Juan Carlos Ferrero’s – Equelite Sport Academy joins an elite group of pioneers in Europe to introduce Playsight to their tennis courts and is the first academy in Spain of its kind to debut the smart video-analysis technology.
Playsight, a technological system developed by Israeli engineers, allows tennis players to monitor and analyze their on-court activity. Equipped with a similar technology akin to the revolutionizing Hawk-Eye, this innovative technology can generate the ability to perform a number of various, timed on-court exercies. As a feature of technology already largely affixed on tennis courts throughout the United States, Playsight is readily becoming more diffused throughout the world. It stands to mention that all Grand Slam training courts are equipped with Playsight technologies.
Juan Carlos Ferrero and Antonio M. Cascales (Ferrero’s career-long coach) have opted to install this smart court technology on their courts at their high performance academy in Villena. On Thursday, May 12th the academy hosted an official presentation to unveil Spain’s first Smart-Academy with the leading edge techonology, Playsight, in place. On hand for the event were Ferrero accompanied by leading academy players, Pablo Carreño-Busta (Currently ranked No. 43 in the ATP and No. 5 in the National Spanish rankings respectively) and Nicola Kuhn, a rising junior star with much awaited promise of a professional future who exhibited a live-demo of the Playsight system technolgies.
“This leading technology allows a player to improve their strokes more quickly thanks to instantaneous, personalized information made readily available at one’s fingertips. We’ve installed these smart courts with a clear objective in mind; to foster continuous player development mediated through an elite, game-changing technology used by the professionals.” Commented Cascales.
Ferrero highlighted a renewed sense of motivation that Playsight has generated among tplayers: “The target objectives of the exercises are defined much more visually. The machine tells you when you have successfully met your obectives, it even commends you with applause. Moreover, it makes players more aware of how they play, they can see their mistakes and learn how to improve along with their coaches.” Which in his day, the former world No. 1 noted that, “It would have been much better to have this technology available.”
“With this technology, we can now present to whatever class of player whether it be a child, adult, or professional the opportunity to go home with a new and unique experience. An analysis of their game can be readily accessed 24/7 at the touch of a button through their mobile phones,” concluded representatives of the academy. With its implementation of smart court technologies, JCFerrero-Equelite Sport Academy has asserted itself as a clear front-runner in Spain serving as a model to incite a revolutionizing wave of smart courts around the country.
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