Welcome back everybody and we are here for the first men's quarterfinal. It's happening. It's all starting to happen. It feels like we've watched a UFC card for the last, what, five hours of like, have you ever watched UFC or boxing? It's like we're just slowly working our way to the main event. And we're just taking, it's going to take a little longer than boxing, 30 minutes or, you know, an hour per fight, still a bit longer, but it does feel like we've gone from like, you know, the undercard to the pre-lims to the co-main event, which is where we're now, the main events next. But let's look at the co-main event because this is a massive, massive event, massive match I should say. I'm losing my mind. Massive match. Players are on court. Let's go to the preview because of course these two have had similar roads to this stage with five centers along the way, tricky matches, easy matches. They both have probably spent about the same time on court as well. The awkward is a fraction longer. So you can see here, there is a lineup. There are the boys in the quarters. You've got the goats up the top. You've got the next versus, what was, what we call them, the current gen versus the new gen, couple of new gen guys there with Rune, Rune and Rune and Rune and Rude. And then of course, Ruebler versus a unlucky generation guy. But then, I mean, he was one of the lucky ones, wasn't he, Chillich, grabbing that slam back in the day. And the other guys at these, the other players at these two have played. Of course, Elkarez started his tournament off against Laundero. He played that epic match against Ramos Vanola, saving match points. He dismissed quarter in the third round. And of course, against Hashinov in the fourth round, he made that a joke. Zverev, he beat Offener in the first round. He won against Baez in five saving match points as well in the second round. So same as Elkarez on the same day, in fact, then he beat Nakashima in the third round pretty easily, a couple of tie breaks in the Morales. So these guys have played pretty much the, it's almost mirrored these two, these two roads to this stage. Let's talk about Carlos Elkarez. He is number six in the world, 19 year old from Spain. He's six foot one right handed, 28 wins, three losses on the year. Four titles to go with those 28 wins, five titles in his career. And he's beaten the goats. And he's going to have to play one of them if he wins today. Let's talk about Zverev. He is three in the world, 25 year old from Germany, six foot six right handed, 24 wins, nine losses on the year without a title this year, 19 career titles. He won the ATB finals last year and hasn't won one since. And his best wins are against Sinner and Sidney Pass. So a little bit different from the Elkarez wins. Two one in favour of Zverev in their matchup. But I mean, who can forget the Madrid final a couple of weeks ago where Elkarez destroyed Zverev? I don't think we can really look back into Acapulco and Vienna last year because last year Elkarez was not the same guy. This is a new guy, new year, new me is what Elkarez said when they when they had the fireworks going on in New Year's Eve, new year, new me. And wasn't he correct because he has got a new level for sure. He has taken things to an extremely high level for such a young dude, something we haven't seen since Rafa back in the 2000s. Even the new generation guys or the current gen guys, Medvedev and Zverev, they didn't look this good coming out of the blocks at 18, 19 years old. They were promising, but they weren't this good. OK, players on court, ready to go. Who's winning this match? Who's winning this match? What are you reckon, chat? Is it going to be an ounce? Is it going to be a beat down? Is this going to be an embarrassment? Is that what we're going to see again? Is it going to be another? Another day of Elkarez playing video game, cheat code, tennis, cracked out of his out of his mind, or are we going to see Zverev win his win his first match against the top 10 guy at a slam? I mean, that he's never beaten the top 10 or the slam. We've got to remember that. He's never beaten the top 10 guy at a grand slam. So he's going to do that today. What do you reckon? Let me know in the chat. I am going with Elkarez in five. I just want to five said, I mean, to be honest, I don't care who wins, but Elkarez in five for me. Elkarez in five. Elkarez three, what are you going with Elkarez in three? Sasha four or five? Oh, I see you saying Elkarez in three or four. OK, I mean, most likely if I had to put money on it, I would say four sets Elkarez. I think Zverev can get a set, but Elkarez will get the job done. But I'd love a five setter. I'd love a five setter always, always. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. Hey, thank you, XL, for the donation again. Thanks for the super sticker. Appreciate that. Sasha's first serve has to be good. Agree. Elkarez four or five. Elkarez four is Zverev in five. Yeah, I think maybe Zverev in five might be a might be something to think about. Carlos in four or Zverev in five seem to be the popular ones or Carlos in straights, which again, that could be for sure. By the way, I think we should mention that Juan Carlos Ferrero did coach Alexander Zverev. There was a time where Juan Carlos Ferrero worked with Zverev and maybe knows something for Carlos to exploit. What's the weather like? Weather's fine. Sun's out. Guns out if you Zverev. Mini guns, a little pistol, little water, water, water guns out.  Skinny pistols. Um, Elkarez Rock on the Nike. Zverev, sure, serve will determine the match. Yeah, his serve was a big, big, big factor for sure. Zverev in straight sets, seven, six, seven, six, seven, five. I guess Zverev's going to clutch it. That's an interesting perspective. Clutching Zverev, maybe, maybe, maybe. We will all find out together. Now, let's see what the win predictor is, because that's somewhere on the screen. Where's that? Where's the predictor at today? Maybe that'll be better to have on the screen than the scores, things that's not, nothing happening. Oh, there we go. Live win predictor. It's live. So this is going to change as the match goes on right now. It's Elkarez. He is likely to win 77 percent. It's based, I think, on the odds of the match. So the betting. So that'll change as the odds change if the odds change. Don't think Zverev is mentally stronger than Elkarez. So if it's five cents, I think Elkarez. OK. Now, this is how I'm seeing it. Physically, I think the longer the match goes, I think Zverev is physically going to be better because I think Elkarez, as he's shown in like in five centers in the last six months or 12 months, he does sometimes get a little sore towards the end. Maybe Zverev has the physical physicality. Maybe not. Maybe Elkarez is different again this year. It's a different year, right? But also mentality, you're right. I think it goes to Carlos as that goes wide from Elkarez. All right, it's happening. Oh, God, it's happening. No, God, please. Oh, God. No, no. Oh, God, it's happening. Let's get the scores up as well. Elkarez lose the first one. He is serving first in this one. Again, Chucky scores in the chat. I want to know what in the hell is going to happen. All I want is carnage. I want blood. I want to see blood as Zverev gets the return, but it goes in the net.  Not physical blood. Fifteen dollars, we're going to return now from Zverev into the front of Elkarez. Back in there from Zverev down to the back end. I'm sorry, from the front of Elkarez. That goes into the. Foreigners there, but over the baseline and it's 30 15 30. I've got to get used to watching right handers again. We've been watching too many lefties. Backing again, my back hands are foins mixed up 15 30. Now, this is a slower court, the Madrid. Does that make a difference?  So about what is the fault? Second serve, Elkarez. Second serve to the back and Zverev. Back in Elkarez is a winner. Bang, there's the first one. The first of many.  Fifty winners, you reckon? Under over, what do you reckon? Fifty. Forty five, 40, maybe thirty five under over. Thirty all Elkarez serves the let. I think Zverev has to win the first set. I mean, that's that's a given, right? Mentally, physically, I think Zverev needs to win the first set. Wins the first set, then we're going to match. Return now from Zverev to the front of Elkarez. Backing of Zverev in the front of Elkarez. Again, to the front of Zverev on the stretch. That goes in the ground from Zverev. Forty thirty. If the tennis gods are listening. Would you like a tie break in the first set, please? Yeah, OK. They said they'll think about it. Forty thirty Elkarez to get the first game. Serves a fault in the ball. He catches the ball instead of getting in the nuts. Nobody clapped. That kid could have lost his children. So about why did the back end of Zverev four and a half from Elkarez into the back end of Zverev sliced into the form of Elkarez, who hits a drop shot. He was going to do that all along. Zverev gets it though, hits it wide. Elkarez gets the first game, one love. You could tell he went, I'm going to hit a drop shot. And Zverev's like, oh, I know, but I saw it last week. OK. One love. Elkarez first game of the match. Zverev has a temper temperature. Champ. Oh, Jesus. If he has a tension tantrum, temper tantrum, will he get suspended? I have no idea. No, because the ATP, he's on probation for the ATP, not the ITF. So if Zverev does anything at the slams, it doesn't count as part of his probation. His probation is only on ATP in ATP events. ITF control the slams. So if he has a meltdown, he won't get banned unless the ATP decides to make an example of it, which they might not. I mean, they maybe they will. I don't know. Back end now from Zverev down the line. Elkarez with the volley. Too good. He read Zverev like a book on that one. Love 15. Love 15. He came to the net and went, I'm two shots ahead. I know where you're going to hit it before you even hit it.  Highest IQ, under 21, Carlos Elkarez. And Zverev hit a massive serve, too, which came back without even breaking a sweat. As Zverev serves a good serve there, and it goes wide. On the return from Elkarez, shanked wide. 15-all. As Zverev serves. Very important early games here. Serve down the tee, the back end of Elkarez. Back end now from Zverev into the back end of Elkarez. He guesses right. Zverev with the volley. Elkarez is too quick. Zverev, you're going to be better than that. And he got whooped by it. If you're going to hit a drop volley, you've got to be better than that, Sasha. Love 15-30. It's got to be this high over the net and bounce about the same.  Serve. Down the tee is a fault. Zverev doesn't think so, but the umpire says, I am getting out of the chair. Second serve, Sasha. 15-30. Zverev serves to the back end of Elkarez, and that's in the net from Elkarez. Zverev almost slipped over. Woof. Doesn't need to be played with a broken nose. OK, 30-all. The pressure points will be very important. Unfortunately, we don't have that stat available yet. Working on it, I feel like that's a very important stat. These 30-all points, Zverev's going to have to win these. 30-all. Zverev serves. Out wide. But it's a let. You know what something Elkarez does that maybe you could bring into your own game at home, is he returns everything, even if it's a fault. He tries to return everything just to kind of keep. It's a good way to keep your opponent honest, you know? As Elkarez shanks that one back into the back end of Zverev, hit the tape, goes to the slice of Elkarez, back end of Zverev, down the line to the forn of Elkarez, who hits it in the net, 40-30. I'm not saying, like, smack the ball at your opponent on a fault. That's not nice. But, like, you know, if they hit a fault, you know, get a racket on it.  It does, it's a psychological little trick you might be able to use. Bit of gamesmanship. 40-30, it's kind of frowned upon in some circles, but again, it's not illegal. Just say that you're hitting the ball back to the person. Why not? 40-30, serve down the tee, good serve from Zverev, Elkarez gets it back, back end of Zverev to the slice of Elkarez into the forn of Zverev, who hits it out by a mile. Little slice down the line to Zverev and Zverev just couldn't get the flick as we get to Deuce. Back to Deuce, serve down the tee, the back end of Elkarez, forn from Zverev to the forn of Elkarez, back end of Zverev, Elkarez comes to the net, but it goes in the net from Sasha. And it's advantage, Elkarez, I think Zverev, he serves a little too predictable. Elkarez is reading that serve perfectly. The break in the first games of the match. Elkarez, Zverev serves a fault. Second serve, Zverev into the forn of Elkarez, back end of Zverev into the back end of Elkarez, to the forn of Zverev, into the forn of Elkarez on the stretch, Zverev with a lovely forehand, that's what he needs. Those whipping cross-court forehands, get Elkarez running, back to Deuce, back to Deuce. Very important games here early. Not for Elkarez, Zverev. Elkarez could be down 4-11, I don't think we'd be worried. Zverev, he needs this, he serves. Out wide to the forn of Elkarez, back end of Zverev into the back end of Elkarez, to the back end of Zverev, another back end of back end exchanges. Elkarez hits it in the net, and you can see by the stats, we don't even have to talk about who's in control because the stats are showing, Zverev's at one error, he hasn't done anything. Elkarez is one hitting errors and winners. He's controlling this match already. If he hits a winner or hits an error, that is what's dictating these points. Not Zverev, Zverev's just, he's just a spectator at this point. But he serves an ace, bang, he needed that one. Sasha gets on the board 1-1, that's a good serve. More of those, needed. All right, nearly 10 minutes played, first games of the match. Anyone in the chat want to change their prediction? Anyone? No, didn't think so. Didn't think so. Okay, Elkarez the serve. Now, Elkarez, despite the fact that he is in control, not playing, I mean, he's hit a lot of errors, five errors already, that's, it's not great as he wins the first point here, 15 love. Gotta keep an eye on that error count. Zverev might just be weathering the storm. Elkarez serves into the back end of Zverev, who shanks it into the front of Elkarez, and Elkarez hits it in the net. Another error, 15 all. And we do know Elkarez does have a tendency to have a bit of a slow start. I mean, we watched him play Sidney Pass a few weeks ago, or a couple of weeks ago, maybe two months ago now. And he was never in trouble, but he was off to a slow start. Kind of like Igor, Igor sometimes does do that as well. Zverev needs to capitalize on any errors. Second serve to the back end of Zverev, for him from Elkarez is wide. Another error, 15-30. Just trying to find his feet. Now, Elkarez has never made a semi-final of a slam, right? Made the quarterfinals last year at the US Open, but a semi-final of a slam, Zverev has the experience in his favor. So that's something. Serve by Elkarez, Zverev hits the back end in the net. Elkarez gets the 30 all. So I mean, if we're trying to figure out how Zverev's gonna win this, I mean, that's a plus, right? Right? That's a plus. 30 all. Elkarez with a serve. Out wide to the foreigners, Zverev, 40 from Elkarez into the back end of Zverev, to the foreigner of Elkarez, who shanks it, but it goes in to the foreigners, Zverev dumps that in the net, lach. 40-30. Waste in that chance there, Zverev. 40-30, Elkarez to get back the lead. Serve, into the back end of Zverev, that goes in the net, Elkarez too good. Elkarez got the serve out wide and the volley and very smart stuff. 