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| Palm, Pocket PC, and Windows |
| Tennis Charter has versions for the Palm, Pocket PC, and
Windows. Why buy new and expensive hardware products when Tennis Charter will
work with your existing PDA?
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| Produces 190 Statstics |
| You will be amazed at the depth of statistics Tennis Charter can
provide, with only a minimal amount of input required from the user. |
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| Match Filter Technology |
The Tennis Charter Match Filter functionality allows you to
group filter your data based on any combination Player, Opponent, Opponent's
School, Tournament, Date, and Result.
Why look at your statstics one match at a time? The Match Filter lets you see
the data for all your matches, or a filtered group? Coaches can view the stats
of all their players vs. all the opponents that belong to a rival club. Players
can see their stats for a specific tournament, or during a specific time span.
The options are endless. |
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Take
your game to the next level with
Tennis Charter Software
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At Tennis Charter Software, we want all of our customers to be happy
customers.
Although we have done our best to make Tennis Charter the best and most cost
effective product for the statistical analysis of tennis match data, nothing is
perfect, and Tennis Charter is no exception.
While others may do their best to side step the tough questions, we don't! We
want you to know exactly what you are buying, and we want our users to know
that we recognize the areas of Tennis Charter that could use improvements and
extra features in subsequent releases.
If you have any questions that you do not find on this or on the
frequently asked questions page, please feel free to
contact us.
Q: Does Tennis Charter keep score of the match?
A: No. When designing Tennis Charter we made a concious decision to omit the
score from usage. We did this for a variety of reasons.
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Tennis Charter is designed to allow coaches and instructors to chart many
matches at once. If there are 6 matches going on at the same time, a College or
High School coach will probably want to walk from court to court, charting a
few points with Tennis Charter for each match. If we required the score, then
before a coach could start charting a match, he would have to first determin
the score of the match (what set are they in, what was the score of the first
set, who won the first set, did they flip the score cards on the last change
over, is this the first game since the change over...) By omitting the score,
coaches can simply start charting on the very next point. This also applies to
parents, and anyone charting a match. Think about how often you thought the
game was over, but the server just called the score at Deuce. By not bothering
the user with setting the score, you can concentrate on the enjoying the match.
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2) Screen space is very limited on Palm devices, which have resolutions of only
160 x 160. We felt that adding a score section to the charting screen would not
be practical, and in the end, would make things harder on the user.
Q: Does Tennis Charter support charting doubles matches?
A: Not directly. Tennis Charter was designed primarly to chart singles matches.
We may release an update in the future for doubles support, but the current
version is stricly designed for singles matches.
Q: For shot direction, I see the options are 1) Crosscourt 2) Down the line,
and 3) Inside Out, what do I when charting a match and the player hits an
overhead from the middle of the court straight into the middle of the opponents
court? It really wasn't crosscourt, down the line, or inside out. How do I
chart this, and why aren't there more options?
A: When you encounter a situation such as this one, the key is to be
consistent. The rule to follow is, if you can't say that the shot was, for
certain, Down the Line, or Inside Out, then mark its direction as "Crosscourt"
as a majority of shots during a tennis match are cross court shots. There are
many instances where you might not find a direct fit, such as hitting a
forehand from the backhand corner, down the line (what Pete Sampras used to
call an "Inside-In" forehand, or a dropshot winner, or a volley lob winner, or
a point where you came to the net, and then had to run back to the baseline for
a lob and eventually hit a forehand crosscourt winner. Tennis is a very complex
sport, and on a screen as small as the Palms, it would be very difficult on the
part of the user if we were to double the list of choices. Instead of selecting
the shot as "Forehand, Backhand or Lob" (or "Forehand Volley, Backhand Volley,
or Overhead" when at the net) we would need the list to look something like
"Forehand, Forehand volley, Backhand, Backhand Volley, Forehand Defensive Lob,
Backhand Defensive Lob, Forehand Topspin Lop, Backhand Topspin Lop, Overhead,
Backhand Overhead, Forehand Dropshot, Backhand Dropshot, Forehand Drop-Volley,
Backhand Drop-Volley, Forehand Volley-Lop, Backhand Volley-Lob, etc.
Q: It takes a little while to calculate the stats for matches that I have
charted on my Palm. If I were to have 50 matches on my Palm, and wanted to see
the stats for all the matches combined, wouldn't that take a long time to
compile the stats for all the matches?
A: Unfortunatly, the majority of Palm devices run a 16 Mhz processor, which is
quite slow when compared with the 450 MHz processors you will find in many
Pocket PC devices. This lack of processing power, combined with the lack of a
database engine on the Palm, and you will end up with a device that can not
access large amounts of data as fast as it's Pocket PC counter parts. For this
reason, we strongly recommend the
Desktop Companion for Palm users. The same searches that can force the
user to wait for a good amount of time on the Palm, are completed in the blink
of an eye with the Desktop Companion.
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