 All right, what's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the US Open Semi-Finals, the Men's Semi-Finals, and we have one more. And it has rankings ramifications. We have, pardon me, the world number one ranking. We knew it was gonna change hands whenever they've lost, but we have a live rankings race right now. And if Elk Rose wins, we're gonna get a couple more days of uncertainty, with who's gonna be number one. But Kasparud currently is number one in the world. Live rankings. So if Elk Rose loses, rude is number one. Unfortunately for Rafa, he's been kicked out of the race, but there's still time for Rafa. I mean, this is only after the US Open. He could come back and take that number one ranking pretty easily, Rafa, if he plays two, two, three more tournaments. But as of after the US Open, Kasparud currently is the world number one. Now, if Elk Rose wins, then whoever wins the final will be number one. Also, something that I forgot to mention, with that win, rude is now officially in the ATP finals. So we have four ATP finalists, Nadal, Elk Rose, rude, and Sinti Pass. So four spots left. And remember, Djokovic, he gets one of those spots, even if he's not in the top eight. So only really, you've got three spots left to make the ATP finals at the end of the year. With not many tournaments left, you've got Paris worth 1,000 points, but the Asian swing has been decimated. So a lot of players are gonna be playing a lot of tournaments. There's ATP 500 events during the rest of the year, Sinti Pass, Zverev, Medvedev. You know, those kind of guys, Ozealia Seem, Rubelev, Hercatch, expect those guys to play a lot over the next couple of weeks because they're all fighting for those three last spots. Unless Djokovic, you know, doesn't get there, but there's only three spots up for grabs now that rude has taken the fourth. So it's all getting serious now. On the women's side, we've got Jabur and Sfiante qualified. There's like so much more up for grabs for those ladies, but it's getting interesting. The rankings have been very interesting this year. Now let's go to the preview because these two players are played once, but I don't know if we can really look into it as a match worth, I mean, there was a long time ago in tennis terms. Here is the schedule. Here is the semi-final lineup. You can see winner of this place, Casper Rude. We'll talk about that. Who would Rude rather play? We'll talk about that during this match. I think it's kind of obvious. He doesn't want to play against Elkerez, like nobody else does. The players that these two are about to get through, Tiafo, he started his tournament off against Giron. He won that in straight sets. He beat Kubla, also in straight sets. He beat Schwartzman, the 14 seed in straight sets. Of course, he beat Rafa in the fourth round in four sets. And then he took out Rubelev a couple of days ago in straight sets and Elkerez. He started against Baez. He beat Baez in straight sets with a retirement in the third. He beat Correa in straight sets. Brooksby in straight sets. Then he beat five sets. He needed five sets against Chilich in the fourth round. And of course, five sets, five long grueling sets against Sinner. And this time last year, Elkerez was coming into the quarterfinals after two five setters. So let's see how he does. Elkerez, fitness-wise, after those two massive, massive matches. Let's talk about Big Fo. He is number 26 in the world currently. That'll change after this week, as you'd expect. He will be highest, his highest ranking ever. He'll be in the top 20. No matter what happens today, he'll be in the top 20. He is currently 24 years old from America, six for two, right-handed, 21 wins, 18 losses on the year. No titles this year, but he has got one career title and his best wins are against Baratini and Fakina before this week. And there he is, Carlos Elkerez, the future world number one if he wins the tournament or at least gets number two if he makes the final. He's already had a career high number three no matter what happens today. Four in the world currently, 19-year-old from Spain. He is six foot one, right-handed, 44 wins, nine losses on the year. Four titles to go with that and five career titles. He's had a hell of a year. He's beaten Djokovic in a dial, back-to-back on Clay, which was the only man to do that so far in the history of tennis. And there's a head-to-head. One-zero in favour of Big Four, but they played in Barcelona last year. Big Four got the straight-sets win, but it's a long time since that happened. A long, long time. So I don't know how much we look into that as a match that's, you know, I don't think we're gonna look into that and be like, oh, Big Four could win. Big Four could already win, but hard courts a long time later. Elkerez is not the same guy as he was in the start of last year. You know, he's way better, even the last 12 months, way better. So it's gonna be interesting. All right, what's up, everybody? The video didn't roll over. Yeah, we started a new stream because of, because it is a new, because we had about half an hour break. So that's why we started fresh. Okay, players come out and court any second. Answer the question, the question! Players out on court any minute now and I'm sure the celebrities will be in the house, ready to go as well as we all are. What's going on, everybody? How are we doing? How are we doing? Carlos, if wins, Rude goes number one, even if he loses. Yes, if Carlos wins, Rude will go number one, even if he loses the final. I'm not sure what you're saying. He played on different Elkerez last year, exactly. This is not the same Elkerez as a year ago. This is insane, it is! This seems to be the hypest match of the tournament so far. I mean, this is the match that seems to be getting the most craziness, because, you know, American in the finals, it hasn't happened for a long time on the men's side. You know, it's, and then Elkerez obviously trying to do something crazy, the world number one rankings hanging around, new champions, I mean, it's all happening. Carlos wins today, Rude is not number one. Yeah, so here it is. So if Carlos wins today, he will be number one in the live rankings, but it'll come down to the final match. So Rude, Elkerez, if they both get to the final, they play each other, not just for the US Open, but also for the number one ranking. But if Elkerez loses today, Rude is number one, even if Tiafo wins the whole thing. No matter what happens in the final, Rude is number one. If Elkerez doesn't, make it to the final. That's what, does it make sense? That should make sense. Happy for Rude, hope Elkerez isn't too worn out. Yeah, we'll find out. I think early on, Elkerez should be fine. You know, when you've played two long matches, usually the first hour, you feel good because you've had a rest, you're well rested, but as we saw a little bit with Hashinob, when you played two long matches, your gas tank drains way faster, even after two days rest. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. US Open is the most random grand slam in the mail side. Million percent, Hasan, thanks for the five, yep. Always has been, always has been the last couple of last 15, 20 years. Yeah, so that's what we've got. Who needs the first set more? Elkerez, Elkerez, because TRFO's played one set, he's dropped one set. So Elkerez has played two five-setters back-to-back, the epic against Sinner, obviously, and even though he looks super human, he is human. So he needs the first set more. And also, not just for the physical side of things, but also mental, you know, TRFO losing the first set, which he hasn't done all tournament, might put doubt in the TRFO's mind. So getting the first set, not just physically, but mentally is a big deal for Elkerez against BigFo. And if BigFo wins the first set, just like Hashinov, we just saw Hashinov, it's like, oh man, okay, Elkerez has got to think about, I've got to come back from a set down, I've already played for two five-setters, my body is killing me, I've been so much pain, you know, blah, blah, blah. Also in the last two matches he's played, Elkerez, he won the first set against Sinner, and then obviously, he actually won the first set against both Sinner and Chillich. So if I'm not mistaken, both these guys have won the first set of every match they play, which makes the first set even more crucial. So the winner of the first set, someone's going to have to come back from a set down for the first time this week. And I feel like if it's Elkerez, it's a little bit more like BigFo's fresher. So he lose the first set, he'll be like, all right, well, I can still go, you know, three more hours, it's fine. Whereas I feel like Elkerez might be like, damn, not it, I have to do this, I have to play five or four sets again, and ah, I mean, yeah, so interesting. High for this match, yeah, for sure. It was a great match between Elkerez and Sinner, yeah. Match of the tournament, no doubt so far. For the women's draw would be unpredictable, the men's draw was unpredictable, how wrong was I? Ah, ATP is the WTA. That's what, it's going to be all the same now. Random all round, even though the women's final is kind of like the two best players on the planet. So it's a little bit more, I think it's like, yeah, it's kind of flipped on its head this week, but yeah. No, it doesn't matter too much, but Tiafo also beat Elkerez this year in exhibition on, before Wimby. Again, doesn't matter also on grass. Yeah, exactly, like, yeah, he did beat, we watched that match, I think, as well. Big foe, Big beats Elkerez earlier in the year, and before Wimby, and you're right, but yeah, again, I don't think that matters. Just like the match they played last year, doesn't matter that much. I think this is a whole new, whole different scenario. Still though, Big foe's going to take that confidence of I've beaten you twice, so that's something to take out of it, but not, I don't think that matters to Elkerez that much. Screaming the crowd's going to be over the top, yeah, it's going to be nuts. With Tiafo being the top 10, if he wins the whole thing. That's a good question. No, if Big foe wins the whole thing, he'll be number 11. He can only get to a number 11 in the world, so he's currently ranked number 19 on the live ranks, and if Big foe wins the whole thing, he'll be just outside the top 10, about 100 points behind, so yeah, just outside the top 10. Now, if he does win Wimby this, so let's just make, because we just talked about Djokovic, and the fact that he could be the world being to the top, what do you call it? Being Grand Slam champion, it qualifies you for the ATB finals, but if Big foe wins this event and doesn't make it to the top eight on the live, on the ATB finals rankings, and Djokovic and Big foe are fighting it out for that eight spot as both champions, it's the one who finishes higher. So how fun would that be to have a race to the finals between Djokovic and Tiafo who finishes higher? They might not finish top eight, because only one person gets it. One champion, Grand Slam champion gets automatic entry, and it's the one who finishes higher, so that could be fun, but if Big foe wins this whole tournament, he'll be in the top eight anyway, he'll be number eight in the race to the finals anyway, so he'll already be up there. My heart says Big foe, and the crowd will be Big foe? Yes, the crowd, yes, will be Big foe. It was great seeing a hug between Cinder and Elkress at the final match, rivals and friends, yeah, yeah. They are friends first. Elkress to become first Grand Slam winner born in this century, yeah, and also don't forget, we're gonna keep adding on all these things. If Elkress does finish world number one and wins this tournament, because now Elkress has to win the tournament to be number one, right? Elkress has to win the tournament to be number one in the world. He'll be the youngest world number one ever. He will take that away from Layton Hewitt and as much as I love Layton Hewitt, I love to see history being made, being remade, he'll be the youngest and the first teenage world number one in the history of tennis, or in the history of the open era for the men, so he will be the youngest world number one and the first teenage world number one in history of the men's game, so who doesn't love a bit of history? Why do I do? Witnessing history, we witnessed history the other night, didn't we? With Elkress, we seem to be always witnessing, it's like he's rewriting history with, especially with the Rafa stuff too, the comparisons. Let me see who's the youngest world number one on the lady side. I'm sure they've had some teenage number ones. Martin Hingus, apparently. I think, no, yes, no, maybe. Top five youngest world number ones for the ladies, so we had Sharapova was number one at 18, Stephrey was number one at 18, Trace Yostun was number one at 17, Monica Sales was 17 and also, yeah, Martin Hingus was 16. So they're not gonna be the youngest of all time, but I don't think anyone ever will be. You can imagine like a 16 year old world number one, no way. But he'll be the youngest male and the first teenager on the men's side to be number one. Yeah, Rude's 23. Yeah, he's in his 20s. Why are you all writing TRFO? Don't you think Elkara's going win this for sure? Look, Gregory, if they were both coming in fresh and or at least if they'd have both come in with like the same preparations, like five sets or whatever, I would back Elkara's shot for shot. So like I would definitely back Elkara's shot for shot, head to head, but the fitness, like the time on court matters, I think at this point. Now, if Elkara wins the first set, then we've got a match, right? It's gonna be, the fitness might not matter, but if big four wins the first set, then it's gonna get worse for TRFO, for Elkara's. It's gonna get harder. The match goes on longer and longer. I feel Elkara has his best chances. If he wins the first set, then he can start playing a little free in the second and then maybe it goes four sets, but I'm gonna say, that's why I think big four is gonna win. That's why I think big four is gonna win. Elkara's can't be rude to be honest. Well, we'll find out. That'll be fun. Five sets of that. Sampris was 19 when he won the US Open. True, but he wasn't world number one when he won the US Open. He didn't get number one ranking after that US Open. He won the US Open and then, I can't think of who was number one at the time. Someone in the chat can help us, but yeah, he didn't take the world number one ranking in, what was it, 1990? You can check. Who was number one in the world in 1990? It was Stefan Edberg. So yeah, he won the US Open, but Edberg stayed number one at that time. And it wasn't until Sampris was in 1993 when Sampris first got the world number one ranking in April, 1993. So it took him three more years to get to number one after his first slam. There you go. Learned something new every day. By the way, we're always at 200 likes before we even get started. So thank you, everybody, for that. That's pretty crazy. I can't understand why anyone seriously thinks Tiafo and Rude can seriously trouble Elkras. Yeah, look, Gabriel, again, I don't disagree. Shot for shot. Elkras is better than those two guys. Talent-wise, he's better. But he's played way more tennis. And surely his legs are gonna be feeling it. Harshal, yep, why are you stalking my Instagram, mate? A bit weird on your part. Nobody remembers him now, who Edberg. Everyone remembers Edberg, what are you talking about? Dude's a legend. I see a question on Twitter, when win a grand slam or become world number one, for me, without doubt, win a grand slam. Yeah, yeah, I take a grand slam over world number one every day. I mean, we're gonna remember Dominic Teem more so than Marcelo Rios. I'm sure Rios would trade in that world number one ranking for a slam every day of the week. Slams are forever. Rankings are important, but slams last forever. There's no leaderboard, there's no place in the world where you go and you see a leaderboard of number ones. Or like on his board, the world number one rankings on a board is not a thing. Not, at least it's not physical. You go to the slams and you won that slam, your name is on there forever. Nobody remembers the number ones as much as they remember the slam champs. I mean, stand for drinker, right? We know him, he never was number one. We remember, you know, Del Potro, you know? Chillich, all those guys. And that's just recently. Kira said only slams matter, yeah. It is, and look, he's not wrong, you know, as harsh as it sounds. It is the thing that you, it's the only thing that you're remembered by. You know, if you've got a slam, do you have the tennis cards? What, El Crises cards? I do, but they haven't come yet, they haven't arrived, but I did buy them, yes. Are they still on sale or are they sold out? Surely they're sold out now, right? They've been out for like three weeks, they must have sold out. They have sold out, wow! They've all sold out. You cannot buy those cards anymore. Holy crap. All right, luckily I got a couple. Did you guys get them? Did you get them? Did you guys buy the cards? The Elkara's net pro cards, I'll show you. I did get them, thank God. You didn't get them? What cards? I'll show you the cards. These, Carl's Elkara's rookie cards. There was only a 500, these were the cheapest ones, these ones here. I got one of each of these. These were the expensive ones, because they're like signatures and stuff, but I got these ones, a set of these, a set of the cheaper ones. Just in case, he does something crazy, right? Did anyone buy them? Is it live? We're live, yeah, we're live. The match hasn't started yet, the players are still coming out on court. Yeah, look, bloody hell. Hopefully you got your cards. At what price will you sell one card, Cam? I'm gonna hold on to them, to be honest. I'm a collector, so. I won't be selling them any time soon. Let me check who's selling them on eBay, because they must be through the roof on the price. Yeah, people are selling for like thousands of dollars, the friggin' rips. Some of them sold for, one of them sold for nearly two grand. I wonder if they bought it for two grand, though. I mean, they might have not made any money. Yeah, how often do the cards come out? This is like a whole new thing, like they just bought them out for Elkiraz. So it's the first, it's like a reboot series, because NetPro used to do a series of cards back in the 2000s, and like 2000 and prior to that. So this is like a reboot 20 years later, and I have the NetPro originals, so I got them because I already have those cards, back when, like 2003. So I got them just for that, and you never know, if Elkiraz becomes some sort of a legend or goat, you just never know, you know, having some collectors items, but rookie cards in NBA are huge, right? But I haven't got them yet, they haven't arrived, so I'm still waiting for my cards. But I'll show you when I get them, I'll show them on the stream, I'll show you how they look like. Yeah, I bought one of each for that. And I'm not gonna lie, I might have bought some extras. So stay tuned, stay tuned. Stay tuned. Tennis has trading cards? No, yeah, like, yeah, kind of. Oh, hey! Holy crap, I just got it, my fingers exploded on, hang on, what? My computer exploded, hey, Jack! Jack with the 20 gifted, thank you, mate, for the 20 gifted. There you go, all the lucky people in the chat. All those lucky people that got gifted a membership, welcome, you are officially goats. Tennis store goats. There you go, hey, what's going on, Jack? How are you feeling, mate? Is it cool down in Vegas or is it still on fire, mate? Thank you for the 20 gifted, mate. So a lot of the familiar names, a lot of chatters on the, and a lot of people watching, if you watch the channel for a while, you'll be able to get a gifted membership. Why is the mash so delayed? Because I have to change the crowd over. All good today? Okay, so it's not as hot as previous days. It's 96 degrees, that sounds much more pleasant. Cooler in Vegas, okay, good, good to hear. Thanks again, mate, for the 20 gifted. All right, so yeah, so the reason why there's a delay is because the previous match went a little bit longer than they expected and there's a different crowd. So they have to take out all the people from the day crowd and bring in a whole new crowd for the night crowd. So that's why there's a delay because they have to kick everyone out, clean the whole stadium, bring in the new people, and then the players come out. So that's why there's a delay, all right? So for all those people asking, that is why there's a delay because they have to change the crowds, which means clean the seats and clean the stadium and prepare things for the next. Don't worry, we'll start in a minute. We'll start soon, we've got time, it's all good. What's the capacity of the stadium? Oh, it's like 20,000, 30,000? There's a lot. I don't know exactly, there's a heap. A lot of people. What else we got? I am American, but I support Alcraz, okay? How much were the most expensive rookie cards? They're in the thousands. I think the ones I bought were, let me check. Where's the receipt? So the ones I got were, the cheapest ones were $42 US dollars and I got the $100 ones, which were the one in 500 and I got the one in 2000, which were the cheap ones. So I got the two rookie cards that were the cheaper ones. I got the two next level ones. And then I think like the most expensive ones were like six grand because they had like signatures and they were like one of 100 or one of 50 or some of them were like one of five. So yeah, it was just a rarity of them and how many there are. But yeah, I got the cheapest ones because I'm like, well, I'm a collector of tennis stuff anyway. So to have them, I just wanted to have them. And I didn't want to spend like, I didn't want the expensive ones. I just wanted one of the basic ones, just to get in on the ground floor and they're all sold out. So we'll see. And when they show up, I'll show you them. I will show you them on the stream. Whenever they show up. But they might do more releases of other players. You know, they might, they might, yeah, they might do other players, other rookie cards. You know, Coco Goff is obviously a rookie of sorts. So maybe they'll do a rookie series for her or, you know, I don't know, something like that. They could do all of those things. So I love it. I love, I wish that we had more of like a tennis, like every season they did like a group of tennis cards or something. I can't wish he bought the rare ones now. No, not really. I don't really care. I'm happy I got, I'm happy I got any of them. You know, if they're all sold out, I'm happy I got the cheapest ones. Cause even the cheapest ones are now worth, whatever. I wasn't going to just drop six grand on a piece of cardboard. Come on, are you serious? That's nuts. With no certainty, at least when I spend 50 bucks, it's not like, it's like, all right, well 50 bucks, you know, I'm not too mad if, if I spent 50 bucks on a player that doesn't do anything in his career, but he could become the youngest world number one of all time. So that would be an achievement worth, worth a piece of cardboard. Root is a piece of a tennis player. 100% Kenny, 100% thoughts on Root winning. Look, all I can say is, cold it. I've got some net pro rookie cards, Sampris, Agassi, Courier, Chang. Yeah, is that, are they from like back in the 90s? Because I've got a set of those as well. I've also got a set of the 2003 version as well. And also I think I've got a set of like the 99s. I love all that stuff. I love all of that. Are we doing the lever cup? Yes, Ryan, for sure, Ryan, we're doing the lever cup. Hell yeah. I was just so passionate. How can you not root for him? Yeah, the 1990s set. Yeah, I've got that set as well. The green, it's got like the green outline. And it's got Agassi with the mullet as the card, right? I've got that set. Tiafo is also passionate. True, I mean, look, how can you not root for either of these guys? They're both so fired up. Root's gonna be number one. Yeah, well at this stage he is. Do you have a Guillermo, Courier card? Probably, probably one from back in 2003. Federer Nadal Serena rookie cards in set one of NetPro 2003 International Series is one of 10,000. Yeah, I've got something like, I'll show you, hang on. So I've got, I don't know if you can see these. I've got this net, this is my NetPro 03 set. What have they got in here? Maybe one day I'll show all these. I had this Serena one somewhere. Oh, here's Nadal one. Where's Nadal one? Where is it? I saw it two seconds ago. Don't know if you can see this because it probably won't show up with the green, but. Ah, there you go. There he is. Raffin' Nadal rookie card. So I've got that one. Players are coming out of court any second now. But yeah, I've got the whole series of this NetPro and then I've got the, oh, there's a Federer one. International series Federer. Whoop, can you see that? Whoop, maybe not. In the middle there, Federer, Agassiz Sanpris. Maybe one day I'll show these, like we'll do like a separate camera and show it like all these cards and stuff. Yeah, I've got the International series, which were, which came out whenever. Anyways, how much are they worth? I bought these back in like 2006. So I got these when I was a kid, like way back when, when I first started watching tennis, I got these. So yeah. Yeah, maybe one day I'll show them, we'll go through them, I don't know. Yeah, I got, yeah, I was lucky. I actually, we went to like a flea market when I was a kid. When I just started getting into tennis and they were like, someone was selling them and I bought them for like $12 for a pack, for the whole pack. And it wasn't until like two years ago when I realized, oh wait, these are actually worth something. And then I looked them up and I was like, holy shit. And I got one of them graded. I got a Federer card graded and it's a Gemmin 10, which is like the best. It's like the highest one. So this is my, yeah, my, Agassiz is like the Federer rookie card kind of in a way. And yeah. And it's a 10. So we actually opened this on stream back in like two years ago. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. No, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Cam, do you have a website that you would recommend to buy sports cards? By the way, shout out to Greg's in the chat. What a legend this guy is. Thank you Vince for the donation. I mean, eBay is probably the best place but also the worst. So probably eBay is your first pick. Cam equals GOAT, thanks for streaming. Oh, thank you Bryce for the two and the nice words. Appreciate it. But yeah. I would say, yeah, it gets, I mean, eBay is probably the one. It's the place that you can go find stuff. Root has the advantage of being the underdog against Elcores, no pressure. That's true. That is true. Tennis cards are gonna blow up just like F1 cards because of the same company that did the F1 Netflix series is doing the Tennis one. True. I hope so because I just hope tennis blows up in popularity in general, you know? Did you mention his prediction? Yeah, I think Ciafo's gonna win a five. Weird question. What were you doing when all I got defaulted would love to see a reaction? I wasn't live. I wasn't live for that match. We were, it was a, we decided, I decided to have a day off to rest my voice and I missed it. And since that day, I refused to take a day off during the event. It was probably my biggest mistake, my biggest miss of a match. It was the only match that we've missed that was like, but it was, yeah. And if you were there for 2020 U.S. Open, you'll remember, you'll remember. You'll remember my words. I said, we're taking a day off because I need to rest my voice. And also, Krinyo Busta versus Djokovic is not gonna be interesting. Oh, how wrong I was. So yeah, unfortunately, I missed that. But it taught me a valuable lesson that you can never expect anything in this sport. You have to watch as much as possible, otherwise you're gonna miss something. That's what I learned that day and I haven't missed a match since. Or at least now we watched like millions of matches just in case. But yeah, it was, I woke up that day and I was like, oh, that's annoying. Yeah, lesson learned. Yeah, the first and last time that has happened. So hopefully it never happened. But hopefully we never, I can't watch everything, but yeah. If I knew what was gonna happen, we wouldn't have taken a day off. We don't take any days off anyway. We've been doing 14 days straight. It's my voice sounds like Miley Cyrus on three cartons of cigarettes. So that's, you know, I sound like Dolly. I sound like Miley Cyrus. So just in case that ever happens again. Now the players are coming out on court, so we're ready to go in two seconds. Yeah, big foe wearing that Serena hoodie. I want that hoodie. Give me that hoodie. I want that hoodie in my size so I can actually wear it. Are they going on eBay? Oh, is this like a shitty version of someone's like ripped them off? They're only 50 bucks on eBay? There's no way. There's no way this is the actual one. There's no way. This has got to be a rip. I ain't buying that. That's a sketchy as hell. That's not original. As if Serena would sell them on eBay for nothing. Alcruz in four, but hopefully Tiafo wins this Bella. Okay. I want the Serena hoodie as well. Who's got it? Tiafo's wearing it now. I wonder if she bought any more merch or if it's just that. Something a lot of people are selling it. That's not weird. Surely the original one, well, maybe they restocked. Oh, pre-order. Can I pre-order it? So they're not even out yet. So how the hell are people selling them if they're not out? That seems kind of sketchy. Hang on. Can I pre-order my hoodie? I can. Ooh, okay. I got to get this. Hell yeah. So they're getting, okay. You can get one. I'm going to get one. Another expensive, but I'll wear it all the time because it's black and it says goat and it's Serena. Pre-order the item won't be, we'll be shipping again in a few weeks. Oh, for hell yeah. Now do I get a large or an extra large? How fat am I at the moment? Anyways, back to the match. So these players have played. We've gone through the preview already. Why is it a match delayed? Because the other match took more time. What's the website? The website is serena.com. It's just, you just Google Serena goat hoodie and it'll come up. Serena goat hoodie and you'll get it. It's got all of it. Yeah, I gotta get this. I got, I gotta get this. I need this hoodie. We're going into summer as well. So, but I'll wear it on stream. This is the hoodie that I would wear on stream. Maybe I'll get two and I'll give one away. Ooh, did I say that out loud? Simon says XXXXXXXXXL. Simon, that's just rude, mate. That's just rude. I know I'm not that, I'm big, but I'm not that big. There's a code of 15% of if it's your first order from her store. Amanda, coming in with a sales. Amanda, I love a sale. So, awesome. All right, let me just add more to the cart. You have to pre-order an in stock item in the same cart. Oh, what? Serena, what's the cheapest thing that I can put in this? God damn it. I don't want anything else. I just want the hoodie. I don't want a dress. I can't, what the hell, man? Is there like a bracelet or a keychain I can chuck in there? I don't want to buy a jumpsuit. Ah, man, that's crap. Come on, I just wanted to get the hoodie. Oh, accessories. Okay, can I buy like a cheap accessory? Oh, it's a bag. I don't want a bag. Damn it. What's the cheapest thing? Oh, shit. Oh, God damn it. Come on. I just wanted the hoodie, Serena. I just wanted the hoodie. Is that, ah. You have to, you have a pre-order and an in stock in your, oh. What? Judo high volume of both, both in stock and pre-orders will be. Oh, okay. No, we're good. We're good, we're good. It's okay. My mistake. I read that wrong. All right. Now, Tiafo's going to serve first. They're just warming up the serves. New York looks stunning with the sunset behind. And really I can't pay on eBay with eBay with PayPal. And I'll get to that later. Um, all right. Thank you everybody for being patient. I know the match is delayed, but that's just the way it is. So I'm going to get one of those hoodies. I'm going to wear them on stream. And I can ride it off as a business, as a uniform tax expense. Because it's a uniform that we're going to wear. I'm going to wear it for my job. So it's a win, win, win. And even I might even give one away if I buy two. So don't tell anyone just between us. Again, thank you. We're almost at 500 likes already. Thank you so much everybody. Don't forget to like if you haven't already. And also subscribe if you haven't already. Players are warming up right now. So let's get the preview again, because you might be running in a little bit late, or at least they're running a little bit late. So let's go to the preview, set this up again. So the winner of this will play against Kasparud in the second, sorry, who won the second, the first semi-final, this is the second semi-final. But the winner of this will play against Kasparud in the final. Against Hashinov in four sets. And you can see there's different roads to the semi-final stage. Alkreis played the most epic of matches, one of the best matches of the year, possibly the best match of the year. And Tiafo took Rublev out in a close straight set. Let's go to our big foe, 26 in the world. He'll be in the top 20 after this week, which is a career high for him. 24 years old from USA. He is six foot two, right-handed. 21 wins, 18 losses on the year. No titles this year, but he has got one career title and his best wins are against Baratini and Fakina. And Khalidos Alkreis, he's number four in the world. He'll be number three, no matter what happens today, he'll be number two if he wins and he'll be number one if he wins the whole thing. So if he gets to the final, he's number two minimum. He wins the whole trophy tournament, he'll be number one. So he's also locked in a career high ranking, 19 years old from Spain, six foot one, right-handed, 44 wins, nine losses on the year. Four titles to his name, five career titles and his best wins are against Djokovic and Nadal. One zero, the head-to-head, but it was last year Barcelona and Tiafo got the win. One zero Tiafo, but again, I don't think we can look too much into that. I think that that head-to-head matchup is not accurate because this Alkreis is much different to that Alkreis from a year ago. So that's where we're at with this match and we're ready to go. Players are already warming up. We'll talk about everything. No worries, Pegasus, appreciate you being here. We'll talk about everything potentially what could happen in the finals. Right now, Casparud is number one in the world. If Alkreis loses, Casparud is number one in the world no matter what happens in the final. If Alkreis wins, the winner doesn't only just win a grand slam, they get to world number one as well. So stay tuned. There's lots coming up for the next couple of days. Unfortunately, Rafa is out of the race, four number one for now. Rafa could get to number one in the next few months anyway. So don't stress Rafa fans, there's plenty of time. Best case scenario for Rafa is Alkreis loses today and Rude loses to Tiafo. And that means Rafa's only about 100 points behind. Casparud. So I guess if you're a Rafa fan, you're going for Tiafo to win this event. All right, big foe in the biggest moment of his life is going to serve first on a Friday night in New York with a packed out crowd and an exciting opponent to boot. Who is going to win this match? I've got big foe in five. I just think that big foe is going to outlast Alkreis because Alkreis has played so much tennis. You think the young man is going to get sore eventually and big foes fresh. He hasn't played as much tennis. Someone said in the chat that Alkreis played 12 more hours than Tiafo, which is ridiculous. That's like five matches more. So I'm going to go with big foe, but you let me know in the chat who's going to win this match. Big foe to serve in his biggest match as he serves a fault. There will be nerves for both. I think the first set needs to go to Alkreis if he's going to take the dub. But here we go. Alkreis comes in with a swing volley and puts it away. Love 15. First point to Alkreis. Love 15. Is there a deadline to be number one by the way? No, so you just have to be world number one by like on the Monday. And that means like in the live ranking. So you got live rankings which are unofficial and then the official rankings come out every Monday. So as long as you're number one by Monday, that's all that matters. How is Alkreis 66% then? That's based on the betting. And I'm going against the betting. I'm going against the betting. So that's 66% is what the odds are for the actual match betting wise. As that goes out on the return from Alkreis and it's 30-15. So I'm going with Tiafo is the underdog. No, those tennis cards are actual cards. They're not NFTs. They're real cards. They're actual physical things that you get. Same with the hoodie. It's not an NFT. It's an actual hoodie. All right, 30-15. Tiafo serves to the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo. Into the back end of Alkreis down the line. Tiafo with a slice forehand. He gets it. Forehand from Alkreis down the line. Big foe with a backhand. Into the forehand of Alkreis. Tiafo on the stretch. Forehand from Alkreis and then forehand of Tiafo. Backhand from Alkreis. Backhand from Tiafo. Again, the backhand of Alkreis. The backhand of Tiafo. And Alkreis is the winner. Big foe says no. Hawkeye says yes. 30-all. 30-all. Big foe wasn't convinced. And it was just on the line. Alkreis already looks tired. Just saying. He already looks tired. I'm not just saying this for a reaction. He is breathing heavy. He looks like he's played five sets already. Like right as in like we're in a fifth set. Okay. 30-all. Serve out wide the forehand of Alkreis. Forehand from Tiafo. Into the backhand of Alkreis. Tiafo with a volley. Too good. Big foe, 40-30. Nice volley there from Big foe. 40-30. Just bought the Miami tennis talk shirt. No worries. Thank you Vince for the two. Appreciate that. Thank you for supporting the channel with the merch. We're going to be revamping the merch store for the end of the year. So stay tuned for that. And you can support the channel by buying the merch. As we go back into backhand rally. Another one from Tiafo is shanked from Alkreis and Tiafo with a forehand. As Alkreis goes down the line. Big foe with a forehand. Into the front of Alkreis. Backhand at Tiafo. The pass is wide. Just wide. And we get the deuce. We get the deuce. So those who are asking about how will Alkreis feel physically? Well, those who are thinking Alkreis and maybe this is true, is some sort of a physical specimen and a freak, right? Goat-like. We haven't seen that. This is the first time we're seeing him having to play two epic matches and then back it up again. Djokovic, Nadal, we've seen them do it many times. They are the most athletic tennis players to have ever lived. Now is Alkreis on that level. We'll find out tonight. As that goes out in the return, advantage Tiafo. We did see Alkreis last year retire after two five-setters. He retired after two five-setters because his body just couldn't handle it. He serves a great serve to Tiafo and that goes out from Alkreis. And it's one love big foe. So the way to kind of visualize the gas tank of players, which is a term that we use, imagine, so by the way, Alkreis has only been on court for an extra two and a half hours. Just to be clear with that, it wasn't 12 hours. He's been two and a half hours more. Imagine your phone goes to 0%, right? You run your phone down to 0. Then you put it in the charger for an hour. It only goes back up to like halfway, right? So yeah, Alkreis has had two days off, or a day off, but that doesn't mean that he's back to 100%, right? And especially because the day before that, he played a five-setter or two days before, he played a five-setter as well. So his gas tank wouldn't be 100% because he's used, he drained it to 0, and then he refilled it a little bit, drained it to 0, then he refilled it a little bit, whereas Tiafo hasn't drained himself to 0. His energy levels will be much higher. And also, think of it down the track, once we get to a fifth set, if we do get that far, how is Alkreis gonna feel then compared to big foe? Big foe should be feeling fresh up the longer the match goes, right? So that's sort of something that, just to keep in mind, even though Alkreis is a freak, and a cyborg, and a robot, and a whatever, he is a human, the longer this match goes, the better, it should be better for Tiafo. Because Tiafo is a specimen as well, like he's a physical beast too, and he's got a gas tank, as that goes out from Alkreis, 15-all. So just sort of to visualize what might happen down the track. And what do we say about tired, injured opponents, or injured players? They try and be aggressive, because they don't wanna play long rallies. Let's see how aggressive Alkreis is in the first set. If he's super aggressive, that'll show that he is tired. If he's ultra aggressive in the first set, just to get the points done. Unforced areas if they're high, it's because he's tired. Back end to back end rallies, we had a forehand from Big Foe, into the back end of Alkreis, back end of Big Foe, down the line, into the forehand of Alkreis, who hits it out, 15-30, 15-30. And that's why, kind of like in the root match that we just watched, Tiafo doesn't need to win the first set, but he does need to make the first set long. If he goes down a tie break and it's over an hour, that's not bad for Tiafo. If he wins the first set, that's awesome, because it means that mentally, Alkreis has to think, shh, how I'm gonna play four sets, and I'm already tired. So, just think, there's a couple of things to consider. Has been a four-in-a-four-in rally, 15-30, Big Foe looking for the break early. Has been a four-in-a-four-in from Alkreis, Tiafo with a lob, and Big Four in there from Alkreis, massive swinging volley, and he gets the point, 30-all. 30-all, great analysis. Hey, look. That's why you guys show up sometimes. That's why you're here. To get some sort of idea, that's why you're asking me questions. Has been a return, no, a fault. Second serve, second serve, serve to the back end of Tiafo, and that is wide on the return, just goes wide from Big Foe. 40-30. Big Foe went after it, I like the aggression, just to keep Alkreis honest. 40-30, to get on the board here, Alkreis. Serving the form of Big Foe, and Big Foe just shanks in the ground. All right, one-one, Alkreis levels up. Hey, I know who that is, that's Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama's in the house, everybody. She is a former first lady. I have no idea who she's sitting around, but she is probably a secret service guy who bodyguard or something, but Michelle Obama's in the house, everybody. Isn't she like six foot tall? She's like low-key giant, right? All right, let's see what Alkreis has got here, is he shanks, just dumps that in the net. 15-love, 15-love. There's really another good serve there, and that goes in the net from Alkreis again. Also, Bon Jovi's still there, he's stuck around. His hair looks a little bit more, a little bit more all over the place, Dan Smith. Stan Smith is sitting there like this, because he's sitting next to two tall guys. It's like the middle seat of a car when you're a kid. Nobody wants to sit in the middle. Stan Smith's like this, he's got his hands in between his legs, and he's like, I can't move. Phil Balfour, Stan Smith, get in the box, get him to stand up again. The dude's like broad-shouldered, sitting next to two guys with like, that sucks, nobody likes to sit in the middle seat. 40-love, big foe, what a game as he serves. To the slice of Alkreis, back enough from big foe, into the front of Alkreis. Up goes the lob, it's the alpha with the volley, and it goes in the net. Couldn't quite reach that. 40-15, 40-15. Just couldn't quite, couldn't quite get to that big foe. 40-15, serve is a let. Shouldn't Stan Smith be given a better seat? Yeah, I know, right? They gave him like the, they put him behind Bon Jovi in like a squishy, like they put him in economy when he should be in first class, you know? They put him in the cheap seats, the cheaper seats. Dude's a legend. They should be able to walk around the courts, do whatever the hell he wants, or at least get him in the front row in a comfy chair. 40-15 as Alkreis hits the slice forehand into the form of Tiafo, and Tiafo puts it away. Two-one, big foe. And Alkreis is, you can tell. You can tell Alkreis is a little slower out of the blocks in this one. Okay, let's answer some questions. Tim Henry predicted Alkreis, all right? Well, that was an easy pick. Did Tim Henry just look at the bedding and go, Alkreis the favorite? Okay, I'll go with that favorite. I feel like it's way harder to make an argument for Tiafo. Or at least to go against it, like, come on, come on. Yeah, look, Augusto, I think you're the only one who's saying that, mate. So I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe your speakers are broken, because the microphone seems to be fine for everybody else, as far as I can tell. I don't think it's the mic, mate. Recovery treatments, ice bath, a lot of food and nutrients and stuff. Yeah, look, everyone's saying the sound is fine, so I'm not sure what you're talking about, mate. Yeah, Alkreis' sinner was last night people this morning, crazy. Well, yeah, dusty, you're not wrong. It was yesterday, technically. Thank you, Plugs, appreciate it. Yeah, sugar, yeah, you know, a lot. You need a lot of stuff. Recovery is, yeah, but there's a thing, less than 48 hours ago, he was playing against, you know, so, yeah. Okay, Joel McHale in the house, that dude is funny. And Jason Biggs, oh, American Pie. I know who that is. I was gonna say, who's that guy? No, I know who that is. It's American Pie, classic, problematic films now, but classic at the time. 15 Love, they were great films. They were, the soundtrack of American Pie, goaded. You know, if you know, you know. 15 Love is Alkreis' win to first point of this fourth game. Second serve for 15 Love. 15 Love is gonna return now to the point of Alkreis, four and now from T-R-F-O to the back end of Alkreis, into the four and T-R-F-O, four and now Alkreis again, the four and T-R-F-O to the back end of Alkreis, back end of T-R-F-O, again to the back end of Alkreis, sliced, T-R-F-O's forehand goes in the net. 30 Love, 30 Love. Yeah, yeah, Pedro, that's what I was saying. Joel McHale is the guy sitting next to, the guy from Community, yeah, sitting next to, sitting next to Jason Biggs. It's the Pie guy, exactly. 30 Love, serving to the four and T-R-F-O, four and now from Alkreis to the slice of T-R-F-O, into the four and Alkreis, T-R-F-O with the back end, goes into the four and Alkreis, and Alkreis puts it away, nice shot from Mavaka. Haven't said that out loud for a while. 40 Love, 40 Love to level things up, and that shot was on the line again by a millimeter. I mean, Alkreis hitting the outside of the lines, so far in this match. And that's Alkreis' dad, by the way. I'm pretty sure, right? That guy that they just showed. Alkreis' dad, Papa Elk, Papa Elko. That sounds weird. Papa, his dad. Return now from T-R-F-O in the net, two-two, two-all. Okay. Max, Jeff is in the crowd. The community actor. Jeff is in the crowd. So we've got Alkreis' dad and T-R-F-O's dad, both in the house. As we're gonna serve now, the back end of Alkreis, back end from T-R-F-O into the back end of Alkreis, and Alkreis puts it wide, 15 Love. And we all know that Rude's dad will be there on Sunday because Rude's dad is also his coach. T-R-F-O's coach won, won, won for error, Wayne, Wayne for error. Not to be confused with Juan Carlos, who was in the other side in the other box, Juan Carlos for error. Those guys played each other back in the day, 15 Love. Served the forehand of Alkreis, back in now from T-R-F-O to the back end of Alkreis, into the back end of T-R-F-O. Four and a four, and now as Big Foe goes cross court, Alkreis gets it, T-R-F-O lets it go long. Nice hitting there from Big Foe. And it's 30 Love. Let me have a look at what their head-to-head was. 30, 30 Love. As that goes out from Alkreis on the return, 40 Love. So the coaches played four times with Ferreiro leading 3-1 against Ferreira. They actually played at the Australian Open in the quarter-finals in 2003. And Wayne Ferreira, T-R-F-O's coach, beat Alkreis's coach in three sets. Slice into the net from Big Foe, 40-15. That was the only time he beat him. Wayne Ferreira, who was in his, I mean, Wayne Ferreira in 2003 was like, the shit. Like he was up in the top five, he was a big deal. And to get the win over, I mean, that's crazy that he won that match, I did not. As we return now, that goes out from Alkreis and it is 3-2, Big Foe. So yeah, yeah, Ferreira beat number of the time, Wayne Ferreira was number four in the world. And then he went on to lose to Agassi who ended up winning the whole thing. And yeah, Roddick was in the quarter-finals, semi-finals, we had Grosjean, Elbandian, Elinaoui, all the names, all the names. Yeah, Gustav, look, mate, you're the only one here in it, mate. So again, can we move on? Just, if you're here in it, just deal with it. I think Juan Carlos Ferreira had an illness in the early 2000s, did he? Did he? I don't know, I haven't heard of that. Is Delpo coming back? I'm not sure if Delpo's there. Who's moving better? They're both moving well. They're both moving well, but I think that, again, I think Alkreis looks tired. Oh, you mean is Delpo coming back to the tournaments? I thought you meant is he coming back to watch? I don't know if he's coming back to watch. Is he coming back to tennis? He said maybe, but I doubt it. I doubt he's coming back. Is it because I'm banging the table? Like, it's probably because I hit the microphone by accident. So just, it's just me hitting the microphone by accident. It's bar to the stream, apparently. Or it might be just me putting down my drink. Is that it? Is that, can you hear that? Just me, it's me putting down my drink. All right, return now goes to the form of Alkreis and Alkreis hits it out. Okay. Love 15. Yeah, just me putting down my cup. I'm just putting this down. So every time I take a drink, I don't know, block your ears or something. Just me putting my drink down on the table. I feel like we just had a five minute conversation about something that doesn't really matter, but moving on. That was me hitting my hand on the table. Serve to the back end of T-R-F-O, in comes Alkreis and he, oh, he hits it out. What did that go in as well? Did that go in? 15, oh, Alkreis got lucky. Alkreis got lucky. Man, Alkreis is playing so risky. He's hitting everything on the lines and that's, that's not gonna work eventually. Like eventually T-R-F-O is gonna get a chance because those shots aren't gonna work all night. Alkreis playing tired for sure as he serves in the back end of T-R-F-O for now, Alkreis to the back end of T-R-F-O. Back end of Alkreis, again to the back end of Big Foe. Into the back end of Alkreis. Back end up from T-R-F-O, again to the Alkreis back end. Just going cross court with their back ends. As now, T-R-F-O with the forehand. Again to the back end of Alkreis. Back end of T-R-F-O down the line. Alkreis volleys, T-R-F-O with the pass in the net. Alkreis, 30, 15. It might also be me playing with my pen. So again, it's probably just me playing with a pen. I have a coaster, I'm using a coaster. This doesn't make a difference. All right, 30, 15. 30, 15, Alkreis living on the edge. But for how long served the fine of T-R-F-O? Drop shot, Alkreis, T-R-F-O runs, runs, runs, gets there but puts it wide. And Alkreis gets a 40, 15. 40, 15. Thank you, Dawn. That was annoying. Someone just decided to spaz out on there with their hand. I guess that sounds weird. Return into the fine hour of Alkreis. And Alkreis hits the line again. Alkreis is living on that edge. Three, three, three all. Someone just, yeah, someone just went nuts with a mojito. They're like, oh, I can put emojis in the chat? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Chill. Relax, we get it. If they do that again, Dawn, just throw the hammer at them. That's annoying. That's so annoying. Poor chat. Three, three. As he serves a fault, serve out by the fine of Alkreis, fine of T-R-F-O to the fine of Alkreis, who hits a winner. Now big foes gotta keep his intensity up because if he does, if he does just take the foot of the gas a little bit, Alkreis might take a break. Alkreis is looking tired though. Like there's no doubt he is looking tired. First serve is a let. If big foe wins the first set, he's gonna make it even harder for Alkreis. Serve to the fine of Alkreis, fine of T-R-F-O in the net, oh no. Love 30, big foe giving away three points. Love 30. Love 30. Too many errors in big foe. He needs to play smart. He needs to play smart. Crowd are going nuts for big foe, as you'd expect. Both these guys have won every first set that played this week. As T-R-F-O hits an ace, bang. Both these guys have won the first set of every one of their matches. So to go down first set would be mentally a challenge for one of them. Physically more for Alkreis. First serve out was a fault. Second serve, second serve big foe into the back end of Alkreis, back end of T-R-F-O. Again to the back end of Alkreis, back end of T-R-F-O to the back end of Alkreis. Again to the back end of T-R-F-O. Now Alkreis hits a four-hand, but T-R-F-O hits it out. 15-40 and big foe is just giving away three points. And big foe looks nervous. T-R-F-O, Alkreis looks tired, but T-R-F-O looks nervous. 