{"id":2241,"date":"2017-04-24T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T13:39:40","slug":"podcast-episode-4-la-decima-a-wild-fed-cup-weekend-and-sharapovas-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/podcast-episode-4-la-decima-a-wild-fed-cup-weekend-and-sharapovas-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 4: La Decima, a Wild Fed Cup Weekend, and Sharapova’s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Episode 4\u00a0of the Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, Carl Bialik<\/a> and\u00a0I desperately try to cover everything going on in tennis right now. We start with\u00a0Rafael Nadal’s Decima of Monte Carlo titles, along with the bizarre underperformance of the rest of the ATP elites.<\/p>\n

From there, we touch on various highlights from the weekend’s Fed Cup action, including our perspective on Ilie Nastase and the Romania-Great Britain tie he so shamefully overshadowed. Finally, we compare predictions for Sharapova’s comeback–for this week, the clay season as a whole, and the season in general. With Serena out and Maria (and soon Vika and Petra) back in, the WTA field leaves us with even more uncertainty\u00a0than usual.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode004.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Listen here<\/a>, subscribe on iTunes, or use our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n

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In the Episode 4\u00a0of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, Carl Bialik and\u00a0I desperately try to cover everything going on in tennis right now. We start with\u00a0Rafael Nadal’s Decima of Monte Carlo titles, along with the bizarre underperformance of the rest of the ATP elites. From there, we touch on various highlights from the weekend’s Fed Cup … Continue reading Podcast Episode 4: La Decima, a Wild Fed Cup Weekend, and Sharapova’s Return<\/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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","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=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}