156: Medvedev Top 3?, Indian Wells Thriller Matches & Toughest Life Advice | EP 156
Nothing Major
Sift Creative
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On this Friday episode of Nothing Major, Sam, Jack, John, and Stevie recap Indian Wells quarterfinals and preview the semifinals. They discuss Carlos Alcaraz’s excellence, Jannik Sinner’s dominant victory over Learner Tien, and the controversial Medvedev–Draper point involving auto line-calling and replay review, plus Zverev’s win over Arthur Fils.Â
On the women’s side, they cover Elina Svitolina upsetting Iga Swiatek & whether Rybakina is now the best player in the world.Â
The crew also answers fan questions about on-court distractions and post-loss tournament access, talks appearance fees and “prettiest” games on tour, and closes with life advice on college rivalries and a major career-versus-relationship dilemma.
00:00 Show kickoffÂ
00:59 Miami live show plans
02:41 Indian Wells vibes and celeb spotting
03:26 Carlos Alcaraz
05:58 Sinner dominanceÂ
08:03 Draper Medvedev controversy
12:26 Zverev serve talk and men’s quarters recap
13:40 Women’s quarters and Iga upset
18:21 Semifinal predictions and ticketing rant
21:50 Women’s semis picksÂ
22:58 Locked in recap
25:19 Crowd Noise Distractions
30:25 Hotel Perks Debate
33:48 Appearance Fees Stories
36:42 Prettiest Game Picks
37:45 Georgia vs Georgia Tech
40:25 Singapore Job Dilemma
43:41 Wrap UpÂ
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| 0:30.1 | All right. On today's episode of nothing major, we've got fan questions. We've got life |
| 0:35.7 | advice and we're going to give an Indianian well's update on the on the draw so |
| 0:39.7 | let's get going jack jones tv and sam got close a few times never want to slam nothing major welcome back |
| 0:47.6 | everyone to or sorry did i already do an intro not that i's it's all right i'm just going to go for |
| 0:53.2 | it all right everyone welcome back to nothing |
| 0:55.2 | major welcome back to nothing major our friday episode um got the whole crew here john jack stevie |
| 1:04.7 | myself charlie fox a team at sift uh major matches live came out a couple days ago. |
| 1:28.5 | Everyone seemed to like it. Hit the link to check it out. There were some twists and turns. That didn't go down as I thought it was going to go down. I don't know if you guys thought it went down, how you thought it went down. No spoilers. Never mind. Just have people watch it. It was fun, though. So go check it out. next weekend out next weekend or not next weekend this weekend we have a live show in miami i will not be there the three of you will be |
| 1:34.5 | there uh what are you guys looking forward to most about the live show in miami just two days away |
| 1:40.1 | it'll be we'll have it recorded by the way and, and you guys will, uh, everyone get to listen |
| 1:44.5 | to it. Yeah, I'm just like doing another live show. We did it at the, the U.S. Open. |
| 1:51.4 | And I just want to see what the, see what the, um, energy is like on the grounds here in Miami. |
| 1:55.3 | I know they're fired up for that tournament. Uh, looking forward to giving James Blake some |
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