 what's going on everybody welcome back to Indian Wells and we just had a dramatic finish to that match with Rubele and Fritz thanks for sticking around and now it's time for the main event. The main event the one that we've been waiting for since we saw who was going to play who it's Elkarez taking on Rafa. Is it going to be passing of the torch? That's what has been built up to be a potential passing of the torch match is Elkarez good enough you know people are saying that 12 months ago he was a little bit young and maybe not quite there but 12 months he's done a lot in the last 12 months you know US Open played very well there he's had some big wins over the last 12 months as well has he improved enough to beat Rafa after playing him in Madrid last year because that result wasn't very uh wasn't very convincing but 12 months can be a long time in tennis especially for the young guys we'll see what happens but uh let me just change the scoreboard color because I know uh I didn't forget because Deb wants the purple scoreboard for Rafa there you go by the way this one is probably the closest betting wise the Rafa has had all week I mean Rafa is the favorite but like not really I mean he's not like the favorite favorite if he plays anyone else outside of the top 10 the the betting isn't this close so so I'm gonna keep an eye on uh let me know in the chat if you have any bets on this match because and if you do what what do you have let's go through the preview though because like I said these two have actually played one before only one time but uh maybe a long time ago I don't know winner of this match plays Fritz we just saw that happen Fritz beating Rubele in straight sets maybe not the biggest surprise I had a gut feeling that might have happened that might that could have happened and the way that Rubele was just complaining about people being in his coach's box uh didn't help him and then we've got this match of course we know that Elcores beat Nori Elcores hasn't lost a set or week by the way whereas we know Rafa has had some battles the battle against Kirios the battle against even Opelka you know that was a battle um in a different way you know straight sets but still a battle and then of course uh the quarter match up in the first round let's talk about Carlos Elcores here's 19 in the world 18 years on from Spain six foot one right handed eight wins one loss on the year only lost one match this year I mean I don't think many people are talking about that one title as well the one in Rio a couple weeks ago and two career titles best wins against Baratini and Schwartzman Rafa Nadal number four in the world if he wins today he will be number three as of next week uh he is a 35 years old from Spain as well six foot one as well but he's a lefty 15 and 0 coming into this he's now 19 and 0 uh after this week is they all gonna go we'll see three titles as well including the Australian Open 91 career titles including 21 slams and his best wins against Medvedev and Baratini now let's have a look at the last time they played the only time that they played Madrid last year Rafa one and two now Madrid was 12 like let's say 12 months ago and 10 months ago and it was on clay there's a hard court I don't expect Rafa to dominate this I I would not I would be very surprised if we got a same score line because I think Alcares on a hard court is better for him I'm not saying he's a better hard court player than Rafa but he's definitely I think the hard courts he can get closer to Rafa on hard court than clay at this stage and also I mean a lot's happened in the last 12 months for Alcares US Open run very good run at the US Open he's played very well in Indian Wells last year you know beating some big names there he's beaten big names and I think that's the main thing did okay at the Australian Open eventually lost to Baratini in five again lost to a big name so he's not losing to the guys he's losing the best in the world right he beat Sisypass of course at the US Open wait was Sisypass or Murray anyway he beat one of them it's just a lot's changed he's got a lot more confidence I'm sure as well but is it gonna make is it enough commentators talking about the changing the guard but Rafa will delay that yeah I think there is there's always a change in the guard right it's inevitable there will be a changing the guard it happens because people retire is it gonna happen today it's today the match I'm gonna say it's not today but I can understand the hype because it's probably if it's not today it might be the next one but today might be close the part the torch might I mean Alcares might get it might get to you know might get his hand on the torch the Rafa rips it out of his hand that could happen but I don't I don't know if today I don't I don't know if today's the day the Rafa gives or like the torch gets passed even if it is Rafa's gonna come back with a vengeance the next time they play to prove that that was a fluke so you know what I mean like I don't know I just don't know if Rafa is gonna is gonna really if Rafa is gonna be uh even if he has a bad foot or whatever I don't think today's the day but as long as we get three sets I'm happy uh now um rowdy with the donation I'm doing Alcaraz was broken four times in his last match okay okay that's uh thanks for the stat rowdy the courts are playing hella slow yeah well that's Indian Wells right Indian Wells is a slow court it's the closest hard court to a clay court so clay quarters are going to play well on this court because that's uh that's just how it plays who does that favor well it doesn't really favor anyone because these guys are both clay quarters at heart right um yeah Liam says this is essentially the final if Fritz is injured badly we don't know how bad the injury was from Fritz because we he kind of disappeared I mean that that match was over before we could really see what happened to Fritz but um yeah I want to see what Fritz looks like tomorrow because I reckon the winner of this match will be the favorite obviously Rafa will be but I think of Alcaraz wins today he'll be the favorite tomorrow in the final and we don't know what his foot is going to be like all right let's give out some shout outs before we get to this match because players aren't on court yet Megs is back what's up Megs uh Lexi's here Ashley Harsh Jonathan uh Jacqueline's here Julian David Gabriel V all here uh Michael's here Spain versus Spain yep I'm sure all this I'm sure Spain is staying up right now by the way I've been to Spain um I know you guys on a Saturday night you you the you're waking up right now to go out at 1 am 1 am I don't know what it is in Spain I went to Barcelona for a weekend by myself so I didn't lose my mind and go crazy and run right but for some reason at 10 p.m everybody started to get ready to go out and I'm like I was in the UK I mean you get you go out at midnight you have one hour to have fun uh Nina's here we've got Deb Beth who else is here Pittsburgh sports is here Haydar's here Victor's back we've got NorCal who's back Chris door I wrote the door and Joe uh Pat is a roll call by the way so we're just taking the roll and uh when uh we're seeing who's here who's not here if you're not here in the next five you are detention uh you're going to study extra for tomorrow's final uh Ashley's here Duchy's here Lorna Min Raymond J Margarita we've got Benji me is here uh Muhammad we've got army tan is here we've got Jack Laura Muhammad Benji rowdy of course Denise RN RK now rowdy are you nervous how are you feeling today mate uh because I is this the is this the worst match raffa has to play I reckon uh Mia is here we've got uh Minty Minty is here princess is here we've got who else sports India is here Praveen is here William Empty uh Spanky is back Ali Julia Mac Steven uh the local traveler what's going on our galaxy's back what's up galaxy Graham's here Zimbabwe girl is back we've got uh Vivek hey MF okay thanks hello to you mother father uh 707 is back what's going on Greg's is here Greg's you have a bet on this one mate uh Nikki is back Jose is back Dr. drunk is back Wendy's here that's it everyone's everyone is present uh Liam's here we've got Penelope's back uh Bevan Mike we've got Ladybug Diamond Victoria I mean I don't I mean who's not here I think that's probably the question I should have asked who's not here uh Chin's here as well Ganesh is back Statman Pat's here of course confident if Alcara serves like he did versus Nori oh okay rowdy okay so you would be happy if he serves like he did against Nori you think Rafa's going to get the dub uh overload is his Samuel everyone's here and they should be here because this match has been hyped up and you guys know that I hype of a match just like as much as anybody there's no beef in this match so I'm not hyping up any sort of unfound beef because there's no beef uh if anything it's um it's uh it's uh the kid looking up to his idol playing his idol and I think you know sometimes when you see a player play their idol for the first time it's never going to go the way of the of the person who's looking up to the player for the second time they play once the aura of having played your idol is gone things happen they're on court warming up right now um em is here as well what's up all right so let's let's give an answer questions that's my question the question Charles this is going to be great yes what's my prediction I'm going with Rafa in three because I think I think the passing of the torch will be delayed and I don't think today's the day I think Rafa's going to win but I think Elkred's going to do better than he did last last time I think he's going to win though Rafa in three sets but it's not going to be easy you know that but I just have a feeling that the passing of the torch will not be today maybe next week when they they play again in a couple of weeks or a couple months but not today that's where I'm kind of but I I think Elkred's going to get closer than he did last time what's up who you going for oh you're there um for sure he's going to win more games than three yeah yeah more than three games yeah but I mean like he's going to do better as in like he's going to he might want to set you know he's going to do a like a not just like oh he's going to win four games today like yeah huge yes for Elkred yeah goat goat greatest of all time is melt goat eight point six million dollars not today Carlos Nadal will take that with him but I'm glad we have you for exciting tennis games in the future thank you Fatima for the 50 geez goats in the chat for Fatima everyone that was thank you so much eight point six million I don't understand what that means but uh not today Carlos is that what you win for winning this tournament is that what you mean uh but I'm glad for yeah look we watched Elkred's at the US Open last year that was the first time we watched him on the channel we um actually no sorry that's a lie we watched him before that but we uh that was the first time that we kind of like it he became well that was the first time he broke out right on a big big stage there's a lot of fun that was a prize buddy okay thank you thank you so much Fatima for the 50 euro thank you so much it was very generous of you um and tennis is in good hands because Elkred's clearly is an excitement machine we watched Elkred's Nori it was one of the best matches outside of Rafa for the week so he's obviously a popular player amongst uh amongst people you know Nori versus anybody I mean we watched Nori versus Brooksby maybe you know we have a couple hundred people here and it's kind of chilled Elkred's Nori was like legit a we had a big crowd here so um he definitely pulls uh definitely pulls the crowds so that's good to see the tennis is in good hands and I guess for Spanish you got the Spaniards out there or the Rafa fans you got a good you can just go from Rafa retiring to Elkred's you know you don't have to like not watch tennis because you don't have a favorite anymore Elkred's you can just jump on him be like oh well when Rafa's gone I'm an Elkred's fan you know like it's a good it's you know Rafa fans we won't we won't lose Rafa fans they'll stay hopefully for Elkred's great thing about today's matches is the uh is the extraordinarily love all around yeah there's no beef this is no beef it's going to be intense but there's no there's no beef I have friends at Indian Wells so jealous as em oh I'm jealous of that that's okay especially this match almost a 300 likes can we get to 300 likes before the match even starts look Rafa fans we always get to a 1000 likes can we want you back in the UK I love to be back in the UK I would never have left if my visa didn't expire uh Rafa is gone after this year no one no way he can play next year all right who is Elkred's you speak of Elvaka yeah Elvaka that's it by the way has anyone get any money on this one we say uh we see Jodi say I bet 600 bucks on Taylor I'm gonna put half my earnings on El on Elkred's uh it says Jodi oh okay yeah look I I don't know if anyone I don't know how many of you guys listened to the last match I can't remember did I say that I thought the head to head was sketchy and I'm like I didn't three sets I thought I was tempted it was like three sets roublev I guess but did anyone take the plus uh the plus two and a half for Fritz or maybe just went with Fritz for an upset because there was a vibe like of maybe an upset and it ended up happening right but who has money on this one I know a lot of people have money on this one 200 on uh 250 on Carlson three okay oh we got to 300 you guys are legends can we get to 500 by the end of the first set that would be a goal um I can't imagine Elkred's not choking do you think Elkred's gonna choke is that what you're saying it's not transferable fandom unless you're Spanish maybe no I mean the thing is that Elkred's Elkred's is baby raffa right they're pumping of his baby raffa maybe they're doing that to make it uh so that raffa fans are like oh baby raffa oh that's we can just go to that guy then maybe that's what the baby raffa name is for to kind of keep raffa fans interested when he retires but we'll see what happens anyways let's get to it this is going to be epic in the chat who's going to win you tell me I'm going to go with raffa in three I hope it goes the distance I hope it's as epic as it social media wants it to be like kereos versus raffa I hope it lives up to the hype but you tell me as we get written into hell uh Nadal serving backing up from Elkred's goes into the back into the nose we are back in a four-hand rally raffa hits that one in the front of Elkred's who hits a winner love 15 Elkred's first point with a bang unbelievable now let's see how raffa moves because I think we all know that he's got a foot problem he's had it for years but he's also mentioned that it hurts more this week and we know Elkred's is going to make your run so let's keep an eye on what how raffa looks as Elkred's will make him move love 15 serving to the back end of Elkred's four-and-a from raffa into the back end of Elkred's who goes down the line to the back end of raffa four-and-a Elkred's that's a good shot raffa's in trouble already four-and-a from Elkred's again slapped into the front of raffa Elkred with a four-and-again raffa gets it but it goes out from Elkred's man Elkred's is unleashing hell with the forehand that raffa's just surviving at the moment 15 all whoo this kid is like you know what I ain't coming out here with it but I'm not coming out here and just warming up I'm here I'm ready I'm warm let's go I was coming out here throwing haymakers hopefully he doesn't fizzle out the end if he has to go three raffa with a serve goes into the front of Elkred's four-and-a from raffa in the back end but raffa hits it in the net now raffa can't afford to play like he has for the majority of this tournament and that is with a lot of errors making you know not serving great can't afford to give Elkred anything today has to play his best match of the tournament today raffa anything less than that and he's not going to win unless Elkred's completely stuffs it up but I don't know if Elkred is known for uh for choking as raffa hits a let 15 30 now raffa is walking strange but I think that's just normal I don't think it's anything different 15 30 there's a bit of serve now out wide to the back end of Elkred's volley from raffa is in the net raffa a little slow to get up to that one great return 15 40 Elkred's coming out here with a bang by the way Carlos Moyer is not in the house but raffa's second third fourth and fifth coacher in the house and his sister and his dad weighs wife's not there 15 40 serve out wide to the forehand of Elkred's back and out from raffa down the line down to the backhand slice of Elkred's forehand from raffa into the back and again of Elkred's raffa the forehand again to the backhand of Elkred's it's a winner holy shit he's not messing around today Elkred's is not messing about he just slapped the crap out of that backhand he is not messing about he's like I'm taking that truck I'm taking the I'm taking the torch give me it one love Elkred's with a bang whoo a little bit of a slow start there with for raffa but man you've got to credit Elkred's that was all yeah he means business Elkred's is just like I'm coming out here just just throwing haymakers whoo raffa wait he's better be awake now raffa he's like all right I better start playing better no time to warm up he just straight up get into this man is alive it is live this is not a replay this is happening in real time Elkred's serving break first game he's already won almost one more game he'll probably win more games than he did last time but what a start Elkred's waiting for raffa because of course raffa's taking a little bit extra time Carlos Bernardo's I think is in the chair so oh no it's someone else second serve this is serves now the back end of raffa fina from Elkred's down the lines a win after this is what is a hot start but remember it's a marathon not a sprint the raffa fans you guys know you can start you can have a hot start you even win the first set six love but doesn't mean raffa's gonna just give give this match away serve now to the back end of raffa for now from Elkred's into the oh into the forehand of so the backhand but it goes wide from Elkred's 15 all one cast for error wearing some very stylish shades he's just chilling whatever man not even bothered definitely looks like he lives in california 15 all Elkred serves raffa returns great return Elkred's gets it into the back end of raffa back end from Elkred's to the forehand of raffa into the back end of Elkred's backhand slice down from raffa goes into the front of Elkred's who hits a winner no it's just out again and it's 15 30 a couple of errors here oh ben still is back ben so where were you in the last match ben you're not a fan of the americans it's a casual good casual great actor casual tennis fan casual 15 30 we won't we won't go through the best ben still movies we did it last time serve out wide it's over in the body sorry of raffa sliced back to the front of Elkred's back end now from raffa into the front of Elkred's that's a great shot again raffa gets it with a lob but it goes out nice aggression there the forehand is a weapon good the greatest of all time is melt goat here's a 20 bucks penalty assessment for extreme commenter exuberance over the last two matches good job cam thank you remeber the 20 appreciate that man you guys have been super generous today thank you so much megs rowdy for the whole tournament fatima remeber you guys have been very generous thank you appreciate it 30 or big point here he serves a double fault now what we didn't mention to start was the nerves of Elkred's because not do we know he would have seen on social media the amount of hype and sometimes what happens is players might see the hype and believe the hype that they're gonna win like it's some it's meant to be he's still gonna win and raffa's still gonna not let him win as he hits a lovely drop shot unbelievable Elkred's back to deuce you know Elkred's even though he's a beast he is still human and if you say have you seen any of social media going oh the next big thing he might you know beat raffa today he might go yeah i might beat raffa goat goat greatest of all ties melt goat thank you Catherine for the 20 you guys are too much thank you so much Catherine for the 20 appreciate that as Elkred's loses the point and it's a vantage raffa and we didn't talk about because we haven't seen Elkred's nervous i mean i don't know we've watched him a fair bit i don't know when he's been nervous maybe that's a factor we need to add into this crazy equation as he serves a fault and the serving will show whether he's nervous or not that that stat will show how his nerves are because usually the nerves affect the serve first return now from raffa into the front of Elkred's for a backer now from raffa into the front of Elkred's into the back end of raffa again to the front of Elkred's back and again from raffa down the line