-Welcome, welcome, welcome to "The Tonight Show."
Thank you. This is it, huh? -Thank you for having me.
It's a nice piece of hardware. I'm not gonna lie.
-Yeah, I guess so. Oh, my gosh.
How does it feel?
-Oh, man, it feels so good.
I made history in Canada.
I am truly blessed. Truly blessed.
-Yeah, you've made history here.
I know you're from Canada as well.
Let me just run through some things here.
You started the year ranked 152. Now you rank 5.
[ Cheers and applause ]
You're the first --
You're the first teenager to win a major in over a decade.
You're the first player born in the 2000s
to win a major singles title.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Oh, my gosh.
-You're the first Canadian to win a major singles title,
and this was the first time you qualified for the U.S. Open
in three years, and you won the whole thing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-You're making me blush.
-Walk me through this.
Have you -- Have you had time to really just breathe
and take it all in and go, "What is going on with everything?
-No, definitely not.
Everything has been pretty hectic ever since.
So I never really got the chance to let everything soak in,
but, yeah, last year has been pretty crazy.
I was going through a really bad back injury,
so now being able to hold this trophy
is something really special.
And playing against Serena in the final,
I mean, I've been dreaming of this moment
for a pretty long time. -Yeah.
-But, yeah, this is honestly crazy. It's crazy.
-Do you get nervous when you go,
"Oh, my gosh, I'm going up against Serena Williams"?
This is legendary.
-Yeah, it's -- it was pretty shocking.
I got a sense of how that was during Toronto in the finals,
so I think I was able to control my emotions a little bit better.
I mean, I was really, really nervous before the match,
but when I stepped on the court, I just stuck to my game plan,
and I did some really good things.
-Yeah, yeah, you did. [ Applause ]
I would say so.
Does that added pressure make you want to play harder and go,
"Oh, my gosh, don't -- yeah, stay extra focused"?
-Oh, yeah, definitely.
There's always gonna be pressure,
whether it's the pressure you put on yourself
or the external pressure,
but I think, like, what Billie Jean King says,
pressure is a privilege, so I just try to embrace it
as much as I can,
and I think I've been doing that really well this year.
-And Canada is going crazy for you.
I mean, you've heard from everybody, right?
-Yeah, I've heard from everyone. -Who have you heard from?
-Shania Twain.
-Hello. I mean, that's it. -Oh, my gosh.
-You can stop right there.
I mean, hello.
That's all you need, but Trudeau.
-Justin Trudeau, John Tory, Steve Nash,
The Raptors, The Leafs -- it's been crazy.
I've been feeling all the love from home,
and I truly appreciate it.
-Is there anyone you haven't heard from yet?
-Drizzy. [ Laughter ]
Champagnepapi, I'm waiting for you.
[ Laughter ]
-Drake, Drake, if you're watching.
-Don't at me. Don't at me.
-Yeah. "Don't at me." Oh, my gosh.
I got to say, it's a pleasure meeting you,
but you do this racket flip thing
that I thought was pretty cool.
And I was wondering if you could maybe show me how to do it --
-The one that almost hit the ref?
-Yeah. -[ Laughs ]
-By the way, were you like --
-That one slipped out of my hand.
I did not mean to, but no one is getting hurt tonight, I promise.
Okay. Let's do it. -Well, you never know, right?
Now, show me how you do it first.
Alright.
Alright, so I can't do this. -Can you do that?
-No, I can't do this at all.
Is that it?
-Okay, so you keep your hand like that.
-Okay, already I'm in trouble.
-And you kind of flip it, but you have to go really fast,
so you don't drop it, and then you catch the grip.
[ Laughter ] Should I like --
-Yeah, yeah, you should walk away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Round of applause.
-I feel like a pro.
Alright, let's flip our rackets out to commercial break.
Bianca Andreescu, everybody.
We'll be right back with a performance
from Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell.
Stick around. Here we go.