Rigour Contributes to Chinese Tennis
2022 CTA Tour SJM Professional Finals & National Tennis Championships concluded on December 11th the curtain came to an end at the Macau Tennis School. The night of champions was staged in the green garden of Lisboa Comprehensive Resort with the sea breeze. This night, the top players in the Chinese tennis world gathered together. The CTA Tour Professional Finals ended with a stunning finish, drawing a successful conclusion to this grand tennis ceremony.
Since its establishment in 2020, the CTA Tour has been attracting attention for three years. The CTA Tour is not just a brand-new high-level tennis event in China. Its appearance directly hits the three major developments "pain points" of Chinese tennis today. It is quite bright in terms of competition system design, supporting points and rating system.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Chinese tennis has developed by leaps and bounds. More and more Chinese faces and Chinese achievements have appeared in the international tennis arena, and a series of high-level international tennis tournaments have landed in China. The improvement of China's tennis level also calls for the birth of self-owned and self-run high-level events, as well as acceleration of China's tennis into the world's advanced ranks and the pace of building a tennis power. At the key point of China's sports reform and development, the CTA Tour came into being, adhering to the principles of standardization and science, to create high-quality professional competitions, attracting domestic professional teams, colleges and private high-level tennis athletes return to local self-owned brand competitions, and continue to explore new models of tennis talent training in China; promote the construction of a public tennis competition system involving the participation of all people, enhance the attractiveness and participation experience of public tennis competitions, cultivate the training environment, improve the level of competition, and discover and reserve talents , to promote the popularization and development of tennis in China.
Looking abroad, every country with a mature and strong tennis culture has the same feature - to realize the participation of all people in tennis. This is obviously the general trend of the development of tennis in the world. Undoubtedly, the original intention of the CTA Tour is also in line with this trend. It has set up CTA1000 and CTA800 events for professional players, and CTA500 and CTA200 events for amateur players. It is great news for players who cannot be shortlisted for high-level professional competitions.
The foundation of tennis in China is relatively weak. Because tennis sprouted from churches, it was branded as aristocratic and was difficult to popularize it to the public. Moreover, tennis has higher requirements on venues and equipment, and economic conditions restrict the development of tennis. Many tennis fans are faced with a series of problems such as lack of professional training, no qualifications. This also led to the premature loss of many tennis players who failed to achieve results, which is really regrettable.
Since its establishment in 2011, Rigour Technology has always adhered to the road of independent innovation. With industry-leading scientific research and engineering strength, it has created a world-leading software-hardware integrated sports artificial intelligence system. Among them, Rigour tennis smart competition and training system includes tennis referee assistant, AI intelligent sports training, and CTN level certification module.
Tennis Eagle -Eye System
Rigour Technology Tennis Assistant Referee System: Accurately grasp the tennis ball's flight trajectory and landing point, provide an independent tennis ball speed detection function, and display the first serve through the LED screen on the bottom line of the court. The speed of the second serve, providing detailed data of the game, including serve data, speed data, over the net height data, success rate data of return serve, etc. During the competition, when there is any dispute over the result of the competition, the system can intuitively provide 3D simulation images and provide an interface to output to the large screen of the venue, and give IN/OUT results in a timely and fair manner to ensure the fairness of the competition.
AI Sports Training System
Rigour Tennis AI Training System utilizes authoritative training evaluation criteria and quantitative assessment indicators from the International Tennis Federation and the Chinese Tennis Association. It employs technology and big data analysis to identify weak areas of students and rapidly strengthen their tennis skills through specialized training modules. The system covers a wide range of tennis training scenarios, from beginners to high-level athletes. The official question bank contains preset training topics suitable for players of all ages, training stages, and skill levels. This facilitates coaches in directly utilizing the system and quickly integrating it into their daily teaching. Coaches can also customize training question banks based on different training content to provide personalized and intelligent training for each player, enhancing their skills and performance.
CTN rating system
The Rigour CTN grade evaluation system adopts the sports technology grade (CTN) of the Chinese Tennis Association and the sports technology grade (ITN) standard of the International Tennis Federation, including 10 grades (CTN1-CTN10), and 5 test subjects：depth, depth of volleys, accuracy of ground shots, serve, agility. After the athletes/tennis fans pass the assessment of each level, the Chinese Tennis Association will issue the only authoritative tennis technical level certificate in China. The CTN level breaks the barriers between amateur players and professional players, and can be used as an international passport to open up tennis level conversions between countries.
Smart Sports Venues
In addition, Rigour Technology also provides the construction smart sports venues, which are currently serving football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, tennis, ice and snow venues, etc.
