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What makes someone a top player in women's tennis? Is it a good service, return or mental strength? Is it true that there is a big difference between the top players and the subtop? Is it possible to predict the winner of two players when they play to each other, by means of past match statistics? A lot of questions, and we are going to try to find an answer on them. But to answer these questions we require a lot of data. Therefore is my main goal to collect the match statistics from tournaments in 2006 as far as possible. Only 8 tournaments (the 4 Grand Slams, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships, Nasdaq-100 Open, Zurich Open, Kremlin Cup) let these information available even after the tournament is over. So it will be a hard work and I'll need your help!

For further info visit: www.tennisstatistics.org

All the data from the Kremlin Cup 2005, the Zurich Open 2005 and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Championships 2005 are now available.

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For this week:

The latest Hyundai Hopman Cup's match statistics. See here

If you have match statistics from other tournaments this week, click here

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The match statistics from the Hopman Cup are updated (02/01/2006), see here

When you use these statistics to fill in the match predictor, you obtain this result (Win - Loss prediction):
1. Ivanovic (6-0)
2. Stosur (5-1)
3. Dulko (4-2)
4. Krajicek (3-3)
5. Groenefeld (2-4)
6. Raymond (1-5)
7. Arvidsson (0-6)

Thus Ivanovic is, according to the match predictor, the best player, Stosur the second best, etc. Off course, these match statistics are not yet that representative (it's just from one or two matches).

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The match statistics from the Hopman Cup are updated (03/01/2006), see here

When you use these statistics to fill in the match predictor, you obtain this result (Win - Loss prediction):
1. Ivanovic (7-0)
2. Kuznetsova (6-1)
3. Dulko (5-2)
4. Stosur (4-3)
5. Krajicek (3-4)
6. Groenefeld (2-5)
7. Arvidsson (1-6)
8. Raymond (0-7)

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The current statistic ranking you find here

The current average match statistics you find here

The reason why Ivanovic stands on the 1st place, is probably because of her good return (She has the best statistic for winning points on the return).
Stosur has the most efficient return, according to the current average match statistics.

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The current statistic ranking you find here

The current average match statistics you find here

Despite her loss today, Ivanovic is still number one on the statistic ranking. This ranking predicts, by means of previous matches, which player has the most chances to win a match (in comparison with the other players). So it's just a prediction!

Krajicek has the most chances to win tomorrow, but it's close.

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All the data from the Hopman Cup 2006 are now available. Here

Click here to see a short review.

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Click here to see further information of the Medibank International match statistics

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All the data from the Australian Open 2006 are now available, click here

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All the data from the Medibank International 2006 are now available, click here

All the data from the Toray Pan Pacific Open 2006 are now available, click here

Also a review off January see here or here

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All the data from the Open Gaz De France 2006 are now available, click here

All the data from the Proximus Diamond Games 2006 are now available, click here