 Alright chat, here it is. The match that we've all been waiting for between two of the biggest names in tennis right now on the WTA. We've got Egas Fiontek, the two-time French open champion, US open champion, two-time defending champion of Rome. One of the best clay court players, if not the best clay court player in the world against the Wimbledon champion, the Australian open finalist, the Indian Wells champion. And not bad on Claire herself beating Serena, the French open a couple of years ago, and making a quarter-final Alina Rabakina. The record, we know the record. We know what's happened this year between these two, but let's go to the preview and see where these two have come here, and how these two have got here before we get into what might happen tonight. Egas Fiontek versus Alina Rabakina is the third quarter-final for the ladies Rome Open for 2023. Both players have been very impressive to get to the quarter-final. Rabakina started the tournament off as the number seven seed, and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round, she'd take on Paulini, and after a close first set, we'll get through in straights 7-6-6-1. In the third round, she'd take on Callan Skyer, who had taken her out in Madrid only a couple of weeks ago, but unfortunately Callan Skyer got injured and was unable to finish the match with Rabakina leading 4-3 retirement. In the fourth round, she'd take on Von Drussever, who had taken out Zachary in the previous round, and this was so far Rabakina's best performance, getting through in straights 6-3-6-3 to get to the quarter-final. Fiontek started the tournament off as the number one seed, we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round, she'd take on Pavlia Chankova, and this was an absolute clinic for Fiontek, getting through in straights 8-6-6-6-1. In the third round, she'd take on Sarenko, and again, Fiontek would put a beating on her, only dropping two games, 6-2-6-1, coming back from two love down in that first set. In the fourth round, she'd take on the 21st seed Vekic, who she'd played a three-set match against last year in San Diego, but this time it was all Fiontek, getting through in straights 8-6-6-6-4 to advance to the quarter-finals. These two ladies have played three times before, but the head-to-head in favour of Rabakina 2-1, but this will be the first time that they've played on a clay court. If Rabakina's going to win this one, she needs to play aggressive like she did in her last match. Her previous match, she was playing so well against Vondrusova, who is known as a clay court player, so she needs to be aggressive, hit the ball flat and go for her shots against Fiontek. If Fiontek's going to win this one, she needs to try and stand up on the baseline, trying to get bullied by Rabakina. The last two times they've played, she's trying to open at the start of the year on Indian Wells in March. She's been kind of pushed around, and Rabakina's been able to do what she wants. So Fiontek's trying to kind of step up and try and push Rabakina around a little bit, knowing that it's on her surface clay court. This is going to be such a fun match. We'd love to see these two play, and this time we're actually seeing it on Fiontek's preferred surface, and I think that's going to make the difference. I reckon Fiontek's going to win this one. Maybe three sets, maybe a close straight sets, but I feel like Fiontek on clay right now, especially in Rome, is unstoppable, and I think she's going to finally get that win over Rabakina this year. But let me know down in the comments below who's going to win this one. All right, there it is. There's the preview. Now, only one spot remains. There's only one semi-final spot left in this draw. And the winner of this play is Ostapenko. Now, how crazy, chat, look at that. Every match so far in the quarterfinals have been the three setter. So we are in for a treat, hopefully. Again, another three setter. I don't know when the last time that happened. But you can see there, Ostapenko taking up but also earlier today, Kudamatova took out Zheng yesterday and Kalanita coming back from the dead against Haddadzmaia in the longest match of the tournament, maybe the longest of the year in the WTA. So let's see, are we going to get another one? By the way, if you are going for Fiontek, you know that's a tough road because you know what happened last time Ostapenko played Fiontek. So that's a tough road for the world number one defending champs. All right, number six in the world. Rabakina, 23-year-old from Kazakhstan. She's six-foot tall, right-handed, 22 wins, seven losses on the year. One title to go with that, four career titles, including the Wimbledon title last year and also Indian Wells this year, the first 1,000 event of her career. And you can see there, her form before this week on the clay wasn't great. It was a little bit shaky to start the clay court season also. She was coming in with a little bit of an injury, I think. I remember she did hurt herself earlier, well, during Miami, wasn't it? Or Indian Wells, Miami. She was not looking great. So, well, she wasn't feeling great. So she's back on track now. She's playing the best clay court player going around. Number one in the world, Egan Fiontek, 21-year-old from Poland, five-foot nine, right-handed, 25 wins, five losses. Two titles to her name, 13 career titles, including two of these tournaments in Rome, gone for a three-peat here. You can see there, her form has been great. And also, to add to that, I think I read a stat on Twitter where it was something like, she's only lost four matches on clay since 2020. So she's lost one this year, one last year, I think maybe two in 21, but yeah, she is unstoppable on this surface. And of course, the head-to-head. The head-to-head, Fiontek won back in 21 in Ostrava. But then, of course, this year, it's been all re-backing up in both matches, both straight sets this year as well, straightforward too. I mean, can't remember Fiontek really having a chance, but this is a clay court. This is a slow surface. This is a much slower than, even slower than Indian Wells, because people are gonna look at Indian Wells and go, hang on a second, Indian Wells is slow. Indian Wells is not clay. This is much, much slower than Indian Wells, which favours Fiontek, I think, because, and especially playing at 10 p.m. at night in the rain, that is gonna slow things up even more. So, Fiontek, as I said in the last couple of streams, if she doesn't beat her today, how the hell is Fiontek ever gonna beat Rebecca now? Because this is the day. This is like everything is set up for Fiontek to win here. Everything. The court surface, the speed of the surface, the conditions outside, the time of day, everything points, Fiontek wins. Playing against someone who's maybe their favourite, their favourite surface isn't clay. I mean, there is a lot, like Fiontek has to win this match. If she wants to feel like she can continue to compete against this lady. Huge stakes. Rebecca and I really nothing to lose. She's not supposed to win this match. Betting says no. She's probably happy to be in the quarter finals of a big clay court event that she hasn't really done well in clay tournaments this year. So, she really doesn't have anything to lose and she looked very scary in the last round. Why does a slow court house Fiontek? So, Rebecca and her strengths. Big serves, big ground strokes. The slow clay court and especially with the wet conditions will slow things down. So that means everything that Rebecca and her hits is not gonna be as hard and fast as it was in Australia, for example, because remember, Australian Open, fast, hard court, outside afternoon, hot day. I mean, everything at the Australian Open, like this should be 6'4", 6'4", Fiontek. If we're gonna go with like the best conditions for Rebecca and her was Australia, you know, fast court, hard court, you know, fast surface. Everything was her in her favour. This is everything in Fiontek's favour. The only thing that's not is maybe the psychological edge. So, this is gonna be interesting. This is gonna be very interesting. Yeah, the mentality is the only thing that Fiontek doesn't, the mentality stuff. You know, that's the only thing. Is she gonna be spooked by the lady who's beaten her twice pretty easily this year? No worries, Sam, appreciate you being here. Thanks for joining us. India, look, okay, okay. Let me show you a graphic real quick chat. This is what we whipped up last year. So, look at that. So, Australian Open, 42. That's the court speed index. The highest you can get is a 45, which is a green. So, if it's purple, it's the fourth. It's a medium fast court if it's purple, all right? That's the fourth fastest surface you can have. And the Australian Open, one of the fastest. So, we're back in a beach Fiontek at the fast court. Then Indian Wells was a 32, bit slower than Australia. We're back in a one that went two, but Rome is a 22. It's almost half as fast court speed as Australia. And a lot slower than Indian Wells as well. So, this is exactly what Fiontek wants. A slow, slow court. It's as slow as the French court, right? And that's why I keep saying, like, this is gonna be a big deal because if we're back in a does beach Fiontek today, then Fiontek's French Open hopes, I mean, there's a massive concern there, right? Because this is the French, I mean, the last, what, two seasons, she's won this tournament. She's gone on to win the French last year, the year before she didn't, but that's a whole nother thing. So, this is huge. I mean, this is a massive match. And Rebecca doesn't have anything to lose because she's not supposed to win this one. This is the Clay Court. This is Fiontek's home, right? How does Elcora's Cope going to cope? What, with this match? I have no idea. I'm sure he's not even watching. He's probably watching the soccer. Okay, here we go, Chad. They're coming out on court. The ladies are walking out on court. Fiontek with the headphones. Rebecca now walking out first. Here we go. This is the biggest match of the tournament. And it might not be, I mean, how do we get bigger than this? Because this match, unless it's, you know, I mean, maybe Djokovic's rune was bigger today, but how does this match get any better? I don't think Osta Penko versus Fiontek is going to be as good. By the way, bloody hell, the dramatic music. Oh my God, Rebecca is coming out like she's Darth Vader. What the hell? She's walking out here and they're just like, they're playing the most dramatic. I love it. I love it. They're playing the dramatic. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Oh, it's crazy. And it deserves to have this hype. I mean, this is, oh, I love this music. This music is epic. Oh, it's epic. That is an alive band. It would have been perfect. Like this was a live orchestra. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Oh, I mean, if you're in the stands and you are not like freaking out with goosebumps, I don't know what's wrong with you. There are people there. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Oh, so good. So good. It's like a remix version. All right, I guess we're getting fancy. Oh, Fiontek's on the headphones on. She doesn't want to hear it. Everyone talking about Sabalenka being number one, Alina can be faster for that spot. Yeah, maybe. Different conditions and weather and surface is better of Rome for sure. What do you mean? Oh, this is epic. This is epic. The music makes it even better. Like that was like the best entrance music you'd have. The entrance music is like, dun, dun, dun, dun. And everyone's like, it's the perfect tune for this. Because this has like, this is epic. This matches an epic matchup. By the way, thank you, Margot, for the five gifted. Thank you, Margot. Appreciate that. Thank you for the five gifted. Congratulations to Carol, Vib and Olga and Camille. There you go. Oh, this man, goosebumps. God, I wish this was a final. This should be the final. This should be the final. It's not too bad. To Mariel. See Cam, it's already more empty in the stands. Yeah, but you got to remember, people go after that match, they would have gone and got food. They might come back. It's only empty. It's gonna, if they're not back by halfway through the set, then yeah, okay. But people would have left after that last match to go get food and stuff and go to the bathroom and whatever. So people always leave after a match. We'll find out maybe like 20 minutes in. If it's not filled back up, then yeah. People are stupid. All right, chat. They're warming up. They're warming up. Oh, this has got BME for sure. BME for sure. By the way, Rebecca is serving first. That's huge. I wonder if Shiontech decided to receive. I can't remember. I didn't see the toss, but Shiontech wearing the all black. She's serious today. She's like, I'm not coming out here in the fancy nice while I'm wearing all black business. She's coming to the Rabacchina funeral. That's what she's coming to. She's coming to the Rabacchina funeral. The rivalry, the funeral of the losses. She's like, I'm dead. Death to losses against Rabacchina. Oh, this is an exciting chat. This is exciting. This is one of the biggest matches in the WTA this year. This is one of the, like it has, it has, it's like Sabalinka, Shiontech last week. It's like Rabacchina, Shiontech at the start of the year. It's like, it's like Sabalinka, Rabacchina, you know, in Indian Wells. I mean, that's what this is. It's a huge, huge matchup that could shape the way we see the French open. It's going to shape the way we see maybe Shiontech versus Rabacchina in the future. She might only need one win here Shiontech and then all of a sudden she doesn't lose to Rabacchina again. I mean, that could happen too, because they get that confidence. We could see that Rabacchina is actually, you know, could beat everyone everywhere, you know? There's a lot going on in this match, you know, a little bit, just below the surface. You're going to look at these two plays and go, oh, it's great, five versus one. There's a lot more to that. There's a lot more complexity. Why am I wearing black? Because I'm cold. I didn't come here for a funeral, I'm just cold. I'm just a little chilly, so. Okay, they're warming up the serves. Ooh. Rabacchina is wearing pink. She's also, they're both wearing long sleeves because it's a cold night. She's wearing a white top. But yeah, it is, this match is going to heat up pretty quick. We're not going to be cold for long. Alina, yeah, that's it. All right, here we go. They're warming up the serves. They're showing the head to head. Last match they played, Australian Open. Sorry, Indian Wells, semi-finals. 6-2, 6-2, Rabacchina got the win. Easy win for her that day. If you want to take waves to the crowd, Rabacchina is serving. The warm-up is one minute to go. And then we're ready to go. Now, I'm going to warn everybody in the chat. I am going to not be focusing too much on the chat today. This match is going to get my full attention. So don't feel like I'm ignoring you. I'm, because I'm ignoring you, all right? A little bit of rain around, a little bit of moisture. That's all right. Nothing crazy. 