2026 Wimbledon Round 3 Recap, Alex Eala Euphoria, Medvedev Madness | Something Major | EP 191

**Sam** (0:00)
All right, everyone, on today's episode of Something Major, we're recapping round three of Wimbledon. Let's get into it. Jack, John, Stevie and Sam, got close a few times, never won a slam, nothing major. All right, welcome back. Got the usual crew, Stevie, John, myself, Charlie Fox, the team at SIFT. Round three is almost done. We are recording right now. Francis Tiafoe and Bublik are still playing, and Berrettini and Dimitrov are also still played. We're going to talk about those matches as we get into it, but they might not be done by the time we are done filming.
Update on the, happy July 4th, by the way, everyone.

**Stevie** (0:36)
Thank you.

**Sam** (0:37)
It is July 4th, my bad. I should have.

**Stevie** (0:38)
Don't bury the lead there.

**John** (0:40)
Jeez, jeez.

**Sam** (0:41)
Wow. I did.

**John** (0:43)
Where's your patriotic garb?

**Stevie** (0:45)
Where's your bow tie?

**John** (0:47)
I know, I was going to talk about that.

**Stevie** (0:49)
That was a bad look.

**Sam** (0:50)
No, it wasn't. That's tough.

**John** (0:51)
I'm horrendous.

**Stevie** (0:53)
Oh man.

**Sam** (0:54)
It was a Fourth of July look.

**Stevie** (0:55)
Who okayed that?

**Sam** (0:57)
I okayed it and then I pulled the room and it was like a 70, 30 yes.

**John** (1:02)
Okay, question. Did you do it to be funny or did you do it because you think it's a good look?

**Sam** (1:07)
I did it because it was slightly patriotic. And then when I had it on, I also liked the look.

**Stevie** (1:12)
I'm not against the bow tie. I would have just liked to seen maybe more patriotism like in the jacket or something to pull it all together.
It just felt like suit and like just bow tie. Like throw me like a red and blue pocket square or something.

**John** (1:25)
Bow tie doesn't scream patriot. It screams Western, which is American.

**Stevie** (1:32)
Yeah, but you gotta throw something more patriotic.

**Sam** (1:35)
I bought this for your wedding.

**John** (1:36)
I know, I know, I know. It's pretty cool.
I think it would have paired better if you had like a plaid jacket or something. Your jacket was too shiny.

**Sam** (1:45)
Yeah, totally. I totally agree on all fronts. I just, I really wanted to wear it too. Jason Goodall, I walked in. I was like, what do you think of this, Goodall? He's like, this is an embarrassment to everyone in the industry. Yeah, have you never seen someone so disgusted by an outfit?

**John** (1:56)
Oh man. But he was being serious?

**Sam** (1:58)
Yeah, he's the best dresser of all time, you know?

**John** (2:00)
I know, but he wasn't like just like, he actually thought it was horrible.

**Sam** (2:04)
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

**Stevie** (2:05)
I wish you would have worked with him today.

**John** (2:06)
One more question for you, Sam. Have you noticed animus with the brits over there towards us Yankees from escaping their tyranny 250 years ago?

**Sam** (2:17)
No, and in fact, in the media center, they had a giant American flag cake for everyone to enjoy today.

**Stevie** (2:23)
Wow. Huh.

**John** (2:25)
Yeah, who's the daddy now?

**Sam** (2:28)
The Brits like the Americans. They all want to be us, you know? They're envious of our air conditioning.

**John** (2:34)
They very much so.

**Sam** (2:35)
Our soccer team's now as good as their soccer team, which is kind of like weird, so.

**Stevie** (2:40)
It's uncomfortable.

**Sam** (2:40)
Anyway, let's get into some tennis.
We're going to break down the matches. First up, Novak Djokovic takes out Arthur Rinderknech, 7-5, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6. This was an exciting match. Rinderknech, Kinectin, whatever, pushed Novak in this one. First set goes to Novak, 7-5. After that first set, the IBM Watson X had Djokovic at an 82% chance to win the match and got a little tricky. Went to that 4-set tiebreaker. John, what did you think of this match? Djokovic, I thought, look, flawless against Sitsipas. How did you feel like he looked against Rinderknech?

**John** (3:23)
I thought he looked pretty good. I mean, the third set was a bit of a throwaway, right? Like he got down a break and it's like, all right, I'm likely going to beat this guy in 4 sets. That's exactly what happened. But, I mean, yes, any time you go 4 sets, it's pretty close, but the match was a lot closer than it actually seemed. I mean, Rinderknech, yes, when you win a set 6-1, that's pretty dominant. He won 10 more points during the course of the match than Novak. But the reason that Novak-