Sportradar & ITF Launch New Live Scoring System

Sports betting and data software suppliers Sportradar have announced an operational partnership with the International Tennis Federation (ITF), allowing Sportrader to collect and distribute ITF official circuit data through the launch of its new live scoring system, The launch of the new scoring system will enable the ITF to have a live data feed from ITF Pro Circuit tournaments directly from their umpires seat. Currently the ITF schedule consists of over 1,000 tournaments with over 50,000 matches per year.

Sportradar a leading supplier in igaming of sports and betting related data, had worked on the ITF data system feed since 2012, in order to insure correct data provisions and an appropriate supply of live data from ITF tournaments to media and betting partners. The developed Live Scoring System that fulfills the following requirements and features:-

• Live Scoring System corresponds to all officiating decisions in accordance with official tennis rules.
• Live Scoring System provides ITF and media partners with in depth data on ITF matches and player performance.
• Super fast transmission required for sports betting industry to detect and stop match fraud
• Increased coverage of ITF tennis tournaments – up to 30 a week
• Increased match coverage on Sportradar terminals – 50,000+ matches per year.

Jan Menneken, Executive Director, Commercial for the ITF, commented “The implementation of the new live scoring system is a milestone for the ITF. The collection of the scores directly by our umpires represents a major improvement of our internal processes, assures data integrity and provides interesting opportunities to develop
added value services for the national federations, tournaments, players and commercial partners moving forward. Sportradar has proven to be an excellent partner with just the right experience and expertise to successfully develop and launch the new ITF Scoring System. We are already looking forward to exploiting the
data to its full potential together with Sportradar.”

Carsten Koerl, Sportradar CEO, Commented: “The development of new technologies, such as the new ITF Scoring System, has always been a trademark of Sportradar. The partnership with ITF has been very successful so far and we are proud to have already over 150 clients acquiring our Betradar Live Betting services for ITF matches. The tremendous increase of available matches will allow us to further improve our existing services, but more importantly we are looking forward to the launch of innovative live betting solutions for tennis in the near future.”