 What's going on everybody welcome to the final the ladies final of the Miami Open and man What a week what a week. It's been what a crazy tournament. We had a crazy match yesterday. What are the all-time matches of the year? man Rebacking is trying to get the sunshine double Kovitav is trying to get another big title towards the end of her career We've had withdrawals upsets Everything this week on this one and there's the last actually the last hard-court match for the WTA until August so no hard-court tennis after this match. We're going to the clay and On the WTA. There might be some challenger events small events, but In the main tour, this is it. This is the final hard-court match Until the US Open Series later in the year. So here we go. Let's go through the preview These two ladies have played a couple of times including earlier this year Alina Rabakina versus Petra Kovitava is a final for the Miami Open for 2023 and both ladies have to fight to get to this stage Kovitava started the tournament off as number 15 seed and would get a buy in the first round in the second round She take on the Czech youngster Nuskova in a battle of the generations This was easy for Kovitava winning in straight sets six three six love in the third round She take on the number 22 seed Vekic after a close second set Kovitava will get through in straights six four seven six and the fourth round should take on the qualifier Gracheva and after a very close set in the second Kovitava will get through 7576 to advance to the quarterfinals and the quarterfinals Kovitava will take on the number 18 seed Alex Androva after dropping the second set would have to fight to win in three six four three six six three to advance to the Semi-finals the semi-finals Kovitava will take on the unseated Kostya Who had just taken out Saber Lenker in the previous round and after going down an early break Kovitava would have to fight back to win Getting through in straights seven five six four to advance to the final We're back in the start of the tournament off as the number ten seed and we'll get a buy in the first round The second round she take on Kalin Skyar and after dropping the second set Rebecca was forced to fight eventually getting through in three seven five four six six three to advance to the third round The third round she take on Bodosa the 21st seed Who had a battle in her previous round and after losing the first set and being down match point We're back in a fort back to win three six seven five six three to get to the fourth round in the fourth round She take on the unseated Mertens who'd beaten Kazakina and Martich along the way And this was by far the best performance from Rebecca for the week getting through in straight sets six four six three To advance to the quarterfinals in the quarterfinals Rebecca would take on Treveson the 25th seed getting through easily in straight sets six three six love to advance to the semi-finals in the semi-finals Rebecca would take on the number three Pagula who had just saved match points against Potapova to make it to this stage And this was a very ugly match from both ladies with chances for Pagula to win the first set and a long rain delay after the first set Rebecca to regrouped getting through in straights seven six six four to advance to the final These two ladies have played the two times before with the record split down the middle one one and then last Mini actually being in Australia before the Australian Open and Adelaide with Kovitiva getting the straight sets win Kovitiva's gonna win this one. She needs to serve well She served really well against Castella after the first probably 30 minutes of the match He went down an early break ended up coming back and playing very very well after that against Alexander over though She did lose a couple of those service games So she needs to serve well and she needs to be aggressive for back It's gonna win this one also comes down to the serve But she seems to have some sort of a back problem maybe from what she had before Indian Wells She was talking with the back injury yet strapping on her back against Pagula in that semi-finals So she needs to manage that and with the extra day off that might be able to help her She also needs to be aggressive in this one This is basically a battle of the baseline whoever can cross the baseline will win this match I think we're back and is gonna win this one in a close three sets I'm gonna give Kovitiva a set because she's got such experience But we're back in a right now. This is absolutely on fire sunshine double to be the fifth lady to do it But let me know down in the comments below. What do you think's gonna happen? All right, and again, thank you so much everybody who watches the previews Lot of work goes into those for every big event. So I do appreciate it Was that preview and and hopefully you'll watch the men's one as well, which is coming up later So there it is only two three setters from the quarter finals onwards But those two three setters were epic of receive Pagula pot of poba saving match points and Kovitiva dropping a set against a listen dropping and that wasn't a great quality match But Kovitiva turns around in that semi-final yesterday against Serana Castello And really really put on a good performance a solid performance coming back from 5-2 down to the first set And we're back in a good for Gula. It wasn't pretty, you know, it wasn't a great match from Rebecca She's been a little bit off this week. She's had a couple of good results But overall her tennis hasn't been as good as Indian Wells. She doesn't play it as well So this could be interesting this could be interesting to see who plays the better of the two because both have had Not great weeks With their game at times All right, number 12 in the world 33 year old Petra Kovitiva. She is from Czech Republic she is six foot tall left-handed two of the tallest ladies on tour going at it today 11 wins five losses on the year. No titles as you purchase got 29 career titles gone for number 30 and You can see that her form is pretty good She made India was quarter finals last week and now the final here in Miami So she's having a pretty good run of form also had some good wins this year, too And I'll end her a back and up the number seven in the world if she wins today. She will be number six Slowly getting up to that ranking at top five ranking that she deserves because Of course, she won Wimbledon and she didn't really get recognized for it But it's so good to see that you know despite all that stuff. She's finally getting her her recognition this year Thanks to some more amazing play number. They look as XN six foot tall right handed 16 wins four losses on the year one of those losses though What's to this lady? We'll talk about that in a second He also has one title that being Indian Wells obviously made the Australian open final and her form has been great now Here is the head-to-head. So you can see they played last year in the Strava indoor hard court We're back and got the win, but this is the nap door hard court Kavita got the win in an Adelaide earlier in the year before I guess we're back in a went on this amazing run, but That's gonna be confidence for Kavita. She's you know, it's it was you know negative head-to-head then you would say that you know Kavita wouldn't have anything to really Like about this match, but she won an Adelaide outdoor hard courts. This is outdoor hard courts So let's see if that helps Kavita for it all we're back and it's gonna serve first. They warm it up. We're ready to go Two matches left for the hard court season chat two matches left for part one of the hard court season What's up everybody, how we doing we good we're happy we're ready What's up Sam who's act got on this matchup who you favor cam? Good. Oh, well, I've got Rebecca. No, I think it's Rebecca. No, I say three sets because I just want a three set final, but I This should be we're backing up They're both playing their best. I know what Zach's got. I don't know if I know that might be floating in the chat somewhere I'm number eight in the fan slam And both ladies and we'll finish fifth if we're back in a wins and fourth of Kavita wins Tim top five finish That's good. Really good. We'll go through the fan slam Maybe the end of the match remind me We'll go to the fan slam We're back here in three April fools. Yeah, happy April fools. So I'm not gonna believe anything chat says today. So So don't please do not Tell me anything about like anyone retiring. I don't want to hear about anyone Coming back from retirement. I don't hear any of that I'm not gonna believe anything you say chat. Just like if I'm not even gonna make any jokes I feel like I was thinking because oh the worst the worst thing that today And let me know Jeff you you agree the worst thing about today is that all the stuff on social media you go on social media and Federer is coming back at Wimbledon and Raph is retired and The US Open are doing some weird things and and you're just like you don't know what's real and what's not and then when there is an actual story You're like, oh, is that like I hate it. I hate it So annoying I Didn't mind yesterday. You didn't see the discord. Oh, okay. Yeah, I didn't see it By the way, we do have the betting open so you can actually sorry forget to press the button You can bet on this one if you want up to a thousand points if if you want to put on your bets I'll leave it open a little bit longer because I forgot to press the button before that lives But yeah, yeah That's April 4th is just It's not fun for a for a news for a tennis news outlet. It's not fun because I go on social media and then you know Federer's gone coming back and Raph retired and You know all this crazy shit and I'm like, I don't know what's real I just don't believe it all any of it All of it is a lie Why is Rebecca's nationality Kazakhstan because she represents Kazakhstan Why not? She chose to play for Kazakhstan Did it finish the stadium list ranking is there? No, we haven't yet. We're gonna do that. We'll probably do that tomorrow We'll do that tomorrow because tomorrow's final It's a little bit earlier than this one. So it's about two hours earlier than this So we'll do it after the men's final tomorrow. We'll finish the tier list For these stadiums. All right chat the final women's match on the hardcore season for now Okay, sunshine sunshine double on the line five ladies have won it before so four ladies have won it before Five times as Mike Tyson in the house by the way, geez Shriontech did it last year as a rinker in 2016 Clices in 2005 and Steffi grafted it twice in 94 96 can Rabakina join that list all those ladies have multiple slams as well So that's a good list to be a part of return now goes a form of Rabakina back in our from Kovitava the former back into the back of the Kovitava back in a forehand now It's Kovitava gets the first point love 15 First point Kovitava Rabakina's got Tape on her shoulders in her back, which she seemed to have the last couple of days Kovitava Doesn't have any Visible injury problems or any visible tape as she serves a fault. They were back in a second serve second serve Goes down to the backhand of Kovitava for now from Rabakina to the former Kovitava who smacks a winner. All right Love 30 and in the preview. I said whoever controls the baseline wins the match Kovitava is controlling the baseline in the first part of this game Nice four-way in there from Kovitava as we get a full second serve second serve As the return goes into the front of Rabakina, but goes out from Kovitava And it's 15 30 taking the time here She's not playing next week Kovitava Rabakina. She was gonna play Charleston, but she pulled out Or at least she she changed her mind But she will be playing in a couple of weeks and still got I don't know if she's playing in Fed Cup I'm assuming Kazak's down to playing Has been a double fold 1540 slow start for Rabakina She hasn't looked great. We're back in her over the last couple of matches She had a slow start with Bodosa and Kellan Skyre and those kind of players their Pagula match was just Not pretty Kazakhstan's playing Poland And get a Triantek's not playing Rabakina Kind of sucks. It's an indoor clay as well. All right 30 40 So Poland Kazakhstan are playing on indoor indoor clay court in Astana But Shriantek pulled out and I don't think we're back in is gonna play so I mean Linnette versus putt-and-sever is the first matchup. I guess All right, final for Rabakina down the line to winner. She saves the two break points We get the deuce the good Good serving there from Rabakina Hey, sinner as all court surface player Yes Yes, he is and he's the first man to beat Alcors on three different surfaces. I read that somewhere on line Hopefully that wasn't a joke. I think it was real as we're to serve in the net I mean, he's beating him on a Wimbledon On clay and then on hardcore. So yes so Into the back of the computer who it's a wide advantage Rabakina Who'd come back in this first game all right advantage Rabakina take the first game? All right, betting is open if you want to put the bets on we got that open until Till the next game is going to return now the backhand of We're back enough when our computer goes out Rabakina from 1540 down guess the game. That's one loving the first How are we doing chat? What's up? I think that that sounds accurate Yeah, I think the first guy well, he's definitely done it But who are no one else's I guess no one else has played okra is enough to do it And it's very hard to say that I mean maybe I've played okra's on hard clay courts Hasn't played him. He hasn't beaten him on hard courts. He hasn't played him on clay, but I Don't know who else would have played okra's on grass like if you get a win over okra's on grass That's the hard one right because he's barely played so yeah How am I feeling I'm feeling good It's weird at the end of a tournament because like you know We had such a crazy match yesterday, and hopefully we get a good match today, and then all of a sudden it's got nothing We just stop Everything finishes and we have to wait for a week for something else to happen. So It's it's a little little odd You know this build up and then just Done as a return that goes out from Rabakina 15 love Kovitava has won these trophies before she's obviously got two Wimbledon as well And so does So does Rabakina with the Wimbledon and raised on the tee bang 30 love You reckon we get one tie break or two Also did anyone bet on this match for real like And if you did what'd you pick? What'd you go with did you go Kovitava? Did you go? The over did you go Rabakina in straights? What what happened? Serve to the back end of Rabakina for now from Kovitava into the form of Rabakina In the back of Kovitava for now We back in at the back end of Kovitava in the form of Rabakina Kovitava back and again to the form of Rabakina is Kovitava hits a point cross-court Rabakina doing a lot of running and that goes in the net unbelievable 