I think last night his conversion of BPs was OK. Actually, excellent: 4/8. Hard to complain about return game after the first return with that stat. I don't know the exact number of return games he played. I suck at that computation. But with 4 breaks, the return game% stat should be more than OK.
I'm assuming that the usual will take place, that % of return points and % of converted BPs will be close to the same over the season, but you can't tell anything from one match. .
We don't get stats from the ATP until a major is finished, so I'll look forward to eyeballing them at the end of the AO.
Its not that tough.
1. If its a TB, leave the one game from the TB. its 6 return games each.
2. If not, check the total number of games in the set.
a) if it is an even number, divide by 2.
b) if it is odd, check the difference in number of breaks.
if 2*difference in number of breaks < difference in games, that means winner of the set has served one more game than the loser of the set
if 2*difference in number of breaks > difference in games, that means loser of the set has served one more game than the winner of the set.
for example, it is a 6-3 set, with one break for the winner, that means winner has served 5 games and the loser 4 games.
if it is a 6-1 set, with 3 breaks for the winner, that means the winner has served 3 games and loser has served 4 games.
vs Berdych, Fed broke in 4 of the 15 return games.
Fastest serve yesterday was 124, which seems a little low. If that is correct. I've never seen a match where he didn't serve over 200k at least once. 5 DFs is very high in a match for him
I'm mostly worried about the return game, and to me it look good last night. If anything, the serve was weaker than usual. Weird errors in set #1, so the obvious thing is that he didn't fully come alive until the break, at the end of set 1, and then the TB.
My overall impression was that he looked a bit flat in the last two matches, at the beginning. I hope that will pick up in the SF.
maybe, the beginning part could be excused as transitioning from night to day (vs fuscovics) and day to night (berdych). He started off well enough in the 1st 3 matches, IIRC.
Serve was fine. Served at 63%. Won 83% of first serves and 53% on the 2nd serves.
4 of the 5 DFs were in the first set.
The fallen warrior's spirit lives on in the warrior that brought him down.
With those serve numbers, looks like Chung's speed will result in ravaging toaster burns to the derriere of one Fed as he exits the building in straight sets.