Elkred's with the back end of his own raffa on the stretch gets it for now Elkred's open court raffa with gets it with the slice but it goes in the net raffa doing a good job running everything down but Elkred's is that little extra power that raffa's just finding a little bit tough now we know this is a slow hard court but it's not a clay court so raffa's not going to get to every shot like he did in Madrid the ball does go through the court a little quicker than clay so Elkred's will get a lot more probably get a lot more free points on on the ground strokes that you know maybe if it was on the dirt raffa would have got that second serve now Elkred's again missing the first serve deuce here he's got the break in the first game if you're just joining us serve now the back end of raffa good return to the back end of Elkred's for now raffa down the line into the front of Elkred's the back end of raffa now raffa starting to lift but Elkred's can't go with him it goes in the net advantage raffa again and Elkred's came out with a hot start if you're just joining us but raffa seems to be starting to figure it out a little bit and go okay i'm gonna have to be a little more aggressive than i was the other you know maybe the other few days and when raffa's aggressive that's when it's uh that's when he that's when we get most excited when he hits those banana winners advantage raffa return goes into the uh four end of Elkred's who hits it down the line good shot there raffa gets it but it goes out that forehand that's the weapon and it's working right now for Elkred's raffa looks super unhappy i think that's just his face i think that's just how raffa raffa plays he's always got a angry intense look on his face that's just raffa back to deuce serve now is a little fold again not helping himself with these second serves he serves into the front of raffa find it from Elkred's into the front of raffa to the front of Elkred's finding goes long again from Elkred's another break point for raffa and another second serve point lost he's not getting the first serve on that deuce side it's a struggle fourth break point of the game for raffa Elkred's taking the time he serves down the tee good serve raffa gets it and a volley from Elkred's good follow-up from the kid comes in saw the raffa was going to slice it and he put away the volley now i don't want to alarm any Elkred's fans but he is wearing the same outfit as rubelik so for anyone who out there is just superstitious i apologize back to deuce this feels like a big game here serve now to the front of raffa find it from Elkred's into the back end of raffa Elkred's with the volley is out oh no Elkred's backhand volley was not even close he always thought oh wow that's too easy what a great ball oh it's out advantage raffa fifth break point of the game Elkred's with the serve not even close second serve Elkred's goes to the front of raffa find it from Elkred's into the back end of raffa to the front of Elkred's back end again from raffa into the back end of Elkred's who hits it down the line raffa with a slice that goes in Elkred's with the backhand raffa gets his right passes him but it goes out Elkred survives and that was the best chance raffa's had on a break point back to deuce how are we feeling how are the hands the palm sweaty alvaca was handling al toro that's it by the way don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already we'll be coming back for the final tomorrow and we'll be coming back next week in miami to watch this tournament over there volley from Elkred's great serve volley that was smart unbelievable he's not afraid to mix it up Elkred's I like that you're not not just using the forehand for for the for the winners you know all right Elkred's with the advantage to take a two-love lead and he's earned every bit of it it's been a marathon start and he serves another fault second serve Elkred's goes into the back end of raffa back end now Elkred's into the find of raffa into the find now of Elkred's back end up from raffa again to the find of Elkred's raffa in control here as he hits a fine down the line into the back end of Elkred's who hits it in the net back to deuce that was one of best rallies raffa's hit he was dominating that rally which we haven't seen much today how you feeling in the chat let me know let me know with an emoji one emoji let me know how you're feeling as he serves now a deuce again that's another first serve in the net second serve Elkred's goes into the back end of Nadal back end up from Elkred's into the find of raffa back in again Elkred's goes into the slice of raffa into the find of Elkred's Elkred's in control raffa on the stretch Elkred's with the volley raffa runs back end raffa down the line Elkred's gets him into raffa's on the ground agro Elkred wins the point raffa slipped unbelievable raffa slipped Elkred's got a little lucky I think because raffa slipped Elkred's with a good volley and then raffa hit a back end and then just tripped let's have a look at this back hand from raffa and then yeah oh no he didn't trip he slipped he went to push off and his foot went not today and he went ah so he couldn't push off that was a great shot from Elkred's though right in the corner almost fell over himself advantage Elkred's even the ball kids are like this is intense serve out wide to the front of raffa back end Elkred's into the front of raffa into the find of Elkred's good shot down the line raffa in trouble for when I'm from Elkred's in the open court raffa with a lob it's up smash put away Elkred survives unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable I don't care about what they were saying Tom and Leonard here in CA Love and your commentary no worries Thomas thank you and Tom and Lennon thank you so much thanks for the five appreciate that we are tennis I see you we'll get to you in a second I'm becoming a member thank you if you want to become a member or if you want to donate you don't have to um just sit back and enjoy like the video if you can do that that's cool that's free but I appreciate all the donations all the members by the way Elkred's eight winners Nadal zero winners so it just shows how this match is playing out right now raffa's not getting many chances to get on the baseline and take the rallies it's all Elkred's everything's coming from him raffa with a fault raffa just needs to get this game which I never thought I'd ever say I don't think Elkred's is as dominant as the stats show though I think that last game showed that you know raffa Elkred's raffa double faults but that last game I kind of saw that you know Elkred knows that he's gonna have to play those games for three hours you know like that's the guy like that last game at 10 minute game he's gonna have to play a lot of those today to beat raffa I mean just ask mev it right love 15 double fault from raffa a lot of a lot of a lot of double faults for raffa in this tournament a lot of people will say probably the foot which makes sense is raffa hits a drop shot in the net love 30 man that wasn't a bad idea from raffa but it just wasn't great execution love 30 danger for raffa here high intensity match for sure for sure love 30 certain entity the back end of Elkred's goes in the net good serve from raffa three points will you need a lot of those ben stiller looks uh nervous I think he's got I have those same sunglasses maybe maybe it's me with with a wig a different wig 15 30 serve out water the back end of Elkred's good serve again from raffa for one of them from raffa to the back end of Elkred's into the front of raffa down the line there that's a good shot Elkred gets it but he hits a long 30 all now Elkred is doing something very ballsy very gutsy he hits a return from like 20 meters back but then he runs to the baseline and he stands on the baseline and he's happy to hit you know agacy kind of shots you know but he returns from a fairway back but then after the return goes in he like he stands on the baseline because he knows that that's where he can be that's where he's going to beat raffa he stands on the baseline second serve he's not going to he doesn't want to rally with raffa second serve into the front of Elkred who shanks it but it goes in raffa swinging volley winner raffa there he is raffa doing a raffa thing and the fist bump to match 40 30 the first time raffa's done something that we remember from the last 20 years and the banana and the helicopter finished to go there you go all raffa there 40 30 raffa serves out wide at the back end of Elkred's for now from raffa into the back end of Elkred's into the front again of raffa Elkred's with another backhand into the backhand sorry into the front of raffa who goes down the line Elkred is defending it hits the tape and goes in raffa with a point of his own now raffa's in control he's on the baseline as raffa gets the point Elkred hits it out raffa gets the game one two in favor of the kid okay what a start how many hours like 25 minutes for three games whoo oh man what a game it's it's it's doing what we thought this is what we thought would happen let's add some questions um yeah waking up the bull yeah bull bull just takes a little bit extra time you know the bull's not a morning person take a little bit extra time to time to get going raffa there were there goes the bagel yeah look the double bagel we come on now uh raffa can do it come on yep who do who do you want to win um i guess for the for the narrative of like tennis i would like to see raffa win win the tournament and then Monte Carlo go undefeated play jockovic and Monte Carlo that would be i would love to see if i want raffa to win so we can see that possibility down the track but to be honest i just want a three-set match the longer this match goes the better for me i'm happy with that Elkred versus Fritz in the final would be awesome i think uh raffa versus fritz in the final would be great too i think if we want a better final though i think a closer final will be Elkred's fritz because i think if Elkred beats raffa today which would be a ridiculous thing um i think that he'll be nervous because he'll be the favorite in the final and fritz might be able to play off that like he did today so i feel like tomorrow's final if it's Nadal versus fritz Nadal should win that if it's Elkred's fritz fritz might have you know he has a way better chance so if we want to get a like a maybe a better final maybe get Elkred's to win but either way it's a win-win three-set match is a triple win for us or for fans of tennis i guess love 15 Elkreds in the net who's the favorite for the french obviously raffa no doubt no lay is a close second but raffa for sure raffa for sure love 15 Elkred serves into the back end of raffa for now from Elkreds he's out oh no he's making a couple errors here love 30 he had to fight his arse off for the last game nothing comes easy when you play against the goat Elkreds knows that i mean he's probably trained with raffa so many times that he knows even even in training nothing comes easy no free points from raffa you've got to earn the points as Elkred serves another fault someone in the crowd catches a ball i think nope they dropped it second serve love 30 second serve into the back end of raffa back in our Elkreds hits a tape goes out raffa's got three more break points love 40 Elkreds having a tough time on serve so many break points against this serve raffa to get back on serve Elkreds with the serve and it's in the net again we can't nick keros is still there somewhat for some reason yelling and screaming second serve into the front of raffa and raffa slaps it in the net big second serve from Elkreds 15 40 15 40 he saved six break points so far still got two more here though Elkreds with the serve and that's a fault man he might as well just serve second serves you know like hasn't hit a first serve in forever second serve into the back end of raffa good second serve for now from Elkreds in the net we're back on serve and you just felt that it was going to happen wasn't it after that first game Elkreds had to save you just felt you know what raffa's raffa isn't that far away he hasn't he hasn't started yet raffa the match hasn't started for nadal now it has there's a quick start for Elkreds but that's not good enough you need to play like that for three hours all right two two almost what 30 minutes are you serious no way 27 minutes played already if it wasn't raffa i'd be surprised all right raffa's serving to get the lead for the first time today he serves out wider the front of Elkreds foreigner from raffa into the back end of Elkreds back end to forehand rally Elkreds goes down the line raffa on the stretch gets it Elkreds in control as he hits a four down the line again raffa gets that but it goes in the net Elkreds does his best work when he's standing on the baseline he's been standing there a lot so far in this match love 15 Juan Carlos Ferrero who played i don't know how many times did Juan Carlos play raffa i would have said at least five right they were kind of overlapping at the at the end of Juan Carlos's career and then raffa started but they would have played davis cup together so he would know this man as well as anybody as with a back end that goes out from Elkreds 15 all it's a shame Carlos moe is that not there because then you've got like you know you've got like the the davis cup team of 2004 i think all in the house right Juan Carlos Carlos moe raffa and then Elkreds was probably not even born then maybe he was one one years old probably playing tennis back then too four and half a raffa open court that's a good shot Elkreds gets up with a slice up goes a lob smash rapper puts it away unbelievable 30 15 raffa is arrived he has arrived 30 15 by the way it looks kind of overcast seems like the weather's a little bit cloudy interesting 29 minutes played no moe is not there moe didn't make the trip also thanks everyone who subscribed appreciate it we're almost at 700 likes that's ridiculous appreciate the love everybody we're going to return now from Elkreds into the back end of raffa who hits it out 30 all 30 all but yeah does anyone know off the top of their head through google if um what the head to head between Elk between Ferrero and raffa was anyone know that we're going to serve now from raffa down the t to the back end of Elkreds falling from raffa into the back end of Elkreds falling again from raffa to the back end of Elkreds back end to back end as Elkreds runs around hits a forehand but he pulls it wide and it's 40 30 raffa seven two is the head to head between them is it seven two obviously for raffa right been stiller by the way looking a little scared seven two raffa okay that makes sense i played nine times well man i mean wild call us we uh retired like 2009 i think right 2010 so i guess you get a good five you know five six years of playing against raffa so nine times that makes sense probably what how many clay court matches all the clay court matches raffa gets the game three two unbelievable with a big serve there we go raffa wins the last three games and he has a lead now how is elkreds gonna go because he hasn't had a good time on server so far alvaca is an original yeah that's it alvaca that's the man had to be there favorite ben stiller movie uh i don't know we did this the other day no david fred would not is not there the dull one three for arrow one two on clay three and two okay five clay court matches cool okay i can't how outcome some hard courts are slower than others um i'm going to give that a really quick answer and say it's because of how the courts are poured how the concrete is poured different concrete for different hard courts create different speeds different ingredients in the concrete part of it there's probably more to it but that's the that's a simple answer that i don't that i can quickly answer top three favorite commentators all the time uh or tennis commentators of all time jim courier um robert kerning obviously i think that's everyone's favorite and leighton hewitt a special comments the doll is present and elkreds is future okay me gfs una ozikam me me gfs i don't know what that means but uh thanks carry is that mean your girlfriend is ozzy is that what you said did i guess right did i pass my spanish lesson am i spanish now certified spanish what is moira and ferrero's head to head yeah that's a good question ferrero uh what is it eight six moya oh eight six ferrero battle of the coaches and one zero moya in the coaching realm winner from elk res great shot there the forehand that's what he needs he's been working pretty pretty well today but unfortunately for him he's serving has been the problem so he hasn't been able to get the forehands on his service games return games he can but all the serves serve now from elk res into the back end of raffa for enough from elk res's drop shot raffa with a slice that comes into the net elk res with a lob that's a very good lob raffa gets with the back end smash elk res puts away the back end though unbelievable that was smart from elk res and it's 30 love bought raffa in and then lobbed him he's got a good lob elk res i think that's an underrated shot like you know we all talk about the best lob of all time you know murray and hewitt elk res got a decent lob and he uses it very smartly like he's not he's not like one of these young younger players who tries to hit the ball through the guy at the net he's not a freaking go over he's happy to go over the guy it's a smarter shot sometimes 30 love second serve into the back end of raffa for another elk res into the front of raffa to the back end of elk res that goes long 30 15 and elk res is he's looking a little agitated looking at one cast for arrow and being like what's up 35 minutes played if you're just joining us elk res hot start two lob raffa settled things down three two a head raffa but it's on serve elk res serves a let winner of this place taylor fritz who upset ben stiller movies is he upset ben stiller but ben stiller wasn't there don't clip that i was reading someone saying ben stiller and i he didn't play ben stiller but if he did he would have won anyway he lost a root he beat rube live freaking freak anyways elk res with a winner 40 15 ben stiller but anyways that was bad so anyways he put the winner of this place taylor fritz i'm sure ben stiller will be there for raffa wins dodgeball is the funniest redzilla movie end of conversation 40 15 as elk res serves a fault again another fault a lot of first serves missed and that's really why he's had to work hard for the service games second serve into the front of raffa backing out from elk res is a drop shot and it's wide raffa would have got there anyway 40 30 and elk res shakes his head and goes yeah that wasn't that wasn't smart i can relate yeah when i see someone i see a name in the chat i'm like and then i'm thinking i'm talking and i see a name and i'm like uh anyways you know what i meant 40 30 serve now is another fault elk res second serve points one it is not a surprise that it's 20 percent or now 17 his second serve is really a problem here or his first serves a problem because it's not going in back end of four and rally as that goes into the back end again of raffa for one ever elk res he can't get it the first serve is a problem because it's not working and raffa is dominating on the second serve now raffa is actually serving very well they can't i i'm gonna confirm those stats because that can't be right yeah elk res is serving at 52 percent not 79 that's too generous and he's only winning he's only won a handful of points on his second serve there's been a final from elk res in the open court comes in oh raffa with a pass this is gonna be always hit the volleys always hit the volleys don't let raffa let that happen to you because that's crazy you come to the net you volley don't let raffa's ball drop don't let his balls drop hold them with both hands if you need isn't there something in new york where if you've rubbed the bull's balls it's anyway whatever that's enough advantage raffa second serve again elk res can't play like this you can't beat raffa with only a second serve goes into the corner raffa that goes in return winner raffa four two raffa you can't beat raffa with second serves it's not gonna work and it hasn't worked four games in a row for raffa momentum well and truly with the goat okay it was a hot start from elk res but his serving has let him down his servings let him down and when you play against the goat even i don't care how good you are or how good you think how good everyone thinks you are you got it everything has to be working everything has to be working not just a good forehand you have to be serving well you have to be aggressive you have to be hitting both back ends of forehands well and even though elk res hit some really nice shots in the first two games the serving is a big problem four two raffa 15 love as raffa lines up the serve goes in the back end of elk res four one from raffa into the forehand of elk res that's a good shot raffa gets with the