16 degrees Fahrenheit right now. Humidity is high. The wind is a little bit around. Shower's forecasted, but we should be okay. Hopefully nothing gets delayed. Rabacchina's going to serve first. And this is going to be epic. Rabacchina played amazing against Von Drussever. Sviyantek has been the clay court queen over the last couple of seasons. Everything's quiet. The dramatic music stops. All the crowd are just sitting there. I hope they know what they're watching. I hope they realize what's happening here. Hopefully the crowd are a little educated. Hopefully they realize the, you know, the gravity of this match. What it means. We could change the way we see the French open. Because if Sviyantek loses, a lot of players are going to think, well, if I play like Rabacchina, I can beat her too. See, it's a big deal here. And if Sviyantek wins, I think a lot of people are going to go, oh, shit. Uh-oh. Sviyantek's not losing to anybody anymore. Uh-oh. Here we go. Sviyantek puts the towel in the box. Rabacchina to serve. Chad, it's happening. I don't think we're going to get this match here, but I'm bloody glad we did. Let me know who is going to win. I've got Sviyantek in three. As Rabacchina serves, a fault. I thought it was an A second serve. Second serve, Rabacchina. Goes into the Fornish-Sviyantek who hits a winner return. Oh, that's a message. That's a message. Love 15. Second serve return winner for Sviyantek. Bang. Love 15. Your serves don't work well here. Rabacchina serves. Into the back of Sviyantek. Good return of the Fornish-Sviyantek. Back in again. Rabacchina hits in the net. Love 30. Sviyantek's going after this serve already. The message was clear from the coach. Attack, attack, attack. Love 30. Rabacchina serves again. She serves the Fornish-Sviyantek. Fornish-Sviyantek is good to the... Oh, it's a winner. Lovely shot, Rabacchina. She fires back. Love 15. 30. Man, Rabacchina with the forehand. That was what was working yesterday against Von Drusava. That forehand winner. Serve again. Rabacchina is a fault. Sviyantek keeps getting them... Even if they're faults, she hits them back. Just to keep sending those messages. I can get your serve back. Second serve. Into the body of Sviyantek. Oh, that was a headshot. Sviyantek hits it out. Rabacchina is like, get this back. 30 all. Oh, man. The first four points chat. So much. The chess game has begun. 30 all. Another serve coming up. Is it a fault from Rabacchina? Second serve. Rabacchina goes. The Fornish-Sviyantek. Great return. The Fornish-Sviyantek with the forehand again. The Fornish-Sviyantek with the forehand again. The Fornish-Sviyantek in the net from Rabacchina. Sviyantek gets a break point. 30-40. 30-40. Break point first game. Sviyantek ready to pounce in the first game here. 30-40. Rabacchina with the serve. That's a fault, man. Rabacchina's first serve. She's overhitting it. She's overhitting it. Second serve. Second serve into the Fornish-Sviyantek. Fornish-Sviyantek on the attack. As with Rabacchina. Sviyantek telling the umpire, hey, get the crowd to shut the hell up, please. This is an important match. The crowd said, okay. The umpire said, okay. Deuce. Another serve coming up here for Rabacchina. To save the break point, she serves. Out wide the Fornish-Sviyantek. Good return. The Fornish-Rabacchina. Sviyantek with the forehand again to the Fornish-Rabacchina. Sviyantek jumping around. Forehand to forehand. Rabacchina goes down the line. Advantage Rabacchina. Man, that forehand is brutal from Rabacchina. It's flat. It's like Delpo. That's a Delpo forehand. Is Rabacchina the Delpotra of the WTA? Huge, huge forehand. Serve out wide. Is a let. Advantage Rabacchina to take the first game. Serve is out wide. The Rabacchish-Sviyantek. Good return. Rabacchina gets it. Fornish-Sviyantek making a move. Fornish again goes to the backhand slice. Rabacchina. Sviyantek comes in with a swinging volley. Hits a winner. Smart from Sviyantek just making a move. Not trying to hit the ball hard. Getting the corners. Make Rabacchina run. Back to deuce. And avoid that bloody forehand. That forehand is... Get away from it. Deuce again. As Rabacchina serves. That's a fault. Five minutes already into this match. And she serves down to see the backhand Sviyantek. Sviyantek in the net. Wasted chance there. Advantage Rabacchina. If you're just joining us, welcome. First time these two are playing on clay. And this is starting to turn out to be one of my... If it wasn't already, is one of my favourite rivalries. As we get a return winner from Sviyantek. That's a message again. First serve goes in and Sviyantek's like, Is that all you got? Is that it? It's like when you watch someone in the UFC get punched in the face and they start smiling. They're like, I didn't feel it. Back to deuce. Rabacchina serves again. Sviyantek just waited... Holding Rabacchina up here just being like, What's Sviyantek doing? Walking away. Sviyantek... I don't know what she's doing. Going to the bag. Just starting to... What's happening? Sviyantek's going to a bag. I don't know what's going on. I think she lost a... She lost a dampener on her racket, I think? Maybe? Oh no. Her phone. Sviyantek's phone went off? It's as weird as hell. Sviyantek's phone made some noise. She gave her phone to the... That's weird. She gave her phone to the coach. It's weird. Anyways, deuce. What's going on? Second serve. Back into Sviyantek. Back into Sviyantek to the backhand. Sviyantek with the backhand on the stretch. Goes into the backhand of Rabacchina. Backhand exchanges. Rabacchina picks up the pace. Sviyantek now pushes her out wide and Rabacchina hits it out. Advantage Sviyantek. Advantage Sviyantek to take the first break of this first set. Advantage Sviyantek. Rabacchina with the serve. Ball must have bounced off her foot. Has to get a new one. Okay. Rabacchina serves. She serves a fault again, man. First serve is a rather fault. Second serve. Second serve to the backhand of Sviyantek. That's a winner down the line. Wow! Sviyantek smokes it down the line. Breaks first game. Tell you what, that was impressive. Couple of first-serve return winners. And that backhand. Okay. Rabacchina's going to have to get a more first-serves in than that. If she's going to make anything happen tonight. Okay. Sviyantek. In quarter-finals. In 1000 levels, she's 7-0. 19-2 when she hits the quarter-final stage. At events in the WTA. 18-11 win-loss record for Rabacchina at this stage. In quarter-finals. Barely loses. Another reason to feel confident if you're a Sviyantek fan. Alright, here we go. Sviyantek. Serving now. She's got the break. The crowd are filtering back in. They've got their, you know, they've got their spaghetti. They've got their pizza. And they come. To be honest, they really shouldn't be coming in at one love. But it's not a changeover. As we deserve now from Sviyantek. Break, serve out wide. Into the form of Rabacchina. Rabacchina hits it long. 15-love. 10 minutes into this one. And already we're getting a lot of interesting answers to the questions we had. 15-love. Sviyantek serves. Down to the form of Rabacchina. Good return to the form of Sviyantek. In the net, 30-love. You wonder if Rabacchina is going to play Sabalenka did against Kennan. Remember that match earlier in the week. It was a night match. Actually, I think it was around this time in the first couple of days. And Kennan just got everything back and also went for a few winners. But Sabalenka kept trying to hit the ball over-hit it, right? Trying to hit it too hard. Rabacchina did in that first game on the serve. She tried to over-hit the serve. Trying to get that extra bit of pace because of the slow courts. It's not going to work if she keeps doing that today. 30-love. Sviyantek with a serve. Serve goes in the form of Rabacchina. Good return to the form of Sviyantek. Rabacchina with a backhand. Down the line in the net again. And it's 40-love. Rabacchina making some errors. 40-love. To console that, the break gets a 2-love here in the first set. I start from the world number one. Sviyantek just taking extra time. Someone in the crowd is making noise. Alright, serve. Out wide, the backhand of Rabacchina. Good return to the form of Sviyantek. And the backhand again to the form of Sviyantek. And the backhand of Rabacchina. Sviyantek attacking her backhand as she goes 4-hand down the line. Rabacchina gets it, hits a winner though. Sviyantek... She over-hit. She just over-did it. She went to the backhand once too many times. Got punished, but... Interesting to see Sviyantek really attacking that backhand. I mean almost like airborne as she hit the 4-hand. But Rabacchina is solid. 40-15. Sviyantek serves. And it's a fault. Second serve. Now, she hits that cross-court. It would have been a winner. 40-15. Sviyantek serves. Double fault, okay. Little unlucky, hit the table. And flew long. 40-30. Still a chance here to consolidate this break. 40-30. Sviyantek with a serve. Lead on the first serve. 40-30. Serve again from Sviyantek. Serve is a fault. Second serve. This is where Rabacchina attacks. Second serve. Sviyantek serves. Into the backhand of Rabacchina. Backhand of Sviyantek. Into the backhand of Rabacchina. Again, into the backhand of Sviyantek. And that goes out from Sviyantek. And we get the dose. Who's nervous in the chat? There's a nervous energy out there. Very nervous energy. Definitely... It's not like Federer vs Nadal. It has that kind of early nervous energy. That you want to get off to a good start. You don't want to lose the first couple of games. You know? Does have that... As that goes out from Rabacchina on the return advantage. Does have that who's going to get off to the better start? You know? Who's more nervous? They're both nervous. Who can hold their nerves early? Who can set up the first couple of games? Advantage Sviyantek. Sviyantek was real nervous, I tell you that. As she serves down the tee, that's a great serve. Rabacchina gets it back. Rabacchina gets it right with the forehand pass. Oh, but it's wide. And Sviyantek does survive the game. And gets the two love. In the first set. Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Okay, back to Rabacchina. She's going to get those first serves in. Two love. And there's more people filtering in. Hurry up and sit down, people. It's not a changeover. You should have got your food earlier, mate. What are you doing? Alright, Sviyantek. So Rabacchina serves. Down the tee, a fault, man. Rabacchina's hitting everything out. Everything is over hit. At the moment. Second serve into the back of Sviyantek. Sviyantek hits a winner. The top spin. The top spin. Love 15. Love 15. And so fifth winner already, Sviyantek. Three for Rabacchina. So the aggressive Sviyantek is working. Good return. Rabacchina down the line. Sviyantek there with the forehand slice. And then... Oh, Rabacchina puts down the volley. Nearly hit it out. Luckily he put it away. 15 all. Serve. Here's a fault. And again, Sviyantek hitting everything back. Doesn't matter if it's a fault. Doesn't matter anything of that. I'm going to hit everything back. Second serve into the backhand of Sviyantek. Rabacchina from Rabacchina. Is wide. Again. 15-30. Rabacchina under pressure again. Needs those first serves. Serve from Rabacchina. Needs the first. She gets it. Sviyantek in the net. There's the first serve. 30 all. Rabacchina. By the way, rain. It's not rain. It's raining, but it's not like heavy. It's just like sprinkles. 30 all. Rabacchina serves down the line. Sviyantek good return. Rabacchina is a winner. That first serve is coming to the rescue. 40-30. A few umbrellas going up. It's bad for your health, mate. Just because it smells like watermelon. Doesn't mean it's healthy. Okay. Rabacchina. 40-30 to get on the board here in this epic match. First serves a foul. Second serve. Second serve. Out wide. The backhand of Sviyantek. Great return. Rabacchina gets it. Four-nash Sviyantek down the line. Rabacchina there with a slice. Sviyantek in control. Four hand. Is an inside-out winner. Just a run. GG's. Back to Deuce. Another Deuce game. Third game of the match when we're at Deuce again. It's been 17 minutes, but every point just feels massive. Serve. Into the backhand of Sviyantek. Rabacchina. Sviyantek hits again. Backhand of Rabacchina. Backhand of Sviyantek. Backhand now from Rabacchina. Backhand of Sviyantek down the line. Just got a little extra time because the court's a little slow. The conditions are a little heavy. You know, the ball's not coming through as quickly from Rabacchina's side. So Sviyantek has time to hit those winners that she couldn't do. You know, Indian Wells Australia open. She didn't have time to hit those shots. It's a fraction slower. Good serve there from Rabacchina. Needs more. Back to Deuce. Goes out in the return. Back to Deuce. Rabacchina serves again. Trying to get on the board here. Serving to the backhand is a fault. Second serve. If you're just joining us. Three games. All deuce so far. Double fault. Rabacchina overhitted. Trying to get a free point. Gave away the point. Advantage Sviyantek to get a double break here. Advantage Sviyantek for a double break. This could have easily been three love the other way. You know, the breaks. The deuce points. As we get a let there from Rabacchina. And again, Sviyantek returning every ball. Let folds doesn't matter. She's trying to hit everything back. Return goes in the front of Rabacchina. Four-nashed Sviyantek on the stretch. Rabacchina there with the forehand. Down the line. Sviyantek there with the backhand cross-court. Into the backhand of Rabacchina. Who hits it out? Three love Sviyantek. And she walks to the chair. Now she's like, this is my house. This is my surface. Nobody beats me on clay. Not on this clay. Not on the Rome clay. Three love Sviyantek. Double break to start us off. A little bit of sprinkle dust with the rain. Slow things down a little more. It's all good. Nothing and nothing too much that we're going to have to, you know, leave. All right, chat. What a start to this match. The question, jerk. What a start. What a start. How is Rome called different RG? They're the same. They're pretty, pretty similar. Pretty similar. Same speeds, you know, pretty similar conditions. Heavy, soft, heavy, slow, wet. I mean, you know, it rains in France too, right? Osta Penko will beat her. Okay, well, we haven't finished yet. I mean, can we finish this match first before we look too far ahead? It's looking like a normal Sviyantek clay court match. Look, it's definitely closer than the score suggests. You know, three games, three deuce. Sviyantek isn't dominating in the rally. She's dominating on the scoreboard, but that's, you know, it's closer than that. You know, it is. If you've been here for the last 20 minutes, you'll know that exactly right. That's been three games that could have gone either way. Sviyantek's been clutch. All right, Penko serve. Not as strong as Rabakhin. Rabakhin is not getting first serves in. That's really not helping. You're on camera. Is that legal? What the hell? He's smoking a big old... Big old... thing. All right, here we go. Sviyantek. Three-love lead here. Perfect start. Perfect start for Sviyantek against her. It's medicinal. Yeah. Sorry, it's for my Glycoma. Yeah, I got Glycoma. I need it. I need it. It's for pain. It's medicinal. Oh, what a return from Rabakhin. Winner. Rabakhin to go after Sviyantek here. She's like, all right, I've had enough. Stop bullying me as I'm hitting the ball past me. Love 15. He's nervous. He's just nervous. All right. All right. Nice hitting from Rabakhin. That was clean. Sviyantek serves. Here's a fault. Second serve. Into the back end of Rabakhin. Back end of Sviyantek. Love Sviyantek who hits it in the net. Love 30. All right. Couple areas. And Rabakhin has a chance to get one of the breaks back. Love 30. Rabakhin has sister in the house. Looking cold. Love 30. Freezing her ass up there. All right. Love 30. Sviyantek serves. No, she doesn't. Taking her time. Winner of this place, Osta Penko, on Friday. Love 30. Sviyantek serves. The back end of Rabakhin. Good return to Rabakhin Sviyantek. Rabakhin with the back hand into the back end of Sviyantek. Rabakhin's forehand on the stretch. Goes wide. Sviyantek just getting Rabakhin out of her comfort zone. You know that middle of the court. As soon as she starts moving a little out wide, it's not where she wants to be. 15-30. Sviyantek serves again. Sviyantek with a serve. Into the back end of Rabakhin. 