Prakash Amritraj Joins! Are Tsitsipas & Rublev Back? Alcaraz Shines at World Cup Final! | EP 197

**John Isner** (0:00)
Coming up on Nothing Major, we are joined by a very, very special guest today. It's going to be awesome. We're also going to go over some of the results from last week on The Dirt, plus a hardcore preview ahead, of course, of the US Open. It's all ahead on the show. Let's get it started.

**Sam Querrey** (0:17)
Jack, John, Stevie and Sam got close a few times, never won a slam, Nothing Major.

**John Isner** (0:23)
All right, welcome back to Nothing Major, everyone. John Isner here, Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson, the team at SIFT Creative. Before I introduce our special guest, who's here with us right now, I want to congratulate Spain on the World Cup win. I forgot about the wild card wheel thing we did, guys. I landed on Spain.

**Steve Johnson** (0:43)
Congrats, John.

**John Isner** (0:44)
I feel like that should negate my Wimbledon bracket loss.

**Sam Querrey** (0:48)
No, it shouldn't.

**Steve Johnson** (0:49)
You feel like it should, but it's not going to.

**John Isner** (0:51)
Okay.

**Sam Querrey** (0:53)
We're in such a boring team. I wanted our team to win so bad.

**John Isner** (0:55)
They were kind of boring. They just sound defensively. Sound defensively.

**Steve Johnson** (1:00)
Our Tatina Gulley was electric.

**Sam Querrey** (1:02)
The SGA of the NBA of like soccer.

**John Isner** (1:05)
Yeah, no, he was good. But speaking of the bracket, to our participants that won, be on the look for an email from the suits. It's taken a while because on the men's side, there was a four-way tie, so we had to figure out who won the tiebreaker, but that's coming your way. Those tennis warehouse gift cards are coming your way. Congratulations to all the winners. But without further ado, our special guest who's just been chilling with us for the last 10 minutes, none other than Tennis Channel's own, the legend himself, Prakash Amritraj. Thank you, dude. Welcome to Nothing Major.

**Prakash Amritraj** (1:44)
Boys, boys, cannot tell you how excited I am to be with you guys. John, we've had a lot of good breakfasts in Europe.
I mean, how good were those breakfasts in Europe? It was pretty good.

**John Isner** (2:00)
For those who don't know, during Roland Garros, Sam, myself and Prakash, we were at the same hotel. I was having a lot of breakfast gains, we like to call them, with Prakash. I try to keep up with him. I like to lift a lot of weights. I'm like one-tenth of the way where Prakash is. He weighs his food in the morning.
Your breakfasts were legendary, like grilled chicken, potatoes, what else do we go look for?

**Prakash Amritraj** (2:26)
My call times were like, I think, 10.3 or 11 I usually do cardio, eat and then lift. I was up at 4.3 each day during Roland Garros. We got some good time in there. Q and I got some good time in on the tennis court the other day. Stevie J, you're the only guy not in the Prakash mix. And you're the only token in the group.
So I don't know what's going on.

**Steve Johnson** (2:51)
Just I'm busy at home with the kids, you know? I'm just busy at home.

**Prakash Amritraj** (2:55)
You got an army over there. Respect. Respect.

**John Isner** (2:58)
I'm a little disappointed you're not doing this podcast shirtless, Prakash. Want to see those pecs? See those lats?

**Prakash Amritraj** (3:05)
Let me tell you something. Just outside the office door there, you'd be proud of the little home gym setup.
You'd be proud.

**Sam Querrey** (3:11)
I bet it's so dying.

**John Isner** (3:15)
If anyone ever sees Prakash around a tennis tournament, a good thing to do is go to him and just squeezes quads.

**Prakash Amritraj** (3:22)
Yeah.
We're in the media broadcast center at Wimbledon, all suited and booted. Forget who I was having some sort of a serious conversation with someone. I don't know. I forget who it was, but I just remember it was really serious. All of a sudden, some guy comes up and just squeezes my hammy from behind me, and it's cute. On his way to the ESPN studio, just a little squeeze.

**John Isner** (3:49)
It's made out of granite, isn't it Sam?

**Sam Querrey** (3:51)
Yes, it is.

**Sam Querrey** (3:53)
It's a joke.

**John Isner** (3:54)
His legs are so strong.

**Sam Querrey** (3:57)
Well, let me ask you that when I did see you, you're one of the most well-dressed guys, if not the most well-dressed person in all of tennis. Right now, you got a hoodie on.
How many suits do you have at the house?