slice goes in four now elk res that's a good shot unbelievable winner from the forehand side of elk res 15 all he doesn't mind playing the games but the return games are good right he's doing well on the returns as you'd expect but he's not going to win this match if he can't serve 15 all as raffa serves a fault see if elk res attacks this one by the way we're almost it we might get to a thousand likes by the end of this so thank you so much everyone for showing love appreciate it also um if anyone watches is watching UFC right now can you please uh tell me what who's winning has patty the baddie fought yet 15 i'm sorry 30 15 good second serve raffa and elk res hits it in the net is patty the baddie fighting or is he already or is that already done ufc london right it must be over right london midnight in london so it wouldn't be on now surely patty won first round submission ah that dude's a freak scowlsers don't get knocked out don't that's the worst deliverable hahaha scowsers don't i can't even do it we don't get knocked out scowsers don't get knocked out that's all right all the everyone from uk is probably asleep anyway we don't get knocked out 30 15 i have never been to live a pool can you guess but i have met live a pool leons they're great there's been a backhand lob there from raffa smash from elk res he puts it away 30 all good aggression that's a good accent hey rate my accent was it good not bad for an ozzie all right i'll take it nice polo by the way thank you uh patty got a lot he needs to work on being cracked by two scrubs oh was he punched in the head again they don't get knocked out scowsers don't get knocked out it's getting better the more i say it sounding better i'm sounding more like i'm from live a pool the more i say it anyway second serve the darin tool fight on the card or no he would have been the main event right till was till was it was till there i like darin till he's good 30 all i just wish he would win so i can watch him more let's second serve raffa 30 all he's got the break he won the last four games you're just joining us um four two raffa has the lead he was down two love with a break elk res a hot start he serves down the team now to the point of elk res that goes into the point of raffa and raffa hits it out out of nowhere 30 40 till cornered oh till till was in the corner of tom aspenal the in the main event who i see it on it's on twitter it says he played volkov volkov was volkov a former champ or a former no he was volkov is volkov the guy who's like seven foot tall he beat derrick lewis or derrick he had a fight with derrick lewis that was awesome is that volkov i'm getting that confused he's like a humongous tall guy right like seven foot has been a four now from raffa elk res with a breakpoint drop shot from raffa elk res gets with the backhand down the line raffa in the net we're back on serve elk res gets back on serve raffa just a couple of errors in that game gave it back we're back on serve for three cam you need to check out a guy from birmingham whose australian accent is absolutely spot on he is hilarious is that the guy that imitates everybody like he's got a good um um tyson fury accent and then he does the tyson fury's dad as well is that that guy you should have jamie character a carrier uh true scouser okay volk used to be really good now he's slowing down okay the memes have read it from paddy or hilarious for paddy or hilarious paddy the baddies are stooly uh they've adopted adopted him as his own that's not a knife yeah look i've got the best lz accent because i've been here even though it's not as strong that's because i i play it down so you can understand what i say if i was standing australian you guys would be like excuse me i can't understand subtitles please as an englishman i hope i never see aspenal versus inganu why is he not good is that is aspenal not good i've never heard of him to be honest i haven't been like watching ufc much lately i've just been but busy with tennes anyone know where i could stream the game in california tennes channel or tennes tv alchriss is a charismatic winning name okay live odds for alchriss the whole serve is a wta level odds what's going on alchriss has not looked good on serve at all you're reciting with raffa who me by the way lady with a cowboy hat coming in second serve alchriss now alchriss is serving has been terrible today as he hits a return now raffa to the front of alchriss when i say terrible his first serve hasn't gone in enough to be effective as we're to back in from alchriss on the stretch find out from raffa into the back end of alchriss back in out from raffa again to the back end of alchriss that goes wide and guess what he missed the first serve had to play off the second it's so sad because you're commentating reacting as if you're a raffa fan you must have you must be new you must not have seen the curious man because that was the opposite of what was saying being said then it's uh it's all right it'll be okay somebody give that man a hug it'll be okay you'll be okay you'll be fine you'll get through it whatever it is you're going through it's causing you to yell at somebody on a video as we're to find out from alchriss goes out love 30 it'll be okay you know look you know she wasn't the one for you you'll be okay you know you'll move on you'll find someone better someone give that man a hug it'll be all right it'll be all right isn't that what kendrick said it's gonna be all right it's gonna be all right love 30 therapy talk i was a bit of back end in the net from alchriss he can't hit he can't win service games he's sure and he can't win if you can't win service games it's not the wta love 40 alchriss in deep trouble again another break point another three break points love 30 love 40 as he hits another fault i mean i should just press that button every time but because he doesn't can't buy first serves it's not 76 that's a glitch serve down it's here the back end of rava good second serve it comes back though for now from alchriss into the back end of raffa into the front of alchriss down the line to the front of raffa alchriss in control as he hits a forehand into the front of raffa again to the back end now of alchriss foreigner from raffa down the line oh that's a good shot alchriss gets it drop shot raffa alchriss goes with the back end that goes into the front of raffa alchriss gets the point oh man raffa wouldn't have won that point against anybody except for this kid because he's quick he's quick 1540 and that's what you have to do to save break points by the way thank you everybody who retweeted the stream on twitter go over on twitter if you haven't already and retweet it so that people can watch it um also we've got 2 000 followers on twitter that is so crazy thank you volley from alchriss that's a good volley very good serve very good volley look what happens when you get a first serving makes it much easier 30 40 do you think Andy Murray can win another slam no i do not i don't think he can but uh i reckon he can have a good run at a slam but i don't think you'll ever win one again unless you know it opens up for the team maybe but i don't think so as alchriss hits a good serve and raffa just miss i missed it uh air swing i think from raffa that was weird that was weird what the hell happened there raffa just went like it was like it went through raffa who's just right there alchriss saves three break points that's a big it's a big game i was going to find out from alchriss and that's out oh man he got the first serve and everything but he didn't get the return advantage Nadal to take back the break and the lead with that break and serve for the set alchriss one more just as many games he did last time it's a win second serve second serve advantage raffa serve now to the 400 raffa that's a great return oh it's so it just went out oh that was i almost said it i almost said it but we're back to deuce i almost got to say it maybe this one back to deuce my chair all my chair is sweating because it knew that it was about to get thrown serve out wide to the back end of raffa that's a let can we get to a thousand likes by the end of the stream that would be nuts raffa fans i know you guys show up you're the real ones you guys you guys know you i mean how many people are in india right now who are up at like four in the morning i mean you guys are psychos in the best way possible stupid o'clock in in somewhere and you guys are up serve now down the tier the fort of raffa comes back but it doesn't make it over good serve from alchriss and where he's got the advantage i can't say that alchriss hasn't burned his games here because he's had to work his ass off to get him advantage alchriss alchriss serves a fault in the ball kid almost got smacked in the nuts i don't know where he was looking he was looking at some pretty lady in the front row he's like oh she's all right oh shit advantage second serve goes to the front end of raffa back and out from alchriss into the back end of raffa find out from alchriss again to the back end of raffa to the slice of alchriss that goes in raffa the forehand that goes into the back end of alchriss find out raffa again alchriss defending raffa in control as he goes down the line alchriss gets on the stretch but it goes in the net back to deuce and the crowd lose their minds back to deuce this is a big game for alchriss i'm watching the ncAA oh who's winning that his march madness started right it started right march madness has started i didn't do a bracket damn it i do love college sports we don't get them in australia so i like to watch them america fascinated by the whole college sports system it's awesome advantage for alchriss good serve there i watch a lot of i'm like duke duke fan they won one once or twice seven return now from raffa goes in the net alchriss survives that was a massive game huge huge from alchriss seven minutes and he gets the four all he's won two service games and they're both peeing like that i don't know if he can how long how long can he do this for bet he says tennis he's up by two okay yeah duke duke the blue devils duke the only reason a fun story why do i why do you follow duke cam what made you follow them i think i bought a hoodie from footlocker in australia that had their logo on it and i liked it and now i now that's my team true story i don't see i don't have that hoodie anymore but i bought a duke hoodie because i like the logo it was a cool logo and then i'm like i'm gonna follow this team i do keep in playing i don't even know i don't even know know while i big shout to everyone who's retweeted the stream truth destiny uh lexie who always retweets the stuff on twitter um i think bulinda has also done it so thanks so much appreciate everybody spread the word let's try and get as many raffa and alchriss fans in here as possible to watch this awesome match with us 15 love raffa bounces the ball here taking the time as always here raffa it's a raffa time he's on raffa time none of this daylight saving thing as we go down the line to the find of alchriss find out from raffa goes in the back end of alchriss who jumps and hits a winner unbelievable jumping back and winner alchriss that was fancy 15 all now we know that alchriss's best games today have been on the return the serving games have not been good the return games have been great and this is not a serving game it's a return game so this is the games these are the games that he likes to play well more what today he likes to play them he's doing better on those on those returns raffa's got to be careful because he serves a fault that's not going to help it's not going to help second serve raffa goes down the tee to the back end of alchriss find out from raffa open court alchriss gets it somehow with a lob it bounces raffa with a smash down the middle that's a good shot alchriss gets it though raffa puts it away he puts it away alchriss made him play two more shots but raffa too good 30 15 30 15 great stuff there europe have daylight saving time next week yeah we australia have it in april i think like miami final daylight savings happens for us daylight savings is weird duke played yesterday and easily won let's go let's go duke is it coach k still there or he retired right coach k's last season right was that last year anyways return now goes out from alchriss good serve from raffa 40 15 get the questions ready we'll be answering them at the end of this game i'm gonna we're gonna do a we're gonna do a lightning round of questions i'm going to answer questions quickly and maybe with one word if it's a yes no question serve now goes in the net i'm sorry return goes in the net from alchriss and raffa gets to game five four now he's going to make alchriss stay in the set with a serve now uh coach k's last season oh okay fair enough uh cam aren't so tired of two-handed backhand players all the time um i like one-handed backhands i have a one-handed backhand i coach everybody i coach has two hands because that's two-handed backhands because they have two hands um but i'm not tired of it i mean it is what it is is there any talk in australia of getting rid of the time change because there is an america not sure if daylight saving is going to get i mean if america do it first then maybe if the uk did it australia would follow uh what do you expect from team return not much first but eventually i think he can play his way into form and be it's a dangerous french open player uh french open contender this year or not maybe not contender but like a french open threat to the seeds the only reason i watched duke is for zion yeah very enough raffa today versus young version of raffa okay uh how do they practice together when there is a possibility they play each other have you ever heard of the term iron sharpens iron uh you don't want to be practicing against people that don't play professional tennis you want to practice against players that hit the ball hard and yes you're going to play each other eventually but i mean he'd rather play against a really good kid than the number 500 in the world who would not challenge him in a in a practice so a lion sharpens iron and eventually sometimes you do play them you know sometimes it happens i have six of camp shows deb you are the you definitely have the most uh merch of tennis talk merch for sure do you think team we can win another slam yes french open eventually any next gen is going to win slam this year launa define next gen do you mean 20 22 and under or do you mean like city pass and it's very over in those guys eager or maria maria in three are you impressed with carlos yes slowest match ever cam uh this could be a this could be a four hour match uh it's not slow in the in the worst way though it's slow as in the uh it's not slow in the in a bad way commentators keep talking about technical issues with the alcair serve holy let me have a look how many slams can raffa get 24 slowest match but yeah this is a very slow match but that's because two things long points a lot of deuce games and raffa nadal that's three things i can count love 15 return from raffa goes into the front of alcair's back end from raffa into the back end of alcair's back end goes long from alcair's love 30 his serving games have been terrible alcair's has played terrible on serve now this is a mental battle now for alcair's by the way we're almost a thousand likes thanks everybody almost the end of the first set two that's ridiculous alcair's now has no confidence in his serve because he's played he's had to fight every service game so even before the first service points one or played he's already like oh here we go again you know you know the gta meme oh shit here we go again that's alcair's every service game because he knows it's going to be a battle and this is no exception love 40 no easy service games all day and that's because he hasn't hit enough good serves in and that's filtering into all the parts of his game raffa's got three set points to take the first set as alcair's serves down the t the back end of raffa but it's a fault second serve alcair's goes to the front of raffa for now from alcair's into the back end of raffa into the front of alcair's back and again from raffa going to the front of alcair's into the front of raffa when it from alcair's again is a drop shot raffa's going to get there no he's not alcair's hit the tape and it dribbled over that was lucky but he'd take it 1540 that was so lucky from alcair's that could have done a bunch of different things off the net but he got lucky but he would take it good execution though would have been a winner had it not hit the net anyway still set point raffa serve into the net second serve alcair's serves to the front of raffa point out from alcair's is into the back end of raffa to the front of alcair's that one goes to the slice of raffa alcair's moving raffa around as he comes to the net raffa with the pass alcair's with the volley that's too good alcair's too good with the volley 30 40 man he's living on the edge alcair's he is living on the edge third set point alcair's had to fight back from love 40 down plenty of times today people are going crazy in the stands go serve over an hour played by the way serve down to the back end of raffa that goes up up up and out alcair's survives and we're back to deuce for i mean look i got i get the comparisons between these two guys because alcair's is doing a raffa thing love 40 down that's what raffa does the fight is raffa risk even if he doesn't think so there is baby raffa vibes based on the way that he goes about it as we're at a back end of back end rally now a foreign from raffa that goes up and in alcair's gets it back enough from raffa again into the back end of alcair's foreign from raffa into the back end again of alcair's into the front of raffa alcair's playing with fire as he goes to that front again another back end from alcair's into the back end of raffa but that hits a tape from alcair's and doesn't go over fourth set point fourth set point advantage raffa to take the first set here's a long way to go to be baby raffa there's definitely i i don't like calling him baby raffa because i just think that sets someone up for failure but i can see this i can see the similarities and he's serving like he's playing doubles alcair's he is so far out as he serves the foreign of raffa foreign from alcair's down the line that's a good shot back enough from raffa into the forehand of alcair's it's a drop shot raffa's going to get there forehand he's got oh it's out raffa's shanked the forehand oh man that was the opposite of a raffa thing that was a roubleff thing raffa doing roubleff things oh man and if you're in the last match you know what i mean that ball was a sitter and he just shanked it long the first set was right there the other three set points were good for alcair's that was raffa's to lose he lost it returned out from raffa into the front of alcair's from raffa into the forehand again of alcair's who shanks that one whoof whoa what was that the worst forehand of the day from alcair's even he's like wonder what they're saying on tennis talk oh look we've all been there he's completely missed time a shot wasn't even a shank it was just like he he almost missed hit there like missed the shot completely fifth set point and the sun's slowly starting to come back out overcast day second serve advantage raffa alcair's serves to the forehand of raffa forehand from alcair's again to the forehand of raffa who hits it to the backhand slice of alcair's that one's going to float along and wide alcair's the serving's a problem and raffa takes the set six four it was a hot start from alcair's but unfortunately you can't just win return games it's not the wta serving is a big big problem for alcair's now somebody mentioned i don't know who was but i'll talk about the serving technique i didn't see much great program cam how long how many years can raffa continue to deal with foot injury thank you jack i'll answer that in a second by the way five winners from raffa 19 errors including seven forehand errors that's not good from raffa on the forehand alcair's 17 winners 23 errors that's not bad but it wasn't so much the errors from alcair's that was a problem it was the serve the serving of alcair's 54 or 53 percent of first serves in half of those points one second serve 40 percent so that's way too low he's got to use the first serve to set up the ground strokes and he's not doing that he's making it too hard on himself also the time he misses the first serve like you know deuce those points he's missing first serves and that's a big problem raffa by the way going to the bathroom um so uh jack thanks for the 20 mate that's very generous again how many how long and how many years can raffa play with this injury he can play with this forever he's fine he's been playing it for the last what 17 years he can play with it for the next five um yeah so i don't think you'll be i think you'll be fine the foot is the foot is the foot and that's it's always going to be a problem and