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:

December 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 2018 World Tour Finals set the perfect stage for his film.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
December 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 innovation puts the serve in its
rightful place and suggests ways tennis can embrace new formats to
find the best ones it's never tried.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
November 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 a tennis match with
his podcast host, Markovits describes how solitary an athlete's
existence can be, whether in career or out, in a team sport or an
individual one; how a retired tennis pro in the midst of a
breakdown can make a lot of reasonable points; and how a career of
competition can into an entire life viewed through the lens of
competition.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
November 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
has fit into her marriage to her husband (actor Denis Leary), why
she has been using a one-handed backhand lately, and whether the
tennis tradition can make way for alternative rules.
A recent New York Times interview
with Leary about her essay
Leary on the Modern Love
podcast
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
October 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 prone to blowouts, and
what makes racketlon so mentally tough.
Wall
Street Journal video on racketlon
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
October 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 in the book, how tennis has changed since she
retired, and what it was like to narrate her story for the book's
new audio edition.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
27min
September 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 made for a
very different tale, and what tennis and squash can learn from each
other about keeping spectators entertained.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
September 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, and what
it'll all look like in five years.
Listen to Jason Gay's prior appearances on Thirty Love:
after the 2018 US Open,
after the 2017 US Open, and in
July 2017.
Listen to Tom Perrotta's prior appearances on Thirty Love:
from the 2018 US Open, in
October 2017, in
July 2017, and in May
2017.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest? Email Carl
at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
21min
September 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, and a preference for watching tennis from on high.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest, during the US Open or
beyond? Email Carl at [email protected]
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
...more
30min
September 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 sport more exciting.
Have a suggestion for a Thirty Love guest, during the US Open or
beyond? 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.