{"id":2496,"date":"2018-01-08T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2018-01-08T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T10:02:07","slug":"podcast-episode-18-a-new-season-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/podcast-episode-18-a-new-season-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 18: A New Season Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 18 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlBialik\">Carl Bialik<\/a>, is our attempt to cover four months of tennis in 75 minutes. We fail, of course, but en route, we have plenty to say about Nick Kyrgios, some other rising men, and the fate of the WTA&#8217;s counterpunchers. We also discuss the Match Charting Project, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/the-match-charting-project-quick-start-guide\/\">to which you should contribute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there&#8217;s some mechanical buzz on my side of this recording, for reasons I haven&#8217;t yet identified. We&#8217;ll be back in early February with another episode&#8211;and, we hope, no extraneous noise. As always, thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2496-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode018.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode018.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode018.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode018.mp3\">Click to listen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/id1223937610\">subscribe on iTunes<\/a>, or use <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/feed.xml\">our feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00a0<\/strong>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/fbitennis.tumblr.com\/\">FBITennis<\/a>, here are timestamps and an outline of this episode:<\/p>\n<table width=\"426\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"346\">Nick Kyrgios (Brisbane\/Aus Open)<\/td>\n<td width=\"80\">1:01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Match Charting Project<\/td>\n<td>13:34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Kyrgios vs. A. Zverev<\/td>\n<td>21:54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Going for Broke on 2nd Serve<\/td>\n<td>22:58<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"346\">World Tour Finals &#8220;Big Four&#8221; (Goffin, Thiem, Zverev, Dimitrov)<\/td>\n<td>25:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Del Potro Masters\/Majors Potential<\/td>\n<td>36:27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>WTA &#8211; Who Wins the Slams?<\/td>\n<td>40:29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>WTA &#8211; Dark Horses (Konta, Goerges, Garcia, Barty)<\/td>\n<td>49:15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shenzhen Finals &#8211; WTA Chaos<\/td>\n<td>52:14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tennis TV \/WTA TV<\/td>\n<td>57:48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hopman Cup\/Experimental Formats<\/td>\n<td>59:44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 18 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with\u00a0Carl Bialik, is our attempt to cover four months of tennis in 75 minutes. We fail, of course, but en route, we have plenty to say about Nick Kyrgios, some other rising men, and the fate of the WTA&#8217;s counterpunchers. We also discuss the Match Charting Project, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/08\/podcast-episode-18-a-new-season-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 18: A New Season Attacks<\/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-2496","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\/2496","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=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}