wta_importance: WTA Point Importance

In skoval/deuce: Resources for Analysis of Professional Tennis Data

WTA Point Importance

Description

A dataset with point importance for all possible scorelines in an WTA match:

Format

A data frame with 2,692 rows and 13 variables @references O'Donoghue, P. G. (2001). The most important points in grand slam singles tennis. Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 72(2), 125-131.

Details

• serve_point. Numeric points won by server in game

• return_point. Numeric points won by returner in game

• serve_game. Numeric games won by server in set

• return_game. Numeric games won by returner in set

• serve_set. Numeric sets won by server in match

• return_set. Numeric sets won by returner in match

• id. Character score id that collapses point, game, and set scoreline.

• importance. Numeric importance of point

• serve_score_name. Nominal point score for server

• return_score_name. Nominal point score for returner

• game_score. Nominal game score

• set_score. Nominal set score

The match format supposes a best of 3, final set tiebreak match. Both players are supposes to have average skill and win 57

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