How AI-powered analytics is changing the game at French Open

Infosys and Roland Garros have signed a 3 year contract for a tech collaboration for the tournament. It has enhanced the digital experience, resulting in greater access for millions of fans, better training, and analysis among players and coaches. Connecting remotely and relying heavily on cloud-based services, several AI-based innovations have been brought to this year's French Open experience integrating numerous specific solutions for the year.
Here are some of the digital innovations which can be witnessed on the clay courts this year.

For fans of the sport, artificial intelligence powered analytics in the Infosys Match Centre on RolandGarros.com and on the official app have been redesigned with a new interface. It will provide tennis fans with many options of visualising a match. Fans can dive into MatchBeats for point-by-point play, stroke-summary to understand the go-to-strokes of players, rally-analysis to look at how tactics change, and CourtVision to understand serve, return, and rally based insights.

Match analysis for players

Developed in collaboration with FFT's players and coaches, the app incorporates sophisticated and fast match analysis, rally replay and stroke analysis. All of this is powered by Infosys AI and enabled by cloud architecture. This results in an almost instant match replay and assessment, enabling coaches to leverage data-driven insights and share tailored video summaries with players to support them on the court.

Powerful Insights

For post-match analysis, AI driven highlights will be completely automated, where technology will pick the most interesting, crucial and dramatic points by using various cues including player emotion, crowd noise, and match-context.  This solution will leverage cloud-based AI/ML services on audio, video, and statistical data of a match, to create and deliver powerful highlights across digital platforms.

AI assisted journalism

AI will be providing better storytelling support for journalists. Tools are being provided for automatic charts, highlights, trends and graphs ready for public use.
Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys, said, "2020 has introduced new challenges for how we consume sports and entertainment, and we're excited that our partnership with Roland-Garros once again reinvents the digital landscape for fans, players and the media alike."

The Roland-Garros Fan App and the Roland-Garros Players App are available to download from the respective app stores for Android and iOS devices. The tournament runs from 21st September 2020 to 11th October 2020. This is a new way to watch matches with the insight mode on.