Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

Vaverka, František; Hendl, Jan; Nykodým, Jiří; Zháněl, Jiří; Zahradník, David

doi:10.1080/24748668.2018.1467995

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“…By contrast, the greatest serve dominance in Grand Slam tournaments occurs at Wimbledon . The faster grass surface at Wimbledon encourages players to serve faster than they do at other Grand Slam tournaments (Vaverka, Nykodym, Hendl, Zhanel, & Zahradnik, 2018). This makes breaks of serve less frequent at Wimbledon and has resulted in some very long final sets at this tournaments (O'Donoghue, 2013).…”

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Probability of winning and match length in Tiebreak Ten tennis

O’Donoghue

Simmonds

2019

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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New formats of tennis have been developed to make matches more exciting and unpredictable than the traditional format of the game. The purpose of the current investigation was to compare and the probability of winning between Tiebreak Ten matches and two other formats of the game; Fast4 tennis and traditional tennis. A probabilistic model of winning Tiebreak Ten tennis matches was created and compared with existing models of Fast4 and traditional tennis matches. This analysis was done for a full range of probabilities of players winning points when they are serving. This involved 1000 simulations for each pair of probabilities for two players serving for multiple set matches in Fast4 tennis and traditional tennis. The probability of players beating higher ranked opponents was found to be higher in Tiebreak Ten matches than in Fast4 and traditional tennis matches. This confirms the claim that Tiebreak Ten matches are less predictable and hence more exciting than Fast4 and traditional tennis matches.

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Probability of winning and match length in Tiebreak Ten tennis

O’Donoghue

Simmonds

2019

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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“…In all three years, the average speed of the first serve was found to be highest in Wimbledon (grass) for both men and women. The researchers reported that it would be possible to conclude from these results that players in Wimbledon are trying to achieve a higher first serve speed during the match than playing on other courts with different court surfaces (Vaverka et al, 2018). In a different study, significant differences were observed between the tournaments in both sexes in the aces, while aces reached the highest values in Australia Open in both men and women (Sánchez-Pay et al, 2015).…”

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“…It was observed that the biggest change was the increase in serve speed at the French Open and the serve speed continued to increase in all tournaments, such as aces (Cross and Pollard, 2009). However, the highest and lowest service speed values may vary depending on weather conditions such as sun, wind and temperature, or the use of different systems to measure or calibrate the service speed (Vaverka et al, 2018). In addition, O'Donoghue (2002) revealed that the speed of service is a number of factors that affect the proportion of points won on first and second service.…”

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Analysis of Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments by Gender

Arıkan¹,

Doğan²,

Revan³

2020

Gaziantep Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Dergisi

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The aim of this study is to analyze the variables determined in tournaments on different court surfaces by gender. In this research, official websites of 2019 Grand Slam tennis tournaments were used in the category of single men and single women as data collection tool. In the research, winning matches in the American Open and Australian Open played on hard surface (250 single men, 252 single women), the French Open played on clay surface (127 single men, 122 single women) and Wimbledon played on grass surface (127 single men, 126 single women) were analyzed. In these competitions, aces, double fault, win on 1st. serve, win on 2nd. serve, break points, unforced errors, winner, total points, fastest service and match duration were evaluated. SPSS 22.0 statistical software was used to evaluate the data and to find the calculated values. Since the data showed normal distribution, t test was used in independent groups and the level of significance was accepted as 0.05. When the variables taken into consideration were compared by gender, there was no statistically significant difference between men and women only in the double fault variable in the clay court (p> 0.05), whereas all other variables were significantly different in all courts (p <0.05). It has been determined that women's double fault, break points and unforced errors on hard and grass court, break points and unforced errors performance on clay court are better than man athletes. As a result, it can be said that the selected variables are affected by the gender factor on all court surfaces.

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“…Several studies have reported on the relationship between the speed of the ball and various factors, such as the court surface, 1 impact height, 2,3 fatigue, and service accuracy. 4,5 Recently, studies have focused on clarifying mechanical phenomena (e.g.…”

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Verification of the accuracy and reliability of the TrackMan tennis radar

Murata

Takahashi

2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P:

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TrackMan, a device used to measure the kinematics of a ball in flight, has recently been used for research and coaching purposes in tennis, and the number of studies on this device is expected to increase. This study is focused on verifying the accuracy of TrackMan; three participants performed services with various velocities and angular velocity combinations. TrackMan and a proven method based on computer vision were used to measure the speed, spin rate, and spin axis of the ball. The results obtained using each method were compared using regression analysis, intraclass correlation coefficients, and Bland–Altman analysis. The speed and spin rate of the two methods agreed well; the degree of error would not be problematic in practical applications. However, TrackMan underestimated the speed if it was unable to detect the hitting position. The spin axis measured by TrackMan was unstable under low spin rate conditions (<3000 rpm). Furthermore, the standard deviation of the spin axis measurement error exceeded the difference between the average slice and kick service spin axes reported in the previous study, so the spin axis measurement accuracy was very low for research purposes, even when the spin rate was above 3000 rpm. For those who are aware of the existence of outliers, TrackMan can be useful for coaching because it provides instant feedback. Similarly, the measured rotational speed and spin rate could be used in the study.

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Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Probability of winning and match length in Tiebreak Ten tennis

Probability of winning and match length in Tiebreak Ten tennis

Analysis of Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments by Gender

Verification of the accuracy and reliability of the TrackMan tennis radar

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