Live Tennis APITennis talks and papers at sports analytics conferences, 2019 to 2026
57 tennis talks and papers from 6 sports analytics conferences, 2019 to 2026. Each one links the official programme, the proceedings or the paper. The list is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0.
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Entries per conference: MIT SSAC 8, CMSAC 6, NESSIS 2, MathSport International 19, ISACE 6, World Tennis Conference 16.
Each entry sits under one topic, chosen from its title and abstract. When a paper fits two, it goes under the one its title leads with. Titles and names are copied as the programme prints them.
7 entries are marked "Replay needs a paid ticket". These are World Tennis Conference talks. The talk page is free to open, but the recording plays only after you buy a ticket. On 9 November 2026 the ticket pages for 2025 and 2026 listed General at $149. We kept the links.
Talks and papers on the serve
| Year | Conference | Title and link | Speakers or authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | CMSAC | Optimal Serve Placement in Professional Tennis Accounting for Execution ErrorReproducible Research Competition 2026 | Brett Pedersen | paper |
| 2025 | CMSAC | Serve-Based Player Metrics in TennisReproducible Research Competition 2025 | Aiwen Li; Amrita Balajee; Audrey Kuan | paper |
| 2023 | MathSport International | Scoring probability model based on service landing location and ranking points in men’s professional tennis matchesProceedings, page 89 | Fumiya Shimizu; Eiji Konaka | paper |
| 2021 | MIT SSAC | The First Four Shots | Craig O'Shannessy | talk |
| 2021 | MathSport International | A Gaussian Mixed Membership Model with Latent Style Allocation for Describing Serve Return Patterns in Professional TennisProceedings, page 3 | Stephanie Kovalchik; Jim Albert | paper |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Contextual information improves the accuracy of predicting the direction of serve in professional tennisProgramme PDF | Hiroyuki Yamamoto; Kazutoshi Kudo; Tim Buszard; Machar Reid; Damian Farrow; Stephanie Kovalchik | talk |
| 2019 | NESSIS | PREDICTING THE DIRECTION OF SERVE IN PROFESSIONAL TENNIS USING BY CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND MACHINE LEARNINGProgramme PDF, poster abstracts | Hiroyuki Yamamoto; Kazutoshi Kudo; Tim Buszard; Machar Reid; Damian Farrow; Stephanie A Kovalchik | poster |
7 entries.
Talks and papers on pressure and momentum
| Year | Conference | Title and link | Speakers or authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MathSport International | Revisiting Clutch Performance Among Elite Players in TennisProceedings, pages 18 to 25 | Pascal Bauer; Jan Bauer | paper |
| 2022 | MIT SSAC | Live Counter-Factual Analysis in Women’s Tennis using Automatic Key-Moment Detection | Robert Seidl; Patrick Lucey | paper |
2 entries.
Talks and papers on rankings and ratings
| Year | Conference | Title and link | Speakers or authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MathSport International | Estimation of match abilities for tennis players via a maximum likelihood approachProgramme PDF | Hannah Bartmann; Andreas Groll; Rouven Michels | talk |
| 2021 | CMSAC | Applying Hierarchical Bayesian Models to ATP DataReproducible Research Competition 2021 | Horace Shew | paper |
| 2020 | CMSAC | Points, rating & ranking systems in professional tennis | Paul van Staden | talk |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Extensions of the Elo Rating System for Margin of VictoryProgramme PDF | Stephanie Kovalchik | keynote |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Fame and Fortune in Elite Tennis RevisitedProceedings, page 241 | Denny Meyer; Minh Huynh; Kelly Marshall; Geoff Pollard | paper |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Serve and Return Glicko: An approximate Bayesian model for within-match win predictionProgramme PDF | Martin Ingram | talk |
6 entries.
Talks and papers on officiating
None found in the programmes we could read.
Talks and papers on betting markets
| Year | Conference | Title and link | Speakers or authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MathSport International | Efficiency of live-betting markets in tennisProgramme PDF | Chinmay Divekar; Rishideep Roy; Soudeep Deb | talk |
| 2025 | MathSport International | Tennis model in betting: Grand Slam analysisProgramme PDF | Rita Norbutaitė; Martynas Manstavičius | talk |
2 entries.
