{"id":3385,"date":"2019-02-18T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:23","slug":"podcast-episode-49-the-new-york-open-surprise-finalists-and-clay-court-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/podcast-episode-49-the-new-york-open-surprise-finalists-and-clay-court-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 49: The New York Open, Surprise Finalists, and Clay Court Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 49 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, with Carl Bialik of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thirtylove.libsyn.com\/\">Thirty Love podcast<\/a>, focuses on Carl&#8217;s time at the second edition of the ATP New York Open. We discuss the breakout performances of Reilly Opelka and Brayden Schnur, whether professional men&#8217;s doubles is entertaining, and if a black tennis court is necessarily as fast as it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also talk clay courts: another title for late-blooming Marco Cecchinato, the difficulty of measuring the impact of surface speed, and the potential for clay court tactics like wide ad-court kickers and aggressive drop shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3385-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode049.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode049.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode049.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 58 minutes long; in some browsers the audio player may display a different length. Sorry about that!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode049.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 49 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, focuses on Carl&#8217;s time at the second edition of the ATP New York Open. We discuss the breakout performances of Reilly Opelka and Brayden Schnur, whether professional men&#8217;s doubles is entertaining, and if a black tennis court is necessarily as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/podcast-episode-49-the-new-york-open-surprise-finalists-and-clay-court-tactics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 49: The New York Open, Surprise Finalists, and Clay Court Tactics<\/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-3385","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\/3385","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=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}