Everybody to finals day. It is the red shirt wearing finals day. We have Runa taking on Rubelev to win Monte Carlo the first Masters 1000 event for Rubelev potentially and the second for Runa and to become the first teenager to win Monte Carlo since Raffer did it back in 2005. That's what Runa is trying to go for. Man, it's an interesting final. I don't know if many would have picked this final considering we had Sina, Djokovic, Sidney Pass in the draw, but it's not random. Runa's been here before so is Rubelev. They're top 10 guys. Runa I think is going to be career high ranking after this week as well depending on what happens. He could be number six or number seven. Rubelev I don't think he'd go any higher. He can only go to number seven. So these guys are really paying for the number six ranking as well. The winner will be number six I think. But this is going to be exciting. I'm excited for this one. Also the draw of the Stuttgart's has come out. Jesus Christ. Has anyone seen that? Oh my God. We looked at Barcelona the other day and I was like, okay, yeah. Stuttgart's like, yeah, here have like seven finals in the first round. All right, cool. We will. All right, let's get the preview of Evan's in the video already. You won't have to because it's coming up now. These guys, how they got to this stage? Olga Runa versus Andre Rubelev is the final of Monte Carlo Masters for 2023. And both guys have had to fight to get to the final stage. Runa entered the tournament as a number six seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round, he'd take on Dominic Teem. He was starting to look like he was in a little bit of form after a good win against Gascade. But Runa was too strong, getting through in straight sets, six, two, six, four. In the third round, Runa was supposed to take on Baratini who had just played an epic match against Serendolo. But unfortunately, Baratini had to withdraw within a domino strain, handing Runa the walkover to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Runa would take on the number three seed, Memvedev, who was showing everybody that he could actually play on clay by beatings Varev after saving match points in the previous round. But unfortunately for Memvedev, Runa was too crafty and too skilled and took Memvedev out in straight sets, six, three, six, four, to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-final, Runa would take on the number seven seed, Sina, who had just beaten Mousetti in the previous round. And after going down the first set in a long rain delay, Runa would fight back to win one, six, seven, five, seven, five to reach his second Masters 1000 final. Rubelev started the tournament off as the number five seed and we got to buy in the first round. In the second round, he'd take on Munar and after dropping the first set, Rubelev would have to fight back to win four, six, six, two, six, two. In the third round, he'd take on Countryman Hashinov, the number nine seed, who had been sneaking through the draw. But after a close first set, Rubelev got through in straights, seven, six, six, two to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Rubelev would take on the qualifier Struff, who had been the surprise of the tournament. And after a very close second set, Rubelev would eventually get through in straights, six, one, seven, six to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Rubelev would take on the number eight seed, Fritz, who had just taken out the two-time defending champion, City Pass, in the previous round. And after dropping the first set, Rubelev would fight back to win five, seven, six, one, six, three to get to his second Monte Carlo Masters final. These two guys have played the two times before with the head-to-head split straight down the middle and their last match being the Australian Open in a five-set epic where Rubelev saved match points and came back to win against Rubelev. Having looked at the shot quality, thanks to Tennis Insights and the 52-week average of both these guys. In the serve, return, forehand and backhand, Rubelev has the edge over Runa with the biggest standout being the return of serve and the forehand on the Rubelev side. Runa though is very close on the backhand side, so maybe he can exploit that and also needs to serve well if he's going to get over the line and win his second Masters 1000 event and deny Rubelev. Shot quality is a part of a range of new insights from the team at Tennis Insights. It is calculated in real time and analyzes eight shots, speed, spin, depth, width and impact on the opponent. The number of the player cards are actually the 52-week rolling averages. Go check them out on Twitter, link down below. This is going to be such a great matchup. We saw an epic match in Australia in a five setter earlier in the year and Rubelev got the win that day, but I think Runa is going to take the win today in three sets in a very close one, but let me know in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win the Monte Carlo Masters this year? There it is preview done and dusted. Thank you everybody again for watching those previews. We put the hard work in so that you guys can stay informed and there it is quarterfinals onwards, quarterfinals. Yeah, it was alright. Semifinals were bangers made up for the lack of bangers in the quarters and it's been a weird tournament.  I don't know. How do you guys feel about Monte Carlo overall? Let me know in the chat. Hoge Runa, the world number nine, 19-year-old from Denmark. He is 6-2 right-handed, 14 wins, 7 losses on the year before coming into this event. No titles this year, but he has got three career titles and you can see there his form has been. It's been alright. I mean, not as good as we expected, I think, because at the end of last year, he finished with a Paris win beating Djokovic in your final match of the year. We all expected huge things and he kind of started off a little bit slow. And of course, unfortunately lost to this guy. Rubello at the Australian Open. It was a huge one. We'll talk about that in a second. Six in the world, 25-year-old from Russia. He's 6-2 right-handed, 13 wins, 8 losses on the year. Again, very about the same as Runa. Him and Runa have had a very similar season to now. No titles this year, but he has got 12 career titles and you can see there his form has been pretty good as well. Now, the head-to-head. Never played on clay. They played twice in the last six months, both on hard courts. One-one split down the middle. Runa won in Paris, went on to win the title. Rubello saved match points to win in Australia and then went on to lose to Djokovic in the next round. So it's been... This is a nice little rivalry.  I mean, look, everyone that seems to play for some reason just starts to like frosty handshakes in this drama. We've had so many new rivalries pop up this week. Not so much. Well, the tennis has helped, but also, yeah. Are we going to get another one? Is it Runa? I feel like Rubello doesn't deal with that. Rubello doesn't beef with anyone.  What do you want me to do? Hopefully the tennis does the talking today in this one. Okay, players are ready to go. We're ready to go. How are we doing, Chat? We're ready? rooting for Rubellov, first month, month of 1,000. Nice. I think a lot of... Look, Rubello is the underdog in the betting. Runa is the favorite because I think of the experience... Oh, because he's won this event, or won, sorry, won an event of this size. Rubellov yet to do that. But looking at the road to the final, I mean, look, of course, Runa didn't play Baratini, but the names that Runa is beating, I was so...  It feels like Paris again.  I'll tell you who he beat in Paris, and I'll compare it to who he's beaten here. And of course, Baratini's an asterisk because, you know, he didn't beat Baratini, but he did, you know, he did win against Baratini. So last year, in Paris, Runa, the dream run, he beat Vavrinca, her catch, Rubellov, Elkaraz, Ozealia Seym and Djokovic, right? And this year, or this tournament, he went, he beat team Baratini, Medvedev, Sina, and now he's playing Rubellov. So those two tournaments alone, he's beaten like half the top, more than half the top 10, or at least a bunch of guys that have been in the top 10 or Grand Slam champions. It's ridiculous. And it has a feeling like that. It's like, well, last time he did this, it was in Paris. He ran through guys who have made finals of slams or won slams, and he's done it again here. It's incredible. Whereas Rubellov, he's been, he's been impressive too. He's gone through, like we said, he's gone through Munar, Hashinov, Strouff, Fritz, you know, Fritz being the highest ranked opponent, but I don't know, it just ruined it. It seems like Runa just gets in a mood. Every week, once every couple of months, and he goes on a tear and this is this that week. He's never lost a final masters. One for one. The Runa and Strouff have a frosty handshake yesterday. It looked like an awkward high five to me, but I saw afterwards. It looked frosty at first glance, and then I looked, I watched the replay at it. I mean look, you can go follow me on Twitter. I put a post up again, part two of your favorite beef, because there's actually a lot of beef going around. So we have to make a part two. Go check that out. I want you to tell me what your favorite beef is out of those bunch, but it did look frosty. I mean what, what classifies a frosty handshake? Lack of eye contact? A very quick kind of like, you know, that's, they're the two things that are like a frosty handshake. If you're not looking at your opponent and you just go like this, frosty. And no words exchanged. After an epic match, usually players that are friendly, when they play an epic like that, they usually hug it out, or they say great match, or you know whatever. But that was very like, that's frosty. I mean have you watched Benchitch, Vecitch go through all the frosty hands, how to shake hands? It's funny, because now it's starting to be the opposite way around. The WTA is getting a little more friendly. Sabalenko are back and are hugging each other every time they play, and the men are just going, you know whatever, get out. Runa has a way of doing that to people. Look, Runa's ain't, Runa's not here to make friends. He's here to win trophies. Who was frosty yesterday? Sinner and Runa. Mainly because I think Sinner felt that Runa was hitting the ball at him, when the ball was going out. And Runa was like, I don't mean to. But Sinner thought he was. Sinner thought he was, you know, unfairly hitting the ball towards like at Runa, at Sinner. Yeah, it's, look, it's good for the game.  It's good because now all these matches we want to see again, you know, not just for the tennis but also for that added extra. The post-match interview was frosty as well. Okay, just like the Mehmedev Zverev handshake. A little bit, yeah. It was so weird when Zverev was like doing like, usually they do the, you know, they do the whole like, you know, handshake.  Maybe they're not that friendly. Look, extra hamster today, thank you. I brushed my teeth. Runa is there to do his job, but his attitude is not great towards the other more experienced players. Yeah, well look, Djokovic and Runa get along. Mehmedev Runa seemed to get along. Um, but again, look, that's the thing about tennis. It's an individual sport. You, you don't need to have friends, no friends on a tennis court. I mean it's, it's, yeah, obviously don't want to be disliked by everyone in the locker room because then, you know, that's not great.  But again, it's, it's, you know, it's not a team sport. You know, everyone, it's every man from so, only one person can win, right? So, you know, and plus it's good having different personalities. We've got Elkaraz who is, you know, very humble, uh, intense, but very respected and very respectful to everyone else.  You know, it doesn't shout too much. There's a little fist bump every now and again. So it's good to have these little, these all these different personalities. Then you've got Medvedev who's quirky, you know, Rublev who's explosive, right? So you've got all these different guys. Um, it's good because everyone's a little different. Siddhi Pasu is philosophical, you know. It's nice. Kiraos who is Kiraos. Uh, no, it's not gonna rain today. No rain today. We're sweet to go. We're good to go. Friendship's a myth. Uh, as long as he's not crying and being, uh, about being just like, yeah, Runa's not going, man, I wish I could be liked. Runa's like, cool. He doesn't really care, Runa. And that's the thing. It doesn't mind being the villain or being the heel. I guess you could call it. Villains are a bit harsh. Siddhi Pasu is outspoken too. Yeah, a little bit. True. We love each of their personalities the way they are. Exactly. Imagine they're all the same. It'd be boring. So boring. Runa doesn't mind a beef. Yeah, he doesn't mind a fight, Runa. He's, you know, gonna be interesting. Runa's a heel and Andre's the face. Okay. Runa is tied, I reckon. He's only played that way. He's only played yesterday's long match and Rublev played a tough match too. So I don't think, I don't think fitness is going to be a problem. I think unless it goes to like a three hour match and then maybe we can talk about that. But yeah, so far this week, like I wouldn't say that either of these guys should be exhausted from yesterday because they both played a long match. Runa didn't play Baratini. The other two matches he played were relatively easy against Tim and Medvedev. And the only tough match he had was Sinner which was a tough match. But Rublev also had a tough match against Fritz. So I don't know if it's going to be, if it's going to be a battle, like who's going to break down first or if anyone's going to come out here feeling tired. Never look at what time, how long they've been on court for. Let me chat. Well, everyone see the draw for Stuttgart? Man, oh man. Told you, look this week was missing WTA 10 is bad and then they went, they came back with a vengeance.  That draw is sick.  It makes Barcelona look like a 250. Okay, so this week, these guys have played where are we? All right, so this week, I don't see, they're showing up. It's annoying. Anyways, these guys against each other, it's one one. The average time is two and a half hours. That's because they played a long match in Australia. In fact, that five said it was only like three and a half hours. It wasn't actually that long. In the two matches they played, Runa has broken seven times against Rublev's five. So, breaks have served for being, in the seven sets they played, not too, not too many. Runa's going to serve first by the way. Where is, it's not showing up. That's a bugger. He's going to say, you know, I'm going to check it here maybe. Can't find it. All right, either way, we'll talk about that. Look, Runa has only played the one long match. Remember Rublev did play a really tough match in the first match against Munar. He had to come back from a set down. So, he's played a little bit longer. Also played two tie breaks in the other two matches he's played. He's also played an extra match because he's played, you know, because he didn't get a walk over victory like Runa did. So, let me have a look at what, let's do some quick math. So, two hours, two hours, one-a-half, one-and-a-half. What's that? Three, seven hours on court for Rublev. Just over seven hours on court and Runa. He played one-and-a-half hours in the first round, one-and-a-half in the seconds, a three and then two hours and let's just round up to three just for fun. So, six hours. So, Rublev played an hour and a half extra. That's just accounting for that extra match. So, I mean, will it play a factor?  