a shank that City Pass will be proud of. Straight off the top of the racket. Just straight at the sky. 15-0. Must win game for Sabalinga. Served in a tish. Shlontek gets it back. Sabalinga comes in, but it's in the net. Yeah, the serves. Oh, by the way, Shlontek, just moving a wrist a little bit there after that. It's a big serve. Might have just... just shocked the Shlontek wrist. 30-15. This feels like the second set where Shlontek was up 3-11. Sabalinga came back. This game's important. First there's a fold again from Sabalinga, man. First serve is just missing. Second serve. Second serve. She's taking her time here, Sabalinga. She's just sorting herself out. Second serve. Sabalinga into the back of Shlontek. Return is good. Sabalinga gets it. Back of Shlontek cross-court. Sabalinga running again. Back in the backhand. Shlontek down the line. Sabalinga doing a lot of running. Now Shlontek comes in the net. Sabalinga backhand pass. Shlontek volleys in the net. Sabalinga gets lucky. And Shlontek gives a thumbs up and a big smile to Sabalinga saying, hey, that was a good point. Good rally. That's a good thing for Shlontek that she's in that kind of like, she's actually like a 3-0 in the third set after two hours is like, good shot. You got me. It was a great, it was a great, great drop shot. I don't know if Sabalinga meant to hit that drop shot that well though. That's good. It's good that Shlontek's kind of like enjoying the moment. I guess, you know, she won three games in a row. Pretty happy. It was 5-1 probably not. Return goes, ooh, that's a fault. All right, second serve. Sabalinga to get back in front. That was a good, that was a good reaction. If you're Shlontek fan, you'd be happy with that because for the majority of this match she's been pretty angry. Well, she looks pretty annoyed. 40-15. Second serve now. Sabalinga in the back of Shlontek. Good return. Sabalinga gets it. Into the back of Shlontek. The back of Sabalinga. Down the line is a good shot. But it goes out and Sabalinga gets back in front. That game is huge. That game was massive. 40-15 to the game and it's 4-3 in this third set. Sadia. Go Swaya Tech Red Heart. Thank you for the dollar. I appreciate that. Go Shlontek. There you go. Jimmy. Good one. Thank you, Jimmy, for the two. Are you saying good one for the joke or something? Thank you for the two bucks. All right. What a match. Quality shot, mate. It's got match of the year vibes. Depending on this final set it could be up there with the show up and final for the ladies. I respect both players. They both deserve it. That's the cruel part of tennis that only one can win. Again, thank you so much for liking the video and subscribing, everybody. Don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't already, we've got the men's final tomorrow. I don't know how we're going to beat that, but man, someone knows where to watch this. You can watch it on WTATV if you want to watch the match. WTATV. Seven Lakers. She needs to shift from power to placement like she did. Well, that's the thing. Again, she's a little like... I wouldn't say she looks tired. Like when you look at her physically, you're like, you know, she's not breathing heavy or, you know, looking at cramping or anything like that. But just her game style looked like maybe she was panicking because she was losing. She's like, shit, I've got to start hitting winners again. And she was overdoing it. Four-three. But let's see. Because Shviantec's back having to serve to stay in touch. And this match could, just like the second set, remember the second set. It was three loves Shviantec. Then it was three all. Then that... a bit of a marathon game. Shviantec held, then broke, then held. So this isn't over yet. Shviantec still in a bind. All right, here we go. Four-three. Shviantec has to be careful. She serves a fault. Second serve. Because Sabalenka is only eight points away from the title. Second serve. Shviantec. She serves down to the back and Sabalenka return goes in the corner. Shviantec. And Shviantec hits it in the net. Love 15. And Sabalenka only needs to get a second win for like, like 10 minutes. And she'll win this trophy. Love 15. It is a thrill of a final. You're not wrong. We've still got more thrills to go. That's the question. How many more thrills do we have as we serve now? The back and Sabalenka return. The back and Shviantec hits it in the net. Shviantec's gone from having a great time to having a shit one. Love 30. She's yelling at the coach or she's chatting to the coach again. And now she's in big trouble. Love 30. Sabalenka six points away from lifting another Madrid trophy. The crowd know it. They're getting a little loud. By the way, Pac Stadium. Love to see it. The crowd showed up for the final between the one and two. Love 30. Shviantec with a serve. That goes in the corner. Sabalenka return goes. Wide. Good serve from Shviantec. 15. 30. 15. 30. Another serve for Shviantec. 15. 30. Shviantec with a serve. Big point again. Coming up here. Served into the corner. Sabalenka good return to the back of Shviantec. Sabalenka with a forehand down the line again. Shviantec on the stretch. Sabalenka in control. Comes in with a forehand. Hits a winner. 15. 40. Sabalenka went after it from the first serve. She smacked the return. She went down the line. She took the risk. She got the reward. Unbelievable. 15. 40. She's five points away from finally beating Shviantec on clay. Can Shviantec survive this? 15. 40. Huge serve coming up now. She's got to get a first one. She's got to not hit it to Sabalenka. I reckon she'll go to the backhand. What do you reckon, chat? Will she go out wide? Maybe to the forehand out wide. Really wide? She goes in the body. Okay, comes back though. Backhand to Shviantec. Into the backhand to Sabalenka. To the backhand of Shviantec. Sabalenka with a forehand on the stretch. It's good. Shviantec can't get it. Sabalenka breaks. Sabalenka breaks the stretch. Forehand winner. And she's serving for the championship. What a shot. Wow. And it felt like Sabalenka just used the last little bit of energy she had to get that shot to because she had to lunge. And she threw the racket and Shviantec just couldn't get there. She threw the racket at the ball. She didn't throw the racket out of her hand. Just clarify. She held the racket but she just swung hard. Serving for the championship. Sabalenka. All of a sudden. She serves. A fault. I don't feel like this is going to be as easy as it seems. 5-3 second serve. Serve. Into the backhand of Shviantec. Return goes long. Free point. 15 loves. She's three points away. And I'll tell you what, I know the Shviantec fans, you don't want to see this result. But if you're a casual fan and you don't have a horse in the race, this is so good because we're going to go to Rome with these ladies locked at 1-1 on clay. And a trilogy on the cards. That's great for the sport. Great for the WTA. Back into the net from Sabalenka. We're not done yet though. 