Early Round MAILBAG (Upsets: Jodar, Fils & Influencers) | US Open 2026

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1:00A lot of results went down even yesterday that people would not have had time to comment about. So I do want to run through some results at the top, especially because as expected, this has been an upset, riddled US Open. Just yesterday, just Thursday, we saw Hatchin' off over Felix, Ozealia Seam, Danesweeney over Lorenzo Musetti. Two very physically impacted matches. Felix was feeling dizzy. He was seeing spots. He didn't have much to give. And Musetti, for whatever reason, I don't know why, was conquered by the heat. It was a little bit shocking. You know, I've been in New York since the Sunday before qualifying week or fan week. And it has been cool. He has been spoiled with the weather. And then suddenly yesterday, it felt pretty oppressive with the heat and the humidity. It was mid-80s, but the humidity was really high.

2:02So Musetti collapsed and Danesweeney took full advantage. You know that he's not going to be affected by the heat. He's from Australia and is a physical animal, by the way. And I'm very happy for him. First major, round three. So those two results were what they were. Felix refused to talk about tennis in the Post-Match press conference. People were asking him tennis questions and he was like, why are you asking me about tennis? This was, I was dizzy and couldn't move and felt horrible. So it's not about tennis, understandable. We also saw Botic Von DeZontschel beat Alex Diminor. Incredibly the second top 10 win in his many weeks for Botic after beating Daniel Medvedev in Winston-Salem last week. But at this point, given what I've seen from Diminor in the last several months, I'm not really surprised when he loses, especially to someone with the talent of Botic. Just not a big shocker there. Zverev barely escaped. He's played two five setters.

3:05And I don't think he's been super hard done by the draw. Although Sanago can be pretty tough to play against, especially for spurtz. Sanago played Contan Alice and he just hasn't looked good, but he has moved through. Two late finishes. What kind of toll will that take on Zverev moving through? There's certainly draw opportunity for Sasha. There are once again no top 20 seeds remaining in his quarter. There's another result that I want to mention because it wasn't asked about. Mikkelsen over Nakashima. Now this is one that I don't think deserves to be put in with the major upsets that we've seen in this tournament, even though I had seen it framed as such. If Mikkelsen beat Nakashima two months ago, nobody would have thought anything of it. These guys have been on tour for a long time.

4:06Nakashima longer than Mikkelsen. Nakashima's 25. Mikkelsen is 22. But I have always viewed these two players on the same plane in the same tier, very close in level. Always, last, you know, three years, I've seen them as similar players. I am not suddenly going to be shocked that Mikkelsen beat Nakashima just because Brandon had a spectacular summer. It's unbelievable what Brandon Nakashima did. I'm not doubting that he hasn't taken a step up in his game, that he hasn't improved, and that he's not going to be a better player moving forward than the player he has been. I think that very well could happen. But a view on a player should not change so drastically because of three tournaments, which would have been Washington, Canada, and Cincinnati. The view on a player should not change so drastically that suddenly we are framing Mikkelsen over Nakashima as a huge upset. Mikkelsen over Nakashima has never been a huge upset and it wasn't two days ago either.

5:12I did get some questions about the influencer takeover at the US Open. I'll also address that before getting into your specific comments. First off, influencing is not for live audiences. Influencers are often a nuisance to the people around them. And I have been that guy, given what I do, talking into my phone and filming myself. I like to think that I've been relatively courteous, but sometimes it is unavoidable that you are not necessarily helping the people around you enjoy their time. Like that's just part of it. Now usually there is not such a gathering of influencers all in one place where it becomes a large scale problem, but maybe we've gotten to that point at the US Open. There are a lot of points I want to make here, but let me start with the why behind this.

6:16Why is this happening? This is happening because influencing works really, really well that every brand in the world has figured out that the most effective way to market and advertise is to attach yourself to another human being who other human beings have a connection to. It is more effective than any other kind of advertisement in the world. And that is why this is a 250 to $500 billion industry, which is a number that I didn't just pull out of my butt. I looked it up before I came on here and the number is courtesy of Goldman Sachs analysts. All right. Influencing works. You want to know another example of how it works? There is a massive line at the US Open in pretty much all hours of the day outside of one of their new food vendors called Salt tanks.

