{"id":3537,"date":"2019-05-13T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:34:25","slug":"podcast-episode-61-reading-rafael-nadals-tea-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/podcast-episode-61-reading-rafael-nadals-tea-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 61: Reading Rafael Nadal&#8217;s Tea Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 61 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>, struggles to draw conclusions from Rafael Nadal&#8217;s latest surprise loss in Madrid. The King of Clay has no titles in 2019&#8211;not even a clay-court final&#8211;but his longer-term track record still suggests he&#8217;s the favorite (or close) at Roland Garros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also cover the continued late blooming of Kiki Bertens, the surprise relevance of Roger Federer, the return of the always-dangerous Serena Williams, and the abysmal doubles record of Marco Cecchinato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3537-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode061.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode061.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode061.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 62 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-episode061.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 61 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, struggles to draw conclusions from Rafael Nadal&#8217;s latest surprise loss in Madrid. The King of Clay has no titles in 2019&#8211;not even a clay-court final&#8211;but his longer-term track record still suggests he&#8217;s the favorite (or close) at Roland Garros. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/13\/podcast-episode-61-reading-rafael-nadals-tea-leaves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 61: Reading Rafael Nadal&#8217;s Tea Leaves<\/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-3537","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\/3537","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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}