Other tennis talks and papers
| Year | Conference | Title and link | Speakers or authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ISACE | Shot and Technical Error Detection in Tennis using Graph Convolutional NetworksProgramme PDF | Pierre Hellich; Jiang Kan; Jin Song Dong; Mathieu Salzmann | paper |
| 2026 | ISACE | TANS-Agent: Structured, Multi-Agent Tactical Reasoning for Tennis Match Analysis and Strategy RecommendationProgramme PDF | Emma Cai; Yuexi Song; Chuanfei Li; Zhenkai Liang | paper |
| 2026 | MIT SSAC | Identifying Multiple Dimensions of Luck versus Skill: Analyzing Tennis and Gender | Tobias J. Moskowitz | talk |
| 2026 | World Tennis Conference | Human First: AI and the Future of Tennis AnalyticsWTC6 programme, March 2026Replay needs a paid ticket | Mikhail Haurylchyk | talk |
| 2026 | World Tennis Conference | Junior Development Pathway - 1.6 million Points and counting…WTC6 programme, March 2026Replay needs a paid ticket | Warren Pretorius | talk |
| 2026 | World Tennis Conference | The role of new technologies in honing the tennis player's technical skillsWTC6 programme, March 2026Replay needs a paid ticket | Lucio Caprioli | talk |
| 2025 | ISACE | Locating Tennis Ball Impact on the Racket in Real Time Using an Event CameraProgramme PDF | Yuto Kase; Kai Ishibe; Ryoma Yasuda; Yudai Washida; Sakiko Hashimoto | paper |
| 2025 | ISACE | Scalable Tactical Tennis Insights: Hybridizing Automated Reports and LLM-Powered AnalyticsProgramme PDF | Zizhen Li; Zhaoyu Liu; Kan Jiang | paper |
| 2025 | ISACE | TANS: A Chess-Inspired Notation System for Strategy Analysis of Tennis GamesProgramme PDF | Yuexi Song; Chuanfei Li; Hao Cao; Ling Wu; Huanhuan Zheng; Zhenkai Liang | paper |
| 2025 | MIT SSAC | Skill, Luck, and the Battle of the Sexes: An Application of Tennis | Tobias J. Moskowitz | talk |
| 2025 | MathSport International | Identifying Extreme Representative Tennis Players and Match External Load in Male Grand SlamProceedings, pages 38 to 43 | Q. Brich; M. Casals; J. Cortés; D. Fernández; E. Baiget | paper |
| 2025 | MathSport International | Teaching probability theory through tennisProceedings, pages 6 to 11 | T. Barnett; A. Bedford; E. Mealy | paper |
| 2025 | MathSport International | Tennis match outcome prediction using temporal directed graph neural networksProceedings, pages 50 to 56 | Lawrence Clegg; John Cartlidge | paper |
| 2025 | World Tennis Conference | Holistic and individualised perfomance analytics for tennis players Part 1WTC5 talk page, March 2025Replay needs a paid ticket | Shane Liyanage | talk |
| 2025 | World Tennis Conference | How Tennis Analytics can help as a competitive coachWTC5 talk page, March 2025Replay needs a paid ticket | Liam Smith | talk |
| 2025 | World Tennis Conference | Next-Generation Tennis Analytics: A deep dive into some of the best players on the ATP TourWTC5 talk page, March 2025Replay needs a paid ticket | Tom Corrie | talk |
| 2025 | World Tennis Conference | Tennis AnalyticsWTC5 talk page, March 2025Replay needs a paid ticket | Oivind Sorvald | talk |
| 2024 | ISACE | Exploring Team Strategy Dynamics in Tennis Doubles MatchesProgramme PDF | Zhaoyu Liu; Chen Dong; Chen Wang; Tian Yu Dong | paper |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Case studies: What the data tells us about the worlds bestWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Tom Callingham | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Cutting-Edge Data Analytics for JuniorsWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Ted Sichelman | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Easy Analytics Apps and Services for Players, Parents and CoachesWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Andy Durham | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | From Grassroots to Grand Slams: Designing a Universal Tennis Analysis ToolWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Mikhail Haurylchyk | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Holistic and Individualised Performance Analytics for Tennis Players - Part AWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Stephen Huss; Shane Liyanage | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Holistic and Individualised Performance Analytics for Tennis Players - Part BWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Amir Takla; Shane Liyanage; Fabrice Sbarro; Nicholas Busuttil | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | THE MONEY BALL OF TENNIS…making data meaningful and actionableWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Brett Hobden; Gordon Uehling | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | Tennis Analytic For The Rest of Us - Ai-Powered Game, Practice & Community Networks Data ManagementWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Cesar Andrade; Warren Pretorius | talk |
