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Another terrific technology is the
brand-new Shot Spot, first used this spring on ESPN for tennis. Shot Spot not
only shows the location and speed of serves but also indicates whether a ball
lands beyond the short line. This will help to slow down the game and package it
to stimulate viewers’ interest and help the referees out, who can not possibly
see whether or not a serve landed short going over 190 miles per hour? We have
emulates basketball and vote for MVP of the tournament, rooky of the tournament,
and the major upset prizes.
Racquetball has to learn from its
competitors and take what works in tennis, football and basketball and use them
effectively to increase viewer’s interest. Why reinvent the wheel? Racquetball
needs to follow the lead of NFL broadcasts and use the ‘telestrator’ to
demonstrate, rather than tell, how tiny John Ellis produces such power on his
backhand.
Racquetball must learn from what works
from other sports and add devices like miniature cameras that can be attached to
players to see how their eyes track a ball. They put miniature cameras inside
NASCAR Jeff Gordon’s race car and look how far that sport’s broadcasts have come
in the last several years.
I know that racquetball is runs by
some really talented people and they can see that we have much to learn from our
major sport competitors and these technological lessons need to be learned
quickly and implemented to capitalizes without haste in this competitive sport
arena. Racquetball needs technology to slow down this game and provide spice to
a velocity demanding sport and pull us into the 21st century.
When a qualifier loses in the round of
64 in a tennis tournament and makes more than Cliff Swains for winning the U.S.
Open, it shows us how far we still have to go to stay competitive. Yes,
racquetball management complains that the money is not there, but to be big
league, you have trade in short term losses for long term gains and think Big
League and set goals and follow through with them and...believe...
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