30-30. 30-30. Still a big point here for Sviyantek to keep this double break. 30-30. Sviyantek with a serve. Into the back end of Rabakhin. Good return. Sviyantek gets it. Back end of Rabakhin. Again, into the back end of Sviyantek. Rabakhin trying to be aggressive. That's a good shot. Sviyantek hits it. Oh, it's on the line. Lovely shot there from Sviyantek. Off the line. Sviyantek is out. Now, that hit the line. That's why Rabakhin hit it so awkwardly because it hit the side and she almost took out the ball. Watch out. 40-30. Sviyantek to get to four love here in the first. A serve. No, she's not serving. She's waiting. She serves a false Sviyantek. Second serve. Second serve. At the fourth game in a row, we've got a deuce point here. Lot... Lot of deuce points to start this match. Four... Sorry, deuce games, I should say. Four games to deuce at the moment. That double-fault was a nervous second serve to Rabakhin because she's starting to hit the ball clean. Serving to the back end of Rabakhin. Return goes into the back end of Sviyantek. Rabakhin is wide. A vanished Sviyantek. A vanished Sviyantek to get the four love lead here. And if you are just joining us, welcome. Don't forget to like the video. What was it? 500 likes. Appreciate that. This has been such an intense battle. And really, Sviyantek has just won the deuce points and that's been the difference. Could have been too old. Could have been four love Rabakhin. Sviyantek serves the four love Rabakhin. Into the back end of Sviyantek. Back end of Rabakhin on the net. Four love Sviyantek. She's just winning the pressure points at the moment. Four love. Two Sviyantek. Now Rabakhin is going to start getting more first serves in. That's where her match starts. Rain has fallen. Not crazy rain, but just enough. People sitting in the back row don't lean back and fall off. Okay. Do you reckon that must have a cage or something, right? You can't just fall back and go, just fall. Four love. Sviyantek. Good start for her, but let's see if Rabakhin can get on the board here. So he's another fault. Over hitting the serve. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Sviyantek. Rabakhin on the net again. Man, Rabakhin just keeps on making these really poor errors. Love 15. Love 15. Second serve coming up. Rabakhin up. Down the tee is a let on the first serve. She serves an ace. Perfect for her that she needed that. 15 all. If you like her, can ace on this court. It's not that slow. 15 all. 15 all. Serve out wide as a fault again. Just trying too hard to hit more aces here. Second serve. Sviyantek on the net from Sviyantek. This time 30-15. 30-15. Like I said at the start of this match. These conditions are perfect for Sviyantek. Everything is perfect. The court surface. The weather conditions. The opponent. A big hitting, big serving player on a slow, cold clay court night. That's what she wants Sviyantek. That's a good thing for her. She's trying to. She has made to. Out of the doubles though as we get a return that goes out from Sviyantek and it's 40-15. Now might be. Everything might be a little ticked boxes, but Rebakina is still the lady who has beaten her easily twice. The last two times their play. 40-15 Rebakena serves. Down the tee of the back in Sviyantek Double break, that was the easiest game for anybody in this match so far today. 4-1, Rabakina on the board, but Shriontek's got that double break. All right, how we doing, Chat? Yeah, a lot more first serves in that game that helped a lot. Okay, how we doing? Let me know where you're watching from. Where you're watching from, Chat? Where you're watching from? Chesh to all the Polish people out there. Where you're watching from? Let us know in the chat. I'm in Australia at six in the morning. A lot of Polish people in the, Queen Eager in the chat. They've got Queen in the crowd, sorry, Polska. A lot of flags in the chat, love to see it. Where you're watching from? We got London, we got Poland, we got Oregon. A lot of Polish people in the chat, we love that. Canada, we got Chennai, it's 2 a.m. Savage. Cracko in the chat, what's going on? Chesh, Chesh. UK, we've got Germany, we've got Barbados. Austria, Maryland, USA, we've got Houston, we've got Warsaw, we've got California, Dublin, Romania, Antarctica, good one. So funny. Michigan, LA. We got the Czech Republic in the chat, we got Norway. We got rain falling from the sky. Not enough to stop the match yet, but it is raining. We've got Philippines, Sacramento, India. Not Texas, where else we got? We've got Green Bay, Yorkshire. Denmark, Malaysia, Ireland. All right, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining us. Here we go, Shriontek's serving. Four will one up with the double break here. And she serves. Down the tee, down the middle to the forehand of Rabakina, forehand of Shriontek in the net. And Shriontek's telling the umpire, hey, there's people like moving around, running around, telling them to sit down. Find your seats, please. All right, love 15. Chesh, everybody in the chat. All the Polish people in the chat, Chesh. Don't know how to say hello in Kazakhstan, me, but hi. Hello, how are you? As we're serving the net from Shriontek, second serve. Second serve, 32 minutes played here and it's been an intense 32 minutes. She serves out wide the back end of Rabakina, return goes in, the forehand of Shriontek, Rabakina with the backhand on the stretch, that goes out and it's 15-all, 15-all. Umbrellas are up in the crowd. It's a wet night in Rome, but that's perfect for Shriontek, that's what she wants. The slower the better. The wetter the better, right? Rhymes, 15-all. Shriontek serves, a fault. Second serve, second serve. Winner plays Oster Penko on Friday. We've got Kalanina taken on Kudamatova as well on Friday. As we serve now, Shriontek down the T, the back end of Rabakina, back end of Shriontek, the back end of Rabakina, again to the back end of Shriontek, Rabakina back hand again, to the back end of Shriontek, into the back end of Rabakina. Shriontek back end, down the middle. Again to the back end of Rabakina. Who hit the tape goes over, no it doesn't. Rabakina couldn't will that ball over. 30-15. Shriontek wasn't gonna get there had it did, if it did go over. 30-15. Shriontek serves again. Shriontek serves. Down the tee, great serve, great serve. Nearly an ace, close enough, 40-15. Shriontek's first serve is a weapon right now, look at that. Serving much better than Rabakina at the moment. And I have to get a 5-1 here in the first set. 40-15, she lines up to serve. 40-15, Serving the net from Shriontek, second serve, all right, second serve. Shriontek into the back end of Rabakina, return goes into the back end of Shriontek, into the back end of Rabakina. Again into the back end of Shriontek, into the front end of Rabakina. Shriontek with the forehand, again to the front end of Rabakina, Shriontek gets a 4-1 on the stretch, sliced in the net, Rabakina gets the point, 40-30. Nice hitting there from both ladies, but Rabakina's power a little too much for Shriontek on that point. 40-30, Shriontek with the serve. Shriontek serves to get to 5-1 here. Serve down the tee, the 4-1 of Rabakina, good return, Shriontek gets it. Hit the tape goes in, as Rabakina hits a 4-1 in the net. Shriontek says sorry, and it's 5-1. Well maybe she was just showing how many games she won. Sorry, 5, I won 5 games, sorry. All right, 5-1, Shriontek. In those first four games, all the games went to Deuce. Shriontek won them all. Rabakina serving to stay in the set now. This set might be a little far gone, but she's still gonna win this game. Rabakina to serve first in the second, that's a big deal. Get off to a better start than this set for sure. Serve out wide, the 4-1 of Shriontek. Shriontek gets out when I serve Rabakina. This first serve percentage is too low. That needs to be higher if Rabakina is gonna make this a match. 15-1, as Rabakina serves into the 4-1 of Shriontek, he smacks it out. She's going for it now, Shriontek. She's like, well, I'm at 5-1. I might as well just try and hit your 4-1. I'm trying to hit your first serve for a winner. 30-1, 30-1 as Rabakina serves a fault. Second serve, 30-1, Rabakina serves again. Second serve, down to the back end of Shriontek. Great return, Rabakina gets it. Back end of Shriontek, cross-court, Rabakina is there with the back end of her own. 4-1, Shriontek down the line as a winner again. Man, Shriontek's just getting, she just knows. She just knows where to hit it on a clay court. It's got that Uber confidence. 30-15, that's a 7th forehand winner, Shriontek. Rabakina's hit 6. As she serves a fault, Rabakina, second serve. This is not working. Gotta get them serves. Second serve. Goes in the back end of Shriontek, hits a winner again. 30-all, those first serves, man. Gotta get him in. Two points away, Shriontek from bread, sticking Rabakina, which is crazy. A breadstick, a bakery on a day like today. What are you doing? Rabakina serves an ace though, that's clutch. 30-all clutch, ace down the tee. That's her third ace of the day. 40-30, coach approves. He approves, he lay out, that was a good serve. Coach looks nervous, to be honest. Rabakina's coach, first serves a fault again from Rabakina, second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Shriontek, return the forehand of Rabakina. Forehand of Shriontek on the stretch, goes out, Rabakina holds. That's what she needed. Okay, now Shriontek serving for the first set. Serving for the set. Five-two, Shriontek. Quick-fire round, throw questions at me. We'll answer them as quickly as we can. Pardon me. What have we got? Wear the questions out. I'll answer them as quickly as I can. Speed round of questions, by the way. Rain is falling, but it's not that bad. 30-aces more from Rabakina, I don't know if that's gonna happen. Is Elena single? No idea, you have to ask her. Can Shriontek beat Ostapenko? Yes. Why is first serve so important to get in? Because it sets up, if you hit a big first serve, it's most, hopefully, if it's a good first serve, it'll give you a weak return, which means that you can hit a good forehand or a backhand off the weak return from your opponent. So Rabakina hitting a first serve will help a lot. Why do players bounce the ball before they serve? Just a routine. Most players have a routine. Just to kind of like, you know, get yourself ready to serve because serving is the most important part of the tennis. So bounce the ball, you know, scratch your butt, whatever. What temperature is in Australia? It is like three degrees. It is cold. It is cold. How rain can influence Shriontek's slide? I mean, it makes the court a little slippery so she can kind of slide better, I guess, I don't know. Makes it a little bit, well, actually, might make it a little grippier for her as well. So you can slide without sort of slipping. What can Rabakina do to improve the second set? She needs to get more first serves in. For sure, that's the first part. When did I last see Kangaroo? I don't know, like a month ago? Who's your favorite retired tennis player? Layton Hewitt. All right, here we go. Shriontek served for the set. She serves to the back end of Rabakina. That goes out, or out of the return. And it's 15 love. Three points away, Shriontek from the first set. Well, so we're almost at 500 likes. Thank you for that, appreciate. Thanks for hanging out. 15 love, Shriontek serves again. It's a let this time, first serve coming up again. 15 love, Shriontek serves. Serving to the back end of Rabakina. Good return to the forehand of Shriontek. Forehand of Rabakina, again to the forehand of Shriontek. Rabakina's forehand, again to the forehand of Shriontek. To the back end of Rabakina. That's a great shot, Rabakina, all right. Again, glimpses of Rabakina. And look, like I said at the start of this match, if you're joining us now, the score looks way more one-sided than it actually has been. A little deceiving, because the first four games all went to deuce. Rabakina had chances to win the games. Shriontek won the first four games, but all games were close. So the score's a little deceiving. It shows that Shriontek is sort of dominating, but that's not the case. She's just won the important points. So Rabakina's in this more than maybe you can tell, but hey, look, you win the pressure points, you win matches. 15-all. Second serve, Shriontek. Second serve to the back end of Rabakina, back end of Shriontek. Into the back end of Rabakina, Shriontek with the forehand. Again to the forehand of Rabakina, Shriontek's forehand goes in for a winner. Again, just a clay court tenor, she knows. She loves it. 30-15. She's just got these, and look, the first couple of games, like the first four games, they both look nervous, right? They both looked like, like they were just both tentative, like, okay. You know, they were trying to hit winners and then they're over-hitting shots and, but Shriontek now looks a lot more confident and comfortable. She's like, all right, I'm up five-two and I'm playing on my favorite surface. And Rabakina's shots are not hitting as hard as they were on the hard courts. All right, second serve, 30-15. Every now and again though, Rabakina smokes a win-up. So let's see what happens. 30-15. Serving to the back end of Rabakina, good return to the back end of Shriontek. Into the back end of Rabakina. Shriontek with the back end. Into the back end of, sorry, forehand now from Shriontek. Back end of Rabakina. Again to the forehand of Shriontek, down the line, another winner, Shriontek. Again, just smoking those winners. 