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Maximilian Marterer v Adrian Andreev

Every number combines what Maximilian Marterer does well with what Adrian Andreev allows, each measured against the tour average and shrunk toward it when the sample is thin. Flip perspective

Forecast

Maximilian Marterer wins, best of 3 35%90%: 10%–69% · best of 5: 32%
Serve points won 64.9% / 68.1% Maximilian / Adrian · tour 65.7%
Strengths only, no similarity priors 35%serve 64.9% / 68.1%

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 At least one of them is no longer active or has too little charted in the last three seasons, so both are compared on their careers.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 Maximilian Marterer's record against Adrian Andreev'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

CareerMaximilianAdrian
Direction choice+0.22 ±0.11
better than 95%
+0.03 ±0.12
better than 66%
Shot selection+0.08 ±0.26
better than 62%
−0.07 ±0.36
better than 44%
Execution−1.46 ±1.33
better than 10%
−1.22 ±0.62
better than 18%

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.

Maximilian Marterer serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowMaximilian winsv AdrianMatchupOptimal
Wide40%75%64%66.8%±11.953% ▲
Body13%61%58%56.0%±17.80% ▼
T47%66%68%57.1%±11.147%

Optimal v Adrian Andreev: +0.8±1.1 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +6.0 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowMaximilian winsv AdrianMatchupOptimal
Wide60%73%65%64.8%±10.658% ▼
Body10%59%59%55.0%±17.90% ▼
T29%77%69%74.1%±12.142% ▲

Optimal v Adrian Andreev: +0.7±1.0 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +7.6 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Adrian Andreev serving

Deuce court

1st serveNowAdrian winsv MaximilianMatchupOptimal
Wide53%63%78%68.6%±10.242% ▼
Body2%63%70%69.2%±15.90% ▼
T45%73%77%75.7%±9.958% ▲

Optimal v Maximilian Marterer: +0.2±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving T every time would read +3.9 per 100 first serves in before the returner adjusts.

Ad court

1st serveNowAdrian winsv MaximilianMatchupOptimal
Wide47%69%71%66.7%±11.360% ▲
Body5%64%65%66.1%±16.20% ▼
T48%67%71%65.9%±11.940% ▼

Optimal v Maximilian Marterer: +0.2±0.9 per 100 first serves (faults included) over the current mix, inside the 90% margin. Serving wide every time would read +0.4 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.

Maximilian Marterer returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AdrianValue
FH through the middle50%+4.3+0.8+3.4+8.4±3.1
FH crosscourt37%+5.5+1.3+4.1+10.9±4.2
FH slice through the middle13%−4.2−1.3+0.9−4.6±2.1

Lean FH crosscourt: +3.2±3.1 per 100 returns v the current mix (86 returns charted)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv AdrianValue
BH through the middle45%+6.4−1.7+2.3+7.0±2.8
BH crosscourt31%+8.8−2.8+2.6+8.6±3.3
BH down the line13%+4.2+0.2+2.9+7.3±4.1
BH slice through the middle11%−4.2−0.7+1.4−3.5±2.1

Lean BH crosscourt: +2.2±2.6 per 100 returns v the current mix (83 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

Adrian Andreev returning

1st serve to the forehand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MaximilianValue
FH through the middle46%+4.3+2.0±0.0+6.3±3.0
FH crosscourt23%+5.5+0.9−1.2+5.3±4.1
FH down the line22%+1.7+5.3−2.0+5.0±3.6
FH slice crosscourt9%−4.3+0.7+1.2−2.5±2.0

Lean FH through the middle: +1.3±2.0 per 100 returns v the current mix (65 returns charted, inside the 90% margin)

1st serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MaximilianValue
BH through the middle53%+6.4+2.5+0.7+9.6±2.8
BH crosscourt29%+8.8+2.5+0.3+11.6±3.5
BH down the line7%+4.2+0.9−1.2+4.0±4.1
BH slice through the middle7%−4.2+1.0−1.5−4.8±1.8
BH slice down the line3%−8.4+1.4+0.1−6.9±2.5

Lean BH crosscourt: +3.3±2.9 per 100 returns v the current mix (150 returns charted)

2nd serve to the backhand

ReturnNowTourOwnv MaximilianValue
BH through the middle62%−2.9+0.5−2.9−5.3±2.5
BH crosscourt32%+1.0−0.6+1.0+1.4±3.2
BH down the line6%−0.2+0.5−0.1+0.3±3.7

Lean BH crosscourt: +4.2±2.7 per 100 returns v the current mix (128 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 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.

Maximilian Marterer

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
BH to their forehand · rally+4.3±4.2+1.2+3.1
FH to the middle · return+4.3±3.0+0.7+3.6
BH to the middle · rally+2.3±2.3+0.2+2.1
FH to their backhand · rally+1.0±3.1+0.5+0.4
FH to their backhand · serve +1+1.0±3.8+0.7+0.3
BH to the middle · return+0.4±2.6−2.4+2.8

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · rally−2.2±3.7+0.2−2.3
FH to their forehand · serve +1−1.1±4.3−0.5−0.7
BH to the middle · return+0.4±2.6−2.4+2.8
FH to their backhand · serve +1+1.0±3.8+0.7+0.3
FH to their backhand · rally+1.0±3.1+0.5+0.4

Adrian Andreev

Favour

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their backhand · rally+6.5±3.1+3.5+3.0
BH to their forehand · rally+5.4±4.5+5.5−0.2
BH to the middle · rally+2.9±2.3+2.5+0.4
BH to the middle · return+1.4±2.5+1.3+0.1
FH to their backhand · serve +1+0.2±3.9−1.2+1.4
FH to their forehand · serve +1−0.4±4.3−3.1+2.8

Avoid

ShotEdgeOwnTheirs
FH to their forehand · rally−2.1±3.5+1.5−3.6
FH to their forehand · serve +1−0.4±4.3−3.1+2.8
FH to their backhand · serve +1+0.2±3.9−1.2+1.4
BH to the middle · return+1.4±2.5+1.3+0.1
BH to the middle · rally+2.9±2.3+2.5+0.4

Against Adrian Andreev-like opponents

Maximilian Marterer vMatchesServe pts wonReturn pts won
All charted opponents–65.0%29.6%