Sequences of service points and the misperception of momentum in elite tennis

O’Donoghue, Peter; Brown, Emily

doi:10.1080/24748668.2009.11868468

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“…In contrast, many studies find no significant change in performance following a precipitating event. Several scholars have failed to find evidence of PM in tennis when examining the outcome of sets (Silva et al, 1988;Malueg and Yates, 2010) and when examining the sequences of service points (O'Donoghue and Brown, 2009). Additionally, Parsons and Rohde (2015) and Gauriot and Page (2018) find no support for the existence of PM in football.…”

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Investigating the Conditions for Psychological Momentum in the Field: Evidence From Men’s Professional Tennis

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We examine how interruptions and personal and contextual factors affect the manifestation of psychological momentum (PM). Using men's singles tennis point-by-point data from the two Grand Slam tournaments, Wimbledon and Roland Garros, between 2009 and 2014 (N=29,934), we employ realized break points as the potential triggers of PM and rest periods between two sequential games as the exogenous task interruptions. Controlling for player ability and the state of the match, we find that players are more likely to win the next game after realizing a break point only if there is no rest period between games. Thus, our results suggest that interruptions terminate the momentum effect. Furthermore, we find that the effect of PM increases for players with a lesser relative ability and at a later stage within a match, showing the importance of personal and contextual factors for PM.

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“…Still, momentum is perceived to be important in tennis and it is almost impossible to watch a tennis match on television without hearing expert commentators referring to momentum. As with other sports, tennis research has also provided mixed evidence as to whether point outcomes are independent of previous point outcomes ( Klaassen and Magnus, 2001;O'Donoghue and Brown, 2009). Klaassen and Magnus (2001) found that winning the previous point increased the probability of winning the current point by 0.3% in men's singles and 0.5% in women's singles at Wimbledon (1992-5).…”

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“…The dominance of the serve and players alternating service games make it unlikely that long sequences of points of the same outcome will be observed in professional tennis. Therefore, momentum research in tennis has considered serving and receiving performance separately (O'Donoghue and Brown, 2009). The disadvantage of such an approach is that sequences of points might include pairs of consecutive service points that are not even played within the same service game.…”

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Momentum in US Open men’s singles tennis

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International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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Most of the research in racket sports has focussed on point outcomes rather than point sequences and other events that may trigger positive or negative momentum. Therefore, the purpose of the current investigation was to determine if point outcome in US Open men's singles tennis matches is associated with (a) the outcomes of the previous one, two or three points and (b) events within previous points such as aces, double faults, winners and errors. A further purpose was to investigate whether the outcomes of service games were significantly associated with the outcomes of the receiving and next serving games that followed. Ninety player performances from 45 US Open men's singles matches were analysed as a sample and individually. The outcomes of the previous 1 to 3 points within service games had no significant influence on the outcome of the current point (p > 0.291). Where breaks of serve had been achieved despite the server having game points, the player breaking serve was significantly more likely to hold serve in the next game (100% v 74%, p < 0.001). The investigation suggests that momentum effects different players in different ways which has implications for coaching and psychological support for tennis players.

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“…The importance of serve and return performance in four Grand Slams have been widely addressed in previous studies (Hizan et al, 2014;O'Donoghue & Brown, 2009;O'Donoghue & Brown, 2008;Reid & Morris, 2013;Whiteside & Reid, 2016b) and been treated as the two most important performance variables in tennis match (Gillet et al, 2009;Hizan et al, 2011;Unierzyski & Wieczorek, 2004). Consistent with former studies (Gillet et al, 2009;Hizan et al, 2011), the results indicated that in all Grand Slams, female players had an optimal first serve in percentage of round 60% and still used a "fast-weak" serving strategies.…”

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“…Hizan et al, 2015;Ma et al, 2013;Moss & O'Donoghue, 2015;O'Donoghue, 2012;O'Donoghue & Brown, 2009;O'Donoghue & Ingram, 2001;Reid et al, 2016; Whiteside & Reid, 2016b).The difference of court surfaces in four Grand Slams determines that players adjust their strategies on a slam basis (O'Donoghue & Ingram, 2001) and it is necessary to understand how they respond accordingly in different events. Few studies have made thoroughly an examination of how professional female players performed in four Grand Slam events (O'Donoghue & Ingram, 2001; O'Donoghue & Brown, 2008), not to mention how they performed in different court surfaces (Gillet et al, 2009).…”

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Exploring match performance of elite tennis players : the multifactorial game-related effects in Grand Slams

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Tennis is a complex and dynamic sport where coaches are required to prescribe accurate training programming and match planning, and players are expected to execute the strategy by constantly adjusting their tactics, in order to increase the winning probability. Match performance analysis provides them with accurate, valid and less subjective information that is beneficial for the improvement of player behaviors. Currently, the research of performance analysis in tennis is a well-established realm that addresses the technical-tactical, physical and physiological performance of players. However, there still exist some limitations that need to be further solved, such as the lack of consideration of contextual constraints, the exclusive focus on general performance instead of accounting for within-player variation in personal attributes and performance, and the failure to assess the non-linear relationships among different influencing components from macro-, meso-, micro-and nano-level and match performance. Therefore, in order to address these issues, five independent and correlated studies were undertaken in the thesis.The first study analyzed the set-to-set variation in performance using match statistics of 146 completed main-draw matches in Australian Open and US Open 2016-2017 men's singles.Comparisons of technical-tactical and physical performance variables were done among different sets; and the coefficients of variation (CV) of these variables were contrasted between match winning and losing players. All comparisons were realized via standardized (Cohen's d) mean differences and uncertainty in the true differences were assessed using nonclinical magnitude-based inferences. Results showed that there was possibly to very likely decreases in serve, net and running related variables and an increase in return and winner related variables in the last sets when compared to the initial sets, indicating the influence of match fatigue and the player's adaption of match tactics and pacing strategy. Besides, winning players were revealed to have lower CV values in most of performance variables except for second serve, winner, and physical performance variables, which indicated that they would sacrifice the consistency to gain more aggressiveness and to dominate the match.The second study was aimed to (i) analyze the match performance of professional female tennis players in different Grand Slams; (ii) model the relationships between match performance variables and ranking-based relative quality; and (iii) build typical performance profiles for female players in Grand Slams using regression-based approach. Data of a total of X 1369 matches were collected within 2014-2017 four Grand Slams. Correlations between 37 performance variables and relative quality were determined and automatically classified into two groups of magnitudes via two-step cluster analysis. Higher-correlated variables were used to build players' typical performance profiles via regression-based technique to give percentage evaluation scores (%ES). Player...

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Sequences of service points and the misperception of momentum in elite tennis

Cited by 19 publications

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Investigating the Conditions for Psychological Momentum in the Field: Evidence From Men’s Professional Tennis

Investigating the Conditions for Psychological Momentum in the Field: Evidence From Men’s Professional Tennis

Momentum in US Open men’s singles tennis

Exploring match performance of elite tennis players : the multifactorial game-related effects in Grand Slams

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