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Season 2 Finale: Tennis Is Messy AF
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Length:
78 minutes
Released:
Dec 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Episode 63 marks the finale of our second season. We spend a good chunk of time thanking some of our supporters by name. (Please forgive us if we missed you - it wasn't intentional!) We have lots of fun chit-chatting about the petty, messy, trying, and frivolous moments in tennis this past year. We also take you back to a once-controversial subject in tennis: the Williams sisters' hair, and its role as a signifier of their outsider status.
3:15 Rundown of 2016's messy af moments in tennis, starting with Gibbs-Stakhovsky-Murray
9:15 Ryan Harrison is doing the most to provoke Tennis Twitter
11:45 A sidebar on politics and why we shan't be tolerating alt-right tennis players
14:30 Tomic and Kyrgios' complicated relationship
20:00 Who's suing whom
22:45 Other insane things: Wimbledon poisoning and a murder trial
26:15 Tomic politely asks a fan for a cup to go with his teabag(ging)
28:00 Discussing Jonathan's WTA Grand Slam Rankings
39:00 James takes a quiz about 2016 title winners
43:35 Our 2017 Breakout Players
48:30 #SeeWhatHadHappenedWas - Venus Williams loses some beads at the '99 Australian Open, tennis loses its shit (thanks to @StephInTheUS and her YouTube channel)
1:02:00 We thank our supporters on the air - your support has made this podcast possible!
3:15 Rundown of 2016's messy af moments in tennis, starting with Gibbs-Stakhovsky-Murray
9:15 Ryan Harrison is doing the most to provoke Tennis Twitter
11:45 A sidebar on politics and why we shan't be tolerating alt-right tennis players
14:30 Tomic and Kyrgios' complicated relationship
20:00 Who's suing whom
22:45 Other insane things: Wimbledon poisoning and a murder trial
26:15 Tomic politely asks a fan for a cup to go with his teabag(ging)
28:00 Discussing Jonathan's WTA Grand Slam Rankings
39:00 James takes a quiz about 2016 title winners
43:35 Our 2017 Breakout Players
48:30 #SeeWhatHadHappenedWas - Venus Williams loses some beads at the '99 Australian Open, tennis loses its shit (thanks to @StephInTheUS and her YouTube channel)
1:02:00 We thank our supporters on the air - your support has made this podcast possible!
Released:
Dec 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Mid-Wimbledon Chit Chat: We're back to chat about the first week of Wimbledon 2016, upsets and all. Later in the episode, Michael Lewis returns for his second appearance on the show to tell us about his first trip to the All England Club. We close the show by issuing a few thum... by The Body Serve