Analysis of Grand Slam Tennis Tournaments by Gender

Year 2020, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 69 - 80, 23.03.2020

Şükran Arıkan , İhsan Doğan , Serkan Revan

https://doi.org/10.31680/gaunjss.692793

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the variables determined in tournaments on different court surfaces by gender. In this research, official websites of 2019 Grand Slam tennis tournaments were used in the category of single men and single women as data collection tool. In the research, winning matches in the American Open and Australian Open played on hard surface (250 single men, 252 single women), the French Open played on clay surface (127 single men, 122 single women) and Wimbledon played on grass surface (127 single men, 126 single women) were analyzed. In these competitions, aces, double fault, win on 1st. serve, win on 2nd. serve, break points, unforced errors, winner, total points, fastest service and match duration were evaluated. SPSS 22.0 statistical software was used to evaluate the data and to find the calculated values. Since the data showed normal distribution, t test was used in independent groups and the level of significance was accepted as 0.05. When the variables taken into consideration were compared by gender, there was no statistically significant difference between men and women only in the double fault variable in the clay court (p> 0.05), whereas all other variables were significantly different in all courts (p <0.05). It has been determined that women's double fault, break points and unforced errors on hard and grass court, break points and unforced errors performance on clay court are better than man athletes. As a result, it can be said that the selected variables are affected by the gender factor on all court surfaces.

Keywords

Tennis, Grand Slam, Match analysis

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