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The worst tennis players of the millennium
Following my piece on tennis and probability, here is another tennis article. There is not really much maths in this one, just carefully researched irrelevance (though there may be a more mathsy follow-up at some point). Oh, and I am not really claiming that any of these players are the worst. See the disclaimer!
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Probabilities for the French Open final
Here’s a bit of very simplistic probability calculation on the outcome of the French Open final, related to my article on the value of a set in tennis. Continue reading
Tennis: How much is a set worth?
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With the men’s final of Roland Garros about to start, I have written a pretty simple piece about how much a set is worth in a tennis match (in probability terms). I have tried to keep the style accessible, as with the Pointless maths articles (although I probably simplified a little too much with those).
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The photo is from Yann Caradec via Wikimedia Commons, published Creative Commons: HERE.