2-1, Elkarez. Answer my question! The question, jerk! Let's add some questions. What's the weather like? What's the weather in London? Is it raining? I have no idea. Probably. Elkarez has been achieving first-time milestones on clay season. He gets his first semi-final today. Okay, Pam. Yeah, well, Coco did the same today, right? We thought experience was in favour of Stevens, but that didn't make a difference. Why are they fighting in the chat? No fighting. Stop fighting. Who's causing fights? Who do I have to kick out? Oh, bruh! Hey! It's not nice. Dawn's got it. Dawn's in the chat. Dawn will know what's up. I can't see. Don't invite a crazy camera. Sashimi can become world number one if he wins just three more matches. Excuse me? Qing, is that serious? Zverev could be world number one. I'm gonna salt them there. Excuse me? How? Is that real? Zverev, I mean, look. That's bad for Zverev. That's insane. That's insane. If Zverev wins the French Open, he becomes the world number one. Why are we not talking about this? Why are we not talking about this? How is this, how is this not a thing?  So if Sashimi Zverev wins the French Open, he becomes the world number one. Oh my God. How did we not know this? How did we not know this? He wins, it'll be on 9,000 points if he wins. Now, Djokovic, if he wins today, if Nolay wins today, Zverev has no chance. So just to confirm, if Nolay wins today, Zverev will not be able to be world number one, even if he wins. So that's, so two things have to happen. Zverev has to beat Alkarez, Nidal has to beat Djokovic. Two things that are very unlikely. The two upsets have to happen. Let's be honest, right? And then Zverev has to beat Nidal and then win. So that's, I mean, look, it's the impossible dream, but it's a thing.  Thank you. I'm so sorry, I forgot who said that, but that was, thank you. Cheng, Cheng, thank you so much, man. 30 love, that's a great, I mean, why are we not talking about this? Maybe it's because it seems silly. Doesn't seem realistic.  Zverev could be the world number one going into Wimby and then go back down to number three because the points maybe. Then again, he has got more, less points to lose at Wimbledon. So maybe, maybe at Wimbledon, he'll stay number one. Zverev world number one at Wimbledon. I mean, if he wins the French, he deserves it, yeah? That's Dan Smith, what a legend. 40 love, serve down to Zverev, Alkarez, 4-1 Zverev into the slice of Alkarez, into the backhand of Zverev, who hits a drop shot. That is beautiful. Not too bad. From Zverev to two. If Alkarez wins, he will be world number four as in like the tournament, number four. If Rafa wins, he will be number four, then number three. Ooh, I'll tell you what, just for the story, I would love to see Zverev win today and Nadal. They both play in the next round. Zverev looking for world number one, Nadal trying to get to world number three.  If Kasper Rude wins the whole thing, he might be number six, depending on other results. But Rubelev could be number five again. I mean, not too many things going on. Chilich could be a top 10 guy if he wins. No, take that back, it'd be number 11 if he wins. Chilich wins the French open. How crazy would that be? We turn now to the 4-1 of Alkarez. 4-1 Zverev, lots more to go though. He's got a drop shot from Alkarez, too good. 30 love.  It's already been a pretty psycho year. What if Holger Rune wins it? He'll be world number, probably 20?  If Rune wins, he will be world number 14, 14. 30 love, Alkarez serves to the 4-1 of Zverev. 4-1 Alkarez, the 4-1 Zverev, down the line to the backhand of Alkarez, into the backhand of Zverev. Backhand of Alkarez, sliced into the 4-1 of Zverev, into the backhand of Alkarez, who hits it in the net, 30-15. Yeah, so currently Rune is 28 in the world. And if he wins the whole thing, he'll get to number 14, he'll take Taylor Fritz's spot. And if Chilich wins, like I said, he'll take number 11, Nori's spot. That's insane. Crazy stuff. Just the thought that Zverev could be world number one by the end of this week. Come on though, if he wins, if he does win this tournament, he deserves to be world number one, let's be honest. There's been a backhand now from Alkarez into the 4-1 Zverev, to the backhand of Alkarez, down the line wide. Alkarez still throwing in errors. That is not a good stat. That's bad, ugly, not good. Not good. 30-all. If Zverev wins the French, there's no way you can say that he doesn't deserve to be number one. Alkarez, let's say Djokovic, and let's say he beats Alkarez and Nadal, and then Rubelev in the final. I mean, dude deserves it. Alkarez, volley in the net, oh no. Breakpoint to Sasha. Great shots there from Zverev. I mean, Alkarez came to the net, approach wasn't great, but the 4-1 down the line was, and Alkarez not happy. Another, another poor shot. I mean, slow start is an understatement. Can Zverev capitalize, 30-40. Alkarez serves. Out wide to the backhand of Zverev. 4-1 Alkarez is a drop shot, Zverev runs, he can't get it. And a big scream from Alkarez back to Deuce. Oh, that was, that was cruel. Massive serves. Zverev did well to just get a racket to it, and then the drop shot. People are gonna watch Alkarez and copy that. We talked about it in the last match. We said why, the great question was why is the drop shot more apparent these days, and that is exactly why. Zverev standing with the lines people at the back of the court. Second serve Alkarez. Can you imagine if Alkarez starts making underarm serves as well, just for shits and giggles? Second serve. Into the backhand of Zverev. 4-1 Alkarez, the 4-1 Zverev. Into the 4-1 Alkarez who goes down the line and wide another error from Alkarez. And it's advantage Zverev again. For the underarm serve to be acceptable in the public eye, I think it will take the younger generation to make it acceptable. You know, I think Nadal not liking it makes a lot of people not like it. But if like the young guys coming through start doing it, it'll make it more popular and it'll make it more acceptable, I think.  Second serve now, Alkarez in trouble. Zverev to get the break. Alkarez serves to the back of Zverev and that's in the net, Sasha, mate. What was that? Just dumps it in the ground. Back to deuce. Gotta take your chances. Dumps that into the net post. And it's another break point saved as Alkarez serves a fault again. No, we cannot. Second serve, Alkarez to the front of Zverev. Front of Alkarez into the net again. Double digit, error's already. Zverev, you gotta take this. You gotta take this. Alkarez isn't gonna play like this for long. One callus for Aero wearing stylish shades. I mean, I'd rock them. Don't know about the blue lens, but they're not bad. He looks a little nervous. Serving the net, second serve, this is it. Zverev's gotta take this. Gotta take this chance. Alkarez serves, second serve into the back of Zverev, down the line. Great shot, Zverev now with the forehand, but it goes out from Alkarez. The volley wasn't good enough. Sasha takes it. Breaking the first. He was listening. He was listening. Got my salt in there. All right, let's answer questions.  All right, do we have any questions? Hello? Is Dominic team gonna play any ATP tournaments now? Yeah, team will play Wimby. Team will play over the grass season, for sure. What's the challenge of the teams playing? Can anyone answer me that without me having to Google it? What's the challenge or event the team's playing next? Can anyone give me the answer, please? Why do you think the crowd booed Nolay the other day? I don't know, I don't know. Not sure. Forehand working so far, goes Sasha. Yeah, stats so far. Obviously Alkarez not playing well. Quite obvious, not playing well at all. Not as well as we're used to. He's playing okay, but not as well as we're used to. But Zverev, Zverev's just playing solid.   So that's got like different fans. The main stadium wouldn't have had booes, I don't think. He played on the second court, right? I think playing out there is a little bit more of a rougher crowd, a little bit more of the cheaper seats. So you get a different crowd. It's like playing in Rod Labor Arena or, you know, in Australia or in one of the outside courts, right? You're gonna get a different type of paying customer who saved money on the tickets, but buy more alcohol. So those were the fans. You got the fans that, you know, save, didn't want to pay, didn't want to go to Philip Chatriere, so they saved tickets money to buy booze. And that's where you get the cheap seats, and Djokovic had to go play out there, and that's probably a reason why. Uneducated drunks. 40 loves, Zverev, having a very good service game here. Serving very well the last two games. 25 minutes play as he serves into the net. Second serve, second serve. Susan Longlin ain't cheap. I don't know, that was just my best guess. There's been a final from Alcruz into the final of Zverev. Final from Alcruz is a winner! All right! I think he's just arrived. Alcruz has arrived. With that shot, that was a warning shot. He's like, Zverev better be ready. He's about to face Hurricane Khalido, so then that goes out. Good serve from Zverev. The return goes out and it's 4-2, but the hurricane's coming. Hurricane. Hurricane Khalido. It's on its way. There is a warning. And then maybe Rafa fans were out on the outside courts. Maybe that's why. Okay, let's get back to this. Is Alcruz unwell? Let's not, come on now. I should ban the word injured, because he's definitely not. Is he injured? Is he unwell? No, he's just losing. It does happen. As that goes out from Zverev, 15 love. Now if I was Zverev right now, I would be in my mind playing a trick on myself and pretending like I was down 2-4. Because if he thinks, oh, I'm winning, he will lose. If he takes this lead for granted, he will get broken back and he will lose. So Zverev needs to, in his mind, pretend like he's down and keep playing as if he is down. Run for everything, go crazy. Carlos, by the way, talking to himself, making more errors, 15 all. There's one Carlos Ferreiro illegally talks to his charge and no coaching. No, that was the wrong button. Well, I mean, I'm honest, I was coaching.  It's not too bad. If Alcaraz serves at 59% Iken to win, it's not good. Thank you, Rowdy. All right, we'll see if that is the case. As we're back in now from Zverev into the 400, Alcruz, 400 from Zverev. Again to the front of Alcruz, to the front of Zverev. Zverev hitting some big, big shots, but he hits it out. Oh, I played well as Zverev, that was a good point. 30-15, 30-15. That tee tastes good. 30-15. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Alcruz serves to the back end of Zverev. Back in now, Alcruz to the front of Zverev. Into the back in again of Alcruz. Back in as Zverev, down the line, into the front of Alcruz, he dumps it in the net again, 30-all. Again, Zverev's got to capitalize. Alcruz will not play like this for the entire match. This is a bad start. Got to make the most of it. By the way, Rowdy, that percentage is going down as is this one over here. Zverev might be the favorite if he wins this game. 30-all. Serve out wide. He's out, second serve. Not going to seize. Second serve.  Down the line to the back end of Alcruz. Back end of Zverev, slices. Oh, terrible. Zverev just dumps it in the net, there's nothing to slice. Nothing shot from Zverev, that's a waste. 40-30. 29 minutes played, but 30 minutes in five, four, three, two, one. First serve is a fault.   I'll get one of these days and we'll clip it and we'll remember it forever. Second serve. Goes to the back end of Zverev. Back end of Alcruz, into the back end of Zverev. Again to the back end of Alcruz, to the back end of Zverev. Back end of Alcruz, in control of his points, Zverev just defending. As he hits it out, Alcruz gets the game. If it's Zverev has the break, 4-3 in the first set. I stand check. Who would win out of a chillage Alcruz final? Just asking for a friend. Who do you think would win out of a chillage versus Alcruz final? Cam's running for Kieros as usual, of course. I've played him twice and like, I'm sorry, but if you can't beat me like, you're not the greatest of all time. Always going for Keegs. All right, you go Carlitos, there we go. Chillage would win. Carlos, Carlos, Alcruz, Alcruz, Alcruz, okay. All right, Alcruz easy.  Gotta admit, that'd be the most random final since Nadal versus Puerta, back in 0-5. And the legends will understand.  A composed Zverev serve, working well is dangerous for anybody. Let's not forget that. Yep. Zverev first and second serve. Very solid. Very solid. He has faced a break point though, but he was good enough to get out of it. Did the first game of the match. All right, Zverev getting a new weapon. That's about it. A new racket. Gotta be careful.  All right, by the way, don't forget to like and subscribe. We're almost at 500 likes already. Jesus guys, you guys are crazy. You're weirdos. In the best way. I'm a weirdo too. I'm the weirdest. I'm the king of the weirdos. 4-3. Let's get back to it. Zverev serving with that break. He needs the first set, I think, to win. Or at least to put himself in that position. Backhand, a backhand rally. Zverev goes into the backhand of Elkvarez again. Into the backhand of Zverev. Backhand goes into the front of Elkvarez now.  Elkvarez in control. Into the front again of Zverev. Zverev goes down the line. Elkvarez with the backhand. Into the backhand of Zverev. To the backhand of Elkvarez. To the front now of Zverev. Down the line to the backhand again of Elkvarez. Who hits it long and another error. 15-love. This will not last. The charity will close. Zverev's got to take advantage of a charity, which sounds so wrong when I say it out loud. He's got to take advantage of the free points. Come on now. 15-love. Serve down the tee. Into the backhand now of Zverev. Drop shot. That's a nice drop shot. Elkvarez can't get it. That's rare. 30-love. Lovely from Zesasha. Zverev looks like a man on a mission. A man on a mission. 30-love. Zverev serves a fault. Second serve. Zverev goes down to the front of Elkvarez. Four-nil from Zverev. Again to the front of Elkvarez. Into the net from Elkvarez. And it's 40-love. 34 minutes played. 40-love. Zverev. Having a very good day so far. First serve. Out wide, Elkvarez gets it, but it goes out in Zverev. Solid as a rock. But not built like one. Five-three. I'll be here all week.  All right. We get it. You don't like jokes. All right. Jesus. Get that guy out of here. Get him out of here. Five-three. First serves a fault. Second serve. Perfect chair. Zverev breaks here. That would be the perfect scenario for Zverev. If you can somehow find a break to win this set instead of having to serve it out himself. Serve first in the second. It's Elkvarez. It's another forehand in the net. Love 15. This is kind of what Eager looked like yesterday. I mean, Eager had the same problems. I mean, maybe it's contagious. Maybe it's the unforced errors of the new COVID. Too soon? Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. Oh, brother. Hey!   All right. Zverev with a return that goes long. 15-all. I'm not though. That guy's the worst. Am I right? Elkvarez with a serve. 15-all. He serves out wide. Good serves. Zverev gets it back. Elkvarez with a smash. Puts it down. Zverev there with a lob. Elkvarez with a smash. Let's bounce this time. Puts it down. I guess it's right, but he can't get it. He's tall, but he's not that tall. 30-15. Zverev did his best to get that, too. I mean, if anyone was gonna get that ball back, it was probably Zverev. And he just couldn't get a racket on it. And then he almost took out the ball kid and lines person at the same time to spear tackle them both into the crowd. Which would have been funny and sad, funny. All right. 