What's going on everybody? Welcome to the semi-finals of the Australian Open for the men We had the women's semi-final last night now. We've got the men's for our semi-finals We got Nadal versus Berettini to start us off and We got weather cam it's back but this time It's for the daytime and also it looks like it's already starting to hit this hit the city so massive storms on the way and This will be on the roof. This will be a closed roof match I'll be very shocked if they If they had an open roof at any time in this match, which we can talk about who does it favor Berettini Nadal Who's gonna favor having the roof shut? We'll talk about it as well as tonight's match as well We've got Medvedeva scissi pass another massive match up there So hopefully I mean we got pretty lucky with the quarter-finals three out of the four got got the five sets Can we get a couple more five-setters? I mean that would be nice. That'd be nice I mean it's been a good tournament considering what happened before the tournament. It's been a really good tournament since Since the start really we've had some really great matches So hopefully we can finish finish with strong ones and then of course tomorrow. We've got the doubles final with King cock You know, you know what it is and then also we've got Barty as well playing against Collins for the women's title So big day tomorrow Only five matches left five matches left to the Australian open for 2022 for us and Don't worry tennis continues. Dubai is gonna be massive Nadal drop of which coming back in for Dubai Nadal playing like a polko. So we've only got like two weeks off before madness again But instead of it being midday madness to be midnight madness for me But hey, at least everyone in Europe will be able to sleep nice You guys will be you guys are up now that are like struggling to stay awake every single day You guys will be you'll be back to normal for you guys in a couple weeks now Let's go to the preview before this starts because actually no, you know what I? Spoke about the weather. We've got weather cam. I'll show you the weather. It's looking pretty pretty dodgy Check this out now if you don't know how to read the weather radar here You can see here down the bottom. We've got you know blue is light Yellow is moderate red is death or heaviness. So We've got a bit of red Coming around the weather is kind of coming this way. I can show you here Whoops wrong one I'll show you here So you can see there all of this is heading towards here and look it looks like it's already starting to rain In Melbourne a little bit as well. So that is what is what's gonna happen. I'm out here. I'm out east so Over this way. So when this comes over, you'll see it after it hits the city or hit me. So That'll that's what we got weather cam so you guys can see what what is going on with that But yeah massive storms the roof will be shut. No doubt. No doubt Yeah, so that's what I look forward to I guess in the next next couple hours All right, let's answer some questions and then we can then we can have a chat about The match and kind of go through everything as well involving this match Okay, so what's going on everybody how we do them? What's the time over here? It's two o'clock in the afternoon So the matches start in 25 minutes 25 minutes It looks I'd be very it won't it will last for long Doesn't look like it will last for long. Yeah, it won't last for long But the rules are once they shut the roof they keep it shut for the whole match So if the roof shuts for the start of the match, it'll be shut for the entire match And it will be will the courts play slower due to the rain so Beth What will happen and what I well again what's likely to happen so with the roof open And the humidity being very very high in melbourne because of the stormy weather If the roof was open it would probably favor raffa because Humid conditions the ball goes a little bit slower in the air because there's moisture in the air thicker air Um, and the ball slows down and baritini's you know hard shots won't be as fast now That'll still be pretty fast, but they won't be as fast um And it'll be very similar us open conditions And funny fact that fun fact they actually played at the u.s. Open a couple years ago.  So the air now is going to be well the conditions will be perfect, right? indoor match indoor conditions Which favor baritini because baritini likes to hit the ball flat Which means that raffa is going to have less chance Uh, or less time to hit the ball. So that's why this is crucial This this I mean this is a big factor right indoor match. It doesn't make baritini the favorite It just makes it it just gives him a better chance Against raffa because no doubt raffa is going to be favorite like raffa's even if the roof is shut raffa's still favorite, obviously He's the more experienced player um And he you know, it'll be raffa raffa favorite Unbelievable Let's go baritini. Thank you. Nigel appreciate that.  Um, because of the weather just rewind the video david about five Seconds and you'll see why because of the because of the rain, which is going to come through here as well You'll see it on my screen too Yeah, so that's why and i'm again i'm not saying that the weather's gonna make baritini the favorite Of the sorry the roof shutting is making baritini the favorite the roof Gives baritini a better chance But raffa's still the favorite now. No worries david if you just joined us. Yeah, we went through it about two seconds Just rewind and then come back. Um, so yeah So that's it makes it a little like if it goes if this was going to be a four set match for Let's say it was going to be four sets and dial Outside indoors. It might be five sets. You know what I mean? It gives baritini that edge Um because of his shots, but again baritini has to make those shots. He has to execute Um and all that other stuff. So but it does give baritini a it's better for baritini to play indoors Then it is for raffa because raffa doesn't play well indoors and he doesn't like those conditions Um, okay now let's go through the uh the preview for this and then we can have a chat about Predictions and who's going to win and why and what and where and how So here is the draw for the astralian open. That is not it Where is it? Here it is. Here is the draw for the astralian open um You can see there Three out of the four guys had to beat their opponents in five sets city bats having the easiest run of them all But I guess lucky for both the guys today. Both of them had tough matches in the last round So there's going to be no real advantage or disadvantage for the players coming into this semifinal today City bats might have a bit more of an advantage against mevvedev because mevvedev's coming off a very long match In his quarterfinal, but we'll talk about that later All right, mattar baritini. He is number seven in the world. He is 25 years old from italy He's six with five right-handed one win two losses coming into this one Um, no title to his name five titles to his name. No titles this year, but five titles to his name Um, and he hasn't got any good wins until this week. So we'll have to update that next week Rafa Nadal, he is number six in the world. He is 35 years old from spain six foot one right left-handed three wins No losses has a title coming into this tournament 89 career titles, of course And his best wins are against russivori and cressy now. These are only these two have only played once only the one time before Against each other and that was back at the us open in 2019. We actually watched that match Go back and watch that. I think it was actually I wasn't even in my house that day I was uh, I had to use some internet from someone at a friend's house So you can go watch that weird weird stream. Um, but there you go. Nadal got the straight to twin however Baratini is way better than he was back then Um, and the conditions are going to be different today. They're going to be indoors. So It's all like it's going to be interesting to see how baritini how far he's come Since playing rafa in his first semifinal Back in 2019, you know two and a bit years later. He's made a final of a grand slam He's been consistent in the top 10 since then And he's also, you know added to his titles How will he play against rafa this time around because baritini has one of those games that could trouble rafa You know hard hitting game. Uh, if you look over the over the life cycle of nadal's career some of his Some of the losses that he's had at this stage of tournaments have been against guys like del potro guys like songa You know, he's been pushed by guys like fedasco What do they all have in common? They'll hit the ball very hard. So baritini, you know, he's a hard hitter and his game could trouble rafa today Could really trouble rafa, but I think baritini has to win the first set to be a chance. I think that's that's kind of I mean, that's what I say for everyone, right? If you're going to beat these goats, you got to win the first set First set is crucial um, all right Let's answer more questions. They're coming out on about in about 15 minutes time, by the way About 15 minutes time four car shows constant rain all day. Yeah, it's going to be pretty uh, pretty pretty gnarly Thank you, Nigel again for the donation appreciate that um Matteo has a huge chance. Yeah, look Baritini has a great chance. Of course. He has a very very good chance Got super dark in here for a whole of a sudden got super super dark. Um, yeah, he has a great He has a good chance. He definitely has a chance baritini winning is not Is not out of the realm of possibility. You could definitely win. You could definitely win What are my predictions? I'm going to say rafa in five only because I want a five set match And um, I just think rafa's got more experience here. So that's why I'm I'm leaning towards rafa I love channel channel cam. You've done a great job covering the air. Thank you. Carl appreciate that Yeah, we watched watch a lot of matches. I think we've done like 40 something matches so We've watched more tennis than than ever before Rain is already coming down on the grounds and it looks like it won't be stopping Yeah, we went through that. We'll go through the radar again. Maybe um Just before the match starts and I'll show you what the weather looks like or what the forecast is As well. Uh, look, we did predict this didn't we? We said this last last night that there was going to be rain You know that there was going to be rain and this is probably going to be an indoor match Indoor so no heat issues today. Yeah, look, it's not even that hot today. It's like 28 degrees anyway, but um The reason why look if you look at the matches too Rafa has only played day matches Except for one match and that's not an accident. He has wanted to play on the day Unbelievable. They don't care about what they were saying Semi-final day thanks cam No worries brice thank you for the five. I appreciate that man. Um, yeah, so he's he's wanted to play during the day because of Because of the uh the conditions and he said the ball bounces higher when It's a bit warmer during the day. So he said the night match when he played and look Besides losing a couple it says a chapeau. The only match that's really troubled him is that Hashinoff match And hashinoff plays like baritini Again comparisons. We're gonna make the comparisons Uh, is weather called Is weather cam installed in your house? I know it's just like It's just a camera on the floor that's pointing outside It's very bootleg It's not it's very scuffed. It's not a it's not professional Um, doesn't the court get sort of moist From the incoming audience members Uh, they are going to wet from they're going to be wet from the rain and that's a lot of Dripping bodies in stadium Um, I think the I think the air conditioning system will Will reduce the amount of condensation in the air Um, so yeah, I doubt that it'll be But I get and again, I don't think I think people that are that'd be in the stadium right now Like because there was actually a mixed doubles match on before this so I'm sure the people that it was as soon as it started raining that all would have run inside the rod laver So I don't think anyone's like soaking wet going to be there Or at least not like, you know 20 000 soaking wet people. Um, but the thing is They've actually upped the crowd. Uh, you know, yesterday we're watching the matches and we're going Hang on it looks like there's more people There actually was because they've actually allowed I think like 65 of the crowd now or something like that. So they've allowed more More people which is great for um For us anyway to watch to watch the tennis. So yeah, they've they've upped the up the crowd Limits to to about I think 65 so that's why it sounded like it was louder yesterday And it was more people there because there literally was there was more people um, all right, all right, so Players coming out on court in about about 10 minutes time Keep answering questions How will the humidity affect the racket tension of the strings? There's no humidity because the roof will be shut So that will not be a problem Uh, that will not be an issue Uh, because the humidity is Gone when you shut the roof and you put and you use the air con it's going to be gone Out of weird nightmare where cam said this was all for his channel and he's stopping that was all for the channel stop streaming Oh, no, we're still going That's a very All right, I'll show you what the weather looks like it's getting real gnarly It's gonna get it's gonna come here very soon too. So that's why we've got weather cam Up and about because uh, it's getting real gnarly. Look at this So melbourne park is it's definitely raining now. I mean no doubt about it, right? absolutely pouring down rain In the city here, uh, but all of this is going to come over. So this match is all indoors. It is all indoors um They won't be changing it'll be on indoors from the start. Uh, like I said, I live out this I live out, uh, this way So all of this will be coming across And getting me so, uh, you'll see it. You'll see it. That's why we've got weather cam Uh, bro, you're underestimating baritini. Uh, he will win for sure Uh raffle is not good against chapeau No, I did say that I I said baritini could win I think I but I said I'm going for I think raffa's gonna win I'm predicting raffa, but I'm not underestimating baritini whatsoever. I think he's got a very good chance I think he's got a very good chance And raffa didn't look good against chapeau mainly because he felt sick. So we're gonna keep an eye on raffa's how raffa looks in the first couple of uh, like for the first set here because Uh, you know If raffa's still got the problems that he got they had the other day then It's gonna be interesting Raffa's not gonna I don't I don't think raffa's gonna retire today He won't retire his match and let's see gets physically injured Uh, do you have a backup generator for the stream in case the power outage? Let's not wish that upon anybody knock on wood. No, I don't have one. I don't I don't I don't have one But I do have I live in an apartment building that has backup power. I think so maybe that'll help Maybe that'll help Anyways, look, we'll just deal with that if it happens We'll deal with it. It happens. It happens. So be it I mean, I have a back I have an idea that we could Maybe try I don't know if it's gonna work though, but I mean, I could just use my phone and like laptop and hope for the best Like we can get real We can get real basic with this with the setup if we need to but um, I'm just gonna Cross my fingers knock on wood. Hope for the best New grand slam winner would be great. Yeah, for sure for sure You know nothing against Medvedev and Baratini, but I would love to see a city pass Nadal final um because I think Nadal going for 21 is a huge match history-wise City pass going for his first also city pass won last year in an epic match So I feel like that's the best one of the best matchups we could have um Then again, like you know, like I said yesterday, we could you know, you could make I mean, it's a win-win win for everybody because yet Medvedev in the final against Nadal, then we're going to get either history or a new number one if if you get um City pass versus Baratini, it's going to be a new grand slam champion. So again, like I don't think any we can't lose We can't lose as tennis fans But I would like to see a rematch of last year's quarterfinal between city pass and Nadal Like they played a three time. It would be their third time meeting in Australia and I would love to see that But then again, I would love to see I'd love to see the match between uh medvedev and um Nadal because I think that's you know, we haven't seen that match since for a while and You know that epic at the u.s. Open three years ago that we watched You know, that would be epic to see that replay Hey, thank you for following us on twitch It's sunny in sydney fair enough um Yeah, great matches coming up like I mean like These are the best matches we could have asked for Without jokovic, you know with no jokovic. They're the best matches we could ask for You know, maybe he's very versus Nadal in the semis would have been better But baritain he's still still just as good If not, he's probably more a little bit more reliable Then uh, then sasher at times at least, you know, we can Expect him to hopefully uh perform Again, thank you for following us on twitch I can't please tell the officials to open the roof for a few minutes just in the interest of General fairness bet there would never do that. It's like pouring rain. There's no way they're gonna open the roof There's no way There is no way Medi's tough and all arms and legs. That is true.  