It is a well known fact that the casino or “the house” always wins in gambling. The casino is always the winner and not the gambler. Why is this so?
It is because of a statistical factor known as the “house edge”. The house always has an edge of one percent over the gambler. Simply speaking, the house has a winning rate of 51% whereas the gambler has a win rate of 49%. But this modest one percent ensures that the house always wins in the long run.
What does all this have to do with tennis & analytics? Incidentally, tennis analytics is all about providing a coach or a player with an edge over opponents.
Tennis is a sport with boundless number of implicit patterns. Patterns used both by a player and his opponent. These patterns are invisible to the naked eye. They emerge only through thorough data and video analysis.
Tennis analytics can broadly be classified into two branches. The first being Player Performance Evaluation and the second, Opponent Scouting.
Player Performance Evaluation is the use of tagged match footage and interactive dashboards to take 
a deep-dive into a player’s match performances. Serve, return and groundstroke statistics are all accessible on one dashboard. These stats can be filtered according to any given situation during a match.
e.g. Serve performance on break points, etc. The dashboard is supplemented with a video player where the match is cut down into individual points removing all “down-time”. The points can be filtered according to suitable match situations. All stats can be corroborated with the video for complete understanding of the match.
Continued match analysis exposes a players strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement. Coaches can tailor practice sessions to focus on particular aspects and drive players’ competitive performance to the next level.
Scouting encompasses analysis of upcoming opponents prior to a match and capitalise on insights about their most-used patterns, weak links, pressure situation preferences, etc. Knowing what an opponent can do and cannot do provides the player with a massive head-start even before the match starts. Players can then execute optimal strategies during the match to capitalise on their opponents weaknesses using their own strengths.
SpinInsight specialises in preparing detailed scouting reports and providing players, coaches with invaluable insights to exponentially increase the rate of winning matches. Our analysts personally consult coaches and players prior to matches. SpinInsight provides regular scouting support to top 100 ATP and WTA players.
SpinInsight also works with Division 1 colleges in the USA providing match reports for every match on the completion of dual-matches.
Every tennis player can make use of tennis analytics to improve performance and start winning more matches with ease.
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