30-all. Elkvarez loses the point again. Uh-oh. 30-all. This would be a hell of a way to win this set if Zverev can get it. The worst possible start for Elkvarez, for sure. Serve goes now to the back of Zverev. Foynter from Elkvarez. Into the forehand. Obzverev, into the forehand of Elkvarez. Down the line. Just goes into the back of Zverev. Elkvarez runs around into Foyn again. To the back of Zverev. Zverev just in the line there as we had a Foynter-Foyn rally now. Elkvarez down the line. That's gonna be a winner. Elkvarez coming to play. 40-30. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. That's a Rapha style point that one. 30-all. And then he produces his best. We saw that. We've seen that a hell of a lot from the guy playing next. 40-30. To make Zverev serve it out. Serve out wide. To the backhand loopy lob. And Zverev hits it out. But Zverev reckons it was a fault. The umpire's out of the chair. And the ball was, oh, it was wide. You cannot be serious. Second serve. Second serve. To the backhand of Zverev. Backhand out from Elkvarez to the Foynter-Zverev. Down the line from Zverev is wide. Sasha's gonna have to serve it out. Elkvarez survives, which sounds weird. Sounds weird.  Okay, let's get it. By the way, don't forget to like and subscribe if you have not already. A thousand likes would be insane, but again, to be honest, let's sit back and just chill. This is the real semifinal match, yeah. Today is like the semifinals. Let's call it for real, right? Today is semifinal day for the men. It's semifinal day for the men. Anyone disagree? This is the semifinal number one. The next one's the next one. And then the winners will play in the final before the final. Come on now. Winner of this section will be the winner, right? Am I right? Wrong? Right? Let me know. You can disagree. How many sets do I predict? Five of the best. Simon disagrees. Okay.  Oh brother, this guy sticks.  Did I get that guy out of here? Oh God. Whatever. All right. Some people agree, some people don't agree. You never know, but I mean, most likely, right? Most likely, most likely. I mean, it's either going to be Rubelev or Rude going by ranking, right? Down the bottom. And I think the winner of any part, like any of these guys beats those guys. Zverev now serving for the first set. Can he get the first set against Elkaraz? Does he get a back-in-to-back-in rally? That goes into the back-in of Zverev. Another back-in-to-back-in exchange. He's gone cross-court with his back-ins. Now it goes down the line. And Elkaraz hits another error. Ah! Oh God, please no! No! No! 15 love. That's what he's playing like right now. He's just, mm-hmm. Yeah, I almost did throw up. 15 love. That would have been great. We would have been demonetized. We haven't already. 15 loves, Zverev with a second serve. 40 minutes played. 41 minutes played. As Zverev serves down the seat, good second serve. Elkaraz gets a back, but it goes long. 30 love. 30 love. Two points away from the first set, Sasha. By the way, I don't wanna alarm anybody, but whoever wins the first set in this match-up wins usually in straight sets. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve, Zverev. Goes to the back-in of Elkaraz. Back-in of Zverev. Into the back-in of Elkaraz. To the back-in of Zverev. Four-and-a-half from Elkaraz. Goes into the four-and-Zverev to the four-and-of Elkaraz. With the drop shots, Zverev slipped and he let it go. He took one step and he went, whoa! And then Elkaraz had him. 30-15. Elkaraz doesn't need too many drop shots yet in this match. He's hit it with two or three, but I feel like that's gonna be coming in the second. Three drop shot winners already. Zverev's already hit two. That's... Interesting. 30-15, Zverev needs the first serve and he gets it. No, he doesn't. A good catch by the ball-kid. Well, the French crowd do not applaud good catches by the ball-kids.  Those are great catches. We've got to return out of the back-in of Zverev. Down the line from Zverev. Great shot. Elkaraz in the net. Sasha has two set points. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Rafa can't believe it. Set points, Zverev. To take the first set. How that... Why did that change? Zverev... Hello? Zverev's winning. Or is he? Serve down to the back-in of Elkaraz. Back-in of Zverev. Open call to winner! Oh, Sasha! He's come to play. Elkaraz ain't playing his best, but Zverev is a man on a mission. He's like, not again. You're not getting me again. Sasha Zverev takes the first set. And look, Elkaraz is playing like terrible. Like, he's down to play a little bit. He's playing terrible. But Zverev, I mean, he didn't play too bad on his serve. He only lost a couple of points on serve after that first game.  Zverev wins the first set. Here we go. Now we have a match. Elkaraz will come back. I agree. Answer my question! I do not disagree. All right, five winners there from Zverev in that set, including the ace, and seven unforced errors. Elkaraz, eight winners, 16 errors. That is terrible. That is terrible. He can only get better, Elkaraz. And he will.  Surely. Surely. One step closer to the number ones. Zverev is a man. He's gone for number one. And nobody's speaking about it. Nobody's talking about it. And he's playing for his world number one rankings, Zverev. And he wants it. He wants to be world number one. He puts himself in there. He puts himself in there. Okay. Does Zverev have a chance to win RG with the way he's playing? Let me know in the chat. Who do you, can Zverev beat? Who, who's Zverev? What am I trying to say? With the game that Zverev just played, who would he rather play in the semis? Do you think he's got a better chance against Nolle? Or Rafa playing like this? What do you reckon? What do you reckon? Does he have a better chance like this? If he plays like this, against Rafa or Nolle? Then again, he's not playing that well, Zverev. Alkreuz is making him look better good. Zverev is playing pretty good. I mean, he's serving great. But Alkreuz is making him look a lot better than he probably is. Let's be quite realistic. We're not gonna pump up Zverev too much because he hit seven on four Serres. Rafa, you reckon Rafa? He won't, he can't play either of them. Okay, so no chance against neither. Okay, so most of the same Rafa. Rafa would struggle with this style as Zverev. I agree. I agree, but it's raining in my house. What's going on? Terrible weather. By the way, today is officially the first day of winter in Australia, Nolle will crush Rafa. That wasn't a question, but okay. Thanks for that. Thanks for that answer. Zverev would not have a chance with either of them.  That's what I think everyone's saying, Zverev stinks. As Alkreuz is a lovely drop shot, 15-love. Now, Alkreuz serving first. In this second set, let's see what happens. Happy winter. I like winter, I don't mind winter. Yeah, winter in Australia, yep. Summer in California. Thanks for that. Thanks for reminding me that Australia's weather is weird and backwards. Does Australia get much snow? Michelle, sometimes, I mean, not in my area, but on the mountains sometimes. You have to go to the snow. It's like a thing. You have to travel to go to the snow. It's not like it's just here. Never snows around the city or anything, not like in other cities. All right, lovely shot there from Alkreuz. He ran around here to find down the line and Alkreuz is only gonna get better. We know that, we've seen it. First set goes a long way there for Sasha. Serve, the fault, second serve. Serve goes now to the back end of Zverev. Into the back end of Alkreuz. Back end of Zverev, again to the back end of Alkreuz. Who puts it in the net, another error there from Khalidos. No worries, Michelle. Welcome back. And we got to 90.2K. Thanks everyone for subscribing. 30, 15. As Alkreuz serves and Volley's, and the Volley is just too good. This is gonna be our finish to you. Man, that's a clean Volley. What a strat.  He knows Zverev's gonna go down the line.  And he puts a four on the open court. Beautiful shot, 40, 15. Serving out of the Fortness Zverev. That goes into the back end of Alkreuz. Back end of Zverev, again into the back end of Alkreuz. Into the Fortness Zverev. To the back end of Alkreuz. Zverev into the back end again. Into the back end of Alkreuz. The Fortness Zverev, but Alkreuz hits it long again. 40, 30. Now I think we should mention some stats about this venue when it comes to these two guys. Because I feel like, and as you guys know, all clay courts aren't made the same, right? We've got fast and we've got slow and we've got, you know, in between, right? 40, 30. Return now from Zverev to the Fortness of Alkreuz. That goes down the line to the Slices Zverev. He puts it in the net. Alkreuz wins the first game of the second, one love. Now, I'm gonna show you a little presentation. This is my presentation on court speed index. What's court speed index, Ken? Well, it's the way they decide what's a fast and a slow surface. Now, usually this graphic we use for hard courts because hard courts are very hard to define, but it also comes in handy when we do clay court. So this is the court pace index. Whoops, that's the wrong one. That's a sponsor. There it is. So here's the court pace index for the French opening. See right down the middle there, it's the slowest of courts, 21. Rome is very similar to the French. Now remember, Rome was where Zverev got to the semis. I would disregard Monte Carlo because the court pace index is a little bit out of date. They're about two years old. So Monte Carlo wouldn't be as fast as it was a few years ago. But see Madrid. Madrid is a faster surface than this one. And Alkreuz won the Madrid open. Now Madrid, being faster, helps his game. This is the slowest court around. It's not gonna help Alkreuz's shots as much. He's not gonna be able to play like he did in Madrid and get those points. Now it's marginal because obviously, you know, five, what was it, six on the scale difference.  But it's still, there's a difference. It means that Alkreuz's shots aren't gonna go through the court as much. It's why I think Ramos Vinales had a massive chance against him and always beat him. It was because the shots weren't penetrating the court as much. Maybe that's helping Zverev a little bit today. Getting to a couple of extra shots. Something to keep in mind. Something to keep in mind. Forty love. And maybe that's why errors are coming from the Alkreuz racket as well. Because he's trying so hard to hit winners, he's trying a bit too hard. And he's making errors from hitting the, trying to hit the ball too hard. Something to keep in mind. So to the forehand is good from Zverev and Alkreuz can't return it. And it is one, one in the second. No worries, Mick, hopefully we'll talk about that way more. That graphic will come, we'll be talking about that during the American season for sure. Now, Alkreuz at the French Open, he's only made the third round here once. And that was last year. He just, I mean, look, he just got started. 67% of matches won here. Zverev on the other hand, this is his most successful slam. He's made the semifinals here last year. He's made quarterfinals here twice before that. And he's again made the quarterfinals. So he's made four quarterfinals in the last five years, Zverev. He's won 75% of the matches at this event. So he loves playing at the French, Zverev. It's his favorite event based on his results. Now, he's starting to build it up at all the results with semifinals at the US Open back to back and Australian Open matches. But when it comes to the French Open, it's his best slam. He's got four quarterfinals or better, including this one. So gotta be honest, Zverev doesn't mind playing at Rollin' Garros. Elkras, we're just starting to learn what he's about. So happy memories, you know, and all that. All right, 30 love. Serve goes now to the forehand of Zverev, forehand from Elkras, down the line to the backhand of Zverev, who hits it in the net. And it's 40 loves, Elkras. Zverev dumping that backhand down the net. Yeah, some of you are commenting that Wimbledon is actually slower than the Australian Open. So Wimbledon has slowed down over the years. It's not as fast as it used to be.  Those numbers from back 2019. So maybe it might have changed. Wimbledon might have gotten a bit faster last year and this year, but again, Wimbledon has slowed down over the years. The grass has slowed, but it also has to do with the conditions.  Wimbledon can be, you know, slow and wet. So it does incorporate decisions in that as, all that stuff as well. All right, Elkras gets the game 2-1. All right, sometimes some questions. Elkras needs experience, the talent is there. Yeah, that's what Zverev has on top of Elkras today is he's got experience. Wimbledon has been slowing down consistently. Yeah, yeah. And the Australian Open has always been quick. It's always been quick servers. Since, well, since they turned it to blue. Elkras must win this set. I mean, maybe. Definitely, definitely would help for sure. How many cups of tea do you have a day? When I'm streaming like five, one per match, I refill every match. Well, I'm almost out of tea, by the way. I do have like a little extra tea thing here. So I can, I can, like a little, what is it? Like a thermo, thermo, whatever it's called. So I do have a little bit of like a little top me up thing, because one tea for a five hour match isn't good enough. Great server, Zverev, by the way. And it's 15 love. What's my favorite tea? I only, I drink peppermint tea. That's very servered volleys, but the volleys terrible, 15 all. All right, I'm just finding out some five set records because we're just getting, I'm just preparing for the future, for the possible possibility of a five set of happening. I'll tell you what, Elkraz in terms of five set record is very impressive, I must say. 30, 15, Zverev, to try and stay in touch. He's definitely dropped his serve a little bit though, Zverev. First serve's not going in as much in this one. Second serve, Zverev, to the front of Elkraz, backing up from Zverev to the front of Elkraz. Again to the back of Zverev, to the backhand of Elkraz, and Elkraz hits it in the net again. 40, 15, he shrugs his shoulders, Elkraz, what the hell am I doing? 10 backhand errors in this match from Elkraz. So that's a problem because it means that half his errors are coming from one side, half from the other. It means both aren't working. If it was just backhands, and his forehand was blistering, it would be different. There's been a backhand-to-backhand rally, Zverev hits it out. Elkraz winning the point, 40-30. Whereas if he was hitting like 20 unforced errors on the one side, at least he has the other side to hit. His forehand and backhand are both not working. 40, 30, it's Zverev to level that up in the second set. He serves down the tee, Elkraz returns it, forehand from Zverev, into the open court, Elkraz with a lob, Zverev hits a smash, Elkraz gets it with a forehand down the line, hits the tape, goes in, Zverev with a backhand, Elkraz is going to get there with a backhand. Zverev now in trouble. Elkraz is going to win this point. Drop shot, too good. This is going to be our finish to you.  