After being disappointed with the Zepp 2 tennis sensor, I continued searching for one that could provide meaningful/actionable tennis statistics to improve my tennis game.
I decided to try out the Babolat Pop tennis sensor since it was popular and inexpensive. With Babolat Pop, one wears a wristband that contains a small packet where the small sensor resides. The sensor records the motion of one's playing hand.
The sensor looks like a small, thin card with a button to turn off/on. This sensor pairs over Bluetooth with one's smartphone (I used an iPhone 7).
The Pop Smartphone App provides many meaningless statistics that are hard to understand.
For example, the PIQSCORE has style, speed, and spin percentages. The exact meaning of these is not well known.
The Activity Calendar provides a visual record of past training sessions and matches.
There are other statistics screens, such as the ones below. The numbers don't always make sense. Since I was playing against the ball machine, the best rally of 26 doesn't really make sense.
After playing a series of 5 games over a week, I noticed that most of the statistics stayed the same, but since no individual data is provided, it's difficult to determine how to change one's game for the better.
For example, Pop kept telling me that all the forehands were being hit flat. However, even when I tried to deliberately use a lot of ball spin, it still did not recognize most of my topspin forehands.
After more use, this tool did not provide valuable data, and I returned it. It really needs to give more details about each stroke.
I decided to try out the Babolat Pop tennis sensor since it was popular and inexpensive. With Babolat Pop, one wears a wristband that contains a small packet where the small sensor resides. The sensor records the motion of one's playing hand.
The sensor looks like a small, thin card with a button to turn off/on. This sensor pairs over Bluetooth with one's smartphone (I used an iPhone 7).
The Pop Smartphone App provides many meaningless statistics that are hard to understand.
For example, the PIQSCORE has style, speed, and spin percentages. The exact meaning of these is not well known.
There are other statistics screens, such as the ones below. The numbers don't always make sense. Since I was playing against the ball machine, the best rally of 26 doesn't really make sense.
After playing a series of 5 games over a week, I noticed that most of the statistics stayed the same, but since no individual data is provided, it's difficult to determine how to change one's game for the better.
For example, Pop kept telling me that all the forehands were being hit flat. However, even when I tried to deliberately use a lot of ball spin, it still did not recognize most of my topspin forehands.
After more use, this tool did not provide valuable data, and I returned it. It really needs to give more details about each stroke.
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