How to Share Your AceSense Report with Your Coach

The single most-asked question on tennis-coaching forums is some variant of: "how do I get my coach to actually look at my video?" The Talk Tennis thread "Coaches/Parents — match tracking & statistics app?" is full of well-meaning parents who recorded matches, sent the raw video to the coach, and got nothing back — because the raw video is a 30-minute file the coach has to scrub through to find anything useful, and most coaches are running back-to-back lessons all day.

The fix isn't more video. It's less video — replaced with a one-page report the coach can read in 90 seconds between students, with the option to dive deeper if a specific thing catches their eye.

That's what AceSense's coach-share workflow is built for. Here's how to use it.

The 30-second workflow

1. After your match analyses, open the report in the AceSense app.
2. Tap Share → Coach link.
3. Optionally pick which sections to include (default is "everything").
4. Send the link by WhatsApp, iMessage, email, or wherever you usually message your coach.
5. Your coach taps the link, sees the report in their browser, no login needed.

That's it. No platform to install, no account to create on the coach's side, no shared workspace to invite them to. It's a public read-only URL, expires after 30 days by default (configurable on Pro).

What to actually share

The default report has six sections:

1. Match summary — score, duration, shot count, errors.
2. Shot mix — forehand / backhand / serve / volley breakdown with strengths and weaknesses called out.
3. Court heatmap — where you played from, where you bounced the ball, where rallies ended.
4. Stroke-quality scoring — per stroke type, with the lowest-scoring component highlighted.
5. Per-shot timeline — every shot, scrollable, with a 2-second clip per shot if you've shared the video too.
6. Top three things to work on — the AI's auto-summary; honestly, this section is the one most coaches read first.

For most fortnightly check-ins, shipping the whole report is fine. For first-time sharing with a new coach, clip it down to sections 4 and 6: stroke-quality scores plus the "top three things." That's the smallest signal that gives the coach something useful to react to without forcing them to absorb the whole context.

Don't ship the raw video

Resist the urge. Coaches don't have time to scrub through a 30-minute video; that's the whole reason async coaching has been broken for years. The report is the abstraction layer — it tells the coach what to look at, and then if they want to see a specific shot, they tap a row in the per-shot timeline and get the 2-second clip on demand.

This is also the difference between "asynchronous coaching" working and not working. The Talk Tennis thread above and the adjacent r/10s threads are full of complaints about coaches "ignoring" videos. They're not ignoring them — they're triaging. A 30-minute raw video gets deprioritised behind anything else on their plate. A scannable report gets read.

Writing the message that goes with the report

A short message with three things gets the highest reply rate from coaches we've talked to:

"Match from Saturday, dropped 6-3 6-4. Forehand quality was down vs last fortnight. Specifically curious about my contact point on the deep balls. Report: . No rush, before our Tuesday lesson is fine."

Three things in there, in order:

1. Context. When was the session, what was the result, what was the shape of it.
2. One specific question. Pick one. Not three. Coaches reply at much higher rates to specific questions than to "what should I work on?"
3. A deadline that isn't urgent. "Before Tuesday" is fine. "Right now" gets ignored.

The coach replies with a short voice-note or three lines of text, and you bring that to the next lesson. That's the whole loop.

What changes for coaches with multiple students

If your coach sees enough AceSense reports across their students, they're probably better off with the Team plan. Team gives the coach a dashboard view across all their students, with per-student timelines and aggregated leaderboards. Most independent coaches don't need this until they're handling 5+ regular students using the app; below that, the per-student share-link flow is faster and lighter.

For coaches at clubs and academies, Team makes more sense — it scales to 10 players per coach seat, students upload their own sessions, and the coach reviews from one inbox-style view.

Privacy

When you generate a coach-share link:

• The link is unguessable (256-bit token).
• The link is read-only — your coach can't edit or delete the report.
• The link expires (default 30 days; configurable on Pro).
• You can revoke the link at any time from your dashboard.
• The shared report contains only the data you choose to include — if you toggle off the video clips before generating the link, the recipient sees the report but can't pull the clips.
• All data is stored in europe-west1 (EU). The share link does not move data outside the EU.

There's no public listing, search index, or social-feed-style discovery of shared reports. They're 1:1 between you and whoever you send the link to.

When not to share

Two failure modes worth naming:

Sharing every single session. Diminishing returns. Coaches have feedback fatigue too. Pick the matches that matter (a tournament, a session where something felt off, a milestone), and share those. Three reports a year that get a thoughtful reply beats fifty that get a thumbs-up emoji.

Sharing without context. A bare link with no message gets ignored. Always pair the link with the three-thing template above.

What this replaces

If your current setup is "film matches on a phone, message the raw video to the coach, hope they reply" — you're going to feel the difference immediately. The original Talk Tennis thread linked above has a long-running complaint that the coach review loop is broken because the artifact is wrong, not because coaches don't care. A 30-minute video is the wrong artifact. A 5-section report with a per-shot drill-in is the right one.

If your current setup is "film matches and watch them yourself" — you're already 80% of the way there. Shipping it to the coach is the last 20%, and it's roughly two taps. Worth doing.

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See also: How to film your tennis match · How to record your serve solo · The coaching report feature · Pricing — Team plan

Frequently asked questions

Can my coach use AceSense without an account?

Yes. The PDF report exports to a public link that opens in any browser, no AceSense login required. Your coach gets the full report — shot mix, heatmaps, stroke-quality breakdown, per-shot timeline — in a single tap.

Does the coach see my video too?

Optional. By default the share link contains the report only. On Pro and Team you can also share an annotated video clip alongside it. Useful for serve work; less useful for full-match review where the report is faster to scan.

What's the right number of reports to share with a coach?

One per fortnight is the sweet spot for most amateurs. Less often and the coach forgets the context between lessons; more often and the signal-to-noise drops below useful.