Episode 94 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik, of the Thirty Love podcast, is all about injuries.
Carl and I use the fitness sagas of Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal as a springboard to talk about injury management–the way in which players handle constant nagging injuries, whether that means adapting their tactics, changing their pace, rearranging their schedule, or just plain suffering. We also wonder how much undisclosed injury and fatigue affects match results, or if commentators focus too much on questions of physical readiness at the expense of talking about the tennis itself.
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In housekeeping notes:
- If you’re not already listening to Expected Points, my 3- or 4-minute daily podcast covering the latest numbers in tennis, you should be. Click for today’s.
- The TAP book club will reconvene in a few weeks with our next selection, John Updike’s 1968 novel, Couples. Read along with us, tell us what you think, and suggest topics/questions/comments for our discussion in a future episode.
- Fans of the TA podcast will also want to check out Dangerous Exponents, Carl’s and my Covid-19 podcast. Later today, we’re releasing a new episode about hygiene theater and Covid absolutism, in which we talk a lot about measures that have long been known to be effective, but are frustratingly absent from most official recommendations and public discussion.
(Note: this week’s episode is about 49 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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