CAtennis has the pleasure of introducing you to a great new tennis app that is available for iPhone/iPad and Android devices: Resultina. Resultina is, so far, one of the best tennis-results apps that we have had the opportunity to experience. It brings up-to-the-minute results for ATP, WTA and Junior ITF events. One catchy feature is that it allows you to choose your favorite players and peruse their recent results and current activity. This is extremely effective for players as well as coaches and very entertaining for tennis fans.
Here's a brief Q&A with its creator - Jiri Fencl (current coach of WTA player LUCIE HRADECKA):
1. How did you come up with the plan for this app?
The idea was in our mind for some time. I work as a tennis coach and I'm interested where and how players I know play. Futures, Challengers, Tour events, Juniors. That's a lot of websites to go through. So we thought, there must be a better way. And that's how Resultina was born..to solve our own problem.
2. Who were the developers?
The developers are myself, Jiri Fencl, and Lukas Brezina. I work as a professional tennis coach (and do a lot of programming as well) and Lukas is tennis analyst and entrepreneur. We designed an iPhone version of Resultina and we were lucky to find one of the best iPhone developers Petr Jankuj, who did all the hard coding on the iPhone app.
3. What are the long-term goals? Will you be offering other tennis results as well? For example, wheelchair tournaments? College tennis (pretty big deal in US)? Bundesliga?
We launched Resultina in late December, so right now, we're focused on reliability of the service. We want to bring users as accurate result service as we can. I think that one of the best features of the app is that it enables users to type in the scores. So the system is open and we might be able to add results from more events. College tennis is a possibility too.
4. Will this remain a results-based app or are the plans to expand into additional services?
Head to head statistics are in the app already. Resultina (as the name suggests) will be always result-based, but we're always looking to improve it by adding some interesting features.
5. At this point is free but we imagine that there will be a subscription fee soon. When and how much?
The app is free to download and use and for 30 days works with all the bells and whistles. After 30 days, push notifications and My Players section requires subscription that costs $7.99 / year. Everything else will work free of charge. All the tournaments, all results etc.
6. Anything else that you'd like to add?
Resultina also looks for who is next opponent of your favorite players, so at beginning of the week you have a big picture who is playing this week, where and the opponent. Users can update scores, so if you're watching the match or you are at the tournament, you can update finished scores and "release" result for other users. Yes, we monitor quality of user scores. Users build a reputation so we consider scores official after user proves to be reliable source. This way we're able to have scores (especially from smaller tournaments like Futures and Juniors) much faster than anybody else. It is amusing to see a player playing Futures or ITF juniors typing in score of his own match as some of them do. Although they do it more often when they win :-) The Android version can be found at the Play Store.
Thank you, Jiri. Please keep up the great work!
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