The advantages of video analysis

Tennis has long been slow to embrace the game-film culture pervasive in other professional sports. But that is changing writes Christopher Clarey in the New York Times.

Melbourne, 19 June 2013 | New York Times | Tennis Australia

Darren McMurtrie, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, 2012. MAE DUMRIGUE

Tennis has long been slow to embrace the game-film culture pervasive in other professional sports. But that is changing. Tennis Australia, the governing body of the sport in Australia, now has an extensive video performance analysis unit that can deliver up-to-date footage and pattern breakdowns on future opponents to its players, whether they are playing in Wimbledon or in a challenger in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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