{"id":658,"date":"2012-02-20T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-02-20T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:23:28","slug":"one-year-of-heavy-topspin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/one-year-of-heavy-topspin\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year of Heavy Topspin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a glance through my archives revealed that, today, HeavyTopspin.com is one year old! \u00a0We&#8217;ve come a long way in that time, pushing tennis research in new directions, getting <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904199404576540433700023992.html\">advanced tennis stats in The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and more recently, <a title=\"Introducing\u00a0TennisAbstract.com\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/introducing-tennisabstract-com\/\">launching<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\">TennisAbstract.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone for reading, and thank you especially to those who comment, whether here on the blog, by email, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jeffsackmann\">Twitter<\/a>. \u00a0Nods are due in particular to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intennis.com\/SiteBlog-3591.114136-Ricks-Blog.html\">Rick Devereaux<\/a>, Tom Welsh, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dailyfix\/tag\/the-count\/\">Carl Bialik<\/a>, and Eric from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevegtennis.com\">stevegtennis.com<\/a>. \u00a0Slowly, analytical tennis research is getting more popular as well as more fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to an even better year two!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, a glance through my archives revealed that, today, HeavyTopspin.com is one year old! \u00a0We&#8217;ve come a long way in that time, pushing tennis research in new directions, getting advanced tennis stats in The Wall Street Journal, and more recently, launching TennisAbstract.com. Thanks to everyone for reading, and thank you especially to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/20\/one-year-of-heavy-topspin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Year of Heavy Topspin<\/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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}