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MrCeeJ United Kingdom57 Posts March 15 2011 14:32 GMT #101 Looking at the stats for last year on Federer (http://www.atpworldtour.com/Tennis/Players/Top-Players/Roger-Federer.aspx?t=mf) we have 89% of service games won, and 30% of return games won. Assuming they serve roughly as often as they return (since it alternates) we have an average win% of 59.5%, which tallies up with the OP. As many have commented above the nature of what constitutes a win in tennis vs SC2 makes up for a lot of the differences, and as in almost all sufficiently deep competitions the differences at the top are so small that to eek out even a small advantage will put someone 'way out in front' even if their win ratios are never in the 80 or 90% range.

Taylor Hall Canada44 Posts March 16 2011 00:55 GMT #102 http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fetchKey=20112ALLAASAll&sort=faceOffWinPctg&viewName=faceOffPercentage look at NHL face-off win %s same thing pro vs pro the best person is 63.3% 30th is 52.6%, 53rd is 50% and 79th is 45.9%(of course they took out the players that have a few small sample size)

woofwoof Canada63 Posts March 16 2011 02:06 GMT #103 the skill ceiling in tennis is a lot higher then SC hate to break it to you nerds

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