This is definitely an interesting idea and I thought about doing this - especially for lower rated players who I just haven't watched enough. But I do think if we get a high enough number of responses from actual tennis fans, the average response will be more accurate than the data-driven...
For clay court specialist I was thinking of players like Nadal, Thiem, Almagro whose main strength are long top-spin rallies. I wouldn't say they are too similar to defensive baseliner since they try to dictate the rallies themselves (even if it doesn't mean going for the winner), but there's...
I'm working on a tennis project and I'm trying to come up with a way of categorizing the different playing styles on the tour. Obviously, this is subjective so I want to have the input of as many people as possible in order to get an average. I am using 5 categories:
1) Serve-and-volleyer
2) Big...