40 love A lot of running from Rabakina, which is not a not what she wants to do today back in a three money line Rabakina Over 21 and a half. Is it really is that the over that's kind of low 21 and a half. I mean Surely a tie break as we get a fault take a serve second serve Goes out why the back in every back in a return goes into the back end of Kovitava who puts it down the line 1-1 strong start for Kovitava on her serve Sorry for beating, but you didn't close the betting. Yeah, no, we're gonna leave it open until the next game Because we're just giving people the time to come in who come in late to do it So I'm gonna give everyone a fair shot any of those late late arrivers No, 1-1 Kovitava off to a better start As we just served down the back end of Kovitava good return the form of Rabakina And Rabakina hits it out love 15 again Rabakina just few errors Coming into this one love 15 Normally you close up to one. Yeah, no, no, that's all right All right love 15 Serb you know the for the Kovitava return goes in the form of Rabakina who hits it down the line for a winner There you go. There's a first nice winner from Rabakina 15 all 15 all First serves for both ladies crucial High first you reckon the high first-serb percentage wins. What do you reckon check you reckon that's something Whoever has the high whoever has the highest first-serb percentage will get the we'll get the dub Second server back enough 15. Oh So concerned the back of Rabakina goes in the back end slice Kovitava to drop shot we're back and I can't get it This is gonna be all right Kovitava 15 30 again a chance to break first games 15 30 I men's fine on tomorrow doubles final finished. I don't know who won the dubs In the men's Check but it's also been in the chat window before me Also women's final, I think Pagula and Fernandez right as Kovitava hits that one white 30 all Closing the betting after this game by the way, so get your bets in quick quick quick You have no idea who won the men's final in the doubles, but I've asked the Roger Vaseline go Gonzalez. There you go. Thank you chat I 30 all Back and it's struggling She says nice though bang. All right, that'll help first ace of the day for Rabakina 40 30 40 30 there's another serve coming up for Rabakina the form of Kovitava Kovitava in the net. Okay two big serves gets her in front again, but after the first three games You gotta say we're back in his serving is a little off All right We're turning off the bedding. Thank you everybody for we okay, so we're back in a no surprise 43 bets 34,000 points up for grabs. All right, who's spamming come on now. We're not gonna start the day off like this Come on. Come on. Just be cool. Be cool. Be cool. You can watch it on WTATB bro Okay It's chilly here today. Oh, we go. Oh, be honest. It's freezing. Um, also daylight savings Ended in Australia, so I have to turn the clock back That was a whole mine. I woke up When I wake up I woke up at 2 30 a.m. Then my clock went back at 3 a.m. Went backwards and I and it went back to 2 a.m. Freaky my I looked at my phone. I'm like What's that 3 a.m. I thought I was losing my mind crazy Over the yeah, the over is at 21 and a half. That's that's a low Does that feel low? I mean these two big servers you think you know big serving 21 and a half that's that's kind of kind of low the time traveler. Yeah, I was just like well the thing was It's so like when that and I'm probably you guys might have the same well I mean you probably have the same thing right when daylight savings hit. You don't want to wake up an hour late Because you're like you set your alarm. You hope that it goes off at the right time Because I was worried that this we I would wake up in the final would have been started I'm like oh geez like my that's one of my worst nightmares. He's waking up in a matches already started So that was the hardest part to try and make sure I didn't mess that up Keeping fingers crossed for a rack and up. No, well, she's off to a little shaky start But she did she has held so that that helps She's off to a little bit of a Tough start on serve gonna get more first serves in Gotta love the twice annual time change. Yeah, what why do we have daylight savings? What's going on? What are we doing? All right, so it goes in the back end of rebacking like I was in the net on the return 15 love What's the point of daylight saving anyone know? 15 love 11 minutes into this one. I spent on Franklin. I think he's dead the thing I can get in contact with him. I think he's busy 15 love second serve now from Kavitava So about why the back end of rebacking up for now from Kavitava down the line. It's all just wide 15 oh Kavita's point to the sky here and being like what's She's looking for a replay or I think she's talking about maybe the big screen is distracting or something Now we're on weather watch as well tomorrow might we might have some problems Not major problems, but you know annoying problems Weather-wise, but we should be okay today At least for this match But it's sort of like a there's a 15% chance of rain pretty much all day. So there might be a sprinkle but I Doubt would have any major delay. It's just annoying delay if anything Hopefully not for this match, but hopefully not for tomorrow All right 30 15 to serve that from Kavitava So don't see the fine of we're back enough for now Kavitava in the back of a back and up we're back and hits it out 40-15 and it's rare that we're back and it comes up against someone who can sort of match her for pace Sabalec obviously is one of those players, but Yeah, it's rare that she'll come up against someone that hits the ball hard Harder than her or as hard as her 40 15 And serve as big as her as well First serve is a fault second serve second serve Kavitava Down to the back in a rebound a good return Kavitava gets it for an every back in a down the line. That's a winner whoo That's a big winner 40 30 Nice hit there from we're back in it right down the line perfect execution 40 30 little trouble here for Kavitava for the first time today She serves Down to the phone every back in a phone out from Kavitava in the net. Okay, big trouble now We get to deuce we get to deuce Rebacking has already saved a couple of break points Kavitava trying to avoid that serve Now why good serve return goes in Kavitava forehand Is a winner? This is gonna be our biggest TV run Advantage Kavitava Nice serve again the serve is gonna be a huge Huge factor for both ladies today. They both want to serve They both need to serve well So far Kavitava is serving more first serves. You know, I mean they're both serving pretty much the same after that but More first serves in for Kavitava at the moment first of the fault though second serve second serve Kavitava Now why the back end of rebacking up back in a Kavitava is to the back end of rebacking who puts in the net. Okay, two two It's 15 16 minutes in There's two all both ladies about a little struggle on serve to all Petra said she lost her serve in the set due to being distracted by the men shouting fair enough Okay, I was an idiot It was a moron. So yeah Makes sense that and that's why he got in trouble. So Makes a lot of sense Now after this game, we'll go through some We'll go through some of the tournament. I guess Comparisons they both played five matches because they both got a buy in the first round. We'll talk about time on court We'll talk about aces all that stuff Maybe gonna clear a picture on what's gonna happen as we're to find out from Kavitava shanked wide and it's 15 love Both ladies are played The same amount of matches They both have big sir. So, you know, whose who's been broken more who's been seven more aces Its main seven more double-folds. That's everything will go through Throughout this week has been a strong we're back enough 30 love 30 love What they were saying Sam Kavitava has been only broken once in last three matches It's final winning stat. It's impressive stat, and she is making 85% returns on break points. Thank you for that stat. It's a crazy stat We'll go through that we'll go through a little bit more of those After this game as we return now the form of your back in a corner a bit of a dental lines a winner I don't know what Rebecca was doing there. She kind of just walked to the net like she was shaking hands. I mean that was That was not a good approach at all 30 15 Rebacking this the biggest weakness or a back and out movements. You know, it's not great, but it's decent you know for someone who's that tall but her um Her neck doesn't really doesn't have great volleys Doesn't really have great They don't really know when to come in as we're back in now to the volley of Rebacking her and that's gonna be good enough Good enough because Kavita is not quick that that quick 40 15 But yeah, just you know, she just doesn't have and she doesn't need to I mean if you have a big serve and you've got big Ground strokes. Why would you go to the net? Right? No, she usually finishes the point up before she has a chance to hit a volley. So There's something that she does Struggle to do but like she's trying to do it, which is great to see she's trying to take that game To a different level, you know add a couple of volleys, you know players like Sabalinking can volley, you know we're back in a schvontek can volley you know, even though she's Probably the best player of the year if she wins this match so far She's still trying to develop her game, you know, she's not sitting back going. Well, I won Wimbledon So I'm done. There's been a slice of the net from Kavita up. It's three two We're back in up. That's probably the best hole she's had all day. All right Let's let's go through some of the stats for the week. So five matches apiece. They're both played five nine and a half hours on court for you back in our eight hours and 45 minutes About an hour more for a back in her on court this week Averaging about 10 minutes more per match both are under two hours per match this week Rebacking is her 57 aces and 22 double-folds Committers her 31 aces and 25 double-folds. So more aces for Reback and more double-folds for Kavita but not great for her Breakpoint saved a break break point saved She saved 28 out of 44 break points this week Which means she's been broken 16 times we're back in her this week, which is not great She's broken a hell of a lot against Pagula and Kavita but she saved 17 out of 23 break points I only faced like she's faced nearly about half the amount of break points that we're back in his face But she's also only been broken six times in five matches. I'm sure the last one said as well Breakpoints one 16 out of 32 so 50% for Kavita and 25 out of 61 break points One for Rabakina, but a lot of those break points against Pagula and Pagula I think has is number one when it comes to saving break points So maybe that's a little bit unfair for Rabakina because she did play Pagula who is very good at saving break points And that's sort of where it's at. They played three times as a two time Sorry as mentioned one indoor hard court one outdoor hard court Adelaide was at the start of the year Now Adelaide the stats on that match at the start of the year five aces four double-folds for Kavita Seven aces one double-fold Rabakina. So Rabakina actually didn't play too bad. Well, he's didn't serve too bad on On that day, but there was no break points against Kavita to serve in That match she was serving at 86% of first-server points one. So only lost five first-server points Against Rabakina on that day and Adelaide earlier in the year Kavita. So her first serve was untouchable and didn't face a break point Kavita converted two out of the three break points. So very slim margins when they played in Adelaide Even though the score was straight sets. And so far Kavita has faced zero break points. All right 15 love First serve is a fold. Second serve The match is suspiciously going easy Well, look after what happened yesterday After the match we had yesterday where we'll play we'll having like shot of the year in the third game, you know This matches a little bit less a little bit less exciting because these players are not Alcres and Sinnoh That goes in the net from Rabakina 30 love It just feels like we're waiting for a tie break and that's when things will fireworks will start Somebody asked me what is Rabakina's left-handed record. We'll get to that as well We're also gonna go through the power rankings because these two ladies are featured on the power rankings for the week All right serve down to see the back and every back in a volley from Kavita. That's a weird thing to do 7 volley 30-15 By the way, I also want to say shout to everybody on Twitter. Follow me on Twitter For liking the video that we post on Twitter. I won't say anything else, but thank you for that Don't want to get trouble Thank you for Thank you for liking the video on over on Twitter. Go check it out if you haven't already All right, 30-15 return goes in the back of Kavita. Kavita hits a winner Kavita was just really good at making the court really wide So she'll serve out wide with that lefty serve Push Rabakina into the first row and then open court is there to be hit And she just seems to make the court so wide Kavita That's the left-handedness Good serve there the return goes in the corner Kavita Foyna from Rabakina to the back of Kavita into the back end of Rabakina who puts it wide and it's 3-3 first set so To answer the question We'll go through this year's record against lefties. She's got two wins one loss. So one win two losses Rabakina she lost to Hadajmaa and Kavita What are they having common and She beat Travis in a couple of days ago who's a lefty What about Hadajmaa and Kavita were having common besides the fact that both beaten Rabakina What are they having common chat as we serve out wide? Into the back end of Kavita, back end of Rabakina. That's a good shot Kavita gets there with a forehand, but it's in the net What are they both having common? They're both six foot. That's true They're both tall What else? I mean it comes with that right? Well, they're both lefties, but They're both hard hitting exactly and they're also both both big servers interesting That Rabakina struggles against big power hitters when she is one of those But I guess you know when you're a power hitter, you don't have the movement as much to you by the way 16 wins 14 losses Lifetime record against lefties for Rabakina So not a great record About a 50-50 as we're a serve. It's a foul-taker serve 30 love In the WTA alone 12 wins 9 losses so a bit better when it comes to like top tier level, but career-wise. She's lost She's lost. She's about 50-50 40 love good serving here for a back end the best game of the match so far for her as a fast set Short points big serves She serves that one ace bang. All right for three best game in the match so far for a back and maybe a little bit of a Shady slow start starting to find it now And her coach checks her head checks his head like no it wasn't that good