It's raining It is raining big time Has nadal given any interviews in the last two days about how he's feeling Again, everyone who's saying like nadal is going to be tired nadal is going to be sore nadal is like going to retire The dudes had two days off to get over a stomach problem and a dehydration problem Dehydration doesn't last three days. You can get over that in 24 hours Sad for greek whore, but I called meteo as duck horse No worries. Uh, koko. Look greek all had his chance. Um, I don't think that was a bad prediction, mate just Yeah, greek all had his chance But um, or missed his chance, but um, yeah, look you did pick meteo.  He knows how to come back from dehydration If it was an injury like a like a calf or a leg injury or an arm injury Then I would be like more skeptical But dehydration is something that if you just refuel for a day, you'll be back You know how many of you have had a hangover? right The reason why you get a headache, right?   So, uh Just think of it like that the dial is not going to be like, uh I would be very shocked when the dial came out here looking like he was going to pass out Two days like three days later like that would mean he didn't do his job which was recover Show us the weather from another side of your house Um, I don't have any more I only have this camera. So that's not gonna I'm sorry By the way, that This uh is pointing towards the city. So this clouds are coming from that direction towards this place. So That's why it's pointing out that way too Dehydration causes abdominal cramps. Yeah, but he won't be dehydrated going into this match. That's the thing. That's what I'm sort of getting at is that He might have been dehydrated like three days ago But he won't be dehydrated coming in today. He'll be fine today. So he would have gotten through that And gotten over that the weather looks even Yeah, tell me yeah The dial claimed he had heat stroke a condition that would have required hospitalization Well, look he definitely didn't look right. Did he he definitely didn't look good um but again Three it was if he had that yesterday, then maybe today would be a problem But he had about three days ago. So, uh, I think he'd be fine Had a rubber cheat. Um, I don't know Who said that? Yeah, it was reported that he lost. Yeah a lot of weight during that. It would have been water weight. It would have been water weight for sure Baratini versus medivitifinal. By the way, how many of you in the chat are going for Nadal? I want to know you and who and how many people are not going for Nadal And how many of you who are not going for Nadal Are actually baratini fans or are you not are you just anti jokovish? Sorry, if you're anti Nadal or maybe jokovish fans Are you going for baratini because you don't want Nadal to win or are you going for baratini because you actually want baratini to win Because you are a baratini fan That's what I want to know Because I feel like a lot of people are jumping in the chat They were like I hope Nadal loses. So is that because you're a baratini fan? All the all the all the all the jokovish fans are wearing italian flags today um A lot of people saying uh raffa supporting the underdog. Look. Yeah, there's that category too. A lot of people supporting the underdog for sure You're making this confusing on on federa for life. Okay I'm a five-step fan. Yeah, I want five sets too. I'm a tennis fan as well. So I want five sets as well I'm eating spaghetti. That's this dd with a serbian flag Oh, man Uh, I would like baratini, but raffa is okay. All right. All right. So there's not too many people that are here that are like You know not wanting Nadal to win because they're not because they don't care about uh, they don't like him Uh, which way do you think the crowd will go lean the crowd will be 50 50? I don't think the crowd are gonna be uh crowd and probably gonna be a little bit more raffa centric because history's on the line and I think Now that the history, you know, the 21 slams is two wins away I think the crowd will start getting behind raffa to win Because look just like everybody, right? I would love to see a history made in my country I would love to see history made in australia So, um, I think I think a lot of people would want to see that even if like and that that would happen the same for jocovic If jocovic was playing this tournament and he was about to make it to the final I think everybody in australia would be going for him if all that bullshit didn't happen before um, if he was going for history and with none of that court case crap going on um I think everyone would have been cheering his name as well to get history Just like we were at the u.s. Open, right? Um, thank you. Tom. I appreciate it, mate Uh, it's better to close the roof for raffa. I don't know. It's a jib. I think it's better for baritini We'll find out by the way, they're just uh Giving out awards to some of the ball kids. I think maybe it's because um Maybe they got like ball kid of the year award or something. I don't know Roof apparent. I can confirm Roof is shut. I can I confirm the roof is shut The roof is shut I can confirm If Nidal wins, I'm eating paella for tomorrow. Okay. Sounds delicious You think Sidney Bass will beat Raffa in the final? No No By the way, they're showing it. They've got a camera outside showing the weather in melbourne and it is absolutely Pissing down rain and we got weather cam here and it's gonna piss down rain here as well. You can bet that You can bet that You'll see it It'll be sideways rain Oh, man It is pouring down rain in the city. Um, but only 69% Say what the pre-match prediction they knew the assignment it knew the assignment It knew the assignment Oh What's with that number today? All right raffa warming up behind the scenes are about to walk out on court Is the rain gonna help raffa or the roof being shut is not I don't think it's gonna help raffa, but we'll find out Who's the who what is the roof? Who does the closed roof benefit? I think baritini Didn't baritini said that the crowd is rude or something. Uh, no mevadev said that I bet on I bet 400k on raffa to win to xing All right. Good luck Do we have any bets Anyone got any bets on these matches today? Let us know in the chat Any bets on these matches? Is anyone gone for the underdog? Is anyone betting on baritini? I mean, uh, this is he's He's not a uh He is a bit of a Definite underdog for sure. Thanks dawn. I was just about to get that one. Um He's definitely an underdog according to the bets I bet raffa to win. Okay. I bet over 40 and a half games All right 50 bucks on city pass to win the tournament says tommy. Nice No, the match is not started. It's gonna start in about five Minutes players are about to come out on court. I'm pretty sure the ao are doing their whole uh Their whole um, what is it called?  Oh, they've got it. Hang on. Let me check it. Let me check it Yeah, I just don't think uh What are the what are the comments saying here? vamos Nadal Uh, can't believe this is a semi Ayo is streaming this match.  If you're in there, I'll give you a shout out. Are they streaming the whole match or no point? No, they're not streaming the whole match. Sorry to say so to you. Sorry to uh burst everyone's bubble Um But yeah, so they're doing that again. I look at I don't mind it I don't mind it because I like the behind the scenes kind of access, but They should really cut the stream Before They play one point if that makes sense That makes sense Sometimes there is oh hey charging boat. What are you doing in there, man? Yeah, they stream the first point it's over. Yeah Will they stream the actual match? No, I wonder how many you know what I really want to know in those videos I want to know how many dislikes they get youtube took away the dislike button I reckon Those videos would get way more dislikes than likes and then more people less people would watch them And because people think that it's a match, right? I mean how I'm I want to talk, right? But I know like when we started this channel we used to get equal dislikes Just the way it was because people didn't read the title So I feel them but it's still like that when they cut it off. I'm like That's when they need to they need to send them to us We they need to send us send it to us No, don't don't no, shaley don't go and dislike it No, let's not do that. Let's not spread that Um, just feel free to like this video Go over there and say hello though. Say hey, there's a guy doing uh go to tennis talk Just write tennis talk with I don't know just go in there and spam tennis talk If you do that, I'll give you a shout Just go in there and spam tennis talk because then people might be like, what's tennis talk? I mean google that and they find us All right players are coming out now On the court it's happening It is happening Oh laura, thank you. I saw you. I saw you over there Oh, there we go. People are going in there with tennis talk. I love it. I love it. I did tennis talk all day Ted uh fred bear there you go, george. What's up? I see you in there There's greg's in there as well Dion's at camp sent us Oh, you guys are too much Okay sim as well Matthew, thank you for jumping in there. They're gonna bear. They're gonna kick us all out. They'll be like stop spare on the channel Uh, thank you everybody's jumped in there Thanks cam you are fab. Oh, thank you Penelope for the five appreciate that I'll show you Lee jumped over there too Oh, thank you everybody Hey, maybe a few people jump over here if you jump it over here from the Australian open stream We're going to be covering the entire match. We can't show it because even the tournament itself can't show it So uh, we're going to be here watching the entire match. We will uh, we'll be here for the entire match The video currently has 444 likes and four dislikes. Is that real? I can't check the dislike. You can't check the dislikes Thank you abs dusty Uh Ismail as well abs Oh, thank you.  We're too we're going around Spamming people so we're getting getting going to be crazy. Um, anyways um Players around and caught the weather is getting gnarly. It's raining. The roof is shut officially. Let's have a chat about this The question so Uh, install the dislike app on chrome. Is that a thing david? Really? No, you may have to do it Um, I've worked tomorrow. Can I call off?  Uh, yankee? Yes You have permission. Uh, this is a verbal permission to anyone who's out there that has to go to work tomorrow Uh, you can use this clip to send to your boss Uh, i'm sorry boss man slash boss woman Uh, but so and so insert name here can't uh Come to work today because the the tennis was on and it's more important and uh, we appreciate that you are uh Giving this insert name here Uh, time off for the day.  You're awesome. See le cam from tennis talk Um Get a note signed from by a doctor of tennis. Yeah, that's what it is Signed doctor of tennis Cam Williams All right, let me just turn my air con down All right, let's answer some some random dude on the internet. Yeah Nursing their tennis insomnia. That's the one What am I prediction for both semis abs? I've got nadal in five and city pass in four I'm going out there with the city pass pick It's an indoor match now advantage baritini. That's what uh, that's what I believe That's what I believe I got tennis elbow, so I can't work. Yeah exactly. That's a good excuse My best friend is my boss and I'm going to send him that okay, brice Don't come back here. If you uh, if your best friend turns around and goes Don't ever come back here again Never ever return. Don't put that on me Nadal's indoor record is not good. Exactly. That's another big thing Let me have a look at the indoor records of both these guys because Nadal's indoor record is not good. That is true and that is why I'm I think baritini's got a very good chance First set is crucial of course, but um If Nadal wins the first set and if he wins it easily Baritini might get a look but baritini is going to be nervous He is going to be nervous So baritini's hard court in sorry indoor record is 64 wins 32 losses Nadal's hard indoor hard court record or just indoor record is 69 wins And 38 losses so they have a very similar record But the difference being in the last few years Baritini has had a much better record. Uh Nadal his record indoor courts, uh I mean 2019 he actually had a pretty good record indoors to be honest, but Again Nadal's indoor record. We know he's it's not so much his record. It's more about Uh, who he who he loses to an indoor courts, you know when he plays indoor matches He loses to a certain type of player And that certain type of player looks a lot like this guy big hitting big serving And that is that's where I think baritini's got uh can make make something happen Uh, hope nadal doesn't win another indoor match to keep the joke alive Uh, yeah no backs at home. Okay Baritini in four Since he passed win the title hammer time they closed the roof.  Yep Like oh again before they See Thank you man life saver when I cannot watch live smile Thank you ben and thank you james both for the donations That's why we're here ben. We're going to be doing every single point.  All right, so I will be doing will be answering questions throughout the game and through the match, but uh during the points We're going to be locked in doing every single point. All right, so just wanted to keep that in mind Um, but if you want to donate you can your question comes up if you donate so, uh, you know Um, if you really want your question answered, uh, you can do that but Yeah, just so anyone's like, hey, why is he not talking to the chat? It's because I'm gonna be locked in for the entire match Unless things get boring, you know, if things get a little bit one-sided and you know We can have a bit more time to kind of chill because there's, you know, two sets of love lead for somebody or whatever But yeah, just to get just off the top I'm gonna be laser focused on every point here to make sure that everyone who's listening out there can, uh Can feel like they're watching the match if they don't have access to it By the way, we have a new goat Thank you, Ben for becoming a member. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. If you want to become a member It's only a dollar a month you become a member by clicking the join button down below I placed a hundred bucks on baritini. Oh Okay Okay, uh If final is Nadal Medvedev, who do you think we'll drop which we'll go for? um I don't know. I don't think jokovic I don't think jokovic is is like bothered about everything as everyone else is To be honest, I don't think jokovic is going to be happy for whoever wins like he's uh, that's what he does He's not going to be like, oh, I don't want raffer to win He's going to be like whatever man. I'll just go win the next one Like jokovic is not worried about who wins what match, you know He's not going for anybody. He's just like whatever. I'll come back. I'll win the other tournaments and I'll become the goat Anyway, so I don't think he's bothered Yes, the roof is closed jessica. It is closed The weather's coming through Now the clouds are going the opposite way Oh Uh-oh All right, everybody It is time for the first semi final For the men and guess who's serving. It's raffa. He's serving first in this semi. Let's have a look at how he looks Predictions chuck your predictions in the chat. Who's gonna win this match? I'm going raffa in five Who do you think's going to win this match? You tell me Raffa serving first to start us off Taking the time the crowd's gone wild as you'd expect As raffa serves into the back end of baritini falling out from raffa into the back end slice of baritini raffa with a forehand now goes out First point goes to baritini First point to the hammer the hammer versus the bull The hammer versus the bull Love 15 Serve now raffa in the net second serve raffa taking the time as per use As he serves now to the forehand of baritini falling out from raffa into the back end of baritini Falling out raffa down the line baritini with the forehand of his own backhand raffa Into the backhand of baritini raffa with a forehand now into the forehand of baritini falling out from raffa cross court But the slice of baritini into the front of raffa back in now from down the line from baritini is wide And it's 15 all Now the biggest weakness in the baritini game. We all know it. It's the backhand It is the backhand Raffa's forehand going to baritini's backhand is going to be Something we see a lot today But maybe with the added spin it might actually help baritini a little bit on the backhand side Gives him a little bit more time to set up the shot. We'll see if that's a factor 15 all serve now baritini puts it in the net on the return and it's 30 15 And of course the serving of baritini is going to be massive that that is a big factor to it to serve well 30 15 raffa with the lead here as he serves down the tee a fault second serve baritini Ready to return second serve raffa Goes into the backhand, but it's a left from raffa Oh, it's windy out there now It's why it would wind out the side outside now crazy weather on the way It's already hit the city 30 15 Raffa with the serve now to the back end of baritini falling out from raffa into the back end of baritini Raffa with a forehand again to the back end of baritini Baritini's in some good backhands here. He runs around hits a forehand down the line Baritini now comes to the net and raffa hits the backhand. Is it a winner or raffa? Baritini should have gone for the volley He had the volley, but he watched it go in. He just went like this and it went in Baritini using the forehand nicely just Just letting raffa hit the winner You can on raffa shots. You can never assume he's going to miss you got to assume that everything he hits goes in So you got to go for every volley 40 15 raffa serves a fault second serve Raffa to the 400 baritini falling out from raffa into the forehand of baritini and that's a winner from baritini unbelievable on the back foot nice forehand winner there and it's 40 30 And that was a good shot on the back foot there baritini weight moving backwards and still being able to get that power That's his forehand That's the hammer 40 30 Served to the slice of baritini four-and-a from raffa hits the tape goes in four-and-a baritini down the lines a winner again Man raffa getting a little little unlucky with the tape and we're a doos baritini with a couple of four-and-winners And it's doos first game of the match it feels like a night match because the roof shut and it's lit up with all the lights but No, it's this is the middle of the afternoon. It's just raining As that goes in the net for baritini. It's advantage raffa good serve from nadal nadal strap will definitely be Backhands all day long go for the backhand pick on the backhand It's the one it's the part that uh Yeah, that he'll be picking on for sure advantage raffa He serves now to the 400 baritini four-and-a from nadal down the line baritini with the four-and-a of his own Slice there from raffa goes in the backhand slice of baritini and baritini hits it in the net raffa first game Of this semi-final one love one love One love and they show the camera outside and it is wet wet wet That's outside. It's just intense crazy weather crazy weather And they've just said on the tb coverage that because of the um the roof being shut The courts are not bound as bouncy because the weather you know it's because it's it's a little bit more temperature Tempered inside, right? So um it's a night matching here as well. I've got to turn all the lights on um, let me fix the Let me fix all this um Yeah, so baritini They've they've just said um, he'll he'll favor it will favor his him in these conditions Which is what we've been saying for the last three days Can you hit with momentum going backwards? um Well, you can yeah, um But you'll use a lot more just arm and shoulder. You're not using like body weight moving like energy moving forward You're using mainly just brute force with your arms. So for baritini to hit a winner going backwards With with his movement going backwards. I mean it just shows how strong he is in the arms as we're to find out from baritini down the line that goes long And it's love 15 Now baritini's got to be Of course, he's got to be nervous. You know, he's playing against Rafa Nadal on a semi-final for grand slam But he's also got to you know got to be nervous probably because he thinks he has a chance You know, he feels like he could win this match and he should because he can So maybe there's a little bit of nerves there as well But we'll find out in the first games here as he hits a good four in there Rafa with the four down the line baritini hits it in the net. Oh no rafa love 30 Lovely hitting from rafa Lovely hitting from rafa. I mean baritini had the shot. He just decided to go inside out And man the anticipation of rafa you can tell As baritini is ready to ready to hit that forehand Nadal already takes one step to his forehand side because he knows That's where baritini is going to go. That just shows the anticipation As baritini serves an ace. That's what he needs This number here Needs to be high for baritini. He needs to be hitting a lot of first serves in Maybe in the 70s like middle mid 70s And winning at least 80% of those points. I mean he can't be He's got to he's got to use that serve and get those first serves in and win those points This is this first serve here 15 30 still a chance of a rafa to get a break point As baritini serves to the front of rafa back here now from baritini into the front of rafa Again to the back end of baritini who hits it in the net That's going to be the strat Rafa's forehand to the back end of baritini. We're going to be saying that a lot today Because that is The chink in the armor Man, oh man the skies are dark At my window. I'm sure you can see it break points rafa 15 40 And baritini serves a fault Second serve baritini Goes into the back end of nadal back in our baritini into the front of nadal into the back end Again of baritini rafa keeps going to the back end of baritini as he keeps going to that baritini back end baritini misses And that's what's going to happen today. Rafa's going to keep picking on the back hand He's going to keep picking on the back hand to love rafa first sit And rafa. I'm sorry. Yeah baritini Showing the slow motion service action Baritini's got a pretty high ball toss, but I guess he's a little bit taller than rafa too. So it also Shows Yeah, so toss it up higher right because he's taller Okay Rafa with the break already to love as he serves A fault Second serve. We haven't seen any spectacular winners yet from either guy Baritini with a few errors in that get last game and you expect nerves There's been a back end now from baritini into the front of rafa to the back end of baritini That's a good shot rafa gets it though baritini with the back end in the net again Man the back hand's a problem 15 love I don't know how baritini gets better at that back end either. It's like well How do you get a better back end it's I mean He's had the same back end. He's got it's got him this far, right? So How does he make it better? How does he improve that back end? 15 love here We'll answer questions at the next change of ends So get them ready Serve now to the slice of baritini that goes wide 30 love 30 love now these guys have only played the one time before they played the us open back in 2019 First set was close. I think baritini might have even had a set point in that first set against rafa Went to a tie break and rafa got it and then he kind of Ran away with it first set's going to be crucial again today for baritini and maybe you see these guys Play against the goats in a slam always the first set Is crucial for the opponent the goats don't need To be up a set because that usually spells death 30 15 rafa hits that one out And like the wimbledon final where baritini won the first set against jokovic and we all thought Now it's even Same thing today baritini wins the first set, which is a long way from doing now.  It's a very it's not an easy shot doing it down the line backhand, but It might just help baritini Hit more forehands Set up the forehand It's worth a shot, right? You're playing in a slam final or slam semi-final against the goat You might as well try everything as baritini hits the backhand now to the back end of rafa Forehand baritini goes into the back end of rafa and rafa goes to the slice of baritini Slice there from rafa goes now to the forehand of baritini into the slice back end of rafa Baritini runs around hits a forehand down the line and long But that was better from baritini towards the end of that set game Started to get the forehands just needs to execute three love rafa The question jerk Okay Are we all hanging in there with me and you understand what I mean by the whole baritini trying to hit back ends To set up the forehand sort of strat. That's what I'd be doing if I was him Okay By the way, rafa's just ripped the uh the aircon machine out of the Um running forward of baritini is great. Yeah Who does the roof in uh, who does the closed roof? conditions favor in mevvedev city pass That's a good question That is a good question Oh, no Uh-oh Uh-oh You know, what's up? Is it really?  Um I would say probably mevvedev Because we saw yesterday when mevvedev saw the other day when the roof roof shut Against faa mevvedev came back, right? I'm gonna have to fix that camera because now you can't see nothing The raindrops are like this They're like this Oh, no, it's the rain is here Oh shit, um, yeah, so I think the um, oh man It is Bucketing down now Oh man, I didn't even fix it when I moved it. I mean you can just tell it's raining. Um Yeah, the the conditions I think Once it became an indoor match It helped mevvedev a little bit to win that match. Um, so yeah, but it's a night match anyway, so I don't know if it's going to really make any difference um Night matches indoor matches, you know, the weather would be pretty similar a little less humid in the indoors conditions, but I would say mevvedev would rather play indoors, but says he passes pretty good on indoors as well 15 love what the hell is A hail storms and shit jeez Man 15 love baritini first point On his surf he just needs to get a game, you know, don't worry about trying to like break raffle. You just got to get a game He has just got to get a game 15 all double fault there from baritini man Nali nali nali weather 15 all out to the back end of raffle that goes in the net And it's 30 15 Nice work there from baritini And that goes long from baritini off the serve second serve 30 15 baritini looking to get on the board as he serves a Let on the second serve nearly a double fold again Can't be given raffle free points second serve Baritini to the front of raffle back in our baritini goes down the line in the net 30 all 30 all Baritini again Every time he goes to the fight of raffle raffle goes cross court to the back end of baritini If we're playing chess That is not the move Good serve there and raffle hits it in the net. Good serve from baritini Needs more of those only seven 56 percent in two games. That's not good enough Needs to be higher than that 50 uh 56 is not enough 40 30 baritini to get on the board in this semifinal This third grand slam semi He serves now an ace. There you go. Unbelievable. And it's three one Raffle three one raffle man I got a I got a skylight in my in my Like kitchen and it is getting absolutely beating I mean this is crazy Wild It's like flooding in out of here.  If someone go over a run you're a psycho There's a guy running in the rain out there.  