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PointTracker

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PointTracker, created by IBM, is an application featured in Grand Slam tennis tournaments that presents an animated 3D view of each shot played in a singles match.

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A menu to the right of the application displays all points played and allows users to select a point to view from each set. Points may also be grouped according to forehand winners, backhand winners, forehand unforced errors, backhand unforced errors, aces and challenged points.

Viewing angles

Each point can be viewed from a number of preset angles.

  • Default:
  • Overhead:
  • Umpire:
  • Net:
  • From the view of the players:
  • As well as these fixed angles, the viewing angle can be freely rotated by the user.

    Serve, Return and Winner speed

    For each point, the service speed, return of service speed and the winner speed are displayed, if applicable, as a particular point progresses.

    References

    PointTracker Wikipedia