Can't kind of press that man that man is not impressed by anything that Rabakina does They both play tennis you are not wrong. You are that is correct All right, how we doing chat was answer questions Mike Tyson in the house Love that. They're both professional tennis players. All right, cool. We'll move on Who are the taller women who have also been good movers? I mean, that's the thing And again, I've got a I've got to put that graph together of height versus versus speed, right? That's how the the height the tall you are the slow you are and There's exceptions, but for the most part if you're six foot and above you're not gonna be very quick On the women's side on the on the ATP. You have to be sort of six foot I guess six foot six or above or six seven and above Because you can be six foot four and quick. I mean we can name a lot of them, right? By the way, Mike Tyson in the house Apparently his daughter's a very good player So, uh, let's see We'll see what she she can do Please give it is the worst. That's a bit harsh Venus. Yeah, Venus was pretty good around the court Medi six six. Yep Alina has a good touch of the net It's not a strength though. It's not a thing coming to the net She's like Medvedev at the net not great She's a bit better than Medvedev, but she's probably not as good as Varev It's caught up in between them, right? Those guys like this Varev is sort of Now he's okay at the net, but you know Reback and I would say is worse than Varev at the net But better than Medvedev a little better than Medi technique wise anyway All right, here we go. Can we do a serving at four three down first set? We've had a couple break points against Reback and a bit Does feel like a tie break is loading as we get a return from Reback and it goes wide 15 love Does feel like let's feel like a tie break is inevitable This is Davenport with six foot three Toils play ever to be number one on the WTA. There you go There you go and Medvedev I think is the tallest world number one ever on the men's side as we return now the point of Kovitavim Kovitav puts that away her first serve Reback and his first serve getting up there again, but Kovitavim is first serve Really helping her at the moment 30 love and serve again from Kovitavim Serving the back of Reback and I fall now Kovitavim into the form of Reback and I'm Into the form of Kovitavim Reback and I'm with the backhand get the form of Kovitavim into the backhand I'll be back and I'm who puts it in the net 40 love Now the ladies starting to hold serve very easily not too many long rallies not too many Points lost on serve after the first few games That's all is you banks. I think he's six seven It was taller than me. I'm They shook hands at the net and he looked down at Medvedev and shook his hand. It was weird As we're back in a whoa what a shot Reback and it smokes a backhand down the line on the first of the first serve I mean that's a hell of a shot at 40 love. That's a shot that you'd hit at 40 love You wouldn't try and go for that. It's uh I mean maybe you would at uh 30 all but man what a what a shot You know serve again Kovitavim up To level things up first serve goes in forehand goes long 4-4 first set All right four games all this is getting very interesting Now the draw for charleston is apparently coming out. Does anyone know if that's out yet? Send it to me on twitter if you haven't already uh Some of them. I know you guys are pretty quick Is the charleston draw out or are they waiting for this to finish? Okay, for all So don't say the 40 Kovitavim return goes into the backhand every back enough back in a Kovitavim down the line. That's a shot That's a great shot Kovitavim. Love 15 Love 15 Nice backhand down the line 30 minutes played serve out why the 40 Kovitavim return goes long good first serve First serve's getting a little better for uh, we're back in it. She's getting a few more of those in 15 all What time's the GP in Australia? Uh I think it's in like 10 hours some of that Might watch it this afternoon if I remember First there's a fault take a serve second serve Down the tee the find of Kovitavim hits it out. It's a rare Return error 30 15 Oh wait chap. What are you gonna do next week? What are you what are you what are your plans next week that we have no tennis to watch nothing going on really next week worth? Worth watching. What are you gonna do next week? There's been a fault second serve I'm gonna go, uh Celebrate Easter with my family Actually go and see people in real life double fault 30 all I'm gonna go down and get my collect my dog from her vacation home 30 oh Hibernation love it all the masters on next week gregs. Okay watching estrual Marrakesh, okay backhand return goes in the find of Rebacana back in a Kovitava to the corner of rebacana get in the corner Kovitava Rebacana backhand again to the corner Kovitava to the corner of Rebacana Kovitava backhand goes down the line. That's a good shot. Rebacana gets it, but it's in the net. All right 30 40 Kovitava has been the better player in this set so far. She's got a third break point To take the break serve at the set Uh ice fishing. Hey Ed Edward that sounds fun watch reruns Guys are gonna have tennis withdrawals next week We come and visit you cam. That's okay. Uh, you don't need to do that. You can uh, don't make the effort It's okay. You don't have to find me Thank you, please 30 40 It's all right. You can you can just stay at your house and I'll say at my house and we'll just You know talk online, you know Second serve into the front of Kovitava return goes in the back end of Rebacana Kovitava with a slice Into the back end of Rebacana Kovitava forehand again to the back end of Rebacana and Rebacana hits it out. There's the break five four Kovitava breaks has been the better player in this first set Rebacana serves been a bit off The Kovitava has been winning the ground stroke battles on the baseline battles and Now she's having the first set five four And clear out the t-bow. Okay Uh hitting the gym. Love that Likely gonna watch uh some of the events next week. Okay Work on my on the property pruning and planting that sounds fun get some work done. Nice Uh cam coming over to melbourne where you're coming to melbourne. Cool Have fun with that Enjoy your time here watching Premier League. Nice. Is Arsenal one yet? Is that still going? Who won did Arsenal win? When are they gonna win? Are they winning? Fire in the chat not yet. We haven't had to light the chat on fire yet today. Hasn't haven't had much of a Much of a shot yet We'll light the chat on fire soon though. Don't worry Give it his husband going nuts Uh, normally I panic for Rebacana, but she's seen Been in this situation a few times this tournament. Uh, and always has come back big. That's true Arsenal won four one today. Let's go I meant did they win the championships? Football leagues go all year round. That's true. They do so does tennis It's where the only sports that go year round Um, or at least professionally go year round Nine more games to we we win cam. Who's we? Do you mean you? Who I don't understand Oh, you mean the over. Oh, you're talking to the over Yes Okay Give it a bit of a serving the first set Oh wait nine more games until oh to Arsenal win the hell does happen. Hello Why don't go a gray? That's weird. Um Anyways love 15 Rebacana was what the hell was that? Yeah rip rip that has died What the hell just happened? That was weird as hell Um, cool. That's not a concern. Whatever Um, and it was love 15 give it a seven for the first set Return goes in the four to Kovitava down the line to win it from Kovitava right in the corner Hell of a shot 15 all that's never happened. So I don't know what happened. I mean, I wasn't even a joke I didn't press about or nothing That wasn't me. I promise 15 all hell of a shot down the line Random in memorial built I know Yeah Anyway, it's 15 all That was a camera thing. I don't think it was a youtube thing as we return out of the corner Kovitava Kovitava hits it out 15 30 now the last time they played Kovitava didn't get broken didn't even face a break point Gotta get first serves in Kovitava In this Sketchy sitch 15 30 no 15 30 serve Here's an ace bang. That's a first serve the best first serve free point ace All right 30 all 30 all That's where to serve again from Kovitava Two points away from the first set. She serves down the tee the back of every back in her return goes in the back of Kovitava Back in every back in her again to the back end of Kovitava We're back in the back end again to the corner Kovitava into the back of her back in her but Kovitava hits it out We had a break point for the first time since a Strava We're back in again break. She's got a chance Against this lady Here we go 30 40 Kovitava serves She serves down the tee the corner of her back in her Kovitava with a forehand Goes out We're back on serve 5 5 in the first all right Nice return there off her first serve Unfortunately Kovitava just didn't Man that's been the first time she's been broken In a long time in the nearly six months since playing this lady All right 5 5 We're back and it gets a little bit of a let-off by the way Who was the person in the chat that said I have no I'm not worried because we're back and has done this before You are correct. She did it yesterday twice against Pagula She doesn't mind uh breaking serve to get back in the set does she okay? As we get a fault from we back in a second serve back and I'll screw it around now she's She wants this sunshine double join The elite as that goes in the net from Kovitava on the return 15 love She wants to join those five ladies that are all those four ladies That have won the sunshine double She'll be on take did it last year Kleister's as a rank of Steffi she serves an ace out wide bang 30 love And Steffi the only one to do it twice and that's why she's better than the others In that list Because she did it twice and won a hell of a lot of slams All right serve densities an ace again All right, we're backing up start to find that serve 40 love all right 40 love She serves Oh a fault. She almost went with the three aces. That was quite a crowd went wild almost triple ace All right second serve He's in the back in at 4 to Kovitava Kovitava hits it out. Okay Rebecca now gets back to lead and doesn't look bothered at all There we go Six five All right, how are we doing chat? How are we feeling? Uh, how many grand slams does modicosiles have? Uh Why 12 uh eight 10 Someone told me in the chat not great with wta knowledge Outside of Serena Nine there you go, uh She could win a set Okay, my dog is dream barking. Oh my dog does that too What a match so far. Yep It's high break loading can Kovitava Hold serve. I mean she's lost the last three games in a row Sorry last two games in a row Who has done the most sunshine doubles? Jokovic, I think on the men's Uh, he did three times in a row. I think better. He did three times one in a row And then uh, Stephie's done it twice So the the players that have won the sunshine double first person to do it was Stephie graph back in 94 She also did 96 Uh, then Klyce did it in 2005 as a rancor did in 2016 schveontech last year and then rebacking is going for it this year, so I guess if you win the sunshine double you're guaranteed two or more slams based on that list So rebacking our wins the sunshine double should be thinking, okay Well, I'll get another slam eventually. I guess that's just the way it works Uh, if we get the tie break then rebacking all in the set. Okay, well So you're saying she'll win the set anyway. You forgot Serena Serena hasn't won the sunshine double Serena would have done it, but she didn't play indian worlds for like, you know 15 years Um, and the times that Serena did win the uh indian worlds Venus ended up winning miami. So, yeah, she just Serena never got never gave the chance to to for Serena Well gave Serena never had the chance to win the sunshine double either to venus They probably both would have won the sunshine double had uh, had they played indian worlds 15 lovers are going to return now to the forehand of Kovitava back in our reback into the back of the Kovitava In the back of the rebacking up Kovitava back into the forehand of rebacking up into the back of the Kovitava One every back in the down the line is long 30 love Yeah, Serena would have done it like yeah, three to five times. Yeah Sharapova Sharapova almost won it. Yeah, the other players a few players that have almost Done it, you know, there's a few players that have gone from I think hella might have won might have been close I'll say there's a lot of players that have almost They've either made the semi-files on miami or they've made the final of miami and just didn't get the job done Serena's one of those All right, 30 love And this Kovitava tries to get to this tie break. She served for the set couldn't get it So we'll turn now from rebacking of the back in the Kovitava for now Rebacking up getting to the for the Kovitava into the for the rebacking on the stretch That's in the net 40 love To get to the tie break How many games left chat? Five more aces. Yep. How many games are we left? So what seven if it is a tie break seven six Then what we need six two Six four six three All right Kovitava serves a fault second serve second serve Is down the tee we're backing her on the ground. Okay tie break time And now it's time You tell me Who is going to win this tie break? Who's going to take it? You tell me You're just joining us Pagula is not playing um Pagula's playing doubles uh rebacking up was down five four Kovitava serving with the set. She got broken And now we're here six all A lot of people going with rebacking up a few Petra's in there as well Both ladies a great service and that's where it gets a little hard to Hard to pick because it's whoever's going to serve all right All right, let's find out who wins first set I'm going to serve down the tee ace down the tee Rebacking up bang one love One zero rebacking up Lovely serve down the tee All right to Kovitava now Mike Tyson's the future of wta good one one love So Kovitava Down the tee the ford of rebacking return goes in the ford of Kovitava Who hits a winner one one I want rebacking to win nice ace ace in it. That's it. Kovitava is playing better So yeah, so to summarize the first set so far Kovitava has been better on the ground strokes The serving's been pretty even though I mean rebacking is starting to get better on serve as the set's going on but Kovitava has been better when the rallies have started As we're going to serve out wide that's a Let So you'd say you'd give the serving to rebacking up And you'd give You'd give the ground strokes to Kovitava So it depends on that As we're sitting down to see the back of rebacking return goes in the ford of Kovitava Who hits a winner down the line to one Kovitava now this week tie break records for the week uh Kovitava she has played two tie breaks And she has won them both two and zero and rebacking her she Has only played the one But