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...