It should be illegal. Back to Deuce. That's just not fair. That's just not fair. That's just not fair. Deuce. Zverev under pressure on serve for the first time since the first game of the match. And Elkraz was always going to hit a drop shot. I mean, you could tell. You could tell. And he's starting to arrive now. It's only taken him an hour. Fashionably late. As we return now into the net from Elkraz, good serve from Sasho. Elkraz, definitely lifting. Zverev is a fault. Second serve. Double fault for the first one of the day. First double fault of the day. And at the most, one of the most more important times on his serve, definitely a pressure, a pressure moment. Back to Deuce. Zverev serves down the tee. Elkraz gets it back. Backing it from Zverev into the back end of Elkraz to the forehand Elkraz. Who hits it to the forehand Elkraz. Forehand Elkraz again to the forehand Elkraz. He runs around. Forehand Elkraz in the open court. Hit the tape, goes in. Elkraz to the forehand is a winner. And he gets a break point. Elkraz getting fired up as well. He'll take the luck. Elkraz to take the break in the second. The double fault. That was it. The double fault. Kansverev serve his way out of this. Zverev with a serve. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve Zverev. Slow into the forehand of Elkraz. And Elkraz hits it out. Wow. Zverev almost hit it with his face. I mean, I don't know what that was. Zverev was thinking he was headbutted that shot. That would have been terrible. Maybe he wasn't expecting a shank. Man, Elkraz just missing the easiest return for him. It was the second. Maybe he was surprised that Zverev served a second serve. So slow. Do this again. Zverev with a serve. Serve down to the back end of Elkraz. Back end of Zverev is into the back end of Elkraz. To the back end of Zverev. Again to the forehand of Elkraz. To the back end of Zverev. Back end of Elkraz down the line. Goes in the net again. Elkraz pissed. Can't believe he's missing that. He is not happy at all. Elkraz, if I understood Spanish, I would tell you what he said. I don't understand what he said, but I can understand what he meant. He meant whatever. Advantage. Serve down to the back end of Elkraz. That goes in the back end of Zverev. Back end of Elkraz, sliced to the forehand of Zverev. And that's going to be too good from Zverev. What a game for Zverev and Zverev is like, let's go. Let's go. He knows how big a game that was. The double fault did not haunt him. 2-2, 2-2. Zverev fired up here. God, this is awesome. I'm so happy this match is going the way it is, because it would have been a shame if it had been one-sided. I feel like this match is just about to start. You know, Zverev getting the first set was nice, but it levels things up, which is kind of insane to say against a guy who's just started playing on the main circuit. As Zverev returns to the back end side, back end of back end as Elkraz goes now to the back end again as Zverev, into the back end of Elkraz, into the back end as Zverev. Just cross-court with the back ends Zverev, doing very well with his back end. As Elkraz goes down the line, that's a better shot. Zverev with a slice, gets it back. Elkraz with the forehand. Zverev with his forehand shanked to the moon. 15-love. Zverev's 11th unforced error of the day, off the frame. Serve out wide at the back end of Zverev, Zverev dumps it in the net. 30-love, 30-love. Elkraz with a serve. Into the forehand of Zverev. Forehand from Elkraz, into the back end of Zverev. Into the forehand of Elkraz, who shanks it and it goes out, 30-15. Still not quite back yet. Still having a little bit of problem with the groundstrokes. By the way, Elkraz's real dad, I think, is in the house. That was his dad, right? The dude that has the exact same hairline and smile. I'm assuming the guy with the glasses, the blue glasses, right? The dude that looks exactly like him, maybe, Cam. Oh, bro. Get out.   Who's letting that guy back in? Elkraz double faults. See what you did? See what you did? Yeah, get out of here. All right, double fault number one. It's contagious. Like COVID. Can't say it. 30-all. No, I talk about it. Still soon. 30-all. Elkraz serves. A fault. Hey, this one's getting to be excited. Calm down. Second serve. Elkraz at the backhand of Zverev. Four-and-no Elkraz to the forehand of Zverev into the forehand of Elkraz. Again to the forehand of Zverev, it goes down the line to the backhand of Elkraz. Backhand of Zverev into the forehand of Elkraz, who hits the drop shot. Zverev's going to get there. He runs, he runs, he runs. Oh, he just can't get there. Elkraz just caught Zverev by surprise enough. 40-30. This is going crazy. This is glitching out. Every time someone wins a point, it's like just 40-30. Elkraz surviving, which again, not used to saying. As Elkraz serves a fault, second serve again. Second serve. Into the backhand of Zverev. Four-and-no from Elkraz. Into the forehand, into the backhand of Zverev. To the forehand of Elkraz. Backhand of Zverev again. Elkraz on the stretch of the backhand. Into the backhand of Sasha, who hits the drop shot as well. Elkraz too quick though. He gets it with the drop shot of his own. Zverev wasn't smart at all. This is going to be our finish to you. Elkraz stays in front three-two. Zverev should have come to the net. Drop shot, come to the net. Cut off the angles, man. Twitch is lonely. Well, Twitch is there. Danger! All right. How are we doing, everyone? This is a great time, I think, to get to know each other a little better. I want to know where you guys are from. Let me know in the chat. Where are you from in the world? I'm from Australia. It's three, two o'clock in the morning. No place I'd rather be. As in, watching tennis. I mean, I could leave Australia and go somewhere else. That'd be lovely.  But let me know in the chat. Where are you from? Where abouts are you from? In the world. Let's see how many countries we can cover before the next game. Let's see if I can read the chat. India, California, Serbia, Sweden, Brazil. Poland. The UK. A lot of Brits in the house. More Polish people as well. What's up, what's up? Texas, Yihar. Serbia. A lot of Serbs in the house, keeping an eye on who their boy might be playing in the semis. I see what you're doing. You're scoping it out. Portugal, Philippines. Ethiopia. Wow, Peru, Bermuda. You guys are from, we're from everywhere. Some real different places. Croatia. Florida. Canada, France. Luxembourg. Taiwan, Brazil, Cairo. Nice. Greece. Czech Republic, Paraguay. South Africa. Columbia. Nice one. The UK. A lot of Brits in the house as well. France. Colorado. Mexico. Washington, DC. What's up? From Russia. We've got Turkey in the house as well. Israel. Hong Kong. Raffa Nolay match at 3 AM. Yeah, I feel your pain. I feel your pain. Hey, someone's from Jupiter. That's a good joke. Haven't heard that one.  I'm doing my best. See what I have to deal with, guys? The amount of, I cop this abuse. I'm just doing my best. I was a bit of a four now in the open conference room. It's 40 love. Just trying to put on a show and just getting heckled by the guy in the back. Show your face, sir. That's what I thought. 40 love. But thank you, everybody, for joining in the streams. We're from all around the world. I'm from Australia. I'm sure there's no one else here from Australia because, I mean, let's be honest. Actually, no. If you're not awake and you're a tennis fan, are you really not, really? 40 love. Alkreis returns. It's very put into the open court. Alkreis on the stretch puts it wide and hits the net post and goes, boom! Into the crowd. Nearly kills somebody in a video game. Like it was a joke, not really. Was it? Whatever. But thank you, everybody. Appreciate you joining in. Thank you. You're in Australia?  There is no way. Chuck is sicky. Chuck is sicky. Chuck is sicky. Don't go to work. Don't go to school. Stuff it. Just be like, I got the runner. And then you'll be fine. I don't know why you have to sound like Michael Jackson, but I mean, maybe that'll help.  He was talking about Michael Jackson. That was bad, boo. All right, all right, all right. All right, that's enough. That's enough. That's a shh. All right, I'll tell better jokes next time. Serve out one of the foreigners, where that goes out. Good serve from Khalidos. 15 love. Now in this second set, Elqueraz has played a little better. I'll tell you how much better in just a second. The end of this game, I will tell you. Has been a four now from Elqueraz to the foreigners, Verve to the four of Elqueraz. Again to the foreigners, Verve. Elqueraz with a forehand, down the line is wide. That was terrible. Just a, I mean, spread it wide without even really, I mean, no reason. Just, there's a reckless, reckless forehand. All right, 15 all. 33 all in this second set. It's Verve returns with the forehand into the backhand of Elqueraz and the net. All right, now things are serious. All right, 15, 30. Things are getting serious now. One hour and 12 minutes played. Elqueraz is in danger. Needs to serve his way out of trouble here as he does not on the first serve. First serve in the net, second serve. Elqueraz to the backhand of Verve. Four now from Elqueraz, down the line of the foreigners, Verve. Into the forehand of Elqueraz. Four now from Verve again to the forehand of Elqueraz. Down the line to the backhand of Verve. Backhand of Verve, now is Elqueraz into the drop shot. Verve is going to get there this time with a slice of his own. Elqueraz there with a pass. Verve with a volley. That's too good from Sasha. This is going to be on finish TV. He read that one perfectly. It took him about 10 shots to do it, but he did it. 10th time lucky for Verve on the drop shots. But he knew that was coming. And then he knew about the volley. I mean, Verve read Elqueraz perfectly. 15-40 to get the break in the second Verve. Serve into the backhand of Verve. Backhand out from Elqueraz to the forehand of Verve. Into the backhand of Verve, Elqueraz. Backhand of Verve, sliced. Elqueraz comes in with the volley. Puts it down. He didn't get it. Elqueraz now with a smash, but it goes out for Verve. Ah, he tried. Verve tried. Elqueraz survives. One. He's still got one more, Verve. I mean, might get another one. To get the break in the second. Elqueraz with a serve. Into the forehand of Verve. Good return. Elqueraz with a volley in the net. Serve volley didn't work. Verve got onto it. And he's got a break in the second. Four, three, Sasha. And he's up a set. Okay. Going for another semi, back to back. Can he hold on to those Verve? Now, that's all about stats. Second set stats. Seven. Winners for Verve, five unforced errors. So, in the positive. Plus he converted the one break point that he, one out of the two break points that he's gotten in that last game. Eight winners from Elqueraz. 11 unforced errors. Better from Elqueraz. Still not as good as he's usually playing. So, Elqueraz, room for improvement, still. But Verve's taking his chances while Elqueraz is playing bad. Until Elqueraz turns it on, Verve just taking his chance. All right, let's answer questions and... Answer my question! The question! See what you guys are doing. What's up in the chat? How are we feeling? How are we feeling? How are we feeling? Elqueraz is blooming into something great, by the way. He is, even if he loses today. Even if he loses today. Am I married? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Great joke. Does Verve look more confident and relaxing his game from the first set? I think because of the first set, yeah. Told you, Verve has the win, has this? All right, well, don't call it. Yeah, I mean, he's up a set and a break. He's not up two sets of love and a break. And match point. Which I think he needs to be if he's gonna win this match. Anywhere close to that, he might win. Anything before that? Not yet. Verve serves an A-star, that's a big serve. Bang! 15 love. Way too many errors from Elqueraz. Yeah, maybe we didn't factor in the fact that, you know, Elqueraz... Maybe that we didn't factor in the Elqueraz nerves.  Because we've seen him perform on the big stage so many times. Maybe we were a little bit like, I don't know. Maybe we didn't factor in the fact that maybe nerves are playing a part in his game today. Zverev, 30 love. Yeah, Elon's gotta fix the glitches. Hey, Steve! Steve! Oh, he's dead. 30 love. Elon? Elon, get Elon on the phone. Serving out the four-hand of Elqueraz to the four-hand of Zverev into the four-hand of Elqueraz. So he's a drop shot, slicey, weird, nothing shot. That goes out. 40 love. Easy game for Sasha. You had to be there. You had to be there. Who's Steve? You had to be there. I'm sorry, I mean, you had to be there. Who's Steve? You know, the turtleneck. Turtleneck guy. Steve. Serve out wide at the back end. Into the four-hand of Zverev. Zverev smacks that swinging volley away. Zverev, console out, it's a break as easy as you like. And he has a five-three-second set lead. Okay, now, Zverev has the lead. Five-three in the second. Now, he has to win the set to be actually leading two sets of love. You can't just give him the set even though he hasn't earned it yet. He's gotta win it first. Can he take the set? Can he take it now? Zverev didn't see the back end of Zverev. Unbelievable, no, unbelievable, no. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. I don't care about what they were saying. It seems like Al-Qaraziz de Ropignat list two points every service game. He's a service constantly under pressure while Zverev serves as an elite. Zverev serve has been elite. That was what we said at the start of the match, right? That Zverev had to serve well. We didn't really factor in the fact that, you know, of course, we're gonna play bad. I mean, we said slow stop, but we didn't think it was gonna last this long. Thanks, Reddy, for the five. As Al-Qaraz hits a volley in the open court, 15-all. Lost the first point, gets the second. Gets the second, 15-all. Now, you feel that Al-Qaraz has to win this game just to be, I mean, feeling like he's in charge in the second, right, in the third. If he does end up losing this match, losing this set, has been a return there. Al-Qaraz with a volley is too good. 30-15, 30-15, 30-15. Zverev playing for the world number one ranking. Nope, that's not a joke. As he hits it out, 40-15. He is not, I wasn't joking. I was serious. Is it a serious question or is it a joke? Serious. Serious possibility. Well, semi-serious. He has to win another match after this one and another one. Two matches more. He also has to rely on Rafa to win against Nolle.  Rafa thinks he can win. We'll never tell you. 4-0 from Zverev goes to Al-Qaraz. 4-0 from Zverev in the net. Al-Qaraz gets the game. 5-4. 5-4. Zverev to serve for a two sets of love lead. OK. This is interesting. Can Zverev serve this out? Let me know in the chat. What do you reckon? Can he serve it out? Let's answer questions while we have the time. By the way, we're almost at 1,000 likes. Can we get to 1,000 likes by the end of this set? We're almost there. Almost there, which is insane. Thank you, everybody, for showing the love. Hope you're having fun. Hopefully you've learned something. You've laughed. You're crying. I hope you're not crying.  Hopefully you're not crying. And hopefully you don't think this guy stinks. Oh, yeah, we got there. Thank you, everybody, for showing the love. Appreciate it. 1,000 likes again. Another match, another 1,000. Thank you. Appreciate it. It's, I mean, we're lucky to get 10 likes in the start of this channel. Now you guys appreciate it. There's been a 4-0 from Al-Qaraz. Al-Qaraz, it's a volley in the net. Let's get back to this, because things are serious. Let's put the jokes down. Love 15. Al-Qaraz has not broken his vary. He's had a break point in the first game and the last game of this match. Hasn't had a break point. Hasn't had a break, hasn't broken. What am I saying? Serve. Down the tee to the 4-0 of Al-Qaraz. 