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Abstract:
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Home advantage is a pervasive phenomena in sport. It has been well-established in team sports as basketball, baseball, and American football in the US, and soccer in Europe. Less attention has been given to home advantage in individual sports. In this paper we examine the existence of home advantage in professional tennis. We use match-level data to measure home advantage. Our test is based on logit-models, and consistent specification is addressed explicitly. Depending on the interpretation of home advantage, restrictions on the specification of the model need to be imposed. We find that significant home advantage exists for men, but such an advantage cannot be found for women.
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