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:

January 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 New York
ties.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
The exhibit, which exhibit runs through Jan. 30,
2019: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/billie-jean-king-road-75
The Billie Jean King Archive: https://www.nyhistory.org/womens-history/exhibitions/Billie-Jean-King
It Can Hyphen Here: Why the New-York Historical Society Includes
a Hyphen (h/t Sam Anzaroot): http://blog.nyhistory.org/it-can-hyphen-here-why-the-new-york-historical-society-includes-a-hyphen/

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27min
January 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 gatherer, what makes Tennibot more advanced than a
Roomba, and how else robotics could fit into tennis and other
sports.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Tennibot's website: http://tennibot.com/
Tennibot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tennibot
Tennibot in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weUs4cW9360
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25min
January 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 great.
Kovalchik and Spence explain why the time was right for this
form of analysis, why Roger Federer can be fast without great foot
speed, and how their new ways of measuring injury risks will make
it into TV broadcasts during this year's Australian Open.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
More on Player DNA: https://tennismash.com/2019/01/02/player-dna-technical-tactical-physical-mental/
GIG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tennisausgig
Kovalchik on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StatsOnTheT
Spence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/graemetspence
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30min
December 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 Love host
Carl Bialik to describe the experience of studying the tour so
closely, how he knew he had a book's worth of material, and what
made 2017 special.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Rowan's website: http://www.rowanricardophillips.com/
Rowan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RowanRicardo
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30min
November 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 his idea; why he prefers his format
to the one being used in Milan at the Next Gen ATP Finals, and why
he doesn't just start games at deuce.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Thirty30 Tennis's website: https://www.thirty30tennis.com/
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30min
October 22, 2018 Julie Heldman On Her Tennis Memoir
Former Top 5 player Julie Heldman joins Thirty Love host Carl
Bialik to talk about her memoir "Driven: A Daughter's Odyssey,"
what she thought of the film "Battle of the Sexes," and how she
emerged from 15 years lost to mental illness to write her first
book.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Heldman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/junkballjul
"Driven": https://www.drivenadaughtersodyssey.com/
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28min
October 04, 2018 Marc Stein On The NBA-Tennis Connection, Israeli Tennis, And Coaching At The US Open
Marc Stein, NBA reporter for The New York Times, joins Thirty
Love host Carl Bialik to talk about how a wax statue changed his
tennis fandom forever, why so many tennis pros travel through
Dallas, and what it's been like shadowing Julia Glushko and
coaching Benjamin Becker at the US Open.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Stein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine
Stein on Glushko: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/sports/julia-glushko.html
Stein on Becker: http://www.espn.com/blog/marc-stein/post/_/id/4538/nba-tennis-words-collide-in-unforgettable-coaching-cameo
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28min
September 25, 2018 Jenni Dinger On Laver Cup
Lifelong tennis fan Jenni Dinger, a professor of
entrepreneurship in Boston, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to
review Laver Cup's second edition, in Chicago last weekend: Fed
fans, Novak struggles, hot merch, and Jack Sock demonstrating the
value of an elite doubles player.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Dinger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jendinger/
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29min
September 10, 2018 Wall Street Journal Columnist Jason Gay On Djokovic, Del Potro, Osaka, And Williams
Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay joins Thirty Love
host Carl Bialik—for the 14th episode from the 2018 US Open, on the
14th day of the Open—to break down the men's and women's finals,
and the USTA's game of whack a mole with the weather.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasongay
Jason's articles for the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/news/author/6268
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30min
September 09, 2018 The Hindu's Preethi Ramamoorthy On US Open Finals Weekend
Preethi Ramamoorthy, who is covering the US Open for India's The
Hindu newspaper, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about
Naomi Osaka's grace and good humor after winning a controversial
women's final, the Djokovic-del Potro men's final, and the state of
Indian tennis.
Music by Lee Rosevere.
Preethi's articles for The Hindu:
https://www.thehindu.com/profile/author/Preethi-Ramamoorthy-5011/
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28min

FAQs about Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis:

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

The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.