Episodes
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S9: Oldest Venues - Not your grandpa's tennis club (but your great grandpa's?) [Topic slice]
In this topic slice, we spotlight some of the oldest and most iconic venues still in use. Listen to find out where the oldest tennis court that is still operational can be found and some of the oldest tournaments still running!
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S8: Felt Pain - On the humble tennis ball [Topic slice]
We're back after summer break! In this Topic slice, it's time to give the humble tennis ball its due. We dive into the world of the "optic yellow" sphere that routinely takes a drubbing from us all! We’ll cover Some history behind the the tennis ball Physical characteristics Colors and what they...
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S7: TEN Qs from a TEN year old on TENnis! part 2 [Savvy slice]
It's time for one more Savvy Slice! Curious about protected rankings in tennis? What about the tallest and shortest players on tour? Well, we know a ten-year old that wanted to know, and sent us on a hunt for answers because we were stumped! In this episode/slide, we tackle the second set of...
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S6: TEN Qs from a TEN year old on TENnis! part 1 [Savvy slice]
It's time for a new kind of slice - a Savvy Slice! Curious about tennis in the Olympics? What about defaults in a Slam? Or has a triple bagel (6-0 6-0 6-0) ever happened in a Slam? Well, we know a ten-year old that wanted to know, and sent us on a hunt for answers because we were stumped! In this...
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S5: Mirra Andreeva [Profile slice]
We're excited to bring you a new type of slice -- a Player profile slice! And in the spirit of an up-and-coming podcast covering an up-and-coming player, we're profiling Mirra Andreeva, a promising young player from Russia on the WTA circuit!
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S4: Keeping Score - the tennis scoring system [Topic slice]
In today's Topic slice, we're excited to dive deep into arguably one of the most fascinating and quirky aspects of tennis -- it's scoring system! So today we’ll cover Some history behind the scoring system, especially a wild story about the origins about the tiebreak Define some scoring terms…
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S3: Aces & Double Faults [Stats slice]
Today we’re going to cover a new kind of slice. We’re calling this the “Stats Slice”. For our inaugural “Stats Slice”, we will review the Top 10 Men’s Players with Most Aces vs. Most Double Faults in 2023”......polar opposite stats - the good and ugly, if you will. We will share our thoughts on...
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S2: Grand Slam Dunk [Topic slice]
Welcome to our topic slice. This is where we go deep on a topic of choice. For our very first one, we wanted to start with a topic every tennis fan knows something about. Today we’ll dunk ourselves into the concept of the tennis Grand Slam. We’ll cover a few interesting things - origin of the…
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S1: Introducing "Sliced Serve" Podcast
Welcome to Sliced Serve, a new tennis podcast - by tennis nerds, for wannabe tennis nerds. We want this to be a place where you satisfy your curiosity, and leave feeling just a little bit smarter and appreciative of this game we all love. We aim to be informative, funny, inclusive, entertaining,...