PlaySight, the cloud-based video and analytics platform used by professional teams and athletes for training, has raised $21 million in a Series C funding round that includes investment from SoftBank, the Japanese giant that has been building a diverse portfolio of tech startups. SoftBank, through its $100 billion Vision Fund that it established in 2016 […]
An independent review panel commissioned by tennis’ international governing bodies to investigate match-fixing and gambling-linked corruption revealed its preliminary findings on Wednesday with 12 recommendations, one of which was the partial cessation of a live data rights deal with Sportradar — to which the company offered an immediate rebuttal. The interim report quoted one official deeming […]
Amazon and the U.S. Tennis Association have entered into a five-year deal that gives Amazon Prime Video the exclusive live telecast rights to stream the US Open tennis tournament in the U.K. and Ireland. The deal, which kicks off at the 2018 US Open, includes live and on-demand content, including live match play that’ll be […]
Tennis Channel, a 24-hour multimedia platform devoted to professional tennis and the tennis lifestyle, has partnered with Verizon Digital Media Services to power the Tennis Channel app’s video delivery. “As we grow Tennis Channel’s app, Verizon Digital Media Services lets us deliver the exceptional streaming experiences our users have come to expect,” Tennis Channel’s SVP, […]
When the Intercollegiate Tennis Association serves up its first national tournament of the 2018 season this weekend, a couple of the host schools will take part in a technology initiative implemented to make the game a bit fairer. That technology? PlaySight’s PlayFair system, a video replay assistant that provides players and referees with the ability […]
