Picking up where we left off on the last episode, Ben and Tumaini cover several other big stories from the first part of this season. We talk about the diverging fates of Brits in tennis, as Andy Murray sets a dispirited retirement date while Katie Boulter surges to a new high.
We then spend quite a while on the health of women's tennis as a product, which seems to be getting left in the dust while the men surge, with no apparent strategy for building interest in their product. What can be done? And how transformative can the looming infusion of Saudi cash be? (Here's a link to a separate Cracked Racquets podcast Ben did on the Saudi ATP sponsorship.)
We also catch up on recent results in men's tennis, talk about the pleasant alternate tennis universe that is the South American "Golden Swing," and cover the Netflix Slam (we recorded before Break Point was cancelled), with a bit on its uncertain star Rafael Nadal.
Thanks for listening!
Episode 128: Tennis Makes Us Feel Things
Episode 127: Jiří Fencl
Episode 126: Back to the Featured Two
Episode 125: China, Ascending
Episode 124: The Ugly Side of Tennis, with Michael Mewshaw
Episode 123: Priorities (If You Can't Love Yourself...)
Episode 122: Serena's U.S. Open Wounds
Episode 121: Opening the U.S. Open
Episode 120: Parked [Like Roger Federer at the Service Line] in Cincy
Episode 119: NCR Live from Mason, Ohio
Episode 118a: Loose Lips Sink Kyrgios
Episode 118: Anne Worcester
Episode 117: Our Gal in Kalamazoo
Episode 116: Ask Away!
Episode 115: You & I, Q & A
Episode 114: Wimbledon and the Coronation of Serena
Episode 113: Stuck in the Wimbledon Middle Sunday With You
Episode 112: Wimbledrawn
Episode 111: Inside Wimbledon
Episode 110: Halle Back, ATP!
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