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Game plan

Linda Klimovicova v Amanda Coetzer

Every number combines what Linda Klimovicova does well with what Amanda Coetzer 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.

Linda Klimovicova serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowLinda winsv AmandaMatchupOptimal
Wide45%63%62%59.7%±12.445%
Body17%59%60%61.0%±14.01% ▼
T39%78%68%77.7%±10.454% ▲

Optimal v Amanda Coetzer: +0.8±1.3 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +10.8 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowLinda winsv AmandaMatchupOptimal
Wide53%72%68%74.0%±9.467% ▲
Body16%48%52%44.2%±16.21% ▼
T31%68%65%68.9%±13.232%

Optimal v Amanda Coetzer: +1.3±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix. Serving wide every time would read +6.3 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Amanda Coetzer serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowAmanda winsv LindaMatchupOptimal
Wide38%61%68%62.3%±12.153% ▲
Body37%51%54%47.7%±12.622% ▼
T25%55%68%55.0%±14.825%

Optimal v Linda Klimovicova: +1.0±1.2 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +7.2 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowAmanda winsv LindaMatchupOptimal
Wide35%52%61%47.4%±13.234%
Body58%46%55%45.3%±12.743% ▼
T7%61%64%60.5%±15.423% ▲

Optimal v Linda Klimovicova: +1.0±1.3 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +13.4 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.

Linda Klimovicova returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AmandaValue
FH through the middle43%+4.2+1.1−0.8+4.4±3.1
FH crosscourt25%+5.3+1.6+0.7+7.6±4.2
FH down the line17%+1.5+1.0+2.1+4.7±4.5
FH slice through the middle10%−6.7+0.8±0.0−6.0±1.7
FH slice crosscourt6%−6.6+0.5±0.0−6.1±1.6

Lean FH crosscourt: +4.0±3.5 per 100 returns v the current mix (215 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AmandaValue
BH through the middle43%+6.0+1.8−0.5+7.4±2.4
BH crosscourt38%+7.7+2.8+1.5+12.1±3.3
BH down the line7%+2.2+0.9±0.0+3.1±2.8
BH slice crosscourt7%−4.2−0.4+2.8−1.8±2.7
BH slice through the middle4%−6.2±0.0+0.5−5.7±2.0

Lean BH crosscourt: +4.4±2.3 per 100 returns v the current mix (195 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AmandaValue
BH crosscourt53%+1.5+1.9±0.0+3.4±2.6
BH through the middle35%−2.6−0.5±0.0−3.1±1.9
FH inside-in6%+0.7+1.5−2.1+0.1±3.2
BH down the line5%−0.5−0.3±0.0−0.8±2.1

Lean BH crosscourt: +2.7±1.4 per 100 returns v the current mix (94 returns charted)

Amanda Coetzer returning

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv LindaValue
BH crosscourt52%+7.7−1.3+3.2+9.6±3.6
BH through the middle40%+6.0−2.4+0.7+4.3±2.9
BH down the line8%+2.2−0.7−4.4−2.9±3.7

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.2±2.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (62 returns charted)

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.

Linda Klimovicova

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their backhand · rally+2.2±4.8+1.0+1.1
FH to their forehand · rally+1.7±5.1+1.8−0.1
FH to their backhand · rally−0.3±5.2−3.6+3.3

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · rally−0.3±5.2−3.6+3.3
FH to their forehand · rally+1.7±5.1+1.8−0.1
BH to their backhand · rally+2.2±4.8+1.0+1.1

Amanda Coetzer

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · rally+9.1±5.5+0.7+8.4
FH to their forehand · rally+3.7±5.3+0.7+3.0
BH to the middle · rally+3.3±3.4+0.5+2.8
BH to their backhand · rally+2.0±4.5−1.0+3.0
FH to the middle · rally+0.4±3.6+1.0−0.7

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to the middle · rally+0.4±3.6+1.0−0.7
BH to their backhand · rally+2.0±4.5−1.0+3.0
BH to the middle · rally+3.3±3.4+0.5+2.8
FH to their forehand · rally+3.7±5.3+0.7+3.0
FH to their backhand · rally+9.1±5.5+0.7+8.4

Against Amanda Coetzer-like opponents

Linda Klimovicova vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–60.2%42.6%