{"id":2226,"date":"2017-04-11T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2017-04-11T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T16:27:41","slug":"podcast-episode-2-doubles-wild-cards-and-megastars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/podcast-episode-2-doubles-wild-cards-and-megastars\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 2: Doubles, Wild Cards, and Megastars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlBialik\">Carl Bialik<\/a> and I give some much-deserved top billing to doubles, especially new ATP No. 1 Henri Kontinen and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/the-worlds-best-mens-doubles-player-is-american-too-bad-he-doesnt-want-to-play-doubles\/\">Elo doubles favorite<\/a> Jack Sock.<\/p>\n<p>We also cover the role of megastars in tennis, and the benefits and challenges they offer to the sport&#8217;s promoters. As we discuss, big names may be key to expanding the appeal of doubles, and they are the one major argument for the continuing existence of wild cards&#8211;on whichever side of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/regulations-for-returning-rule-breakers\/\">the Maria Sharapova debate<\/a> you find yourself.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2226-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode002.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode002.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode002.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode002.mp3\">Listen here<\/a>, subscribe on iTunes, or use <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/feed.xml\">our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second episode of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, Carl Bialik and I give some much-deserved top billing to doubles, especially new ATP No. 1 Henri Kontinen and Elo doubles favorite Jack Sock. We also cover the role of megastars in tennis, and the benefits and challenges they offer to the sport&#8217;s promoters. As we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/podcast-episode-2-doubles-wild-cards-and-megastars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 2: Doubles, Wild Cards, and Megastars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,83,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubles","category-podcast","category-wild-cards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}