{"id":1098,"date":"2015-02-26T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2015-02-26T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:31:16","slug":"the-symmetry-of-the-tennis-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"The Symmetry of The Tennis Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night I was running some analysis on serving, and serve return hit points and I stumbled across this 3D view of the data which made me stop and marvel at how unique the symmetry of a tennis serve is.\u00a0The image below visualizes over 350 serves. The view of the image is taken from side on to the court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2015\/02\/ServesHawk-Eye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1099\" alt=\"Tennis Serve Hawk-Eye\" src=\"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2015\/02\/ServesHawk-Eye.jpg\" width=\"989\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2015\/02\/ServesHawk-Eye.jpg 989w, http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2015\/02\/ServesHawk-Eye-300x145.jpg 300w, http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2015\/02\/ServesHawk-Eye-500x242.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The blue dots represent the serve trajectories.<\/li>\n<li>The yellow dots are the location of serve bounces.<\/li>\n<li>The red lines are the trajectories of the ball bounces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This image was created using Hawk-Eye data from an ATP men&#8217;s match. Tennis is a unique game in many ways, and the data driving the game is more beautiful than ever. Unfortunately I can&#8217;t share any of the results from the analysis but I hope you appreciate the symmetry in this rare image like I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night I was running some analysis on serving, and serve return hit points and I stumbled across this 3D view of the data which made me stop and marvel at how unique the symmetry of a tennis serve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/?p=1098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[62,80,20,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gamesetmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}