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.
You can subscribe to the site with this RSS feed, and you should follow me on Twitter.
Talk to me in the comments, in this post or any post. And enjoy!
i would like to subscribe by email.
Jeff – I have enjoyed your posts. My thinking on lefties is that having one lefty on a doubles team is a significant advantage because both servers on one team can naturally serve wide. The ability to serve wide to the add box is particularly helpful because that is where the add points are found. There are other advantages no doubt. One which is hard to quantify is the different spin on a lefty shot which makes it a little more unusual for righties.
This Blog is simply astonishing… thoroughly comprehensive, hard-hitting, and an ideal combination of weight and clarity. Congratulations Jeff this was long overdue and will help a lot of us, pros as well as avid enthusiasts to grow Exponentially. All the best, and thanks again!
(I’d also like to subscribe by e-mail]
I agree with previous poster – great job and simply the best tennis blog around. Keep it up.