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143: 2026 Australian Open Quarterfinals Recap & Semi-Final Predictions! | Something Major | EP 143

Nothing Major

Sift Creative

News, Sports, Tennis, Sports News

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Get your MGM Slam tickets here! https://bit.ly/mgmslam2026

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 break down all the news from the QFs on both the Mens & Women’s draws, including more dominance for Sinner & Alcaraz & whether Novak & Zverev can challenge them in the Semis. Plus, they go over a big wins for Svitolina & Pegula and give their thoughts on Coco Gauffs racquet smash.

To check out all the latest in the bracket draw head to: https://bracket.nothingmajorshow.com/nothingmajor

00:00 Introduction 

00:37 MGM Slam Partnership Announcement

01:59 Discussion on the Australian Open Matches

02:43 Alcaraz vs. De Minaur Match Analysis

06:54 Zverev vs. Learner Tien Match Breakdown

10:22 Sinner vs. Shelton Match Recap

12:53 Djokovic vs. Musetti Match Insights

15:27 Novak Djokovic's Strategy and Fitness

17:15 Fun Segment: Best Hair, Carlos or Novak?

19:11 Mens Semifinal Predictions

20:13 Stevie's Stats

21:52 Women's Quarterfinals Recap

23:07 Coco Gauff Racket Smash

25:05 Women's Semifinal Predictions

31:26 Bracket Standings 

33:20 Closing Remarks 

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, everyone, on today's episode of Something Major, we're breaking down the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.

0:06.0

Let's go.

0:12.0

All right, welcome back, everyone.

0:13.8

I got John, Jack, Stevie, myself, all wearing black, or gray or dark, whatever.

0:18.9

Blue, blue, whatever. Blue.

0:21.2

Gray. Blue. I'm just saying there's two black, one gray, one blue. You know the brand? You know the brand? Anyone? Yeah. This is a sponsor of the pod, rag and bone. My pleasure that I got from them. Yeah, trendy, huh? Very trendy. Just wish you knew your colors. Yeah, yeah. Before we get into quarterfinals, we mentioned on the last one, the MGM grand event.

0:44.0

The MGM slam, March 1st.

0:45.6

We are partnering with that event, just so everyone knows, eight guys.

0:49.6

I'm going to read them again.

0:50.9

Fritz, Paul, Rude, Curios, Fonseca, Monfis, Mussetti, musetti bublich what a crew we're going to have exclusive

0:58.1

content i think we're going to have maybe like four of them on the pod for like little interviews

1:02.3

so stay tuned for that maybe not the full thing that we usually do but we are going to get them on here

1:07.6

so uh that's going to be unbelievable of those eight. I don't know what four

1:12.4

yet. We're figuring that out now. We've already had, I mean, we've already had Fritz, Paul, Rude,

1:18.4

Curios, Bublich. So that's pretty good. Five of the eight. This definitely shoot for the other

1:25.7

three. We're going to shoot for the other three.

1:47.1

And again, remember, we're going to run a competition to send one lucky winner to the event, flight tickets. We don't have that information yet, but we're getting it. I promise someone is going to be there. It's going to be awesome. I'll also be there. So I promise to say, say hi. We got the link in the description, all right, of the episode, right?

1:47.1

Check out the link in the description, all right, of the episode, right?

1:48.1

Check out the link in the description.

1:50.3

Grab your tickets, MGM slam in Vegas.

1:52.0

It's going to be great.

1:54.2

And again, we'll have some good content coming up.

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