{"id":38636,"date":"2021-07-04T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=38636"},"modified":"2021-07-04T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T01:20:07","slug":"novak-djokovic-not-favorite-wimbledon-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2021\/07\/04\/novak-djokovic-not-favorite-wimbledon-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic Not a Big Favorite, According to Wimbledon Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wait, what? Novak Djokovic only has a 57% chance to win his 4th round match at Wimbledon against Cristian Garin<\/a>, if the tournament\u2019s website is to be believed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth a double-take.<\/p>\n

The reigning World #1<\/a>, a 19-time Grand Slam winner and defending champion at Wimbledon faces the Chilean, a clay-court specialist ranked 20 in the world<\/a>, who has never played on Centre Court. Yet the \u201cPre-Match Insights<\/a>\u201d section of the Wimbledon website, branded \u201cWatson\u201d by data provider IBM, gives Garin a whopping 43% chance to beat Djokovic.<\/p>\n

Before you\u2019re tempted to give the underdog Garin that kind of credence with your wallet, just know that the betting markets disagree with Watson. For example, one online oddsmaker gives Djokovic a 97% chance to win the match<\/a>. That seems more like it.<\/p>\n

Wimbledon’s Pre-Match Insights<\/h3>\n

How does IBM come up with the 57 percent? According to a press-release, these odds are intended to \u201cenhance\u201d the \u201cfan experience\u201d and are generated through AI (artificial intelligence).\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to IBM<\/a>, \u201cThe AI-generated content will surface player insights to better inform fans with current player performance detail ahead of each match. It will present the IBM Power Rankings and it will generate a likelihood to win prior to the match beginning, anticipating the outcome before the first serve is even struck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compared to the close odds of the Djokovic-Garin match, IBM’s algorithm gives Andrey Rublev a greater chance of beating Marton Fucsovics (59% to 41%) and thinks Matteo Berrettini is a much safer bet against Ilya Ivashka (65% to 35%).<\/p>\n

Supporters of Novak Djokovic have long said<\/a> the man considered by many to be the greatest tennis player<\/a> of all-time does not get enough respect<\/a>. Now they can add Watson to their persona non grata<\/em> list. If only he were a person.<\/p>\n

Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wait, what? Novak Djokovic only has a 57% chance to win his 4th round match at Wimbledon against Cristian Garin, if the tournament\u2019s website is to be believed. It\u2019s worth a double-take. The reigning World #1, a 19-time Grand Slam winner and defending champion at Wimbledon faces the Chilean, a clay-court specialist ranked 20 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2038,"featured_media":38588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,2],"tags":[511,6587,7213,3692,1694,22,11560],"class_list":["post-38636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wimbledon","category-atp","category-featured","tag-andrey-rublev","tag-cristian-garin","tag-ilya-ivashka","tag-marton-fucsovics","tag-matteo-berrettini","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-wimbledon-2021"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}