How to work with Tennis-Expert Software

Use login and password "admin" for the first authorisation. After that you can change (add/delete) login and password (Administration/Users, press button "Add", enter desired login and password, press "Save").

Please, change the first authorisation's password, because it's too simple.

Now your program is in safety, as well as all your links and notes.

But be careful, don't forget your login and password.

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It contains comparative statistics of 2 players (teams). You will see their profiles (height, weight, age, country, short description of play style and latest information about them), their matches on different surfaces, head-to-head matches, graphics of general and surface ratings, specialisation, quality of winnings and losses coefficients, psychological confidence and other information, including even calculation of optimum weight, last retirements and withdrawals with reasons.

You also will see detailed statistics for each accessible match (1st Serve %, Aces, Double Faults, Unforced Errors, Winning % on 1st Serve, Winning % on 2nd Serve, Winners (Including Service), Receiving Points Won, Break Point Conversions, Net Approaches, Total Points Won, Fastest Serve, Average 1st Serve Speed, Average 2nd Serve Speed and so on), general and surfaces technical parameters of game-style of every player/team.

Take a look at the top of main window.


In the right top corner (1) choose player type (man, woman, man doubles, women doubles, mixed). Choose the type of surface (2) (now or later). In lists (3,4) write some surname letters of first (3) and second (4) tennis player, then choose them in the lists. You'll have comparative statistics of 2 players (teams).

Red profile information (5) means that tennis player weight lesser or most than ideal on 6 kilograms (IMT).

Grey colour of some match means, that this match has been won (6), white (7) - lost.
Red colour (8) means that player was retired.
Yellow colour (9) means, that there is detailed statistics of this match (click twice to see). Also see Window "Game Statistics".

To see some comments to the match, players interviews before and after the match, reasons for retirement, tournament name, round and prize fund and so on (12) point the mouse on match. Letter c in hints means, that this is challenger tournament.

Next you'll see rounds success indexes (10,10a) and head to head meetings (11).

White colour in head to head window means a loss of first player, Safin, in our case.

Take a look at the middle of main window.


In (1) and (2) accordingly you can see general and surfaces ratings, specialisation, number of all matches, % won, current and maximum place in our rating, coefficients of winnings and losses quality.

Here is an interpretation of different combinations of these coefficients:

Investigation of this coefficients and % of won games give us a possibility to value some player appearances objectively.

Examples:

Wins Q > 1, Losses Q < 1
A Player stably fights hard. Player's wins come from stronger opponents. Losses are logical (to stronger players). If attached to this % of won games > 50 %, that is a player with good prospects.

Wins Q > 1, Losses Q > 1
Player's game is completely instable. Systematic victories over stronger opponents mix up with stable losses to weaker players. This is a great work for sport psychologist.

Wins Q < 1, Losses Q > 1, % of won games > 80 %
A Player has a lot of wins, but all of these victories are over relatively weak opponents. In this case one can be recommended to play tournaments with higher level.

You should take into account player's rating.
The higher a place the less will be Wins Q and the more will be Losses Q. For N1, when each player is relatively weaker, Wins Q < 1 and Losses Q > 1. Percent of wins for leaders must be more than 75 %.

Then you can see last retirements and withdrawals (3), graphs of long-term (last 3 years) and short-term (last 3 months) general rating and surface rating.

And, finally, button "Prognosis" - you'll see program prediction for current match on selected surface.

Import/Man or button "Import".

First of all choose the format of results - man, woman (1). Next click on button (2) to select a file with results of some week and press button "Convert" (3).

General tournament (s) import motion will be shown in (11).

Take a look at the window "Tournaments Import "

Cells "Tournament" (4), "Title" (5), "Date" (6), "Surface" (8) will be filling automatically, however you can edit them by hand.
You can add "Description" (7) to the tournament.
Red colour means that this player still is not in data base (a new one or misspell in name).
Yellow colour underlining (9) means that a match was not ended due to retirements or withdrawals.
Than you must save the tournament (10) (blocked in demo-version) and let a program to recalculate ratings by clicking "Yes".

But we'll be converting some tournaments (for one week) ad once. Convert them all. You will see them in list "Tournament" (5).

Beware, you need to select each tournament from the first to the last one by turn and save. Don't save in other turn.

There are some nuances here. Typical cases.

1 case: all tournaments ended in one week - save first tournament and for time economy don't let a program to recalculate ratings by clicking "No". Click "Yes" only after saving the last tournament.

2 case: sometimes I'll be sending you 2 files with different dates. Firstly you should convert the older one. Example: Wimbledon (23.06.2003-06.07.2003) and challengers (30.06.2003-06.07.2003). You must firstly save and calculate Wimbledon and then challengers.

Import/Players and Import/Matchfacts. We'll be sending you text files with matchfacts and players/tournaments notes separately. Copy them into some folders. Then select a suitable converter and file, press button "Convert" and save.

Button "All players".
You can edit a profile of some player (team), add notes, see his friends (team-mates), search a player for some parameters.

