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Monte Carlo Masters · R64 · Clay · 10 Apr 2023

Jan Lennard Struff v Albert Ramos

66–51 in points · result not charted to completion

Why it went the way it did

Jan Lennard Struff won 6.7 more points than Albert Ramos relative to what the serve alone predicted. Albert Ramos's biggest leaks: slice shot selection −3.1, forehand execution −1.1, backhand shot selection −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.

ShotJan Lennard StruffAlbert Ramos
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st +0.4 +1.9 +0.8 +3.0 +0.2 −0.1 +1.6 +1.7
Serve 2nd ±0.0 ±0.0 −0.5 −0.5 ±0.0 ±0.0 −0.3 −0.3
Return −0.2 +0.5 +1.5 +1.8 −0.1 −0.7 +1.8 +1.0
Forehand −0.6 +1.3 +1.0 +1.7 −0.3 +0.9 −1.1 −0.5
Backhand −0.8 −1.3 +1.1 −0.9 −0.6 −0.8 −0.2 −1.6
Slice −0.2 −2.8 +0.3 −2.7 −0.3 −3.1 +0.5 −2.9
Net −1.2 +0.7 +2.2 +1.7 ±0.0 +0.1 −0.7 −0.5
Touch −0.1 +0.1 −0.5 −0.4 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0
All shots −2.7+0.3 +5.9+3.6 −1.1−3.7 +1.7−3.1

Set by set

SetJan Lennard StruffAlbert RamosNet, Jan
1+1.8−2.9 +4.7
2+1.8−0.1 +2.0

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.

Jan Lennard Struff serving

SetWideBodyT
1 50% 82% – 50% 73%
2 50% 85% – 50% 45%

Within sets +1.04 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Albert Ramos serving

SetWideBodyT
1 39% 45% – 61% 65%
2 37% 80% – 63% 47%

Set to set −0.11 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets −1.10 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.

Jan Lennard Struff

9.4 points left on the table across 227 shots 4.14 per 100 shots

  1. Serve +1: drive to your middle, you at net hit FH volley through the middle ×5; FH volley crosscourt rates higher · 1.10 pts
  2. Return of a 1st serve, T, ad court hit FH through the middle ×4; FH inside-in rates higher · 0.65 pts
  3. Serve +1: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×5; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.62 pts
  4. Return +1: drive to your forehand side hit FH slice through the middle ×5; FH slice crosscourt rates higher · 0.29 pts

Albert Ramos

7.5 points left on the table across 216 shots 3.47 per 100 shots

  1. Serve +1: drive to your middle hit BH through the middle ×8; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.68 pts
  2. Serve +1: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×5; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.62 pts
  3. Return of a 1st serve, wide, deuce court, server rushing the net hit BH through the middle ×4; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.37 pts
  4. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.34 pts