 What is going on everybody? Welcome to men's semi-finals day and we're starting with the big one first. I don't know why the French open keep on making the schedule the way they do, but we're putting the big one on first. Nadal's Vero, they're coming on first followed by Rude versus Chilich. Got the women's final tomorrow, that's all set. Just gonna figure out who's playing on Sunday between the boys. Now a lot of you are probably thinking this is probably the final because it's got the two players that we would expect to be in a final and top off the draw was stacked anyway. So we'll see. We'll see who can win this one. And let's see if it is the final. I mean, if Rafa wins obviously, I think, you know, he will go on to win. But you never know, if it's Vero causing upset today, he, you know, Rude, Chilich might have a chance in the final. We'll find out all that stuff over the next few hours but let's start with the preview so we can get that out of the way and then we can have a chat. So both players, they've had to fight to this stage. I mean, they haven't had the easiest roads. Djokovic probably a little bit tougher. Sorry, Nadal a little bit tougher with Djokovic in the way. There's the semi-finals, the lineup obviously later. We've got Chilich versus Rude. But both guys had to beat tough players in very similar ways in the fourth, in those four setters in the quarterfinals. But along the way, Rafa, he beat Thompson in the first round in straight sets. Mutay in the second round, straight sets. Van Dazan, she'll be in the third round, straight sets. That five setter against Ozealia Seaman, of course, that epic. The other night against Djokovic, Zverev, he beat often in the first round in straight sets. Baez in five sets, saving match points in the second round, so he's lucky to be here. Third round, he played Nakashima, a couple of tie breaks, and against Morales in the fourth round, straight sets, but still a very tough road through. And then, of course, beat Alkaraz in the big upset of the quarterfinal lineup. Okay, Sasha Zverev, playing for the number one ranking this week, which is insane to say, but hey, it snuck up on us. I think we're all sidetracked by watching the goats. And Zverev's like, oh, I might get to number one. He's number three in the world currently, 25-year-old from Germany, six-foot-six right-handed, 24 wins, nine losses on the year. No titles this year, but he has made a few finals, 19 career titles, including a couple of ATP finals trophies. Only one final of a slam, though, that obviously being back in the US Open a couple of years ago. Sinner City Pass are his best wins before this week. Rafa Nadal, world number five, 36 years old today. Have you heard that? Rafa will obviously be going through that as well, I'm sure. Spain is where he's from, a six-foot-one left-handed, 23 wins, three losses on the year. Three titles to go with those 23 wins, of course, Australian Open being the first one. 91 career titles, including 21 slams. Medvedev Baratini are his best wins. Now, head-to-head, last two times they've played, they've actually been on clay. Six-three, though, in favor of Rafa in the head-to-head, but that's pretty common that Rafa has a favoritism, or has the lead in the head-to-head against pretty much everybody in the competition, except for Djokovic, but that might change this year. Last time they played, Rome last year, Rafa got the win, but they also played in Madrid last year, and Zverev got the win, so it was one-one. Now, obviously this is a five-setter, it's much tougher for Zverev, much better for Rafa being a five-setter at the French. French opens kinda like Rome, so Rafa got the win in Rome, maybe that helps even more, but I don't think Zverev's gonna give this one away easily. I don't think he's gonna let Rafa just stroll into the final without putting up a bit of a fight. But we'll go through all of that, we've got about 20 or so minutes before they start jumping out on court, so, yeah. First of all, it's Rafa's birthday. It's his birthday. Also, another thing. Everyone on Twitter is saying that Rafa's gonna retire after this tournament. Do you think that that is gonna happen? Because that's insane. That is insane to me that Rafa would retire after the French open when Djokovic is only two away. I mean, come on now. You wanna be like five in front if you're gonna retire. And also the calendar slam is like right there. I mean, he's the only guy that can do it. So I keep seeing people saying, Rafa's gonna retire. Why would he retire? It's crazy. Crazy talk. Also, I don't want him to retire, why? Come on, I wanna see him play Federer again. He's playing the Lever Cup, he can't retire. He's playing the Lever Cup, it doesn't matter, he can't retire, he's playing the Lever Cup. He's already committed, so too late. No retiring. Can't retire. All right, what's up everybody? Also, yeah, somebody said in the chat, and also people are sending me this on Twitter, that the French Open YouTube channel got terminated. Holy hell, I mean, if no one's safe, how the hell did that happen? That's insane. None of us are safe if that's happening. So yeah, so RIP French Open YouTube channel. That's crazy. I don't even know how that could happen. I don't even know how that could happen. See, like, I mean, how do they get in trouble for using footage from their own event? So I don't understand. I guess they're probably gonna be on the phone to YouTube and figuring it out. I mean, Tennis can't, if Tennis can't use its own content, then Tennis is definitely gonna die. Tennis will die. Oh, it's back? Oh, thank God. My God, I was thinking, what the hell? That's insane. They came back? It was gone for like, yeah, it was terminated for a while. I bet one of their broadcasts just copy-striked them. That's insane. I don't know how they could get away with doing that. How could you get away with copyright striking the organization that's putting on the tournament? That's insane. Surely the French Open have the rights to all of it and then the broadcasters have to be careful. Okay, it's back. Oh, thank God. I was gonna say, what the hell? None of us are safe if that's happening. Geez, that's good. Um, all right, that's crazy though. That's crazy. All right, let's answer questions. Answer my question, the question, jerk. Do you think people underrate Nole when he goes in RG or when he is against Rafa because people thought he was going to lose to Rafa? Um, no, that's a total opposite. What are you talking about? No one, everyone thought Rafa was gonna lose. What are you saying? No, that's, I don't understand the question. Going into the, I mean, everyone has a short memory. When we went into that Nadal-Drogovic match, I remember every single one of you guys who the Rafa fans and also all the Nole fans were telling me, I'm scared for Rafa or Rafa's gonna lose or he got no chance. That was literally like three days ago. Come on now. So maybe, do you mean the other way around? I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna guess no because I doubt that he's birthday. He hasn't lost before the semifinals before. So he's either lost before his birthday or he's won every time. Thank you, Mia, Mia, I appreciate that. But thank you, Rogier, for the donation. I don't think he's lost on his birthday though. Don't think he has. Unless someone can correct me. Maybe he'll retire next year. Yeah, maybe next year. I could see him retiring next year, but this year? No. Oh, roof being closed. Roof being closed. Who does that help? Maybe it gives very of like one percentage of help. That's about it. I don't think it helps anyone really that creative. I mean, come on. It's like the goat v goat the other night. It's like the percentages were tiny. By the way, I know where you guys were getting all your information from. I found you. I found out where you're getting all your information from the other night. You guys will listen to Patrick Moritoglu. You got a lot of the comments that were coming through like you were taking what he said about the slowness of the courts and the spin and all that stuff. Cause that's what he said. And then you look at the comments on the video that he put out and everyone was shitting on him saying, hey, you don't know what you're talking about. That's not true. I mean, look, we all kept predictions wrong. I mean, look at me. I say things and the opposite happens all the time. So look, it's a sport. Anything can happen. But a lot of you guys who are like, oh, I'm worried. I'm worried. What about the spin of the court? Patrick Moritoglu, he said that word for word. But that's okay. And look, Moritoglu got clowned on, but I mean, come on. We all get things wrong. We all get things wrong. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what I was saying. Thank you, Rady for the five. Yeah. That's not true though. They have uploaded old footage. I've seen them do like, if you know, watch the 1984 final with Lendl and McEnroth, I think they've got that. Thanks for, yeah. Look, they don't do it as, I mean, the Australian Open, Wimbledon and the US Open put a hell of a lot more content up than the French. But then the French Open got taken down. So it's like, well, maybe they are not allowed. But thanks for five, Rady. Really appreciate you covering these wonderfully. Unfortunately, I cannot watch all any of them start to finish when Raph is playing. I'm superstitious and it jinxes him. No worries. A lot of people are superstitious. That's totally fine. Where's Cam Van's little pug? Mia's asleep. It's almost 11 o'clock. So she's well and truly sleeping. Too bad I won't be able to watch the whole stream. That's all right. We'll be here. So pop in and out when you can. If life proves anything, anybody can beat anybody at any given time. Exactly. Exactly. No one's safe. The roof being shut though, I think Will helps Varev, like Will gives Varev like a 1% more chance. And that's why this changed from 71 to 70 because I, I mean, that's 1%, right? So that's what I think. I think the roof being shut and the conditions being, what's the word? Sterilize? No. What's the word? The roof being shut, I guess, acclimatized and all like in calm. It helps Varev this much because it means he doesn't have to battle the elements. No wind, no rain, no sun. He can just battle, he just, it's a perfect condition. Indoor matches and also Varev does like playing indoors. He's won a lot of those indoor tournaments. The clay though being the problem. He, I mean, indoor clay, that's tough. But I think being indoors might, might give Varev a little neutralize. Yeah, kind of neutralize, control the conditions. Yeah. Stabilize, yeah, yeah. But I don't think it gives him like an advantage. I think it just kind of, it suits him a little more, but still the French open, still Rafa might help him. But again, he still has to play well. Now, we'll go through Rafa first because I think that's the easier way to try and explain how he's going to win. What's Rafa got to do to win? He's got to play tennis. But also Rafa, what does he have to do to win? Obviously has to, has to push Varev around. Varev's not his best when he's on the run. If Varev stands in the middle of the baseline and dictate point, make Rafa run, that's not what Rafa wants to do. He's got to be able to obviously stand, also stand back on the serve because Varev serve, for Zverev is going to be very important. So Rafa's going to have to neutralize that serve by standing as far back as he possibly can without crashing into the line's people. Zverev to win, he's got to get the serves in. Needs to be serving like he did against Alcarez. Big serves, free points if possible. It's going to be hard with Rafa, but I also think Zverev's going to come to the net. I think Zverev's going to be more aggressive, come to the net, be a little bit more variety, instead of just standing back trying to rally because you can't rally Rafa. You rally Rafa at the French Open, there's only one man who can do it and who has done it and that's Novak Djokovic. He's got to play, I hope, I hope he watched Robin Sotaling back in 2009 because I think Robin Sotaling and Sasha Zverev, there's a lot of similarities in their games. I think if he watched that match and goes, okay, how did Sotaling beat Rafa back in 2009? Take some of that, bring it into this one. Use that style. We know Rafa back then, I think it came out like years later that he was sick or that he had the flu or something like that, which is part of why he lost. And maybe that's, you know, maybe it won't help watching that match, but I think he's going to have to watch that and try and replicate that Sotaling game style. I think he's got to be aggressive. He's got to hit down the lines. He's got to hit flat as well. So none of this baseline rallies, stand back, just rally, because Rafa ain't going to miss. Zverev's got to take, he's got to take this match on, just like what Goff has to do tomorrow against Igor. Zverev has to do against Rafa today. All right. Now, I don't know if the crowd's going to be on Zverev's side, we'll see. If the crowd will give any love to Zverev, but we'll see. Let's keep answering questions though. Answer my question! The question, jerk! Now, by the way, happy, what is it? Platinum Jubilee to the UK? Do you guys, is that a thing that people celebrate? Is it just a reason to go watch a parade? What's, I was there for the last Jubilee. Whatever the hell that was. 65 years, whatever. The last parade. How long to the match? Probably about 10 minutes. About five, 10 minutes. The first point will be played. I'm on Zverev's side. All right, am I well rested? I feel great. I had like 10 hours sleep and then I just napped all day and just sat on the couch with the dog and just watched Netflix. Watched, I watched a documentary on the challenge called, I can't remember what it was called, but it was about the spaceship, the Challenger. Back in the 80s, the one that exploded on impact or on liftoff. I watched that. It was really sad, but really interesting. Watched a lot of Love Death Robot, which was really cool graphics. Yeah, it's not as chilled. Fell asleep, passed out. And then I was watching before this, I was watching a Monty Python like documentary and how they got together. Really, really interesting. So yeah, will be a roof closed match. So this is gonna be almost, it's gonna be indoor night match always. But it's gonna feel, it's gonna feel weird. Yeah, Heva, that's it. That's exactly what I got out of that documentary as well. I've never watched Stranger Things. So I feel like getting into it now would be really late and I would have to just binge watch all the episodes if I wanted to get up to speed. Ravage Tool and Big Gold Medals. There you go. I have a friend that works at NASA. That's it, that's cool. That's really cool. Why are they closing the roof? Because it's either raining or there is a chance of rain. And we did say, I think we did predict during the week that Paris weather was gonna be crappy over the weekend and that we're gonna get, we're gonna get thunder and lightning and all the mess of the weather. So yeah, it's gonna be patchy rain. So they're gonna, they've done the smart thing. Close the roof, you know. So it doesn't interrupt the match. This gives Sasha a better chance. It does give Sasha a slightly better chance. It favors Rafa, sorry, observe Sasha slightly. A little bit. It does help him a little bit. But I don't think it helps him like, it's not gonna change things from like a loss to a win. I think it just helps him a little bit. He still has to play exactly how we were just describing him. Does Vera prefer, I prefer under the sun? No, I think you'd prefer indoors. Cause then like another reason why indoors would matter. Because if it's outdoors and it's wet and there's moisture in the air and it's raining or it's like wet outside, that helps Rafa cause it slows things down even more. And Zverev doesn't want to have slow conditions. He wants to have a little bit quicker. When he played Rafa in Madrid last year, the reason he beat Rafa was because of the fast surface and the fast conditions. If you've ever played on a clay court, what happens when it rains is the clay gets thick and like muddy and like chunky, it's like, you know. So that's what happens with the clay. And that means the ball, you know, grips onto the court and slows down. Zverev wants to have dry clay, right? So having the roof shut and the conditions be, you know, climatized, maybe even warmed up a little bit depending on what they do with the aircon and the ventilation. That'll be nicer. Less moisture in the air for Zverev is better. So it helps his shots a little bit more punchy. It might be that much more. I'm not saying like it makes the difference between a win and a loss, but it will give Zverev a little bit, maybe a little bit more on his shots, a little bit. Can Rafa can still chase it down though. Don't get it twisted. Still get it, he can still chase things down, but it does give Zverev a slightly better, slightly, slightly favors Zverev. Well, the umpire and the crowd will share after our birthday before the match starts. I know they'll probably do it after the match, if he wins. Let's hope for four hours. Yeah, I want two five-setters today. I want two five-setters. Come on, come on, tennis gods. I know we've had a lot of five-setters and we've been a little bit greedy. Come on now, you gotta give us five-setters. It's the finals. We got screwed yesterday. We had like two really quick matches. Come on now. Make sure everyone pray to the tennis gods. We have five sets. Okay, Rafa said Zverev should be punished. Grudge match? No, I don't think it's a grudge match. There's respect. Why do you think Fed went through a five-year drought and Nolle and Rafa haven't? Because Federer got, I mean, Rafa and Nolle took over. No one's taking over from Rafa and Djokovic. Yeah, the five-year drought, Federer was dominating and then he had a five-year drought. Also, I think he had like a lot of health issues for those years, like mono and all that stuff. But also he had to figure out how to beat Rafa and Djokovic, whereas Djokovic doesn't have to, they don't have to figure out how to beat these young guys. So they haven't had a drought. Why a Rafa never, ever gets tired and fatigued during a match? Cause he's a beast. Cause he's a beast. Yeah, have you ever played a Rafa? They'll be coming out on court any minute now. Reigning, yeah, it's raining, but they've got the roof is shut. The roof is shut. This game is like the finals match. Sadly, it's a semi. