Hawk-Eye is a complex computer system designed to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a record of its most statistically likely path as a moving image. Its usage is famous mainly due to its implementation in Tennis matches. This system implemented by the company ‘Hawk-Eye Innovations Ltd’ is also used in Cricket…
Tennis Rankings – The ITF Juniors Ranking
To keep it simple, there are four major world rankings in what tennis is concern. One for junior players – the Juniors ITF rankings, two for professional players, the currently called the South African Airways ATP Rankings for men and the WTA Rankings for women and the fourth one for senior players – the Senior…
ATP World Tour Finals 2012 Schedule
The ATP World Tour Finals of the 2012 season will be held at the O2 Arena in London from November the 5th until November the 12th. At this time, only half of the eight top players have already assured its place: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal – the four top ranking players in the ATP…
Tennis Rankings – The ATP Rankings and scoring ranking points in the Olympics and in the Davis Cup
Professional players have almost twin world rankings, one for men – the ATP Rankings – and another for women – the WTA Rankings. Both ATP and WTA computes rankings for single and doubles. There is not a perfect scoring equivalence since there are differences in the tournament structure for men and women and even when…
Frederico Silva Wins 2012 Junior US Open Doubles Final – First Grand Slam with Portuguese flavor
For the first time a Portuguese tennis player won a tennis Grand Slam event. More specifically Frederico Silva (a.k.a. Kiko Silva, Portuguese) and Kyle Edmund (United Kingdom) won the US Open Junior Doubles Final played against the Australian double composed by Jordan Thompson and Nick Kyrgios. The game was won in three sets with the partials of…