richardloof / 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, height (cm).

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.

Most of the columns in the results files are self-explanatory. I've also included a matches_data_dictionary.txt file to spell things out a bit more.

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.

Doubles

I've added tour-level doubles back to 2000. Filenames follow the convention atp_matches_doubles_yyyy.csv. I may eventually be able to add tour-level doubles from before 2000, as well as lower-level doubles for some years. Most of the columns are the same, though in a different order.

Doubles updates are temporarily suspended as of late 2020.

Contributing

If you find a bug, please file an issue, and be as specific as possible.

Feel free to correct bugs or fill in missing data via pull requests, but be aware that I will not merge PRs. But if that's the most convenient way for you to submit improvements to the data, that's fine; I can work with that.

If you'd like to contribute to the project, I post "help wanted" issues, starting with a plea to fill in biographical data such as date of birth.

Also, I encourage everyone to pitch in to the Match Charting Project by charting pro matches. It's not a direct contribution to this repo, but it is a great way to improve the existing state of tennis data.

Attention

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.

Also, if you're using this for academic/research purposes (great!), take a minute and cite it properly. It's not that hard, it helps others find a useful resource, and let's face it, you should be doing it anyway.

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.