Thursday, July 03, 2014
Tennis shot clock
I never noticed there was a pace issue, but the players notice it. How bad is it though? Using the data from one match here, I'm able to estimate some data. Given that Federer averages 15.3 seconds before each shot, and that 4% of his shots take more than 20 seconds, then one standard deviation for him is 2.7 seconds. Nadal on the other hand has one standard deviation as 5.7 seconds.
If we use Federer as the standard, we can estimate that he exceeds 23.6 seconds one time per 1000 shots. If that's the defacto standard, we can estimate that Nadal exceeds that level about 40% of the time. The other two players in the sample are Giraldo at around 3% and Kukushkin at 5%. If you treat the defacto standard as 25 seconds, Federer would get nailed once every 6000 shots, and the other two guys are at between 1 and 2%. So, maybe 25 seconds is the defacto standard. Nadal would still get hit 33% of the time.
It would seem therefore that a 25-second visible shot clock would not affect any player other than those like Nadal who flout/flaunt it.
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