{"id":23849,"date":"2020-02-04T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=23849"},"modified":"2020-02-04T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:13:35","slug":"last-word-on-tennis-podcast-4-australian-open-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2020\/02\/04\/last-word-on-tennis-podcast-4-australian-open-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Word on Tennis Podcast #4: Australian Open Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Word On Tennis Podcast returns to take a look back at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/australian-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Australian Open<\/a> and look ahead to this week on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<h2>Last Word on Tennis Podcast #4: Australian Open Review<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>Sofia Kenin rules the roost<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The team talks about the American&#8217;s victory over Garbine Muguruza and how impressive the young player is. Jim suggests that this could be the first of many Grand Slam titles for the 21-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a dissection of some of the big hitters who maybe didn&#8217;t perform as well. Karolina Pliskova, Naomi Osaka, and Serena Williams are players mentioned.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Djokovic finds the route to success once more<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Serbian&#8217;s eighth Australian Open title was won, but with a little more jeopardy than usual. Damian suggests that Dominic Thiem certainly became the favorite for the title in the third set of that match.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fond farewells to some old friends<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2020\/01\/23\/caroline-wozniacki-ends-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caroline Wozniacki<\/a>, Leander Paes, and Carla Suarez Navarro played their last ever Australian Opens and get a tribute in the podcast.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>The Quiz and What else in life needs a 25-second clock<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Come for the tennis chat, stay for the whimsy as the team come up with some ideas for another use of the 25-second serve clock. The quiz this week foxes both panellists, see if you can do better!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LWOTpod4\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen on Podbean for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the podcast? Make sure to check out old episodes on our <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/category\/lastwordontennis-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Tennis Podcast page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Word On Tennis Podcast team reconvene after the Australian Open to talk about the key issues that emerged from the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3141,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10029],"tags":[80,46,208,5013,22,10020,1900],"class_list":["post-23849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lastwordontennis-podcast","tag-carla-suarez-navarro","tag-caroline-wozniacki","tag-dominic-thiem","tag-leander-paes","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-podcast","tag-sofia-kenin"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}