Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis

By Carl Bialik

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Conversations about tennis, always under 30:00, with host Carl Bialik and guests.

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Tim Wigmore On 'The Best'

02.05.2021

Tim Wigmore, sports journalist for The Telegraph and co-author of The Best: How Elite Athletes are Made, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to apply his sports-science insights to tennis: why younger siblings thrive in tennis and other sports, how ...

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis episodes:

02.05.2021 Tim Wigmore On 'The Best' Tim Wigmore, sports journalist for The Telegraph and co-author of The Best: How Elite Athletes are Made, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to apply his sports-science insights to tennis: why younger siblings thrive in tennis and other sports, how ...
08.19.2020 Caitlin Thompson On Racquet, The Book Racquet Magazine cofounder Caitlin Thompson, cohost of The Racquet Podcast and The Main Draw, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the new book collecting the best of Racquet, how the pandemic did and didn't affect the latest ...
07.06.2020 Ana Mitric On The Adria Tour And Novak Djokovic Tennis enthusiast Ana Mitric, who refers to herself as a fake Serb and not quite a journalist, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the tennis world's English-language bias and what the tennis media missed about Novak Djokovic ...
05.09.2020 PlaySight's Rodney Rapson On Bringing Sport Back, Safely Rodney Rapson, PlaySight's managing director for Europe & UK, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the company's role in staging and televising the return of live pro tennis, how to write the rules on sports safety during ...
05.04.2020 Writer Ben Rothenberg on Tennis Freelancing Without Tennis Freelance tennis writer Ben Rothenberg, host of the No Challenges Remaining tennis podcast, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the pandemic's effect on the tennis writing business, the seismic effect the tours' interruption could have on its ...
04.23.2020 Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On WTATP Commissioner Murray Matt Marolf, writer for UbiTennis, rejoins his neighbor Carl Bialik—host of Thirty Love—from an appropriate social distance to talk about Roger Federer's tweeted support for a WTA-ATP merger, speculate wildly (OK, that's mostly Carl) about what drove the move and ...
04.20.2020 Alex Aksanov On Physical Therapy, On The Front Lines And At Home Former college tennis player Alex Aksanov, now a coach and a physical therapist at a Brooklyn hospital, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about helping people with coronavirus recover their health and strength, exercises for the homebound tennis ...
04.17.2020 World TeamTennis CEO Carlos Silva On Restarting The Pro Game Carlos Silva, the CEO of World TeamTennis, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about planning for the possible return of the pro game; the range of possibilities for what could constitute World TeamTennis in an age of physical ...
04.12.2020 Under Review Tennis Podcast Host Craig Shapiro Embraces The Sport's Nostalgia Craig Shapiro, host of the Under Review Tennis Podcast, joins Thirty Love podcast host Carl Bialik to talk about tennis organizations and players uniting during the virus-induced shutdown of sports, which classic matches to watch when there are no live ...
04.02.2020 Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On Wimbledon's Cancellation, And What's Next Matt Marolf, writer for UbiTennis, joins his neighbor Carl Bialik—host of Thirty Love—from an appropriate social distance to talk about Wimbledon's cancellation, the implications for the record books, and how tennis might come back—as a live sport, a spectator sport, ...
03.09.2020 Author Cecil Harris On A Very Big Year For The Williams Sisters Cecil Harris, author of the books Different Strokes and Charging the Net about black tennis history, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his sense that the Williams sisters will retire in 2020, why young African-American men aren't ...
03.05.2020 Dan Golden On The Price Of A College Tennis Team Spot Dan Golden, senior editor at ProPublica and author of The Price of Admission, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the ProPublica article he co-wrote entitled "An Unseen Victim of the College Admissions Scandal: The High School Tennis ...
02.13.2020 ATP Player Jason Jung On Getting There Taiwan men's tennis No. 1 Jason Jung, fresh off reaching his second straight New York Open quarterfinal, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his aspiration to break into the top 100 and qualify for the Olympics, how ...
02.10.2020 Author Peter Underwood On The Pro Era's Greats Doctor, farmer, and peace activist Peter Underwood joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his book The Pros: The Forgotten Era Of Tennis. Underwood explains why tennis took so long to go professional, what motivated pros such as ...
12.23.2019 Tennis Writer Ben Rothenberg On Former Phenom Monique Viele Freelance tennis writer Ben Rothenberg, host of the No Challenges Remaining tennis podcast, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two-part series for Racquet about Monique Viele, who was hyped as the next big star in tennis ...
12.16.2019 Filmmaker Theo Anthony On Hawk-Eye's Dispensing Of Justice And Entertainment Filmmaker Theo Anthony, director of ESPN Films 30 for 30 Shorts documentary Subject to Review, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the origin story of instant replay in sports, how cricket does it better, and why the ...
