{"id":3765,"date":"2019-11-10T17:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2019-11-10T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:52:27","slug":"podcast-episode-77-erik-jonsson-on-swedish-tennis-and-the-nextgen-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/10\/podcast-episode-77-erik-jonsson-on-swedish-tennis-and-the-nextgen-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 77: Erik Jonsson on Swedish Tennis and the NextGen Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 77 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a> is an interview with Erik Jonsson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erktennis\">@erktennis<\/a>), of <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisportalen.se\/\">Tennisportalen<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/tennisportalen.se\/category\/source\/\">Source podcast<\/a>, about last week&#8217;s ATP NextGen Finals, which included up-and-coming Swedish star Mikael Ymer. We talk about the stunning rise of Jannik Sinner, the progress shown by Alex De Minaur, and we consider the advantages and disadvantages of a whole slew of the rule innovations that are employed at the NextGen event in Milan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also delve into Mikael Ymer&#8217;s potential, whether older brother Elias could still become a top-100 player, and if there is any reason why so many prominent umpires hail from Sweden. Finally, we chat about Erik&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erktennis\/status\/1171511738082029570\">Tennis Hipster Handbook<\/a>, and we wonder whether it&#8217;s possible to follow tennis anymore without Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3765-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode077.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode077.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode077.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 65 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-episode077.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 77 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast is an interview with Erik Jonsson (@erktennis), of Tennisportalen and the Source podcast, about last week&#8217;s ATP NextGen Finals, which included up-and-coming Swedish star Mikael Ymer. We talk about the stunning rise of Jannik Sinner, the progress shown by Alex De Minaur, and we consider the advantages and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/10\/podcast-episode-77-erik-jonsson-on-swedish-tennis-and-the-nextgen-finals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 77: Erik Jonsson on Swedish Tennis and the NextGen Finals<\/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-3765","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\/3765","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=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}