15-40 as he serves out wide the front of Alkreis, back end of T-R-F-O into the back end of Alkreis and that's in the net from Alkreis. Now Alkreis was hitting those shots in a couple of nights ago. So that just shows he's a half a step slower than he was because of those ridiculous matches. 30-40, 30-40, still a break point here for Alkreis. And T-R-F-O serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the back end of Alkreis and Alkreis hits it out by a mile. Just a bad return from Alkreis. And big foe survives for now. Deuce. Man, those are tired backhands. Tired backhands from Alkreis. All right, Deuce again. How can T-R-F-O get out of this game? First serve is a fault. Second serve as he serves a let. Gastov, you're a Hungarian by any chance. Just, just asking. Deuce into the back end of Alkreis in the net again. Third, third one in this game. Third back end in the net. Advantage T-R-F-O to survive and stay in front. But Alkreis is getting, looking real tired. Serving to the front of Alkreis. For now for T-R-F-O is good. Alkreis with the pass. T-R-F-O volleys it away. Big foe survives. And he knows it. He's like, shit, that was tough. That was tough. Big foe survives. Let's answer some questions. Let's answer some questions. All right. T-R-F-O needs a capital I put this tired puppy to bed. Yeah, look, he puts the first set away. Alkreis will start to, I would say would start to lose the adrenaline as well. What's his humidity? Well, right now T-R-F-O is sweating like crazy. So it's got to be high. Let me check. 66% humidity because he's sweating a lot. Something 22 degrees Celsius or 70 degrees Fahrenheit. But yeah, big foe is sweating a lot. I think, yeah. T-R-F-O to win this first set would really keep Alkreis's adrenaline down. If Alkreis wins the first set, he could go crazy in the second. So he's got a massive set for big foe. Alkreis is not like the massive favorite even in the bedding with T-R-F-O. Nadal was and lost so, yeah, exactly. The favorite doesn't seem like a favorite. I mean, the favorite to win the tournaments aren't here anymore. So, you know, what would the ranking be? Whoever wins this match. So Alkreis will be number one in the world for now in the live rankings. If he wins and T-R-F-O, if he wins tonight will be number 15 if he wins tonight. It's not that hot. Yeah, it's more just humid, I guess. Alkreis is not sweating, by the way, just to put that into context. He is not sweating. That's because he is scary, freakish. He might just not have sweat, might not have paws. He's a robot. Robots don't sweat. First serves a fault. Second serve. Michelle Obama having a great time laughing her head off in the front row. Served the back end of big foe. Back end up from Alkreis. He off over the volley and then Alkreis puts it wide. Oh, he missed the first one. The first miss for Alkreis tonight. He's been hitting the line on those shots. Big foe charged the net. Good volley. But Alkreis missed a golden opportunity. Just goes wide. Love 15. We had a couple of break points saved in the last game as big foe shanks that one wide. 15-all. 15-all. 15-all. Thank you, Millie. I'll take that. 15-all. Serve is a fault. From Alkreis. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Tiafo. Four down from Alkreis. Into the back end of big foe. And big foe puts it wide. 30-15. 30-15. Alkreis. To level up. For some reason, commentary's flying through the chat. Shh. Commentators are loud as hell. 30-15. Alkreis serves. To the back end of Tiafo. Four down from Alkreis. Then the line is a winner. Alkreis is ridiculous. He's ridiculous. He might be tired. Doesn't mean he's not good. 40-15. 40-15. Alkreis with a serve to level things up here in the first. He serves. The four on Tiafo. And Tiafo in the net. 4-4. 4-4. Okay. I wonder if Tiafo has ever stubbed his toe. A good joke. 4-4 down the line from big foe. He's out. Alkreis hit a lovely lob anyway, but man. Love 15. Just goes out from Tiafo. Just. Love 15. Serve. Into the net. Second serve from big foe. Second serve big foe. Into the back end now of Alkreis. Back end now from big foe. Into the front of Alkreis. Who hits it wide. 15-all. Another error from Alkreis and Michelle Obama loves it. 15-all. 36 minutes played. So far in this match. Winner plays Kasparud on Sunday. As Alkreis looks at a second serve from Tiafo. Second serve. Into the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo down the line. Alkreis with a volley. Too good. Alkreis. Starting to get that energy back. 15-30. Like I said, if he gets the first set, Alkreis, any thoughts of being sore, tired, will go away. He'll be able to start playing freer. Freer, freer, freely. Free, is that all? Anyways, the word's right. 15-30. Serve. It's a fault from big foe. Second serve. Tiafo's first serve percentage is not good. 50% is not going to get the job done tonight. As he serves. Down to the front of Alkreis. Oh my God, what happened there? Alkreis just had an air swing. Just an air swing. 30-all. Big foe. And Alkreis just mistimed it. Just a little bit too far away. 30-all. Big point. And he serves a fault. Big foe. Second serve. Second serve. Into the body of Alkreis. Four now from Tiafo. Down the line of the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo. Again, to the back end of Alkreis. Tiafo hits the tape. And Alkreis can't get it. Alkreis almost hit the net. He almost headbutted the pole. That could have been bad. Big foe gets lucky though. 40-30. 40-30. Alkreis nearly got there. But he also almost ran into the post. Whoa, he could have headbutted the post. How close was he there? Jeez, that could have been nasty. Whew. Lucky Alkreis. Always knocked himself out. 40-30. First serves a fault again from Big foe. Second serve. Serve out wide in the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo. Into the back end of Alkreis. Again, to the front of Tiafo. Four now from Alkreis. Into the front of Big foe. Four to four. And as Alkreis goes down the line in the net. And Big foe gets in front again. Five, four, but he's having to hang on for dear life at the moment, Big foe. All right, let's get around the courts. Because we've had doubles matches as well today. Alkreis serving to stay in the set. And he serves a fault, Alkreis. Second serve. Served the back end of Tiafo. Back end of Alkreis goes long. Love 15. Love 15. Big chance for Big foe. Now he's done well, Big foe, to hang on to his own serve the last few games. He's been attacked by Alkreis, but he's done well to stay in front. Can he steal the set here? He serves out wide at the back end of Tiafo. Four to Alkreis. Into the front of Tiafo who flicks it wide. Big foe gets right. He's couldn't execute. He knows it too. He's like, shit, that was a chance. No, it was a chance. Okay, 15-all. 15-all. Served the back end of Tiafo. Four now from Alkreis. Into the back end of Tiafo. Volley. Alkreis puts it away. No way! This is gonna be our finish to you. Big foe says no, but Hawkeye again says yes. How many lines is he gonna hit? Again! Alkreis is hitting everything in by a millimeters. And Big foe, he's just unlucky, mate. I mean, that's just unlucky. Great volley again from Alkreis. He's cutting it so fine. 30-15. Serve. It is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Double fault. Okay. Double fault. Alkreis. 30-all. Chance for Big foe to steal the set. First double fault of the night for either guy. Alkreis with a serve. Can he come up clutch like he did against Sinner? He serves. A massive fault. Not even close. Not even close. Second serve. Second serve. Down the tee. The back end of Tiafo. Back in Alkreis. The back end of Tiafo. Alkreis with a back end again to the back end of Big foe. Alkreis with a fine now. Down the line winner. Big foe know what to be seen. 40-30. Huge fine from Alkreis under pressure. And he hit the tape on the way through as well, so he says sorry, but that wasn't coming back. Alkreis surviving the first test. I have no idea who those rich kids in the front row were, but I'm sure their parents are famous. As we return now, that's off the left. Another first serve coming off Alkreis. 40-30. Alkreis to level up. He serves up while the back end of Tiafo. For now, Alkreis is good to the slice of Tiafo. Alkreis forehand. Winner. And Alkreis survives with that big, big forehand. And he gets to 5-5. That was a first chance though. Tiafo had a half a chance. Little tiny chance. Tiafo to serve. Big foe's had two service games in a row now where he's had to battle to get through. So let's see what he does here. He serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo to the back end. Drop shot of Alkreis. And he's in the net. Tiafo doesn't need to go that far. 15-love. He got away with that one, Big foe. 15-love. Again, thank you so much everyone for joining us. We're almost at 1,000 likes before we finish the first set. So thanks for showing the love. This is the match that you've all been waiting for in terms of semifinals. All right, 15-love. Serving to the front of Alkreis. And Alkreis hits it long. 30-love. Quick game from Tiafo would be a good one. To put the pressure straight back on Alkreis. 30-love. First serve's a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Alkreis. 4-in-a-Tiafo. Into the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo. Again to the back end of Alkreis. Tiafo's 4-in cross court to the 4-in-a-Tiafo. Down the line. He's a winner from Big foe. What a shot. What a shot. Come on. 40-love. And the crowd loved that. 40-love Big foe. Huge hitting from Big foe. Just unleashed forehand. Alkreis caught by surprise. 40-love. As Big foe serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Big foe. Down the line. That's a good shot. Alkreis gets there, but it goes long. Tiafo, that's a perfect game. Six-five. Six-five Tiafo. Kent's clearly got money on Big foe. You're right. You got me. I put a million dollars on Big foe. In fact, I put my dog up for sale on Big foe. You are right. You got me. You got me. I bet on Big foe. Everything I own. In fact, if Big foe loses, this YouTube channel disappears. You got me. You got me. You got me. What's up, Cam Big foe? Gotta do it for the homeland. Hey, Jacob. Thanks for the two. Yeah. I mean, Big foe is doing it right now. Yeah. I got my life on Big foe. So if Big foe, if Alkreis wins, I just pass out. I die. Just like that. And that'll be it. A lot. That's why I'm so biased. Why don't we see winners in unforced areas? I don't know. I'm not sure why the stats have him showing that this week. It's been so annoying. But I think it's because the stats just aren't linked up with that, unfortunately, which is frustrating. Why do you name him Big foe? Big foe? No, Big foe. Big Tiafo. Tiafo. Foe is in Tiafo. No chance for foe folks, okay? Cam is dead long live Cam. Appreciate the love. All right, let's get back to it. Alkreis serving to get to the tie break is we get a good server and that's in the net from Tiafo. 15 love. 15 love. 15 love. Three points away from the tie break. Serve out wide the back into Tiafo. Back into Alkreis. Down the line to the front of Tiafo on the stretch. Alkreis volleys. And it's a winner. Nice shot there from Alkreis. 30 love. Winner of this plays against Casper Rood who won earlier today. By the way, I haven't asked this yet, this set. Let me know in the chat where you're from, where you're watching from. Are you up in Europe? Are you up in Europe? In America? Australia? Asia? Antarctica? Let us know in the chat where you're watching from as we head back in now from Tiafo to the back end of Alkreis. Back end of Tiafo. Again to the back end of Alkreis. Sliced to the front of Tiafo. Back end up from Alkreis again to the front of Tiafo but Alkreis hits it long. 30, 15. Simon's in his mom's basement as he has been for the entire, his entire life. Well, mate, you'll get out of there eventually, I'm sure. Find some hobbies. Central America. A lot of people from America in the house. Love to see it. New Zealand. Barbados, South Africa. North America, nice. Africa, Jamaica. Kentucky, nice. I'm physically closest to the game, nice. As that goes in the net on the first serve, second serve. A lot of people in Europe, you guys are savages. 30, 15, Narnia. That sounds real. Has been a return now from Tiafo to the back end of Alkreis. Four now from Tiafo. Again to the back end of Alkreis. The back end of Tiafo, back end to back end as Big Fo keeps going to the back end of Alkreis. Who now slices it out, 30-all. Big Fo about to take this set. He was here in the last game, 30-all. We haven't had a set point yet. From Hungary. New Jersey. I'm from Earth. Way to be specific. South Korea, Czech Republic, Trinidad, Italy, Algeria. Nice. I don't know if we've had anyone from Algeria in the chat before. Shout out. Iceland, nice. Has been a serve out by the four of Big Fo. Back in Alkreis, goes to the back end of Tiafo. Alkreis on the stretch of the forehand. That goes out. Tiafo's got a set point. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. 30-40 to take the first set, Big Fo. And the crowd go nuts. They can sense it. Jason Bigs is on his feet. No pie this time. 30-40, set point. Can Tiafo take the set? He serves to the forehand of Tiafo. Oh, Big Fo hits a wide. Alkreis clutch. Alkreis clutch. Deuce. Alkreis saves. The break point. Slash set point. I mean, it was both, wasn't it? As Alkreis serves. Down the team, Big Fo puts it in the net. Nice from Alkreis. He's clutch. We saw that against Sinner. Now remember, the two tie breaks against Sinner, Alkreis lost. And the two tie breaks against Rubelev, Tiafo won. And we all know that Sinner and Rubelev are basically the same person. Look at their photos. Advantage Alkreis. So I don't know if that means anything, as we had a forehand drop shot from Tiafo. Alkreis runs. Sorry, Tiafo runs, runs, runs. Alkreis can't get there. Well, he does. Not a freaking way. Alkreis gets it. Tiafo with a volley. Open court. Alkreis with a pass. Get out of here. You're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to do that. Alkreis, that's not fair. That's not fair. You're not allowed to hit the most ridiculous shot of the tournament. Stop. Stop. We're at a tie break. We're not going to play the intro. We're just going to get to it. We're just going to get to the tie break. Freaking Alkreis. Tiafo's like, yeah, that was pretty good. That was all right. Tie break. Tiafo serves. Down the tee. Wins the first point. Good serve. Good serve. Huge serve from Big Fo. Let me know in the chat who's going to win the tie break. I forgot to ask you, but that point was just so ridiculous. I almost left my house. I contemplated not coming back. One love as Alkreis serves. Down the tee, a let. If you are just joining us, Tiafo did have a break point in the last game, which was a set point. Alkreis saved it with a big serve. So Tiafo's had a half or a chance. I guess you could call that a chance. Technically. Second serve coming up. And Tiafo had to save two break points in the middle of the set. As we get a point from Alkreis in the back and Tiafo. Alkreis volley is too good. 1-1. 1-1. 1-all. A crucial tie break, you think, for Big Fo. And for Alkreis. I mean, Alkreis physically needs this first set. In fact, if Tiafo wins this set, it's probably the best thing he could have done. Drag the set out as long as he has. 1-hour played. And if Alkreis is down one set, physically, that just is a mentally just so draining. Second serve, Alkreis. 15-1-1. Serve. Double-fault. Wow. Got my salt in there. Got my salt in there. Got my salt in there. Wow, Zverev's back. Next week. Tune in. We'll be watching him. 2-1. Big Fo gets the mini break. And now, one call for him. I was shaking his head like, oh, man. How can you be so bad? 2-1. I'm sure his coach is not thinking that. Serve is a fault from Big Fo. Second serve. Second serve. Out wide at the back end of Alkreis. And Alkreis hits it long. 3-1 Tiafo. And Big Fo, again, trying to take the first set. Big Fo has not lost the first set of any match this week. But also, Alkreis hasn't lost the first set at all this week, either. They've both won every first set they've played. As Alkreis hits it out, Tiafo 4-1 with the mini break. The crowd going nuts, as you'd expect. 4-1 with Alkreis to serve. Two serves to come. Winner plays rude. On Sunday, as Alkreis serves, down to the 4-1 of Tiafo. 4-1 Alkreis, again to the 4-1 of Tiafo. 4-1 from Alkreis, again to the 4-1 of Tiafo on the stretch. And Big Fo puts it in the net. They change ends. 4-2. Tiafo. 4-2 Big Fo. He's got one mini break. And by the way, Tiafo's won every tie break he's played. 6-0 this US Open. Let me check Alkreis. Alkreis, he lost two against Rubelev. Has he played any more since then? No, he's 0-2 because he only played two tie breaks. Now, both against Sinner. Sorry, Sinner, not Rubelev. Sinner. So yeah, Alkreis does not have a great time of tie breaks this event. But he gets on that point. 4-3. Tiafo with the mini break. But it's almost level again. Almost one hour played, by the way, too. Keep that in mind. Big Fo with a serve. To stay in front with that mini break. He serves an ace. That is massive. 5-3. Huge ace down the tee. Big Fo. Two points away. As my laptop sounds like it's going to take off to the moon. What are you doing? Serve is a fault. Second serve. Pardon me. That's Tiafo serves to the front of Alkreis. And Alkreis hits it wide. 6-3. 6-3, Big Fo. To take the first set. To take the first set. And just make it even harder for Alkreis to come back. One hour played. This is the perfect situation for Tiafo. We can get one more point. The best case scenario for Big Fo. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Serve to the 400 Tiafo. Back in Alkreis. Back in Tiafo. Slice Alkreis. Big Fo. Four points down the line. Alkreis on the stretch. Goes in to the front of Big Fo. And Big Fo hits it out. Unbelievable. One gone. Unbelievable. Alkreis saves one. Big Fo went for it. I like that because you've got three. You might as well go for the first one. 6-4, Big Fo. Alkreis with a serve though. An ace. He serves an ace. Okay. All right. Here it is. Tiafo. Serving for the first time with a set point. He's had three against Alkreis' serve. Now it's his first one on his serve. Can he take the first set? He serves. A fault. Second serve. He serves out wide at the back of Alkreis. Alkreis in the back of Tiafo. Into the front of Alkreis. Who puts it into the back of Tiafo. Alkreis again to the back of Tiafo. Alkreis doing all the attacking. Big Fo with a four-hand down the line. Alkreis backhand into the back of Tiafo. The backhand of Alkreis sliced. Tiafo's forehand again to the back of Alkreis. To the four-hand of Tiafo. Alkreis again attacking with the backhand. Tiafo hits it out. And Alkreis survives. Unbelievable. 16 shots. Ain't no 55-shot rally. But still. 16 shots. And Alkreis was the one who went for it. That was the difference. Alkreis played positive. While Tiafo played conservative. He was like, I just don't want to lose this point. And Alkreis was like, you don't beat me by playing like that. You've got to rip this out of my dead cold hands. Six-six. Tiafo. He's had four set points. This would be heartbreaking. If he lost this set. Alkreis is winning the points when they go longer than seven shots, by the way. Or nine shots. The longer the rally, the better for Alkreis. Which we didn't expect. Tiafo serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve, Tiafo. Into the backhand of Alkreis. Backhand out big foe. Into the backhand of Alkreis. Backhand out from Tiafo. Backhand out from Alkreis. Into the backhand of Tiafo. Alkreis backhand slice. Into the slice of Tiafo. Backhand out from Alkreis again goes wide. And big foe gets another one. Fifth set point of the match. Set. Set point Tiafo. Set point Tiafo. To take the first set. But it's on Alkreis' serve. It's on Alkreis' serve. Tiafo serves again. Down the tee, that's a fault. Second serve. Big chance for big foe. Can he hit a winner? Or at least get a good return. Second serve. It's a double fault. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Big foe gets it on a silver planner. Alkreis has everything to do. And Tiafo gets the first set with a gift. Man. You don't think Alkreis is tired? You don't think Alkreis is tired? That's pretty tired to me. Big foe take the first set. There we go. By the way, we got to our goal. 110k. Thank you everybody for that. Jesus. How did that happen? Thank you. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you haven't already. Okay. In that set. Stats. 16 winners from Alkreis. Seven unforced errors. Again. A tired man's game is what Alkreis played in that set. And it almost got him the set. Nine winners from Tiafo. Seven unforced errors. But big foe's serve is the problem. He's got to serve better. The first serve, he's winning a lot of first serve points, but he's not getting enough first serves in. Needs to get more first serves in. 40% ain't going to cut it. He just got out of that set. Serving like that, but he's got to serve better. He's got to serve better. By the way, they're playing a song. It's Friday then. This song. It is Friday. It is Friday. And it's a party. Let's answer questions. All right. How big was that first set? I'll tell you what. Two reasons why that first set was huge. The first one, physically playing one hour and losing the set for Elcaraz, that sucks. Mentally, losing your first first set of the tournament sucks. So, the worst possible thing for Elcaraz to lose that first set in the way that he lost it. If he lost it in 30 minutes, 6'1", it would have been better. Losing in a tie break in an hour that just drags out the madness and drags out the, I mean, that's going to just hurt the legs. It's just going to hurt the legs. All right. Now the chat froze because apparently the tie break was entertaining, so I don't know if it's going to come off on my screen again. The chat freaked out and... Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. You can feel the fatigue in Carlos' game. This could turn into a landslide if TFO can stay calm and collect it as the match goes on. Yeah. TFO can lift. Does 5 sets favor Foe? Yep. Elcaraz had long match. Yep. Jacob and Vince thanks for the donations. Yeah. Both of those things. The longer the match, the better for TFO. But, yeah, this, I mean, this second set if Big Foe stays composed he could definitely take this set. I mean, Elcaraz is only going to get tired. More tired. I mean, he's kind. He's going to get more tired. How's the crowd? They're going nuts. They're going crazy. As you'd expect. They're going, they're going nuts. All right. 4-1 from Elcaraz. That's a win-up. All right. Let's see how Elcaraz recovers. Now, what could happen and what we've seen happen is players taking the foot off the gas in the second set. We saw that with Sabalenka yesterday. We saw it with, I guess we saw it a little bit with Elcaraz against Sinner in the quarter-finals. We saw it even with Hashinov against Kirios a few days ago as well. So TFO needs to pretend like he lost the first set and just work his butt off to win this set because if he puts all his energy into winning this set and he does get it, two sets of love then you can cruise a little bit even if you lose a third set. At least you've got the buffer. As Elcaraz serves an ace out wide I don't think Bigfo is ready and Elcaraz says, sorry, 30 love. I think you might have shanked it. You know, even Kirios against Medvedev. Kirios won the tie break which was epic and then Medvedev came back one the second. So Bigfo needs to use so much gas in this set. Just keep Elcaraz back. Again, play this set like you lost the first and you have to win this set. That's what I would be thinking to myself. Four end of four end rallies. We've got a four end from TFO into the four end of Elcaraz. Back end of from TFO again at the back end of Elcaraz sliced. TFO with the forehand is long, 40 love and the opposite is going to happen for Elcaraz because Elcaraz did lose the first set so Elcaraz is going to play even more aggressive because he has to. He can't go down since it's a love. 40 love. The first games of the second are crucial to see especially for more for TFO because we know what Elcaraz is going to do. Elcaraz is going to go for crazy. First game Elcaraz, 1-0. It's getting cold again. One love. In the second. The crowd is definitely for TFO. I thought I saw Michelle Obama. Yep, Michelle Obama is in the house. She is in the house. She's front row somewhere. She's more in the front row as you'd expect. Elcaraz is playing aggressive. TFO must be bracing for impact. He's got to... TFO needs to needs to stay aggressive because it's not like he won that first set easily. He just got the first set. Just. He needs to keep the foot down. Who cares about Michelle Obama? Well, I'm sure a few people do. Maybe you don't care, but she is very well known and she is in the stands. Not many people care about Bon Jovi. He's there too. Jason Biggs is there. 30 love. 30 love. Nice swinging volley there from TFO. Good angle. Servo Wisenace from Bigfo. Nice serve. 40 love. I apologize. 40 love. I'm sorry, Dawn, my bad. I should have known better not to mention anything about anybody. Sorry, Dawn. Whoops. 1-1 is TFO gets on the board in the second. People are just getting freaking out now. Jesus. 1-1. Belinda, I like Bon Jovi 2. I like Bon Jovi 2. He's awesome. 1-1. We got a serve down to the back end of TFO. 4-0 Elcaraz. Back end Elcaraz in the net. In the net. Love 15. Tired swinging volley into the net from Elcaraz. Winner of this plays Kasparud. I guess we can start talking about matchups. What? Who, what, where, when? How? Does it look on Sunday? I can't find anything. Where the hell is the stupid website? I said no. Anyway, it's Bigfo with a volley. Elcaraz with a lob. TFO with a tweener. Elcaraz puts away the volley. No tweeners today. No tweeners today. 15 all. Nice tweener, but Elcaraz never, he wasn't going to get tweenered. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Thanks for what you do. You're the best. T Loves Green. Thanks for the 5 as we get back in the back end rally. TFO comes in, puts away the volley. 15-30. We haven't had a breaker serve yet. 15-30. 15-30. You want to know something crazy? TFO and Rude have never played. The first time they played is going to be in the Grand Slam Final. How nuts is that? If Bigfo wins 3 sets. 30-15 is a let. If I donate 5, I don't want Rafa. Well, you can donate 3 and you'd get no back. So, I mean... You don't have to donate at all. But if you wanted to donate, you can donate less and it won't be Rafa. 15-30. 