welcome welcome to the qualifying we got Zachary spida a favorite of mine so I had to do this Zachary Spa versus Mitchell Krueger and I was just there yesterday I was in DC I was going to go today as well I might go tomorrow I'm not not sure yet where $50 for parking and they charge to get in the qualifying so was more more expensive than I anticipated used to be I thought it used to be free for the qualifying maybe that's just New York City but here we got SAA he's down 4-1 down 41 whoever wins this gets in the tournament Mitchell Krueger saw them both play I saw them both play yesterday and they are complete opposites Ved into the net 15 all complete opposites Krueger is just you know most of the guys there most of the players there were just crushing the ball most if not all of them I mean Zid was the softest hitter there he's probably one of the softest hitters on tour and you can see him as he just passes passes Krueger he uh hangs out against a guy like Krueger he's gonna hang out well behind the Baseline and that's what he was doing yesterday try to remember who he was playing I think it was a Japanese guy Krueger down the middle down the T unre returnable 30 all and Krueger really you know he's surprises me when I see him up close because I didn't used to think he was that powerful I mean he is big strong and fast and he's still hanging around the 200 Mark I think he goes big on everything I mean everything as he just did there big forehand big serve big forehand to finish 4030 up 4-1 Zite is more of like he's a crafty finesse player like he doesn't hit a big serve he is like a good slider out wide as uh Krueger hits a really good kick serve and comes up and finishes at the net he he can hit Aces too but it's just more it's more placement it's more finesse he's I don't know what his height is but he looks small he can't be more than 140 pounds here he is serving goes down to T and and you can see there Krueger hits it well long so uh definitely can get his racket on it and gets him to hit it long flat serve out wide that one a little bit harder to handle Krueger dumps in the net 30 love down the middle again and that one doesn't even come close to the net 40 love it's so hard to see on TV too like that's the thing like yesterday being there I said this before you really gota second serve you really got to be there up close or it's just not worth it Mitchell returns hard down the middle Zid gets it back crosscourt rally hard slice by spida deep in the corner and misses wide probably took a chance on that being 40 405 down 51 yeah of course everyone there the fans they don't realize that they you know it's all good good for them they love it SL there's that slider out wide he misses barely misses it same thing but not as wide and then he slices to the other way Mitchell comes in gets an overhead puts it away 40 4030 I mean what do you do here 51 you're just pretty much I don't even know if I would try to get back in it I would I would just whatever I'm work whatever I need to get worked out I need to get my serve worked out or something or I'm just going to play that way maybe get some volleys get in some slices which he's done hits out it's a weak kick serve looks like a double and it's Deuce get a little rally here again Vite is back there by the DC by the DC letters and Krueger's on the Baseline and puts it away Advantage Krueger and this is the thing with like V why he looks he looks so comfortable back there he goes out wide with a little kick serve soft kick serve and Krueger hits it long Deuce why he looks so good back there because he is a good 10 feet or more behind the Baseline here he is serving see what he does deuce goes out wide doesn't go quite out wide stays on see hangs out there he's got to hang out on the on the Baseline and he you can't handle it and he misses out misses uh wide and maybe deep Advantage Krueger goes out wide the flat serve makes it Ace see that's what I mean there he can he can slap some Aces another Ace down the middle that's something I don't do though like I have a sometimes I don't realize that I'm going up against someone who's really hitting hard if I can't handle it I should should back up some more and change my essentially change my Baseline second serve Krueger gets a nice look at it goes down the line crosscourt rally Krueger pulls Z wide gets to the net half volley winner by Krueger yeah if anyone's watching this on replay who thinks does anyone think that sa is gonna get in the top 100 Ian he's getting close he's pushing I'm hoping he gets in I mean these are the these are the match he's got a win he's going to get in the tournament he has then he has a shot he's had a couple shot I think he's had a couple shots at uh winning a 250 or a 500 first round I'm not sure if he's been successful yet Advantage fighter goes down the middle gets a tough ball back at his feet backhand rally and Mitchell hits into the Net game 5-2 52 Krueger I mean hey maybe he breaks here gets a win 54 put some pressure on Krueger because he is a guy who hasn't he's he hasn't been able to get in the top 100 let's see what he's ranked I think s is ranked tired yeah he seated three in the tournament he's over he's 30 I seen a lot I seen a lot of good I got a lot of good film yesterday Craig Carden is his coach I don't know about that these America these USA coaches speaking of USA coaches I saw Jay Berger there too he's the coach of uh Riley opela got some interesting film of them he is 6280 and he's ranked 202 highest rank 135 back in 2022 turn pro in 2012 V has gota be he's got to be loaded he's gota be rich5 highest rank 113 last week so he's on the up he's on the up swing 145 pounds 5'9 21 from La Hoya La Hoya California yeah he's gotta be he's gotta come from money Krueger serve gets an easy backhand goes to the corner Sid gets it and Krueger misses misses a