A Unified Server Quality Metric for Tennis, authored by Aiwen Li, University of Pennsylvania, Amrita Balajee, University of Pennsylvania, Harry Wieand, Boston University Academy, Jonathan Pipping-Gamon, University of Pennsylvania.…Read More
Tennis is one of the few sports in which the server initiates every point, making the serve the only stroke entirely under a player’s control. A powerful, well-placed serve can create immediate advantages, but identifying which characteristics most effectively translate serves into winning points remains unclear.…Read More
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has historically used point-per-round rankings to determine competitive tournament entry and seeding, but this system often rewards participation over quality of play and can be distorted by random draw effects. Alternative systems such as Universal Tennis Rating (UTR) and World Tennis Number (WTN) use algorithmic predictive modeling based on prior head-to-head results to estimate player ability across gender, age, and geography. Although previous studies (Im, 2023; Kiely, 2025; Krall, 2025; Mayew, 2023) have evaluated predictive accuracy between these two systems using smaller, elite-level samples, large-scale analyses spanning all competitive levels of U.S. junior tennis remain limited.…Read More
Analyze Tennis Winning Factors Across Different Surfaces By Utilizing Random Forest, authored by Wuhuan Deng, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington ’25…Read More
The Risk and the Reward: An In-depth Evaluation of Strategic Aggressiveness in Men’s Tennis, authored by Atul Venkatesh, Dartmouth College ’26 and Aahan Mehra, Tufts University ’27.…Read More
Testing the ‘Bottleneck’ Hypothesis in Professional Tennis Rankings, authored by Seth Richey, Florida State University ’25, and Ryan Rodenberg, Florida State University.…Read More
In tennis, players alternate who serves in each game. Often players can hold their serving game while breaking your opponent’s serve is far more difficult. Our project examines how important break points are and how break point percentages affect the outcome of a match. Winners were found to have a higher break point percentage by 14.0%, and there is a slight variation across surfaces.…Read More
