Tennis – Grass vs Clay
What statistical evidence is there to support the differences between grass and clay court Tennis?
Yesterday we highlighted some ATP data that told you the difference in how much shorter a point is on grass. Winning a point on grass is an average of 1/3rd the time on clay. My first instinct on reading this statistic was that a match on grass must be shorter than on clay.
Ever curious, I downloaded and analysed ten years worth of grand slam matches and looked at some facts. What I found was that, in mens tennis, there was an average of 10.1 games per set on Grass in the grand slams and only 9.60 on clay. It appears that grass is a bit of a leveller when compared to clay and that matches last longer on grass on average. Clay accentuates the skill of a player but grass rewards winning on serve, which is quite likely anyhow as the stats in Tennis trader will tell you.
There were lots of other discoveries I made in the data. I’ll post some more up over Wimbledon.
You could always play on both at the same time, Nadal and Federer did in
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