15-30. Serving the big foe and a foe when foe hits it long. And... Alcaraz vs. Rude. 2-0 in favour of Alcaraz. Straight sets wins both times against Kasparud. So, we all know who Kasparud is going for. That is... a double knockout retirement by both. But also, if you have to play somebody, you have to go for it. 30-0. Second serve. Second serve. Alcaraz. To the back of the T-R-F-O. What a return. Alcaraz slice. T-R-F-O volleys. Alcaraz gets a forehand. Bigfo puts it away. And T-R-F-O is like, alright, it's my time now. It's Friday night in New York. Alcaraz still running like crazy, but T-R-F-O's just a little bit... a little bit fitter. He's looking fresher. The second break point of the match against Alcaraz. Can Bigfo break? Alcaraz serves. Into the foe, into the forehand of Alcaraz. Bigfo gets it with a slice. Wide! Oh, he went for a drop shot. And Alcaraz survives. The doos. Bigfo just... just hit that wide. Alright, back to doos. On the Alcaraz serve. As Alcaraz serves again. Down the tee. Bigfo gets it. Foei now swinging volley. Alcaraz now puts away the easy volley. And he gets to advantage. Advantage Alcaraz. Advantage Alcaraz. To stay in front of the set. You feel like he has to win. Because a two set to love deficit after what he had to do in the last two matches. Two sets of love playing another five set of the way that... I don't know. I don't know if Alcaraz got it in him. Then again, I doubted him before. So feel free to make me look stupid. Advantage Alcaraz. Serves the backhand of T-R-F-O. Backhand out from Alcaraz, the backhand of T-R-F-O. Into the backhand of Alcaraz. Into the backhand of T-R-F-O. Alcaraz with the volley. T-R-F-O with the forehand. Pass! Alcaraz gets the volley back. T-R-F-O with the backhand. We're back on the baseline. Forehand to forehand. As Alcaraz hits the forehand inside out. Backhand to T-R-F-O. Again to the slice of Alcaraz. Slice T-R-F-O is in the net. And T-R-F-O comes over the net and says you're too good. 2-1. They love that. Alcaraz is still doing scary things. All right. Does Big Fo have his foot on the throat? Well, kind. Not really. If he goes up 2 sets to love then I think we can talk about that. But yeah. Who won the first set? T-R-F-O. T-R-F-O won the first. This match can't be any crazier than today for the UFC. I know, right? The UFC was crazy. Well, at least the UFC way-ins were crazy. I like the fact that they respect and like each other. Yeah, for sure. There's a lot of respect. So glad they both show such sportsmanship complimenting each other. Refreshing after both of their last games were so tense. Yeah, look, I mean their last games were also respectful as well, you know, in a different way. Big Fo just like, waves his hand and Elkra's like, ah, get stuffed. Get stuffed in the nicest way. All right, 2-1 Elkras. No breaks yet. No breaks of serve yet. Big Fo just popped out on that last point. That was tough. It was a tough point. So glad I found the channel. Thank you. Sure. Appreciate it. Thank you all the new people here. Welcome, all the new people. Let us know in the chat if you're new. If you found us this week tell us what match you just found the channel. What match this week you found the channel. I'd love to hear when you, when you guys found the channel. Welcome. We've got 110K strong now. That's official. Which is insane. So thank you everybody. We're only, what? 890,000 away from a million. Woo! Let's go. One million. We're coming from one million. Serve goes out from Tiafo. A friend told me about it today. Oh, shoot. Welcome. Welcome. 120. Let's go. Yeah, I'd love that. Finish the year. Maybe 120 by the end of the year. I mean, I doubt it, but maybe 115. I don't know. I don't even think we have 100K. So I don't know. 111 by the end of the year. Love 15. I found it tonight. This is Ray. Welcome, Ray. Welcome all the, everyone. Welcome, welcome. I found the channel during Wimbledon. Welcome back. Love it. Thank you, Danny. Appreciate it. Media hyped. I have no idea what that means. What? Media doesn't know who we are. So I don't know what you're up. I don't know what you're talking about. 200K before the end of the year. Probably not. Love 30. Let's get back to this. Let's get back to it. Love 30. Telling everyone now, thank you. Spread the word. Tell your friends. Tell your friends. Love 30. Tiafo serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. An hour and 22 minutes played. That's Tiafo. Under pressure. Elkras returns. Tiafo. Elkras volleys. Wide. Just volleyed at wide. Elkras. 15.30. Just hit the drop volley wide. Tiafo would have got there. Big miss from Elkras. 15.30. Tiafo with a serve again. As he tries to level things up in the second. Serve. Down to the front of Elkras. Elkras in the net. Good serve from Big Fo. 30 all. Isabella says, why not, Cam? If we just invite one friend each, it would be 200K. Why are you... You're not wrong. That would make sense. If we invited one friend to subscribe, then we could double up by the end of the year. But we'll see what happens. Anyways. Up goes the lob. Smash. From Tiafo as a winner. 40.30. 40.30. Big Fo. To level things up. Big Fo serves. To the front of Elkras. Elkras can't get there. Big Fo too good. He came back from love 30. Good comeback there. And the salt. And the salt. Add some salt to that shot. Lovely shot from Big Fo. He loves it. He's having a great time out there. When he smiles, you know he's playing well. It looked like he was a little tense. He's having a great time now. Return goes to Elkras. The back end of Tiafo. Back in Elkras again. Back in Big Fo. He went down the line. 15 love. 15 love. 15 love. Elkras serves again. To the front of Tiafo. He puts it in the net. 30 love. We haven't had a break of serve for the entire match. Almost an hour and a half. No break of serve. Serve Elkras. To the back of Tiafo. The back end of Tiafo. Pass is a winner. Tiafo didn't come in on a good shot. 40 love. 40 love. Another serve from Elkras. Serving in the back of Tiafo. Four in Elkras. Perfect game. 3-2 as he slowly walks to the chair. You can tell Elkras is at least sore. Maybe he's not tired yet somehow, but definitely looks a little sore. Who can blame him? Who can blame him? No breaks of serve. We only had four break points in the match so far as well which makes it even more impressive. 10-1 on 1 help. What does break serve mean? If you're serving and you lose that game while you're serving that means you got broken. Your serve was broken. So breaking serve means you win the game when your opponent serves. That's what a break of serve is. How badly does Tiafo want it? He's not driving for the passing shot at the net. Not diving for the passing shot at the net. Yeah, Jessica, I'm a little worried about big foe in this set because he's having a great time which is awesome but he's lacking some urgency and he got the first set but he might he's taking the foot off the gas and he might not be going after it as much and that could be a problem because we could be in a third set 1-1 out of nowhere. So he's got to keep the foot down. He's got to keep the intensity of Tiafo and yeah, like you said diving for a volley maybe that's a bit excessive but at least he's got to keep that intensity big foe. Play with purpose. Don't just come to the net because it's there and he's got to stay aggressive and keep the intensity of the break all the summer in a third. So you are right for sure, Jessica. He's there, he looks a little too happy, yeah. He's giving off the vibes of he's having a great time which is fine but he's got to he hasn't won this match yet. The first set can get cancelled out pretty quick and we know Elcores can win sets pretty fast. He's got to return down from Elcores to back into Tiafo and Tiafo hits it out 15 all. 15 all. We've got Martina Navarro all over in the house with her dog. Hashtag legend. Some say the greatest player ever. I think it's Serena but Martina's definitely definitely up there in terms of the greatest to ever do it. Second serve now big foe as he serves a fault. Second serve now. Elcores dumps it in the net that was a giveaway. 30-15 Elcores tired 100%. He was tired in the first game I mean rewind to the first game of the match. At 30 all I said Elcores looks tired and he's not getting any fitter I mean it's only going to get harder and harder. Oh big foe in the net okay. Tiafo in the net does big foe have a western grip and she'll I think he does. It seems pretty pretty western. He might have a bit of a half way grip sort of semi western to western like more of a westernness more of western than semi western but yeah he does he definitely has an exaggerated grip. Okay back to it. He's 19 he's not tired okay. I mean when I was 19 running around I still got tired I mean I don't know about you guys. He played with five hours I'm sure he's not fresh. Back into backhand as Tiafo hits it into the forehand of Elcores but Tiafo hits it out. Tiafo's just missing the easy ones now. Just nothing errors from big foe. 30-40 break points. He's hit two backhand errors from like that were kind of nothing errors and the forehand in the net as well 30-40 serve to the backhand of Elcores and Tiafo gets the free point Elcores hits it out. The serve helps again but you just you just think is Tiafo has he still got the intensity of the first set serve out while the forehand of Elcores forehand from Tiafo to the backhand of Elcores back into Tiafo to the forehand of Elcores Tiafo, forehand the backhand of Elcores pass, Tiafo volleys it Elcores is going to get there Tiafo backhand and Elcores hits it out. Did Elcores hit it? No, Tiafo hit it out Elcores didn't hit it advantage Elcores another backhand error and look that drop volley was just too casual just too casual Did Elcores hit that? No it didn't almost smacked him in the head but he just got out of the way alright break point again serve for the backhand of Elcores for Tiafo is wide for two Elcores for two Elcores error after error after error in that game bad break from big foe bad break for big foe it's one thing to get broken because your opponent plays really well that was just a bad game Tiafo with all the errors okay Elcores breaks first time in an hour and a half first break of the match one and a half hours in took him a while Tiafo in the net on the return Elcores is getting a little fired up too Elcores getting a little fired up Elcores starting to believe that's why someone said why is it bad that Tiafo got broken because Elcores is starting to believe and at least if you keep Elcores down he might go oh I'm too tired to come back now Elcores is like hang on a second if I win this set I've got the momentum to win the third we could be out of here in four so that's why the break was so this set means Tiafo almost needs this set which is weird and he's just hitting errors everywhere big foe is just missing everything 30 love 30 love Elcores is tired you remember yeah well yeah he is so giving him free points is silly giving Elcores free points when he's tired is like charity there's been a foe in the net from Elcores a tired foe in 30-15 30-15 one cost for Elcores just like shaking his head with that error 30-15 Elcores looking for the 5-2 lead as he serves a fault second serve Elcores' dad is in the house by the way I'm assuming as we return now from Tiafo and Elcores hit it out okay good return from big foe 30 all and that hit the outside of the line as big foe gets one back big point here Elcores done a hell of a job to get a break at least he's got some charity let's hope he's not feeling generous second serve Elcores second serve Elcores down to Tiafo back into Elcores Elcores' backhand drop shot is in the net Elcores in the net free point 30-40 big foe to get the break back watch that drop shot and tell me he isn't tired watch that last point tell me Elcores isn't tired that's a tired shot he doesn't miss those he does not miss those 30-40 serve into the backhand of Tiafo into the backhand of Tiafo Elcores again to the backhand of big foe Elcores slices that one to the forehand of big foe into the forehand of Elcores backhand out from Tiafo again to the backhand of Elcores sliced Tiafo slices it back Elcores now with a forehand down the line Tiafo gets it with a forehand cross court backhand Tiafo in the net Elcores survives Elcores survives back to Deuce another game another Deuce hasn't been broken today Elcores hasn't been broken today as Elcores gets away with that one everyone who says Elcores isn't tired is just lying to themselves you just he's tired come on watch Elcores two days ago or three days ago and then watch him now as Tiafo hits a return long he's tired advantage as Elcores tries to get the 5-2 advantage Elcores Elcores serves to the backhand of Tiafo return to the forehand of Elcores drop shot from Elcores that's better Elcores pass is a lob and the lob's out by a mile he doesn't miss those he doesn't miss those that lob was nowhere near Deuce he's just a half a step behind his normal self and he's just missing those shots that we wouldn't see him miss you know he's just missing that quickness he's missing that that first step that push he might get away with those he puts a forehand away just gets the smash away advantage Elcores but he's just a half a step behind like all those shots that he usually hits that he did against Sinner he errors on the drop shots errors on the lob's we don't see those when Elcores is fresh he doesn't miss those doesn't miss those serve down to Tiafo Elcores is a winner big game from Elcores 5-2 a man big foe he was just playing it he was just being a little bit too happy with the lead he sat back on that lead and now he's down 5-2 he doesn't look he's not smiling now he's not smiling now not having a fun time now alright let's end some questions um yeah it is a human being of course he's gonna get tired nothing is incredible for Elcores the kids a beast Elcores gets incredible beast bar yeah he is a beast and we're not denying that but we're just saying that Elcores is tired as I was saying and the reason why you're probably thinking about the camp if he's tired why is he winning 5-2 because Tiafo just played terrible in this last part of the set Elcores is winning because Tiafo is playing horrible so many errors from big foe Elcores versus Rudd who'd you pick I picked Rudd Rudd would win that match based on the fitness levels he would win the match in this set 8 winners from Tiafo 9 unforced errors so more errors than winners he's serving a little better on the first serve Tiafo but still that break point those 5 errors in the game to give away the break big foe just yeah does every player have a psychologist no I wouldn't say everyone does because not everyone can afford one you gotta remember they gotta play they gotta pay coaches, trainers dieticians, travel so they've got a lot of people they gotta pay but psychologists wouldn't not everyone has a traveling psychologist obviously because it's expensive but also not everyone has one because they just they think of now does that mean that every player doesn't go see a psychologist a sports psychologist no because you could have a sports psychologist that you have on zoom and you pay them for the hour and you zoom call them from a I think every player sees a psychologist every but not every day maybe once every 6 months it's expensive sports psychologist would not be cheap so to have one traveling with you is just a whole another person you gotta pay and that's why players like the two best players on the ladies tour have them because they can afford to some players don't even have coaches traveling with them because they can't afford it so yeah not everyone does but I'm sure everyone all the top players do see sports psychologist if not you know once a year surely once a year even Rafa you know no way those guys too okay love 30 here Alka is going after it and big foe looking flat doesn't make sense to have your psychologist 24-7 yeah yeah I mean having one around like every match I don't know I mean the two ladies in the top of the rankings would say otherwise but I don't know how much benefit that would be all of the time as that goes in from Tiafo Goodshot 15-30 I mean yeah having one around for every match I mean how much would they just would they be able to give you different I mean I don't know I don't know I taught sports psychology at university nice I'd love to get into sports psychology one day it'd be cool as we had a foreign out of the back end of Alka way Alka puts away the back end Tiafo just watched it go by and this is bad from big foe what I say 3-2 Tiafo better keep the intensity otherwise this set could be over at 20 minutes 20 minutes later it's set point Alka we knew this could happen big foe just went fishing I don't know where he went where'd he go big foe went on holiday Michelle Obama must where's she at she's still here return goes out from Alka 30-40 where's the slabs out where's Jason Biggs put down the pie Jason Biggs it's not time inappropriate 30-40 30-40 still a set point for Alka to take the second set big foe serves an ace at the very least big foe needs this he needs to serve first in the third at the very bare minimum do I have a psychologist no I don't because I just yell at this television and watch tennis so no I don't need I don't need a psychologist and I'm a tennis coach so no I don't have one advantage big foe big ace out wide as big foe serves to make Alka serve for it he serves a foe second serve second serve in the back end of Tiafo Alka is in the net Tiafo gets the game needed that one 5-3 Alka just because I don't have a psychologist doesn't mean doesn't mean you shouldn't I know a lot of people that do see somebody if it's once a month or once every couple of months if you need someone to talk to don't be afraid don't be ashamed definitely don't think I don't want to feel any if you need to go see someone there is no shame in that as Alka hits an ace Alka is serving for the second set he just had two set points he's three points away from levelling this thing up 15 love as Alka serves out wide the back in a big foe back end, if I know from a big foe Alka's volley is in the net drop volley just couldn't quite get there 15-all 15-all it would have been a win up but just didn't quite get there 15-all serve into the net second serve second serve in the back end of Tiafo and that goes out from Alka Tiafo in the attack the urgency came back that's what's been missing the last couple of couple of games the urgency back in that point can big foe get the break back 15-30 15-30 if you're just joining us big foes took the first set after five set points it's a long tie break Alka has been up a break for the last, it was up 5-2 he serves a fault and Tiafo's just taking the foot of the gas the last half a set serving out of the corner Tiafo goes in the open court for a winner and big foe doesn't run for it, he just watches it go by 30-all 30-all can Alka take the set that person got to be famous that person had to be famous, I don't know who that lady was but she had to be famous they zoomed in way too close to her face she had to be famous, serve out wide to the front of Tiafo, back in Alka in the back of the big foe who hits a winner down the line this is gonna be our finish to you big foe with the big winner 30-40 okay the crowd get a little bit more energy from that first time big foes hit a shot like that for a while nice from Tiafo just gets it Alka hasn't been broken all day serve to the forehand of Tiafo the back end of Tiafo Alka gets it, Tiafo with a slice up in, Alka puts it away with a forehand he saves it again he has not been broken today Alka and we get to deuce thank you everybody by the way don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already but the final is coming up the next two days but we cover tennis all year round so you might not know that tennis actually has played a lot over the over the year not just at the slams, we have so many tournaments and all these guys play all the big names play throughout the year as Tiafo hits it in the net advantage Alka set point again so yeah, so there's tennis these two guys are going to be playing over the next couple of weeks I think next week they're playing Davis Cup so they'll be back in Europe so we'll be keeping an eye on them there we've got the Paris indoors which is a big tournament on the men's tour outside of the slams we've also got the ATP finals where these guys could feature serve into the front of Alka sorry Alka is to the front of Tiafo in the net from Bigfo take the second oh no oh no Bigfo let up in that set and now just like that we're at a set of peace man that was again he did what we he did exactly what we said he shouldn't do Bigfo and that was let up take the foot off the gas and here we are so in that set let's talk about six errors and winners because that's important 11 winners 6 errors Tiafo 11 winners 10 errors but it was that one game where he hit 5 errors and gave up the break that was the game and at the start of this second set he was having a great time Bigfo he was yelling and screaming it was fun all fun and games but then he started playing sloppy and that's where he got broken and that's where Alka took the break now Bigfo is in trouble because Alka is looking I wouldn't say he's looking fresh but he's definitely at least feeling a little better about himself and you don't want to give this guy hope it's the last thing you want to give this guy don't give him hope don't give him belief Bigfo needs this set I feel I feel he needs this set the question the question check what's up everybody the rise and fall of Francis the Tall up and down like a roller coaster yep what tournaments will be streaming after the US James good question so I've got a list I always prepare so next week we have Raducanu playing a little bit we might check in with her we've got Zverev's coming back we have to watch Zverev at least once next week then we've got the Laver Cup coming on after that Mehvedev and Teem are back in action later in the month you've got Djokovic playing for the first time back since Wimbledon that's happening in Israel at the end of the month we've also got Tokyo open actually happening in a couple of weeks wait shit does that happen next week yeah so we've got Tokyo happening in a week Osaka, Sabalinga, Bedosa are all playing that event Raducanu is also playing in Korea so yeah we've got like a week holy shit I haven't written that down on my calendar so yeah no rest for the wicked that's just this month next month we've got more tennis yep we're doing the Laver Cup we'll cover the whole thing that was Liv Tyler from Lord of the Rings there you go if Elkraz wins next set he will win without a doubt Tiafos got a lift got a lift get that intensity back he was lacking intensity big time towards the end of that set how many masters are left after the US Open just Paris which is happening at the end of October is the last Masters 1000 event can't wait for the ATV finals yeah for sure thank you Darren, appreciate it mate Federer is still playing the Laver Cup but there's doubt there's some injury concerns Shanghai got cancelled Shanghai got cancelled I can't believe Tiafos let him back yep that's what that set was you know it was also we knew Elkraz was going to fight for the second set because he had no choice but Tiafos let him off the hook big time just again that was a big let down from Bigfo Bigfo's gone to the bathroom by the way that was a big look he he gave Elkraz a chance and now Elkraz is back and it's back to basically restarted the match so just not good from not not smart from Bigfo now 2 hours in if Bigfo wins this set that might be enough to get the win in 4 or 5 because Elkraz is only going to get more tired he already looks tired he already looks tired he's hitting a lot of errors Elkraz than normal a lot of tired errors drop shots in the net miss lobbs you know sloppy shots because he is tired the longer this match goes the better for Bigfo those 4 sets Elkraz can get out of him 4 especially if he dominates this 3rd so a big Tiafos needs this set to win Ferreira having a big conversation with Elkraz again what do you guys think do you like the on court coaching do you like the conversations I would like it much better if I could understand what they're saying I think it would be more helpful for the viewers but do you like the coaching or not I don't know yet do you like the fact that Juan Castrero probably just told Elkraz something that maybe he would never have figured out by himself because he can't see it from afar between the sets coaching is fine ok it's unfair on the player less ranked that's true because then it might become a battle of who has the more expensive coach a lot of you say no no no you say yes tennis is a lone wolf sport out there on your own I agree all even let's go Tiafos I love the coaching just like boxing yeah fair enough Alice no coaching ok tennis I missed that one the coaching isn't as intrusive as I thought it would be yeah Tim it's not as intrusive it's just off putting I think it's weird for me anyway it's weird to hear like them just openly yelling at each other yelling out instructions and it's like whoa what the hell that's because we watched tennis for so long one way and now it's like the way that they're doing it is like really it's going to take some time to get used to unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable I don't care about what they were saying hey thank you Carol for the five we appreciate that and also thank you strictly starlight for coming on to the be a member thank you strictly starlight for becoming a member welcome to the goat club you can now join the discord any of the goats even if you get gifted a membership you can join the private discord for members only so yeah if you're a goat if your name is green you are invited even if you had a gifted membership you're invited to the where you can talk amongst other people that are also green names so join the discord I think we've got maybe a couple hundred people in there the private discord you can join the public discord as well that's got about 3,000 people links all down below but yeah join the private discord if you want to talk amongst your fellow goats if you want to join that discord it's only a dollar a month or wait until someone gives you a gifted member maybe I love 30 okras Tiyafo still went to the bathroom couldn't find a game as he serves a fault the first part of this sets crucial Tiyafo needs to come back with some sort of urgency he serves into the back end of Elkraz back in Tiyafo in the net ok love 40 era after era after era and Tiyaf looks like Elkraz is just believing more and more love 40 the crowd are trying to do their best to cheer Tiyafo on he serves a fault second serve second serve to the back end of Elkraz back in Tiyafo into the back end of Elkraz 49 from Tiyafo goes long Elkraz breaks first game of the third and it's all going bad for big foe man this is