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking about this the other day. Well, today and yesterday, you know, it is a little bit like, especially with like Sidney Pass, not really doing well or not performing as well as we'd expect making, not making it, this is like to the semis. The draw being stacked was fun, but then it's like quarter finals in the semis, make it like the end of the tournament. Hopefully that's wrong. Hopefully we get a final that's epic final. But when you got it like a very stacked draw, it does work out though, especially when you get upsets down the bottom. Like we had all the guys up the top did their job, right? They did what they were supposed to do. It's gross to win to get the quarters. They did down the bottom. All the guys we expected to make the semis in the quarters, most of them fell off, you know, with Sidney Pass and, well, Medvedev, we didn't really expect, but Meddy, you know, he lost, so hopefully Wimbledon's a little bit more even spread. I know the draw is luck of the draw and all that stuff, but I do have Wimbledon's a little bit more spread out. By the way, going into Wimbledon, Zverev and Djokovic will be one and two without Meddy there, so that'll be the one and two seeds, I think. Unless Rafa wins, I mean, Rafa and Zverev are playing for the number two spot or number one, number two spot at Wimbledon, I guess, today, which could make the difference between playing Djokovic in the semis or the final. Okay. It's happening. Players are coming out on court. They're coming out on court and I'm gonna start playing the dramatic music. I want you to tell me how this match is gonna go. What is the score gonna be? It is pissing down rain outside. The roof is shut. The people outside are sitting in the rain, love it, savages. I know you guys, if you were there, you would be sitting in there too. That's what we are about. We are about tennis, no matter the weather, who's gonna win this match? And what is it gonna be? I'll tell you my prediction, but you tell me, what are your records gonna be? Zverev and six, very unlikely, but hey, maybe if they change the rules mid-match. Rafferin four, that seems to be a very popular pick. Rafferin four, several tie breaks. I hope we get two tie breaks minimum, that'd be sick. Rafferin straight sets, you reckon, okay. Rafferin five, Rafferin four, one-sided. Some say Zverev, some are going for Zverev. All right, I'm nervous for Raffer says Isabel. All right, well, let's see what happens. Djokovic in three, that's all right, buddy. Maybe a Wimby. Rafferin three, Raffer, Sasha in five. Man, it's pouring down right outside Paris. I like them both. All right, seems like you guys are on the same page as me. I'm going, I think Rafferin four. I think Rafferin four. I think what's gonna happen is we're gonna get a tie break in the first, one of the first two sets will be a tie break and that'll be Zverev's chance. Maybe two tie breaks in the four sets, but Raffer will win the tie breaks. Is Zverev gonna win those tie breaks? But I think we're gonna get a couple tie breaks, at least, but Raffer's gonna get in four, I reckon. I would love five sets. I'd even, I mean, I wouldn't be mad at an upset. I mean, upsets are awesome, but Rafferin four is what I'm thinking too. Sorry, I think Zverev can get a set. Five tie breakers, can you imagine? That'd be the most epic match of all. All right. Greatest of all ties, belt, goat. Didn't want to put my full name, it's too long lull, but I guess he'll switch to MCB next time. Thank you, Magdalena, thank you for the 20. Thank you for the donation, I appreciate that. It's very lucky to get 10 games. By the way, does anyone have any bets on this match? Anyone got any bets on? I mean, Raffer's the favorite in the betting. Seems like the most popular betting is Raffer, or over 35 and a half games. Pardon me, is the over-under? Rafferin straight sets, or Rafferin four seems to be the popular betting as well. But yeah, let me know in the chat, what do you reckon? Oh, they got a kid in a wheelchair who's sitting right at the front row. That is so cool. What a legend. 50 bucks on Raffer? All right. A million on Raffer, that sounds unlikely, but hey, good for you. I bet on Zverev just because it was plus 265. Yeah, hey, look. You bet on Zverev the other day against Elkoresp, everyone was saying that Zverev had no chance. There's always a chance. Bet my virginity. Well, good luck with that. I got 100 on Raffer, 300 on Sasha, minus 120 on Nadal. Okay. All right. Got to rack on Zverev to win two sets. Oh, okay, so five setter or Zverev win. Interesting, Zverev and four, okay. Yeah, Roof is closed. Roof is closed. Raffer is jumping out. We're ready to go. The player's coming out on court. Zverev beating Carlos is alarming. Now, look, remember that match? Carlos played bad. If Raffer doesn't play his best, Zverev might be able to get in, but that's something that's not a good strategy. Raffer Nadal's coming out on court. So a loud round of applause, as you'd expect. He's the king of this event. Okay, by the way, we're almost at 500 likes already. Thank you everybody for showing the love. Can we get 500 by the start of this match? That would be insane. It's like Zverev is playing in Spain. Zverev getting some love too, but it's pretty much all Raffer. They're all going Raffer, Raffer. And it's his birthday, so it makes it even harder for Zverev to poop the party. 2000 if Zverev wins a tournament and extra 1000 if Celtics win the championship. Well, they got one up, didn't they? Celtics have one up. I saw that score. I'm so fired up. I can actually watch NBA next week. I haven't watched NBA for so long and I get to watch it at the death. I'm so fired up for that. Yeah, this is going to be an epic match. Let's hope so. Let's hope so. I would love Zverev to win his main in Grand Slam, but not at the expense of Raffer. Thank you, we're here to appreciate it. Not showing Zverev love today? No, no. It's Raffer's birthday, it's French Open. Zash is playing in Spain as far as we're concerned today. What final in the men's do you want? I want Casparude in the final, but I don't mind who plays next out of these two guys. If it's, I think if it's Vero versus Rude, that would be really fun because it's like, I mean, totally random in terms of like, it's probably the least likely final at the start of the tournament, right? It's Vero versus Rude. We were thinking maybe Sidney passes Djokovic, right? So, of Nadal. But Raffer versus Rude, I just want Rude to get to a final because I feel like he deserves it. You know, he's very underrated and a lot of people don't give him that sort of, give him that love. And I feel I've been very bullish on Rude ever since he kind of came up. I think he's awesome. They won't give a cake to Raffer at the start of the match, it would be distraction. Imagine they give him a cake, he blows out the candles and it's Vero, it's Vero just sitting there like, really? Come on now. They won't distract him, come on. No, they might give him a cake after if he wins. Rude, yeah, he's classy, yeah. I retweeted on Twitter an interview that Rude did about the whole Runa incident that happened or problems that happened. So, I mean, there's some genuine beef there now. You guys know, I love the beef. That sounds weird. I love when players have beef. Makes it so much interesting. I wanna see history. No matter what happens from now, history's gonna be made. We're gonna have either 22 slams, we're gonna either have a new champion, we're gonna have a new number one if it's Vero wins. So, no matter what happens, we're gonna get history. Chile's are gonna make all the slam finals. That's history as well. So, no matter what happens, history is already gonna happen. Players are warming up, ready to go in the next three or so minutes. Let's keep answering questions. By the way, we got to 500 likes. Thank you everybody for showing the love. Zverev looks super nervous, like how Djokovic did. He's done, oh, all right. Let's see how he serves though. If the nerves get into his serve, then there might be a problem for Sasha. Hey, what's up, Juan? Talking about beef, what is happening with Kiros and Tomek? No idea. It's kind of doesn't, I mean, maybe they'll probably end up boxing each other, right? I don't really care what happens with those two because it doesn't really make any difference. It's different when there's like top guys versing each other with beef. Those guys, especially Tomek, he's like an, I mean, nobody cares. Nobody cares. About him. What is Sasha's main weapon against Nadal? Serve. His serve will be the main weapon. It has to be the main weapon. To either set up points or to get free points. That's how it's gonna, he's gonna have to use it for. Hopefully Rafa will win. All right. Daytime Nadal may like, indoors Alex may like. Yep, roof is shut. The roof is shut. So the conditions are wet outside, but the roof is shut, which means inside, it'll be dry, maybe a little less moisture in the air. Might help, it's very of a fraction, but again, I don't think it'll matter that much. Remember when they played indoors in the French Open Final 2020? Nadal bagled Djokovic that day. So, I don't think it helps, I don't think it helps very of as much as, as, I mean, look, nothing really matters. Nothing matters. Why do I suddenly feel like Zverev might pull this off? I have no idea. Hey, what's up? Hope you enjoy the match. Hope Rafa wins. Rafa's forehand or Zverev's backhand. As in like, what would I rather have? Zverev's forehand. We'll either play serve volley today. I would say Zverev might chuck in a serve volley. I think Zverev's gonna come to the net today. He's gotta come to the net. Be the aggressor. Was Zverev rule in the party? Ega opened a bakery for Rafa tonight. Yeah. Who do you think is going into the finals? I think Rude versus Rafa will be the final. Rude versus Rafa. If Nadal wins this one, then 22 is certain. It's very, yeah, I mean, this is the, I think a lot of people are thinking this is the final. This is the actual final. Winner of this will win the whole thing. I think there's Zverev wins. Obviously, there's always a chance he could lose in the final, but yeah, Rafa wins. I think it's his title. Who will win the drop shot count? Probably Rafa. I mean, I think Rafa will hit more drop shots than Zverev today. The Warriors losing the last game is an omen. I think Zverev will win. All right. Rafa is 26 in French open semian final. Thank you, Rowdy. For the two and the information. And happy birthday to Rafa and his Rafa's birthday. Why is the game so late? It's not late. It's on time. That's a shot the roof. So maybe it's been delayed like 10 minutes, but that's about it. What do you think about his Rafa's greatest weakness? What is in like on Clare in general? Because in general, it's indoor hard courts, but on like today, what would his greatest weakness be? I mean, it's not nothing. Is that an answer? I don't know. I mean, there's not much is there. The French open, I mean, three guys have beaten him, two guys have beaten him, three losses total. I've played him twice and like, I'm sorry, but if you can't beat me like, you're not the greatest of all time. You're not the greatest of all time. You're not the greatest of all time. You're not the greatest of all time. You're not the greatest of all time. Happy birthday to Corona Rafa. Thank you, James, for the 20. Yep, happy birthday to King Rafa, the God of Clay. Two years ago, we announced him a God of Clay. Goat was not good enough, God of Clay, King Rafa. Yeah, maybe his body. His body might be his weakness, his own body. I want a huge, strong serverance forever. Yeah, I wanna see, I wanna see his, pardon me, I wanna see his very serve. I want him to serve well. I hope he does. I hope Zverev does serve. I just hope Zverev plays his best and if he gets beat, he gets beat, but I hope he plays his best and we get a match. Can Zverev win the first set? Sure. All right, everybody, Rafa Nadal's gonna serve. Let me know in the chat who is winning this semi and how is it gonna go? Is it gonna be straight sets? Is it gonna be five? Is it gonna be four? Three, two, one. Who is going to win this match and what is the score gonna be? I'm going Rafa in four. I reckon we get a couple tie breaks, but I also, I think Zverev's gonna make it interesting. I hope he makes it interesting. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Also, I am gonna turn the donations off for now just so that we don't get interrupted to start this match. So if you do donate, I will be playing donations during the breaks, so don't worry. They will be coming through during the breaks and also I'll be answering questions during the breaks because I know a lot of people out there, a lot of you guys and girls are listening and I'm gonna give this match every point it's due. Okay, Rafa Nadal, the birthday boy. He is serving first. He is serving first in this first semi-final against Alexander Sashas-Verev. Zverev lost this time last year in five. Can he win this year against the best player to ever play on this surface? And at this venue, as he gets to return there, Zverev to the back end of Nadal, Foynaz-Verev into the back end of Rafa, to the Foynaz-Verev down the line, hits a tape and goes out from Sasha. The first point goes to Rafa. All right, scoreboard is live, stats will update. Here we go, 15 love. Let's full screen this thing. Whoops, not that thing, wrong one. This one. Here we go. Rafa with the first point, 15 love. Rafa serves. A fault. Now the serving of Rafa is gonna be a thing as well, so we're gonna keep it on that. Cause he has to serve well as well. Zverev needs to attack the second serves. Here's a chance. Second serve Rafa, into the back end of Zverev. Foynaz-Verev into the Foynaz-Verev on the stretch. That's in the net. 30 love, 30 love. This does feel like the final. I've got finals feels. I don't have the finals shirt on, but I do have finals feels. Does have vibes. Also a big shout out to Don, who's come back for another month. 10 months Don, thank you, you're a champ. Appreciate that. Okay, 30 love. Serve out wide to the Foynaz-Verev, that goes wide, but the first serve was a fault. Second serve, taking the time Rafa, he serves. Down the tee to the back end of Zverev. Foynaz-Verev from Rafa, into the back end of Zverev. Cross court of the Foynaz-Verev on the stretch. Zverev with the back end down the line. There you go, back end now. Zverev goes again to the back end of Rafa. Now Zverev doing a lot of running. Into the back end again of Rafa. Zverev with the back end in the open court. Rafa on the run with the forehand. He shanks it, but it goes in. To the Foynaz-Verev, it puts it away. Okay, that's what Sasha's gotta do. And you can already tell the tactics of Rafa what he's doing already is making Zverev run. Now Zverev can move, but when you're running, you lose a lot of power on your shots. Because you're not really standing on a solid base, trying to drive through the ball. When you're moving your weight side to side, you lose the power. And that's what Rafa's gonna do against Zverev. I'm moving him off the court. So Zverev can't attack. What are you attacked on that one? 30-15. Rafa serves, into the back end of Zverev. Foynaz from Rafa again to the back end of Zverev. Into the front end of Rafa. To the forehand of Zverev down the line. Rafa now stretching with a slice. Zverev with a four-and-again down the line. Rafa on the stretch, can't get it. Puts it in the net. Zverev 30-all, that's good hitting. Unbelievable. Good hitting from Zverev. 30-all. And these are the points that Sasha has to take advantage of. We've got Rafa's wife, mom, uncle, dad, sister, everyone. Have you had a brother? I'm sure he'd be there too. Everyone's there. The whole Rafa group. Served now to the back end of Zverev. Foynaz from Rafa. Into the front end of Sasha. Again to the back end of Rafa. Sasha with a four-hand again. To the Rafa back end. Zverev hitting the ball nice and deep. Rafa with a slice now. Mixing it up. Into the front end of Zverev down the line. Rafa on the stretch, gets it. Back end to back end. Zverev now on the run to his forehand. Foynaz from Zverev to the back end of Rafa. It goes in the net from Rafa. Uh-oh. 30-40. Break point Zverev. Just a nothing back end from Rafa. Bit of a messy error. 30-40. Also, thank you, Robert, for the donation. I'll play that at the end when we have a break. 30-40. Served down to the forehand of Zverev. He just gets it to the back end of Rafa. Foynaz from Zverev on the stretch. Rafa in control as he goes down the line. Zverev on the stretch as he's back end. Goes in the back end of Rafa. Now to the forehand of Zverev. Into the back end again of Rafa. Zverev's taking control now, but Zverev gets the rally. And the point. Rafa hits it out. Another weird error from Rafa. Zverev breaks. First game of the match. And the crowd are dead silent. They are not. They're such a dead. Didn't expect that one. They're in shock. Rafa broken first game of the match. And that was because Rafa played a couple of bad points. That was not Zverev winning that game as much as it was Rafa with errors. Okay, Zverev. Now this is where Zverev has to serve well. He's got the break. Maybe a little lucky, but he has to make this count. He's got a hold serve. Like he did against Alcarez for the most part. Against Alcarez he served really well. He serves. Out wide, great serve. Rafa in the net. That's a very good start. Now against Alcarez, his serving stats were seven aces, six double faults. But most of the double faults came later in the match. The first set though, he served one ace. And he only lost six points on serve in that six four set. So he's got to serve like that. In that match he was serving at, where is it? 71% first serves in, 73% of the points won. So he's got to be serving a lot of first serves and a lot of free points. Because we know Alcarez is, well everyone calls him baby Rafa, right? Zverev is going to play a similar game on his side and then see what Rafa does. There's been a fine effort from Rafa to Zverev to the backhand of Rafa. Zverev with a fine down the line. That's a great shot from Sasha. Wow. This is going to be on Finnish TV. Zverev's come to play. 30 love, massive fine down the line. He is not, he is taking his chances. He's just going, I'm not going to get in a rally. I'm going to go down the line, stuff it. 30 love, Zverev with a serve. Is an ace, 40 love to console out of the break. Serve out wide to the forehand of Rafa. Forehand from Zverev in the open court, is out. He had a great serve, he just missed the forehand. 40-15, Zverev serves. Out wide, Rafa on the stretch goes up. Zverev with a backhand, cross court goes out again. Oh man, Zverev's getting the serves in. He's just not making the, just not making those returns. 40-30, two errors from Zverev to get in trouble now. Zverev with a serve. Down the tee to the backhand of Nadal. Into the forehand of Zverev, Rafa with a backhand. Into the forehand of Zverev. Again to the backhand of Rafa. Down the line to the backhand of Zverev. Forehand from Rafa on the stretch. Into the backhand of Zverev. Again to the forehand of Rafa. Zverev starting to attack as he puts up cross court and it's too good. Zverev, two love. Zverev, two love as Rafa thinks he's going to go get another racket. Because that one doesn't work. Two loves, Zverev. He's getting a towel. Thank you, Robert, for the 10. Appreciate that. Thank you, appreciate the donations. Okay, two loves, Zverev. This is the perfect start. And the way that Zverev is playing, there was two errors in that game, but it was good errors. You guys know what good errors are? I've explained what a good error is before, but they were good errors. The intent was there. He went for the shot. Even though he missed, he went for it. And that's a good intent from Zverev. The aggression is there. Two love. Rafa serves a foul. Second serve. Second serve. Two love. Rafa serves. Into the back and Zverev. Four of them, Rafa. Into the four and Zverev. Again, to the back and of Rafa, sliced into the four and Zverev. He goes down the line and hits another winner. Zverev is hitting very, very well. Zverev looks so scary right now. Holy crap. Zverev is looking real scary right now. If he maintains this level, God. He ain't taken, he's not mucking around. Zverev is not mucking around. Love 15. And Rafa's already sweating. Absolutely sweating bullets. It's almost like it's raining inside. Am I right? Good serve and Rafa down the tee. Zverev can't get it back, 15-all. You got Puppet Nadal in the house. I think Rafa Nadal, not Uncle Tony, but the uncle that played for Barcelona's in the house. Obviously everybody else who travels with Rafa. I think Rafa has the biggest entourage. Am I right? He's got the biggest entourage of the whole thing. 15-all. Serve at wide is a fault. Let me know in the chat. Who's your favorite entourage of all time? Mine personally, Murat Safran. Always had an interesting entourage every single year. But what about you? Let me know in the chat. What's your favorite coach's box to... I mean, a lot of Rafa fans are gonna see all the Rafa names. But that's it. 15-all. We are back into back-end rallying. Zverev, it's another winner. Man. Sasha, 15-30. Aggressive. Very aggressive from Zverev. It's good to see Roger with the kids. Fair enough. Roder Canu. Does she have an entourage? 