she won that tie break So someone's losing a tie break has been an ace out wide And rebacking is just serving aces bang bang bang. I mean if you keep serving aces You just got to get a little bit lucky on those on a return and you got the set So someone's losing a tie break today rebacking her serves And ace demotee again three aces on three points for rebacking her that's huge three two rebacking her Kovitava with a serve And by the way rebacking her serve two aces in the last service game So she's just Serving heaps of aces lately Five aces in the last couple of last 10 minutes or so Kovitava serves Out wide the back end of rebacking her for now Kovitava Goes to the back end of rebacking her Into the back end of Kovitava and Kovitava hits it out For two Rebacking her gets a mini break they change ends For to rebacking her How good is this? I don't know about you guys, but it's even if we're back and it doesn't lose this but it doesn't win this match How nice is it is it? How nice is it That rebacking is actually getting Praised now like everyone's everyone knows we're back in her now because she won wimbledon. Yeah but Like pretty much after wimbledon nobody really remembered her because she wasn't top 10, you know, she'd get the points You know her ranking didn't matter and also Her uh She always had to play seeds in the first round of big tournaments, which meant she lost in the first rounds usually Against big names Good serve there from Kovitava And now goes with the forehand of the forehand of rebacking her good defense rebacking her is going to find a Kovitava again Rebacking gets another forehand slice as Kovitava hits a forehand in the open court rebacking her with a lob And Kovitava smashes it away. All right four three rebacking up, but Kovitava stays six around But it's so nice It's so nice for rebacking her to get her to get you know, recognized like she's now Known as the schviantech slayer and she's also known As possibly after today The best player on tour right now the most informed player You know, it's hard to hard to argue the player that won the sunshine double Australian open final Is not the best player on the planet 40 30 uh 40 30 for three. I don't know where I saw the zeros for three First there's a fault from rebacking her second serve second serve Into the back end a point of Kovitava return goes to the back end of rebacking her back in a Kovitava That's a good shot. We're back in a gets it but hits it wide for four The first time she misses the first server back and she loses the point four four Yeah, 40 30. I was Losing my mind. By the way, almost a 400 likes appreciate that. Thank you for hanging out Don't forget to subscribe as well. We've got plenty more tennis where this has come We're only just getting started season. Just we're only three months in Season goes to November clay court season Just around the corner get ready. That's the fun season clay courts are so much fun to watch. I love watching the clay season It's such a different vibe The hard court season is great, but man, I want to see people slip and slide on the clay I want to see Elkhra's hitting drop shots with Djokovic hitting spider-man splits winners return now in the net from Reba from Kovitava five four rebacking up. I want to see the banana four out of raffa That's what I want to see return of raffa no lei comes back Elkhra's I mean Monte Carlo is going to be high in a couple weeks We're going to go nuts from Monte Carlo. Don't you worry? Nice fiancex return, right? We're going for her to come back as well five four Kovitava So five four we're back in a bit of a serving So about what the back of every back in a good return Kovitava gets it for an every back in a into the back of Kovitava. We're back in a flying down the line is wide Five five Someone's getting a set point. We've got the dirty double with the dirty double Madrid Rome They're going to be really fun. I can't wait to watch those because they're actually going to be huge They're going to be huge huge draws As we're to serve now from Kovitava to the back of every back in a good return of the back in a Kovitava four now rebacking up again at the back end of Kovitava We're backing up with the four on the stretch in the net. Okay Kovitava gets a first set point But it's on Reback in a serve six five Kovitava But it's on the Reback in a serve And a big shout there from Kovitava. She likes to yell doesn't she? She likes the roar Here we go six five first set point Going the way of Kovitava But it's on the Reback in a serve the crowd's going nuts Reback in a serves an ace You knew it was coming right? She's hit four aces in this tie break and she saves the tie she saves the tie break with an ace Six all they change ends Massive serve That's expected. Yeah, it was either going to be if she didn't to be honest if she didn't hit that ace and it was a second serve You would think Kovitava is the favorite to win the point then It's crazy how the first serve is so important at the moment can she do it again? Rebacking she got another ace in her or is Kovitava going to get a chance to serve With her serve the crowd's going nuts the umpire is trying to shut them up, but they're not listening Six all Rebacking up with a serve Is into the finder of Kovitava Kovitava in the net? All right Rebacking to get to set point seven six But it's on the Kovitava serve Okay, thank you so much for joining don't forget to like the video if you haven't already Don't forget to subscribe As well. We're just getting started Here we go serve Serve Kovitava Rebacking this first set point Kovitava just had one Serve Kovitava Down the tee's a fault second serve Big chance for Rebackina Second serve Kovitava Out wide the back of Rebackina return to the front of Kovitava Rebackina forehand goes out unbelievable Rebackina had the shot two She had Kovitava going backwards But she over hits it seven all The coach is not happy. He's like what the hell was that? I don't know who taught you that forehand, but I'm not taking responsibility for that All right, both players have a chance at seven all here we go Kovitava serving again She serves Out wide return goes in the net from Rebackina nice serve Kovitava Now it's eight seven to Kovitava second set point All right eight seven Rebackina is going to serve though And it's tie right. It's exactly what we expected the match has been that even that the tie break shows what's happened so far You know the servings been Rebackina's strong suit the ground soaks have been Kovitava's best Let's see who can win this tie break though is we just fault from Rebackina second serve Kovitava ready Second serve Into the form of Kovitava backing out Rebackina again to the form of Kovitava to the back end of Rebackina Slice from Kovitava again to the back end of Rebackina into the form of Kovitava Neither player wants to go for a winner as we had a 400 backhand rally back in from Rebackina again Into the form of Kovitava to the back end of Rebackina Who hits it in wow cameraman went crazy and Rebackina puts it away and Kovitava looks at the crowd and goes stop yelling The ball hit the baseline and people lost their minds And Kovitava couldn't believe it because someone screamed Because they thought the ball was out and Kovitava won the point So in fact someone who's going for Kovitava ruined that point for Kovitava It hit the baseline just And some people in the crowd started screaming because they thought it was out ate all And the cameraman even thought it was out he panned to Kovitava couldn't even watch the point for half of it ate all drama. It's all drama ate all Rebackina serving two set points saved She serves down the tee. That's a good server turn goes in the form of Rebackina for now Kovitava Again to the form of Rebackina into the form of Kovitava who puts in the net nine eight Rebackina second set point for her Man Hopefully it won't be a problem. Like hopefully Kovitava is not thinking about what happened Nine eight Rebackina set point number two But it's Kovitava serving Kovitava with the serve Kovitava serves Can she get the first serve? serve Is a fault second serve Big chance for Rebackina second serve Kovitava Our wide good second server back and it gets it though for now Kovitava Is a winner very nice from Kovitava that second serve with a lefty spin Push Rebackina out wide then the forehand was easy nine nine. They change ends again What a tie break. He has a fire in the chat for this tie break. This tie break is intense It is intense Light the chat on fire because this is It's intense Nine nine They change ends Kovitava is going to serve though two break points sorry two set points either player In this one that's it light the chat on fire. We love that Okay nine nine Kovitava serving who's going to get a third set point Kovitava serves Down the tee Rebackina in the net on the return okay unbelievable Kovitava 10-9 in the tie break Remember it's usually first to seven but you got a win by two So this could have been over a long time ago And someone who got to seven five or seven four You know win by two though Rebackina serve third set point for Kovitava A ridiculous tie break to start the match All right Rebackina serves That's a fault okay Second serve Kovitava has got a massive chance here second serve Rebackina into the corner Kovitava who hits it in the net wasted chance You got to take those On the second server Rebackina today 10-10 How important is this first set? Chat who do you think needs a first set more? I feel like Kovitava right? Like if if Rebackina lost the first set you wouldn't feel as Worried for her But you feel like Rebackina could take away the second if she wins the first so Kovitava needs it back in now from Rebackina 10 All into the corner of Kovitava back in every back in her. That's a good shot Kovitava gets with the slice Rebackina back in again is too good Rebackina took that tie break or took that point. I should say Just ripped two backhands cross-court at 10 all Three set a third set point now for Rebackina They both had three But that was good Rebackina went for it, you know What is it no risk no? reward is that what is Risky for the biscuit. That's what I was thinking All right Kovitava serving 11 10 Rebackina set point serve Into the back end of Rebackina great return Kovitava gets it that goes in to the front of Rebackina Kovitava with the back end again to the back of Rebackina into the slice of Kovitava back in every back in a cross-court Into the front of Reba Kovitava back in every back in again to the front of Kovitava into the back of Rebackina Who hits it in the net 11 all Kovitava survived, but I love the Rebackina is going for it Like she wants she's trying to win this tie break. She's not just waiting for Kovitava to lose it. Love that All right 11 all In this ridiculous first set tie break Kovitava serving they both had three set points We've only had I think too many breaks as well in the tie break. It's ridiculous 11 all Kovitava with a serve Down the T the back of Rebackina back in a Kovitava into the front of Rebackina to the front of Kovitava who shanked it But it goes out Kovitava shanked it out and it's a set point on Rebackina's serve For the first time in the tie break a set point on someone's serve fourth set point Rebackina serving Is she gonna serve an ace? I mean We're all thinking it right We're all thinking that's how this ends She served four aces already 12 11 Rebackina with a serve She takes a deep breath the coach looks away Rebackina serves Set point four. She serves that wide a fault. Whoa. Um, all right. Second serve One hour play by the way second serve Out wide the four out of Kovitava return goes in the back of Rebackina Rebackina hits it out Wow 12 all they change ends again Wow The first serve missed by this much And then the forehand not good Good return from Kovitava and went back on serve 12 all By the way, this is about 5 000 people here. Thank you for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe. We haven't already Men's final tomorrow the final hard court matches of the year until august So what's that april may june july we have four months of clay court season and grass But four months of no Hard court matches after this We've had four set points For Rebackina with three for Kovitava Rebackina just served with a set point Couldn't find that first serve. She serves now 12 wall There's the ace It was just a point too late bang That's the ace that we're looking at it's five set points now the fifth set point, but it's on Kovitava serve whoo This is the never-ending tiebreak And this final is as dramatic as the semifinal we watched yesterday By the way, Rebackina is just having a laugh about how close that was to being An ace at least she's having a good time out there in this stressful situation 30 13 12 Has been a serve now from Kovitava Set point number five serve Out wide is good slash return goes in Kovitava forehand is a winner 13 all Kovitava looks more stressed Rebackina is talking to her coach going Could have won the tiebreaker if I just hit an ace That's 13 all what are you doing? focus Stressful Rebackina is just chilling Love that though, but also Why are you so relaxed? It's kind of all it's scary 13 all Kovitava serving Now why the front of Rebackina who shanks it out? Okay Kovitava's got a set point at 14 13 But it's on the Rebackina serve fourth set point for Kovitava Rebackina's had five This is crazy I can't remember a tiebreak like this not recently anyway We've had nine set points in the tiebreak four to Kovitava Five to Rebackina Rebackina serves Kovitava gets a look at a second serve Rebackina missed the first serve second serve Kovitava looks ready second serve Into the front of Kovitava good return to the back of Rebackina back in a Kovitava into the back end of Rebackina To the front of Kovitava again to the front of Rebackina Kovitava forehand again Goes into the back of Rebackina Rebackina is in trouble foreign Kovitava down the line Rebackina gets with her own forehand back in Kovitava again to the front of Rebackina Into the back in a Kovitava on the stretch, but it's in the net Rebackina turn that point around 14 all That was a tough point Rebackina's sisters looks like she's gonna have a pass out somebody get her some water 14 all Kovitava was in control that point until about the last three shots 14 all what a tiebreak And look of course, it's a gonna be an epic tiebreak for a final they saved it till now 14 all Rebackina serves neither of these players have lost a tiebreak this week Serve is a fault from Rebackina Second serve second serve Into the front of Kovitava good return Rebackina is there with a forehand down the line, but it's out And Kovitava is now serving with a set point unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable 15 14 Kovitava's had a this is a fifth set point. She's already had four. This is a fifth five set points for Rebackina already And it's Kovitava serving With a set point for the first time in this tiebreak Her coach