Tennis statistics

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How the ranking system actually works

A rolling points table rewards a full season of results, not a single result, and that changes how every number should be read.

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Why the draw matters

Seeding does not prevent a hard route through a tournament, it only delays the moment when two dangerous players meet.

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Surface physics: clay, grass and hard

The same shot behaves three different ways depending on what it lands on, and that difference is the reason surfaces produce different champions.

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The serve as a structural advantage

Serving is the one shot played with no reaction to an opponent at all, and that single fact tilts the entire sport toward whoever holds it.

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Return positioning: the quiet skill

Where a returner stands before the ball is struck says more about their read of a server than almost anything they do with the racket.

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The tiebreak and what it changes

A single game decides a set that could otherwise run forever, and that trade-off shapes how players approach the whole set before it.