Why Some Tennis Matches Take Forever

The raw data behind the story "Why Some Tennis Matches Take Forever" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-some-tennis-matches-take-forever/.

tennis_events_time

Format

A data frame with 205 rows representing tournaments and 5 variables:

tournament

Name of event

surface

Court surface used at the event

sec_added

Seconds added per point for this event on this surface in years shown, from regression model controlling for players, year and other factors

year_start

Start year for data used from this tournament in regression

year_end

End year for data used from this tournament in regression

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/tennis-time

See also

tennis_players_time and tennis_serve_time