Nadal, Djokovic, Federer and Murray: What Do the Stats Say About Their Game?

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Published: July 20, 2011

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My complaint against ATP is that they don't really make it easy to study stats. They do have match facts, but they are confined to this year.

Anyway, I decided to work with what I have to draw some conclusions about the game of the top four.

Service game stats:

 

Name Aces

No.

1st serve

% age

1st serve

points won

% age

2nd serve

points won

% age

Service

games won

% age

Break points

saved

% age

N. Djokovic 239(20) 66(9) 75(16) 58(1) 89(3) 70(2) R. Nadal 196(33) 67(6) 72(27) 57(2) 85(11) 66(11) R. Federer 333(11) 64(14)

78(2) 57(3) 89(4) 65(12) A. Murray 302(15) 59(50) 74(22) 48(58) 78(37) 59(43) Highest no./ % age 509 72 80 58 90 72 Top Player M. Raonic P. Starace I. Karlovic N. Djokovic J. Isner I. Karlovic

Figures in brackets above indicate rank of the player by that variable; i.e., 66(9) under aces for Djokovic means he ranks ninth with 66 aces.

The above tables reveal that in service games, the top three players are neck and neck, but Murray lags behind. While on points won on first serve, all four are nearly equal, Murray's first-serve percentage is low.

This means that if all four serve 100 times, then ignoring double faults, the top three will win about 70 points whereas Murray will win just 64 points. No wonder his service games won percentage is significantly lower than that of the others. He lags 11 points behind Djokovic and Federer and 7 behind Nadal.

The other significant finding is that the top three are 1, 2 and 3 in points won on second serve, whereas Murray lags behind at No. 58.

If I were Murray's coach, I would make him focus on improving his first-serve percentage where he ranks 50th to the top three's ranking of abov...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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