Can I look at a player's report without them sending it to me?

Today, no — the player generates the report on their phone and shares the PDF with you. We're working on a coach dashboard that lets your roster share to a single inbox; in the meantime, players email or AirDrop the PDF. Most parents are happy to do this once a week.

Do you have a coach pricing tier?

Not yet — coach plans are on the 2026 roadmap. Today, the player you're coaching pays for their own subscription, which works fine for the homework loop. If you're running 10+ juniors and want a roster view, please email akshay@acesense.io and we'll talk.

What level of junior is this useful for?

Realistically, ranked U12s through U16s in the green-/yellow-ball-and-up bracket. Below that, the technique scores are noisier than the player's week-to-week variance, and the heatmap is more useful than the stroke-quality breakdown. For 14+ ranked juniors, the stroke-quality scores are accurate enough to pick out specific kinetic-chain issues.

How is this different from filming on my phone and texting feedback?

It's not different in kind, it's different in scale. You can absolutely film and text — most coaches do. AceSense automates the per-shot breakdown so the player can review homework on their own time without waiting for you to clip and send. Your hour with them stays for the things only you can do — feeding, repping, on-court coaching.

Will the report contradict what I'm teaching?

Sometimes, yes. The stroke-quality model is calibrated to a broad ATP/WTA technical baseline, which means a player you're intentionally building with non-classical mechanics (e.g. an extreme grip or a deliberate kinetic-chain choice) may score lower than a more textbook hit. Use the heatmap and shot counts as the unambiguous signal; treat the technique score as a discussion starter, not gospel.

AceSense for Junior Tennis Coaches: Async Homework

If you coach junior-tournament players, AceSense gives you a between-lesson homework loop — annotated reports they review, you don't have to film every session.

You coach junior-tournament players. Maybe you have six on your roster, maybe sixteen. They come in once or twice a week for an hour. You feed, you rep, you correct, and the moment they walk off court, you lose visibility on what they're doing in their tournament matches and their solo practice. By the next lesson, they've drifted — and half the lesson goes to remembering where you left off.

This is the gap AceSense was built to close for coaches. This page is the workflow.

The persona check

If any of this is you, this page is worth reading:

You coach U12–U18 ranked juniors (or strong club juniors aiming for ranking).
Your players (or their parents) are paying for one to three lessons a week plus tournament travel.
You don't have a SmartCourt at your facility, and your phone is your only filming tool.
You're constantly fielding the question "can you look at my match from Saturday?" and you don't have time to clip and review every video by hand.
You'd like the player to do the watching themselves, with structure, between lessons.

If that's not you — for instance, you coach at an academy with hard-wired video and a sports-science staff, or you only coach adults — this page is probably not the right one. See /use-cases/coaches-async-review for adult/remote review or /use-cases/club-players for the player-direct version of the workflow.

The weekly homework loop

The shape of it: the player records and uploads, AceSense generates the report, the player reviews it the same day with a structured prompt from you, and you see the PDF (or talk through it) in your next lesson.

1. Pick one tournament match per week

Junior tournaments produce 1–3 matches a weekend. Pick one — usually the most competitive, not the easiest win. The player records it and uploads from their (or their parent's) phone. Three to five minutes of analysis time. By the time the parent has driven home, the report is ready.

2. Send a one-paragraph homework prompt

The single biggest unlock here is what the player is asked to look at. You're the coach — you know what they're working on. Send them a prompt before the upload, something like:

"Look at the cross-court backhand heatmap from Saturday's match. Compare it to last week's report. Are you getting deeper, or is it still landing in the middle third? Bring me three forehands and three backhands you want to talk about on Tuesday."

That's it. The player has the report, they have a question to answer, and they come to your lesson with three time-coded clips ready. You walked into the lesson having done zero clipping — and the player did the work.

3. The lesson stays for what only you can do

Feeding, rep work, the actual on-court correction. The lesson doesn't get spent on "remind me what happened on Saturday" — that's what the report is for. Your hour gets denser. The player gets faster reps on the things they can't see.

4. Track week-to-week with the PDF archive

The coaching-report PDF is the artefact that survives the season. Save them in the player's Drive folder, name them by date and tournament. By month three, you have a longitudinal view that no junior coach has historically had at this price point — without a SmartCourt, without a sports-science budget. That archive is also exactly what a parent wants to see when they're deciding whether to keep paying for lessons.

The feature that earns its keep for junior coaches: the homework loop

The single feature combination that makes this work is shot detection + stroke-quality scoring + the PDF report. Shot detection makes every backhand findable. Stroke quality breaks the technique into preparation, contact, and follow-through — exactly the language you're already using on court. The PDF is the artefact the player can reference between lessons without you in the room.

