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Indian Wells Masters · SF · Hard · 15 Mar 2025

Daniil Medvedev v Holger Rune

58–72 in points · Holger Rune won

Why it went the way it did

Holger Rune won 5.5 more points than Daniil Medvedev relative to what the serve alone predicted. Daniil Medvedev's biggest leaks: serve 1st execution −2.9, return execution −1.6, net execution −1.1.

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.

ShotDaniil MedvedevHolger Rune
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st +0.1 −0.1 −2.9 −2.9 +0.1 +0.3 −2.5 −2.2
Serve 2nd ±0.0 ±0.0 +1.2 +1.2 ±0.0 +0.1 −0.3 −0.2
Return +0.1 +0.1 −1.6 −1.4 +0.2 −0.4 +0.6 +0.4
Forehand −0.2 +1.0 +0.4 +1.2 −0.2 +2.2 −0.1 +1.9
Backhand +0.6 −0.6 +2.3 +2.4 ±0.0 +1.7 +1.1 +2.9
Slice −0.1 −0.5 ±0.0 −0.6 +0.1 −4.4 +2.2 −2.1
Net −0.2 +0.2 −1.1 −1.0 +0.2 +0.2 +1.6 +2.0
Touch ±0.0 −0.2 −0.7 −1.0 ±0.0 −0.8 +1.3 +0.6
All shots +0.4−0.1 −2.5−2.2 +0.2−0.9 +4.0+3.3

Set by set

SetDaniil MedvedevHolger RuneNet, Daniil
1+0.7+2.9 −2.2
2−2.9+0.4 −3.4

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.

Daniil Medvedev serving

SetWideBodyT
1 41% 20% 8% 67% 51% 79%
2 39% 67% 4% 0% 57% 77%

Set to set +1.91 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +1.21 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Holger Rune serving

SetWideBodyT
1 59% 67% 13% 50% 28% 54%
2 38% 78% 4% 100% 58% 86%

Set to set −0.48 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets −0.31 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.

Daniil Medvedev

7.0 points left on the table across 360 shots 1.94 per 100 shots

  1. Return of a 1st serve, wide, ad court, server rushing the net hit BH lob through the middle ×3; BH lob crosscourt rates higher · 0.34 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+: slice to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×2; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.22 pts
  4. Long rally, 9+: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×5; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.21 pts

Holger Rune

8.0 points left on the table across 355 shots 2.26 per 100 shots

  1. Long rally, 9+: drive to your backhand side hit BH slice through the middle ×13; BH slice crosscourt rates higher · 0.91 pts
  2. Long rally, 9+: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×14; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.58 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×9; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.35 pts
  4. Long rally, 9+: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×5; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.27 pts