Here we go. What's going on? How are we doing? Oh, there's one up the serves as we speak. Ready to go. Still got to draw his fire, I know. Woof. Oh, I know. I don't know why that's not a bigger draw. Why is it, it should be, I mean, Barcelona, you know what Barcelona's problem is? Barcelona's problem is that everyone has a buy in the first round. There's 16 seeds and everyone's going to buy in the first round. I still haven't recovered after their last match. Thank you, Brian. Oh, that was one of the best matches in the Australian Open for sure. Yeah, Barcelona, everyone's got a buy, all the seeds have a buy in the first round.  I don't know why they do that with tournaments. It's so annoying. You know, it's like, it happened in Monte Carlo, sorry, Indian Wales and Miami and it's annoying because the first day is irrelevant unless you watch someone who's, you know, outside the top 30. Yeah, it's really annoying because I think Stuttgart and Barcelona are the same size draw. Oh no, Stuttgart's only 28 players. How is Stuttgart a 500 event with 28 players? It's smaller than the 250 events. Weird. So, Stuttgart should be a 56 tournament or 56 draw and Barcelona this year should be a 250. I mean, Djokovic here, out here trying to make Serbia open a 500. He might actually get his wish. Because Barcelona, Barcelona's not getting any better. Don't really agree with the buys in the first round. Seems unfair. Well, look, I'll tell you what's going on and we're going to do draw previews. They're coming up in a few hours. Our previews for the next week. But, yeah, like there's not many good first round matches. Like, I mean, the best player that's not seated, I guess, is Shelton. Maybe Roussevore in recent weeks. So, there's not too many fun first rounds. And then the second rounds aren't really that good anyway. For instance, Stuttgart, I mean, you've got Roderkan Osterpenko, right? You've got Kazakina Bedosa. You've got Krajikova versus Sampsonova. Rabakina Nimayah. Pleskava versus Zachary. Ridiculous.  All right, Chad, here we go. No, God, please, no. Damn it, I can't find the thing. All right, you know how it goes. Anyway, it's Ruba who's the first point. Who's going to win this match? You tell me. I don't know which one it was. I mean, I lost it. I don't know which one it was. We're ready. I love 15. I'm going on runner in three. So, everyone go Rubelev because, I'm going to be honest, my track record this week has not been good. I got both the semi-finals wrong. So, feel free to pick against what I pick, because we're back in a back-end rally now in the form of Runa. Backing up from Rubelev is good. Runa's there with the forehand inside our winner. Nice. Unbelievable. All right, 15 all. Now, who are the crowd going to pick in this one do you reckon? Are they going to go with Runa, despite them taking out their boy? Or are they going to go with Rubelev, despite Runa? You'll find out. If Runa's smart and he'll try to entertain the crowd, at least try and get them involved and get them on his side, the first few games, because I think if you get the crowd on your side against Rubelev, added frustration for Rubelev, as that goes in the net from Rubelev, 15-30. And then when Rubelev throws a racket or breaks something, the crowd's going to boo and cheer him. And if you have the crowd on your side, I think Runa should be smart about that. But then again, he actually played better when the crowd was against him.   Makes him play better. All right, Runa, 30-15. First serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve in the back end of Rubelev. Foyner from Runa, into the front of Rubelev, to the forehand of Runa.  As Runa hits the forehand down the line, that's a great shot from Runa. That forehand's with lethal. 40-30, 40-15. Sorry, I was reading the upside down. All right, 40-15. First game of the match. Forehand winner of 155Ks down the line.  Ridiculous hitting already from Runa. 40-15. Serve is a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the forehand of Rubelev. It's a double fault from Runa. I closed out the chair and she confirms it's a long. 40-30. Hawkeye says it's also out, so 40-30. Runa tries to get the ball on the board first. He serves. Out wide the back end of Rubelev.  Rubelev with the forehand on the stretch goes wide and it's one love. One love, Runa. At least we have no rain. Yeah, no rain today and we should be sweet next week because Stuttgart's indoors, so we shouldn't have to worry about rain. I mean Barcelona's outside, so maybe there, but we can just watch Stuttgart if that's the case. And then Madrid's got a roof, so that's fine. And then on Rome is the next time we'll have possible rain delays. French ovens got a roof as well, so we should be sweet. Greatest of all times, belt goat. David! You are the goat for us. Thanks for this week. Also saw the Sampris doc you. This thanks for that. No worries. Thank you David for the 20. Can we get some solos for David in the chat? Thank you David, that's very generous of you say. I didn't get to watch that today unfortunately. I was too busy doing getting things ready for the streams, but yeah, I've got to check that out. I'm glad you, I'm glad you checked it out. You must have liked it, but thank you. No worries. Glad to be here. Watch nine. I think we've watched 18 matches this week, which is a few. I love 15. As Runus returned back into the form of Rubelev. Oh Rubelev smacks a winner! Runu just watched it. He's like, hey, I wasn't ready. All right 15. Oh nice. Flicked down the line from Rubelev. 15 old. Rubelev with a serve. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve is a double fault. Both these guys have hit double faults in their first games. 15-30. As Rubelev serves. Now while the back end of Runa returned the form of Rubelev. Runa with the back hand on the stretch. That goes in the form of Rubelev. Again the back hand of Runa. Runa hits it out. 30-all. 30-all. The crowd's getting a little crazy already. Not as crazy as when the Italians play, so they're a little bit less crazy, but still. The serve and the net. Second serve. Second serve Rubelev. Double fault again. Man Rubelev. Tough start on serve. And it's 30-40. Break point. First game of the match for Rubelev on serve. 30-40. Rubelev serves. Now while the back end of Runa returned the forehand of Rubelev. Into the forehand of Runa. Again the back end of Rubelev. Runa with the forehand. Again the back hand of Rubelev. Down the line's a winner from Rubelev. This has got to be on this TV. These guys are going to hit a lot of winners. Or at least we're going to see a lot of really hard winners. Might see a lot of errors, but we're going to see winners today. These guys don't sit back. They like to go for shots. Rubelev serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve in the back end of Runa. Forehand of Rubelev. Down the line of the back end of Runa. Who hits it wide. Just hits it wide. And it's advantage Rubelev. Rubelev looks nervous. Now wouldn't be surprised. He is the one who hasn't. It's a big opportunity for him as he hits a forehand out of the slice of Runa. Want to have Rubelev inside out. It's a great shot. Runa with the slice. Volley from Rubelev. It's too good. Rubelev survives. Little test 1-1. I mean look this is Rubelev's best chance of winning a 1000.  You know of course he's won Paris. But you know Runa hasn't. Hasn't been around as long as Rubelev. We'll talk about Rubelev's finals. Other finals. As the match progresses. And who he's played in those finals to. At master 1000 level he's played two masters 1000 finals as he's third. And um. Yeah. In fact hasn't want to set in a final of master 1000. If you want to find rally that goes in the net from Rubelev. And it's. 15 love. In fact. This is the first time he is actually the highest higher ranked player in the final. The other two times he's played he's actually played a player that's been higher in the work of rankings in him. So he is the higher ranked. He's not a favorite though. Runa is the favorite according to the bookies. And we have drops out of Runa. That's terrible. Rubelev puts it away. 15 old. How is Rubelev going to keep his cool. And he'll believe this is his best chance too. Because he's we're all saying what he's probably thinking. You've got to win a big trophy. Come on now. It's time. We've had a lot of a lot of you've been around for a while. You know Medvedev Sidney Pass Fritz. It's very well got these big trophies. Has been served. Into the forehand of Rubelev from Runa. It's the back of Rubelev. Into the front of Runa. And Runa hits it out. 15-30. Chance for Rubelev. To get the break. 15-30. Just had a break point. Rubelev to save in the last game. Runa hit the slice. Forehand. Rubelev. Forehand is a winner down the line. Two break points for Rubelev now. Serving is not getting the job done yet. Both guys struggling. Break points now for Rubelev. Serve. Runa down break points. He serves into the net. Second serve. Second serve. Is a let. Was this close to being a double fault. Still a second serve. Rubelev standing all the way back now on the second serve. Trying to bait him. Doesn't work. Serving volley from Runa. Rubelev hits it out by a mile. Interesting how Rubelev stands back to try and you know trick Runa into maybe double folding. And Runa goes well I'm going to serve and volley if you're going to stand that far back. Chest game going on right now. They're hitting the ball really hard in this chest game. Aggressive chest. 30-40. So a break point here for Rubelev as we're going to serve now from Runa. Runa serves. Down into the front of Rubelev. Return goes in. Runa with the forehand. Rubelev there with the backhand pass. It's in the net. Rubelev had the shot. We had a look. And we're a deuce. We get to deuce. Everyone's here by the way. So many famous people. All the rich people are coming out to play or coming out to watch today or the Formula One drivers who live down the road. The ATP chairman. Now a deuce. We're going to serve out wide as a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev. Backhand out Runa. Again the backhand of Rubelev to the backhand of Runa. Is it a slice from Rubelev? Goes long. Advantage Runa. Rubelev getting angry at that slice. Not happy with that backhand. Advantage Runa. Hey big wolf. Thank you for coming back for another month. Appreciate that. Seven months. Thank you for that. Appreciate. Advantage Runa. To stay in front. He serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev for now Runa. Is in or no it's out. Rubelev says it's out. The umpire is going to have a look. If it's out it's deuce. And yeah it was out. You cannot be serious. Back to deuce. And the ball was just out. Good call. All right back to deuce. And serve again from Runa. Five almost a six minute game here. Third game of the match. We're going to serve down to the backhand of Rubelev but it's a let. And it takes his time again. We shouldn't get any rain today. Everything should be uh should be good. Just serve now from Runa. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev for now Runa. Again to the forehand of Rubelev to the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev is out. Rubelev over aggressive but he knows he has to be because if he's not Runa will be. It's a battle of who's going to take the first punch. Who's going to throw the first punch. A vantage Runa. I'm sure the rallies won't go over nine shots. This will be the short. This will be short and sweet. Maybe a three set of the ghost for like two hours. If possible. If that happens. We're four and a Runa. There's the winner. And he stays in front. Saves the break points. Two one in the first set. Okay. Ryan. Love Holger and Maddie for going against the crowd. Yeah. Yeah they take the ground on. Hey big wolf. IDK who needs to hear this but whatever struggle you go trough. It will get better. Stay safe guys and please take care for your mental health. It's one of the most important things red heart. Thank you wolf for the uh nice words. Yes. Agree. Very much agree. Hopefully uh you can jump in the chat and if you're having a bad day and we can make it a little bit better. You can forget about things while we watch some tennis. At least that's what I like about this sport. Because you can watch it and forget about all the troubles. For a couple hours. It's not too bad. And Matthew with the three. Thank you Matthew for the three. What I mean to JB Fox. No idea. No idea. I'm afraid the Runa is tired. I think it's too early to say that. Um once we get to like two hours. Maybe fatigue will be a factor but I think it's way too early to say that Runa is tired. 15 minutes into a match. And by and like I said I don't think we're going to have that many long rallies. So you know maybe fatigue won't be a big issue unless they do play long games.  So there's not going to be too much running. You know it's going to be about pretty much just a pretty much a brawl. You know two big hitters trying to hit winners. Now in their finals history. Runa. He has made five finals. This is his fifth final. The other four finals have been sorry he's made sorry five finals. This is his sixth final. He's won three out of his three out of his five. Charles Leclerc in the house by the way. Um Ferrari driver. Uh he won a first his first final against van der Zanchel last year in Munich almost at 12 months of the day. He lost in the Sofia open uh last year to uh to Hoosla. Then he beat Sidney Passing Stockholm lost in Basel to FAA and of course that infamous Djokovic uh Djokovic match in Paris. So he's three out of five and he seems to go win loss win loss win. So maybe he's due for a loss and Rubelev in his career. He has won 13 out of his 17 finals and his last final was in Dubai a couple of months ago in uh against Medvedev. He lost but he did win four finals in a row before that including uh three or all four of them last year. His last master 1000 against Vera where he lost the final in 2021 in Sinti and he lost in the 2021 final of Monte Carlo here against Sidney Pass. So like I said Rubelev hasn't been the top the the highest seed player a higher ranked player in a final like this before. So this is uh it's going to be interesting see how he plays as the higher ranked guy if that makes any difference. 