Fox teeththe new tennis play analysis and review system that rivals the famous Sony Hawkeyewill land in professional padel.
That’s how he intends it World Padel Tour announcing the implementation of this innovative system from 2023 on the new circuit model that it has presented to male and female players.
This is not a minor detail. Last week, in the SA Naveta room of the Hotel Barceló Hamilton Menorcathe president of WPT, Ramón Agenjoand the deputy to the Presidency, Alex Corretjaheld an exhibition in two acts, one for female players and the other for female players, in which they explained the main lines of what will be the new World Padel Tour from 2023.
They accompanied their interventions with the projection on screen of a presentation. More than half of the slides shown (35 of a total of 66) were dedicated to the implementation of Fox teeth (section 3 ‘Technological Innovations).
What is Foxten?
Fox teeth it is an electronic arbitration system that goes beyond the review of plays. Developed by the Catalan company of the same name, founded in 2014 by businessman Javier Simón, the Foxtenn technology It has the corresponding certifications from the main international tennis organizations (ITF, ATP or WTA, among others).
It has a presence in more than 50 tennis tournaments, including the ATP and WTA in Madrid, Doha, Rio or Tokyo, among others.
Its application to paddle tennis, according to the information presented to the players, goes through the use of 20 ultra-speed cameras that offer up to 2,500 images per second. In addition, it is complemented by the use of 4 nanoprecision lasers.
All this allows the position of the ball and the players to be tracked in milliseconds. The information is processed by high capacity computing systems.
The key factor of this technology, according to Fox teethis that it is the only one based on the real bounce of the ball (other models make an estimate or simulation based on a multitude of data).
With a systematic margin of error of 0, the tool will not only monitor the lines during the serve but also the angles between the ground and walls (glass and mesh), and even the height of impact when executing the serve.
Fox teethFurthermore, it goes beyond video arbitration because, as announced World Padel Tourits implementation will be the basis of an extensive statistical record of data such as the speed of the shot, the heat map of each athlete, the hitting areas, the distribution of time in the offensive or defensive phase and their position on the court, the main rebound zones or net coverage.
All this will generate an interesting flow of information that will be at the service of the players for their analysis and interaction.
Con Fox teeth, the circuit will take a leap in quality in the recording and visualization of data and statistics in real time during matches. The organization, which has already improved this offer this season, intends to go to another level.
