{"id":3652,"date":"2019-07-16T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2019-07-16T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:00:11","slug":"economist-novak-djokovic-wins-the-most-thrilling-mens-tennis-match-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/economist-novak-djokovic-wins-the-most-thrilling-mens-tennis-match-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist: Novak Djokovic wins the most thrilling men\u2019s tennis match ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My latest article at The Economist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/game-theory\/\">Game Theory blog<\/a> delves into one way in which the Wimbledon men&#8217;s championship match was the most exciting major final of the last four decades:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sunday\u2019s final registered an [Excitement Index] of 7.5%. Not only was that the highest of the tournament, but it tops every men\u2019s grand-slam final of the last four decades (see chart). (A handful of women\u2019s finals, which are best of three sets, score higher, because the high-leverage deciding set accounts for a larger fraction of the match.) The Wimbledon decider in 1980 between John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg\u2014thrilling enough to spawn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5727282\/\">films<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/06\/sports\/tennis\/mcenroe-borg-wimbledon-rematch-1980.html\">re-enactments<\/a>\u2014is next, at 7%. Another clash often dubbed the most thrilling of all time, the Wimbledon final in 2008 between Mr Federer and Mr Nadal, ranks third, at 6.9%. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/game-theory\/2019\/07\/16\/novak-djokovic-wins-the-most-thrilling-mens-tennis-match-ever\">Read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest article at The Economist&#8217;s Game Theory blog delves into one way in which the Wimbledon men&#8217;s championship match was the most exciting major final of the last four decades: Sunday\u2019s final registered an [Excitement Index] of 7.5%. Not only was that the highest of the tournament, but it tops every men\u2019s grand-slam final &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/economist-novak-djokovic-wins-the-most-thrilling-mens-tennis-match-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economist: Novak Djokovic wins the most thrilling men\u2019s tennis match ever<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","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=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}