Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis

By Carl Bialik

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

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The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis episodes:

April 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 what might come next, and discuss
which member(s) of tennis's Murray family would make the best boss
of tennis.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
April 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
player without a net, and the joys and heartbreak of finding a
tennis court to play on in New York City.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
29min
April 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 distancing; and
why this unusual season could be unusually American, or atypically
global.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
April 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
ones, and how he's built and grown his 20-month-old show.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
April 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, and a
participatory sport—before the tours are ready to return.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
March 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 picking up
tennis racquets, and where the Black Tennis Hall of Fame should make its
home.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
March 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 Champion Aced Out by a Billionaire
Family";
all the ways college admission for sports can bypass merit; and
who's harmed when wealthy parents buy spots on teams for their
children.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
28min
February 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 close he came to never playing
professional tennis, and why he used to blog more.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
17min
February 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 Jack Kramer and Rod Laver
to endure tough conditions for small purses, and how today's top
men would do as barnstormers.
Underwood works with the Medical Association for Prevention
of War, the founder of ICAN (the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons) and
the recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. His forthcoming book
is a collection of poetry. He lives in Perth and runs a small farm
in Denmark, West Australia.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
27min
December 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 but never won a
tour-level match. Among the adults who helped make Viele a
millionaire while possibly hurting her tennis prospects: Donald
Trump.
Previously on Thirty Love:
Ben Rothenberg On PlaySight
Ben Rothenberg On Exposing The Darko Grncarov Myth
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min

FAQs about Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis:

How many episodes does Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis have?

The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.