Episode 49 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, focuses on Carl’s time at the second edition of the ATP New York Open. We discuss the breakout performances of Reilly Opelka and Brayden Schnur, whether professional men’s doubles is entertaining, and if a black tennis court is necessarily as fast as it looks.
We also talk clay courts: another title for late-blooming Marco Cecchinato, the difficulty of measuring the impact of surface speed, and the potential for clay court tactics like wide ad-court kickers and aggressive drop shots.
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(Note: this week’s episode is about 58 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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