By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, October 31, 2024
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Digital line calling is comeing to the junior ranks.
The USTA immediately introduced that the upcoming USTA Junior Nationwide Indoor Championships will make the most of PlayReplay digital line-calling in competitors, marking the primary time USTA nationwide junior tournaments have formally featured ELC in play.
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The Boys’ and Ladies’ 16s and 12s tournaments being performed November 29-December 2 at 4 totally different indoor amenities can have the PlayReplay system out there for challenges in all singles and doubles matches.
PlayReplay’s ELC system makes use of a minimally intrusive digital camera answer that gives an unprecedented stage of accuracy and precision for ELC methods priced for leisure competitors. Gamers competing within the choose Nationwide Indoor Championships can have entry to courtside touchscreens to instantly entry ball-tracking knowledge, “problem” a line name and obtain a visible illustration of the place the ball landed and an in/out ruling inside roughly 20 seconds.
The amenities internet hosting these occasions using PlayReplay are the Baseline Tennis Middle in Minneapolis (G16s); the Manchester Athletic Membership in Manchester, Mass. (G12s); XS Tennis Village in Chicago (B16s); and the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle in Flushing, N.Y. (B12s).
