- Let's put something on it, shall we?
If we can get to a court somewhere,
loser is on the service line and the winner
is going to serve a ball at their bum.
- One hundred percent yes.
(suspenseful music)
- I'm Jens Sweaney, I'm a pro tennis player
from Australia.
I was top 100 in Australia, but I moved to L.A.
to play for the USC Trojans.
I've toured a couple times overseas.
France, and Spain, playing pro tournaments.
- I'm Brendan Dahle, and I'm a casual gamer.
I play video games every now and then.
One of my favorite games of all time
is Virtua Tennis for the SEGA Dreamcast, baby.
I used to spend hours crushing that world tour.
I feel like that has prepared me for this moment.
- About my lack of video game experience,
yeah, I'm here, ready to play some tennis.
I think I've got this one in the bag.
- What's up?
- Hello.
- Hi.
- I'm Jens.
- I'm Brendan.
- Nice to meet you.
- This isn't intimidating at all.
I'm definitely going to be Waluigi.
- I'm gonna go with Yoshi.
(cheering)
(grunts)
- Oh, oh, oh!
Oh, oh, ah, yeah.
- Get that weak (beeps) out of here.
Oh god this,
Okay.
- A little flat.
- Put a little sauce on that one.
Serve coming in hot.
(grunts)
- Early, hot and early.
- Oh that was out I think.
- No.
- Crowd goes wild.
- Crowd made no noise.
(groans)
Oh did that?
- Oh.
- Oh come on.
- Lob shot window baby,
still serving, I don't know how the rules work.
(grunts)
- [Game] Game receiver.
I gave him that first point.
- It's a game one, one nothing.
- One, the game.
- You'll pick it up.
It's fine. - Yeah.
(Cheers)
So it didn't, okay.
Go.
(cheers)
ah.
- That's a spicy meat ball.
That's pretty good.
I'll give you that one.
This is close, this is tight.
I'm actually feel, oh we're just doing this?
Oh. - Yes!
(cheers)
So the thing is about the number of games it's tied,
'cause I've won one as well.
Oh it was out, I shouldn't have touched it.
What happened?
Body shot?
- Yeah body shot. - There are body shots.
Huzzah.
Yeah.
That's 'cause I put the heater on blast.
Game point again for the Waluigi crew.
(groans)
- Oh that was a big serve.
Yeah well.
- Thank you very much, I appreciate that.
- Get over there, no! (cheers)
- Maybe not exactly how you expected this to go.
- I was expecting a little less from you.
I mean I watched YouTube tutorials on this.
- You and everyone else buddy.
- That was not too good.
- I don't remember them saying how to serve?
Was that on there?
Did I skip serving?
- [Jans] Whoa!
- Oh, there's some spice on that one.
Match point again, oh, match point.
Oh this is too much pressure.
(cheers) (wails)
- How is three games a match?
Three, one?
- Oh boy, I would like to thank my family.
- Okay a set is six.
- I do feel like you actually knowing how
to play tennis is probably still a hindrance at this point
'cause you're trying to do real tennis stuff
and I'm just swinging around wildly.
So I do feel like, - Maybe I should
try some of that.
- Hot, hot streak alive.
- [Game] Out.
- You know it's not about,
- Book it.
- It's not always about who wins and loses,
is kind of my point.
Oh shoot.
Okay, you know, again.
That was right up the middle.
That was (grumbles)
I'm trying a new swing called a tomahawk.
So far it's very effective.
I like it when the star show up
I don't know what that means but that feels like,
wait what?
I think I hurt myself.
Oh, oh, I get to throw a tantrum, yeah I want
to challenge that decision.
That was clearly in, what are you blind?
- Oh it's out.
- So the thing about it is that,
(laughs)
Wait were am I lining up.
- Toward the net. - Which way am I
gonna serve it from?
You'll never know.
I could do it over here, or switch over here.
(moans)
I call that the sneak attack serve.
It's a patented tennis thing that everyone does,
all the pros and then.
- I feel like if I just do nothing, you'll lose.
- Okay, that stings a little.
I just did like a lasso.
- Oh that came in hot, okay.
Game, set match? - Okay, alright.
So it is one to one, this is it, winner take all.
- Let's put something on it, shall we?
If we can get to a court somewhere
loser is on the service line and the winner
is going to serve a ball at their bum.
- 100% yes.
- Tie breaker?
Oh okay, I see, tie breakers work like you,
you play one point and then I now serve two
and then you go two and I got two.
And it's to seven.
- Okay, that was, I did the thing where you were
supposed to hit it that way and it hit it that way.
- Oh.
- A little too hot, little too hot.
Okay, so it's three nothing.
Not a problem, it's fine.
Yeah.
Ah come on.
- Come on.
Come on. - Come on.
For, okay. - Four, zero, baby.
- I can't go out, I can't go out like that.
I can't go out with a goose egg,
- Well, seven zero, that's a nudie run right there.
- A nudie run?
- Yeah, one around the complex.
- Oh no, we didn't agree to that at all.
- That's in the laws of tennis.
- Oh.
What?
(laughs)
What?
- Six, O.
No.
Game, set and match.
- Congratulations.
- Hey, thank you very much, thank you for playing.
- That was unreal.
- Okay, that was pretty fun, that was a lot of fun.
- Yeah totally.
- I'm proud of myself, I kept it kind of close
but you were clearly better at tennis stuff.
- No I mean, I was rubbish.
- No, don't say that, you were great.
- Some of your little sly stinks cross court, unreal.
- Yeah, thanks, I had a couple moments in there.
Was this comparable to real tennis at all?
- Not at all.
- Okay, no.
- Now we did have a little something one the line.
- Butts up if I recall correctly.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- You do it.
- You can't use the racket like that.
- What, I thought that was the point?
- It's gotta be like just the rim,
you can't have the whole thing there.
(laughs)
- [Brandon] Do it.
Oh god.
Oh god still going.
Ah.
- That's one.
- Oh wait there's more?
Ah,
barely even felt it.
(upbeat music)
You earned it, congratulations.