{"id":3773,"date":"2019-11-25T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:19:51","slug":"podcast-episode-78-the-davis-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/podcast-episode-78-the-davis-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 78: The Davis Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Episode 78 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a>, I am joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sPETEcore\">Peter Wetz<\/a>, making his third appearance on the show. Peter and I take a deep dive into the first edition of the new Davis Cup Finals, talking about Rafael Nadal&#8217;s dominance in both singles and doubles, the surprise heroics of Vasek Pospisil, and why the #2 singles players may be the key to a side&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also take a close look at the format, considering various ways the tournament&#8211;and especially the qualification rules&#8211;could be tweaked, and what effect that will have on the doubles. Almost every aspect of the event has been controversial, but we can&#8217;t help but admit that it made for entertaining tennis that we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing again next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3773-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode078.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode078.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode078.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 75 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-episode078.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>In Episode 78 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast, I am joined by Peter Wetz, making his third appearance on the show. Peter and I take a deep dive into the first edition of the new Davis Cup Finals, talking about Rafael Nadal&#8217;s dominance in both singles and doubles, the surprise heroics of Vasek Pospisil, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/podcast-episode-78-the-davis-cup-finals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 78: The Davis Cup 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-3773","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\/3773","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=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}