98-504 Student Taught Courses (StuCo): Introduction to Tennis Analytics

3 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course introduces students to fundamental topics in analysis of tennis at a competitive level and prepares students with simple statistical techniques for studying the game. We will begin the course by discussing how analytical data is collected in the modern game. Next, we transition to discussing how an individual match is measured, including service statistics, return statistics, net statistics, performance by rally length, and W/UFE ratio. In the second half of this course, we extend these analytical techniques to study player performance over multiple matches and consider larger trends such as surface, tournament level, performance against top 5/10/15, and other more general topics.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025

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