40-15. Two set points to take the first set. It'll be interesting to see how Rabakina starts the second because it has been a lot closer. First four games for sure, could have easily been still on serve here. Those games hadn't gone the way of Shriontek as we had to return the net. That's a great start for Shriontek though. That'll help the confidence. She gets her first set against Rabakina for the year. Okay, now it starts with Rabakina's serve if she's going to make a match to this. But Shriontek, great start, 45 minutes. And that just shows, 45 minutes for a 6-2, it shows that it was close. Shriontek's going to the bathroom. But man, what a start. Confidence-wise, perfect thing for Shriontek. She needed it. Well, she didn't need it, but it helps. All right, how long does tennis take anywhere between an hour and a half and three hours? Rabakina's getting a long chat with her coach. Say, well, Rabakina gets her first serves in. She's got a match in the second. Shriontek is unreal. Yeah, she is. She looks a lot more comfortable now. The first few games, they're both really nervous, but now they're both, Shriontek knows, oh, okay, you're not as scary as I thought you'd be, you know? So Rabakina's got a remind Shriontek in the second set. Like, hey, you should be afraid of me. You're like, I'm a big hitter. Like, Shriontek needs to close this out. What she did? She won the first game, her first set. You think Rabakina didn't have the underdog mentality because of the head to head? Um, no, no, she, I mean, look, she's just not getting first serves in. That's really, it's kind of that simple. She misses the first serve, Shriontek can then attack the second, you know, Rabakina was attacking the second serve as Shriontek took an effect, but Shriontek's serving really well, you know? So there wasn't many chances that Rabakina could attack Shriontek's serve. So yeah, look, it was really just Rabakina missing first serve, Shriontek took advantage of that and, you know, got the breaks, you know, took the breaks. Can't watch Shriontek improve the serve and it's done even quicker. I don't know, this match, I don't know if this match is over yet, chat. I don't know if this match is over yet. Rabakina gets those first serves in, we got a match. Shriontek in straight sets, all right. Six two is looking familiar. Yeah, a lot of people winning first set six two in these matches, aren't they? Rabakina will play her game in the second. Yeah, she's got to get, first of all she's got to hold serve because that's what she didn't do in the first set. She got broken first game and Shriontek had to lead the whole time. So get that scoreboard pressure going and we'll have a match. Why is Elena serving first? I thought the winner of the first set served first. No, no, no, whoever served the last game of the first set will serve the first game of the second. So the other person serves. So they alternate serves the entire match. So Shriontek served, you know, the last game of the first set, it's Rabakina's turn. So they back, you know, everyone, no one serves two times in a row. Unless there's a tie break when that's considered a game. So someone serves to get to the tie break, the tie breaks one game and then that's a little different. But we'll talk about that another day. Okay, here we go. Six two Shriontek to start off this epic match. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Rowdy. That is Iga's 25th consecutive set, one at the Italian Open. There you go, thank you, Rowdy. Can anyone tell me who is the last person to get a set of Shriontek in Rome as Rabakina hits it out on the first point, man. She's got Rabakina's goal in this first game. You got to set the trend here, love 15. So she's got to set the trend here, Rabakina. Almost 11 p.m. local time. Serve is a foul, second serve. Second serve, Rabakina. Into the back of Shriontek, who hits another winner. That's it. Unbelievable. You've got to get them first serves in. Otherwise, that happens. Yeah, Krojikova was the last one. Congratulations, Chad, you won. Krojikova, the last person to win against Shriontek, or get a set of Shriontek. I think it was a tie break, too, wasn't it? Or seven-five, maybe. It's a close set back in the day. All right, first there's a foul, love 30. This is not the great start. This is not the start that she needed. Second serve. It's a double foul, it's getting worse. It's getting worse. Love 40. It's getting worse for Rabakina. By the way, we've got the 500 likes. Appreciate it. Thank you, everybody, for joining us. Serve down the team from Rabakina, it's a foul. This is not how she wants to start the second. Because Shriontek gets a break here, she will just run. As we return now to Rabakina. Back of Shriontek, down the line to the fore of Rabakina. Into the fore of Shriontek. Rabakina, forehand, down the line in the net. There's the break. And Rabakina is not getting easy points today. Shriontek breaks first game, 6-2 on love. And that was one of the worst games of the day on the serve. Okay, so let's go through the stats of the first set. Because it didn't feel like it was that different. 11 winners from Shriontek, five errors, very clean. A lot of those happening after the first four games. Rabakina, 10 winners, 15 errors. No break points against Shriontek's serve. Two out of the four break points converted in the first set for Shriontek. And the first set percentage, two low for Rabakina as well. Making it so much trickier. Can't be so dramatic. Man, look, if you want me to be boring, I can be boring. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to sit here and be like that? Like, I don't know, what do you want from me? I'm a hype man. Supposed to hype up the chat. It's my job. And sit here and be boring, like every other person that ever lived. Rain's getting a little heavier, you're right. Not too many umbrellas going up, though. One loves Shriontek in the second. And Shriontek serves. Into the front of Rabakina, front of Shriontek in the net. That's better from Rabakina. That was a more aggressive return. Cam's not demanding yet. And I don't think we'd have 3,000 people if I was boring. Not going to try and be boring here. I don't want to lose everybody. Don't want everybody to fall asleep, you know? I don't want everyone to stay awake. And if you're falling asleep, wake up! Love 15, second serve. Second serve. Love 15 here, Shriontek. Gonna make a good second serve here. Serve out while the back of Rabakina. Good return. Shriontek gets it. Rabakina on the stretch. In the net, again, Rabakina just, as she moves a little bit too far to the side, she's just not getting the same shots that she's used to getting. 15-all. 15-all. Rabakina, sorry, Shriontek serves. That's a fault, man. She missed the first serves here. Gotta take advantage of this Rabakina. Make it count. Send a message. Send a message. Step in and go bang. Even if you miss it. Second serve into the back of Rabakina. Great second serve, Shriontek. Wow, so much spin. It's like Shane Warner in his prime. Just flipping it. Nobody knew the reference. 30-15, just a flipper down the tee. Just warning special, just out the back of the hand, you know? Out the back of the hand. Those who know you know. 30-half, the most of the chess player. What, speak English? 30-15. Has been a serve out wide of fault. Second serve. Anybody under somebody, oh, one person knew what I meant. Okay. 30-15. Second serve again. A lot of spin out wide of the back of Rabakina. Good return of the back of Shriontek. Back of Rabakina into the fore of Shriontek. What a shot from Shriontek, Rabakina gets it. No freaking way. Shriontek gets that one. Four in Rabakina. Shriontek on the stretch. Goes again to the fore of Rabakina. Shriontek with a four and down the line. That is a hell of a rally. This is gonna be our biggest year. Two Titans going toe-to-toe. As Shriontek comes out on top 40-15. Wow. One of the best rallies in this match so far. Both players just smacking shots at each other. And Shriontek too good. Wow, that is the top level. That is the top level. And Shriontek, just like this whole match. Shriontek coming out on top. 40-15. Serve out. Ooh, it's a fold again. Shriontek, as Shriontek gets a first serve in this game, it feels like she's hit zero first serves. Second serve. Second serve. Second turn to the back of Rabakina. Good return to the back of Shriontek. Rabakina with a backhand on the stretch. Shriontek goes cross-court. Rabakina running a lot. And hits it out. And it's two loves Shriontek. Man, the surface is making such a difference. It's making the difference in two ways. First, because Rabakina's shots are not doing the same as they used to, right? If this was in Madrid, it would be a bit, maybe a different story. But on this court, Rabakina's shots just don't have the same zip. And it's giving Shriontek more time. And also Shriontek's confident, because she's like, all right, this is my surface. And those two things are making a big difference here. Because Shriontek looks the best she's looked against Rabakina all year. She doesn't look scared. She doesn't look like, she's going for a shot. She's not worried. I took her a few games at the start, but she don't not worry. She is not worried. Two love Shriontek, second serve Rabakina. Into the back of Shriontek in the net from Shriontek. And it's 15 love. 15 love. Most Rabakina serves again. Gotta get those first serves in. And she serves another fault Rabakina. Second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Shriontek. Back end of Rabakina in the net. Again, those second serves are not helping her. 15 all. 15 all. Another serve coming up here for Rabakina. Can just not getting those first serves. First serve is an ace. All right, there it is. The ultimate first serve. A third ace of the day, 30-15. 30-15 as she serves. Another ace, all right. Two aces in a row, bang bang, 40-15. This is what Rabakina needs. Maybe this is the start of the comeback. Or the start of something. Something that may get interesting. 40-15 serving the back end of Shriontek. Back, a forehand from Rabakina. The forehand of Shriontek hits it out. Okay, Rabakina, good game there. Gets on the board, Shriontek has the break. Okay. All right, chap, you know what time it is. It's time to look at the power rankings. So here are the power rankings. You can see there the top, two of the top three players in the power rankings are clashing today. You've got Savelin, you've got the very top. That'll change. After this match, I'm sure the winner of this match will be number one in the power ranks because of going into the French Open. Because of course, it depends on who you're beating. If you beat someone who's up the top, you get a boost. And also, the opposite replies. If you lose to someone outside of this, it's not on this list, you will not be on this list. So, or you'll lose. Also, we've got, you can see there, Kutupatova number 16 on this list. Podosa, earlier today lost. She's number 13 on this list. Panko should be on the list next week because she's starting to beat players that are on this list. But Osta Panko, I think she might have been just outside of the 20 before this tournament. But man, there you go. That is the power rankings for now. And look, like I said, big match is coming up over the next couple of days as well. We've got Kutupatova. We've got Osta Panko, Kalanina. And the winner of this match will also... I mean, look, the loser of this match won't go down that far. But the winner of this match will get a nice boost. Okay, here we go. Andraeva at 18. Yeah, because Andraeva won two challenger events. And then she lost to Sabalenka. So she is 18 because she had a lot of wins. And then she also only lost to the number one. You know what I mean? Well, only lost to the number one power ranking. So that's why she's there. She probably won't be there for much longer, but she's there now because she's had a lot of wins lately. A lot of wins. All right, Shrintek's got a set and a break here. Canraeva, back in her try and get a break point. I mean, Shrintek has been solid on serve. No chances. Serving to the back end of Rabakina. Back end of Shrintek in the net. Okay. Love 15. That's awkward. First serve return goes... Well, first serve return is good. And in the net from Shrintek. Love 15. Serve into the front of Rabakina. Four on Shrintek. Cross court in the front of Rabakina on the stretch. Goes wide from Rabakina. And it's 15-all. 15-all. Shrintek serves again. 15-all. Shrintek with a serve. Into the front of, great body serve. In the forehand cramps up Rabakina. She can't get anything on that. Great serve, Shrintek, very smart. 30-15. Very smart serve. 30-15. Shrintek serves another serve. 30-15. She's, oh, nope, not gonna serve yet. 30-15. Serving to the back end of Rabakina. The turn goes long and it's 40-15. Nice easy game for Shrintek here after losing the first point. 40-15. Tell you what, beating Rabakina and straight sets this way goes a long way to getting that confidence over Penko. Remember, she hasn't played us to Penko since turning into this version of Shrintek. Super Saiyan Shrintek has not played Penko. Remember that. This is not the same Shrintek that Penko beat a year ago. Or two, a year and a half, whatever it was. It's a different Shrintek, so don't be thinking Penko's gonna have it easy. Shrintek serves 40-15. Serving to the back end of Rabakina. That's a great return. Shrintek gets it. Back end of Rabakina is out. I think it was out. It was a late call. The umpire's out of the chair. We're gonna see if it's in or out. And I have no idea. Oh, no, it's called in. Good shot. Umpire overrules the late call and it's 40-30. February 2022, last time they met. And Shrintek then took off. Exactly. She never played her during the streak. She never played her, you know, she hasn't played her since then, you know? As soon as she beat Penko, beat Shrintek and then Shrintek didn't lose a match until Wimbledon. As that goes in there to get Rabakina, Shrintek 3-1. So, yeah, so you could say that Penko was the reason she, like, caused Shrintek to go on a mad streak of winning everybody. Now, beating everybody, you know? Winning three masses, 1,000s in a row, winning Stuttgart, winning Rome, winning the French. You know, that was all because of Oscar Penko. Penko started the streak. She caused the streak. All right, here we go. Rabakina's serving. She's down, a set and a break. As we deserve it, why the Faunash-Fion-Tek for every Rabakina is long. And Rabakina bouncing the racket. Not feeling it today. Love 15. Love 15. And Kraus trying to get Penko, sorry, trying to get Rabakina. A little bit more energy here as we return now to Rabakina for Shrintek. Into the back of Rabakina, into the back of Shrintek. Rabakina with the backhand again. Well, that's a winner. And the crowd give her a cheer because they know she needs a little bit of, a little bit of a pump up here. She's a bit flat. 15-all. Lovely hitting from Rabakina. That's a great shot. Needs to do more of that. As we deserve it, see a fault. Second serve, 15-all. And this is our final match of the night. As we deserve it, see the backhand of Shrintek for every Rabakina. That's another good shot. Shrintek gets it though. Rabakina comes in with a forehand, puts it away. 30-15. It's not over yet. It's only one break of serve. Shrintek just has to either miss a couple of first serves or Rabakina starts hitting a couple of winners. And this could be back on serve pretty quickly. So don't, wouldn't be checking out yet. And Rabakina with a little fist pump as well. So she's not done yet. She knows she's going to have to fight a little harder here. Serve out wide at the backhand. There's a fault again from Rabakina. Second serve, second serve into the fornish Shrintek. Return to the fornish Rabakina. That's a good shot. Shrintek gets it with a lob. But it goes wide. Again, great hitting from Rabakina. The ball goes in the crowd. Good catch, sir. 40-15. 40-15. Rabakina serves again. A fault. Second serve. Second serve. Down the tee, the backhand Shrintek. Return goes in the fornish Rabakina. Fornish Rabakina from Shrintek. Into the backhand Rabakina. Sliced. But it goes wide and it's 40-30. Another error from Rabakina. Another aggressive play by Shrintek. 40-30. By the way, Chet, we're almost at 700 likes. Thank you, appreciate. 