A coach we work with put it bluntly: "It's the difference between assigning homework and assigning homework that gets done. The kid does it because the report is already there waiting."

What changes in 4 weeks

For a once-a-week-recording, twice-a-week-lesson junior, here's the realistic curve:

Week 1: First report. Coach and player calibrate on what the scores mean. The player is mildly horrified at their second-serve toss height. (Universal experience.)
Week 2: First between-lesson fix lands. Usually a shot-mix or a placement issue — the player started avoiding their backhand in matches and the heatmap shows it.
Week 3: Coach starts noticing they're spending less time re-explaining and more time progressing. This is the real ROI for the coach.
Week 4: The player has built the habit. They show up to the lesson with the three clips, the question, and the answer they want to talk about. The lesson density doubles.

On the parent question

Junior players don't usually pay for AceSense — their parents do. The honest framing for parents is on the parents-junior-tennis page; from a coach's standpoint, the parent objection that comes up is "is this another thing I have to do?" The answer is no — the player records, uploads, and shares. The parent's only job is making sure the phone is charged. Some parents will want more involvement; the Talk Tennis "match tracking & statistics app" thread shows exactly the kind of parent who'll engage with the report deeply. That's fine — the report scales to that level.

When AceSense isn't the right tool for you

Honest list. AceSense is the wrong tool for a junior coach if:

You coach at an academy with PlaySight, Hawk-Eye Live, or a sports-science department. You already have better data and on-staff people to interpret it. AceSense is redundant.
Your players are below green-ball level. The technique scores get noisy and the heatmap is calibrated to standard court dimensions. For mini-tennis, an iPhone and your eye are better.
You only coach in person and don't want async homework as part of your model. Some excellent coaches are explicitly hands-on-only. If between-lesson video isn't your thing, this tool doesn't fit your shape.
You're a touring-level coach. ATP/WTA tour coaches need data we don't pretend to have. Use the tour-level tools.

A note on stroke-quality and your teaching philosophy

The stroke-quality score is calibrated against a broad pro-level technical baseline. If you teach a deliberately non-classical style — an extreme western forehand grip, a kinetic chain choice that's intentionally unorthodox — the model may score it lower than its outcome warrants. We're transparent about this; see /accuracy. Treat the score as a conversation starter, not a verdict. The heatmap and shot-mix data, by contrast, are outcome measurements — those are the unambiguous signal.

Pricing

The free tier handles 2 analysed matches a month, which works for one-tournament-a-week. Full breakdown at /pricing. Coach-roster pricing is on the roadmap; in the meantime, the player or parent pays directly. Most coaches we work with simply add this as a recommended tool when onboarding new juniors.

Ready to try the loop? Have your next junior record their tournament match, upload it free, and walk into the lesson with the PDF on the table. Or read how AceSense actually works under the hood first. Either way, this loop only starts when one of your players records something.

Frequently asked questions

Can I look at a player's report without them sending it to me?: Today, no — the player generates the report on their phone and shares the PDF with you. We're working on a coach dashboard that lets your roster share to a single inbox; in the meantime, players email or AirDrop the PDF. Most parents are happy to do this once a week.
Do you have a coach pricing tier?: Not yet — coach plans are on the 2026 roadmap. Today, the player you're coaching pays for their own subscription, which works fine for the homework loop. If you're running 10+ juniors and want a roster view, please email [email protected] and we'll talk.
What level of junior is this useful for?: Realistically, ranked U12s through U16s in the green-/yellow-ball-and-up bracket. Below that, the technique scores are noisier than the player's week-to-week variance, and the heatmap is more useful than the stroke-quality breakdown. For 14+ ranked juniors, the stroke-quality scores are accurate enough to pick out specific kinetic-chain issues.
How is this different from filming on my phone and texting feedback?: It's not different in kind, it's different in scale. You can absolutely film and text — most coaches do. AceSense automates the per-shot breakdown so the player can review homework on their own time without waiting for you to clip and send. Your hour with them stays for the things only you can do — feeding, repping, on-court coaching.
Will the report contradict what I'm teaching?: Sometimes, yes. The stroke-quality model is calibrated to a broad ATP/WTA technical baseline, which means a player you're intentionally building with non-classical mechanics (e.g. an extreme grip or a deliberate kinetic-chain choice) may score lower than a more textbook hit. Use the heatmap and shot counts as the unambiguous signal; treat the technique score as a discussion starter, not gospel.