Re: [math-fun] tennis and randomness
I would be surprised if there were any advantageous tennis behavior that didn't occur more often among top-ranked players, on average. --Dan << Someone (I've forgotten who, alas!) mentioned to me a few weeks ago that researchers have studied patterns in tennis service, and have found that when it comes to deciding where to serve, top-ranked tennis players do a better job of "acting like a coin" than lower-ranked players. Can anyone provide information on this?
Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.
On 7/6/11, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
I would be surprised if there were any advantageous tennis behavior that didn't occur more often among top-ranked players, on average.
--Dan
I was grumpily about to suggest "going off to do something useful and productive instead" as a possible candidate for such a(?) behaviour, when it occurred to me that --- for a top-ranked tennis player --- tennis is quite possibly the most useful and productive activity in which it is feasible to engage. So I'm going off to do the Guardian crossword instead ... WFL
<< Someone (I've forgotten who, alas!) mentioned to me a few weeks ago that researchers have studied patterns in tennis service, and have found that when it comes to deciding where to serve, top-ranked tennis players do a better job of "acting like a coin" than lower-ranked players.
Can anyone provide information on this?
Sometimes the brain has a mind of its own.
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