There's someone running up the street psycho Then again, I've run it. I went I went for a run in this rain once fellow psycho All right baritini first game our first point goes in the net from him and it's 15 love 15 Love Raffa serves being solid. I mean he's serving it. You know 60 percent is not bad But he's not missing many points as baritini hits a backhand long and it's 30 love 30 love I mean, I'm gonna do trivia time today as well if you don't know what that is. Well, I'm for a treat Gotten at all sits past Collins parley. Can we get to red scoreboard usa? Thank you spaghetti appreciate the donation. Uh, yeah, we can get a red scoreboard I had a purple for raffa, but we can get a we can change it right after this Raffa by the way forehand very nice shot there first forehand winner unbelievable first big banana forehand we've seen for a while the helicopter finish 40 love raffa as he serves a let raffa 22 minutes into this one 40 love nadal So raffa serves down the tee baritini gets it back for now from raffa down the line baritini with a find of his own That's a great shot from baritini Okay, maybe you can get some confidence out of that point raffa went for the forehand and Baritini's forehand one 40 15 It's the second time raffa's been burned by the Baritini forehand and i'm sure raffa's not gonna Go there too many more times 40 15 Served down the tee the back end of baritini sliced there from raffa into the fauna baritini raffa with a find of his own Baritini with a volley that goes wide And it's four one raffa Tough tough shot there for baritini, but raffa keeps that break He keeps that break for one first set Okay, okay You can tell It's raining It's raining Pretty crazy out there. Um, all right, we'll change the scoreboard color Oh, I hear noise from the sky As well, I can't see any lightning out there, but I can hear the thunder. Uh, no No, uh, all right Purple's the color of royalty. Well, now it's red now. We got red Why is materials grip so intense on his serve? Is it for spin? Yeah, he does have a weird. I don't think he has it I don't think he's grip is different because when he's serving You have a continental grip. You never have a different grip It's the way that he holds the racket. He bends his wrist And that might be to try and generate some spin, but again Everyone has the same grip on their serve. It's always continental Majority of the time 95 of the time But it's just the way he holds the racket to start with. He bends his wrist a bit So it looks like it's more exaggerated But I can tell you that his racket will be A continental grip It's kind of like, you know, I heard a coach say once that, um It doesn't really matter what you do before hitting the ball It's what you do after hitting the ball that matters. So if you start with your racket It doesn't matter as much. So if you have you know, anti-rotic, right? He did this with his arms before he hit the ball It doesn't matter if you do the normal action or the anti-rotic action. It's all about Where your weight is going and all that kind of stuff on the service It's not too much about how you start with your racket facing the sky or whatever you do As long as you have the right grip Love 15 by the way double fold First game a first point again double fold Love 15 And then he serves an ace baritini. That's a good serve. Unbelievable. That's what he needed Another free point Another free point But if you notice when baritini is holding his racket by his side He's got a continental grip. He just doesn't have he just starts with his racket because of his wrist Like he bends his wrist a little bit As he serves down the t to the forend of raffa, forend from baritini goes into the slice of raffa Into the forend of baritini, forend from raffa goes into the back end of baritini into the forend of raffa Forend of baritini into the back end of raffa into the back end of baritini. That's a good back end raffa gets it Slice there from baritini down the line. Oh, is that in? What a shot This is going to be on tennis TV Baritini slices the ball in half hits the outside of the line and skids away raffa claps He goes that's too good. That's way too good 30 15 Man baritini that was a very nice slice And it stayed this low too.  You got me there 30 15 Serve out wide is a fault second serve only one breaker serve down, but It's against raffa nadal As that goes out from raffa on the return baritini good body serve 40 15 very nice body serve 27 minutes played And it's baritini trying to get another game on the board here And just keep raffa honest as he hits a return there raffa into the forend of baritini. That's a great shot baritini's forehand Start to find its mark starting to find its mark four two Need to change it back to purple. No, well If the next person whoever donates next they might want to change it. We want to change the scoreboard color It's one dollar Any donation i'll spin i'll change it Also, it looks like uh Some random guys walking out Of the underground whatever that is. I don't know what they were showing there Physio or something. I don't know it looked like some dude Who was wearing a backpack It's very strange To just cut to that guy 42 by the way, you just joining us raffa broke First game of the match against the baritini serve And ever since it's just been pretty solid raffa, you know, he hasn't lost too many points on his serve As he serves to the back end of baritini for now raffa to the back end of baritini Into the front of raffa baritini with the back end down the line raffa runs around hits a forehand slice now baritini Into the front of raffa again. That's gonna be too good from raffa And look, I like the strategy though baritini's trying to get raffa to make him hit him hit a forehand Or hit his forehand So I like the change of um I like the the change he's trying to He's trying to do what I said before hit the ball to raffa's backhand and then hopefully get a forehand Raffa's just running around hitting forehands all day long. So it's gonna have to be a little better there baritini a little bit more aggressive on the backhand Good serve there right at the body of baritini for now from raffa baritini gets it raffa with a volley too good Another body serve there right in the hip Of the opponent if you want to hit a body serve effectively you want to aim for the the hip On the side they hit a forehand so they're left-handed the left hip if they're right-handed Into the right hip so you hit a forehand here Don't give that person room to swing Don't want to hit body serves to the backhand because uh backhands you can hit a little bit closer to your to your body With the two hands or the one hand It's very hard to hit a forehand Here at in your ribs 30 love here raffa I wonder if he's gonna go back to the backhand of baritini. He's gonna serve down the tee He serves no to the forehand of baritini for now from raffa into the forehand again of baritini Into the backhand of raffa raffa goes to the backhand of baritini. That's a good shot raffa on the stretch Baritini with the backhand down the line. There you go. He comes in volleys Baritini wins the point Backhand down the line. That's the key Hopefully baritini gets that Into his head and he goes, okay I'm gonna do that again Nice from baritini. Very nice volley too clean clean volley 30 15 And the fist bump. I think baritini's Not nervous now is He's uh into this now Serve out wider the backhand of baritini goes to the backhand of raffa good return baritini for one from baritini goes in the backhand of Raffa baritini wins the point 30 all Two backhands down the line 2.1. Man. I should be a tennis coach Should be a tennis coach or something 31 minutes played. Hopefully you guys are learning something through this as well because uh In the day, I want to Give my knowledge to you guys for if you're Play tennis The guy's picking on your backhand, especially the lefty like raffa 30 all Raffa in trouble for the first time today baritini returns raffa the forehand to the slice of baritini That goes in the net raffa just steps up and goes. Ah, I'm just gonna hit a little bit deeper to your backhand this time And we'll see what you can do with that 40 30 Nice shot there from raffa set up with the first serve To get to 5-2 In this second set. I'm sorry first set second half of the first First seven in the net from raffa 40 30 Second seven to dull sweating up a storm even though the roof shut. There's been a four hand out from raffa down the line That's a winner Man raffa just too good that forehand Is just too good As you can tell it's still raining outside. Oh, okay. So the physio has come out and they're going to baritini so baritini Is pointing at What's he doing? I don't know if he's I know he doesn't seem like he's got any problem like physically. Maybe he's just I don't know tired or something Maybe he's feeling a little bit I know a bit. I don't know We're just waiting for to see what baritini has going on No time out or anything. It's just a discussion. The trainer is out on court for a baritini Any update on Nadal's stomach? Uh, it's fine It looks fine so Yeah, maybe he's got a tummy ache maybe um Stomach problem will be be over in one day you people taking talking like it's four days exactly jc Yeah raffa is fine What he had on the other day is going to be over in 24 hours and it's been like three days So raffa is fine.  Uh, yes, windy melly. We will yes tomorrow We will be covering that tomorrow. Um, I don't know what time but yes. Yes. Yes Yes All right baritini serving to stay in the set and he serves a big serve 15 love Uh tomorrow so the schedule is not out yet for tomorrow But when it comes out we'll get to it All right 15 love Please go back to raffa purple. All right, we'll go to raffa purple. Thank you for the donation anonymous raffa purple it is um Baritini by the way with an ace 30 love Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already like the video as well Can we get to a thousand likes raffas matches? I've been getting thousand likes, which has been awesome. So thanks everybody As that goes in the net from baritini 30 15 the rain has kicked up again And the lightning has also started so keeping an eye out for that 30 love And I serve wide from baritini second serve Second serves really a problem for baritini 17 percent Not good enough As he serves now to the front of raffa and raffa hits away the winner. So what's that away raffa unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable 30 all Just goes Get out of here Get the hell out of here with that 30 all As baritini serves into the front of raffa and that's in the net good serve from baritini Raffa couldn't handle that heat A little bit close to the body as well a little bit of a body serve smart for baritini 40 30 Baritini with a serve to get to five three and to stay in touch And also if he does lose this set at least serve first in the second Which is a deal Served now to the front of raffa returned to the back end of baritini who hits it in the net Again Backhand baritini in the net he's out hit at least i'm gonna say seven Unforced errors on the backhand side If I was to guess I would say seven Deuce now Into the front of raffa now four now from baritini to the backhand of raffa who goes down the line Baritini with the back end of his own good shot and raffa hits the backhand wide Man baritini gone down the line I think if baritini is going to take his game to a new level He needs to start developing a real good double-hander down the line The two-handed backhand down the line. I feel like he could develop that Because look at a guy like cam nori right nori has a backhand that's It's okay, but it's not like the strongest backhand you'll ever see It's more of a placement shot baritini could take a book a page out of his book As raffa hits that one along on the forehand side and baritini gets the game five three But if he could develop a really good backhand down the line Then it would be less likely that people would go to his backhand is a weakness as well That's what I would suggest if I was baritini's coach Be like let's try and get that Try and get that backhand down the line To a point where maybe it's not a weapon, but it's something for players to think about because If um, if he doesn't develop a better backhand Either that will develop a really good slice, but I think a backhand down the line is probably easier for baritini to to work on than a than a slice, but Just when he's playing these big boys, you know, just so he can compete with these guys and really, you know Keep them honest, I guess Just add, you know adding weapons to the you know Adding tools to the toolkit, right? 15 love here Rafa three points away from the first set There's been a solid set from raffa. He's served very well Under the roof here at rod labor as he serves out wide at the backhand of baritini who hits it in the net 30 love 30 love 39 minutes played in this first set Two points away now raffa from the first set Served in the tee again to the backhand of baritini that goes in the net Again raffa's just playing I mean it's It's simple but effective. I'm going to serve to your backhand Literally every point and then maybe every now and again. He'll serve to the forehand just to keep baritini guessing, but Three out of four out of five times it goes to the backhand as he serves now Set point down the tee to the forehand there you go So see the patterns here raffa's going backhand backhand backhand backhand and then he throws in a forehand just to keep baritini honest It's what you do when you play someone who hasn't got a really strong backhand second serve Into the backhand of baritini four now from raffa goes wide Terrible shot there from raffa, but You can do that at 40 love when you got set points But this is just classic. I mean look if you're a junior player I mean this is just classic tactics You know you play someone who you know, usually when you're a younger player as well Everyone's got a good forehand Backhands are pretty one of the shots that most people don't have Well, they have a stronger forehand than backhand if that makes sense And raffa's just using those tactics that you learn all the way back in juniors hit it to the backhand Hit it to the weakness as we had a return there from baritini from that backhand Raffa goes again to the backhand of baritini four now from raffa down the line baritini to the forehand Into the slice of raffa who hits kind of a drop shot baritini with a slice of his own raffa slices again, but it goes in the net And baritini gets the 40 30 saves another set point But yeah, when you're first playing tennis like competitively And even even now I mean when I play when I'm coaching someone who has a weaker backhand and I'm playing against them I'll pick on their backhand. That's just the way it goes and raffa's I mean he's doing that just the fundamentals Use your strength to their weakness Didn't work on that occasion though And he's got his third set point here though raffa to close the door As he serves out wide at the backhand of baritini four now from raffa into the 400 baritini Now to the front of raffa baritini with another good forehand into the backhand Now from baritini going into the front of raffa four now from baritini goes into the backhand of raffa Into the front of baritini who goes down the line for a winner. Okay That's what raffa wants to avoid That forehand But down the line forehand hammer the slap That's what he needs to avoid And he's been doing a good job at it For the most part raffa, but that one Baritini makes him pay back to deuce Three set points have been saved by baritini 160 kilometer an hour winner as raffa serves out wide at the front of baritini. It's a little bit of a A block back in baritini Gets absolutely mauled By that banana forehand raffa puts it away Baritini just maybe look and that was probably a little bit caught off guard baritini Probably thought it was going to be a backhand and he didn't quite have the forehand set up and raffa tricked him That's what happens when you keep doing the same thing over and over and then you change it up Baritini was expecting a backhand I think The fourth set point ever raffa He serves out wide at the back end of baritini forehand doesn't need to be hit first set raffa 6-3 classic tactics from raffa And baritini, I mean he's gonna have to do something different in the second set Serving is probably where he starts but man raffa just playing some fundamental tactics nothing nothing special nothing special And he's got the first set 6-3 All right, let's go through the stats In that first set under the roof of rod labor we have only we've got five aces for baritini two double faults 13 winners total including those five aces and uh 14 unforced errors raffa. He's got eight winners five errors Only the one break point in that first set and raffa converted. So maybe in the second set Might be a little bit different baritini can Hold serve and and stay in front and maybe get a chance on the raffa serve, but It's been just clean smart tactics from raffa Not trying to reinvent the wheel All right, what's up everybody? How we doing? How are we going still raining outside as you can see weather cam this is i'm in melbourne by the way If anyone's wondering why are we looking outside your window? Why is there like where are you? You even like what? Why does this matter? I'm in melbourne. So the roof shut rod labor arena and this is why because that's what it looks like outside Can you please explain? What is the difference between first and second serves? I don't quite get it. Thanks well first serve Usually is a harder serve