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Nothing Major

177: 2026 Roland Garros Round 1 Recap & Round 2 Predictions | Something Major | EP 177

Nothing Major

Sift Creative

News, Sports, Tennis, Sports News

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Something Major is officially back. John, Sam, and Steve return from Paris to break down a chaotic opening round at Roland-Garros: surprise exits, brutal heat, questionable scheduling, and a few retirement-era feelings creeping in. Paris also says goodbye to Stan Wawrinka and hometown hero Gaël Monfils, who may have given the fans one last classic five-set battle.

The guys revisit Medvedev’s latest clay-court disaster, while somehow Sam still thinks he’s got a chance against Sinner. They also break down Basavareddy’s fearless drop-shot clinic against Fritz and Casper Ruud surviving heat issues, a fourth-set bagel, and still finding a way through in five. 

On the women’s side, most top seeds handled business before Genie Bouchard joins the show to break down the draw and make her pick for the title... a pretty popular one!

Plus, things get predictably sidetracked with heat complaints, stomach issues, and Sam accidentally eating 30 multivitamins because he thought they were gummy candy... just another completely "normal" pod episode!

00:00 Something Major is BACK!
01:54 Stan / Monfils Last Dances
04:50 Court Placement Debate
06:21 Monfils Sendoff
07:56 Record Heat at Roland-Garros
09:03 Top Seeds Cruise and Ruud Survival
11:29 Americans and Rising Teens
13:33 Medvedev Shock Exit Debate
15:12 Sam's BIZARRE Vitamin Mishap
19:20 Women's Draw
20:24 Svitolina Survives
21:50 Americans And Upsets
23:52 Mens Round 2 Preview
26:58 Genie Joins Pod
30:15 Hockey Bar Detour?
30:51 Wrap Up

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on Something Major, the Roland Garros edition is to round one recap and round two preview.

0:09.1

Let's get it started.

0:10.6

Jack Jones, Stevie and Sam, got close a few times, never want to slam.

0:15.7

Nothing major.

0:16.5

All right, welcome back, everyone, to Something Major.

0:19.4

John Isner here with Sam Quarry, looking dapper in Paris at Wallangeros. So we get Stevie Johnson. Should have put a suit on for this. I feel like, you should have. That should have been a nice touch. Thursday, put a suit on. Thursday, I'll wear the suits right here behind me. I'll put a suit on, suit and tie on for you guys. We'll keep it classy, round two. And obviously we're joined by the team at SIF, Charlie Fox and the team at SIF Creative. I would appreciate if they wore suits too. They probably are behind the scenes. They are the actual suits. Yeah, they are. Yeah. So anyways, let's get this something major started. I feel like it's been a long time because it has been a long time since January. Yeah. Doing something major. Sam, how's it going here so far at RG? I think how's it going? Forget the tournament. How's it going for us? It's good. Day three here, it's, well, day three, it's day like six. We did a few things for Bleacher Report beforehand.

1:12.2

Round ones are over now. It's been hot. It's been like 90 degrees. Everyone is, we've been

1:17.7

sweating on set, but it's been fun. It's been good. We had a dramatic match last night with

1:23.3

Monfis, but we'll get into it now. Let's get into it. You want to start or you want to like... I want to lead with Stevie from over there in L.A. Obviously, it's a bit difficult to watch the early matches, I would imagine. I don't think you're getting up at 2 a.m. to watch Roland Garros. No, it's a little early for me 2 a.m. But, you know, the other way, I'm catching a lot.

1:45.0

You know, I'm waking up at like five anyway, so I'm still catching a lot of the tennis, and it's just kind of on all day. You just catch the matches, you pop into one, and you kind of see it through. Yep. When Stevie, I think the, well, I'll speak for Sam here, I think the big stories, there's two big stories on day one,

2:01.0

and that is the Roland Gros farewells for Stan Vaubrinka, obviously the 2015 champion,

2:07.6

and Gail Montfiz, who both go out in the first round, Stan in four sets,

2:12.7

Monfees in five sets, Bagel in the fifth.

2:16.5

I guess putting the matches aside, Steve,

2:19.6

like what do you, for these two players,

2:21.6

what do you think they have meant to this tournament in particular?

2:26.0

Let's start with Stan from your perspective.

2:29.3

Yeah, it's remarkable what he was able to achieve there.

2:33.1

Funny enough, I actually played him in a third round the year he won a title. Forget what year it was now, maybe 2015 or 16. 15. 15. So, you know, and at the time. He crushed you. And the bull race. Oh, dude, no, no. Yeah, yeah. but i'm saying at the time you know i was in

2:51.6

the third round like you know stan can have some off days he's like one of those guys that could

2:55.4

have an off day so i was like i felt pretty good we're playing on the old bowl ring court i'm like

2:59.3

okay maybe stan has like an off day i can feel pretty good and lo and behold i was down six three

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