40-30. Still a chance here for Rabakina to stay in touch. Serve. Down the tee, the fornish Shrintek. Great return, but it's just long. Shrintek just missed it. All right, three, two. Shrintek with the break in the set, but let's see if Shrintek can keep hanging onto that set. Oh, hang on to that break. It doesn't look like getting broke since the first games of the match, really. All right, Chet. All right. Big news, by the way, if you're just joining us, Rafa, maybe, possibly, very likely, missing the French Open. We haven't got confirmation, but he's doing a press conference tomorrow, so we'll make sure we keep it on that, too. But go check out the video if you haven't already or not. Bunch of have. Again, thank you so much for supporting the channel. If you watch all the videos, even if you don't really care about the topics, but you watch them anyway, that's pretty, you're crazy. But I appreciate it, thank you. A lot of, we put a lot of content out there during these big events, so I appreciate everyone who enjoys it. Wouldn't do it if you didn't enjoy it, so. Rafa is where Federer was a couple of years ago. Maybe time to hang up. I mean, Rafa's where Federer was, I mean, Rafa was where Federer was last year. Federer was pretty good in 21. He played a lot in 21 compared to, well, in the middle of 21. No, I'm optimistic. I think Rafa's gonna be, just saying he's not playing the French Open or Wimby. He's gonna make, he's gonna try and get better to come back to a one last big crack at the end of the season. We had Rude versus Ruiner and potentially Medi-City pass fire all of a sudden. I know, tell you what, beef is spicy. Your connection is funny. What do you mean? I've not been on for a couple of days. What's going on? Okay, here we go. Thank you for joining us. Welcome back. Where have we been? Did you write, did you have a doctor's certificate for your absence? Where have you been? I want a handwritten note by your parents saying that you were not skipping class, all right? How are we, why were you not here? Just for everybody out there. If you miss a class, you miss a stream, you need to tell me why. All right, back in the back hair rally. Shriontech hits it out, love 15. I want a handwritten note on my desk, explaining the reasons why you were not here. And if I find a valid, I will allow it. Otherwise there's a tension and you have to come back tomorrow. Love 15, love 15. We're back in with the first one again on the Shriontech serve. Car troubles, okay. I'll allow it. Love 15, my dog ate my car. Love 15, Shriontech with a second serve here. Rabakina's got to take this on. Second serve into the back of Rabakina. Oh, it's in the net though. She did take it on, but it hit the net. 15, all, so Rabakina just randomly jumps. Did she just glitch? Shriontech just randomly like jumped like a character in a video game who glitched. I didn't press the A button, mate. I wasn't trying to jump. That was weird as hell. And it was 15, oh, she just stood there for a minute and she went, oh, she glitched. Return now goes to the backhand of Shriontech. Backhand out from Rabakina, into the backhand of Shriontech. Into the backhand of Rabakina. Shriontech getting good depth on the backhand. As that goes to the front of Rabakina, front of Shriontech. Again to the front of Rabakina, into the front of Shriontech who shanks it and it goes out, okay. This is the game. If Rabakina is gonna make something happen, it's now 15, 30. 15, 30, Rabakina. Best chance she's had for a while. Serve, Shriontech, you know. Gonna try it again. You heard her in the matrix, yeah. All right, second, first serve. Into the backhand of Rabakina. Good return, Shriontech gets it. Backhand of Rabakina. Again to the backhand of Shriontech. Goes in the backhand of Rabakina. Shriontech with the forehand is a winner. Wow, on the line. Unbelievable. Or was it? Ampire's out of the chair. Hang on, hang on, whoa, whoa, whoa. Ampire's gonna make a call and she calls it in. He's calling it good and Rabakina doesn't agree. Rabakina doesn't think it's in. Rabakina's saying it's out. Rabakina says it's out and the Ampire's saying it hit the line. He's like, there's no gap in the clay so it has to be in. Rabakina, there's a massive point by the way so the Ampire better know it's 15-30 and Rabakina's saying it's wide and the Ampire's saying it is on the line. She says, I can't see that. She's like, he's like, there's no, I mean, Hawkeye will tell us she can't check Hawkeye but we can check Hawkeye. The Ampires haven't been right 100% this week either so, you know, they've been, I mean, Djokovic, Runa had a massive, massive call there. 30-all, man, that was a big difference between 15-40 and 30-all. Let's hope the Ampire saw that correctly. All right, big point still. Shriantek serves, Rabakina needs to think about something else. Think about winning this point. Serving to the 400 Rabakina, good return to the back of Shriantek. We're back on the back end of the stretch, goes into the net and it's 40-30. Man, that's a shame. If it was, I mean, the Ampire, what can you do? The Ampire was there. He's not going to change his mind. No Hawkeye either so you always wonder if they don't show Hawkeye straight away, you're like, hang on, are they trying to protect the Ampires? What's going on? 40-30, oh, they're saying, some commentators are saying it's out on Hawkeye, okay. They haven't shown it on my replay yet so. It looked like the ball was next to the line. Serving to the back end of Rabakina, return goes out and that was a huge game for Shriantek, 4-2. And that was a huge decision from the Ampire. Because 15-30 would have been 15-40. And if it was out, the Ampire made an overall, made a bad call. That did not help Rabakina. 4-2 Shriantek, she stays in front with the set and a break. All right, here we go. Rabakina's serving, it's a let. Needs to hold this game, we know that. Rabakina serves again. Out wide of fault, second serve and Rabakina's looking a little annoyed and for good reason. She feels a little robbed. Serve goes to the back of Shriantek, return goes in the back end of Rabakina, 4-2 Shriantek again, the 4-2 Rabakina, into the 4-2 Shriantek, the 4-hand of Rabakina, that's a good shot. Shriantek gets it with a slice, into the back end of Rabakina. Shriantek doing a lot of running with a slice. Rabakina 4-hand, Shriantek gets it right with a lob but Shriantek, Rabakina puts away the smash. Nice put away. 15 love. Get annoyed and use it, yeah. All right, nice, hitting there from Rabakina. Little fire behind those shots. Nice hitting and a little fist bump as well, just to go with that, just towards the Ampire, just like, yeah, that's right. Return goes in to the 4-hand of Rabakina, Shriantek gets it right with a pass but it's in the net. That's a shame, she was there. 30 love. 30 love, and Rabakina serves again. Quick game here would be really good for Rabakina. Just get back, get another cracker that Shriantek return, or serve, I should say, on the return. Serve at wide, good serve, Shriantek gets it back, Rabakina 4-hand cross court, Shriantek there down the line, Rabakina back end in the open court, Shriantek's there, quick, to the back end. Drop shot, Rabakina in the net. That was, I mean, it sounded good but it wasn't good. Good idea, terrible execution. 30-15, 30-15. All right, Rabakina serving again. Getting a lot more first serves here, Rabakina. I'm getting a lot more points one on the first serve. She serves a fault there though because I said it. Second serve, second serve. First serve points one is going up a bit in the set, which is good but she needs to get the first serves in. Serve at wide, the back end of Shriantek, great return. Rabakina goes down the line, there's a great shot. Shriantek gets it, Rabakina with the forehand. Into the back end of Shriantek again on the stretch. That goes on the, oh, hit the tape, goes over. Rabakina gets it with the drop shot, it's out. That's unlucky. Shriantek there, sorry but man, that sucks for Rabakina because she was winning that point. 30-all, hit the tape and then it was like a drop shot. And Rabakina couldn't get it. 30-all. Winner of this, by the way, plays Ostapenko on Friday. 30-all. Huge point for Rabakina here. Huge point, needs it. With love and ace. Serve to N.T., Shriantek gets it back, into the form of Rabakina. Back end of Shriantek pass, Rabakina volleys it down and away. Not where she wants to be, Rabakina on the net. She's not her favorite place. She gets away with it, 40-30. Lovely, oh no. Effective volley, I wouldn't say lovely. The technique was meh. And Shriantek having a bit of a laugh to herself there. 40-30. Just as a fault here, Rabakina second serve. Second serve. Into the back end of Shriantek, who hit the winner down the line. Again, just, and Yashda, she says, Yashda. Huge back end, Shriantek, Deuce. 6-2, 6-2 is a message. I mean, that shows that Clay court-surface makes a difference. All right, Shriantek wants that double break and serve for the match. First serve is a let, serve. It's an ace, Jesus. Ah, bang. Just smacks that ace out wide, bloody hell. Advantage Rabakina, huge ace out wide, needed that. All right, another one would help. Serve out wide, the back end of Shriantek return goes to the form of Rabakina. For next Shriantek, again the form of Rabakina to the form of Shriantek, Rabakina, back end. Into the form of Shriantek, Rabakina with the back end again. The back end of Shriantek, who hits another winner, Jesus. I've never seen Shriantek this confident against Rabakina. The way she's playing is like, she's playing against bloody Cocoa Goff. I mean, she's like, I've never lost to you before. Not in her brain today. I had never lost to you. Might as well be playing Cocoa Goff today. This is just ridiculous, the way she's playing. My house, we're in the middle of Poland. All right, Deuce. Rabakina serves again, good serve. Shriantek returns, for now Rabakina is out. And that's the thing, Rabakina not getting free points, not getting easy points like she was the last two times they played. And now it's a chance for Shriantek to get that double break and serve the match. Serve Rabakina, into the form of Shriantek and ooh, it's out. Oh, she wanted to hit a first serve return winner, but no. Deuce, this Shriantek's so different to hard courts. Exactly, Shriantek is the queen of clay. All right, Deuce, great serve out wide. That's a nice serve and that return goes long from Shriantek, advantage Rabakina, advantage Rabakina. Again, just to hang around. Rabakina serves, a fault. Second serve, serving to the backhand of Shriantek. Rabakina down the line, that's a good shot. Shriantek gets it, into the fight of Rabakina who smacks the winner away. Very tough game, but a good game for Rabakina win. Keeps close, 4-3 Shriantek. Got the guy on the front row from the Rabakina camp is like, he is hooded up. He's like, I've got hoodies on hoodies on hoodies on hoodies. Hoodies on hoodies, hoodies on hoodies. He's got hoodies on hoodies on hoodies. You reckon I could be in a hip-hop artist? Hoodies on hoodies on hoodies. Remix this, hoodies on hoodies. Hoodies on hoodies, it's cold, it's hoodies. We've got hoodies on hoodies, it's cold. I have a hoodie, buy it in the merch store. Tennis store, merch. Okay, so if you're just joining us, let's go through a recap. Four games, why do 100 people live? Four games at the start of the match, all went to Deuce. And that's really where this match was established because those four matches, sorry, those four games, all went to Deuce. Shriantek won them all. That's where this match was really established because Shriantek looked nervous to start, but once she got to four loves, she's like, oh yeah, I can play on clay. I'm a good clay courtier, you know? And that seemed to make a massive difference. And then Rabakina just cannot get first serves in and cannot get the free points she's used to getting against Shriantek by being a bigger hitter. A thug life, yeah. I don't know what, the hoodie's made of material. The hoodie is a hoodie material. I don't know what it's made of. Panko will return better. All right, we'll find out. We might find out. I mean, this isn't over yet, but we might find out. Here we go. Here's Shriantek serving. Rabakina needs to break back. Otherwise, GGs, people are running around. This guy's like, shit, I'm gonna miss my train. Run, run, sir, run. The last train's at midnight. Oh, you sit down, okay. Sit down, Mr. Banko. Let's stand up. It's awkward. Serve into the back end of Rabakina. Four and half from Shriantek. The back end of Rabakina. Into the back end of Shriantek. Rabakina with the back end. Again, to the back end of Shriantek. Into the back end of Rabakina. Shriantek back end. Again, to the back end of Rabakina. Into the back end of Shriantek on the stretch. Rabakina in control, but she hits it out. 15, love. That was a shame. She was playing a very good point there. Rabakina, until she made the error. 15, love. Shriantek says a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve is a double-fold. All right, a little nervous. Second serve there from Shriantek. There we go. Now, 15, all. 15, all. Another serve from Shriantek. Into the net. Second serve. Another chance for Rabakina here. Got to capitalize on the second serves. Shriantek's got some good kick, though. Rabakina needs to get onto it. Shriantek can't get that ball toss right. Serve down the tee. Good serve. Return goes in from Rabakina. Four-nash Shriantek, the four-nash Rabakina. Into the four-nash Shriantek who hits it in the net. All right, 15, 30. This, again, we had this situation earlier. Let's hope the umpire doesn't get involved. 15, 30. 15, 30. Shriantek's serving. She doesn't face the break point, Shriantek, which is kind of incredible. Considering who she's serving against. Serve. Into the back end of Rabakina. Good return of the four-nash Shriantek. Rabakina, forehand. Again, to the four-nash Shriantek. Into the four-nash Rabakina. Shriantek in control as she hits it out. 15, 40. The first chance Rabakina's got for the day. One and a half hours, two break points. The first of the day. To get back in the match. Shriantek serves. Shriantek serves. A fault. Wow, lucky it was a fault because Rabakina hit a good return. Second serve. Second serve Shriantek. This is the shot. Second serve. Into the four-nash Rabakina. Great return of the four-nash Shriantek. Rabakina, forehand. Down the line. Shriantek there with the backhand. Rabakina on the stretch, gets it. Into the four-nash Shriantek. Rabakina, all it goes out. It goes out from Shriantek. We're back. Four-four. Back on serve. Back on serve, four-four. Wow. Maybe we're not done yet. Maybe we're just getting started. Now, this is the biggest game of Rabakina's day. She has not had the lead for the entire match. Start of the match, she got broken. The start of this set, she got broken. The biggest game of the match for Rabakina is here. She needs it to get in front. For the first time today, she's getting a new racket. The coach has given her a pep talk. Everything is happening. Wow, what a turn. It's one break. One break means nothing. We know that. Biggest game of the match for Rabakina here. Also 20 to midnight. Rabakina serves. Serving of the four-nash Shriantek. Four-nash Rabakina is good. To the backhand of Shriantek. Into the backhand of Rabakina. Shriantek in control, forehand. It's a winner. Love 15. She just attacked Shriantek as soon as she got in the rally. Shriantek being the aggressor. Love 15. Love 15. Shriantek serves again. Sorry, Rabakina serves again. Down to the four-nash Shriantek. Return goes to the four-nash Rabakina. Backhand of Shriantek. Again, the backhand of Rabakina. Shriantek slides. Rabakina with the forehand. Inside out of the backhand of Shriantek. On the stretch again. Rabakina, forehand now to the four-nash Shriantek. Into the four-nash Rabakina. Shriantek. Oh, Rabakina hits it out. Love 30. Love 30. Man, this game might be all for nothing. Getting the break back doesn't matter. It might not matter at all. Love 30. Shriantek to get the break straightaway and then serve for the match. One day these two will play three sets. Shout, one day they will. Maybe not today, but one day they will. Love 30. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Shriantek. The return goes long from Shriantek. 15-30. Good second serve from Rabakina. 15-30. So the chance here for Shriantek to get, to get the, to get the break back and serve for the match. First serve is a fault. Second serve. One semi-final spot up for grabs. Ostapenko awaits. Second serve in the backhand of Shriantek. He hits a winner down the line. Whoa! So clean on the backhand. 