149: Shelton Thrills in Dallas, Kyrgios Joins the Bald Club & Locks of the week | EP 149
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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In this episode of Nothing Major, John Isner, Sam Querrey, Jack Sock, and Steve Johnson recap a packed week across the ATP and WTA tours, highlighted by an electric all‑American Dallas final where Ben Shelton outlasts Taylor Fritz in a dramatic three‑setter after saving match points. They also break down Alex de Minaur’s straight‑forward win over Felix Auger‑Aliassime in the Rotterdam final and Francisco Cerúndolo’s title run in Buenos Aires. On the WTA side, they cover Karolina Muchova’s Doha 1000 title over new top‑10 member Victoria Mboko amid a tournament full of upsets.
Stevie’s Stats, Johns Serve Bot of the week & Sam’s Query returns, as well as a debut for Jacks Flowers.
They close by previewing the week ahead in Doha, Rio, Delray Beach, and Dubai and make their “locked in” picks for the upcoming titles.
00:00 Welcome Back + What’s Coming Up This Week
00:49 Explaining the ‘Major Match’ Bachelorette Dating Segment
03:36 ATP Week Recap: Three Finals, Top Seeds Collide
04:21 Dallas Final Breakdown: Fritz vs Shelton Thriller
07:16 Dallas Crowd Moments + Cowboys Coach Cigar Story
11:21 Rotterdam Final: De Minaur’s Clinic vs Auger-Aliassime
14:03 Buenos Aires: Cerúndolo Wins at Home on Clay
15:50 WTA Doha 1000
18:07 Major News: Kyrgios & Draper Join the Bald Club
20:14 On-Court Milestone: Marin Čilić Reaches 600 ATP Wins
22:01 Active-Wins Context + Stan’s Chase
24:41 Major Opinions Kickoff: Stevie’s Stats
25:46 Serve Bot of the Week
26:40 Jack’s Flowers
27:17 Sam Querrey’s Query: Favorite Tennis Couples on Tour
29:12 Week Ahead Preview: Doha, Rio, Delray & Dubai Breakdown
35:37 Locked In Picks
37:45 Wrap-Up:
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Nothing Major, we are back and bringing you all the segments from last Monday. |
| 0:05.5 | We're going to unpack all that happened on the WTA and ATP tour, including an amazing final in Dallas between the top two Americans. |
| 0:14.3 | So let's get this show going. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome back, everyone, |
| 0:23.6 | the nothing major. |
| 0:24.4 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:25.5 | John Isner here. |
| 0:27.7 | A little horse. |
| 0:29.0 | Can you guys detect that? |
| 0:30.9 | Get a little something here. |
| 0:32.4 | May oral duties in Dallas. |
| 0:34.0 | Bear with me. |
| 0:35.7 | The whole crew is here. |
| 0:39.3 | Charlie Fox and the team at Sift Creative. Before we dig in to all that happened last week, |
| 0:43.1 | it was a really, really busy week on the tennis tours. |
| 0:47.4 | We want to go over what we are doing with our major match segment, or as Sam likes to call it, our lovemaking segment, |
| 0:57.0 | which he teased last Friday. So Sam, I'm going to give the mic to you here to describe our |
| 1:06.7 | major match segment or whatever episodes that are coming up in the near future here. |
| 1:14.2 | This is how it's going to work. This is going to be great. So our applications for bachelorette's |
| 1:18.0 | closed tomorrow. You have 24 hours to submit your applications to be our bachelorette. We've got |
| 1:23.4 | some great ones already. We've thrown them in the group chat. Yeah. We actually have one, |
| 1:26.8 | I think, that we that we is a front runner right now. she's going to be tough to beat i'm not going to tell everyone but |
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