Podcast Episode 18: A New Season Attacks

Episode 18 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik, is our attempt to cover four months of tennis in 75 minutes. We fail, of course, but en route, we have plenty to say about Nick Kyrgios, some other rising men, and the fate of the WTA’s counterpunchers. We also discuss the Match Charting Project, to which you should contribute.

Unfortunately, there’s some mechanical buzz on my side of this recording, for reasons I haven’t yet identified. We’ll be back in early February with another episode–and, we hope, no extraneous noise. As always, thanks for listening!

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Update: Thanks to FBITennis, here are timestamps and an outline of this episode:

Nick Kyrgios (Brisbane/Aus Open) 1:01
Match Charting Project 13:34
Kyrgios vs. A. Zverev 21:54
Going for Broke on 2nd Serve 22:58
World Tour Finals “Big Four” (Goffin, Thiem, Zverev, Dimitrov) 25:00
Del Potro Masters/Majors Potential 36:27
WTA – Who Wins the Slams? 40:29
WTA – Dark Horses (Konta, Goerges, Garcia, Barty) 49:15
Shenzhen Finals – WTA Chaos 52:14
Tennis TV /WTA TV 57:48
Hopman Cup/Experimental Formats 59:44

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