is going nuts aka her husband and all the time Classic tiebreak for a final Kovitava serves. It's got bme chat It's got bme as we just started and see the front of Rebackina for now Kovitava to the back end of Rebackina Again to the front of Kovitava Rebackina backhand goes Into the front of Kovitava for every back in the net Kovitava takes the first 16 14 In the tiebreak Wow and the crowds on their feet They should be that was an epic We'll remember that tiebreak for a while Whoo. All right, and Kovitava needed that It did feel like Kovitava needed that first set Because we know Rebackina can come back But Kovitava gets it especially with like the yelling of the crowd, you know during the points and all that stuff that went through it Kovitava takes the first set 16 14 in the tiebreak Jesus Christ Can we get two more of those is that too much fire in the chat light it on fire? And look both players had five chances each But Rebackina just couldn't find a first serve when she had that set point on her serve man What a tiebreak What a set What a final All right Let's answer questions Spectacular but very weak tennis. Hey, sometimes the tennis doesn't have to be good for the match to be good Kovitava is better than Djokovic There you go. What happened to the rankings for Elena and Petra? I think Petra if she wins she gets in the fight as she gets in the top 10, right? So Rebackina wins should be number six Which is a career high for her And if Kovitava wins She will be number 10 So Kovitava is trying to get back in the top 10 And Rebackina is trying to get a career high ranking So that's what's on the line But more so the sunshine doubles on the line for Rebackina and Kovitava is trying to win a big trophy at In her twilight years Charleson draws on Twitter. Nice. We'll get to that eventually Dutchie. Thank you for sending me that Um Never underestimate a Wimbledon champion. Well, yeah That's it 22-20 is the is the WTA tiebreaker points record. Okay. Well, we watched in all time and that was That felt I mean, what's the difference between that tiebreaker and uh 22-20 in the tiebreaker? I mean it feels as dramatic as ever Here we go Kovitava to serve now This kind of makes me Feel well, that's the first tiebreaker Rebackina has lost this week. It should only play two but um I don't I just don't feel like Rebackina is out of this like it doesn't feel like Like Rebackina doesn't look panicked. So it kind of puts you at ease like uh, maybe She's not worried then No, no one else should be as that goes in the net there from Rebackina on the return And Kovitava doesn't feel like like it doesn't seem like she's gonna run away with this you know, it's not Doesn't just it just doesn't feel like I just don't think Kovitava is gonna run away with the second set Usually when an underdog wins the first set in a tiebreak as close as that The favorite comes back in the second and does some some damage. So Let's see 15 love Kovitava is serving first though, which will be helpful As we said about wide that's a fault. Also talk about return, uh When someone's lost the first set when they come back How they come back in this matchup Second serve Kovitava to the back end of Rebackina 400 Kovitava Get into the back end of Rebackina into the back end of Kovitava Rebackina with the forehand. No, can't get it Again Kovitava making the court so wide 30 love And how good is this chat? The last two matches have been absolutely epic been very lucky 30 15 30 15 As we return now going to the back end of Kovitava and Rebackina puts in the net 40 love 40 love I've got a stat for your chat Because that's part of my job And if you're a back end of fan, maybe close your ears 40 love So don't see the form of Rebackina return goes into the back end of Kovitava back end of Rebackina goes Into the back end of Kovitava get into the form of Rebackina For that Kovitava goes cross court in the back end of Rebackina into the foreign slash Kovitava and puts in the net 40 15 Also stats coming up after this game Again the WTA for some reason don't give out the stats at the end of the match or end of the set like Everyone else does they do it after the first game of the second set, which I just don't understand Seems a little silly You know we've got like two minutes change over why not just do it then when everyone's sitting down doing nothing Okay, here we go Kovitava 40 15 serve to the back end of Rebackina Point out from Kovitava to the for the Rebackina again to the back end of slice of Kovitava Into the for the Rebackina it goes down the line Kovitava gets it back in now from Rebackina just Into the for the Kovitava Kovitava puts it away one love in the second Let's go through the stats and then let's talk about finals And who comes back from a set down and who can't Because Kovitava's played a hell of a lot of finals And she's won a lot of those too When she wins the first set it's never a good place to be If you're the opposition First set by the way just over an hour. It was pretty quick set considering how crazy it was Okay First set set our stats 16 winners seven 16 winners 18 errors Rebackina 17 winners 11 errors Kovitava. She played better Kovitava more races for Rebackina But Kovitava played better on the ground strokes And on the baseline. So that's what the difference was in that tiebreak especially Okay, so here's the big question the million dollar question How many times has Rebackina come back from a set down in a final in her career? She has come back once Does anybody know when that was? When did Rebackina come back? From a set down in a final the only time she's ever done it Love 15 to win by the way to win not come back to level but come back to win A race is considered winners. I think so Love 15 Nice return there from Kovitava Wimbledon Exactly you guys are smart Wimbledon last year So don't see that's a fault second serve It was Wimbledon last year But other than that She's won win five losses when she loses the first set in a big final as we return from Kovitava That's a massive return win. I love 30. Uh-oh Uh, she's only actually come back and played three sets twice out of those Six times that she's lost the first set in a final now Kovitava on the flip side When she wins the first set of a final her record Love 30 we'll tell you in a second Her record When she wins the first set in a final Kovitava As a return now goes in the final Rebackina final Kovitava is too good love 40 Love 40 Kovitava taken over and I didn't I gotta be honest didn't expect Kovitava to be this aggressive To start the second, but I guess the first set being a pocket. She can do whatever she wants All right, love 40 Kovitava trying to get off to a great start the second serve Into the form of Kovitava back in every back in her He's in the back of the Kovitava Kovitava hits it wide Nearly again not a great approach shot there from Rebackina coming to the net Got away with that one 1540 All right 1540 serve again from Rebackina first serve as a fault second serve Well, let me know in the chat who's winning this second set do you reckon? Second serve into the form of Kovitava. That's a great second serve Kovitava hit it wide on the return Risky second serve hit the service line, but Too much power for Kovitava to handle 30 40 If Kovitava wins this match, she's in the top 10 number 10 in the world As we deserve to see the back end of Kovitava will return Kovitava smokes it down the line And it's too low Kovitava now Rebackina fans close your ears because you don't want to hear this When Kovitava's won the first set in a final on the wta. She has won 23 matches and lost Zero She's never lost a final after winning the first set Kovitava 23 and 0 That is a terrible set if you're Rebackina She's only actually played three sets three times sorry five times In those 23 so she's only been forced to go to a third five times in those 23, but she still won them Never lost a match in a final After winning the first set Kovitava in her whole career If she's not losing right now, she's up 15 love two love and a set And Rebackina doesn't come back in finals. She's only done it once that was a wimby so The odds Are in Kovitava's favor 15 love Serve out wide there's a fault from Kovitava second serve second serve Down the tee the four and a four and a Kovitava Again at the back end of Rebackina into the four and Kovitava four and a Rebackina Again at the front of Kovitava who puts it in the net 15 all you feel like Rebackina's got to Break now I get back now three love. I mean I know it's only one break, but jeez three love 15 all and remember you got to remember that the stats that I just read out They know these players know their own stats They probably know each other's stats. I mean Kovitava probably knew well if I win the first set She's probably not going to come back Or she probably she hasn't come back very often So I have a chance as we're to four now to the back end of Rebackina on the stretch Kovitava with the forehand down the line we're back in his Gets it but hits it wide 30 15 But Kovitava would know a hundred percent that she has never lost after winning the first set in a final You've done it 23 times. You know you know She'll be there and she'll be like, oh Never lost in this situation Don't feel like losing now 30 15 But Rebackina will know also that she's only come back once in a final From a set down. She'll know that she's got to try and forget about that But she'll know slice return goes in the corner Kovitava Rebackina with the backhand down the line That's a shot. That's a hell of a shot Rebackina in the rally back in the forehand now as Kovitava gets it again at the back end of Rebackina Who hits a winner? This is gonna be all finished. Love that for Rebackina 30 all 30 all again, you feel like Rebackina can't get off to a Slow start in the second if she goes down three love She's going to let Kovitava return big returns when she wants Get back on serve quickly 30 all Kovitava serves A fault Second serve now in 20 minutes played in this final Sunshine double on the line Kovitava looking for number 30 In her career as we the serve don't see the back of every back in a good return the back of Kovitava For now Rebackina down the line is a winner. Whoa. This is gonna be all finished. Whoo. Okay Outside of the line For Rebackina, but hey, she's had a couple of great shots now. She's got a break point second break point of the day To take back the break Geez that must have hit the line by this much Rebackina unfazed she hits it. She's like, yeah, whatever 30 40 Yep outside the line just touching the line 30 40 Serve it while the back of every back in a good return to for the Kovitava for every back on the stretch A bit of a shank and Kovitava comes in with the forehand. Rebackina gets us right Kovitava bollies Rebackina forehand goes to the bolly as Kovitava. Oh Rebackina can't bolly She just didn't go the right way Rebackina. She came to the net As Petra came to the net they're both standing there And Rebackina just couldn't quite get the ball away. She played well though. She's probably should have lost the point before that But Rebackina just didn't quite she if she goes down the line. She wins the point She just doesn't have the touch and feel at the net She definitely doesn't have the bollies like that bolly was Would have been a miracle had that had gone in all right, Deuce Unlucky for Rebackina as we deserve an ice bang Kovitava fourth ace of the day advantage Kovitava No one's even in the stands. Oh, there's enough. It's not like yesterday, but yesterday was like the most ridiculous match up and in a prime time and all that Rebackina is not yet a household name You've got to win the u.s. Open to become famous I guess There's a slice return going into the lob And a smash Or Kovitava nearly hit the net And Rebackina is gone. Did she hit the net? I want to see a replay that too All right, three love Kovitava Rebackina is asking the question like how does she win that point? Like did she not touch the net? Did she not lean over and? Anyways, doesn't matter three love All right, how we doing? Shall we good? I want to ask you a question now Where are you watching from? I know there's a lot of people out there watching from all over the place Where are you watching this match from? Where you at? I'm going to have a look at that replay by the way And Kovitava almost fell over the net Where you're watching from let me know in the chat And you're allowed to lean over the net and hit the ball if Wow, that was very lucky for Kovitava. Luckily she didn't hit the net either So the ball bounces over your side and comes back You're allowed to hit the ball like lean over there as long as I don't touch the net You can lean over there and hit the ball, but it has to bounce on your side first Um, so that was totally legal All right. I'm on my couch. Cool All right, Poland, Russia, Canada, Philippines We've got uh, Romania in the chat Germany Serbia, Texas, Wellington in florida We're at London. We've got Mexico, Netherlands Uh, Croatia We've got Washington, Pakistan, France, India Uh, Netherlands in my from the card. Nice. Czech Republic, Venezuela Scotland Botswana in the chat as well We've got Nebraska, Bangladesh in a swimming pool Oh, that sounds lovely South Africa, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia No one cares Uh, I'm so angry. I don't know where those places are Um, we've got India We've got Wales South Africa, Florida Germany Austria, Syria, Israel All right We're backing up down a set and a break three love But remember one breaker serve is not that much in WTA tennis Just got a whole serve though first we're backing up. No big return from Kovitava. We need she needs first serves We're backing a needs first serves Love 15 Dubai in the chat as well. Thank you everybody for uh, for letting us know where you're from Worldwide tennis is worldwide And we just serve out wide. Nice. There's the first serve Bang So we've got Kazakhstan in the chat Love that All right serve We're backing a must win So it's gonna take good return A good effort on the return, but it goes wide 30-15 Nice serving again from Rabakina first serve coming to the rescue needs First serves Unfortunately, the first serve didn't help her in the first set which had you know that set point On her serve So is that why the fauna Kovitava return goes into the back end of Rabakina? To the fauna Kovitava. Rabakina with the fauna on the stretch now Goes out Kovitava gets onto that first serve the rally starts When the rally starts it's Kovitava's advantage Okay 30 all Must win game For Rabakina Must win Serve Rabakina That's a fault second serve Big problem now Second serve Into the fauna Kovitava for now Rabakina Kovitava goes with the back end into the back end of Rabakina Kovitava with a fine slice now Rabakina in control But hits it out 30 40 Kovitava to get the double break here for love in the second And look I said at the start of this set That I don't think Petra is going to run away with this 30 40 good serve