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Katowice · R16 · Hard · 9 Apr 2015

Katerina Siniakova v Anna Karolina Schmiedlova

78–94 in points · Anna Karolina Schmiedlova won

Why it went the way it did

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova won 8.9 more points than Katerina Siniakova relative to what the serve alone predicted. Katerina Siniakova's biggest leaks: forehand execution −3.6, slice shot selection −2.6, serve 2nd execution −2.5.

Each shot moves its hitter's chance of winning the point. Those moves are split into direction choice, shot selection and execution, and summed here. Read both columns together: one player's gain is the other's loss.

ShotKaterina SiniakovaAnna Karolina Schmiedlova
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st ±0.0 ±0.0 −0.9 −0.9 −0.1 ±0.0 +1.5 +1.4
Serve 2nd ±0.0 ±0.0 −2.5 −2.5 +0.1 ±0.0 +0.1 +0.2
Return +0.5 −0.6 +4.7 +4.6 +0.1 +0.7 +2.9 +3.7
Forehand +0.1 +1.9 −3.6 −1.6 −1.2 +2.4 +2.3 +3.5
Backhand +1.3 +0.5 +2.0 +3.7 +0.7 +0.9 +5.0 +6.7
Slice −0.2 −2.6 +0.4 −2.4 ±0.0 −2.8 −0.4 −3.1
Net ±0.0 +1.6 +0.2 +1.8 +0.1 +0.2 −1.5 −1.2
Touch ±0.0 −0.5 −1.0 −1.5 +0.1 −1.6 +0.6 −0.9
All shots +1.8+0.3 −0.7+1.3 −0.2−0.1 +10.6+10.2

Set by set

SetKaterina SiniakovaAnna Karolina SchmiedlovaNet, Katerina
1−4.8+2.3 −7.1
2+5.0+1.0 +4.1
3+1.1+7.0 −5.8

Adaptation

First-serve direction mix set by set, with the share of points each direction won. The scores measure whether the server moved toward the directions that had been winning earlier in this match, set to set and every two to three service games, in points per 100 first serves. Read them as a habit, not a gain: across the tour, a direction's edge in early sets barely predicts the later ones. Whether the returner responded can't be told apart from noise within one match.

Katerina Siniakova serving

SetWideBodyT
1 27% 33% 14% 0% 59% 46%
2 39% 45% 14% 50% 46% 54%
3 30% 46% 23% 60% 47% 50%

Set to set −0.52 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets −0.85 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova serving

SetWideBodyT
1 35% 71% 25% 80% 40% 63%
2 35% 69% 16% 33% 49% 22%
3 33% 71% 33% 57% 33% 86%

Set to set +1.76 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets −0.01 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Counterfactual: the best direction every time

If each shot had gone in the direction that is usually worth most for that stroke and position, this is how many more points each player would expect to win. It's an upper bound: the best direction isn't always on, and the chart can't see the ball's pace or position.

Katerina Siniakova

10.6 points left on the table across 517 shots 2.05 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×16; FH crosscourt rates higher · 1.11 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×10; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.54 pts
  3. Long rally, 9+: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×7; FH down the line rates higher · 0.49 pts
  4. Serve +1: deep return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×7; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.42 pts

Anna Karolina Schmiedlova

11.7 points left on the table across 501 shots 2.33 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×14; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.98 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×17; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.92 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×19; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.82 pts
  4. Return +1: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×11; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.69 pts