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Stanford's Samir Banerjee builds tennis statistics algorithm

Banerjee enrolled at the university with the goal of pursuing a professional tennis career while taking full advantage of its academic and campus opportunities.

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Stanford University has celebrated Indian origin tennis player Samir Banerjee after he graduated this month with a degree in science, technology, and society, highlighting a final academic project that analyzed years of tennis serving data to identify the sport's most successful servers across different playing surfaces.

For his final project in Stats 100: Mathematics of Sports, Banerjee developed an algorithm that examined serving data collected over several years. The project analyzed performance across multiple court surfaces to determine which players were most successful, drawing on statistical patterns in one of tennis' most critical aspects of play.

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