My name is Jeff Sackmann, and I am fascinated by professional tennis.
The goal of HeavyTopspin.com is to provide running commentary on the tennis world, from an analytical perspective. As a hardcore fan and a numbers guy, I’ve often been frustrated by the lack of tennis statistics. While entire industries have sprung up offering quantitative analysis of sports such as baseball and football, we still talk about tennis more or less the same way we always have.
Don’t worry–this site isn’t going to be full of equations, computer code, and decimal points. (Okay, there might be a bit of that.) On the flip side, we won’t be discussing who’s dating whom, or why Serena is going out in public dressed like that.
I’ll be writing about what happens on court, and I’ll try to make some sense out of it as we go along.
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Talk to me in the comments, in this post or any post. And enjoy!