1. Editing a profile.
Example, Agassi changed citizenship.
In the field "Surname" (1) enter Agassi (or some letters - agas), press button "Search" (4). You'll see all tennis players (teams) with a searching phrase in surname. Choose Agassi (5), press button "Edit" (6), in the field "Country" (7) instead of USA enter UKR. Press button "Save" (14).
You can enter some notes about player into a field (13). You can also change height (10), weight (11), hand (12) and birthday (9).

2. Search a player for some parameters.
For example, lets find a player from Ukraine with "te" in surname. For this into "Surname" (1) field enter te and into "Country" (2) field enter UKR. Press button "Search" (4).

When you convert a tournament with new players (teams), they will be automatically added into data base, but with practically empty profiles.

This window can appear in two cases:

1 case
After saving a tournament the window appears automatically for recalculation of players ratings. In this case you should only wait for the end of this operation - "Operation was completed" (1). Then click "Exit".



2 case
Button "Rating" or Games/Rating.
You will be able to look through Excel-reports:
a) about players places separately for every rating - in the list "Rating type" (2) select rating, in the list "Category" (3) - man, woman,..., take on two checkers on date (4) and on "Open Excel-file" (5) as this shown on the Figure and press button "Show" (6).

b) about all ratings ad once - in the list "Category" select man, woman,...,take on two checkers on date (4) and on "Open Excel-file" (5) as this shown on the Figure and press button "Show all" (7).

c) about general players rating, including a rating for each surface separately - in the list "Category" select man, woman,..., take on two checkers on date (4) and on "Open Excel-file" (5) as this shown on the Figure and press button "Places" (8).

Look out, don't forget to take on two checkers. Otherwise a program will count a rating/s from the very first tournament. See Download@install.

If you by some mistakes do not take on two checkers, or exit a program during ratings recalculation you must recalculate the rating, you have some problems with from the very beginning.

But if you exit during converting a tournament/s then simply convert once more.

Games/Man (Doubles (man)) or double click on the match with yellow mark.


Speck by (1) marks a player, which won. The result (4) can be edited. In some cases (retirements, withdrawals, def.) we'll be ignoring the match in ratings calculation automatically. If You know, that some match is under some questions, you can also check off it (3) and not account in ratings.
You can write some comments to this match (5).

Detailed statistic on each accessible match (not for all tournaments) will be sending to you in simple text file. You must just save it by one mouse click.

However, you can enter it by hand, separately for first and for second player accordingly into columns (6). You should double click (separately) on some cell (or one click and "Enter"), enter index for first player, press "Enter" twice for entering index for second player.

Don't forget to save all your changes.

Into 2 extreme right columns (7) program generates the general average indexes for first and second player. For some indexes we count averages for sets, not general (as there are 2-sets and 5-sets matches).

See also "Technical indexes", where you can add up some new technical indexes.

Sites/Site's administration. You can add your sites for fast entering. And nobody knows them, because only you have the password. To add a new site - press "Add", choose "Category" and enter (copy) site's address and some description for it. To add (delete) a new site's category ("Personal", for example) - press "References", choose "Site's categories", add "Personal" and press "Save". You should exit and enter the program again in order that category appeared in the list.

Administration/Registered ratings. You can set up proportion, on the base of which a program will count a general rating. To our mind the second rating is the best, further goes Sparks rating and rating one. We set up 0.2 for rating 1, 0.5 for rating 2 and 0.3 for rating Sparks by default. You can change this proportion. We'll be monitoring the program effectiveness. Later we may recommend you some better proportion.

Administration/Tournaments or button "Tournaments".


You can edit information about tournaments, add some notes, select the tournament as "Important" (see also Window "Colours"), search a tournament for some parameters.

Press "Search" (4) to see all tournaments.

To find the tournament/s with "lian" in the tournament name from 2000 to 2002 on hard - in the field "Title" (1) enter lian, in the date fields (2) choose 1/1/2000 and 1/1/2002, in the "Surface" list (3) choose "Hard" and press button "Search" (4).

To edit information about tournament - press button "Edit" (11), correct name (5), prize fund (6), date (7), surface (8), description (10), take on/off a checker (9) for painting the tournament in the desired colour (see also Window "Colours") and save (12).

Administration/Colour. You can changed the colours of rounds, surfaces, important tournaments (we use it for Grand slams). We may recommend you to use one coloured gamma for qualification rounds, and the other for a main part of tournament. Don't forget to save your changes.

Administration/Rounds. You can add/delete/edit rounds there and set up their order. Example. We must add a new round "Superfinal" and place it as the most important.
Press button "Add", type "Superfinal", click on "Insert above selected", select the round "Final" (in our case) and press button "Save".

Administration/Technical indexes). You can add/delete/edit technical indexes and set up how to count them (by sets or not). Example. We must add a new index "Points, won by backhand".
Press button "Add", in the "Name" field enter "Points, won by backhand", click on "By sets" and press button "Save". Why we use "By sets"? Because there are different match formats.

Administration/Factors. You can set up the default proportion for factors there. Select some factor, press button "Edit", enter a number from 0 to 1, press button "Save".

Beware, the sum of all factors must be 1.