7:17What a salt tank. Salt tanks serves a $38 AUJU French dip sandwich with caramelized onions and horse radish. I tried it on Monday of qualifying week. It's good. Didn't change my life, but it's quite good. At face, this is not a very attractive proposition. It's incredibly expensive for any kind of beef sandwich. I don't I think do they use rib eye? I don't know what the what the actual beef is. I forget, but it's an expensive sandwich. They don't serve anything else on the menu. So if God forbid, you would like again, anything else other than a French dip sandwich, you are out of luck. If nobody knew about salt tanks, I don't think there would be a line for salt tanks.

8:19I simply don't. The thing is a lot of people know about it because it's gone very viral and it's gone very viral because of mainly food influencers, which has become massive. And I follow quite a few myself and enjoy some of that content. That's why people know about salt tanks and are lining up for it at the US Open. So influencing works and all the all the US Open has to do is credential these people essentially let them in for free. They're not giving them special access. They're not allowing them into press conferences or anything like that. That's not the purpose of them. They're just giving them a free ticket. And in part, these people are going to market and bolster the brand of the US Open as an event. But understand why the US Open would want some of this. And then there's FOMO and then there's jealousy and then there's I want to be like that person. You know, you kind of get it.

9:22Now some of this is intentional from the US Open. I also want to point out that some of this isn't some of these people who are being annoying in whatever way, filming themselves, taking pictures with honeyduses by going down, you know, to court level, even though they're technically seated in row Z, but they're going all the way down to the court so that they can snap a picture. And then the security guard has to go up to them and say, Hey, what are you doing? Go back to your seat. Some of these people are probably not credentialed influencers and they paid for a ticket. Some of them might have 2000 followers and they are just trying to build their social media presence or present what they want to present on social media. Some of this is within the US Open's control because they have credentialed a lot of influencers. I think around 100 up from 50 from last year. Some of it is not now.

10:22There's also and maybe this isn't fair. There is a natural jealousy here and I'm saying natural because I actually don't think it's like an unreasonable jealousy. I actually think it's a very reasonable jealousy of seeing these people who are getting free, a free pass into this event that they don't fully appreciate in some cases or can't fully appreciate in some cases. And they're there for the status and they're there for the Instagram post where there are other people where who going to the US Open and these are more so the people who are watching and listening to this show. It'd be the highlight of their year if they can get to the US Open. Maybe they're priced out or maybe they can't deal with the travel but they could if they were to get a free ticket. So I totally understand the optics of that.

11:24Like aren't you here, the USTA with their mission and all of that? Aren't you there to serve the sport, the tennis fan? The thing is they are also there to drive the revenue of their event obviously. And I think the influencer, like embracing the influencer culture of it all, I think helps them make more money. So that is obviously what this is all about. I think they should credential fewer influencers. I think we've seen that it can affect the experience negatively and I actually don't think it's as necessary for them to get people in for free as they might think because everybody who's going to the US Open and this kind of goes back to my original point, everybody go into the US Open is influencing. It doesn't have to be the Instagram lifestyle influencer who is unbelievably attractive.

12:27It doesn't have to be that person necessarily. So maybe an adjustment is in order, but I do think it's fascinating that this has become such a massive talking point. All right, I want to get to your comments. But first let's talk about traveling right now. I am in New York, obviously for the US Open. That is a domestic trip. But tennis does take me internationally sometimes. And if you're going to travel, you're really going to want a mobile connection for your phone at an affordable price. Bailey is a new ESim service app brought to you by the creators of Nord VPN. It allows you to choose from several affordable ESim data plans in over 200 destinations. If you're coming to the US Open, salient users can now get a US phone number through the app. So you don't have to pay roaming fees, wait in line at the airport for a SIM card or worry about your privacy on sketchy Wi-Fi. The way it works is you download the salient app available on iOS or Android, choose a

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14:32This was pretty hilarious. Right. Come on. This was pretty funny. Very hard to explain. As far as Hodor's performance, he says that he wasn't injured. He says that he wasn't sick. Not that he outright denied it. It was a very short and feisty press conference from Rafa Hodor. But the point is there's no obvious explanation for why he played as badly as he did. He was terrible. Obviously, you see the score line. Boo is a rock solid player. He does not give you a lot for free when he's at his best. Lucky loser. Boo is a little bit scary with nothing to lose mentality, which Boo would have come into this match with. He's playing with house money. He was actually down a set in 4-2 in his first round of qualifying. Lost 7-5 in the third in Q3. Got in because Tinasse Kokonakis withdrew, unfortunately.

