Johnson/Black vs Caruso/Griffith at the The Carvana Masters

So here we go. Georgia Johnson gets us started. Let's play pickleball. Tyra already throwing the kitchen sink at them from the back of the court. Couple drops, couple drives, zero incoming, I'm sure. Let's go bro. What a move flying in there. The recognition off of the paddle of Ashley Griffith and Brooke Russo makes her move. I can serve. One zero two. Side out not not that you ever want to leave the ball high, but this is this is absolutely a team that you could not leave it. Shoulder height or above. Lefty on the left so backhands in the middle and no one home and just. That's why she's special, yeah? One hander from the body. Not a lot of ladies have that. We saw it in a previous round with 111 so. Anytime you get big time pop with only one hand. Love to see it and as I surmise straight up here so you saw George on the left there now just heading right back over. 211 point whoopsie cocktail 311 aggressive pour out deep. Point cannot happen. Yes, out of sorts back to back there. Brief discussion about staying or switching. 411 so they stayed and saw a ball go right through the two backhands. Now that serve puts him in trouble. Yeah, this is a mess. This is have to be a time. I mean spectacular. Pro K years spectacular. It's very close to us back. Other side of Humana Championship court. Ben John's take a little looksie over there. I'm not sure if he played or not, but he was checking out the croquet. I did a little social content with him over there and he was definitely eyeing up. The skills required. The cerebral mind never stops. Yeah, that's just a tough wall. Yeah, especially when she's right on the line and you're in the midcourt either way. Nice work from Griffith and Caruso to get the ball back after that timeout. 152 they can line up on their preferred side. Easy sort of one swing double hit. Just keeps coming back again, but that's actually something that is a disadvantage to that righty lefty matchup. You don't have as much flexibility to not unwind and stay on your side because you have those backhands in the middle. Hard to speed up from Griffith. There from a low position and wholehearted. Destruction of what happened next category 5 response. 621 sneaky start nice track down. Floor is lava. Yes, let's go. Just to record for Ashley Griffith. I mean absolutely clobbered about five forehands in the middle of that point and they all came back point. 821 but another chance to put more points on the board 822. I mean point bumper car shank of and then it ended up perfect. Absolutely perfect. 922 stuck that paddle in from the right side and Tyra Black took a cut at the drive. Side out. OK. 291 not a lot of kitchen rallies to be seen here, just a handful in this first game so far. 292 side on their paddles. Clank, it's perfect, yeah? 26 above 500 for Johnson and Black, 36 and 10 as a team, 70%. I expect that to go up. Now there's only one team for tournament that doesn't take an L. 922 side out beautiful depth on that, right? I mean 3.6 wins per loss is pretty dang good, but I did expect it to be slightly better than that. Second serve and you can double up your losses if you lose in the semis and lose in bronze so you can run into that every once in a while as well. 292 leave with the aluminum metal which. It's painful, I have quite a few of those. 392 side out and that's the thing is like there's when Tyra's over there on the right, there's quite a few plain dinks and you're like thinking that can be an issue, but the hands are so good for her and her partner if their opponents decide to speed up. Keep it on the back. Yeah, that's the Jesse Urban strategy. If she ever gets in a situation where there's two backhands in the middle, she will never stop. I don't care how high the ball is, or the opportunity to go somewhere else. She won't do it. Game point. Second, Sir. 1032 point game and that'll do it so. Very tidy 113 in Georgia's that that arrow is pointing up. There's often just not a lot of straight lines in development and skill growth, so there's some big jumps and then some flat lining and you never know exactly how it's going to look. OK, Ashley Griffith. Very nice to start off game two with two quality offensive shots. 202 I mean side out her protractor. Gold medalist. I mean, it's just it's hers. Well, you you expect it on the forehand slice crosscourt, but that's the inside. I got to that was spectacular. Point is a cookie sitting there for Griffith. I know dreaded oatmeal raisin disguised as chocolate chip right there. Caruso and Griffith just definitely need to get the unwind situated when they are on that odd number and try to get to the kitchen at a higher clip point. Big cut from Brooke there. Problem is, if you take that cut, your paddles not going to be ready. Wow, and just a rocket ship coming in hot. Yeah, that full wraparound stroke. It often is not ready for the reload, especially when you're playing a team that has heavy handed counters. Nice pace thrown right back at him there. Yeah, real good power don't see. Tyra have that much issues when she's in the back of the court like that. That ball ate her up. Point so it's been one good one. Bad here to start for Ashley Griffith. 422 I mean, and then Georgia got ahold of one and that changed the entire situation with Annalee Waters and Anna Bright. We will just have to watch and see. OK, I will bounce Jada heard. We mentioned his name and during a women's double so he got on camera. That one thing, yeah, I think and obviously. The two seed means you are not in Annalee and Anna Brights side 25. That is not a small thing, because three four can go anywhere. Second serve. 252 J Dub watch your sister. He's double thumbing over there. Getting some tax in. Yeah, so we're away from the midcourt. Has not gone well, not surprisingly. 521 we had an outfall second referee timeout. We have a challenge. You're reversing it. Thank you. I'm not sure I would like to see that truck. I kind of agreed with him. I actually thought it was just back. And George Freaking Johnson says I guarantee you this one's in. Here's the one before. I have no opinion on that from that angle, but 721 Georgia, Georgia said off the table. And that rally right there shows me why I agree with you that they're the second best team and that is just out Adam so they should have stuck with it the underdogs but you saw the entire repertoire and one. Rally right there. They just have better hands and more pace. They do, and then on that previous point, that finishing blow from Tyra Black out of the air wasn't even a Papa. She she created that aerial speed ups from Tyra Blacker extra special. Second serve nice inside out a Jade Kawamoto S shot there from Brooke Caruso. Kalamata's are here 922, so don't forget about them. Oh no. Georgia I saw I saw a little. Yeah, it was just a little extra. I'm not saying that that's a new shot or anything for her, but that that had some pizzazz on it did. And it's as their way right to a match point here. Just too much pace. It's time to tap paddles three and two, and just that's what a dominating top seed in around the 32 looks like. Just coming out here we're taking souls. Will let you get a couple nice shots, but forget about it so.