{"id":3517,"date":"2019-04-14T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2019-04-14T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T11:43:21","slug":"around-the-net-issue-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/around-the-net-issue-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Net, Issue 8"},"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\/development-boys-grand-slam-winners\/\">Boys Grand Slam Winners Developing as Pros, or \u201cGeoffrey Blancaneaux, You\u2019re On the Clock\u201d<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiddengameoftennis.com\/putting-elo-on-your-radar\/\">Putting ELO on Your Radar<\/a> (hiddengameoftennis.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/04\/05\/match-stats-and-style\/\">What Can Match Stats Tell Us About Playing Styles?<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/on-the-t.com\/2019\/04\/12\/match-stats-and-style\/\">More Exploration on Using Match Stats to Classify Playing Styles<\/a> (on-the-t.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/forecasting-future-felix-with-atp-aging-patterns\/\">Forecasting Future Felix With ATP Aging Patterns<\/a> (tennisabstract.com\/blog)<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/the-most-predictable-woman-in-tennis\/\">The Most Predictable Woman in Tennis<\/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\/04\/01\/podcast-episode-55-miami-titles-for-barty-and-federer\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 55: Miami Titles for Barty and Federer<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/podcast-episode-56-gender-differences-in-surface-differences\/\">Tennis Abstract Podcast Episode 56: Gender Differences in Surface Differences<\/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 75 matches in the last two weeks, from 5,439 to 5,517. We&#8217;ve added several more men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s major semi-finals from the 1990s, some vintage WTA Hilton Head and Berlin finals, along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/charting\/last_fifty.html\">usual grab bag<\/a> of recent matches.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/1113594387609550848\">Spinrate analysis from the Miami Masters<\/a> (twitter.com\/Vestige_du_jour)<\/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>At the ITF Sunderland event, Tara Moore came back to win from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/47871628\">0-6, 0-5, 30-40 deficit<\/a>.<\/li><li>Amazingly, there&#8217;s an even longer-shot comeback in the WTA history books. In 1983 US Open qualifying, Barbie Bramblett was down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1983\/09\/02\/sports\/scouting-138847.html\">0-6, 0-5, 0-40<\/a> and stared down 18 match points before coming back to beat Ann Hulbert.<\/li><li>Compared to Moore&#8217;s comeback, most WTA oddities barely register, but here&#8217;s another: In Charleston, Kaia Kanepi came back from a 0-6 first set against Elise Mertens to win, 0-6 6-0 7-5, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBITennis\/status\/1113575625250488322\">first time since 2000<\/a> that any match (including ITFs) has been decided by that score.<\/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:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/checking-our-work\/\">How Good Are FiveThirtyEight Forecasts?<\/a> (fivethirtyeight.com)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/game-theory\/2019\/04\/05\/the-marathon-has-vanquished-other-long-distance-running-events\">The marathon has vanquished other long-distance running events<\/a> (economist.com\/gametheory)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/game-theory\/2019\/04\/12\/why-the-nhls-best-team-in-decades-is-unlikely-to-win-the-stanley-cup\">Why the NHL\u2019s best team in decades is unlikely to win the Stanley Cup<\/a> (economist.com\/gametheory)<\/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\/04\/14\/around-the-net-issue-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Around the Net, Issue 8<\/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-3517","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\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}