Table 4

 Notational analyses of men’s professional tennis matches played on hard and clay courts

Hard courtClay court
Mean (SD)Min–maxMean (SD)Min–max
Values (n = 6) presented are mean (SD), minimum, and maximum.
**Significant difference (p<0.01) between the hard and clay court tournaments.
Match duration (min)119 (36)84–17179 (13)61–101
Rally length (s)6.7 (2.2)3.1–15.07.5 (3.0)2.8–17.9
Shots per rally4.7 (1.4)2.4–8.44.5 (2.0)2.3–11.8
Direction changes per rally2.5 (0.9)1.0–4.62.4 (1.3)1.2–8.4
Time between games (s)59.9 (18.1)23.9–108.650.0 (18.5)8.0–117.5
Time between points (s)25.1 (4.3)**16.7–34.417.2 (3.3)10.2–27.5
Time between serves (s)11.7 (3.2)5.2–22.110.6 (2.5)7.6–24.4