30 lovers he double faults. And Runa every final he's played he has been uh except for except for the final in uh Sofia Open he's been the higher ranked he's been the lower ranked opponent mostly because when he made those finals he was you know outside the top 15 20 so his first final is the top 10 guy 30 15 seconds of Rubelev into the front of Runa Runa in the net 40 15 40 15 and this is Runa's second clay court final. As he says a fault there Rubelev second serve it's a sixth final for Rubelev on clay as we return now going to the backhand of Rubelev for now from Runa but Rubelev hits it out 40 30. So as I mentioned with uh last year Runa played the one final on clay that was against Vandezanschup and he beat him in Munich with a retirement victory and then Rubelev has played five clay court finals in his career we'll go through them in a second 40 30 serve down the tee Runa Runa in the net Rubelev 2 2 so he's played uh back in Umar in 2017 as a lucky loser Rubelev won the event uh big massive run there uh then in Hamburg in 2019 he made the final loss of Baselashvili made the final in 2020 in Hamburg again and beat Sisypass in that final then the Monte Carlo final of 21 lost to Sisypass and last year he won a final in Serbia beating Djokovic sixth love and the third which was uh ultra impressive so he's uh he's 50 50 almost when it comes to finals on clay Rubelev so about why the final Rubelev 2 2 in the net on the return now Rubelev 15 love 15 love by the way fanslams open for next week as well if you want to join the Baselano fanslam it's ready to go you can check the uh click on the click on the link in the chat 30 love nice ace down the tee also the Stuttgart fanslam should be coming up in the next couple of uh next couple of hours so make sure we have that as well it's served now the back of Rubelev back in our Runa but Rubelev hits it out 40 love one of the easier games to hold for Runa as he serves at 40 love first serves a fault second serve he's out wide the back of Rubelev good return Runa gets it Rubelev with a drop shot Runa's there with an easy forehand but the the love from Rubelev is out and Runa stays in front three two a couple of break points here in there but i think the both guys may be a little nervous big smile on Runa's face though good to see from Runa he's enjoying this moment looks a little bit uh happier than Rubelev at the moment okay uh by the way chat thank you again for uh for hanging out with us this week it's been a big week uh we actually watched more matches this week that we did last time in Monte Carlo last year so thank you for that um but yeah it's been it's been an interesting week Monte Carlo i don't know i i mean i used to think Monte Carlo was like one of the premiere events on tour but i feel like it hasn't been as good as Monte Carlo hasn't been as good in Miami or Indian Wells and i i don't know i don't know if you guys are getting the same feeling but the joint events with WTA ATP i think they're the ones that are going to be i mean we'll find out next week in Stuttgart right if Stuttgart does better than Monte Carlo does in terms of you know um matchups and uh an excitement and buzz then wonder if the WTA is a little bit more exciting right now than the ATP even though you've got players like Runa and Sinner and Alcaraz and you know Mepedev and Rublev and Zverev and all these guys playing but it does feel like Monte Carlo this week's been a little bit maybe the rain delays have kind of soured it too i don't know but you know it feels a little bit weird this week WTA is next week yeah big week next week on the WTA Indian Wells is good Miami was garbage yeah but Miami did have those crazy matchups i don't know we'll find out i guess uh next couple weeks Madrid and Rome are going to be huge we know that but and Monte Carlo i don't know it just doesn't feel like a 1000 event as as much as previous times we had a lovely drops out there from Runa and again maybe it's because we're lacking the goats we didn't have Alcaraz either if we had Alcaraz maybe it would be a different story but you know missing those two guys Nadal and Alcaraz has been a bit and you know Djokovic not performing well kind of uh maybe you know hurt the hurt the event a little bit love 15 is going to serve now Rubellev out wide the back end of Runa return goes into the find of Rubelev drop shot is in the net from Rubelev uh-oh love 30 chance here for Runa to break love 30 let's be the serve again from Rubelev we already had break points for both guys if you return now the back end of Rubelev back in our Runa on the stretch goes into the back end of Rubelev into the forehand of Runa as Rubelev it's back end get into the back end of Runa into the back end of Rubelev as Runa hits back end again the back end of Rubelev into the back end of Runa slice drop shot from Runa that's not bad that's not bad at all this is going to be what a shot from Runa and it's love 40 two drop shot winners in the game the crowd starting to get excited love 40 smart from Runa great disguise on the drop shot too it looked like it was going to hit two hander and then he just just took the hand off for the last minute very nice disguise Rubelev is nowhere near as he serves a fault second serve second serve into the back end of Runa for now Rubelev to the front of Runa into the back end of Rubelev back in our Runa again to the back end of Rubelev into the back end drop shot of Runa again but it's in the net third time one too many by the way Rubelev would have got that had Runa had made that drop shot anyway so you know you've got to you've got to be selective with the drop shots you can't drop shot too many times otherwise it gets a little obvious 1540 Patrick Moritoglu with the signature fist bump or the signature fist shake where he's like get off my lawn as we deserve nope it's a fault second serve no expression on the face just second serve into the front of Runa smacks a return Runa breaks 4-2 first set huge forehand return there from Runa pack stating by the way not a seat left 4-2 26 minutes played great drop shots from Runa set that up and then the second serve return winner that was not much Rubelev could do there Runa 4-2 It breaks first in the final Runa waiting for the crowd to calm down as he serves a fault second serve second serve into the back end of Rubelev 4-0 Runa into the front of Rubelev down the line at the back end of Runa 4-0 Rubelev again at the forehand Runa into the back end of Rubelev Runa with a forehand again to the forehand of Rubelev into the forehand of Runa down the line to the back end off Rubelev that's a good shot Runa gets it back in���tes in the back end of Runa as Rubelev tries to take control with a forehand down the line Runa gets it back in our Rubelev again to the forehand of runa runa in the net Nice from Rubelev and runa's like the bloody caught dodgy Love 15 By the way, Emily you are so close to winning the fan slam For this week Make sure if you do win because I think it won't update until later I'll remind next week when we go live again, but If you do win Email me so I can send you a hoodie All right, love 15 as we deserve The term goes in the form of runa for now Rubelev in the volley of runa in the backhand of Rubelev that love is good No, it's not as runa gets it. No Rubelev gets it find a backhand as Rubelev in trouble now Again to the form of runa Rubelev of the slice again to the form of runa runa in the net Good defense there from Rubelev love 30 Okay, love 30 Just as you thought runa was getting the control Love 30 runa's taking some deep breaths That was a tough rally. He's breathing heavy runa is really breathing heavy Rubelev looks kind of chill serve Is a fault second serve? second serve They can serve in the form of Rubelev back in our runa is good to the slice of Rubelev runa with the volley Rubelev's out of the Oh, yes, Rubelev got it Love 40 Rubelev to break straight back He anticipated that volley perfectly and Runa just I mean look he got to the volley and he bounced the racket as well He got to the volley, but he just Just hit it straight to where Rubelev was running break points for Rubelev to get back the break love 40 Runa with a serve out wide the back of Rubelev Rubelev in the net 1540 I gotta be honest no No outbursts from Rubelev yet Despite the score line, which is good to see it feels like the last couple of matches even when he's winning he's been yelling and screaming so To see Rubelev not yelling and screaming. That's a good sign for now And if anything could change is going to return now the form of Runa back in a Rubelev slice runa with the volley Rubelev There were the pass in the nets Rubelev had it And again Rubelev You know a little a little bit of a conversation, but nothing like no yelling and screaming just a little bit of a man I could have had that More of a disappointment than a rage 30 40 You'll be angry if he doesn't break back here though Rubelev. I'm sure if it's five two if you're like, hey, we should have this 30 minutes in 3040 Rubelev has another chance to get back on serve serve Into the back end of Rubelev good serve and Rubelev hits it in the net on the return back to deuce Good fight back Rubelev again though not Looking angry There's a good sign Crowds gone wild by the way must have seen someone famous and I deuce Runa to stay up the break He serves in the tier fault Second serve second serve In the back end of Rubelev good return Runa gets it back in a Rubelev Into the forehand of Runa again at the back of Rubelev back in a Runa drop shot. He's in the net And Runa is making some errors now Couple of good drop shots to get the break Haven't been looking good since advantage Rubelev Get back this break and Rubelev just looking chill Well as chill as Rubelev looks can look I guess He's probably not chilled but He's at least Not punching himself in the knee or anything Runa serves down the team Rubelev gets it back for a Runa inside out a good shot Rubelev with a sliced lob Goes in Runa with a smash Is a winner? Nothing Rubelev could do there back to deuce Good save And we're back to deuce back to deuce six-minute game Man Runa's played a couple of long games On his serve and I gotta be honest Runa is looking a little gassed. I wouldn't say he's tired or Exhausted he's looking a little he's breathing a little heavy second serve Rubelev is looking a little a lot a lot more a lot more energized He's not breathing out his mouth it's gonna back in a backhand rail that goes in the forehand Runa and Runa hits it out Advantage Rubelev Runa is definitely having some Taken some deep breath a lot like a lot of deep breathing or heavy breathing, which is a little weird advantage Rubelev Get back this break so don't see the fault second serve Second serve into the back end of Rubelev for now Runa down the line is out. There's the break back So, okay, so there's there's different types and Runa by like smack his racket So there's different types of tiredness, right? Sometimes you can be tired after playing some long rallies and just be exhausted and need to you know Take five minutes to kind of get your breath back And then there's tired, you know after playing a long match yesterday and coming back today and having to play another match I don't think Runa's and then usually a player Well Maybe if he's cramping you would say he was tired from yesterday. I feel like he's just tired from today so far Give it another hour and a half and Rubelev. I mean Runa could stop physically breaking down for the heavy breathing The heavy breathing just suggests that he's playing some really long points and playing a lot of points on serve So maybe he just needs that, you know a couple of minutes to just catch his breath But Rubelev is looking I mean Rubelev is looking as chill as I've seen him look probably since that Australian open match Where he played this man Just remember how impressed I was or how impressed we all were. I don't know if you guys were there. Hopefully you're there Again about how good Rubelev handled himself in that match against Runa Something I've not really seen much of Rubelev before he's kind of looking like that today You know no outburst no punching, you know, no smacking his knee No yelling at the coach no screaming A couple of little conversations, but he's looking pretty chill Rubelev She's good. We love that for Rubelev. All right, here we go back back on serve Rubelev Rubelev is served by the way. Oh Brian happy Easter to all Orthodox Christians, Inc. Rubello Happy Easter all the Orthodox Christians. There you go. I did not know that was today If you're selling it celebrating Easter Happy Easter By the way, I just the return quality for Rubelev right now is 9.1 Was it Runa or Rubelev? Hang on. Let me check So the return quality for Runa is 9.3. So Runa's returns are ridiculous right now It's kind of crazy because he's the one who's Faced more breakpoints, but his return quality is a 9.3. Remember it's out of 10 What was his 52 week average? I think I broke it down in the preview 30 love good hitting room Rubelev so Runa's Shot quality average over the last 52 weeks on the returns of 6.4. He's at a 9.3. So his returns are on point 30 love So he's returning better than As well as he could really As a return now the backhand of Runa back in a Rubelev into the form of Runa That's a good shot. Rubelev gets it Runa the point down the line in the net Yeah, Runa's looking he's got something in his eye now Yeah, Runa's got something in the eye needs to Figure that out 40 love But yeah off the charts It's not not helping him on the scoreboard yet, but he's A 9.3 is insane as we default from Rubelev second serve And if you watch the if you did watch the preview Rubelev leads in all categories with shot quality as Runa hits that in the net man Runa's hit some bad shots in the net Over the last over the last 52 weeks Rubelev Has the edge and I guess most of that. I mean looking at those You got to remember that over the last 52 weeks Runa hasn't been the guy's really been over the last six months where Runa's been this Phenomenal right I guess, you know French open last year. He was great, but there was a time You know between the French open and then maybe I Mean maybe the indoor season at the end of the year where he really wasn't a factor I think he lost like six matches in a row. Didn't he? Where's rowdy rowdy would know this I Think he lost like six or seven matches in a row from the French open To the US open or something like that didn't he? So that's why his maybe his shot quality is on average over the last 12 months is not as great As Rubelev who's a little bit more consistent also Rubelev play the adb finals Successfully played at the adb finals. So that would help too 4-4 6-1 is a piece on the forehand side And it's 15 love but still 9.3 on the returns, but the problem is if you get you might be 9.3 But he's on it's 4-4, you know over 9.3. He should be Breaking a lot more but Rubelev's holding strong as that goes in there from Rubella Runa Runa again just getting a little annoyed 15 all They both nervous neither have been in a final like this Jared they both they both have been in a finals like this But they would both be nervous for sure because both of you know both have Runes looking for his second Masters 1000 Rubelevi's first But I think the nerves would have gone away after 30 minutes Runa serves a fault take a serve. They're both trying to control the baseline because They're both very aggressive Attacking baseline as we return now the backhand of Runa the slice goes in the back of Rubelev Runa the backhand again The back of Rubelev to the backhand slice of Runa. We're just trying to mix things up The Rubelev hits it away and Runa's trying to slice and that's not working 15 30 15 30 40 minutes into this final You're just joining us Runa was up for two in this set as Runa tries to wait for the crowd to shut up and I Think Runa wants the crowd to get a little bit of knowledge so then they can now he can push use them Use them to energize him so that goes out in return from Rubelev 30 all 30 all as Runa serves Big point here for all 30 all Runa was clutch yesterday in this position and he's a clutch again with a massive serve But it goes in good return from Rubelev now back in from Rubelev on the stretch the forehand of Runa again at the back And Rubelev sliced Runa gets the point now What does clutch mean clutch means playing well at the clutch points what a clutch points 30 all is a clutch point a Point where you play really really good under pressure That's something that goats do very well It's something the Sampras did back in the day very very well Serving well at 30 all and down break points and something that Runa did very well and sinning yesterday and something Sinner did not do well Which is partly why he lost Runa's clutch on that point 40 30 is do so clutch point. Yeah 30 all dos break points Into the back into backhand rally going into the final of Rubelev backing up from Runa into the back of Rubelev Into the back end of Runa as Rubelev hits a backhand down the form of Runa I want to from Rubelev again to the form of Runa who's just lost the pace at the moment It's in the ball a little loopy as we had a back in a backhand rally now to the form of Rubelev Runa But slice forehand Rubelev in control inside our forehands good Runa gets over the slice in the net and we're back to do And I wonder if Runa Because he's made so many errors. He's just taken the pace off and hitting the ball higher Just to avoid it going in the net because a lot of his errors Recently in this game in the last couple games have been in the net So maybe he's overcompensating by trying to hit the ball high and loopy Rubelev's just tearing