Pon De Replay

2024-08-19

We asked for questions and you sent us so many great ones, many of which cover some of the major topics o’ the day, including the recent rule enforcement controversies and the groundswell of support for video replay. (Basically, video replay needs to happen and it will happen, but it won’t fix everything!) Beyond just the topical, we've got Olympics memories, favorite cake, a few great Coco questions, and the contradiction of having fewer and fewer opinions in a hot take-driven medium. Let’s have some fun before the U...

We asked for questions and you sent us so many great ones, many of which cover some of the major topics o’ the day, including the recent rule enforcement controversies and the groundswell of support for video replay. (Basically, video replay needs to happen and it will happen, but it won’t fix everything!) Beyond just the topical, we've got Olympics memories, favorite cake, a few great Coco questions, and the contradiction of having fewer and fewer opinions in a hot take-driven medium. Let’s have some fun before the US Open gets underway next week!

01:30 Which non-Slam event would you have liked to attend?

06:30 Jamaican sprinting and our all-time dream 4x100 relay team

12:20 “What is the most objectively polarizing tennis topic that you have zero opinion on?”

20:25 Video replay: yes, we need it but it won’t fix everything

28:20 The FAA-Draper incident that launched a thousand opinions

38:40 Cleansing the palate from the above question … Favorite cake and favorite episodes (of our own)

42:00 The WTA matching ATP’s prize money: a moving target?

48:00 Toronto vs Cincinnati

52:00 “Coco crisis” or just alarmism?

62:05 WAGs and HABs

67:00 Favorite Olympics moments

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