{"id":3485,"date":"2019-03-31T14:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2019-03-31T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:13:24","slug":"around-the-net-issue-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/around-the-net-issue-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Net, Issue 7"},"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\/all-about-albot\/\">All About Albot<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/03\/29\/top-pressure-performances\/\">Top Pressure Performances in March<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/30\/wta-aging-patterns-and-bianca-andreescus-future\/\">WTA Aging Patterns and Bianca Andreescu\u2019s Future<\/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=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/25\/podcast-episode-54-miami-at-the-half-way-point\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 54: Miami At the Half-Way Point<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FXL2G1p-EDw\">TEDx Talk: Toni Nadal<\/a> (in Spanish, English subtitles available)<\/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 5,376 to 5,439. New additions include a near-complete run of 1989-96 WTA Miami finals, plus many men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s grand slam semi-finals. And, of course, a lot of matches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/last_fifty.html\">from this year&#8217;s Miami event<\/a>, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/20190330-W-Miami-F-Ashleigh_Barty-Karolina_Pliskova.html\">women&#8217;s final<\/a> and both semi-finals.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JeffSackmann\/tennis_MatchChartingProject\">MCP GitHub repository<\/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>Roger Federer could finally become the first ATP player to win multiple titles this season, but the WTA remains a tour of unique winners. In Miami, Ashleigh Barty became the 14th champion in 14 tour-level events.<\/li><li>To reach the final, Federer needed to beat someone more than 15 years his junior. In fact, <em>both<\/em> Miami semi-finals involved age gaps of at least one and a half decades. That hasn&#8217;t happened at an ATP event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tennis\/comments\/b6wti8\/both_the_semifinals_are_between_players_with_age\/\">since 1979<\/a>. The closest since then was in Dubai last month, when Fed-Coric and Monfils-Tsitsipas were both at least 11.9 year gaps.<\/li><li>Speaking of unusual semi-finals&#8230; The Bryans beat Kubot\/Melo by a score of 7-6(7) 6-7(8) [14\u201112], just about as long as a match can be within the constraints of the modern doubles format of no-ad with a third-set super-tiebreak. It lasted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/tennis\/comments\/b74fce\/pointless_stat_about_modern_doubles_tennis\/\">187 points<\/a>. While match stats are hard to come by for doubles, I do have a reasonably complete set for tour-level doubles since 2017. In that span, 187 points is the longest match under these rules. There was one other 187-pointer in 2018 and a 186-point marathon in 2017.<\/li><li>Thanks in part to his run in Miami, Felix Auger Aliassime won his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFanChild\/status\/1110675943050219520\">first five career matches<\/a> against top 20 players, something that&#8217;s never been done before. Mario Ancic won his first three; Felix is the only guy with more. After the semi-final loss to Isner, FAA falls to 5-1, but still has a chance to set more records. No one has won more than 7 of their first 10 matches against the top 20, a feat accomplished by Gustavo Kuerten and Andrei Medvedev. <\/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:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/almost-impossible-free-throws\/\">Free Throws Should Be Easy. Why Do Basketball Players Miss?<\/a> (wired.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/mlb-is-increasingly-a-father-son-game\/\">MLB Is Increasingly A Father-Son Game<\/a> (fivethirtyeight.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3359354\">First Impressions and Analyst Forecast Bias<\/a> (ssrn.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\/31\/around-the-net-issue-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the Net, Issue 7<\/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-3485","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\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}