Episode 75 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, starts by previewing the new Tennis Abstract player pages, which you can expect to see roll out over the next few days. Look forward to tons of new stats, plus new ways of looking at traditional numbers.
Most of the episode is devoted to our US Open preview. We consider much Novak Djokovic’s chances are hurt by the draw, in particular his likelihood of facing Daniil Medvedev again in the quarter-finals. We highlight some notable early-round matches in both the men’s and women’s draws, and talk in further depth about Coco Gauff, Sloane Stephens, Serena Williams, Karolina Muchova, and Su-Wei Hsieh.
Finally, we touch on the lingering Serena/Ramos controversy (the focus of an upcoming Thirty Love episode) and which players were worth watching in last week’s qualifying rounds.
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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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