15-30. Rafa under pressure again. He serves at wide at the back end of Zverev. Shanked into the front of Rafa. Back end of Zverev down the line. Into the back end of Rafa on the stretch. Now Zverev, he gets it. But he hits it out. And a vabos from Rafa. He knows he's gonna fight. 30-all. Already getting vocal. Already getting vocal. Zverev's come out with a plan. And he's executing. That's the difference. You have a plan against Rafa, but then he punches you in the face. And you have no idea what to do. But Zverev is punching back. He's punching first. Cobra Kai. 30-all. Serve at wide at the front of Zverev. That's in the net. Rafa, 40-30. That's the thing about Rafa is if you're on a roll and you're playing really well, he'll just slow everything down. He'll go, I'm taking extra seconds. I'm gonna go very slow. So all your momentum and speed that you're generating just dies. Because Rafa just takes his time. And slows you down. And that's what he's done in this game. From love 30, he's just taking it down to slow it down a little bit. Some good strategies. We get back into the net and Rafa gets on the board. Unbelievable. And he's fired up about that. Two-one. Zverev with a break. Greatest of all time. His belt goaked. Hey, thank you, Jack. What's up, man? How's Vegas? How's Vegas going, Jack? Thank you, Jack. Appreciate the 20. Thank you, everyone, who has donated over the last few weeks. As I've said, you're not required to donate at all. You're just required to hang out and have fun. And I encourage you to say hello because we're not scary. So say hello. Why is the roof closed? Because it is raining in Paris. All good. Nice, Jack. Good to hear, mate. I hope you're doing well. Zverev only wins tournaments that the big three are not playing. Okay. I don't understand what you mean, but okay. Pretty sure he's won tournaments that they played in. What's up, Mary? This Alex looks like Del Potro 2009. Zverev is locked in. Zverev is locked in. Hey! Hashtag legend in the house. Guga Quirton. That dude has the same hair he did 20 years ago. My God. Guga Quirton, everybody. Legend in the house. Legend in the house. French Open Champion sitting right in the front row. People are trying to find their seats. Okay. Paris had already really bad storm right before the open started. Yeah. Does the roof close make any difference in at all? No. I don't think it really makes much difference. Also, Henri Laconda is in the house. Another legend. No. I don't think, I don't think it gives Zverev a little bit more, like it helps Zverev a little bit, but I mean, I don't think it helps him dramatically. I mean, Raphis played indoors before and he's also played, he won the French Open two years ago playing indoors and he smacked Norway. Great volleys difference, Zverev. Oh, man. I tell you what, I think Sasha Zverev was listening because he's doing exactly what we said at the start of this match. Aggressive, come to the net, serve well. He's done all those things so far. Sasha Zverev must be listening. I don't think it's going to make much difference in his game. Or at least, he's coaches. 15 love. Yeah, the roof, the roof being shut doesn't, doesn't make that much of a difference. I don't think it helps Zverev, but it doesn't mean he's going to, it doesn't change things like turn from, you know, Zverev losing to Zverev winning. He could still win though, but this game would have worked, I think, outside as well. Okay. 30 love. He's in the chat. Look, Zverev is doing exactly the game that with his weapons against a guy like Rafa, you can do. If he wasn't, if Zverev wasn't the guy that he is, I wouldn't, you wouldn't give that game plan to someone like Kasper Rude, because Rude can't play like Zverev. Zverev, six foot six. Rude is six foot tall, right? So, but in terms of what Zverev has and what he can do, he's doing exactly, he's using his weapons and he's trying to push Rafa around, which is working successfully. His Rafa hits it wide. 40 love. Man, Zverev. Rafa knows he's in a fight too. He's like, shit. What the hell's he doing? Why's he, why's he playing so well? This isn't supposed to happen. But can Zverev play like this for four hours? That's the thing. As he serves a let, which would have been an ace, but it hit the net. And Zverev, I don't think Zverev thought that was a let. He's like, really? Yes, sir. Zverev to keep that lead. 18 minutes into this one. Sasha serves. Out wide to the front of Rafa, shanked, but goes into the back of the Sasha. He hits it in the net. I think Zverev should have smacked that down the line instead of cross-court. But anyway, it's 40-15. Hindsight, 40-15. Zverev with a serve. Out wide to the back end of Rafa. 4-0 from Zverev. Down the line. He shanks it and it goes out. Again, a good error. 40-30. This is what happened in the last game. Zverev was up 40-love, then got to 40-30, but then he served a big serve. He serves. Out wide into the front of Rafa, and then Rafa puts it in the net. That's what Sasha needs. Free points. Is he serving it? 92% of first serves in. That is ridiculous. I mean, that's exactly how he needed to start. All right. 3-2. 3-1. Sorry. Zverev has the lead. Zverev is also serving. That's what we said. Got to keep the variety. I wouldn't mind him doing an underarm serve to be quite honest with you. I think the fact that Rafa's standing so far back, why not just chuck an underarm serving? I know the crowd will lose their mind and probably burn down the stadium, but still, why the hell not, right? I mean, keep Rafa honest. There's been a 4-0 down the line from Zverev that goes long. He came to the net again. Rafa with the drop shot. Sasha just couldn't quite get there. 15-love. 15-love. So, yeah, Zverev is serving that well. Only missed one first serve in the first two games. Nadal. Ace down the team. Bang! First ace for Rafa. And a bit of a come on as well in English. A bit of a come on. Rafa's coming out with the English celebration. 30-love. Rafa with the serve. Down the tee to the back of Zverev. 4-0 from Rafa. Into the back of Zverev. Rafa on the baseline. Hitting a backhand down the line. Into the back of Zverev. Now Rafa on the stretch. Hits it into the front of Zverev. Zverev attacking. Rafa hits a slice. Back into Zverev. In the open court. Rafa on the stretch again. And Zverev is doing a very good job at... He's not rallying with Rafa. He's not going to stand back five metres and do that rally slow down. He's not rallying with Rafa. He's not rallying... slow death, parentheses. Basically. He's getting on top of the baseline when he old know he 무대 scan. He's doing everything we said pre match. Everything that we said he had to do is doing. But like I said how long can he keep this going? How long can he do this for 3-4 hours? because we know Rafa can, as that goes in the net there from Zverev on the return. it's 40-15. We know Rafa can play He's not going to be able to play as long as it takes. But Kansvera play this style for a long period of time. Carlos Moyer does not look bothered in the slasers like this. I guess we're not going to dinner early. I guess we're going to have to hang out here for another four hours. But he ain't bothered. Moyer knew this was going to be a possibility. Return Everett's Verib goes out. Rafa stays in touch. Three tubers. Verib has the break in the first. All right. Questions. That's my question. The question time. All right. Good strategy for his Verib. Hopefully he can maintain it. Yeah, look. Very good strategy to start. I think he needs the first set though. He needs to capitalize on his good work. Get the first set and then second set. Let's see what happens. Rafa responds. He's far from done those Verib in this set. Don't be coaching his Verib. By the way, the Nadal box, there is literally no seats left. It is full. It is a full box. Every single seat is taken. Is Rafa always tired? Why is he sweating so bad? He's just a sweater. He just is a sweaty man. Look at Andy Roddick. He used to sweat all the time. Some players don't sweat like Roger Federer. It's just a thing. How many times is Verib when he gets to Nadal? Three times. I don't think Verib can stand playing with Rafa for five hours. That's why Rafa is going to win four. Yeah, this could be the purple patch. Verib is playing his best tennis right now. Thank you, MB. Appreciate that. Some of you guys have been sending your setups with how you watch the tennis and have like our audio on the side. Really cool stuff. Thank you everybody for sending through photos and stuff of that. It's really cool to see that you guys are hanging around even though you can watch the match. Three, two is Verib. Serves an ace down the T. Bang! 15 love. Can's Verib. Keep this level. This is the best tennis you could play right now. Working strategy. What's a purple patch? Good question. Purple patch is when you're playing your best tennis. And usually only lasts about 30 minutes. Verib goes down the line with a backhand winner. That's a purple patch. So what a purple patch is, it's when someone is playing at like 90 to 100% of their capacity. So they're playing their best they could play. But usually it's not... The reason why it's called a purple patch is that it usually happens in a patch of the match. It doesn't happen for the entire match. Usually in Verib's case, they play for between 30 minutes and an hour. And then after that he goes back to normal. Like normal's Verib. Holy crap, Verib! Just a flying backhand down the line winner's Verib. Yes, he is in a purple patch. 40 love. Man can't miss. The man can't miss. Just a flying backhand down the line. Woo! Alright. Pay attention. 10 winners already for Verib. One for Nadal. And then he serves down the tier, the slice of Nadal. Four now for Verib. There's another winner! Holy crap! Sasha's on fire! But that is what a purple patch is. Usually it happens in the... It doesn't happen at the start of the match. But it happens in the middle of a match. 4-2! Wow, we have a... This is... This is a match. This is a match. Sasha's Verib came to play. Who knows? Maybe beating Alcarez gave him the belief. Remember it was his first top 10 win against anybody... first top 10 winner to Grand Slam. Maybe it gave him some belief that he's like I can do anything. Raver serves a fault. Second serve. By the way, the only Rafer winner has been an ace. He hasn't served any... He hasn't any big banana forehand winners or anything like that yet. Verib is just... Man, he's on fire. 4-2! Second serve into the forehand is Verib. Forehand from Rafer, into the backhand of Verib. Forehand from Rafer again at the backhand is Verib. Into the forehand of Rafer who goes down the line. Verib with a slice. He gets it, but it goes in the net. Better from Rafer. The crowd get a little bit louder. 15 Love. 15 Love is someone with the classic Rafer photo of him on the ground laughing at Djokovic when he won the French a couple years ago. One of the... One of the highlights of this channel in that moment when he just fell to the ground and he just started laughing. Classic Nidal moment. No crowd. No one was in the crowd, but, you know, COVID times and all, but when he fell to his knees and he just started laughing at the fact that he got to that 20th slam. 15 Love. No, Rafer fans will know. Served down to see the forehand of Verib. He shanks it a little to the backhand of Rafer. Forehand from Verib again. To the backhand of Rafer. Into the forehand of Verib. Rafer with the backhand on the stretch. Now, a slice. Verib comes into the net with a forehand cross court. Rafer with the backhand. Verib with the volley. Can't reach it. Rafer too good. Verib couldn't reach the volley. He knew where it was going, but he just couldn't quite catch it. 30 Love. Nice little flick forehand, but nothing doing. You wonder if Verib might have, I mean maybe a drop shot would have been a better option, but hey, who the hell knows. Maybe nothing could work in that situation. 30 Love. Almost 30 minutes played in this match. Verib got the break in the first game and he's held on ever since. As Rafer serves a volley, bit of a drop shot. Wow, Rafer. That's the first time Rafer's done a Rafer thing. Serve and drop shot. A little half volley drop shot at the net. First drop shot winner for Rafer. 40 Love. One of the easiest games of Rafer's day. Keeping's Verib close as he serves out wide at the back and it's Verib. 4-0 from Rafer in the open court. Verib runs with a forehand down the line, but it goes wide. Just goes wide for Sasha. Rafer wins the game. Gets on the board again and again just keeps it close. He knows Verib can falter. He's got to keep asking the question. Double fault? When are you going to double fault, Sasha? It's going to come eventually. Question! The question, sir! What's up everybody? How are we doing? Interesting match we have. Yeah, very interesting match. First set prediction. I still think it's going to be a tie break. I think Rafer's going to get it back because Verib does give, will give chances, I think. I think he'll give Rafer a chance to get the break back. I have a feeling we're still going to go the distance in this first set. Here comes Rafer now. That game that was, that was a really good game for Rafer. It did feel like he was there. Also we got to a thousand likes. Appreciate that. Thank you everybody. Don't forget to subscribe as well if you haven't already. We're going to be here for the final. We're going to be here for Wimbledon. These guys are both playing Wimbledon so join us there as well. Can you have two purple patches? You can. You can have a really good start like Verib's having and then he could again regain that crazy form in a fourth set or a third set. Been building Lego. Awesome. I bought the other day because I saw it on Instagram. I bought the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos Infinity Gauntlet in a Lego form. It's at the post office. I've got to go get it next week. I'm going to put it on my wall but it's like what can I say? I'm a childish person. Lego's goaded. What can Raffer do to be better to win or is Verib playing crazy? Verib is playing crazy. The only thing Raffer can do right now is just weather the storm. Just expect Verib to do this and just wait until he starts to fault which he just did then. He folds second serving to the back and a Raffer. Down the lines a winner, another good shot from Sascha. Just ride it out. It might take a set. Verib might win this first set and Raffer knows this. Even Carlos Moyano, he's not bothered. It's when Verib goes up a set and a break that Raffer's going to have to start changing things but he knows right now Verib can't play any better and then he can't play like this forever. As Verib with a terrible drop shot oh my god, what did you do that for Sascha? Raffer makes him pay. Verib should've just hit a big forehand. Oh man, Verib, that was just overconfidence. Overconfidence. 15-all. The worst mistake and maybe that was it. Maybe that was the, uh, that's where Raffer starts to find out, hey, Verib's getting a little ahead of himself. 15-all. Verib serves. Out wide to the back end of Raffer. Down the line is out. 15-30. Another error from Verib. And how bad was that drop shot? Is that shot going to be the thing that makes him lose that break? First time Verib's been in trouble today. Where's old faithful? He serves. Down the tee into the back end of Raffer who shanks it. Into the back end of Verib. Back end is a good shot from Verib. Raffer gets it. Volley's Verib, too good. I love this volleying from Verib. I love that he's going to the net. He's just showing a positive game. You know, he's not standing back. He's not just waiting for Raffer to hit winners. He's not rallying with Raffer. He's taking this game on. I love it. Love that strategy. 30-all. The pressure points. He serves. Down the tee. There's a big serve from Verib. Raffer can't get it back. 40-30. That's what Verib needs, those pressure points. Get that serve going. All right, it's Verib. Positive game here to get out of this little trouble, but it's given Raffer a chance. Raffer will like seeing that. Still not over yet as Raffer returns into the forehand. Raffer on the stretch with the slice. Again to the back end of Raffer. Back into the back end of Raffer. Raffer's starting to take over. Verib hits it out. And we're a doose. This game would have been over. Didn't get that stupid little drop shot. That little drop shot has been the difference so far in this game. Can Verib survive? These are the moments. These are the moments. If Verib can win these moments today and he somehow wins this match that's what champions do and he might become one in a couple of days time but he needs to win these points. He serves. Down the tee. But it's a fault. Uh oh. Second serve. Second serve. And that is the difference. Advantage Nadal to get back on serve. The first break point of the day. Raffer taking the time. Because of course he is. The crowd loses their minds. Advantage Raffer serve. Verib is a fault. And the crowd applause. Geez. The disrespect. Second serve. Goes now to the forehand of Raffer. Raffer is Verib. Into the backhand of Raffer. To the forehand of Verib. Down the line. Backhand of Raffer on the stretch. To the backhand of Verib. Down the line. Again to the backhand of Raffer. Verib doing a good job here to make Raffer move. As he hits another forehand. Into the backhand of Raffer. Verib. Another forehand out of the forehand of Raffer on the stretch. Verib with the backhand. Cross court. Raffer down the line. Verib doesn't come to the net. This might have been a mistake mid-court. Easy rally shot just in the net. Bad error from Raffer. And it's back to Deuce. Very strange shot. Longest rally in the match as well. And Verib was a little bit nervous in that rally. It definitely was. He was not trying to hit winners. He was playing well. He was hitting well. But he was just not trying to overdo it. Serve down C. Raffer gets it back. He's lost his racket. Verib lost his racket. He's hit it out. But he lost his racket. Wow. Verib's racket just went whoop. He shanked it. And the racket went flying behind. Backwards. Holy hell. Even the racket's like nah, we're not getting this one buddy. Give Raffer another chance. The Raffer. The racket is Raffer. The racket is Raffer. The racket is for Raffer. That's very hard to say. Okay. Raffer's got another break point. That's another one of those short balls that Verib should have won the point. At least he didn't try to drop shot. But man, also tried to boomerang his racket all the way over to the other side. If you can't take Raffer out one, just throw your racket at him. Serve out wide to the front of Raffer. The racket is out. We're back on serve. That was all Zverev. All Zverev. Purple patch. Done. Back on serve. Back on serve. For all. And it started with the drop shot. That overconfident almost arrogant drop shot where he should have hit a forehand routine, forehand winner. That and Raffer made him pay. Then the double folds. Then the racket flying. All of the above. Terrible game for Zverev. And that might have been his chance gone. But Raffer's back. Four games all. Can Zverev recover mentally from that. Second serve now for Raffer. He's taken a lot of time to sweat and a lot of sweat. Serve into the forehand of Zverev. But Raffer, it's out. There's a nothing backhand that goes long. Love 15. Guga Querten. That dude looks nothing no different to when he played 20 years ago. That's insane. I know I said that earlier, but still. That dude was 29. No wrinkles, nothing. It's flying now from Raffer in the open court, flying now from Zverev on his stretch, goes wide and it's 15 all. 15 all. I wonder what the temperature is inside. That would be really interesting. Because sometimes when they're with Raffer sweating and Zverev losing his grip, it could be super human in there. I'd love to see the I don't know, they won't give this but it'd be cool to see that kind of if it is really like sweaty. I mean it seems like a sauna in there at the moment. The way things are played as that goes in the net from Zverev on the backhand it's 30-15. Zverev not sweating as much, but I mean obviously his hands sweaty. 