off. That's what exactly what he wants Dose and again Runa just looks he's looking really he looks spent It's crazy It's almost like I don't know if you guys have ever Try to run like not a marathon but run a long distance and you sprint the first hundred meters and then you pretty much die It looks like Runa's done that as he double folds He was in a marathon. He sprinted the first 20 minutes and now he's got no energy Just the gasses went advantage Rubelev To get the break and lead And serve the set advantage Rubelev as we get a serve now from Runa Need to first serve Now while the backhand of Rubelev return goes out good serve that's clutch Saves another one we're back to doce Huge game this one Runa's first serve by the way percentage points one off the charts Only lost three points on when he gets his first serve in that first serve is really Doing him good as we to serve out wide. That's a good serve return goes in the front of Runa down the line now is winner from Runa That was clutch Big serve massive forehand Rubelev thinks it's out But then he covers the mark. He's like, yeah, right you got me smack bang on the line And it's advantage Runa And a little bit of a grid of the teeth too as well from Runa Maybe just needs that little bit of adrenaline Serve out wide the back end of Rubelev that goes into the front of Runa Again to the back end of Rubelev Runa with the forehand on the stretch into the back hand of Rubelev Runa with the back hand again to the back end of Rubelev into the forehand of Runa As Rubelev hits the forehand on the stretch Runa backhand cross court Rubelev's there with the back end of his own But it hits it out. That's a great game from Runa That was so important And it's advanced, uh 5-4 That was very hard for me to find the words 5-4 45 minutes in Runa gets back to lead but Rubelev serving to stay in the set now Rubelev doing his best to stay calm Rubelev has to win this set otherwise How calm can he be? I mean he's gonna keep his cool for the rest of the match if he's losing All right 5-4 Runa How we doing chat? How are we chat? We good? Uh Maria, what's up? I like uh feel special, but uh That's also a good song I guess Yeah, it's Maria. It's cool to watch on youtube Explain the pancake serve to the chat. It's hard to explain without words. So, uh, sorry. It's hard to explain without vision It's like explaining a kick serve It has topspin, sorry, okay Rubelev's a man, Rubelev's a win, okay Do we know Rubelev is a clay player? Yeah, Rubelev's a clay player Made the french open quarter finals could have made the semi-finals last year at the french Rubelev's known to be a clay quarter or clay court Winner Got him at Runa plays a courageous game. He does have a fearless game for sure He does not He's not worried about Hitting a hit in an error He'll go for the winner By the way, average service games and this might be why Runa is breathing heavy five minutes the average service game length This set for Runa and two and a half minutes for Rubelev. So Runa Runa is playing twice as many twice as long on his serve And that's probably why he's breathing a little heavy Because he's having to do way more work to hold serve And play much longer, uh longer games 15 love And partner and it's funny because because Runa's uh return Shot quality is so high You think that maybe the reason why the reason why Runa's playing so many points or so many so much longer on serve Is due to the fact that Rubelev's shot quality return is not as good. So therefore, you know You get a lot more deuce points and you're getting a lot more back and forth Has been a fine a fine rally Down the line the back end of Runa Runa with a great shot now with the back end again from Runa down the line in the net 15 oh, oh sorry 30 love Whereas Runa's smacking returns back Shortening the point shortening the length of time That's uh Rubelev has to serve on Five minute games service games They're gonna add up Crowd's going Andre Andre. Okay 30 love So didn't see the back end of Runa Runa in the net Rubelev nice serve And again Runa Rubelev looks so calm. It's kind of scary It's a bit off-putting It's a little bit uh, yeah I don't know if I like it Now there's a bit of serving the net second serve Second serving the back end of Runa for now Rubelev is a winner and games like that That's why Rubelev is only playing two minute games to five minute games on Runa's back Runa serve Okay, here we go 5 5 You feel Rubelev is the better of the two in this first set even though Runa's the one who's had the lead for the majority What's the next master 1000 we're going to Madrid We're going to Madrid in a couple of weeks We get ready for that. All right, here we go Runa serving 5 5 in the first An ace Rubelev says no and then he goes yes It was a nice I think Rubelev might have accidentally looked at the wrong mark and then he went. Oh, no wrong one. Okay. You got me 15 love And oh that was on the line by this much according to Hawkeye 15 love Runa with the serve Into the net Second serve second serve into the back end of Rubelev Rubelev hits it out 30 love 30 love I'm going to serve again from Runa That's a fault second serve Serve In the back end of Rubelev return the form of Runa for now Rubelev Runa hits it out 30 15 Runa's just not Not having an easy time on serve Almost an hour played. I mean it deserves a tie break this first set and I think uh Actually, I was talking to Zach before the match and I said to probably get a tie break Didn't I said I did say that didn't I did I say that Zach? Was I talking to you about that? I was right? First of the fault second serve second serve Down to the form of Rubelev good return to the form of Runa who shanks it But it goes in the back end of Rubelev back in our Runa down the middle into the form of Runa Goes down the line to the back end of Rubelev and Rubelev smacks it out Not far off not far away 40 15 Hey, what's going on Ashley? How you doing? 40 15 Runa serves Down to the back end of Rubelev the return goes In the net that's a good game from Runa one of the easier games of the match on his serve And it's six five Holger Runa stays in France All right chat It's that time of the show When I asked you where you were watching from let me know in the chat Where you're watching from we've got people from all around the world. I'm in australia. It's actually not even midnight yet So this is kind of early for me. It's kind of weird that uh I might actually get to bed before one or two a.m Which is weird I don't know if I can it's I don't know if I can do that But we've got people from all over the place. Let's see where you're from. We've got poland. We've got america. We've got Canada Croatia Serbia We've got France chili. We've got australians in the chat. What's up? Happy sunday We've got Switzerland we've got singapore we've got philippines Sydney london japan china check republic hong kong kentucky louisville ottawa pakistan in the chat as well We've got denmark. We've got namibia We've got thailand. We've got new york city Italy peckham Why does that sound familiar? Uh copenhagen u k with a bad headache. Where did you go out last night? Did you go out like is it? You got a bad you got a self-inflicted headache Or see you've got a headache from You know, so is that self-inflicted? Uh romania. What's going on? Serbia? We've got netherlands. We've got minnesota. We've got germany. We've got tokyo Jamaica in the chat as well wales Botswana as well kazakhstan in the chat venezuelas here as well uh shanghai South africa as well nice. All right Thank you for joining us rublev in the net love 15 rublev's done so well To stick around he went down a break four two. He broke straight back He's done well rublev to keep his cool No outburst no shouting no nothing crazy The turn out goes in the form of rublev that goes to the form of runa on the stretch rublev forehand inside out That's good slice from runa goes to the sky But it goes long 15. Oh, all right 15. Oh tries to get this tie break That deserves a tie break No runa's been solid enough to hold Rublev is probably I would say be the better player Overall so it deserves a tie break to decide If it a serve now return goes in the forehand of rublev runa with the backhand on the stretch that goes to the sky Rublev of the smash puts it away nice smash unbelievable not easy in these sunny conditions 30 15 Two points away from the set first set tie break 30 15 These rublev serves again That's a fault second serve Serving the backhand of runa backing up rublev at the form of runa into the backhand of rublev runa All right. Oh, what a It goes out for rublev, but then runa hits a tweener Like a frontwards tweener like on stripper style And it's a winner anyway. It's a great shot 30 all big point here Big point 30 all First serves a fault second serve Second serve Rublev to the back end of runa that goes in the back end of rublev runa with the forehand Into the back end of rublev to the slice of runa rublev in control the rally As he hits it in the net rublev runa hit the baseline and rublev couldn't Couldn't do anything and he's laughing. He's like jesus. That's unlucky set point runa to steal the set 30 40 Rublev with a serve This is what he did yesterday against center twice runa Has been a serve Down to see the form of runa return goes into the form of rublev rublev hits it out Wow Rublev's gonna have a meltdown now Two shots on the baseline Resulting in two errors from rublev and he loses the set and just like yesterday Runa steals the set at six five no tiebreak required He's had a three sets in a row now and he wins the first seven five rublev's leaving the court This does have a little bit of a feel though Of fritz rublev yesterday Like rublev lost the first set But he was the better player 11 winners from This will update soon 11 winners from runa 19 errors 11 winners from rublev 12 unforced errors so rublev played better But runa serving first stole that set A couple of bad shots at 30 all and that's all it took from uh for rublev to go down That's why people always believe runa would win the tournament why is that? Seven five again runa that's it no tie breaks But it does have a little bit of a feel of you know rublev is not like fritz yesterday winning the first set you're like, okay You know runa just kind of rublev just kind of fell apart at the end and then he came back and won the second six one so let's see if rublev can regroup and uh and grab the second set tennis god's treat as the three setters ej It was we had the quarterfinals which were all blare I didn't know where I said meh meh they're all meh And then the semi-files are fire and the final So far is fire runa's a brat Yeah, well he's a brat that wins so he might be a brat but sometimes those players win I don't think runa's a brat by the way. I think he's just uh, he's a teenager. He's a kid Uh, yeah, but fritz won the second the first set six one did he No, he didn't did he that was sinna on the first set six one Yeah fritz won the first set seven five and then rublev won the second six one the other match Sinna won the first set six one and then runa came back and won the second seven five But this feels more like a rublev versus fritz where The player that wasn't wasn't playing as well got the first set And then rublev came back with vengeance in the second runa's a good guy. It's very young. Yeah, I love look Actually, I want to ask you guys Who is your favorite player? Under the age of 22 Who's your favorite player under the age of 22? out of the men's side because people are going to say shriantek and that's She's she's on the w-tec on the atp Who is your favorite young player? Because a lot of people are going to say look there's a there's team there's team runa There's team elk resin. There's team sinna Filla elk resin sinna fans are a little bit on the same side and then runa's on his own But let me know in the chat. Who is who what team are you are you on at the moment? Some of them said he okay? runa elk aras a lot of elk aras a few sinners in there as well. So these guys are starting to get their own sort of fan base without uh, you know Yeah, there's a little bit of like, you know, there's a frosty handshake yesterday and elk resin runa and elk resin sinna are pretty sweet And you know what it does feel like if we want to do the comparisons of the big three It does feel like elk aras and sinna Are kind of like nadal federa And then runa is the is the young guy coming through as the third wheel Like jokovic was that's what it kind of has that little a little bit of a vibe like that Like the established rivalry right now is sinna versus elk aras, but then runa is kind of that third Again, if we want to play the three, you know, the big three game It kind of has a bit of a vibe like that early on Uh, that runa is the out like almost the outcast Um, or you know, not the outcome, you know the third wheel a little bit Uh at the moment There's got a drop shot there from runa. That's not bad. Rubellev gets it runa with the backhand pass Rubellev can't get that 15 love 15 love Draper, okay, a little bit. We like draper as well. Yeah, what about shout? Yeah, sheldon as well sheldon. I'm a big big sheldon fan I love uh Love watching sheldon quarter. Yeah, that's a good one. All right 15 love And it's funny because they might not have a what he might not have a one-handed backhand But federa endorsed sinna a couple of years ago said he was going to be the next big thing Elk res was called baby raffa for a couple of months before everyone went let's stop doing that And then jockovic is really friendly with runa. So it kind of funny how the big three Have all got their similarities to one of these new guys You know with federa saying that sinna was the dude jockovic backing runa And saying he's you know given him advice and helping him through And then the spanish connection between raffa and elk res, you know, so it's Interesting how it's kind of it is merit a little bit, but I don't think there's going to be a next big three, but We want to play the game It does have a bit of a bit of a bit of resemblance Has been a lovely four-hand winner from rubella. Okay 15 30 Then who's andi murray? Who's it is j is draper andi murray then because he's british I don't know if drape is in the same conversation with these guys though He's drape in the number four. Is he the fourth beetle? Just because he's british and lehetka stam of rinker ace out wide Well, maybe um Shelton is stan or so. I don't know who's stan. I mean del potro is probably shelter. I don't know baby delpo Wasn't that hashenov? All right third ace from runa I'm going to serve now 30 all first game of the second as he serves now the fourth of rubella good return, but it just Just goes wide from rubella russetti is murray 40 30 russetti is stan All right 40 with the one hander back here. That's an easy pick, right? 40 30 Serving the back end of the fault I want to see musetti versus runa. I want to see him play runa in rome Is it a back end now Into the forehand of rubella rumour smacks a winner or a deuce first game You know why I want to see it in rome chat? Because I want to see what the crowd react like I want to see how runa deals with an italian crowd backing musetti and I think runa would be the favorite Have they ever played? How far how weird is it chat that a week ago? Would you do you ever think that I'd be saying I'd want to watch musetti match? Not crazy He has one decent week and Now I want to see him play these other guys as we're going to follow you there from runa. That's in the net Rubella's got a breakpoint first game of the second So they've never played in singles advantage rubella by eziz schwarzman right advantage rubella to get the lead first game of The second first of the fault second serve second serve Second serve goes the forehand of rubella back in our runa into the forehand of rubella again at the back end of runa Into the back end of rubella runa with the forehand cross court goes into the forehand of rubella on the stretch runa with the back end Into the back end of rubella again at the forehand of runa. That's going out from runa rubella breaks first game and rubella A little bit of encouraging fist bump By the way, did rubella split with um his coach Because his coach is not there finando vince vincenti or what is that how you say it? He's not there By the way, rubella thought it was a changeover.  