Emerging stars of Table Tennis
The future looks bright for the emerging stars of Table Tennis, who will be playing some of the biggest competitions in the next 12 months. We’ve selected a few players who are ones to watch in the next year – they are on a mission to unseat world no.1 Fan Zhendong and Olympic gold medallist […]
Changing tactics: Dimitrij Ovtcharov vs the Chinese players at the Tokyo Olympics
There’s the gut of the coach, there’s the intuition of the player — and, then there is data and analytics. Gerford AI’s technology did a deep dive into German player Dimitrij Ovtcharov’s key Olympic matches against Chinese power players Fan Zhendong (world no.1), and Ma Long, the eventual gold medalist. Many asked why Ma Long […]
Changing tactics: The data and analytics behind Table Tennis
There’s the gut of the coach, there’s the intuition of the player — and, then there is data and analytics. Japanese table tennis star Mima Ito played Olympic gold medalist Sun Yinghsa (CHN), twice during the Olympics. Our AI technology analysed their matches, and we found that on their second head to head Mima completely […]
What does it take to win a gold medal?
Using our AI game and player analytics tool, we’ve pulled the data and compared the Gold Medal Winners of the singles Table Tennis, Badminton and Tennis competition at this years Olympics. According to the numbers and metrics, Women’s Tennis Gold Medallist, Belinda Bencic has ‘climbed a big mountain’ to win her Gold Medal. Her metrics […]
Tokyo 2020 Table Tennis Key Statistics
From the shortest match, to the average number of points in a game, our AI performance analysis tool has generated the key player and game data from the table tennis singles competition at Tokyo 2020, to bring you a wrap up of the event. Women’s Table Tennis Singles Total of 70 matches were played The […]