Automating live production across the ITF World Tennis Tour
LIGR powers automated graphics, streaming and highlights for professional tennis' global entry pathway — delivered with Crionet and distributed through Infront, with no graphics operators at any venue.
LIGR Multiview: twelve simultaneous ITF World Tennis Tour courts, monitored from one control room.
35,000+
Matches produced in 2026
65,000+
Hours of live tennis
104
Host cities, six continents
0
Graphics operators on site
The Challenge
The ITF World Tennis Tour is the circuit where every player on the ATP and WTA tours began. It runs almost continuously — hundreds of courts, dozens of countries at once — and most venues have no broadcast truck, no gallery and no production crew.
Under the ITF's partnership with Infront as Official Data Partner, every match had to be produced to a consistent broadcast standard and delivered reliably for global distribution. Staffing a graphics operator per court is arithmetically impossible at this scale — and tennis has no kick-off time: a match starts when the one before it finishes, on a court that may change, in events that combine men's and women's draws.
End to End
How It Works
01
Data in
Crionet's MatchScorer live scoring — the umpire's tablet at courtside — feeds LIGR's match engine directly, alongside the published Order of Play. Score, serve and player identity arrive as structured live data.
02
Autostream
LIGR reads the Order of Play and starts, stops and reassigns a cloud stream per court, per match, automatically — including back-to-back matches, court changes and combined events.
03
Cloud graphics & encode
The ITF-branded overlay is bound to live data and rendered in the cloud on top of the venue feed. Scoreboards update on air with no operator in the loop. Nothing is installed at the venue.
04
Distribution
Finished streams are delivered to Infront for onward distribution, recorded and archived — running across 19 cloud regions on six continents.
Inside the Production
The World Tennis Tour, On Air
On air: the World Tennis Tour scorebug rendered live over play, driven entirely by the umpire's scoring feed.
Match Centre: live events, automated highlight clips and the on-air feed for every match.
The World Tennis Tour graphics package: pre-match matchup cards, rendered in the cloud for every court.
Full-time match summary graphics, built automatically from the live match data.
Platform Capabilities
What LIGR Delivers
Autostream
Streams start, stop and reassign themselves from the Order of Play — no scheduler, no operator.
Data-driven graphics
Scorebugs and match facts bound live to the umpire's scoring feed.
Cloud encode & delivery
Overlay, encode and routing all in the cloud, re-homable across 19 regions.
Highlights & archive
Every match recorded, archived and clipped automatically.
Multiview MCR
An entire tour monitored from one screen, by one control room.
Always-on scale
Live tennis on the platform every single day of the season — peaks of 30+ concurrent streams.
Working With
Partner Ecosystem
ITF · World Tennis
Governing body & rights holder
Crionet
Match data & on-site streaming
Infront
Official Data Partner & distribution
“Scaling live production for a competition as vast as the ITF World Tennis Tour requires automation at its core. Integrating LIGR with Crionet's MatchScorer removed the manual graphics operator entirely — every stream carries high-quality, data-driven visuals, at a cost that makes covering the entry tier of professional tennis viable.”
What's Next
One rebrand, every court, zero site visits
The International Tennis Federation has traded as World Tennis since January 2026. LIGR and Crionet are preparing a refreshed on-air graphics package to carry the new identity across the tour from January 2027 — a tour-wide look-and-feel change delivered centrally, without touching a single venue.
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