little half volley into the net the back one handed backand he's got that big server he just just kind of back rocks forward rocks back and he just bangs one there UNR returnable 15 all down the te again UNR returnable see that like it looks in at least the video that I have I don't have very good stream it doesn't even look like he's hitting that hard but I was there as I said I was there and he was he's a banger I feel like he's changed over the years too I don't know if it's the same guy I'm thinking of down the T hits the T and it's 405 just like that slice out wide just misses Z is on the Baseline now he's inside the Baseline double fault 4030 but the qualifiers are always like the lower down not always but it seems like that area the qualifying the 100 to 200 is where you see the really big hitters first serve out wide just misses I mean not to say there isn't any big hitters in the top 100 but there's not them like middle middle of the way like they're just all big hitters slice from spida backhand down the middle backhand to backand SPID it goes in the forehand backhand to backhand SPID with another forehand takes it the other way and misses long set 62 yeah I just loaded a video of pedosa that's some good film of her got a lot of good films see when I was younger I used to go to these tournaments and I didn't have the I didn't have I don't know what it is courage I didn't have what it took to get up close you get up close to the fence stick your camera in the fence it's a really good good good video so hopefully I get some good views off of those videos because we got no one watching now I don't think anyone's even popped in here damn Olympics not a big fan of the Olympics really not I mean it's it's the Olympics and Tennis all year longone it's the same thing countries playing against countries not a big fan of that either the countries countries against countries that country nationalist Pride if you can't if you can't tell you and uh if you haven't been able to tell already not a big nationalist person it's why I like tennis though I think that's part of the reason why uh is that they it glorifies the individual you get to see all the differences that individual differences personalities or it doesn't say glorifies but it highlights the personality highlights the individual we don't often get to see that in team sports uh you know unless we're talking about the maybe some players in the NBA but all of them it's not some of them it's all of them are get to display or have the opportunity to really display their personality and have themselves highlighted invited to serve goes out wide and misses Krueger goes down the line with a backand out of nowhere winner love 15 Krueger's back there he's he's about 5T five or six feet behind the Baseline returns it deep another one a little shorter backhand to backand rally and spida hits the donnut hole and Krueger takes advantage of it but misses by an inch 15 all slice backhand return short and spida puts it away yeah it seemed like I can't say for sure but it seemed like you know a lot of those guys they're relying they are relying on their big big Power their serve Spider goes down to the T makes it gets into a little rally Krueger hits the other way comes into the net and drops shot winner 30 off yeah they really rely on their big serve and it was just it just looked brutal I mean forget the targets Spider goes out wi and Krueger misses shanked it 4030 down the middle little rally down the middle SPID goes the other way with the back hand to the corner and Krueger misses long game one zero SPID up it's a good start he does win he does win matches in three sets he's not gonna he's not gonna just throw in the tow figh as coach David nanin and Ryan Williams oh man that's the other thing you see like I talk so much on coaches and whatnot but these guys when you're there you really see it they're like they really are players like players and coaches and I might be more of a coach at this point and they need you forget that they're like or they I forget that they need coaches even if they're not great coaches even if I don't think they're great coaches they they have no like they're so focus on winning Krueger comes to the net and it seemed like when you're there it seems like that's the case like they need someone to handle things for them like they don't really probably don't need it but they it's it's a benefit to have someone there down the middle fighter can't return it love love 30s this what I mean big couple big serves and they missed that's the thing second serve here they missed they didn't care as I say before like they don't care if they miss there were so many faults Sid's inside the court takes it early Krueger dumps in the net I don't have the STA statistics but it just seemed like uh you know they just banging away missing by a mile onto the next 305 little attempt at a weak kick serve there Krueger's in the net nice sliced backhand volley and SPID hits it long 45 15 big serve down the middle misses I mean that's one of the reasons if I think one time someone I I said something about wanting to hit finding some women Partners like high high level women partners backhand to backand Rally it's a little bit short down the line by spa spa gets a ball in the donut hole doesn't take advantage of it but M Mitchell misses into the net yeah because man it gets competitive and like gets competitive with these with men that are big hitters you just don't get just don't get those rallies it's different it's just so hard and someone like com commented on that like what's the difference uh you know like most people probably don't really know don't understand what I'm talking about they don't know the difference because they never play with someone who hits that big particularly in a match when they they like they're not or they don't really