124: Sam’s Pickleball Farewell, Third-Best Season Debate & Fan Questions | EP 124
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
They get into the year-end debate next, as the guys dive into who actually had the third-best season behind Sinner and Alcaraz, weighing titles, big wins, and consistency while making the case for everyone from Djokovic to the dark-horse picks.
Then it’s on to a round of fan questions with the usual blend of honesty and humor!
00:00 Intro
00:30 Sam Querrey's Retirement from Pickleball
01:42 Career Highlights and Retirement Messages
03:22 Analyzing Sam's Career Stats
09:17 Discussing the Third Best Year in Men's Tennis
17:27 Fan Questions and Tennis Rivalries
22:18 Debating the Best Tennis Year
23:42 Year-End Finals Location Debate
25:16 YouTube Comments and Holiday Decor
27:59 Djokovic's Wimbledon Reflection
30:52 Davis Cup Format Critique
35:35 Tennis Stock Review
39:16 Closing Remarks and Goodbye!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on nothing major, we have a nice little surprise segment we're going to lead off the show with. |
| 0:04.9 | We're also going to answer the question, who had the third best year on the men side in 2025? |
| 0:11.8 | We're going to also go over some fan questions. |
| 0:14.6 | We really enjoy that. |
| 0:15.9 | And we're going to talk Davis Cup. |
| 0:17.7 | We did not get to that on Monday. |
| 0:19.2 | That's all head on the show. |
| 0:20.8 | Let's get this started. |
| 0:25.9 | All right. Welcome back to Nothing Major. John Isner here joined with the whole crew. Once |
| 0:33.5 | again, Jack Sox, Stevie Johnson, Sam Quarry, and Charlie Fox in the team at Sift, |
| 0:39.0 | um, creative. |
| 0:40.6 | Guys, last week, some news happened that really kind of flew under the radar in the, um, |
| 0:47.9 | sports world. |
| 0:49.0 | And that was our very own Sam Quarry's retirement from,ball. Sam, you're such a humble and modest |
| 0:59.4 | guy. You didn't want to bring attention to yourself. You didn't bring it up on last week's pod. |
| 1:03.3 | That's just the type of guy you are, you know, much like Clayton Kershaw going out, like when |
| 1:07.6 | the Dodgers, just kind of just keeping keeping it keeping it low key um low profile |
| 1:11.8 | but i wanted to hand this um segment off to jack right now who wants to um say a few words well i just |
| 1:19.3 | think as a as the guy who came after you um in the pickleball world you were like like we said you |
| 1:25.6 | you you walk so we could run you're the pioneer of the tennis to pickleball transition. |
| 1:31.1 | And I just wanted to, as you say, give you your flowers and congratulate you on a phenomenal career. |
| 1:39.1 | Thank you. |
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