forty-love!

except, immediately, they can't help also answering for each other. ilya starts it. he's supposed to be answering a question about cliff while hayden answers a question about shane, and he just knows that pike is going to get it wrong or at least less specific than what he knows shane is going to say. he knows he shouldn't but winning a competition while also dunking on pike is just too good for him to pass up.

and then shane is supposed to be answering a question about pike while cliff is answering about ilya, and shane has to get ilya back, and also he definitely knows this answer for his boyfriend. he knows the exact phrasing he's going to use.

when they're asked why they know all these answers about each other, they're able to mostly pass it off as "know thy enemy" but they also try to toe the line with "we've known each other for like a decade, i think we proved at the ASG last season that we can be in the same room without murdering each other."

by the time they get to the final round, the producers have given up with trying to make anyone answer questions about cliff or hayden, it's just cliff vs shane on who knows ilya best, and ilya vs hayden on who knows shane best. they start getting weirdly specific, when asked about shane's favorite drink, hayden's feeling smug writing "ginger ale :)" while ilya's writing "ginger ale, canada dry, 2°C, NO ICE." when asked what ilya's favorite swear is, cliff writes "blat? (russian for fuck)" while shane writes "blyat" and then tries to write it in cyrillic underneath and gets it *almost* correct.

WTA 2025 Grand Slam Champions:

Madison Keys, Australian Open

Coco Gauff, Roland Garros

Iga Swiatek, Wimbledon

they match each other's freak quite well