Episode 102 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast welcomes back Erik Jonsson (@erktennis), previously heard on Episode 77 of the show in November of 2019.
Erik is a longtime Challenger and prospect watcher, and he shares his thoughts on Lorenzo Musetti, Aslan Karatsev, Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Sebastian Korda, and more. We talk about how to identify future tour-level stars by watching Challenger matches, whether there is any hope of another top-tenner as short as Diego Schwartzman, why Sweden hasn’t produced a female tennis superstar, what constitutes a legit top-20 player, and much more.
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(Note: this week’s episode is about 64 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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Podcast housekeeping:
- The TAP book club is reading Arthur Ashe’s memoir, Days of Grace. I’ve posted a few notes about Ashe and the book here, and we’ll talk about it in a podcast episode next month.
- I’m 43 episodes into a short (~4 minute) daily podcast called Expected Points. Here’s today’s episode. I’m doing a daily baseball show, too!
