2026 Roland Garros Round QF Recap, Flying Zverev & Fallen Sabalenka | Something Major | EP 181

**Stevie** (0:00)
As the afternoon sun bakes the iconic red clay of Roland-Garros, as we get to the business end of the year's second slam, the city of lights has been too bright for some of the game's biggest stars, but that opens the door for a new conqueror of clay. On the men's side, there has been carnage on the clay to the likes we've never seen before. Will Zverev finally get that elusive grand slam win, or will the bright lights prove to be blinding in his efforts? For the first time since 1977, no slam champions remain on the women's side. Who of the remaining four competitors trying for glory will seize the moment and capture their maiden slam title? As we approach the end of this event, we will see heartbreak, triumphs and two competitors etching their names in the history books. Roland-Garros once again delivers what is the ultimate test of physical and emotional and mental endurance that leads to immortality as a grand slam champion.
That's it. Are you done? That's it. Okay. Huh. No.
Yeah, screw you guys.
You know what I was thinking? Actually, I wanted to I wanted to message Lefkoe and be like, send me something. And then I wanted you guys to have like make fun of me for it. And then be like, well, Adam wrote it. So you guys don't like him, but I just didn't have enough time.

**Sam** (1:19)
You got you. John said you were so insecure there for a second.

**John** (1:22)
Yeah, you did.

**Stevie** (1:23)
Yeah, you weren't like, I was like, oh, man, I worked hard on this.

**Sam** (1:26)
No, that was lengthy, dude.

**John** (1:27)
A little long winded.

**Sam** (1:28)
No, but a good like the effort. How was that?

**John** (1:30)
It was a hell of an effort.

**Stevie** (1:31)
I had to cut some pieces this morning. I had a big piece on Sabalenka. She blew it for me. Wow.

**Sam** (1:36)
Lefkoe thought, OK, so great.

**John** (1:37)
It.

**Lefkoe** (1:38)
So my first thought was I thought we were matching it up to video. And so I thought it was the second tennis channel video thing.

**John** (1:46)
Yeah, we will be.

**Sam** (1:47)
It will be.

**Lefkoe** (1:48)
We are. That's going to go over. So there's a penalty.
But but because, OK, so typically you had a lot of good lines and it's but then you also had the details where if you were doing TV, Stevie, you go like the beautiful lines. And then when you come on camera, then it would be the Sabalenka and all that. Don't get upset. Why are you getting?

**Stevie** (2:09)
No, I'm not. I'm just saying, like, this is why I'm never going to be a host.

**Lefkoe** (2:14)
OK, but also I think you summed it up really well. I thought that you really captured it so much so that I might steal some of it.

**Stevie** (2:22)
I'll send you my notes, please.

**Lefkoe** (2:24)
Dropbox. Would you sponsor drop a lot of sponsors?

**Sam** (2:28)
A lot of great sponsors.

**Lefkoe** (2:30)
I'm going to give it you could use upwork and I'm going to give it a 7.7 penalty. Whoa, come on. You can't make that worse than John's. John's was tight. John's was emotional. He did. Your performance was cleaner, but you went it went longer than the allotted time.

**Sam** (2:48)
Stevie went into the third game of the match.

**Lefkoe** (2:50)
Right.
We might be on walkouts already, and now I got to get it. Hurry up. Hurry up. So you just want to beat John is what I'm realizing.

**Stevie** (2:58)
That's it.

**Lefkoe** (2:59)
Don't hate me.

**Stevie** (3:00)
If you said 8.8, I would have been stoked.

**Lefkoe** (3:02)
Damn.
I'm a tough grader. All right.

**John** (3:05)
Sorry.

**Stevie** (3:05)
I'm sorry. That's all right.

**John** (3:07)
All right.

**Lefkoe** (3:07)
Thanks. Everyone hates me now.

**Sam** (3:11)
Tough day for Lefkoe.

**John** (3:12)
But he gives an honest, frank opinion.

**Stevie** (3:15)
Hey, honest. Honest is always. Honesty is the best, best policy. OK, I don't like it.

**John** (3:20)
But with that, thank you, Stevie. Welcome back to Something Major.

**Sam** (3:24)
I'm tight. Our boss at TNT is just watching us.

**John** (3:27)
Yeah, yeah. He's like he's on the other side of the screen. He wants to create a performance here.

**Sam** (3:34)
Yeah, I'm so nervous.

**John** (3:35)
Yeah.

**Stevie** (3:36)
The posture is pretty good.

**John** (3:37)
Yeah.

**Stevie** (3:37)
Yeah, seriously.

**John** (3:38)
This is like he's like staring right through us. No, say, Craig, stay, stay, stay. You totally say, you know what? He's getting some chips.