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Minimax Play at Wimbledon

2001; American Economic Association; Volume: 91; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1257/aer.91.5.1521

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Mark Walker, John Wooders,

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

We use data from classic professional tennis matches to provide an empirical test of the theory of mixed strategy equilibrium. We Þnd that the serve-andreturn play of John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras and others is consistent with equilibrium play. The same statistical tests soundly reject the assumption of equilibrium play in experimental data, including the data from Barry O’Neill’s celebrated experiment.