12.14.2019 Ethan Lee On The Aphabreaker And Other Scoring-System Innovations Guitar repair hero and tennis-racquet expert Ethan Lee rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about Lee's idea for a new kind of tennis tiebreaker: the Aphabreaker, in which not every point is created equal. Lee explains how his ...
11.08.2019 Novelist Benjamin Markovits On Life After A Professional Tennis Career Novelist Benjamin Markovits rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two books that touch on tennis: "A Weekend In New York" and its sequel, "Christmas in Austin." On the publication day of his latest book, and after ...
11.03.2019 Author Ann Leary On Tennis, Her Marriage, And Modern Love Author Ann Leary, whose 2013 Modern Love essay in The New York Times "Rallying to Keep the Game Alive" was adapted for the Modern Love streaming series this year, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about how tennis ...
10.19.2019 New Racketlon USA President Patrick Moran On The Table Tennis-Badminton-Squash-Tennis Hybrid Sport Patrick Moran, who recently became the president of Racketlon USA, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about who joined tennis with three other racquet sports to form racketlon, how the sport has grown worldwide, which discipline is most ...
10.14.2019 Julie Heldman On Tennis And Mental Illness, And Narrating Her Memoir's Audiobook Former Top 5 player Julie Heldman rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about what she learned while touring to promote her memoir "Driven: A Daughter's Odyssey," why she's glad she decided to include her struggle with mental illness ...
09.20.2019 Writer Alexander Tilney On What Squash And Tennis Can Teach Each Other Alex Tilney, author of The Expectations, joins his longtime friend and occasional racquet-sports opponent Carl Bialik to talk about how squash figures in both his novel and an exclusive slice of American society, why substituting tennis for squash would have ...
09.09.2019 Jason Gay And Tom Perrotta Wrap The 2019 US Open Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay and longtime tennis writer Tom Perrotta rejoin Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to wrap the 2019 tournament: the epic men's final, Bianca Andreescu's earth-shaking win, the preeminence of women's tennis, ...
09.08.2019 Amanda Herling And Morlene Chin On Their First Time Watching Live Tennis Host Carl Bialik's friends Amanda Herling and Morlene Chin joined him on the last day of the 2019 US Open for their first live-tennis experience. They share their impressions, including a newfound love for doubles, immense appreciation for wheelchair tennis, ...
09.06.2019 Deadspin's Laura Wagner On Bianca Andreescu, Nick Kyrgios, And The US Open Laura Wagner, who covers tennis and sports media for Deadspin, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to talk about Bianca Andreescu's swagger, Nick Kyrgios's ennui, tennis's web of conflicts of interest, and how to make the ...
09.03.2019 Writer Kamakshi Tandon On Making Televised Tennis Beautiful Kamakshi Tandon, who is covering the US Open for tennis.com, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the Open to talk about the rise of tennis emotions, positive and negative; what social media has done for tennis and what it ...
09.02.2019 US Open Bookstore Coordinator Rose Hobson On 27 Years Of Volunteering Rose Hobson, coordinator of volunteers for the US Open bookstore, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to talk about her favorite tennis book, her own tennis game, how the Open has changed, and the volunteer life ...
09.01.2019 The Guardian's Tumaini Carayol On Serena Williams, Coco Gauff, And The US Open's First Week Tumaini Carayol, a sportswriter for The Guardian, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to talk about Serena Williams's candor after her fourth-round win, Coco Gauff's precociousness and penchant for doubles, and the young men's stars' heel ...
09.01.2019 The Wall Street Journal's Jim Chairusmi On Tennis Innovation Jim Chairusmi, who writes and edits sports articles at The Wall Street Journal, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to share ideas for how to expand the sport, from tiebreaks at 4-4 to reaching the platonic ...
08.29.2019 Glenn Gilliam On Althea Gibson And Her Legacy Glenn Gilliam, executive director of strategic partnerships for the documentary film "Althea," joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik at the US Open to talk about the new Althea Gibson sculpture on the grounds, how Gibson compares to Serena Williams, and ...
08.29.2019 Writer Liz Weil On Profiling Venus Williams Liz Weil, writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine under the byline Elizabeth Weil, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about Weil's profile of Venus Williams for the Times Magazine, covering tennis as an outsider, whether there would ...
08.28.2019 Elite Tennis Travel's Adriana Isaza-Mohring On Finding Tennis Havens Worldwide Adriana Isaza-Mohring, founder of the New York City-based Elite Tennis Travel company, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik at the US Open to talk about what the "elite" in the name means, why Havana has been such a hit with ...
08.27.2019 Artist Eric Goulder On His Althea Gibson Sculpture At The US Open Eric Goulder, the artist who conceived of and created the new Althea Gibson sculpture at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center unveiled on the first day of main-draw play at the 2019 US Open, joins Thirty Love host ...