flatter serve More aggressive serve closer to the lines second serve Usually has more spin and it's less powerful because you want to get it in right First serve you miss your first serve you can still you get a second chance You miss your second serve you lose the point So that's the big difference there is mainly because of the speed and the and the spin But um, yeah, some people do hit big first serves. Sorry big second serves and some people do hit Slow first serves is a mix-up too. That's the main differences Is there's more spin on a second serve than a first serve? Because of that Whoa, okay Studying and listening to the commentary. Nice. Thank you cooking and listening to the commentary multi-tasking. Thank you. Appreciate it Why there's empty seats because they're only allowed to have 65 percent of people in the stadium so that's why there's no one up the top stadium because They've only allowed to sell 65 percent of the it was 50 at the start of the week But now they added an extra couple of people. So only allowed uh There's restrictions to crowds In uh in melbourne. So 65 percent of the stadium is sold Which is why there's so many empty seats not because nobody wants to go to the tennis I can assure you it's the opposite. This would have been sold out if the government had allowed it to be I was going to find in the net from baratini and it's the first point second set raffa love 15 love 15 and we're going to go through a stat raffa 46 minutes here as we get a serve from baratini. That's a good serve raffa gets it back Into the fine of baratini backhand now raffa on the stretch baratini with a fine down the line, but he hits it long love 30 Also, I just heard something that apparently Baratini's never had a break point against raffa what Really That's the craziest that I've ever heard I'm gonna have to look that up Anyways, love 30 serve down to the phone of raffa. That goes wide. Good serve from baratini 15 30 That's nuts. If that's real that is crazy raffa's never been never faced a break point If you were asked to be a tennis announcer for a major station, would you take the job or keep your youtube vlogs? Thank you, thomas for the donation. Appreciate that. We'll get to that in a second as we get a backhand now from baratini that goes long 15 40 raffa in deep sorry baratini in deep trouble now can't go down a break in the second Can't afford to give raffa the lead I have to loosen that first set okay Danger time now baratini 15 40 Serve down to the phone of raffa for now baratini into the backhand of raffa into the phone of baratini back in our raffa Again to the forehand of baratini into the back in a raffa baratini with a slice down the line raffa with a forehand now puts away the winner raffa's playing chess And baratini's playing checkers And the chess always wins Nadal one love second set So i'm having to look at their Yeah, so in their first match they've only ever played once these two baratini Faced 16 break points he saved 12 of them raffa Zero break points against his serve against when he played baratini the first time he hasn't faced a break point yet Baratini has not had a break point against raffa in four coming on five sets in their career. That's crazy That's a crazy stat That is a crazy stat that is crazy It's gonna happen eventually but I'll give you another crazy stat in a second now the question was um If you're asked for a tense announcer for a major station, uh, would you take the job? um I would but I would also Bring on the youtube channel. So I would ask If I was announcing to have a camera set up pointing towards me so I could be like this with you guys I might not be able to talk to the chat as much when i'm doing that But I would love to do that. That's I think that would be That would be the best of all worlds So I would take it because it would be a great opportunity, but I would also bring you guys all along which I've said for forever So, uh, yeah, great question though, thomas Let's be real. I say too many things that I don't think they'd let me on I'm too loud and I say too many things that are uh I swear basically Anyway, it's four now from raffa into the four on a baratini into the back in a raffa Baratini's gonna have to do something he's never done before and that is break raffa nadal As we're at a four on a four on rally raffa now with another four hand goes into that Baratini backhand, which has been a common all day as raffa keeps picking on the backhand Now he goes into the backhand again baratini with a slice into the four on a raffa Baratini's gonna have to keep hitting backhands until he misses and he does in the net 15 love Raffa's just being a meanie He's just picking on that backhand every single point No backhand allowed So no forehands allowed No forehands allowed for baratini. All right, I'm gonna give you a stat That's very important in a second as baratini's backhand goes in the net again I'll tell you the crazy one of the craziest stats You'll ever hear In just a second. It's a raffa stats a raffa fans. I know you'll be happy about this We might make this like a semi trivia time A little maybe a half half trivia time We'll do trivia time in the third set Thanks, everyone who subscribed by the way Almost at 70,000 subscribers Madness 30 love raffa serves into the four on a baratini four on a from raffa into the backhand of baratini and raffa puts away the winner Unbelievable unbelievable And it's 40 love There's no way No way baratini Can get back that shot 40 love Raffa to get to two love in a second as he serves down the tier the four on a baratini four now raffa in the net Haven't seen that much today And it's 40 15 Oh jess messaged me everybody Everybody say hi jess I don't think she's watching but She had to go back to work today So hopefully she's having a good one 40 15 In this crappy weather second serve Raffa looking at the two love in the second that i'm going to give you a stat That'll probably blow your mind or maybe even you won't be shocked. You'd be like, oh, yeah, whatever Served out of the backhand of baratini four now from raffa into the backhand of baratini and guess what it goes in the net Raffa two love second set now Raffa Nadal When he wins the first set and a major in his whole career 256 wins Six losses He's only lost six times After winning the first set in a major not just the Australian open but in all Grand slams Six players or six times. He has lost Now no, it's not trivia time, but let's try and guess them right you guys Let's see if someone can get you can guess them If you can guess them Whoa, did you see that? Did you see that Can we guess them? I'll be back in a second. No, didn't even do anything. Anyways Um, okay, let's see what we got. We've got some answers. Yeah first one is uh jokovic last year at the french open That is one answer So jokovic beat him. I lost the first set came back to win four against raffa last year in fact I'll give you a big clue out of the six times two two happened last year Someone said city pass. Yep. I owe last year. So last year raffa won the first set And lost matches twice in grand slam level. So that's kind of crazy six times in his whole career twice last year Um in back to back slams. So yeah city pass, of course come back from two sets of love down Somebody else said finnini at the u.s. Open that was also. Yep. That's another one. So that's three That is three now. I'm looking back. You've got to go all the way back to like 2012 and like way back into like 20 ages ago I don't think it's slam level though. No dot not dustin brown Not dustin brown not dustin brown Jokovic french open. Yeah, we've said that one jokovic australian open. Yeah Raffa actually won the first lost the first. Sorry won the first set seven five Went on to lose that match, of course in that epic Long match. So that's four I'll just give you the other two. Um, because this isn't really a trivia time, but uh lucas rossel Raffa won the first set of tie break lost that match in five Wimbledon 2012 And the last one all happened all the way back in 2007 And it was david for rare Nadal won the first set and lost. Sorry won the first set of tie break and for rare Came back and won that match in four sets at the u.s. Open in 2007 Crazy stuff. They're the only Six times The raffa has won the first set and lost a match at a major. How crazy is that? What a stat? What a stat. Anyway, it's 15 40 doesn't look like it's going to happen here as baratini hits an ace 30 40 Yeah, crazy stuff At only seven time. Sorry six times Raffa's lost a match from winning the first set at a major and two of those which are this Well, I mean, he's only lost to five opponents, right jokovic is done twice Out of those guys. So, um, yeah Just another crazy stat as that goes out from raffa on the return and it's back to deuce Baratini on the other hand After losing the first set in a major Not great Not impossible, but not great serving out of the fort of raffa that goes in the net baratini surviving here Advantage Matteo And a baratini second serve is Clearly a problem Because raffa is all over it second serve So first serve goes to the back end of raffa for now baratini down the line raffa on the forehand side gets it For now from raffa baratini goes long And raffa gets back to deuce If you are just joining us The weather in melbourne has been It's terrible. This match is under the roof Because of the weather Just having a look here at the radar and whoo, it's gonna get gnarly coming down in you can see here That's uh, it's already been pretty crazy weather. I've played him twice and like i'm sorry, but if you can't beat me like you're not a graceable type You're not a graceable type You're not a graceable type You're not a graceable type You're not a graceable type If nadal wins out 2022 he will be the grand slam goat Highest g's winning percentage of the big three winning record at g's of big three and most g's at fewer appearances Thank you jeb for the 10 appreciate that mate. Thank you. Uh, we can talk about that after this game As we had a serve down into the back end slice of raffa break point again for raffa as he hits a back end cross court And that is going in no, it's not it just went wide Or raffa almost hit the best shot of the day Carlos moe is like oh really you missed that shot. How did you miss that raffa? How did you miss that impossible shot? one hour played Baratini barely hanging on to love If you're just joining us raffa first set without breaking much of a sweat As we're back end slice there from baratini down the line raffa with a slice of his own Baratini with the forehand now to the forward of raffa backhand baratini into the forehand of raffa Goes to the forward of baratini back in our raffa goes into the forehand again of baratini Into the backhand of raffa good shot there baratini with the forehand now again to the backhand of raffa is baratini hits a backhand. You guessed it in the net Advantage Baratini's looking sore by the way Baratini is looking sore And remember, both these guys played epic matches three days ago. But also, Baratini played Elcarez in an epic match. Before the Chapo match, Nadal hadn't played that crazy of matches. Baratini is coming off a couple of five-setters to get to here. As we had a return there to the 400 Baratini, that's a good shot, and it goes out. He overhits it, and Raph gets a double break. Three loves, second set, and Nadal in control. All right, now, if you are new to the channel, welcome. Don't forget to subscribe. This is what we do here, and then we'll get to Jeb's question about the grand slams and the goat, I guess, debate. I've played tennis, I've coached tennis, and I've been to some of the biggest tennis tournaments in the world, including Wimbledon. Here on Tennis Talk, we want to keep you up to date with all the latest things going around the tennis circuit, including draw previews. Roger Federer, so he is in the half of Djokovic breaking news. Andy Murray is back in the singles next week. And of course, our favorite, the live shows. Second serve now goes to the forehand of Andrescu. Serena can't get it, and Andrescu wins. A big serve now goes down the tee. Mevvedev gets it. It goes long, and Rafa wins the match. 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The only way you can beat Rafa is when we look at the guys like Medvedev, Zverev, Sidney Pass. I mean, Sidney Pass last year. He was down two sets of love, playing very, you know, just trying to rally with Rafa. The difference between the first two sets and the second three, the second half of that match with Sidney Pass against Rafa last year was Sidney Pass started to be more aggressive. And that's how he won. Veritini is going to be more aggressive 100%. But when he gets aggressive, he hits it in the net. So he's also not playing as well. He's not playing as clean. Now, Jeb's question was, or statement was, if Nadal wins this tournament, he will be the grand slam goat. The highest winning percentage, grand slam percentage of the Big 3, winning record against the Big 3 at Grand Slams. And the most grand slams at fewer appearances. They're all factors that I will go through when they're finished, when they're retired. I think it's way too close to call that because Djokovic is still around, even Federer is still around. But Jeb, all of those things that you brought up are big factors in the debate that will happen when they retire. I think it's too early to say that like Nadal's, because I think Djokovic can get a couple of those records because he's still playing. But hey, right now Rafa might, if he wins this tournament, Rafa is probably the front runner for the goat because he's already got the slam record, all that stuff. But then Djokovic might come back next week, you know, in the next one. So again, we've got to, he will lead it after today, after this tournament if he wins. I do agree with that. But he'll be considered the goat after this. Unbelievable. If momentum is with Rafa, he never faces medical issues, smiley face. Also, somebody told Barretini this is Grand Slam semi-final. Show some fight pro so lame. Dips, thanks for the donation. Yeah, Rafa's looking good, but Barretini is not. Like this is kind of like what Madison Keyes did yesterday against Barty. Like Keyes just didn't come out and play her best. And Barty just played well enough. Rafa's playing, I mean, look, Rafa's playing very well, very good. He's not playing his best though, because he doesn't need to. Barretini's giving him a lot of free points. Anyways, let's get back to it, because Barretini has not had a break point against Rafa in their entire career. And he still hasn't, 30-all. Rafa has never faced a break point when playing Barretini in five sets of tennis. U.S. Open, zero for zero. This tournament so far in this match, zero for zero. So Barretini trying to get a break point for the first time against it ever. Not mentioned, that's not even including breaking. That's just like trying to get a break point. 30-all here, Rafa serves down the tee and Barretini hits it out. And that is what champions do. Goat doing goat things, big server 30-all. We say it all the time. That's a goat thing, and a goat did a goat thing. Unbelievable. 