the exact opposite of what big foe wanted to start this set like that Tokyo Open starts on the third doesn't start on the not for the men it does yeah for the ladies it starts on the 19th what are you talking about ladies it starts on the 19th one love Elkraz can we think big foe should come to the net more I do yeah I think he should well yeah he just needs to show his aggression more he's not he's playing too safe you know what won him the first couple or first set was he was going he was being aggressive he was taking it up to Elkraz he was coming to the net Elkraz is tired I don't know what you're talking about but Elkraz is tired back in a back end rally has been another one from Elkraz but Tiyafo hits it out again hey what's up Paul 15 love but Tiyafo is just feeling generous giving him so many free points which when you're tired and you're getting charity perfect means you don't have to do as much work to get the points if Tiyafo played a little more was a little bit more aggressive like he was in the first set maybe maybe Elkraz would have you had to use more gas but right now Elkraz is just like I'll just get the ball in you do the rest I'll just sit back you hit errors I won't run I'm happy I'm tired I'm not going to do that 34 30 love as Tiyafo serves sorry Elkraz serves a fault second serve big foe looks flat by the way big foe does look flat and the crowd are definitely flat as we had to find our dental line at the back end drop shot of Elkraz Tiyafo runs gets it Elkraz with a pass Tiyafo just lets it go past he barely got there to do anything with it and he just couldn't quite get it passed anyway 40 love 40 love and Tiyafo just I mean I think he's lost at the moment he doesn't know what to do he's forgotten how to play two hours played as Elkraz serves now wide to the back end and big foe puts it wide to love Elkraz and this is getting worse and worse for big foe who has won what one of the last six games or seven games some of that totally flat yeah Tiyafo is flat now could Tiyafo be tired well yeah of course he could be but he shouldn't be more tired than Elkraz he should be fresher than his opponent who's played more way more tennis Elkraz won the last 11 points by the way okay big foe serves now wide to the find of Elkraz find Tiyafo as a winner okay 15 love and it'd be a shame if we didn't get a competitive finish to this match you know as much as I don't like again as much as I don't mind Elkraz getting to the final because it means that the final will be the world number one who wins the trophy and then people won't have to like bitch and moan that the world number one is not gonna slam I wanted to be entertaining I wanted to be interesting I don't want it to be like oh Elkraz just like walks into the final because Tiyafo lost his game you want Elkraz to have to earn it a little bit more in the uh I know he earned it already but you know in this semi-final you wanting to play an epic final set or something you know 15 all 15 all nice shot there from Elkraz again as big foe serves down to the back end of Elkraz back in at Tiyafo into the back end of Elkraz to the front of Tiyafo into the front of Elkraz Tiyafo with again a point down the line into the back end of Elkraz Tiyafo with the back end on the stretch Elkraz being the aggressor has been a back end in there from big foe 15 30 this is bad for big foe the crowd are like what is happening completely completely shot the crowd 15 30 15 30 a double break would just be I mean Tiyafo might as well focus on a fourth set because Elkraz I don't think he gives away two breaks serve there's a fault second serve second serve there's a double fault 15 40 and zap gotcha gotcha take five touch grass come back don't do that stupid things got him got him 15 40 Elkraz looking for the double break serve is not even close by big foe second serve serve goes in the back end of Elkraz back and out from Tiyafo into the back end of Elkraz to the back end of Tiyafo again to the front of Elkraz again to the back end of Tiyafo into the back end of Elkraz to the front end of Tiyafo Elkraz back end again to the back end of big foe puts into net Elkraz three love Elkraz three love he's won seven of the last eight games Elkraz and the errors from Tiyafo just mounts okay Elkraz riding the charity wagon all the way to the final now Kasper Rood won't let this happen so don't expect Elkraz to get to the final and then get a free ride we know Rood is going to make it tough the bakery will be open yes bakery could be open unbelievable unbelievable I don't care about what they were saying this is over Tiyafo can't win a point whenever there's a rally this is unfortunate we had a great game but this is not interesting anymore yeah Vince look if you Tiyafo right if you big foe it still applies that the longer this match goes the better for big foe you would expect right you hope so because he's played less tennis than Elkraz so if I was big foe I would be like okay let's go back to what we're doing on the first set be aggressive and if you lose just go out with a bang like go out swinging Tiyafo is just kind of like pushing everything and he's not really attacking the net he's just kind of just routinely missing you know not doing anything you know if you're going to go out go out with a bang so I hope that when he gets to the fourth set Tiyafo just maybe can serve energy right now just go okay don't go all out now there's no point in trying to break back two breaks that have served maybe Elkraz gives it back but I think Tiyafo needs to there's no point in trying to like go all out here because what happens what could happen is if you break and you get back in the front and then you lose this set anyway you've just wasted all your energy anyway so I think big foe needs to start contemplating okay do I just book the set go to the fourth and conserve the energy because I still I still think that long term if we get to a fifth big foe will have more gas than the tank 15 love I mean Tiyafo's he's not even moving like his feet are flat he's just standing there you know he's not there's no jumping around there's no energy he's not even playing around with the crowd there's nothing there is nothing as Elkraz hits that wide there's no hop in the step momentum gone momentum gone 100% unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable do you think a viable strategy for Elkraz when he is up would be to hit repeated drop shots to where the opponent out even if he loses the point um yeah I mean that that could be a good strategy yeah because even if you don't Tiyafo is a great winner there at 15-30 um even if you hit a drop shot and your opponent gets it you've still just made your opponent run so yeah no matter what happens as long as you make your opponent run it'll tire them out alright alright big foe with a good backhand there and a little bit of a fist bump okay 15-30 serving the backhand of Tiyafo 4-0 from Elkraz is shanked into the backhand of Tiyafo 4-0 from Elkraz again to the 4-0 Tiyafo 30-all and it kind of looks like Tiyafo has lost his belief as well you know that's another thing like he you know out of the first set he was like I'm going to the final let's go let's go and then he took then he obviously took the second set a little light and now he's probably thinking oh great now I'm going to lose so he doesn't look as positive as he did at the start of the second has been a backhand to backhand rally now to the backhand of Tiyafo again to the backhand of Elkraz sliced to the 4-0 of Tiyafo again to the backhand of Elkraz backhand out big foe into the net again 40-30 and this is a lesson you can take if you play tennis again learn from the pros mistakes what I say a little bit of a pulp quiz what did I say at the start of the second what I say Tiyafo needed to do what was what does anyone remember what I said 40-30 serve is a fault second serve second serve Elkraz looking for the 4-0 lead serving the backhand of Tiyafo good return but it comes back into the 4-0 Tiyafo and Tiyafo hits it out 4-0 Elkraz yeah yeah some of you were here so yeah stay aggressive foot on the gas and I said it's not like you've lost the first set and that you need the second because looking at the score now he needed the second right he needed the two sets of love lead so you know big foe again learn from his mistakes if you win a close first set go into the second set not like don't go into the second set relieved right don't go to the second set and be like oh thank god I won that first set it was so tough alright I guess we're gonna play a second set how lucky was that first set because by the time you've finished talking you're into a third right you want to go into that second set going okay we've got one set let's keep going or if you really want to play mind tricks on yourself which is what I do when I play tennis is I play tricks on my own brain pretend like you lost the first set and be like alright I need to get the second set I'm down a set you know just lie to yourself like mess with your mind that's what the best players do pretend like you're not winning play like you're down 30 love here at TRFO um and that's not a big foe didn't do that big foe at TRFO played like he had the lead relaxed and Elcrez was like alright you want to do that I'll take the set you've got to gaslight yourself pretty much 30 love 30 love 4 love Elcrez in the second in the third as big foe serves out wide good serve comes in with the forehand Elcrez gets it back it's a lob and a smash from TRFO and he puts it away 40 love but you can see TRFO's whole demeanor has changed you know first first set he was up and about he's bouncing he was jumping around you know he's getting the crowd he's involved he's going nuts started the second set he was doing the same you know hitting some ridiculous shots even when Elcrez would hit a winner he was like dude that was insane he was like happy right now he looks miserable even when he hit that smash he was just like head down you know walking to the baseline like oh well that was finally got a good shot I guess his whole demeanor has changed and he's just he just looks flat he doesn't look positive he doesn't look like he wants to come back whereas Elcrez is going let's go shaking the racket every time TRFO is not showing me any signs of him wanting to come back he's like oh I guess I'm gonna lose in the semi semis was good you know what I mean like it's not a good attitude to have he kind of shook the racket there after the ace but it was kind of more like a he didn't get bagled you know like it just doesn't I don't see any TRFO needs to get angry get angry at yourself not don't get sad he looks he looks sad you know get pissed off you know that's what Kobe would have done you lose on the scoreboard you don't get all like you know oh well always well as me you get angry be like this isn't the word oh come on you're better than this you know Body language is a droopy yeah he looks he looks down TRFO looks down bad body language yeah yeah be like do a Serena exactly exactly Nadalvis and Elcrez would have been more fun well look Djokovic Nadal would have been more fun too Federer Nadal would have been fun at the US Open as well one you know never happened so what you know we could go through all the what if scenarios but hey here we are so this is what we have and this has been fun you know we had a good first set it was a great first set big looser attitude at the moment from foe yeah he doesn't he looks sorry for himself big looser attitude at the moment from foe yeah thank you Vince for the 2 bucks appreciate it I had the same logic as you about TRFO gaining advantage as the game goes on but Carlos even looks fresher in the rally somehow I'd like to see some hunger or some emotions from yeah Vince yeah that's yeah exactly there's no hunger or emotion from TRFO right now as he hits a good shot there volley as the volley goes long from big foe even like a broken racket just like we've seen this from no way it's so funny because this is what we've seen with Djokovic when Djokovic has been in a similar situation which is rare when he looks flat Djokovic just like he doesn't show anything he shows like he doesn't even care like not angry not annoyed just kind of like oh well whatever I would love to see big foe like get broken again and be like this sucks and get angry like show show something you know give us something 30 love 30 lovers Elcrez looks to dominate this set your TRFO's box need to fire him up too I mean they're just sitting there too there's watching going I don't know what's going on they need to get animated maybe he can feed off their energy a little bit not the other way around not like that's what the supporters your box is supposed to do when you're down they're supposed to give you the energy not when you hit a good shot we'll cheer for you like that's not how it's supposed to be that's what the spectators are for 30 love as that goes long from big foe 40 love he needs his dad and his coach to get up and just start going like nuts and be like well you got this let's go you know not wait for him to hit a winner and be like yes finally we can cheer it's like no no you gotta fire him up he needs your support you know 40 love serve out wide there's a fault Elcrez dominating this set if I was big foe I'd just book this one just focus on the fourth now no point as he hits a return in the net and it's 5-1 but first of all win this game and then focus on the fourth don't worry about you're going to win this game though first tiapo hits a wall yeah I mean his mum's clapping but everybody else in his box is just sitting there stand up stand up no wonder he's getting his ass whooped you're all sitting there like you're watching a neutral match that is that's on his coach's box they should be up and about you think Juan Carlos Verero is going to be sitting on his hands if Elcrez was losing that's bad no wonder he's losing he looks over to all of you and you're all sitting there like you're bored stand up and get excited and get him back in this bullshit come on no wonder Kiros gets annoyed I feel it I feel it I'm annoyed for tiapo that's so off-putting 15 love serving to the back of Elcrez back enough from tiapo into the front of Elcrez again to the back of tiapo puts it in the net 15 all Juan Carlos Verero beyond his feet of Elcrez was down 5-1 man just no energy no energy 15 all man no wonder the whole crowd's dead now because they're not going to cheer double folds can't stand like keegs I wouldn't yell at my box though I would have the right people in the box to get me excited and up and about I wouldn't have just people sitting there watching spectating as tiapo double folds 15-30 this is just the crowd are kind of like do you want us what do we do what are we going to do what are we going to what are we going to do about they're like let's go let's go I guess anyway 15-30 15-30 tiapo serves into the front of Elcrez into the front of Elcrez backwards into the back end of tiapo to the back end of Elcrez back enough to tee-fo again over to the back end of tiapo Elcrez again down the line in the net. 1540. And Elkres, again, the positive energy. 1540, two set points. Descend. Tiafo to the bakery. Okay. And Elkres just going, man, after that first set, I thought this would be tough. After that first set, it's been a breeze. Tiafo's won what? Two games out of the last, like 12. As he serves a fault, second serve. Second serve. Served the back end of Elkres, back in at Tiafo. Into the slice of Elkres. Back in at Tiafo down the line. Into the front of Elkres. Front of Tiafo goes to the back end of Elkres who hits it lob. And it goes just out. And Tiafo watched that ball. He's like, oh, that's going out. I hope. He was lucky that didn't go in. 3040. What's up, Andre? Again, thank you, everybody, for hanging out. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Second set point. 3040. Big foes serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. Goes to the back end of Elkres. Back in at Tiafo. In the net. Elkres wins a set 6-1. And that, and then, that's what I like to see. Colours Elkres' camp on their feet. They're like, let's go. Even after that first set they lost. They were still going, let's go. That's what the coaches and the players are supposed to, or the players' box supposed to be. They're supposed to be your source of inspiration. And Tiafo's box looked like they'd rather be somewhere else. In that set, by the way, Tiafo, six winners, 12 errors. He's flat as a pancake. Four winners from Elkres, one unforced error. So Elkres was playing just as good as Tiafo was playing as bad, if that makes any sense. Okay, I think we got some fresh bread. Do we have fresh breadsticks today? Oh, we do. I'm walking normally. I'm not on my knees, I promise. All right, anybody want a baguette? I'll tell you who needs a baguette. The whole Tiafo box, because they look tired with no energy. Maybe she needs some baguettes. Have some food. Now, we don't have any, of course, we only have baguettes. We don't sell any of the other condiments or anything like that. You're gonna have to take them home and make them yourself. But we do have, we do have fresh baguettes. Everybody, because the bakery, we fired the bakers yesterday. They were doing a crap job. So now we've got the, we've got the fresh, fresh food. Does anybody want one? Wee, wee, wee, wee. Does anybody want one? You want one? Okay, Amanda. There you go. There you go. Grab one. Just grab one off the, just basically, first one's free, guys. Just grab one off the shelf. Well, grab one off the desk. That's fine. That's fine. It should be a churro. We should make some churros, shouldn't we? Because Spanish and all. You want 100? SJ? Look, leave some for the rest of us, all right? Leave some for the rest of us. You want a bakers? Dozen, all right? Nice. All right. Are they fresh? Yeah, they look, they look fresh. They look, they're fresh. They're fresh. What are you talking about? They look fresh. They look fresh. Of course they're fresh. Of course they're fresh. I don't know why my chair's over there. All right. Now, now that we've all eaten some baguettes and we're all hungry and we should be all good. Can Tiafo bring this back? He needs something, some energy, something from the camp. Because Tiafo, I mean, Alcro is cruising at the moment. He's cruising the victory. And Juan Castrero, who made the USM in final almost 20 years ago, before Alcro is born, he's about to do that. He's charged, whatever. A lack of intensity causes poor focus. Tiafo has lost focus. Thank you, R.A. for the 10, yeah. Unbelievable. I don't care about what I was saying. The energy from that crowd is a big L. We were pushing Rafa on Chariot and he's not even French. Show him love. They don't bleed tennis these guys. What? The energy from the crowd is a big L. We were pushing Rafa on a carrier and he's not even French. Show him some friends. You lost me halfway through that sentence, mate. But yeah, the crowd, this is the chain of command in terms of energy levels. The crowd give the player energy when the crowd are entertained. It's really not the crowd's job. They're there to be entertained. They're there to give you energy, but you've got to give them something to go off. You've got to give them something to cheer about, right? But the coach's box are supposed to cheer you no matter what the score is going on. So it's a coach's box who are responsible for Tiafo's lack of energy. The crowd aren't going to cheer if you're not going to give them something to cheer, right? And so on and then Tiafo needs energy to do something special for the crowd to get involved. So it's sort of come the box, give the player's energy, and then the player can do something special so the crowd has the energy because they're not entertained. Exactly. They're not here to be your support box. They're here to be entertained as Alcres is entertaining them, and they're cheering him instead. 4015. So that's why I'm getting so frustrated. I meant on Chatrié asterisk. Oh, sorry. RG. So that's right, Vince. Yeah, so yeah. Yeah, I mean, like the French. Yeah, but again, Rafa gives them something to be entertained about as well, right? He gives them something. Tiafo is not giving the crowd anything. And Tiafo's box are not giving him anything. So therefore nothing's happening. One love Alcres. He wins the first game without breaking a sweat. And that's why I'm getting so frustrated about for Tiafo's box because first of all, I want to see a good match. And the last two sets we've just seen a very sloppy match. I want to see some fun. At least get a close fourth set if it's the final set. But we're just not getting anything. Alcres is playing very fun shots though. So that's good. These are something. Anyways, Tiafo's people are in shock. But there's no excuse. Yeah, look, if I was friends with Tiafo, I'd be firing everybody in the box because they are not given like, if I turned to my coach's box and they're all sitting there like this, and they weren't like encouraging me or giving me nothing, they were just looking like they were defeated. I would be like, Oh, shit. Okay, well, they're looking like that. Then maybe I am going to lose. Like that's the that's the problem. It's like it doesn't encourage Tiafo at all. Back in the back end is that's a winner from Alcres. Alcres is flying as well now, which I said would possibly happen. If he got the lead, he might get some renewed energy because he's like, Holy shit, I'm going to win. And then just start playing ridiculous. Two and a half hours in. And Alcres has won 30 of the last 40 points. Kasper Ruda waits. There's been a find a fine rally again from the find of Alcres, the one at Tiafo, Alcres of the find down the line, Alcres back at Tiafo back end, the back end of Alcres in the back end of Tiafo, Alcres slice in the net. 15 all. 15 all. And Alcres is tired. That's the thing. Alcres was very tired. But when you get when you start winning, you forget about all that stuff. You know, when you start winning, you forget how tired you were. And mentally, you forget about it. You think, Oh, well, I'm winning now. So I feel, I feel fine. But in the first set, after that first set, Alcres was stuffed. And Tiafo made the big mistake of letting up. And now look what's happened. Right. Look where we are. So just again, I like take lessons from the pros and make don't make their mistakes. If you're a tennis player, remember what happened tonight. And all the things that we've talked about. Because you can learn from this mistake that Tiafos made so far 30 15, because he might come back. We never know. That's good. Whoever that chick in the in the Tiafo shirt in the box is on her feet. She she's doing the right thing. She's like up and about God, let's go. She's the only person standing up. Everyone else is sitting there like they've got somewhere else to be. 30 15. Whoever she is, she deserves a promotion. Is that his girlfriend? No, maybe somebody. She's listening to the stream. Yeah, she's like, All right, I'll stand up. She's also rocking a very fresh fit. So I like, I want one of those Tiafo shirts. As that goes long on the return, because his girlfriend, we're good. She's up and about. She's the only one standing up clapping. Everyone else has got their arms folded. That guy in the blue shirt. Get the hell out of the box. Yeah, you're ridiculous. Why are you standing up sitting like this? You get out. It's Tiafos girlfriend. Good. She's kicking ass. Then she deserves a promotion somehow. I don't know how you get promoted to wife, I guess, has been a fire now from Tiafo in the ground. Too good from Alcarez 40 30. She needs to be promoted by her car or something. I don't know. She's the only one supporting. She's the only one given any sort of vibe wedding ring promotion. And she's also rocking and like that that shirt that she's rocking that bootleg kind of style. I like it. Can I buy one? I want one. She is listening. Hit us up for a to find rally that goes into the back end of Tiafo drop shot into the slice of Alcarez and Alcarez puts it away. Alcarez is taking the crowd away from Tiafo. He's like, they're my crowd now. I'm going to entertain this crowd now. This is my this is my crowd now back to do on the TFO serve again. Just all these things. And Tiafos is basically guessing at this point. TFO shouldn't need his box to be cheerleading him. Okay, I disagree. As we serve, that's a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Alcarez for now. TFO is wide and Alcarez got a break point first game of the fourth and TFO again. TFO is looking at the box like, what am I doing? How can I come back? He looks done. He is looking to his coaches box for answers and they're just like, I don't know man. Maybe it's just not your day. And it's like, excuse me. Please, please don't say that. Exactly Isabella. Yeah. The box is your source of strength. When things go wrong. Half fully there from Tiafo and Alcarez puts away the back end. We're going to break and big foe is in big trouble. Two love in the fourth. Alcarez cruising to the final. Players need positive support. Yeah. Yeah. So that's like, I mean, if things go wrong in your own life, I would hope that you have a support network around you that like, if something goes bad, you have someone to call upon, right? Let's just say you have a bad day at work or, you know, just anything. You always want to go to your supporters for, you know, that's the same in tennis. When things are going bad and you need something, some positive reassurance, you go to those people in the box and if they're sitting back looking like, yeah, look, maybe you're going to lose. It's like, well, shit. All right. Well, how the hell am I supposed to believe in myself? If you guys don't believe, you know, players need that reassurance. I mean, Alcarez gets it every single point by one cause he never looks like Alcarez is going to lose because that's he knows his job as a coach. Like, you don't want to give your player the feeling of like resignation, right? That's Tiavo. It's a winner. Love 15. Love 15. But his girlfriend, if that is his girlfriend, she's the only one on her feet. She should be telling the rest of them, get off your ass and clap because he needs your support. Back end now down the line from Tiavo. That's a winner. Love 30. Michelle Obama back on the screen. She is still there. By the way, she didn't leave. She's still there. Love 30. Okay. Bigfoot giving the crowd something. Couple of winners. Couple of winners. Love 30. Now the crowd's getting chanting. All right. It's saying, let's go Francis. Love 30. Can Bigfoot use the energy? Because now they're trying to help him as he returns that one into the forend of Carlos and Alcarez hits it in. What a winner from Alcarez. 15. 