Revolutionizing Tennis, with Nick Kyrgios

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Has tennis gotten too routine? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate the people and technology shaking up the sport with Top 40 player Nick Kyrgios and David Ramos, Coaching Education and Performance Manager at the USTA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
0:18.0	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:22.0	In this edition, we're going to pick up on some footage we got from last year.
0:27.0	Gary O'Reilly and Chuck Knice, my co-hosts, they went behind the scenes at the US Open
0:33.0	and they got to talk with David Ramos.
0:36.0	He's the director of coaching education and performance analytics
0:41.0	for the United States Tennis Association.
0:44.0	They talked about how data and AI is revolutionizing tennis, as you might suspect.
0:51.0	Check it out.
0:53.0	Here we are with Dave Ramos at the US Open Tennis, David Sinyan Manager of coaching education.
0:59.0	I love this bit.
1:00.0	And performance analytics.
1:02.0	It's six.
1:03.0	Sounds great.
1:04.0	We love that.
1:05.0	We love some analytics.
1:07.0	So just break down briefly what it is your role involves here at the USTA.
1:13.0	I'll talk a little bit about the evolution of it because it started starting at one.
1:17.0	That's why there's two titles because it started one place and went to another.
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