{"id":3454,"date":"2019-03-11T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2019-03-11T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:46:50","slug":"podcast-episode-52-the-unpredictable-wta-of-osaka-stephens-and-sasnovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/podcast-episode-52-the-unpredictable-wta-of-osaka-stephens-and-sasnovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 52: The Unpredictable WTA of Osaka, Stephens, and Sasnovich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 52 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a> features guest co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBITennis\">Jeff McFarland<\/a>, the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/\">Hidden Game of Tennis<\/a>. We start with Jeff M&#8217;s origin story as a baseball analyst shifting to tennis, and then dive into a slew of WTA topics as we enter the second week of Indian Wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We start with Aliaksandra Sasnovich&#8217;s unusual <a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/aliaksandra-sasnovich-bagel-recipe\/\">proclivity<\/a> for losing 6-0 sets and the serve-return balance in women&#8217;s tennis that results in more lopsided set scores. Next, we consider Sloane Stephens&#8217;s latest early-round ouster, dismissing some of the theories that are often thrown around after such upsets. We also talk Osaka, and finish up with a speed round on Serena, Vika, and Danielle Collins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3454-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode052.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode052.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode052.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 70 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-episode052.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 52 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast features guest co-host Jeff McFarland, the man behind Hidden Game of Tennis. We start with Jeff M&#8217;s origin story as a baseball analyst shifting to tennis, and then dive into a slew of WTA topics as we enter the second week of Indian Wells. We start with Aliaksandra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/podcast-episode-52-the-unpredictable-wta-of-osaka-stephens-and-sasnovich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 52: The Unpredictable WTA of Osaka, Stephens, and Sasnovich<\/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-3454","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\/3454","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=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}