how to chart a tennis match?

Answer 1

There are actually several ways to chart a tennis match. The first way is most common in the juniors and at the highschool level. This is where you simply have boxes for forehand, backhand, fore hand volley, backhand volley, overheads, 1st serves, 2nd serves, serve return forehand, serve return backhand etc. You have two areas in each box, one for errors and one for winners. At the college level you also chart the score for each point played, along with serve location, and a notation about how the error was committed. SS for shot selection, sometimes HB for high backhand, LB low backhand, FW for footwork, etc. The more detailed your notes and abbreviations the more you can read back the match. I have also seen abbreviations for the type of shot that forced the error. Like TBXHB, Thats a Topspin backhand Crosscourt to a High backhand error. Some coaches want to know if it is a running error or a stationary error, in which case that same error running would be written TBX--HB, the double dash means running. There are several other notations that also go along with this, but hopefully this gives you a good start as to how a match is charted.

Answer 2

Scoring: short 'n simple.
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