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Writings, stats and musings on tennis 🎾 What does it say about me that I created a TT account during the Musk era the week after a slam?
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Casper Ruud holds serve more often than Sampras did on hard courts in 1994 & Davidovich Fokina holds serve more often than Ivanišević. 94' Sampras would be outside the top 10 for holds in 2026 among Top 50, Ivanišević 30th/50
84% of current Top 50 hold serve >80% vs 44% in 1994
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1 - Since the format's introduction in 1990, only David Goffin and Alex De Minaur (0 each) have conceded fewer games en route to victory over an ATP Masters 1000 champion than Arthur Fils, who conceded one game to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Demolition.
#MiamiOpen | @MiamiOpen @atptour
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@NoWoke88 @tennisabstract Players think a lot of things when they lose. Sometimes it is based on reality, but not always.
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@tennisabstract If his opponents - like Alcaraz - say that he is way more agressive now, i believe them. More than any charts.
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All this talk about Medvedev's newfound aggression, take a look at the Aggression Scores from charting data, based on % of shots that end the point (for good or bad).
0 is average, Medvedev is -57 over the last 52 weeks, almost the least aggressive on tour. Indian Wells was ... mostly the same.
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@OptaAnalyst @One_Der0 Bring back FBref instead of coming up with this nonsense
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@One_Der0 Madueke's header at Brentford came after a throw-in that travelled far enough to qualify as a 'long throw' according to our definition (see article)
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Long throws put in by each team this season, and the number of goals they've scored from them.
Eight teams on zero...
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@RajBhandari1001 Her loss to Zvonareva was probably the 2nd RR match
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76 % Swiatek ?
Elina: Auckland champion, AO semifinalist, Dubai finalist, 3rd in Race Ranking
Iga: AO: QF, 0 top 10 wins, first top 30 win: yesterday, barely 10th in Race Ranking.
I know it’s Iga, but 76% ? I’m confused.
Tennis Updates@TennisUpdates26
Elina Svitolina will take on Iga Swiatek in IW QF Iga has definitely played with more margin this week than she has recently and its worked well, this is another matchup that we've seen too much of to believe that Iga will be tested that much even though Elina has played well.
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What an effort from Draper. Choked badly serving it out but level from 4-4 in the 2nd in particular was outstanding. Serving, ball striking, defence and physicality all through the roof.
Encouraging that he and Fills have returned to such high levels after their long layoffs.
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@mattracquet I saw that and did wonder if maybe that was early signs of the elbow issue that plagued him from the end of the season into 2017. I’d be interested to see 2015 or earlier data. Still, says a lot he could dominate that tournament with that serve speed.
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Djokovic having such a long career is a great window into how the game has changed. A 112mph avg first serve speed is basically unheard of in the top 10 in 2026
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@TennisMyLife68 What matches for McEnroe does the tennis abstract database (and seemingly the ATP) include that aren't included in yours? I'm guessing maybe the Masters Cup played in January could be considered the previous season? tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/player…
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🇪🇸 Carlos Alcaraz has won 𝟏𝟑 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐰 from the beginning of the season, but he is still far from the record of 41 set by 🇷🇸 Novak Djokovic in 2011
#TennisParadise #BNPParibasOpen #IndianWells
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Oscar retuiteado
the year is 2070. wimbledon and roland garros have long been resurfaced. the tour is now 96 medium fast hard court events with a 48 hour off season. a child asks their father what grass smells like and what the opposite of topspin is. he doesn’t remember
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It's fairly obvious that taller players have an easier time hitting accurate serves (closer to centre/side line) but wasn't expecting quite such a stark grouping difference. Elite sub 6ft2 (188cm) spot servers don't seem to exist at the moment, most shorter guys favouring power
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new ep‼️
we talk Cocciaretto, Oliynykova's moonballs, figure skating, The Schedule, Boris Becker's presence on pop music twitter, De Minaur's success despite an obvious ceiling, and Carlos' chances at history.
open.spotify.com/episode/7faHVR…
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This is assuming your attempt at measuring the 'greatest of all time' is based on how players did against their peers, i.e. the true way of assessing it, rather than evaluating who would win in a modern day clash between them, which is always going to be the recent player.
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If your assessment of the 5 greatest players of ALL TIME happen to all be 21st century players, it should immediately be setting alarm bells as to why you don't rate any 20th century players as on the same level despite them having quadruple the length of time to make their case.
The Big Three@Big3Tennis
If in 10 years we aren’t looking at the Big Three + Sinner/Alcaraz as the five greatest of all time, I’d be surprised.
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