raffa's always gonna have people ask how's the foot um and he's managed it for this long what's another couple of years so um i don't think he'll be i think he'll play forever until he decides the foot won't be the reason he retires let's just put it that way the foot won't be the reason all right questions my question the question raffa's left the court by the way to go get uh to go get uh i guess changed or have a bathroom break or whatever since he was 19 and his injury got ugly and what a career yeah i think i read somewhere that 2005 raffa was the doctor said after i think it was like at the end of 2005 the doctor said look that injury was uh this this foot injury is or he got diagnosed with um with a what was it um a degenerative foot injury or whatever it's called that it's only going to i mean it's it's not going to go away you know you can't get better with rest so he's like well i'm still gonna play so and i don't think that gets talked about enough you know we say who has the most grand slams wins the goat debate you know we talk about that a lot but the fact that raffa's won 20 out of his 21 slams on a bad foot that was probably retires 99.99 percent of players is ridiculous like the fact that he has won 20 slams with a dodgy foot it's like gee and not only that 13 french opens where running and movement is the most important thing you know it's like oh my god like that's crazy right that's why he's always gonna be the goat of mental strength for me like i know everyone's people gonna say no way no one here is gonna say no way because no one from no one likes no layers here but um um raffa's the mental beast he is the mentally the best because he's played every match of his career with with an injury and he's never let that get to him along with everything else you have to do right mulla y syndrome yeah that's the that's the technical term a degenerative tassel uh problem yeah hope that ladies had a couple she's loving it i paid my ticket i'm gonna dance god damn it raffa's back on the court by the way after changing his clothing what does tennis miss that one i don't believe raffas has a foot injury he's on steroids ret that's all right we we don't mind people sitting in in the chat with the tinfoil hats that's fine tinfoil hats are not banned in this chat it's all good what about tim henman no foot injury but still lost okay jeez tim henman's just sitting there going oh what a lovely day and you've just come over and just gone like this and slapped him in the face while he's having his cup of tea i don't understand where were that where that comment come from yeah but what about tim henman why is he so shit you're like what excuse me tim henman where did he come from oh man he's drive by tim henman's just having his cup of tea and you're like you suck tim henman okay um no lay isn't a mental beast yeah well some people say that the real that no lay is more mentally strong than raffa because of the situations no lays come back from you know championship points down and stuff like that that's the argument goat goat goat goat greatest of all time is about goat cam can raffa reach raffa 25 thanks cam thank you jack for the 20 again man appreciate that how's the weather in vegas today mate uh by the way first point goes to elk res and the dull serving first in the second six four raffa first set um let's play a game shall we just for a bit while this match you know while we have a second to talk let's give raffa three years until he retired right that's and i think that's maybe it's a little bit too harsh some of you like five years you'll retire in five years let's say raffa retires at 38 right three years from now that gives him three slams this year for the next year for the next year 11 slams to go right 11 left let's say he's got 11 slams left healthy raffa 11 slams left he ties at the end of 2025 after the paris olympics as raffa does a drop volume oh elk res hits a wide 30 love paris 2024 olympics right is that is that right the olympics is in 2024 right yeah let's give raffa the end of 2024 that's when he retires plays one more olympics on the french open claw clay blah blah 11 slams to go he's got 21 he's got to get four of the next 11 french open let's give him the french open twice he's got to get two of the others i think he could do it yeah 25 i said 24 out of like a conservative number but yeah you can make an argument for 25 he wins the french this year he wins the french not maybe not next year but the year after who knows you know one or the other there's probably another u.s. open in there somewhere that's three maybe australia but that's norley comes back 20 dollars for my king raffa biceps biceps biceps thank you james for the 20 appreciate that man biceps biceps that's it by the way monika sellas in the house hashtag legend raffa on the first game one love so some of you are saying two or three more slams yeah that's why i said 24 i think anything more than 25 is a little bit crazy like 28 27 i mean like very optimistic again that could not out not impossible we kind of have to think when is raffa going to retire like i'm saying he's going to retire after one more olympics i think he's going to retire uh the same year the olympics at the french open because of course if you've got the olympics happening in france in 2024 and roll on garros is the clay is going to be on clay right so roll on garros is the olympic venue raffa's got to be there playing right you have to have raffa there and raffa's going to be like well yeah this is my court right there's a statue of me in this place so um he could play longer he could he could play longer right and then you can add more slams but i'm going to say yeah i think french open twice two more times and i think a us open wimbledon i think i don't think wimbledon i don't think raffa can win wimbledon anymore but when i say that out loud i'm like well if anyone's going to do it it's probably raffa so yeah so look i'm going to say 20 24 but 25 you could definitely make an argument for 25 easily you could say five more french opens you could say three more us opens he wins the astralian open back to back because no he's not going to play and wimbledon is always there so look yeah but i'm going to say 24 25 i could say i can make an argument and that's if he retires at the end of 2024 yeah great question we will find out because we're going to watch it for the next five we're going to be watching uh we're going to be watching uh raffa until he's done great question let me know the chat how many slams will raffa finish with give me your answer and no answer is ridiculous but also a hundred is impossible is impossible but give me your answer i think anything above 30 is generous but uh look it's raffa and we're watching raffa right so i'm expecting numbers to be in the 30s at times but uh let me know in the chat what are your what do you reckon i'm going to go with 24 jack's gone with a good 25 as raffa hits that one out 30 15 al keres 26 okay 23 is anyone thinking he's not going to win another slam that's a question like 20 what someone john said 21 and any cats this is going to be maybe one more infinity that's a number is it is that a number 22 27 32 okay a little bit getting on the jet you think you're going to win 11 more slams that's a lot by the way the wind is really kicked up here and towels are flying all over the place raffa's laughing al keres laughing they're having a great time the wind has kicked up raffa's hair is blowing all over the place the water bottles are wobbling oh the water bottles are wobbling is that going to distract raffa i think everyone looked at raffa was like oh shit your water bottles and he's like now i'm cool back in return when raffa goes out the wind is it's gotten real windy it's gotten real windy the towels it's creeping on the court so it's 10 kilometer an hour winds in the first semi or there's a wind advisory at for indian wells there is a wind warning for indian wells 41 kilometer an hour gusts of wind are going to come in the corners this could help al keres because it takes it turns things into a little bit more of an ugly match with the wind a little bit less of a clean hitting match which could affect raffa so yeah so from 5 a.m pd t i don't know what that is uh i guess like anyways right now it's saying that a wind advisory uh on uh at indian wells until 5 a.m on sunday as something blows across the court at raffa lose the point al keres won all in the second so the wind has kicked up so i'll say that again west winds uh 15 to 25 miles an hour with gusts of 40 miles an hour expected uh localized gusts of 50 miles an hour along along the desert mountain slopes so the slopes over over this part the the mountains and the slopes at the part of here right are going to bring in wind as well um yeah so around the around the kichela valley valley area which is sort of around this area anyway until 5 a.m sunday impacts gusty winds could blow around unsecure objects with just entails fly everywhere tree limbs could be blown down and fewer power a few power outages as well so uh stay safe in indian wells but the wind has kicked up it's still 30 degrees celsius so it's still hot but it's getting windy that could that could change things i mean that could help al keres we've seen one of the worst conditioned matches that play we've seen raffa mondicala a few years ago it was terrible winds there raffa got beat by finnini as we're to find out from al keres in the back of raffa the wind is blowing the ball sideways look at this as raffa puts up the lob al keres with a smash puts it away is anyone seeing that the ball is sort of like drifting across the court every time wow this is weird this is going to be interesting now yeah the wind always always kicks up in this area yeah yeah i mean indian wells was it was windy what like night one right osaka stevens wasn't it like breezy and windy and crazy there raffa's hair is blowing all over the place no jokes in the chat please sure there won't be love 15 served in a tea is a fault the wind has kicked up and there's alerts to secure all loose objects a lot of things flying around so we'll return there from al keres into the front of raffa for now from al keres again to the front end of raffa into the front of al keres back and out from raffa goes into the front of al keres into the back a front of raffa back and out from al keres again into the front of raffa who goes into the front of al keres for now from raffa again the ball is flying as he goes down the line back and out from raffa into the back end of al keres again to the back end of raffa for now from al keres into the open court raffa gets with the front of his own back and out from al keres the front again of raffa to the front of al keres for now from Rapha as our Perez gets another four and a fine rally back in hungry, because in the net 15 All so the wind is going across the screen right And you can tell if you're watching this match you can tell when Rafa hits the bull into the wind It kind of like an even old Perez it just kind of slows and comes back to the middle It's going from right to left if you're watching the TV right to left the wind is going across West, West wind or something. Westerly wind, is that what it's called? Anyways, so whenever Elcrest hits a forehand to Raffer's forehand, the ball's coming back. It's weird. Let's see if it makes any difference though. Let's see who plays in these conditions better. Man, it must be windy because the ball's making weird things. As we're back over Raffer into the front of Elcrest and that goes in the net, 30-15. So Raffer's forehand cross caught when he's down the far end. If he goes cross caught, the wind could push it out. It already has enough craziness going on, but there's just a constant. Someone turned on a fan, a big fan. And Raffer's waiting for the, he's waiting for the wind to stop. I don't think that's gonna happen. Telling the umpire, hey man, this tower's so ready to fly. 30-15, serving to the forehand of Elcrest. Forehand from Raffer into the back end of Elcrest as the volley from Raffer. That's a smart shot. Elcrest gets it, but puts it in the net. When it's windy, come to the net. That's what Raffer did. Raffer with 40-15, one hour and 24 minutes played. Been a very fun matchup. Been interesting. It has been Raffer. Ooh, something fell over. Did he, who had that bang? Oh, the, um, the, uh, the, the, the shade smacked into the roof. Huge bang there as we had a back end of back end rally that goes in from Elcrest to the forehand of Raffer. Forehand from Elcrest to the back end of Raffer. Into the back end of Elcrest, sliced to the forehand of Raffer. Into the back end of Elcrest. Goes again to the forehand of Raffer. That goes out from Raffer, it just floated wide. Did anyone hear that bang? It was the shade flipping up and smacked the roof. And Raffer's looking up and going, what the hell's going on here? Just goes out that shop, by the way, from Raffer. Man, it's getting crazy. One hour 25. We might not be even halfway through this match yet. Still very early on. Still plenty of time for Elcrest to come back. Raffer serves. Taking extra time here because of this wind. And the wind's blowing in his face as he serves because he's a lefty. So the wind's going from, from right to left and he's looking into it as he serves. Now, wide to the back end slice of Elcrest. Four left from Raffer. Going into the front of Elcrest. Raffer comes in with a volley. That's smart. Oh, but he pushed it wide. I think he thought it was, he wanted to come to the net earlier, but he just didn't do it. He kind of hesitated and he pushed the volley wide back at Deuce. Things have gotten a lot different in the last 20 minutes with this wind. The wind has definitely made, is making a difference. It's a great equalizer. The wind is a great equalizer. That's something that I was told by a coach a long time ago. There's been a back end now from Raffer into the slice of Elcrest. That's in the net. But that's a way, that's how you should play the wind. It's a slice and dice. Who do we watch do that? Who did that the other day? Was it Stevens? Yeah. Stevens did that against Osaka and almost won. She just cut the ball in half and let the wind do the work. Wonder if Elcrest has got that experience to know that. And yeah, thanks Bell. Yeah, it was Sloane Stevens. Yeah, she played the wind very well even though she didn't get the wind. Still good. Still smart. There's been a back end now from Elcrest into the front of Raffer, into the back end of Elcrest. Four and again from Raffer. Down the line is a great shot Elcrest. Can't get that one. That's the first winner we've seen from Raffer. On that four and for a while, he gets the game and he gets the lead. Two-one. Now, I think someone asked, will the match ever stop because of wind? No. Unless things start flying off the stadium and when it becomes dangerous, but no, they will not stop this match because of wind. Answer my question! The question, jerk! If anyone can adjust, it's Raffer. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Raffer's played in these conditions before, but hands up and this will probably be like three people. How many of you guys were here when we watched Monte Carlo 2019, Nadal versus Fanini? Because in that match, that was one of the ugliest days of tennis I've ever seen. The wind coming off the ocean was brutal and Raffer lost that match. He said it was the worst ever match. The worst quality he's ever played. He said it was terrible. And that was because of the wind. And Fanini took the W because he hit through the wind. He didn't play with the wind. He just smacked the ball for winners. Raffer couldn't play it. He couldn't play in the wind that day. The conditions were too windy. I wonder if something might happen like that today. Valquerais can somehow figure it out and maybe this match gets a little bit more even. I watched the match, but not on this channel. Yeah, you might have watched the match by yourself back in the day, but that match was ugly and the wind was terrible. The sunshade blew backwards loudly. Yeah, it kind of like flipped on itself and smacked the roof. Wasn't here, but yeah, Raffer was playing very ugly in the wind that day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ashley. Well, Raffer said after that match that is the worst match he's ever played. He's the worst match of his career. And it's not because Fanini played amazing and Raffer played bad, it was because of the conditions. He was ugly as ugly as ugly. And these conditions are not too pretty right now as we had a rally back in a foreign rally. Valquerais needs to just keep his cool here as he comes to the net and Raffer hits it wide. 15 love, 15 love, Valquerais. Now I got a family. I'm doing a family thing today. My grandma's birthday. I just had to say that I'm gonna be a little late. Raffer's on. Raffer's doing Raffer things, playing long matches. Served now to the back end of Nadal. He shanks it wide, 30 love. The last two service games from Valquerais have been the easier of the day. I mean, he hasn't had an easy service game in the first set. The last two games, he's won a little easier and I mean, there's only one reason why that could be. For me, one obvious reason. But Valquerais is doing a lot better here as he serves now into the back end of Raffer, four and up from Valquerais, into the back end of Raffer, into the forehand of Valquerais. Back end of forehand now as Valquerais keeps going to the Raffer back end, who shanks it again, Raffer. Another shanks back end from Raffer and the guy in the front row caught the ball and gave it back. And Ben Stiller, if it wasn't windy, that would have hit him. 40 love, Valquerais is the easiest game in the match for Valquerais. What the hell? Served on a tee into the back end of Raffer. That goes out. Now, I'll tell you something after this game. I'll try, I hope I remember it. But I have a theory as to why Valquerais is winning these games a little bit easier. Two reasons why. I'll give you a one. Raffer's not playing well in the wind, right? So Raffer's making a lot more errors because the conditions are windy. But the second one, I'll explain a little bit better in the end of this game. Maybe you want, if you guys, you guys can take a guess at why Elquerais is playing a lot better on Serve in the second set. Maybe you can, maybe you guys can have a guess at it and I'll see if anyone can get it right. As we're in a back end return there as Raffer hits the forehand into the back end of Elquerais, forehand from Raffer again into the back end of Elquerais, to the forehand of Raffer, back end of Elquerais again as Raffer hits the forehand in the net. Love 15. His serve is better. Why is his serve better? Why do you reckon it's better? So that's a little, you are correct though. His serve does, he's getting more first Serves in and his serve is better, but why? I have a look at the stats and see if the stats say what kind of confirmed my theory. As that goes in from Elquerais, the forehand of Raffer, back end of Elquerais into the forehand of Raffer. These guys are not going for winners here. They're just trying to moon ball it and let the wind do the work. There's a bit of backhand from Raffer into the back end of Elquerais, again at the back end slice of Raffer. And that's in the net from Raffer, love 30. Love 30. They're both hitting it just down the middle because they don't want the wind to blow it out. And Elquerais is getting much better out of these rallies. Elquerais is serving at 78% of first Serves in. He's only lost one point on serve in this second set in the two games. First set, he was at 55%. Does anyone know why? I'll tell you after this game. Love 30. Return from Elquerais, shanks, Raffer with a volley. Nice put away from Raffer, smart. 15-30. Raffer's hit one volley winner. And that was that last one. Cause something about the wind, Min, you might be right. 15-30. The first time in the match that I felt like Raffer's actually been in trouble. Even after the first game when he got broken, I was like, ooh, okay. But then you never felt Raffer was ever gonna lose that first set. Cause Elquerais was fighting the whole time on serve. But now I'm kind of like, I think Raffer's into little trouble here. Things are a little, things have turned. And it's because, well, I'm not gonna tell you. You can figure it out yourself. 30-all. I already told you. Big point here for Raffer. Man. Even the camera's shaking. Things are going nuts. 30-all. Raffer can't even bounce the ball straight. First serve. Goes into the front of Elquerais. Four down from Raffer to the front of Elquerais. But Raffer hits it out. 30-40. 