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Gstaad’s clearest statistical standouts
Across all 62 matches, the field average was 39.07% hitting efficiency, 0.84 aces, 1.65 blocks and 8.64 digs per set. The strongest outliers were Åhman/Hellvig in attack, Vercauteren/Van Langendonck from the service line, Rotar/Gauthier-Rat at the net and Crabb/Benesh in defense. Set-level statistics cover all 150 sets, though several standout samples are limited to four or five matches.
- Åhman/Hellvig were the tournament’s biggest attacking outliersTheir 53.72% hitting efficiency was 14.65 percentage points above the 39.07% tournament average. The figure came across 4 matches and 9 sets, a smaller sample than the eight-match leaders; Waller/Pristauz also stood out among deeper-run teams at 48.08% over 8 matches.
- Vercauteren/Van Langendonck led the serving fieldThey averaged 1.78 aces per set, 0.94 above the 0.84 tournament average. That is a strong separation, recorded across 4 matches and 9 sets. Among teams with 7–8 matches, Boermans/Brouwer led the supplied field at 1.22 aces per set.
- Rotar/Gauthier-Rat dominated at the netTheir 2.83 blocks per set exceeded the tournament average by 1.18, the largest supplied blocking margin. The rate came over 5 matches and 12 sets; Hölting Nilsson/Andersson, E also posted a high 2.40 across 5 matches.
- Crabb/Benesh set the defensive paceTheir 11.67 digs per set were 3.03 above the 8.64 field average, a notable defensive gap across 4 matches and 9 sets. In the longer top-team sample, Crabb Tr./Budinger averaged 10.74 digs per set over 8 matches.
- More digging was associated with slightly lower opponent hittingThe supplied correlation between digs per set and opponent hitting efficiency was negative at -0.19 across 124 observations. This is a weak descriptive relationship, not evidence of causation, and it does not establish that digging produced the lower opponent efficiency.
