Research has shown that short points (points of 0–4 shots) are crucial in determining the outcome elite men’s and women’s grass court tennis matches. However, research not explored importance more detail to inform practice design. This study aimed establish prevalence individual rally lengths within (i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3 4 terms winning Using recently-validated PWOL ( Percentage matches which Winner...

Abstract Value functions are used in sports to determine the optimal action players should employ. However, most literature implicitly assumes that can perform prescribed with known and fixed probability of success. The effect varying this or, equivalently, “execution error” implementing an (e.g., hitting a tennis ball specific location on court) design strategies, has received limited attentio...

The grounding of high-level semantic concepts is a key requirement of video annotation systems. Rule induction can thus constitute an invaluable intermediate step in characterizing protocol-governed domains, such as broadcast sports footage. We here set out a novel “clause grammar template” approach to the problem of rule-induction in video footage of court games that employs a second-order met...

The common perception of the correlation between socioeconomic status and tennis has shifted within past two decades. traditional players — wearing all white on Centre Court, eating strawberries cream, while drinking champagne is no longer narrative. By analyzing influential political changes, psychology behind decision-making, income disparity, this paper will investigate how devolved from its...