Rob Schaefer

The USTA is expanding the use of video review at this year’s US Open. After debuting on five courts for main draw play last year, the review system will be available on eight in 2024, adding Courts 7, 11 and 12 to Ashe, Armstrong, Grandstand, Stadium 17...

MASON – The Cincinnati Open is in the middle of a two-year renovation that will see $260M poured into upgrades to the Lindner Family Tennis Center before the 2025 edition. The tournament has also scaled up its technology investment in that span with a series of fan-facing and...

The 2024 Cincinnati Open’s first three sessions drew 39,534 fans, a record for the 125-year-old tournament’s opening weekend. The previous high of 37,986 was set last year across Saturday and Sunday sessions. This year, Saturday was replaced with a Community Day that drew 7,002 attendees and...

Sportradar booked €278.4M ($305M) in revenue in Q2 FY24, a new quarterly record for the company and a 29% increase from the same period last year. The company’s Betting Technology & Solutions category (€229.1/$251M, up 30% year-over-year) accounted for 82% of that revenue and its Sports Content,...

In line with the North American hard-court season, Sportradar rolled out nine new tennis betting markets this August, as well as several fresh visualizations within its augmented streaming solution for sportsbooks called 4Sight. Through Sportradar’s partnership with the ATP Tour and Tennis Data Innovations (TDI),...

Evolv Technology booked a record $25.5M in revenue in the second quarter, up 29% from the same period in FY23, and $14.5M in gross profit, up $7.4M year-over-year. Subscriptions to the company’s Evolv Express AI-powered security scanners – the winner of SBJ’s Best in Fan Experience Technology and Best...

Shift4 continued its revenue and profitability growth in the second quarter of FY24 that included onboarding several new clients in the sports and entertainment sector. The POS software provider booked $827M in revenue and $218.8M in gross profit this quarter, up 30% and 38% respectively from the...

Uplift Labs is partnering with Functional Movement Systems (FMS) to integrate the movement screening company’s sports performance metrics into Uplift Capture. The spirit of the collaboration is to provide a comprehensive platform for movement analysis to Uplift’s clients, which include MLB, one-third of MLB teams and several college...

Genius Sports reported $95.4M in second quarter revenue, exceeding its guidance for the period and representing 9.9% growth from the same span in 2023. Its first-half revenue ($215.2M, up 16.9% year-over-year) and gross profit ($41.2M) are also outpacing 2023, which the data giant closed with $413M in revenue and...

The USTA is reuniting with Moët & Chandon, a U.S. Open sponsor from 2011-14, with a multiyear agreement that beginning in 2024 again makes it the event’s exclusive champagne provider. The U.S. Open did not have a champagne category sponsor from 2015-2023.  As part of the deal,...