30. Bigfoot needs to let out a roar or something. He wore the goat shirt or the goat hoodie. We need a Serena roar from Tiavo. They're chanting Carlos' name. No, they're saying, let's go Francis. Aren't they? 15. 30. Serve out wide the back end of Tiavo. Good return to the forend of Alcarez. Volley from Tiavo is terrible. Alcarez in the back end pass. 30-all. Tiavo charged the net and now he's just talking to himself. Tiavo is like, what am I doing? I can't win the points. I mean, that was a great pass from Alcarez and Tiavo couldn't handle the power, I guess, but Tiavo is just, he's lost. 30-all. One cost for Aris with the, just going, yep, we got this. Keep going. Alcarez is like, sure, I'll keep, I'll keep going. Serve. There's a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Serve to the back end of Tiavo. Back end of Alcarez. Into the back end of Tiavo. Again to the back end of Alcarez. Back end of Tiavo into the back end of Alcarez. Again to the forend of Tiavo. Forend of Alcarez on the stretch. Slice. Tiavo forehand into the net. Another error. 40-30. 40-30. Nine-shot rally that last one. Tiavo looks stuffed. Tiavo looks stuffed. Again, thank you so much everybody for liking and subscribing and look, if you've never been here before and you're wondering why I'm like the way I am, I get passionate. I get a little bit passionate. That's why I'm showing my frustrations because it's like, ah, it's just so, it's such an easy thing to do for his box to help him and he could, it could make this match totally different or at least it could make this match entertaining again. As Tiavo finally hits a good shot and went back to deuce and the crowd are yawning. That's always a good sign. Back at deuce. So yeah, I'm just passionate. I want to see a good tennis match do it at the end of the day and right now we've, we had a great first set, an okay second set, a boring one sided third set and we're getting the same in the fourth. So we're being robbed as fans. That's why I'm getting, that's why I'm getting so fired up. Second serve. It's great for Alcarez though. I mean, he's having a great time cruising to victory. As he serves now the back end of Tiavo, back on Alcarez, the front of Tiavo, that goes out from Tiavo and Alcarez with a fist pump goes to advantage. Alcarez with the advantage to take the three love lead. Alcarez to get to three love as he serves again. Out wide, a fault. Second serve. Second serve. To the back end of Tiavo. Good return. Alcarez gets it. Four and a Tiavo. Again to the front of Alcarez who puts it in the net. All right, big vote. All right. And the crowd are on their feet going, let's go. That's, look, good. Let's hope they listen. Deuce again. It's almost like it's now or never big vote. That's what I think it's, it feels like this is the game. If it's not this game, it's probably not going to happen unless Alcarez completely loses his plot. Oh, what a return from Tiavo. Okay. All right. A little inspiration and a little positivity as well. And the crowd on their feet, they appreciate that. Tiavo nodding. Okay. All right. Let's see what happens. Advantage Tiavo for the record. He hasn't broken Alcarez all day. Zero breaks. Alcarez serves to the front of Tiavo. Back into Alcarez. Into the back in a big vote. Back enough for Alcarez again to the back of Tiavo. Into the back of Alcarez. Back into Tiavo again to the back of Alcarez. Into the back of Tiavo. For now, Alcarez down the line. Tiavo on the stretch gets it. To the back of Alcarez. For now, Tiavo hits a winner. Okay. And Tiavo is back. He's back. That's what we're talking about. Pulling himself out of the mud. And he's back. Dust himself off. All right. The crowd appreciate that. That's what we want to see. Some heart. Some fight. We're back. Much better from Tiavo. But for how long? For how long? Inspired a little bit of inspiration. And I like the energy as well. Finally, where has he been? Where has he been? In this year's US Open, glimpses of Rafa. I see an Alcarez. Oh, yeah, for sure. No doubt. I mean, for this whole season, it's been a glimpses of Rafa. There we go. Big foe getting fired up. It ain't over yet. Yeah, exactly. Look, all we want, and I mean, personally, all I want is a competitive match. That's all I care about. I care about Alcarez wins this set or not. If big foe ends up losing anyway, at least he loses close, you know. At least make Alcarez earn it, you know? Make Alcarez earn it. Don't just end the points with errors. He finally heard you. Yeah, his girlfriend must have relayed the message. Love seeing campfire up. Yeah, look, I love the sport. I want the players aside, replace these two with any others. And I'll say the same thing. I want to see some, I want to see some grit. I'm a latent Hewitt fan. That's all I know is not giving up. Unless Federer plays, I don't care about the result. Yeah, okay, fair enough. I would like a high level match. Yeah, at least that. At least give us something to, you know, something to get excited about for the last 30 minutes maybe of this match. Look out, some emotions might be what was lacking. Yeah, he got fired up, but again, you know, maybe we would have seen that a little bit earlier, had his box got up and about a little bit earlier in the match. But hey, he gets the break back. Let's see if he can whole serve. And Alcarez putting on some new shoes. His girlfriend is a tennis player. Her name is Ayanne Broomfield from Ontario, really? Did not know that. Well, shout out to her. She would know that's what she's supporting because she knows what she's on her feet. A break and a break into your hold, exactly. That is true. That is so true. Cam is a sports psychologist. I would love to get into sports psychology. It would actually like, if I had the time, maybe I will, maybe I will. Maybe I will. Maybe next year, I'll study sports psychology. I'm a sports psychologist hobbyist, I guess. If you have any sports psychology books you want me, send them to me. I'll read them. I think, is it like, what's that tennis one? I just downloaded that audio book. What is it? Tennis? I don't know what it's called. It's a tennis version, tennis one. Someone know, Inside Tennis or something? Now, let me find it. Anyway, it's Big Foes hitting back hands and that one goes in there from Big Foe. Love 15. What's it called? Inner game or something? The Inner Game? What's it called? You're a tennis coach, right? Yeah, I am. I'm a tennis coach in real life. The Inner Game of Tennis. So I've just downloaded that audio book and I'm going to listen to that after the US Open to get, yeah, the Inner Game of Tennis, yeah. And that's the sort of stuff I like because, you know, four hands at back ends are lovely, but also between the ears is what matters in tennis especially as we're at a four-on-to-four-on rally. Love 15 is Elcraz. On the stretch down the line, hit the winner, Love 30. And Tiafo might have fought back, but it's not a break unless you hold, said whoever in the chat before. Lovely shot down the line, Elcraz. Neurosculpting? Okay, let me write that down. You know, I'm always fascinated by like, you know, all that kind of stuff. As Elcraz hits the ball wide, 15.30. Good serve there from Tiafo. 136 miles an hour down the tee. 15.30. Tiafo serves. A fold. Second serve. 15.30. Serve to the foin of Elcraz. Foin of Tiafo is down the line. Elcraz on the stretch gets it. Tiafo with a volley is terrible. He just swatted that out, Tiafo. 15.40. Just a missed swat. Just a bad volley. Just a bad volley. He wasn't missing those in the first set. 15.40. Chance for Elcraz to get the break straight back. Wonder how many times Tiafos come back from the brink. I'll find out and let you know how many times his big foe come back from two sets of one down because if you've never done it and you've got to do it against this kid for the first time, that's good luck. As Elcraz hits it out, 30.40. All right, so he's been down two sets of one twice in his career and he came back. But I mean, look, Andrea Sepi and John Milman are not Carlos Elcraz. Return now goes in the foin of Tiafo. Back in there from Elcraz. The foin of Tiafo who hits a winner. Big foe survives and Elcraz points at his shoes because he slipped over again as we get to Deuce and Big foe. I don't know what he's saying to himself, but it didn't look great. Elcraz is slipping over again. I mean, he slipped over a fair few times this tournament Elcraz and he's not happy Elcraz. He was like, what the hell? Why am I falling over? This is crap. I thought I was playing on a sticky hardcore. It's slippery out there. Deuce serve out wide the foin of Elcraz, foin of Tiafo down the line. Elcraz with the backhand. Pass. Tiafo in the net. Elcraz too good. Tiafo's volley's in this game. Two of them. No good. Advantage Elcraz. Advantage Elcraz. Now at this stage, we're going to get a final that will determine the world number one, which is, look, let's be real. Probably the best case scenario, right? The best final. Having that, you know, whoever wins the trophies number one, you know, that little bit of a cherry on top. Serve out wide the backhand of Elcraz. Good return. Tiafo gets it in the net. And Elcraz breaks again. Three-one in this final fourth set. I caught myself there. I almost said it, but I caught myself. So, yeah, so big foes come back twice from two sets to one down, one against John Milman at the US Open and one against Andrea Seppi in Australia. But again, like I said, they ain't, they ain't Elcraz, you know, I respect, but they ain't Carlos Elcraz. Elcraz serves at three-one in the fourth set as he serves a fault. Second serve to the backhand of Tiafo, four-nit from Elcraz, the four-nit Tiafo, to the backhand of Elcraz. Backhand at Tiafo doesn't need to be hit because Elcraz puts it long. Love 15. Again, thank you so much for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already with, uh, we've got two matches left. We've got two matches left. Yeah, that's kind of bounced me out. Don't worry, I'll be back next week. We've got plenty of tennis a little to go. As Elcraz serves a good serve and Tiafo slices it in the net, 15-all. All right, 15-all. As Elcraz serves again, serve out wide the four-nit Tiafo, four-nit Elcraz, again to the four-nit Tiafo, to the four-nit of Elcraz. Tiafo with the forehand, the backhand of Elcraz, drop shot. Tiafo runs, forehand, drop shot back. Elcraz gets there with a slice. Tiafo volleys it away. Nice from Big Fo. As now he starts getting the crowd involved. Okay. All right, maybe he's got a little bit of energy left. 15-30, 15-30. Nice running there from both guys, but Tiafo is outsmarting Elcraz. You don't see that very often. Has been a return there from Tiafo, four-nit Elcraz down the line, backhand Tiafo into the backhand of Elcraz, backhand out from Big Fo. Again, the backhand of Elcraz, sliced. Four-nit from Tiafo, crosscourt. Elcraz on the stretch gets it. Four-nit Tiafo down the line. It's a winner, Big Fo. All right. The crowd's up and about now, 15-40. This is going to be our finished TV run. That's how he won the first set. Playing like that, 15-40, 15-40. Elcraz didn't get bad there as Tiafo had that swat down the line. What a shot to get back to break again, 15-40. Served the backhand of Tiafo, and that's a winner. Tiafo runs to the chair. All right. All right. We see you, Big Fo. We see you. And now his supporters get up. Oh, now you stand up. Oh, wow. Okay. Now you're on your feet. Oh, now when he hits a winner, oh, now we're going to stand. Oh, good shot now. Get stuffed. All right. Let's answer questions. Actually, no, I'm going to ask you a question. Oh, sorry. I was way too sassy. I forgot that I was actually alive. That's how I react usually in my real life. Where are you watching from? Let me know the chat. Sorry about that. Oh, my bad. I forgot who I was talking. I thought I was talking and hanging out with my friends. I am sort of, where are you watching from? Where are you watching from? Yeah, they're bandwagonists. Yeah. I'm embarrassed. That's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed now. Sorry about that. Anyway, where are we watching from? Let me know in the chat. What's up? Okay. Australia, Greece, Taiwan, Canada, Dallas, Poland, Nigeria. Yeah, I am with friends, but I forgot what I was doing. A little unprofessional. Getting all sarcastic. Too sarcastic. Japan, Israel, nice. USA, Pakistan, Bahamas, India, London, New York, Barbados from Savage Land, says Darren. Yeah, Darren, you're the mayor of Savage Land, mate. You are the mayor and the boss over in Savage Land. Hong Kong, Mexico, LA, the UK. Some of you savages are awake. Love to see it. Spain, Mexico, Miami, Venezuela. Some people are saying some ridiculous places. That's fine. You know, you want to, you know, Mars. Hollywood, okay. That sounds fake. North Pole, good one. Haven't heard that one before. Where else are we from? Vancouver, Las Vegas, Dubai, Kentucky, France, Philippines. Nice. From all around the world. Some of you are awake in Europe. You guys are the savages right now. Appreciate that. To stand up all night hanging out. And let's hope that it's worth it. Let's hope that we get a finale fitting of a 4AM finish, right? At least this match is starting to make it worth your while. Staying up all night. It's not, at the moment, it's worth your while. You're not doing it for nothing, you know? Let's get back to it. Again, thank you so much for the love. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet. I encourage you to do so. All right. Tiafo has the break again. Can he get back to even though? That is the question. Has Elcors hit the winner return? Love 15. Because he's broken back the last couple of games, but he hasn't quite leveled it up yet. Nearly three hours played. Now, the real winner of this match is Casparud. Because Casparud is going to play either Tiafo after a five-set epic or Elcaraz after a three-hour epic. So either way, what happens now, Casparud will be the favorite or at least should be the favorite because he will drag one of these guys into the dark deep waters and see how long they can swim. That's dark, but also super relevant. As Tiafo hits a good serve, it's 30-15. 30-15. Big foe to get level. Elcaraz is still serving though. First, I should say. So he'll still be leading if he can keep holding as Elcaraz hits a forehand and Tiafo puts it away. Nice serving there from Big Foe. 40-15. 40-15. Michelle Obama chilling. She's got her. She's clapping. She's showing the energy. There you go. Love to see it. Bon Jovi. I don't know where he is, but I'm sure he's having fun. 40-15. Serve from Tiafo as a fault. Second serve. Second serve in the back of Elcaraz. Elcaraz in the net. 33. All right, level. 33. And Tiafo is trying to get the crowd involved. All right. Good. And they say yes, we will cheer for you. We've got you. He needs him. He needs him. Three all in the fourth. Elcaraz up two sets of one. Now I wonder if Elcaraz has lost the two sets of one lead before. I feel like Baratini beat him from two sets of one down. I feel like Baratini got him. Let me have a look. No, he's never lost from two sets of one up. Never. He's never lost from this position before Elcaraz. In fact, he's only been pushed to five sets twice. No, three times, sorry. Chillidge at the US Open in the last round. He was up two sets of one, and then Chillidge made a fifth. Sidney passed last year at the US Open, was up two sets of one, and then he lost six love in the fourth and then won a tie break. And then in Wimbledon last year, he lost the two sets of one lead to Uchiyama, but then he came back and won in the fifth. So he has been forced to play five sets a few times from this position, but not very often. Three hours played. 30 love as Elcaraz serves the front of Tiafo. Fawn Elcaraz is long. All right, 30-15. 30-15. As Elcaraz looks to get back the lead, if you're just joining us, Tiafo has broken back a couple of times to get back into this set, but he's trying to use the crowd to his advantage, and now the sun to get loud as he hits an inside-out winner. Woops. 30-all. 30-all. Can Bigfo get back in the lead? No worries, JK. Appreciate it. Good luck, mate, on your bet. All right, they're saying, let's go, Francis. Let's see what happens. 30-all. Three-all. Big chance for Bigfo, as he serves out wide the front of Tiafo. Back in Elcaraz, into the back of Tiafo, up goes the lob. Tiafo can't get back the next smash. Great smash from Elcaraz. Clutch. 40-30. And Tiafo just kind of goes, I don't know what to do. How do I beat that? I don't know if I like that attitude. It seems like he's accepting it. I guess I can't beat this guy. Well, not with that attitude. 40-30. Served the front of Bigfo, back in out from Elcaraz, the back end of Tiafo. Back in Slice Elcaraz, into the front of Tiafo, who puts it wide for three. Elcaraz gets back the lead. He gets back the lead. And he's crowded on their feet, because they know he needs it. They're up and about. I would much rather have them in my box if I was playing, to be honest. They're giving off energies when, and then Carlos is feeding off that too. You know, that's, it matters. It matters. All right, let's answer questions. Now, that other match is tight. I feel Tiafo's back. I've got to be honest, it's great to see Bigfo putting up a fight, but I reckon Elcaraz is going to break to win. I think Elcaraz is going to break to win. It just feels like one of those things where it's like, he's put up a good fight to get back, but it's like, he's still serving second. And that's because he let the third set go so easily. Yeah, Elcaraz's box doing their job, yeah. Maybe Kiggs needs Elcaraz's box. They'd fire them all after a day, for no reason. Yeah, what a match. Yep, Contra, what a match. We knew these matches were going to be fun, because they were so unpredictable. We didn't know what to expect with these random semi-finals, but yeah. Cam, why are you cheering for Tiafo? Because I want five sets. I want more tennis, and the only way we're going to get that is if Tiafo wins this set. Again, if Elcaraz wins this set, that's fine by me. Final's going to be fire, but I just want five sets, because I love tennis. Elcaraz loved so much. Handsome boys as Elizabeth. Is Elcaraz tired? Yeah. Elcaraz is tired, but you don't feel tired when you're winning. At least you don't, you know, you don't, you don't think about it when you're winning, but for sure he's still tired, but he's getting free points, which is very easy, much easier than, and he's running down everything, which is good, but Tiafo puts that point away. 15 love. 15 love. Not sure you're getting five cam. Well, I don't think we will. Like I said, I think I wouldn't be surprised if Elcaraz breaks the win at four five or maybe six five. That's Tiafo sends an ace. 30 love. 30 love. Just waiting for the person in the chat. Where is it? Where are they? 30 love. Where are you? Where'd you go? Okay. Sit back down. All right. All right. 30 love as Tiafo serves a fault. Second serve. Pew, pew, pew. Second serve. Big four out wide at the front of Elcaraz and Elcaraz dumps it in the net. So that answered the question, is Elcaraz tired? Well, yeah, because he wouldn't miss that if he was fresh, you know, he wouldn't miss that if he was not tired. So he is still tired, but when you're winning and you don't think about it, serve is a let from Tiafo to get to four to get to four four over three hours played as Big Four serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Elcaraz, back in at Tiafo. Into the back end of Elcaraz. Four now from Tiafo to the slice of Elcaraz who puts it in the net. And Tiafo levels up again four four in the fourth. All right. They crowds on their feet again. Where we are in the third set. Second set. When he needed you more most, they're there now. Four four. Can Tiafo create something special? Or is Elcaraz going to get to the final in four sets? We're going to find out. We won five. See, I do want five always. Always five sets all day. And I could give us stuff who wins the fifth. I don't care. Just take us to the fifth. Tiafo, but he hits it long on the return. Good serving Elcaraz. I want to be optimistic. Nice serving from Elcaraz. 15 love. That guy is wearing the most American shirt. He basically made a polo shirt out of a flag. I don't know how that is even a thing. He ripped this flag down and he made a shirt. That's a ridiculous shirt. Super patriotic. I love it, but also why? Why? Serve out the back end of Elcaraz. Sorry, back in Tiafo. Back in Elcaraz down the line. Tiafo in with the forehand. Elcaraz with the back end in the back end of Tiafo. Elcaraz now to the front of Tiafo. To the back end of Elcaraz. Tiafo going after it here as we had a four and a four in rally. Big four again. To the front of Elcaraz. To the back end of Tiafo. Back in Elcaraz on the stretch. Sliced. Tiafo. Volley's a winner. All right. 15 all. 15 all and the crowd is starting to get fired up. They're starting to get fired up and Big Four is looking. He's happy again. I mean smiling. We haven't seen that since the second set. He almost ran into the net. I think that's why he smiled. He almost touched the net. Oh, that could have been. Remember if you touched the net. Oh, how did he not touch the net? Big Four was so lucky. He almost ran into the net, which means you lose a point. You touch the net with your racket of your foot or your run into it. Unless the ball bounces twice, you will lose a point. As we had a return now from Tiafo. That goes out. 30-15. See, they're the rules. If the ball bounces twice and then you can touch the net, but you can't touch the net during the point. All right. 30-15. Six points away Elcaraz from the final. As he serves the front of Tiafo. Back in Elcaraz. Drop shot. Big Four runs. Gets it with a drop shot back. Elcaraz back in pass. Winner. 40-15. And Elcaraz again. I don't think he wants to play five for the third time in a row. And I think if we go to a fifth, the crowd are going to be energized. Let's be honest. And Tiafo should be fitter based on their last matches. There's this tired fist bump as well from Elcaraz. He's like, we're almost there. It's almost like me on a Friday when I used to be an architect. Back into down the line to the slice of Elcaraz. 4-0 Tiafo in the net. Elcaraz gets a free game. Okay. Elcaraz who slowly walks back to the chair is one game away from the final. One game away. One game away. Can Big Four survive? That's the question. All right. Go Elcaraz. Pew, pew. Do you think Sinner can make the ADB finals? What will he have to do to get there? Good question. So Sinner is 14th on the list of ADB finals. Sinner's like 500 points from making the finals. So if Sinner plays well at a couple of events on the indoor courts, which he is pretty good at, he's had pretty good success on the indoor surface, he could make the he could qualify. Unfortunately, Wimbledon lack of Wimbledon points screwed him over. But yeah, if he plays good on the indoor courts in Europe at the end of the year, he could sneak there for sure. A good run in Paris or a good run in Vienna, which is I think he won before. So yeah. Also, we're almost at 2000 likes, which is probably the most for the tournament. So thank you so much everybody for showing the love. And like I said in the last match, just thank you for joining us because it's not the Nadal Federer, Nadal Djokovic match that we're used to seeing, or even the Medvedev versus Vera matches. It's new players, players that we haven't seen at this stage at playing for these trophies. I can understand a lot of people not want to watch this because it's not the players that they're used to seeing, but I appreciate all of you who have come here and know that this is an important match. No matter who's playing the US Open semi-final means something. So I appreciate everybody who's here because I'm sure a lot of people as soon as Nadal lost were like, well, I'm not watching. A lot of people said I'm not watching because Djokovic is not there. So I really do appreciate everybody who is here, despite the fact we don't have the superstar goats in the semis. As Tiafo hits it wide and it's love 15, because it just shows that you guys are real true tennis fans are out there, you know, no matter who wins a point and who wins the matches. As that ball went wide from Tiafo, love 15, three points away. Exactly. Yeah, tennis is bigger than the players. That's true. All right, by the way, the donations coming through, we'll get to the donations at the end of this match. So if you do donate, I'll play them at the end. As we're going to return now from Elcaraz, the back end of Tiafo, four now Elcaraz, into the four of Tiafo, again to the four of Elcaraz, who puts away the winner. Love 30. Love 30. Always a danger at this stage. Always a danger when serving to stay in a match, especially against Elcaraz. Love 30. Two points away from the first ever Grand Slam final, where he'll play Kasparud for the world number one and a U.S. Open. As we're going to back in now from Tiafo, into the back end of Elcaraz, sliced in the net. Big foe survives. 15-30. 15-30 has Big foe got anything left. His girlfriend's on her feet. The only one who's clapping. Again, a disgrace. If I was Tiafo, I would tell them all to get up or get out. That's just me. 15-30. Maybe I am a little bit like Kirios in there. I got a bit of that vibe. You're not a spectator. You're not a spectator. 15-30. Big foe served. Second serve to the four of Elcaraz. Back in that Tiafo doesn't need to be hit. Elcaraz just pushes that out. 30-all. 30-all. Now they're on their feet. They should be on their feet after the ball. I'm going to send that guy to the, that guy's going to the, he's going to the moon, that guy. All right. Return now to the back end of Elcaraz. Backing out from Tiafo into the front of Elcaraz. Again, going in really? No way. Elcaraz must have hit the line just because that looked out. And Tiafo can't believe it. 30-40. Elcaraz with a match point. And it was in by a millimeter. It's been like that all night. Elcaraz has hit the ball on the line. Just match point for Carlos Elcaraz to play Casperud for the US Open, but also for the world number one. He serves. Tiafo a fault. Second serve. Second serve goes to the back end of Elcaraz. Back in that Tiafo. Into the back end of Elcaraz. Back in that Tiafo. Again to the back of Elcaraz. Sliced. Tiafo forehand. Again to the back end of Elcaraz. Back in that Tiafo. Again to the Elcaraz back end. Who hits it to the back end of Tiafo. Elcaraz forehand. Inside out. Tiafo just gets it. Into the front of Elcaraz. Tiafo with a slice. Elcaraz with the back end. Again to the back end of Tiafo. Who hits it into the back end of Elcaraz. Drop shot. Tiafo gets it. With a drop shot. Back. No way. Big foe survives. And he looks around like I'm sorry. Is somebody here? Did somebody, somebody here? Didn't realize. Uh, Deuce. That was the longest rally of the match. 