15:34This was Boo's first slam main draw win. He hadn't played a tour level match since the Australian open. But he is a rock solid player. I think the best thing to sum up Hodor's performance is I think he went through about eight or nine rackets over the course of this relatively quick in some ways, 3-set match. That just goes to show you couldn't feel the ball, couldn't find his range, and couldn't make anything, and couldn't figure out why because he was frantically sending rackets back to the stringer and just like going through his entire racket bag, he was completely perplexed. It was like he forgot how to play. Very very strange stuff. This isn't, I don't think this is an explanation at all, but there was a lot of waiting around for this match to be played all throughout Tuesday, and then they didn't play it until Wednesday. Actually relatively late on Wednesday, like in the afternoon, and the winner, Hodor or

16:40Boo would have had to come back the next day and play another best-of-five set match. Did that create some anxiety for Hodor that he wasn't able to handle? Was it just the fact that he is a 19 year old and for the first time he comes into a slam and he has title contending expectations? Did he crumble under the weight of that? Maybe. You know, the thing is, all I can say is this, I, when Hodor exploded at the beginning of April, I think I was pretty cool. I was pretty patient as to not jump to conclusions, and I'm always looking for holes to poke. I'm always looking like when a young player breaks through, is there some physical frailty? How's the endurance? How's the ability to handle pressure once people actually expect you to win? Once people are actually, you know, figure out your game and have a game plan for you. So it requires a lot of patience.

17:44And I actually think I've been pretty patient with Hodor and I want to just communicate how the last six months have gone, how consistent the last six months have been a stat that I gave out initially, I think in some of my preview content, was that Hodor went since March. So from the beginning of April to now, he had won two matches at every single tournament he played against opponents outside of the top 100. Twenty and two this year, the two losses are to Alexander Blocks, who's really going to be, I think, finished the year in the top 30. Alexander Blocks in the final of Canberra back in January and Mochizuki at Wimbledon, a surface that Hodor just hasn't really familiarized himself with and Mochizuki on grass is

18:46a beast. So Hodor is a guy who up to this point just doesn't really take bad losses. I was amazed that week after week after week after week after week, he was upset proof. I was looking for signs that he was getting tight under pressure that the expectations were getting to him or that physically there was a vulnerability and I just couldn't find it. I don't know what to make of this, right? Now, now here's what the question is, if you're going to poke holes. Now it's, you could make the argument at Roland Garros, he got lucky against Pablo Karan Yabusta, who, who's shoulder started to act up on him, but he did not play well in that match. Wimbledon, he took the early loss to Mochizuki and at the US Open, he has the no show here against Boo Yuchau Kete. So now you're like three majors in a row where you can poke holes. Now with Roland Garros, it's a bit of a stretch. He made the quarter finals at, at 19, kind of a good result, but that's the whole you

19:51could poke and Hodor now. That is a puzzling, horrible performance for the 2024 Junior US Open Champion, Alad. So it's, you know, I don't know. I do not know, but came out of nowhere, shocked, buy it, obviously, and let's, let's see where we go from here. Now one of the funny things is with the US Open so far this year, I think we went in on the men's side and we thought, okay, more, there is a larger group of feasible title contenders than what is ordinary. Probably got to about seven names, maybe eight. Who is looked good in this group? Alcharez and Fritz. That's it.

20:51Zverev hasn't looked good. Joke which lost, feast lost, Hodor lost, right? Three of those guys first round. So about half of that group has crashed out spectacularly and quickly, which is pretty amazing. Zverev is a little bit, again, he's just squeaked through. Shelton's looked okay. Nothing super out of the ordinary for Shelton. He's played some bad sets, but he's played more good sets. So I guess Shelton's looked fine. Let's get to this other upset because we go to our next comment. It comes from Pan Flute. Could you comment on the match between TTCPoss and Fees? The head-to-head was 40 for the French. I actually think it was 5-0, by the way. And TTCPoss overall record at the US Open looked hopeless. How did he manage to turn the tables this time? And is his slice backhand finally showing signs of life? Things from Finland love your content. Love your content.