15-all. It is only one break. But the Shviantec fans, I know you want to come back. I mean, I wouldn't mind to come back too. It means that we've had an epic match. But in terms of the state of the WTA, if it is 1-1 going into the French and they've got a play in the French open, the trilogy will be epic. She's got to win three more points. So Sabalenka, she's a long way away and she still can't get the serve-in. Second serve. That first serve is going to Rome. Second serve. Taking a long time, Sabalenka. Just waiting for the crowd to be absolutely saw. This guy's got a fit. All right. He said sorry. He's like, he got his phone out. He had the flashlight. He's like, oops, sorry. My bad. All right. Second serve, oh, she serves. Now, why the Fawnish-Fiontech great return. Sabalenka with a slice in the net. Fiontech too big, too strong. Sabalenka's got the hands on the hips. 15-30. And we've got another twist in the tail. It's only one break. We know it's nothing. 15-30. Sabalenka's going to have to fight. She serves. And ace. Bang! She traded in the Porsche if she won it last week for that shot. 30-all. She's two points away from getting the revenge. A late birthday present as well. Here we go. Sabalenka with a serve. She would love another ace. She serves. 30-all. She serves a fault. That one was a big serve, but it was a fault. Second serve. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks for being here. Appreciate you. Second serve. Into the Fawnish-Fiontech. Return goes into the Fawn of Sabalenka. And Shriontech in the net. Sabalenka challenges. Sorry, Shriontech challenges. This is a huge challenge. Sabalenka hit it on the line according to the lines person. Shriontech challenge if it's out. It's 30-40. If it's in, it's championship point. It was out. You cannot be serious. What a challenge. It's a break back point. Wow. The umpire's got a smile. He's like, whoop. Missed that one. It's a break back point. That was a huge challenge. Thank God for challenge on clay. Well, it wouldn't have mattered. They would have looked at the mark anyway. Break back point. Shriontech. Sabalenka serves. Out wide. Shriontech returns. Sabalenka forehand. Cross court. Into the Fawnish-Fiontech. To the forehand of Sabalenka. Fawnish-Fiontech into the forehand. Off Sabalenka down the line. That's a good shot. Shriontech gets into the backhand. But it hits it out. And Sabalenka survives. She gets the deuce. And a bit of a shout too. Shot. This is intense. Deuce. Again, if you just joined us for the first time today and you're liking what you're hearing, join us next week because we're going to be doing the same thing. We're going to be actually watching the men's final tomorrow too. So if you're feeling like you want to be a part of the channel, feel free to subscribe. We watch a lot of tennis. I don't know how many matches, but we watch all the, we watch these ladies a lot because they're the best two in the world. In the world. All right. Deuce. Served as he's an ace. Sabalenka with an ace. Sabalenka 2023. Ace is a deuce. And she now has championship point to get that revenge and to level up the 2023 head-to-head with Shriontech. She serves out wide the backhand of Shriontech. Return to the front of Sabalenka for another Shriontech. Again to the front of Sabalenka. Into the front of Shriontech. Sabalenka with a volley in the net. And Shriontech survives. I think Sabalenka got a little too excited because she hit a great forehand. But it wasn't big enough. Shriontech passed her and the volley was not going to be there. I think Shriontech, the Sabalenka thought, oh, that's too easy. I've got to show a forehand. Easy. And Shriontech almost sitting on the ground with that passing shot. Lunging volley in the net. Second, sorry, championship point saved. All right. Sabalenka serves again. Into the body of Shriontech. Return comes back. Four under forehand. Shriontech in the net. That's a shame. She got the serve back. That was the hard part. Championship point number two. Sabalenka to get the revenge to level the head-to-head this year to get her first win on a clay court against Shriontech and to win Madrid for the second time. What would she do for an ace right now? She'd trade in a million Porsches. I'll tell you that. She serves. Down the tee to the forehand. Shriontech goes in the forehand. Sabalenka in the net. Oh, she does it again. She gets the forehand and she missed it. Back to deuce. Back to deuce. Holy hell. Man. Shriontech hanging on at the moment. Sabalenka just can't get a free point when she needs it on that championship point. Back to deuce. Sabalenka serves. This time it's a fault. Uh-oh. Second serve. Second serve play. Hell, the chat's on fire. Second serve. Sabalenka in the back of Shriontech. Good return. Sabalenka hits it into the forehand of Shriontech. Sabalenka forehand down the line to the winner. She needed the point before, but she gets a third championship point. That's a bloody good forehand. The backhand was pretty good too. Shriontech hit it straight back at Sabalenka. Sabalenka reflected into the corner. Inside-out style. Very tough. All right. Sabalenka with another championship point. Her third to take the win. Sabalenka serves. Out wide the back of Shriontech. Return as a winner again. Shriontech shakes her fist to the crowd and we're back to do's. Oh man. What a return. Off a first serve. Off a first serve. The backhand down the line to slap. Just a backhander. Sabalenka's going, I've got to win one of these bloody points. Back to do's. Sabalenka serves to the forehand of Shriontech. Good return. Sabalenka gets it. It's in. Shriontech hits it wide. Sabalenka, what a return. What a backhand. What an angle. The guy in the front row is having a, having a stroke. Oh, we feel you, sir. All right. Fourth championship point for Sabalenka. Where's that ace? Where the hell's that ace? Can we get fire in the chat for this match, by the way? Can we get some fires in the chat? Light the chat on fire. Advantage Sabalenka. Served and sees a fault. She can't buy her first serve. Second serve. Crowd's going wild. That's it. Light that chat on fire. Second serve. There we go. Love that. Second serve. Goes in the back of Shriontech. Return goes in the front of Sabalenka. That's a great shot from Sabalenka. She finally gets the win. The first clay core win against Shriontech for Sabalenka. What a match. What a win. And the two beats the one in this week's final. What happens next week? You've got to find out next time on Tennis Talk. GGs. Sabalenka gets her revenge. Late birthday present. Second Madrid trophy. First win against Shriontech on clay. And this just makes, again, there's so many, just earth. What's the word? Just so many changing matches here. Every time we think of she dances, every time we think we know what the WTA is going to look like. Oh, Shriontech's winning clay court. Okay, she's going to kick everyone's ass. Then we see Sabalenka win. Just like we thought Sabalenka was going to dominate the Sunshine Double. And then Rabakhin has said no. Every time we think we know what the WTA is going to give us, something else happens. And I love it. But it's also the big name still up the top. It's not too unpredictable that it's random. Sabalenka gets her first win on a clay court against Shriontech. And this makes things very interesting. The head to head is now 5-3. Another 3 set of win for Sabalenka as well on this, against this lady. Bloody hell. We have got a matchup. This is a hell of a matchup. Bob, thank you for the dollar. Appreciate that. If you're leaving, don't forget to subscribe. Don't miss next week's finals, too. The question, jerk! Minoris! This is for eager losing. What a game. Thank you for the donation. Appreciate that. Okay. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, the tectonic plates of tennis are shifting. You're right. That's what I was trying to figure out. Sorry, 17 winners from Shriontech. 20 unforced errors. 32 winners from Sabalenka. 38 errors. 5 aces, 3 double faults. Serving was almost identical. But the breakpoint chance is so many more breakpoint chances for Sabalenka. And she eventually took one more breakpoint chance. And that was enough. But man, I wonder what's going to happen next with these two. I want to see the next one. I want to see, you know, the trilogy. The trilogy. Man, you better shut your fuck up, okay? And then you hit left, and you don't say sorry. You think you're a hit kid. I don't want to stop, and you kept doing like this to the team. Except bullshit Russian. You think this is normal? Sean! Arena Army rise up. Thank you, Sean, for the 10. Appreciate that. The Arena Army. I love that. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Amazing. What an epic matchfire. Yep. Wins my vote for WTA match of the year, thus far. Excited for Rome and Roland Garros on the WTA side. Thank you for the donation. Appreciate that. Yeah, look, if the Australian opens the match of the year for the Grand Slamms, this has got to be a match of the year so far for the WTA. Just with the quality. Maybe not the scoreline. You know, you could probably have a tie break in other matches where there's a third set tie break. You could probably make an argument. There's matches that we've watched already that had a more scary finish and a crazy finish, but in terms of quality, it's up there. It's definitely up there. Okay. What a crazy... For once you've got a prediction right. For once, get stuffed. Go watch all my predictions. I pretty much got them all right except for Pagulla, right? You bloody... Get stuffed. Get stuffed. Thanks so much, Cam. Thanks for starting the watch and commentary. Thank you. I'll see you. Appreciate it. I'm going to play a trilogy in Rome or the French. I hope we get it in Rome. The problem is though, Madrid ain't... This day the French opened clay and it's not Rome's clay. If ever Sabalenka was going to win a clay court match, it was going to be in Madrid. Probably the only clay court match you can win because of this surface being, you know, better for, you know, big hitters. Now does this make anyone think that Strouf might be able to push Elcrest tomorrow? I know that like, you know, WTA is different, but the fact that the big server, the big hitter won in the way she did today, do you think that Strouf might actually trouble Elcrest a little more? Not maybe not win, but like make him sweat? I mean, no? Okay. I don't know. I thought, I thought, I think, I think he might maybe make it like push him to a tie break or something. I'm not saying like he's going to win or anything crazy, but just sort of, you know, make Elcrest sweat because Sabalenka is hard hitting game. I mean, Strouf and Sabalenka have a very similar game style. And so does Fjantec and, so does Fjantec and Elcrest in times. Man, you better shut your fuck up, okay? Then you hit left and you don't say sorry. You think you're a hit kid? I don't want to stop and you kept doing like this to the team. Except bullshit Russian. You think this is normal? Flora. So happy for Arena. Fantastic commentary as usual. Thank you Flora for the 10. I appreciate that. Jay. Both great players was hoping that Ega would get her first Madrid trophy, but happy that Sabah has improved her mental strength. Yeah, she's a beast. Vems. I have a dream that one day Sabah will win RG. That's a, that's the toughest one. I don't know of RG. I mean, look, she might, but look, if Fjantec fans, you guys know that this ain't the French open. This is Madrid. Madrid is different. Madrid just winning Madrid doesn't mean you're the French open winner because it's totally different. Rome is where it counts. You know, you guys know that. You guys know that, you know, all right. Let's see if Fjantec and, let's see if Sabah can beat Fjantec and Rome. And then if she does, that's when we can start talking about Sabah Lenker. You know, what she can really do, but Rome is where it's at. Yeah, Madrid's different. Great win though. Confidence wise, all that stuff. Belief, Sabah Lenker. Great win. Great revenge too. Great to get that revenge. She talked the talk. Walk the walk. And to be honest, I think this is going to be the heart, one of the hardest clay court tournaments for Fjantec to win, just because, you know, players like Sabah Lenker get that advantage of hitting hard serves and getting free points. Now Sabah Lenker watches the, watches the replay of her winning. She's just like, oh yeah, it's a pretty good aid. You were bloody crazy good. Hey, thank you. Cool YouTube for the two. Madrid tougher to catch for Fjantec because it's faster. Exactly. Yeah. That little bit of quickness just takes time away from Fjantec's ground strokes. Sabah Lenker signing tennis balls. Love to see it. Sabah Lenker is strong, a strong player, but sometimes she does like, does lose her concentration. If she regains herself, she's really dangerous. Yeah. Well, how crazy is this chat? I don't know if you guys know, but two years ago, this same thing happened, but it wasn't Fjantec. It was Barty. So what happened two years ago? Fjantec, sorry, Sabah Lenker Barty played in Stuttgart. Barty got the win. Sabah Lenker was like, I want that bloody car. And then two weeks later, they played in the Madrid final. It was a three setter and Sabah Lenker got her revenge. So I wonder if that's what Sabah Lenker was thinking today as well. Like that's, that's a reason why I picked her because I thought she was saying all the right things coming in. I want revenge. You know, also the fact that she's won this before. She knows how to win this. Fjantec hadn't won this before. The fact that she lost to Barty two years ago in the same tournament and then come back and beat her in that same event. All those things, those positive, positive, what do you call it? Positive thoughts. You know, all those things helping Sabah Lenker today. And she needed every bit of that. You know, she needed the court to be good. She needed, you know, she needed Fjantec to be a little off her game a little, and she was mentally a little bit off. Fjantec just pissed