| 2024 | World Tennis Conference | The journey of tennis analytics: from manual charting to automated next-generation metricsWTC Tennis Analytics Day, 8 August 2024 | Tom Corrie | talk |
| 2023 | MIT SSAC | Advantage US Tennis: Leveraging Performance Analytics and Technology to Provide a Competitive Edge | David Ramos | talk |
| 2023 | MIT SSAC | Thinking the GOAT: Imitating Tennis Styles | Padmanaba Srinivasan; Raghavan Subramanian; William Knottenbelt | paper |
| 2022 | MIT SSAC | A Markov Approach to Untangling Intention Versus Execution in Tennis | Doug Fearing; Stephanie Kovalchik; Tim Chan; Craig Fernandes | paper |
| 2022 | MathSport International | The Bogey Phenomenon in SportProceedings, page 15 | Rory Bunker | paper |
| 2022 | MathSport International | The Path to GOAT-ness: Classifying Tennis StrokesProceedings, page 93 | Padmanaba Srinivasan; Ashish Agrawal; William J. Knottenbelt | paper |
| 2021 | CMSAC | Keynote Address: Analytics at the USTA | Not listed | talk |
| 2021 | MIT SSAC | Dissecting the Tennis Rally: Valuing Decision Making and Shot Execution in Tennis | Robert Seidl; Machar Reid; Sam Robertson | paper |
| 2021 | MathSport International | Does the outcome of a tennis match hinge on the opening set? An in-depth analysis of the Wimbledon data | Kapil Gupta; Vijayshankar Krishnamurthy; Soudeep Deb | talk |
| 2021 | MathSport International | Predicting Tennis Outcomes Using Random WalksProceedings, page 103 | Tomáš Kouřim | paper |
| 2021 | NESSIS | A Markov Process Approach to Untangling the Relationship between Intention vs. Execution in TennisProgramme PDF | Timothy CY Chan; Douglas S Fearing; Craig Fernandes; Stephanie Kovalchik | talk |
| 2019 | CMSAC | Vamos! Estimating Shot Value In Tennis with a Functional Spatiotemporal Gaussian Mixture Model | Stephanie Kovalchik | talk |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Random Walks with Memory Applied to Grand Slam Tennis Matches ModelingProceedings, page 220 | Tomáš Kouřim | paper |
| 2019 | MathSport International | Using a multi-camera tracking system to estimate ball spin in tennisProgramme PDF | Olivia Cant; Stephanie Kovalchik; Rod Cross; Machar Reid | talk |
40 entries.
Which programmes did we read?
One cell per conference and year. "Read" links the official programme or proceedings we went through. "Partly read" means only part of it is still online. "No programme found" means we could not find one on the conference's own site, so that year may be missing talks. On a phone, the table scrolls sideways.
| Conference | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIT SSAC | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read |
| CMSAC | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read | Read | Partly read | Read |
| NESSIS | Read | Not held | Read | Not held | Read | Not held | Read | Not held |
| MathSport International | Read | Not held | Read | Read | Read | Not held | Read | Not held |
| ISACE | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | No programme found | Read | Read | Read |
| World Tennis Conference | Not held | Not held | No programme found | No programme found | Not indexed | Partly read | Partly read | Read |
- CMSAC 2025: Only the research competition finalists are still online. The 2025 schedule and posters are gone from the conference site.
- ISACE 2023: The 2023 workshop page links a programme that no longer loads.
- World Tennis Conference 2021: Only short clips remain from the first two editions.
- World Tennis Conference 2023: The 2023 site lists talks by category only, so we did not index a partial year.
- World Tennis Conference 2024: We read the WTC Tennis Analytics Day of 8 August 2024 in full. The March 2024 programme is no longer listed.
- World Tennis Conference 2025: The 2025 programme is no longer listed. We found analytics talks through their own pages.
- World Tennis Conference 2026: We listed only the talks about data, analytics and technology. The rest of the programme is coaching.
Can I reuse the list?
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The CSV has one row per talk or paper, with the columns topic, year, conference, kind, title, speakers, source_url, source_note, access and checked. access reads "replay needs a paid ticket" when the recording plays only for ticket holders, and is empty otherwise. It is UTF-8 with a header row. The talks and papers belong to their authors. This list only links them.
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Every source was read on 8 November 2026 to 9 November 2026.