4-0 for Al-Qaraz. Down the line, it's a net. Oh, no. Love 30. And the French crowd have turned on Al-Qaraz. They're like, we're bored of you. Hey, other guy, win. You lose. You're winning. You lose. We want you to win. Come on now. Love 30. The crowd have gone crazy. The crowd are going nuts. Love 30. It's very in trouble. As he serves down the tee, the back of Al-Qaraz. Back of Al-Qaraz. Down to the back of Al-Qaraz. It's very of the volley. He puts it away. Sasha had the down the line. He went cross court instead. I mean, he got away with it in the end. 15-30. Still a chance for Al-Qaraz to do something special. 15-30. Don't forget, after this match, we've got the goats. Served in the tee for Al-Qaraz. Al-Qaraz gets it back. 4-0 for Al-Qaraz. Into the open court. Al-Qaraz with the down the line shot. Not good enough. 30-all. Al-Qaraz coming up clutch. He would love a free point right now. Oh, what would he do for an ace? What would he do for an ace? But the crowd are cheering for Carlos. They are going Al-Qaraz. I didn't know that French liked Spanish. But hey, they do today. They're against the German. As we get a serve out wide, that's a fault. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Second serve as everything froze at the wrong time.  Second serve, what happened? As they play the point, Al-Qaraz with the backhand. That goes into the backhand of Zverev. 4-0 for Al-Qaraz at 30-all with the drop shot. Zverev runs, gets it down the line. Al-Qaraz with a pass. Zverev with a volley again. Al-Qaraz is going to get them with a lob. And it goes out. Oh, Al-Qaraz almost stole that point. And Zverev gets the set point for a two-set-to-love lead.  Two-set-to-love lead. And most people were saying Al-Qaraz in three. Zverev put himself in there. I put myself in there. He's playing for the world number one spot, which we didn't know. And I'm going to keep saying, because it's kind of funny. It's kind of a joke at this point. Is it a serious question or is it a joke? It's serious. 40-30 Zverev with a set point to take a two-set-to-love lead. He serves. Out wide to the backhand of Al-Qaraz. 4-0 for Zverev into the forehand. Oh, Al-Qaraz hits it down the line. Zverev with a lob. Al-Qaraz with a smash. Doesn't need to hit it because it goes in the net. Al-Qaraz gets the deuce. And he's trying to get the crowd involved. Smart. Engage the crowd. Deuce has Zverev had the set point to go two-sets up. Where's that serve? He serves. Down the tee. Good serve. Comes back though. 4-0 for Zverev. Al-Qaraz in the net. Great hitting from Zverev. Wow. The serve coming to the rescue. I tell you what, today Zverev looks very calm, which is something that we never really say. He knows that he can't mess around. He's like, I cannot afford to be negative. And he has not been negative whatsoever yet. As he serves, a fault. Second serve. He has kept his cool so far. Second serve Zverev. Serve in a double fold. No. Deuce again. Back to Deuce. His dad is just kind of like, yeah, what was that? Sergei Brugera, former French open winner, sitting in the box as Zverev is like, is this normal? What's going on? Serve now, Al-Qaraz. Good serve Zverev. He comes in with the backhand. Open court. Al-Qaraz with the pass. It's a lob. Zverev with the volley. Al-Qaraz with the backhand. Drop shot. It's going to be too good. Zverev can't get it. No, he does, but it goes in the net. Al-Qaraz too smart. The lob. We haven't seen the lob yet. There it was. Break point. Al-Qaraz. Zverev had two set points. He double folded on one. Al-Qaraz getting back into this. Can Zverev survive? I feel like he hasn't served out wide for a minute. He keeps serving down the tee. Can he serve a good serve? Al-Qaraz is standing next to the line's people. He serves into the backhand of Al-Qaraz. 4-0 Zverev. Into the 4-0 Al-Qaraz. To the backhand, Al-Qaraz. Backhand Al-Qaraz again to the backhand of Zverev. Into the backhand of Al-Qaraz. Zverev gets the free point. Al-Qaraz stuffed that up. Unforced error on the backhand side. Is that Al-Qaraz's dad? Is that his dad? He's having a great time if it is.  Sitting in the box. Some of them are having great. He doesn't know what the score is, but he looks like he's having a good time. If it's not him, then there you go. All right, Zverev gets back to the deuce. He's had two set points. He saved a break point. Sasha serves a fault. Second serve. Oh, he doesn't serve. It's Zverev, he was thinking about it, but it was a terrible ball toss. He tries again. Second serve. Al-Qaraz is standing really far to the side. As Zverev serves to his forehand. Backhand of Zverev on the stretch. Al-Qaraz in control, but he hits it out. Oh, he did so well, Al-Qaraz. He had the point. We've seen him make that shot a million times this year. And he sprayed it wide. Third set point for Zverev to take a two set to love lead. Crowd going nuts. They're all weirdos. Advantage Zverev. First serve.  It's an ace!  Zverev knows how to serve. Where the hell did that come from? An ace on set point. Alexander Zverev, welcome back. Six, two, sorry, six, four, six, four. Two sets of love for Sasha. He did the opposite of what you thought.  Alexander Zverev is one set away from the semis. Carlos Ogre is leaving the court. Go to the bathroom now if you need to.  What are we witnessing? Is this the first? Are we gonna see an upset in the next? We saw our upsets last night. Mehdi lost. I know it's not an upset because Zverev's the high ranked player, but it is an upset. Let's be honest, right? Let's be honest. Didn't see that coming. I was expecting a second serve double, I mean all of the above, an ace? He would have paid all his prize money for that. And he got one for free. All right, let's answer questions. Woo! That's a question! First, we'll go through the stats. Second set of stats. 12 winners from Zverev, eight unforced errors. Alkares, 10 winners, 16 errors. But Alkares played better, but Zverev served. He faced two break points. He held on to both. Or he dismissed both. And Alkares only faced two as well, but Zverev took one. And that was the difference. Zverev taking his chances. Alkares is not. And we are at two love. Now let's go through as well before we answer some questions. How many times has Alkares come back from two sets of love down? To win? Does anyone know the answer? Can you serve any better enclave versus elite player? Can you serve any better on clay versus elite player? No, Zverev is serving. I mean, look at the 70s. He's in the 70s on his first, second serves. I mean, this is the perfect serving for Zverev. The perfect serving for Zverev. He couldn't have asked to serve any better. Like, this is the best serving he could ask for. So, has Alkares ever come back from two sets of love down? What's the answer? No, he hasn't. He's lost the first two sets in three matches in his whole career. Two times he's gone on to losing straight sets. The other time, a lot of you are saying he came back against Baratini but lost in the fifth. He lost in the fifth. So, yeah, he has come back from two sets down once but he didn't win. Now, how about Zverev? How many times has Zverev lost from two sets of love up? Let me know in the chat. How many times has Zverev lost from winning the first two sets? Does anybody know the answers? And if you know the answers, write them in the chat. How many times has Zverev lost from two sets of love up? Some of you are saying two. Some of you are saying four. Some of you are saying none. It's not zero. He has lost from two sets of love up in a very famous match. And a lot of you are already writing it. Team in the US Open final. He was up two sets of love and he lost. We all know that. We watched that. A couple of years ago. Other than that, he's never lost from two sets of love up except for the most important match of his career. So yeah. Only the once. So it's all pointing to Zverev. Positively. Elkhre has never come back from two sets of love down to the win. Zverev's only lost once. And that was in a final where both guys were just nervous. And we watched that and it was a mess. It was ugly. Terrible final, but dramatic all the same. So yeah. It's all pointing to Zverev, this. This is all pointing to Zverev. Carlos the error machine. He is today. He is today. Kind of like Igor was, but the difference was that Igor won. And found a way to win. And also her opponent got injured. Why are they hosing down the court? Because they water the court. Fair enough. They water the court so that the clay doesn't get so slippery. Keep the, keep this court. Keep the court or the clay down and make sure it's not slippery. For the start of the match, start of the set anyway. Credit is very for being steady. Yeah, Zverev's been a rock solid. And I mentioned at the end of that set that Zverev very, very calm. You know? Very calm. Are you the guy that's been yelling at me? Someone get that guy. Very calm. Even when he's not, when he's not like, you know, when he's winning, he's not like overly emotional. He's not like yelling and screaming and getting excited, which is good. He's just like this. You know? He's not going crazy when he wins and he's not getting upset when he loses. He's just perfect mentality for Zverev. Very, very good. Now, Elkrez, does anyone think Elkrez can get a set though? Anybody? Anybody thinks Zverev can win? I mean, sorry, Elkrez can win? Come back from the dead? Let me know in the chat. As that goes out from Zverev and it's 30 love, Elkrez. I think Elkrez can win this set. I think he'll win this set. And I'm thinking a tie breaker in the fourth. As well, I'm thinking it's gonna be a tight fourth set. Zverev might take the foot off the gas here. Breaking the Olympic champion is one set away. That is, yep. True. Now back in the back end now as Elkrez goes into the ground, 30-15. Zverev's a professional today, yeah. He's come with the right attitude, Zverev. This is the perfect mental match from Zverev. I've never seen him this calm. He's usually yelling and screaming even when he's winning. Can't afford to do that. And he's doing, I mean, very impressed by Zverev today. I haven't even been able to clown him like as much as we usually clown him. Usually we make him fun of his serve, can't do that. Too bad, no. Rafa no lise, the real Fimal. No one else in the drop can beat the goods. Road to dawn. I would say that two hours ago, that would not be the case. But now that this is happening, I think now everyone's gonna say that. But two hours ago, nobody was thinking that. Everyone's thinking Elkrez could do everything. And maybe in two hours time, people are gonna say that, okay, the goats aren't gonna win. But thank you for the five. But that's it. I don't think everybody, Nolle versus Rafa was not the final. It was all Elkrez versus the goat, whoever that was. But we'll see what happens. Zverev smacks the backhand winner. Now Zverev's got a two sets of lovely, so he can afford to be a little risky in this third set and be a little bit more aggressive. And maybe, maybe take it in three. Why so so calm for Zverev? I don't know if he's on drugs. Okay, probably not. I don't think so. Maybe prescription. I don't know. First, top 10 win. Yeah, Zverev hasn't been the top 10 guy to slam ever. And he's one set away, but Elkrez wins the first game, one love. Unbelievable. In the third. Elkrez will play much better after he takes a poo. We all play much. We all do better when we do a poo, don't we? Don't we all? Relatable. Win prediction is higher. Should be higher than 74. I don't know. 74% means that Elkrez is 26%. So what should be, what Elkrez should be lower percentage of coming back? Maybe. Just getting here, unbelievable. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. The box saw says they are close. So this is a huge mountain. Yep. Zverev is a chillage in the final. Can you imagine?  I would love Kasparov to make the final, to be honest. I think it's his time. He deserves it. He's the top 10 guy. He's been hanging around. He's been a great clay court player of late last couple of years. I think Kasparov deserves a final down the bottom half. So does Rublev. I guess he's been hanging around a lot, but I like, I think Rublev could get to a US Open final. He has other chances. You're on fire today. Thank you, Piyana. Some people don't think so. I mean. Oh, bruh. Damn it.   And I'll find you. 30 loves Zverev. What was the, what was the question? Serve into the net. Second serve. Zverev hasn't been broken yet. It's a five set match. It is best of five. Serve goes now to the front of Elkraz. Four left from Zverev. Down the line to the back end of Elkraz. Into the back end of Zverev. Four left from Elkraz on the stretch. Goes long. 40 love. Now, looking ahead. Two hours. And the goats take the court. Depending on the little, the little. According to, what was I saying? Two hours from now. So if these guys keep going for another two hours, which you could, could, then they will come on after. But we are, we are yet to see that. I think this goes another hour at least. I mean, minimum another hour. 40, 15 is Elkraz hit the front. Into the front of Zverev. To the front of Elkraz. Drop shot Zverev knows it's coming. He runs. He gets there with a slice. Drop shot himself. That is the first time that obviously Elkraz hit a drop shot and not come in. Elkraz not really thinking straight at the moment. Making bad decisions like me on a Saturday night. But we won't get into that. Very nice drop shot. Elkraz not coming in on that shot. Usually follows the drop shot in, but that time he was a little bit lazy. And that's something we've never said about Elkraz. One, one. In the third. Return ever from Zverev in the net. 15 love. Winner of this to play a goat. 15 love as we get a return. No. That's a fault. Second serve. The shadows are slowly creeping over the court as well. Let's see who that affects. It's always annoying to play in the shade. Or half shade as we get a back end to back end rally. Zverev into the back end of Elkraz. But Zverev sprays it wide. 30 love. 30 love. Elkraz served first in the first and second sets by the way. So serving first wasn't necessarily an advantage in those sets. First serving the net from Elkraz. Second serve. Serve to the foreigners Zverev. For now from Elkraz to the foreigners Zverev. Again to the foreigners Elkraz. To the foreigners Zverev. Again to the back end of Elkraz. That goes to the back end of Zverev. Back end of Elkraz. Again to the slices Zverev who goes into the drop shot of Zverev. That goes in the net. Zverev, very nice. Just getting a racket to it, making things happen. 30, 15. Do I call from home? I do, yes. I'm in my house as we speak. Me and my dog. My poor neighbors. My poor, poor neighbors. 30, 15 as that goes out from Zverev. Elkraz looking to get to 2-1. One day that will actually happen. And I will. You guys will think I'm joking.  Get a new joke. Anyways, returning out of the back end of Elkraz.  Into the back end of Zverev. Back end of the line from Elkraz. Zverev into the front of Elkraz. On the stretch, Zverev over the front. Cross court. He just sprays it long. Zverev, it's 2-1 in the second. A third. 2-1 in the third. Elkraz. Questions. Answer my question! The question, jerk! Jump to the tennis court below. All right, see ya. Woo! I almost headbutted the green screen.    