AI has made its mark in almost every field around us, and sports is no different. The involvement of AI in sports is here to increase the thrill associated with both players and fans. Even for aspiring trainees, it is going to be of great advantage.

In a recent breakthrough, the IT giant Infosys has improved the experience of the game of tennis by amalgamating AI in sports. The company is using it's AI-based analytics and has become the official digital innovation partner for Australian Open 2021.

Tennis is a brilliant game of swiftness and agility that has a huge fan following, and hence many love to learn and understand the game thoroughly.

Australian Open witnesses close to thousands of points played every day. And for trainees, aspiring players, coaches, and fans, some moments are highly critical. They mean so much more to them, and not all of them mean the same. Hence they need to be specifically highlighted. Few points are breakthrough, and hence they help the parties involved in the game in recognizing the patterns, strengths, and weaknesses.

Coaches and players usually spend hours and hours watching the footage to analyze the game. The year 2020 kept many of us deprived of being outdoors, which has affected our players and sportsmen. There has been a lack of training on the ground and less of real practical coaching too. This is exactly where AI provides its assistance.

Infosys has created and launched AO Players App as well as AI videos for players. These Infosys AI Videos are all set to recognize the patterns that are unique or special in instant video analysis right within the AO Players App. These AI Videos provide players and coaches the tools required to dissect the game and understand its strategy. With rich statistical filters, video clips powered by stats, and cognitive views for rally analysis and stroke summaries, the spectator experience too reaches a notch high.

The application and associated features bring new intelligence to the hands of all players and their teams. This is also independent of your position or ranking in the game, making it available to all. Besides, it enables coaches to guide their players even remotely. It also offer the functionality of tagging specific clips to pinpoint significant moves or strategies to better understand your opponent's game or build your own strengths. These AI-based tools allow precise assessment of winning techniques and also provide statistical filters to make your analysis easier. The application is quite advantageous for the broadcasters and media teams, too, with ML algorithms working at the back end to present the AI shot of the day and highlights. This would be using multiple data points like fastest serve, player emotion, crowd reaction making the game experience richer. 

Infosys has enriched and covered each of the 14 days of the tournament in all its glory from love-all to match point through these AI-powered videos.

This definitely seems to be a good start to 2021, the year of hopes, passion, and innovation. Tennis too is going to be fresh with newer excitement and improved experience. Infosys, yet again, has made it easier in the tough times in fulfilling our desires making the Show Go On…