Artificial Intelligence plays a crucial role in the sports industry. Athletes have become top users of connected and intelligent objects. AI technology has quickly become more accessible and of higher quality. The prime purpose of the software is to measure, gather, and analyze performances.
Tennis is a sport with a long history, and no one could have predicted a few decades ago that tennis data would be gathered and studied by computers.
Birdie Lynch is one such athlete who has modernized with the times. She has been playing tennis since she was 14. The star tennis player uses a range of apps and techniques like a smartphone-based video system called SwingVision. This technology helps break down her performance with minute details such as tennis forehead errors, hits, how the player is serving, smashing, backhand, etc.
In a conversation with her, BBC mentioned how technology involved with the game helps her correct mistakes she made. Even for professional matches, coaches now use the help of artificial intelligence. The software is trained in a way that it can spot data that a human being would never be able to see.
With the help of AI, it has become easier for the media to cover tournaments. AI software hardly takes time to edit video content, whereas a multimedia team would take hours.