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it's out it's out I saw it I saw the catching the back maybe I'm [Applause] wrong before the clay season kicked off this year I had lots of questions on my mind how will yanic CER perform on Clay would jokovic finally have a strong start on Clay this time and keep his number one status would there be a new winner in Monte Carlo like we saw with rublev last year and just how are we going to minimize the chaos from the terrible line calls on Clay this time well it looks like we got some of the answers to these questions because the clay season engine is revving up and it's better than ever Stephano sitas is actually a beast on Clay Novak jokovic still has a lot of work to do yanic CER is actually most vulnerable on the surface and finally it's time for me to get a job as a tennis umpire because I can probably do whatever I like screw everyone up if I get pissed and literally get away with anything okay maybe not with the first clay Masters 1000 title of the year already in the books it's probably way too early for me to be making predictions about the French Open but that's exactly what I'm going to do but in the meantime here's everything that happened in Monte Carlo last week Novak jokovic is firmly and without a shadow of a doubt nowhere close to his best tennis although he did reach the semis in Monte Carlo for the first time since 2015 we sometimes saw him struggle with his energy levels it wasn't all that pretty for him I also find it weird that Novak hasn't even made a final this year let alone won a title not having having a title is uh maybe comparing to the last 15 years uh not not not a great season at all now we could attribute his loss to deor at the beginning of the year to injury but Center in Australia physical issues and Center Brilliance Luca nardy in Indian Wells I made an entire video analyzing that loss because I couldn't fully wrap my head around it and now another loss this time to Casper rude and Monte Carlo which means that we'll have to wait until next year for the Triple career golden Masters I don't think it's much of a priority though for him the Joker looks a lot more tired to me and losing to a guy like Roode who isn't known for putting up a fight against the very elite shows just how vulnerable Novak is at the moment of course Novak made history by reaching more Masters 1,000 semi-finals than anyone in history as usual the Serbian literally breaks records and rewrites history with almost every match he plays this year but embroiled in a raging war against father time and trying to punch back at the next gen it's just easy to see that the cracks are already forming that being said you best believe that the Joker isn't done winning just yet I'd still back him to defend his Roland garos title but now we know cipas is making a strong case as a Roland garos Contender Stephano CPAs deserves more respect than he's been getting he had a slow start to the season got kicked out of the top 10 and only entered Monte Carlo as the 12th seed but after destroying Thomas Martin eer 616 [Music] love and straight setting Alexander Zev and Karen hainov we knew the Greek god was in in his element and for those who don't know tisas leads his head-to-head against ver of 105 facing yanx siner in the semi-final tisas might have needed Lady Luck a nonchalant umpire and a physically struggling CER to get over the line especially after that double fault that could have given Center a double break and almost a guaranteed win for the Italian but as a wise man once said if if if doesn't exist but the truth is that the umpires were a big problem in this tournament and we're going to be addressing all the BS that went down later in this video okay back to CP facing Casper rude in the final a good number of fans actually felt like this was roode's best chance to bag a big title not on my watch said cus a bread stick in the first set and clutch holds in the second gave cipas the W in the end both players faced eight break Points each but it was cipas who managed to save all of his break points while converting four out of his eight break points against Roode CP was also out of this world at the net winning 22 points at the front of the court while also managing to blast 24 winners most of which were off his forehand but we were all expecting that anyway roode's forehand which happens to be his strongest weapon was no match for tias who delivered a barrage of forehands on Sunday 61 64 your final score for Titi pass it's a hattick in Monte Carlo a third Monte Carlo title a third top 10 win of the week and an 11th career title the Greek God decided to embark on a Revenge mission after seeing all the disrespect for those who wrote him off you might want to have a rethink and start to consider him as one of the favorites for the Roland garos title crazy right we're still a long way away from the French Open and a lot of things can still change but I'm just saying he beat two top five players last week and also dominated a top 10 player in the final so that's quite some statement meanwhile tias is now goated at least in Monte Carlo he's just the fifth player in the open era to win three or more Monte Carlo titles joining Bjorn Borg Thomas muster and IL Nasi not to mention Rafa who has 11 also tias boasts the second highest win percentage in Monte Carlo at 86.9% only behind Rafa who sits at a pretty 92.4% tas's Monte Carlo win is also a subtle