30-40. Oh man. This match just got a hell of a lot more interesting. By the way, Raffer's had 17 break points, only done three. That's crazy. It shows how good Elquerais is when he needs to be. He's a fighter. Served now at the front of Elquerais. That goes into the back end of Raffer. And Raffer hits it out. Elquerais gets the break. Now. Oh man. So, I don't know if anyone wrote this in the chat, but so what? My theory. Right? My theory is the why Elquerais is serving better. So, I think Elquerais, and this is what you should do in the wind, right? When you're playing in the wind, blasting 300-mile-an-hour serves is not the go. You want to let the wind do the work. But also, you also want, if you hit the ball slow, the wind's going to make it do all kind of crazy things, right? So, serving a little bit slower will let the wind do the work. But also, I also think that because of the first set, maybe he's just taking some pace of the ball, trying to get the first serve in. Maybe that's the reason why as well, but I think it's more of the wind. He's playing smart Elquerais, and he's taking the pace off. He knows that, okay, if I get the first, because he's only lost one point on serve. He didn't do that in the first set at all. Using the wind, and that's been the, and look, I said before, the wind is the greatest equalizer. What does that mean? The reason why the wind is the greatest equalizer is because it makes the clean hitters and the best players play at a worse level as we're seeing Raffer do now. He's making terrible errors that we don't see on a normal day. The wind makes the good players look average. And if the players that are smart, that are kind of average players, it makes them look better if they play smart. So it's a great equalizer. And it's equalizing this match right now. Elquerais, yeah, the last airbender. I think Elquerais' age has something to do with it. He's young and fearless, going big, but not overdoing it. Usually when you're young, you overdo it, go big and overdo it. But Elquerais is playing smart. Like he's not hitting his serve as hard. He's just getting the serve, spinning it a little bit more, which is good. Maybe because he was blasting the first serve and missing a lot in the first set. But also, I think he's playing the conditions as well. He's playing the conditions. The wind messed up Raffer's bottle and that has something to do with it. Maybe. Is the wind ruining it right now? No, the wind is making this very interesting. It's not, it's ruining Raffer, yeah. If you're a Raffer fan, yeah, it's ruining Raffer. But it's ruining, it's not ruining the match. It's making it very interesting. Let's see what Elquerais does here. He comes to the net with a 400 Raffer, a 400 volley from Elquerais in the net, love 30, uh-oh. Now Elquerais doesn't have the experience of beating big names all the time, right? So the problem is now is that he might have the break, but you can't assume Raffer's just gonna let him win a set. You gotta keep doing what you got you to the break. Love 30, let's get back to it, but yeah, it's a theory. And the stats kind of show that, well, yeah. Okay, he's taken a little bit more off the serve to get more in and the serve is also doing more things because it's a little slower. The wind's taking the serve into more weird directions. Second serve now, into the back end of Raffer, four in from Elquerais, into the back and again of Raffer, into the back end of Elquerais, back and again from Raffer going into the net. Lot of errors from Raffer in this set. If you are just joining us. First set went to Raffer, Elquerais just couldn't serve. Just couldn't serve. His first serve was not a thing. He was living off the second serve and you can't do that against Raffer. Then in the second set, it was pretty even in the first couple of games, it was one all and then there was a wind warning and the wind has kicked up and now the wind is playing a havoc with the quality of the match. And that's out by Elquerais, 15-40. By the way, Elquerais just slapped himself in the leg. There's a little bit of a tap on the thigh. Let's see. I mean, Elquerais hasn't lost the set all week before today, but he has been running around with Raffer for nearly two hours. As he serves now, down the tee to the final of Raffer, final from Elquerais, into the final of Raffer, to the final drop shot of Elquerais. That's not bad, Raffer's gonna get there. No, he's not. No, he's not. Great drop shot, 30-40. Unbelievable. Elquerais has played a lot of tennis in the last, you know, he's on a win streak, right? He won Rio and now he's here. You know, he can't, I mean, look at Rada Kanu. Right, she plays long, tough matches and her body breaks down because she's not used to it. Elquerais is 18. He's not used to doing this every week. His body hasn't learned how to play against men every week or every day, especially this man, this goat. As he hits a four now to the backhand of Raffer, four now, backing out from Elquerais again, this time to the four of Raffer, as Elquerais hits the backhand, into the four of Raffer again, he goes down the line, Elquerais on the stretch, gets it to the four of Raffer, into the backhand of Elquerais. Backhand now from Raffer again to the backhand of Elquerais, they're just going down the line as Elquerais now gets the four of Raffer, who shanks it somehow. And that goes in the net from Elquerais. Raffer hit the weirdest shot, almost headbutted that one and Elquerais gets broken. We're back on serve three, three. It ain't pretty, it ain't pretty. It's about using your brain now. Who's going to be smarter here? I mean, I stayed Raffer was going to win this match at the start of the day because I just thought that Raffer would have experience anyway. But even more so now, I think Raffer's going to play the conditions a bit smarter because he's been in this position many times. You've played in wind more, like he's definitely played in the windy days way more than what Elquerais has. One hour and 42 minutes played. Also, I think that Elquerais's body might break down a little bit more in the final sets if we get to a third. I don't know if Elquerais's legs have got the juice in them to go three hours with Raffer. Raffer can go three hours with Raffer. We know that. Foot or no foot, he'll be fine. He'll play three hours. Elquerais might cramp. We're a long way from that bit. Someone to consider. Three all, Raffer serving, second serve. Into the back end of Elquerais, that goes into the find of Raffer, who shanks it and it goes out again. Now the shank from Raffer, another bad shot, another error, love 15. It's a weird vibe. I don't know if you guys feel it at the moment. Maybe if you're watching the match, you'll probably hear it from the crowd. Things have slowed down a lot. And it's got this weird kind of eerie vibe about it. I don't know about you guys. I feel on the weird vibe. The wind's blowing. Raffer's taking more time. It's just like the crowd's a bit like, what is happening? It's weird. There's a weird vibe in the air. Raffer's taking way more time because of the wind. No time penalty's going on here. No shot clock, anything like that. The umpire's given, I mean, if it was Carlos Bernades, Raffer would have been defaulted. Luckily he's not there. He's got a find now from Raffer into the back end of Carlos, find a find now, as that goes into the find of Raffer. That's a good shot. What's his name? Elquerais gets this drop shot. Back end of find now, as Elquerais goes into the find inside of Raffer again. Raffer with a drop shot. Elquerais can't get it because it goes in the net. Love 30 and Raffer's struggling again to play the conditions. Does anyone else have it? Is anyone else feeling the weird vibes? Can't before the storm. It's not even calm. It's like, this is the storm. It's weird. Dark clouds in LA. Okay, Min. It's got, it's real dark in the stadium but it's also like almost 6pm. So maybe, I mean, they're like savings. Isn't it supposed to give you more sunshine? Definitely weird vibes. Okay, serve down to the back end of Elquerais and that goes out 1530. Dusty says, the ref the DQ Kyrus. We can't won't forget. Yeah, I'm salty. But no, seriously, if Carlos Bernadas was coach, it was, was, was officiating this match. He would be like, I don't care if it's windy. Time violation, Mr. Nadal. Raffer would have had like seven different time violations. So thank God we don't have him in the chair because he would have just been like rules and rules. Raffer's taking forever and he's like, I can't serve. I'm waiting to, I'm waiting for the wind to stop. I can't serve. And the umpire is going, yeah, I understand. Take your time. So this umpire is doing the right thing. Smart from this umpire. Feel the room? That's what I want from a ref, you know? As we had a volley there from Raffer and that goes out 1540. Raffer is really, really struggling right now. But yeah, like, I know I usually, usually with umpires, if we don't say anything about them, they're doing a good job. But I want to credit this umpire because I feel like I always, I bash the umpire sometimes. This umpire is so, is doing such a good job because it's windy. He knows it's windy. He's telling, no, the players are struggling. He's giving them more time. He's not penalizing them for taking extra time. And that's a good thing. Has been a 4-0 from Alcares down the line. That's a great shot. Winner from Alcares. He breaks back again. Yeah, great refereeing, exactly. He breaks back and it's 4-3. Raffer's not playing well in this, in these conditions. Yeah, whereas some other umpires would sit there and be like, it says zero. You get, you're getting a time violation. You know what I mean? So I'm great that I'm gonna shout to this umpire. I don't know who it is because I haven't seen who it is, but big shout out for not giving out stupid violations for no, because feeling like common sense, right? Common sense. Where are all the people that's saying rules are rules now? That's right. I'm salty about that. Ha ha ha. Most umps deserve a shot. Yeah, look, some umpires just don't, there's common sense. There's rules and then there's common sense. And sometimes they don't match. But today, this umpire is doing a great job. Great job. They understand where the players need. Great job by this umpire. Raffer should retire to the win. That is ridiculous. Not really enjoying this match because of the quality drop. Well, look, if you only like winners, then just watch the highlights. You know, if you only like, if you only like seeing winners and you don't like bad, like low quality or like when quality drops, you know, maybe tennis isn't for you. Maybe you should watch the highlights. Holy shit. Outside, it's like desert storm. What the hell is going on? Oh my God. It's like sandstorm. Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. It's crazy. Isn't this the umpire that almost got his legs chopped up by his verve? They just showed the umpire just said to everybody in the stands, appreciate it if you hold your rubbish because it's gonna blow around because of the windy conditions. Raffer's going, hang on a second. We gotta chill. There's sand flying around. Now this is where things get a bit more dangerous, right? So when there's dust flying around and they could sit down for that. By the way, was this the umpire that got attacked by his verve? I think it was, right? Was it the same umpire? Just turned off Mark Pesci and can listen to you now in the storm. Yeah, look, Mark Pesci's, I like him. I don't mind him. I don't agree with what he said about Kyrios, but I do like Mark Pesci. Sandstorm, sand is flying. Yeah, so we can't see it in the stadium, but outside there is just craziness happening on the outside cause there's sand flying everywhere. So for sure there's sand flying into the stadium coming over the top here. And this just started the start of this set. So if you're joining us going, what the hell's going on? So the first set was fine. The second set, there was a wind warning according to the Indian Wells weather chart. And ever since then, Raffer's, it's been weird vibe and Raffer's played bad. The quality's dropped because that was happening to the wind. He can't play well in the wind, right? Playing well in the wind is never, you can't play well. It's gonna be ugly. 50 mile an hour winds. Yep, it's brutal. They won't stop the match unless the sand, close the roof, what roof? Unless the sand in the air becomes really dangerous, but I mean, Raffer by the way wins the first, second point, love 30. So if you're just joining us that's what's happening right now. Love 30. Remember, Indian Wells is in the desert. Desert is got sand. Sand is annoying, but they won't stop the match unless like, I mean, unless people start, I can't see, unless people are starting to go blind because of the, you know, they sand in their eyes and they can't see. So they won't stop the match to the wind. Love 30 here, Alcares. A lot of breaks are served in this set, but it's to be expected. As it serves now, Alcares out to the back end of Raffer, find it from Alcares, goes into the find of Raffer, into the back end of Alcares. There's another find of back end exchange. Raffer just gets that one. Alcares with a slice. Raffer with a fine open court, but it's in the net. 1530 and Raffer's starting to get annoyed. And as annoyed as Raffer gets, just making facial expressions. Thanks for the in-depth analysis. No worries, Chris. I can go over it again if you missed anything. Raffer's having a bad time. That's for sure. 1530. And I'll tell you what, if Raffer's like, I'm not playing, I'm sure Alcares will not say too bad. If Raffer decides that this match should be, should not be played, Alcares will not tell his idol, no. He will say, yeah, okay, I respect you. Let's sit down. So Raffer has a lot of power in this matchup. He can make, he can stop the match if he wants, I think. Well, will he do that though? Probably not. As Alcares hits a fine out of the back end of Raffer, into the, oh, Jesus, slice there from Alcares. Comes to the net, Raffer the pass. Alcares gets it. Volley from Raffer is a winner. And Alcares on the ground. That was a weird rally. This is gonna be on tennis TV. Yeah, well, 1540. There'll be a lot of weird rallies on tennis TV today, especially from this match. Alcares just stood there with his racket above his head and was like, I'm gonna try and get it. He almost did. And he fell down and Raffer's like, you all right? He's like, yeah, I just, I just fell over, it's all right. Nothing happened. Raffer's just looking down at him going, stay down there, stay there, don't move. Don't get up. Don't move. 1540, Alcares to the back end of Raffer, fine again, Alcares, into the back end of Raffer, going to the front of Alcares. That goes into the slice of Raffer. For now from Alcares, goes down the line, Raffer with a fine of his own. Alcares with another forehand. That goes into the back end of Raffer. One again from Alcares, gets shanked. It's up, it's up, it's out. Four games all in this wild second set. And if you just, no, I'm just kidding. Rewind the video if you don't know what's going on. All right, four, oh, Raffer gets the break back. They're showing the top of the stadium up here. It's like sand all around the top of the stadium. Just dust. It's weird. It's like a movie. It's like we're watching the first mummy movie. Have you seen that? The sand monster thing. It looks like that. It's a Marvel movie. It's Spider-Man 3. All right, Raffer's serving four games all, but he's not serving because he's just not happy with what's going on. It's taking all the time. The umpire's letting him, which is good. Backhand return there from Alcares is into the find of Raffer. Back, a find out from Alcares. Again, to the find of Raffer. Into the backhand slice of Alcares. Raffer comes in with a volley. Alcares can't get it. That's the experience of Raffer right there. Come to the net. Put away those volleys. 15 left by the way. The crowd are getting so many free souvenirs because the balls are flying off the rack. It's into the crowd. They're gonna run out of balls. 15 love. Now Raffer could win this in straight sets here. He's only holding a break away. There's crap flies across the court to be expected. The ball kid picking up the rubbish. 15 love. And Alcares is telling the umpire now that there's, the net is falling apart. Okay. Oh, there's a sign on the net was about to fly off. Umpire gets out of the chair. He does a good job. He made three extra dollars. By the way, is this the same umpire that got attacked by Zverev? Looks the same. Looks like the same dude. 15 love. Serve from Raffer is a fault. The mummy at Indian Wells. Yeah. Tom Crue. Well, Ben Stiller's there. So Ben Stiller starring in the mummy. The reboot at Indian Wells. Why Ben Stiller's there, everybody. He's filming a movie. This is the scene where they watched the tennis and then the mummy attacks. And then all of a sudden Tom Crue comes flying out on a helicopter and is like, skydives in. They're just filming that. 15 love. As we're serving the net. Double fault from Raffer. 15 all. It's not the one that attacks, that Zverev attacked. Okay. Oh, it is the same umpire. Yes, no, maybe. Different umpire. Same umpire, different umpire. We don't know. I don't know if this umpire, this umpire is always on the main stadium. So I would be surprised if this umpire was on a doubles match in the, out of nowhere. I feel like this umpire is more of a main stadium umpire. By the way, Elkres got distracted by a tower flying over. And Raffer's gonna get a first serve again because Elkres wasn't ready. Raffer had a good first serve, but Elkres was like, I mean, things are flying. It's a wild scene here. The ball kids are collecting rubbish as much as the balls. 15 all. First serve, Raffer again. As Raffer serves, out to the front of Elkres, front of him Raffer, into the back end of Elkres, who hits a passing shot winner. Oh, okay. 15-30. That guy was excited. 15-30. By the way, don't forget to subscribe, like the video as well. The mummy for Indian Wells. Starring Ben Stiller. And the, oh man, the net's falling apart. The net's falling apart. The sticks from the net that hold the net up at the sides are falling down. The things that hold the side parts up. The net's flying. All right, maintenance coming up on the net. They're gonna, the net's like this. The net, the net's like this. It's, it's gonna fly away. All right, this is a ridiculously slow play compared to the rest of the world. It is what it is. It is what it is. It's slow, but it is what it is. The umpire fixed the net by the way. 15-30 Elkres. It'll be over soon, Nadal in two sets. All right, we'll find out. Yeah, the supervisor came out to help. 15-30, chance for Elkres to maybe get a break here. A lot of breaks in this set. He's gonna return now from Elkres to the 400 raffa. 400 from Elkres, again to the 400 raffa, to the 400 of Elkres, backhand of four hand as Elkres goes down the line, raffa with the 400 of his own. Elkres with the backhand, that goes into the 400 raffa on the stretch. Elkres with the backhand, now again to the 400 raffa. Who hits it in the net again? 15-40, supervisors on court. He's sitting court side. I reckon they might say, let's just take a time out, because there's too many things going on here. There's too much happening. Maybe it will take an hour. They could take a break, because if the players agree, they might take a break, because there's too many distractions, too many problems with the wind. The wind's causing too much havoc, not just for the quality, but also for the actual tennis, like the court. The net, so they might, they might, I've never seen this before, that they might take a break. If the supervisor's there, they might discuss. Has been a return from Elkres into the 400 raffa, who hits it in the 400 of Elkres. 400 raffa again to the backhand of Elkres, into the 400 raffa. Backhand out from Elkres again to the 400 raffa, into the backhand of Elkres. Into the backhand of Elkres again, the backhand of Elkres, his raffa hits a full hand. 400 Elkres again to the 400 raffa. Elkres with the 400 out of the backhand of Raffa. To the backhand of Elkres. 