nadegeev / tennis_atp

ATP Tennis Rankings, Results, and Stats

ATP Tennis Rankings, Results, and Stats

This contains my master ATP player file, historical rankings, results, and match stats.

The player file columns are player_id, first_name, last_name, hand, birth_date, country_code.

The columns for the ranking files are ranking_date, ranking, player_id, ranking_points (where available).

ATP rankings are mostly complete from 1985 to the present. 1982 is missing, and rankings from 1973-1984 are only intermittent.

Results and stats: There are up to three files per season: One for tour-level main draw matches (e.g. 'atp_matches_2014.csv'), one for tour-level qualifying and challenger main-draw matches, and one for futures matches.

The different tournament tiers are represented by single letters: 'G' = Grand Slams, 'M' = Masters 100s, 'A' = other tour-level events, 'C' = Challengers, 'S' = Satellites/ITFs, 'F' = Tour finals and other season-ending events, and 'D' = Davis Cup.

To make the results files easier for more people to use, I've included a fair bit of redundancy with the biographical and ranking files: each row contains several columns of biographical information, along with ranking and ranking points, for both players. Ranking data, as well as age, are as of tourney_date, which is almost always the Monday at or near the beginning of the event.

MatchStats are included where I have them. In general, that means 1991-present for tour-level matches, 2008-present for challengers, and 2011-present for tour-level qualifying. The MatchStats columns should be self-explanatory, but they might not be what you're used to seeing; it's all integer totals (e.g. 1st serves in, not 1st serve percentage), from which traditional percentages can be calculated.

There are some tour-level matches with missing stats. Some are missing because ATP doesn't have them. Others I've deleted because they didn't pass some sanity check (loser won 60% of points, or match time was under 20 minutes, etc). Also, Davis Cup matches are included in the tour-level files, but there are no stats for Davis Cup matches until the last few seasons.

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Please read, understand, and abide by the license below. It seems like a reasonable thing to ask, given the hundreds of hours I've put into amassing and maintaining this dataset. Unfortunately, a few bad apples have violated the license, and when people do that, it makes me considerably less motivated to continue updating. That's one reason why I no longer keep these files completely up-to-date.

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License

Tennis databases, files, and algorithms by Jeff Sackmann / Tennis Abstract is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/JeffSackmann.

In other words: Attribution is required. Non-commercial use only.