#ICYMI - Tennis: Inside the Royal Game

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly serve up some of the surprising science surrounding the sport of tennis, with a little help from astrophysicist Charles Liu, professional tennis player Jared Donaldson, and Ron Rocchi, the Advanced Innovation Manager at Wilson. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://www.tunein.com/playingwithscience NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch/listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly.
0:03.6	And I'm Chuck Knives.
0:05.2	This is playing with science.
0:07.0	Today we are going to smash it.
0:09.0	Acit, chip it, and lob it.
0:11.0	And remember, when it's out, it's out.
0:13.0	Unless, of course, Hawkeye says otherwise.
0:16.0	We are certainly talking about tennis, a sport that has its origins and its origins.
0:23.0	And we are going to smash it.
0:25.0	We are certainly talking about tennis, a sport that has its origins in the 12th century,
0:31.0	and patronized by none other than King Henry VIII back in the 15th century,
0:36.0	when he wasn't getting married and shopping off heads.
0:39.0	Yeah, busy men.
0:40.0	Yeah, busy men.
0:41.0	Back then it was actually called real tennis as in real or royal.
0:44.0	Yeah, for sure.
0:45.0	And helping us keep it real is a rising star of US men's tennis,
0:49.0	Jared Donaldson, and breaking down the physics is our good friend,
0:53.0	astrophysicist Charles Loon.
0:56.0	Yes, and we're also going to be getting the low down on the evolution of the tennis racket.
1:02.0	Did you like that?
1:03.0	I did.
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