21:52Thank you. Yeah, there were a lot of ingredients that made this pretty shocking. The head-to-head not only was at 5-0, Fees, their Miami meeting was love and one. That was only six months ago on the same surface. Fees Cincinnati Champion. A set and five two up. If it were 5-3 apologies, but he was obviously to five games served for two sets to love lead. Pretty high on the scale of upset. There's no doubt about it. Now TTCPoss has had some big wins this year. It certainly hasn't been a consistent season that has really put him back on track to be a top 20 player as a whole. Now obviously if he makes a huge run at the US Open, you can kind of blink and suddenly he's back there because there are so many points on offer. But TTCPoss's elo is 28.

22:53But if I look at, I'm doing this on the fly right now, if I look at top 20 wins this year, there's five of them. I mean, that's a healthy number. He's beaten Fritz, Medvedev, Demonore, Bublik, and then Fees. So he's been kind of dangerous. That's because of the forehand. I think the forehand has been a lot better this year than it was last year. Maybe the first serve as well, although I'm not as convinced there. And I think he protected his backhand well in this match. I think Fees had something to do with it where Arthur was kind of too quick to go inside in at times, right? If you go inside in against TTCPoss, you better make sure you're going to put him in a desperate position because he is so good moving to his right to hit his forehand. He is very quick to cover that space as well. So just stay in the inside out. Makes Definos come up with something on the backhand. TTCPoss definitely stung Fees a few times with the backhand down the line. But you have to have the wear with all to stick with that pattern and basically tip your

23:58cap and dare TTCPoss. If TTCPoss is going to beat you with his backhand down the line, you can sleep well at night. That's almost never going to happen. And I thought Fees was sometimes a little bit mindless about where he was going with the ball given TTCPoss's uneven nature off the ground. I also think TTCPoss did a lot on his own to take his backhand out of play. When he's hitting that sharply angled forehand cross court, it becomes pretty hard for Fees to justify going down the line. When he's under pressure on his forehand and especially when he's pulled out wide on his forehand, what's he going to do? Hit it softly or kind of like trade that ball down the line just to find TTCPoss's backhand and basically open up this like really wide open avenue for TTCPoss to hit the backhand cross court and get Fees on the run. It's not really realistic. So I think TTCPoss was able to challenge Fees forehand to forehand and bring enough quality

25:04in that pattern where it was often very hard for Fees to have a say and get the rally onto Stephanos' backhand. And again, just to hammer it home, that is all set up by the ability for TTCPoss to break the left sideline with quality. And when you can go hard at Fees' big forehand weapon, it's often a huge bonus. I mean, so many guys are afraid of it and they play Fees' backhand and Fees has a perfectly fine backhand that he can trade with you cross court and kind of like wait for the opportunity to get his forehand and it's probably not the best way to play Fees. If you have the firepower to do with it, if you have the firepower to do it, go hard into the forehand and make him if your TTCPoss make him play into your forehand as a result.

26:06That's what Steph did really, really well in this match. Now with Fees, let's go to the next part of it kind of zooming in on our tour. He said he got tired. He said he ran out of energy. This has been the concern. I think for Fees, I said it's kind of a prove it in best of five. You got to prove it because there have been enough now. Not that it's not that I don't think it's something that he's going to work out. And if you look at the number of majors he's actually played, not a lot. He's missed five out of the last six until this US open, which is a big part of it, not a lot. Not plenty of time to figure this out, but given the kind of visceral, physical and emotional energy that he tends to play with, more physical by the way, because I think emotionally, he's toned it down a little bit. But given that, it's always been a question mark. How are you going to manage best of five set tennis, the long game?

27:07How is that really going to go for you? And so far it just hasn't gone well. He's something that he hasn't figured out yet. Best of five tennis. So let's see if it comes at some point, but disappointing loss after the Cincinnati title for Arthur Fees. And I'm very curious to see how T. T. Paz Fares against Uriel Hachka. That'll tell us a lot. From Member Given, what did you think of Ferrer's presence in Alcaraz's box? I know he's one of your favorite players. I'm always happy to see this. Always warms the heart to see Ferrer around tennis. But he is the Spanish Davis Cup captain. So I think that might have been mostly the reason for it. I don't know that Ferrer is doing any kind of specific work with Alcaraz, but I suppose it's a question worth asking.

