#WOW2026 | Week 30 | Can you build a ladder chart?

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Introduction

For this week’s challenge, I’m asking you to build a viz I put together that visualises the the tennis career of the current men’s world #1 and 2026 Wimbledon champion, Jannik Sinner.

There’s a fair amount going on, so I appreciate this may take a while to completely replicate. If time is short, the key deliverable for this challenge is the central “ladder chart” that depicts, per tournament, the furthest round Sinner made it to. 

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Requirements

  • Dashboard 1500 x 800
  • Exclude Round Robin matches (Round = RR)
  • Include ability to filter to Grand Slam tournaments only or all tournaments (Grand Slams are the Tournaments : Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open)
  • Include ability to filter on the Surface the match was played on
  • Level 0 : Ladder Chart
    • Build a ladder chart that depicts per tournament, the latest round that was reached
    • Colour based on the surface
    • Indicate via a ‘star’ the tournaments which he won
    • Display the names of the rounds on the chart
  • Level 1 : Viz in Tooltip
    • On hover on the ladder chart, show the details of the matches played int he whole tournament, listed in descending order with the latest match first.
  • Level 2 : KPIs
    • Build KPIs displaying
      • Number of Tournaments played
      • Number of Matches
      • Number of Wins (the winner of the match is the person listed first in the Match field
      • Number of Titles (ie winner of the final)
      • No of Grand Slam titles
  • Level 3 – Strip Plot
    • Add a strip plot that indicates when Sinner was ranked within the world’s Top 10 for the tournament.
    • Ensure this aligns with the ladder chart when filters are applied
    • Colour based on the ranking (the higher the rank, the darker the colour)
  • Colour/style as you wish

Dataset

The dataset has been curated from https://www.tennisabstract.com/ and is available from here along with the tennis racket image.

Attribute

When you publish your solution on Tableau Public make sure to take the time and include a link to the original inspiration.  Also include the hashtag #WOW2026 in your description to make it searchable!

Share

After you finish your workout, share on Twitter and/or LinkedIn using the hashtag #WOW2026 #Tableau and tag @WorkoutWednsday

Solution

Interactive