00:00We are fired up to get on the Rude Guest Hotline.
00:01Welcome in our old friend, Mr. Ben Raby.
00:04Ben, what's up, dude? How are you?
00:06Hey, P.B. Mitch, we're good. We're good.
00:09I see you're still dealing with the Nets, but you changed that puck for a ball now, huh?
00:15Yes. Long-time follower of tennis, third year here at the U.S. Open.
00:22I've got to tell you, fellas, pretty energized this morning.
00:25Not working on much sleep. We had a late night.
00:28But this was an all-time day yesterday.
00:31Tell us about that match last night. You know J.P. and I weren't up.
00:35Let's start with Tiafoe, because Tiafoe's comeback.
00:40He's down two sets, and the dude is serving for the match at 5-4 in the third set.
00:47How incredible was that comeback ever from Tiafoe?
00:52Yeah, it was a great turnaround.
00:53It was a great scene that would then develop over the course of the next few hours.
00:58It's odd, because to your point, Alex Mickelson is serving for the match at 5-4 in that third set.
01:03The match is literally, literally, potentially minutes away.
01:07Two minutes away from finishing.
01:09Ends up going another two hours plus.
01:11Plus, Mickelson, I mean, I know you're both big golf guys.
01:15This was like a guy trying to win a tournament, needing to sink, you know, whatever it is.
01:20A 12-foot putt, 15-foot putt.
01:22And Mickelson, 22 years of age, third full year on the Pro Tour.
01:27He's got a very bright future.
01:29He's a very good player already to get to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open.
01:32And he choked in the moment.
01:35He double faulted twice in that game.
01:38Tiafoe ends up winning the game.
01:41Tiafoe sees an opening.
01:43He sees it.
01:44He won that third set.
01:46All right, new ball game.
01:47And then keep in mind, this may get lost in the shuffle.
01:50They end up going to the fifth set.
01:51And Mickelson is up 3-0 in the fifth set.
01:54So again, Tiafoe has to dig himself out of a deficit.
01:58He used the crowd really well, Tiafoe, as he often does.
02:02There were X's and O's about his game that changed as well as the match went deeper.
02:06He served much better as it wore along.
02:08And I'll say real quick, Tiafoe has made a cognizant effort in the past year
02:14to elevate the fitness.
02:16He was challenged by his new coaching team.
02:18And that was really on display.
02:20This was a grueling, physically and mentally demanding match.
02:25And he was all in in that fifth set.
02:27I was so impressed.
02:28Yeah, I heard a lot of comments about, you know, the guy was choking and stuff like that.
02:32But you know what?
02:33When you're physically unfit to go...
