ATP and WTA Professional Tennis Match Data Segmented by Individual Players, 2007-2021
Description
The data is used to investigate the gender differences in the momentum effect in best-of-three competitions between equally matched opponents.The raw data used were obtained from the public tennis data website tennis-data.co.uk and cover ATP men's and WTA women's professional tennis matches from 2007 to 2021. It includes information on the location of the matches, tournament names, type of court, court surfaces (hard, clay, etc.), player names, player rankings, set scores, betting odds, and so on. Due to differences in the match formats between some men's and women's tennis tournaments, to enable meaningful comparisons, matches from the four Grand Slams were excluded from the analysis. The data processing also included merging the data for men's and women's matches, removing data from some best-of-five matches that were incorrectly categorized as best-of-three matches, and splitting the data of the two competitors in each match into individual player data. Finally, I obtained individual player data for 112,138 player instances, corresponding to 56,069 matches, covering 175 cities or regions where the matches were held, 337 types of tournaments, 43 series, and 5 types of court surfaces.