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Hamad Medjedovic v Marc Andrea Huesler

Every number combines what Hamad Medjedovic does well with what Marc Andrea Huesler allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Hamad Medjedovic wins, best of 3 48%90%: 17%–80% · best of 5: 47%
Serve points won 69.2% / 69.6% Hamad / Marc · tour 65.7%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 48%serve 69.2% / 69.6%

Each player's serve and return strength is fitted against every opponent they were charted against, so a record built on weak opponents counts for less. At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers. The result is then nudged by Hamad Medjedovic's record against Marc Andrea Huesler's tactical lookalikes and in their charted head-to-heads. A game-by-game Markov chain turns point odds into match odds; the 90% range covers the uncertainty in the two strengths, not the nudges. Charted matches lean toward big events, so treat this as a scouting estimate, not a betting line.

Head to head, per 100 shots

CareerHamadMarc
Direction choice+0.03 ±0.10
better than 65%
+0.04 ±0.11
better than 68%
Shot selection−0.06 ±0.26
better than 46%
+0.33 ±0.34
better than 82%
Execution−1.65 ±0.69
better than 7%
−1.88 ±0.83
better than 5%
Points left on the table2.40 ±0.19
lower than 73%
3.27 ±0.27
lower than 11%

Each player's career against an average tour player in the same position, adjusted for opponent strength, with a 90% margin (shots clustered by match). Points left on the table is the gap to the best-value direction for the same stroke, so lower is better. Percentiles are within each player's own tour. A side is highlighted only when the gap is larger than the margin on the difference.

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.

Hamad Medjedovic serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowHamad winsv MarcMatchupOptimal
Wide44%73%83%83.0%±6.440% ▼
Body9%68%56%61.3%±14.90% ▼
T47%79%82%85.0%±6.160% ▲

Optimal v Marc Andrea Huesler: +1.0±0.8 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix. Serving T every time would read +2.9 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowHamad winsv MarcMatchupOptimal
Wide33%73%79%79.0%±7.946% ▲
Body6%62%66%65.0%±15.00% ▼
T61%71%74%73.4%±8.154% ▼

Optimal v Marc Andrea Huesler: +0.3±0.8 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +4.3 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Marc Andrea Huesler serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowMarc winsv HamadMatchupOptimal
Wide47%70%80%77.2%±8.144% ▼
Body10%61%73%71.3%±13.70% ▼
T43%70%82%77.6%±7.856% ▲

Optimal v Hamad Medjedovic: +0.4±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +0.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowMarc winsv HamadMatchupOptimal
Wide40%71%75%74.1%±8.432% ▼
Body5%61%68%66.6%±15.60% ▼
T55%82%78%86.7%±5.768% ▲

Optimal v Hamad Medjedovic: +0.6±0.8 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.

Hamad Medjedovic returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MarcValue
FH through the middle51%+4.3−2.0−3.0−0.8±3.0
FH crosscourt23%+5.5−1.5−0.4+3.6±4.4
FH down the line23%+1.7+0.2−5.6−3.7±4.4
FH slice through the middle3%−4.2+0.4−1.6−5.4±1.6

Lean FH crosscourt: +4.2±3.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (158 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MarcValue
BH through the middle40%+6.4±0.0−0.7+5.6±2.9
BH crosscourt28%+8.8+0.1−2.7+6.2±3.6
BH down the line20%+4.2+0.2−0.7+3.7±4.3
BH slice through the middle8%−4.2−1.2−1.5−6.9±2.3
BH slice down the line4%−8.4−0.4−2.5−11.3±2.8

Lean BH crosscourt: +2.4±3.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (167 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MarcValue
FH through the middle48%−3.5+1.4−0.3−2.5±2.7
FH crosscourt30%−0.2+0.9−0.7±0.0±4.0
FH down the line23%−1.8+0.6−3.3−4.5±4.0

Lean FH through the middle: −0.3±2.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (40 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MarcValue
BH through the middle47%−2.9+0.8+0.1−2.0±2.6
BH crosscourt29%+1.0−0.7−2.7−2.4±3.2
BH down the line20%−0.2−0.1−1.0−1.4±4.5
FH inside-in5%+0.6+0.5−0.7+0.4±3.6

Lean BH down the line: +0.5±4.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (101 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Marc Andrea Huesler returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv HamadValue
FH through the middle47%+4.3−1.8−1.4+1.0±3.0
FH crosscourt19%+5.5+0.4−1.2+4.7±4.3
FH slice through the middle13%−4.2+2.0+0.5−1.6±2.2
FH down the line11%+1.7−1.9−2.2−2.4±4.2
FH slice crosscourt11%−4.3−0.4+0.2−4.5±2.3

Lean FH crosscourt: +4.3±3.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (151 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv HamadValue
BH through the middle31%+6.4−0.4−1.8+4.2±2.9
BH crosscourt27%+8.8−5.6−0.6+2.6±3.4
BH slice through the middle14%−4.2−1.3−0.6−6.1±2.4
BH slice crosscourt13%+0.5−4.4+0.1−3.7±2.6
BH down the line11%+4.2+0.1+0.9+5.2±4.4

Lean BH down the line: +4.3±4.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (179 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv HamadValue
BH through the middle50%−2.9+1.4−1.1−2.6±2.6
BH crosscourt32%+1.0−0.6−1.1−0.6±3.1
BH down the line18%−0.2−2.4+3.2+0.6±4.6

Lean BH down the line: +2.0±4.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (82 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 grass. Each player's grass record is shrunk toward their all-surface one, so a thin sample on it moves the numbers only a little.

Hamad Medjedovic

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to the middle · rally+1.1±2.4−0.4+1.4
BH to the middle · return−0.4±2.5+0.2−0.6
FH to their backhand · serve +1−0.7±3.6−2.1+1.4
FH to their forehand · serve +1−1.6±4.9−3.5+1.9
FH to the middle · rally−2.2±2.6−0.7−1.5
FH to the middle · return−2.5±3.2+0.4−2.9

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their forehand · rally−5.6±4.3−7.0+1.4
FH to their forehand · rally−3.8±3.7−4.8+1.0
FH to their backhand · rally−3.5±3.3−4.3+0.8
BH to their forehand · return−3.0±4.6+0.7−3.8
FH to the middle · return−2.5±3.2+0.4−2.9

Marc Andrea Huesler

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · serve +1+7.5±4.3+3.3+4.2
BH to the middle · rally+0.3±2.4−0.2+0.6
FH to their backhand · rally+0.3±3.3+0.4±0.0
FH to the middle · rally+0.1±2.6+0.3−0.1
FH to their backhand · serve +1−1.7±3.6−2.1+0.3
BH to the middle · return−1.7±2.5+0.4−2.1

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · rally−3.5±3.6−3.4±0.0
FH to the middle · return−3.1±2.7−1.8−1.3
BH to the middle · return−1.7±2.5+0.4−2.1
FH to their backhand · serve +1−1.7±3.6−2.1+0.3
FH to the middle · rally+0.1±2.6+0.3−0.1

Against Marc Andrea Huesler-like opponents

Hamad Medjedovic vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–63.3%28.7%