15-40. Bloody hell. 15-40. Just pinpoint accurate down the line. Perfection. She's wearing the Federa gear. That was perfect. 15-40. And there's Rabakina serves an ace. All right, 30-40. Is it too little too late? 30-40. Another break point for Shriantek though to get the lead again. 30-40. Rabakina serves. Down the tee. Great serve. And Shriantek in the net. Two big serves from Rabakina. We get the doce. This might be the biggest point of the match for Rabakina right here. What she would do for an ace. She'd pay a billion dollars for it. She serves. Down the tee. The back of Shriantek. Good return into the front of Rabakina. Four and Shriantek inside out. Rabakina gets it with the backhand. Shriantek in control. Hits a winner. Back behind Rabakina who is running the wrong way. Advantage Shriantek. Again to get the break and serve in the match. Lovely hitting. Shriantek just looks so confident today. This is the Shriantek that plays on clay. It's a different person. It's a different beast. Serve out wide as a fault. Second serve for Rabakina. Second serve. Serve goes to the back of Shriantek. Good return to the front of Rabakina on the stretch. Shriantek backhand in the net. Back to doce. Back to doce. Rabakina gets a little lucky with a bad Shriantek backhand which we haven't seen too many of those. A bad error from the world number one. Doce. Where's that first serve? Rabakina. Our wide great serve. And it goes out in the return. There's the first serve. Advantage Rabakina to get the lead for the first time today. Advantage Rabakina. Advantage Rabakina. Rabakina serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve into the front of Shriantek and the return to win up. And we're back at doce. Back to doce again. This game is the most important for Rabakina. She holds. This match is just getting started. She gets broken. And it might be over. Rabakina needs two first serves. She serves. A fault. That's not one. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand as Shriantek. Return goes out. Oh, that's good. If you're a Rabakina fan, that was a good one because Shriantek got onto it, but miss hit it. Again, another backhand error which she hasn't been doing much today. Advantage Rabakina to take the lead for the first time today. Rabakina serves. Our wide to the backhand Shriantek. For when a Rabakina is good. Shriantek gets it. Rabakina in control. For one to forehand. As Rabakina gets the point and the game and she gets the lead. Rabakina from four to down is now a five-four and Shriantek is serving to stay in the set. Who's ready for another one? Who's ready for maybe another hour? I hope your truck is sticky tomorrow for work. Don't just call him sick because they get stuff, boss. I was watching the tennis. The best, one of the most important matches of the year is happening. I shut up. How many hours a day have I slept? Do you have three, more than three? I don't know, whenever. By the way, we've been streaming for 11 hours straight tonight. So thank you for that. If you've been here for any of the 11 hours, appreciate you. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already or just say hello in the chat if you haven't already. We've been 11 hours straight from go to war. We've watched every match, every point. We've also covered Rafa news during this as well. So it's been a big old, big old day. 11 hours, then we started at 9 p.m. Now 8 a.m., sounds worse than it is. Yeah, 11 hours straight. Here we go. Hanging in tough, that's it. We're not done yet. We might have another hour to go. Maybe. Hope you're okay. I might be a little crazy, but I'm okay. Clay has neutralized the power. Yep, sure has. And it's helped Fiontech spin. You know, spin's becoming a little bit more effective too. We haven't mentioned that. This has been the best day of tennis in a while. Four exciting matches. They've been very, yeah, all four matches have been exciting. We had two, three setters at the start of the day. We had the rude versus serendolo grind. You know, it was pretty much a clay court as grind. And now we've got a battle clash of the Titans. And it's starting to get interesting. Maybe 4-2 was nearly, it was nearly 5-2, wasn't it? So, Fiontech now for the first time, serving down on the scoreboard as she serves. Now while the forehand of Rabakina, return goes in the forehand of Fiontech, Rabakina, forehand on the stretch, into the backhand of Fiontech. Backhand of Rabakina on the stretch again, is in at the forehand of Fiontech, Rabakina back in the rally. Forehand of Fiontech goes again, the forehand of Rabakina on the stretch. And Rabakina hits it out, 15-love. And when you're serving, when you're actually returning when you've got the lead, you can be a little more aggressive. So good for Rabakina here, because she doesn't have to win this game to be in the match. You know, she can have a crack at the return and if it doesn't work, it's only gonna be five-or. It's not the end of the world. First time she's had a chance to do that today. Return now from Rabakina into the backhand of Fiontech, who hits a winner. Down the line, again, backhand, bang. 30-love, 30-love, 10 minutes until midnight. 30-love, serve down to the backhand of Rabakina, but it's a let from Fiontech. 30-love, Fiontech serves again. Down the tee, great serve. Return goes in though. As Rabakina guesses right, but hits it in the net. Nice sitting there from Fiontech and it's 40-love. First time she's had to serve down on the scoreboard and she is killing it. You've been on here since 12 p.m. UK time. True. That's kind of crazy. Lunchtime, we went live and now it's almost midnight. All right, Fiontech holds easily and it's five-five in the second. Perfect game from Fiontech. I think that might have been our easiest game of the match. All right, back to Rabakina. Five-five. Has been another serve from Rabakina. By the way, what was the over for this match? Does anyone know what the over was? What was the over under? Has been returned now, fault, second serve. What was the over under? Serving to the backhand of Fiontech. Return goes to the backhand of Rabakina. Backhand of Fiontech into the forehand of Rabakina. And Fiontech shanks it, but it goes in. Rabakina gets the backhand. Backhand of backhand is, we get another one from Rabakina with the backhand of Fiontech. The backhand of Rabakina. Fiontech with the forehand cross-court is wide. 15-love, 19-and-a-half, 20-and-a-half. Okay. 15-love. So what, needed a tie break? So Rabakina has to win this game, yeah? 15-love. First serves a fault, second serve. Serve goes in the forehand of Fiontech who hits it down the line. That's a great shot. Rabakina gets it. Fiontech forehand down the line. Rabakina with the pass. As Fiontech volleys into the backhand of Rabakina who hits a lob. So smart. This is gonna be our biggest TV role. So smart from Rabakina. She saw Fiontech sort of take a step forward to go and go, I'm coming after the volley and she went over her head and Fiontech was never gonna get that. Smart for Rabakina. She just saw it the last minute. Fiontech sort of hit the volley and then moved one step in and then it went way over the top. It was a very nice lob. 30-love. Serving in the backhand of Fiontech. Good return. Fiontech, Rabakina. Fiontech gets it. Into the forehand of Rabakina. Again, the forehand of Fiontech with a slice. She slipped over a little. Goes in. Rabakina forehand. Again, to the forehand of Fiontech. To the forehand of Rabakina. Fiontech's just slipping and sliding all over the place and Rabakina hits a winner. 40-love to get the lead again, Rabakina. Guarantee a tie break. 40-love. Lovely hitting. And again, Fiontech just slipping over a little. Rabakina's hit 12 winners in the second set. A 10 from Fiontech. Serving to the body is a fault. Second serve. Second serve is a double fault. Went for a big second serve, Rabakina. And a little over-aggressive. Now, 40-15. Still a chance here for Rabakina to regain the lead. Now, it's Rabakina serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve goes into the forehand of Fiontech. Fiontech, Rabakina to the backhand of Fiontech. The backhand of Rabakina. Backhand of Fiontech. Again, the backhand of Rabakina is long and it's 40-30. Fiontech is still there. Rabakina needs a first serve. She needs the first serve here. 40-30. Just to get this game. 40-30, Rabakina serves. Devoted to the forehand of Fiontech. Backhand of Rabakina is the backhand of Fiontech. And Rabakina shanks it wide from 40-love to Deuce. And she's made it hard again on herself just like the four-all game. Deuce. Okay, we get to Deuce. And Rabakina serves as a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Fiontech. She hits a winner. And she gets a break point from 40-love down. Four points in a row. Fiontech to break and serve in the match. What a return. Rabakina serves. Devoted to Fiontech gets it back. Four down, Rabakina into the forehand of Fiontech. Rabakina volleys it. She runs again with a slice. Can't get it. Rabakina too good. Back to Deuce. The volley comes to the rescue. Back to Deuce. Okay, nearly midnight by the way. Four minutes to midnight. It's been a big day to serve. There's a fault. Second serve, Rabakina. Second serve into the forehand of Fiontech. Return is out. Ampire called it out as well. Vanished Rabakina. Just over hitting as Fiontech went a little too aggressive. By the way, almost at 800 likes. Thank you, everybody, for joining. Don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't already, we will be of course, watching everything else. Tomorrow, two more quarter-finals and the semi-finals and the finals. Ace out wide. Huge game for Rabakina. And she gets a 6-5. Even though she's up 40-love, she gets there eventually. Now, Fiontech's serving to get to the tiebreak to then possibly get out of here. Okay, let's chat. Oh, you're awesome! Okay, huge hold, yeah. Huge hold. Super close now, yeah, for sure. Heart attack. The aces do help, yep. Three sets please, okay. We're reaching critical point, yep. Yes, we are. Fiontech having a brain fart? No, I don't know about that. I think Rabakina's just, serving big when she needs to. The odds were heavy against there being a tiebreak in this match, really? Looking good for a bet now. I realized that's crazy, Curtis. I would've thought for sure they would've thought a tiebreak was in this match. Gone past the midnight hour, more lack of sleep for us. That's it. Sleep when we're dead, sleep for the week, you know, all that jazz. You know what we say. Noah Lane are serving when she needs to, yeah, she's serving big when she needs to, exactly. That's called being clutch. Rabakina gets better the longer she plays, right? Any news about Rafa? Yeah, he's doing a press conference tomorrow to either announce that he is playing or not playing the French Open. So yeah, we'll keep you updated with that tomorrow. Okay, Fiontech serving to the tiebreak. Oh, there's a kid in the stands, couldn't stay there. His dad's there. He's like, I want to watch the body tennis. He's like, I'm tired. He passed out, poor fella. All right, first is the fault. Second serve. Second serve. Down the tee, the back end of Rabakina. Fiontech to the front of Rabakina. Who hits a winner? Love 15. Wow, okay, this is where Rabakina gets dangerous. When she has the time to go for it. Huge forehand. Love 15. Fiontech serves again. Into the back of Rabakina, Rabakina in the net. 15-all. Nice serve, Fiontech. 15-all. That's by far the closest set these two have played in like two years. 15-all. And it's officially midnight. Serve down the tee is a fault from Fiontech. Second serve. They start at 10 p.m. and they're still going. Officially, midnight. Luckily they got a day off between these matches. Tomorrow the win up doesn't pay tomorrow. They play on Friday. 15-all. Serving to the front of Rabakina. Returne goes in to the forward of Fiontech. Who hits it down the line for a winner? 30-15. Lovely forehand, Fiontech down the line. 30-15. And the serve coming up for Eager. 30-15. Serve. Down the tee, great serve. Returne goes in, Fiontech. And Rabakina hits it out. On the back end, 40-15. Fiontech to get us to this tie break. Which we didn't expect. The way that Rabakina was... Well, the way the score was looking, it didn't look like we were going to come near a tie break. She was down 4-2. Rabakina didn't look like, did not look like she was going to make it interesting until now. It was one bad game. Fiontech couldn't hold. Great return for Rabakina. Fiontech backhand open court. Rabakina somehow gets it. But Fiontech comes in with a smash. All right, no intro required. Tie break time. Tell me who's going to win. No intro needed. Six-all tie break. Does Rabakina have it in her to get to a third? By the way, tie break. I think it's only the second tie break. These two are played against each other. Fiontech won the first. Back in Ostrava. What are you going with Rabakina? A few... A lot of Fiontechs too, to be fair. But a lot of Rabakinas. I think a lot of you want to, you want to call in sick to work tomorrow, do you? Chuck is sicky, eh? Here we go. The serve. For Rabakina first. She serves out why the four of Fiontech and Fiontech gets it out. Good first serve. One love, Rabakina. One zero, Rabakina. One love. Tie break record this year. Two wins, one loss for Fiontech. She hasn't played that many tie breaks. Eight wins, one loss for Rabakina in tie breaks. Bloody hell. Who can guess the one tie break Rabakina lost? Go. You know. We watched it. It was on a hard court. We had a backhand now down the line to the 400 Fiontech, into the 400 Rabakina. Who hits it in the net, one-one. And who, where was it, Chad? You know. Come on. I know you know. When was it? Who was it? It was an epic tie break too. It was an epic tie break. We should know this. Went for like, it was like 14-12. It was an epic. Miami. Cavitter in Miami, exactly. Cavitter in Miami. 