140: 2026 Australian Open Round 2 Recap & Australian Pet Peeves | Something Major | EP 140
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Australian Open is underway, which means we’re back with Something Major, our round-by-round recap and preview show.
Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson, Jack Sock & John Isner kick things off by going over some of their Australian pet peeves, we then break down all the news from Round Two on both the Mens & Women’s draws and Sam gives us some inside stories from being on the ground in Melbourne.
We then round things off with an update on the bracket draw.
Since the time of the recording the bracket standings have changed slightly, to check out all the latest in the bracket draw head to: https://bracket.nothingmajorshow.com/nothingmajor
00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
00:15 Jacks Injury
01:44 Australian Pet Peeves
06:24 Match Highlights and Analysis
09:52 Rising Stars and Breakthrough Performances
16:00 American Players' Performance
17:23 Sinner's Victory and Duckworth's Exit
17:40 Funny Encounters and Inside Jokes
19:58 Upcoming Women's Third Round Matchups
20:33 Veteran Players' Remarkable Performances
21:17 Coco Gauff's Dominance and American Women in Tennis
23:53 Non-American Women's Top Performers
25:01 Bracket Standings
25:31 Men's Third Round Matchup Predictions
28:57 Women's Third Round Matchup Predictions
30:22 Closing Remarks
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everyone, on today's episode of Something Major, we're going to recap round two of the Australian Open. |
| 0:05.6 | We're going to take a look at the bracket, and we might go over some Australian pet peeves. |
| 0:15.5 | All right, everyone, we're back. I got John Isner, Steve Johnson, and in the red Nebraska shirt, Jack's sock, Charlie Fox, and the team at Sift are with us as always. |
| 0:28.2 | First, little update, Jack, how's the hamstring? |
| 0:30.2 | I didn't even know you hurt your hamstring in the finals of the pickleball event last week. |
| 0:33.4 | Are you okay? |
| 0:34.5 | Brutal, honestly. |
| 0:36.5 | Still, yeah, dude, like on match point, the entire week, |
| 0:41.3 | matchpoint of the finals against the, |
| 0:43.8 | against Hayworthy, |
| 0:44.9 | I slid to a ball trying to get to it. |
| 0:46.7 | And at the end of the slide, |
| 0:48.4 | while in the splits, |
| 0:49.3 | I don't know, |
| 0:49.8 | I don't think it popped, |
| 0:50.7 | but the excruciating pain still struggling to walk much um yeah sitting sitting |
| 0:58.0 | here doesn't feel great either so if i'm moving around some i just got like move my leg a little bit |
| 1:02.5 | but uh if you venmo is there he'll probably send the um oh it's true yeah ready you know that's true |
| 1:08.8 | um think of all dangerous you guys you guys got it is dangerous |
| 1:12.8 | sport i'll hold on to it for a year and then they go send it back i'm i still want that |
| 1:19.0 | ninety eight dollars sam but it's all good yeah you might get eventually uh all right you notice |
| 1:23.1 | i got a different background today i was in the bathroom the last episode i got a little pet peeve |
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