reminder of how good he can be especially on Clay two Masters 1000 titles a French Open final finals in Rome Madrid and Barcelona three times I mean the guy's a real threat on the surface this guy is really branding himself as a clay Court specialist csas is now just the third man born in 1995 or later to have 100 career wins on both hard and Clay courts after Alexander Zev and Casper Roode talking about Casper Roode H secures the biggest win of his career speaking of Casper Roode I had some thoughts Roode had lost all 25 sets against top three players but after denying jokovic in the semi-final you get the feeling that he's one step closer to a big title call him a perennial loser big match choker or whatever you like I still very much believe that Casper will win one of those big titles with a flourish although he didn't really show up in the final especially in the first set and his forehand might have deserted him when he needed it most he'll be back put on the better performance today but hopefully I can be back with another chance for someone who's made back-to-back French Open finals beat Nole on Clay on route to the final in Monte Carlo rude is surely a dark horse for Roland Goos but for now he's definitely going to tell his children and grandchildren one day that he was able to beat jokovic at least one time still it doesn't help to see that Casper Roode is now a disastrous 0 and7 in finals above the 250 level and he'll probably be dealing with a lot of mental Scar Tissue at this point well maybe one day in the future he'll eventually win a big title but that's likely not going to happen when you simply cannot capitalize on your opponent's second serves looking across the net at Stephanos how did cipas managed to win more points off his second serve than with his first at the same time Roode managed to only win seven out of 19 points on his second serve the combination of both factors his inability to capitalize on Steph's second serves as well as his inability to Shield himself from attacks on his second serves was a major deciding factor in how the game turned out don't worry Casper cipas also won 62% of his second serve points against sner who we're going to talk about a bit later sner is also an elite returner which just goes to tell you how good csas actually is we could also talk about how rude's eagerness to dictate play with his forehand sometimes left him exposed here's one and here's another tactically there were a few other factors that played out in the match when rud stood deep behind the Baseline on the return csas punished him with some clinical ser inv voling and when he came forward in a bid to rush csas on that tactic his backhand return was a lot weaker and csas capitalized on it almost every time I might not be able to talk about everything that went down in that final but one of the biggest talking points of the week had to do with hogar Runa oh and you might have probably noticed that we rebranded we're going to be bringing you content directly from the tours and hearing from the players themselves that we talk about on the Recaps right here on the channel I can't wait to share more with all of you now out of the top 10 after failing to defend his finalist points from last year Runa might want to take some solace in his performance seeing how well he managed to play after being at the receiving end of what many fans still think was an absolute joke of scheduling hoger had to play dimitrov less than 2 hours after completing the rest of his match against Nagal and then had to play cner the following afternoon talk about an exhausting schedule of tennis and then in his match against cner what does he get code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct for this and he wants to give a bit [Applause] back warning warning for this I don't I didn't say the bad words to them of son everybody understood that was a crazy call Novak jokovic literally conducted an orchestra earlier in the tournament and he'll probably be thanking his stars that he didn't do that in front of that particular umpire in a match where Runa had to take on the crowd the Umpire supervisor not to mention a red hot yanic sinner I couldn't help but feel for the kid this time Runa more than anyone else got the rough end of the stick barely any rest in between his matches and all sorts of wrong calls from umpires and to add insult to injury this tweet from the ATP Tour X account I don't think it's fair for fans to call Runa salty even if his attitude usually isn't the best but after everything that he had to go through in Monte Carlo I clearly understand his frustration and Runa might be out of the top 10 for a little while seeing that he also has to defend 250 points from his Munich title win last year but the good news is that Runa is playing way more aggressively than he did last year and he's been playing amazingly well under pressure with a 12-2 tiebreak record this year so yeah we might want to keep an eye on him looking across the net to the man who beat Runa yanic sinner was dealt a heavy hand or should we say he got robbed after he saw a chance to go up a double break slip out of his hands because of yet another terrible call cner ended up fading out and losing the match but the truth is that single wrong call could have been the difference between cner lifting the title and cipas doing the same cner eventually faded out of the match as he had to deal with physical issues late on and