Serena Williams’s Professional Matches, Ages 14 to 40

This repository contains code in R to replicate the following graphic:

Source

• Title: Serena Williams Dominated Her Generation, Then the Next One, Too

• Author(s): Sara Ziegler and Leo Dominguez

• Date: Aug 28, 2022

• From: New York Times

• URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/28/sports/tennis/serena-age-opponents.html

• PDF: Serena-Williams-Dominated-Her-Generation-NYT.pdf

Data

The source of the data is Tennis Abstract: https://www.tennisabstract.com.

Serena Williams’s information is in the so-called classic player page available in the following webpage:

https://www.tennisabstract.com/cgi-bin/wplayer-classic.cgi?p=SerenaWilliams

Specifically, the data of interest is in a javascript file (SerenaWilliamsCareer.js) located in the following URL:

https://www.tennisabstract.com/jsmatches/SerenaWilliamsCareer.js

A copy of the javascript file is in the data/ folder of this repository.