It’s time for more serve-speed research notes. Most of the matches at the 2011 U.S. Open were tracked by Pointstream, and serve speed was recorded for the vast majority of those points. The Open website published some serve speed numbers, but not as conveniently as I would like.<\/p>\n
Below, find the average first and second serve speeds for every man who played three or more Pointstream-tracked matches. Oddly enough, the top and bottom of the list are held by Americans; John Isner is where you’d expect him, while Donald Young barely kept his first-serve average in the triple digits.<\/p>\n
I didn’t expect to see nearly so much variation in the difference<\/em> between first and second serve averages. Sure, Isner and Young are the endpoints in both lists, but David Nalbandian–below average on firsts–is third of 22 on seconds. To take another angle, both Marin Cilic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga each have more than double the difference in averages than does either Alex Bogomolov or Fernando Verdasco.<\/p>\n (“M” is the number of matches tracked by Pointstream for each player.)<\/p>\n It’s time for more serve-speed research notes. Most of the matches at the 2011 U.S. Open were tracked by Pointstream, and serve speed was recorded for the vast majority of those points. The Open website published some serve speed numbers, but not as conveniently as I would like. Below, find the average first and second … Continue reading US Open Serve Speed by Player<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[96,104,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-serve-speed","category-u-s-open"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Player M 1sts 1stAvg 2nds 2ndAvg \nJohn Isner 4 313 124.5 125 106.2 \nAndy Roddick 5 249 122.1 118 100.5 \nTomas Berdych 3 85 120.3 71 95.0 \nJo-Wilfried Tsonga 5 289 119.7 206 90.6 \nMarin Cilic 3 125 118.7 121 86.3 \nJanko Tipsarevic 3 148 116.5 84 90.5 \nRoger Federer 6 355 115.6 186 94.6 \nJuan Martin Del Potro 3 180 114.5 96 88.2 \nJulien Benneteau 3 177 114.0 86 89.9 \nTommy Haas 3 211 113.9 124 94.1 \nNovak Djokovic 7 421 113.7 226 91.4 \n\nPlayer M 1sts 1stAvg 2nds 2ndAvg\nAndy Murray 6 338 112.6 204 85.2 \nMardy Fish 4 231 112.4 165 88.0 \nDavid Nalbandian 3 165 112.3 125 96.1 \nDavid Ferrer 3 128 112.2 74 88.9 \nRafael Nadal 7 435 110.5 176 84.5 \nJuan Monaco 3 167 109.4 70 90.4 \nGilles Simon 3 235 108.3 179 81.6 \nFernando Verdasco 3 175 107.3 72 92.6 \nAlex Bogomolov Jr. 3 264 103.1 96 89.1 \nDonald Young 4 213 101.9 111 80.6<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"