Episode 18 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik, is our attempt to cover four months of tennis in 75 minutes. We fail, of course, but en route, we have plenty to say about Nick Kyrgios, some other rising men, and the fate of the WTA’s counterpunchers. We also discuss the Match Charting Project, to which you should contribute.
Unfortunately, there’s some mechanical buzz on my side of this recording, for reasons I haven’t yet identified. We’ll be back in early February with another episode–and, we hope, no extraneous noise. As always, thanks for listening!
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Update: Thanks to FBITennis, here are timestamps and an outline of this episode:
| Nick Kyrgios (Brisbane/Aus Open) | 1:01 |
| Match Charting Project | 13:34 |
| Kyrgios vs. A. Zverev | 21:54 |
| Going for Broke on 2nd Serve | 22:58 |
| World Tour Finals “Big Four” (Goffin, Thiem, Zverev, Dimitrov) | 25:00 |
| Del Potro Masters/Majors Potential | 36:27 |
| WTA – Who Wins the Slams? | 40:29 |
| WTA – Dark Horses (Konta, Goerges, Garcia, Barty) | 49:15 |
| Shenzhen Finals – WTA Chaos | 52:14 |
| Tennis TV /WTA TV | 57:48 |
| Hopman Cup/Experimental Formats | 59:44 |