off. She slapped herself in the leg. She gave herself a handprint tattoo. All those things had to happen for her to win. She got it. Blue clay's better. I'd love to see the blue clay make her come back, but I think it's not going to happen. Positive memories. That's it. Yeah. By the way, I've got to be honest. I have no idea what that thing is. What is the trophy? Can we not, before I rip it, Madrid Open 2333 trophy. Introducing, oh, they've even named it. The trophy's name. Oh, no, it's a, it's an artist's trophy. Introducing on the trophy designer. What was the reaction for the trophy last year? It was very well received. It looked like a surfboard. I think everybody, well, is there a different trophy every year on it like that? You're going to make a new sculpture every year. How do you create a process of, blah, people really like the trophy, but this year it's changing. Yeah. I want to know what his inspiration was behind the trophy. What's the main thing you receive to invoke when people see the trophy? I would like to people, to like the trophy, to understand it. I've started with an oval. Okay, so it's an oval of a tennis racket to construct the shape. A sphere of a tennis ball because it's the thing that records the point through a tool of the racket, through the tool of the racket. So it's like a ball and it's like a tennis ball and a tennis racket head and everything is constrained there, translating into a language I use in my sculpture. Okay. So the trophy is meant to be a tennis racket and ball and I guess it's on a different angle. When you see it on a different, I don't know. Maybe at certain angles it looks like a tennis ball hitting a racket or something. I don't know. But anyways, that's the inspiration behind it. Okay. Egas Friantec lifting a runner's up trophy. She doesn't do that very often. She's already done it twice this year though. She didn't win Dubai and Montecala and Madrid. She's had to lift the plate. The Frisbee doesn't lose too many finals. And look, I'll tell you what, Roger Federer is going to be happy. The on brand on stage. No Spanish for Friantec. She's like, thanks for such an intense tennis. You're right. Every match is a challenge against you. I hope we keep having a great season and have playing many more times. I want to thank my team for being there. Pretty good two and a half weeks coming back from injury. Of course, she pulled out of Miami. Someone said rankings. We'll talk about that in a second. All right. Friantec is dead. By the way, did somebody say like before that Friantec's dad being there is a jinx? Like when he's there, she loses. Is that there's somebody say that about Friantec or someone else? Thank you everybody. The crowd coming. Last time I was here was because of COVID. It was with COVID. It's not. It's not fun to play at 1 at 8 a.m. though. Throw and shade it. Feli Lopez is like, excuse me. I wonder if Friantec saying that playing the semifinal one in the morning didn't help her in this match. I mean, look, it's fair. She was through a little shade and Feli was like, Lopez like, excuse me. Because remember, she did play. She did finish at 1 o'clock in the morning against Kudamatova in the semifinals, which again, we all think is ridiculous, right? Nobody, you know, shouldn't be playing a semifinal one in the morning unless it's a five-sederate of Grand Slam. So, yeah, they got to fix the schedule. That was ridiculous. I don't think it made any difference today because she had two days off, but still, Feli Lopez was like, what do you mean one in the morning? Talking to me? All right. No, no, no. She's not a sore loser. No, no, no. It's good. It's actually a good thing that Friantec would mention because if the best players in the world don't like it, then things will change. And like, I mean, like how many of you on Wednesday or Thursday night were saying the same thing of like, oh, freaking out. I've got to wait. I've got to wake up tomorrow. I can't watch this one in the morning on a weekday. So it's not good for the fans either. And I know it's a Spanish thing and all that, but, yeah. All right. So like I said, it's always tough to play you. I hope we keep playing many more times. You know what? They don't believe that. They look at each other and they're like, I hope we play many more times and you're like, no, you don't. No, you don't. Neither of them want to play each other. They're like, I hope you lose first round so I can avoid you next time because it's always so hard to beat you. Like, you know what I mean? Like there's no way they want to play again. I'm sure they, I'm sure they'd be pretty happy if they'd never played again. We are, yeah, I mean, we want them to play a million more times. This is one of the best matches in the WTA now or it was anyway, but I mean, it's good to see, it's good to see a, you know, a head-to-head that's competitive for the sake of the WTA. All right. She just says thanks to the, thanks to the coach and the player box, blah, blah. All right. She says thanks to the crowd as well. Very quick speech, short and sweet and she's going to lift this sculpture. All right. It's inspired by a tennis racket and a tennis ball. Look, I'm not an artist. I'm an idiot. Whoa, Jesus. All right. There's the streamers. Sabra Lincoln was ready. She knew the cannons were going to go off. Awesome. There's so many streamers we can't even see her. She just disappeared in a blue miss, a blue, a blue streak of streamers. Anyways, geez, that's a clean up. Poor, poor, poor Feli Lopez, getting the broom. Bloody hell. That's going to be a clean. He ain't doing it. Going to get the models to do it. Go on, earn your money, get the girls. The guys have to do it for this one and then probably the girls will have to get the brooms out tomorrow, I guess. Unless Feli picks up. Oh, come on. Just pick up at least a couple of streamers, Feli, on the way out. Chuck it in the bin. Anyways, Sfiantech and Sabra Lincoln, the rankings, still a long way apart. Right. A long way apart. Sabra Lincoln is on 7,880 points. Sfiantech 9,625. They both gained a lot of points this week. Sfiantech didn't play last year. Sabra Lincoln lost first round. So there is, they did get a lot of points, make up a lot of points together. But the thing is, Sabra Lincoln cut the lead down by 350. And remember, Sfiantech has zero points to gain until after the French. So she's got Rome next week. Actually, no, sorry, I'll take that back. Rome next week has been upgraded to a thousand. So next week, she can get a hundred extra points. But after that, she can't get any French opens. We're 2,000. She has the French open. So that means Sabra Lenka, if she, if, if Sfiantech wins Rome and Sabra Lenka makes it, well, Sabra Lenka's got to make the semis to do what she did last year. Going to the French open, if Sfiantech doesn't play well the French and Sabra Lenka wins, we could have a change. But it really comes down to whether or not Sabra Lincoln can win the French and maybe Rome, one or the other or