{"id":3396,"date":"2019-02-23T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2019-02-23T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T16:19:06","slug":"around-the-net-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/around-the-net-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Net, Issue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Around the Net is my attempt to provide a clearinghouse for tennis analytics on the web. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/category\/around-the-net\/\">Each week<\/a>, you&#8217;ll find a summary of recent articles, podcasts, papers, and data sources, as well as trivia and the occasional bit of interesting non-tennis content. If you would like to suggest something for a future issue, <a href=\"mailto:jeffsackmann@gmail.com\">drop me a line<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Articles and Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/aliaksandra-sasnovich-bagel-recipe\/\">Aliaksandra Sasnovich\u2019s Bagel Recipe<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/skoval.github.io\/2019\/02\/22\/serve-model-check\/\">Assessing the Fit of a Serve Prediction Model<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1902.07378\">Gaussian Process Priors for Dynamic Paired Comparison Modelling<\/a> (arxiv.org)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/dominic-thiem-tennys-sandgren-and-playing-your-way-in\/\">Dominic Thiem, Tennys Sandgren, and Playing Your Way In<\/a> (tennisabstract.com\/blog)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Multimedia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thMPjT9jrEI\">Tennisshow: Fredrik &#8220;Fidde&#8221; Rosengren speaks about 2018 with Kyle Edmund<\/a> (youtube.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thirtylove.libsyn.com\/doubles-team-kevin-krawietz-and-andreas-mies-on-reaching-their-first-atp-final\">Thirty Love: Doubles Team Kevin Krawietz And Andreas Mies On Reaching Their First ATP Final<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/18\/podcast-episode-49-the-new-york-open-surprise-finalists-and-clay-court-tactics\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 49: The New York Open, Surprise Finalists, and Clay Court Tactics<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/charting\/meta.html\">Match Charting Project<\/a>: The dataset has grown by 60 matches in the last week, from 5,083 to 5,143. Highlights include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/20190222-W-Dubai-SF-Petra_Kvitova-Su_Wei_Hsieh.html\">100th charted<\/a> Petra Kvitova match, making her the 7th woman to become so well represented. We&#8217;ve also continued filling out the historical record of grand slam semi-finals, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/19810912-M-US_Open-SF-Jimmy_Connors-Bjorn_Borg.html\">1981 clash<\/a> between Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trivia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Last week&#8217;s New York semi-final between John Isner and Reilly Opelka set plenty of records, the number of which is probably limited only by our imaginations. First, their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blaker414\/status\/1096960793755566080\">59 tiebreak points<\/a> tied a best-of-three record. Unsurprisingly, Isner (and Jeremy Chardy) held the previous record as well.<\/li><li>The Isner-Opelka tilt also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisMyLife68\/status\/1096965353626836994\">set the record<\/a> for most aces (81) in a best-of-three match&#8211;breaking another of Isner&#8217;s marks&#8211;and was also the first best-of-three match in which both players hit at least 37 aces.<\/li><li>Marco Cecchinato has somehow won three tour-level titles (and reached a Roland Garros semi-final!) with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaK_4ever\/status\/1097201577172058112\">only 33 tour-level match wins<\/a>. By contrast, Julien Benneteau won 273 tour-level matches but nary a title.<\/li><li>Since 2008, Fabio Fognini has played at least part of the South American golden swing every year but one. But 2019 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sPETEcore\/status\/1098494383110922240\">first time<\/a> he suffered three straight first-round exits, despite entering each event as a top-two seed.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beyond the net<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New book by Christie Aschwanden, <a href=\"https:\/\/christieaschwanden.com\/books\/\">Good To Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery<\/a><\/li><li>New book by Kirk Goldsberry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmhbooks.com\/shop\/books\/SprawlBall\/9781328765031\">SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA<\/a><\/li><li>The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is next weekend, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sloansportsconference.com\/activities\/research-papers\/2019-research-paper-finalists-posters\/\">research papers have been announced<\/a>. No tennis, but a broad mix of other sports, including curling.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Thanks to Peter, Jeff, and Carl for help with this week&#8217;s issue.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the Net is my attempt to provide a clearinghouse for tennis analytics on the web. Each week, you&#8217;ll find a summary of recent articles, podcasts, papers, and data sources, as well as trivia and the occasional bit of interesting non-tennis content. If you would like to suggest something for a future issue, drop me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/around-the-net-issue-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the Net, Issue 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-net","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}