{"id":3139,"date":"2018-11-11T20:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2018-11-11T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T20:06:15","slug":"podcast-episode-40-fed-cup-the-atp-tour-finals-and-a-sandbox-full-of-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/podcast-episode-40-fed-cup-the-atp-tour-finals-and-a-sandbox-full-of-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 40: Fed Cup, the ATP Tour Finals, and a Sandbox Full of Rule Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 40 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, with\u00a0Carl Bialik of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thirtylove.libsyn.com\/\">Thirty Love podcast<\/a>, starts with the Czech Republic&#8217;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&#8217;s cracked up to be.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s supposed to make things more, well, exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3139-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode040.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode040.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode040.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 57 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode040.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 40 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with\u00a0Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, starts with the Czech Republic&#8217;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&#8217;s cracked up to be. We preview the ATP Tour Finals, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/podcast-episode-40-fed-cup-the-atp-tour-finals-and-a-sandbox-full-of-rule-changes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 40: Fed Cup, the ATP Tour Finals, and a Sandbox Full of Rule Changes<\/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-3139","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\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}