both. And Sfiantech has to, like I said before, I don't think we're going to get a change at the top until maybe Wimbledon. You know, Sfiantech, is she going to lose the French open after this match? I still think she's the favourite. She's going to win, right? Sabra Lenka on a Madrid court is going to, is way better than on a French open court. I would back Sfiantech every day on the French open against Sabra Lenka. But there is still a chance to close the gap until when we get to Wimbledon or even less than a thousand. That's when we could have a change on the grass because we know Sfiantech's grass score tennis is a little lacking and Sabra Lenka is a beast. By the way, the lay, I don't know, is this the 16 and under champion as well standing next to Sabra Lenka? That's nice. It's nice that they got the junior champ next to Sabra Lenka. That's good to see. That's good to see. You love that. Promote the kids. The juniors. The juniors. Goat. Goat. Greatest of all time. Goat. Steven. Thank you, Cam Williams. No worries. Steven Peters. Thank you for the 20. Appreciate that. Making a salute to the chat for Steven. Bloody hell, mate. Thank you for the 20. Sfiantech rubbish on grass. I wouldn't say rubbish on grass, but the transition between clay and grass is a lot shorter for her because she plays so well in the French that she doesn't have time to play. I'm sure this year Sfiantech will go and play, you know, a grass court event. By the way, all the ball models, God, they look silly. Don't they look silly? It's a bunch of guys dressing up as kids, like dressing up as like 14-year-old guys. It's a bunch of grown men looking like playing cosplay as a kid, as a ball kid. It looks like a costume party. There's no one legitimate. I mean the arms are too big. Their arms are massive. There's no one Madrid. These guys go to the gym too much to be a ball kid. You've got to be skinny, scrawny, little kid. You can't be a jacked bodybuilder. What the hell are we doing? Yeah, Felly is not doing it because, yeah, Felly, I mean, he's one. He probably was, he's like, wait, they've got to look like me. That's ridiculous. They look silly. Come on now. Those grown men are standing there like this with their visors and their polos and they're just like, they look, they look ridiculous. They look ridiculous. Come on. They're not standing there going, this is the peak of my modeling career. They're not doing that. They're doing this because it's a side gig for an extra couple of hundred bucks. Oh, it's, it's, I feel embarrassed for them. Can you imagine me wearing, like, I'm not as jacked as those guys, but it would be like me dressing up as a ball kid. I mean, ridiculous. Running around in tennis court. Come on now. Did they get paid? I don't know. Maybe they get paid in, I don't know. It's a job. I mean, I don't know. I don't know how it works. They probably paid a modeling agency who, you know, give them something. Yeah, they look like bodyguards with like the hats. It's the visors that look weird. The visors make them make them look like they're cosplaying as a 14 year old boy. It's like, what's that movie? 21 Jump Street. When they go back to school and they just look just like this huge guy in high school. And you're like, you're not a high school kid. And he's like, yes, I am. That's what they look like. All right. Now, big three of women should be on tech. We're back in an arena. I think that was always the big three of women. I would say Pagula. I still, I still think Pagula should be mentioned. I don't think Kragikov is quite there yet. Pagula's still consistent enough to be considered up there. Yeah. It's like, like stranger things. Yeah. It's like, hang on a second, Steve, you're not, you're not 17. They aren't fooling anyone. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. Protein bars. Yeah. That's what they feed. They pay them in protein. They're bald bodybuilders. Oh, man. No worries, Deb. Thanks for joining us. We're sticking around for a little bit longer and then we'll get out of here. But, um, hell, what a match. What a day. What a final. What a final. I can take some. I want to, I want to check something. Let me just check something. I think we've, uh, Oh, chat. Chat, chat, chat. Guess what? It's official. This match, today's match, the final of Madrid is officially, wait for it, the biggest match of the year on the WTA. Can we get some solutions in the chat for that or fire if you don't have to the salute emoji? Can we get some fire in the chat for that? Thank you everybody for watching. Appreciate the largest match, bigger than the Australian Open Final. So thank you everybody for watching. Bigger than the Australian Open Final. Give yourselves a round of applause. I mean, thank you. That's ridiculous. Hey, look, massive tournament. And a massive final, one V2 and the biggest stream of the year for the WTA. Thank you all for joining us. This is ridiculous. That is a ridiculous, ridiculous. Yeah, we had over 8,000 people watching at one point, insanity. So I appreciate all of that. That's, that's ridiculous. That's insane. And it was a final that deserved to be the big, what is seen as one of the biggest matches of the year because it was huge. It was one V2. It was a rematch of what we saw last week. We got a, you know, an instant, an instant rematch. We don't usually get those. We definitely don't get instant rematches between one and two on the WTA. What the hell? Thank you everybody for that. All right, we've got one more match to go. That is tomorrow between, between Elcores and Strouf. It's probably, look, I don't want to be pessimistic, but I'm not as, I'm not going to get his, I don't think we're going to get, unless the matches, you know, finals at tie break and we get ridiculous, you know, tennis from Strouf. It's going to be hard to top this one. I feel like this is the match of the tournament. Yeah. The WTA is very strong right now. It is so strong right now. One beats two. Well, we got, we got two, one beat two last week and then two beat one this week. So it's been a hell of a, a hell of a couple of weeks on the WTA. What a start to the clay court season. All right. It was tense. Yeah. My heart was banging. Yep. For sure. The question, jerk. You can't be serious. Linear, thank you so much for the super sticker. Thank you for that. Very generous. Thanks for the 22 Canadian super sticker. Thank you. That's very, very generous. Great for women's sport. It is. I mean, WTA tennis is on fire. And I gotta be honest, this year, because of, you know, no Nadal, not much Djokovic. Alkares has been good, you know, he's been there for the most part. But then again, he pulled out the inconsistencies. The fact that we haven't had a tournament this year on the, on the ATP with Nadal and Djokovic and Alkares in the same event this year. The Australian Open had the two goats, even Mevidev, like getting those four guys, right? Those big four, if you want to call them that. We haven't had those four guys in one event this year. They