{"id":668,"date":"2012-03-08T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:42:29","slug":"who-excels-at-the-march-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/who-excels-at-the-march-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Excels at the March Masters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian translation at settesei.it<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s not quite March Madness, but the March Masters tournaments of Indian Wells and Miami do constitute a unique part of the tennis season. \u00a0Though the conditions are different on opposite sides of the continent, it’s hot, and many players are contesting their first important matches since the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

I queried my match database to come up with the best career performers at these two tournaments. \u00a0Setting aside a few players who have done well in just a couple of showings, here are the top twelve active players, by win percentage at Indian Wells and Miami. \u00a0(Incidentally, they are the only twelve with winning percentages over 60%.)<\/p>\n

Player                  W   L  Titles   Win%  \nNovak Djokovic         40   8       4  83.3%  \nRafael Nadal           57  13       2  81.4%  \nRoger Federer          73  19       5  79.3%  \nAndy Roddick           58  19       2  75.3%  \nJuan Martin Del Potro  19   7       0  73.1%  \nAndy Murray            25  11       1  69.4%  \nLleyton Hewitt         42  21       2  66.7%  \nIvan Ljubicic          37  20       1  64.9%  \nTomas Berdych          25  14       0  64.1%  \nJames Blake            37  21       0  63.8%  \nJo Wilfried Tsonga     13   8       0  61.9%  \nStanislas Wawrinka     14   9       0  60.9%<\/pre>\n
Del Potro is highest on the list among those without a title at either event. \u00a0Roddick’s place so high on the list serves as a reminder that this is his kind of territory–hard courts in the heat. \u00a0If he hadn’t played so poorly in his last two events, it would be tempting to pick him as an underdog this month.<\/p>\n
If you’re interested in this sort of thing, I hope you’ve started playing around with Tennis Abstract<\/a>. \u00a0One of the latest features to come online is the ability to make multiple selections from a single menu. \u00a0For instance, on Ivan Ljubicic’s page<\/a>, select “Career” from the “Time Span” menu, then open up the “Events” menu on the left-hand side, then select both Indian Wells and Miami, which will show you the matches<\/a> (and their stats) that add up to his 37-20 record at these tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Italian translation at settesei.it It’s not quite March Madness, but the March Masters tournaments of Indian Wells and Miami do constitute a unique part of the tennis season. \u00a0Though the conditions are different on opposite sides of the continent, it’s hot, and many players are contesting their first important matches since the Australian Open. I … Continue reading Who Excels at the March Masters?<\/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":[56,71,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-wells","category-miami","category-toy-stats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}