this begs the question with Clay being the most physically demanding surface and with cner already showing signs of wear and tear just how well do you see him performing for the rest of the clay season if you asked me I'd say the rest of the top players have the best chance of defeating him right here on Clay it doesn't mean that they will but they are more likely to cner accepted the umpire's mistakes graciously and had this to say everyone can make mistakes unfortunately uh or fortunately you know also I can make mistakes but we're not done with this whole umpiring debacle just yet yes I know many fans wanted more drama in tennis but I doubt this is what they meant by that many fans on social media feel that umpires need to be investigated and finds also introduced for making wrong calls but I'm not sure how that works if you do please feel free to share but personally I feel umpires should be held more accountable for their mistakes because these errors are becoming more and more frequent remember the Nuno boures versus Gan drama that happened recently earlier in the week umpire Muhammad leani was given the impossible task of trying to calm down a furious daniil meddev after yet another wrong call in his match against gel monf as you would expect it didn't end well it's out it's out I saw it I saw the catching the back maybe I'm wrong apologize I lost a freaking game it's a freaking sport man why was denil mad apparently the line judges decided to take a nap in the second set and it led to this this one here look for me it's good there here we go again oh no shout at him please don't shout at him he can make a mistake as well everybody can yes yes yes as you would expect we saw all kinds of reactions on social media and true to form meddev after getting the win in the end signed this on the camera how is this clay season going to turn out for meddev this time anyone with the unilateral introduction of electronic line calling everywhere coming next year hopefully we won't get to see as many wrong calls from umpires and we can only hope for a cleaner game with fewer mistakes because it wasn't pretty to watch but let's not also forget that Hawkeye is not going to be perfect on Clay there's going to be some margin for error but obviously it will be a massive step up from where we're at now the tournament in Monte Carlo was one hell of a week but there are still so many other noteworthy events that happened for one there were lessons on the secrets of longevity from the oldest number one ranked player in singles and the oldest number one in doubles players who have like 80 years between them we were just saying that we were combin 80 combin years old yanic maintained his streak of making it to the semi-finals or better of every tournament he has played in the last 6 months The Only Exception is the Paris Masters 1000 which he pulled out after the first round due to fatigue he also showed that he has no problems adjusting to Clay as he's now made the semis of both legs of the sunshine double and Monte Carlo in the last two years also 2016 Monte Carlo finalist gu mon reminded everyone that he still has some magic left in him after his comeback Victory against Alexander vukich Carlos alarz ended up withdrawing from the tournament and was replaced by Lucky loser Lorenzo SEO he also wouldn't be in Barcelona as he continues to recover from an injury in his right arm which kind of sucks because caritos was just finding his best tennis again now that's not going to happen with a forearm that's taped like this it's also crazy to see that Carlos is yet to win a single match at Moni Carlo a fact that is equally as crazy as it is depressing he's just not vibing with the tournament lucky loser Lorenzo SEO who replaced alcaraz Moni Carlo defeated the one and only Felix a Ali aim thanks to these donations from Felix right [Music] here but that's actually half of the story because SEO was a different animal in their round of 32 Clash don't worry Felix fans better days ahead and for Andre rublev well I don't know what to say before the tournament he had an impressive 13-4 record in Monte Carlo dating back to 2018 but after seeing title defense hopes vanish Into Thin Air against Alexi papyon it's probably time to go back to the drawing board for Andre because he really hasn't been the same since that Dubai meltdown and take a close look at how he exploded here again after seeing the first set slip away from him oh that's exceptional guys what do you think is the way out for rublev it seems like he just can't get out of his own head and he's definitely not doing himself any favors at this point with many of you guys requesting a deep dive on him I'll be sure to put that in the back of my mind but that match also reminded us that the big serving papyrin is no slouch on Clay he was 14 and five on the surface last year and also won the title in umag so yeah he's actually a decent player on Clay let's also not forget that Ben Shelton is now the new American number one after Taylor Fritz's early loss in Monte Carlo I told you guys in a recent video that we made about him that he's the real deal well look where we're at Now it only gets better from here last week in Monte Carlo was stacked and we saw plenty of action but it only gets better from here you can keep up with all the action by Smashing that subscribe button and if you missed last week's videos don't sweat it I have them showing on the screen right here