There are 256 players — 128 men and 128 women — competing in the Australian Open, in what is expected to be a more ‘open’ playing field than previous years. With a bumper crop of new contenders entering the mix, the increased skill and athleticism of tennis is making it harder and harder to pick the winner of Grand Slams.
Stat Insider likes the challenge.
Over the last few months, we have been building our predictive tennis model, which pumps out the mathematical probabilities of a player winning a match, and several other market predictions, after running 10,000 simulations of the match. We do the same for our futures markets.