Cam, what's happening? I have no idea. Oh, what's happening in this match? I thought you meant on the stream. I die. Elkraz is not playing well and Zverev is. Rafa-en-no-li-unai-to-to-pili-for-forze-verev. Yeah, they will. And Zverev could be world number one by the end of this tournament. Just let that sink in. Alexander Sashisverev could be world number one if he wins Roland Garros. Just let that sink in. Is it a serious question or is it a joke? It's a serious, it's serious. It's serious. Syntax error for Algebra. Oh, good one. Is the FBI in Australia? No, that's what makes it so scary whenever they knock on the door, because I'm like, how did you get here? Like, we don't have an FBI. So whenever I hear the FBI screaming at the door, I'm like, how has that even happened? It's even weirder, right? Rafa-en-the-gym. Zverev is number one, sounds kind of like a meme. He'll be number one for Wimby and that'll be it. And then maybe later in the year if he does well in America. All right, let's get back to the match. 15 loves, Zverev winning the point with Elkraz slicing it into the net. Current gen taken over, yep. Soundproof your flight if your neighbors are enraged. And I've been living here for almost two years, yelling and screaming, and they have yet to complain. Maybe that is really nice, I mean, maybe that is very nice. As that goes out from Elkraz, 30 love. Now my neighbors are cool. The lady that lives down stairs, she's cool. I'm sure if they had a problem, they'd politely knock on the door and be like, oh, excuse me, why are you yelling? What is wrong with you? 30 love, Zverev. Double faults. No, God, please no, no. 30, 15, come on, Sasha, you gotta be careful. Gotta be careful. His third double fault. His second in about five games. As he serves now to the back end of Elkraz, back in Elkraz, Zverev, down the line of the foot of Elkraz, who hits it in the ground, Elkraz can't move. He doesn't know what to do, Elkraz. 40, 15, nice from Sasha. Zverev's walking with a swagger as well. Let's just give him that. He's walking around, he's going, I am the king. As a new king in town, 40, 15. Zverev wins his in straight sets. And look, we don't compliment Zverev very often.  It's an easy joke. But I'll stand up and applaud if he wins his in straight sets. I will give him a standing ovation.   Back in Elkraz, Zverev's down the line again. It is a winner and it's two-two. He's only giving points on double faults. But he's walking, he's got, he's got BDE. Dude's got BDE.  But that's okay, she maybe she'll be there at Wimbledon and we can all smile.  Dude's got some serious BDE. What's that? I don't know. Serve out wide. Shade is halfway on the court as Elkraz serves and ha ha, drop shots. This is gonna be our finish to you. Elkraz just goes, ah, I'm just gonna drop shot. You're over there, I can, like you're over there and I'm just gonna do this. That's just like not fair. That's clowning. That's a clown. 15 love. Elkraz serves in the back of Zverev. Four-nip from Elkraz, down the line Zverev with a lob. Elkraz puts away the smash and it's 30-15 as the lady head butts it. She didn't catch it. God, what's wrong with the French? They can't catch the ball. What is it? What's wrong? Not used to catching.  You can't use your hands in that, can you? Got him. 30 love. First serves a fault. Second serve into the back of Zverev. Back in out from Elkraz. To the four-nip Zverev, into the back of Elkraz. To the back of Zverev. Again to the backhand of Elkraz who goes down the line and it goes wide again from Elkraz and it's 30-15. Let me look at the stats for this set and we'll talk about it after this game. God, I need to take a whiz. Did I say that out loud? No, I didn't. That was in my head. Talk about stats after this. Third set stats. You can see the game stats on the screen so we'll go through the third set in particular. As Elkraz serves to the back of Zverev. Four-nip Elkraz, drop shot. Zverev runs, runs, gets it. Ooh, nearly hits a drop shot of his own but just missed it. In the net, 40-15. 40-15. Elkraz serves. Down the tee, Zverev returns. Elkraz with a drop volley.  This is gonna be our finish to you. Get out of here, Elkraz. That's not allowed. Ridiculous, all right. Serve, drop volley.  Okay, three winners from Zverev, three unforced arrows, so pretty clean. Four winners from Elkraz, four, four winners, four unforced arrows. So he actually compared to the first two sets, playing a lot better because it was double the errors in the first two sets. So he's leveled it up a little bit here. He's leveled it up a little bit here. Okay, questions.  Okay, the media put so much pressure on young, up-and-coming players. Just let them live, perfect their games. James, I agree, I agree. Let's just enjoy the journey, you know? Elkraz will get his, you know, it might not be this week, might not be next year, but he will get his, he will get his. Are you excited for the more, for the Chillich versus Rubelev match or the Rude versus Rune, Rune match? Rude, Rune, Rude, Rune. I think, I mean, Chillich versus, I think Chillich is gonna get the crowd support against Rubelev, I think they're gonna, they're gonna be Croatian, but I think Rude, Rune is gonna be a slog. Thank you, yeah, we got to 90k yesterday. Thank you everybody for liking and subscribing. I don't know what I'm doing with my hands. But yeah, thank you for liking and subscribing, appreciate it, make sure you do if you haven't. And if you haven't been, if I can't convince you to subscribe now, well, God. Hopefully I will in the next one. Misty, you are all over it. You know exactly what BD means. BDE, it means big eggplants. It's a big old egg plant. Energy, egg plant energy. 15 love, let's get back to it. Zverev, to get back to threes. Got to keep that intensity. Shadow halfway across the court. Let's see if that makes a difference. As we're gonna find out from Zverev, down the line of the back end of Elkares, back in Zverev, into the back end of Elkares. It's a drop shot in the net from Elkares. What was that? It's like a Medvedev shot. Am I right? Am I right? It's true, it's true. 30 love. Another unforced error for Elkares. Six in this set now. It's the same plan.  We should get a sponsor for performance issues. Yeah. We've got like 80% dudes. So maybe that'll apply. Um, can you imagine? Second serve goes in the net, Zverev double fault. No, God, please, no, no. That's his fourth double fault. 30, 15. Served down to the forehand of Elkares, goes in to the forehand of Zverev. Big point coming up here is we got a back end out of the forehand of Zverev, into the back end of Elkares. And Elkares hits it out again. Man, this dude just can't find his game. At the most important moment, am I right, guys? Guys? Guys? Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to... I don't know what that was. 40, 15. It's a dance music plan. 40, 15. Elkares. Makes Sasha serve a double fault again. Two double faults in this game. Zverev serving is getting worse. Getting worse. 40, 30. I can't even read the chat. Stop it. 40, 30. Serve out wide. Great serve from Sasha. Three, three. Three all. Great stuff from Zverev. By the way, we got to... There it is. We got to 90.3K. Let's go. Thank you so much everybody for showing the love. Hopefully, again, like I said, hopefully you're having a good time. Hopefully it's staying up to date with what the hell's going on and put up with my sense of humor. We had a drop shot from Elkares. That's too good. 15 love. Very nice from Elkares. We do things a little different here. We're a bit sillier. I mean, chat's talking about Viagra for some reason. I don't know what you're talking about. Guys are weird. You guys are weird. You're all weird, though. You're all weird, though. So you wouldn't get that on Tennis Channel. Maybe you would. I don't know. I think their demographic's pretty old. 30 love. Elkares. Trying to stay in front as he serves. A fault. Second serve. Crowd's making weird noises. Bless you, sir. Has been a return out of the back end of Zverev. 400 from Elkares goes out. And it's 30-15. Elkares got to be careful because this is where he was broken in the first two sets around this time. Around these middle of the set. 30-15. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve. To the back end of Zverev. Back enough from Elkares. Down the line. That's a great shot. Zverev runs. And can't get it. 40-15. He sliced it in the net. There's Zverev. Elkares hasn't been doing too well on that down the line back end. But he was on that one. Came your sweating more than usual. What? Not sweating at all.  As Elkares hits that in the net. 40-30. Tell him that's sweat. Oh, okay, I am sweaty. Ew. Ew. 40-30. Another error from Elkares. And that's just been the story of the day. All the errors. As he serves. A fault. Second serve. Elkares to the back end of Zverev. Back end from Elkares to the back end of Zverev. Again, to the back end of Elkares. Sliced. Into the fort of Sasha. And Sasha hits it long. Elkares takes the lead again. And it's 4-3. Elkares in the third. Down two sets of love. Down two sets of love. Don't forget to like and subscribe if you haven't already. I've got to, I keep forgetting to do this.  We have a sponsor. We have a sponsor for the Hall of the French Open. The Singles Playbook by Fuzzy Yellow Balls. If you haven't got it, if you're a tennis player, this is perfect. Go check them out. Here are how to beat a counter puncher serving against every type of player. Lefties, how to beat Rafa is in this book. Okay, a lefty counter puncher pushes, all that stuff. How to serve against them, return against them. 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I'm gonna turn into eager on a Thursday night except a dude. I'm not gonna wear a dress, I refuse. It's just not my style. I have hairy legs, what can I say? 30 loves, Vera. Let's get back to this important match. But thank you everybody who has gone and bought the book. Appreciate it. As we're gonna serve now, that goes wide from Sasha, two hours played. We might only be halfway through. Second serve. Is Vera, double folds. No! He's been doing that a lot lately. Is Vera, he's double folding as much as he's acing. Lot of double folds. Six in total, at least three in this set. I'm sure of it. He's averaging a double fold a game, I mean, in this set. As he serves another fold, oh God, no. Four double folds in this set, I apologize. He is averaging one a game. Second serve, 30-15. Is Vera, good second serve, Elgres gets it. Back into this, Vera down the line, what a winner. Elgres had a great return, but Vera knew where he was going. 40-15. To take the game and level it up. The only points he's losing on serves, Vera, right now, are the double folds, which is super impressive, to be honest. 40-15. Serve out wide to the front of Elgres, and that goes out. Four games, always Vera of untouchable on serve right now. For the entire match, to be honest. Except for the end of the second set, that was the only time he kind of was a bit shaky, but man, crazy stuff. Bruh, I just joined. Back in to see Vera of win this she. Welcome back. Cam, answer me this. Riddle me this. Now can you tell us if you were serious when you said Vera of needs just a few matches to be world number one? Yes, I will answer that question at the end of this game. Because, Venetia, it's real. Possibilities are real. What reality are we living in? Where's Vera of is going to be world number one? As we had a volley from Elgres in the net, and Vera of is ready to go. He's like, I'm out of enough. I played two hours. I've done it. I'm going to win. Get me into the semi-final, please. Not too bad. Elgres hasn't shown up today. He has not played his best tennis when he needs it the most. He's just, look, he's just had a problem. Trying to not make any jokes about sensitive subjects. He's just had a performance issue. Second serve. Hey, big stage, all the lights. You know, he's just, it's good and work. Is he double folds? He's just called the Sverevs. No, God, please, no. Love 30, Sverev is six points away from winning this in straight sets, guys. Six points away. Sverev straight sets. That is a possibility. Love 30. And Elgres will get his. Maybe not today, but eventually. As he serves. Out wide to the foreigners, Sverev shanks it to the moon. 15-30. Good catch, Cam. Thank you. 15-30. As Elgres serves. Down the tee to the foreigners, Sverev. Four now from Elgres. Into the back of Sverev. To the slice of Elgres. Four now from Sverev. Again, to the back end of Elgres. Into the slice of Sverev. Elgres back in the point. He comes in the net. Sverev, the slice goes wide. Elgres survives. 30-all. He's not done yet. He's never come back from two sets down to win, but he has come back from two sets down to make a fifth. 30-all. Thank you, Tiana. I appreciate it. 30-all. Elgres serves out wide to the foreigners. Sverev, four now from Elgres in the open court. It's wide! Oh no! Sverev's got a break point to take the lead and serve for the match. Alexander Sverev is about to take the break to serve for this match in straight sets. Who thought that two hours ago? I think that was the only answer that nobody had. 30-40. Served now to the back end of Sverev. Four now from Elgres. It's a drop shot. Sverev's running. He can't get us too good. This is going to be on finish TV. Too good for Elgres. Lovely drop shot. And we're back to deuce. I mean, Elgres, living well. He can drop shot. We know he can drop. He can drop it. We know. I mean, under pressure, it's insane, but also we've seen it so many times. It's almost not even a... We expect it at this point. Elgres serves down to see an ace. He's second ace of the day. What a time! What a time! Advantage Elgres to get the lead in the third and stay in this match. Elgres, strangely looking excited about this prospect of coming back from the dead. He doesn't look sad or nervous. He looks almost oddly happy. I don't know. Maybe he realizes, hey, I can do something special here. Advantage, second serve now to the back end of Sverev. Into the four end of Elgres. Back end of Sverev is wide. And Elgres gets a five four. Five four Elgres. Now, the question was before, which is a really good question, was that how the hell can Sverev be number one in the world?  Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Jackass. But, if Sverev wins the whole tournament and Rafa beats Nolay in the next match, and more importantly, that one has to happen too. Sverev can be world number one. So if Rafa beats Nolay, and Sverev wins the championship, he will be world number one. It could happen. We could be living in a world where Alexander Sverev is world number one. But if Sverev beats Nadal and Elgres back to back at the French and wins his first Grand Slam, I mean, he deserves to be world number one. Let's be real. That's a crazy thing to do. And he deserves to be world number one if he does do that. It's not like he accidentally became world number one. If he wins the French and Rafa beats Nolay, I think there's a chance. According to the live rankings, that is what might happen. Maybe. Is it true that Sverev's never beaten a top 10 player at a slam? That is correct. He's never beaten a top 10 player at a slam. I'll tell you who he's lost to though, because I think that's something we can talk about. All the slam matches against top 10ers, I'll tell you who he's played and I'll tell you where he's taken the Ls after this because Sverev is serving for a five all. As we return now, four and now to the back end of Sverev, back and Elgres down the line to the four and Sverev, Elgres starting to grunt. He means business as we're at back end to back end rally. Elgres down the line to the four and Sverev into the four and Elgres, back end to back end now as Sverev goes with the back end again. This one goes in the net, love 15. Oh no. Uh-oh, love 15. Uh-oh, love 15. Also, can we get to 2,000 likes? I know there's a lot of people here. Thank you everybody for being here. Can we get to 2,000 likes by the end of this match? That would be insane. That might be a record actually. I think maybe Nadal's match got a little fraction more but thank you everybody for showing the love. Don't forget to like, it's free. As the first serve is a let's from Sasha and we'll go through Sverev's poor record against top 10 as it slams. He might be breaking that streak today but he's still gonna win.  