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:

August 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 Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."
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29min
July 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 to cover tennis full-time,
and what it was like getting beaten by Joe McEnroe.
Music by Lee Rosevere: "Credit
Roll" and "Glass
Android."

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30min
July 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 off from team sports, shares his favorites from
the tennis memoirs he read to prepare for writing about the game,
and reflects on the agony of having a number next to your name that
defines your place in your profession and the world.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Markovits's website: http://www.benjaminmarkovits.com/
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29min
June 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 future husband; and explains that
married partners don't always make for good tennis partners.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
"Sport of a Lifetime" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sport-Lifetime-Enduring-Personal-Stories/dp/1937559645
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30min
April 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
sisters.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Würth's website: http://www.stephanwurth.com/
Würth on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephanwurth/
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24min
April 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; and describe how
she's spreading tennis in California's Coachella Valley beyond
the glamour of the Indian Wells tennis tournament.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Casals on the Tennis Hall of Fame website: https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/rosie-casals
Casals on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosiecasals?lang=en
Love & Love Tennis Foundation: https://lovelovetennisfoundation.wordpress.com/
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23min
February 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 pipeline.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrawietzKevin
Andreas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreasMies
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30min
February 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, the pressure to defend ranking points,
whether he has regrets about his Twitter activity that sparked
outrage during his 2018 run in Melbourne, his return to Twitter,
and one issue on which he supports regulation.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Tennys on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TennysSandgren
New York Times coverage of Sandgren at the 2018 Australian
Open: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/sports/tennis/hyeon-chung-australian-open-tennys-sandgren.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/sports/tennis/australian-open-tennys-sandgren.html
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25min
February 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
junior to find hitting partners; and the time he played on the
court that had been used many times by a young Andy Roddick.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
AceSpace: http://www.acespacecourts.com/
Sabaitis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisSabaitis
AceSpace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AceSpaceCourts
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22min
February 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 Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak
Djokovic. Denman also spoke about getting and working with
Hawk-Eye data, using his methodology to help power virtual-reality
tennis, and how far we are from robots playing the proper tennis
game of serve-and-volley.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05123
A press release about the paper: https://www.qut.edu.au/research/article?id=139429&fbclid=IwAR3TbssTO-HzQlQLSSW5yBKyfLDJAfl1LjrMDseITxuGU0NifCyvBiQYiZM
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26min

FAQs about Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis:

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

The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.