119: Paris Masters Breakdown, Sinner’s Indoor Dominance & the Final Turin Spot | EP 119
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Sam shares his USTA League debut (yes, he’s officially back) with all the nerves, partner drama, and post-match laughs. Then it’s Medvedev’s late-night baseball tweets, Zizou Bergs’ moonwalk, Opelka’s savage Instagram comment, and a look at the new Paris venue.
They also check in on the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Gauff’s serving struggles, and who the real favorites are for the massive prize money on the line. Plus, time to review our tournament predictions that may or may not already be doomed.
00:00 Introduction and show preview
00:46 Sam's USTA League debut
03:53 World Series talk and Medvedev’s late-night tweets
06:11 Paris Masters recap: Sinner’s indoor dominance
09:14 Felix Auger-Aliassime’s form and confidence
12:07 Sinner vs. Alcaraz: the race for year-end No. 1
16:33 Turin predictions and Alcaraz’s chances
20:04 Paris Masters drama: Opelka vs. Bergs
22:02 Felix vs. Musetti: the battle for the final spot
26:43 WTA Finals: Gauff’s struggles and surprises
32:48 Goodbye!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Nothing Major, we're going to break down the Paris Masters, which just concluded, |
| 0:05.9 | and we're going to give an update on the race to Turin. |
| 0:08.2 | There's still one spot left up for grabs, and the WTA finals are underway in Riyadh. |
| 0:13.7 | We're going to break that all down. |
| 0:15.3 | Let's get into the show. |
| 0:24.7 | All right, everyone, welcome back to Nothing Major. |
| 0:33.6 | The whole gang is here, myself, Jack, Sam, Stevie Johnson, Charlie Fox, and his team at SIF. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm not going to call them the suits today. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm going to give them a break from that I'm going to. I won't either. Give them a break from that. |
| 0:44.6 | Big, uh, we have a big showhead, you know, with breaking down the Paris Masters at the event in Riyadh. |
| 0:46.1 | That's just, just underway. But before we begin, Sam Query sent a text to our group yesterday. |
| 0:51.0 | He had his first USDA league match,TA league match out there in California. Yesterday, how did it go, |
| 1:01.8 | Sam? How was your level? And what did everyone else think that played against you? |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, level is pretty good. You remember a couple weeks ago? I was talking about this. I was trying to play like in an inner club team. I wasn't allowed to do that, but I am allowed to play in the USTA like open division. So I went on the USDA website a few weeks ago, self-rated myself, answered a bunch of questions. And I am on the club team at our club that's open. |
| 1:29.9 | So we played the other club last night at like 4 p.m. |
| 1:33.9 | Big crowd at the club, maybe like 100 and 125 people overlooking. |
| 1:39.3 | Did they open up a bar? |
| 1:41.1 | Didn't open up a bar, but food and drink was available for the members. |
| 2:02.8 | Okay. My partner, Martin Parks, he's like one of the pros at the club. Great guy. We played two other guys. And the two other guys, one guy played at Boston College and one guy put at Chapman. They were probably like 30. It's like they were good. Started out, they held early, one zero. then I'm serving first, and I go down 1540. |
| 2:05.6 | The nerves, guys, I was nervous. |
| 2:11.0 | Everyone's watching, like, they just assume that I'm just going to dominate, which I should. |
| 2:11.7 | You should. |
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