Ahead of the Madrid Mutua Open women’s final between Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka, the balls were brought by a dancing robotic dog, which WTA jokingly described as “just your typical ball dog.”
Yet, tennis fans were quick to cut off any plans to inject such technology into tennis courts.
Here are a few of the comments WTA received on Instagram:
Earlier in the Madrid Open, the tournament organizers were involved in a controversy for their choice of fielding very attractive models as ball kids throughout the competition.
Our very own writer Lorenzo Ciotti covered the model ball girls issue in a recent article.
Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and other ATP players were generated by AI
If you want another example of technology knocking with tennis, know that tennis influencer Bastien Fachan recently used AI to generate Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and other ATP players as their nicknames.
Read more in this article: ”King” Rafael Nadal and ”Djoker” Novak Djokovic have just been AI-generated.
