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May 30, 2017

How Do The Best Doubles Teams Perform?

ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot and Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers look at how the best doubles teams perform when serving, return and are placed under pressure.

May 29, 2017

How Wawrinka & Djokovic Raise Their Games In Paris

How does a player get a hot hand? A study of the past two Roland Garros champions, Novak Djokovic (2016) and Stan Wawrinka (2015), identifies obscure yet fascinating areas of their games that they improved in Paris to capture the sport's prized clay-court Grand Slam title. Visit Infosys ATP Scores & Stats Landing An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of Djokovic at Roland Garros in 2016, and Wawrinka in 2015, uncovers 10 areas that saw them perform much better than their season average in each year. Roland Garros 2016 - Novak Djokovic 1. Serving at 0/15 (73% won) Djokovic fell behind 0/15 30 times on serve at Roland Garros in 2016. He won the 0/15 point 73 per cent...

May 24, 2017

Zverev's Fast Starts Spark Easy Holds

Imagine only having to win the first point of your service game, and you are basically a lock to hold. That was Alexander Zverev in Rome last week. Zverev, 20, won the Internazionali BNL d’Italia - his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title, and third overall title this season. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of Zverev’s maiden Masters uncovers complete dominance on serve on the clay courts at the Foro Italico. Zverev had 68 service games in six matches in Rome. Almost 80 per cent of the time (54), he surged ahead 15/0. Of the 54 service games where he reached 15/0, he won 52 of them. That 96 per cent win rate was higher than his...

May 17, 2017

How Djokovic, Federer, Sampras All Became No. 1

What happens if you take a 50-50 battle, and tip it just five percentage points in your favour? You become the No. 1 player in the world. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of year-end No. 1 players since 1991, when statistics were first recorded in tennis, uncovers that reaching the pinnacle of our sport is predicated on winning with a lot smaller margin of victory than we realise. The following breakdown shows how many times a player finished as year-end No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, and the percentage of points he won that season. 1991-2016: Year-End No. 1 Winning Percentage of Points Played Points: Winning Percentage Year-End No. 1 Total 55% 12 54% 7 53% 4...

May 03, 2017

In Record Year, Nadal Bucks Top 10 Trend

The Top 10 are under siege. As a collective unit, they are not enjoying the same success this season as they did last year when attempting to win the opening point of their service games. An Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers analysis of the current Top 10 in the Emirates ATP Rankings uncovers an almost two percentage-point drop in the Top 10 forging ahead to 15/0 compared to falling behind 0/15 when serving. In fact, eight of the current Top 10 players are performing worse during the opening point of their service games this year compared to last year. The standout is current World No. 5 Rafael Nadal, who has improved almost five percentage points in 2017 compared to 2016....