The Tennis 128: No. 1, Rod Laver

Along the way, we dig into who wins long rallies, who loses long rallies with UFEs, who makes the most of their late-rally shots, why we need winner rates to estimate shot tolerance, and that's not even all of it...

@Wesleyw152 Not that I know of. Some grand slam sites have published leaderboards for specific tournaments.

@orca_chaser ace% controlled for the ace% and ace-against% of the players in each match

@TelDiTen for current tournaments: last 52 weeks for older tournaments: that calendar year

More about the new members, as well as the players who could be joining them soon:

In the full post, I dive into why speed doesn't tell the whole story of his second serves, then look for players who have made positive moves from sub-50% second-serve win rates:

@sarmatron I don't. Closest I have is consolidation% -- how often a player holds after breaking -- and that for only a subset of matches. E.g. I'm skeptical there's much there, beyond "better players are better at this," but I'm tempted to look into it.

@AnnaK_4ever To be clear, it’s ok if it’s a service skunk

@bySLPrice Congrats! Can't wait.

Lots more here:

@Lord_Kartz every detail, no. But it must be close to correct or the spreadsheet will think you're entering different point winners/losers, or my parser throws errors. Even if people get things backwards, it's shows up in the data--like a suspiciously high number of inside-in forehands.

@L95010802 not the world's best tutorial, but example charting:

Lots more at the link, breaking down the service games of the best player on earth: