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What a day have tennis. So the Davis Cup finals are so good that Matt Roberts has ordered the Kaya Magica to stay open for him. And he's even had a look at the hot drink machine to try to keep himself awake.

Because it's that kind of day. Boundaries are being pushed. And I mean, it's had everything. Today has had everything. It has had joy. It has had despair. It has had drama.

Oh, aggro, tears, everything. We're going to be hearing the press conference of the Serbian team a little bit later. And I tell you, it's a hard listen. You know, emotionally it is a hard listen when you compare it to what Matt brought of Novak Djokovic yesterday and how Joviel and happy he sounded and you hear him today. And it's a very different story.

Where to start where to start Matt, you've just come from Spain, setting up a semi-final against Great Britain. And earlier on, we had Russia saving three match points to beat Serbia. And they will now face Canada. That's the line up tomorrow. Canada, Russia, GB against Spain. Tell us about that atmosphere that you've just come from.

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. Rafa on the dial. Once again, having to get Spain over the line and doing just that is that now is something like 28th Davis Cup win in a row. He's just an unstoppable force in this competition.

And to see him winning a doubles match to kind of the contrast with Djokovic losing a doubles match earlier in the day on the same court, I can't imagine that that would have happened before. The big, you know, members of the big three, four playing doubles on the same court in the same day.

Certainly it would never have happened with kind of so much significance and so much on the line. And yeah, I'm drained by it all really, but absolutely buzzing at the same time. It's an old feeling what it does to you, this competition.

But, you know, I was reminded of that great expression that Mary Carrillo uses. I think she used it to describe Serena Williams, but I think it applies to Nadal as well, the fact that he is his own weather system.

He is just an absolute force out there and kind of will just take down anything in his in his in his path.

When discussing Catherine, when discussing the changes that have been made to make this a single week competition, there are still many, many people, despite what we've seen today and the drama we've seen, there are still many people that are thinking, well, I want that kind of Spain home atmosphere.

And every tie I go to, I don't want to be watching Great Britain playing against another team that's not a tie home and the many empty seats that there were there today.

Some people I know feel that because we've been sponsored by the Davis Cup finals in the run up to this event that it would compromise. I feel that that's not the case. We've been very clear that there's a lot wrong with what's gone on this week.

But today there was so much right certainly from afar as a TV watching experience. I think the sport that we saw today was one of the great days of tennis viewing that I can remember in a long time.

Yeah, I would share that view. I've had FOMO today. I've had envy of Matt that he's been there experiencing all that even I would have given up my nap today to have been in Madrid experiencing it all firsthand.

And it was, it was an epic day in a way that none of the other epic days we've had in this year's tennis calendar have been.

It was epic in uniquely Davis Cup E ways, you know, when debating at length all the things that were potentially going to be lost or compromised by the changes to the format.

They're all the sort of unique Davis Cup things like, you know, best of five and the significance of the doubles and home in a way ties and all of that. Well, I know you've had a just a bit of an exchange just now because you can't help yourself in the way hours of the morning David with Todd Woodbridge on Twitter.

You know, he has a lot of Australians are not a fan of the changes to the format at all. And he was sort of saying, oh, yeah, well, you know, of course, Spain, Argentina had a great atmosphere because it's essentially a home tie for Spain. Well, yeah, I mean, the Davis Cup finals is always going to be somewhere and that somewhere that it is is going to enjoy the best atmospheres for the world.

For the team from that country. So I mean, yes, I suppose that is a point. I don't see is it is a particularly significant point. I loved the prominence of the doubles today.

I mean, one of my issues, sort of when I the when the nuances of the format was sort of making themselves clear at the start of the week, I was thinking, oh, it's a shame that the the doubles is the final of the three matches that's played because it means sometimes you will either as we sing lastly miss out on the doubles being played at all or the doubles isn't necessarily always as significant.

Whereas today, the significant the significance of the doubles, I mean, I was as much as with my GB bias tattoo on I was delighted to see Dan Evans win and delighted to see GB win.

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