have the practice consistency practice and they don't they don't ever do it it's not there's just not there's no there's no route there's no like backand to back end there is none of that it's rare you're rarely on balance when you're playing it's it's can be annoy it can be annoying but yeah I don't think most I don't think most people have that experience so they don't they don't understand it slider out wide gets a short ball backhand comes to the Nets f up voles it deep and it's out 15 love love 15 one all I don't know how much I'm going to watch this because no one's no one's jumping in the chat and 20 minutes in here I played this morning as I said I was traveling yesterday to this tournament and a little bit more tired than I thought jumping on here like rallies like this even though as I said they are much more difficult than they look like on TV often times but was figh us standing back so far I don't know it's not not as bad 15 all slider out wide and looks like a Le another one let who else did I get I got uh an Jer I got some good footage of her missed out on ranu she was there there was just too many people with the fence I didn't feel like dealing with them so I couldn't get I got some bad footage slider out wide Ace 305 I got some bad footage through the fence down the te makes it and Krueger hits it long got some good footage of opela Azarenka Azarenka was there she's looking good oh man this fight is looking soft but he still wins the point was that game 2-1 so now we're back on serve here 2-1 second serve second set maybe first first set just probably got I didn't see the first set probably just got away with got away from him didn't have a good service game more likely than not but I'm gonna leave I'm Gonna Leave the stream on for a couple more minutes I'm gonna go do some things if you're in the chat you jump in the chat if someone jumps in the chat I'll try to jump back e for for [Applause] 405 Krueger long rally fighted down the down the line winner 40 30 goes for the ace and misses it Spight is way back behind the Baseline sends it long wait maybe something was out in deu maybe Krueger kruer hit it out back to deuce Oh My My My ju spider shoots up a lot from the way back in the court and C Krueger misses an overhead in the net anyone works with YouTube man this YouTube is so so annoying I swear they they don't uh they don't make it easy on you they don't make it easy on you to grow it almost doesn't matter how good your videos are advantaged fighter nice return but Krueger gets the shorter ball comes to the net puts it away Deuce so he's got got a break point there had a break point there somebody popped in somebody popped into the stream got scared scared big serve big serve way out bangs the back the back stop top of the back stop much easier serves V takes advantage of it gets that short ball to the side t backand to the other side t stays crosscourt inside out and goes down the middle misses it long add in kick serve and Zam misses game two all two all on serve zaa he he likes to be in a rally like he wants to be he wants to get in rallies backand to backand S it hits it out 1 15 o second sir Krueger tries to take it early V is on the Baseline too they get a little angle angle battle and V hits in the net 1530 what time is it 1:30 flat serve returned at his feet and he hits it out yeah that's the one thing about the flat serve if someone gets a good good stick on it back to your feet man it's it's hard to uh back up get out of the way that's why you volley it if it's possible no one does that no one really does that Ved down the line actually it might be hit too hard to volley to be honest I'm I'm not sure 4030 Krueger not gonna lie my volle's my Net game is ridiculous not even bragging that's just that's just the that's just the way it is 32 Krueger breaks that might be it that might be it folks another chance for Sida me it looks like he might he might blow it we got someone someone actually here in in watching say hi in the chat where are you from who do you want to win i' been talking about spida is is one of my favorite players are you subscribe to my channel because if you're not check it out lot of good stuff on there as I was saying I was down there I was at this tournament yesterday and $50 to park I thought it used to be 20 it was $50 a park it cost me 30 to get in which I thought it was free but maybe I'm just thinking the US Open qualities are free uh it cost me $30 to get in because there was no tickets available and I had to buy from some reseller from some reseller with the last name Bernstein and it cost me $10 for a Pepsi to watch the qualifiers 32 Krueger love team no one's saying anything does anyone like spider is anyone a fan of spider am I the only one Krueger goes down the middle makes it 15 all he's probably got like six or seven Aces this match at least that'd be an interesting statistic I wonder if they get better especially the qualifiers if they get better as they move move through because if they get to the second round that's their fourth match in four days four or five days plus practice 305 Krueger big serve out wide Ace it was like a flat it's too hard to tell it was couldn't tell if it was flat or had some some spin on it some kick on it 405 almost another Ace SPID is inside the court doesn't get a good good hit on it leaves it short soft Krueger puts it away 4-2 I that's I think if if if I was in that situation the serve would just I could get into the first round with my serve alone if it if it was if it was like it used to be F at the net hits the net love 15 whoa big big Inside Out forehand SP way back in the court off the court and can't can't handle it 30 love love 30 goes for an Ace and misses it he's feeling the pressure now he's feeling the pressure there's no one in the chat I'm getting out of here maybe I'll be back later