Have you heard about IBM Inc. collecting a variety of information during 2013 Wimbledon:

* Speed of serve statistics

* Direction of serve

* Return of serve

* Whether a point was won by a forced or unforced error and what type of shot won point

Time data is combined with 41 million data points from historical data sets.

This way, key characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of players can be analyzed to predict whether a player will win match or actions that need to be done differently.

How Big Data Is Transforming Tennis at Wimbledon from Wall Street Journal