08.26.2019 ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. On Serena Williams, Carlos Ramos, And The 2018 US Open Women's Final Don Van Natta Jr., host and executive producer of the new ESPN show Backstory, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the debut episode of his new show, on the 2018 US Open women's final. Won by Naomi ...
08.22.2019 Tennis Journalist Reem Abulleil On Finding Every Player's Stories Tennis journalist Reem Abulleil joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the US Open to talk about the struggle to find stories in qualifying, the unique approach the US Open takes to qualies, why she finds it essential to be ...
08.12.2019 Economist Ian Fillmore On Technological Disruption In Tennis Economist Ian Fillmore of Washington University joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his recent co-authored study on how racquet change disrupted tennis, gave rise to faulty predictions, and lifted a young generation of stars. Music by Lee ...
07.22.2019 Sportswriter Joe Posnanski on the Djokovic-Federer Wimbledon Final Sportswriter Joe Posnanski joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his recent essay reflecting on Novak Djokovic's defeat of Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final, why his view on the greatest-of-all-time debate has evolved, how much he'd like ...
07.18.2019 Novelist Benjamin Markovits On The Solitary Lives Of Tennis Pros And Writers Novelist Benjamin Markovits joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his two books that touch on tennis: "A Weekend In New York" and its forthcoming sequel, "Christmas in Austin." Markovits explains how his professional basketball career turned him ...
06.03.2019 Author Judy Aydelott On Lifetimes Full Of Tennis Author Judy Aydelott joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to share stories from her book "Sport of a Lifetime: Enduring Personal Stories From Tennis," including Betty Eisenstein, Gardnar Mulloy, and Fred Kovaleski; recalls how she found tennis, along with her ...
04.12.2019 Photographer Stephan Würth on His Tennis Book and Fandom Photographer Stephan Würth joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik—on the court and in the studio—to talk about his new book "Tennis Fan," published by Damiani; his favorite and least favorite tournaments; and what it was like hitting with the Williams ...
04.10.2019 Hall of Famer Rosie Casals on the Original Nine and Her Tennis Foundation Tennis Hall of Famer Rosie Casals joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to recall her role in the Original Nine, the pioneering group who helped create modern women's professional tennis; reflect on why she doesn't see herself among today's pros; ...
02.16.2019 Doubles Team Kevin Krawietz And Andreas Mies On Reaching Their First ATP Final The German doubles team of Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies join Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the New York Open to talk about reaching their first ATP final, whether they really are a doubles team, and the Germany-to-Auburn recruiting ...
02.10.2019 Tennys Sandgren On Life After The 2018 Australian Open American tennis pro Tennys Sandgren joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the New York Open to talk about his tendency to go deep or go home at tournaments, where his deep run at the 2018 Australian Open came from, ...
02.09.2019 AceSpace Founder And CEO Chris Sabaitis On The Court-Booking System Of The Future Chris Sabaitis—founder and CEO of AceSpace, a court-booking and partner-finding system—joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik from the New York Open to talk about the sport's fractured, often low-tech way of allocating courts; the strategies he used as a traveling ...
02.08.2019 Simon Denman On Predicting The Next Shot Of Federer, Nadal, And Djokovic Simon Denman, a senior research fellow with Queensland University of Technology's Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technology Laboratory, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his team's research into using neural networks to predict the next shots of ...
01.28.2019 Helen R. Russell On 75 Years Of Billie Jean King Helen R. Russell, co-curator of the New-York Historical Society's exhibit, "Billie Jean King: The Road to 75," joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about choosing more than 75 photos for the exhibit, her own tennis background, and King's ...
01.17.2019 Haitham Eletrabi and Lincoln Wang on Their Tennis Ballrobot Two Tennibot executives—Haitham Eletrabi, CEO and founder; and Xianglin (Lincoln) Wang, CTO—join Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about how their love of playing tennis and unlove of fetching tennis balls led to the creation of their robotic ball ...
01.10.2019 Stephanie Kovalchik and Graeme Spence on Player DNA Stephanie Kovalchik and Graeme Spence—data scientists with the Game Insight Group (GIG), formed by Tennis Australia in partnership with Victoria University—join Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to break down Player DNA, their new system for analyzing what makes tennis players ...
12.30.2018 Writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips On His Year Of Close-Reading The ATP Tour With the 2019 season upon us, Thirty Love takes a close look at the…2017 season. Writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips watched every ATP match he could and transformed his experience into the book The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey. He joins Thirty ...
11.05.2018 Thirty30 Tennis Creator Mark Milne On Reinvigorating The Sport's Format Mark Milne, an engineer in Arbroath, Scotland, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about why he thinks starting tennis games at 30-all makes for a faster and more exciting format; what Judy Murray and the ITF make of ...

