NEW DELHI: USA Table Tennis (USATT) has partnered with Stupa Sports Analytics (Stupa), an Indian sports tech start-up, to assist the USA national team, including players and coaches, with an in-depth match and practice analysis, which will help each player identify trends and patterns of his/her game as well as of his/her own opponents.
Stupa’s analytics product will help prioritize improvement areas and provide technical, physical & tactical feedback for each identified player to USATT enabling them to build customized training programs.
Speaking on the occasion, Virginia Sung, CEO, USATT, said: “We see great value and potential in bringing analytics tools for the benefit of our national team. Stupa’s tool is very effective and provides data driven insights to the players & coaches. Their upcoming Artificial intelligence model will certainly bring a change the way Table Tennis is coached, played and viewed.”
“USATT has a refreshing perspective and their foresightin trying to bring a transformative change through technology is commendable. We are honored to work closely with them,” said, Megha Gambhir, co-founder & CEO, Stupa Sports Analytics. “Table tennis is a high-speed game, involving intense spin and rapid exchange of balls, therefore it’s complex to analyze. Our revolutionary product, a first of its kind in the world of Table Tennis, captures data from matches & trainings, extrapolates it, to provide analysis and inferences in an interactive manner. By deploying next-gen technology, artificial intelligence, we are targeting to provide real-time data and statistical analysis to players/ coaches providing them a new window to delve deeper into their game.”
Former national coach of Indian team, co-founder and COO of Stupa Sports Analytics, Deepak Malik, who has been deeply involved in grass root level coaching with Pinnacle Table Tennis Academy, said: “I am delighted with where we have reached even though there is still a long way to go. We have experienced the power of this product practically as we saw transformative change in the game of some leading Indian players who used it. A lot of games like Cricket, Tennis have products which provide deeper insights, but Table Tennis still relied on manual method. That is about to change.”
