Sport-specific integration
Evaluating Serve-by-Serve Tennis Data and Odds Feeds
Tennis state is hierarchical: tournament, match, set, game, and point. A serve-level product must preserve that hierarchy while handling tie-breaks, retirements, walkovers, surface changes, and corrections.
01
Define the point state precisely
Specify whether the product needs only the current server and point score or a complete point history with serve number, outcome, rally detail, break-point state, and timestamps. Availability may differ by tournament and court.
Confirm how standard games, tie-breaks, match tie-breaks, deciding-set rules, doubles teams, and tournament-specific formats are represented. Avoid deriving format solely from a tournament name.
02
Align events, score, and markets
Every point update should be traceable to the match, set, game, sequence, server, and resulting score state. If odds are consumed alongside events, define the timestamps and identifiers used to associate a price with the correct pre-point or post-point state.
Test suspensions separately from missing updates. A market may intentionally suspend during a point while the event feed continues to advance.
- Tournament, match, participant, set, game, and point identifiers
- Server, serve number, point outcome, and resulting score where required
- Source, provider, and receipt timestamps
- Market line, state, suspension, replacement, and correction behavior
03
Include exceptional match endings
Retirements, walkovers, disqualifications, weather interruptions, venue changes, and overturned point decisions must produce a state the application can explain. Ask how a previously sent point or score is corrected and whether the final result can later be amended.
Evaluate across the tours, levels, surfaces, and match formats important to the product. Track unsupported courts, mapping issues, sequence gaps, correction handling, and the alignment between event and market state.
Worksheet
Requirements to confirm
Use these rows as the start of a written evaluation. Add the exact competitions, territories, product surfaces, and acceptance evidence your team needs.
| Area | Confirm | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Match hierarchy | Tournament, match, participant, set, game, point, and format identifiers | Keeps point events attached to the correct scoring state |
| Serve detail | Server, serve number, outcome, break-point state, sequence, and resulting score | Defines what “serve by serve” means for the product |
| Odds alignment | Event, market, line, suspension, and pre-point or post-point timestamps | Associates a price with the intended point state |
| Exceptional endings | Retirement, walkover, disqualification, interruption, and correction behavior | Makes non-standard conclusions explainable |
Checklist
Questions to take to a provider
- Which tournaments and courts provide the required point detail?
- How are tie-break formats, doubles, and tournament-specific rules represented?
- How are event and odds timestamps aligned around a point?
- How are retirements, walkovers, suspensions, and corrections communicated?
The answers should be tied to the exact sports, competitions, fields, territories, delivery, and permitted use your product needs. Current Core Data Services availability is confirmed during discovery.