{"id":3784,"date":"2019-12-02T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:17:35","slug":"podcast-episode-79-paul-timmons-on-the-broken-structure-of-pro-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/podcast-episode-79-paul-timmons-on-the-broken-structure-of-pro-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 79: Paul Timmons on the Broken Structure of Pro Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 79 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a> features Paul Timmons (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulT_Tennis\">@PaulT_Tennis<\/a>), author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mytennisadventures.home.blog\/\">My Tennis Adventures blog<\/a>, about many of the problems facing professional tennis&#8211;and some obvious fixes that no one seems interested in making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We start with the failures of the ITF to provide a logical structure for up-and-coming players, including gender inequality that makes it much more difficult for women to make a living at the equivalent of the ATP Challenger level. We discuss how some national federations are centralizing when they should be localizing, and how match-fixing is inevitable when live data provides so much of the sport&#8217;s revenue. We also touch on several up-and-coming players, the likely next men&#8217;s major winner, and why the Davis Cup Finals&#8211;for all its flaws&#8211;is superior to the upcoming ATP Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3784-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode079.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode079.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode079.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-episode079.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 79 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast features Paul Timmons (@PaulT_Tennis), author of the My Tennis Adventures blog, about many of the problems facing professional tennis&#8211;and some obvious fixes that no one seems interested in making. We start with the failures of the ITF to provide a logical structure for up-and-coming players, including gender inequality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/02\/podcast-episode-79-paul-timmons-on-the-broken-structure-of-pro-tennis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 79: Paul Timmons on the Broken Structure of Pro Tennis<\/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-3784","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\/3784","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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}