played, you know, separate events, or together, you know, three out of the four or whatever. But we haven't had the big, the big boys playing all at the same time. Sinner as well, chuck him in there, Sidney Pass, all those guys. On the WTA, we've had a full list for the most part. We didn't have Jabur this week, in the first six months. You know, we're talking about Rebecca, we're talking about Krajikova, we're talking these two ladies. And I think that's why the WTA has been, has been so much better is because we're getting the strongest lists and the strongest players playing the big events. We're not getting that on the ATP at the moment. And that is, you know, Rafa's obviously a huge, a huge loss. You know, Djokovic, obviously not playing Madrid this week, sucked as well for the men's side. Because the WTA is just, and not only that, we're getting a full, a full list, but they're also winning. You know, the semi finals have been fire, the quarter finals, the finals have been epic. I mean, let me just go through the finals really quickly for the year on the WTA, the big finals, right? We're not going to go through the mini ones. So we're starting, starting in Adelaide. We had Sabalenka vs. Kova. Great to see a new face and Sabalenka started a run. Then we had Benchich beat Kazakina. That's a top 10 clash. Sabalenka took on Rebecca in the final of Australia. Then we went to Abu Dhabi. Benchich, Samsonova. Samsonova is on the brink of top 10. So is Benchich. And that was a match point saving match. Then we had Shafianatek Pagula, top three clash in Doha in Dubai. We had Krajika vs. Shafianatek, the upset. And of course, Krajika, you know, claiming that she should be in the big three. Then the Sunshine Double, Rabakina vs. Sabalenka, then Kovitova vs. Rabakina. Then over in Charleston, you know, even though Shafianatek Sabalenka didn't play, we had Jabir taking on Benchich over there. Last week we had this match and then this match again today. So it's just been so cool on the WTA to just continually get the best players in the world, the top 10, the top 15 playing each other in these massive finals. Because you can probably pick about maybe five to 10 people that have featured in two of those big finals at least, you know, which is great. It's great for the game and it gets us all to learn more and more about these players. You know, if you get different winners every week and it's random, you know, we don't have enough time to learn who someone is after one match. Hey, cool YouTuber. Just 1600 pts between one and two. WTA is entertaining. That's it. So it is. It is. Thank you for the donation. This is one of the big, this only big three in WTA is Montek, Sabalenka, Rabakina. I mean, look, they're the ones who have won the big trophies. They're the big three winners of the year. I'm going to say, I'm not thinking of the big three because I think there's other players that are still going to, you know, we're still going to hold another half of a season after the Wimbledon for other players to lift. But those three players are the strongest players this year and they've been the most winning players this year. I mean, look at the WTA finals race. They're the two three, right? So they're the most, they're the, they're the best three this year. Margot. Thank you, Margot, for the 20. Appreciate that. It's very generous of you. Appreciate that. What about the veterans? Do you think they can still win any? Which veterans on the WTA? I mean, she's a veteran. She won Miami. So she's, she's not done yet. I doubt Rabakina will keep the level. I don't think we'll see Rabakina. Like, look, we've got to manage our expectations on certain players when the surface goes from hard to clay, right? So Shfiantec, we knew it was going to get better when she played on clay. She's made two finals. She's got a title. You know, she'll probably have the better clay court season than a hard court season so far after the French. But Rabakina will never get, we weren't going to see Rabakina, Indian Wells, Miami, then do the same on clay. I mean, she's not a clay courter. If she was ever going to do well on clay, it would have been in Madrid. She lost in the first match. So I think with Rabakina, yeah, she's not going to play well in, we shouldn't expect her to play well in Rome or the French. If she does, it's great. But I wouldn't be like going over. Rabakina's got to get to the final and blah, no, she doesn't, she might lose in the fourth round and that's the way it is. Sabaling has never made it past the third round of the French. So she's never really played well there either. But she's in a better spot now and she's got the win over Srivante on clay. I think we're all expecting Sabalenka to make it to a semi, right? At the French, if she doesn't make a semi, we're all going to go, that was bad. Depends on Rome, I guess, next week. She might lose first round and we all forget. You know, and then when we get to the grass, Rabakina might make a comeback. You know, that might be where she thrives again and we see her get into the finals and Sabalenka gets a chance to win Wimbledon and all that. So, and then we get to the hard start after the French, after Wimbledon, we're like, okay, let's start season 2.0, hard court season 2.0, you know. But I love it. I love it. I think tennis is in such a, like, I feel like it started last year with the Srivante streak. Barty retired, Srivante took over, Serena left, and yeah, a lot of people left when they left, but now it's like, this is like the start of, like, we're on the, we're just getting started with the women's tennis. The resurgence. I'm so excited. Because we've been watching tennis for like, I mean, if you've been part of the channel, we've been watching women's tennis for like, since, since 2019. And man, back in 2019 was rough. Even 2020 was rough. Like, you just didn't know who was going to win. Everybody could lose at any point. It was just like, it was hard to watch because you're like, man, who's going to win? Who's going to win? But now it's like, okay. And it's only going to get better. I feel it's, you know, this is just the start of this, this new, new version of WTA that everyone's getting on board with. We might see on Drava in the mix soon. Well, look, that's 16 year old. Let's just let her keep going and doing her thing and not put too much pressure on her. I wouldn't put her in the mix with these two. You think on Drava's going to be, she's a French open like, no, give her two years. If she hasn't done anything in two years, she's only 18 and then it's fine. Pushkiva, Svetlana Halop. Pushkiva's, look, Pushkiva's there. I mean, she took a set of Shriantik and Stuttgart. You know, she's, she's been okay that she is Pushkiva. Halop, when she comes back, that'll be different. I don't know if Svetlana is going to make a big comeback because she's a long way away from coming back to the, to playing these ladies. And when Svetlana left, she was in the top five, right? So when Svetlana left, the WTA was sort