2026 Roland Garros Recap: Sinner’s Heat Problem, Sabalenka’s Mentality, Fonseca Arrival & More
6/9/202659 min
The wildest Grand Slam in years is in the books, and the SERVED crew breaks down all of it. John Wertheim joins Andy Roddick and Producer Mike fresh off two weeks at 2026 Roland Garros to unpack a French Open that flipped every expectation upside down. We dig into Zverev's breakthrough and the binary, pass-fail pressure he faced, Andre Agassi's pointed comments about Jannik Sinner's physical breakdown and the teenage takeover led by 19-year-old Mirra Andreeva, rising stars Fonseca, Jodor, and Kouame. Finally, Andy and Jon get into the conversation everyone's waiting for: is Serena Williams really coming back? COMMENT BELOW: Who are your favorite stories from the 2026 French Open? 📩 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 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 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Ads 0:24 Welcome to Served 2:30 The Most Unpredictable Major in Years 4:08 Sinner's Heat Issue 13:28 Record Five-Setters at RG 14:48 The Tournament That Felt Like the '90s 16:37 Inside Zverev's First Major: Joy & Relief 26:01 The Youth Movement & Mirra Andreeva's Run 28:31 Andreeva's Well-Rounded Game 31:34 Fonseca, Jodor & Brazil's Rising Stars 37:07 Questions Looming Over Women's Tennis 39:33 Chwalinska: The Cinderella Story of Roland Garros 43:39 Serena Williams' Comeback: Is It Real? 48:50 Andy Moderates the Rafa Nadal Documentary Q&A 52:35 Bracket Challenge Winners 54:27 Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsAndy Roddick· Host0:00
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Jon Wertheim· Host0:29
It's been a long time.
Andy Roddick· Host0:30
Actual Tuesday release, uh, brought to you by ServiceNow. As always, please subscribe. Uh, thank you for those of you who joined us for the last two weeks, uh, over on Quick Served. Uh, back to a, a more regular cadence, although we're ... There's a lot of stuff cooking. We might have, I don't know, we, we have a lot of stuff. I don't know if we can get it in in just a- We got a lot of stuff going on before- ... weekly ...
Jon Wertheim· Host0:50
Wimbledon.
Andy Roddick· Host0:51
Yeah, a lot of stuff. Uh, Jon Wertheim, back with us. He's had a very quiet week. No one's mentioned his name- [laughs] ... for any reasons at all. Um- [laughs] Everything's fine. Right, Jon?
Jon Wertheim· Host1:04
It's fine. The warm bath of tennis. [laughs] I don't know what you're ... I was just watching matches. I don't know what you're referring to.
Andy Roddick· Host1:09
Yeah, no one does. We'll just, nothing to see here. Uh, JW, listen, you were around the grounds- Quite a lot ... for the last, uh, couple of weeks. I, I guess just a, like a lazy question, I should be better than this, with, uh, a journalist of your caliber, but, like, what were some of your,