129: Ultimate Tennis Showdown, Serena Return & Cam Norrie Interview | EP 129
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The guys kick things off by breaking down the latest tennis news, including Alex de Minaur’s recent UTS title and the growing buzz around a potential Serena Williams return.
They then dive into an in-depth sit-down with tennis star Cam Norrie, tracing his rise from standout TCU alum to established top-tier pro.
From there, Cam reflects on his recent win over Carlos Alcaraz in Paris and opens up about the story behind his engagement. The episode wraps with some fun rapid-fire segments, from pet peeves to a Las Vegas draft.
00:00 Introduction
01:58 Upcoming Show Previews
04:09 Discussion on UTS Showdown
06:50 Serena Williams Return?
11:21 Cam Norrie Interview
25:16 Finding Joy in Tennis
26:24 Defeating Carlos Alcaraz
28:16 Preparing for the New Season
29:34 Training in Argentina
31:29 Comparing Top Players
33:50 American Pet Peeves
35:27 Dream College Tennis Team
38:41 Flight Miles
40:35 Vegas Draft
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode, Nothing Major, we got an interview with Cam Norrie. |
| 0:04.0 | It's a good one. |
| 0:04.7 | Stay tuned for that. |
| 0:06.1 | Let's get going. |
| 0:12.4 | All right, everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:14.0 | We've got Jack and Stevie, reppping the Nothing Major merch. |
| 0:17.5 | John and I, no hats today. |
| 0:20.0 | We've also got Charlie Fox and team at Sift along with us. Um, I'm in New York. That's why I don't have my hat. John, why don't you have your hat on? I didn't feel like the hats matched my tie-dye sweatshirt. I'm happy to put one on. Yeah, the all white hat wouldn't match that for sure. Well, would the black one work? I know this is black, but it, but it's got some green that matches the green. So that's kind of what I was going for. We're good. John and we're together the last two days hosting a big function of the U.S. Team Mid-Atlantic section, like a black tie gala for a couple. How do you think it went, John? I thought it went really well. We were a little taken aback we didn't know um how much we were going to be doing but we were host like we hosted the |
| 1:00.0 | thing and had a full-on script that we didn't really um look at beforehand until a couple hours |
| 1:07.0 | before we did not so but i think we didn't we weren't given it we weren't given the script though at any point. No, we got to blame our agents. They should have given us the script. Gotta blame our agents. Definitely was not us. I also, I hit this morning with Friend of the Pond, David Rodolitz, as Stevie knows, because every, which time we hit,, the guy makes the video, you know, |
| 1:27.9 | I lost a baseline game to him. It was pretty frustrating. Where'd you hit? We hit at the McEnroe Center, the Randall's Island, 7 a.m. this far. I'm in New York right now. I'm recorded this from Madison Square Garden, but we hit at Randall's Island at the John McEnroe Center. I lost the baseline game to him. won the next one though |
| 1:45.2 | so that was good and I also got it |
| 1:47.5 | he gave me some flyfish. How trendy are these hats? That's trendy. Wow. Flyfish club hat. I think you're guaranteed more than 50% off next time you go in. Yeah, I know. All right, little update coming up. We are going to do future episodes. We've got a secret Santa we're going to do. We've all been given a secret Santa. We don't know yet. The suits at Sift are doing things behind the scenes telling us who we got. So that's going to be exciting. We also have an award show next Friday. So on that award show, we're going to be giving out awards like, you know, best player, |
| 2:18.4 | worst take of the year, things like that. If anyone has ideas, any of the fans, let us know |
| 2:24.5 | what awards you would like. But for the award shows, right now we have host of the year, |
| 2:29.8 | moment of the year, best quote or one-liner the year. Worst player pronunciation of the year. |
| 2:36.2 | Wonder how that's going to go. |
| 2:38.0 | Worst take of the year. |
| 2:39.9 | So we're going to do all those. |
| 2:41.1 | And I'm reading this now. |
| 2:43.3 | If you head to nothing major show.com slash awards, |
| 2:47.0 | you can vote on those. |
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