Sport Report 2021: Table Tennis & Tokyo Olympics
Key learnings from the Gerford AI research on the state of Table Tennis and Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The 8 Dark Horses of Houston: Coming from behind and ready to disrupt
The 2021 World Table Tennis Championships Finals is in Houston next week, and amongst the favourites, previous winners and world number 1’s competing- there is a new breed of dark horses who are set to disrupt the event and shake things up. We’ve done the hard work and found 8 players to look out for […]
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 […]
Paralympians to watch
Although many people feel the Olympics is over, that’s not true, the Paralympics kicked off this week, with over 539 events over 22 sports. With Covid lockdowns or work-at-home rules in place for various locations globally, there will be additional and interested viewing towards Tokyo again. In the words of the well-known Australian paralympian and […]
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 […]
Ones to Watch: Tokyo 2020 Olympics
As we approach the Olympics season, we have compiled a list of the up and comers, wildcards and medal hopefuls to watch out for at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We’ve chosen athletes who inspire us, like Sky Brown, the 13-year-old girl competing for Great Britain in Skateboarding, smashing goals and expectations, and aspirational athletes like […]