30-15. I know that when they close the roof of Wimbledon it's it gets like really humid. It doesn't get as humid when they close the roof at the Australian Open, so I don't know what the hell is the difference. There's been a 4-in-out return to the backhand of Raffer. 4-in-out of Zverev to the backhand of Raffer. Into the 4-in-out of Zverev again to the backhand of Raffer. Raffer hits it wide. 30 all. Alright now the pressure points. This is a pressure point. Can Raffer win it? I think more importantly can Zverev win it. Because remember what Zverev did on the pressure point? Double folded. So far Raffer has won 3 out of 5 pressure points in this match. I don't think we have the pressure points on the screen. That stat is pending. Because it is very important. I'll have to check. Serving Raffer is an ace and that's the difference. That is the difference between champion and contender. Zverev serves a double fold at 30 all. Raffer serves an ace. That's what champions do. Chance for Raffer to get the lead for the first time today. There we are. We actually do have pressure points on the screen. Let me put that. Let me leave that there. Sick. Okay Raffer has won half of them. As he serves down to the 4-in-out of Zverev that goes out. Raffer gets the lead. First time today. Raffer takes the lead and what a time to take it. After Zverev just played the worst game of the night or the day. Now Zverev has got a serve to say in the set after what he just did then. That mess. That total garbage. Pressure on for Zverev. Alright, let's... We've got some donations coming through as well. Oh, pardon me. What score line will make Nada less of the first in second or the set? 6-4. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what I was saying. Love your impartial commentary. Do you make a conscious effort to always hype up a boss player? Thank you. Ja... Ja... First Sam, thank you for the two. If he wins this game he'll be serving first and the second. And... No, I don't really make up a conscious effort. I mean if you watch the match we watched the other night the chat changes from like you're a Djokovic fan, you're a Rafa fan but that's... I mean it must be on the right job if I'm confusing everybody. No, I pump up the players that are playing well. And Zverev is playing very well at the start. Not so much now. Rafa is... Again, Rafa's just been like this. Rafa's not playing amazing. He's not playing terrible. He's just... 80% humidity, is that confirmed? That's crazy. No wonder Rafa's sweating like a sauna. Alright, thank you again for the donations. Let's get to Zverev who's serving to stay in the first set. 5-4. Rafa has led for the first time today. He was down 4-2. He's got to return now from Rafa to the 4-1 from Zverev. Again to the 4-1 from Zverev but Rafa hits a wide. Again, Rafa not playing his best. Look at the errors. A lot of errors from Rafa. A lot of errors from Rafa. This could have easily been 5-4 Zverev and he could have been serving for the match if he was serving for the set. If he didn't throw his racket accidentally. There's been a 4-1 from Zverev into the back end of Rafa. 4-1 again, Zverev down the line to the 4-1 of Rafa but Zverev hits a long. 15-all. 15-all. Zverev serves. A fault. Second serve. Serves now to the back end of Rafa. 4-1 from Zverev into the back end of Rafa to the 4-1 of Zverev. That goes into the 4-1 of Rafa on the stretch. Zverev doing a good job here. Can he make this next shot? He can. Massive 4-1 winner from Zverev. That's what he did to get that lead in the first place. 30-15. 30-15. Zverev would love to get out of this game with a couple of big serves and just forget about that nightmare that he played in the last game. Serving the net. His first serve as well is going down. The percentage of first serve is going down. Five minutes ago it was in the 90s. Now it's going back in time. 80s. Serve goes now to the 4-1 of Rafa, back end of Zverev. Again to the back end of Rafa. Into the back end of Zverev on the stretch. Rafa doing a good job here as he goes again to the back end of Zverev with a slice from Zverev. Goes wide. 30-all. Zverev's first serve misses. And he gets the 30-all now. Last time we're in this position Zverev double-folded. When Rafa was at 30 on the last game he served an ace. Can Zverev get a free point here like all champions do? Even Medvedev was doing this at the US Open last year. That's why he's a champion now. Because these points matter. He serves. Out wide to the back end of Rafa. Back end of Zverev, open court is a winner. Gutsy move but he gets it. 40-30 to level things up at 5. To level it up at 5 he would love a free point here. He serves. Out wide it's too long. Again he's missing that first serve. Second serve. I'll let Michael Stott tell you what happened. Double-fold. Again. That's his second in the last two games. And we get to Deuce. He serves down to Zverev. That's a good serve. And then he volleys. Rafa with a slice. Zverev with a smash. That was smart. Random as hell but smart. I guess. Risky as hell but hey. Risky for the biscuit. It's true because it rhymes. Zverev gets an advantage. Serve and volley. That was random. I wouldn't have advised. Unpredictable. And when it works it looks genius. So hey. Einstein was crazy. As we have served at the back end of Rafa. Back in Zverev to the front of Rafa. Into the front of Zverev who shanks at wide. We're back at Deuce. We're back to Deuce. Back to Deuce. Five minute game this one. If you're just joining us. Zverev broke in the first game of the match. He broke in the break. Hold in the break. Until 4-2. Then at 4-3. He got broken back with a terrible game. Rafa got the lead with 5-4. And now we're in this marathon. We had a 4-1 rally. Zverev going into the back end of Rafa. 4-9 from Zverev again. To the back end of Rafa. Zverev with a back end in the open court. Rafa is there with the forehand. Zverev with a 4-1 again. Down the line is in the net. And Zverev is taking a deep breath. Uh-oh. Advantage Nadal. Advantage Rafa. Can Zverev survive? Zverev with a serve. Out wide to the front of Rafa. That goes in the net. Good serve from Zverev. You know what I'm liking about Zverev the last two matches? He's kept very quiet. I think he needs the roar at the moment though. I think he needs a little bit of a... A little bit of a shout if he gets this game. He was very quiet against Al-Qaraz, which I think was good. Composed. So he wasn't negative or overly positive. You know, shouting come on and all that stuff. I think he needs a shout after this. He needs a shout if he wins this game. There's been a 4-9 from Zverev into the back end of Rafa. And Rafa hits in the net. Zverev gets to Advantage. Just to release some tension because clearly the last two games dude is feeling that tension. Advantage Zverev to get to 5-all. And Rafa's getting a little frustrated. Rafa ain't playing well. I mean, look at the stats. A lot of errors from Rafa. Unforced errors just in the net. Zverev serves a fault. Second serve. Also thanks to the donations. I see 5k tenets. What's up? How you doing down there? Zverev double folds again and then he oh Zverev's angry. Zverev's angry. I think he just punched his racket and he's hurt himself. Did he just hurt his hand? I think Zverev's just hurt himself like Rublev. Oh no! Zverev's hurt his hand. I think he cut his hand. I've got to zoom in on that. I think he punched his racket and he's hurt himself. He's keeping an eye on that. He's stupid. It was his left hand so maybe that's alright but man, that's annoying. It's been a return now from Rafa into the forehand Zverev into the backhand of Rafa. Zverev again to the backhand of Rafa into the forehand of Zverev who goes down the line Rafa on the stretch gets it to the backhand of Zverev who goes down the line again. Zverev with a pass. Zverev with a volley. Rafa gets the set point. Zverev misses. The volley was the right idea. The execution, no good. And it's advantage Rafa. Zverev hurt his left hand because he held the racket in his right and he went like that. He might have scratched up his hand but it's more annoying than anything if he's cut up his hand. We'll see I guess in the next in the replay I guess. Rafa with the advantage and the set point again. Zverev serves down the tee. Rafa slices it back. It goes in. Nice. Zverev with a volley. Puts it away. I love this from Zverev. This aggression is coming to the net. He's taking on Rafa and that is scary. You come to the net against Rafa at your own risk but he is coming in on the right shots. That's the most important. He's coming in with Zverev. Sorry with Rafa. He's slicing. He's not coming in when Rafa's got a forehand back to deuce. Zverev survives another set point. He serves out wide to the back end of Rafa. Into the back end of Rafa. Zverev again to the back end of Rafa. That's a good find from Zverev. He's got Rafa moving but he hits it out. He had Rafa out. But he just pushed it wide on the forehand with another set point for Rafa. Unbelievable. Third set point for Rafa Nadal. I'll tell you what, the people on the front row are their hands glued to their knees? No, come on. You can clap. You're allowed to clap. It's alright. You're at the French open. Have a good time. That looks so serious. Advantage Rafa. Third set point. Serves Zverev to the forehand of Rafa. Forehand from Zverev. Into the open court. What a shot from Sasha! What a shot from Zverev! He survives. Again. Back to Deuce. 11 minutes this game. It's the longest game in the match. He just needs two first serves. And also needs Rafa to miss them. Serve now Zverev. Down the tee. There's a good serve. There's a great serve. Rafa hits it in the net. And Zverev gets to advantage. Zverev with the advantage now. Finally. Can he get another one of those? Advantage Sasha. He serves. Down the tee to the backhand of Rafa. Forehand from Zverev. Into the open court. Rafa with the backhand pass. Zverev with the volley in the net! I think he was in two mines. The volley went straight at his head and he thought I might leave this. He ducked and then he hit a volley. I don't think... I think he just was in the wrong spot. I mean he hit a volley and it kind of went sideways. And down. Zverev was in the right. He wasn't positioned correctly. Still, I like the intent though. Come to the net but... Duce again. Serve down the tee. The forehand of Rafa. Zverev into the open court. Zverev now comes to the net with a forehand volley. Hit the tape. Oh no. Rafa's there with the backhand. And it's out! Oh! Rafa headed out! Zverev survived. I like that. He came in on the forehand that time. Risky. Risky as hell but hey... I guess he got a little lucky. Rafa's... Rafa is making a lot of errors. Zverev gets to advantage. Can he level it up? He serves. Down the tee to the backhand of Rafa. Sliced. It goes in. To the forehand of Zverev. Backhand of Rafa in the slice. Goes in the volley of Zverev and Zverev puts it away. Unbelievable. That's what he needed! Release that tension mate! 5-5! Zverev with a scream. And a very lovely volley. And it's one hour. Almost an hour. 5-5. That's what he needed. Jeez. He fought off the bull. For now. I swear Zverev's got an earpiece. He must be listening. He must be. Let's go on Rafa. We might have a chance. Okay. That game went for about 13 minutes I think. 13 or 14. Now Rafa to serve. The best thing for Rafa right now is just to win this game as quickly as he feels possible. Probably about 2 minutes. A quick game for Rafa. It's about 2 minutes. Gets Zverev serving again. Put the pressure straight back on. Second serve as Rafa drips sweat. Like someone's poured a bucket of water on him. As we get a 4-0 from Rafa into the open court. Zverev with a backhand. Rafa with a 4-0 down the line. A little flick. Zverev now with a pass. Rafa comes to the net. Zverev's going to crush him. And he does with the backhand. Love 15. Rafa coming to the net on a weird nothing shot. Love 15. I mean Rafa just shanked that. It was a lob drop shot. Zverev I mean Zverev has been missing those shots so I mean lucky he won it. Love 15. Let me know in the chat who's winning this set. Is Zverev going to be able to recover? Is Rafa going to take it? Are we going on a tie break? Let me know in the chat. We'll return now from Zverev to the 4-0 of Rafa. Backhand as Zverev to the backhand of Rafa. Into the 4-0 of Zverev. Again to the backhand of Rafa. Backhand of backhand as Rafa goes with a slice. That goes into the 4-0 Zverev down the line. Now Rafa on the stretch with the 4-0 of his own. Backhand as Zverev. Again to the 4-0 of Rafa. To the backhand of Zverev. Down the line to the backhand slice of Rafa. Zverev trying to be aggressive. This is what it got him to break in the first place. Has been another 4-0 from Zverev down the line. Rafa on the stretch. That goes up and out. Love 30. Zverev with a little fist pump. I'm impressed by Zverev today. Impressed by Zverev today. Most players when they get a lead, especially guys like Zverev they sit back and they go back into default like how they usually play. Instead of keeping that aggression and keeping the way you got to play like the way you got the break. But Zverev has maintained that. He played a terrible game to get broken. But other than that, he's still coming to the net. He's still being aggressive. He's not shying away. Return now into the backhand of Rafa. Goes into the backhand of Zverev. A 4-0 from Rafa. Into the backhand of Zverev. Again to the 4-0 of Rafa. It's a drop shot. Zverev runs. Runs. He can't get it. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Too good. Way too good from Rafa. 15-30. 15-30. Still a half a chance here though for Zverev to maybe maybe get that break again. Rafa with a little fist pump. He knows he's in a fight. He knows he's in a fight. It's his second drop shot winner, Rafa. He serves down to the 4-0 of Zverev. 4-0 from Rafa. Drop shot again. Zverev is running. He gets it with a slice, but he puts it wide. That's another drop shot from Rafa. 30-all. All right. You can see there. Pressure points straight down the middle. This is a pressure point. 50-50 at the moment on pressure points. Which is why the match... There we go. Just changed. Zverev has been winning... There's probably one more of these than Rafa if that's the case. 30-all. Serving now Rafa. Out wide to the 4-0 Zverev. Back in now Rafa. Is into the 4-0 Zverev. To the back end of Rafa. 4-0 again from Zverev. To the back end of Rafa to the 4-0 Zverev. Just going cross court with these shots. Rafa slices it down the line now. Zverev with the back end cross court. Winner! Zverev hits a winner! That was a tough shot to get down low and whip it cross court off a slice from Rafa. Zverev's a big man. That's a tough shot for a big guy. He bent right down to whip that cross court. We've got a break point for Zverev. Zverev has won 8 out of 11 points that are under 8 shots. That's a start. Rafa serves. Out wide. Zverev with a slice and it goes long. Great serve from Rafa. That classic lefty serve pushed Zverev way out of court. Deuce. Now Rafa is fighting for his game. Okay. Big points coming up here. Rafa with the serve down the tee. It's a fault. Second serve. You just feel that Zverev needs this set. Zverev needs this set. He's had the break. He's had the chances. He's played really well. For the most part. There's been a four now from Zverev again to the back end of Rafa. Into the four on Zverev. To the back end of Rafa. Zverev's got Rafa on the run. As he hits another four end to his back end. Four now from Zverev down the line. Rafa running for that one. Zverev with a four to get inside out as a winner. And Zverev gets another break point. And also mentally, I feel if Zverev played like this and loses this set. That is such a mental blow. Because he can't play any better. Besides that one crappy game. He can't play any better. And to still lose it's like, oh man how the hell can I beat this guy if I'm playing my best. And he still gets the set. So it would be a massive blow for Zverev if he doesn't get this set now. Otherwise... I don't know. I don't know if Zverev can mentally come back from that. Serving volley for Rafa. And the volley is too good. Way too good. Serve volley. Interesting. But effective. Back to deuce. Back to deuce. Okay. These last couple of games have been very, very long. Zverev played about a 12, 13 minute game in the last game to get to five all. In this service game. Going a while as well as Rafa serves. A fault. Rafa's second serve percentage is not good. He's only won 33% of those points. Chance for Zverev. Big chance for Zverev. Rafa with a serve. Down the tee to the back of Zverev. In the net from Zverev. Terrible return. Advantage Nudal. To get back the lead and then force Zverev to serve to stay in it again. The last two games combined have taken over 20 minutes. About 22 minutes combined. It's been a long set even though it's over an hour. The first, the match with Djokovic and Nudal felt way more that second set, like, dragged. This one, doesn't feel like it's dragged. It's been a return of Zverev off the first serve of Rafa. Four and a four and now as Rafa goes again with these four and into the back of Zverev. Rafa in control with the backhand into the four and a Zverev. Again to the back of Rafa. Zverev hits it in the net. Rafa gets back to lead. Six five, Rafa. Can Zverev take us to a tie break? We'll find out. Okay. Let's play some donations. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. That he needs more time like you know to get the towel wipe himself down because it's super humid Which is obvious. I mean Rafa sweating crazy, right? Okay, Nadal is by firecams number one player that is not Australian I don't know about that. I'll have to ask him I just joined the match. Can you explain the odd difference on winners and errors for Rafa and Zverev? Can you explain the odd differential? You mean the difference between winners and errors. So Zverev hit 22 winners 21 errors Rafa's hit eight winners eight errors according to our stats there, so Rafa's about 50-50 and Zverev is also about 50-50. So yeah, very even In terms of winners the errors and pressure points Alma is in favor of Rafa at the moment But Zverev comes in with a smash Which means that Rafa's won a couple more pre those deuce 30 all points in this set We're at a lot of deuce points, especially the last two games. Can these just stop coaching Zverev? Look, he's doing everything that we said at the start of the match So maybe we should play like I said, maybe we should all go play Rafa because we we must have a winning strategy Hasn't won yet though. I mean Zverev still got to get the set if he's All these plans are gonna work as return from Rafa goes into the front It's very back in a Rafa to the foreigners Verve into the back in a Rafa Zverev with the backhand down across court Rava on the stretch puts it in the net 30 love Zverev needs Just to get this game as quickly as possible last two service game is very been Been long Rafa just Couldn't quite do anything with the forehand 30 love Zverev serves and ace down the tee. Okay. That's what he did in the first Probably 30 minutes of this match To get us to the tie break Get your scores ready. I want to see who gets their Prediction right if we do go to the tie breaks Verve with a serve serves out wide a Fault ooh nearly went with the double ace second serve Serve down the tee the form of Rafa back in over Zverev in the net 40-15 also, don't forget to Like and subscribe if you haven't already Welcome back if you're coming back from any of the matches this week involving these two guys and Welcome if you're new if you're here for the first time as Verve serves a fault And smashes the lacoste sign as he does as he hits the ball second serve double fault hmm 40 30 that double fault has come back to Come back to get him 40 30 Can Zverev get to the tie break He serves Out to the front of Rafa for now Zverev into the open court hits the tape goes over Rafa runs runs Zverev gets so lucky He gets so lucky, but he's in the tie break. Okay Who's winning the tie break? What's the score gonna be you tell me? What is the score gonna be? Who is winning this tie break I Think it is a must win for Zverev He's done every single thing he feel you can by the way this year tie break record 10 wins two losses for Rafa 12 wins two losses for Zverev That is a tie break record for 2020 to Lot of people go on Rafa lot of the fuse verves there through his few as very as now we're going by the serves They're very similar serving the only difference being that wrap as very see a lot of unforced a lot of double faults So Rafa has It will come down to who serves more first serves. I think And that person will take it Also the double folds. It's very certain there. I can't serve a double-fold in this tie break. He cannot Rafa misses the first serve second serve as he sweats More than ever serve Into the foreigners very of back enough from Rafa down the line of the back and it's very of into the form of Rafa But it's very of hit it out and The umpire said it's out by this much He doesn't get off his chair one love Rafa One love Nadal. It's been a very long first set, but it hasn't felt like a long set hasn't felt like It didn't it doesn't feel like the jock of each Nadal first set which went Well went less than this but that one went this one feels a little bit more aggressive in the game style It's very over the big serve one one I Mean sorry the second set of Nadal. I'm thinking the first set of the first set in a dull one easily first a second set Was the one that went forever doesn't feel like that one all Cam is sad, and I'm so happy that is Why would I be sad? We've got a tie break in the first set And why does my pain and give you joy? That's the that's the real what's wrong with you. There's been a foreign ever serve that goes out. Oh, no Sasha with a good serve and he missed the easy forehand Rafa gets a mini break to one to one Nadal gets the first mini break The crowd clapping along not the people in the front row with the sticks out their butts But the people at the back who actually want to be there and not just because they're rich They're all clapping in the cheap seats the real fans to one Serve out one of the back end of his very for now from Rafa down to the back in his verve into the form of Rafa now Oh Rafa in the net man Rafa with a Bad forehand for him to to to all Yeah, the front row has never seen a tennis match Yeah, they just got they got you know what the front row probably just got like free tickets from there from their work They're like hey, do you want to go to the tennis? Sure Never seen that before as we had a drop shopping Rafa is very over the back end wrap with the volume It goes out it's very gets the mini break Just corporate corporate tickets Free tickets because they're the CEO of the company or something. That's what happens in the At the Australian when I used to work in an office There used to be people in the office being like who wants to go to the tennis And always be just like people that never watched tennis in their life. You know like really Pick me pick me over here Three to serve down to the back and a rapper back in now from Zverev into the back and a Rafa to the forehand Oh, it's very back enough in reference to the back in his very of it goes to the slice of Rafa back And again Zverev into the back and a Rafa Zverev doesn't want to go to his forehand That's for sure as rabbits are back and again to the phone is very of into the back and a Rafa to the phone is very of Again to the back and a Rafa and that goes wide from Rafa For to Zverev they change ends It's very I'm gonna mess with that first with that forehand no way for to for to must win set this very of You just joining us very of what the break in the first game of the match And he was holding strong for the most part and then He played a terrible service game gave Rafa the chance and Rafa said thank you. I will take this and then Zverev saved two match three match put a set points to get to this stage very close match So far Zverev's come out with a very good game plan though and it is working It is working when it when he when he doesn't hit double-fold So down to the phone Rafa back in his very cross court is good Rafa hits it in the net five to Zverev. He is doing his job Rafa with two serves to come Zverev would love one of these points So then he has a bunch of set points of to win this One hour 20 minutes played the crowd yell Rafa Rafa They're definitely not going for Zverev Not right now five two Zverev Would love one of these next two points give him a bunch of set points Rafa serves a fold Second serve this is the point Zverev's got to make it count I mean, I wouldn't even mind if he went after this second serve just to just be aggressive on this first second you know this first free hit and then And maybe the next one be a little bit more Conservative with it, but I'd attack it as Rafa serves the phone is very fine I've from Rafa into the phone is very to the back end of Rafa back and out from Zverev into the back and again I'm Rafa to the phone is very to the back end of Rafa as Ravi's a dental line to the back and it's very Rafa hitting the baseline as we to find out from Zverev down the line Rafa in trouble He slices it there with a foreign dental line rather the slice in the net He's listening Zverev is listening Six two Zverev he's got four set points two on his serve and one right now and Rafa serve and Rafa making a signal like His hands are sweaty or I don't know. I don't know what that means. Does anyone know what that means? Big ball a basketball Six two. I don't know six two Means something It's there of Four set points to take the first set Rafa serves out wide. That's an ace Bang that is a goat doing a goat thing, but he's still gonna do it. We've got three more to go Remember Rafa had three set points At five four on Zverev serve He had his chance Zverev two Serves to come Hands are sweaty. Yeah mom spaghetti exactly. That's what that signal means Zverev serves Out wide to the front of Rafa serving volley for Zverev and that's gonna be out. Oh, no Zverev missed the volley What a serve he did the perfect play but he just pushed this volley long Should have dropped volleyed he should have done Man that was the perfect Perfect play for Zverev massive serve The volley was there and he just went Pushed it long Still has two set points though One more in his serve though You feel he has to win this one Zverev serves out Wide to the back and a Rafa for that was very of is into the slides of Rafa Zverev with the back end open court Rafa runs with the forehand Oh Rafa! Yes! That's Rafa Winner cross-court from nowhere. Oh Man Rafa running for the forehand and he goes bang Just when you thought Zverev was gonna take it Rafa goes not right now. Oh Man just a flick when Zverev is at the net just a flick Flicked it past him. Oh No And Sasha looks at his coach. He's like Yeah, he got me Yeah, you got me with that. It got me there What a shot Rafa doing Rafa things And that is the most Rafa thing you could have asked for he's still down a set point though So let's not don't lose your minds yet Rafa fans, but he saved three set points one more to go But it's on his serve as he serves a fault. Oh It's a let. Oh, it's a let Not the first serve to come in the crowd Weirdly applaud the let was the best let of all time apparently just shows They have no idea what tennis is That they're cheering the lead like it was something impressive Five six Zverev still with a set point as Rafa serves into the net second serve Can Zverev Take this set now second serve the tension As Rafa serves down the tee to the foreigners Verve back in our Rafa into the foreigners Verve sliced That goes into the form of Rafa back in every Zverev again to the form of Rafa who's the drop shot Zverev runs he gets with a four and flick Rafa the slice Verve the ball is out and Rafa saves four This is gonna be on finish TV. I don't know if Rafa shot was going in. I think Zverev might have had to leave it That slice backhand was floating it could have gone long if they show a replay we'll find out Six all they change ends Rafa saves four set points in a row Okay, let me know in the chat. Who's winning the tie break? They've both had set points three for Rafa before the tie break four in a row for Zverev in the tie break and Man was that volley was that that pushed volley that Zverev didn't do enough with is that gonna cost him? The set was right right there six all Rafa to serve To get another set point What a tie break what a start we're only getting started by the way everybody We're only getting started Rafa serves Out wide. It's a fault Yeah, Rafa can't get three points here all the first serves gone missing Second serve taking his time Rafa second serve Goes into the back and it's very of for another Rafa into the back and it's very to the front of Rafa Down the line from Rafa the winner down the line from Rafa is a winner Big banana forehand and he gets to set point. He's won the last five points in a row in the tie break Back to Zverev now Man, we haven't seen Rafa do that He hasn't whipped a four hand down the line yet, but he has now Man, this is the worst Case scenario for Zverev because he should have won this set. He's played the best he could have played and he still might lose it and It's only gonna get worse for him from here set point Rafa Zverev serves to the back and a Rafa that goes in the back in his verve for never Rafa down the line to the foreigners They're rough with the backhand into the foreigners They're of again the back and a Rafa to the foreigners They're of who goes down the line Rafa on the stretch gets it to the back in his verve Who goes down the line to the slice of Rafa Zverev comes in there with a backhand pass But it goes in up goes the lob and it's wide from Rafa Zverev survives This is gonna be on finish TV Zverev survives. I thought he pushed it out. I Thought he might have pushed it out With that backhand, but he pushed it and it hit the line All right seven all my car my Floor mats losing its shit It's moving all over the place seven all they've both had four set points Who wants this? Zverev serves to the front of Rafa backing up from Zverev into the backhand of Rafa to the backhand of Zverev Down the line to the back in a Rafa Zverev with another backhand into the slice now of Rafa to the back in his verve Again to the back in a Rafa as very as a forehand again to the back in a Rafa Again with backhand from Zverev in the net Zverev in the net 8-7 Rafa His wife hasn't moved his dad hasn't moved They're like just I don't know bored like come on now Should have won the set by now 8-7 Rafa serving set point on his serve and how is Sasha gonna react after this. I mean He's done everything right And he still has nothing to show for it Rafa with the serve 8-7 set point he serves Out wide to the back in his verve for now from Rafa into the forehand of Zverev Back in it from Rafa again to the forehand Zverev into the backhand of Rafa Again to the forehand Zverev Rafa the backhand Get into the forehand Zverev Rafa getting a bit more aggressive as he goes with the backhand crosscourt and long Rafa hits it long 8 all Holy cow All right, 8 all in the tie break Another set point saved Another error from Rafa. I mean that's another that's another thing No, you don't see that often. That's not usually what happens 8 points all Who's winning this tie break? Let me know in the chat Rafa to serve another Chance of him for him to get a set point He serves Down to the back in his verve for now Rafa is a drop shot Zverev is running for it He gets it with ease but Rafa is gonna pass him Zverev with a volley but it's in the net Rafa 9-8 Zverev just didn't flick that deep enough. He hit it straight to Rafa and Rafa went I got you got you Nadal with another set point 9-8 Zverev did his best of I mean he almost lunged at that enough, but just couldn't quite make it work Now Zverev serving with Rafa's set point Don't forget to like and subscribe if you haven't already Almost a 2000 likes after one set. We've got so much more tennis to go It's better serve now Down the tee to the back end of Rafa for an entrance verve open court Rafa gets us right with the pass and he gets it Rafa first set a tie break And he looks with no emotion At his coaches like that's what we do That's how we do it Rafa Nadal takes the set That's how it's done Sasha. That's how it's done Rafa's gonna leave the court with his man bag Because he's covered in sweat. He needs a change But man, oh man Rafa Nadal takes the first set 10-8 in the tie break How will Sasha respond? Because he should have won that set. Let's be we can't be real Sasha lost that set. He it was on his racket. He should have won that. He should have won that But Rafa did a Rafa thing flicked it down the line and bang First set Rafa Nadal And I love the re I love the reaction. He just turned around and looked And he didn't need to say words. He just went You know what I'm seeing. Oh, you know what's going on Stone cold killer reaction from Rafa just uh, just uh, hey Don't doubt me. I got this This is going to be an easy sink a chair match Possibly sis. Hey, you never know. You never know. I mean I I worry if it's very of I think this next set Rafa might just blitz him That first set was so crucial and I think Rafa might just go See ya Because Varev couldn't play any better in that first set than he did. Rafa's left the court by the way A question jerk Thank you excel for the donation. Yes. Well, he did he did that those donations were a little while ago, so Yes, he did By the way in that first set 11 winners for Rafa 10 unforced errors Has an updated quite here 25 winners from zero of 26 errors. They both broke each other once And Rafa won three more points than Zverev It was very obviously very very close in that tie break whoo That's one set Are we have you guys got enough for maybe two three four more plus another match? Unbelievable I don't care about what they were saying Hey, thank you idol king for the uh for the five. Appreciate that as well All right, let's answer questions from the chat now Yeah, looks very As I said needed that set more than Rafa He needed that set more than Rafa Zverev can't play like this for four hours. Yeah, uh, yeah, that's why I think that he's gonna have a drop in this second I mean looking at his face. He looks pretty pretty devastated He's just staring going What went wrong? Well, he can't find he he's he's shrugging his shoulders He doesn't know what's going on Zverev. He's like I don't understand Goat goat goat goat goat goat goat goat goat greatest of all time is about goat Hey, thank you linda for the 20 Appreciate that I think Zverev's getting a little bit annoyed that Rafa's good left the court for so long too Because Rafa has not come back All right He made so many faults. He didn't deserve it No, come on now. Zverev deserved that set Zverev deserved deserved that set the way he played for the most part. It was literally probably about There's just a few points that he lost that caught cost him that set for sure But he deserved that he had to win that he couldn't play any better He couldn't play any better Very bitter tiebreak full. Uh, it was very able to lose. Yep Rafa drenched in sweat. He had to change. Yeah He had to change Thank you Elaine. Appreciate it It's very backhand with winners Yeah, it's like Zverev played exactly the way that we Said he had to play to be a chance And he was a chance, but he just He gave away the break and then he gave away the four four points in a row You know been up six two in a tiebreak He gave it away Pushed that volley long and that was the difference Gustavo Quertan again. He's having a great time He's the only guy in the front row that actually knows what's going on Uh, yeah, go doing goat things. Yep There's a big bloke of a session now Zverev is all fired up. Yep Zverev a ticking time bomb I hope Zverev can maintain his composure and forget about that first set as hard as it was to do Forget about that first set and and get the second like start off strong in the second Um Why is everyone in the front row always wearing suits and look like actors? I think the front row is just corporate the french open um, you know Then the front row is just all corporate all the people in the front row are the corporate boxes with people that don't know much about tennis That get free tickets from their from their CEOs That's why it's very it seems very very businesslike Not too many real fans in the front. It doesn't seem like no one's got like Like flags or signs in the front row. It's all suits It makes for a very, uh I mean, they're all on their phones now probably checking their business emails Don't look like a real fans No, not every it's not like that in every tournament Australian open Australian open you get people in the front row. They just pay a shitload of money to sit there But they're real fans maybe like I don't know maybe maybe french french honors like because even like people that are corporate like Australians They all watch tennis on tv during the shine open, but it doesn't seem like Anything like that. Yeah People in the front row are absolutely clueless. Yeah, they're having a good time, but they're not very animated You know, it's the app if you just walk in the front row. They're all just like, oh, was that a good shot? I don't I mean, I've never seen this sport. They just seem a little bit Unsure of what's happening whereas if I was in the front row, I mean I'd probably get ejected First point is Varev Loses it because Rafa's playing too good love 15 Yeah, the roof will stay shut for the entire match Stop coaching Sverav It didn't help It did not help. All right Let's get to it because Rafa Took that first set Let's see what Sverav can do because I think Sverav These first couple of games are so important They're so important If he goes down a break early He can say bye-bye to the final Love 15 second serve Serve goes to the forehand of Rafa, forehand from Sverav into the back end of Rafa Into the back end of Sverav, forehand from Rafa on the stretch that goes cross-court of the back end of Sverav Back end of Rafa with a slice Sverav comes in with a forehand. He just puts it in the net love 30 Uh-oh Love 30 I don't think Sverav's gonna get back. I'm gonna say right. I think I reckon Rafa's gonna win this in straight sets Maybe Sverav comes good in the third and sneaks it, but After that first set I don't know if Sverav can emotionally recover from that We already know that he already has A problem with uh his mentality But even like I mean even if anyone in that position would have would feel like Sverav It's Sverav more so I think love 30 second serve Into the forehand of Rafa, forehand from Sverav, into the back end of Rafa down the line to the slide To the back end of Sverav, Sverav hits it out love 40 and the thing is Rafa's only gonna get better Rafa didn't play well in the first set He's only gonna get better Whereas Sverav had had nowhere to go but down after that first set Break points already for Rafa, three of them Take the break Serve down to the back end of Rafa, forehand of Sverav, into the forehand of Rafa, but Sverav hits it out Rafa breaks first game of the second Really just a nothing game Sverav didn't uh I mean that was that was that was not a good game By the way Ravadis When are we gonna start having the ball kids give the tout of the players again because Ravadis threw a sweaty towel at the ball kid and he caught it When are the ball kids gonna start giving the towels again? So we can get we can start actually start using this the time clock Mentally