40-30, a chance to get the four love in the second here, Rafa. And unless Barretini completely changes his game and goes on a hot streak, Rafa's going to get to the final. Probably without dropping a set, which is great for him because tonight's match, I don't think anyone thinks tonight's match is going to be straight sets. So he would love to get through this match in straight sets and then watch tonight's match between two guys that are just probably going to, well, they hate each other, hates a strong word. They're not friends, and they're going to battle it out maybe for five sets tonight. So Rafa's doing exactly what he needs to do to be fresh for the final. And that's demolish this guy. And he's doing just that as we get a backhand from Barretini into the front of Rafa, backhand of Barretini down the line. That's better from Barretini, but Rafa gets it. Foreign Barretini again to the front of Rafa, backhand slice from Barretini into the backhand of Rafa. Barretini now in trouble, but he goes down the line. Rafa in trouble with the slice. Backhand there from Barretini. Rafa with the slice of his own, comes to the net. Barretini with the backhand. It's terrible, terrible from Barretini. And Rafa wins the game. Barretini just threw that last shot away. It's like flick away. He just didn't know what was going on. There's levels apart. There's levels to this game. And Rafa and Barretini, even though they might be next to each other in the rankings, miles apart in reality. Miles and miles and miles apart. Okay. This is going to be a short match. It's definitely looking likely. Looking like that unless Barretini shows something that we've never seen him do before. And that's, you know, I don't know what he's going to, I mean, we've already mentioned what Barretini can do to maybe make this a match, but Rafa's not going to let him do it. And one thing is like, oh, I have an idea and then Rafa's got to approve that idea before you can, I have an idea of how I can beat you. And Rafa's like, well, I'm not going to let you. So good luck. I don't think Barretini has no answers. He just doesn't know what he's doing against Rafa. And that's no disrespect because not many people do, right? I mean, it's Rafa Nadal. I think Medvedev got spanked by him in the first match they ever played. Since he passed, got spanked by Rafa three years ago in the same exact stage. It was actually a bagel, which we might be getting today. So look, Barretini's not alone in a Rafa beat down at the Australian Open. You know, this happens to the best of players. Love 15. Served now to the back end of Rafa. Four and a from Barretini into the back end slice of Rafa goes into the four and a Barretini. Back end slice again, Rafa. Goes into the four and a Barretini. Rafa with a four and now down the line goes long. It's 15-all. Then the only player to push Rafa at the Australian Open is Ben Zverev. But he lost, so it doesn't count. By the way, Barretini, we'll talk about two set to level deficits because that is not a great stat. Now he serves an ace, 30-15. Actually, we're going to save that question for trivia time. We'll save that question for trivia time if he gets there. Coming back from two sets down. We'll save that question for trivia time. That's a good trivia question. 30-15. Barretini to avoid the bagel. How do you say bagel in Italian as we would have dropped volley there? That's not bad from Barretini. Why didn't he come to the net more often? Why didn't he come to the net more often? 40-15. Get your questions ready. We'll answer them at the end of this game as Rafa... I mean, not the greatest of flick forehands there from Rafa and Barretini had the time to spare to get on the board here, Barretini because he serves a fault. Second serve, 40-15. Served now to the front of Rafa and that goes out. Barretini gets on the board in the second set but he's down a double break and down a set against a guy that he's never even had a break point against. Answer my question! The question, jerk! Okay. Remember when Pui beat Nadal says, uh, Shannon? When did that happen? Ages ago, right? I remember when Pui was in the top 10. Oh, what, 2017? Right? Pui was good in 2017. Can you be a great announcer? I watched the match with Turn Off the Volume. Listen to you. Oh, thank you. That's a very nice compliment. Appreciate that. That's the best way to watch this channel is what have the match access and turn the volume down and listen, listen, hang out with us and ask questions and be a part of this. Cue the comeback music. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun. Dun, dun, dun. Nah, that's, it's not gonna happen. I'm sorry, Barretini is not coming back against Rafa unless Rafa lets him and I don't think Rafa's gonna let him. Remember when Nadal beat Songa? You mean Songa beat Nadal? Indoor conditions helping Rafa, I guess. The indoor, okay, let's, let's have a chat about the indoor conditions because at the start of this match and I still believe this that the conditions would give Barretini more of a chance. I don't think the indoor conditions are actually being actually much of a factor because the game plan of Barretini compared to the game plan of Rafa is more, is like more effective than the actual conditions. In reality, the conditions actually don't matter because Barretini's just getting his back end picked on. So I think which is something that we should have probably mentioned more about than wondering about the roof, right? If Barretini had executed a better game plan, a more aggressive game plan then maybe it would have been better for him. But I don't think being inside and outside, I think Rafa would have implied like the tactics are winning Rafa this match. The conditions are not actually as much as bigger facts as I would have thought. Rafa's tactics are the other difference and Rafa doesn't look tired. No, I mean, whoever thought Rafa was going to look tired. Look, he's had three days to get over that and he's looking for a rash as he hits a back end winner, 15 love. Rafa will probably give a set to Barretini for the crowd and showbiz. No, no, no, no. Rafa is not going to give a set away. He's going to get out of here as quickly as possible. Is Rafa your goad if he gets to 21? If Rafa gets to 21 at this tournament, Rafa leads the goat debate in my opinion. He leads the goat debate because I think the first thing that the goat needs to have is the most slams and then everything else is behind that. Whoever has the most slams in my opinion is the greatest and then everything else happens after that. That's what's my, some people go like, Oh, no, no. Djokovic has all these other records, but I think it's just like, I mean, it's the most slams in our sport is what we determine the greatest player of all time. That's what, right? It's always been that way for our sport. Whoever has the biggest, the most amount of the big trophies is the greatest because he won the biggest trophies. You can, you know, but I don't, but then again, it's like it might not, he might be the greatest of all time for six months until Djokovic wins Wimbledon and the French open and then Djokovic will be back to, you know, 22 and he'll be in the lead. So again, it's an ever-changing landscape. It's like, yeah, Rafa might be the greatest for now until the next slam, until Djokovic comes back and wins a slam. I mean, you know, so yeah, that's how I, that's how I work out who's the greatest because I think everyone would agree that Federer was the goat when he had 20 slams. Now everyone's got 20. You add up other factors. You add up world number one, you know, weeks at number one, you add up, you know, Master 1000 might come into the conversation. Titles in general, you know, stuff like that. But if Rafa's got 21 and the other two have 20, Rafa leads the goat debate, in my opinion. As he serves now to the 400 Baratini, 400 from Rafa in the net, 40, 15. But doesn't mean he is the goat because I don't think anyone's the goat until they finish. Again, everyone's got their own way of, everyone's got their own way of thinking about it, but that's how I, that's how I go about it. You guys might have some other way of going about your mind. Oh no, no, no, I don't think the goat is just on one stat or on one thing. And that's cool. Some people are like, Federer's always the goat because that's your goat. You have a goat and that's totally cool too. Personally, I think Serena is the goat because she beats all the guys. As that goes out from Baratini, 5-1. I mean, look, no one's got 24, 23 though. Serena wins. But yeah, that's how I, that's how I determine who's the greatest is who has the biggest, who has the most amount of the big trophies. But again, doesn't mean that Djokovic can't beat, I still believe Djokovic will be the goat. I still think Djokovic is going to win more slams than anybody else and he's got every other record. Yeah, Serena has the most right now, exactly. But yeah, I still believe Djokovic will be the greatest of all time. But Rafa winning this tournament fuels the debate. How likely is it that Mateo fixes his backhand? I've always wondered at what age players usually stop developing. Hey Jacob, thank you for the donation. Good question. We'll talk about that maybe after this game. Thanks to the five, I appreciate it. It definitely needs to be fixed, I think. Or not fixed, it needs to be improved. He's got a good technique. He just needs to be, it needs to get a little bit better. I'll get a bit better. Anyways, Rafa. Love 15 hits the backhand wide and it's 15-all. Rafa two, sorry, three points away from two set to love lead. And the semi-finals against Mateo Baratini, a guy who not only has he never been broken by, he's never even faced a break point against Baratini on his serve. Served now to the forehand of Rafa, for Baratini into the forehand of Rafa, into the forehand of Baratini. Backhand, now Rafa goes again to the forehand of Baratini into the backhand of Rafa. That's a good shot from Rafa down the line, bang! Unbelievable. Okay, 15-30. Rafa two points away from the two set to love lead. Also, we're almost at a thousand likes. Can we get to a thousand likes by the end of this set? We need to get a hundred likes in the next two points. Come on, we can get there. Go check if you've liked or not. We can get there, I think. Also, thanks everyone who subscribed as well. Appreciate that. 15-30. Baratini with a serve into the forehand of Rafa. Forehand from Baratini, throws the hammer. He throws the hammer. And he gets the winner. 30-all.  You guys, thank you everybody. That was literally in one point. Thank you so much. Appreciate the love that you guys are showing. Appreciate it. 30-all. Rafa two points away from the two sets of love lead. As Baratini serves. Out wide to the back end of Rafa. Forehand Baratini into the slice of Rafa. To the forehand of Baratini. Rafa with the back end down the line is long. And it's 40-30. Baratini to survive here. And like I said, Baratini never has had a break point against Rafa's serve in every match they've played. So he's going to have to win a couple of tie breaks, you think. If that's going to continue. As he serves an ace, bang. Unbelievable. And he at least makes Rafa serve it out. 5-2. Second set Rafa. Now, Jacob, how likely is it to fix Maters' backhand? I've always wondered what age the player is developing. Well, look. Look at guys like Murray and Federer. I mean, over their careers, they're always improved. Like Federer got to like 30 years old. He got Stefan Edberg to teach him how to volley better. Because he started to develop more of a volley game, right? So Baratini, it's not really about the age of the person. It's, that's creepy. It's not really about the age of the person that, you know, it's too old to learn new tricks. It's about if the player wants to learn. How many times have we seen players, you know, change their serving motion at different points in their career? You know, they changed their technique.  He went from like, it's weird. He went from a normal serve to like a weird kind of like throwing out, throw action. So yeah, it's not so much, can he do it? It's more, is he willing to do it? Because I think he has to. I think he has to change it. Because the way I see the, the way I see the landscape of tennis right now is we've got the goats, they're in their own category, followed by City Pass, Medvedev, Zverev team. And then after that, you've got guys like Baratini, Rubelev, FAA, Shapovalov, Rude, Hercatch, and that's like the third tier. If Baratini wants to become a second tier player and put himself up there with, you know, with City Pass and with, you know, Zverev and Medvedev, he needs to have a good, because the difference between him and those guys is those guys have every shot, like, except for maybe Voli's from Medvedev, but he doesn't need Voli's, not today, not in this modern game. That's the difference. Baratini's backhands are clear weakness, we've seen it. Sinner, yeah, you put Sinner in that third category, too. But City Pass, Medvedev, Zverev, they have four hands and backhands, they can use both. They can go down the line, they can go cross-court, they have good serves, which Mitero has a good serve, so he's already halfway there. But if he's going to get any better, and if he's going to start being one of those guys, he has to get a better backhand. And like I said earlier, I think he has to get a better backhand down the line backhand. He doesn't have to try and hit, like, winners cross-court and be more powerful. He just has to go down the line a bit more, which is a risky shot because shorter part of the court, higher part of the net, and also, you know, it's a very small place to hit the ball down the line. It's a lot thinner margin, right? The error is huge. So I think he needs to learn that use, or maybe he has that, but he hasn't used it enough, that backhand down the line. Something that Sidney Pass has used a lot over the last 12 months. Sidney Pass has really hit a lot of down the line backhands, which has been really good, and it's been effective. Anyway, let's get back to this match. So that's hopefully that answered the question. Baratini can learn and improve his backhand if he is willing to. I was going to backhand a backhand rally in Baratini. Hits a backhand winner, perfect timing. Dirty all. Again, I'll say it again. Baratini never in his career against Rafa has he had a break point. He's never had a break point. Is he about to get his first break point in his career against Nadal? Is that about to happen? By the way, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Can we get to 70K by the end of the tournament? That is the goal. 70K. If you haven't subscribed, we'll be watching both these guys throughout the entire year. I'm on a mission to watch every single goat match this year. Nadal, Djokovic, Federer, when they play, we are live. So if you're a fan of Nadal, we'll be watching every shot he hits. As that goes in, Baratini comes to the net, but hits a slice long. Man, he was close. He just needed to get into the net and make Rafa hit a winner, but he couldn't even do that. Two set, one set point, Nadal to take a two set to love lead in this semifinal under the roof. The weather's been hectic. I think it's kind of chilled out for a second, but it's been hectic. And Rafa has been a storm of his own. Hurricane Rafa is inside the stadium. Baratini is all caught up in it. 40-30, second serve Rafa. As Rafa serves into the back end of Baratini, that goes up, up, up and out. Two set to love Rafa. 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. He's one set away from the final again.  He looks real good, just Rafa. That's it, Hurricane Nadal. Just messing things up in the stadium. All right, let's answer questions. Pardon me.  Pardon me. Before we do that, let's go through the stats and then we can explain some more things. So four aces for Baratini, eight winners including those four aces, 10 unforced errors. Again, no break points against the Rafa serve. So no break points for Baratini. Seven winners for Rafa, only two errors. As much as we're saying that Baratini's game is not working and he's not doing his right, the tactics aren't there and he's just not really able to trouble Rafa, Rafa is playing ridiculous. I mean, seven unforced errors, only that's crazy. In two sets, craziness. Only two in that set. How do you beat a guy who doesn't miss? How do you beat a guy who doesn't miss? Now, let's answer questions. Answer my question.  