{"id":3563,"date":"2019-06-17T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:44:11","slug":"podcast-episode-66-the-grass-is-greener-even-for-a-few-dirtballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/podcast-episode-66-the-grass-is-greener-even-for-a-few-dirtballers\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 66: The Grass is Greener, Even For a Few Dirtballers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 66 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>, starts with a discussion about Matteo Berrettini, the Italian clay specialist who proved himself a dangerous competitor on the Stuttgart grass last week. We talk about the tactics that work on grass, and how those sometimes overlap with clay-court strategies, despite the differences between the natural surfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also cover Andy Murray&#8217;s return to the doubles court, Murray&#8217;s possibly-tour-best lob, the Herbert-Mahut split, the indoor hard court matches at the Nottingham grass court event, the excellent Nottingham final between Caroline Garcia and Donna Vekic, and finally, the US Open&#8217;s decision to allow coaching from the stands at this year&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3563-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode066.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode066.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode066.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 64 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-episode066.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 66 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, with Carl Bialik of the Thirty Love podcast, starts with a discussion about Matteo Berrettini, the Italian clay specialist who proved himself a dangerous competitor on the Stuttgart grass last week. We talk about the tactics that work on grass, and how those sometimes overlap with clay-court strategies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/podcast-episode-66-the-grass-is-greener-even-for-a-few-dirtballers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 66: The Grass is Greener, Even For a Few Dirtballers<\/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-3563","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\/3563","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=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}