ATP to Permit Tennis Gamers to Put on Bodily Knowledge Sensors Throughout Matches

Paris (AFP)

The Affiliation of Tennis Professionals will enable gamers to put on bodily knowledge sensors throughout matches to “analyze efficiency and forestall accidents” on July 15, it introduced.
The affiliation defined in an announcement that the sensors will present gamers with details about bodily measurements reminiscent of coronary heart price and others, which is able to enhance their evaluation of matches and workout routines.
The Affiliation has licensed the “Statsports” and Catapult sensors, and the information can be collected on the “ATB Tennis IQ” platform, which it would launch in 2023, to supply an entire set of statistics to gamers associated to their video games.
The affiliation careworn that the information collected by the sensors will “stay confidential.”
The sensors will begin working the day after the Wimbledon remaining, scheduled for July 1-14, in Hamburg, Newport, Gstaad and Bstadt.