Episode 36 is a very special edition of the Tennis Abstract Podcast. I’m joined (in person!) by my co-host Carl Bialik ,of the Thirty Love podcast, along with Federer super-fans and stats junkies Edo Salvati (of settesei.it) and Sulaiman Ijaz.
With this overwhelming amount of analytical enthusiasm gathered around a conference room table in Helsingør, Denmark, we delve into the GOAT debate, trying to take a balanced approach despite our likely Fed bias. We consider the value of weighting slam titles for draw difficulty, the importance of weeks at number one, the surface balance of Masters tournaments … even the doubles prowess of the men in the conversation. We also speculate about the eventual career tallies of Nadal and Djokovic, and what might tilt the debate in a new direction.
This was a really fun episode to record, so I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we did.
(Note: this week’s episode is about 94 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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