Week 34 - US Open women's qualifying

Maza1987 · Challenger level

RE: Week 34 - US Open women's qualifying

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jo has a habit of eventually getting the win after looking to do it easily. That probably takes more mental strength than doing it the easy way.
Not bad 1st grand slam and qualified.
Some really good qualie spots as well, only a couple to really avoid. What's the betting that she'll probably get the best draw out of the Brits.

steven · Tennis legend

Alexei wrote:
Seriously - only TWO winners in the whole match?!!! That can't be right.

It isn't. In qualifying, winners = aces and unforced errors = double faults - they aren't true winner/ue figures!

As far as I can tell (and I've tweeted it and not been corrected yet), this was Jo's first attempt to qualify for any slam.

OEM: "The Australians loving the fact that we were all watching Konta. "Fair dinkum isn't she?" one who shall remain nameless, said."

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Alexei wrote:
Seriously - only TWO winners in the whole match?!!! That can't be right.

I did wonder.

But, it's a direct capture from the official results generated by the same IBM Analytics engine they've used at USO for the last couple of years.

Other matches are showing the higher numbers you might expect. So I figured it could be accurate.

It is possible that for Qualifying they don't have the statisticians attending to decide what constitutes the UF's & Winners as they would on the Tour (always a subjective deal if you ask me).

indiana · Tennis legend

insomniacfolder wrote:
Alexei wrote:
Seriously - only TWO winners in the whole match?!!! That can't be right.
I did wonder.
But, it's a direct capture from the official results generated by the same IBM Analytics engine they've used at USO for the last couple of years.
Other matches are showing the higher numbers you might expect. So I figured it could be accurate.
It is possible that for Qualifying they don't have the statisticians attending to decide what constitutes the UF's & Winners as they would on the Tour (always a subjective deal if you ask me).

It's generally as Steven says. On the US Open site it only appears to be Courts 11 and 17 that are NOT showing Aces as Winners and DFs as UEs. Some spectacular figurs on these other two courts wink I have seen this often in the past.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Certainly more than happy to bow to Steven's, and others, vastly superior knowledge.