weakness coming up to the first set. Yeah Rafa keeps the pressure on. Yep Sverav team booking flight tickets. Yeah there. I mean look That first set was so important for Sverav Not for Rafa Rafa could have lost that first set and it would have made any difference But for Sverav It could be make or break Two sets and he's done One love Rafa first Games of the second as he serves a fault Second serve By the way the second match Was supposed to start in 30 minutes, but that's gonna probably start now in Two hours three hours, of course we'll be watching that I wonder how many of these corporate people that are on their phones in the front row Oh my god, I'm gonna lose my shit as that goes in the front triggered as we're in the back end down the line from Rafa to the back And it's very for never Rafa into the foreigners very again to the back end of Rafa for never It's very to the back end of Rafa again to the foreigners very into the back end of Rafa back in as very cross court goes long It's very repeating all the errors 15 love 15 love Oh my god, get off your phone. Get off your phone. Get off your phone. Get off your phone There's a goat on the court right in front of you you idiots Kick them out kick them out. They don't deserve to be in those seats Get out When there's a goat on court you watch Unless you're filming like that guy But if you're texting you can get the hell out Give the seat to one of us Return now from Zverev into the forehand of Rafa back in as Zverev into the front of Rafa to the back in as Zverev Who goes down the line Rafa the back end of his own into the foreigners Zverev to the back end of Rafa Into the back end of Zverev back hand now Rafa cross court Zverev with a phone on the lot on the stretch and it's out 30 love Zverev doesn't want to point in this second set Maybe they'll listen to us. No, no Now typing Oh my god, he's still on his phone If I was in that stadium, I would turn around open the window and be like, oh White shirt get out if you're gonna text piss off He must have heard us because he just got off his phone Served now to the front of Zverev back end from Rafa into the foreigners Zverev into the back end of Rafa For one ever Zverev down the line in the front of Rafa into the back in as Zverev drop shot from Zverev That's good And Rafa hits it out First point is very of in this second set 30 15 Nice drop shot from Zverev It's probably why I'll never get invited to commentate at the match because I would get too I'd I'd I'd call out people with a chair I'd start calling out people in the crowd I'd open up the window if the if the commentary box has a window I'd open and start yelling at people 30 15 I'd be like It's a freaking goat 30 15 seconds to Rafa It's Zverev's gonna do anything in this second set. He has to get back in right now He's got a break back straight away. He can't be Can't be given Rafa the lead Got a return right now Second serve Rafa down the tee to the foreigners Zverev back in our Rafa into the foreigners Zverev Again to the back end of Rafa. It's a drop shot. It's a great shot. Zverev puts it out great from Rafa Unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable Oh no Zverev is Walking through a nightmare right now 40 15 Rafa's only getting better 40 15 Rafa to get the two love in the in the second Serve down the tee from Rafa Is an ace but Zverev says no the umpire comes out of the chair and says the ball was out It was out second serve 40 15 Serve down the tee the back in his very back in a Rafa into the back end of Zverev back and again Rafa Goes wide Okay, 40 30 Not a great shot from Rafa another unforced error 40 30 Let me know in the chat Who's winning this second set Is Rafa going to take a two set to love lead where Zverev will most likely not come back from Or is Zverev going to mount a comeback and make something interesting happen As Rafa serves at zero to the back end of Zverev 40 Rafa down the line is a out Duce Zverev's chance He's got a break back He has to break back Everyone's gone Rafa sweep the leg no mercy Put him in a body bag Ha ha ha Duce As Rafa serves Down the tee to the back end of Zverev 40 from Rafa is out. Okay, Sasha has a chance because Rafa's given away three unforced errors Rafa given Zverev a chance One hour and 49 minutes played Obviously, there's a lot of people in the chat that haven't seen the karate kid movie. So Just go educate yourself serve now Out wide to the back and his verve is a let You've never seen karate kid Come on now I know some of you have You know the quote the first karate kid movie Seriously, I can't be the oldest person in the in this in this in this on this channel Serve down to the 400 Zverev for now from Nadal is a drop shot Zverev is going to get up with a slice Rafa the volley Zverev with a smash Zverev get up Rafa gets it back volley from Zverev Now Zverev comes in with a forehand and he puts it down Rafa hits it out Zverev's back Zverev breaks back And Zverev looks serious good He gets a little lucky Rafa gave him that break He's got to take those chances though one one If you're seeing it's not from Cobra Kai. It's from the karate kid the actual like the real one the original one Rafa by the way, just punching him himself in the leg Not happy Rafa definitely definitely feeling some pain Serve out water the back and a Rafa for now from Zverev to the back and a Rafa Into the foreigners Varev back and again Rafa to the foreigners Varev into that back and a Rafa That goes again to the foreigners Varev who goes into the net Exactly wax on wax off you guys know what's up almost two hours played Now Rafa punching his leg. I don't think we need to look too far into that I think he's just annoyed that he hit a bunch of errors But still He did play a long match against Noelle. It wasn't a A quick easy match. It was a long strenuous match Whereas Varev against Elkarez. I don't think well, it didn't feel like that match was as long The points were a little shorter Zverev serves the form of referee shanks it in to the foreigners Varev back in a Rafa with a pass Zverev volleys at wide love 30 so Zverev played two hours, sorry three hours 20 21 minutes And Rafa and Djokovic's match played Another an extra almost an extra hour four hours and 12 minutes. So Yeah, Zverev played an hour almost an hour less than Rafa In their in their quarter finals, but also the style. I mean the style of game against Elkarez was more You know big sir big hitting. It wasn't like long 40-shot rallies like it was with uh Novak and Rafa There's been a foreign effort Zverev must win game here, but he's got to get out of this Is Rafa again hits it out. I mean the errors are flying now from Rafa 15 30 Thought it would definitely be better 15 30 Karate kid that's a 1950s movie That's so disrespectful That's so disrespectful Zuma take as that goes out God, you guys are too you guys zoomers bunch of zoomers 15 30 someone tries to steal a ball got to give it back sir serve into the forehand of Rafa 400 from Zverev into the back and a Rafa Into the 400 Zverev who hits it to the back end of Rafa back in as very of in the back and again of Rafa sliced Into the 400 Zverev down the line for Zverev as a winner. Okay. Good work from Sasha That's what got him the Chance to win the first set in the first place 30. Oh Yeah, mr. Miyagi exactly I'd crane kick that guy That's what i'm talking about Dude i'm 100 years old. You know me Also like pop culture. Come on that thing's like I guess if it's not on tiktok. It's not real. He's gonna return Half the chat just got super triggered as we're gonna find out from Zverev into the back end of Rafa Back in as very of hit the tape goes into the form of Rafa 30 all point big point There's been a fine effort again in the back of Zverev down the line of the back and a Rafa Zverev with a forehand again to the back end slice of Rafa back in as very of again in the back end of Rafa Sliced to the back and it's very of who slices it back, but pops it wide Just a little nothing slice from Zverev that went wide 30 40 and it was wide the umpire called it You cannot be serious. Swipe the leg. Yes. Yeah. All right. We know it's a we know what's up I've watched a second karate kid movie like 40 times. There you go If you're a hundred years old, I must be 200 No, I'm just uh Yeah, uh 30 40 Rafa with a breakpoint to get back that lead Serve Zverev for the back and a referee shanks it it goes in Zverev comes into the forehand Rafa goes with a slice, but he can't get it. It's very of survives must win games for Zverev Can't let Rafa run away Again, thank you everybody. We got to 200 uh 2000 likes Thank you. Appreciate it. I think what I'm going to do next. What are you guys going to do next week? I want to know When the French opens over what are you guys going to do next week? Feel like we all deserve a little break as Zverev double serves a serving volley, but he It's a terrible volley Drop volley that Rafa would have gotten And done something with so I feel like it's very just wasted that point He should have come in and just gone smack Exactly advantage Rafa Yeah, what are you guys going to do next week? Now that the tennis is going to be Well, we'll be back. We'll be watching tennis probably next week. Anyway Serve goes out wide at the front of Rafa that goes into the backhand of Zverev Good shot down the line Rafa with his own backhand to the back and his very to the front of Rafa Into the foreigners Varev again to the backhand of Rafa Bwater from Zverev again Pick up on the back end of Rafa Now it's very over get with these back into Rafa's backhand back end of back that word Rafa and now the back and his very What was that line all the一直 on the stress of the photo between the humanos? Into the backhand of Rafa back inside again to the Rafa backhand To the four and desire of cross court the back in the rapper now down to the back and it's very Forever to backhand there goes down the line To the back and Rafa ago to the four enjoying back in our Robert down the line He's mixing up every time, Rafa. He's going down the line, cross court, down the line, cross court. As Varev hits it in, slice from Varev, wrap with a forehand, again to the back end of Varev, just goes into the front of Rafa. Varev with the back end, down the line, wrap with a pass, it goes in. Varev's there with a forehand, though. This is a long rally, as Rafa gets a backhand again. It's a weird looking rally. As we have a forehand of Rafa on the stretch. Slice from Varev, what is happening? As we have a drop shot from Rafa. Varev with the backhand pass, he hits it out. What a weird rally. A million shots. They shanked him all. And it finished with an error. What was that? What the hell was that? Rafa's, but Rafa looks stuffed. Two-one. Two-one, Rafa breaks. Thank you, everybody, who's concerned about my... voice. But it's all good. You guys can chill. I'll work. No sweep in the leg is illegal. It might be the only way. That was a terrible... That was such an ugly rally. An ugly rally. That accident... Varev accidentally hit the best shot out. He should have made that winner. That was an easy winner for him. Terrible rally. Yuck. It was like a hundred shots. 44-shot rally, yeah. It was a mess. Soldiers beat the Warriors last night on the road. Yeah, I saw that. That's epic. Winning ugly, yep. Good stamina for Rafa. Varev doing Rafa birthday gifts, yep. Just wondering, do you go to sleep at sunrise lately? Yes. I've been going to bed at like 7 a.m. Sometimes 10 a.m. Rafa rolls. Oh, someone gifted a membership, did they? Oh, Jane, did you get a gift of membership? There you go. I don't know who gifted them, but thank them. Game of the century? Any concerns on Rafa stamina? Nah. Rafa will outlast Varev. I think that's the main thing, right? They might be tired, but they're both going to outlast... Rafa's going to outlast Varev, let's be honest. DJ, I'm not a vampire. Not a vampire. Was that a 67-shot rally? No, it wasn't. That was, no, that was like 40 shots, though. Two hours match already, yep. We're already two hours in. Two hours on the dot in five, four, three, two, one. Rafa serves. He has the break. Serve into the back of his Varev. 400 from Rafa to the back of his Varev. 400 again, Rafa. Into the back of his Varev. His Varev doesn't let it go in. Bad, bad, bad, just bad. 15 love. Varev just let that go past him. It's bad. 15 love. 15 love. As Rafa serves again. In the net. Second serve. As I mentioned before, his Varev has to stay close. He has to break back again. We've had three breaks of serve to start this set. It's been a crazy match. The first set tie break was insane. There's been a four now from Rafa into the forwarder's Varev. Rafa hits it out. 15 all. 15 all. Now in this second set, some of the stats. Three winners for Rafa, four unforced errors. Two winners for his Varev, six unforced errors. The serving of his Varev and the serving of Rafa have been very poor in this second set. Second set, a couple of breaks. There's been three breaks, hasn't there? And that explains it. There's been a four now from Rafa into the back of his Varev. Four now, Rafa down the line of the four. And his Varev into the back of Rafa. He hits it wide. And again, another unforced error for Rafa. 15-30. I mean, they may be both guys are so tied from the first set. They're both just playing terrible. 15-30. The schedule for tomorrow is not out. So we have no idea when the ladies are playing their final. But when the schedule comes out, we will go through it and figure out when we're watching. Probably this time tomorrow. It would be about the same time as this match. The ladies final. It would be about probably two in the afternoon. Something like that. Any later and it gets a bit silly. Any earlier. And nobody's awake. So 15-30. Second serve. Rafa down the tee to the four and his Varev. Four now, Rafa is out. 15-40. His Varev yells, come on now. His Varev's starting. He's trying to figure things out. Sergei Bruguera is like, this sucks. He's bought his help. Dude wishes he could be on his phone. Bought his help. Okay. Been very lacklustre second set so far. 15-40. Lot of errors. Lot of errors. Double break point for his Varev to get back on serve. First says a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Rafa down the tee to the back in his Varev. Four now, Rafa is out. 26 minutes of confusion in this second set. Two all. It's ugly. It ain't pretty. Where was the guy from yesterday that was like, WTA is such bad quality. The WTA sucks. You watching this match? You watching the second set? You put this up against the matches yesterday. This ain't much better. Garbage. I believe is the French word for this match. Or for the second set. That's Varev serves an ace. Bang. 15 love. First set was very competitive and very crazy. This second set. Unusual errors. Serve now. Down the tee to the fault. Second serve. Second serve, Varev. Goes to the front of Rafa to the back end of his Varev. Down the line to the slice of Rafa. Varev with the back end. Again to the back end of Rafa. Varev. Varev to the hold serve. The first person to hold serve. In this second set. 30 love. Varev. Serves a let. Two hours played. It's been the longest three. Does anyone know what the longest three set match in history is? It's got to be a French open match surely. Like long three set as in like straight sets. Grand slam win. A man. I don't want to see a three setter in ATP. I want to see the longest three set straight sets. Grand slam win for a man. Surely four hours. Maybe. As the dullest coaching staff are half asleep. They're bored as hell. What is going on? Everyone's bored. 15 seconds serves Varev. Varev to the phone of Rafa, back in as Varev to the forehand of Rafa. Rafa lets it go out. 30 all. Another chance for a break. The quality's gone through the ground for sure. 30 all. Root vs Chillich will be on at some point. Returning Rafa to the phone Varev. Varev hits it out again. Another arrow. Thirty-forty. Chance of a wrap to get the break again. A lot of errors in this second set by both guys. We'll get to that in a second. Thirty-forty. Varev with a serve. Down the tee to the back in a wrap-up. Four nows Varev. Into the back in a wrap-up. To the four nows Varev. Again to the back in a wrap-up. Into the four nows Varev. It goes down the line. Into the four in a wrap-up. Back in a Varev. Down the line. Back in a wrap-up. Cross-cord to the four nows Varev. Back in a wrap-up. Sliced. Down the line. Zero to the back-hand. Wrap-up on the stretch with the forehand. Into the back in a wrap-up. From Varev. And Varev puts it away with a winner. Varev saves the break-point with a winner. Haven't seen that for a long time. Douce. Now, we've had three winners from Rafa. Nine un-forced errors in this set. Varev's got four winners and eight errors in this set. The serving is atrocious. It's bad. It's a chance for Varev though because I don't think Rafa's gonna play this bad much longer. Varev has to take advantage of it. Serve down to the four in a wrap-up. Goes out on the return. Varev gets to advantage. Advantage for Varev. The hold serve which feels like a break at this point. Varev with a serve. Down the tee. The back-hand wrap-up. Four nows Varev. Into the back-hand wrap-up. To the back-hand Varev. Down the line to the slice of wrap-up. Varev with the forehand. Into the open court. Hits the tape. Goes wide. We're back at Douce. Back to Douce. Five and a half minute game as Varev serves. He'd love two aces right now. He serves. Into the forehand wrap-up. Backhand now from Varev. Into the forehand wrap-up. To the forehand Varev. Again, now to the back-hand wrap-up. It's a drop shot. Varev's running in with a back-hand winner. Much better from Sasha. Bit of a shake of the racket and he gets to Advantage. Advantage Varev to lead in the second. We're just joining us. We've had four breaks of serve to start off this second. A very tired start. Let's just, I want to say ugly because I feel like it's the tiredness that's producing the errors. Not the fact that these players, you know, it's not that far. It's just the tiredness. Benefit of the doubt. We're back in now from Varev in the net. Another error. Douce. Douce, Douce, Douce. Everyone in the, everyone in the crowd looks nervous. Even, especially Raffer's coach's box. I mean, his wife and sister are just like, what the hell is this? I thought you were good. Serve down the tip is Varev. It's an ace. Hey. All right. Advantage Varev. Another one of those and he'll feel a lot better, I'm sure. Seven and a half minutes service game. Advantage Varev. Serve out wide to the 400 Raffer. Back in as Varev. Into the 400 Raffer. That goes out. It's Varev holds serve and that felt like it was a big game. Massive hold. Three, two, Sasha. How are we doing? How are we doing? We have a donation. Let me just play the donation. This is the way better than yesterday's of the match point at the list. We are getting to watch a competitive match. Thank you for the donation. What have we got? Has Raffer conditioning look? Does he look tired? Look, they both look tired. They're both like really sweaty. It's just one of those matches. You know, humid because of the roof shut. The roof shut because it's raining. So it's just really hot and sweaty and not a good way. Unless you're into that. Crazy game, long games. Yeah, very long games. We need heavier moderation up in here. The chat's lost it. Yeah, look, you got to realize that the mods are trying to do their best, but it is a... I mean, when there's a lot of people in the chat, it's hard to, you know, the chat flies off the screen. So you got to give the mods a little bit of a break for... It's very hard to moderate with the amount of people that are writing. Has hitting more winners for Zverev caused him to commit more errors? Yeah, I mean, Zverev has been more aggressive because he has to be, right? What, are you going to just rally with Raffer and get eaten up? But yeah, I think definitely that's caused it. But this second set is no excuse. They're both just hitting bad errors. They're both hitting poor errors. All right, Zverev holds serve and stays or gets in front for the first time as Raffer comes in with a volley. Very nice. Very nice volley for Raffer and it's 15 love. As we said before, must win a game or set for Zverev. No one has ever come back from two sets of love down against Raffer at this venue. And I don't think Zverev is going to be the guy to do it. He's just not that guy. You're just not that guy. Return now, volley from Raffer. That's a great volley. Zverev can't get it. Raffer, two drop volleys, 30 love. Shortening the points, Raffer. I mean, look, we haven't seen Raffer have to go to a five hour match on clay for a minute. But has Zverev got it in him to go five hours too? I mean, they both had to play a fair bit of tennis this event. Let's have a look at the longest clay court matches these two have played. I think Raffer has played a five hour match on clay back in the 2000s when the ATP Masters Finals were all five sets. Raffer, 30 love. Man, I got that one in one. 30 love. I remember those two matches too. I watched them back in the day. As we're back in now from Raffer into the four hours of Zverev, into the back of Raffer. Four hours of Zverev, again to the back end of Raffer, to the four hours of Zverev. Raffer is back into the net. 30-15. So yeah, Rome twice, back-to-back finals in Rome. Raffer played five sets, 0-5 and 0-6. One against Correa, which if you haven't seen that match, go get tennis TV and watch that match. It's ridiculous. And also against Federer. I mean, that match was ridiculous too. I think Federer had match points in that match. So, yeah, I mean, two of my favorite all-time Masters 1000 Finals. Both five hours. 