AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2026 RECAP: Evolution of Excellence, Alcaraz & Rybakina, & More

Served with Andy Roddick

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Sports, Tennis, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Andy Roddick and Jon Wertheim dive into the past 2 weeks of the 2026 Australian Open to discuss the strange cadence of this year’s slam, how the excellence of modern players has evolved from generations past, & what this "festival-model" of a tennis event does for the sport of tennis as a whole. TAKE OUR SURVEY: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8634892/Served-Research COMMENT BELOW: What was your favorite moment of the 2026 Australian Open? 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Hey, everyone, welcome to Served, brought to you by Service Now.
0:39.2	If you've been with us for the last two weeks, you see Techie Sean, you see producer Mike, you see us all at our home setups because we are snowed in.
0:50.0	And the return, the women's prediction champion.
0:57.6	J.W. at about 4.30 in the morning in Australia before he gets on his flight to come home.
1:02.3	What up, J.W. How are you guys? Great job holding down the fort. Fun tournament, eager to vacate this hotel room. How are you guys?
1:12.1	We are good.
1:18.8	So we've been kind of spending a lot of time breaking down matches and, you know,
1:24.2	it gets to the point where the field thins out and you can kind of be hyper focused on the matchups. But I think what we should do, especially because you've been down
1:29.1	there covering the tournament on site for SI and for Tennis Channel and for, I mean,
1:35.1	there's probably 18 other jobs that you have, you know, on top of 60 minutes and so on and so
1:40.7	forth. But I kind of want to take a step back from finals
1:46.9	and the reactions to Carlos and Rabakana winning
1:50.6	and Novak making final.
1:52.3	Obviously, I'm sure we'll get to those as well.
1:54.7	But let's take a two-week view of some storylines
1:58.0	from the Aussie Open JW.
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