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Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis episodes:

Tim Wigmore On 'The Best'

Caitlin Thompson On Racquet, The Book

Ana Mitric On The Adria Tour And Novak Djokovic

PlaySight's Rodney Rapson On Bringing Sport Back, Safely

Writer Ben Rothenberg on Tennis Freelancing Without Tennis

Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On WTATP Commissioner Murray

Alex Aksanov On Physical Therapy, On The Front Lines And At Home

World TeamTennis CEO Carlos Silva On Restarting The Pro Game

Under Review Tennis Podcast Host Craig Shapiro Embraces The Sport's Nostalgia

Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On Wimbledon's Cancellation, And What's Next

Author Cecil Harris On A Very Big Year For The Williams Sisters

Dan Golden On The Price Of A College Tennis Team Spot

ATP Player Jason Jung On Getting There

Author Peter Underwood On The Pro Era's Greats

Tennis Writer Ben Rothenberg On Former Phenom Monique Viele

Filmmaker Theo Anthony On Hawk-Eye's Dispensing Of Justice And Entertainment

Ethan Lee On The Aphabreaker And Other Scoring-System Innovations

Novelist Benjamin Markovits On Life After A Professional Tennis Career

Author Ann Leary On Tennis, Her Marriage, And Modern Love

New Racketlon USA President Patrick Moran On The Table Tennis-Badminton-Squash-Tennis Hybrid Sport

Julie Heldman On Tennis And Mental Illness, And Narrating Her Memoir's Audiobook

Writer Alexander Tilney On What Squash And Tennis Can Teach Each Other

Jason Gay And Tom Perrotta Wrap The 2019 US Open

Amanda Herling And Morlene Chin On Their First Time Watching Live Tennis

Deadspin's Laura Wagner On Bianca Andreescu, Nick Kyrgios, And The US Open

Writer Kamakshi Tandon On Making Televised Tennis Beautiful

US Open Bookstore Coordinator Rose Hobson On 27 Years Of Volunteering

The Guardian's Tumaini Carayol On Serena Williams, Coco Gauff, And The US Open's First Week

The Wall Street Journal's Jim Chairusmi On Tennis Innovation

Glenn Gilliam On Althea Gibson And Her Legacy

Writer Liz Weil On Profiling Venus Williams

Elite Tennis Travel's Adriana Isaza-Mohring On Finding Tennis Havens Worldwide

Artist Eric Goulder On His Althea Gibson Sculpture At The US Open

ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. On Serena Williams, Carlos Ramos, And The 2018 US Open Women's Final

Tennis Journalist Reem Abulleil On Finding Every Player's Stories

Economist Ian Fillmore On Technological Disruption In Tennis

Sportswriter Joe Posnanski on the Djokovic-Federer Wimbledon Final

Novelist Benjamin Markovits On The Solitary Lives Of Tennis Pros And Writers

Author Judy Aydelott On Lifetimes Full Of Tennis

Photographer Stephan Würth on His Tennis Book and Fandom

Hall of Famer Rosie Casals on the Original Nine and Her Tennis Foundation

Doubles Team Kevin Krawietz And Andreas Mies On Reaching Their First ATP Final

Tennys Sandgren On Life After The 2018 Australian Open

AceSpace Founder And CEO Chris Sabaitis On The Court-Booking System Of The Future

Simon Denman On Predicting The Next Shot Of Federer, Nadal, And Djokovic

Helen R. Russell On 75 Years Of Billie Jean King

Haitham Eletrabi and Lincoln Wang on Their Tennis Ballrobot

Stephanie Kovalchik and Graeme Spence on Player DNA

Writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips On His Year Of Close-Reading The ATP Tour

Thirty30 Tennis Creator Mark Milne On Reinvigorating The Sport's Format

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