28:08Ferrer may have just simply been there in his capacity as the Spanish Davis Cup captain though. It's nothing really to read into. It will continue to be interesting though to see if Alcaraz adds a second piece to help out Samu Lopez. Because I did watch some Carlos practices. I guess this is also notable. I haven't seen Ferrer at an Alcaraz practice. It's been Alvaro and Samu. Will they add another? Let's see. From Jack, hey, go players have blamed the rise in injuries on the balls, rackets, schedule and two weekmasters for a while. But losing Sinker as for most of the year, along with constant injuries to rising stars like Fis and Fonseca, make it feel like an actual emergency. Do you see 2026 as the wake up call for the tour? What will it actually take for the ATP to step in and change things?

29:08That's the problem. There are no obvious fixes to me. Now give them credit on the balls. Maybe they could still do a little bit more quality control on the balls to pressure the manufacturers to make sure that their product is really up to snuff. But as far as standardizing the balls, you can put a check there for the tour. They did it. They've basically done it. Maybe the grass court swing, they haven't quite standardized it yet with Wimbledon using Slashinger. But other than that, they have accomplished that mission. And that for a time was sort of the complaint du jour. Rackets. What is the tour going to do about rackets, right? They're not. What are they going to mandate? Natural gut. No tensions above 50. Not realistic. Nobody would want that. Two weekmasters. We've talked about it for a while.

30:08That is going to be a hard thing to unwind. A very hard thing to go back on. Contractually. Here's why I might have hope. I'm not trying to doom right now. The hope is that staying healthy is a competitive advantage. And when there is a competitive advantage, the athletes will innovate in order to exploit that advantage. There's already a high level of professionalism on tour. They all put in a lot of hard yards in the gym when it comes to injury prevention and everything of the sort. But do they need to go even further? I have knowledge that a top 20 player who had a lot of injuries last year has completely altered his physical training regimen to take load off. What does that look like?

31:08Instead of running, maybe you do stuff on the bike, which is lower impact. Instead of three cone drill where you're shuffling back and forth, whatever, you're doing things in the pool, low impact. So there are certain things that you can do because you're getting beat up so heavily on the court. The logic is off the court. Let's take a little bit of that shock value off the body. Things like that. This is just one example, one anecdote of a, again, a top 20 player trying to find an advantage in health because there is no better availability. Wait, what's the term? Damn. Brad Gilbert would be very upset with me. The best ability is availability. That's the, that's the saying. The best ability is availability.

32:11If all of these world class athletes with all the resources they have make it a primary mission to avoid injury, I have faith that they will find ways to make it happen. And that is where I would offer some hope. After what has been, I agree with you. I agree with Jack who made this comment. A tough year, a year that has felt largely disappointing as far as the product goes overall because of injuries. And I am hoping it's an outlier. I am hoping it's a one off. And that hope is rooted in the possibility that first of all, we've had some bad luck, which is part of the injury equation. And second, we're going to have innovation on the side of, let's say, the players. Think about, for example, Jack Draper deciding that full polyester string bed is not going to be the way to go.

33:12All right. Next one is from 1k1g. Why are players that retire in qualifying eligible to enter the main draw as lucky losers? I thought about this for the first time when I saw Otto Vyrtonin who had retired before the qualifying final against Amitrov. But then featured, I think he would, he actually gave a walk over. He didn't even retire. He never took the court. I do understand his reasoning. He was the number one seed in qualifying. And it's highly probable that some player will pull out. So why bothering to plan extra match and risk injury if you will get in regardless? I actually messed up and cut off this comment in my screenshot. However, isn't this a bit against the spirit of competition? So the tournament allowed this at the end of the day. Qualifying games are part of their product and a player pulling out affects it would love to hear your take on this. And thanks as always for your content. Well yeah, this happens and every time it happens, everybody looks at it sideways and rightly.

