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Cagliari CH · SF · Clay · 4 May 2024

Lorenzo Musetti v Daniel Elahi Galan

61–42 in points · Lorenzo Musetti won

Why it went the way it did

Lorenzo Musetti won 9.6 more points than Daniel Elahi Galan relative to what the serve alone predicted. Daniel Elahi Galan's biggest leaks: serve 1st execution −2.6, slice shot selection −2.6, return execution −1.0.

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.

ShotLorenzo MusettiDaniel Elahi Galan
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st −0.1 −0.1 −1.1 −1.4 −0.1 −0.1 −2.6 −2.9
Serve 2nd +0.1 ±0.0 +0.7 +0.7 +0.1 ±0.0 +1.1 +1.1
Return ±0.0 −0.4 −1.0 −1.4 +0.5 +0.1 −1.0 −0.4
Forehand +0.2 +4.8 +3.1 +8.2 −0.3 +2.6 +0.2 +2.5
Backhand +0.3 ±0.0 +2.4 +2.7 +0.3 −0.2 −0.1 ±0.0
Slice +0.3 −3.3 +0.2 −2.7 +0.2 −2.6 −0.9 −3.2
Net ±0.0 +2.1 +0.1 +2.2 −0.1 +0.1 +0.2 +0.2
Touch +0.1 +0.5 −1.4 −0.8 +0.1 +0.2 +0.4 +0.7
All shots +1.0+3.6 +3.0+7.6 +0.6+0.1 −2.7−2.1

Set by set

SetLorenzo MusettiDaniel Elahi GalanNet, Lorenzo
1+0.5−4.8 +5.3
2+7.1+2.8 +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.

Lorenzo Musetti serving

SetWideBodyT
1 61% 71% 17% 75% 22% 60%
2 50% 50% 14% 100% 36% 60%

Within sets −0.20 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Daniel Elahi Galan serving

SetWideBodyT
1 65% 55% 12% 50% 24% 0%
2 49% 53% 20% 57% 31% 36%

Within sets −1.91 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.

Lorenzo Musetti

6.3 points left on the table across 320 shots 1.98 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.34 pts
  2. Long rally, 9+: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.32 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.30 pts
  4. Return of a 2nd serve, wide, deuce court hit FH through the middle ×3; FH inside-in rates higher · 0.24 pts

Daniel Elahi Galan

6.6 points left on the table across 319 shots 2.07 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×14; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.54 pts
  2. Long rally, 9+: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×5; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.27 pts
  3. Long rally, 9+: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×6; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.25 pts
  4. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×4; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.20 pts