This document analyzes serve and return statistics from various tennis players and tournaments. It finds that players with the highest first serve percentages often lost early in tournaments. The hardest serve to hit for women and juniors is an ad court wide serve. For most juniors, returning a deuce court wide serve to their backhand and attempting a backhand crosscourt return is difficult as they struggle to get the backhand wide enough. Tables show percentages of different types of second serves used by various male players against right-handed opponents and their success rates, such as higher success rates for serves to their opponent's forehand.

1. SERVE+RETURN ANALYTICS:
Fun Facts, Oddities and
Useful Data

2. FIRST SERVE PERCENTAGE
• At 2020 Australian Open:
• 12 of 13 women with the highest percentage of 1st serves in
LOST in the first round
• 8 of 12 men with the highest percentage of 1st serves in LOST
in the first round

5. WHAT’S THE HARDEST SERVE TO HIT?
WTA and Juniors: Ad Court Wide Serve

6. WHAT SERVE+1 SEEMS EASY BUT ISN’T?
Deuce Court Wide Serve + Return to Backhand + Backhand Crosscourt
Most juniors can’t get the backhand wide enough and end up neutral
rallying

7. DEUCE COURT 2nd SERVE – righty vs righty
NAME T SERVE WIDE SERVE Wide+ to FH
% of total % won % of total % won
Djokovic 37.9 60.2 38.4 61.8 +1.6
Federer 48.8 60.3 27.0 64.4 +4.1
Thiem 50.6 58.4 28.1 59.5 +1.1
Medvedev 42.3 57.4 33.8 65.0 +7.6
Wawrinka 52.8 57.5 26.3 57.0 -0.5
Tsitsipas 30.0 56.2 19.1 55.0 -1.2
Kyrgios 53.0 62.9 32.2 63.9 +1.0
Dimitrov 57.2 56.8 14.1 63.6 +6.8
Khachanov 50.7 56.6 9.0 65.4 +8.8
Fognini 51.9 51.3 18.4 60.3 +9.0
Monfils 44.2 54.9 32.9 59.3 +4.4

8. AD COURT 2nd SERVE – RIGHTY VS RIGHTY
NAME WIDE SERVE T SERVE T+ to FH
% of total % won % of total % won
Djokovic 30.5 61.1 36.9 64.8 +3.7
Federer 48.8 62.2 28.6 59.6 -2.6
Thiem 24.7 59.1 37.2 55.7 +3.4
Medvedev 61.6 55.2 13.0 63.6 +8.4
Wawrinka 61.5 56.6 16.0 55.1 -1.5
Tsitsipas 18.8 52.6 22.7 55.7 +3.1
Kyrgios 54.6 54.0 28.1 59.8 +5.8
Dimitrov 42.7 57.6 14.8 58.1 +0.5
Khachanov 22.7 51.1 24.0 55.2 +4.1
Fognini 30.9 53.4 21.9 55.6 +2.2
Monfils 38.1 56.2 25.1 60.5 +4.3