14-16. That's the only tie break she's lost this year. Rabakina. As we get a serve now, Fiontech. Yeah, Miami final, that first set. It really set the tone as well because after that it was all Kovitva. Yeah, we're all there. Unless you're a Fiontech fan, maybe you weren't there. Oh, okay. Fiontech hits it out. Two-one to Rabakina. She gets the break. The mini break. This week, by the way, Fiontech hasn't played a tie break because she's just been baggling everybody. Rabakina this week in the tie break situation, she played one tie break against Paulini and got the win. So, only the one tie break this week for her as she gets a return now. The back end of Rabakina. Back end of Fiontech. Into the back end of Rabakina. Again, to the back end of Fiontech. We hit it to the ground. Wow. Rabakina hits the baseline. And it's three-one. Rabakina to the tie break queen. Three-one. I can't remember watching a tie break with Fiontech. Oh, Alexander Drover. Was the last time Fiontech played a tie break and she lost by, she lost to Alexander Drover in that Madrid. It's the only clay court tie break she's played this year, Fiontech. Serving to the back end of Fiontech. Back end of Fromri Bakina. Into the back end of Fiontech. Down the line to winner. Back on serve. Three-two. Fiontech with the back end winner. Did Fiontech play tie break in Indian Wells? I can't remember. No. Yes, on Drescu's second set tie break. So Alexander Drover on Drescu and maybe Dubai, maybe Australia, maybe United Cup. No, it's three-two. What in the hell did she play the other tie break? Can't tell. No. Not against Switzerland, was it? Against Bencic. There you go, it was. It was the United Cup against Bencic. The second of January. Okay, return goes in the back end of Fiontech. That goes down the line. It's a great shot. Up goes a lob from Rabakina. But it goes wide. Three-three. They change ends. They change ends. Three-all. Fiontech's gonna serve. So Rabakina's only lost one tie break for the year. Fiontech's only lost one tie break as well and that was on clay. Three-all. Fiontech to serve. Yeah, Andrescu got Fiontech in a tie break in Indian Wells, second set tie break. No, Andrescu, sorry, played Fiontech in a tie break. Didn't win. Fiontech won the tie break, but they played a tie break, yeah. Back in Indian Wells for Andrescu. It was actually, yeah. Kind of unexpected that second set as well. We're like, oh, okay, it's getting close. All right, three-all. Fiontech serves into the fore and over back and a return goes into the fore and a Fiontech. Back in a Rabakina. Again to the back and a Fiontech who over hits it and it's four-three Rabakina with the mini break now. Four-three Rabakina. It's on her serve. Can't she hold? Again, thank you for joining us. We're almost at 1,000 likes too. Come on, we can get to 1,000 likes. We're only 150 away. Come on, let's get it. Let's get to 1,000 likes. This is a clash of the Titans. Deserves 1,000. Andrescu serves into the fore and a Fiontech. Fiontech, Rabakina. Again to the fore and a Fiontech who hits it in the net. Five-three Rabakina. Five-three Rabakina has got the two point buffer now. Five-three Rabakina serves again. Now while the fore and a Fiontech return goes in the back and a Rabakina. Fiontech with the backhand slice goes in. Rabakina, backhand down the line. Fiontech gets it with a lob. Rabakina smash or swinging volley and it's a winner, six-three. Oh, Fiontech's grabbed her knee. Oh, no. Fiontech's got, Fiontech's not, is she standing there? Fiontech grabbed her knee. Fiontech's looks really worried. This is not good. All right, she walks away. She seems okay. Let's see what happens. Six-three. So Rabakina into backhand down the line. Fiontech lunging out wide and just kind of stopped on it. Like kind of, she kind of like, yeah, she kind of like jammed her knee as she ran for that shot. Anyway, six-three. Let's see what happens here as she serves. Down the tee, great serve. Gets back into the front of Rabakina. Rabakina, Rabakina. Again to the front of Fiontech in the net. Okay, we're going to a third, baby. Three set-up, Rabakina comes back. But Fiontech, let's see what that knee does because that was not a good movement. We're going three. The tie break queen is Rabakina. Nine out of 10 tie breaks, she's won this year. 75 minutes, that's seconds of two hours. Call on sick for work, everybody. Chaka Sicki, you have my permission. Tell your boss to get stuff from me. We're going three. You say we're going three. We are going three. What do you, that's what I always say that. We're going three, baby. We're going three. Injury was a one chance for Rabakina. I gotta be honest. The injury didn't affect Fiontech in the tie break. She got hurt at the end. She hurt her knee at the last point. So I mean, I don't think it had anything to do with Fiontech being hurt. I think Rabakina in tie breaks is just a beast. Rabakina is the tie break queen. I mean, like I said, lost one tie break this year. Out of the 10 she's played. My opinion, WCA is lacking competition. Are you kidding me? What are you doing? Hello, hello, hello, hello. Are you watching this match? Hello? What was that comment? Are you watching this? Oh, you know what? It's been two hours. I think this is lacking competition. Are you kidding me, dude? Oh my God. You must be tired. You must be a little tired. You don't see what's going on here, right? By the way, train her out on the court for Fiontech's knee. So the knee is worse. We're not working, we don't know. We'll find out. They're gonna get off the court. Fiontech said, is it gonna be fine? Fiontech doesn't know, she's like, I don't know. This is not good. Fiontech in tears, is she? They're gonna, Fiontech in tears. Oh my God, this is terrible. This is not good. Fiontech is in tears. And they're leaving the court to strap up the knee. This is not good. This is not good. All right, medical time at Fiontech. Fiontech in tears. This is bad, chat. Rebakken is asking what the hell's going on. And Rebakken is like, can you tell them they've got five minutes? She's getting real strict with the rules. Okay, Rebakken in chat with the coach. Fiontech hurt her knee, everybody. If you're just joining us, the second last point of that tie break, Fiontech went to run for a forehand and she jarred her knee. She didn't twist it or bend it the wrong way. She just ran and her knee just squashed together as she ran and she stood, what do you call it? When she was running, she was stamping on the ground almost. And it just kind of jolted her knee. And now she's getting a medical time out. It can be painful, yeah. But she was in tears. I mean, if she's in tears, that's a problem. All right, Rebakken is like, I wanna keep serving. What the hell? This changes everything, chat. If this is serious, this changes everything. They're gonna show the replay again. So Fiontech running out wide and kind of just like, almost like, like she put her weight as she was lunging and she almost like, she almost like, I guess just put all their weight on her knee as she kind of like curled over as well. Really awkward movement. Really awkward. And look, knee injuries come out of nowhere. I mean, sometimes you can just be, I mean, who remembers Sable taking on Osaka? Remember how Sable came in, hit a volley and then her knee just went like that? I mean, knee injuries can just happen. They can just happen. Hopefully it's nothing too serious. Bloody hell. All right, Rebakken is gonna keep the serve going because she's like, well, I wanna win this bloody match. So I'm gonna keep playing, but yeah. Now it wasn't a hyperextension. It was almost like a compact, like hyperextensions when you kind of go the wrong way, but she didn't bend her knee the wrong way. It didn't twist it. It was just like, it was just like she just jammed it. You know? Brutal. It didn't look like much, but obviously enough to get a medical time out and to send Shriyantek into tears, I mean, she was not happy. I think it's over for Shriyantek for eager pains. And I don't think, I mean, I don't know. It's, I mean, look. Okay, here's a couple of things, right? Before they come back. So first, does she play on and risky getting worse, right? Is it not, maybe it was just a jolt? You know, sometimes you can, you know when you like, hit your funny bone? You know when you like smack your elbow on something and you're like, ah, but it only hurts for like a little bit. And then you kind of, you know, it kind of gets better. Maybe that happens, right? Maybe it's just a little bit of a jolt and she can, you know, strap it up and it's okay. Or does she think, do I want to keep playing or do I want to recover for the French Open, which is more important? You know, that's also a consideration. Remember, there's only quarter finals too. I mean, if this was the semis of the final, you know, maybe a different story, but it's only the quarters. So if she wins today, she's still going to play Oster Penko. She's still got to play the final with possibly a knee problem. Was she crying because of the pain? Yeah, surely. I mean, she hasn't lost sets before. She doesn't cry when she loses sets. Like, she hasn't lost a set against Ellison Drover. Did not cry. So it's not because she lost a set. I think it's more because she's worried about what the hell she just did to her knee. Like, she's scared, right? She's scared that she's done something bad. Oh, and she's in pain. So that's what's, you know, that's what's concerning. She wasn't crying and you'd probably think, oh, how bad was it? But yeah. Yeah, the crying, definitely her in tears is a worrying sign. If you don't think I had knee surgery in the past, did she? What knee? What knee? She's off court. Yeah, she left the court to have a medical time out. So yeah. Ostapega, Kudamatova, Pagula, Koko, Sakuri, plenty of great competition, of course. Oh, I almost had a thousand likes. Thank you. Rebecca and I are ready to go. She's ready and waiting. Man, this would be brutal. This would be such a shame. Such a shame if this is the way it ends. Just waiting for Shriyantse to come back. Rebecca is just staying warm out there. Past midnight, 20 past midnight, so it's late. It's a late, late night in Rome. Luckily, the winner of this gets a day off. So I can sleep in tomorrow. Rebecca is showing her ugly side. What do you mean? Rebecca was just trying to keep warm. Okay, so here we go. So here is the, so this is it. So it doesn't seem to be a knee problem, which is good. Not a knee injury. It seems to be a thigh injury. She's got strapping on the thigh. So it doesn't, so knee, it doesn't look like a knee problem. It looks like she may be just a bandage on the thigh. That's, that's better. That's better than the knee. All right, so there you go. Not a knee problem, possibly a thigh strain. As we are serving out of the four, Shriyantse goes down the line and hits a winner. Okay, Shriyantse, 15 love. So that's good. Not a knee problem. Cause you know, anything joint related is, is never good. Anything with like an elbow or a bloody knee or a hip. Women ask Rafa, right? 15 love. But the thigh, I mean, look, the movement might be compromised. Serve is a foul. Second serve, second serve. Shriyantse serves into the back end of Rebecca and a good return of the four on Shriyantse. Rebecca with the four on the slice goes, nope, nowhere. Shriyantse gets a winner. And we know like, well, okay. So what's, what happens when, when someone gets injured? What, what usually happens? Chat, and it might actually help Shriyantse in this match. What happens? What does it cause the player to do? If someone gets injured, what does it, what does it, what happens? What can happen? As we're serving in the back end of Rebecca and a back on Shriyantse at the back end of Rebecca and up into the four on Shriyantse who hits it out, 30, 15. They become more aggressive, exactly Sarah. Exactly Natalie. They play more aggressive. But also the opponent could have a let down because Rebecca and it could be like, oh, you're injured. I'm going to just play normal. They're going to keep the intensity. Yeah, Shriyantse might be a little bit more aggressive which might actually help her. Good serve, return goes in. Four on Shriyantse, Rebecca gets it with the back end passed wide and it's 40, 15. So Shriyantse might just get a little more aggressive, especially on the returns, 40, 15. Serving the back end of Rebecca and a four on Shriyantse goes in, Rebecca says it's out. Umpire's getting out of the chair. Rebecca is not sure. Once person didn't make a call. So let's see what happened. It's out, it's good. It's good. And it's one love Shriyantse in the third. By the way, chat all the matches in the quarterfinals for the ladies have gone three. Every match in this quarterfinal stage. It's gone three sets. We love it. All right, that's the second set. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. 14 winners Shriyantse, 13 errors. 16 winners and nine errors from Rebecca. So Rebecca played a hell of a lot better. Only one break point against Shriyantse and that's all it took. If Shriyantse had not been broken, she might have won that match already, but the one break point is all Rebecca needed to get back in the match. And then the tie break was always Rebecca. And it's been a fault from Rebecca in the second serve. By the way, anyone saying there was a fake injury? You are crazy. Serve is a double fault, okay? Double fault Rebecca. Double fault. Love 15. Serve. Down the T's and A's, all right? Tell you eliminate that. 15-0, nothing like fake injuries, nothing like stupid comments in the chat. Thank you for being steely. 15-0. Serve into the backhand slice of Shriyantse. Up goes the lob. Rebecca hits a four-hour winner, 30-15. 30-15. It's a cold night too. It's 15 degrees. As we're serving out for one of Shriyantse, Shriyantse in the net, 40-15. Nice for Rebecca in the heel. 40-15. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care what they were saying. Jay. It's my birthday now. Happy birthday. Please, IGA, give me a nice present and win. Happy birthday. All right, one-one. Shriyantse. To serve again. Good save there from Rebecca now. It's not too bad. Hey. Hi, I am Jesus Christ. Oh, wow, that's amazing. Thank you for the two dollars. Appreciate that. I loved you in the, you know, the, you know, I love Easter. Easter's great. I'm a big fan. Appreciate it. All right. Shriyantse serves one-one in the third. As we default from Shriyantse, second serve. Second serve. Serving the backhand of Rebecca and the backhand of Shriyantse and into the backhand of Rebecca who hits it wide. 15-love. Now Shriyantse serving first in this final set, which is the first time she's serving first in the set. Well, thank you, Protector, for becoming a member. Appreciate that. Welcome to the, welcome to the chat. Appreciate that. All right, first as a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Into the backhand of Rebecca who hits another win up and I wonder if, I wonder if Shriyantse's movement is going to get compromised the longer she plays on this bad leg. I wonder how it's going to go when we get maybe to a five, a three-all, five-all, four-all, maybe, I don't know. Because Shriyantse really didn't like to step on that backhand side. I wonder if Rebecca can, I mean, maybe make her hit more forehands on the stretch because that's where the open stance forehands were heard is that's a great serve, Shriyantse. 30-15. 30-15. 30-15, Shriyantse serves again. Two hours and 15 minutes played. This is going to be a two and a half hour plus match. Ace down the tee. Lovely serve down the tee from Shriyantse, 40-15. 40-15. Another chance here. For Shriyantse to get the lead again and she serves a fault. Second serve. Thank you, Julian. Appreciate the nice words. I'll do my best. 40-15, served, goes into the backhand of Rebecca. Good return of the fort. Shriyantse, backhand of Rebecca on the stretch. Into the backhand of Shriyantse, the forehand of Rebecca. Rebecca hits it out. Two-one Shriyantse in the final set. All right, Shriyantse leads. Ah, Chad. The question, jerk! Hey, we get to 1,000 likes. Round of applause. Thank you for that. Appreciate 1,000 likes. That is, that is a lot. That's a lot. Is Shriyantse faking her injury? No, Shriyantse could win and retire just not to let Rebecca win. I mean, that's... If you want to create that narrative to help you sleep at night, okay. But if Shriyantse wins this match and then retires before playing the next match because she doesn't want to risk getting worse for the French Open, which is more important, then that's what I'm gonna believe. But if you want to believe that Shriyantse is only gonna retire in the next match despite Rebecca and her, you're living in the wrong world. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what you're thinking. She was literally crying, exactly. Okay. I don't understand comments with a fake injury. Anyone saying a fake injury has never hit a tennis ball in their life? So I'm just saying. Anyone who's saying, oh, it's fake. It's a fake injury. It's a fake, it's fake. I've never played tennis, but it's a fake injury. I know a fake injury because I've never played. It's not a fake, mate. No one cries if they're not actually in pain. Not Shriyantse, anyway. She don't cry. I mean, I don't know if anyone on tennis court has cried without being actually injured. Rebecca needs a winner and Shriyantse's not running for half the balls now. So look, anyone saying it's fake doesn't know what's going on. I don't know what's up. But hey, don't worry. If you stick around here long enough, we'll teach you how to, how tennis actually works. You'll learn something. As we are flying now from Rebecca, that was a beautiful shot. And again, Shriyantse's not running. And Rebecca is keeping an eye on her because she's like, what's your movement? As Rebecca serves an ace, apparently. The umpire's out of the chair though. It's good. So Rebecca is keeping an eye on what Shriyantse's movements are like. How are you running? How are you returning? What hurts? Back hands, forehands? You know, what's the worst shot? So Rebecca is looking, you know, she's paying attention. So that was it. Let. On the first set, I serve. Served on the tee. It's nice again. Wow. Shriyantse is not moving on returns. Two aces in a row. 40 love. But Shriyantse is not, not trying to, I guess try to push on returns. 10 aces for Rebecca, by the way. 12, 30 in the morning. And she serves. Now while the back of Shriyantse hits it in the net, man. Shriyantse, Shriyantse's taking, she's saying I'm done. Shriyantse says I'm done. Oh my God. Shriyantse says I'm done. Rabakina wins. Rabakina wins. Wow. Rabakina wins through retirement. Shriyantse says I'm done. Wow. Wow. What was a fake injury, yeah? Wow. I've never seen someone retire because they faked an injury. I mean, she's really, really playing the part. She's just like trying to convince everybody it's not, that's real. I mean, that's commitment to the, you know, that's the method acting right there. Bloody hell. Anyways, jokes aside, that's not good because the defending champion, two time defending champion, who was not that far away from winning this match is now out. And we've got Rabakina taking on Osta Penko and the French open for the ladies is up in the air. Dush Fiontech play. Is Fiontech going to be okay? Can she defend? Man, that is brutal. That is brutal. Egas Fiontech retires at two or one the third. It's such a shame too, because it was such a good match. That's such a shame. That's such a shame. Rabakina wins. Rabakina gets to the semis and she plays Osta Penko. Osta Penko, Kudamatova, Rabakina and Kalanina. Who the hell thought that was going to be the quarterfinals or the semifinals? No top, wait, sorry, one top 10 player. All right, Rabakina having a chat, let's have a listen. Never easy to win like this. First semifinals here. Something about your feeling. Never good to finish the match like this. It's a really good match. I hope it's not only serious for her. And hope she can get recovery. Want to say thank you to everyone who stayed because it's freaking late. If you're leaving, by the way, don't forget to like and subscribe. We'll be back for the semis in a couple of days. Of course, watching the Rabakina play Osta Penko. Wild. Man, brutal. That's so brutal. That sucks. If Chante doesn't play the French, I mean, who the hell is going to win the French then? Who will win the French Open Chat with Ash Fiontech? Rabakina? Savalenka? Somebody else? What a way to finish a crazy day. We started with an upset again. Well, we started Jokovic's losing. We ended with Fiontech retiring. Bloody hell. What a weird, I'll tell you what, Rome has been the weirdest tournament. Rome has been the weirdest one. I know Madrid was weird, but at least the finals were kind of normal, but, man, but Osta, you reckon we're going to win? Then I feel like it's open season if Fiontech's not there. Good for Rabakina though. She literally was out of this match at 4-2, nearly down 5-2 in the second set, and she just stuck around, got that one chance. She took it, and then, you know, Fiontech got injured in the tie break, but man, I mean, that just happened. You just got to hang around. You never know what happens. Just hang around long enough, something, anything could happen. What about Goff? Yeah, Goff Pagoula? Look, Fiontech hasn't said she's not playing the French. We're getting a little ahead of ourselves, but like, I mean, Rabakina wins. We're going to bloody hell. We're going to watch that. Holy hell. I mean, look, she did not want to, look, Fiontech knows the French is more important. Man, what a way for the two-time defending champion to have to retire. Man, I mean, it doesn't count as a loss, I guess, but she didn't win, so what happened? I missed it. So Fiontech was running. She was lunging or she was running out to get a, to hit a forehand on a Rabakina shot, and she kind of like, like jarred her leg. Like, you know, she kind of like compacted her leg and something happened to a thigh. It looks like a thigh or a hamstring. Probably a thigh, though. It was like a, like compressed, like it almost like tensed up. And yeah, instantly called the trainer after the thigh break and was in tears. Man, it's brutal. So maybe, hopefully, for Fiontech and for our sake, so we can watch her, because we want to see the best player on the planet playing the biggest tournament, right? Or one of the biggest tournaments. Hopefully, it's just a precautionary. She's like, I don't want to risk getting it worse. And hopefully that's why she pulled out mainly more because of that, rather than it being like, you know, I can't walk. Anonymous! Rome continues to surprise. A tournament full of upsets. Crazy. De Merrill. So fake. L-A-M-O. Grow up people. Yeah. Thank you. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, no. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what I was saying. Ready! Anyone who says she was faking is a freaking tool. I was watching and it was legit. It was legit. People that are saying it's fake is just, you know, whatever. Whatever. I mean, someone could have, you know, I mean, people are saying it's very faked, it's his injury. Even when he was in the wheelchair, you know? Everyone's gonna say it's fake. Man, crazy times. She will be fine, okay? Peron Garros. She will have a weak rest and start training again. Yeah, it just depends. I mean, it depends on, you know, she won't know until she, you know, cools down and sees what happens when it's, you know, when she's not, you know, when everything kind of settles. Hopefully, she just pulled out because she's like, you know what? It's not worth the risk. Hopefully, that's why. You know, hopefully for her sake. And for our sake, French Open starts, probably in, yeah, in 11 days. 11 days. Had Shfiontek won this title for a third time. She would still wouldn't have played the next one. Smart to retire. What do you mean? If she had won this match, she would have, she would have retired in against Panko, probably. She wouldn't have played Panko. And people would have said she was scared. So, no, you can't win. Yeah, what a turn of events. I know, what a random, just random ass. Literally, that can happen just all of a sudden. You know, tie break was going. Rebacking was playing well. Third set coming up. And bang, just the leg does, you know, awkward movement. And that's it. That's it, you know. But good for Rebecca, you know, she hasn't played well on the clay, so it's good to see her in a big, in a big semi, you know, playing against tough player. Ready? No one fakes a injury at two to two in final set. Nah, nah. Mama. Ego will always struggle against Saba and Raibakana. Um, well, look, today, I got to be honest. I think Shriontek for 80% of the match, or even maybe 70, 80%, she was in control. Um, 6-2, 4-2, she looked, she was cruising. And, uh, Raibakana really, I don't want to say got lucky, but Shriontek played one game. And Raibakana did a really good job of just hanging on to her serve, even after she got broken, hanging on, trying to stick around, you know, stick around. And then that one game where Raibakana had a chance, she took it, and then the tie break, you know, went to, uh, went to Raibakana. So really, um, I don't, like, today's struggle wasn't, I mean, Shriontek didn't really struggle. And I feel like if she played the third set healthy, Shriontek was looking pretty good in that third set, even with the injury. So, um, I feel like if it was, if she didn't get hurt, then Shriontek probably would have won the third set 6-3. And the second, it would have been like the Alexander Overmatch. Now, Saba Lanke beats her in Madrid. Yeah, but that's a different, you know, different speed, right? So Saba Lanke playing on a fast clay court or a faster clay court and faster conditions, it favours her. Whereas if they played here, it probably wouldn't have. But, um, yeah, I still believe, you know, Shriontek doesn't really have too many opposition on clay. I said in the first game of the third, she was barely moving after she served. Well, she was playing okay. It was just that last game when we're back and it served a couple of aces and Shriontek just stood there and watched. So I was like, that was when it kind of hit, you know? That was a tough part. The midnight this player, yeah. Shriontek has RG in the mind. Well, that's it. I mean, if this was in Stuttgart, maybe she would have played. But because the French opens like literally a week around, a week away, then maybe that's, that's why. As well, she was thinking a little forward. Like, I don't want to keep playing because if she gets worse, she might have ditched the French. And then that's, and if she ditches the French, the ranking gets, gets really tested. So speaking of rankings, let's have a look at what now, where Sabalenka and Shriontek fall after this week, because Shriontek lost 600 points this week. So now Shriontek is only 1400 points ahead of Sabalenka at number two. So that means if Shriontek doesn't at least make the final of the French open and Sabalenka wins the whole thing, we're going to get a change of ranking. So Sabalenka wins the French and Shriontek doesn't make the final. We could get a new number one. And that's off the top of my head. I haven't done the math properly, but I think that's off the top of my head. Yeah, I think maybe not. Maybe there's something, maybe I'm missing something. But yeah, anyways, pretty much Sabalenka has to win the French open. If she makes the final, it won't be enough. If we're back, let's say Shriontek doesn't play the French, which would be wild. And Sabalenka does retire, I'm sorry, does only make the final, won't be enough. So she's got to win the whole thing Sabalenka still to take number one, depending on what happens with, which Shriontek, I think. Well, hang on, I don't know. It's so, I've been live for 12 hours. I don't know what's going on. This chat's going wild. This chat's always wild. That's what happens when there's a million people in the chat. Yeah, and Rebecca has got a new career high, you're right. She's gets to number five in the world, right? Shriontek has got, yeah, so, yeah, sorry, yeah. Shriontek loses 2,000 points. Actually, hang on, wait a second. So wait, we might go to the French open. So Shriontek loses 2,000, which means she'll be on 6,900 to start the tournament. And then Sabalenka, wait, hang on. Is Sabalenka gonna be, hang on. So wait, Sabalenka might just have to do better than Shriontek at the French to be number one. Is that real? Is that real? Is that, am I reading that right? So Shriontek, so Sabalenka's only got 100 points at the French, is that real? Or is it, she's got three, yeah. She got 130 points. She made the third round, right? So Shriontek's gonna have to do, Shriontek's gonna have to make the final. Or maybe do, make the semis, but that's if Sabalenka loses early. So let's say Sabalenka makes it to the fourth round, Shriontek's gonna have to get the final. Maybe, again, quick maths, we're gonna have to figure it out properly next week, but. Okay. So that's brutal. That's crazy. Number one of the ranking is on the line. Big time. But Sabalenka's gonna have to do some special things at the French that she's never done before. All right, who wants to see the, who wants to see the dog? What do you have to say about Shriontek's injury? Oh, okay. No comment. Okay. Whoa, you are wild. You're going nuts. You have something to say? You have something to say? You have something to say? No? What is it? Bye. You're going too much. You're too much, you're too much. You're too much. Okay. She's mad about Shriontek, yeah. Come on camera, Bakun is better than Shriontek. Just get over it. You won't, I can't even read that because your comment was too long, mate. You got to shorten it up, mate. I can't read all the comments. They're too long. Chastity of busy, mate. You got to just keep it brief. Shriontek at least makes the semifinals of French Open and Sabalenka loses first round. She'll stay number one. Okay. Well, yeah, but Sabalenka gonna lose first round. That's the question. Bakun sends the queen of clay to the Infernery. Well, that's really the graphic. I actually want somebody to get to number one so that the jerks finally lay off Shriontek. Well, that's a good idea. I mean, Shriontek's been, you know, I don't know why people hate on Shriontek. People hate winners. That's what it is. Losers hate winners. That's what it is. Nadal and Shriontek injured, yeah, they are. When Nadal played French, probably not. What injury does she have? She has like a thigh, it looks like a thigh problem, a thigh injury. That seems to be the problem. Does Tormo win the French this year? No, probably not. It's because she's a cheat, is she? Or is it because you're just, you know, you just, someone hurt you in your past? Jealousy is ugly, exactly, exactly. Mia is like Sabalenka. Mia is unique. Halib's not playing the French to burn my, oh, she's playing, but she might be hurt. Again, I'm not gonna read your long ass comment, mate. If you're just gonna shit on, if you're just gonna be a hater, all right? Now, who is winning this? Who's gonna win? Yeah, Rabakina versus Oster Penko. I'm gonna go, I think Penko's been playing better this week than Oster Penko, than Rabakina. So I'm gonna go with Penko. I'm gonna go with Penko to win. Penko to play Kudamatova in the final. Wild final. I'm gonna go with Penko to beat, to get to the final and play Kudamatova. And then I don't know what happens. We're back under three of Penko, all right. We're gonna get out of here in a second because my dog is going nuts. What are you doing? Unbelievable. Unbelievable, no, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Tomorrow. People already think that if Iga plays RG, then it's fake injury. Face palm. Hey, can't win. You can't win. All right, chat, thanks for joining us. I'll see you guys later. Thank you again, everybody. What a sad way to finish this. It's so disappointing. Can't help injuries, but man, what a... It just sucks, because we're just getting into the last set. It was gonna be an epic finale. A bit of a downer to finish the day, but hey, let's hope Shion takes okay, and let's hope it's only precautionary so she can play the French open healthy, as healthy as she can be, and maybe get a rematch of this one at the French. That would be fun. But we're back in against the win. She takes on Oster Penko on Friday. So I'll see you guys then if you're not gonna come watch the men's matches tomorrow. But man, what a win. What a result. 6-2, 6-7, two all-retirement. Sviantech out of the tournament that she has played the best at, and the two-time champion falls to injury and we're backing up. Continues to beat Sviantech on every surface.