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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Matt Marolf Wraps the Tournament and Airs Grievances

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 14, 2023 01:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Matt Marolf (@mattmarolf), who writes match previews for big tournaments year-round, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik after the 2023 U.S. Open to recap the tournament and Matt's prescient picks, predict the careers of the finalists, and air grievances about the sport we love an...

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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Jeff Sackmann on his project Battles, Boycotts, and Breakouts: 1973 Redux

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 05, 2023 18:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Jeff Sackmann, proprietor of the stats and history site Tennis Abstract, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about Battles, Boycotts, and Breakouts: 1973 Redux, Jeff's project to revisit memorable moments from the pivotal tennis season of a half-century ago. Carl and Jeff discuss the 50th...

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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Tumaini Carayol on Tiafoe, Wozniacki, Kasatkina, and Murray

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 01, 2023 23:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Tumaini Carayol, the Guardian's tennis correspondent, joins the show to talk about players who have caught his eye and had memorable matches at this tournament: Frances Tiafoe, Caroline Wozniacki, Daria Kasatkina, and Andy Murray. He also talks about the rise of hard-court slidin...

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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Jim Chairusmi on Pickleball and Playing the Pros

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 30, 2023 20:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Jim Chairusmi, part of the Wall Street Journal's team covering the 2023 U.S. Open, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about tennis pros leaving the sport to play pickleball, and how the Average Joe, Jane, and Jim would do against pro tennis players. Thirty Love is back ...

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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Giri Nathan on seeing the sport with fresh eyes, Wide Tennis, and slow tennis

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 29, 2023 23:32 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Giri Nathan, who writes about tennis for Defector and Racquet, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about his experience covering the French Open and Wimbledon in person for the first time, how tennis speeding up might have slowed it down, and the joys of Wide Tennis and Gr...

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Thirty Love at the 2023 U.S. Open: Matt Marolf Previews the Tournament

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 28, 2023 03:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Matt Marolf (@mattmarolf), who writes match previews for big tournaments year-round, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik after they played a tennis match ahead of the 2023 U.S. Open to preview the tournament, explain his process for researching players and matches, share insights ...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Matt Marolf Solves All of Tennis's Problems

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 14, 2022 12:52 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Matt Marolf, who writes match previews for big tournaments year-round, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik after they played a windy tennis match to wrap the 2022 U.S. Open, preview the rest of the season, and solve all of tennis's problems along the way: how a change to the scori...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Jeff Sackmann on the Tennis 128

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 05, 2022 17:33 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Jeff Sackmann, proprietor of the stats and history site Tennis Abstract, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the Tennis 128, Jeff's project to name and profile the 128 greatest tennis players from 1919 to the present. Carl and Jeff discuss the project's progress, whether players at ...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Caitlin Thompson on Racquet

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 04, 2022 22:24 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Caitlin Thompson, co-founder of Racquet, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to catch up on what's new at her tennis media company: Racquet House, Ambush Tennis, and dealmaking. We also talk about junior wheelchair tennis at the U.S. Open, what makes something Racquet, and what sh...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: A day after Serena Williams's last match (?), with Jim Chairusmi

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 03, 2022 22:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Jim Chairusmi, part of the Wall Street Journal's team covering the 2022 U.S. Open, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik the day after Serena Williams's loss in what she has said will be her final tournament, to talk about what's next for her and he sister Venus Williams. We also ta...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Serena Williams, with Giri Nathan, winner of the 2022 Tom Perrotta Prize for Tennis Journalism

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 03, 2022 22:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Giri Nathan, who writes about tennis for Defector and Racquet, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik the day after Serena Williams's loss in what she has said will be her final tournament, to talk about what he saw at her last match of this tournament. We also talk about whether the...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Tumaini Carayol on Serena and Venus Williams

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - September 02, 2022 04:02 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Tumaini Carayol, the Guardian's tennis correspondent, joins the show right after Serena and Venus Williams lost their first-round doubles match, and ahead of Serena Williams's third-round match in singles, to marvel at how thoroughly Serena and her retirement have dominated the t...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: On 'McEnroe,' with director Barney Douglas

