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Rotterdam · R16 · Hard · 12 Feb 2026

Hamad Medjedovic v Felix Auger Aliassime

57–65 in points · Felix Auger Aliassime won

Why it went the way it did

Felix Auger Aliassime won 5.5 more points than Hamad Medjedovic relative to what the serve alone predicted. Hamad Medjedovic's biggest leaks: backhand execution −4.1, serve 1st execution −1.4, touch 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.

ShotHamad MedjedovicFelix Auger Aliassime
DirSelExecTotalDirSelExecTotal
Serve 1st −0.1 −0.1 −1.4 −1.5 −0.1 −0.1 +0.5 +0.3
Serve 2nd −0.1 ±0.0 +0.5 +0.5 ±0.0 ±0.0 +0.7 +0.7
Return −0.1 −0.3 −0.5 −0.8 +0.1 +0.2 −3.3 −3.0
Forehand −0.1 +1.0 −0.5 +0.5 −0.3 +1.7 −0.7 +0.7
Backhand +0.3 +0.4 −4.1 −3.4 ±0.0 ±0.0 +1.0 +1.1
Slice ±0.0 −0.9 ±0.0 −0.9 +0.2 −1.3 −0.1 −1.3
Net ±0.0 +0.2 −0.4 −0.2 −0.2 ±0.0 −0.3 −0.6
Touch −0.1 −0.3 −1.0 −1.4 ±0.0 −0.3 +0.6 +0.3
Other ±0.0 −0.2 +0.2 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0 ±0.0
All shots ±0.0±0.0 −7.1−7.2 −0.2+0.2 −1.6−1.7

Set by set

SetHamad MedjedovicFelix Auger AliassimeNet, Hamad
1−3.7+0.5 −4.1
2−3.5−2.2 −1.4

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.

Hamad Medjedovic serving

SetWideBodyT
1 39% 50% 14% 80% 47% 71%
2 43% 69% 10% 100% 47% 50%

Set to set −0.39 per 100 first serves in sets 2+

Within sets −2.15 per 100 first serves, every two to three service games

Felix Auger Aliassime serving

SetWideBodyT
1 40% 70% 20% 100% 40% 80%
2 52% 75% 3% 100% 45% 57%

Within sets −0.57 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.

Hamad Medjedovic

4.0 points left on the table across 176 shots 2.27 per 100 shots

  1. Serve +1: deep return to your backhand side hit BH drop shot down the line ×2; BH drop shot crosscourt rates higher · 0.33 pts
  2. Serve +1: deep return to your middle hit FH through the middle ×4; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.29 pts
  3. Return of a 2nd serve, body, ad court hit BH through the middle ×5; BH crosscourt rates higher · 0.21 pts
  4. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side, opponent at net, you at net hit FH volley down the line ×1; FH volley crosscourt rates higher · 0.16 pts

Felix Auger Aliassime

4.1 points left on the table across 178 shots 2.29 per 100 shots

  1. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your backhand side, you at net hit BH volley through the middle ×1; BH volley crosscourt rates higher · 0.26 pts
  2. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your middle hit FH through the middle + approach ×1; FH down the line + approach rates higher · 0.22 pts
  3. Rally, shots 5–8: drive to your forehand side hit FH through the middle ×3; FH crosscourt rates higher · 0.15 pts
  4. Return of a 2nd serve, T, ad court hit FH crosscourt ×2; FH inside-out rates higher · 0.15 pts