135: 2026 Bold Takes, Djokovic Split & United Cup | EP 135

Nothing Major

Sift Creative

News, Sports, Tennis, Sports News

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The guys kick off the new year by diving into Novak Djokovic’s split from the PTPA and what it means for players and the tour. They then break down the United Cup and early-season storylines as the tennis calendar gets rolling again. The episode wraps with bold 2026 predictions and classic Nothing Major debates on what’s officially peaked — from convertible cars to the entire country of Greece.

We are back on Friday with an interview with Next Gen champion, Learner Tien!

00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
01:48 Upcoming content
04:30 Novak Djokovic and the PTPA
10:13 Sinner & Alcaraz exhibiton
12:15 Injury Updates and Player Withdrawals
19:57 Wild Cards and Tournament Predictions
22:49 United Cup Discussion
25:39 Comparing United Cup to Hopman Cup
27:34 Bold Predictions for Tennis in 2026
34:28 Things That Have Peaked
42:08 Conclusion

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, everyone.
0:01.0	Yeah, it's, sorry, sorry, my bad.
0:04.0	Go on.
0:05.0	Go ahead, Sam, I'm gonna zip it.
0:09.0	You got to pee?
0:10.0	Nope.
0:11.0	All right, on today's episode of Nothing Major, first episode of the year.
0:17.0	It's a fun episode.
0:18.0	We've got some bold takes from the four of us. We're gonna to go over things that have peaked, not tennis related, just anything that has peaked. We're going to talk about the United Cup. We got Brisbane underway, Hong Kong underway. Let's get going.
0:35.2	All right, everyone, we're back. First of the year.
0:39.5	The two-week hiatus is over.
0:46.6	Hopefully everyone enjoyed those couple episodes, the last couple of Fridays of the best moments of the year, fun interviews of the year.
0:47.8	We are back.
0:53.3	I got John Isder, Jack Sox, Steve Johnson, Charlie Fox, and the team at Sift.
0:55.5	How's everyone doing? I mean, I've... Happy New Year. But yeah, happy, happy new year. That's what they say. That'll go on for another
1:00.0	month in tennis. At least, at least mid-February. It's true. It's out of control in the tennis
1:05.9	world. Too much. I mean, if you don't see someone in Australia, if you just happen to not run into
1:12.3	him or maybe if someone was hurt and then the first time you see him is March, they'll give you
1:16.0	a happy new year. Yeah. I'm not afraid. I'm done. Obviously, today's Monday. Yesterday was my
1:22.5	last day of saying happy new year. Yeah, I think we talked about this before. Maybe it's like a
1:26.7	three day grace period of happy new year and then no more i'll accept a week if you tell me happy yeah but i'm done now
1:33.2	all right what's the what's the over on the uh all goods all goods how are your holidays and pre-season
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