145: 2026 Australian Open Finals Recap! Carlos Alcaraz Makes History | Something Major | EP 145
Nothing Major
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The Australian Open has now concluded, which means this is our final Something Major Episode of the tournament.
Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson, Jack Sock & John Isner break down all the news from both finals, including the match of arguably two of the greatest athletes on the planet, Novak Djokovic & Carlos Alcaraz - Who both were competing for history!
They also give their thoughts on Rybakina potentially competing for the World No.1 spot, after her fine run of form continued as she took out the current World No.1 Aryna Sabalenka to become champion in Australia.
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We will be back on Friday with Nothing Major!
00:00 Introduction
00:39 Novak Djokovic's Remarkable Performance
03:11 Carlos Alcaraz Shines
04:37 The Longevity of Novak's Career
06:28 Speculations on Novak's Future
12:21 MGM Slam Event Preview
15:31 Women's Final Recap: Rybakina vs. Sabalenka
16:30 Rybakina's Dominance
17:35 The Best Serves in Women's Tennis
19:58 Comparing Rybakina to Sabalenka
21:10 Debate: Career Slam vs. Most Majors
22:45 Bracket Challenge
25:07 Final Thoughts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, on today's final episode of Something Major, we are going to recap the men's and |
| 0:05.0 | women's finals of the Australian Open. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back. We got the four of us here, Jack, John, Stevie, Charlie Fox, a team at Sift. |
| 0:18.4 | The Australian Open is now over. |
| 0:21.4 | The men's final just finished. |
| 0:22.7 | We're recording this, I don't know, finished like an hour or so ago. |
| 0:26.5 | Carlos Alcaraz wins 26, 6-2-635 over a 38-year-old Novak Djokovic, one of the most amazing performances, honestly, that we've ever seen in our sport from Novak. |
| 0:40.5 | Before we get into Carlos, I'll go to John first. |
| 0:43.4 | Just, I was just like, describe what we just saw from Novak's, 38 years old. |
| 0:47.7 | The fact that he beat Sinner in the semifinals, he's in the finals. |
| 0:51.7 | It's just been a remarkable two weeks for Djokovic. Yeah. I mean, |
| 0:55.5 | it's just otherworldly stuff from him. And you really can't be surprised. He's doing this at almost |
| 1:00.6 | 39 years old. It was absolutely remarkable. Going into that semifinal match, he was not playing |
| 1:08.0 | his best. We all know that. He probably should have been |
| 1:10.9 | bouncing the quarterfinals, completely turns that around, flips the script on center, |
| 1:16.2 | plays a tactically perfect match against center in the semifinals. I know you guys talked about |
| 1:22.4 | that, but how he's able to still sort of, in a sense, reinvent himself and have more in the tank at this |
| 1:30.1 | advanced age at these huge tournaments is crazy. It's like it's something we've never really |
| 1:34.7 | seen before on the men's side in our sport. Just truly dominant. And when you talk about like great |
| 1:42.6 | athletes, I think anyone that talks about just |
| 1:44.5 | greatest athletes of all time, if he's not on your Mount Rushmore, then you're just |
| 1:48.8 | absolutely insane of just great athletes. He's that remarkable. I know he came up short in this |
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