Episode 40 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, starts with the Czech Republic’s victory in the Fed Cup final, and quickly diverts to a discussion of how we can evaluate players, and whether stylistic varietey is all it’s cracked up to be.
We preview the ATP Tour Finals, with a look at Djokovic, Federer, and a half-dozen dark horses, then discuss the plethora of experiments in progress at the NextGen Finals in Milan, including a fast-four-like scoring system, which neither of us are all that excited about, even if it’s supposed to make things more, well, exciting.
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(Note: this week’s episode is about 57 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)
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