4-0 now from Raffer. It's a drop shot. 40-15. So yeah, only two matches that Raffer on clay has played five hours. He played a four set, a four set nearly five hour match against Paul on Rima 2 back in 2006. It was 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, 4 hours, 53 minutes. And then he played a four hour 37 minute match against Djokovic back in 2013, 9-7 in the fifth, which you'd expect. And then last year's semi-final is his fifth longest clay court match at the French, being four hours and 11 minutes. So, I mean, we're tracking that way if it goes four sets. If Federer can somehow sneak this set, we're probably going at least four hours, as Raffer hits that in the net, 40-30, trying to level things up in the second. Now, Federer, his longest match on a clay court, John Milman. 2019, he won the first two sets, lost the next two, and then won the third in the first round against Milman back then. Four hours and eight minutes. Next is in 2020, he played a five setter against Pierre Ugez Umber. Four hours, oh, three hours, 59 minutes. And then against Jumeher back in 2018, he played a five hour, sorry, a three hour, 54 minute match coming back from two sets, oh, sorry, yeah, two sets of one down coming back to win. So this could be the longest match of Zverev's life on clay. Raffer, it's probably just another day in the office. But Raffer sends the bad shots. Raffer sends the bad shots. And it's doos. Raffer in trouble, he serves. Down the tee, a fault. Second serve. Wiping the sweat off his face. We'll do a recap after this on what's happened so far because it's been insane. Serv down to the back end of Zverev. Fona, Raffer in through the back end of Zverev to the font of Raffer. Fona individual down the line to the back end of Raffer, into the front road of Zverev, again to the back end of Raffer. Zverev with the back end now going down the line again to the back end of Raffer. He can't get it. Zverev gets a break point to take the lead with a, with a break. Advantage Zverev. Advantage Zverev, there's been a serve down to the and he's trying to pull up the crowd as well, Rafa, big bubbles after that, back to Deuce. The crowd say, all right, we'll go, we'll get loud, okay. Back to Deuce. Rafa with a serve is a let. Rafa's mom zoomed right in on her face. First serve again for Rafa. Second empty is a fault. Second serve, second serve, big problem here for Rafa as he serves now to the forehand from Rafa into the backhand of Zverev. Backhand from Rafa, again to the forehand of Zverev to the forehand of Rafa. Backhand of Zverev, down the line to the backhand of Rafa. Zverev doing a little bit more running here as he hits a forehand to the backhand of Rafa. Now backhand from Zverev, down the line is going to be good. Rafa gets it with a slice. Forehand from Zverev, overcourt to winner. Sasha's taken over. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Sasha's taking over. Advantage and another break point to take the 4-2 lead. Both were very bad in the first four games. I mean, there's no other word. It was ugly, but it seems like Zverev is the one who's playing more aggressive and it's starting to work. Has to win this second set to be any chance. Serve now is a fault from Rafa. Second serve. Rafa's taken a lot of time. Second serve, down the tee to the forehand of Zverev. Forehand of Rafa, to the backhand of Zverev. Forehand of Rafa, again to the backhand of Zverev, down the line from Zverev. That's a good shot. Rafa with a slice. Forehand of Zverev into the overcourt. It's a winner. Sasha's taken over and he's got the break. 4-2 Zverev. Positive play. Two four-hand winners. And he takes the lead. 45 minutes played in this second set. And Zverev has a 4-2 lead. He puts himself in there, exactly. He's trying to put himself in the final. Man, can you imagine if he won the first set and we're in this position? He didn't and we're not. But what if, right? Who gives a shit? It didn't happen, Cam. Shut the hell up. All right. Oh, bruh. Good serve for Zverev. Very good serve. Love 15 love. Then must win game for Zverev, you think. Serve down to the backhand of Rafa into the backhand of Zverev. Forehand of Rafa on the stretch. Zverev with a volley. Rafa's going to get in there with a slice. Zverev running with a slice of his own. He gets back in the rally, Zverev. Zverev now comes up with a drop shot. Put the drop shot over. Rafa with a slice in the line. Zverev with a backhand. Rafa with a volley. Zverev running. Can't get that one. Rafa too good. Rafa too good. Ridiculous rally. Zverev did well just to hang on, to be honest. Zverev did a very good job. He almost took that off Rafa. Maybe the lob, maybe the backhand lob would have been a better shot. But then again, the fact he just stayed in the rally, Zverev was good enough, but not good enough to win the point. 15 all. The level's definitely lifted in the last couple of games. Zverev lifted and Rafa's like, shit, I better do the same. I don't know how to say that in Spanish, but I'm sure there's a word for that. I'm sure people in the chat can spam that word. Is it caca? I feel like caca is the word. 15 all. Zverev serves. Down the tee, but it's a fault. Second serve. And the umpire tries to shut the crowd up. By the way, is that the same umpire that Zverev attacked? Or is that a different guy? Return every Rafa to the foreigners, back in a Rafa, into the foreigners, but Rafa hits it out. 30-15. Not sure it is. Surely it's not, right? I think it was the other guy. Sure was another guy. 30-15. Zverev trying to consolidate the break because he serves down the tee, the back of the Rafa, four-nose from Zverev, into the out, I mean out, into the out. 30 all. The shot was there. The execution. Nope. 30 all. Huge point here, as you can see. Zverev has won more of the pressure points. What the hell are pressure points? 30 all deuce. Zverev's won more of them, which is why Zverev should be up a set in a break because of those pressure points. Don't play out in the end. Whoever wins the pressure points should win the match. Zverev serves down the tee. A very good serve. Now a backhand swing volley. Rafa with a pass. Zverev with a volley. Rafa's going to get there with a lob. Zverev runs backwards. He's found himself in trouble now. Zverev hits a forehand. Drop shot. Zverev runs, gets it. Rafa with a backhand. It's a lob. Zverev with a pass. Oh no, he put it in the net. The high backhand volley. Zverev couldn't reach it. And he hit it in the ground. 30-40. Rafa with a break back point. Zverev played a good point. I just think he, I don't know. He should have done more with the volley. He just kind of pushed it into the court. And then the high backhand volley probably should have gone down the line because Rafa was right in the middle there. Would have gone straight to Rafa and he would have won the point anyway. 30-40. Another break. How many breaks have we had in this set? Six? Five? Serve out wide? Here's a fault. Second serve. Zverev. He serves. A double fault. And he gives Rafa back the break. Okay. We've got some more donations. Let me play some more donations. Thank you, Angus. Yeah. A little bit longer. It's been a bit longer now. I mean, two and a half hours. Oh, it's set in a half. Zverev doing Zverev things. That's it. Zverev doing Zverev things. My God. I sure do love Zverev double faults as Deb. Yeah, we all knew it was coming. We all knew it was coming. Surprising in the dark hasn't committed any double faults. I don't think that's a surprise. I don't think that's a big surprise. But Zverev still has the lead. That's something. This could be the longest rolling garrus match. If it goes five sets, it's going to be up. It's going to be something. It has to be the longest match. When am I returning to competition after Wimbledon? So that'll be interesting. Those are both have run out of gas. They're both, they're both for sure not at 100%. They're both running on empty. Who's going to get a second win though? That's the thing. Second win. Who's going to get that little bit of adrenaline to get them through? Anyways, let's get back to it because we've got a back end for Zverev to the 400 Rafa into the back end of Zverev. Again to the 400 Rafa who slices in the net. Love 15. Rafa making another error. By the way, thank you everybody for liking the video and subscribing. Almost got 93,000 subs. Almost 93. That's insane. Thank you everybody who has subscribed, who's hung out with us at different parts of the event. We've watched some crazy matches, not just in the last few days in the entire tournament. Got to have watched at least 35, 40 matches, something crazy like that. So appreciate all you guys who stick around, put up with my terrible jokes. Love 15. The first serve was a call to fault, but it's going to be a first serve again. Two and a half hours played as Rafa serves, down the tee to the 400 Zverev, back in our Rafa, into the 400 Zverev, he puts it in the net. 15 all. 15 all. Can Rafa get to 4 all? If we get another tie break, I'll lose my shit. That's a good way. As that goes out, 30-15. 30-15. If you're just joining us first set, Rafa saved four set points, the five set points. Rafa's lost his shock absorber, so he's going to go look for it and he's going to go get another one, which he's got to take out of a packet of, okay, 30-15. Rafa's got to get a new shock absorber. Rafa seems to be just playing with his food. No, Rafa's got a five for this. This has not been easy. Not been easy. Both players are going to get tied today, and it gives a chance to Chilean root to Clinton in first slam. Look, Rafa is Rafa. Every day, 2009, Australian open. I don't need to say anything else. Rafa fans know. There's been a find out of the back end of Rafa. Back end now from Zverev, sliced into the 400 Rafa. It's a drop shot, but it's not good enough. Zverev with a pass. Too good. 30 all. 30 all. We all know what happened then, right? Rafa played, and if you haven't seen the match, go watch it. He played one of the craziest, one of the craziest semifinals against Veneto Vadasco, and Vadasco played very similar to kind of in the first set as Vera played. Just this aggression. He should have won the first set. It's very good to do what Vadasco did, but I remember when Rafa won that match, everyone was like, oh, he's done. He just played his final. Federer's going to win the final. Nadal can't win the final. He's too tired. That final went for five sets as well, and Rafa got the win. So I never count Rafa out. Is Rafa hit the smash? Out! Rafa smashes it out. I'm sorry. I thought it was Novak Djokovic for a second. What the hell? He's hitting smashes like no way. 30, 40. The first smash was good. The second smash, he cooked it, and he hit Mats Velander on the way through. Oh no, Mats caught it. Great catch from Mats Velander. He's just like, yank. Oh, he's a goat. Swedish goat. Maybe not a goat. That's a bit of a legend. Legend. Massive legend. 30, 40. Man. Smashing like no-lay. Served out one of the back ends. Verif. Verif's the chance to get the break again. Rafa's in the net. Wow, Rafa can't believe it. Oh man, this is ugly. Ugly. Ugly. One hour play. It's Verif serving for the second. What the hell? This happened. It's Verif is serving for the second set. Have we had it? Have we like one hold of serve? Seven games. Wait, how many breaks we had? We've had seven breaks of serve, one hold of serve in this set. Did anyone say WTA? Holy cow. Now, can Verif do the impossible? Hold serve. As he serves a fault, look. Second serve. Second serve, Verif. Even he had, oh, it's Verif got a violation for yelling. The upfire said you got a code violation for swearing. Verif said I didn't say, he said I didn't say a bad word. I thought Verif said no. I didn't hear Verif say anything bad. It's Verif got a code violation for swearing and a warning. Now he can't break any rackets now, but I thought Verif said no. I was just about to say he's Verif screamed no. Let's hear it. Oh, he said no with an F. He said fun. He said something's wrong with that. I mean, it did sound like he said for Kena, but it didn't, he didn't say, it put him in the hard K. It didn't sound like he went far and he avoided the last part. I didn't, I mean, that was a bit, I mean, it's Verif's not that dumb to yell, to swear. It was a bad double fault though. Now he's on, now he's in trouble if he breaks a racket or does anything else, stupid. So I think the upfire might have got that wrong is, no, it's an F-15 all. I don't think it's Verif swore then that he didn't say, I mean, I'm an Aussie. We swear all the time. I know when someone says for Kena, when I know someone says for Kena, he did not say for Kena. He said far and far without the ker is not a swear word. It's not even a word. It's just a noise. It's just a noise. Far. La, la, la. He was singing in Christmas Carol. Served now to the 400th rapper that goes out. It's Verif 30-15. Maybe it's Verif is fired up from that. I don't know. He was just, he was going to say fire truck or something at, you know, Funhouse. Father Christmas. Far out. 30-15. First serve in the net. Second serve. I thought that was harsh, to be honest. Serve now. Is it double fault again? Two double faults in this game. 30 all. Does Verif want to win this set? Because really, it's on his racket. 30 all. Gets his serve in wins a point. Otherwise he double faults. He serves another fault. Second serve goes in to the 400th rapper. 400th Verif into the back end of rapper. 400th Verif down the line of the 400th rapper to the back end of Verif on the stretch. Down the line goes long from Verif and it's 30-40. Rapper to break back. That's how it is. That's how it is. The serving in this second set has been horrid. Terrible by both guys. And a chance for Rapper to break back and make it, what, eight breaks out of nine games. Serve. Down the tee is a fault from Verif. He's looking at a lot. That looked like it was in, to be honest. I'm by out of the chair. Calls it wide. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve. It's Verif. Breakpoint down. He serves. You can't write this. This is not real. Rapper breaks back. Double faults Verif. Three double faults in the game. Rapper is serving to level. Just so you guys know, eight breaks of serve in nine service games. Nine service games. Eight breaks of serve. We had two breaks in the first set in what, 11 games or 13 games. That game was three double faults. Three double faults from Verif. Serving for the set. I mean, that is as bad as it gets. All right. Yup. So, finally, it's Verif. It's Verif we wanted. Well, if you're a Rapper fan, yes. Nadal didn't do much. It's Verif. Choke never in slams. Never win slam. Okay. Open the roof. They'll never open the roof. Not this match anyway. Is he even a pro player? Oh, savage. Is this a brown patch? Yeah, it's a brown patch. Big brown patch. Big brown patch. What is happening today at RG? Garbage. This second set is horrible. But hey, at least it's close. Don't forget to subscribe. You haven't already liked as well. Rapper is serving for five all. Now, Rapper hasn't held serve in the entire set. So that's a good thing for Verif, because Rapper hasn't held serve. But I just have a feeling Rapper's not going to give Verif another chance as we're going to return now from Verif into the front of Rapper. Back into Verif. Into the front of Rapper. Again, to the back of Verif, who goes into the front of Rapper with a slice. He goes in to the front of Verif. Down the line. Hey, it's Verif. He knows how to hit a forehand. Love 15. Just don't let him serve. For God's sake, don't let the man serve. He should underarm serve. I mean, maybe that'll go in, right? First point. It's Verif. Love 15. Love 15. Now, Rapper is looking... I wouldn't say tired, because you never doubt Rapper's ability to survive. You know, crazy ass match, but he is definitely looking every bit of 36. Whatever the hell that looks like. Love 15. Second serve, Rapper. Rapper serves. He serves a double fold. It's contagious. Zverev must have coughed on Rapper on the change of ends and gave him the curse. First double fold of the match for Rapper, and it's Love 30. Zverev. All right. I guess, I guess we're doing this. Love 30. Rapper serves. Out wide to the front. Zverev served volley from Rapper. Zverev gets him with a lob. Rapper with a smash puts away. Little volley. Open court. 15. 30. 15. 30. Remember, this is almost three hours. It's the best of five set match, so we might be here for a while. Hold on to your butts. 15. 30. Still a chance if it's Zverev. I feel Zverev's got a better chance of breaking to win than serving to win, as we just saw. And he can serve first and the second set, if that means any, or third set, if that actually means anything, because I think serving does matter sometimes. Second serve, Rapper. 15. 30. Can Zverev take this set? Rapper serves. In to the front is Zverev. Back in at Rapper. To the front is Zverev, who hits it out. 30 all. Still a chance for Zverev to take the break. Remember, Rapper has not held serve in this set. The four games he's gotten are four breaks. He has not held serve yet. Zverev's held serve once, and that's why we're at this point. Rapper's dad's laughing, and they put him on the camera. He's having a good laugh. You can't believe it. 30 all. Serve now to the front is Zverev. Four in front of him. Rapper has a drop shot. Zverev runs, runs, runs, runs, runs. Get through the front and down the line. Rapper with a lob. Zverev with a smash. Oh, it's out. It's out. It wasn't an easy smash, but I mean, I'm on. 40, 30. Zverev did everything right. He had Rapper on the ropes, and he just smacked it out. I mean, look, if you can't serve, you can't smash, right? They're very similar shots, and if your serve sucks, your smash isn't going to look much better. Okay. Rapper to hold serve for the first time in this set. Lot of errors, and Rapper almost serves an ace, but he just hit it long. Second serve. 