A team of programmers made Tennis Score Tracker iPhone app to help tennis players, coaches, referees and spectators follow tennis scores via their mobile phones. Feel free to check it out and share your thoughts in the comments below. 

Would you like to keep track of your tennis match scores? How about sending match results by email or text message? Look no further than the Tennis Score Tracker!

Tennis Score Tracker is a mobile application for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Players, coaches, and observers can keep score of tennis matches, and send match scores at any time via email or text message. What makes this app unique is that tennis players can keep score of tennis matches while playing, updating match scores during changeovers.

Keeping score in tennis is very simple using this app. In just a few taps the match timer starts and scoring begins. If playing a tennis match users can set the score mode to game-by-game so that the score is updated during changeovers. If observing a tennis match users can set the score mode to point-by-point, scoring matches in the standard way. Scores can be sent via email or text message, or posted to Facebook. Matches can be suspended for later play if needed. A player roster, with details such as notes and player ratings, integrates with your existing contacts as an option.

Locations of tennis matches can be displayed in a map view so that over time users can see where matches were played, and to view previous matches based on location. Locations are displayed during match play based on location name, coordinates as latitude and longitude, or coordinates as degrees, minutes, and seconds, selectable by the user.

Features:

• Score several match types (singles, doubles, Australian, Canadian)
• Game-by-game scoring for players
• Point-by-point scoring for observers
• Post match scores to Facebook
• Send text or email with scores to players
• View historical match data
• Ability to suspend matches during play
• Supports Pro sets (for junior tournaments)
• Supports a variety of tiebreaks
• Edit historical matches or matches during play
• Match timer keeps track of match time
• Choose from one, three, or five sets
• Stores player detail with ratings, handedness, etc.

Device Requirements:

• Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
• Requires iOS 4.2 or later
• 3.4 Mb

Languages Supported:

• English, French, Japanese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese

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I am excited to inform you that Women's Tennis Blog has once again been nominated for the best tennis blog in the Baseline Awards and I hope you will take a few minutes of your time and vote for your favorite online spot You can cast your vote here. The 2011 is the fifth edition of the awards at www.onthebaseline.com and if you remember Women's Tennis Blog won in 2009. Last year Forty Deuce took the honor, but I hope Women's Tennis Blog will have the edge this time.

Other blogs nominated this year are TennisSpin.net, Beyond the Baseline, ZooTennis, Tennis Served Fresh and Forty Deuce. Of course there are also other categories at the awards, such as: Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, Best Non-Grand Slam Final of the Year, Twitterer of the Year, etc.

Voting is open until January 2 and winners will be announced on January 5. Take action!

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At the age of 27 Chanelle Scheepers clinched her maiden title on the WTA Tour at the WANLIMA Guangzhou International Women's Open in China.

Never before this tournament had Scheepers been past the quarterfinals of a WTA event and to reach the title match in Guangzhou the South African played three-setters in all rounds - in the first round against Anastasija Sevastova, in the second against Hsieh Su-Wei, in the quarters against Urszula Radwanska and in the semis against top seed Maria Kirilenko. The final was a whole different story for Scheepers, whose game clicked and she cruised past Magdalena Rybarikova 6-2 6-2.

At No.72 Rybarikova is just one place higher ranked than Scheepers, but the Slovakian came to the final as a much bigger name, having had two titles and one runner-up position to her name. (photo via Guangzhou Open)