Anita Stahl On Gender Inequality In Tennis

01/22/18 • 29 min

Anita Stahl, a freelance tennis writer and photographer and a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, studying women's tennis, tells Thirty Love host Carl Bialik what she learned after spending eight hours analyzing the gender inequity in 321 Australian Open Instagram posts, why a player union is a good idea but Novak Djokovic might not be the best champion of the idea, and what the debate over renaming Margaret Court Arena is missing. Produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music by Lee Rosevere. Anita on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anitastahl Anita's website: http://anitastahl.com/

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Tennis Australia Data Scientist Stephanie Kovalchik On The Australian Open

Stephanie Kovalchik, senior data scientist with Tennis Australia's Game Insight Group, joins Thirty Love Host Carl Bialik to explain why a first-time Slam champ is so much more likely in the women's draw of the Australian Open than in the men's draw, and to invite entries to the other big January tennis tournament: to crack the code of what makes an error forced or unforced, using the biggest-ever public release of Hawk-Eye data.

Thirty Love is produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music by Lee Rosevere.

Stephanie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StatsOnTheT

Her women's and men's Australian Open forecasts: http://on-the-t.com/2018/01/13/ao-womens-draw/ http://on-the-t.com/2018/01/12/ao-mens-draw/

Tennis hackathon (contest ends Jan. 23): https://www.crowdanalytix.com/contests/from-ao-to-ai--predicting-how-points-end-in-tennis

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U.S. tennis pro Mackenzie ("Mackie") McDonald joins host Carl Bialik to talk about his five-set Australian Open thriller against Grigor Dimitrov; what he learned from his first coach,Rosie Bareis; what he gained by playing college tennis; and what he thinks of Tennys Sandgren, the surprise Australian Open quarterfinalist who beat McDonald four times last year. (Though this political science major says he never talks politics.)

Produced and edited by Jorge Estrada, with music by Lee Rosevere.

Mackie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mackiemacster

2012 ZooTennis interview with McDonald: http://tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2012/10/mackenzie-mcdonald-commits-to-ucla.html