It's not a changeover. We're gonna move One love rubella to start off The second rubella serving He serves a fault second serve rubella's tired No As we're back at a packet or maybe tired I think he's just got confused as that goes in f-15 love I think rubella just got a little confused. He's he forgot that it was only the first game of the second Ryan how come rubella's racket hasn't been hurt yet He's keeping it. He's keeping it together Which is different for I mean As that goes out from runa 30 love. Yeah rubella I mean in terms of like the scale of Whether or not he's about to explode. I mean The volcano is not even smoking at the moment. It's like dormant The volcano was he served an ace down the tee like it's like You know one of those um emergency graphs, you know what i'm saying chat He's not even like past level one in terms of anger As we're just serving it's dubbed as a second serve ace bang Too love What's that called? You know that thing that you know that thing? What's that thing called when it's like like a meter He's not even in level one It's just like just chilled.  Yeah the rage meter by the way Rubella talking to the umpire Rubella having a chat to the umpire didn't Couldn't hear what he was talking about but I think he was talking about Oh, he I think he's saying he's saying to runa. I'm not ready. Give me a chance and runa's serving when rubella's not ready I think maybe that's what the conversation was and because runa had a big smile on his face like oh, okay Am I annoying you am I? So I wonder if that was the conversation as we're back at return now the forehand of runa Back in a rubella get in the back end of runa into the back end of rubella runa with the back end again To the back end of rubella into the back end of runa Again to the front of rubella that goes into the forehand of runa when a rubella down the line is great runa slices it wide 15 30 Let me have a listen again what happened. I think rubella is a little annoyed that runa's Like he's not ready to return and keeps with these racket up saying hey wait a second Is it a four to four rally again sliced there from runa?  I'm not ready to return to be honest You know rubella has got to be ready when runa is ready to serve but So he's trying to slow things down a little bit rubella Keep the match on his pace as we get a second serve now runa Into the forehand of rubella the return down the line is a winner from rubella jeez 40 30 40 rubella taken over in the second I wonder he's calm. He's not he's not No reason to be pissed off Dominating at the moment served on a tee in the form of rubella return goes in the form of runa Back into rubella on the stretch down the line. That's a great shot runa gets to the forehand winner though 30 40 disappears we get the deuce Brian rune reminds me of grinch grinch of atp the Grinch Well the way he already looks or in his attitude as that goes out from runa advantage rubella And this second set is flying by And again rubella saying wait, wait, wait As runa serves a fault second serve second serve Into the back end of rubella back in a runa drop shot Is good rubella hits it wide good drop shot from runa haven't seen that for a while And again rubella turn to the umpire saying hey Now it's either there's two things that rubella could be annoyed at one the fact that rube the runa's not Waiting for rubella to be ready or the second part could be because the screens behind the court Are still going when runa's about to serve. So they're flickering and they're showing like, you know graphics of break points and stuff So maybe that's a part of it That rubella's like hey The graphics on the screen are distracting me as he as he's about to serve, you know wait for that to finish So I can see You know so you don't have like the screen behind going crazy. Anyways drop shot there is good from runa rubella gets it For whenever runa bolly from rubella. That's nice runa gets up with a slice rubella forehand runa with a pass That is too good. This is gonna be on finish TV. Now runa's getting involved He's getting the crowd involved too That'll respond to be it winners like that advantage runa to get on the board In the second he needed that The crowd needed that too to get a little bit more excited. All right runa advantage Point of the match has been a serve now runa That's a fault Second serve Second serve into the back end of rubella and that's in the net from rubella runa 2 1 In the second set now, let's say and runs at the chair as well runa. That's a message Runs at the chair sits down and he's just staring at rubella as he walks past Interesting And oh, I thought he was talking to rubella. He turned around and looked at rubella. I thought he was gonna have a chat No, he just asked for a towel. Um, okay 2 1 No, I'm I'm by not having a word to runa So maybe it was the screens flicking around at the back that rubella's like Hey, can we wait till them those screen stops flickering so I can play Uh, because the back if you don't know the back of the court here Is a big television screen And they show graphics when there's breakpoint When it's a breakpoint it comes up with a big old breakpoint sign to tell the crowd what the point is and um runa's trying to serve Very quickly and that that graphic is flashing Uh, so runa rubella's like hey, can we wait until that stops? Uh, runa bringing the drama a little bit runa rubella looks exhausted I wouldn't say that. I think rubella looks fine. I think runa looks tougher more tired than rubella Rubella doesn't look exhausted. I think that's just his face. So Yeah, let's go runa runa's thighs and quads are massive. No wonder he cramps He's not cramping right now runa is making enemies with everyone again, I don't think again, I Will see if it keeps happening But if rubella keeps having to stay at like, you know slow runa down because runa's trying to serve while there's You know screens flashing I wonder if rubella's gonna start, uh Having a big chat to the umpire and being like hey This guy's got to chill Because runa's playing at a fast pace In the second set To one rubella Rubella looking at the umpire Waiting for people to sit down Find their seats And they'll finally find their seats with all the beers Hold those beers.  We're good two one First serve is a fault tennis TV saying rubella's tired. I don't they don't look tired Back at return runa looks more tired than rubella has runa hit that rubella. Sorry hits it in the net love 15 He's definitely more quiet rubella than usual But I wouldn't say he looks that tired He's not getting many first serves in so He's going to turn our backhand rubella to the front of rubella slice there from runa into the front of rubella The backhand of runa for now rubella again to the backhand of runa into the front of rubella down the line is wide And rubella making some errors love 30 love 30 The carlitos pull out of the french No Why would carlitos pull out of the french? It's like two months away Where the hell did you get that from? Love 30 First serves a fault second serve Second serve into the backhand of runa good return the backhand of rubella Backhand of runa. There's a slice the backhand of rubella into the fine drop shot of runa And rubella can't get that that's just too good. This is going to be our biggest TV role love 40 massive very nice drop shot Love 40 one hour and 15 minutes played my rubella serves He's had the break. He's looked good in this second set unfortunately Not in this game 15 40 good serve Rubella serves again into the net Second serve Second serve in the backhand of runa backing up rub stuck into the backing of runa Into the fall of rubella runa with the backhand on the stretch goes in the backhand of rubella Again at the backhand of runa backhand of rub left again at the backhand of spunner into the fall of rubella on the stretch Rune up with a flying down the line into the backhand of rubella Rune over the four-hand stack again for the back end of Rubelev and Rubelev hits it wide. Runa hits the baseline again and again Rubelev's going how does he keep doing this? He keeps hitting the baseline. That's at least four shots I've seen. Rubelev make a mistake after it hits the baseline from Runa and he can't believe it. 2-2. I wonder if Rubelev's gonna start getting pissed off now. 2-2 in the second. Can Runa keep in front? By the way, Runa, average time between first serve and second, sorry, points on his serve. In the first set it was 28 seconds. Now it's only 22. So he's playing much quicker between points on his serve, Runa. Which is part of the reason why Rubelev's like, chill man, chill. Give me a second to set myself up to a return. Love 15. Runa, he's almost serving like Karius, you know, between points. Not like him, but serving, you know what I mean. Has been a fine winner from Runa. Not serving like him, but playing that pace. By the way, Pierre Gasly's in the house. 15-0. He's talking to Charles Leclerc. First serve is a fault, second serve. Runa, he's down 2-love, he's almost down 3-love. Rubelev returns backhand into the backhand of Runa. Runa hits it out, 15-30. This set feels a lot quicker. I don't know if it's technically being quicker, but it feels like these guys are playing very fast points. 23 minutes. Just feels like the points are just very quick. First serve's a fault, take a serve. Second serve in the backhand of Rubelev, backhand of Runa, drop shot. Rubelev's going to get there with a forehand, but Runa gets us right. Volley from Rubelev, too good. 15-40. Chance of Rubelev to get the break again. 15-40. That was not a good drop shot from Runa. Rubelev to get back the lead. Get back the break. 15-40. Serve. Now wide the forehand of Rubelev. Good return to the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev sliced. Runa with a volley in the net, okay. Rubelev 3-2, he gets back that lead. Gets back that break. 3-2 in the second. All right, chat. How are we doing, chat? How are we liking this match? Give me a rating out of five for this match so far. How are you feeling with this match? How are you liking the match? Out of five. What's our rating? One. Okay. One out of five. Geez, you guys are harsh. Five out of five? All right. Three and a half? Two and a half? Four and a half? Four? 3.8? Minus five. Geez, all right. Some of you hate this match. Well, you hate watching this match. 3.5? I'd give it a three-ish. I mean, the quality's not there, but it is, you know. It has been close. Four, three, 3.6. Four, three, three and a half. Four. 4.4? Okay. 3.2? 2.8? Okay. Yeah, I think it could be better. The quality's a little low. A lot of breaks in this set. I had, what, four breaks in five games, I think. Well, three breaks in five games. All right, back to Rubelev. The bids are awesome. There's basically rallies, though. I don't know. It's not as maybe not as entertaining as... I mean, out of the Masters 1000 finals we've seen, we saw Medvedev versus Elkiraz. That was a bit of a flop. Well, unless you're an Elkiraz fan. Cinevres and Medvedev was not great. I feel like it might be the only three setter we've had in the first three Masters. If Rubelev can hold serve, love 15. Out of the three finals we've had so far in Masters 1000s, which one's the best one? As that goes wide on the return from Runa, 15-all. What's been the best out of those three Masters 1000 finals? You're not replying to my comments. Well, I don't know if you can see the screen, but there's like 2,000 people here. So I'm not going to be able to reply to every single person. Unfortunately, there's too many people to answer to everyone. But I'll try my best. There's been a smash there from Rubelev. That's too good. 30-15. Rubelev tries to decapitate man in the front row with a suit. This one's the best one. Indian Wells for sure. Probably this. It depends, right? If this goes three sets, I think this has to be the best one, just based on score. It's not finished yet. That's true. If this is straight sets Runa, then maybe we can, you know, maybe it was better. As that goes out from Runa, 40-15. Indian Wells. I don't know. I feel like Indian Wells was... Actually, Indian Wells might still be it. Maybe. Even though the score line was terrible when it was boring, it was kind of a shock to see Alkreuz play that well. Well, not a shock, but it was a shock to see Medvedev get beaten up badly, considering he was on such a streak. And Alkreuz just kind of snuffed out the streak, as that goes out from Runa, and it's 4-2. Rubelev in a second. Nobody said Miami, so... So I guess it's not Miami. 7-5, 6-3. Medvedev in Miami against Sinner. 6-3, 6-2. Alkreuz against Medi in Indian Wells. Yeah. So I guess by score so far, it's got to be the best final. Indian Wells was a beat down. We've got a double fold from Runa. Got my salt in there. Got my salt in there. Fourth double fold of the day. Love 15. This is already the most exciting. I think we go to a third set. This has to be the number one. This has to be the best final of the year. Our best final of the Masters. On the men's side. Women's side, there's, I mean... Women's side, they're all being better than the men's. As we're back here now from... Rubelev. Oh, it's in the corner! This is going to be on finish TV. And a big shake of the fist from Rubelev.  Love 30. Right in the corner. Love 30. As Runa serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve to the back end of Rubelev for now, Runa. Into the front of Rubelev to the backhand. Slice of Runa. And Runa hits it out. Love 40. Rubelev running away with the second set like he did against Fritz yesterday. Love 40. And the good part is that this match has only gone for an hour and 26 minutes. So... It's not going to be a three hour match unless the final set is long and slow and tie break. We're just going to set it to a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Break points for Rubelev to get the double break. And he double folds. There's the double break. 5-2. Runa's just throwing the set away. Bad quality from Runa. Alright. Love... Sorry, not love 40. Game. 5-2. Three break points. Yeah. Rubelev's had way more break points. So he really should have won the first set and possibly be serving for the match right now. This does have Fritz versus Rubelev yesterday kind of vibes. The first set was the same as this set and the second set was a similar look as the one we've got. Runa should start worrying about holding serve. Yeah. He's not... Yeah, he's held serve once in this set. Is he getting bad for Runa? Yeah. Good thing is that if Rubelev wins the game right here Runa will serve first and the third which helped him in the first set as he stole it at the end. So, you know, it might not be a bad thing to lose this set 6-2 if he serves first. Why did Andrei... Why do we... You all call Andrei Bueh? Because that's what he says dusty when he hits a... hits a ball. He says Bueh. Who am I backing? Well, I said Runa's going to win in three so I'm going to stick with that. And again, Rubelev winning his first is great. Runa winning his second is great. I mean, whatever happens, we've had a different Masters 1000 champion and new Masters 1000 champion won to Carlo. So, no matter what happens, having different champions every other tournament is good, especially if it's a core group. You know, Alcors won Indian Wells, Jokovic won the Australian Open, Medvedev won Miami, and now one of these guys will win this one. It makes it very interesting to see who will win Madrid. Serve now from Rubelev. Serve for the second set. Good return at the forehand of Rubelev, forehand of Runa. Into the backhand of Rubelev, into the forehand of Runa. Runa in the net. 15 love. Runa in 28. It's been a very quick match. Very short points. 