Episode 41 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, focuses on the man of the hour, Alexander Zverev, who defeated Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic to win the season-ending event and record his career-best result. We discuss how he did it, and what it says about his chances to take a step forward at majors in 2019.
We also talk about the opportunity for longer-format matches at the Tour Finals, especially in doubles, and the questionable aggregate stats that TennisTV introduced during the week in London. Finally, we cover the plans for the first ATP Cup in January 2020, as well as a quick preview of this weekend’s Davis Cup final between France and Croatia.
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(Note: this week’s episode is about 61 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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