Wednesday, May 8, 2019 – A roundup of some of the key sports technology stories you need to know, including SportTechie’s own content and stories from around the web. FIFA...
Few sports require as many pivots, direction changes, and accelerations as tennis—a training workload the USTA is now tracking using an innovative orthotic made by Plantiga. The tennis governing body...
At a meeting last year with staffers from IBM and the U.S. Tennis Association, former world No. 1 player Ivan Lendl recounted an insight he had gleaned from scouting Novak...
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 […]
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 […]
