Navratil/Bhatia vs Miyoshi/Pascoe - Men's Doubles Quarterfinal | MB Vietnam Cup 2025

There'd be super on or super off with his backhand flicks there. So we'll see which arm on we get today as a Zane starts. Let's ball. Ooh, okay. We come out aggressive and fiery. Swinging from both sides of the court. Wow. Yeah. I'm not quite sure what Lucas was trying to do with that ball. Maybe a little, little error off of the paddle, but Zane, uh, all over it. Zane and Arman know each other. Well, they've played in, um, uh, Austin a lot together. That's right. So I think that quantum chemistry is pretty good. I think they have it. Um, pretty sussed. Ooh, just first body bag of match. Yeah. Tabasco on a chicken wing. Oh, second body bag of the match. Maybe we should start tallying these actually. Okay. One a piece. Kenta body bags, Arman there. It seems very fast paced, very aggressive. Not a lot of dinking right now. No, it's a lot of aggression. A lot of drives. I think all, I think all four players are trying to keep each other back from the kitchen for as long as possible. Nice little drive drop combo there from Arman. And a eagle eye Simon here. Ooh, looking at Arman's paddle and he's not using his usual Agassi. He might be under that new dual certified 3S. I also think that is what he's using as well. Okay. Wow. He seems to doing, be doing quite well with it. Maybe I need to get my hands on one. Another, another new paddle to add to your collection. Yes. We're at two, four here. And, uh, yeah, this is just all gas, no breaks here from both teams. And I'm, uh, kind of makes me nervous. Good lead by Zane. How do you slow down a game? That's going too fast. Do you think I've kind of been wondering this a little bit myself, like in this first game and in a lot of the first games that we've seen, I feel like. You know, everybody may be dealing with a little bit of nerves, which is natural. I think when you're first starting a game, so you might opt to drive your third instead of dropping it. Ooh, ATP and then Zane leaping to life as he hits that ball down the middle. I have to say, these are some great quick points actually. Yeah, we're at five, two, two already. And it's not, uh, rallies tend to go over, get over quite quickly. But do you think this is by design? Uh, most definitely. I think, um, I think both players kind of want to come out swinging, kind of want to test their opponents in terms of what their hands are like, um, how deep are their returns, where are they returning to, uh, sometimes you can watch players and see which player they want to return to just in terms of, are they more likely to drop? Are they going to drive? Um, and then you'll sometimes see them just favoring one player over the other. Right. And also you can test your opponents and their hands and where they are in their, their gameplay. And if you're, if you drive at someone and they keep missing it in the net, well, then you just keep doing it until they figure it out and then keep shifting tactics. But yeah, it seems like a very aggressive, very fast game right now. Receivers. And I'm not sure we've seen a single dink kind of rally here at all. Mom tries the behind the back there, and I'm not sure why, but this referee's microphone is like the loudest I've ever heard in my entire life. Oh, dinking, dinking. And then, uh, Pascoe pulls the trigger and just goes out. Armand Bhatia is playing pretty good with that new paddle there. Wow. Nice pull of the trigger there by Armand. I think Kenta was all over it. And Luke is just caught a little bit off guard. Oh, Oh, nine, two, one. Zane with the nastiness. Forget about the nasty Nelson. That's the nasty Zane. Wow. That aggressive dink. And that's it. Game one done. Does the, is the audience hearing this referee or just me? I don't know. Do you think they're hearing this on the, on the stream? Because this, this is the craziest referee that I've heard. It's like AI referee. Seven, eight, two. It's just like crazy. I don't know. Let me know in the comments below if you guys are hearing the referee on the stream or not, but a quick game here from Armand Bhatia and Zane Apatow. It's 11, two in the first game. Yeah. It feels like maybe Kenta and Lucas are a little bit trying to still figure out best strategy. A couple of errors here and there from Lucas for sure. Um, but it's a very, it's definitely been a very aggressive game from all four players and I'm curious to see if they're going to change their strategy just in terms of maybe trying to slow the game down a bit more, which is easier said than done, admittedly, against players like Zane and Armand. Yeah. And here we go. Game two. A lot of times what we've seen is that game two doesn't even matter. I mean, game one doesn't matter. Game two is a whole new game and they'll come back stronger. Long returns here. A couple of quick errors on Kenta and Lucas' side. Uh, hopefully they can get it nailed in soon. Yeah. No answer here at all from Kenta and Lucas. You mentioned about Armand's paddle, but is Kenta also rocking the new 3S? Oh, just from the sound of it. I think Kenta might be rocking the 4. Nice ball there. Oh, good little, good little track down from all four players. Yeah. By the sound of it, you might be right. I think Kenta is using the 3S. Nice reset ball there. Whoa. What a scrabble. Does your boy, Simon Yan, need to get his hands on the 3S? Personally, I don't think so. Zane's shots are just so pretty. Not a lot of middle balls here either. Definitely a lot of the balls seem to be going, um, more, more to the sides. Um, I think that's just kind of all the players kind of respecting that the middle is, uh, not a safe place to be. All four players definitely liking to squeeze middle here, even on the right-hand side, actually. Nice trigger pull by Pascoe here. And, uh, they just still get the ball back. It was Zane's reaction time there. And a net court. Kenta having a hard time unwinding the stack. Oh, my. Bhatti is killing it. I've never seen him so good either. Yeah, the Zane and Armand train will not be stopped. This is a great advertisement for the new 3S, Miola. Tyson also using the 3S there. So, uh, interesting. Wow. Just a dominant display of, uh, pickleball prowess here for your boy, Zane and Armand Bhatia, the sultan of swing, the third. Yeah, I think they just have unbelievable hands. I kind of, I mean, I like that chemistry. Zane has very fast hands, but Armand's drives are insane. Um, really kind of like keeping Lucas and Kenta back. I also do think, um, Lucas tends to maybe pull the trigger a little bit faster. I mean, and I just, they're almost like the paddle waiting to slap it back down at, uh, their feet. So maybe to settle into a dink battle and just wait for the right ball. Oh, yeah. Okay. That ball wasn't quite sure, but that ball went wide. So we're now on 8-1-2. Uh, Kenta and Lucas hoping to get the side out. Oh, uh, don't be shocked or alarmed. Okay. We're at match point. Oh gosh. I was just trying to eat my lunch real quick and that's the match. Um, wow. I mean, this, that game was a very, very fast match. I think that's true. That's the, that's the thing with pickables. Sometimes when you have the momentum, it's very hard to, to, for the opposing team to break it. Um, especially when, you know,