Last year after the 2007 RG final I noticed that Nadal and Federer were credited with only about half the number of winners that they got for their 2006 final.
I've counted up the winners in their 2007 match. The numbers at the Roland Garros site are definitely wrong -- but NBC's numbers look fine.
The page for the 2007 final at the Roland Garros site is here:
http://2007.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/stats/day20/1127ms.html
The aces are fine, with Federer at 9 and Nadal at 2. The problem is with the total number of winners:
Winners (including service): Federer 18, Nadal 13.
Those numbers are much lower than in the previous year, when they played almost the same number of games but Federer was credited with 35 winners (including 8 aces) and Nadal 25 (including 3 aces). See http://2006.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/stats/day20/1127ms.html.
Score for 2007: 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 (38 games)
Score for 2006: 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (37 games)
This is my count for the 2007 final:
Federer had 28 winners apart from service: 13 FH, 9 BH, 3 FHV, 2 BHV, 1 overhead.
Nadal had 28 winners apart from service: 18 FH, 7 BH, 1 FHV and 1 overhead. Those numbers actually add up only to 27, because NBC didn't come back in time from commercial break for one of Nadal's points; but they did report it as "a return winner."
If you add the aces, then Federer should be credited at least 37 winners, and Nadal with at least 30.
On top of that, you'd have to add some service winners.
Federer got a service return error from Nadal 19 times, of which I judged 1 as a service winner.
Nadal got a service return error from Federer 28 times, of which I judged 2 as service winners.
So probably an official count would not include a lot of service winners.
Whatever the case, if Federer moves up at least to 37 and Nadal to 30, that's very comparable to their numbers the previous year.
NBC, by the way, already had Federer at 30 winners after three sets, and Nadal at 22 winners.
If NBC counted up as many clean winners as I did, then presumably they had given Federer 2 service winners up to that point, and Nadal 3.
Does anyone have different published stats for the 2007 final, other than the ones at the Roland Garros site?
I've counted up the winners in their 2007 match. The numbers at the Roland Garros site are definitely wrong -- but NBC's numbers look fine.
The page for the 2007 final at the Roland Garros site is here:
http://2007.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/stats/day20/1127ms.html
The aces are fine, with Federer at 9 and Nadal at 2. The problem is with the total number of winners:
Winners (including service): Federer 18, Nadal 13.
Those numbers are much lower than in the previous year, when they played almost the same number of games but Federer was credited with 35 winners (including 8 aces) and Nadal 25 (including 3 aces). See http://2006.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/scores/stats/day20/1127ms.html.
Score for 2007: 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 (38 games)
Score for 2006: 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (37 games)
This is my count for the 2007 final:
Federer had 28 winners apart from service: 13 FH, 9 BH, 3 FHV, 2 BHV, 1 overhead.
Nadal had 28 winners apart from service: 18 FH, 7 BH, 1 FHV and 1 overhead. Those numbers actually add up only to 27, because NBC didn't come back in time from commercial break for one of Nadal's points; but they did report it as "a return winner."
If you add the aces, then Federer should be credited at least 37 winners, and Nadal with at least 30.
On top of that, you'd have to add some service winners.
Federer got a service return error from Nadal 19 times, of which I judged 1 as a service winner.
Nadal got a service return error from Federer 28 times, of which I judged 2 as service winners.
So probably an official count would not include a lot of service winners.
Whatever the case, if Federer moves up at least to 37 and Nadal to 30, that's very comparable to their numbers the previous year.
NBC, by the way, already had Federer at 30 winners after three sets, and Nadal at 22 winners.
If NBC counted up as many clean winners as I did, then presumably they had given Federer 2 service winners up to that point, and Nadal 3.
Does anyone have different published stats for the 2007 final, other than the ones at the Roland Garros site?
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