400 raffa goes into the 400 of Elkres, into the backhand of Raffa. As he hits that one in for a winner, Rafa, what a shot! One of the cleanest rallies we've seen for the entire set, 30-40. He says one. I wonder what they'll do though. Like, if they do stop, like... Like, will it be like a rain delay where they'll stop for like an hour and wait until it calms down or... It's not the wind is supposed to go until 5am tomorrow. Right? Local time. So they've got 12 more hours of this. Possibly. So they can't stop forever. Why don't they stop the match? Well, that's what we might... They might be discussing next. We'll see what happens. Never seen that happen though. Still a break point for Elcrez. Can't fly a first set! And a second serve. Two hours have been played by the way. And the second set has at least been one of those. Because it's been a slow set as Rafa serves. Into the front of Elcrez, who slices it back. For now from Rafa. Again to the front of Elcrez. Backhand to backhand now as Elcrez goes to the front of Rafa. To the back end of Elcrez. And he pushes it wide. The wind took it. Just pushed it a little wide. Back at Deuce now. If Elcrez wins this set, they might take a break. I don't think they'll do it at this stage because Rafa's... I mean, Rafa could win this in like 5 minutes, right? But... The supervisor's on court. Elcrez is saying to Rafa that there's things blowing. The towels are blowing around. There's rubbish flying everywhere. The net's broken. If the players don't want to play, then they probably... They might... They might delay this. Wind delay. That sounds like a fart thing. Second serve. Can't fly a first set! Got a bit of a wind delay. What? Second serve. Massive point here. As he serves now, the back end of Elcrez. Foyner from Rafa goes into the Foyner of Elcrez. Sliced into the Foyner of Rafa to the back end of Elcrez. Foyner from Rafa again down the line goes wide. Rafa's not happy. Advantage Elcrez. Fritz would be definitely loving this. I mean... He's probably hoping that tomorrow is windy as well, Fritz. Because... I think the best... Like, and the worst match I've ever seen Rafa play... Was that match that I mentioned before, right? Monte Carlo 2019 against Fanini. Worst match I've ever seen Rafa play. This... Has the same vibe. This set has been very, very similar. As we had a return from Elcrez, Foyner from Rafa to the Foyner of Elcrez. Break point here for Elcrez. We had a Foyner back end rally. Back end Elcrez goes out again. Don't go cross court with that back end, Carlos. Go down the line. Use the wind. No roof, by the way. No roof. So they can't close the roof. That's not a thing. It's not a thing. Don't forget to subscribe. Like as well. We're almost at 79,000 subscribers. That's nuts. Come on, we can get there. Let's get to 79k by the end of this match. This match is scripted, yeah. They turned on the fans outside the stadium to make the wind happen. It's scripted. Man, they turned. They went... You know what, after the first set... You know those massive fans that we have? Let's turn them on. You know, Rafa will make... Just to make it a little bit more fair. And Rafa's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Turn the wind. And then, yeah, it'll make it more dramatic. You know, that was part of the script. Of course it was. Of course. Return now goes into the point of Rafa on the stretch. Back in Elcrez. Down the line. That's the one. Unbelievable. Down the line, back end. That's the one. Advantage Elcrez. Yeah, towels flying everywhere. Yep. They do that in films. Yeah, that's why I was making a joke about a film. It was scripted. Elcrez heard me, yeah. Rafa needs this game. He serves down to the corner of Elcrez. For now from Rafa. Goes in the corner of Elcrez. Posit shot. Rafa volleys. Oh, man, Rafa volleys. Oh, it doesn't even love it. Doesn't even love it. The most emotion we've seen from Rafa all day. And the crowd are up and about now. Oh, Rafa with the celebration. And the Varmus as well. There we go, Rafa. That's what Rafa, that's a Rafa thing. Rafa doing Rafa things. Two hours in, finally. We get to see it. Back to Deuce. As he serves out wide. He knows this is a big game. Elcrez playing the conditions way better. Can't go down a break because then Elcrez wins this game. And then what do they do then? Do they sit down for an hour until the wind stops? Or what happens next? As he serves now, Rafa. Into the back end of Elcrez. For now from Rafa, goes into the front of Elcrez. Again, to the front of Rafa, who goes, oh, out. He just shanks it long and he looks at the coach and he goes, I don't know what that was. I mean, that would have gone in. It's the wind. Advantage Elcrez again. Another, another error. Another error to get the break. Fifth break point of the game. We've had like, I think the last four games have been breaks, have they? Well, at least a couple of the last four. As Elcrez hits that return out for just out, Rafa survives back to deuce. Man, that was close. And it was. And it just, you cannot be serious. That was close. Rafa's just shrugging his shoulders, waiting for the break in this. Madness as he serves. Oh, an ace down the tee. How good is that unbelievable? That's a goat doing goat things. Great serve from Rafa needed that one. His first ace of the day. What a time. What a time. So yeah, the last four games have been break, break, break, break. Rafa looking to hold. He'll feel like a break. He serves now the point of Elcrez, Rafa with a good point there. Elcrez gets it with the backhand. Running, running, running for now on the stretch. Elcrez, good shot there. Rafa gets it. It's up. It's going out. Oh, it just goes out from Rafa. Ben Stiller can't believe it. He's like, oh, I thought you made those shots. How'd you miss that? Says Ben. How'd you miss that? Man, Elcrez, I mean, look, that's why they call him baby Rafa. Because that was what Rafa did to everybody else. Ben Stiller cannot believe it. Man, this is, he is freaking out Ben Stiller. Back of Deuce. Has a bit of serve now from Rafa. Into the backhand of Elcrez. Four now from Rafa. Into the find of Elcrez. Again to the find of Rafa. Who hits again to the find of Elcrez. Find of backhand now as Elcrez goes into the net. Elcrez yells at Juan Casrero because he's like, how'd I miss that? Advantage. This is a 15 minute service game. 15 minutes. And it feels like the most important game of the match. That the winner of this game will win the match. That's what it feels like. That's what it feels like. And it might be true if you're Rafa. Advantage Rafa. He serves a fault. Second serve. Crowd yelling and screaming. Rafa takes his time. As he serves. Into the find of Elcrez. Four now from Rafa. Into the backhand of Elcrez. Rafa in control. As he hits a forehand crosscourt that goes long and wide. He just went too heavy on that forehand. Just a little bit too much muscle. Back at Deuce. In the chat. How are you feeling? How are you feeling? Give me one emoji. Into how you're feeling. One emoji. Serve now as a fault from Rafa. And look, this is not pretty. But the thing is. It's tense. All the same. It's an intense tight match. Might not be pretty. It's kind of like the US Open Final. From 2020. That one was not pretty. But it was close. And that's what made it tense. As Elcrez hits a winner. Unbelievable. That's pretty. That was very pretty. Advantage now. A lot of nervous people in the chat. A lot of nervous people. A lot of angry people. Why are you mad, bro? Why are you mad? Nervous. Anxious. Some people are tongue out. Laughing. Crying. Goat emojis in the chat. People feeling sick in the chat. All the feels. Advantage Elcrez. That's a foul. That's a foul. You catch by the ball, kid. Whoo. Just stuck in the hand. She's like, God damn right, I'm a ball kid. I can catch a ball. Advantage Elcrez. Rafa serves to the back end of Elcrez. 4-0 from Rafa. Down the line. That's a good shot. Elcrez gets it. But it goes in the net. That's a great shot for Rafa. The game goes on. The game continues. Winner of this place. Taylor Fritz tomorrow. And he'll be loving it. Getting down at dinner going. They still playing. All right. Cool. Elcrez gets this game. We're going three hours. Minimum. It's going to be three and a half. If this set goes the way of Elcrez. And the next set goes the same. As we get a return from Elcrez. That's a good shot. Drop shot from Elcrez. What's his name? Elcrez as we get a slice. Different referee gets it. Elcrez with the backhand. Lobb. That's a smart shot as well. Another backhand from Elcrez. Rafa with the forehand. That goes out. Elcrez. Very smart tennis. Volta is out. Goat. It will be Rafa in three sets. Go Rafa. Thanks, Cam. Thank you, Jack for the 20, mate. Again, very generous. All of you guys have been very generous this whole week. I'm glad that I've been able to bring you more matches than ever before on the channel for from Indian Wells. So we've watched 30 something matches. Over the last week. So thank you so much, Jack. Appreciate that, man. Rafa in three. So I reckon Elcrez is going to get this one. Second serve. It's been almost a 20-minute service game as Rafa serves into the find of Elcrez. Finder from Rafa. Goes into the find of Elcrez. Rafa hit the find. Now in the open court. Rafa with the lob. Up it goes. It goes in. Rafa can't get it. Rafa can't get it. And Elcrez breaks. Don't go to sleep. 20-minute service game. What are you doing? Wow. 20 minutes or at least like I rounded up. It was like it was like 1947. Close enough. All right. Woo. That's my question. 19-22. Close enough. Wow. What a game. Now. 20 minutes ago, which feels like a lifetime ago. That the tournament director came out. So let's keep an eye on whether they do, they do discuss what to do in this win because the winds only getting worse. Rafa would love to not be playing right now. He would love to have a, you know, a rain delay. Elcrez is going hell no. I'm winning. I'm playing way better with this win. It's like keep going. Elcrez is, but I think Elcrez respects Rafa too much to say no Rafa, we're not moving. You know, we're not, we're not, we're not stopping. But I don't know it's, it's, yeah. Elcrez adjustments are crazy. I, I don't, I mean, credit to Elcrez for changing it up a little bit, but unbelievable. We know what's the problem here. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Hey, It's just a good overall run. Let's switch to the next part. congressional again by Oilman as good as well. Penelope for the five pre-shoot. OK tournament directors out talk in the Rafa Rafa saying explaining why he why playing in the wind is not a good idea. And he's like Rafa's explaining to the op Ns to the tournament director. I can't play tennis with all that that's going around the next Doing this. The crowd, you know, in these conditions, because the net's blowing around. The, there's paper flying everywhere. It's too many, there's too many distractions every point. So Rafa's saying like, hey, this is not, like we can't play in these conditions. It's not fun for anybody, but he is gonna play on. But the tournament director's thinking like, okay, maybe after this set, they might take a, take a minute. Algro is serving with the set. He comes in with, oh, what was that? Easy volley in the net. Now the lights are on, so it's turned to a night match, but didn't even ask Carlos? Well, no, that's, that's the thing. You, you win 21 grand slams, you are a goat. I mean, no one, you know, I'm sorry, but Rafa, it's whatever Rafa says goes. It's Rafa's choice. He's the boss. Like it or hate it. Rafa's gonna get, Rafa's gonna get, make the call. And Alcarez is just gonna have to deal with it. 15 all. By the way, thank you Diamond for the five as well. I'm sorry, I missed that. I was in the middle of, of listening to what was happening, but thank you Diamond for the five as well. Thank you everyone for donating. You guys are just too much. I'll tell you the wind right now, gust of up to 41 kilometers an hour, which is what they're dealing with on court. There's been a backhand now from Alcarez, the faun of Rafa into the backhand of Alcarez. That goes to the faun again of Rafa to the backhand. Oh, Alcarez, that's a good shot Rafa with a slice. But that's gonna go out because slice backhands in the wind don't work, not when they go high like that. 30, 15. Now some people, some people were saying, is there a chance it's gonna rain and be a storm? No, it's not gonna rain. This is not a storm. This is just wind. So there's not gonna be, I don't think there's gonna be rain on the way, not here anyway. Doesn't look like it on the map. There's been a faun now at 30, 15. That goes down the line to the faun of Rafa who puts in the net, 40, 15, to get to the third. Now does Alcarez, I mean, Alcarez, he might not mind having a five, 10, 20, 30 minute break if that's what they decide. Are they saying this on tennis channel or am I just, like I feel like they could break here for at least an extended period of time. Rafa returns, Alcarez puts it in the net, good return Rafa, two hours, 20 minutes played. If we go three, just her courier say that what Cam said about the weather, there could be rain though, really? So Jim Courier said the same thing I did. Well, I'm looking at the weather map and it's saying that there is no rain. But okay, maybe there's spot showers coming out. I don't know. But it says here, no possibility of rain, 1%. That's near zero. Rafa returns, at set point, Alcarez, backing up from Rafa down the line, good shot, Alcarez in the net, Rafa saves them both. Hold on, no third set, just yet. Oh, hang on a second, so let me have a look here. The weather right now is currently, I can't see any chance of rain. Anyways, back in now, drop shot from Alcarez, Rafa's gonna get there with the back end pass, Alcarez with the volley, oh, what a shot! This is gonna be Alcarez guess right. So I'm looking at the, okay, so I'm saying 25 degrees. It's saying that maybe 9% of chance of rain, but still like next to nothing. Maybe a 10% chance, like maybe something crazy, but not enough to wash out anything. As Rafa hits a return, that goes out, we got three. We are going three. Now, are they going to stop? Are they going to take a break? Because if they're gonna take a break, I think now is the time. If they're going to take a break, I think now would be the time, because why would they do it mid-match? They didn't do it then, they might do it now. Let's see what Rafa, I mean look, it's up to Rafa I guess, and the tournament director, who we're talking before. And let's go through them stats, we'll keep an eye on it. It doesn't look like they're gonna stop. Nine winners from Alcares, 10 unforced errors, but it was just one of those sets, right? That was a good ratio. Seven winners from Rafa, 17 errors, 11 forehand errors. That's what happened in Monte Carlo three years ago on that windy day against Fanini. Rafa played terrible, the forehand doesn't work when the wind is wild. Serving of Alcares much better too, smart serving instead of just trying to hit winners. Actually 75% of first serves in, that was much, much better. And still winning, not too many first serve points, but that's because he was being a bit more safe with his first serve in these conditions. And also his first serve was terrible in the first set. So we made an adjustment. Why would they stop the winders out there for both players? Yeah, Linda, but I think the argument for Rafa is that it's too distracting, like there's paper flying all over the place, the towels are flying everywhere. There's like noise being made during the point because it's smacking into the winds, breaking things. So it's more about, it's distracting to the match than like, I can't play well, I don't wanna play. It's more about the distractions. I mean, that set took a long time, that was over an hour because it was a very slow set. You have to feel sorry for the spectators way up in the stadium. Yeah, those people up the top there are just like, they'd be getting blasted with sand. I mean, they're the cheap seats and they're getting a raw deal for sure. Who will win? This is tough since Rafa's experience and Elkra's feet are younger. I would say, I think Rafa will win because I think, like you go three hours with Rafa. If you're 18 years old, your legs are gonna feel that. So I think in this final set, Elkra's might tire because Elkra, I mean, Rafa looks fine. It's just the wind that's making him look bad. But he doesn't look injured Rafa, anything like that. It's just the wind that's annoyed Rafa. And his game is not playing well with this game. But I think that Elkra's will tire and Rafa will snatch the wind. He'll play well enough at the points that matter. That's what I reckon. But again, I could see Elkra's winning this if Rafa doesn't improve. No break, by the way, they're playing on 15 love. 15 love, two hours, 25. Have you seen Elkra's body? He's not gonna get tired. Okay. If Elkra's doesn't complain, I don't think they're stopping just because of Rafa. Elkra's was complaining too though. He was, Rafa's taken like a long time here. No, Elkra's was saying that like the towels were flying and he was, he's getting, I don't think Elkra's wants to stop as much as Rafa does. But Elkra's was also like, yeah, it's annoying. Like the winds blowing towels on the court, it's stopping points, it's annoying. But I don't think he's like as, he's not as, you know, keen to stop as Rafa is. Obviously. As soon as the wind kicked up, he started winning. From Elkra's to the front of Rafa. That goes to the front of Elkra's, he pushes it wide, 30 love. But yeah, Elkra's body is fitted, but also he hasn't been in these positions. So his body hasn't gone through a three hour grueling grind against Rafa. So I don't know if he, like, I mean, he might be fine. But, and he hasn't played that tough on matches to get here. So he should be fine. But I don't know, I just, I don't know. I just feel like playing three hours against Rafa Nadal. As Elkra, it's a lovely lob. Unbelievable. What a shot. You know, over three hours against Rafa in a grueling match. See how his body looks after three hours. He hasn't played that many three hour matches, I'm gonna guess. Outside of the slams. Rafa's still not playing well. That's the thing, Rafa, I mean, how does Rafa play better? It's not really, it's like, well, you know, how does he improve? Well, out of his control, really. He's got to just kind of, I guess take it down a notch, which is not Rafa's style. He's usually intense, 100, like the whole time. 30-15. Rafa serving, first games of the second. Oh, sorry, the third. Taylor Fritz is loving this. I'll tell you that. Oh, Elkres hits that in the net. Ugh. 40-15. And also nerves, right? Elkres, you know, on the verge of beating his idol, what happens if he gets to that point? Five-four, if he's serving for the match, how's he gonna feel? We haven't seen him play Rafa, almost beat Rafa, right? So what happens if he gets to that point? Is he gonna get nervous? Is he gonna throw in some double folds? Like, or is he gonna be rock solid? Like Rafa is, if he is baby Rafa, right? 40-15. Rafa serves into the slice of Elkres, into the find now of Rafa. That's a good shot down the line. Elkres gets it to the back end of Rafa, point out from Elkres again, into the open court winner. Unbelievable. Rafa on the back end, couldn't get there. Elkres just dropped in. By the way, Bill Gates is back, I think. Is that Bill Gates? Can't tell. I think he's back. Must live around the place. He does love Rafa. Didn't they do an exhibition match in Africa with Roger? Served into the find of Elkres, 40-30. Elkres down the line, up goes the lob from Elkres, but it's Rafa who gets the point one love. Final set. Larry Ellison, the real life Iron Man is in the house. Is that the guy sitting next to Monica Sellers? I thought Elon Musk was the real life Iron Man. Am I wrong? I thought it was Elon Musk. The wind is making me nervous, okay? Can you imagine Rubella versus Kyrus in these conditions? No, not pretty. Bill Gates annoying me more than wind. Wow, a lot of Bill Gates haters. What was that noise? Big bang in my house. Okay, cool. No, I was in Indian Wells. Yeah, it was an exhibition match with Rafa and Roger and Trevor Noah. I don't know who that is, but I know who the others are. Cape Town, yeah, yeah. That's the one I was thinking. Who was in front of the biggest stadium crowd ever, right? Or was it the second biggest? Because there have been Federer played in front of like a Mexican crowd that was like 100,000 or something, right? Anyways, let's get back to this. One love, Elkres, smack into the find of Rafa, backhand out from Elkres, the backhand of Rafa, into the find of Elkres, into the find of Rafa. Backhand to forehand as Rafa goes down the line. Great shot. Elkres gets it, forehand Rafa again. The backhand of Elkres and that's in the net. That's better from Rafa. That's much better from Rafa. Love 15. Love 15, I can say also, this is officially the biggest match of Indian Wells for us, probably of all time. Because I think, I don't think any of the matches last year or anywhere near this. So you wear with you when you watch the most watched match of Indian Wells on Tennis Talk. And no surprises, these guys, right? Oh, Elkres with the drop volley. This is gonna be our tennis TV run. Wow. Off the Rafa return. How the hell did he get that? Man, that was a ridiculous shot. That was a Federer shot. This is a stabbed volley and it somehow made it. 15, I would love to see if this was five sets. Like imagine if it was five, right? Imagine if this was five. We'd only be getting started. Let's get these boys playing at the French. Come on now. Come on, Tennis Guards. Give us this match of the French. As we're to find it from Elkres, the back end of Rafa, even at Wimbledon. I reckon this match of Wimbledon would be fire. We're very close there. As we're to find a backhand rally, Elkres, drive a slice to the front of Rafa who comes to the net, but he hits it out. Rafa gives going down the line with these forehand, which is where the wind is taking it. He's been very stubborn as Rafa. He's like, I'm gonna play my game in this weather. Whereas Elkres is willing to adjust. That's why Rafa's making so many errors because he's not willing to compromise. 