19 shots. And Michelle Obama approved. She's like that was pretty good. That was pretty good. I mean, I can't, I don't think Michelle Obama's allowed to like, you know, jump and shout, but that was as emotional as she's probably going to get. And Tiafo's like, Oh, sorry. Uh, I forgot that you were here, everybody. My bad. Deuce. Okay. The crowd's like, maybe we're witnessing something special. Maybe. Mother flush. Ashley. Whoa, Ashley. Jesus, Ashley. Whoo. Wash your mouth. What's your, what's your mouth, Ashley? Jeez. Mother father. Serve that one to the forehand of Elcaraz. Back and Tiafo is a winner. Big foe gets to advantage. And the crowd are going nuts. Advantage Tiafo to level things up. Three hours and 20 minutes. Almost played. Big foe with a serve. Out wide at the back of Elcaraz. Elcaraz hits it out. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. And Tiafo is like, I think it's my time to do something special. Uh, you wore the goat shirt. You wore the goat hoodie. Channel Serena. And he's saying, let's go. He's telling the crowd. He's like, I've worked all my life for this. And they're all going, we're here. We've got you. All right. Here we go. Elcaraz serves. Elcaraz serves. Five, five. Elcaraz serves. Let's see what he's got. Tiafo just saved a match point. Serving the net. Second serve. The crowd are cheering. Everything that Elcaraz does wrong now. Serve. The back of the Tiafo. He's got energy as he comes into the net. Back in lob. Smash. Tiafo gets it. Back and every Elcaraz is good. Tiafo can't get that. Elcaraz too good. Oh, just when you think, just when you think, Tiafo is on the attack. Elcaraz goes. Get out of here without stop doing that. Stop. Stop. Stop. I love it though from Tiafo. He charged an Elcaraz there. And then Elcaraz went, don't do that. Don't do that. 15 love. 15 love. Again, thank you for subscribing. If you have already, if you haven't already, then I strongly suggest you do or encourage you to as we get a serve down the tee. 30 love. Nice from Elcaraz. Tiafo trying to keep himself upbeat. 30 love. 30 love. And the crowd are trying to, again, get involved. Elcaraz serves. Into the front of Tiafo. Front of Elcaraz. Into the back of the Tiafo. Front of Elcaraz again. To the front of Tiafo on the stretch. Elcaraz. Oh, Tiafo hit it out. Tiafo hit it out. 40 love. 40 love. Some people in the cheap seats who can't see shit, they're like, yeah, that was a good road. Great shot. Nope, it was out. Sorry. Sorry, everybody's out. Sorry. 40 love. Elcaraz. Look, this kid is just mentally a beast. He is a mental giant. 40 love. He serves the front of Tiafo. That goes out on the return. And Elcaraz gets the 6-5. Elcaraz takes back the lead. Okay. Again, thank you so much for everybody who has subscribed over the whole two weeks. We're down to our last two matches, which is, it's sad because it was the end of the tournament and we've done so much and we've watched so much and we've cheered so much and witnessed some craziness. We still got two matches to go though. Maybe we got some more left in us. Maybe a little bit more, yeah? Is that too much to ask? A little bit more? Two more matches out of nuts? Is that okay? Are we being greedy? Are we being too greedy? Are we asking for too much? No worries, Margot. I'm happy to have all of you here. Elcaraz is a different gravy, I feel, for such a young player. He's built different. He's built different. They programmed him a little bit different when they built him in that lab. You look nervous. Do you want to see our photo win? No, I'm fine. I love a tie break to finish, though. I'm just glad we're not getting a bummed out, nothing set. We're getting, Elcaraz is earning it. He's earning that spot. Never too greedy in tennis, yeah. He's a prodigy. That's what he is. The dude is a freak in the best possible way. Elcaraz's new superstar. He's been a superstar 12 months. Love the energy and passion. I'm from Sierra Leone rooting for TFO because he's originally from there. Yeah, look, Spice Saloon. Saloon. Yeah, he is. His parents are from there. It's just an incredible story from TFO. Even just to get to this point, I mean, you hear a story, it's insane that he even is playing a semi-final. Just super, like rags to riches. There's a movie. It is a movie. Can he add to the movie? That's the question. All right, first serves a fold. Second serve. He just saved a match point in the last game. Can he get to the tie break? Served to the back end of Elcaraz. Back enough from TFO. Into the back end of Elcaraz. Down the line is long. 15 love. Elcaraz just over-hitting. Just over-hitting. 15 love. Served in the tee. It's an ace. 30 love. 30 love. Oh, thanks, Dawn. 30 love. TFO. Two points away from the shootout as he serves. Out wide at the front of Elcaraz. Great return. Elcaraz massive return. 30-15. By the way, we're only 90 away from 2,000 likes, so thank you so much, everybody, for that. And I think this is the biggest stream of the tournament so far as we'd have returned now from Elcaraz. That goes in the... Oh, what a let. TFO can't believe it. All right, 30-15. First serve again. Elcaraz two... Sorry, TFO. Two points away from the tie break. I should have gone to the toilet earlier. Oh, well, if I jump out of my seat. Interesting. Serve. Out wide. Fault. Second serve. Second serve. Big foe. Serve out wide at the back end of Elcaraz. Back in at TFO. Into the back end of Elcaraz. Back in at TFO. Again to the back end of Elcaraz. Out from Elcaraz. 40-15. Big foe. To get to the tie break and have a shoot out in the fourth. If you don't know what a shootout is, it's what we call... Well, what I call a tie break. A tie break is like a penalty shootout. You know, get a couple of serves each. Bang, bang, bang. Good old shootout. 40-15. Has been a return now from TFO. Down the line. Win up. That's a great shot. Okay. Now I'm not going to play the intro, but tell me in the chat who's going to win this tie break. Who's going to take it? Remember, TFO has not lost a tie break in this entire event. He's won 7-0. Elcaraz has lost all three that he's played. Does that make a difference? I don't know. You tell me. Who's taken the tie break? You tell me. You tell me. Here we go. Big foe has done amazing to make this interesting, considering where he was in the start of his fourth set and how his crowd were reacting as Elcaraz hit the great shot. TFO gets it back. Back enough from TFO. Cross court. Elcaraz volley. TFO with the pass in the net. One love Elcaraz. One love Elcaraz. One zero Elcaraz. A lot of people going with Big foe. A lot of you going Big foe. Big foe did save a match point. Remember that as well. He saved a match point at 5-4. Elcaraz just throws the ball away. Of course I won that point. I'm pretty good at tennis. One love. TFO serves. A fold. Second serve. Second serve. Out wide at the back end of Elcaraz. Elcaraz hits it out. A second serve return. That second serve was 78 miles an hour. The slowest of second serves in Elcaraz just hits it out. A tired return. I mean look, three and a half hours. Elcaraz is tired as TFO serves a fold. And if this goes five sets, the winner of tonight's match is Kasparu. Let's be real. This is the best thing he could have asked for. Return now to the back end of TFO. That goes down the line. Elcaraz with a slice forehand. Just gets it. For when a TFO again to the forehand of Elcaraz. Volley TFO is too good. 2-1 TFO. Huge. Unbelievable. Swinging Volley backhand. Swinging backhand Volley even. Huge hit. TFO 2-1. On serve in the tie break. Big foe is, I mean look, credit. Big credit to Big foe because he looked dead and buried at the start of this third, the fourth set. Was he down like 3-1? He looked out. And he somehow got back as we return now to the forehand of Elcaraz, forehand of TFO into the forehand of Elcaraz down the line. Just wide from Elcaraz. 3-1 Big foe. He gets the break. Mini break to TFO. 3-1. Again, if you are just joining us, welcome as they confirmed that was wide. As I said, Elcaraz was up 3-1 in this set. TFO broke back a couple of times to get back. He was down a break, broke back. Down a break, broke back. And he saved a match point of 5-4. And now we're here as TFO hits the ball in the net on the return. 3-2 TFO. And then he, yeah, 5-4. He saved a match point. Elcaraz this close. As close as Sinner was against him too soon. And now Big foe is four points away from a fifth. Big foe has won every tie break at this US Open he's played. Elcaraz has lost every tie break he has played at this US Open. Does that matter? Probably not. 3-2. TFO serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. To the back end of Elcaraz and Elcaraz hits a winner. Off the return. The mini break goes straight back. 3-3. 3-0. And TFO just was not ready. I mean, look, he hit the serve and then he just watched it fly by. Cam, do you really think Casparuca win? Yeah. Rude can beat both these guys. 3-0. 3-3. Big foe's girlfriend up on her feet. Rocking the bootleg TFO out. I mean, I hope, I want to get one. If he gets to the final somehow, TFO, I'm buying one of those shirts. Are they available on Etsy or something? Serving to the final of Elcaraz in the net. 4-3. Not too bad. Great serve from TFO. 4-3. And by the way, I can confirm that this is the biggest match of the tournament so far. 2-2 to go. Again, thank you so much, everybody. Subscribe, like, blah, blah, blah. 4-3. TFO. Elcaraz with the serves. He serves. Out to the back of the TFO. 4-3. Elcaraz. Drop shot is in. Oh, how? How did he get that? TFO, no chance. Elcaraz just, and I think that's Elcaraz's brother who's in the stands and he's just like, oh my God, what are you doing? How are you doing that? How? How? How? How? How'd you do that? Elcaraz is like, because I'm pretty good at tennis. 4-4. Big point here. Elcaraz serves. Out wide. TFO returns into the front of Elcaraz, who hits a winner, throwing the forehand around Elcaraz. 5-4. Elcaraz, 2 points away from the final. 5-4. TFO's camp are all sitting down except for the girlfriend who's on her feet. She deserves the biggest of promotions. If that's a car or a ring, I don't know what their situation is. First serve is a fault. Second serve. She's the MVP. TFO's mom looks nervous as hell. Anything. It's just freaking out. Backhand now goes in from TFO to the front of Elcaraz. Elcaraz is wide. Oh, just. Oh, that was close. Elcaraz almost hit another winner. Just goes wide. 5-5. 5-5. As Elcaraz tells the umpire, please tell the crowd to be quiet. It's kind of a big point. 5-4. TFO with the serve. Down the tee. Elcaraz in the net. And it's set point to TFO to take us to a fifth. Remember, he hasn't lost a tie break. The entire US open. Elcaraz has not won a tie break. This entire US open to this point. Elcaraz is serving though. Set point to TFO to take us to the fifth. Hold on to your butts. 6-5. That sounded creepy. Not in a creepy way. It's just a thing that Samuel Jackson said in Jurassic Park. It's a set. People, it's 6-5. Serve. Down the tee to 4 to TFO. 4 now Elcaraz in. Out. It's out. We're going 5. We're going 5. Big 4. Taking us to the fifth. And he's yelling. He's going nuts. Right. We are going 5. Big 4 is going nuts. All right. Don't you go to sleep. Don't you go to sleep. Here we go. TFO looked dead and buried. He looked dead and buried. And now we're going all fifth. All right. Match point saved. Fifth set. Let's go. Let's go. Again, don't forget to subscribe as I bite my lip. Oh, that's all right. No blood. Don't forget to subscribe. Holy crap. TFO. I mean, look. He looked out of it. He looked out of it. Jack on crazy. Yep. I can barely read. I'm trying. All right. Let's answer questions. We have been so spoiled with 5 set epics over the last few days involving Elcaraz. Blame him for your lack of sleep. Don't look at me. Blame Elcaraz. He's the one keeping you awake. He's the one who can't. You know, he wants to play 5. I mean, blame Carlos for your sleep deprivation. I mean, it ain't my fault. I'm just the man who's gone nuts. All right. Let's play some donations. We've got a lot of donations coming through. Thank you everybody for donating. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. I usually say V-A-M-O-O-O-S, but it's 5 a.m. in Paris and I am yelling C-M-O-O-O-O-O-N on the job. So happy for my brother, big foe. Thank you, Vince. You've smashed the streams during this tournament. Bro, hands clapping. Thank you, Nick, for the 25 euro. Appreciate it. All right, everybody. For the 20 euro. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, everyone. This is what we live for. This is what we watch for. Five sets in a semi-final of the U.S. Open. We got it last year against with Djokovic versus Varev. We get it again this year. We actually got it the year before with Varev versus Karina Buster. And we're getting it again with Tiafo versus Alkaraz. Tiafo to serve first. Who's going to win this set? You tell me in the chat. Who's going to win this set? Thank you, Robert, for the 10. Got a few more donations coming through and then we'll get to it. Ah, Cam was as red as a Scott in the Sydney Sun. Thank you, ships. For the two. Appreciate that. Oh, Medi. Shout out from Paris by the way this set just made up the whole match in terms of excitement. Now we are having fun. Anything goes if this goes to a fifth. Thank you, Vince. Yes, let's see what happens. As Alkaraz wins the first point with a nice forehand winner. Love 15. At this stage, I could give a stuff who wins it. I couldn't care less. Let's see who has the guts. Now, I did say at the start of this match that the longer this match goes, the better for Tiafo. And right now, he's right where he needs it to be in terms of fitness wise with Alkaraz. He's dragged Alkaraz into deep water. Now, can he outlast Alkaraz? Or is he also feeling tired? I mean, you've got to think of that too, right? Find a find now as Alkaraz gets a find into the front of Tiafo. Back in Alkaraz on the stretch, into the front of Tiafo. That's a good shot. Alkaraz gets it, but it goes in the net. 15-all. 15-all. Going to sleep. This match is fixed. A ridiculous comment. Take the tinfoil hat off, mate. The earth is round. Not a disc. It ain't flat. 15-all. 15-all. Three hours and 40 minutes played. We're going the four hours. We're going four hours. And this, if you're a Casper Root fan, this is the perfect scenario. First serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Tiafo to the back end of Alkaraz who puts it in the net. 30-15. Juarez joining us. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Our first set. Let me give you a bit of a recap. First set, Tiafo. Very solid. No breaks of serve. He won the tie break. Very close. Tie break. Second set. Tiafo just completely took the foot off the gas. In fact, the second and third set, he completely took the foot off the gas and Alkaraz destroyed him. Actually went to the bakery in that third set. Then Alkaraz was destroying in the fourth. Three-one. In the fourth, Tiafo found a little bit of energy, a couple of good shots. The crowd got involved and Tiafo saved match point to win the tie break. And now Tiafo is a 30-all in the fifth. That's where we're at. That's where we're at. And again, Alkaraz has not won a tie break in this entire match. Tiafo has not lost a tie break in this entire match. Sorry, Alkaraz has not lost a tie break in this, won a tie break in this entire tournament. Tiafo has not lost a tie break in the entire US Open. If it goes to a tie break, take your pick. As the guy in the blue shirt in the front row of Tiafo's camp got some mysterious powder in a bag, putting it into a drink. He's making a potion. You're a wizard, Harry. Has been a foreigner now from Tiafo, into the foreign of Alkaraz, foreigner again from Tiafo, into the foreign of Alkaraz, back in from Tiafo, again to the backhand of Alkaraz, back in the backhand as Alkaraz gets on the stretch. Tiafo in the net, 30-40. 30-40. And Tiafo just giving away the free point and getting real pissed off. At least I like that though. I like that he cares at Tiafo. He looked like he was, he didn't look like he really cared about this match for a couple of sets there. 30-40. All right, everyone's on their feet. Everyone in the, what's that called, the corporate boxes, they're up and about 30-40. As Bigfoot serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Out wide, Alkaraz hits a fine return. Back in Tiafo, goes in the net. And Alkaraz breaks. First game of the fifth. First game of the fifth. All right, that's the start. Now remember, Alkaraz was up a break in that set, in that fourth set. LeBron understands, no way. There's no way LeBron's understands. What he went, it came over from LA to go, to watch the tennis. No way. Is LeBron, LeBron's up there? Surely not. I don't think LeBron's there. Again, thank you so much for everybody who subscribed tonight. Again, thank you so much if you are into tennis, you're a tennis fan. We watch tennis all year round. So this might be the first time you're here and you haven't subscribed yet and you're wondering whether or not it's worth it. Just ask the people in the chat and they might say no. But I say yes. Anyways, return now to the back end of Alkaraz, back end of Tiafo, into the back end of Alkaraz, sliced to the forehand of Tiafo, back end now from Alkaraz to the back end of Tiafo, to the forehand of Alkaraz, who puts it wide. Love 15. Love 15. Almost four hours. Almost. Alkaraz is like playing after midnight. I don't know what it is. He's just a psycho. He doesn't like playing. He likes to win after midnight. That's why he didn't win that set. It's a thing. I'll take off my tinfoil hat right now, okay? That goes wide from Tiafo and it's unbelievable. Alkaraz, 15-all. LeBron who? LeBron James. He's in that space jam movie, you know? LeBron James, the actor. 15-all. 15-all. And Alkaraz serves with the break in the fifth. Now, this is, I don't want to, I won't say it. 15-all. I'll wait and see. Serve. Out wide to the forehand of Tiafo, forehand from Alkaraz, into the back end of Tiafo, to the back end of Alkaraz. That goes to the back end of Tiafo. And Tiafo hits it out. 30-15. 30-15. Alkaraz looking for that. Too lovely. Now, Alkaraz played a five-setter against Chilich. He played a five-setter against Sinner and he's playing a five-setter now. And we haven't even made the final. So, unless this guy is made of machine, someone's got to give as he hits a slice. Now, to the forehand from Tiafo, to the back end of Alkaraz. Alkaraz in the net, 30-all. 30-all. 30-all. Okay, so what I was going to say was Sinner had the same kind of deal, right? He was up a set match point, you know, blah, blah, blah. And he was up a break in the fifth and then Alkaraz came back to beat him. I'm just saying that that's what happened with Sinner and Alkaraz is in that position now and didn't go so well for Sinner. So what's up? As we get a fault, second serve. He was up, you know, he had a match point and then he had a break and then he lost. Just saying. Just saying. 30-all. Served to the back end of Tiafo. He comes after it and Alkaraz passes him anyway. 40-30. I like that from Tiafo, but Alkaraz too good. I don't know. 40-30. Lovely shot, Alkaraz. Just smacked it down. That was a wrapper shot. That looked like wrapper. Just without the long hair and the pirate shorts and the headband and the sleeveless ship. It was a wrapper shot. 40-30. Serve is a let. Is that smacked Tiafo on the upper thigh? 40-30. First serve again. Alkaraz serves to the back end of Tiafo. Tiafo in the net. Two love. Two love, Alkaraz. In the fifth, Chris Fowler just said the exact same thing. That's because ESPN listened to the show. Two love. That's because ESPN have our stream going and they're like, okay, pass this on to Chris. Yeah, yeah. Tennis Talk just said this. Tennis Talk chat. They take stuff from you two guys. They're watching. Wave. Wave to ESPN, everybody. Hey, hello. Hi. Hi. Everybody, wave to ESPN. Back end to back end rally as we get a back end from Tiafo down the line. Good shot. Alkaraz gets it, but it's in the net. 15 love. 15 love. That's the hello. Hi ESPN. We see you. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. 15 love. Pass it over to Brad Gilbert, who is very, very good. 15 love. Serve it wide at the back end of Alkaraz. Four net from Tiafo to the slice of Alkaraz. To the slice of Tiafo. Alkaraz, four-end slice. Into the four-net Tiafo again at the back end of Alkaraz. Back in from Tiafo again to the four-net Alkaraz. Back in at Tiafo, to the back end of Alkaraz. Sliced. Tiafo doing the attacking as Alkaraz goes cross-court the four-hand to four-hand as Tiafo picks up the pace and hits a good shot. 30 love. 30 love. Big foe sticking around. Michelle Obama on the big screen as she looks as nervous as I think she's allowed to look. 30 love. Louise, look, if they send a contract I'll read it. 30 love. As we had an ace there from Tiafo. 40 love. Silly comments. All right, big serve down the tee. 40 love. Big foe to get on the board. We're going around the courts after this because I need to refill my water bottle. Back in the net from Alkaraz and Tiafo gets on the board in the fifth. All right, let's go around the courts because we had doubles and the other singles match today. Okay, here we go. Alkaraz fifth set with the break. Casperud plays the winner. Who will he play? That is a question. Alkaraz had a match point in the fourth set. And here we are. Who is going to play Casperud? Serve in the four-hand of Alkaraz. I've fallen from Tiafo to the four-hand of Alkaraz to the volley of Alkaraz in the net. What happened there? Love 15. Love 15. And what's the time? What have we got? Almost four hours. Again, almost four hours for Alkaraz. Serve to the four-hand of Tiafo. Back in our Alkaraz is shaped wide. Okay. Big foe. Love 30. What did I say about the center match? What did I say? I know I shouldn't have said it. What did I say? Don't get me Alkaraz fans. I'm sorry. Love 30. Love 30. How long can Alkaraz survive as he serves? Out wide at the four-hand of Tiafo. Four-hand of Alkaraz down the line. Tiafo with the backhand. Alkaraz's four-hand is a winner. Tiafo watches it go by. 15-30. 15-30. Juan Casarero is thinking about what to say next. Serve is a fault. 15-30. Second serve. Second serve, Alkaraz. Big chance for big foe. Second serve in the back end of Tiafo. Back in Alkaraz. The back end of Tiafo. And Tiafo hits it wide. 30-all. 30-all. Let me know in the chat what time is it in your world? What time are you watching this match? What is the time in your world? It's 1.30 in the afternoon in my country. Where are you watching from? What time is it? Serve to the back end of Tiafo. Back in Alkaraz is in the net. Breakback point for big foe to get back on serve in this set. The final set. A lot of people with 10.30 p.m. A lot of Americans in the chat. 9 a.m. in India. Nice. 5.30 in the morning. Jesus. Poland rip. Oh, that's right. Just sleep all day. It's Saturday. Just sleep all day. It's Saturday. 30-40. By the way, simply grace, thank you so much for the donation. We'll play it after this. 30-40. Serve out wide at the back end of Tiafo. Good return. Winner. We're back on serve. 2-2 in the fifth. Tiafo strikes back. And his girlfriend loves it. So does Michelle Obama. Let's go. Could we have two African finalists? Thank you, simply grace for the 10. Well, yeah, I mean, we've got Oscar Burr already in there, haven't we? So in Tiafo, well, his parents are originally from Sierra Leone. It could quite happen. Was he born there? Or was he born in America? No, that's Alkaraz. I was going to say Tiafo was born in Spain. Well, that's Alkaraz, a prison button. But yeah, I mean, look, Tiafo is born in America, but he has mentioned his parents are from Sierra Leone. So yeah, I guess you could say that. But he's American. All the Americans are going to go, he's American. He's out. But his parents, look, he is proud of his heritage. And I mean, what a story. And what an episode for the Netflix series. If he gets to the final, I mean, if you watch Drive to Survive, you'll know what's up. Love 15. They'll do a whole Tiafo episode if he wins the trophy or even gets to the final. They'll tell his story. I mean, yeah, this is like, this would be one of the, one of the big ones. Yeah, Jabez, Jabez from Africa. North. Four and a four now as we get a slice volley there from Alkaraz, from Tiafo, up goes the love from Alkaraz. And it goes in from Alkaraz. That's a beautiful lob. Love 30. And Alkaraz doing the just nodding. Just, yep, I can do that. Love 30. Yeah, Tiafo was born in Maryland. I knew when I read that comment, I was like, oh, you know, he is American. Nice lob there from Alkaraz. Okay, love 30. That's Tiafo. So it's a fault. He's worked his butt off Tiafo to get back in this fifth set, even just to get back in the match. Second serve to the fawn of Alkaraz, fawn of Tiafo. It's wide. Love 40. Unbelievable. Love 40. And Tiafo is getting real animated. Tell you what, Alkaraz has got some hype men. Tiafo needs some of them. He needs some hype men in the, besides his girlfriend. She's hyping him up. She, he needs some hype men. Alkaraz got them in spades. Maybe he should just trade. Give him a hype man. Something so greedy. First there's a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Double fault. Alkaraz gets a break like that. And Alkaraz is talking to his, talking to his camp saying, let's keep going. Let's keep going. All right. Tiafo's girlfriend on her feet. Love to see that. They need cheerleaders. Yeah. Tiafo needs some cheerleaders. Okay. All right. Let me try and answer the chat. Simply Grace is African. I should have said African heritage in my bag. No, it's all right. Simply Grace. That's all right. That's all right. You didn't say anything out of school. That's all good. Look, you won't, I'm sure if Tiafo makes the final, his story will be played over and over and over again. So for sure you, you know, you're not saying anything that won't be, won't be mentioned for sure over the next couple of days. If he makes the final. I worked in Sierra Leone after the war. Those guys had it hard. Real spirit. Yeah, there you go. Tiafo's terrible first serve is a damage. Yeah. Look, I mean, it's been like that all, all day. Yeah, it's been about 40 in the forties all day. You know, so much respect for Elkress. He never gives up. Yeah. Look, Elkress is body and again, it's four hours played by the way. His body is clearly tired. I mean, if you're watching play tonight, he hasn't got the same. He's played some of ridiculous shots, but he hasn't got the same buzz as he usually does, right? You know, he's hit 54 winners, but 35 errors. And that's because he is tired. I mean, he's a human, but up here mentally, he ain't tired. His mind is, is, is not tired. His body might be tired, but his head, his mind, not at all. And that's the scary part. Body says no, mind says get stuffed. Three, two, Elkress serves down to the back of Tiafo. Back in Elkress, the winner. Tiafo not even there. 