This is a guest post written by Bob Hilborn, the Manager and Head Tennis Pro at Scarborough East Tennis Club, explaining his experience with the hi-tech PlaySight tennis courts. Have you noticed the in-depth technology that takes place during a professional tennis match on television? From determining whether or not a ball is “in” or “out” […]
At the Manhattan Plaza Racquet Club last week, PIQ and Babolat held an exclusive event to unveil a new product – a wrist sensor that tracks everything about a tennis player’s game. The accessory, named POP, was created with one goal in mind: to get people to have more fun while playing tennis, leading to […]
With wearables becoming extremely popular for sports enthusiasts, we are beginning to see companies hone in on niche markets and provide products very specific to different sports. Well-known French tennis brand, Babolat, has teamed up with Swiss based software company PIQ to generate a wearable specific to tennis. The Babolat POP is a device compatible […]
In an era many would not have predicted, watches, of all things are becoming increasingly capable of things that only scientists in a lab could do 10 years ago. New smartwatches and their apps are now able to improve physical performance and track progress through a range of apps run by different sport and tech […]
QLIPP, a new tennis performance sensor created by the Singapore based company, 9 Degrees Freedom, went live today on Indiegogo. The crowdfunding campaign is reported to have a funding goal of 30,000 dollars. Founded in 2012, 9 Degrees Freedom will use this campaign to finish the development of QLIPP its free mobile app that is compatible with both IOS and Android […]
