What statistics can tell us about strategy in tennis

Autor: I. Y. Kawashima, O. Helene, M. T. Yamashita, R. S. Marques de Carvalho
Jazyk: portugalština
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, Vol 38, Iss 3
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1806-9126
DOI: 10.1590/1806-9126-RBEF-2016-0048
Popis: In this paper we analyse tiebreak results from some tennis players in order to investigate whether we are able to identify a non-aleatory distribution of the points in this crucial moment of the game. We compared the observed results with a binomial distribution considering that the probabilities of winning or losing a point are equal. Using a χ2 test we found that, excepting some players, the greatest part of the results agrees with our hypothesis that the points in tiebreaks are merely aleatory.
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