data science

While Roger Federer earned his 17th straight win of 2018, tennis data science was taking a center stage at Cape Town’s satRday conference.

As Roger Federer was crowned with his 20th Grand Slam title at the 2018 Australian Open, the winners of the first AO to AI Hackathon competition were being decided. In this post, I take a look at the winning models and discuss what they mean for the future of calling point outcomes in tennis.

Selected research. Full list can be found on Google Scholar. Kovalchik, S. A., & Ingram, M. (2018). Estimating the duration of professional tennis matches for varying formats. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 14(1), 13-23. Kovalchik, S., & Reid, M. (2018). A shot taxonomy in the era of tracking data in professional tennis. Journal of Sports Sciences, 36(18), 2096-2104. Albert, J., & Kovalchik, S. (2017).