HOW OFTEN DOES SERVICE WIN?
ETOW often does the service win in first-class lawn tennis? asks “American Lawn Tennis,” and then answers the query through statistics collected by Dr. F. H. Pearce, a Wimbledon umpire: The percentage is sometimes put as high as 90, which is of course excessive. But Dr. Pearce finds that the percentage at Wimbledon, taking the last seven matches, was 65.5 per cent., and that it was 58 per cent, in the men's singles and 69 per cent, in the men's doubles. Similarly, he finds that service wins in the doubles final, TildenHunter v. Cochet-Brugnon, were 66 per cent.; while in the CochetTilden battle they were only 55 per cent., or little more than one-half.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 9
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119HOW OFTEN DOES SERVICE WIN? Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 9
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