How maths is used in tennis?

Question

How maths is used in tennis?

Answer 1

as we use maths in our schools,,,

Answer 2

i agree with mano

Answer 3

Well, on a tiebreaker, you have to switch sides when the scores add up to six ( for example, 4-2.). It's adding.

Answer 4

Tennis players unwittingly use maths to estimate the speed and accuracy of their opponent's return, say U.K. researchers. Know intuitively how hard and fast a ball is likely to approach and where it is likely to go.

Like all sports people, tennis players use knowledge gained from watching their opponents as well as what they learn from playing against them.

Attempts to accurately gauge the position of a randomly moving visual target, a dot on a computer screen. The researchers used a variety of tricks, such as blurring, to affect how well study participants pointed to it. They found that the participants used prior knowledge of the pattern of tricks and combined that with the visual clues they received on how close they were to the target.

The combination helped them point in the right direction. Statistics applied to the data quantified how the participants estimated the target's position.

This is exactly what tennis players are doing even if they don't know it, the researchers said.

The research was novel as the statistics produced quantifiable results. They estimated the range within which a ball's speed lay, or the area where it was likely to be returned.

The statistics involved multiplying the prior information a player had, such as an evaluation of their opponent's tendencies, with information the players gained during the match like:

Geometry - for shot angles etc.

Projectiles - ball going over the net and landing in the court.

Statistics - head to heads, records etc.

Calculus - how fast the racket could hit the ball based on string tension.

Physics - topspin, sidespin, hitting curved shots.

Answer 5

Physics definitely!