15 love, 15 love, 15 love. Elkress up to love. If you're just joining us, he was up to love. Served the back end of Tiafo, for now, Kras into the back end of Tiafo. For now from Elkress, the 400 Tiafo. For now from Elkress down the line is good. Tiafo with a slice gets it. Elkress, forehand. Again, the 400 Tiafo who puts it in the net. 30 love, 30 love. Who deserves to win? They both do. I mean, it's a coin flip. Once we got to the final set, like I said, all I wanted was five and we got it. I couldn't give a stuff who wins it. They both deserve it. It would be a great story for both. Tiafo's story, we all know how inspirational it is. Elkress getting to the final, playing against Rude for the world number one would be insane too, you know? So history made. No matter what happens from now on, as we had a fight from Elkress and that goes in 40 love. Tiafo running out of gas. Well, he's running ragged, I should say that. He's going side to side, going nuts. And Elkress just a beast. Just a beast. You can tell they're related to Elkress, those two guys, his brother and his dad, because of the hairline. Their hair is exactly the same, thick hair. The hairline is identical. As we had a back end, a back end rally. Now from Tiafo, down to the 400 Elkress, but Tiafo hits it out, four to Elkress in the final set, four to Elkress. Now, does big foe have anything left? Does big foe have anything left? He came back, he came back in the fourth set. Well, Elkress has only ever lost one five set match, so just put that into perspective. Seven wins, five loss, one loss. Elkress in five, always. Dude doesn't know how to lose five sets. He only lost to Baratini this year in five. It's a beastly stat. But can Tiafo come back? Has he got one last thing? One last push. Has been a four to four end rally. That goes into the four of Elkress and Elkress puts it away. My hair looks the same as them. Well, that's because I'm an Elkress. Jokes on everybody. My name is actually Cam Elkress. True story. Or maybe not. All right. I love 15. My hairline is the hairline of a Williams. Love 15. Serve to the back end of Elkress. Back end of Tiafo. Doesn't need to be hit. Elkress hits it out. 15 all. And again, Tiafo's girlfriend, the only one on her feet. Nobody else is standing up by that lady. Something special because she deserves for the support. Every point she's up. The only one. Well, they all sit there with their crossed arms and their sour grapes. There's all pissing. Get set up and bloody cheer. Fifth set of a five. Anyways, whatever. 15 all. I digress. I'm ranting. Sorry. I'm an old man shouting at clouds as we're going to return to the four end of Elkress. That's a good four end from Tiafo. 30 15. 30 15. Lovely from Big Fo. And that's how he beat Rafa. Shots like that. That's how he beat Rafa. 30 15. Another race down the T. Bang. Lovely from Big Fo. 40 15. Again, the girlfriend on her feet as we had to serve now. 40 15. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Serve into the back end of Elkress. Back end of Tiafo is long. 40 30. 40 30. Still a chance for Big Fo to just hang around. Stay in touch. That's a very close up of a random man's face. Actually, no, it's in the box of Tiafo. That's a very, you can tell they're on the camera because they're like, they look at the screen. Oh, that's me. I'm on the screen. Must be so off-putting. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Double fault. Okay. Deuce. You're obsessed with his girlfriend. Nope. The cameraman is obsessed with his girlfriend. I'm just reporting it. So I tell you what I see and all I see is his girlfriend because the camera person is fixated on her. So don't yell at me. Don't tell me what I'm obsessed with. I'm obsessed with tennis. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the front of Elkress. Back end of Tiafo. Into the back end of Elkress and Elkress hits it out. Advantage big foe. Advantage big foe. As he just tries to stay around a little bit longer. Big foe with the advantage to make Carlos sweat. As he serves again to the back end now at Tiafo. Back enough from Elkress. The back end of Tiafo. The back end of Elkress. Back enough Tiafo down the line. Good shot. Tiafo now with the forehand is wide. Elkress did good defense and Tiafo just couldn't quite make the final shot. Deuce. Huge game here. This is the game. This is the huge game. Deuce. This will be make or break. Two breaks a serve. Call it. Deuce. Tiafo serves the front of Elkress and Elkress hits it in the net. Big foe with a big serve again. Advantage Tiafo. Again just trying to stay in touch. People are falling asleep. Wake up. Wake up. Oh my god. What are you doing? How are you asleep? How are you asleep? You spent like a million dollars on the ticket and you sleep. Are you serious? Oh my god. Wake up. That is insane. How are you asleep? Serve. Damn it's here. The front of Elkress. Elkress hits it out. Tiafo survives. Tiafo survives. Big foe hangs around. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what I was saying. Your commentary beats every commenters. I've listened to English, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. Nothing compares. Love from Norway. Hey, thank you. Ask Nick for the nice words and the donation. Thank you for the five. Appreciate that. All right. Let's answer questions. Needs a break here. Yep. You get this. Varmus Algras. Varmus Carlitos. If you're sleeping a match, then you should lose your seat. Yep. You should be ejected. You fall asleep and the seat should shoot you out of the stadium. See you up. No sleeping here. Just an ejection button. And out you go. Who in the crowd? Who's the crowd rooting for? Tiafo. Tiafo. They're still American. The end of the day. I should not be up now. Come on Elkress. It's one o'clock in the afternoon in Sydney. Yep. Hey, what's up, Joe? Yeah, what a slugfest, yeah. This is the best case scenario for Roode. This is the best thing that Roode could have asked for. A four-hour epic between the two guys he's got to play. And he won in about three hours. So he got through pretty easily considering. So Roode has got the best chance of winning a US Open no matter who he plays because of this. Let's get back to the match. Again, thank you so much everybody for showing the love. We're almost at 111,000 subs, so don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. 15 love. Elkress two games away from the final. He had match point in the fourth. But he might just get it done anyways. Unless big foe can do something nuts. People fall asleep in the stands. I don't know if that should be allowed. I didn't know. I was just holding my breath. Serve out wide at the back end of Tiafo. Back end Elkress. The back end of Tiafo. Back end Elkress. Sliced into the fourth of Tiafo who puts it wide. 30 love. Six points away. Six points away. Can Elkaraz finish the job? Finally finish the job. Took him a little bit longer than he would have expected or would have liked. One extra set, but he serves. Served to the fourth of Tiafo. Tiafo on the ground. 40 love. Zap. Gotcha. Zap. Gotcha. 40 love. 40 love. We're almost at 3,000 likes by the way. Again, thank you so much for showing the love. Biggest match of the tournament so far. Return now from Tiafo. Good return. Elkress gets it with a drop shot. Tiafo is there with the back hand, but he hits it out. 5-3. 5-3. Big 4. Sorry. Elkress, one point away. One game away. Jesus Christ. One game away. Elkaraz. Tiafo serves to stay in the championships and to play. I'm sure Obama is still there by the way. Elkress, one game away from that rude match that has one big slam on the line, but also one huge ranking on the line, too. It'll be the winner of the slam is number one. I'm so excited. I'm excited. Served to the 400 Elkaraz. 400 Tiafo. Again, to the 400 Elkaraz. Back in there from Big 4. Cross court at the back end of Elkaraz. Back in there from Tiafo. Down the line. Elkress gets it with a forehand. 400 forehand now. Elkress on the stretch. Tiafo. Four and again. It goes wide. Love 15. Love 15. Three points away from that rude match. Final is going to be crazy. Yep. And get this. If Elkress wins this match, we are going to have a one versus two battle. They might not be one versus two today, but on the live rankings, they'll be one versus two. If you don't take Jabir, one versus two. As of Monday, Elkress rude will be one versus two. So we're going to get the two best players according to the rankings play each other in the finals. Who can ask for more? Love 30. As we get another big four in there from Big 4, and it goes long. Love 30. Love 30. They're trying to, they're trying to pump him up. They're trying to pump him up. Elkress is dead. I mean, he looks like he's, no, he doesn't know. He looks just like, he's just hanging out really. He just looks so chill. Now we know where Carlos gets it from. Love 30. Two points away. Serve up by the 400 of Elkress. 400 of Big 4. Down the line is good. Elkress with a pass. Four in there from Tiafo. Up goes the lob from Elkress. And it's in! Elkress with a lob winner. Love 40. Match points. Three of them. This is going to be our finish to you. Huge lob from Elkress. And Tiafo just watched it. He's like, oh yeah. Oh well. Too good. Just too good. Again, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. We're going to be back for the final in two days time. Ladies tomorrow, men's on Sunday. I'll see you then. Love 40. Tiafo serves. Down the tee and ace. He saves one. He saves one. 15-40. 15-40. And we're going to have probably the best case scenario with the final as well. The person who wins will be number one in the world. The best case scenario. 15-40. Match point again. Serve. Tiafo is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve, Tiafo. To the front of Elkress. Back in at Tiafo is, oh Tiafo, let it go and it went out just. Just went out. 30-40. He saves again. 30-40. Elkress just missed that. Okay. Still match point. Elkress to get to the final. Tiafo serves. Into the front of Elkress who shanks it to the front of Tiafo. Elkress with the front again to the back of Tiafo. And the net. Elkress is going to the final. One versus two. His third five center in a row. And he somehow gets the job done again. And look, big four. What a tournament. He beats Rafa. And they hug it out of the net. But it was Elkress who mentally just had a little bit more. Man, oh man. And we're going to have a fire final. The winner will be world number one. Oh man. And look, great tournament from Big Five, but he'll learn. Unfortunately, some of the lessons learned are the hardest times. And he should have done better in the second and third. He'll watch the tape and he'll watch himself just kind of fall off. He left it too late. And Elkress was like, I'll take all your three points. I'm happy. I'm happy to take three points. Don't worry about it. One versus two. Rude versus Elkress. Champion. US Open. One in the world. That's what they're playing for. The stakes couldn't be higher. It couldn't be higher. Don't forget to subscribe. We're sticking around. We're not going anywhere. We're going to stay around for a little bit. If you're not leaving us, don't forget to subscribe. Like the video on the way out. I'll see you guys on Sunday, but we're sticking around. We're going to stick around because we have a lot to hang around and talk about and discuss. But man, oh man, want to win five sets of Carlos Elkress's thing. Sound like I need to rest my voice? No, what are you talking about? I sound totally fine. This is how I normally speak. I sound fine. I feel fine. Everything's fine. Don't even worry about it. Don't even talk about it. What a game, yeah. Elkress has spoiled us this tournament. I mean, he's given us some of the best matches of the year, you know? No worries. We'll see you on Friday, on Sunday. If you're not leaving, if you're leaving now, we'll see you on Sunday. Greatest of all time. It's not good. Elkara's always. Hey, Magdalena. Can he do it again? Can he do it again? That is the question. Has he got one more left in him? Has he got one more? No worries. We'll see. We'll stick around for a little bit longer. Not too much because I do need to prepare for the finals tomorrow or the final tomorrow with the women. But yeah, women's final 4-bm local time. 6am for you, Cam. Will you be here? Dan, of course. What kind of a question is that? 6am? I mean, that's early. I mean, that's late. That's a sleeping for me. If you're an American tennis player, you might as well retire. Okay, well, you know, are you American? Is that coming from an American or are you just like some salty, I don't know, foreigner who doesn't like Americans? Because that sounds like an American wouldn't say that. So I feel like maybe you're just a disliker American, I don't know. I don't know. Best outcome for Rude? Exactly. If you're a Casper of Rude fan, yes, Elkara's is scary. But this is the best case. This is the best case scenario. Natalie, who said that? Name names will ban them straight up because if Dawn must have missed it, the chat was on fire. So if anyone said that, that person is going to get sent to the moon. We're going to slingshot that person into space. So name names, and I will be happy to ban that person because that is not cool. In fact, it is disgraceful. Do you think, do you sleep during the day after the matches is done and wake up at midnight? Pretty much, yeah. And I'll stay up all night to watch. That's me. No worries, Elizabeth. That's why we love best of five. Exactly, Monica. That's why best of five. And how good would it be if the women did it to ladies finals for five sets? Let's go. Five set final for ladies, too. Let's go. Let's get it. TRFO was the worst player I have ever seen. Well, you obviously haven't watched that much tennis. You must be new. Welcome to tennis. This is our favorite sport. If you think TRFO is the worst, you must have just started watching because you ain't seen nothing. All right. Yeah, what a game. What a match. Why would they interview the loser on court? Because Big Fights, it's America. It's America's, you know, the American TRFO wants to talk to the crowd, you know, I mean, can't hate on that. I mean, let him, let him speak. Carlos is one of the toughest shot maker I've seen. Oh, yeah, Vince, he's a freak. He continues to make everybody look silly, including me. It's getting to the point now where I'm like, we're talking like, don't doubt Alcoraz. Like, we know how with Rafa, whenever we see Rafa or Nole, down two sets of love, and we're like, oh, yeah, don't doubt Rafa. If anyone's going to come back, it's Rafa. If anyone's going to come back, it's Nole. We're starting to get to the point now where it's like, if it goes to a fifth, Alcoraz wins all the time. There's not like, it has to be, Alcoraz is winning. There's not even a conversation. It's like, well, give me a reason why just because it's because he's getting to that point where if he gets to a fifth, just give him the match. Like it's, it's, it's not even a fair fight. Thank you, Cornelia. I appreciate it. World number one and the Alvaca nickname on the line. Oh, Greg's. I know if Alcoraz wins, we can never call him Alvaca again. That was my promise to you, to all the people that hate the Alvaca name. I promise that if we want to slam, we wouldn't call him Alvaca. Mancow would be retired. We're retired the nickname Mancow out of respect because he won a slam. So that name is about to go out of style. We're about to retire that name and we're about to put the jersey up in the back here of the studio. RIP Alvaca. The name. No worries, Mark. Appreciate the love. There's no way he's winning on Sunday. He'll be completely stuffed. I mean, maybe. At this point, I don't even know. I don't even know what Alcoraz made of. The dude's made of something that's not human. The dude's got, I don't know, vibranium in his, in his bones. I don't even know. The dude is just an absolute machine. How is he still walking around after five set, three, five sets in a row, two day, one day apart? How? How is this guy still alive? When was the last time Nolei Raffer and Federer were not number one? When Murray, Murray would have, when Murray was number one. 2016, I think. 2016. Thanks. No worries, DJ. We'll see you later, mate. Baby Raffer. Don't say that. The guys on the moon now. Thank you. Do you want to appreciate it? Yep. That person is not welcome here. They can leave and never come back. By the way, we're almost at 110.5. Thank you so much again for hanging out. Hopefully you enjoyed your stay and you come back. You're welcome any time. Appreciate the love as, as always. The legend at 19, like Becker at 17. Yeah. And remember, if Elgar's wins on Sunday, he will become the youngest world number one of all time on the ATP. He will take Leighton Hewitt's record of youngest world number one. Yeah. No worries, Lexi. The final is going to be a banger. Yeah. The final is going to be epic. What time is the ladies final? It's 4pm local time. So whatever that is in your world, adjust accordingly. Elgar's looks like he could play another 10 hours. I know that's what's scary about him. Yep. So currently the live ranking show, it shows that Elgar's is one. Root is two. Nadal is three. So whoever wins on Sunday will be one. And whoever loses on Sunday will be two. And Raffael will be three. So that is the rankings. I love it. Alive rankings on the final day of a slam. I mean, it's rare that we get to this point, but we're here. I can't believe it. No worries, Isabella. Awesome stream. Yeah, we'll thank Elgar's for that and Tiafo because they were the ones. You got Tiafo in five and I said Elgar is in four. Hey, look, it was, uh, I was happy to be wrong. By the way, all those people that were like that shit talk, where were you when I said Root in four? Just saying. All those people being like, Oh, look, can't pick. Okay, I picked five sets. I got half a point. All those people who don't make predictions and sit in the dark shadows and pretend like they're no more. It's all right. What was your prediction? I'm sorry, where were you at the start of the day? You're hiding in the shadows, weren't you? So just to all those, all those people that have the balls to put the predictions. Thank you. You guys are the weird ones. All those, all those people hiding in the shadows. Oh, you said, you said Tiafo in five and it was only, it was Elgar is in five. All right. So I almost got it right. What did you pick? I'm sorry. Oh, you didn't pick anything because you don't have the guts. Oh, okay. Yeah. So you don't have to. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's what I thought. Just sit down, sit in the corner. Don't make predictions. Just go over there. Root is freaking out right now. Elk is unstoppable. Root's probably asleep. But I think this is the best case scenario for Casper Root. If you're ever going to get Elk or has get him after three, five centers. Exactly. Sit down and relax. Exactly. Just chill out. Let the big boys make the predictions and you just go chill. All right. Keep the predictions to the people in the chat. Interesting voices. Yeah, that was my high-pitched voice that clearly doesn't work at the moment. Well, Elk or has emulate Rafa and win his first slam at 19. He has a very good chance. He could do it. When's Federer coming back? Hopefully, lay the cup in a couple of weeks or in a week. Elk is in five. Okay. Root is such a good boy. Of course, he's asleep. Great run from Big Fo. Yeah. Yeah, look, even though he didn't win, I mean, it's still a hell of a story for Big Fo. You know, still a hell of a story. That's Ken's Mrs. Sausage voice. That was a creepy enough for Mrs. Sausage. Stupid Spammer who wrote the same thing 35 times. Who's that? Let me zap him. Where are you? Where are you? Where's the Spammer? Did Doran zap them? Things Doran got him. No worries, CT. We'll see you soon. I'll miss the finals. I have a concert. No, Nancy, you can't miss the finals. All right, we'll see you after. Have a good time at your concert. See you later, Doran, mate. You're savage. Enjoy your sleeping or sleep. This final is going to be lit. I know, Pete. It's going to be lit. It's going to be lit. Kyle's not doing good in tie breaks. Yeah. So best case scenario, Root plays five tie breaks and wins them all, or three tie breaks wins them all. We're going to sign off in about five minutes. So, I'll let you all get to sleep soon. Oh, wow, five sets. Yep, five sets. And I can confirm this is the biggest match of the tournament so far. So, again, thank you so much. We'll keep you on as commentator in the finale slightly smiling face. Thank you, Arsenic. Appreciate that. I'm excited for the final. It's going to be fun. But yeah, this has been the biggest match of the tournament. So, again, the most people here, I think we had like a stupid amount of people here at some point. So, thank you, everybody. Very, very, that's, I mean, yeah. It's very humbling. What a legend. Legendary couple of days. Oh, yeah. We've had so many crazy matches this second half of the tournament. No raise, eight. We'll see you soon. Yeah, Friday night lights. I'm proud of Tiapho for sucking it up and battling back. Yeah, I mean, big foe could have gone out there and four. I mean, that fourth set before he started lifting, it was not, it didn't look good. He was looking like he was going to go out with a whimper. But at least he went out with a bang and made it, made him, you know, and worked, made Elkhraus work for it. That's all we wanted. That's all I wanted, anyway. No raise, Nelson. Thanks, mate. How do I decompress after a match like that? I drink some tea and I watch some, I'm going to actually record some videos after this, but I'll just, I'll just chill. Watch some YouTube and that's all. Might have a snack. Haven't eaten, I haven't had a chance to eat breakfast yet, so I'll eat something. I'll eat something. I'm out of respect for all the players this week. Yeah, it's been brutal. Some of the tournaments, some of the matches this week. Last year had so many five-setters. This year had almost half. Yeah, Pat, mate, it was crazy last year that man had five-setters, but we're getting the five-setters at the end here and when it matters, when we want them. You made me love tennis again. Oh, nice. I'm so happy about that. That's so good to hear. I'm so glad I got you back in. We had 14k at one point. I mean, maybe. That's ridiculous. Your wish has been granted. Ones versus Eager and Carlos versus Casper in the finals. Yep, 1v2. 1v2. If you look at the live rankings, 1 versus, actually we'll do that now and then we'll leave. We'll do that now and then we'll go because I want to show you guys just what we're seeing in the next couple of days. Here it is. 1 versus 2 tomorrow. The best two players of the season in the final of the ladies tomorrow. 1 versus 2. Wimbledon finalist versus French Open champion to play for the US Open. So the two best players on the planet will be fighting it out and then on the men's side, 1 versus 2. Now maybe you think Ralph is the best player on the planet. I agree. I agree, but it's 1v2. The champion becomes the number one. Whoever wins this match. So it's 1v2 as of Monday. No matter what happens, a loser will be number two. So even if it's going to be a career high ranking for both these guys, crazy. So crazy. So crazy. What a great way to end of the summer. Yeah, for sure. Jabir versus Shriyantek fab final. Yep, sure is. Going to Buxana for Emma Doyle's How to Be a Great Tennis Coach on Sunday. Oh no, she's an Australian coach, right? I don't know who that is. How is Djokovic so low? We all know he's number one. Well, I mean, because he didn't play two slams and he lost all the points from Wimbledon. So zero. He lost 6,000 points. Almost. Combined. No worries. Zahra. Zahra. I'm so sorry, I butchered that. Thank you. Nadal needs one master's to take over. Yeah. But look, water coulda shoulda. Djokovic should be number one because he blah, blah, blah. No, he didn't play, didn't get vaccinated, didn't play. He's not number one. Ravish should be number one because of Wimbledon points. Again, that's not Alkares and Roots problem. Take it up with Wimbledon. You know, this is the rankings, like it or not, this is the rankings. So I don't want to hear anyone saying unworthy, asterisks, blah, blah, blah. These are the rankings because this is what happened this year. Take it up with Djokovic while he didn't get vaccinated. Take it up with Wimbledon while they banned Russians. That is why the rankings are this way. If you don't like it, don't blame the players. Blame the, well, point your frustrations in the right direction. Kasparud and Alkares are just winning. It's not their fault. Take it up with them. Take it up with the managers, all right, Karen? Take it up with their manager, your manager, right? You know, complain to the manager. Last questions, then I'm out. I'm leaving, and then I'll come back. I'm going to give you some food. Starving. Ken Once, whoa. Great stream. Cheers. No worries, ship. Appreciate it. Thank you for the two. Glad you enjoyed. In Great Britain, go have a sleep. Carlos is doing what the next generation should have done years ago. Agree. Alkares is showing how you are supposed to win. How are you supposed to play next-gen? That's how he's showing us. He's showing Sidney Patton's Varev and all the others, how it's done. Rublev showing how it's done. It's always rude, though. So it's rude. They're showing how it's done. Do I think that Kaspar could win Wimbledon one day? No. I don't think Wimbledon's going to be in his trophy cabinet at the moment. He might change his game, but I think Wimbledon will be the toughest one. But everything else is up for grabs. He's very similar to Dominic Teem. Teem has made three finals of slams on three different places, French Open, US Open, Australian Open, and Kaspar could do that. He could make it to every slam final, except Wimbledon. I don't think Wimbledon's going to be a little stretch for him, I think. All right. I'm out of here. See you later, guys. Thank you so much for hanging out. If you haven't subscribed, feel free to on the way out. Make sure you join us for the finals tomorrow. We've got two matches left. Where have you got two matches left? I just want things to sound to get good. Two matches to go. Women's final tomorrow, men's final on Sunday. Book your ... set your alarms, whatever you do. Get ready. We'll be back tomorrow for the ladies final of the US Open. And then, of course, the men's final in a couple of days' time. Alcors wins another five-setter to get to his first grand slam final. He takes out Tiafo 6763, 6163, sorry, 6763, 616763. He's into the final. He plays rude on Sunday.