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Mallorca · SF · Clay · 11 Oct 2025

Andrea Lazaro Garcia v Solana Sierra

49–70 in points · Solana Sierra won

Why it went the way it did

Solana Sierra won 12.3 more points than Andrea Lazaro Garcia relative to what the serve alone predicted. Andrea Lazaro Garcia's biggest leaks: return execution −2.8, forehand execution −2.4, backhand execution −1.5.

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.

ShotAndrea Lazaro GarciaSolana Sierra
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st −0.4 ±0.0 −0.1 −0.5 −0.1 ±0.0 −0.4 −0.5
Serve 2nd ±0.0 ±0.0 +0.2 +0.3 +0.1 ±0.0 −0.1 ±0.0
Return −0.1 +0.3 −2.8 −2.6 −0.1 +0.1 ±0.0 ±0.0
Forehand −0.4 +1.7 −2.4 −1.1 ±0.0 +1.1 +5.8 +6.9
Backhand −0.2 +0.1 −1.5 −1.6 +0.2 ±0.0 −1.1 −0.8
Slice +0.1 −1.2 −0.4 −1.5 −0.1 −0.8 −0.1 −0.9
Net +0.1 ±0.0 +0.4 +0.5 −0.1 ±0.0 +0.5 +0.4
Touch ±0.0 +0.1 −1.2 −1.1 ±0.0 +0.2 −0.5 −0.4
All shots −0.9+1.0 −7.8−7.7 −0.2+0.7 +4.2+4.6

Set by set

SetAndrea Lazaro GarciaSolana SierraNet, Andrea
1−5.6+2.2 −7.8
2−2.1+2.4 −4.6

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.

Andrea Lazaro Garcia serving

SetWideBodyT
1 48% 33% 23% 57% 29% 67%
2 28% 64% 44% 53% 28% 55%

Set to set +1.02 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets +0.17 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Solana Sierra serving

SetWideBodyT
1 50% 78% 33% 100% 17% 100%
2 52% 73% 24% 86% 24% 57%

Within sets −0.92 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.

Andrea Lazaro Garcia

5.5 points left on the table across 206 shots 2.68 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×7; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.49 pts
  2. Long rally, 9+: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×7; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.39 pts
  3. Serve +1: deep return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.36 pts
  4. Serve +1: mid-depth return to your backhand side hit BH through the middle ×5; BH down the line rates higher · 0.35 pts

Solana Sierra

5.0 points left on the table across 222 shots 2.27 per 100 shots

  1. Return +1: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×6; FH down the line rates higher · 0.39 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle ×5; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.35 pts
  3. Serve +1: mid-depth return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×4; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.34 pts
  4. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×6; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.33 pts