15 love. Second set in the backhand of Runa. Runa smacks the winner down the line. Alright, 15 all. 15 all. By the way, Madrid. The schedule for Madrid. I know it's two weeks and it's a combined event. There's been a four-and-a-half of Rubelev. That's a winner. 30-15, two points away from a third. But I have a feeling that the women's start early and the men's start mid-week. And then the women's start, finish like Thursday, don't they? And the men finish on Sunday. As we get an ace, bang, alright. 40-15, we have two set points. Rubelev to take us to a third. Rubelev. He serves. A fault. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Runa, backhand of Rubelev. He's into the backhand of Runa, the backhand of Rubelev. He goes in the line. And it goes wide from Rubelev. The umpire's out of the chair. And she says, yes, it's out. You cannot be serious. 40-30. Alright, 40-30. As Rubelev serves a fault. Still set point. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Runa. Runa hits it out. Okay, we're going three, baby. In the final. Another three set up. That was not very good at all from Runa. He kind of just... I mean, he was at two left down. He's going to the bathroom with Rubelev. Yeah, Runa... That was a terrible set by Runa. Rubelev played solid, but Runa played horrible. By the way, I'm looking at the schedule for Madrid. And it looks like they've got the women's final on Saturday and men's final on Sunday. Kind of like Miami. The men's singles are on... I don't know why Madrid copied Miami. Miami's got a shitty schedule. They should have copied anything else. Anyway, seven winners from Runa. 11 unforced errors in that set. 11 winners Rubelev. Four errors. Very, very good from Rubelev. Equally as poor from Runa. Going to the third. Rubelev's got the momentum. Runa's serving first. And that could be a little difference as it was in the first. Yeah, they've got like quarter-finals and the semis on the same day. Man, I hate... I don't know why they do this. I don't know why the... Why would Madrid copy... Why wouldn't they copy Indian Wales? Where you have like the men and women's final on the same day. Kind of weird. I don't know why you would have one final on one. This seems silly. Have both finals on the same day. Okay. Of course we deserve a third set thriller. Let's hope that Runa lifts to the level of Rubelev. Rubelev winning from here. Runa's out of fuel. Yeah, maybe that's the reason why Runa... But I think that second set, Rubelev was playing very aggressive at the start and hitting a lot of winners. Runa was just trying to hit winners and they weren't working. So, if Rubelev can keep this level, he'll win the third. But if Runa can rise, we're in for a banger. This does look like Rubelev Fritz, it does. Well, I did say that... Well, it's almost exactly what happened, right? The first set was close back and forth and then, you know, Runa's... Well, Fritz snuck it out yesterday and then, second set, Fritz disappeared and Rubelev demolished him and the exact same things happened. So, I guess if you're a Rubelev fan, that's a good thing because Rubelev went on to win the third, relatively simply as well. Okay, but... The big thing in this final set is Andre Rubelev has never won a trophy this big. What happens when he's standing up at the line serving at 5-4 to win the match? To win his biggest trophy. Is he ready to win a Masters 1000? Is he going to get nervous serving for the match for this big trophy? That's what I want to know because we know what Runa's done. Runa's played in Paris. We know he won Paris. Is Rubelev going to start getting in his own head if he gets to that moment? Because he's in this match now. He's only one set away from winning his biggest trophy. Finally, winning a Masters 1000. Speaking of which, let's go have a look at these guys' record over the last couple of seasons in this level of event. So, you can see here, since 2020, this is the third final that Rubelev has made at Masters 1000 level. Never won an ATP 1000 event. You can see they've made the final Monte Carlo back in 21, made the final in Sinti the same year, and he made a final this year. He actually made the fourth round of Indian Wilds Miami to come into this, so he's actually been decent, you know? A couple of semifinals as well. Indian Wilds Miami over the last couple of seasons and quarterfinals in Madrid and Italy. So, out of all the Masters 1000s, there's only two that he hasn't made it to the quarterfinals or better, and that's in Paris and in Canada. Every other one, he's made it to the quarterfinals or better. And now, whole Runa. Clearly, he hasn't played as much because he's kind of just come out on the scene, even like last year. He only really played Paris. Indian Wilds Miami did okay. Made the final here, of course. Last year lost in the second round. I think as a qualifier. Hasn't played Madrid. Hasn't played Italy main draw, so they're coming up next. But he does have the green, that green dub. That is the big difference between these two, whereas Rueblev has only got the two finals to his name. So, what happens when we start getting to the serious end of this set? As Rueblev hits it in the net, first one goes to Runa, 15-love. Let me know in the chat who do you think is going to win it from here. This has been a very quick match. I feel like this is just... I don't know. Does it feel quick to you, chat? Like, I feel like I'm... on two speed. Like, we're going real quick. Is this flying past? Maybe I just want more. I want a five-setter. That's what I want. Bring them back. ATP, bring back the five-set finals. Hasn't it back yet now from Rueblev? 30-love. Bring back the five-set finals. 30-love. Rueblev should win. Rueblev, Rueblev, Rueblev. Runa. Okay. Rueblev, Rueblev. I'm back in Rueblev. Okay. There's a bit of fault there from Rueblev. Second serve. Quick for the... Yeah, it's quick for Clay. Maybe that's it. Does feel like a very quick match for the Claycords, for sure. Actually, you're right there. There's a bit of serve. Doesn't see the back end of Rueblev. Four-nil Runa. Into the net. 30-15. 30-15. Another serve coming up here for Rueblev. So, don't see the four-nil Rueblev. Return goes out. Good serving, Runa. 40-15. Runa is tired after playing Sinner. All right. Well, maybe that's why he kind of... I wouldn't say tanked that second set, but maybe towards the end of that second set, he was like, you know what? I'm going to just save my energy for the third if he is feeling tired. Then again, it's only been an hour and a half. So, there's a bit of volley there from Runa. That's not bad. Rueblev with a lob. Into the back end, swinging volley. Again, at the back end of Rueblev. Runa with the back hand. Goes out. 40-30. Runa wants the umpire to go look at the mark. I was close to the line. The umpire is like, I'm going to get out of this chair. 40-30. I'm not getting out of the chair. 40-30. Another serve coming up for Runa to get off to a better start than the second set. He serves. Out wide at the back end of Rueblev. Return to the back end of Runa. Back end of Rueblev with a slice. Into the front of Runa. Rueblev with a pass. Runa with the volley. Rueblev is there with the back hand. Winner down the line. Nice shot from Rueblev. And we get to do his first game of the final set. What was NH that you just showed on that chart? Not held. Not held. So, uh, Shanghai has not been on. And A means absent. So, if you didn't play, it was an A. And if you are not held is the NH. Because Shanghai hasn't been, uh, hasn't been on since 2019. Because of COVID. There's been a four now down the line. That's a good shot from Runa. Advantage Runa. Advantage Runa. To take the first game of the third. By the way, Runa 130.8k. Thank you for that. Don't forget to like if you haven't already. We've had, uh, like I said, this is our 19th match, or 18th, 19th, 18th match of the week. So, um, we've watched so much. And I feel like we've learned a lot, chat. Is there a four-hand inside out? That's a winner. Runa first game with a couple of four-hand winners. One love in the final set. Now, um, chat. What have we learned this week? What have you learned this week? What has Monte Carlo taught you? Because I feel every tennis match we learned something new. But what have you learned this week? What has been the biggest takeaway you've had from Monte Carlo? Maybe it's something to do with a player. Maybe it's something to do with, I don't know, the tournament. What have you taken away from this? That Fritz can play on clay. That's a big takeaway. Yeah, true. That Fritz is legit on clay. Runa is legit. Nice. You can play on clay in the rain. You took the, oh, that's, hey, look, it can be as simple as that. Yeah, that you can play in the rain when it's, uh, when you're on clay. Not as good without the ladies. Well, I probably, that's probably my biggest takeaway too, is that how much the WTA, like so many people thought that the WTA, and I think a lot of people still maybe think this, that the ATP doesn't need the WTA. I feel like the WTA is very much needed for the ATP, especially when you compare this to Indie and Moz Miami. So that's something I've definitely learned. I've also learned that Mervadev should be taken seriously on clay, even though I kind of thought they'd come in, but I'm still, he kind of showed a little bit.  He might be all right. Learned there's various assault losers, okay? Learned that I miss WTA. First there's a fault. Rubelab, 15 left. Second serve. What else have you guys learned this week? Is it a return now to the front of Rubelab? Runa comes in with a volley and puts it up. Oh, it's out. Well, he put it away, but he shanked it and it goes long. 30 left. I learned that Mervadev and Zverev don't like each other. Yeah, that's something I learned this week, too. I think we all were a bit shocked at that. As we serve down the back end of, Rubelab goes in the back end of Runa and hits it wide along again. 40 left. Sasha Medi beef is big. I didn't realize. I mean, I don't think it's the biggest beef on tour, but it's definitely a spice to that. I learned that, too, this week. I mean, we're all shocked about it. He's going to return now to the front of Rubelab. Rubelab shanks it out. 40-15. That city pass is not fully fit. Okay. 40-15. Rubelab to level things up here in the final set. You see the fault? Second serve. Learned that Runa is all business. He isn't a crowd pleaser. Here to win, not make friends. Yep. The back end return there goes out. Oh, it goes in. Rubelab gets it. He slices that one now. Runa with the forehand. That's too good. Rubelab again just looking at the baseline, being like, why does it keep hitting that baseline? At least the fifth or sixth time that's hit the baseline from Runa. 40-30. 40-30. Serve into the front of Runa. Return goes into the front of Rubelab, back in Runa on the stretch. Rubelab, forehand into the front of Runa. The backhand of Rubelab has been back in it from Runa on the stretch down the line to the front of Runa. Again to the back end of Rubelab. Has been back in out Runa. Again to the forehand of Rubelab. Rubelab hits it out. Now reduced. Rubelab is cruising in this game. Now he's in trouble. How am I watching these games? I'm watching them on Tennis TV. And you can watch it on Tennis TV too. And if you click the link, that might appear in chat. If somebody makes it appear, go watch it on Tennis TV. And it's a bit of a serve. Out wide, the forehand of Runa. Back in out Rubelab to the front of Runa. Into the backhand of Rubelab. Has been back in out Runa on the net. Rubelab gets a free point there. Thank you, Menoris. There you go. If you click the link, it supports the channel as well. So we've been lucky enough to tee up with Tennis TV for the rest of the year. They show all the men's matches outside of slams. Unfortunately, they don't have access to the slams yet, but they will get there eventually. I'm sure they will. But it's your one stop tennis shop. You can watch all the replays for the week. Every Monte Carlo match has been on there as we're back in now. Winner from Runa. And we're back to Dose. Unbelievable. What a return. You can watch replays of old matches. You can go watch matches from Monte Carlo finals of past years. There's a hell of a lot of content on there. It's a Netflix for men's tennis. All the matches from the 90s, 2000s, 2010s. Classic finals. And then also the tournament's coming up. Barcelona next week. You'll watch it on Tennis TV. You can watch it on you can watch from Madrid and Rome on Tennis TV as well. The ATPs. We're going to return now to the back end of Runa. That goes in the form of Rubelev on the stretch. Runa with the forehand now to the back end of Rubelev. With the back end of Runa. Again, the back end of Rubelev. Back end of Runa. Into the net again. And Runa, when he goes for the winner, just keeps dumping into the net. The vantage Rubelev. Where do I watch WTA tennis? I watch that on WTA TV. But I'll tell you what, Chad, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years we have Tennis TV. With everything except for the slams. And then eventually the slams. I'm sure once the rights are available. That could happen too. One-stop shop. It's been a find in the net from Rubelev. And Runa again gets back to Deuce. Why isn't the WTA on Tennis TV? I think it's because the WTA got bought out by a company. And then they created their own streaming service. So they wanted to branch out on their own. But that streaming service is not as good. So I'm assuming that when the WTA are, I think in like the next three years, I think the rights are up for the WTA. Or at least the contract is up. The Tennis TV will return. Because it used to be on the WTA, the WTA used to have tennis. So the Tennis TV used to be on, sorry, WTA used to be on Tennis TV about five years ago. Six years ago. So it used to all be combined back in the mid-2010s. All right, Vantage Rubelev. By the way, I think Runa just might have cramped. Because he just went like this to his coach. Do I need to have a drink of something? I think Runa's legs are getting a little heavy. Vantage Rubelev. See how about the back end of Runa. Runa smacks her in the down the line. So I think Runa's legs are getting a little bit. And he needs a pickle juice. That's it. Where's that pickle juice? All right, back to Deuce. Lovely back end down the line. And there's Rubelev serves. Runa returns a winner again. This is going to be our finishing game. He smacks two winners in a row. And he's like, come on. Let's go. Get the crowd involved. Smart from Runa. Seven-minute service game here. One of the longest games of the match for Rubelev to serve. Advantage Runa. Serve. It's a fault. Second serve, Rubelev. Runa to break early games. As he serves into the back end of Runa, back end of Rubelev. Again, into the back end of Runa. Into the back end of Rubelev. As we get back into Runa. Into the back end of Rubelev on the stretch. Runa back end again. Into the back end of Rubelev. Runa in control with a forehand. Rubelev with the back end. Out! Runa breaks. Two left in the final set. And he's throwing his fists up to the crowd. Yesterday he was doing this one. Today he's doing this one. And the crowd's going, Yes, we like you today. When you're playing out, boy, we didn't like you. But today we'll go for you. We keep hitting shots like that. Two left. Final set. Rubelev going to the chair. I think he's going to get... No, he's just... He's making sure the court's flat so there's no bad bounce. But it's not over yet. It's not over yet for Runa. For Rubelev. Because Runa... seems to be cramping. So if Rubelev can just stick around physically, I think Rubelev will be the better of the two. Because I don't think I've seen Rubelev ever cramp. Has Rubelev even... I mean, he had bad injuries early in his career. I think he had like a back problem. Like in the... Like 2018, right? Has he double-folded Runa? But physically, Rubelev... I've never seen him break down physically. Recently. Mentally, yes. Physically, no. So physically, I think that... As long as this match goes, the better for Rubelev. But... Go stick around. Love, 15. Serve down the tee, the four-hand of Rubelev. Back in Runa, in the four-hand of Rubelev. We hit it in the net, 15-0. And Rubelev's starting to get pissed off as well. Anonymous. Indian Wells was better only because we got the match that we had been waiting for, for over a year. Al-Kharaz also made it exciting, but it was one-sided. Yeah, not wrong. Zack! Plus 2.5 Rubelev a lock if he wins two games in the third. All right, well, he's... Well, he's... He hasn't got one yet, but all right, we'll keep it on that. Thank you, Zack, for the donation. Anonymous, you're probably right. I think the anticipation of that match was... The build-up was better than this. It was really good for that one as well, I agree. Has we had a slice in the net from Rubelev, 30-15. Rooted with a break, two-love in the final set. Yeah. We're waiting for it. We had Al-Kharaz was coming back to become another big title for him. We had Mbedev on such a winning streak, so that matchup before the match was the most highly anticipated matchup. The women's final was on the same day, so it was really good to lead into the final. The men's with the women's final, a rematch of the Australian Open Final. Whereas this match... I mean, look, it's a replay of the Australian Open Epic, but, yeah, it's not the same... It doesn't have the same kind of lead-up, for sure. Even though the match itself is better, this one. 40-15. Great backhand there from Runa. As Runa tries to get a three-love in the final set. Seventh winner in this set already, Runa. Jesus. Only one winner from Rubelev. As Runa serves a fault. Second serve. Down to the backhand of Rubelev. Rubelev in the net. Three-love, Runa. Now it's only one-breaker serve. But Runa on fire in the final set.  