{"id":3848,"date":"2020-01-13T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:25:18","slug":"podcast-episode-83-is-the-practice-court-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/13\/podcast-episode-83-is-the-practice-court-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 83: Is the Practice Court Broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Episode 83 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/the-tennis-abstract-podcast\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast<\/a> features co-host Carl Bialik, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thirtylove.libsyn.com\/\">Thirty Love podcast<\/a>, and guest Jeff McFarland of <a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/\">Hidden Game of Tennis<\/a>. This week we dip our collective toe into a debate in the tennis coaching world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With rallies short and aggressive, should players be using practice time differently? What types of skills can still be improved, once a player has reached the top? What tactics can a coach teach their charges, and which ones are too deeply ingrained in the physical nature of hitting the shots? The line between technique and tactics may not be a clear-cut as we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is a 3- or 4-shot rally qualitatively different from a 5- or more-shot rally? How would you teach Madison Keys to retain the positives of her aggressive style while dialing back the aggression a bit? We offer more questions than answers, which seems appropriate for a topic that is far from settled, and is likely to remain controversial for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3848-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode083.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode083.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode083.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this week&#8217;s episode is about 67 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-episode083.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 83 of the Tennis Abstract Podcast features co-host Carl Bialik, of the Thirty Love podcast, and guest Jeff McFarland of Hidden Game of Tennis. This week we dip our collective toe into a debate in the tennis coaching world. With rallies short and aggressive, should players be using practice time differently? What types of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/13\/podcast-episode-83-is-the-practice-court-broken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 83: Is the Practice Court Broken?<\/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":[83,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-tactics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}