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Australian Open · R128 · Hard · 16 Jan 2024

Andy Murray v Tomas Martin Etcheverry

67–95 in points · Tomas Martin Etcheverry won

Why it went the way it did

Tomas Martin Etcheverry won 14.3 more points than Andy Murray relative to what the serve alone predicted. Andy Murray's biggest leaks: forehand execution −3.8, slice shot selection −2.9, serve 1st execution −2.7.

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.

ShotAndy MurrayTomas Martin Etcheverry
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st ±0.0 −0.2 −2.7 −2.8 −0.2 −0.1 +1.3 +0.9
Serve 2nd ±0.0 ±0.0 +0.6 +0.6 ±0.0 ±0.0 +0.9 +0.9
Return +0.4 +0.3 +0.3 +0.9 ±0.0 +0.1 +1.1 +1.2
Forehand −1.0 +1.7 −3.8 −3.1 −0.6 +2.0 +3.1 +4.5
Backhand ±0.0 −0.3 ±0.0 −0.3 −0.6 +0.2 +2.1 +1.7
Slice +0.2 −2.9 +0.2 −2.5 −0.2 −4.2 −1.6 −5.9
Net −0.1 −0.2 −0.9 −1.1 +0.2 +0.1 +0.7 +1.0
Touch ±0.0 −0.1 +0.7 +0.6 −0.3 −0.3 +3.0 +2.5
All shots −0.4−1.5 −5.7−7.6 −1.7−2.2 +10.6+6.7

Set by set

SetAndy MurrayTomas Martin EtcheverryNet, Andy
1+0.3+0.5 −0.2
2−3.6+5.5 −9.1
3−4.3+0.7 −5.0

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.

Andy Murray serving

SetWideBodyT
1 33% 67% 4% 0% 63% 59%
2 41% 54% 16% 20% 44% 57%
3 57% 54% 4% 0% 39% 56%

Set to set +1.56 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +0.73 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Tomas Martin Etcheverry serving

SetWideBodyT
1 38% 53% 18% 29% 44% 82%
2 50% 100% – 50% 78%
3 48% 82% 22% 60% 30% 71%

Set to set −0.20 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +0.69 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.

Andy Murray

7.9 points left on the table across 376 shots 2.11 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×14; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.80 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: slice to your backhand side, you at net hit BH volley through the middle ×3; BH volley crosscourt rates higher · 0.62 pts
  3. Serve +1: mid-depth return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×4; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.35 pts
  4. Serve +1: short return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×3; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.31 pts

Tomas Martin Etcheverry

10.1 points left on the table across 381 shots 2.66 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×19; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.74 pts
  2. Return of a 2nd serve, T, ad court hit FH through the middle ×5; FH inside-out rates higher · 0.46 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH slice through the middle ×6; BH slice crosscourt rates higher · 0.44 pts
  4. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.34 pts