Well, he was playing really, like, kind of silly in the second set. But you wonder if maybe because he is feeling the legs and feeling the cramps, that he's being a little more aggressive, so he doesn't play long rallies, but it's actually working. Whereas in the second set, it wasn't actually working. He was going all out. It was going in the net.  All right. Okay, chat. Let's answer questions. First comfy service game for Runa in a while. Yeah. Not wrong. Runa serves first in every set. No, Rubelev's... Oh, no. Yes, yes. Yes. He has. He's roughly going to Madrid. At this stage, he is. Yeah. At this stage, yep. He's playing. Runa going to... Going for the kill. Will Rubelev ever win a Masters? Yeah, he will. Just like... Sinner will as well. Look, Rubelev... Was this his best chance? Probably. But he'll get another chance. I'm sure there'll be another chance. Is this mental for Rubelev? To be honest, no, I don't think it's mental right now. I mean, he was 40 love up in the last game when he got broken. And it's still not over yet. So, I mean, saying that Rubelev's going to lose his match right now is... Considering that Runa's playing so risky, Rubelev just played a bad service game at 40 love. He could have been 2-1. No one would be asking these questions. But Runa came out here and just went bang, bang, bang.  So Runa's going for the win. Rubelev just... He's got to step up. And it's not over yet. Remember, Runa was up 4-2 in the first. And we got back on serve pretty quick. What, was it 4-2? Yeah, Runa was up 4-2 with a break in the first set. And it got to 5-6-5 before Rubelev then got broken. So they're saying it's not over yet. 15 love. So they can serve another backhand of Runa for Rubelev into the front of Runa on the stretch. And it goes out. And it's 30 love. Runa is ruining tennis. Jesus. Why is Runa ruining tennis for you? It's crazy. Runa is great. I think he's great for tennis. I mean, it's great to have a bunch of players that are up there. 30 love. Rubelev serves into the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev down the line is long. 30-15. 30-15. He's the villain. And what's wrong with that? What's wrong with having a villain? 30-15. Second serve of Rubelev. Now while the backhand of Runa for Rubelev into the backhand of this drop shot of Runa, but it's in the net. That would have been a winner from Runa if it had gone over 40-15. 40-15. By the way, if you didn't check out my tweet from earlier today, go check it out.  There's so many interesting rivalries at the moment.  Runa hits it out and Rubelev gets on the board. 3-1. Runa in the final set. Go over there and look, check it out on Twitter because a lot of you have gone. There's a lot of interesting rivalries at the moment going around on Twitter. Sorry, going around in tennis. And there's a couple on Twitter that I put up there. 3-1. Runa. Runa serves in the backhand of Rubelev. Return goes wide from Rubelev and it's 15-love. Runa's really put a foot down in this second set. Sorry, in this third set. But he's playing a risky game, Runa. We wonder if he's going to be able to play this for another three more games. I don't know if Rubelev's going to have a chance to break back. Maybe a few errors come into the game as we get a backhand now from Rubelev into the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev, into the backhand of Runa. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Into the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev is good. Into the backhand of Runa. Runa in the net. 15-all. Now what I'm starting to see is the longer the rally goes, the better for Rubelev. And if there is some heavy legs and cramping, Runa doesn't want to play long rallies. 15-all. So Rubelev shouldn't try and hit winners. He should just try and extend the points.  He does it too good. But don't let Runa just get easy winners. Or don't give him any easy errors, you know. 15-all. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev. There's a double fold. Okay. Runa's going to have a look at the mark, but the umpire's not moving. 15-30. Here's a chance. The umpire's out of the chair anyway. She says, yeah, it's out. All right. 15-30. Here we go. And that ball was... Oh, it was out by this much. Jesus, the umpire was very confident. 15-30. Serve. Runa. It's a fault. Here we go. This is the chance. Here's a chance. Big chance for Rubelev. Got to make this return. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev. Backhand from Runa. Goes in the forehand of Rubelev. Into the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev. Again, the backhand of Runa. Hit the drop shot. Rubelev runs, runs, runs, runs, runs. Gets it, but hits it out. Oh, Rubelev was there. He just pushed it wide. And he's having a little bit of a chat to himself. 30-all. Overall, though, Rubelev has been very calm. He's a little bit weird. He's been oddly relaxed. 30-all. Big point here. 30-all. He's been a serving out from Runa. Now, by the front of Rubelev, when Runa goes into the front of Rubelev to the backhand of Runa. Rubelev with the front of the stretch. Runa with the forehand down the line. Rubelev with the backhand on the stretch. Goes in. Runa gets it. Rubelev open court as a winner. Great hitting there from Rubelev. And he gets a break point 30-40 to get back on serve in the final set. Like I said, there's a couple of rallies that are a little bit longer. You know, five, six, seven shots. Rubelev's getting those rallies. He's winning those rallies.  Once it gets into a little bit of an exchange, Rubelev seems to be the better player. 30-40. Serve from Runa under pressure, big pressure. And he folds. Second serve. Here's the chance to get back on serve Rubelev. Runa serves into the backhand of Rubelev. Rubelev return goes in. Runa with the forehand. Oh, it's on the line. Oh, and Rubelev looks at it and he's like, how do you keep doing this? Runa survives. That's just too good. Back to Deuce on the baseline again from Runa. That's his eighth winner of the set. Two winners from Rubelev. So you can tell who's going for it here. All right, Deuce. The serve doesn't see it. That's a fold again. Here's the second serve from Runa. What can Rubelev do? Second serve. The backhand of Rubelev. Return to the backhand of Runa. Into the front of Rubelev. The backhand of Runa. Rubelev with the backhand. Down the line is wide. He didn't need to do that. Didn't need to do that, Rubelev. Didn't need to try and hit a ridiculous shot down the line. He could have just rallied a little longer because he was winning the long rallies. Advantage Runa to get out of trouble, get to 4-1. He's looking a little annoyed. For the first time today, he's looking pissed. Advantage Runa to get to 4-1 in the final set he serves. Into the backhand of Rubelev, backhand of Runa. Into the forehand of Rubelev. That's a great shot. Runa gets there with a slice. It's into the sky. Rubelev comes up with a smash and puts it away. We're back to Deuce. Unbelievable. Nice hitting there from Rubelev. Back to Deuce. Full crowd in Monte Carlo. Beautiful sunshine. It's been the best day. Weather-wise, for a couple of days now, we've had rain, clouds, misery. Perfect day for the final. The three-set epic for the crowd. Runa serves. Deuce 3-1. He's got the break but he's hanging on for dear life as we'd have left. Can Rubelev break back? We had a chance. We'll serve again for Runa. He's sweating like crazy. As he serves, a fault. Jesus, that first serve has just completely disappeared. Second serve. Second serve into the backhand of Rubelev. Backhand of Runa. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Runa over the forehand. Goes into the forehand of Rubelev. Down the line of the backhand of Runa. Rubelev over the backhand. Again to the backhand of Runa. Into the backhand of Rubelev. There's been another backhand of backhand exchange of Runa in the net. That's all he's got to do, Rubelev. Just keep the ball in play. And yeah, Runa might hit a winner but he also might hit that. And he's looking at the ball.  Advantage, Rubelev. That was just a bad backhand, mate. It was nothing to do with the ball. It was just your backhand. Advantage, Rubelev. To take back the break. Runa serves. And ace. Bang! That is clutch. That's a separate serve. Massive ace down the tee down break point when he needs it the most. That's something Federer did too. All right, back to Deuce. Rubelev had two chances but he hasn't really because Runa's hit a forehand winner and an ace on the break points. No chances for Rubelev when the break points come his way and he serves another ace, Runa. Bang, bang and a Danish flag flies into the sky. Someone got very excited. Just boop straight up with that Danish flag. Eight minutes played this service game. This might be the game that decides the match. Write it down, chat. Write this game down. Three-one. There was two break point chances. Eight minute game. Runa serves to get to four-one. He serves two aces. He serves. Down to the forehand of Rubelev. Good return. The backhand of Runa. Slides from Rubelev in the net. Runa survives. Two aces and a backhand. Okay. Four-one Runa. That is huge. And now Runa's... Rubelev's starting to lose his mind. That game might have just broken Rubelev. By the way, Runa's going. I need some salt. Right now. I need a drink with some salt. Well, there's an ocean out there, mate. Do you want to drink some of that? Just get that guy some seawater. Just go somewhere out there with a glass. Yeah, just go out there. Somebody just pump in some seawater from the ocean. I'm sure that's healthy. Okay. Cramping is happening to Runa. Again, another reason why Rubelev needs to extend these rallies. Not only is he winning those points, but also he's got to try and extend the rallies to keep Runa's legs working. I'm so annoyed with this, okay? Rubelev needs to hold now. Oh, yeah. I mean, this game for Rubelev is massive. He's got to hold now. One point of time. That's it. Six-one please. Okay. Win or lose. Runa is the baby. Okay. Man, Runa is such a polarizing character in tennis already. People either love or hate him. He's only 19. I mean, jeez. He is, uh, people are, people are very, uh, have a big opinion of Runa already, which is a good thing. It means people are talking about him. So even if he's, uh, even if people are talking shit, people are still talking about Runa. I bet Runa, but still unaware he wins right now. Yeah, this is not over. Rubelev is still a chance of winning this match, but he's just got to hold and then find a break. Now, not a medical timeout, just a changeover. Um, no, that wasn't a medical timeout. There was just a changeover doctor giving him some salt. All right, four-one. Rubelev serving down four-one. Runa's got the lead with the one break. As Rubelev has to hold this game, must win game. Rubelev with the new balls. He serves a fault. Second serve. Second serve is a double fault, man. Love 15. Oh, Rubelev's just kind of stretching out the back.  That's not good. Love 15. As he serves a fault, that was wild. Rubelev's hurt his back. Rubelev's hurt his back. Love 15. Second serve is in the back of Rubelev, four-one. No, Runa with a great return. Rubelev's yelling at the line because he hit the line again. Love 30. Rubelev's getting pissed off because he hit the baseline again, Runa. He has hit the baseline like 10 times today. Love 30. This is bad now. Rubelev with a serve to the four-one. Four-one. Rubelev is good. Runa with a lob. Love with a smash. Puts it away. 15-30. Rubelev's grabbing his back. He's got a real bad back. It's lower back, too. Man, it's even harder now for Rubelev to come back. Jesus. He's down four-one, 15-30, and his back's starting to fail. Remember he did have back problems, I think, in 2017? Good serve from Rubelev. Needs the first serves. 30-all. Was it 2017 that he was out for like a year with back? I think it was, right? Really bad back problems back in... I think it was in 2016-17. Second serve. Now the back end of Runa. Back end now from Rubelev into the four-one of Runa. Rubelev with a slice four-hand on the stretch. Goes out. 30-40. Runa. To take the double break and serve of the match. Runa's just taken over in the final set. He wants this more. He came back from the break. The bathroom break. And now he's five points away from the title. Served into the four-one of Runa. Return goes wide. Good serve. Rubelev. He needs first serves. But I can confirm Rubelev back in 2016-17. He had stress fractures in his lower back. And it took a long time to heal. And that's exactly what he was grabbing then, that lower back. Now, to say that it was stress fractures now, I think it might just be fatigue. But he has had back issues before. Back into backhand is what he's falling out from Runa. The backhand of Rubelev. Backhand of Runa. Again to the backhand of Rubelev. Into the backhand of Runa. Rubelev hits the backhand on the stretch. Runa. Backhand down the line. That's a great shot. But it's all just out from Runa.  