Tennis Analytics Should Tell a Story
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
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