return goes Into the fauna Rabakina again at the back end of Kovitava for now Rabakina down the line Kovitava there with a slice that goes in the fauna Rabakina Kovitava Back in the rally now as Rabakina goes again to the back end of Kovitava who hits it in the net more reduced I did say that But nobody heard so it's all right, so I didn't say it's April Fool's I was just joking April Fool's nothing matters today All my predictions were all just jokes I'm not wrong. It was a joke. So that's my excuse Dose Rabakina serves Into the back end of Kovitava back in every back in her It's too good Advantage Rabakina It's the only day I can use this excuse Advantage Rabakina, okay Aaron nearly an hour and 30 minutes played advantage Rabakina There's been a serve An ace bang. Okay. That's the start That's the game she needed remember that game Kovitava had a chance to go to full love Was that game? As big of a deal as maybe we'll look back and go that was the game that Rabakina started The amazing comeback maybe Maybe that was it 3-1 as Kovitava serves Kovitava taking the time she's been here before many times She knows what's up Not getting rushed out of this one as she serves into the back end of Rabakina back enough from Kovitava Into the back end of Rabakina Kovitava slice into the slice of Rabakina into the form of Kovitava back end of back end as Kovitava goes down the line now with a forehand to the slice of Rabakina Kovitava forehand as Rabakina gets back in the rally Kovitava with a slice Rabakina comes into the back end Kovitava gets his right. Oh Rabakina had it Kovitava wins the point But Rabakina should have gone down the line She just didn't see Petra running Because she started running like 30 seconds early Down the line would have been a winner, but Rabakina just didn't see her Rabakina should have won that point She hit it straight to Kovitava's forehand and Kovitava was like really? All right, thanks Okay, 15 love 15 love Serve out wide Big serve out wide from Kovitava Unreturnable 30 love So Austin said Kovitava competing so well after 70 years on tour true Very true. All right 30 love Good serve there the forehand of Rabakina back in now from Kovitava slice Rabakina as Kovitava comes to the net Rabakina with a pass it's a lob But it's out by a long way 40 love Yeah door and some people just got to leave Oh Some people just No kids allowed in this chat. It's an adult's chat I don't know why there's a Seven-year-old kid saying stupid being an idiot Bye Go back to your mom 40 love Yeah, I So don't see the phone of Rabakina Rabakina tonight. Okay Kovitava stays up the break for one. Yeah, no kids allowed Yeah, this is a this is an 18 only gotta be a gotta be we serve alcohol in this venue. All right get out No kids allowed. It's not bringing your kid to tennis day Give the iPad back to your mum's mate Okay, I was asked some questions Um, yeah, it's a bar it's a tennis talk bar Uh, it's a bad day for Elena. That's okay. Well, like I said, this match is really just you know, you can break it down into a couple of things The best thing about Rabakina today has been a serve But unfortunately that's been the only thing She's had gone for it the serving the first serve especially the aces The ground stroke rallies are all Kovitava though. So as soon as the as soon as Kovitava gets the first serve back Rabakina hasn't lost the advantage So that's what's that's really what's happened. I mean, that's what happened in the first set What happened in the tie break it's what happening now. So once Kovitava gets the return back She was gonna she wins the point Well, she at least feels like she wins the point more than anything and if Rabakina missed the first serve then Kovitava's winning the point so And unfortunately for Rabakina when she gets a return back on Kovitava's serve It's still a rally, you know Kovitava's not you know, she's serving big and then you know dominating the rallies herself. So Rabakina just only really has her serve going for her unless Kovitava gets nervous or something happens where she gets broken here But I don't think like Kovitava is the type of player with her experience to get a little nervous I don't think she'll be worried about that Rabakina does not need to win this. She's doing fine Yeah, look anyone like Whenever someone loses that's supposed to win people just go be silly. So Does Kovitava does Rabakina have to win this to prove anything? No, she's still had a great year so far Still probably top three for me or top two for me this year But people get angry when when the favorite loses because they might must have lost money Dropshot winner very nice from Rabakina We will go to the power rankings after this though because power rankings are Looking pretty interesting at the moment They'll Hey, thank you creatures for the dollar. Appreciate that the power rankings Both these ladies are on the power rankings all right 15 love First serve is a fault second serve Almost a million views on the highlights for Sinner and Elk res. Yeah That was I mean look it was an all-time match as a return it goes out from Kovitava 30 love That's funny because the ATP can't use Wimbledon or us open highlights But that outside of that the Wimbledon outside the us open the match they played yesterday was their second best match of their rivalry to the ATP I mean that no surprise that should get a million views That ridiculous point they played. I mean If you're following me on twitter you will see that point um Online on twitter a little bit of serving on the back end of Kovitava. That's in the net 40 love Nice game here for Rabakina 40 love 29 career singles and only two slams or along with two slams true In an era where Serena dominated you won two Wimbledons. I mean that's pretty damn good for Kovitava Never was number one in the world though, which is a little strange You know you win Wimbledon you think uh world number one ranking should be Close to you know should be close to number one. She only got to number two I always thought Kovitava was number one in the world at some point never happened First there's a fault second serve second serve Rabakina Into the four on a Kovitava great return Rabakina gets it back in a Kovitava in the net Rabakina stays in touch Let's get the power rankings for a sec These are we updated for the clay court season. So don't you worry, but there you go. You can see Sabalinka number one Rabakina number two In the power rankings. I think that's going to change after this week because of course Sabalinka lost To Kastaya, which was a big upset When you lose to someone not in the top 20 power ranks, it does affect your ranking But Rabakina even if she loses today, I'm going to say she's going to be top Still top probably top of the power ranks and I think I mean how can you disagree? That she is not the best player from the first three months of the year and Kovitava number 14 in the power ranks She will go up Into that top 10 possibly even top five Depending on I guess depending on some other things around it because the players above her You know keys vekkage sorenko mukava pliscava sakuri golf benchage All had poor events even crid jigava. You could say Wasn't as good. So uh big changes the power rank is coming next week As that return goes out from Rabakina 15 love That's uh Kovitava gets this Should be uh, should be up the top there now Kovitava has beaten Rabakina and Pagula already this year She beats Rabakina twice. I mean bloody hell I want to start the Petra 15 love serve Down the tee is a fault and Rabakina's got to take advantage of every second serve That Kovitava gives her it's got to make it count She's got to go a little bit Sabalenka on the second serve be a little aggressive go get a little risky on it Second serve is in a let All right second serve again. All right 15 love second serve Second serve into the back end of Rabakina four now from Kovitava down the line. That's a great shot and Rabakina can't get it Kovitava just guides the ball down the line with some power with the power of Rabakina 30 love Six points away Kovitava from winning Miami And no sunshine double. I mean it's Look, I don't I don't hate that Rabakina and Elkres didn't win the sunshine double at this stage aren't winning it Because it should be something that's hard to do and we saw it done last year, you know like It should be it isn't it isn't easy, right? It's not easy It's a return that goes out from Rabakina 40 love. I mean you got to win If you're a c2 play you got to with 12 matches over the span of a month You've got to win two tournaments back to back in different conditions Slower courted Indian Wells, you know, you got to grind out those points Um, you know, you got to sweat it out in Miami, you know, totally different fatigue issues we saw with Elkres yesterday I mean, it's not as easy as that is that's an ace out wide bang Kovitava Kovitava five two in the second. It's only one breaker serve, but Rabakina needs A flawless performance to come back in this It's not too bad Ryan Kresakova should be taking notes from Petra now Everyone should Robert with the 20 can we get some solutions in the chat for Robert. Thank you Robert for the 20th. That's very generous might appreciate that Um, man, that's very generous But the thing is the problem. I mean look it's high You can't just critic of her and Sriyanka can't just go. Hey Petra. How do I win? They'll be should be like be left-handed and hang up the phone. I mean You got to be left-handed That's it Are we giving out memberships today? Um, no, I mean probably maybe tomorrow. I don't know But we're not given. I mean there's no we're not doing anything today that has any memberships attached to it We might do can versus chat tomorrow Um, just for fun. So stay tuned get ready for that We haven't done a can versus chat for like a week. So we'll do can versus chat tomorrow I don't know what we'll do but I'll figure it out It's on the beginning for Alina Uh, this is Petra's last hurrah, but Alina is the future true. I mean, Alina is you're gonna get a chance again you know But back in is gonna gonna get hers again. She won indian wales the first big trophy after wimbledon Um, but Petra's done done this many times In fact Kovitava Has got and when I say big trophies, I'm talking about the big 14 trophies. I'm talking about Uh, grand slams. I'm talking about masters 1000 or w 10 1000s. She's got two wimbledons Uh, she's got three madrid trophies. She's got a doha dubai trophy She's got three trophies in wuhan and she's also got a canadian open trophy She's made the final of sinsi last year. She made the final of miami this year Uh, she's also made the final a few times. Uh, well once in china, uh, the china open also a couple more times in dubai, so um Yeah, she's won. She's won a lot of these big trophies Petra Kovitava And like I said when she wins the first set in a final she doesn't lose as that goes in the net from Kovitava 15 love 15 love Kamal don't know my points for membership. Well juice if you donate your points It I just gift a membership and it goes randomly, so I don't know who's going to get it. I can't gift it to you specifically, mate All right 15 love so you're just gonna have to if you want to donate your points you can but It's uh, it could be Could go to anybody, mate the gift of member double fault The third double fault today 15 all Uh, Shrion said claimed the sunshine double last year and the whole streak Just shows how dominant, uh, she wasn't still is. Yeah, it shows how like it's not easy as we get a fault from Rubakina second serve second server back in her Into the back form of Kovitava back in every back in the net 15 30. Okay Kovitava is two points away from causing the upset and winning her 30th career title In a Hall of Fame career, I don't think we can say that she's not going to make the Hall of Fame Two grand slams and a number two in the world plus a you know 28 other titles if she wins this I think she deserves it and a bunch of Billie Jean King cups as well with the Czech Republics We're gonna find out from Rebecca to the slice of Kovitava back in our from rebacking her again to the form of Kovitava Into the form of rebacking her Kovitava back in on the stretch into the back of Rebecca No, Kovitava forehand again to the back of Rebecca. No, it's a wide championship points for Petra Kovitava man And she is having just like as a rancor a little bit as well She is getting some really good wins in her mid to late mid to 30s 15 40 to take home Miami open trophy Rebecca serves That's a fault second serve Second server back in up into the form of Kovitava shanks it but it goes in Rebecca with a forehand again to the back hand of Kovitava into the form of rebacking her that goes out Kovitava is the champion in Miami the veteran takes out The current best player in form I guess you could say No sunshine double this year And Petra Kovitava shows she's still got some life yet 30 career trophies for Petra Kovitava What a week she lost one set for the week what a win GGs And she's beaten rebacking her twice this year So you've got Fiontek losing a rebacking her twice Kovitava beating rebacking her twice You know, there's always a player That no one likes to play Well, that's so you know, there's everyone has a player they don't like playing And maybe it's a big serving left-hander for rebacking her. That's the player she doesn't want to play Just like rebacking her. Fiontek doesn't want to play rebacking her Great work. Good work for Kovitava. You love that you love to see these veterans just getting a getting one over The new generation or the the the current gen And she's back in the top 10. So she's not like he's not even done yet. I mean Kovitava's back in the top 10 She's number 10 in the world after that. So she's one of these top 10 players now Rebacking will be number seven in the world after this week But man great for Kovitava. Two-time Wimbled champion beats the one-time Wimbled champion W tastes so awesome. Yeah, just when you think things are gonna, you know, things are getting a little bit too predictable Kovitava knocks out the player that everyone's, you know, no one can beat And same with Sabalenka. I mean, rebacking a beat Sabalenka or Krijikov beat Sabalenka Fiontek got beaten. I mean starting to get a little a little more even Great for Kovitava, especially after what she's been through in her career. I mean, we all talk about it You know, the house attack uh, her hand was, you know, her left hand was Just butchered Uh, to come back and then now at 33 be able to beat Probably the current I would say the the best player on the planet At least the most informed player on the planet in Rebackina In straight sets for the second time in the year. I mean hell and Kovitava's also beaten Pagula So it's like, well, she is beating the top 10. Let me have a look at what her record is against top 10s. By the way If you're leaving, don't forget to subscribe because we're at the men's final tomorrow Sina vs. Mehdi And I'm expecting That