Finally, you missed one. Thank God. Runa's really pissed off here. He's like, I don't want to play this long. Just over two hours played. Advantage Rubelev. I wonder if Rubelev has a medical time out. Because when you have a bad back, serving is very tough. It's where to find out from Rubelev. After the good first serve, Runa goes down the line. Rubelev backhand. But it goes out from Runa. Rubelev's saying it's out. The umpire says it's good. Rubelev's gone really. He doesn't want to serve. That's why I'm going to replay the point that the ball was on the line. Advantage Rubelev. First serve. That's a fault. Second serve. Second serve. Into the backhand of Runa. Four-nil Rubelev. Into the four-nil Runa. The backhand of Rubelev. Is it a four-nil Runa? Into the four-nil Rubelev. And Runa hits it out. Okay. Rubelev sticks around. And it's four-two Runa. But Runa looks like, I mean, you wouldn't know it. Runa looks like he's down four-two. The way he's reacting. If you're just joining us, it seems like Runa is cramping or at least struggling with fatigue. And in that last game, we saw Rubelev grabbing his back multiple times. So both guys are physically struggling out there. Four-two. Runa. Final set. He's two games away. From his second Masters 1000 trophy. He's been a serve down the tier fault. Second serve. Was he open flashbacks? Hey. We're not far away from the score line. We had a double fault. From Runa. Love 15. Yeah. The Australian Open match was similar. Runa was winning the final set. Rubelev came back to win. After saving match points. Seven double faults for Runa. Being ugly. Love 15. Runa serves into the back end of Rubelev. Return goes into the front of Runa. Runa hits it out. Love 30.  Runa almost fell over when he hit that shot. Love 30 is going to get a new racket. Just take a little extra time. Yeah. Okay. Love 30. Huge game here. For Rubelev. He's had two break points already. Rubelev to get back in this set. Here's another chance. Love 30. Runa with a serve. Two hours. 12 minutes played. Runa serves. A fault. Here we go. Second serve. Second serve. Is a double fault. And there is a gift. Love 40. Rubelev's got to get it now. If he doesn't win this game now and break back, he never will. He's got to break now. Love 40. Runa with a serve. Out wide the back end of Rubelev. Runa with a volley. That's going to be too good. First serve goes in. 15 40. He saves another one. 15 40. Runa serving again. Still down break points. 15 40. Serves a fault. Here we go. Here's the chance. Rubelev might as well just have a cut at this return. He's still got another one up his sleeve if he needs it. Second serve. Into the back end of Rubelev. Back end of Runa. Into the forehand of Rubelev. Runa on the stretch gets it. Into the back end of Rubelev. Runa with a back end. Into the forehand of Rubelev. Again to the back end of Runa. Back end of Rubelev. Goes again to the back end of Runa. Then the line wide. We're back on serve. Rubelev breaks. And Runa points. And Rubelev screams. Massive roar there from Rubelev. We're back on serve, baby. We're not done yet. Andre Rubelev. Hobbles to the chair. And Holger Runa points at his coaches and goes it's your fault.  You were supposed to make me win. Runa's going nuts. He's like this can't happen twice. Not in the same year. Runa's losing his mind. All right. Let's answer the questions. Here we go. Man. Now how does Rubelev serve? That's the big, that's the big question. Because he does seem to have a lower back problem. The serving will be a problem. It was a problem in the last game. He almost went down a double break. Let's see what happens in this next game. Huge game coming up. Runa in deep trouble. And momentum's gone against him. But he's still in the lead. If he breaks he can then hold and win the match. So Rubelev's got to win the next game. This is living up to the hype. Yep. It sure is. It sure is. The best Masters 1000 final of the year. He's not losing his mind. He's a baby. Oh man. You keep saying that. And I think people want to try to get in tired of it. So let's just...  So you might as well, you know, get some new material. Appreciate the comments. But come on. Just don't spend the same comment over and over. It's really boring. This is giving me AO vibes. It sure is. No medical time out for me, the guy. So Runa can't call a medical time out because Runa is cramping. And that's not a medical issue. Now Rubelev, if he does have a bad back he can call a medical time out but it might not be that as bad as... Well he's clearly not... He's not... I mean sometimes people... Like if he called a medical time out just then he might not want people to think that he's doing that out of tactics. Rubelev's definitely hurt though. He just stretched his back again. He stretched out the back. So the back is definitely a problem in Rubelev. As he serves an ace out wide he's one of the slowest aces of the day. Dirty love. He's like, slow kick serve out wide and Runa just watched it. That's his fourth ace, Rubelev. As he serves again a fault. Rubelev looks like an old man after he serves. He's just like... The serve is bothering him. Second serve in the back and of Runa. That return hit the tape goes in the back and of Rubelev. Back and of Runa, down the line there's a winner. Woo! This is gonna be on tennis TV. 30-15. 30-15. Lovely shot from Runa. Alright, Rubelev with the serve again. This feels exactly like the first set too. There's a foul now to the backhand of Runa. Foul now Rubelev and the foul of Runa on the stretch. Rubelev with the forehand, down the middle. Again to the front of Runa. Into the front of Rubelev. Runa with the forehand down the line. Rubelev on the stretch. That goes in the net. Runa. Too good. 30-all. Man, R... He's gotta win this game, Rubelev. He's come this far. Needs a first serve. 30-all. Runa's getting really angry at himself too. Despite winning a point. 30-all. Both guys are physically hurting. Has been a serve out wide and a foul from Rubelev. God, that first serve. What do you do for a first serve? Second serve. Second serve in the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev on the stretch. Runa. Drop shot. He's in the net. Rubelev gets lucky. Runa was gonna hit a winner off that shot. 40-30. Runa's getting too chatty.  Patrick Moratoglu can't come out and play foyer. He's hit 18 unforced. There is Runa in this final set. Patrick looks... He's like, yeah, I'm not really your coach anymore, but okay, stop yelling at me. 40-30. Rubelev to level things up in the final set. He serves a fault. Second serve. Chat's going quick. That's when you know it's a good match. Second serve now in the backhand of Runa. Runa hits it out. Rubelev from 4-1 down. Guest a 4-all. Despite some back problems. Andre Rubelev is level. It's really coming down to the legs of Runa versus the back of Rubelev. What's gonna give out first?  Huge game here. The crowd's gone crazy. Two hours and 20 minutes played. What a final. One of the better finals we've had this year as we're gonna serve now. Out wide a fault. Second serve. Everything on the line right now. Second serve. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Good return to the backhand of Runa. Backhand of Rubelev. Into the backhand of Runa. Into the form of Rubelev. Rubelev hits it wide. Runa hit the baseline again. And Rubelev just looks at the mug and goes, how is that possible? And Rubelev's shot was wide. Again, that's like the 15th time. He's like the whole match. Every ball is going on the baseline from Runa. Rubelev can't find a line. 15 love. 15 love. Runa serves. Out wide at the backhand of Rubelev. Good return to the front of Runa. Down the line. That's a shot. Rubelev gets him. It goes out. Runa hits the baseline again. And Rubelev's going, have they moved the baseline? Why is he keep hitting it in? The same spot every time. 30 love. He can't believe it. It's just one of them days. 30 love. Runa serves. Nice bang. 40 love, Runa. To get to 5-4 in this final set. Winner take all. Monte Carlo championship on the line. 40 love. Runa serves. A fault. And then he kicks the ball into the crowd. That was a terrible kick. Luckily, you're playing tennis not soccer, mate. He kicks it at Patrick Moritoglu. Maybe he aimed for him. Great kick. Second serve. Into the backhand of Rubelev. Rubelev hits it out. 5-4. Runa gets back to lead. And he just kind of goes, yeah, whatever. I don't care. All right. Rubelev serving to stay in the match. 5-4. This has feeling of the first set. Now if you're just joining us, let me give you a recap. First set. Both guys looked a little nervous. To start the match, as you'd expect. Big title on the line. Big trophy. To start the clay court season as well. Biggest trophy for Rubelev in his career if he wins it. Second... Second big trophy for Runa. If he wins it. Now, 4-2. First set. Runa went up against Rubelev. Rubelev came back. But then Runa got to 6-5 and broke to win the set. Then the second set, Runa just disappeared. He just went on vacation for a set. Rubelev was hitting winners all over the place and Runa couldn't find the ball. He just kept hitting it out. He's gone all over the place. Third set. Both guys physically are in pain. Looks like there's cramping coming from Runa, which we've seen before. He has a history of that because he's young, not maybe not fully conditioned to playing these kind of matches every day. Rubelev has a back problem from serving. And he did have stress fractures in his back from 2016-17. So he hasn't asked for a medical time out but he is physically looking in pain after he serves. So both guys are physically hurting. 4-1. Runa got the early lead. Almost went up 5-1. Rubelev came back. Got the break. Now we're at 5-4 on serve but Rubelev is serving to stay in the championship and the serving is the problem. It's going to be a huge game in these first serves and what's going to give out the back or the legs. Rubelev's back versus Runa's legs has a bit of serve to stay in the match here. Rubelev, serve. Down to see the back of Runa. Return goes in the front of Rubelev. Into the back end of Runa. Up goes the lob. Smash from Rubelev. It's good. Runa gets it. Into the forehand drop shot of Rubelev. Not good enough. Runa's going to get it with a slice. Into the front of Rubelev. It's a lob.  This is going to be our thing. Lovely, Rubelev from Rubelev. And it's 15-love. That's a good point from Rubelev to win as well because it made Runa use a little bit more energy in the legs running for the drop shot. Just wear him down in a lovely flick lob. It was in by a mile. 15-love. Whoever's Charles Leclerc sitting next to loved it. He's going to serve out by the back end of Runa. Runa hits it out. 30-love. That is gold for Rubelev. 30-love. Let me know in the chat who's going to win this match from right now. Right this moment. Who's going to win? Split. 30-love is going to fall from Rubelev. Second serve. Second serve. Second serve. Down to see the back end of Runa. Good return to the back end of Rubelev. Runa on the forehand. Into the back end of Rubelev. Into the forend of Runa. Back end of Rubelev. Again to the back end of Runa. Runa in the net. 40-love. Little fist bump there as well from Rubelev. 40-love. 40-love. Rubelev to level things up here in the final set. It's going to be a huge game for him to win. Especially this easily. 40-love. Serves a fault. Second serve. The crowd's yelling and screaming and Rubelev's like, what's the deal man? Just chill. 40-love. Second serve out wide. Into the back end of Runa. Back end of Rubelev. He's a winner. 5-5 baby. This is going to be our thing to do. What a game for Rubelev. Easy. Five games all. We're back to Runa. How much more juice has he got in those legs? Five games all. Oh, chat. We're getting the match that we wanted. I think now the question's been answered, right? Best Masters 1000 final. Monte Carlo. Whatever happens now, it's got to be. It's got to be. Two guys just slogging it out. It's like a fifth round of a UFC championship bout. Both guys are bleeding. Both guys are hurt. Tired. We're into the final round. Going to back end of back end rally. Again, into the back end of Runa. To the back end of Rubelev.  Rubelev gets it. 4-1 Runa. Into the back end of Rubelev. Into the back end of Runa. Rubelev hits a 4-1 on the stretch. Goes up into the sky. Smash in the net from Runa. Unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. And Runa laughs. But he is fuming inside. Love 15. That was a risky smash and Runa is walking around like Yannick Sinner, but actually hurt Yannick Sinner just walks up like that Love 15 Runa is walking very very gingerly love 15 Serve out why the back end of rubelab fauna Runa is good rubelab gets it Runa bounce forehand Rubelab gets it with a lob.  He's done it twice and he smacked the ball out of the stadium Runa. That's a warning The crowd won't like that Love 30. He's done it twice. Is that a point penalty? Is that a point penalty? He did it twice That should be a warning. I should be that should be a point penalty You do it once. It's a warning. You do it twice It's not a point penalty love 30 and he's trying to get the crowd to get angry He's trying to get the crowd angry Love 30 It's it wasn't a point penalty, but I mean, I don't know why I mean he should have been That was two different co-violations, but oh well he got a warning Unless the first one he didn't hit. Maybe he didn't hit the first one I love 30 Serve into the front of rubelab return goes out 15 30 and crowd go wild. They love it 15 30 There's been another serve two and a half hours played What a match 15 30 someone in the crowd's making noise Runa stops now. He serves out wide. That's a fault Second serve Second serve in the form of rubelab good return the back of Runa in the net 15 40 rubelab It's his chance To break and serve for the match 15 40 15 40 Chance of rubelab to break and serve at this championship Serving in the back in a rubelab return goes in the form of Runa back in a rubelab goes into the form of Runa Into the back of rubelab Runa with the form of the stretch Rubelab backhand again at the back of Runa into the back in a rubelab There's been a back in a Runa on the stretch goes down the line. That's a winner from rubelab Runa. This is gonna be on he saves one Runa 30 40 what a backhand That's one still a chance for rubelab to break Man this match so much going on 30 40 Runa with a serve Break point still for rubelab rubelab looks calm Rubelab Runa looks sore serve Now wide there's a fault second serve Second serve who is double fault It's a double fault and Andre rubelab gets a break and he's serving for the match Rubelab has won five of the last six games of this match from four one down to five six five up And he is serving for the championship To win his biggest ever trophy, but remember The back is a problem. So he needs first serves rubelab Here we go and this is exactly what happened in Australia minus the match points It's exactly what happened in Australia down in the fifth set Rubelab came back to win. It was a tiebreaker in that one though. This might not have to go the distance Thriller. Yep This is a threat and by the way Runa was points away from going up five one It was for one rubelab's back hurt and it was like I think it was maybe a break point He got five one. So Runa should have probably won this match by now Rubelab serving with the championship and it's the first time he's ever been in this position He's never even want to set in a masters 1000 final now. He's serving for the whole match chat the tennis world changes again Every masters 1000 we get a little different First we got Indian Wells the return actually know we got the Australian open the return of Djokovic still the king of the slams then In Indian Wells, it was the return of Alcaraz In Miami, it was Mehdi and Now is Rubelab gonna win his first Masters 1000 and go. Hey, I'm one of the big boys now get me a seat at the table Serving for the championship Andre Rubelab The cap off a solid week.  That's a good shot Runa with a slice in the net Solid from rubelab Runa grabs his leg 15 love he's three points away Remember what I said in the rallies the longer it goes the better for rubelab. He's gonna out rally Runa Runa needs to start getting more aggressive. He's kind of getting gotten shy He's gonna start hitting those winners back end return in the net 30 love unbelievable unbelievable Rubelab's two points away what a comeback And it couldn't happen to a better guy He deserves this rubelab.  He's been behind the next gen for so long As he serves out why the fro