Interesting stuff. I’d like to see how often each type of serve gets the opponent out of system. Yes, that’s subjective so maybe just track points won by serve type. Aces and errors are a small fraction of total serves.
Yes, that's a great point. It generally follows the same trend on the graph as aces / receive errors so I didn't plot it to avoid too much complexity.
I did share a little bonus on instagram that looks at the receive quality sideout rates which showed 'bad' receives sided out 16% less than very good receives. https://www.instagram.com/p/C223EywvESv/
Will see if I can run it across serve types in the future for you though!
Thanks. That makes sense. I guess the real question is whether players should be using serve type X more/less frequently, and does that vary from player to player. Hard to imagine anyone telling Evandro to stop using his jump spin, but not everyone can serve like him. And that doesn’t even account for weather conditions, wind direction, sand depth, etc. Anyway, looking forward to what you come up with next!
Interesting stuff. I’d like to see how often each type of serve gets the opponent out of system. Yes, that’s subjective so maybe just track points won by serve type. Aces and errors are a small fraction of total serves.
Yes, that's a great point. It generally follows the same trend on the graph as aces / receive errors so I didn't plot it to avoid too much complexity.
I did share a little bonus on instagram that looks at the receive quality sideout rates which showed 'bad' receives sided out 16% less than very good receives. https://www.instagram.com/p/C223EywvESv/
Will see if I can run it across serve types in the future for you though!
Thanks. That makes sense. I guess the real question is whether players should be using serve type X more/less frequently, and does that vary from player to player. Hard to imagine anyone telling Evandro to stop using his jump spin, but not everyone can serve like him. And that doesn’t even account for weather conditions, wind direction, sand depth, etc. Anyway, looking forward to what you come up with next!