#ICYMI - The Tennis Brain: Strategy, Analytics, Mental Game

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly investigate tennis brain and the strategy, analytics, and neuroscience that make it work alongside tennis strategy analyst Craig O’Shannessy, sport psychologist Leslie Sherlin, and professional tennis coach Sarah Stone. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Please subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ 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 NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/the-tennis-brain-strategy-analytics-mental-game/ Photo Credit: Ben Ratner.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly and I'm Chuck Nice. This is playing with science. Long gone are the days of wooden
0:15.6	rackets. Ah, Roscoe Tanner. Borg versus McEnroe. Things were rather analog. Ah man, I missed those days.
0:24.1	But you know what? It's a new age, a digital age if you will. And if you don't drink your brain,
0:29.7	you ain't got no game. Ha ha ha. Did you like that? Did. Yeah. And if you're ain't got no stats,
0:35.6	guess what? Where are you? Yeah, while you're here. It's exactly it. It's about patent recognition
0:41.2	and finding your zone. How quickly can you dial it up? How quickly can you dial it back down?
0:47.5	Absolutely right. And joining us today will be tennis strategists and analysts, Craig O'Shanasi,
0:54.0	as well as sports psychologists and mental performance consultant Leslie Schurlin.
0:58.8	Yeah, I'll also hear from Coach Sarah Stone, who currently works with Serbia's number one ranked
1:03.6	female player, Alexandra Kurnic. Yeah. So put down your rackets and pay attention, please.
1:10.3	But joining us first is tennis strategist and expert Craig O'Shanasi. He's the number one
1:17.6	tennis strategist analyst in the world. He's coached on tour for 20 years. He created braingame
1:25.0	tennis.com. And actually, he's the lead tennis analyst for the New York Times. Craig,
1:32.9	welcome to the show. Yeah, welcome. I've just arrived in New York. It's great to be here looking
1:38.4	forward to an amazing US Open. Oh, that's right. That's why you're here. Of course. By the way,
1:47.7	love the open. Can you please get me some tickets? Get me in there. I'm joking. I was not joking.
1:55.7	Max, don't encourage me. Craig, I'm really not joking, but I am joking. You know what I'm saying.
1:59.7	You know, it's kind of like when you ask a girl if you want her to sleep with you and you're like,
2:03.1	I mean, I'm joking. I mean, unless you're into that. So anyway, so much of your personal life
2:09.5	comes out in the show. No. Hey, man, let me just say this. It is such a pleasure to watch you
2:17.3	when you're doing the analyst for the Open or for Wimbledon or for the French or it doesn't
2:22.5	make a difference. You're so enthusiastic. Can you give us a backstory about how you came to be
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