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John James vs Syd Ball Head to Head Tennis Stats and Match Analysis

John James seasons:19821981198019791978
Syd Ball seasons:19821981198019791978
🇦🇺 John James
🇦🇺 Syd Ball
Age: 75y 12d (1951-03-07)
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
(1950-01-24) Age: 76y 54d
Hand: R
Backhand: nan
2 - 2
Wins: 50.0% - 50.0%
Hard 0–0Clay 0–0Grass 2–2
Slam 10Others 12
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🇦🇺John James and 🇦🇺Syd Ball have met 4 times. The series is tied 22.

Looking at their individual career profiles, 🇦🇺John James has compiled an overall career record of 95145 across 240 matches, translating to a win rate of 39.58%. On hard courts his record stands at 1831 (36.73%), while on clay he holds a 2549 (33.78%) mark. On grass the numbers read 4447 (48.35%) , and on carpet 818 (30.77%). Against Top 10 opponents his record reads 118 (5.26%).

🇦🇺Syd Ball, on the other hand, enters this matchup with a career mark of 124181 from 305 matches (40.66% win rate). His hard-court record is 1637 (30.19%), on clay he stands at 1334 (27.66%), and on grass he has gone 7780 (49.04%) , with a carpet record of 1830 (37.50%). Against Top 10 opponents his record stands at 012 (0.00%).

When it comes to their head-to-head meetings, the surface breakdown reveals this contrast. On grass, their 4 encounters have yielded a record of 22 (50.00% each).

Date
Tourney
Surface
Round
Wrk
Winner
Lrk
Loser
Score
BoF
Min
WA
WDF
W1stIn
W1st%
W2nd%
BPSvd
1979-10-08BrisbaneGrassR32142🇦🇺John James297🇦🇺Syd Ball6-2 6-23------0/0
1975-12-15Sydney-2GrassR32118🇦🇺Syd Ball150🇦🇺John James4-6 6-3 8-63------0/0
1974-12-16Sydney-3GrassR16109🇦🇺Syd Ball272🇦🇺John James6-0 6-7 6-23------0/0
1971-12-27Australian OpenGrassR64-🇦🇺John James-🇦🇺Syd Ball6-3 5-7 7-5 7-55------0/0

Wins

John James
Syd Ball
22Overall
10Grand Slam
12Others
22Grass

Sets Format

33.3%1
66.7%2
Bo3
100.0%1
0.0%0
Bo5
100.0%1
0.0%0
2 Sets
0.0%0
100.0%2
3 Sets
100.0%1
0.0%0
4 Sets
0.0%0
0.0%0
5 Sets
John James
Syd Ball

Deciding

0.0%0
100.0%2
Decider Set
0.0%0
100.0%1
Tiebreak Wins
0.0%0
0.0%0
After 3 hours
John James
Syd Ball

Sets

58.3%7
41.7%5
All
75.0%3
25.0%1
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
58.3%7
41.7%5
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
John James
Syd Ball

Games

50.4%61
49.6%60
All
55.6%25
44.4%20
Grand Slam
0.0%0
0.0%0
Masters 1000
0.0%0
0.0%0
Hard
50.4%61
49.6%60
Grass
0.0%0
0.0%0
Clay
0.0%0
0.0%0
Carpet
John James
Syd Ball

Overview

By Surface

John James
Syd Ball

By Tournament Level

John James
Syd Ball

By Round

John James
Syd Ball

By Opponent Ranking

John JamesSyd Ball
0%0-1
vs Top 1
0%0-1
10%1-9
vs Top 5
0%0-4
5.3%1-18
vs Top 10
0%0-12
5.9%2-32
vs Top 20
10.3%3-26
22.7%29-99
vs Top 100
17.2%21-101
61.4%51-32
vs +100
61.2%52-33
27%40-108
vs Higher
17.9%24-110
63.9%39-22
vs Lower
67.1%49-24

Opponent Breakdown

John JamesSyd Ball
41.3%64-91
Vs Younger
38.8%52-82
31.1%23-51
Vs Older
29.5%41-98
41.2%80-114
Vs Right-Handed
35.9%90-161
26.2%11-31
Vs Left-Handed
35.7%10-18
25%1-3
Vs 2H Backhand
0%0-3
26.7%4-11
Vs 1H Backhand
16.7%2-10
34.3%24-46
Vs Shorter
20.2%21-83
44.6%29-36
Vs Taller
23.8%5-16

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