How do I rate Sverev serving today? Actually, I'm gonna throw that to the chat. What do you reckon? Out of 10, what do you reckon? I'm gonna say an 8.7 out of 10. He's been very good. What do you guys reckon? What is your score out of 10 for Sverev serving today? I'd say an 8.7. Double folds hurt him obviously but he hasn't been broken yet. Currently 8.7 in my opinion. Four and a four and now as that goes into the four and Sverev, to the four and Elgres, Elgres with the drop shots, Sverev runs, runs, runs. He gets there but he puts it in the net. Oh no, 15.30, 9.10, 9.1, 9.3, 8, 8.8, 8.5, 7? 7, that's a bit harsh. 6.9 hurt numbers. 10 out of 10. I mean, that's a perfect score. That's kind of crazy. I mean, 10 out of 10 is pretty, hasn't been perfect. Far from me. They're not perfect. Surely. 7.4.2, that's way too low. Come on now. I know you're trying to make a joke, come on. Disrespect. As we're gonna return now, Sverev at 15.30, he's score might lower after this as we're gonna back in at back end rally into the back end of Elgres. Back in as Sverev, down the line, Elgres on the four and stretched, gets into the four and Sverev, again to the four and Elgres, to the four and Sverev, down the line, into the four and Elgres, four and Elgres from Sverev again, to the four and Elgres who hits it down to the slice as Sverev. Back in there from Elgres is the drop shot. Sverev runs, he's gonna get there into the four and Elgres who puts it away. Oh, Elgres! And he's fired up. Two set points. Don't go anywhere. Elgres with the set points. And he finally plays like himself. Finally, 15.40. The drop shot and then the whipped forehand to bring up two set points to take the third. 40, 15.40, Sverev with the serve. Out wide to the four and Elgres, shanked into the four and Sverev, four and Elgres from Elgres again, to the four and Sverev, to the four and Elgres. Now to the back end of Sverev, into the four and Elgres. Drop shot, Sverev runs. Oh no, he's in trouble Sverev. He's hit it out. We're going four. We're going four. Elgres steals the set. And we're going to a fourth. Hold on to your butts. We're not done yet. Oh man. Oh man. Carlos Elgres is not done yet. I just came in what I missed. You missed everything. No straight sets now. By the way, I think the train is coming out on court. The umpire is on the phone or on the headphones or listening to us. I don't know, what's up? Elgres, someone's got a trainer coming out and I think it might be Sasha. Trainer might be coming out to fix Sverev. Or maybe Elgres, I don't know. I mean, I'm just guessing. Usually when you win a set, you don't call a trainer. Carlos Ferreiro's like, let's go buddy, let's go. One Carlos. I don't know where Elgres' dad is but he's having a great time somewhere. Okay. Five winners for Sverev, nine errors including a crapload of four double faults. I mean, that was a terrible serving display in that set from Sverev. Worse serving of the day. He served at least one double fault every game almost. Nine winners from Elgres, nine winners, 12 errors. And the difference was the break points. Sverev had one, didn't take it, Elgres took it. Taking the chances, that was the difference. It was the first set and the second set. Now the third. Take a chance, win the match. Sounds simple, right? Sounds simple. Now, let's see where the trainer leads to because I think it might be Sverev. Sverev left the court to go to the toilet but he's back now. Carlos taking a page out of Raffa's book. Yeah, that was such a Raffa way to win that set. That was such a way to win the set. Now no trainer. So it looks like no trainer but the umpire was just listening to, you know, I don't know, the new Kanye or open or something. I don't know, I don't know. Oh brother, this guy stinks. Yeah, that's it, I've had enough.  Stay there. All right, let's get back to it. Elgres serving first in the fourth. Sverev out of the corner, Sverev from Elgres. Down the line into the back end of Sverev. Sverev from Elgres again to the back end of Sverev into the back end of Elgres. Back end of back end as Sverev goes again to the back end of Elgres. Sverev gonna be able to get the first game series. We are back in again from Sverev. Elgres with the slice, Sverev with the back end again to the back end of Elgres. He's gone cross court with these shots. Elgres has played a lot better since that first two sets. He's played a lot cleaner as well as everything freezes and I'm just stalling by talking a lot more. Can Sverev win the first point as he runs into the net and hits it in the net? Good drop shot from Elgres, 15 love. Okay, 15 love. Longest rally of the match that last one.   Australia, be better. Be better. All right, first serve is a fault. Here we go, we're back. We're back. Two hours and 17 minutes into this one. As we're gonna serve out wide at the back end of Sverev, back enough from Elgres, hits the tape and goes wide. 15 all. 15 all. Let me know in the chat, who's winning this set? Who's winning this set? Good serve out wide goes in the front as Sverev. Elgres with a drop volley. Sverev with a slice gets it. Elgres with a volley down the line, winner. Starting to make his shots now Elgres. Dangerous ties with Sverev.  Well, is he all the red hats in the front row? What's going on? Crazy stuff. Anyways, 30, 15. 30, 15. Turn now back end to the forehand of Sverev. Forehand from Elgres to the forehand of Sverev again. And Sverev just hits it in the ground. Yuck. 40, 15. 40, 15. When did my pen go? When the hell did my pen?  Anyways. Back end of backing goes into the forehand of Elgres. Forehand from Sverev into the forehand of Elgres. Again to the forehand of Sverev who goes down the line to the back end of Elgres. Back in our back end, Sverev pushes it wide and it's one love Elgres in the fourth. Found it. All right, Elgres wins the first game of the fourth. Okay. Umpire's still on her phone. What's she listening to? I don't know what's going on. She's like, sorry, we're playing a fourth set. I can't come to dinner. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yep, yep, yeah. Yeah, I thought it'd be over by now too. Yeah, yeah. All right, I'll see you tomorrow. One love. She's got a date. What's that like? Can't even play the sad music.  Anyways, back end of forehand rally. As that goes out from Carlos. That's 15 love. Sverev by the way is one 99 points. 88 points for Elgres. If that makes a difference. Sverev it's an ace. Bang, here we go. Here we go. Big A's from Sash. 30 love. Sverev serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve now to the forehand of Elgres. Four and a half from Sverev goes long. Oh God. 30-15. 30-15. Man, the French really, that thing when they do that thing, that chant. They really don't get into it anymore do they? They hate it. They're like, hello, whatever. Back end of back end rally now. Slice from Elgres is a bit of a drop shop. Sverev's there with the back end down the line. Elgres with the pass. Sverev with the drop volley. Elgres is there with a shot down the line. I mean, man, Elgres found his game. Unbelievable. He's found his game. 30 all. Never one from two sets down. Never one from two sets down. Only ever come back from two sets of love down once to force a fifth. Australian opened this year against Baratini where he took the L. Has he learnt? It's not too bad. Viet Sverev had Dr. B because he started choking you. Thank you, Rowdy, for the joke. That was a good one. That was a good one. That was a good one. I liked that. That was a good one. 40-30. If you want to donate and tell a joke, you can. That was funny. 40-30. Sverev to get on the board in the fourth. As he serves now to the front of Elgres. That comes back. Everything freezes again.  Elgres win the point. First serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Elgres is standing so far away from his fine. As Sverev goes out wide straight to the front of Elgres and Elgres hits it in to the front now. Elgres again. And Elgres dumps it in the net. Yuck. Advantage Sverev. Just feel like Elgres is this close to playing like we're used to seeing. This close. Advantage Sverev. Serve out wide to the back of Elgres. Back in as Sverev is a winner. And Sverev saves the game. One-one in the fourth. One-one in the fourth. Nine minutes into this one. Two hours and 24 minutes in this match. First set, Sverev. Very impressive from Sverev. The serving is Sverev. We said he had to serve well and he did. It was only up until that game at 5-4 where he started to serve bad. Elgres has not played his best. But he's starting to now. Has he hit the drop shot? Sverev gets it with a slice. Elgres with a pass. Sverev with a volley. But it goes out. Oh, Sverev was there. He did all the hard work. But he hit the volley long. 15-love. Sverev's starting to read Elgres' game, though. And that's a good thing for Sasha. Starting to read when the drop shots are happening. Not letting him get those free points as that goes out from Elgres on the serve. Second serve. Second serve to the back of Sverev. Sverev hits it wide. 30-love. And Sverev's starting to talk to himself. Oh, no. Who do you think will win the second half? Kasparud. Thank you, Beta, for the 2-26. Sverev's starting to talk to himself. And that is never a good sign. First signs of emotion from Sverev. He hasn't been really chill. 30-love. Second serve to the back of Sverev. Fournir from Elgres into the fournir Sverev. To the net from Sverev. And it's 40-love Elgres. Elgres, 40-love. Now Rafa Noelay is coming on in about an hour and a half. It might be delayed because of this match. So we'll keep you guys updated. Supposed to start in one hour of 30 minutes, so we'll see. If this goes to a fifth, that match is probably gonna be delayed. 40-love Elgres. Serve goes in the back of Sverev. Back in Elgres into the back of Sverev. Again to the back of Elgres. Sliced into the fournir Sverev. Down the line to the back of Elgres. That goes into the back of Sverev. Sverev hits a winner. Elgres looking at the mark and he's like, yeah, you got me. You got me. 40-15. 40-15. That's a 10th backhand winner for Sverev. Chilly Tsorublev. Rublev. Rublev. Serve to the back of Sverev. Back in Elgres. Into the back of Sverev. To the fournir Elgres. Again to the fourhand of Sverev. Back into Elgres. Again to the back of Sverev. Into the fournir Elgres. Sverev taking over as he goes down the line. Elgres looking back into the net. Good hitting from Sverev. 40-30. He's getting a little bit closer now. 40-30. And for those who are asking, yes, we will be watching the next match. We'll also be watching all the matches tomorrow and forever in this tournament. So every match from now on, we're watching men, women, might have been trucking the doubles if that ends up happening. I don't know who's playing in the doubles if there's anyone worth watching, but yeah. 40-30. Second serve Elgres. He was up 40-love. As he serves to the fournir Sverev. Fournir Elgres. Into the fournir Sverev. To the fournir Elgres. Again to the fournir Sverev. Now to the backhand of Elgres. To the backhand of Sverev. Elgres attacking Sverev now and hits a winner. Sverev says no. Sverev says no. Sverev says no. You cannot be serious. And the ball was. It was wide. Sverev saw it straight away and he's like, nope. You don't have ravers tops, man, that ain't going in. Elgres misses it. We're a deuce. Deuce. Elgres thought it was in. He celebrated and then he goes and then he saw Sverev say it was out and he's like, okay, I trust you. Deuce. Sverev out wide to the fournir Sverev. He shanks it. Sverev shanks that forehand out. Advantage Elgres. Elgres just coming up clutched on the serve there to stay in front. He serves a fault. Second serve. Sverev goes in the backhand of Sverev. Fournir from Elgres. Into the backhand of Sverev. To the fournir Elgres. Down the line of the fournir Sverev on the stretch. Elgres with a drop shot. That's going to be too good. Elgres gets the lead, two-one in the fourth. Now, let's go around the course because if you can, I need to take, I need to go toilet. Sverev serving down two-one in the fourth. He's up two sets to one. As we're a fournir from Elgres, it goes out and Sverev just looks at the ball and goes, that's out by a mile. No call by the lines person. Umpires out of the chair. Sverev was right. The lines people are doing a terrible job. Terrible job by the lines people. Missing everything. Oh, who's going to win? Who's going to win? Two hours 32. Serve out wide to the backhand of Elgres. That goes into the smashers Sverev and he puts it away. He's Sverev too good. Almost decapitates an old man who's on his phone. But hey, dude went straight back to texting. He's like, I'm sorry, what? Oh, okay. 30 loves, Sverev. 30 love as Sverev serves. Out wide to the fournir Elgres. That goes into the fournir Sverev. Backhand out from Elgres. Again to the backhand of Sverev. To the fournir Elgres now. Into the fournir Sverev. To the fournir Elgres. Into the fournir Sverev, sliced. Elgres in control. As he hits it into the open court. Sverev there with a slice. Elgres comes in with the fournir down the line. Sverev with a pass. Elgres with a volley. Sverev with a slice down the line. Elgres can't get that one. Sash are too good. This is going to be our biggest TV run. And Elgres usually wins those points. Not today. Not today. 40 love. Very nice hustle from Sverev. And I'll bring this up. We haven't brought it up for a couple of hours. But if this was in Madrid, Elgres would have won that point. But the court being a little bit slower, gives Sverev that chance to get the ball back. I don't know if that's going to be mentioned in the pre-match, in the what? In the post-match analysis. Is we got a return there that goes out from Elgres and it is 2-2. It's going to put the heater, it's getting chilly. Sorry. Heat is cold. All right, I'm warm now. By the way, I'm probably still on the phone. I don't know what the hell's going on there. What are you talking about? What are you talking to? Who are you talking to? All right, 2-0 in the fourth. Sverev getting a new racket. Sverev's in real form. He's playing well. He's playing well. Ordering a pizza, I wish. It's three o'clock in the morning. There's no pizza places open around my place. I wish there was. Oh, she's ordering a pizza. Oh, that was good. Serve to the back of Elgres. Back in now from Elgres to the back of Elgres. Into the front of Elgres. Down the line is a winner. Elgres finding his spots now. This is dangerous for Sasha. 