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Game plan

Arthur Cazaux v Victor Pecci

Every number combines what Arthur Cazaux does well with what Victor Pecci allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Serve plan

The share of points the server wins when a first serve lands in that direction (hover a rate for its 90% interval; ± is the 90% margin). "Matchup" combines the server's rate with how this returner handles that serve. "Optimal" is the mix that wins most against this returner once they start reading a habit, at the response measured across the tour, and only within the range servers' habits actually vary. The gain over the current mix is how exploitable that mix is.

Arthur Cazaux serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowArthur winsv VictorMatchupOptimal
Wide46%72%75%74.8%±10.559% ▲
Body5%60%59%55.5%±17.70% ▼
T49%78%79%81.2%±11.341% ▼

Optimal v Victor Pecci: +0.4±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +4.2 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowArthur winsv VictorMatchupOptimal
Wide54%72%73%72.1%±13.367% ▲
Body3%69%58%64.4%±17.33%
T43%71%67%65.5%±13.130% ▼

Optimal v Victor Pecci: +0.6±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +3.1 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Victor Pecci serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowVictor winsv ArthurMatchupOptimal
Wide32%77%73%76.6%±12.145% ▲
Body8%62%66%64.5%±17.40% ▼
T60%70%79%74.2%±12.355% ▼

Optimal v Arthur Cazaux: +0.4±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +2.4 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowVictor winsv ArthurMatchupOptimal
Wide78%66%75%68.4%±12.867% ▼
Body2%64%65%66.2%±17.90% ▼
T20%67%80%75.9%±12.233% ▲

Optimal v Arthur Cazaux: +0.5±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +6.1 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Return plan

Value of each return, in points per 100 returns against an average return of the same serve (direction, court, surface): the tour's result with that return, the returner's own edge with it, and what this server gives up when it comes back to that side. Returns with no charted direction are left out, so values compare with each other rather than with zero. Depth isn't a choice here: missed returns have no depth. Serve quality isn't charted, so a block through the middle partly reflects the serve that forced it.

Arthur Cazaux returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv VictorValue
FH through the middle43%+4.3±0.0+0.9+5.1±2.6
FH down the line28%+1.7−3.8±0.0−2.1±3.2
FH slice through the middle14%−4.2−0.9±0.0−5.1±1.6
FH crosscourt9%+5.5−3.4±0.0+2.1±2.9
FH slice down the line5%−4.3+0.5±0.0−3.7±1.8

Lean FH through the middle: +4.3±1.7 per 100 returns v the current mix (243 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv VictorValue
BH through the middle41%+6.4+1.0±0.0+7.4±2.5
BH crosscourt24%+8.8−0.7+2.1+10.2±3.1
BH down the line14%+4.2−2.9±0.0+1.3±3.2
BH slice through the middle12%−4.2−1.6−0.2−6.0±2.0
BH slice crosscourt6%+0.5−2.1±0.0−1.6±1.7

Lean BH crosscourt: +5.8±2.6 per 100 returns v the current mix (204 returns charted)

2nd serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv VictorValue
FH through the middle53%−3.5+1.3+0.3−1.9±2.7
FH down the line37%−1.8+0.1−0.4−2.1±3.7
FH crosscourt10%−0.2−2.8+1.5−1.5±3.2

Lean FH through the middle: ±0.0±1.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (60 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv VictorValue
BH through the middle53%−2.9+1.2±0.0−1.6±1.8
BH crosscourt34%+1.0−1.3±0.0−0.3±2.3
BH down the line8%−0.2−1.5±0.0−1.7±2.9
FH through the middle5%−2.9+0.6+0.3−2.0±1.9

Lean BH crosscourt: +0.9±1.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (172 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Victor Pecci returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv ArthurValue
FH slice through the middle39%−4.2+1.2+0.7−2.3±2.2
FH through the middle30%+4.3−0.7−2.8+0.8±2.8
FH crosscourt20%+5.5+1.3+1.5+8.3±3.8
FH slice down the line11%−4.3+1.0−1.0−4.2±2.1

Lean FH slice through the middle: −2.9±1.8 per 100 returns v the current mix (44 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Rally plan

Edge, in points per 100 shots: the hitter's skill with the shot (own) plus how much the receiver usually gives up against it (theirs), both measured against the tour average on clay. Each player's clay record is shrunk toward their all-surface one, so a thin sample on it moves the numbers only a little.

Arthur Cazaux

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · rally+5.0±5.0+1.1+3.9
BH to their backhand · rally+0.8±3.4+1.1−0.3

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · rally+0.8±3.4+1.1−0.3
FH to their forehand · rally+5.0±5.0+1.1+3.9

Victor Pecci

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · rally+4.0±4.7−0.1+4.1

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · rally+4.0±4.7−0.1+4.1

Against Victor Pecci-like opponents

Arthur Cazaux vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–62.6%31.5%