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 31, 2022 02:42 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Filmmaker Barney Douglas, director of the new Showtime documentary "McEnroe," joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about how a non-tennis diehard came to make a film about John McEnroe, how New York City became a costar, the interview that got away, and which tennis figure he'd want to pro...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: Previewing the tournament with Matt Marolf

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 28, 2022 14:32 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Matt Marolf, who writes match previews for big tournaments year-round and teaches Thirty Love host Carl Bialik a thing or two on the court in between, joins the show to preview the 2022 U.S. Open: how far Serena Williams can go, what her entry in the doubles draw means, favorites...

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Thirty Love at the 2022 U.S. Open: GOAT debates, In-match coaching, and more

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 28, 2022 02:57 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Returning guest Ian Katz, who has been playing and following tennis for nearly 50 years, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to weigh in on major tennis debates ahead of the 2022 U.S. Open: should head-to-head records count when evaluating who is the most accomplished player, should the sport all...

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Tim Wigmore On 'The Best'

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - February 05, 2021 14:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Tim Wigmore, sports journalist for The Telegraph and co-author of The Best: How Elite Athletes are Made, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to apply his sports-science insights to tennis: why younger siblings thrive in tennis and other sports, how Andre Agassi figured out how to beat Boris Becke...

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Caitlin Thompson On Racquet, The Book

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - August 19, 2020 14:22 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Racquet Magazine cofounder Caitlin Thompson, cohost of The Racquet Podcast and The Main Draw, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the new book collecting the best of Racquet, how the pandemic did and didn't affect the latest issue of Racquet, and how to celebrate a fan-free US Open...

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Ana Mitric On The Adria Tour And Novak Djokovic

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - July 06, 2020 18:51 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Tennis enthusiast Ana Mitric, who refers to herself as a fake Serb and not quite a journalist, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the tennis world's English-language bias and what the tennis media missed about Novak Djokovic and the ill-fated Adria Tour.   Previously on Thirty Lo...

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PlaySight's Rodney Rapson On Bringing Sport Back, Safely

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - May 09, 2020 02:40 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Rodney Rapson, PlaySight's managing director for Europe & UK, joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the company's role in staging and televising the return of live pro tennis, how to write the rules on sports safety during a pandemic, and the way to host an event with the fewest possi...

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Writer Ben Rothenberg on Tennis Freelancing Without Tennis

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - May 04, 2020 01:04 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
Freelance tennis writer Ben Rothenberg, host of the No Challenges Remaining tennis podcast, rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the pandemic's effect on the tennis writing business, the seismic effect the tours' interruption could have on its power balance, and his first two acts ...

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Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On WTATP Commissioner Murray

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - April 23, 2020 03:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 discus...

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Alex Aksanov On Physical Therapy, On The Front Lines And At Home

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - April 20, 2020 02:52 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 he...

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World TeamTennis CEO Carlos Silva On Restarting The Pro Game

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - April 17, 2020 02:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 Ame...

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Under Review Tennis Podcast Host Craig Shapiro Embraces The Sport's Nostalgia

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - April 12, 2020 22:08 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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-m...

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Tennis Writer Matt Marolf On Wimbledon's Cancellation, And What's Next

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - April 02, 2020 01:16 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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—be...

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Author Cecil Harris On A Very Big Year For The Williams Sisters

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - March 09, 2020 01:35 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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...

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Dan Golden On The Price Of A College Tennis Team Spot

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - March 05, 2020 21:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 ...

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ATP Player Jason Jung On Getting There

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - February 13, 2020 23:13 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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...

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Author Peter Underwood On The Pro Era's Greats

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - February 10, 2020 18:26 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 ...

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Tennis Writer Ben Rothenberg On Former Phenom Monique Viele

Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis - December 23, 2019 20:29 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 31 ratings
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 ...

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