34:15So a couple of a slight correction here. So Vyrtonin first of all was the nine seed in qualifying. And the way it works among all of the players who have lost in the third round of qualifying, the slam, the slam rule book states that they're going to take the top four highest and randomly, randomly select one of the four. So that's very important. You're never going to be in a position where you are guaranteed that you get the first lucky loser spot by losing in qualifying. They have created a system where they do reward a higher ranking, which I think is fair. I think they should, but they don't reward it so much that if you have a high ranking, you can pretty much save your body in the third round of qualifying. So that is all to say that although it feels like maybe they should put in a rule that prevents this from happening, just to be really safe and to kind of reward, to make sure

35:18that players don't come into the first round just to collect a check because that's really my concern where I retired or I withdrew in Q3, but there's, they're dangling $140,000 of prize money by losing in the first round. So even though I'm injured, I'm still going to take this lucky loser spot. And that is the occupational hazard. That is why I actually think they should make a rule against this. But I do want to say when it comes to Otto Viertin, there's no way that he retired or, sorry, withdrew against Demetrov because he wanted to because he felt like it. He was 100% injured and I did see the match before. Who did he play? Tomic, I forget who he played. I was watching him in the match before and he was not moving around very well. He's so talented he managed to, excuse me, he managed to win the match anyway and then he went up two sets to love against Rublev in the first round.

36:21Viertin is not playing the system here. He was truly injured and then you get three days, right? He didn't play for, I think it was three days. That can make a huge difference, especially when it's a back injury, which I think it was for Viertin. No foul play there, but just to make sure that all of the players who are coming into the first round of the main draw are actually healthy, I would support a rule that prevented this from happening. You have to complete your Q3 match in order to be eligible for a lucky loser spot. From Drew, Gil, I'd love if you touched on the DOM vs. Tiafo match specifically DOM. Is there a top 30 player there? The weapons and spot serving was alarming in my opinion. Kind of a shame that Nervs got the better of him late because those service games were super impressive. Also love your work on the radio. You always bring so much to the broadcast. Thank you so much. Yeah, everybody, US Open Radio is on the app.

37:22It's also on ESPN plus and it's on tune in and it's on satellite radio. I encourage you to give it a listen to my very best to enhance the broadcast as best I can. So Tiafo DOM was a match that I saw every point of I was court side for that and the serving was very impressive for the big left-hander. Also Tiafo, as we've covered in the past, a combination of his anticipation. He really likes to guess one way or the other. He stands pretty close. He doesn't have a big wing span. He's offensively minded when it comes to the first serve return. He's trying to take time away. He is the most asable player if not one of the most asable players on the tour. No surprise that DOM was able to really drive up that number and get a ton of unreturned serves. And with I was having conversations with people ahead of this match and saying precisely

38:23that that if Tiafo just makes a lot of returns in, he's going to win this match easily, but that's a big if and it turned out Francis had a lot of trouble making as many of as many returns as he would want. Now once DOM gets into points, it's very hot and cold. And that's why he's been somebody who just throws in maybe one loose service game per set. He's never going to be a great mover or much of a defensive player, but when he puts the offense together, it's quite good. He hits big off the ground. He comes forward. He adds some pretty shaky moments at the net, which cost him against Tiafo in this match, but it was definitely striking just how much of a passenger Francis was in this match. A lot of the times it really felt like he was relying on just volume of balls in play. DOM will make some mistakes and that was the blueprint for Francis to Francis's credit.

39:25He played some very clean sets here, especially down the stretch, especially in the fifth set. And that was certainly enough. I do see a potential certainly I see a potential top 30 player in Martin DOM because if he can polish things up at the net and honestly with his footwork, because a lot of the inconsistency off the ground comes down to the fact that he just is pretty imprecise with his positioning. So if he can polish the footwork, get a little bit better on the volley. He doesn't ever have to be a guy who breaks serve a lot or plays good defense. And I think he can be a top 30 player just off of his weaponry and his firepower. Absolutely, I see that potentially for DOM. He's still got plenty of time. All right, I am just about done. Yeah, I'm going to, we've gone pretty long. I'm going to wrap it up there. I will have, I believe, a third round show coming for you.

40:26I'm going to do the best I can to get a podcast out after the third round. But it's always always a little bit challenging. I am working pretty long hours. So expecting a third round show, but hope you enjoyed this. Don't forget to subscribe and I will see you next time.