{"id":3470,"date":"2019-03-24T16:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2019-03-24T16:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:02:39","slug":"around-the-net-issue-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/24\/around-the-net-issue-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Net, Issue 6"},"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=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/03\/22\/head-to-head-effects-wta\/\">WTA Head-to-Head Effects<\/a> (on-the-t.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\/18\/podcast-episode-53\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 53: Indian Wells in Review<\/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 50 matches in the last week, from 5,326 to 5,376. New additions include several WTA Miami finals, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/19990329-W-Miami-F-Venus_Williams-Serena_Williams.html\">Venus-vs-Serena showdown of 1999<\/a>, many more current contests from Indian Wells and Miami, and a handful of historic highlights, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/19730707-W-Wimbledon-F-Chris_Evert-Billie_Jean_King.html\">1973 Wimbledon women&#8217;s final<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/20080817-W-Olympics-F-Dinara_Safina-Elena_Dementieva.html\">2008 Olympics women&#8217;s final<\/a>.<\/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>We&#8217;re still waiting for our first multiple-title winner of the 2019 season. On the ATP side, that&#8217;s 19 champions in 19 events, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicklester\/status\/1107450596859142144\">a new record<\/a>.<\/li><li>The player to break that streak will not be Dominic Thiem, who lost his first match in Miami against Hubert Hurkacz. Thiem is the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sPETEcore\/status\/1109470831871180801\">first Indian Wells titlist<\/a> to fail to win a Miami match since 2010, when Ivan Ljubicic lost to Benjamin Becker. It&#8217;s not bad company for Thiem, though, as the other three IW champions to lose their first match in Miami are Novak Djokovic, Lleyton Hewitt, and Alex Corretja.<\/li><li>Conceivably, the man who breaks the unique-titlist streak <em>could<\/em> be Reilly Opelka, who beat Diego Schwartzman despite being out-aced by El Pique in the first set. Opelka didn&#8217;t record a single ace in the first set, and it was only his second tour-level match in which less than 10% of his service points went for aces. (The other was his 2017 first-round encounter with Tommy Haas in Houston, and his career rate is 22.3%.)<\/li><li>Kei Nishikori is king of deciding sets no more. After dropping a third set to Dusan Lajovic in his first outing in Miami, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisMyLife68\/status\/1109160541245919234\">he loses the top spot<\/a> on the deciding-set winning percentage leaderboard, to Djokovic.<\/li><li>Yesterday, Naomi Osaka won the first set against Su-Wei Hsieh, but Hsieh came back to win the match. It&#8217;s the first time since 2016 that Osaka failed to convert a one-set advantage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/the-naomi-osaka-first-set-guarantee\/\">a streak I wrote about a couple of months ago<\/a>. She fell only 156 matches short of Chris Evert&#8217;s record.<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/879810\/2019\/03\/21\/baseballs-new-frontier-inside-the-looming-battle-between-players-and-teams-over-the-new-data\/\">Baseball\u2019s new frontier: Inside the looming battle between players and teams over the new data<\/a> (theathletic.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/882806\/2019\/03\/22\/the-story-of-hockeydb-it-sort-of-changed-the-world\/\">The story of HockeyDB: \u2018It sort of changed the world\u2019<\/a> (theathletic.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/fantasy-birding-is-real-and-its-spectacular-1833374916\">Fantasy Birding Is Real, And It&#8217;s Spectacular<\/a> (deadspin.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsscientists.com\/2019\/03\/on-transgender-athletes-and-performance-advantages\/\">On Transgender athletes and performance advantages<\/a> (sportsscientists.com)<\/li><\/ul>\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\/24\/around-the-net-issue-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the Net, Issue 6<\/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-3470","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\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}