Wimbledon and technology

I came across reading this article that talks about two of my favorite interests, technology and tennis. It explains how technology is so sophisticated and everything is so running wireless, that people from around the world can go to wimbledon.org and get instaneous updates and detailed statistics on the matches going on. The broadcasters are using them as well during their broadcast, so that's how they know so much about the statistics of the game back in their broadcast booths. Even the players and coaches are using them to analyze the game, and figure out what went good and what didn't.

The technology is even used like for example the ShotTracker or Hawkeye to replay shots and determine if the linesmen and umpire called the shot properly, when the players dispute the call. Definitely a great resource to have, now mind you, the umpires have said that the technology will be used as backup and won't replace them (yet).

Because of this technology and it's on the Internet, anyone can really become a commentator, in fact, I am in a sense a commentator when I talk about the results and my views after each day of Wimbledon (they are available on my personal blog).

I know that when there is the US Open or the Canadian Open, I subscribe to SMS where I can get scores of the match results by final, and by the end of each set. So, I am always up to date with the scores even if I am not at the computer or in front of the TV. Pervasive tennis! Hmm, maybe I can do some research on pervasive computing in tennis!