IBM is bringing millions of fans worldwide closer to their favorite tennis stars at the 127th annual US Open. Point by point, IBM is delivering a host of new interactive capabilities to enhance the 2007 tournament experience in person, via the Web and through television broadcasts. The United States Tennis Association (USTA), together with IBM, provides fans an exclusive virtual seat at the world’s single largest annually attended sporting event.
| Date | Title |
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| 28 Aug 2007 | USOpen.org Debuts Next Generation of Online Tennis Entertainment |
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2007 US Open Homepage
Date added: 28 Aug 2007
The 2007 USOpen.org Web site, designed and developed with the USTA and hosted by IBM, is more engaging and more personalized for tennis fans than ever before. A new home page feature, my USOpen.org, allows fans to easily track up to five of their favorite players and view automatic and customized updates on the players’ statistics, related news and interviews, match results and scores. Fans can also tag their favorite stories with social bookmarks, such as Digg and del.icio.us. No registration is required; a fan simply chooses his or her players of choice, and the site remembers the selections when he or she returns.
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2007 US Open Slam Tracker Interactive Draw
Date added: 28 Aug 2007
The USOpen.org site offers a more personalized tennis championship experience through the new SlamTracker application. Fans can now interact with the live draw, follow their tracked players in the context of the draw, and see current matches in progress and schedule updates integrated with the draw in a real-time scoring environment.
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2007 US Open Slam Tracker Scoreboard
Date added: 28 Aug 2007
A new interactive venue map, available at USOpen.org through IBM's new SlamTracker applications, provides a view into what’s happening on all active match courts. With a simple roll of the mouse over locations on the map, fans can see who is playing on a given court and the online scoreboard changes to reflect the chosen match.
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Michael Maloney
IBM Media Relations
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maloney2@us.ibm.com