30-15. As we return there from Rafa and the forehand of Elkres who hits a win, a very nice shot. Can't do much about that. Who's gonna win? Tell me. Why is he using the lines? Yeah, he's trying to hit the lines. Crazy. It's stressful. It is a stressful match. That's how we like them. We're gonna serve now the back end of Rafa. That goes out, one-hole, final set. Okay, now, who's winning this match? I want you to tell me what's a score gonna be. And who's gonna win it? Is it gonna be a seven-five, a seven-six, or a six-one, or tell me in the chat what score line do you think's gonna happen here? I'm gonna go Rafa six-three. I'm gonna go Rafa six-three, but with no confidence at all. But you tell me. Carla six-three, seven-five Rafa, or you think it's gonna be Rafa serving first, which is always, it's always a good thing to serve first in a final set. Means you're gonna have the lead every time they sit down at your hold. So, seven-six, L-hurricane, six-three L-cribs, six-four Rafa. I could see Rafa breaking to win this match. Yeah, completely, even on the scoreboard, yep. I mean, Rafa's had way more chances, but it's just credit to L-cribs, right? Federer's just said stop calling him baby Rafa, okay. Rafa will shut this down. Yeah, I think Rafa will, I think that's what I said at the start of the match when I'm saying it again, but I think Rafa will just have experience will win the day. And this match, I didn't think this would be changing the guard or passing the torch or whatever you wanna call it, but it will get close. It would live up to the hype, which it has, thanks to the weather, but as Rafa serves an ace down the tee, he's only served one of those today. Unbelievable. Time to do it, the 40 love. Rafa is definitely playing better in the first part of his final set than he was in the second. Having a nervous breakdown, right? Throw something? Have a, take a drink, what do you do to, if you're having a nervous breakdown, breathe, breathe, breathe. Deep breaths, come on, you can do this. 40 love, as Rafa serves a double fault. You're a server double, 40 loves the time. Elkra is too strong, okay? The way things are going right now, it's gonna end up 75 Rafa, all right? Rafa makes adjustments as he plays. He didn't make adjustments in the second when the wind kicked up, but he's making adjustments now. As he serves down the tee, that's a great serve. Elkra gets it, four and a half from Rafa. That's a good shot as well, Elkra gets that, but it goes out. Two-one Rafa, good game to get out of, a good game to win. All right. All right, now, I don't think we can do it, but can we get to 2,000 likes before the end of this match? 2,000, that would be ridiculous. Also, we're only, we're getting close to 79K, which I didn't think was possible, so can we get there as well? Like and subscribe. All right, let's answer some questions. Question, the question, jerk! The clear winner is the wind. Great performance, yeah. Tough to pass a torch, a lit torch in the wind. Chris, that might have been the best thing. That's a, I mean, that's something I, I shouldn't have read that. I should have just taken that for myself at the end of this, because it is tough to pass a torch in the wind to killer shots, okay? Shadow from Spain. By the way, in Spain, what is it, 2 AM? Savage, Savage is right now. 2K the highest ever? No, I think we had 10K at the Australian Open Final. The 2K would be the highest reset match, I would say. If we got to 2K, we've never had a, I think the, this, I mean, Rafa has been the one when, I think we've had like 150,000 views or something. I don't know, being the most reset match for a minute at a lot. ACP three setter. So this is up there as one of the, one of the biggest three set matches we've ever done. Any word on Fritz's injury? No, I haven't seen anything. But I'm sure we'll find out more probably over before tomorrow's match. 100K for Wimbledon. Oh, I don't know about that. I'm, I'm gonna be 100K at the end of the year. I'll be happy. You can get there by the end of the year. Let's get back to this match though, because we have still got plenty of tennis to go. As that goes in the net from Rafa Sliced. 15 love. I mean, perfect world. The story would be, a perfect finale would be a tie break, right? To finish this match off. I think it's tennis, if you're a neutral fan, a tie break would be a fitting finale. But I don't know, as much as I want that, I feel like Rafa is gonna, just to steal it. That's been a find out from Rafa into the find of Elkres and that's a great pass. Unbelievable. I think, yes, 30 love, great pass. Little flick that the wind didn't quite catch. 30 love. That's a Rafa shot. Yeah, on the line. Rafa's only had 13 winners today. Elkres 31. So you can just see who's being the more aggressive. There's been a serve volley from Elkres. That's a great volley for. This kid can volley, which is something that, I mean he's, Rafa can volley too. This kid's technique on the volley is solid. Federer-like, much more of a Federer volley than a Rafa volley. 40 love. Serving out of the find of Rafa, that goes out, that was one of the quickest service games of the day. That was a quick service game. Hey, thank you, Red, for the two. Appreciate that. All right, three, two games all, final set. The wind seems calmer and so do the players. Yeah, it definitely has, the wind has calmed down, it feels. Definitely doesn't look as windy. Well, there's not as much madness happening. Yeah, it has gone down. It's gone down a little bit. A little bit. The gusts have come down. So not, it's still windy, but not as crazy as it was. It's just kinda chilled a bit. Two, two. Rafa serves, a let. And Rafa's saying, hell no. He's like, it's over by this much. Hashtag, challenge the let. Hashtag, challenge the let. Let's make it a thing. Hashtag, challenge the let. Didn't make it so much more fun. Come on. Return now is a fault from Rafa. Second serve, two hours and 14, almost 41 minutes played. Served now to the find of Elcrez. Backhand now, Rafa's is the back corner of Elcrez. Into the front of Rafa, to the backhand of Elcrez. Four-hand to backhand now is Elcrez on the stretch. Rafa with a backhand. Elcrez with a four-hand on the stretch gets it again. Backhand Rafa down the line. Elcrez is gonna get it, into the front of Rafa. Backhand now, Rafa again goes into the backhand of Rafa. The front of Elcrez. Backhand to forehand. Elcrez with a four-hand down the line. Rafa with the forehand of his own. Has been a backhand to backhand rally. He's going down the line as Elcrez hits a win across court. Amberley, Amberley, Amberley, Amberley, Amberley, Amberley, Amberley, Amberley. Love 15, great backhand from Elkars, he did that in the first game of the match. Got us out of our chairs early. That's it, challenge the lets, hell yeah. Give the play, give more power to the players, I feel. Let them challenge everything and it will make him more fun for the crowd. Love 15, Rava serves and into the backhand of Elkars, what a return Rava gets it, Backhand out from Elk Riz, into the front of Rafa goes down the line to the front of Elk Riz. Born from Rafa, into the backhand of Elk Riz, to the front again of Rafa. To the backhand of Elk Riz with a slice. Rafa with a forehand comes to the net, Elk Riz with a lob, Rafa with a smash! Puts it away! This is gonna be our biggest achievement. And he loves it! 15-all! Man, the crowd have lit up here as well, the crowd are loud now. They were a bit quiet in that second set, it was a weird vibe. I felt it, maybe you felt it as well, that second set was weird. The crowd were deadly silent, it was weird, the wind was blowing, it was like, just this, I don't know. It was almost like a supervillain was about to arise, you know, it was like that. You know, like at the end of Infinity War when Thanos appears on Earth, and everyone's kind of just like, something's about to happen. And then all of a sudden he comes through the portal, that's what felt like. It was awkward, it was weird. But we're back now, 15-all, as that goes in the back end of Elk Riz, forehand from Rafa in the net, 15-30. 15-30, that is the 20th unforced error on the forehand side for Rafa. That was a bit harsh, that wasn't an unforced error, that was a good return from Elk Riz, that wasn't it, unforced error, that was harsh. Elk Riz hit a good return, 15-30. Good serve, Rafa comes in with a volley, that's a great serve volley. 30-all, 30-all. Man, what a match, lived up to the hype. Hopefully you're enjoying it at home, hopefully you're liking the call. Maybe you've learned something, that'd be nice. Learned something today about something, about Thanos or something, I don't know. 30-all, serve down to the back end of Elk Riz, forehand from Rafa into the back end of Elk Riz, but it goes long from Rafa. On the forehand side, it's 30-40, that was an error, that was a forehand error. Rafa's dad not impressed, he's like, I didn't teach you how to hit a forehand like that. Another break point for Elk Riz to take the lead in the final set. Rafa serves, down the tee, Elk Riz gets it, forehand from Rafa is a winner. This is gonna be on Thanos TV, bro. Only Rafa could do that thing, that's a Rafa thing and he did it. Rafa doing Rafa things. That forehand was a Rafa shot, only Rafa, only Rafa. Only on break point two. And the bros in the stands are like, high-fiving and drinking beers. Second serve, big game here. As Rafa serves the forehand of Elk Riz, forehand from Rafa, goes to the forehand of Elk Riz, that's down the line to the forehand of Rafa. Elk Riz with the backhand, but Elk Riz doesn't need to get it, because Rafa hits a long break point again. Break point again. Elk Riz looking to get the lead in the final set. Now, Elk Riz was up 4-2, sorry, 3-2 in the second, also the first, Rafa came back to win. Well, break doesn't mean over, but in these conditions, it's very valuable for Elk Riz against Rafa. That's a great shot from Rafa, Elk Riz gets it, up goes the lob. Smash, Rafa puts it away, get that out of my face. Back to Deuce, two-all final set, back at Deuce. Rafa's played some marathon games, but so is Elk Riz on serve. The first set, Elk Riz was serving marathons every day, for every game. And the second was Rafa, who had to fight for every service game. Now it's Rafa fighting now, and that's because... You guessed it. As we had a serve from Rafa, that's a fault. Cut by a first hand! Second serve. The wins seem to have calmed. He serves now to the back end of Elk Riz, 4-0 from Rafa, into the back end of Elk Riz. Back end now from Rafa, into the 4-0 of Elk Riz. That's a drop shot, Rafa runs, runs, gets it, comes to the net. Elk Riz back end, Rafa volley, oh, Rafa volley! This is gonna be all things to you, Rafa. Get out of here! Get out of here with that! Only Rafa! Only Rafa! He should not have won that point. I mean, that was, first of all, how to get that pick up, and then how the hell did he react to that volley and make it something better than it was? He just went whoop! I mean, that was just a slap volley, a reaction, like a goalkeeper. How did he save that? Advantage, Rafa. Nearly three hours played, we're gonna get there. Three hours is on the clock, 12 minutes away. Serve now, Rafa, into the back end of Elk Riz, four and a half from Rafa, the line is out, back to doce. No free points, and that was just out from Rafa. You cannot be serious. Just out, just out. Ben Stiller's gonna have a heart attack. Yeah, the win definitely has settled. It's about 10 kilometers less, so it's definitely died down to what it was before, so that's why things seem a little bit less hectic. I think they're moving a little quicker too. Rafa serves, into the forehand of Elk Riz, back end up from Rafa, into the forehand of Elk Riz, again to the back end of Rafa. Elk Riz with the forehand, open court, Rafa gets with the forehand of his own. For now, Elk Riz is a winner. That's a great shot. Unbelievable. Elk Riz whips that forehand for a winner, and he gets to Advantage. So yeah, the wind is definitely chilled. Definitely died down. The net is not flying. The shots are a little bit less insane, and that forehand was a whip. 100 mile an hour forehand winner, and the flags at the top are a little bit less crazy too. It's almost like the cameraman must have heard me. And that's good for Rafa. As he serves a good serve, and that goes in the net from Elk Riz. The wind dying down, good for Rafa. The Rafa fans, that's a good thing. It also helps Elk Riz though, but it also means that Rafa can play a little cleaner. This feels a hell of a lot more like the first set now. Serving the net. Second serve, as he serves now. Into the backhand of Elk Riz, and that goes out. Error there from Elk Riz. Ben Stiller loves it. Come on! Vanishing dial. Is Ben Stiller's wife from the Brady Bunch? Was she in the Brady Bunch? I swear that, she was like the oldest sister in that, right? Right? Am I just making things up? Probably. Anyway, serve out wide to the backhand of Elk Riz. Four net from Rafa, down to the backhand of Elk Riz. Into the backhand of Rafa. Four net from Elk Riz, goes down the line. Rafa gets it with the four net of his own. Backhand out from Elk Riz, again to the four net of Rafa. Into the backhand of Elk Riz. Four net from Elk Riz on the stretch. Elk Riz in control, as he puts a forehand. Thank you, into the four net of Rafa now, as we get a backhand of the four net rally. Elk Riz down the line. Rafa with the four net of his own. Elk Riz with the backhand down the line. Parties up Rafa. That's going in. Elk Riz can't get it. This is gonna be on things TV, bro. Rafa's fired up. Veins exploding at his neck. 11 minutes game, 11 and a half minute game and Rafa survives. Three, two, Rafa. And the wind has died down. That's a good thing for Rafa. Marsha, yeah, right? Yeah, the Brady Bunch movie in the 90s. Oh, so she was in the movie, not the original. Yeah, she didn't dodge ball, I know that. And I think she was in Zoolander, but I know that. But I didn't before that, she was in, yeah, I thought she was in Brady Bunch. Okay, I'll send you questions. Answer my question, the question, jerk! This is a crazy match. This is a crazy match. Actually, you know what? Instead of you asking me questions, I feel like I want to ask you a question. Where are you from? What country are you from? Thank you, Lorna, I appreciate it. Where are you from? I'm from Australia, but we've got people all around the world and all the times. I mean, some people in Europe are awake. Hopefully I'm keeping you awake with the call. Every time you're about to fall asleep, you hear me shout and scream and you'll jump back up, that's what I'm hoping. What about people from India? Good morning. I'm sure you're just waking up when you stand up all night. A lot of people from India here, as you'd expect, because Rafa's huge over there. A lot of Americans in the house. What's up, what's up? We've got Austria, we've got Trinidad, Peru, Vermont, France, Philippines, England, Queensland, oh, Australia's here. What, people from Australia here? That's crazy. Welcome. California, we've got Canada. Plenty of Americans in the chat. A lot of Canadians as well. Kenya, Brazil, Sydney. India, a lot of people from India. You guys are savage. You guys stayed up all night to watch your man, Rafa. That's a true fan right there. Greece in the house as well, there you go. Mexico, Ukraine, doubt that. And if it is true, well, stay safe. Mars, let's get back to the match. Someone had to ruin it with a stupid joke. The Martian came out, so that was good timing, but still, 15 left. By the way, Rafa's stretching out his arm a little bit. He's keeping on that. Big shots to everyone out there. Hopefully you're enjoying the call and it's keeping you awake as that goes in the net from Rafa, 30 left. And I hope you're feeling all the tension of this match, all the energy, all the nerves. By the way, Rafa's just called the trainer, hey, I should be a doctor. Give me a PhD because I just said he heard his shoulder. And now he's got the trainer coming out. Rafa's got a shoulder problem. Rafa's left shoulder is not working. He's hurt himself, Rafa. Give me a PhD, I called it. He's not even going for shots, Rafa. 40 left. He is not going to serve the next game until he gets treatment, by the way. I don't think Rafa's gonna serve the next game. He's gonna get a medical time out after this point. I'd be surprised if he even tries to hit this shot. Ready? He's headed from Alcarez, he's in the net. But Rafa has, I think it's a shoulder issue because he's pointing in here. I think he's hurt his shoulder or a peck, pictorial muscle, somewhere in there, on the left one. As that goes out from Rafa, 3-3. Alcarez looks down the other end. What's Rafa gonna do? Trainer coming out. I think Rafa's gonna serve with a bad shoulder. No way. Yep. Well, they're not showing Rafa, they're showing Alcarez. Alcarez is walking. Rafa's gonna serve this game in the next change of ends. But if you just join us, Rafa is hurt and it's not the foot. Will Rafa retire? No. Not this match, I'd be very shocked if he did. As he serves now, goes into the fore now to the back end of Alcarez. For now from Rafa, again to the back end of Alcarez and that goes out. Now, I think the only, it seems like if it's a shoulder, serving hurts, right? But if it's a peck, I don't think that'll, I mean, it'd probably be more forehand, right? Cause when you hit your forehand, you're kind of using this. Serve is here, forehand is here. So it depends, I mean, it all hurts, right? If you have a bad shoulder, everything hurts. But I think for Rafa, the forehand will hurt more if it's a peck or if it's like sort of not quite the shoulder itself. As Alcarez hits a winner down the line, what the hell? Everyone in shock, 15-0. But he has played an 11 minute and a 20 minute service game. So it's probably related to those games. He's probably hurt himself by serving so much as well. So if you're just joining us, Rafa has done something to his arm and we're gonna get the training come out after this game as he hits a great serve there. Now, this might be a good thing for Rafa. I know that sounds weird, but it might be good because it might force him to actually be aggressive. He doesn't wanna play long rallies with a bad arm. So how do you not play long rallies where you try and hit winners as quickly as possible? And that could help Rafa. 30-15. Someone in the crowd had too many beers. 30-15. Rafa serves out wide, a fault. And he looked at the sky like, ah, I have to serve again. Second serve. Taking his time here, Rafa. The wind has stopped as he serves a double fault. 30-0. That was a very close second serve. And that ball was, it looked like it was curving back, but not enough. Oh! Right next to the line. And yeah, the wind is definitely, definitely settled. It's still windy, but it's not, it's not like it was. Also, the temperature's dropped as well. 30-0, Rafa serves a fault. Cut by a first serve! Second serve. Second serve. Huge point here. Rafa needs this game, especially if he's hurt. He serves now to the back end of Elkres, four-handed from Rafa, into the back end of Elkres. To the four-handed of Rafa, into the back end of Elkres, back end up from Rafa. Again to the back end of Elkres. Four-hand now down the line from Rafa, Elkres gets it. Into the back end of Rafa, who hits a great shot. Elkres slices it, Rafa the volley, Elkres runs, back end, cross-court Rafa volleys, Elkres gets it, volley Rafa, Elkres gets it. In the net though! This is gonna be on tennis TV, bro. And Elkres is on the ground! And that's what happens when you play Rafa. He flaws you! The crowd on their feet, they lose their minds. What a rally! What a rally! This is gonna be on tennis TV, bro. It is! Many, many times. Maybe the point of the match. And Elkres almost won it. Because he almost won it because that's what, I mean Rafa and his pro in his youth did that kind of stuff. The only difference is that Rafa wasn't playing himself 20 years ago. Man, what a rally. Elkres, I mean Rafa with a fist bump there, so that's a good sign for the shoulder. I mean he's not afraid to punch the air. Also just did a party trick, caught the ball in his strings. The crowd, they're like, whoa, special. 40-30. Serve to the back end of Elkres, for now Rafa, down the line is wide! Oh, he had the shot. He had the shot, he pulled the trigger. Now he's gotta play another long game. Deuce again. Man, they show the replay of the party trick. Yeah, it was all right. It did bounce a little bit on his racket. He didn't quite, anyways, it's not that I can do that. But anyway, if I, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I think every tennis coach, if you're a tennis coach, you have to know how to do that. Otherwise, are you really, really a coach? As we get a serve now to the forehand of Elkres, for now from Elkres, down the line, Rafa with a volley, Elkres at the back end. Rafa with a, oh, get out! Unbelievable. This is gonna be on tennis TV, bro. Get out! Elkres is playing some great shots, and Rafa is getting away with some ridiculous volleys. I was just like, oh, well Elkres wins that point. Nope, nope. Rafa just guesses right. How did he make that volley? And he's just like, come on. You're like, you did not mean that. Rafa doing Rafa things. Advantage Nadal to take back the lead, and then we'll see what the trainer does says. As he serves that one, what a serve! What a serve! Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. What a gritty service game from Rafa. He's clearly hurt. The trainer's back. Question, jerk! Rafa, Rafa, Rafa, Famos. You got this Rafa smiling face with Heart's Love Carlitos, but not your time yet. Thank you, Mary, for the 20. All right, trainer on court. Rafa is pointing here. It's almost, and he's saying, he's kind of pointing at his back as well. So it's kind of like here, and a bit of his back. Their massage, like the doctor's pushing on his back. So it might, and it's gotta be serve related, right? It's gotta be because of the serving. He's played some really long service games. He's saying he's, they're gonna do a medical timeout. Rafa's getting a medical timeout. Medical timeout, Rafa, he's gonna get, I think it might be a back, like a shoulder blade. So again, it's probably because of the serve. Cause I mean, he served some big games. So he's on the ground, medical timeout for Rafa. It's on like, it's kind of here, but also here. So it's definitely all this. Medical timeout for Rafa. As they, as Rafa does this and they hug it, they hug. He's like, oh, that's such a weird motion when they do that. It's like he's getting wrestled. The doctor's wrestling Rafa. That's, it looks like he's like, got him in a headlock and he's like, yeah. So Rafa ran out to a forehand, hit the forehand. Let's see what if he does it on any of these shots. I think it's just a buildup of doing a bunch of different shots. I don't think, or is this a replay of the last point? I think it's just a buildup of a bunch of points, you know. It doesn't seem to be, I mean, the showing is a replay. I think it's just from Rafa doing a bunch of stuff. By the way, Rafa's back, maybe no medical timeout, okay? Must be just a medical massage. Maybe just a massage. Anyways, Rafa's back on court. They were just doing an assessment, I guess. Anyways, Rafa's back. I guess they can't do much more than just like stretch him out. But Rafa's feeling it right now. And Elkres has to be careful because if he gets broken here, Rafa serves for the match. He's got to be careful. Elkres serves a double fault. Love 15. Also, we're almost at 79,000 subscribers. Thank you. If you subscribed over the last couple of weeks, watching this tournament, thank you. That's crazy. That's crazy. Almost at 2,000 likes as well. Appreciate that. It's been a find now from Elkres. That's a winner. Good shot. Great serve. What the hell, man? Great serve and a big find, a boot. By the way, the people sitting around, the doctor are asking questions. And the doctor's like, I'm not allowed to tell you. Play a confidentiality. And they're like, what's his injury? Can you tell us what's wrong? And he's like, I can't say anything. My lips are sealed. Or maybe they were just going like, how was it to hug Rafa? Is he as big as you? Is he as muscly as when you're hugging? 15. As Elkres has to great serve and a big four-hand again. Unbelievable. The one, two punch. The combo. I mean, how many of you in the chat will want to get that close to Rafa? Going, oh, that bloody doctor, he gets to get that close. Jealous. Just to put his arms around the big shoulders of Rafa. How many of you are jealous? Come on now. Come on now. There's a couple of people in the chat that wish they were that doctor. 30-15. Second serve now. This is a chance for Rafa with Elkres. Hitting the second serve is with a four-hand return from Rafa, four-hand from Elkres. Goes into the back end of Rafa. Back end out from Elkres. Into the four-hand of Rafa. Into the back end of Elkres. Four-hand Rafa again. He's being more aggressive, Rafa. Elkres gets it. Four-hand Rafa down the line. Elkres with the pass. Rafa with the volley. Elkres with a lob. But it goes out. 30-all. 30-all. Big trouble for Elkres. Has to get his first serve. Rafa looks, I gotta be real. Rafa looks worried. And I think it's because he's thinking about the poor, the injury. Is that Monica Selle's husband, that guy that everyone was talking about before? Are they married? No. 30-all. Big point here. Needs a first serve. Elkres. And he misses it. Cut by a first serve. Second serve. Huge chance for Rafa here. Elkres serves to the back end of Rafa. Four-hand Elkres again to the back end of Rafa. Back end out from Elkres. To the four-hand of Rafa. Into the four-hand of Elkres. And that's in the net from Elkres. 30-40. Break point Nadal. Needs a first serve, Elkres. He's hit three second serves. He's lost three points. The first, the other two points he's won, first serve in. I mean, it's as simple as that. But it's also as difficult as that. 30-40. First serve goes into the back end of Rafa. Back end out from Elkres. Into the four-hand of Rafa. Rafa down the line. Elkres in trouble. Volley Rafa is too good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's Rafa doing Rafa things. You can look at the torch, but you're not taking it. You are not taking the torch. You can look at it. Sure, you can hold the torch for a set, but you're not taking it from Rafa. And Rafa is serving for the match to get to the final against an equally as sore Taylor Fritz. I mean, we've got Taylor Fritz with an ankle problem. Rafa with a back problem. Let's just play wheelchair tennis for the final. Stuff it. Let's have a wheelchair match. Let's get Dylan Alcott back. He can jump on commentator. Let's go. They've got to play in 24 hours. So like, they don't get any rest. Not like the ladies who got a day off. These guys are going to play tomorrow. Well, one of them does. Rafa serving for the match. The wind has died down completely now. It's not a factor. Rafa serves to the back of Alcárez. Four never Rafa into the front of Alcárez. That's in the net. 15 love, Rafa. Three points away from denying the heir apparent, the prince of Spanish tennis. Not yet. Not yet. 15 love. And he serves a fold. Yes. Second serve. Almost at, almost there. Can we get there? Surely. 32 people more. Come on, let's go. Let's get there by the end of the match. 79 Ks. We get a serve down to the front of Alcárez. But it goes out from Alcárez. 30 love. Two points away from denying Alcárez the win. And Juan Carlos Ferrero, he looks, I mean, look, he doesn't look disappointed because he probably knows, hey, we're going in the right direction. Last year you got smashed. This year we got a set. Let's the next one, maybe a W. Maybe, I mean, it's not over yet, but we'll see how it goes here. Two points to go Rafa to get to the final. As he serves down a T, Alcárez gets it. Volley Rafa, Alcárez lobs as it goes out. Unbelievable. He's battled the wind. He's battled his shoulder. He's battled the kid that's going to take his place when he retires. But no, no, no, he ain't going to lose this one. It's Rafa frigging Nadal. You think he was going to lose this match? Come on now. If anyone's going to win a match like this, it's this goat here. Rafa's got match point. Three of them to take his point in the final. He serves out wide, Alcárez slices it, but it's a let. No, sorry, it's a fault. Second serve, Rafa. By the way, don't forget to like the video, subscribe if you haven't already. Come on, come on. Who's going to be the lucky one? Serve, Rafa, match point. He serves out wide to the back of the Valgros. That goes out. The king's not dead yet. The king is not dead yet. Alcárez will have his time, but it's not now. The torch stays in Rafa's hands. And Alcárez, I mean look, he's not far away. He's gaining ground. But it's Rafa Nadal who's at the top of the Spanish throne. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Thank you, Nick, for the five. The Spanish throne of tennis. Because there's actually a king of Spain, so I don't want to disrespect that guy, but it's Rafa Nadal. Three hours, 10 minutes played, and he takes it in three. But Alcárez is not far away and watch out. The next time they play, maybe, just maybe, Alcárez will get the dub. And it lived up to the hype, everybody. How good was that? How good was that? Alcárez leaves. He's going in the right direction. First time, got whooped. This time, got a set. He's only going forward. Great tournament, semi-finals. I mean, how good is that? Alcárez living up to the hype himself. But we'll see him in Miami. I mean, we'll see him next week. So he'll be playing Miami. But yeah, man, Rafa Nadal. Come on now. Who doubted him? Who doubted him? Doubt Rafa at your peril. 20 wins in a row to start the season. 20-0. Woo! Woo-hoo! 21-0 is on the cards. Now, Rafa's playing tomorrow, so there's no day off. There's no rest. None of that. So he's going to be playing Taylor Fritz in like 24 hours. Less than 24 hours. So no rest for Rafa, but I guess the good thing is, Fritz is also injured. They're both going to be hurt. So at least it kind of levels the playing field in terms of injuries, but we don't know how badly Fritz is hurt. He could be really badly hurt. But Rafa's back. I mean, look, I think it was more just like the amount of playing, right? He's played so much tennis, so much growing. Curious, quarter, Alcárez. Grinding, grinding. So I think Rafa's just a little bit sore, but he'll be fine. He'll be fine. By the way, thank you so much. 79,000 subscribers. 79K. Oh my God. Thank you, everybody. 79K. What the hell? Thank you. Appreciate it, everybody. Almost at 2,000 likes as well. We're only five away from 2K likes. Ah, there it is. 2K, that's 3,000 likes. That's it. That's it. Let's go. He's a bullshit Russian, you think this is normal? Rafa the king. Always and forever, 20 and zero. 20, no, baby. 79K party popper. Thank you, Jay. Appreciate the donations, everybody. Thank you so much. What a match. What a match. Match of the tournament. I mean, one of the matches, one of the best reset matches of the year. Not as dramatic as Curious or quarter, but, man, I mean, the drama of the wind. You had Rafa battling the elements, literally. Battling the elements. And then you had Alcárez. You know, it came off in a flying start. Now, Alcárez served, let him down. The serve led him down. His first serve percentage, you know, it looks good here, but that's a glitch. I mean, even in that last game, right? When he got broken, he hit three second serves and lost the point. So the first serve of Alcárez, that was the issue. Needed, in the wind, it worked because he took the pace off it a little and also Rafa played bad in the wind. But that was a big thing. Big takeaway for me. Alcárez's first serve needs more free points. At least needs to be able to set up his ground strokes with the big serve. Couldn't do that. And Rafa in the wind is a terrible combination. Rafa hated playing the wind three years ago when we watched him. He hates it now. I think if you're playing Rafa on a windy day, you back yourself, because I reckon if it's windy, you're a chance. I mean, look at this. All of a sudden, we went to a third and it looked like Rafa was going out. How's Fritz ankle? Yeah, Mary, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. We saw it. We didn't see him get treatment for it because he kind of left the court when he won. So he heard it in the final game of the match, but we haven't got anything from there. Now we're not going to be around for too much. I'm only going to stick around for a little bit because I've got to go, I'm already an hour late to a lunch that I was supposed to be at for my grandma's birthday. But we'll stick around for about five, 10 minutes and now I've got to get out of here. I've got to do family things. That's my question! The question, jerk! Thank you so... Oh my God, nearly died. Thank you so much, everybody, for subscribing and liking the video. Look, I guess off the top of my head, I'm guessing this is the biggest three-set match we've watched ever. Maybe there's a women's match in there that's bigger, but it's one of the biggest matches of the year, hands down, but one of the biggest matches for the channel, so that's really cool. Thanks for hanging out with us. Happy birthday, I'll pass on the happy birthdays. I saw his interview, he said it wasn't broken or rolled, but it was hurting. Yeah, maybe he just like slammed it on the ground and maybe it had like a, it made me not broken, but maybe it's twisted. He might've just jarred it, like bruised it. You can bruise your ankle or your heel, you know, when you smack your heel on the ground by accident. He said he thinks he'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hopefully we get a final that's really good. Really, like, both healthy, you know, healthy final with no one who's hurting. What else we got? Rafa's now number three, yep. Rafa is number three. Elkra is the best 18-year-old in history? No, that's Rafa. Or no, probably Mats Velander. Mats Velander was a 17-year-old winnings lands, so I don't think Elkra is the best 18-year-old in history. No way. He hasn't got a slam yet. Late to the party, almost Rafa says, Bella, welcome, welcome. Family day, Cam, they are waiting, lunchtime, hey, it's all right, it's all right. I'm already an hour late, what's an hour and a half? It's all right, I'll be there, get there. I said, I told everyone I was, I would be late, so. Greatest of all times, Mount Goot. Cam hope all is good. Nadal is my favorite since 2006, but this guy, Elkra, is gonna be my favorite after Nadal retired law. Speedy tennis player indeed, Famos. Thank you, Liquid, for the 25, appreciate that, man. Yeah, I said this earlier, Rafa fans have someone to watch when Rafa's gone. Is the big three era when they retire, is it gonna kill tennis? Well, no, because you've got someone, Rafa fans have someone to watch when Rafa's gone, who's very similar to Rafa. Lot of good quality, still the same quality, so yeah. When does Monte Carlo start? 11th of April, in about four weeks. Hingus is the best teenager ever to play tennis, there you go, yeah. There's a lot of, 18 year old, you have to be a slam champion to be one of the best, consider one of the best in history. So he's gonna win this year's French Open. Alcaraz needs to serve better to be a goat. Yeah, well, I mean, I don't think, just to be a top 10 player, he needs to serve better. I don't think he needs to be a goat, he needs to do a lot of more things better, but for Alcaraz to be, he needs to serve better to be considered a top 10er to me. Thank you, bro, I appreciate the dollar. Yeah, I think, let's not call this guy goat, all right? Let's let him win a couple of slams first, when he gets to maybe, when he gets to 10 slams, he's halfway there, we'll start talking about goats, all right? Let's let him win a couple first before we start talking about goats. Alvarca is the bright future. Yeah, I'm so fired up to watch this kid. I remember back, and I'm similar to Liquid, right? Back in 2005 was when I first ever watched Rafa, watched him play Layton, Australian Open, I'm like, shit, when Layton's gone, this guy's gonna be the guy that I'm gonna love watching because he's got the same qualities of Layton Hewitt. You know, he fights for every point, he's more, he was a bigger hitter than Layton too, so he hit more winners. So he's like, oh, I'm gonna enjoy watching this guy. And now that Alcarez has shown up, I'm like, this guy is gonna take over from the funds we watch with Rafa. He's gonna do a lot of Rafa things, and it's gonna be exciting to watch. So I'm excited to watch Alcarez for sure, you know? Because I feel like the current generation of Mevadevs and City Pass, they're a bit more of like a grind, you know, grind out the points, and that's fun, but it's also good to have big hitters and power players, right? Power shots, and that's what Alcarez brings to the table. So I'm excited. Same with Rune, Holger Rune, I'm excited for him because he does the same as what Alcarez does. Firepower, you know? It's good to have a mix. Looking forward to Alcarez's Sinner Slam final in 2026. Hey, look, that's a final, that could be a final for sure, one day. Hey, does that schedule that tomorrow? I wonder who's playing? Let me have a look at what time we're coming back tomorrow, so. Yeah, tomorrow, both men and women's final. Ladies first, men straight after. I think it starts at like, I'm pretty sure it starts at five a.m. my time. One p.m. And then the men start at three p.m., so straight after basically. What was today? Today's match started at, oh, it's the same as today. So yeah, I get to wake up at six o'clock in the morning instead. So same time tomorrow, we'll watch both of these matches. Good, good, good, good, good, good. Thank you for doing this for us, no worries. Yep, my pleasure. I love it, thank you for being here. Thanks for showing up, everybody. Also, we're almost at 79.1. Can we get 21 more people? Come on now, come on now. If you've been maybe a watcher of this channel for a while and you haven't subscribed because you've like, I like watching tennis, but I don't know if I should subscribe. That match surely, surely that match. Surely that match will press the red button now, come on. Or maybe you forgot that you had to do something you should do. We'll be watching every Rafa match for the entire year, so Rafa fans, we've got you covered. Al-Qares will be watching him next week in Miami because he'll be playing Miami. So if you're a fan of these guys, we're here for you. Any night or day, I mean, look, it's middle of the day now, but next week will be midnight, so I'll be awake doing things. Cam doing cam things. That sounds weird, but you know what I mean if you're a regular. Appreciate it, Diamond. Hey, shit, all right, we're almost there. Thank you, everybody who did subscribe. Three to go. We're gonna sign off in three minutes. All right, three minutes. And then I gotta go get out of here. Hopefully I'm, hopefully I haven't ended the party. Subscribe so I can prove Cam wrong, then he can get to 800,000 by India Most Final. Well, tomorrow has to be, they have to be some good finals tomorrow, Rowdy. There gotta be some big finals tomorrow if we're gonna get 1,000 people in one sitting. It's gotta be some epicness. Can't subscribe twice, that's all right. Appreciate it, Osa. No worries, Dutchy, we'll see you next time. I'll tell you what, I won't be doing it at my grandma's birthday, I won't be talking. I'll be just watching, sitting there and just listening. Six and a half hours of yelling and screaming. I mean, that's enough for me. Save a piece of cake for me. Been watching since 20K, now you're almost 80K. Cam doing Cam things, thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. Me staying up all night watching tennis is a Cam thing. Cam doing Cam things, that's exactly what I did. That's a Cam doing vampire things. Alcoris reminds me of Del Potro, to be honest. He's a lot shorter than Del Potro, but I know what you mean. The forehand is very, very Del Potro-esque, as in it's a weapon. It's a big, big slog weapon. It's a sledgehammer. You have the best coverage of the Djokovic debacle. Subscribes since then, thank you. Yeah, you know, did my best, even though it wasn't my field of expertise, but I learned a lot, you know? I learned a lot about rules and law, and now we kind of know that Djokovic won't be playing tournaments if the countries won't let him play. It's not up to the tennis. I joined late, but I enjoyed the finish. Love your enthusiasm for tennis. Thank you, DJ, welcome back, man. Appreciate it. Yeah, hopefully, look, this match was crazy. There was a lot of things happening. So I hope you did, you sat back, you listened, and you sort of had, you felt the rollercoaster of emotions, you know? Especially Rafa fans. I mean, it was going well, and then all of a sudden the wind came out of nowhere and he started to play bad. So I hope you felt the same emotions as if you were watching it, or if you were watching it, I hope you haven't lost all your fingernails. You predicted three sets, Rafa, great job. I don't want to toot my own horn, but I said six, three final set as well. If you want to give me some more credit. But yeah, look, it just had a vibe. This had a vibe, right? It had a feeling that you thought, Elkwrez is going to do something, but he's not going to get there today. Not today, next time, but not today. I just thought that was the vibe. Yeah, that was a 20-minute game. Yep, in the second set, huge game. Appreciate your work. See you in the finals. Thank you, it's a jib. We'll see you next time. Nadal's number three now, yep. Had to like this more than once. You have to have more YouTube accounts, I think. I always knew it was going three, says Lexi. Yeah, Lexi, you know what's up. You know what's up. Someone needs to stop Rafa. I'm loving it all. I'm not loving it at all, okay? You're in the wrong house. You're in the wrong place if you're going to talk shit about Rafa. Talk crap about Rafa at your own peril. They'll get you. 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