{"id":433,"date":"2014-07-10T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:52:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:52:18","slug":"helping-tennis-stars-analyse-their-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/07\/10\/helping-tennis-stars-analyse-their-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Wimbledon stars analyse their game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information Technology student Charlotte Hutchinson has been been rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the tennis world during her time working with IBM behind the scenes at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>She said; &#8216;I had the best two weeks at Wimbledon. I&#8217;ve had so much fun and met some amazing people!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte was\u00a0tasked with working on the Media Production Team providing the players on all the show courts with their match statistics and data on a memory stick within 30 minutes of the match ending.\u00a0\u00a0She said; &#8216;It was surreal to think that some of the worlds biggest and best tennis players would be analysing their game on the USB sticks I created and built for them.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2014\/07\/10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-436\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2014\/07\/10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2014\/07\/10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2014\/07\/10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/files\/2014\/07\/10289807_10152243415568181_8185794536465671558_n1.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte posed for selfies with Judy Murray and Ross Hutchins, Andy Murrays best friend, and\u00a0doubles player.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte who is a student of Information Technology with a Year in Industry at the Medway campus, is currently undertaking her placement year at IBM,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www-05.ibm.com\/innovation\/uk\/wimbledon\/index.html?re=wimbledon.com_header\" target=\"_blank\">the main sponsor<\/a>\u00a0of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of staff at IBM applied to represent the organisation at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the championships<\/a>\u00a0and Charlotte was one of only 24 who was successful in gaining a place for the fortnight.\u00a0The rigorous selection process involved an application form, selection by an IBM manager, shortlisting by the Wimbledon team, and finally an assessment centre with group exercises and a one-on-one interview.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has been a supporter of the All England Lawn Tennis Club and The Championships for 25 years. The School of Computing has a long standing relationship with IBM and many students have been placed at IBM for their paid\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/placements\/index.html\">Year in Industry<\/a>\u00a0and been employed by them after graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Technology student Charlotte Hutchinson has been been rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the tennis world during her time working with IBM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/07\/10\/helping-tennis-stars-analyse-their-game\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[57975,54830,39994,57968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}