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