of in, in randomness, right? You know, you know, you had, you know, all these kind of, you know, either older champions, you know, the, the, the Kovitivis or the Pushkivis. So when she left, Svetlana is totally different to what it is now. Now it's like, you put Svetlana in this mix, it's going to be very tough for her to win. Unless she, even, even when she was at her best, I mean, yes, you want to, you know, it was a bronze medal and it's so different to 2023 now. You know, do you think Bedosa will get back in the mix? I think so. I think Bedosa showed, has shown over the last couple of weeks, you know, she's lost to, I think, Bedosa has only lost to the best, the best lately. A couple of Rebecca losses. She lost to, who's, Zachary this week. She lost to Sabalenka last week. I think Bedosa could get back in the mix. She just can't beat these ladies though. That seems to be the problem. And then, top 15, Kerber, I mean, I mean, we don't know about Kerber. Like Kerber comes back. Who knows? Azarenka maybe in a grand slam. I mean, Azarenka is always going to be a threat. We saw that in Australia, right? Jabur, I mean, look, Jabur's injury, I, I'm very, I'm very pessimistic about Jabur because we saw this back in 2021. Who was here in 2021 watching Women's Tennis in 21? Was anyone, was anyone here for that? Who was here for Women's Tennis in 21? Because Halop had the same, had the same injury. And she was out for months. She didn't play, she couldn't defend Wimbledon. She had to pull out of the French Open. And she didn't play until like the US Open. So she was out with a similar injury, a tear in her calf for like, like three months. So I'm a little bit, I don't think Jabur's going to come back I'm hope I'm wrong. And I'm not a doctor. So don't even listen to me. But I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see Jabur until maybe the Wimbledon. Depends on the severity of the, of the tear, but yeah. But it's a torn calf. I mean, you just got to not play. It's got to heal. And you can't get, you have to use your calves in tennis, right? You can, can skip Rome. If Shriantek skips Rome, I'll tell you what happens. She's still up a thousand points. No, sorry, she's still up 900 points. But then that puts a hell of a lot of pressure on her at the French. I think Shriantek plays Rome. By the way, Shriantek's got a week until she'll have to play a first match anyway, because Rome starts on Wednesday, second round, which is where she'll play is either on Thursday or Friday or Saturday. So Shriantek and Sabalenko won't play until maybe Friday night, Saturday. So they've got at least another like, you know, five, six days off. And I don't think Shriantek's going to leave. Do you reckon Shriantek's not going to play Rome as a two-time defending champion coming off a loss here? She doesn't want to go to the French open with a loss if she can avoid it. So I think she's playing. I'd be more, I mean, maybe Sabalenko. I mean, if she pulls out of Rome, then she's not going to get number one anytime soon. But, yeah, look, there's no reason for either of them to pull out. They're both physically fit. At least, at least that's what we know of, right? We think Shriantek would lose at the French. I don't know. I'm still back in Shriantek at the French. Today, it didn't change my mind. Rome is, if she doesn't play win Rome, it depends if she loses too, but Shriantek is still, she's still my French open pick. Sabalenko's huge dub, but it sure was an upset. Well, it was an upset, but by the way, I mean, she was paying low odds or high odds or whatever it's called. French open will be for Jabir. Jabir, it won't be healthy enough. I don't think Jabir's calf's going to let her win. Like I said, I don't think Jabir's playing the French, to be honest. I wouldn't be, even if she has played the French, I wouldn't, I don't think she's going to have enough practice. Alcors will skip Rome to Rack. If he wins Madrid, he plays Rome to get to number one. There's a number one ranking on the line. Why would he skip Rome if he's got number one in his sights? There's, there's no way Alcors skips Rome. He might play Rome and get to the quarterfiles and then withdraw after he confirms he's number one, but he's got a number one ranking to play for. I would be shocked if Alcors doesn't play Rome just for the number one. And remember last year he skipped Rome and look what happened. He lost at the French open. The French open is the best. So the Rome is the best. Rome is the best warm up for the French. Those who play well in Rome usually do well at the French. Those who don't, who do well in Madrid don't do as well because Madrid's not the French. Even if he wins Madrid, if he wins Madrid, he's five points behind Djokovic on the rankings with nothing to defend in Rome. Djokovic is the champion. So here's the here's the situation. Alcors wins tomorrow. He's five points behind Djokovic in the rankings. He goes to Rome. He doesn't even have to he doesn't have to win. He makes the second round. Djokovic loses the if Djokovic doesn't win the tournament, Alcors is number one. So he just has to appear to get those 10 points for a second round. I think it's 10 points for the second round. So if he gets, if he just arrives, he gets 10 points, which is enough to get to him over the line. It doesn't matter what Djokovic does win, lose anything. He'll be number one in the French. I think, I think that's the math. I think unless he has like hangover points from like two years ago, but I don't think that's how it works anymore. He dropped the points from Rome the year before. Yeah. He walks into the door and he gets 10 points because he's got he's got to buy in the first round. So, yeah, well, at least that's what I think the draws. He's got to buy in the first round. So, yeah, and look, then playing Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, is kind of the opposite of what he did last year, where he played Monte Carlo Barcelona, Madrid. So, I think by skipping Rome, he's kind of, he can make up for that by playing, sorry, skipping Monte Carlo, he can play Rome. And it will be the same amount, right? Where's Seb quarter? He's around. Who'll be playing next week? Djokovic is playing Rome. I think Djokovic has to play Rome. Even if he's not 100%, it's like Djokovic's coming into, into the French, having lost to Mussetti and Liovic. I think, and I think he's got to play. If Djokovic doesn't play Rome, then maybe Alcaraz, maybe Alcaraz misses Rome as well. Because if Djokovic doesn't play, he drops a thousand points. If Alcaraz doesn't play, he drops zero. And that'll be enough. But Alcaraz kind of, I mean, Djokovic has to play just to defend his ranking, I think. Why am I unable to send $10? What is the minimum? I know, you should be able to, but you don't have to, don't worry. If Djokovic doesn't work, it probably means it's a sign. But just write your question. I can read it. The chat's kind of getting a bit easy to read now. Congratulations to Irina. Man, what a win. What