AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2026: Quarterfinals Preview & Day 9 Recap

Served with Andy Roddick

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🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Andy Roddick and Producer Mike break down results from Day 9 of the 2026 Australian Open, covering the biggest results, standout performances, and storylines shaping the tournament. In this recap, they discuss Taylor Fritz falling to Lorenzo Musetti, Iva Jovic and her chances at beating Sabalenka, and the dominant performances from Sinner, Gauff, Shelton, Swiatek, Anisimova, & more. Andy and the team also talk about the quarterfinal matchups and which ones they are most excited for. This episode focuses on match context, player mindset, and how early-round results are setting up the days ahead at Melbourne Park. COMMENT BELOW: What was your favorite match from Day 9? Which matchups are you most excited for in the quarterfinals? 📩 Sign up for the Newsletter & Live Chat w/ us during matches! https://servedmedia.substack.com/ 📱 Follow Served with Andy Roddick: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/servedpodcast/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/servedpodcast.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@served_podcast 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Hey, everyone.
0:35.3	Welcome to Quixir, brought to you by Service Now, Day 9 Recap.
0:41.6	Sean, nice of you to wake up, buddy.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:45.8	We've been here waiting.
0:48.0	A little over-sleepy, Johnny.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.2	A little over-sleepy.
0:51.1	I still got so like eye crusties, I think.
0:52.9	Yeah, tell us more about your rest while we were waiting for you to come on. Yeah, I actually set my alarm for 7 p.m. not 7 a.m. I was rookie mistake. Which is, yeah, it's good. We were just, Mike, what were you doing while you were waiting for Sean? I was, it gave me a little bit more time to finish making breakfast for my human alarm clocks known as children. Yeah. Don't let me sleep past their biological requirement to wake up at seven. Good. Well, Sean, I'm glad that, I'm glad the kids, you know, there's no kids there to wake you up. I'm glad you got your rest, man. You look, you look beautiful. I appreciate it. Yeah. Don't know what to say. You're able to stay up late and be in the substack chat with the chuckers. Yeah. I mean, that like married no kid's life. He's going to get off of this show. He's going to go eat like a bag of cheesy poofs. Like, it's just going to be great. It's to be amazing oh man hey you know what i had fun
1:47.5	i had fun last night well it was a sub what what did we do i was responding to stuff i was chatting
1:54.5	felt like aOL in like 1999 i was just chatting with people chit chatting yeah yeah well You logged into our substack. Sean had set you up. The first Andy thought it was just like a sandwich place. But no, it's a chat place where our newsletter lives. It's a... It would be a great name for a sandwich place. Yeah, I feel like they might have already... I don't know that you'd be able to do that legally, just, but it is a great name for it.
2:22.3	Do you, do you know what I learned while doing that, the, A, you asked a great question of what people want to, or who you wanted us to interview next.
2:29.6	Yeah.
2:29.8	Yeah.
2:29.9	Yeah.
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