it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players powerful, light of foot, lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year, the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years. a centre court centenary. indeed! nice line. i know how much you love wimbledon but are you like my aunt, who shouts at the tv for two weeks? i absolutely love it and i absolutely am like your aunt. this is the most stressful two weeks of the year for me. my heart rate goes through the roof and i m just watching the thing on tv. oh, you need one of my activity trackers. i ve got a few to spare to track your heart rate. ah, yes! how did you get on with those? well, i ll tell you and you about that in a bit. right you are. yeah, wimbledon has been at the forefront of trialling new tech, both on and off the court, and we ve been lucky enough to see a fair bit of
it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players powerful, light of foot, lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year, the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. you see that there? that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years. a centre court centenary. indeed! nice line. i know how much you love wimbledon, but are you like my aunt, who shouts at the tv for two weeks? i absolutely love it and i absolutely am like your aunt. this is the most stressful two weeks of the year for me. my heart rate goes through the roof and i m just watching the thing on tv. oh, you need one of my activity trackers. i ve got a few to spare to track your heart rate. ah, yes! how did you get on with those? well, i ll tell you and you about that in a bit. right you are. yeah, wimbledon has been at the forefront of trialling new tech, both on and off the court, and we ve been lucky enough
and we ve been lucky enough to see a fair bit of it over the years. so, there is no better place to anchor our sports tech themed show. and we re going to start with something for the fans. tech giant ibm has partnered with wimbledon for more than 30 years and this year, it s upgraded the official wimbledon app to tell the future. so, for each singles match here, match insight is going to try and predict the outcome of that match, who s going to win, yeah? it is, indeed. it s using, of course, the players performance but it s also looking at what the media buzz is. we combine that with other stats, other data, like the player tracking and ball tracking that hawk eye are doing, players form, momentum, performance in the lead up to and now during the championships. the brains behind this app belong to watson, ibm s artificial intelligence. and after absorbing all the data and the chatter, it ll make a prediction that s totally separate from the official seedings. these predic
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learning more about tournaments. i am wandering around. refreshments aren t included. wimbledon s digital fans appear slightly older than real life ones. there is someone with an ice cream on the head. right, so, earlier, i used the app to make a match prediction, and so did ibm s ai watson, and the results are now in, and. ah. well, i hope i didn tjinx it, but tsurenkojust beat burridge 6 2, 6 3. which means that prediction i made earlier. yeah. watson is currently beating me i o. and throughout the fortnight, that al should get even smarter because it s going to be reading all of the discussions and the media coverage about injuries, players health and their general performance, and that means we can do something quite exciting. now, i m filming this quite early in the wimbledon fortnight but we re putting the finishing touches to this programmejust before the singles semifinals, and that means that we can put on screen for you who watson thinks is going to