2026 Australian Open Draw Show: Sabalenka, Alcaraz, & The One-Point Slam

Served with Andy Roddick

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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FILL OUT YOUR OWN BRACKET HERE: https://served.bracket.tennis/ Andy Roddick and Jon Wertheim take part in one of our favorite Grand Slam traditions — the Draw Special, now for the 2026 Australian Open! Andy and Jon break down the entire men's and women's draw ahead of the start of the AO, analyzing key matchups, potential upsets, and who they think will lift the trophy on the last Grand Slam of the year! COMMENT BELOW: Who do you have winning it all in Melbourne? Learn more about ServiceNow here: https://www.servicenow.com/?campid=271869&cid=pc:brd:brnd:served:26q1:paitwfp_audioredirect_PAITW2_GAI_PAITWFP_HostRead_:none:br_ams:awa&utm_medium=podcasts&utm_source=served 📩 Sign up for the Newsletter here: https://servedmedia.substack.com/ Check out some Served Merch: https://store.servedpodcast.com/ 📱If you're new to the Served with Andy Roddick, we're happy you're here! Follow us for more: https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast/ https://x.com/Served_Podcast https://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast Theme music composed, produced, and mixed by Dan Whittemore. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwhit.wav/ ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Ads 0:28 Welcome to Served 1:40 Roddick reacts to the $1M One-Point Slam 7:30 The Rules of the Bracket Challenge 13:30 Picking the Women’s Draw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Hey, everyone, welcome to Served.
0:37.3	This is it.
0:38.7	It's the draw show.
0:40.5	Let's go.
0:41.8	J.W.
0:42.4	and I will look like idiots in like 10 days is how it normally works.
0:47.8	J.W., what's up?
0:48.9	How is it down under?
0:50.6	It's lovely down under.
0:52.0	So far, it has not been scorching hot. I don't know if you want to incorporate that into what we're going to do for the next hour. But lovely country, lovely city, and it has been, it has been lovely climate so far. You haven't tested the wet bulb temperature yet? Oh, God. I mean, we just... Our intern, our intern, our wet bulb intern is... We have an app to social. I will tell you, though, like, Australia, as much as any place we played, like, the variance, it could be... I played night sessions there. I remember I played this guy Zaboletta one time, like, one of my first years down there. We played a night session. It was like 52 degrees. It was legit cold. And then, you know, the other way literally I say this and it's, I say a lot of stuff that's for effect. It feels like you're playing in a hairdryer sometimes. Like the variance is actually pretty significant. But anyways, what are we, oh, you have well before that you want to talk about the one point slam. Oh, that was awesome.
1:45.2	You have our friend Jordan Smith.
1:46.3	Can I get props?
1:47.0	Yeah, yeah, Jordan Smith props.
1:48.8	But him props, it's literally like winning like 27 coin flips.
1:54.9	And what a win.
1:58.4	Like, easy entertainment, not a big ask of the players. You can put in celebrities
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