{"id":1247,"date":"2013-08-29T00:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T04:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2013-08-29T00:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T04:40:43","slug":"baker-vs-hewitt-return-profile-in-extreme-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/29\/baker-vs-hewitt-return-profile-in-extreme-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker vs Hewitt Return Profile: In Extreme Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the trouble with jotting down the details of every single shot in a tennis match: When you’re done, you have details about every single shot in the tennis match.<\/p>\n

If you saw my post yesterday<\/a> presenting serve profiles for Federer and Zemlja, you already have some idea of what I’m talking about<\/a>. \u00a0When you can chop up each player’s performance a thousand different ways, it seems like a waste to ignore any possibility.<\/p>\n

Here we go again.<\/p>\n

I charted tonight’s match between Brian Baker<\/a> and Lleyton Hewitt<\/a>, two of the more electric baseliners in today’s game. \u00a0Hewitt doesn’t have much of a serve, and while Baker can crush his share of aces, he’s rarely consistent enough to shut down his opponent’s return game.<\/p>\n

Here’s all the data I could think to generate regarding their return games tonight.<\/a><\/p>\n

(Seriously, click the link<\/a>. \u00a0I’m only writing this post as an excuse to show off what’s on the other side of that link.)<\/p>\n

Here are some tidbits of interest I’ve noted from the data:<\/p>\n