Great idea, year on year particularly for our younger player will be a maker of progress. Kyles performances should show this beautifully.

The numbers will be relatively small which will prevent any statistical significance but there are probably more subtler correlations when considering a players ie the opponents rank. For example the relationship between age of opposition and experience when adjusted to rank, ie I feel that older players of equivalent rank (age 24-28) have progressed to that level as their physical conditioning is optimised and then either plateau or continue to rise (26-30) as their level of experience relative to athleticism also reaches it's optimal level.

So for players transitioning from juniors to seniors tennis 1st set performance as an initial marker of performance, should trend to 1st and 2nd set performance and then to 1st and 2nd set performance moving to 2 set wins, and then to fight backs but we should see this trend initially against younger players and then against older players who have the stamina and experience to read a more talented but inexperienced player when losing the first set adjust and win the next two, as the younger player improves te second set gets tighter ie goes to tie breaks etc....

I write this relaxing in my infinity pool overlooking the costa del Peckham all on the ill gotten gains of the algorithm written on the above assumption that I wrote before doing my maths GCSE at the age of 8. That said I still suffer nightmares at my reluctance to take full fiscal advantage of Boris Beckers fantastic performances in an under 21?23 tournament which was a strong predictor of his Wimbledon win at 17.

There are of course teams of spotters in darkened rooms working for bookies or companies selling data to bookies (Steven if you don't run one of these sweat shops for first year maths graduates in anoraks you should with this fantastic site) who are definitely on this type of pattern analysis of internet performance for for example Norwegian football, Aeslund, Aeslund .... aeslund.... Aeslund! Aeslund, Aeslund. Indeed I think Evos recent relatively poor performance is due to such distraction and the Jersey shore tweeting is merely a decoy to throw us off the scent of late night hunched over his laptop in total confusion as his algorithms crumble when trying to work out Paul Lamberts summer transfer policy and it's correlation with an away win at Stoke. What chance did the poor boy have in us open qualifying!