to be fun Kind of expecting Sina to win. Hopefully It'd be awesome to see Sina get a win to finish the finish the hard court. Yeah. Well the hard court Part one hard court season All right, so Kovitava, let me have a tell you who she's played this year in the top 10 And what her record is because now she's got a couple of wins over top 10s this year And she will go up the power ranks. I'm interested to see come come tuesday I'll put it in the discord what the power rankings look like because Rebackina should be number one Because Sabalanga had a worse loss so they should change but Kovitava could be in the top five Maybe top top five would be a bit crazy, but maybe So against top 10 players this year She's two wins three losses. She's beaten Pagula twice She's been she lost a goff. She lost to kazakhina And she lost to sakkari now She lost the sakkari in that three setter at india wells last week and now she's been Rebecca And she's three wins three losses against top 10s and now she is a top 10 So she's up there with these ladies, you know, you've got the top 10s looking really interesting now Because you've kind of got all these young players and then you've got kovitava who's like the veteran of the tour so you've got 21 year old shvi on tech, which is crazy 24 year old sabalanga 29 year old Um, gasia and pagula. So they're almost in their 30s Then you've got 28 year old deburr. So they're sort of that, you know, they're sort of at the I guess the midpoint Uh 19 year old goff 23 year old reback and a 25 year old kazakhina 27 year old sakkari and then 33 year old kovitava the next oldest player after kovitava is uh pliskeva You got lannette. They're on their 30s as a ranker at 33 All in the top 20. But yeah, she is the only player in her 30s in the top 10 at the moment kovitava Great to see. Why do you say rebacking her as the best player on the planet? well, astral open final indian wells miami final I mean What do you reckon? The sunshine doubles now a joke. What do you mean the sunshine that this makes the sunshine double more prestigious. It's harder to get into the club You know not winning the sunshine double it sucks because we want to see that happen, but It shows that it's not easy You know, so what shvi on tech did last year shouldn't be like oh next year someone else will do it next year It's I like it. I like the fact that sunshine double hasn't been achieved this week Um by either the men or women because that means next year when someone has a chance to do it We know how hard it is. We know how difficult it is, you know shouldn't be easy Shad's a layler and taylor for making the Miami doubles final. Yeah And the playing pergola versus uh and golf that's a good doubles final. That's tomorrow. Um, that's tomorrow after the men's final The pressure's so sharp. Alina needs a vacation. Uh, also well deserved. Yeah, look rebeck and I You know, she wasn't playing well this week She played well in parts even today. She actually played it pretty decent At least she played, you know, she played okay better than against pergola, but Um, Kovitava just played much much better than anyone rebeck and I played this week Now first at tiebreak At first at tiebreak was that that was uh, a big difference Uh, kamin rebeck and it was 22 and five this year, right best record so far. I believe I think I think sabalenka's records better I think sabalenka's lost less I have to find out but I mean chat Now that the now that the part one and this is the season is the season interesting because the season of tennis Is broken up into a couple of different sections, right? So the section this is what I call um Hard court season part one, right? Because we've got part two later Hard court season part one Is over for the ladies, right? We've got no more, uh, hardcore matches until uh, august Who do you think is the top five of the hard court season Part one for the ladies Because I think rebeckon is one maybe Actually, you know what maybe sabalenka's one because she won the ashram open And rebeckon is close to Because she made the finals of you know, whereas sabalenka one the ashram open lost in the final indie worlds Rebeckon had made more finals, but who is the number? Who do you reckon are top five? Actually, we'll go three three is an easy number Who are the top three? Who are your top three picks for uh, players for season uh, for hard court season part one The first three months of the year It's got to be sabalenka rebeckon, but who's the third one? Who's the third one? fjontek kujikova pagula I mean, it's got to be one of them, right? Um, I mean kovitova could kovitova be in there. I don't know I mean after this, I mean she's like I said, she's been pagula pagula twice rebeckona twice, right Um, could kovitova be number three or is kovitova not as not as uh, I guess not as um established Overall as you know, the other the other ladies like kovitova and stuff I mean she won the big trophy just like kovitova did. I would say kovitova is over over kovitova Based on this year She's beaten kovitova's beaten Pagulish fjontek sabalenka back-to-back the dubai the dubai match was uh, it's close Uh, let me look at their head-to-head. Uh, what the what the record is Um, so we've got so no brainer sabalenka rebeckona top two But this year, uh, kovitova 15 wins six losses in the first part of the season Including a dubai trophy Uh, pagula went 19 and six in hard court season part one So 19 six you would say that pagula over kovitova maybe Uh, kovitova's gone 17 and five Uh, including a couple of top 10 wins over uh, you know over rebeckona and pagula and the shfiontek Has gone 16 and four Uh, with losses to only losing to rebeckona twice pagula and kovitova So it's probably shfiontek as number three, but For me personally, but you guys tell me shfiontek is not really top three for hard court part one, you reckon If she played miami, maybe we would have been talking different, but because she didn't play miami I mean shfiontek You know, uh played a lot for poland in the start of the year. So she was a little bit Unlucky not to get a title for herself because she played for poland At the united cup and united, you know, poland got overrun by america because america have a stack team And poland had shfiontek and unfortunately, you know, not a great backup compared to the americans Even though linnet's great, but you know, not as strong in uh in the men's side of things and then She made the fourth round of this round open. She won doha. She made the debi final She got to the semis of indian worlds. I mean, that's I would say I would say that um shfiontek should be three top three this, you know, kovitova And pagula very close behind, but I would say top top three shfiontek's still number three For me in this so far this year Because she lost to back in a twice She lost to kovitova pagula Whereas pagula's lost to kovitova twice shfiontek um Because it kind of comes down to who did you lose to right and the players that shfiontek's lost to were like way way up Whereas there's been random losses for the others so, you know, uh She lost to kovitova twice pagula. She lost to rebeccana kovitova shfiontek and azarenka right, so she's had a not random losses, but You know that azarenka losses a little bit random compared to the rest um And then yeah, kovitova I don't think she could be top three because she lost to kazakhina who's not having a good year So that's not a great loss. She lost to pagula. She lost to samson over and uh And kudamatova back to back like that was two losses in a row sabalanka twice So I don't think kovitova can be top three I think it's got to be shfiontek based on the losses This was very similar to any of my final. Yeah, it's been been like that Kudrikova wanted to buy winning against yeah kudrikova I said this last I said this this week remember kudrikova said this week I want to be considered in that big three conversation with these guys these ladies The problem is she's only had one good week Dubai was amazing. She did a great crazy thing, but she hasn't been able to back that up like I said with kudrikova She had a great to buy She beat the top three players in the world back to back to back Not something to be like, you know, not something to just say that's nothing, but then Outside of that. She hasn't made it to a quarter final So she's made it to second round out of late fourth round, uh, Australian open for a second round to buy first round doha Indian well third round Sorry fourth round twice Now you can say she's been unlucky because she played sabalanka twice. That's not fair It is what it is But she's only she hasn't made it past the quarter finals Outside of Dubai So she's had one really good week Is that enough? I don't think so I don't think it's enough Whereas pagula She made uh, she won the united cup with america. She made the quarter finals of australia. She made the final of doha Uh, she made the semi-finals of dubai. She made the third round lost the third round of um So the fourth round of indian wells and she made the semi-finals here. So I think I would put pagula above kudrikova Sorry about above kudrikova And then shviantech has made semi-finals in united cup fourth round of australia and open One doha final of dubai semi-finals of indian wells again over kudrikova probably over pagula um Maybe pagula is three Maybe pagula is three anyways The power rankings will come out and then that would tell you exactly who is who and who is actually the top three But I see I think that um, reback is number one. I think she she went she wins the hard court season part one for me She is the hard court. She's the best player in the first three months of the season Even with today's loss It was very scary, but nothing bad happened What I remember, are you all right? What's wrong shviantech did lose to kudrikova. Yes But remember this is it's it's about overall performance and kudrikova Has a doubles title too. Yeah, but but shannon if we start talking about doubles It's not a fair game because If we start talking about yeah, it's not doubles If we start talking about doubles then we start talking about um, the messes everything up Singles performance so power rankings are singles only Doubles record doesn't count Because not not everyone plays doubles She's great doubles though. She'd be number one in the world for doubles if she's not already Our pagoola three wins are convincing as well Okay, yeah Uh, kudrikova coming from the french open. I'd love to see it Should be fire get after petra winning um Check love to out do each other. Well, that's the thing. Um This really makes like it really makes things interesting this week because Like I said, you know just when you think Things are getting a little predictable Someone comes out and like someone steps up and changes the changes the game and changes what we all think like It's very interesting like we had fjontek dominating that all of a sudden Players came out and started beating her and you know, what the hell we haven't seen this Sabaleca was undefeated All of a sudden she starts losing she loses the kudrikova who steps up Then kudrikova starts winning and then she lost and we're like, oh, okay Maybe kudrikova is not the next you know the next uh one to take over Then we're back and it starts to take over a little bit and she starts to get on a roll And can bit of a steps up and says stop no more So it's a weird. It's a really interesting and also pagoola is floating around there too. It's really interesting How the wta looks now going into the clay court season because you've got fjontek She had a really good week in doha. We thought here we go the bakery's back open for business Then the baker got shut down by kudrikova Hasn't really opened since or has but hasn't really Not against the top players anyway. She hasn't been able to kick their ass consistently like she'd last year sabaleca was kicking butt But then she just completely lost it against uh Uh castella also lost to rebekkina which was a bit of a shock for the first time rebekkina was killing it Kuvidava stopped that today Um And pagoola's been like it's consistent She has she just needs a big title to kind of put herself in the conversation It's really really interesting and going into the clay court season. It's going to be a total different Game now, right? You've got fjontek. Who's the clay queen? Pagoola who can play on clay because her game's a little suited to that the slower courts Or at least she doesn't mind playing on fast courts But I feel like she won't get blown off the court by these big hitters uh like she was you know Maybe in the first three months Sabalec is not a slouch on clay. She can play on clay Kuvidava could made a semi-final the french open a few years ago and rebekkina beat serena on clay. So It's not like the big hitters, you know rebekkina sabalec is fjont rebekkina sabalec and kuvidava are now like Non-factors for the next three months. They're still going to be around They're just not going to probably be as good as they were in the first three months Because clay is not going to be their their preferred surface. I expect fjontek to kick like kick butt I think pagoola might surprise. I think she might win one of those masters, especially if fjontek decides to take one off And I think kuvidava obviously kuvidava right french open champion two years ago Didn't play the clay court season last year has nothing to lose in terms of points everything to gain It's going to be a very fun clay court season and then yeah Then you got to talk about gasia and goff and sakary and all the players outside that maybe didn't start the year off good But now we're going to a different surface. We're starting again Everything starts again on the on the clay, you know the first three months. We're you know in jabbar right on shabar What's she been up to? We haven't seen much of her clay courts We'll see if she can come back So it's very fun. So again, what does that all mean cam it means stick around Hey jokovic done the sunshine doubles three years in a row exactly And that's why he is one of the greatest to of all time because you can it's not nobody does that Nobody has done that and nobody will do that Can the points the points can the points release the okay calm down They're not going to disappear if I don't give them out now or just chill uh trouble with Uh, I think the ATP Tennis is getting a little like the wt that the goats are getting older Yeah, well the the ATP in the wt without the goats, especially without jokovic playing here and nadal injured You've got you know a group of players that are constantly mevita's made a fifth final in the row Sinner and alcaraz are doing their thing, right? So there's a little bit of a group there Um, you know city passes injured. So he's not really there. We don't really have an established You know five or six like we do on the wt right now Um, you know on the ATP, I guess you could say I feel like he's behind if rude is not there um Rubelev has his days fritz