Myths in tennis

Statistical Thinking in Sports

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 217-240

  Magnus, Jan R ^a   Klaassen, Franc ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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