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Wimbledon · QF · Grass · 10 Jul 2019

Guido Pella v Roberto Bautista Agut

129–144 in points · Roberto Bautista Agut won

Why it went the way it did

Roberto Bautista Agut won 8.4 more points than Guido Pella relative to what the serve alone predicted. Guido Pella's biggest leaks: slice shot selection −3.6, forehand execution −2.9, backhand execution −0.8.

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.

ShotGuido PellaRoberto Bautista Agut
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st +0.3 −0.4 −0.3 −0.5 +0.1 −0.5 −2.9 −3.2
Serve 2nd +0.1 −0.2 −0.1 −0.2 ±0.0 −0.2 +2.0 +1.8
Return ±0.0 +0.7 +4.1 +4.9 −0.2 +0.2 +4.1 +4.1
Forehand +0.9 +4.4 −2.9 +2.4 +0.5 +4.8 +3.8 +9.1
Backhand −0.2 +0.6 −0.8 −0.5 −0.3 +0.7 +1.7 +2.1
Slice −0.7 −3.6 +0.4 −3.9 +0.4 −2.0 +0.1 −1.5
Net −0.1 +0.7 +2.3 +2.8 −0.1 +0.3 −0.7 −0.4
Touch −0.2 −0.2 +0.1 −0.3 +0.1 +0.1 +0.6 +0.8
Other ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 −0.2 +0.6 +0.3
All shots ±0.0+1.8 +2.9+4.7 +0.5+3.2 +9.4+13.1

Set by set

SetGuido PellaRoberto Bautista AgutNet, Guido
1−0.9+2.5 −3.4
2+1.7+4.3 −2.6
3+3.8+1.9 +1.9
4+0.1+4.5 −4.3

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.

Guido Pella serving

SetWideBodyT
1 50% 65% 9% 75% 41% 42%
2 50% 53% – 50% 67%
3 44% 73% 6% 50% 50% 65%
4 38% 64% – 62% 56%

Set to set −0.88 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +0.06 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Roberto Bautista Agut serving

SetWideBodyT
1 45% 55% 7% 100% 48% 67%
2 32% 60% 13% 50% 55% 82%
3 71% 60% 4% 0% 25% 71%
4 47% 86% – 53% 63%

Set to set −0.04 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +0.17 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.

Guido Pella

14.0 points left on the table across 556 shots 2.51 per 100 shots

  1. Return of a 1st serve, T, ad court hit BH slice through the middle ×17; BH slice crosscourt rates higher · 1.03 pts
  2. Return of a 2nd serve, T, ad court hit BH through the middle ×12; BH down the line rates higher · 0.96 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×20; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.77 pts
  4. Return +1: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×12; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.47 pts

Roberto Bautista Agut

12.0 points left on the table across 543 shots 2.21 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×16; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.81 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×17; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.66 pts
  3. Return of a 1st serve, T, deuce court hit BH down the line ×9; BH through the middle rates higher · 0.49 pts
  4. Serve +1: deep return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.44 pts