fritz might be up there and like We'll talk about this tomorrow, but What do you reckon chat? Who are the top five men this year? Uh, I guess you got to put jokovic in there But who are the top five men for part one of the hardcore season? I've got to say it's got to be mevita's, you know and alcaraz jokovic, but who's number five Is it fritz? Is it hashtenov? Making a semi-final of two big tournaments because I don't it's definitely not rude city pass Made the final of australia, but hasn't done anything since Runa hasn't really taken off FAA I mean, I can't think of too many times. He's done crazy things like he doesn't done that much this year Rubelev no I mean, it's probably fritz, right Nori But he played one on clay You're like he won the I mean nori. I don't know if nori's done much on hardcore I feel like it's yeah, it's a fritz Fritz is number five. It's obviously like jokovic mevita have sinna alcaraz. They're the four best players in the first part um Fritz making a couple of you know a couple of quarterfinals at these uh, you know in the sunshine double quarter final Lost to sinna and alcaraz who were in that top five um Yeah, I feel like I feel like it might it's got to be fritz, right? Because I can't see anyone else out. I mean City pass no, I mean he played well in australia, but you know, like I said, what have you done lately? Uh fritz has been fritz won the united cup as well So it has to be fritz, right? He also won a title It's got to be fritz fritz is number five. What are the power rankings for the man? Let me check Oh fritz is number six. Okay, so yeah, so Going off that If you take no, I mean norian fritz will switch it is going to be fritz There you go power ranks. He look we're trying to guess we're playing a guessing game the power rankings just tell us It's mevita jokovic alcaraz sinna and then fritz because nori lost early this week So he'll drop fritz will go up because he'll only lost to sinna. I'm sorry. He only lost to alcaraz There's the top five Easy, we don't even have to play a guessing game chat. We have the power rankings to tell us what's up But yeah, so fritz it is fritz and nori's a third a six nori's on nori's six Just just Because he can't really make an argument for city pass. He hasn't done enough um rude Non-factor rubelev. Yeah, he's been around but not really But yeah, it's got to be fritz How's jerry number eight uh because jerry won Jerry jerry was winning a lot on the clay. So jerry will be a factor going into the clay season Jokovic victory is number one on my uh jokovic is number one on monday. Yes jokovic is back to number one on monday Yeah, jerry won jerry won sandy He won chili and then he lost to Alcaraz in rio. So a couple of good um Good weeks for jerry Yeah, he made the semifinals of rio. Yeah Power rankings are a joke. He's gonna come in here and be a dick We'll have been a nice time and then you're just gonna come in here and be a dick Uh, did anyone have a good april 4th day? Um, no april 4th is the worst I woke up to all these I woke up to all these Notifications telling me all these bullshit stories that Federalists coming back from wimbledon that nadal had retired. I hate april 4th I hate it It's so annoying because I wake up and I don't know what's real Maybe a little sinner that is the question. Um, can my book to fight to visit australia for the first time next february Can't wait laura. You're gonna love it. Go to melbourne. No, it's not hilarious. It's annoying It's annoying. Thank you dan. I think the power rankings are a great addition Now one person who doesn't like it can get you can get stuff. So You know, I like it Then don't listen Essent and loss by no We were this close to winning too. Well, ah don't want to talk about it. It's why I'm not wearing the essence in jersey today She won't take retires april falls. See that shit. I see that's it. That's what I hate And I'm glad that the chat thank you chat for not writing bullshit in the chat Maybe you did and I didn't read it But thank you for not writing things like cam. Did you hear about the news about raffle retiring or anything because That would have just been really annoying. So thank you for not Doing that uh today that would have been really really annoying. So I appreciate it We're back in a cavit of uh Uh in the women final this year I don't think it'd be I I would rather see that as a quarter final to be honest I don't think I want to see that as a final because I want to see sabal anchor in the final I actually got a post said that serena has passed away. See that's see that's shit. So Like I hate that like that's not even funny. Like what's the point, you know I'm now people are gonna try and fool me. Oh serena's coming back. Well, okay, calm down. You can't get me now Geez, we just talked about it. You're gonna get me when I'm not thinking about it You got to catch me by surprise, mate Today's real headline life headlines. Yeah, I mean it's april falls every day sometimes on the online, isn't it? Don't know there's april falls for you No, no, I don't think the person who said that they hated the uh power rankings Uh, it was talking about well, that was not an april falls joke. That was a serious question. That was a serious statement And I take offense to that because I put a lot of work into the power ranks power rankings Are good, so that person was just being was it just being rude Uh, yes dutchie. Thank you for reminding me and thank you for sending me the uh and also emily. Thank you for sending me the um the draw for um charleston so um If you are watching the wta or you love the wta, you don't watch the men's tennis then we'll see you later But um, we do have the match tomorrow, but next week. There's really nothing going on next week There's five tournaments, but the biggest one being charleston, but um, like I said next week We're all going to have a holiday. We all need a holiday. It's been a long couple weeks You know massive march, you know march madness on the tennis circuit Uh, three match three tournaments next week for the men Uh, houston morocco in portugal No one's really playing. I mean her catch and rude are the only ones really playing next week that are sort of the um marky players Then we've got bogata In columbia next week and then charleston now charleston does have some names. It's avalanche pulled out Rebecca is not playing so the two big ones gone pagula is playing Uh, she is number one seed You've also got bench itch next week. I think it's the defending champion Uh, jaberra is playing next week. So there's a couple of names on charleston We might we might tune into charleston a little bit If things get interesting But only if things get interesting because I don't really want to wake up at three in the morning When the clay court season starts in Monte Carlo anyway in a week when raffa and jokovic come back That's the real start That's the showcase American clay just doesn't have the same ring to it. Sorry americans American clay courts. This sounds like australian clay courts. It's like that's not a thing, is it? Um, and having a look here svetolina versus ellison drover second round that can be fun Um So pedosa versus Again, I mean pagula kenan third round. That could be interesting. Maybe Uh, lannette's playing next week too. That's cool. Kazakina's playing. She needs form Stevens has a rank a second round. Maybe Um, fruvat over jaberra To be honest, there's not really anything until the quarter finals that are really that interesting Like we might get bench itch versus Collins in the third round um But yeah, I mean pagula kudamatova quarter final We're back in uh, no we're back enough a bench itch ellison drover quarter final Azarenka jaberr quarter final Kazakina lannette quarter final I mean again, none of them really light me on fire And there's not many unseated players that are like Going to clash with the big dogs. So yeah, again It doesn't really charleston doesn't really I mean, yeah, we'll probably maybe tune in in maybe We'll gotta be honest. I'm really nothing really going crazy Especially early on not really you don't have like a muck of a versus jaberr or something like that happening in the second round So, uh, we might tune into it. Maybe over Easter, you know, because it's Easter weekend next week. So Maybe we'll tune into the finals maybe maybe maybe Or we'll just go to Monte Carlo because Monte Carlo is happening And that's where we start and then stook got when jaberr when shriyantek comes back is when the clay court season starts for the ladies um cams Dasher doesn't like him on fire. No, no, no. I'm saying matches. The matches don't let me on fire Dasher versus I'm worried for dasher. She needs to play well this week But she hasn't got a terrible draw, but then again, she doesn't have a she doesn't have good form So anything could happen All right, we're gonna sign off in a bit because I need to uh relax, um By the way, follow me on twitter. I'm gonna get the chat. Go check out the video on twitter if you haven't already um that We put out there. Um, I can't say too much, but Hopefully it's still there I'll just say that Men's final starts tomorrow. It starts earlier than the women's it starts two hours earlier. So Set your clocks two hours before What happened today? By the way, the betting for mevvedev and synom right down the middle very interesting All right Very interesting Formula ones on today. That's true Thanks for the coverage. No worries What a hell of a what a what a great three months the wta's thrown up Let me just do a let's just do a recap before we leave of the first Pardon me of the first three months of the wta because man, it's been good. We've had like we came into the season, right? Let me just give the points up first. I'll forget otherwise. Give me your points. Hang on. We're gonna recap Here we go. There's your points. Um Well, like congratulations to the believers. So let's do a recap of the first three months All right, we started the season off. We came in with a new tournament called the united cup It was a men and women's tournament combined tournament worth points Which has never happened on the atp. We had the hop and cup or the wta We had the hop and cup back in the day never worth any points. This was a serious competition america won Thanks to begullar and fritz. They've been italy in the final. They also beat poland along the way Saberlenka in the meantime because of course, she wasn't allowed to play because she's from brella ruse She went on in one adelaide, right and golf was in Auckland because she didn't play for america She went and played and won in Auckland. So the first season first week of the season Went the way of the americans for the united cup golf in Auckland and saberlenka Then uh, then we had adelaide two where benches got the win She started our first season being kazakhina in that final davis also got a win in hobart Then the big one the australian opened we started the tournament off thinking who the hell can beat shveontech We thought saberlenkas in some form. Maybe it's her and then we're back and it goes What about me fourth round takes out shveontech gets to the final saberlenka beats her in that final wins her first slam Gets to number two in the world Then after the australian opened we had a little bit of a brief laps of uh nothing Thailand and leon they both played their tournaments and uh gasea made the final but lost the parks and zoo continued her Good form then we got to february abu darby the middle eastern swing Benchage saving championship points against samson over to take her second title of the year Very big win for benchage pot of pover also snuck a title in lynx in austria that week as well That'll all remember that because that comes into play in a couple of uh in a couple of tournaments shveontech then got off to a good start Finally defending that doha trophy. She started the street. We thought we're going to be seeing the shveontech streak 2.0 Bagling uh pagula in the final getting revenge over that loss at the united cup Then we went to jubai the first masters 1000 tournament of the year the biggest tournament since the australian opened Shveontech went on a tear. She was kicking everyone's ass Until she played krujikova krujikova beats the number one two and three back to back to back to take home the dubai trophy And we think jeez. Okay. We're back in a beach. Shveontech Pagula beach. Shveontech krujikova beach. Shveontech Sabalenko won the australian open the big five Georgie also won a tournament in mexico while nobody was watching then in the end of february We had monterey and houston with vechage beating gasea in a very fun final We watch that if you don't remember go watch it and costuk got her first trophy of the year Then march madness indian wells the only tournament that was on at the time And everybody was playing when we're thinking okay. Is it the defending champion shveontech is she gonna win? Is it sabalenko gonna back up the australian open? What about rebeccana? Is it her time krujikova's doing some crazy things? But it was rebeccana Finally beating sabalenko in that final and beating shveontech along the way as well Again To get that indian wells trophy the biggest trophy since she has won since wimbledon Then of course the miami open We've just concluded it the final event of the hardcourt season part one Rebeccana gone for the sunshine double shveontech pulled out So she wasn't defending this title Which gives open the door for sabalenko to allow her to possibly Close the gap between the number one and the number two in the world Unfortunately sabalenko got upset by castella pota pova who I spoke about earlier beat kostjuk Who I also spoke about earlier in a very heated match, of course, you know tensions are high Between certain countries pota pova then got to the quarterfinals nearly took takes out pagula Unfortunately didn't get it pagula makes the semifinals again Quarterfinal queen for a reason but lost to rebeccana rebeccana makes the final sunshine double That was supposed to happen today Kovitava says no she continues a very interesting season beating the top players and that's where we're at Going into The clay court season. That's the recap If I do say so myself, I think that's pretty good. So I'll see you tomorrow for the men's The men's miami open mevadev versus sinner Who's gonna win the odds are split down the middle We'll find out tomorrow Who's gonna finish who's gonna win the last match of the hardcourt season part one? But there it is There's the first part of the season for the ladies done and dusted kovitava wins. She takes out rebeccana Denies the sunshine double 7662 she wins a 30th trophy and another big trophy to add to her cabinet at 33 years old We love that for kovitava Clay court seasons next for the ladies. We'll see you then but I'll see you tomorrow for the men's final Thank you again for joining us. Don't forget to subscribe Like the video as well do all the things that youtubers tell you to do and I'll see you tomorrow