Grand Slam Men’s Singles Tennis 1995-2009 Part 2: Points, Games and Sets
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https://doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v19i53.542Keywords:
Statistics, Points, games, Set scores, TennisAbstract
Data from Grand Slam men’s singles matches is presented for the period 1995 to 2009 showing how set score distributions have varied with time and across the four events. The relative number of tie-break sets provides a good indication of court speed, and so does the number of 6-0 or 6-4 sets. We show (a) how serve point probabilities vary between match winners and losers, (b) that match winners win about 9 out of 10 service games on average, while losers win about 7 out of 10 service games, (c) about 1/3 of all points are won by a player hitting a winner, (d) about 78% of match winners win the first set and (e) a player who wins the first set 7-6 is 2.5 times more likely to win the match than his opponent.
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Cross, R. and Pollard, G. (2009). Grand Slam men’s singles tennis 1991- 2009. Part 1: Serve speeds and other related data, ITF Coaching and Sport Science Review.
Pollard, G. Cross, R. and Meyer, D. (2006) An analysis of ten years of the four grand slam men’s singles data for lack of independence of set outcomes, Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 5, 561-566.
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