Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers: Double Duty

Infosys ATP Beyond The Numbers: Double Duty

  • Posted: Nov 05, 2015

Heading into this week’s BNP Paribas Masters, the final event of the regular season, five players had this year won 20 or more Tour-level matches in both singles and doubles. This list of five contains players from two teams: Australian Open doubles champions Fabio Fognini & Simone Bolelli and 2014 Wimbledon doubles champions Jack Sock & Vasek Pospisil.

Doubling Up On Success

2015 Match Wins Singles Doubles Total
Fabio Fognini (ITA) 32 29 61
Jack Sock (USA) 35 26 61
Simone Bolelli (ITA) 28 28 56
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 32 22 54
Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 25 21 46

ATP World Tour doubles matches (not including Grand Slams) feature a sudden-death point at deuce to decide the game. One team, Dominic Inglot and Robert Lindstedt, is a clear winner in this category, claiming almost two thirds (64 percent) of all deciding points they have played in 2015.

Deciding Points Won

Rank Team % No. Played
1 Inglot/Lindstedt 64 81
2 Bopanna/Mergea 60 179
3 Nestor/Roger-Vasselin 60 92
4 Bopanna/Nestor 57 75
5 Inglot/Mergea 56 94
6 Matkowski/Zimonjic 54 212
7 Granollers/Lopez 54 127
8 Pospisil/Sock 54 123
9 Monroe/Sitak 54 68
10 Peya/Soares 53 226

There’s nothing like the pressure of playing a Match Tie-break (first to 10 points, must win by two) instead of a third set to decide the outcome of a doubles match on the ATP World Tour. But does luck play a part in the outcome? The unheralded team of Rameez Junaid and Adil Shamasdan are tied with World No. 1 doubles player Marcelo Melo and partner Ivan Dodig, with both teams winning 86 percent of deciding points. (Although both teams have only played a small sampling of seven Match Tie-breaks in 2015.) Five teams (denoted with *) on this list are in the Top 10 of the Emirates ATP Doubles Race To London).

Match Tie-breaks Won

Rank  Team % No. Played
1 Junaid/Shamasdin 86 7
1 Dodig/Melo* 86 7
3 Bryan/Bryan* 75 16
4 Draganja/Kontinen 75 12
5 Bopanna/Mergea* 68  19
Zimonjic/Matkowski* 62 13
7 Lopez/Mirnyi 67 9
Pospisil/Sock* 64 11
9 Cabal/Farah 60 25
10 Fyrstenberg/Gonzalez 60 10

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