Latest News: Isner & Sock Reveal They’d Love Benoit Paire as Their Real-Life Bestie
The Nothing Major podcast just served the most wholesome chaos of the off-season
By • December 6, 2025
Picture this: two retired American tennis legends sitting around, sipping coffee (or something stronger), and casually admitting the one player they wish they’d actually been boys with is… Benoit Paire. Yeah, the scarf guy. The vibe king. The human espresso shot.
Latest News: Why Benoit Paire, Though?
Let’s be real — Paire is the friend you want at 2 a.m. when you’re deciding whether to order another bottle of wine or start a band. The man wears scarves in Miami heat, live-streams his meltdowns, and once told the entire Hamburg crowd he was only there for the money. Iconic behavior.
Isner and Sock spent years grinding the American hard-court swing like the good boys of U.S. tennis. Meanwhile, Paire was out here living his best French chaos goblin life — late-night Paris dinners, Instagram poetry, and treating every match like performance art.
Translation: they want the vibe transfer.
Latest News: The Scarf Agenda Is Still Undefeated
X has been flooded with memes:
- Isner at 6’10” trying to pull off a silk scarf without looking like a magician
- Sock begging Paire for the link to his scarf supplier
- Fake dinner invites: “Table for three — two Big Americans + one French legend who will definitely arrive 45 minutes late wearing sunglasses indoors”
Latest News: The Bigger (and Sweeter) Picture
Beyond the jokes, it’s actually kind of wholesome. The tour is lonely. You see the same guys for 15 years, hit on the same practice courts, say “good match” a thousand times… but real friendships? Rare.
Hearing Isner — a guy who played 1,276 matches and literally broke records for longest match ever — say he wishes he’d grabbed dinner with Paire hits different. Same with Sock, who walked away at 30 to play pickleball and start a family. They’re basically saying: “We miss the chaos. We miss the fun. We miss him.”
Manifesting 2026: Isner, Sock, and Paire at a rooftop in Paris, scarves flapping dramatically in the wind, arguing about who has to pay the bill in French.
Someone slide into Benoit’s DMs and make this dinner happen. We’ll crowd-fund the wine.
Until then, keep streaming Nothing Major. The off-season has never been this entertaining.
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