What is a 135 Player Consult?

What is a 135 Player Consult It’s the question we get asked most. What is a Player Consult? In short, the answer is: a profile of a player’s level of play at a point in time, compared to both their previous level, and benchmarks of other players at a similar age and stage. The most … Read more

Why “Points Won on 1st Serve” is a Pointless Stat

Why “Points Won on First Serve” is a Worthless Stat “Points won on 1st serve” is supposed to be a measure of 1st serve effectiveness. It’s not officially labeled that way, but that is precisely what it’s supposed to represent. The more points you win when your first serve goes in, the more effective your … Read more

Tennis is a Game of Errors? Not if you want to improve

Tennis is a Game of Errors? Not if you want to improve In tennis, if you add forced errors and unforced errors together, you can justify the statement “tennis is a game of errors”. The problem is it’s a really lazy way of reporting what happens in a tennis match. Consider these definitions: Unforced error … Read more

135 Working with Tennis Canada

135 TENNIS ANALYTICS WORKING WITH TENNIS CANADA We are incredibly excited to be working with Tennis Canada starting in March, 2023. Our education programs, systems and software will be implemented with TC’s “top prospect” players initially, then filter through the TC ecosystem over time. Please see the article below on The First Serve website and … Read more

Using the 135 App Scroller

The pros have moved on to the US hard court season and we had a classic example of why being able to see analytics at any stage of a match can be so important. Thanasi Kokkinakis played Fernando Verdasco in the first round in Los Carbos

135 Analytics of Juniors, Part 2

Part 2 of our junior analytics from Tarbes, 2022 is the Boys final. Both boys are 13 years old. Again, we’ll start with a quick look at the broad match numbers

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135 Analytics of Juniors, Part 1

Julia Stusek v Hannah Klugman Tarbes Final 2022

We’ve run the analytics on the final of Tarbes, a big junior tournament in France, to have a look at the 135 numbers of the match, and one player in particular.

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Recording Errors

If players want to improve, they have to know about their errors. Tennis has always made this process very confusing by only reporting unforced errors, rather than the difference between