{"id":2287,"date":"2017-05-28T13:39:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:39:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T13:39:47","slug":"podcast-episode-9-roland-garros-preview-and-the-value-of-surface-specific-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/podcast-episode-9-roland-garros-preview-and-the-value-of-surface-specific-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 9: Roland Garros Preview and the Value of Surface-Specific Forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Episode 9 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 preview the upcoming fortnight at Roland Garros. We discuss possible threats to Rafael Nadal, likely beneficiaries of some wide-open sections of the draw, and a number of lesser-known names worth watching in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>We apologize for the sound quality this week&#8211;due to personal commitments, we had to improvise a bit, and it was either a podcast with subpar sound quality or no podcast at all. I think it&#8217;s still very listenable, but if you&#8217;re sensitive to that sort of thing, you may disagree. In any case, thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2287-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode009.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode009.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode009.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode009.mp3\">Click to listen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/id1223937610\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/jeff-sackmann-tennis-abstract\/tennis-abstract-podcast\">find us on Stitcher<\/a>, or use <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/feed.xml\">our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Episode 9 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, Carl Bialik and I preview the upcoming fortnight at Roland Garros. We discuss possible threats to Rafael Nadal, likely beneficiaries of some wide-open sections of the draw, and a number of lesser-known names worth watching in Paris. We apologize for the sound quality this week&#8211;due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/podcast-episode-9-roland-garros-preview-and-the-value-of-surface-specific-forecasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 9: Roland Garros Preview and the Value of Surface-Specific Forecasts<\/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":[41,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-open","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\/2287","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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}