15 love. 15 love, Elgres. By the way, we forgot to mention, so someone in the chat was like, hey, Cam, is it true that Sverev has never been a top 10 player in a grand slam? That is true. That is very true. 10 play, 10 times, 10 losses. Against top 10 guys, all the 10s. As Elgres gets the 30, love with a lovely volley. He's lost two. Murray, Burdick, Nadal, Raunich, team. Djokovic and Siti pass. Now he's lost the team three times and he's lost to Nole three times at slams. Mind you, the last few times that he's played against top 10 guys, he has made it interesting. Like, he's either got the five sets or he's got to, or he's played a four setter. So like, Australian Open semi-finals in 2020, he got to four sets against team. We watched that one. That was one of the most epic matches. It should have been a five setter, but four sets team, he lost there. And then at the US Open, of course we know what happened there. At the Australian Open last year, he lost in four sets. Again, that should have been a five setter. French Open last year, of course, semi-finals and also US Open semi-finals last year. Novak and Siti pass. So he hasn't been a top 10 guy, but he's come this close the last five or so times. Last time he got whooped by a top 10 guy was Novak in 2019. So it's been a while since he's been whooped by a top 10er. So this is not going to be a whooping. We know that, but the truth is it is serious. Things are getting serious. By the way, Alcarez up 30-15. As he hits a winner down the line, that's a winner on the line, 40-15. Alcarez just starting to make things happen. And this is scary now because Alcarez is actually starting to play well. He's actually starting to play well. He was missing all these shots in the first two and a half sets. And now he's finding them spots. We'll go through the stats of the fourth set in a second. Alcarez serves a fault. Second serve. And Zverev's second serve is becoming a problem too. It's starting, it's definitely falling. Alcarez second serve. Out wide of the four and Zverev shanks it out. Alcarez gets the three, two and the fourth. Now, Alcarez. Six winners, five errors in this set. Zverev, five winners, four errors in this set. So both very close. But Zverev's second serve is a problem. It has been a problem for the last few sets.  Let's answer some questions. Zverev is zero and 11 playing top 10 guys in slams. Sorry, yeah, zero and 11. Did I say zero and a 10? Zero and 11. Zero, 11. The last five times he's come close. Thinks Zverev is too skinny. No, no, I don't think so. I don't think he's too skinny. I'm calling 10K viewers for the Norway match. We'll see. I mean, I can't control that. So as long as it's a good match, I don't really care if there's 10 people or 10K in here. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I can just see who's in the chat. And I know there's people listening. Thank you for listening. 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Elkis guesses right with the forehand. Back into forehand now, Zverev at 30 love. Now he hits a forehand off the tape. It goes in. Elkis with the forehand down the line. Zverev just scrambling now. Elkis has found his spots as he hits the drop shot. Zverev gets it. Elkis with the pass. It's going to be a lob and it's going to be in. This is going to be our finish. Elkis is starting to find his brain again. 30-15. Thank you, tennis ace, appreciate it. Let me know in the chat as well if you are new to the channel, if you found us this week or over the last, maybe the last two weeks. Let us know in the chat if you are new. I'd love to say hi to the new people out there and welcome you to the channel and the community. It's a pretty crazy community in a good way. In a good way. Return now to the backhand of Elkis. Foyner from Zverev into the forehand of Elkis. To the forehand of Zverev. Zverev trying to level things up here. He's got 30-15 as we go back into backhand rally. Elkis again to the backhand of Zverev into the backhand of Elkis. Zverev with the forehand now into the backhand of Elkis. Elkis starting to attack and he hits a winner. 30-all. He wasn't doing that an hour ago. 30-all. Big points coming up here. Where's Zverev serve? Where is Zverev serve? Thank you, Lynn over on Twitch who subscribed for the tier one. Sub, thank you so much. Return now from Elkis to the forehand of Zverev. Ooh, he just hits it in. Elkis gets it. Backhand has Zverev open chords. Elkis can't get it. Zverev got lucky there. Just shanked it and it had enough spin to push it away. And by the way, I can confirm Stan Smith is in the house. Looking straight at Zverev. If you don't know Stan Smith, he is a legend of the game. Won tournaments. Won the big ones. 40-30. Zverev to level at three. In the fourth. He serves to the forehand of Elkis. That goes out. Good serve from Zverev. And it's three games all in the fourth. Now, we've just said that Zverev is not beating a top ten guy at a slam in his entire career. Elkis has only beaten one top ten guy in a slam. Can anyone name that guy? Can anyone name who he beat who has beaten in a slam so far in his career out of the top ten? All right, three all. He's been served now down the tier of the backhand of Zverev. 40-30 from Elkis. Down the line of the slice of Zverev. It goes up into the sky. It's a bit of a lob. It goes out. 15-love. Now, Zverev has not served first in a set in this match. If he plays a tie break and he loses, he will serve first in the fifth. Or if Elkis breaks in the next few games and then serves it out, then he will serve first in the fifth. But Zverev has to serve from behind in the entire match so far. 30-love didn't matter in the first two sets, though. And everyone got the answer right. Yes, it was Sizi pass last year at the U.S. Open. Also, they're zooming in on Elkis' parents. Man, he looks like his dad. Dude's got the same hairline. At least he knows he's not going to go bold unless he follows his mum, but his mum had hair too. As we're going to find out of the backhand of Elkis, backhand out from Zverev is into the slice of Elkis. 4-0 from Zverev is terrible. What was that? Hit the line, okay? Zverev shakes his head. 40-love. 40-love. And Zverev tries. Stick around, Elkis trying to stick.  Into the backhand Zverev. Serve volley from Elkis. Good volley. Elkis gets it though with a forehand and there's another good volley from Elkis. Elkis is all over the net. And it's 4-3. Let's answer questions as quickly as possible. That's my question! The question! Throw him at me, quick, go! Go, go, go! Just play, who's playing better? Zverev. Boldness come from a maternal line. Okay? Who do you think wins now? Zverev in five. I said that at the start and I'll say it again. Stan Smith, a did-it-shoot name after him. Yes, that is correct. Hey, Cam, what's up? I just joined the stream, haven't watched the game. Would you bet on Elkis to win right now? Um... Well, maybe. You do you. Zverev is playing better now, he's now playing better. Zverev is playing better throughout the match. Right now, Elkis is playing better. Elkis has so many crazy ideas for a game. Yep. A lot of options. Today, Nolaine Djokovic. Yep, that's happening after this. Straight after this, go, go, go. Who is more tired? Me. Do you play any other sports? No. How long until Elkis number one? Probably a year or two, if he keeps going like this. Do you watch any other sports? Yes, I do. Kalidos will learn no matter what, yes. Five set loss for Zverev, maybe. I said five set win for Zverev, though. That was my prediction at the start. Who's more tired? Me. Again, I'm the tiredest. Do I have a girlfriend? Depends who's asking. Are you asking?  Gonna murder me in my sleep? And yes, I'm definitely, I'm married. 15 love. Favorite racquet, Wilson. Good, Bolly there for Zverev, okay. Zverev, 30 love. Favorite match of the tournament so far? Ooh, good question. It's gotta be the five setter with Nadal. Surely, surely, how many children do I have? Hopefully zero. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't come to my door. Hopefully zero, but I'm pretty sure zero. 30 love. As I yell the scores, Zverev just goes and stops. Can he really hear me? Maybe he can. Oh man, I am at the stadium, some would say. As we're back in the net from Zverev, 30, 15. Zverev's gotta be careful. We can't throw away games. He knows Elkarez is lifted. He's gotta be better. Married to his dog, no, that's illegal. It's illegal, Rowdy, Jesus. He's got a four-and-a-four-and rally, that goes into the open court, but Elkarez misses the pass. He had the chance. And he's hit those shots many times this year, 40, 15, Zverev, to get to four all in the fourth. Who's playing the best in the tournament so far? Novak Djokovic. Are you an innie or an outie?  What is he saying? Weird. Weirdest question of the day. Congratulations, you won. 40, 15 is we're gonna find out from Elkarez and the four-and-a-four-and, find out Elkarez again, to the four-and-a-four-and, down the line and long, 40, 30. Strange, too strange. So strange. 40, 30. Zverev. Zverev needs a good serve here, just to get this game. Making it tough. Crowd's going wild.  And he serves a fault, Zverev. Second serve. Second serve, Zverev. Oh, he was gonna double fault. You can tell he caught it instead. He's gonna try again, Zverev. Elkarez changing his court position on the return. I like it. Making different things happen as he serves on the seed, Zverev, to the four-and-a-four-and, Elkarez, and that goes out. Good work from Zverev. Good second serve. And he gets the game, four-four. Zverev's going cold. No, Zverev, Zverev's all right. He's hanging in. Is your name just cam, or is it something short for? Maybe. All right, serve now. Out wide to the four-and-a-four-and of Zverev. Drop shot from Elkarez. Zverev's gonna get there with the back-hand down the line and it's a winner from Sasha. Love, 15. Nice shot from Zverev. He's been reading the drop shot really well since the first two sets. Love, 15. As he serves a fault, Elkarez, and the ball kid can't catch the ball. Bum, bum. Serve now to the back-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a-four-and-a stretch. Elkarez comes in with the swinging volley. Zverev with the back-hand pass. Oh, Sasha! But he's not showing any emotion, which I absolutely love. Alexander Zverev is as cool as can be. Most of the time, he's doing the cringy, you know, celebrate my wins. Not today, not today. That was the best shot, one of the best shots of the day, and he just went, I'm good. Love, 30. And that's just how Zverev's been today. Elkarez serves. Out wide to the four, does Zverev serve volley for Elkarez? That's a terrible volley. Zverev with the back-hand pass. Elkarez gets it. Zverev runs. Zverev should have gone down the line again for the third time he made the error. Carlos survives. 15-30. Zverev had it on his racket there. Had it on his racket there. Should have gone down the line. Still a chance. Still a chance. 15-30. Second serve, second serve, Alcarez, second serve. Into the back and it's Varev, for now Alcarez, into the open, into the net, into the net, 15-40, oh God. Oh man, Alexander's Varev is five points away, five points away from getting the first top 10 win at a slam in his career. Serve is in the net from Alcarez. It's part of me, second serve.  That's what she said. 30-40, Alcarez serves a fault. Second serve again, Varev's got a big chance here. Second serve, Alcarez serves a double fault, oh my God. Alcarez double faults to give Varev the break. Five-fourths Varev, he's serving for the match.  Where do you live in the UK? I don't, good guess. The tension results, yeah, that was a massive double fault. I mean, we haven't, is it three double faults today? That was the worst. Hit the tape, that wasn't the worst, hit the tape, but so crazy, oh my God. Now, Alexander's Varev is serving for the match. That does not mean Alexander's Varev is into the semi-finals, all right? We all know that Alexander's Varev doesn't always serve and win the match, but he is now serving for the match to take his spot in the semi-finals. He gets a chance to make the semis, a chance. Can Varev get it done in four? As we're gonna rally now, Alcarez with the back end, backing up from Varev, into the back end of Alcarez, down the line to the front of Varev, and Varev hits it in the net, love 15. Love 15. By the way, if it is the last game, whoa, we're celebrating early. Premature several celebration. By the way, thank you if you have subscribed, like the video as well. We are coming back for the goats after this. Maybe in four points time, maybe in another hour, but we are coming back and we are watching the goats. Don't you stress. Who's gonna play the goats? We'll find out. It's Varev, love 15, as he serves. And Alcarez wins the point. Oh, no, love 30. Juan Carlos Rero looks nervous. Yep, that was him. He did that, Juan Carlos. He's clean, thanks for that. I mean, maybe go to the toilet if you need to. Love 31st, there's a fault. No fire, first serve. Second serve, it's Varev. Second serve into the front of Alcarez and Alcarez hits a winner, because of course he does. This is gonna be our finish to you. Of course he does, love 40. Alcarez's mom's like, yep, sure, why not? Love 40, not even a chance to win this match. Didn't give him a chance.  Oh, he missed it. He missed it, 15-40.  Gave him the point. All right, Alcarez misses that one. Varev saves one as he serves. 15-40, still break point.  Alcarez with the back end, open course winner. We're back on serve. We're back on serve. Five ball in the fourth. Did we really think this Varev was gonna finish it there, guys? Come on now. We're talking about Alcarez, we're talking about Varev. We're talking about two guys who know what to do in that situation and it happened. We've seen it before, we'll see it again. Five all. I just want a tie break. I just want a tie break. Tennis guards. Yeah. Tie break? Can we get a tie break? That would be excellent. Thank you very much. Amen.   Love 15. Love 15. Love 15. Three hours played in five, four, three, two, one. Five ball, three, two, one.  So close, serve volley, Alcarez too good. 15 all, serve and drop volley.  It's Varev, two sets of love up. Not anymore. He served for the match and didn't win. Obviously. He's got a drop shot there from Alcarez. Varev running the wrong way. He gets it. Oh, just down from Varev. He almost stole that point. 30-15 though. 30-15. Alcarez to get back the lead and forces Varev to get to a tie break. 30-15. Alcarez serves. Down the tee, good serve, Varev gets it, but he hits it in the ground. 40-15. Khalidos come to play. And Wildcars for error is laughing, because he knows. He knows. 40-15. He knows Varev. And he knows what Alcarez can do. Served now, Alcarez. Into the body of Varev. Backhand return to the slice of Alcarez. Backhand out of Varev, sliced. Hits the tape, goes in. Alcarez with the backhand. That's a winner. Oh, he's too good. Too smart. Chinky. Little Chinky backhand. 6-5. Alcarez. Unbelievable. All right. Who's going to win this set? Are we going to a tie break? Are we going to a tie break? Question, Chuck. Man. What a match. What a match. Alcarez to break now. All right. As Varev was certainly, he always gets tight when it gets close. Okay, we definitely choke, you reckon. Oh, okay. 7-5 Alcarez, you reckon. Alvaka to serve it. All right. Tie break, tie break. I hope we get a tie break. Come on, tie break was sick. Can you imagine the drama? The drama of the tie break would be insane. Beat the bot, says Kate. Yeah, that's it. Is this match for real? Tiana, yes. This is a real life. Someone said in the chat, color's more than overrated. Yeah, good joke. This channel is the reason that I started watching every tournament, not just the Grand Slamms. Hey, that's exactly what I want to get you guys into. Tennis is an all-round sport, all year round. We got you covered all year round.  So make sure you join us with the next one, the next one, the next one. And subscribe so you don't forget because you might go away and think, oh, I'll come back next time. And then you just won't remember what the channel is and so subscribe so you don't miss out. 15 Love. We're watching one of these guys in a couple of days. Is it gonna be Zverev? Or Elkerez? Someone's playing a goat. You gotta play a goat. Serve to the back end of Elkerez. Good serving volley from Zverev. He's done an Elkerez and Elkerez can't get it. 30 loves, Zverev coming in with a serve volley. 30 love. Also, we got to 90.4 and 2K likes. Thank you everybody for showing the love. Three hours and four minutes play. 30 loves, Zverev to get to the tie break. He serves out wide and Elkere