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Thirty Love: Conversations About Tennis

Sep 11, 2017

Wall Street Journal sports columnist Jason Gay joins Thirty Love host
Carl Bialik right after the 2017 US Open's finale to put Rafael Nadal's title in historical context, celebrate the American women's domination, and wonder if tennis can ever return to its glory days of peak U.S. fandom in the aftermath of the Battle...


Sep 9, 2017

GQ contributor Chloé Cooper Jones joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik at the US Open to talk about her recent profile of Austrian star Dominic Thiem, why his narrative seems harder for fans to embrace and why she finds it moving and profound. Produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music by Lee Rosevere.

Cooper Jones...


Sep 8, 2017

The Paris Review's Rowan Ricardo Phillips joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the European who crashed the all-American US Open women's semifinals, how the blue clay of Flushing is shaping the tournament, and how he traverses the tennis multiverse with the sport in his bones. (He's a poet.) Produced and...


Sep 7, 2017

Louisa Thomas rejoins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik to talk about the all-American women's semifinals; the prospect of a Federer-Nadal meeting, at last, in New York; and what it's like to revisit tennis greats at different stages of her career -- and theirs. Produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music by...


Sep 6, 2017

Tennis journalist and historian Andras Ruszanov joins Thirty Love host Carl Bialik at the US Open to talk about his dogged research through graveyards and news databases to unearth the untold stories of every man and woman who has ever played a Grand Slam singles match. Produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music...