Visitors to Madrid this weekend have another attraction to consider. Telefonica, the Spanish telecommunications company, has partnered with its subsidiary Movistar to present the Nadal Challenge. The experience, which will go on tour after it leaves Madrid on Tuesday, includes a virtual reality game in which users can play against Rafael Nadal. The game uses […]
Many tennis players use a tennis dampener, a cheap piece of silicone that reduces the vibration of the strings and makes a smoother sound on contact with the ball. The dampener created by Courtmatics does a lot more. By placing a microcomputer complete with inertial sensors, internal memory and Bluetooth inside a typical dampener, the […]
Virtual reality sports games today put you right on the field where you can visualize yourself swinging a tennis racket or hitting a ball with a bat with a generic controller. Imagine, though, perceiving an actual racket in your hands while you prepare to serve up an ace. Nawafuji, the operating name of Japanese engineer […]
Amazon has secured live and on-demand distribution rights to stream ATP World Tour events in the U.K. and Ireland for five years starting in 2019. Amazon Prime subscribers will have access to 37 ATP World Tour events on Prime Video from 2019 to 2023, including all ATP World Tour Masters 1000s, 12 of each of […]
For most journalists, one of the most frustrating things is when you miss a moment of the match or game you are covering, and you are left with a hole in your knowledge of what happened. SAP and the Women’s Tennis Association are trying to eliminate that problem with a new online portal, SAP Tennis […]
