{"id":16472,"date":"2015-08-06T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=232381"},"modified":"2015-08-06T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:54:06","slug":"wta-sap-team-on-tennis-analytics-using-hana-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wta-sap-team-on-tennis-analytics-using-hana-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA, SAP team on tennis analytics using HANA cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_232391\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/08\/Womens-Tennis.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/08\/Womens-Tennis-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"SAP and the WTA are partnering to develop a cloud-based analytics service for tennis players and coaches\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAP and the WTA are partnering to develop a cloud-based analytics service for tennis players and coaches<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) and SAP have partnered to develop tennis analytics software for players and coaches based on SAP HANA.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud-based analytics platform will offer players and coaches side-by-side comparisons of the full list of match stats for both players, updated in near real-time;\u00a0scoring data that analyses player\u2019s service performance, success rate in closing out a game while serving and number of break points saved; and tracking data showing player\u2019s serve direction and placement on the court, contact point for returning a serve and placement of rally shots.<\/p>\n<p>The organisations said players and coaches will be able to access the analytics platform from WTA-authorised tablets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WTA and SAP Tennis Analytics is a game-changer that will not only enhance our athletes\u2019 preparation and performance but also the fans\u2019 experiences when watching women\u2019s tennis,\u201d said Stacey Allaster, chief executive and chairman of the WTA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnalyzing data is fundamental to player and coach development, and this state-of-the-art technology, which more and more of our performers are now using, will take our sport to a new and exciting level and lead the way in sports technology,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Quentin Clark, chief technology officer and member of the global managing board, SAP said: \u201cOur relationship with the WTA is another example of how SAP collaborates with partners to create ground-breaking solutions that change the way athletes utilize data and information to optimise their performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SAP has partnered with a number of sports association in recent years. Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2015\/02\/24\/nhl-taps-sap-for-cloud-powered-stats\/\">it partnered with the National Hockey League (NHL)<\/a> to roll out a co-designed cloud-based platform which the two organisations said would help bring vast amounts of official NHL statistical information directly to the website in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women&rsquo;s Tennis Association (WTA) and SAP have partnered to develop tennis analytics software for players and coaches based on SAP HANA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,2455,1976,3168,308,3169,3170,3171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-hana","category-news-analysis","category-quentin-clark","category-sap","category-stacey-allaster","category-tennis","category-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16473,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions\/16473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}