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Alison Riske-Amritraj: The long journey to top 20 in the world

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Alison Riske-Amritraj is our guest for the seventeenth episode of Baseline Intelligence. Alison reached a career high of 18 in singles and 40 in doubles on the WTA tour. She's won three singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon where she beat then world number 1 Ash Barty.

We talk:

3:39 How she's maintained her level for over a decade

6:20 The danger or comparing yourself to your peers

8:37 Skipping college for the pro tour

11:11 Never doubting herself

13:58 Being yourself in new/challenging situations

18:26 Why she has success on grass

20:20 Differences between hard courts

21:50 How the surface affects her tactics

23:23 How the score affects her tactics

25:53 The 30 second tempo drill

28:15 Her love for Primanti Brothers sandwiches

29:03 Her favorite place to play

30:16 Her best advice to a junior player

** Sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

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Alison Riske-Amritraj is our guest for the seventeenth episode of Baseline Intelligence. Alison reached a career high of 18 in singles and 40 in doubles on the WTA tour. She's won three singles titles and reached the quarterfinals of Wimbledon where she beat then world number 1 Ash Barty.

We talk:

3:39 How she's maintained her level for over a decade

6:20 The danger or comparing yourself to your peers

8:37 Skipping college for the pro tour

11:11 Never doubting herself

13:58 Being yourself in new/challenging situations

18:26 Why she has success on grass

20:20 Differences between hard courts

21:50 How the surface affects her tactics

23:23 How the score affects her tactics

25:53 The 30 second tempo drill

28:15 Her love for Primanti Brothers sandwiches

29:03 Her favorite place to play

30:16 Her best advice to a junior player

** Sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

  continue reading

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