a win. You only skipped Rome last year because he rolled his ankle in Madrid anyways. Oh, there you go. I think you saw for the added extra info. So technically, Alcaraz will be number one if he wins tomorrow and plays Rome. Yeah. If he wins tomorrow and plays Rome and decides to go to Rome and get on the court. I think, again, don't, this is all just in the live rankings in like, you know, my brain, I'm not the smartest person in the world, so my math skills are not great. But if he wins tomorrow, according to the live rankings, he's five points behind Djokovic, and if he goes to Madrid, he'll get to the second round by, if he goes to Rome, sorry, he'll get a buy in the first round, so he'll get second round points, which are round of, round of 96, you get 10 points. Well, actually round of 20, so first round buy gets 45, 35 points. So there you go, which is still enough. So even if he lost in the first round, he'd get those points because it's a 96 player draw, so you know, 32 seeds, top 32 get a buy, blah, blah, blah. So yeah, there's players with buy in the first round, get first round points. So if you get to buy in the first round, you get 10 points as a second round. If you win your first round, you get 10 points plus you play for 25 in the second. A little confusing, but either way, he gets 10 points for the second round, which is enough according to math. And Djokovic loses a thousand points. Remember that, he has zero points to make up. So Alcra is guaranteed, if he wins tomorrow, he's got to win tomorrow, win tomorrow, he's got to go to Rome, walk out on court, and then walk off court, and he's number one in the world. No matter what happens, he's going to be able. Can you write? Okay, good. Well, I mean, again, I always say these things, and then we just got to wait. Love the commentary from India. Thank you, appreciate that. What do I think of Goff right now? I think she's reaching a ceiling. I think she's hit a ceiling. And that forehand has got to get better. Rome drawer is on Monday. He doesn't even need to walk off the court. He could withdraw. I think if you withdraw, you lose your ranking points. I think with drawing, you don't get the points. There might be a rule for that. Again, I don't know. Maybe it's not, but I would. I don't think withdrawing would. I feel like if you withdraw, then you get replaced and you wouldn't get points. Right? Does but I also have a chance to win the RG. Oh, yeah. I mean, outside chance. Yeah. What will Rafa's ranking in Paris be? When he can meet Alcraz and I think he might be. 13 or 14 and he could meet them in the fourth round. So fourth round at the earliest, which would be a nightmare. No, he's low key. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Shannon. Appreciate it, mate. Stick around for a little longer. It's six in the morning. I don't know where else to be. Yeah. Rome is much slower. So that's why I'm saying like, you know, and I said, I think I said the other day if Sabah like it doesn't beach, you're on clay because this court, everything, everything gave Sabah like the best chance today. The courts were faster. The, you know, being high altitude made it harder for Shafion tech as well. Not physical, not so much physically, but more so because of the speed. So this court was the best chance Sabah like it had and she won, which is good because it means mentally now she has a win over Sabah Shafion on clay. But I think when we get to Rome, it's going to be a lot slower. And I don't think Sabah like a beach Fion tech in Rome. Let me just show you a graphic real quick. So check this out. When I'm talking about court speed, here it is. So you can see there. Now this is from 2020. So it's a little outdated. I haven't got new information because they don't give it out. But this is back from the last time it was given to the public. You can see there in the middle, the orange, you see Madrid's 27 on the court speed index. You can see that just, it's actually a little bit slower than Indian Wells, but not by much. Then you got Rome at 22 and French open at 21. So it's a lot slower, really slow when we get to the French and Rome. So Rome is the best, from three years ago, two years ago, is still the best, and I think it's still the best warm up for the French open speed wise. Monte Carlo strangely fast, but I think that's changed over time. I think that's a little slower now, but yeah. So you can see there. Rome is the most like the French open in terms of court speed. And when the court is slower, it's better for Fjantec, right? Usually. No wonder many hates Indian Wells. Yeah. That's why probably why he won Madrid, right? Because he got the three points he won. Madrid is faster than, sorry, Monte Carlo is faster than Madrid. Yeah, again, that was from like, that was from back in like 2019, 2020. So some of those might have, some of those might be a little bit different now. I think Monte Carlo's got a bit slower than Madrid. Madrid's turned, probably the fastest now, but yeah, Fjantec's won Rome in the French open, and yeah, exactly. I always fast than Wimbledon, don't like that. Again, you know, take that list with a grain of salt, because I think, well, the Australian Open's definitely one of the fastest on tour. US Open's a lot faster now, so that court speed index doesn't factor that in. It's a different surface now at the US Open. It's, well, different speed now. But Wimbledon isn't as fast as it should be. I mean, a grass court should be your fastest court, but it's not. They've slowed them down over time, so, I guess just so we don't have tie breaks and big servers, you know, winning everything. So, yeah. Alcra's likes medium slow, I think. Yeah, yeah. US Open's like a bullet. Yeah, they've they've quickened that up. US Open, Australian Open are very much, much more, much more in common now than they used to. All right. We'll get out of here in a second, guys, because I am stuffed. I am stuffed, but what a day. What a day. What a final. We got the epic final. Sometimes they don't end up the way they, we want them, but we got it today. We got our final today. Didn't we chat? We got our, our money's worth. Not that we, well, I paid for WTTV, but not that we had to pay much. All right. I'll see you guys tomorrow for the men's final. Stay tuned, because the men's final preview is coming out very shortly. In fact, we'll probably be coming out after this video. Spoiler alert. Thank you for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Sabalenka, a late birthday present, gets revenge on Shveontech. And it's 1-1 in their head to head this year. Do we get the trilogy in Rome? Do we get the trilogy at the French? It would have to be the final if they do play again, but the two beats the number one this week. After one beat two last week, Sabalenka 6-3-3-6-6-3 beats Shveontech for the first time on clay and just makes things look a lot different going into the Rome next week. Men's final tomorrow, Alcrest Strouff. I'll see you guys then. But man, Sabalenka, what a win.