{"id":4880,"date":"2022-03-16T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2022-03-16T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:50:51","slug":"podcast-episode-114-ana-mitric-on-goran-ivanisevic-and-tennis-in-the-former-yugoslavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/podcast-episode-114-ana-mitric-on-goran-ivanisevic-and-tennis-in-the-former-yugoslavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode 114: Ana Mitri\u0107 on Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 and Tennis in the Former Yugoslavia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serbian-American writer <a href=\"https:\/\/anamitric.net\/about\/\">Ana Mitri\u0107<\/a> joins me to discuss the latest entry in my Tennis 128, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/the-tennis-128-no-111-goran-ivanisevic\/\">Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107<\/a>. Ana was a Goran fan even before she took a broader interest in tennis, and she is particularly sensitive to how the breakup of the former Yugoslavia affected players on all sides of the conflict. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talk about the state of Yugoslav tennis before the wars, Goran&#8217;s status in his native Croatia, and how his attitude to the conflict differed from older players. We also discuss how Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 attracted so many fans despite a one-dimensional game that was often boring in less-mercurial hands, why his outspokenness didn&#8217;t seem to turn people off, and what he now brings to Team Djokovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4880-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode114.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode114.mp3\">http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/podcast\/TennisAbstractPodcast-episode114.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Note: this episode is about 69 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-episode114.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\">the feed<\/a> to get updates on your favorite podcast software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music: <a href=\"http:\/\/dig.ccmixter.org\/files\/texasradiofish\/61504\">Everyone Has Gone Home<\/a> by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2020. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: spinningmerkaba<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/159.203.141.169\/tennisabstract\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tap_script_square-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is tap_script_square-1-150x150.png\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian-American writer Ana Mitri\u0107 joins me to discuss the latest entry in my Tennis 128, Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107. Ana was a Goran fan even before she took a broader interest in tennis, and she is particularly sensitive to how the breakup of the former Yugoslavia affected players on all sides of the conflict. We talk about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/podcast-episode-114-ana-mitric-on-goran-ivanisevic-and-tennis-in-the-former-yugoslavia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Podcast Episode 114: Ana Mitri\u0107 on Goran Ivani\u0161evi\u0107 and Tennis in the Former Yugoslavia<\/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":[83,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-the-tennis-128"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","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=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}