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Know your strengths and weaknesses — and scout them in your opponents — with only a few simple taps on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. My Tennis Stats tracks hundreds of statistics for any tennis match, helping players, coaches, parents and tennis fans chart every performance.
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We invite opportunities to work with students. We know they’re learning a sport for a lifetime — and that our tools could help them. Coaches frequently contact us, looking for ideas about creative ways to use our applications to reinforce the lessons they’re giving — and their colleagues in math and science classes are giving, too. We look forward to hearing from you. Colleges we serve Colorado State University Rams – Women’s Tennis Huntington University Foresters – Men’s and Women’s Tennis Marian University – Men’s and Women’s Tennis Ohio State Buckeyes – Men’s Tennis University of Northern Colorado – Men’s Tennis High Schools we serve D’Evelyn High School (Denver, Colorado) – Girls Tennis Golden High School (Golden, Colorado) – Boys Tennis Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky) – Boys Tennis Mountain Range High School (Westminster, Colorado) – Boys and Girls Tennis Mountain Vista High School (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) – Boys Tennis Plainfield High School (Plainfield, Indiana) – Boys and Girls Tennis Yongsan International School of Seoul (Seoul, Korea) – Boys and Girls Tennis Middle Schools we serve Denver Montclair International School (Denver, Colorado) – Boys and Girls Tennis Yongsan International School of Seoul (Seoul, Korea) – Boys and Girls...
Read MoreWe speak your language
My Tennis Stats is available in eight languages — and more are on the way. We offer the application in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. We wish to make our applications as accessible as possible, so we welcome requests for language translation. We track our customers’ requests and try to work new languages into our production schedules as we identify market demand. If you have questions or ideas, we hope you’ll contact...
Read MoreHelping juniors get game
When the kids I coach walk off the court after a match, I often ask how many unforced errors they made — because we know the player with the most number of unforced errors will lose the match. To be frank, they don’t know. A recent juniors match serves as a good example. The teenaged boy I coached had lost the match by a narrow 5-7 margin. He was very disappointed. Because I had used the My Tennis Stats application to track his match, I could show him where, exactly, he needed to continue working on his game — and how he could capitalize on the weaknesses of his opponent. The application showed that the boy’s opponent had missed 83 percent of all backhand returns, but my player had served there only six times. After a week of practice focused on serving a high percentage overall (to lower the likelihood of double faults) and a well-placed serve to the backhand, my young player faced the same opponent the following week. His first serve percentage rocketed to 65 percent, and he hit a whopping 14 serves to the opponent’s backhand, forcing nine errors. He won the match...
Read MoreChildhood friends develop, market tennis iPhone app
Chip Hudson knows he’ll never be Roger Federer, six-time Wimbledon champion. Eric Deines knows he’ll never be Steve Jobs, founder of Apple and father of the Apple iPhone. But that didn’t stop the childhood friends from combining their shared love of computer programming with Hudson’s passion for tennis to make a program for the Apple iPhone they hope will become a tool for tennis enthusiasts, coaches and trainers. The app, “My Tennis Stats”, allows iPhone users to keep statistics of matches as they’re playing and store data about past matches. The program can be downloaded for $9.99 from the iPhone App Store. Deines and Hudson, both 31 and Broomfield natives, have been friends since they met at Kohl Elementary and have been programming since their days at Broomfield High School. They started working on the application in December, finding time for it on weekends and afternoons. They both have day jobs as computer programmers and families: Hudson works for aerospace giant Northrop Grumman Hudson, and has a son and another child on the way; Deines works for Zoll Data Systems, which makes programs used in the medical industry, and has a son and a daughter. Hudson and Deines hope their program makes money, but it also was a labor of love that gave them a chance to learn new programming skills, as neither had worked with Apple products before. “We figured it would be a good resume booster,” Deines said. The result looks good. With a tap of the phone’s touch screen, “My Tennis Stats” keeps track of details such as how many aces a player serves, how many unforced errors he makes or whether he wins a point on a forehand or backhand. It also has the crisp graphics iPhone users have come to expect. The target user is a coach or trainer, who would use it from the sidelines. Hudson also wants to tap the parents of young tennis players as a market. He acknowledges the program is probably too complex for a player to use during a match. Whether the pair have the chops as salesmen to make it a smash with the tennis community remains to be seen. The program was released to the public June 28. In the first week it had sold 20 copies. But Hudson is pushing the program hard and is passionate about the product and the sport. He started competing...
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