{"id":3445,"date":"2019-03-09T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:51:25","slug":"around-the-net-issue-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/around-the-net-issue-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Net, Issue 4"},"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<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/where-does-vegas-get-those-wonderful-tennis-forecasting-toys\/\">Where Does Vegas Get Those Wonderful (Tennis Forecasting) Toys?<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/road-to-110\/\">The Road to 110<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/03\/06\/indian-wells-wta\/\">Women&#8217;s Title Predictions for Indian Wells<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/03\/07\/indian-wells-atp\/\">Men&#8217;s Title Predictions for Indian Wells<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/nick-kyrgios-is-more-predictable-than-we-think\/\">Nick Kyrgios is More Predictable Than We Think<\/a> (tennisabstract.com\/blog)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/nick-kyrgios-really-is-different-under-pressure\/\">Nick Kyrgios Really is Different Under Pressure<\/a> (tennisabstract.com\/blog)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?s=nick+kyrgios\">Nick Kyrgios is Being Analytically Stalked by Tennis Abstract<\/a> (tennisabstractwatch.com)<\/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=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/podcast-episode-51-100-for-federer-and-50-4-for-kyrgios\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 51: 100 For Federer, and 50.4% for Kyrgios<\/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 more than 60 matches in the last week, from 5,194 to 5,256. We completed a run of Indian Wells women&#8217;s finals back to 2004, along with 1999 and 2000. We also added all of last week&#8217;s finals, Kyrgios&#8217;s last four matches in Acapulco, and another handful of Pete Sampras&#8217;s grand slam semi-finals.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/mcp-most-wanted-video\/\">MCP Most Wanted Video<\/a>: We&#8217;re really close to completing some noteworthy subsets, but we&#8217;re missing video for several key matches. Please help!<\/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>Laslo Djere is the 30th seed at this year&#8217;s BNP Paribas Open. This is only the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sPETEcore\/status\/1102861276504563712\">second time ever<\/a><\/em> that a wild card is also seeded at a mandatory ATP Masters tournament since the introduction of mandatory ATP Masters tournaments at around 2000. Djere has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnaK_4ever\/status\/1101763207713251328\">never won a match<\/a> at Masters level, and has won only four tour-level hard-court matches.<\/li><li>Donald Young also got a wild card into the Indian Wells main draw, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=DonaldYoung&amp;f=ACareerqqC2H3\">29th career<\/a> tour-level main draw WC, and his fourth at this event. His first was 14 years ago.<\/li><li>Yesterday, 104th-ranked Stefanie Voegele upset 4th-seeded Sloane Stephens. &#8220;Upset&#8221; is hardly the right word, since Voegele had won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/wplayer.cgi?p=StefanieVoegele&amp;f=ACareerqq&amp;q=SloaneStephens\">four of their previous five meetings<\/a>, all but one since Stephens cracked the top 15.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/46023049\">Roger Federer&#8217;s 100 titles in numbers: Where has he won most? Who has he beaten most?<\/a> (bbc.com)<\/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>Tennis Abstract readers and listeners are amazing: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukeburrage\">Luke Burrage<\/a> built upon the sport of juggling combat and organized a tour, <a href=\"http:\/\/fightnightcombat.com\/\">Fight Night Combat<\/a>, with ranking and tour-structure concepts borrowed from tennis.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2019\/03\/05\/an-analytics-revolution-is-sweeping-through-curling-yes-curling\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a9b41303ae54\">An analytics revolution is sweeping through curling. Yes, curling.<\/a> (washingtonpost.com) <em>(and yes, Washington Post, we saw that you said &#8220;sweeping&#8221;)<\/em><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardsportsanalysis.org\/2019\/03\/introducing-elo-to-college-curling\/\">Introducing Elo To College Curling<\/a> (harvardsportsanalysis.org)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/statsbomb.com\/2019\/03\/the-increasing-complexity-of-analytics\/\">The Increasing Complexity of Analytics<\/a> (statsbomb.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardsportsanalysis.org\/2019\/03\/does-dating-a-celebrity-affect-athletic-performance-a-closer-look-at-the-kardashian-effect\/\">Does Dating A Celebrity Affect Athletic Performance? A Closer Look At The &#8220;Kardashian Effect&#8221;<\/a> (harvardsportsanalysis.org)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dating a Kardashian had a statistically significant (at the 10% level) negative effect on athletic performance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thanks to Peter for help with this week\u2019s issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","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\/03\/09\/around-the-net-issue-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the Net, Issue 4<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-net"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","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=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}