Um, can you help Baratini with his back end? What I would do is I would just get Baratini to try and just go down the line. I believe him. I believe him. I don't care about what they were saying. When his cam is going to replace McEnroe on TV, common tree is much better here. Thank you all leg for the five Canadian appreciate it. Storms are back. Um, thank you for those nice words. I'm not going to replace him. He's, I like Mac. I like Mac, but I like, I'm glad that we do something. Do we do a different, do we do things different here? So, uh, different energy, different energy. If only Djokovic taking the shot Nadal would have a fight. Yeah, true. Look, look, Djokovic would have played Nadal in this round. No doubt about it. There's no way we, we would. Djokovic would have been in the semi. No doubt. What's forecast for Sunday says Manoj. That's a good question. Let me answer that with Google. So on Sunday, the weather is not as hectic. So I was not going to rain as much on Sunday. So the roof might be open on Sunday for the final, but yeah, it's shut, shut, shut for today. It may be even for tonight and then maybe tomorrow it might open at night because it's going to rain in the morning tomorrow. So I'd say for the rest of the day it's going to be shut, but tomorrow it'll be open and then Sunday I think it'll be open. It'll be open on Sunday. Again, they're showing outside and it is just hectic rain and crazy weather. Cam, which backhand, which player backhand is your favorite? For me, it's Stan or prime team. Yep, Kai, me too. Stan Vavrinco, that's how I, I modelled my backhand off Federer because when I was, I mean, Federer had the best backhand, one-handed backhand back in the 2000s when I started playing. But then, yeah, I would, I would look at one-handed backhand Stan Vavrinco or Dominic team. They've got really solid technique. Stan hits a backhand like a forehand. That's how good he is. He's just so strong. The thing with Stan, he's got, he's got a thick, he's got a thick forearm. It's all forearm strength with his backhand. Thoughts on Robbie Koenig's commentary? He's hilarious. Yeah, I love Robbie Koenig's a massive inspiration. He's awesome. Yeah, Gascay's got a good backhand too, but I would, I would say I rather Stan's backhand. I think Stan's backhand is almost like a two-handed backhand.  Very, very solid backhand. Rafa, you are, I didn't see that sign, okay? Forearm strength, no comment. Dusty, come on, mate. What has happened so far? I will give you a recap. So, Baratini just left the court. He's back now. What has happened so far? So, basically, Rafa has come out with a very, very solid game plan and that game plan is as long as tennis has been around and that is hit the ball to your opponent's weakness. Hit it to Baratini's backhand. We know it's a weakness. It's been a weakness for forever and Rafa's basically just done that. He's just hit the ball to the backhand of Baratini. Hit the ball to the backhand of Baratini. Every chance he needs and that's what's happened. Baratini's hit some good shots here and there. Rafa's hit some great shots here and there, but the long and the short of it is Rafa hits it to Baratini's backhand. Baratini's backhand goes in the net and two sets of love up. That's what he's been doing and that's what he'll continue to do until Baratini changes his game. So, that's basically what's happened. Nothing else. Nothing really else. Roof is shut. If that makes, I don't think that makes any difference at this point, but the roof is shut. Yes, strategy one. Tennis 101. Tennis strategy 101. If you're playing tennis for the first time, like if you're playing competitively for the first time, it's always hit your shot, your favorite shot to your opponent's weakness. And in this case, Baratini's weakness is the backhand and Rafa's favorite shot is his forehand and that's what we've been seeing. That is what we've been seeing. It's a tactic as old as time. It is old as time. All right, Baratini down two sets of love. Rafa with a forehand down the line. Oh, there he is. Unbelievable. There's that banana forehand. And that was a massive shot. Just a whip on the run. We haven't seen him do that. And that is a beautiful shot. Whoo. That's the first time we've seen Rafa do a Rafa thing. He hasn't done one of those yet. He hasn't had to do one of those. Baratini hasn't made him do those. As that goes wide and it's 15-all. Rafa, by the way, broke a string. That was a scorcher. It was a scorcher. That's it, it's over Baratini. Yeah, the first point of the third, it's over. It's over. It is over. The whip, that's it. The whip. Kimitaira pull a shapo and win the next two sets. I don't see it. I don't see it happening. 15-all. Serve down the tee from Matteo as a winner. Good serve. He can maybe win a tie break. If he gets to a tie break, I think Baratini can maybe win a tie break in this set. But other than that, I just don't know how he can... I just don't know how he can recover from this unless Rafa plays bad. And we haven't seen Rafa even have to try and play at this point. He's just literally getting the ball back. Waiting for the error and Baratini's happy to give the errors. 30-15, chance for Baratini to get the first game of the second, but then he hits a point of the net. Speaking of errors, 30-all. And this feels exactly like Nadal versus Sidney Pass back in 2019, where Rafa just went and demolished Steph in that semi. Serve out wide at the back end of Nadal and that goes in the net from Rafa and Baratini gets to 40-30. Oh, we're going to play some trivia time after this game. And I've got some good questions. Rafa fans and also Baratini fans. Make sure you get yourselves ready. Baratini with a serve. Out wide at the front of Rafa. And for now, Baratini goes into the backhand of Rafa. Into the backhand of Baratini. For now, Rafa into the backhand of Baratini into the front of Rafa. And on the backhand from Baratini into the Rafa forehand. Baratini with the backhand down the line. That's a good shot. Rafa gets it. Baratini with the forehand now into the backhand of Rafa. Did the forehand of Baratini who hits it in the net. He did exactly what he needed to Baratini, but even that was not enough. The backhand down the line was perfect. Got the forehand. And he just couldn't execute. So the tactics are there, but it's just not doing it enough. Back to Duce here. And the Italian fans who have the... Dude has a very slick haircut. That's a $100 haircut, that guy. No doubt. That dude paid a shitload for that haircut. Because I've been there. I've had that haircut. It's expensive. Back to Duce. Serving to the forehand is into the forehand of Baratini. That's a good shot. Rafa gets it. The forehand of Baratini with the slice. Rafa with the backhand. Crosscourt to the forehand of Baratini. Rafa with the forehand on the stretch. First time Baratini is making Rafa move as he hits a slice long. No, it goes in. And Rafa hits it wide. That was a bit better from Baratini. A bit more of his tempo. A little bit faster rally. He said it was just rallying with Rafa. Getting Rafa to run around and playing a quicker point, which is how Baratini should have played this first match. The first two sets, I should say. Advantage now. Baratini to get the first game of the third. Because Baratini serves a fault. His second serve percentage is terrible by the way, Baratini's. Only won 19%. Second serve into the forehand of Rafa. And Rafa hits it in the net. Baratini gets the first game on the board. All right, everybody, you know what it is. That's a trivia. It's a trivia time. Trivia time. This is when I ask you questions and you answer them. We want to know who's the smartest in the room. It's not me because I know the answers. So I'm not the smartest person.  I am giving the questions because I know the answers from just Googling it. But I want to know if you know these answers. Now, first question is, how many times has Rafa won a semi-final sorry, how many times has Rafa played a semi-final at the Australian Open? How many semi-finals has Rafa competed at in this event at the Australian Open? How many semi-finals, including this one? We'll include this one. We'll include this one to make it easier to... So what is this one? He's made... How many times? You guys got it. Seven. Yes, six plus this one. I'll allow six as the right answer as well. So six plus this one makes seven. So this is his seventh semi-final at the Australian Open. He's actually only lost one semi-final at the Australian Open. Who and what year did that happen? Who was it against and what year did it happen? Who did he lose to? He's only ever lost one semi-final in Australia. Who was it to and what year was it? As Rafa won the first point, 15 love. I need a name and a year to get the correct answer. Who and where? Ah, you guys are too quick. Songa 2008, that is correct. His first ever semi-final in Australia. He got demolished by Songa. Who, I mean, look, played a very good game that day. Drogoth and Songa, correct. Now, next question is as Rafa hits another good four and they're very nice stuff. The next question is, all right, so he's made, he's made six semi-finals. He's won five. Who are the five players that he's beaten in the semi-finals of the Australian Open? Rafa Nadal, who are the five players? And I want you to give me a player and a name. Sorry, a player and a year. Player and a year. Semi-finals of the Australian Open. He's played five of them. I want you to give me who he's beaten and what year did he beat them in? Pedasco 2009, correct. City pass 2019, correct. Murray 2012, no. Federer 2014, yes. He beat Federer in straight sets in 2014. How crazy is that? Grigor in 2017, good one. He beat Grigor Dimitriou in five sets in 2017. 2017 might have been the greatest Australian Open tournament of all time. In terms of results, you had goats playing five sets all day long. And the last one, someone's got in the chat. Yes, he beat Federer in four sets in 2012. So they're the five. Pedasco in 2009. Federer 2012, Federer 2014, Dimitriou of 2017 and City pass in 2019. And he's about to add Baratini to that list. So good records, great records.  You got that one easy. That was easy. Easy, easy. Now Raffer's made five Australian Open finals. He's won one. He's lost four. Who are the four losses to? This should be easy. This should be easy. Who are the four players that Nadal's lost to in the final of the Australian Open? We all know about the Federer 2009 win with the four losses. Who are the four losses? Let's name them. Let's go through them. Djokovic 2012, one. Bavrinka 2014, that's two. Federer 2017, that's three. And Novak 2019 is four. That was easy. That was an easy question. Raffer gets to game one all. Now, let's go to the Baratini question. Baratini has only ever come back from two sets of love down once, once. Who did Baratini come back from two sets of love down against to win in his crease? Only done once? Who was that player? And where was it as well? If you can give us where it was, you get bonus points. Who and where was the one time that Baratini has come back from two sets of love down to win? I'll give you a clue. It was against one of our favorites on this channel. If you're a fan of this channel, you know it was against one of our faves. One of our boys. One of our boys. Not Fanini. Not... Some of you getting the right answer. Some of you might be new to the channel so you don't know who our boys are, but yes, Jack Sock. He came back against Jack Sock and it was a Wimbledon. A few of you got that one right too. Wimbledon 2018, Baratini came back. Unbelievable. Thank you, Johnny, for the unbelievable donation. Yeah, Jack Sock 2018 Wimbledon was when Baratini came back from two sets of love down. So a little bit of a different player, but yeah, one of our boys, if you don't know Jack Sock, he's one of our faves, just has the positive of COVID. I noticed on Instagram. So hopefully our boys doing all right. He recovers. He said he's feeling all right in the statement.  So hopefully he's okay. But who's Jack Sock? It's not funny. Anyways, 15 all. Let's get back to the Rafa questions. Oh, this is a good question. I got a good one here. Good question here. We'll do two more questions and we'll finish trivia time for the day. Oh, this is a very good question. All right, 15 all. We'll get back to this in a second. Play the song. No, we'll play it. We only play Jack Sock's song when he's playing. There's been a slice there from Rafa into the foin of Baratini. Slice there from Rafa to the foin again. A Baratini. Oh, and Baratini hits the line. Unbelievable. 30, 15. Trivia time rocks.  Don't forget to subscribe if you want to be part of trivia time. So, Rafa Nadal in his career. He's played a lot of Grand Slam matches. How many matches has he won at Grand Slam level? How many matches, how many Grand Slam matches has Rafa won? And I'll tell you what, it's going to. Rafa's never played the qualities of a slam. No, well, there you go. Doesn't matter. No qualities involved. How many matches of Rafa won in his career at Grand Slam level? Baratini, by the way, 40, 15. How many has he won? 40, 15. Baratini looking to get the lead. I'll get to the, I'm looking in the chat. Few answers that are close. I'll give you a clue. It's less than 300, less than 300. 40, 15. As we serve now Baratini to get to 2-1-3rd set. Serving to the back end of Rafa. Good return from Rafa, oh man. This is going to be on tennis TV, bro. Rafa just smacks that back end for a winner. What a shot. 40, 30. All right, so less than 300. More than 250. More than 250. More than 250. More than 240. More than 250. Some of you are getting in close. It's in the 290s. It's in the 290s. 290 something. As we're going to find out from Rafa to the back end of Baratini into the net. It's Deuce. 290 what? Not 297. Not 292. Oh, you're getting it now. 296. 296 matches Rafa has won at Grand Slam level. Tonight will be 297. And at the French Open, he's going to win his 300th Korea match at the slams. Unless he loses in the first round. But we doubt that that's going to happen. So 296 wins at Grand Slam levels. Baratini had a great shot there. Rafa gets it back. Deuce here. Massive point as Rafa slices it. 4-0 from Baratini. Again now to the slice of Rafa. Rafa is just running side to side as he hits a 4-0 now into the back end slice of Baratini. Rafa runs around, hits a 4-0 in the net. Oh man. Did well there Rafa to stay in that point. But Baratini did well to stay in front. So yeah 296 wins. Now next question. Name them all. No, I'm just kidding. Don't do that. Can we name all the wins? 290. All right. One more question then we get out of here. One more question then we get out of here. But we'll do it after this point here. Baratini advantage. Baratini advantage. Serve out wide to the 4-0 of Rafa. Return to the slice of Baratini. That goes into the back end of Rafa. For now, Baratini down the line is a winner. Unbelievable. Baratini draws and he's not done yet. He stays in front 2-1. Third set. But he's fighting for his life at the moment. Okay. Now, let's go through the last question of the day. Which is? What's the question going to be? All right. Here's the question. Nadal has beaten 8. Top 10 players at the Australian Open. He's beaten 8. Top 10 players. Can we name the player and the year of those 8 top 10 wins at the Australian Open? Can we name the player and the year for those 8? So he's beaten 8 top 10 players in his career at this event. His record against top 10 players at this event is, I'll find out in a second. His record against top 10 players here is 7 wins, 11 losses. Can we name the 7 wins? What, really? Only 7? One, two, three, four. Oh, one was a... I was like... There's only 7 wins because Baratini's the 8th if he wins today. 