SPRING 2025
The Risk and the Reward: An In-depth Evaluation of Strategic Aggressiveness in Men’s Tennis
AUTHORS
Atul Venkatesh, Dartmouth College ’26
Aahan Mehra, Tufts University ’27
ABSTRACT
In a tennis match, when do players know the right situation to be aggressive? The role of aggressiveness on in-game tennis strategy is one of the most overlooked aspects of the sport.
Using shot-by-shot data, we seek to answer the following question: holding ranking constant, based on the in-game situation, what level of aggressiveness is most strategic and yields the largest reward?
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