The ATP and Sense Arena, the world chief in digital actuality (VR) tennis coaching, have introduced a brand new multiyear partnership that may see Sense Arena change into the Official VR Tennis Training Tool of the ATP Tour.
Together, the companions will launch ATP Tour Sense Arena. The cobranded platform, operated through a Meta Quest 2 Headset paired with a haptic racquet, will provide groundbreaking VR coaching functions to tennis gamers of all ranges worldwide. Additionally, the ATP’s Top 100 singles gamers and Top 25 doubles gamers will obtain complimentary entry to coach with Sense Arena’s best-in-class VR expertise.
The revamped ATP Tour Sense Arena platform will characteristic a brand new integration referred to as Master Your Return, which might be powered by actual match knowledge and analytics from professional gamers on the ATP Tour and Hologic WTA Tours. This revolutionary characteristic will allow customers to analyse and return true-to-life serves in VR from the highest ATP and WTA gamers on the earth. Additionally, Master Your Return will combine match knowledge from leisure gamers, permitting customers to face correct serves from digital opponents of their equal talent degree. The new characteristic will complement Sense Arena’s current serve integrations from ATP professional Jack Sock, who had his serve replicated in Sense Arena earlier this 12 months.
ATP Chief Business Officer Daniele Sano, ATP participant Casper Ruud, WTA participant Daria Saville and Sense Arena Founder and CEO Bob Tetiva. Photo: ATP Tour.
The ATP will in parallel collaborate with Sense Arena on the continued improvement of its coaching platform by designating advisors from its Medical Services, Technology and Business groups. The organisations can even work collectively to supply content material to teach the broader tennis group about the advantages of psychological coaching.
“Whether it’s on the ATP Tour or at any degree of the sport, the distinction between successful and shedding typically comes all the way down to psychological fortitude and preparation,” stated ATP CEO Massimo Calvelli. “Sense Arena is on the chopping fringe of tennis coaching and we’re proud to lend our sources and experience to advance a VR platform that won’t solely assist our gamers, however tennis gamers of all ages and talents throughout the globe.”
“Our objective is to alter the sport of tennis by elevating athlete efficiency by psychological, tactical and visualisation-based coaching,” stated Sense Arena Founder and CEO, Bob Tetiva. “Over the previous few years, we now have constructed Sense Arena for Tennis by working with essentially the most revered names within the business and this new alternative to collaborate with the ATP will assist us take our tennis coaching platform to the following degree.”
ATP Tour Sense Arena is backed by International Tennis Hall of Famer Martina Navratilova and is being utilized by a few of at present’s high gamers together with Jack Sock, Jennifer Brady, Brenda and Linda Fruhvirtova, Miomir Kecmanovic, Emil Ruusuvuori, Liudmila Samsonova, Hunter Reese, Daria Saville, Luisa Stefani and extra.
To get began with ATP Tour Sense Arena, obtain the app on the Meta app retailer and subscribe by visiting SenseArena.com/ATPTour.
Source: www.atptour.com