7 wins. Can we name the 7? Montfiege 2017. Yes. That was a random one to start with. Montfiege 2017. Zverev in 2017. No. So we've got one, which was Montfiege's in 2017. Who else? Burdick in 2012. Yes. Quarterfinals beat Burdick in 2012. Brown in 2017. Yes. That's 3. We've got 4 to go. Federer in 2014. That's another one. Federer 2009. That's number 5. We've got 2 to go. 2 to go. Federer again. Yep. 2012. And who was the last one? Who was the last one? This one might not be that easy. I'll give you a close. 2009. As Rafa wins a long point. Sorry, Baratini wins a long point. Ah, Touchez got it. Simone in 2009. Vodasco was not top 10 when he beat him, when Rafa beat him in 2009. There you go. Yeah. Jules Simone. Simone back in 2009 was legit. Like a legit threat to these guys. So there you go. Good work. But interestingly enough, against top 10 guys at this tournament, 7 wins, 10 losses, 11 losses. He's lost to guys like City Pass, Team, Djokovic, Chilich. He's lost to Burdick here before. Vavrinca. Obviously, Leighton Hewitt back in the day. Gonzales, Murray and Ferrer. So there are the losses that he's had. Well, he lost to Federer, but Federer was not top 10 when he lost to Federer. But yeah. Crazy stuff. Crazy stuff. There you go. That is trivia time. It's a trivia time. Trivia time. All right, let's get back to the match. 15-all. Rafa serving. He's up in this match. Two sets of love as he serves an ace out wide. Bang! Only the second ace of the day for Rafa. Only the second ace of the day. Baratini's hit 10 in this one. Also having a look here. This might, if this does go four sets, where this might be one of the, or might be the biggest match we've ever watched yet. But it's going to have to go the distance if we're going to cover that. So thanks, everyone, for joining us. Appreciate the, appreciate everyone here. As we get a fine now from Baratini to the fine of Nadal to the slice of Baratini that goes out and it's 40-15 Nadal. One hour and 52 minutes played. Should we do a giveaway at the end of this match? Should we give away a Rafa shirt? Probably a few Rafa fans in the chat. Should we give away a Rafa shirt? Maybe we'll give away a Rafa shirt at the end of this match for Rafa fans only though. As that goes up in the air and out from Baratini, the lob not good enough to all in the third. All right, we'll give away a Rafa shirt. All right, all right, all right. Let me have a look. We'll give away the Rafa, but we'll give a Rafa shirt away. If you want to go check out the store, it's link in the chat, the, or thetennesstalk.com is the website. We've got some, some merch in there for all players, including the guy who's playing right now. We'll give away, we'll do it at the end of the match. Okay, here we go. Serve down the tee from Baratini and Rafa hits it wide. Good serve there, 15 lob. We'll do it for Rafa fans. Who are you talking with, Cam? I'm talking to myself.  As we're at a four now from Rafa, 15 lob. Baratini looking to get the lead back again. As we're at a four and a four end rally, Baratini runs around, hits a four end again. Rafa with a four end of his own. Backhand now, Baratini into the four end of Rafa who goes down the line for a winner. Come on! Bang! Lovely shot from Rafa. And it's 15 all.  If you don't hit a good enough shot, the down the line is exposed. And backhand there from Baratini. It's not good enough. Not good enough. 15 all. As Baratini serves into the four end of Rafa and that goes in the net. Good serve from Baratini. 30-15. 30-15. Baratini looking to get at least keep in front, I guess. As Rafa hits a return there, Baratini four end. Oh man, he didn't need to hit it that hard. Rafa stopped running and he just sprays it long. Baratini 30 all. Dangerous time now. Dangerous times now. From Matteo Baratini. 30 all. Rafa looking to get the break. As Baratini serves a fault. Cut by a first serve. Second serve. Don't forget tonight we're watching the other semi-final between Sidney Pass and Mevadev. That happens in about three hours time as we get a backhand-to-backhand rally. Four end from Baratini goes into the backhand of Nadal. Good shot down the line. Baratini gets it. Volley Nadal goes wide. Baratini survives somehow. Rafa had the volley. Just a little bit too cute with that volley. 40-30. 40-30. Baratini to get back the lead as he serves now. Down the tee to the back end of Rafa. That goes out and Baratini stays in front. He survives. Keeping it interesting is Matteo Baratini. Okay, now. If you're new to the channel, don't forget to subscribe. We're on the road to 70K, which we might get there by the end of this tournament if we're lucky. This is what we do on this channel if you are brand new, though. Are you a passionate tennis fan and want to keep up to date with all the latest news? If so, then you are in the right place.  I've played tennis, I've coached tennis and I've been to some of the biggest tennis tournaments in the world, including Wimbledon. Here on Tennis Talk, we want to keep you up to date with all the latest things going around the tennis circuit, including draw previews. Roger Federer. So he is in the half of Djokovic. Breaking news. Andy Murray is back in the singles next week. And of course, our favorite, the live shows. Second serve now goes to the forehand of Andrescu. Serena can't get it, and Serena Andrescu wins. For big serve now goes down the tee. Mehvedev gets it. H. This channel was created through my love for the game of tennis and we have created an amazing tennis community full of passionate fans. So if you are a passionate tennis fan and want to keep up to date with everything to do with the game of tennis, make sure you go down and click that red subscribe button. I look forward to talking to you throughout the channel. Okay, we're back. We are back. Now, so yeah, so what we'll do is at the end of this match we'll go, we'll do a giveaway. So make sure you stick around. I'll show you the shirts that we have just so you guys can have a little bit of a look here. If you want to get one of these yourself, you can. So we've got these three shirts that are inspired by the one, the only raffle. Some of these might be, might disappear at the end of this week. There's two shirts here that might not be, might not make any sense. But yeah, look, you know what? I'll give you your choice. Whoever wins this, wins a giveaway. I'll give you the choice of these three. You might not want one of these because they, or you might want one.  They will disappear.  Because they're not going to be in there much longer if Raffle wins this tournament. We're going to have to update those. So thank you everybody who wants, who does buy it. Some people have bought the shirts this tournament. So thank you so much. I appreciate that, but we'll give one of those away to a lucky Raffa fan at the end of this match. Anyways, 4-1 goes long from Baratini. It's 30 love. Two hours played in this one. Two hours have been played. And I will play the, yep, don't worry it's a share.  I'll get to you guys in a second. 30 love and a fault. Second serve, Raffa. Goes into the forehand of Baratini. 4-1 from Raffa. Again to the forehand of Baratini. Into the forehand of Raffa. Into the backhand of Baratini. Raffa with a 4-1 now. Again to the backhand slice from Baratini and Baratini slices in the net. 40 love. Again, Baratini if you're just joining us has never, ever, ever had a break point against Raffa. Raffa's serve has been that good that Baratini has never even had a chance to break let alone actually break. 40 love as Raffa serves. Down the tee to the forehand of Baratini. 4-1 from Raffa. Goes wide, 40-15. Hey, thank you for the followers on Twitch. Appreciate it. Just goes wide. Thank you, Venki. Appreciate that, mate. 40-15 here. Thank you, Harry, for followers on Twitch as well. If you want to follow us on Twitch, there's a link in the description for that. Um, yeah. 40-15. Served now to the backhand of Baratini. 4-1 now from Raffa. Into the forehand of Baratini. Into the backhand of Raffa. 4-1 again from Baratini to the backhand side of Raffa as we had another forehand of backhand rally. Cam, do you have any curious swag you can give away for a big curious fan? AKA me. Um, not currently, but I'm working on it. Working on it. As that goes out from Raffa, it's 40-30. The merch store is going to be filled out a lot more over the next 12, probably the next couple of months. That's the next thing. That's the next thing. So maybe there's some kegs-inspired stuff in there. Feel like we might have to do a t-shirt about the doubles tomorrow. Maybe we'll do a double-inspired t-shirt tomorrow. As that goes out from Baratini, and it's the real... I have a good idea in mind. I have an idea in mind for tomorrow's doubles final. Thank you again for following us on Twitch. Appreciate that. We're almost at 2,000 followers on Twitch, which is insane. 2,000 followers on Twitch. Which if you... We have done some different things on Twitch before. Different style of stuff, if you want to jump over there. We do live streams over there randomly sometimes. So be up-to-date with everything. As we get a backhand now from Baratini, that goes to the front of Raffa, who goes down the line.  Slice Raffa goes in to the front of Baratini. Front of him from Raffa on the stretch. Baratini with a slice down the line. Raffa with the backhand. Volley there from Baratini is too good. And I just feel like Baratini has the ability to go to the net and hit Volley's, but he hasn't done it enough. And when you're playing against someone like Raffa, you've got to do... You've got to play different to your usual game. You have to play... And that happens when you play Djokovic as well. And Federer. You've got to play outside of your comfort zone. And Baratini... I don't think he's done that enough today. He's been too safe. Hasn't come to the net, hasn't risked it. And if you're going to lose in straight sets, you might as well go out trying something different, right? If you're going to go down, you might as well go out on your terms and be aggressive. And if you lose, you lose. But just to kind of play it safe and get beat doesn't really help your cause. So Baratini, hopefully in this set, try some different things. And maybe the Volley's is something. Is Raffa hits that one wide? Raffa's hit a lot of errors in this set. Definitely the most error-prone set so far for Raffa. 30 love. Again, thank you so much everyone for following us over on Twitch. We've got Cib, we've got Jess, and AFT over there as well. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for following us on Twitch. Serve now. Out wide to the back end of Raffa, sliced into the corner of Baratini. Go round the net! Oh, Baratini! This is going to be on tennis TV, bro. Yes it is! He might not win this match, but it'll be on the highlight reel with that one. Round the net from Baratini. Dropping the hammer around the net. Just slapped it. Man, oh man. Yep, it might not have been, it might have gone higher than the net post, but it was still around the net. I'm counting it. It was still on the outside of the post. So I'm going to count it as around the net, even if it was a little high. As Raffa dumps the back end in the net, and Baratini may be a little bit of inspiration through those highlights. Four-three, Baratini. The question, jerk! Okay, questions, questions. This five-set match of Nadal will be weak in the last watch and see. I don't think it's gone five sets. He might sneak this set, Baratini, but I don't think he's gone five. I just don't think it's gone five. Can he keep up this intensity? That's the question. What is the weather cam? It is raining. Have you asked me what the weather is or what this weather cam is? Let me just fix the weather cam. It's a little bit messy out there. Hang on. We'll just fix the weather cam so we can actually see the weather. The table. Right in the outfit. I don't know why it's not focusing. If I click on it. It's a bit blurry because of the rain. Anyways, that's what weather camera is. It's raining. Raffa's going to lose in the final. All right. Ash Barty wins easily. No, I think tomorrow's final with Ash is not going to be easy at all. Not at all. Do you think team will win any more Grand Slam? Yes, I think you'll win a French Open. I think you'll win the French Open. Maybe not this year, but eventually. As Raffa had to find wide. Oh, okay. Okay. Love 15. Now, Baratini somehow breaks Raffa for the first time in his history in this game. Then he'll serve for the set. This is a big game here for Baratini to keep this match going. As Raffa hits a 4A now in the open court. Baratini with a 4A down the line. Oh, man. Matteo Baratini has lifted in the last two games. And I'm doing the Italian hands. I know. All right. Love 30. The last two games. Baratini has hit some highlight shots. And maybe it's given him a little bit of an inspiration boost because now he's got love 30. And the reaction was just stare down the coach after that. He was just like, how good is that? Now Raffa hits a fault. Okay. Big chance for Baratini. He's never had a break point against Raffa. And now he's got a chance at a second serve to get three of them. Second serve is a let. Second serve again. The crowd want Baratini to win this set because they want to see more tennis, right? They paid for this. They want a longer match. Second serve Raffa into the back end of Baratini. 4A from Raffa in the net. Baratini's got three break points for the first time ever. Unbelievable. First time ever. It's taken him six sets in their history. But he's finally got break point against Raffa and he's got three of them in a row. Watch out. Baratini inspired effort in the last couple of games and now looking to get the break to lead for the first time ever against Raffa. Raffa with a serve. Out wide to the back end of Baratini. That goes out first point saved. Corsa gets saved with the back end because Raffa goes to the back end of Baratini. I mean, pretty much every time today. 80%, 90% of the time. 15-40. Still a chance though. Baratini to break Raffa for the first time ever. Raffa with a serve. Out wide is a little good serve. Baratini now with the back end goes in the forehand of Raffa. Baratini with the back end now into the forehand of Raffa to the back end of Baratini down the line. Raffa on the stretch gets it. Point at Baratini down the line against the winner. Baratini went to break. And he's served for the third. Wow. Out of nowhere. Baratini gets the break. A three-all. Baratini just, I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. Three-all. He just lit up round the net post shot and he breaks after that. First time ever to break Raffa. And now he's serving for the third. Maybe we should just wait a little bit longer before we say Raffa's in the final. Just wait a little bit longer because Baratini is about to take us to a fourth. Man, don't the Italians love it in the stands. They are waving the flags around. They are losing their minds. Pizza and spaghetti everywhere. Just all the spaghetti and meatballs. Man, I'm hungry. I could definitely go for some spaghetti. Okay, Baratini's serving for the third. And he serves an ace. 15 love. Three points away now from the fourth. Two hours, 12 minutes in. And that was the fastest serve he's hit all day. You can tell the adrenaline is pumping through his veins. And then he serves another ace. Bang, bang. Baratini is on fire. Spice the Italian right now. Two points away from the fourth. Ace number 11. Two points away. Baratini serves. Down the tee to the fourth of Raffa. And that goes out. Baratini set point. 10 minutes ago, it was three-all. Three