where to find statistics on a player's serve hold percentage?

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pdenoeud
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Hi all

looks like a key stat in tennis trading is each player's serve hold percentage. I guess this percentage depends on the surface .
I can't find that statistic on the several tennis stats web sites I checked out. Even the tennis insight web site does not seem to display it.
Does anybody know where to find that information?

Thanks for your help!
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pdenoeud
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Dallas wrote:
Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:29 am
Here you go
http://www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/l ... gi?f=s00l1
Thanks Dallas!
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pdenoeud wrote:
Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:27 am
looks like a key stat in tennis trading is each player's serve hold percentage. I guess this percentage depends on the surface .
A question for you and the other tennis boffins from a standpoint of not having done much with tennis....

Does the likelyhood of a hold/break depend more/less/equally on the oppponents break% rather than their own hold% ? What weighting would you apply to the significance of either stat?....ballpark obv.
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:30 pm
A question for you and the other tennis boffins from a standpoint of not having done much with tennis....

Does the likelyhood of a hold/break depend more/less/equally on the oppponents break% rather than their own hold% ? What weighting would you apply to the significance of either stat?....ballpark obv.
Good question :-) I am writing a bot, and I decided to consider the hold percentage of player A to be the average of "hold percentage player A" and "1-break percentage of player B".
But I did not check this hypothesis with stats...
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pdenoeud wrote:
Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:02 pm
ShaunWhite wrote:
Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:30 pm
A question for you and the other tennis boffins from a standpoint of not having done much with tennis....

Does the likelyhood of a hold/break depend more/less/equally on the oppponents break% rather than their own hold% ? What weighting would you apply to the significance of either stat?....ballpark obv.
Good question :-) I am writing a bot, and I decided to consider the hold percentage of player A to be the average of "hold percentage player A" and "1-break percentage of player B".
But I did not check this hypothesis with stats...
weight the servers hold % twice as much as the receivers and that gets you somewhere close on a sample size of 665 (which if you pursue this further you'll realise is nothing.) But gives you an idea. Putting it on the bigger db will make my pc unusable for a few mins.

Used this years WTA Matches with a minimum matches played on surface of 10 in the 6 months before/after the match.

Did points on serve % won rather than hold percentage because of small sample size.


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