40, 30. Rapper serves. Down the tee to the front is Zverev, back in a Rapper, into the front is Zverev, to the back in a Rapper. Front from Zverev into the back and again a Rapper. Zverev now with a forehand. Cross court again to the back and a Rapper. They're just going cross court with these shots. Rapper's back and goes down the lines. Zverev with a slice. Rapper with a volley is going to be good. And Rapper holds serve to level, and the crowd are on their feet. Five all. Okay. Five, five. I feel like it's only fair to have a tie break because it's been that bad that neither guy deserves to win this without a tie break. They should have to battle in a tie break to get this. It doesn't, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be anything less. A tie break, it has to be a tie break. Come on. Tie break. Come on, please. Please, tennis gods. Just give us another tie break. As we're going to serve now to the forehand of Zverev, back in our Rapper to the back and it's very wide. Oh, no. I got a feeling Rapper's going to take this. He's just going to be like, no tie break. No. I'm taking it. Love 15. Remember, Zverev served for this set at 5-3, and he served three double faults in that game. Remember that. First serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the forehand of Rapper, back in at Zverev. Into the forehand of Rapper, to the forehand of Zverev. Back in at Rapper, again to the forehand of Zverev. Rapper in control as he goes down the line. Zverev with the back in on the stretch. Now Rapper with a slice. He's in trouble. Zverev with the forehand down the line. That's a great shot. Rapper gets it. Zverev with the bounce. What are you doing? Zverev hits a winner. No way. Oh, Zverev, what are you doing? You go to the net, you volley. You don't go to the net and let it bounce. Rapper murders him. Love 30. Unbelievable. Never let it bounce. Oh, he ran backwards and Rapper goes, thank you. Gracias. All right. Love 30. Love 30. Where is the serve? Zverev going to be able to produce something. Love 30. Zverev serves. Out wide to the back end of Rapper. That's shanked, but it goes in to the forehand of Zverev. Back end of him, Rapper. Again, he shanks it. Zverev with the forehand. Cross-court. Rapper with the pass. Zverev with the drop volley. Too good. That's better from Zverev. Hit the damn volley. 15.30. 15.30. Who's winning this set? Tell me in the chat who is winning this set. 15.30. Zverev hasn't hit a double fold in this game. Whoops. As he serves into the front of Rapper, Foyner from Zverev goes into the back end of Rapper. Back end of Zverev. Again, now to the front of Rapper to the back end of Zverev, who goes down the line to the back end slice of Rapper. Zverev with the forehand on the stretch. Goes back to the back end as we get another back end from Zverev in the stretch from Rapper now with the forehand slice. Zverev with the forehand. Into the overcourt. Rapper with the back end lob. Zverev with the smash. Puts that away. He puts that away. 30 all. 30 all. Zverev is serving. I don't want to watch, but that's my job. So 30 all. Sashes, Zverev. Five all. 30 all. He is serving. Must win game to at least guarantee a tie break spot. He serves. A fault. Second serve. Don't do it. Don't do it. Second serve goes into the front of Rapper. Back end of Zverev, down the line to the back end of Rapper. Into the back end of Zverev. Rapper with the forehand. Cross court to the back end of Zverev. Down the line is a win of Zverev. Hey, how about that? This is going to be our finish to you. Where the hell did he pull that from? 40-30. All right. I'll shut my mouth. I will. Oh, I will. And Rapper can't believe it. He's like, hang on a second. That's supposed to be a double fault. What are you doing? What are you doing? 40-30. Zverev to get into the tie break, or at least guarantee a spot in the tie break or win the set. Serve, down the tee. No way. It goes in. And Zverev wins the... Oh, no way. They're going to call it a fault. Are they going to call it a fault? No, it was good. It was good. Zverev doesn't get robbed. Zverev gets the game. Six-five. He doesn't get robbed. He old serve. All right. Rafa has the serve to get to the tie break. Questions. All right. What do we have? Hey, we got... Actually, we got a donation. I've got to play the donations. Thank you, everyone's donating. I am not, obviously, because the match is so crazy. Keeping the donations. I can't believe what is going on in this set. Vlado, me, neither. Thank you for the donation. I'm keeping the donations for when we have a time, not going... No, because middle of the match, it's too crazy. Come on, Rafa, please hold. Yep. We're going to get a tie break, or we're going to get a 1-1 score line. The worst three hours and two minutes of all time. No way. Only this set's been bad. The first set was awesome. The second set, the level dropped, but it hasn't been bad. Anyways, when it's bad and both guys are playing bad, it makes for interesting tennis. US Open Finals 2020. That's what this reminds me of. You can count the number of people chanting for Zverev. That's so harsh. That is so harsh. The first set was so intense. Yeah. This set has been horrible, but they've both been bad, so it's been close. It's been a close score line, which has been interesting. All right, y'all. Six-fives, Zverev. Can Rafa force another tie break? Three hours. You can play three Ega Shriontek matches in that time. Thank you. I'll be here a week. As we return to Zverev to the foint of Rafa, that's into the foint of Zverev, and that Zverev foint is in the net. 15 love. 15 love, Rafa. He's only held serve once in this set. It's been one of those days. People are on their phone again. I'll bite my tongue. How? Anyways, return now to the back end of Zverev, but it's a fault. Another serve for Rafa. Rafa with a serve. Three points from the tie break. He serves down a tee, the foint of Zverev. The foint of Rafa into the back end of Zverev to the foint of Rafa. Back end again, Zverev on the stretch, but Rafa hits it wide on his forehand, umpire out of the chair. Zverev says it's wide. The umpire also says it is out. You cannot be serious. Too bad. It happened. 15-all. Excuse me, but is that man sleeping in the front row? I'm straight up about to jump out this window and tackle that guy. How dare you be asleep? You wake up. No way was that guy asleep. There's no chance. No chance. 15-all. First serve is a fault from Rafa. Second serve, Rafa. Zverev's got to take these chances, half chances. If he's going to level this up, the next match is going to start at midnight at this stage as Rafa serves into the back end of Zverev. Back end of Rafa sliced to the foint of Zverev into the foint of Rafa, but Zverev hits a long. 30-15. 30-15. And it's three hours played in five, four, three, two, one. Second serve, Rafa, 30-15. It's three hours now. Second serve, Rafa down the tee to the foint of Zverev, foint of Rafa into the back end of Zverev, to the foint of Rafa on the stretch. Zverev with the back end, down the line is wide. It's 40-15. To take us to another tie break, another tie break. Maybe next time. Yeah, maybe I'll get it next time. This is so long. That's what she said. Got him. 40-15. Rafa to take us to a second set tie break. If Zverev wins this set, this could be the longest match of Zverev's life, or clay court life, as Rafa says his fault. Second serve, second serve. Rafa taking the time as he serves. Down to the back end of Zverev, foint of Rafa into the foint of Zverev, to the foint of Rafa. That goes into the back end of Zverev, sliced drop shot volley from Rafa, but Zverev's able to fly past and he puts it away. 40-30. Zverev stays in the set as they zoom on the people that are actually excited to be there. They're not sitting in the front row. They're all the way back. Somewhere up the top there. Somewhere up here. That's the real fans up here. Up here. The true fans. 40-30. Still a chance to Rafa to get to the tie break, and Rafa yet to get a time violation on his serve. He should have got one there though. Umpire being a little lenient, but also common sense. So I don't, I respect that by the umpire. Common sense. Three hours into this match, so close. Why give a time violation? Second serve now, Rafa. 40-30 to take us to the tie break. Rafa serves. Now he serves. Down the tee to the foint of Zverev. Foint of Rafa into the back end of Zverev, to the back end of Rafa. Foint of Zverev again to the foint of Rafa. Now to the back end of Zverev. Foint of Rafa down the line to the foint of Zverev on the stretch is a pass. Zverev fell over. Oh, Zverev's done his ankle. Oh no. Zverev's done his ankle. Zverev is in massive pain. Oh no. Zverev's in bad shape. This is bad. Zverev is screaming on the grounds. Oh no. Oh no. Zverev in terrible pain. Rafa's down looking at it, making sure he's all right, but Zverev is in bad pain. Oh, this is terrible. Zverev, that was a bad, I mean, look, you don't react like that unless it's something real bad. That was a, oh no. That was bad. That's bad. Huge pain from Zverev. I mean, I think he's done. I think Zverev's done. I think Zverev's done. He's leaving the court. Oh no. They're going to go treat it. I think Zverev's done. Like that was, that was, they're getting out of wheelchair. I mean, he's going to get a medical time out. That is, oh my, this is terrible. He's in the wheelchair. They're wheeling him off the court. That was a bad fall. A bad fall. I mean, he was screaming. I'll see if Zverev comes back. Oh man. That was horrible. That was bad. I reckon he's done his ankle and he might not be playing Wimbledon. That could be a months, months and months out. That was bad. That was bad. Zverev could be out for months with that. I mean, you don't react like that unless you seriously stuff your ankle. I think Rafa's saying, hey, look, let him take the time. I don't think Rafa was saying, I think Rafa's like, hey, let him, let him do his thing, figure that out and then come back. Man, that sucks. That is so heartbreaking. That is so heartbreaking for Zverev. You never want to see that. Never want to see that. Broken leg. No, I mean, look, I mean, ankle, like there's a bunch of things we could speculate. He could have, he could have broke his ankle. That could have happened. He could have just broken his ankle. He couldn't walk off the court. So it's obviously not just a twist. He could have broken it. He could have like ripped his ankle apart. I mean, ligaments in the ankle, he could have done, I mean, it was bad. That was one of the worst falls that you'll ever see. And Zverev could be out for months. How'd he fall? He was running out to the shot and just like we've seen for the most part of the tournament, he just, his toe just got caught and he just went over. Career ending. I mean, I wouldn't go that far, but he could be out for months. You never want to see that. Never want to see that. Like, I mean, it would have been, if he wasn't like, he was screaming like on the ground, they're going to show the replay. So yeah, he ran out to a forehand. Sorry to a forehand. He put his foot down and yeah. Oh, it went right over. That was the bad worst twist of the week. I mean, that was bad. He grabbed his ankle as soon as it happened to. That was broken. That was horrible. That, I mean, look, if you ever, if you don't want to see that, don't look at that if you have a weak stomach because that was, that was bad. That was bad. Zverev can't play. There's no way. There's no way he comes back. It wasn't a twisted ankle. That was more than a twist. You twist your ankle and you're on the ground like Zverev was. I mean, that's a reaction. Like, there's no way Zverev would have been in pain. Like he was, the dude couldn't walk. He couldn't get out. He didn't move. Sometimes when you twist your ankle like that, you see the players lie on the ground for a bit being like, oh, shit. But that was more. That was more than that. That was crazy. That was crazy. Such a sad way to end this match. Yeah, I mean, we can speculate all we want, but that was, that was more than a twist. More than a twist. Yeah, broken ankle. Yeah, look, I'm not gonna, we're not making jokes. Let's be, I mean, come on, guys. All right, let's answer questions and wait until Zverev comes out, but I doubt he's playing. Your job is awesome. Thank you, Terra. Appreciate the nice donation. Ah, look, broken ankle, possibly, torn ligaments in the ankle, possibly. The reaction, the reaction was more than a twisted ankle. The reaction was, Zverev's gonna be out for, for a while. Yeah, mods banned anyone who's, uh, who's celebrating, because that's just not cool. Yeah, banned anyone who's, um, who's celebrating Zverev's injury, because that's not what we're about. And I don't want to see that. Not even a timeout, just a straight ban, because that's not, that's not cool. Commoner Day said he had a similar injury, which was out for six months and came back to play. Yeah, I mean, for sure, this is not gonna, I mean, this is not gonna be, uh, like, if he walks back on court, it'll be a friggin' miracle. You'll lose half your subscribers. To be honest, I don't want you if you're gonna be celebrating someone getting injured. Like, if you're celebrating this injury, that's not what we're about. So, get out. Zverev, yeah, look, as far as I'm concerned, this match is done. So sad. It's such a sad way to end. What was, what's been such an insane match? I mean, what a match. What a match. So we're just waiting for Zverev to come back. Rafa said, take all the time you need. Merezmo's coming out. They're calling this. There's no way Zverev comes back. If he walks out, it'll be on crutches and he's on crutches. Zverev's done. Zverev's done. Zverev's done. He might be out. We might not see Zverev until the U.S. Open. He's gone. He's on crutches. He comes out to say thanks to the crowd, but what a sad way to end a semifinal that's been so epic. He says thanks to the umpire and he, he gives Rafa a hug and Rafa wins. But let's, let's clap it up for Zverev. He put on a hell of a fight. Should have won the first set. Probably should have won, should have been up two sets of love. Let's be real. And let's just hope he's okay because we need guys, we need Zverev playing. We need, we're already not getting Medvedev and Rubelev at Wimby. I mean, we need these guys. They're the next gen for a reason. Let's just hope he gets, let's hope it's not as bad as we expect. I mean, you don't want to have like, that's, that's, I mean, how many guys have we seen injured over the last few years that have been so promising and injuries just cruel them? You know, hopefully that's not the case. Rafa through to the final. We'll find out who he plays in a bit. Yeah, look, of course he was going to come back and say, but yeah, I mean, that's just, yeah, say what you will about Zverev, but you know, he does have heart, you know, and he wasn't going to just not come out and say, see you later. But what a terrible fall. What a sad ending. We still have another quarterfinal, semi-final, but man, I'll try and find a replay to, uh, to, um, to, uh, whatever. Hopefully there's a replay so you can follow me on Twitter. That's so, that's sad. Just got to feel bad for Zverev. We've still got another semi-final to go, guys. We'll get to that in a second, but let's answer some questions. As a Rafa fan, I feel terrible. Yeah, look, I'm not expecting Rafa fans to like not be celebrating. You guys can celebrate. I just don't want people being like, ha ha, it's very, it's like, come on now. Show class like Rafa, you know? And most of you are, it's just the few that aren't that, uh, that will be never, never come back here. That's fine. Yeah. He's ankle, like his ankle was flat. Like, yeah, he ripped up. If he didn't rip up all the tendons in his foot, he wrapped up the, uh, he definitely ripped his, he broke it in half. I mean, his, his foot was in half. And the reaction, you know, we've seen many players fall over with twisted ankles, but when someone like, when we see someone, anybody, not just Zverev, but like any guy, any girl, if they're on the ground and they're screaming or rolling around, like not screaming, but like they're obviously in pain. They're verbally in pain. I mean, that's up there with, um, who was the lady who did their knee and it were Wimbledon? Was it Peckovich? And she was just like screaming. You're like, oh, you know, that's bad. These players are tough. Like tennis players, even though they're not physical, it's not physical, you know, physical contact sport. They're tough. That had to hurt. That was bad. You're beating a dead horse, he'll be fine. All right. Mods. Anyway, his wrap is in the final and Rafa is a class act. He gave Zverev all the time in the world. He's like, Hey, that guy, you know, don't put a timer on. We don't need a timer for the time out. Just let him have a 10 minute break if he needs. Man, devastating, devastating for Zverev and a devastating for the match because we're just about to go to a second set tie break, which could have, this could have been one of the all time greatest matches. Sad ending. And we hope, I hope Zverev is okay. Yeah, unless you're watching, yeah, that was, I mean, if you're watching MMA, it's you probably just send it sensitized. But if you're not used to seeing that kind of stuff, I'd say don't look for that injury. You will not like it. That was as bad as it comes. Rafa also looks devastated. So I mean, like, unbelievable, unbelievable. Be like Rafa, guys, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Thank you, Rowdy. And that's coming from someone who's a real Rafa fan. So thank you, Rowdy. Yes. I mean, that's the right, they're the right words, right? Gutted for Zverev. I'm trying to find a replay so I can read no one's putting up any replays of that ankle because nobody wants to see that. But man, that was one of the worst injuries I've seen live. For sure. Okay. Now, we have another match. We have a second semi final. Who's playing Rafa in the final? That is the question. Is it rude as a chill itch? Let's get that back into it. If you are leaving us, don't forget to subscribe. If you are just joining us, Zverev rolls the ankle. Badly rolls the ankle. Could be out for months. I would say based on the fact that he came out on crutches, he ain't going to get back for Wimby in three weeks. I mean, unfortunately, Zverev fans, that's not going to take three weeks to heal. It's probably going to take longer. We probably see Zverev back in America in a few months. But let's see what Rafa can do in the final. He's going to be playing against either rude or chill itch who are playing next. So go grab a coffee. Go grab everything you need. Here is the match I'm going to send you over there now. Man, what a bummer. What a bummer. You don't want to see that, especially in a big match like a semi. You want to see a win. Rafa wasn't celebrating that win. He was just like, hey, and he's had a lot of injuries. Of course, he knows how it feels. Rafa is straight away. You knew what he was thinking. He's going, I've been there. All right, here's the link to the next match. We're going to fly over there. Go talk amongst yourselves. I'm going to go grab a tea because as you can hear my voice, I sound like I smoke a pack a day. Cigarettes, the way I've been yelling and screaming. But there you go. There's a link. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you haven't already. Rafa gets the win. Zverev, let's hope he's okay. Sasha Zverev out. Rafa gets the win in a set. It could have easily been three sets over in three hours, but it was a set and a six all in the second. We were robbed as tennis fans of an epic match by Miss Fortune, but we've got another one to go. We've still got one more to go, and we're going to be watching that one in about five, 10 minutes time. So jump over there. I'll send you guys over if you don't subscribe. I'm sorry, if you don't click the link, there it is. But it was Rafa Nadal. He's into a final again at the French, and he will be playing the next player, one of the next guys. Is it going to be Zverev? Is it going to be Chillich? Is it going to be Rude? We're going to find out. Rafa wins. He's into the final. It's hoping Zverev have a speedy recovery.