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#90 Power BI dashboard Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam tournament finals in whole career (2001-2024)

Recently Rafael Nadal, one of the GOATs of tennis, announced that he will retire (at age 38).
His last tournament will be the Davis Cup in Nov.2024 in Malaga (Spain).

In 2014, I made an infographic (in MS Excel) about Nadal's win/loss records, see this blog-post.
And now, 10 years later, at the end of Nadal's career, I made a dashboard with MS Power BI, with the result of all Nadal's Grand Slam finals (#30) in his 23 years-career (2001-2024), finals that he played between 2005 (when he won his 1st Grand Slam tournament, at age 19) and 2022.

NB: The embedded version of this Power BI dashboard, you can find at the bottom of this post.

The dashboard is interactive, e.g. you can filter on all Nadal's Grand Slam wins (22):

Or you can 'drill-through' from a chart in the dashboard to the table with the underlying details, e.g. in chart "Finals by Tournament and Result", for tournament = 'French Open' :

And this is the complete table, so with all Nadal's Grand Slam finals:

NB: I tried to make this table look like the datasource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Nadal
so e.g. with conditional formatting on the result-column.

I used Power BI's webscraping feature ("Get Data > Web") to load the data from this Wikipedia source into Power BI.

I added some bookmarks in the dashboard to facilitate 'data storytelling', and I made a video of this data-story, see:

https://youtu.be/sy1yfUkRy90

Here some facts that this dashboard/video shows:

(Page 1 of dashboard)

*FACT 1: Grand Slam finals played by Nadal: 30, wins: 22, losses: 8

*FACT 2: Nadal played 9 finals against Roger Federer. And the other opponent he met often (also 9x) in a final was Novak Djokovic (who has 24 Grand Slam titles until now, so 2 more than Nadal).
Here the chart with the win/loss details of Nadals finals against these other 2 tennis-GOATs, in Spotlight-mode:

*FACT 3: Nadal played and won 14 finals of the French Open (Roland Garros), which is played on clay, his favorite surface. No other winner of the French Open comes close to this. Bjorn Borg is 2nd in the Roland Garros-winners ranking, with 6 wins, as this chart generated by ChatGPT shows:

NB: this is the Python-code of ChatGPT's analysis:

And ChatGPT gave also this other fact about Nadal's 14 Roland Garros wins:

*FACT 4: 2010 was Nadal's best Grand Slam year: he played 3 finals (French Open, US Open and Wimbledon), and won all 3.
NB: I added a (special) custom tooltip to chart "Finals by Year and Result", so that you can see more details of these finals:

(Page 2 of dashboard)

*FACT 5: Of the 14 finals of the French Open that Nadal played, most were against Federer: 4 finals

*FACT 6: Nadal played against Djokovic in the finals of all 4 Grand Slam tournaments, in total 9 finals (wins: 5, losses: 4):
-French Open, wins: 3
-US Open, wins: 2, losses: 1
-Australian Open: losses: 2
-Wimbledon: losses: 1

*FACT 7: Nadal won all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in his career. He reached this 'career Grand Slam' in 2010:

*FACT 8: What is maybe not so easy to see in my Power BI dashboard about Nadal, is the fact that there were 3 years that Nadal did not play any Grand Slam final: in 2015 and 2016 (after having played in the previous 14 years at least 1 Grand Slam final each year) and in 2021. I made another dashboard where I enriched the data from the original Wikipedia-datasource with these 3 years:

NB: This post explains more about the reason why in 2015-2016 Nadal had a weak period:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tennis/comments/twiyqf/
nadals_weakest_years_20152016_and_the_reason_for/?rdt=60942

But Nadal came back, and won again 4 years in a row: in 2017-2020 6 Grand Slams and 2 more in 2022.

When I saw that ChatGPT could make the Roland Garros winners chart (see FACT 3 above), I was wondering if it could also create a dashboard with multiple charts:

But Power BI can auto-generate a report/dashboard (using built-in AI), and here you can see the result for my Nadal-dataset, where I marked with green the charts that I think are useful (and with red those charts that are not).

So I think this proves that AI can't replace a (human) data-analyst. I also asked ChatGPT about this:

I wanted to see how good Power BI's AI feature 'autocreate report' was, but I was disappointed, it looks to take some random permutations of the different attributes to slice the measure, I guess because it doesn't know about the underlying concepts, as a human does, is this true?

And here's GPT's answer:

And I also liked GPT's alternative response, which includes this:

I used GPT also for a review of my Power BI dashboard, for which I made a screenshot of the dashboard and attached this file in my prompt ('please review my dashboard, see attached file'):

Even though Nadal will stop with tennis soon, the future of Spanish tennis looks bright with Carlos Alcaraz, who already won 4 Grand Slams at the age of 21, and of which Nadal said: "he's going to be one of the best in history" (see this post).
I asked GPT to plot a chart with Nadal's and Alcaraz's number of Grand Slams per age, here the result (after some iterations/mistakes by GPT):

I hope that Nadal will play in the Davis Cup and that he's in a good shape (no injuries..), and it would be very nice if Nadal and Alcaraz would play together in the double.

Adios Rafa, 'King of Clay', 'Icon of Perseverance' , 'Raging Bull' / 'Torro Furioso' / 'Torro Bravio'

source:
https://pixabay.com/es/photos/rafael-nadal-288554/
by:
https://pixabay.com/es/users/Moerschy-127417/

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References

Nadal

Marca.com - Rafael Nadal announces his retirement... the end of an era

BBC - 'King of Clay' Nadal's career in numbers

https://olympics.com/es/noticias/retirada-rafael-nadal-todas-las-estadisticas-y-titulos

www.statista.com - Rafa's Road to 22

https://community.jmp.com/t5/Abstracts/Who-is-the-GOAT-of-Men-s-Tennis-Tennis-Data-Analysis-and/ev-p/738890?utm_source=pocket_reader

MS Power BI Data Stories Gallery - Tennis Analytics - How Rafael Nadal won his 21st Gran Slam title at the Australian Open final

Nadal's career in 21 sec.

Rafael Nadal - All 22 Grand Slam Wins | Championship Points

Rafael Nadal's Most ICONIC ATP Career Moments