admin In December 2013, two 15 year old Americans played in the final of the Orange Bowl International Championships for juniors. Fast forward 5 years and they played again as 20 year olds on the pro tour. We analysed both matches to determine how their 135 profiles had developed, and what parents and players can learn from…..
Does rally length change from surface to surface when it’s two of the greatest of all time playing each other? It does, but perhaps not as you would expect.
It has been written that shorter rallies are just as prevalent on clay as they are on a hard court. True. As usual, though, we need to dig deeper because there are large changes in the context of 135 that coaches, players and parents need to know.
If you’re looking at “% of points won on 1st serve”, or “pressure points”, or “winners to unforced errors”, or even “break point conversions”, you’re looking at the wrong thing. We know the TV will report on those stats, but to truly understand tennis and measure your game, you need to delve into different numbers. Here’s how.
Forced Errors and Unforced Errors – Where to Start The first thing to realize is that forced errors are rarely reported by TV networks when they broadcast tennis. They stick to a straight winners and unforced error count. So, where do forced errors come into it? Some quick definitions: Unforced Error: Missing a shot was … Read more
TV tennis stats have always been heavily focused on the end of a point. Player 1 hit this many forehand winners and this many forehand errors. They generally don’t mention the
How Does 135 Differ from 0-4, 5-8, 9+? The first answer is that rather than having short, medium and long rallies, we have the server’s rally length (135), the receiver’s rally length (246) and long rallies (7+). That helps us understand patterns of play a lot better. There’s another crucial difference: Any “big rally length … Read more
The simple answer is that 135 represents the first 3 shots played by the server in a rally. It’s the most common sequence of shots in both