Tennis API Basics

Intro

Sportradar's Tennis data is delivered as a RESTful B2B (Business-to-Business) API. HTTP requests are made using the API authentication access established in your account.

Data can be returned in either JSON or XML format.

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Technical Requirements

To accept data from our API feeds, ensure that your application:

• Supports TLS 1.2 or above
• Can follow an HTTP redirect (used in Push and the Images API)

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API Style

The Tennis API is a Sportradar General Sport API. This means it was designed specifically for the sport of tennis, and an aim to provide our media customers with in-depth, intuitive, and speedy tennis statistics.

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API Coverage

Our Tennis API provides coverage across a global suite of men's and women's competitions.

To help developers manage varying levels of data detail, the API is logically organized into 5 tiers, with Tier 1 offering the most comprehensive data coverage and Tier 5 the least. You can view which competitions fall under each tier in the Coverage Matrix.

To check the specific data coverage available for a given season—such as Enhanced Statistics, Detailed Serve Outcomes, or Play-by-Play—use the Season Info endpoint.

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Understanding Competitions and Seasons

• A Competition in tennis refers to a professional tournament or tour event, such as the Australian Open, Wimbledon, or ATP 1000 – Indian Wells. Each competition has a unique competition_id.
• A Season represents a specific edition of a competition, usually aligned with a calendar year or event date (e.g., Wimbledon 2025). Each season has a unique season_id and includes all matches, players, and results for that instance of the competition.

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Data Collection

Tennis v3 API Data is collected by Sportradar.

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Versioning

The Tennis API is on version 3, featuring our most up-to-date and stable feature set. We recommend all users adopt and build with this version for the best experience. To access Tennis v3, include v3 in the version parameter of your API requests.

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Supported Languages

The Tennis API supports multiple languages to help you deliver localized experiences to global audiences.

You can request data in various supported languages by including the appropriate language code in your API request.

https://api.sportradar.com/tennis/{access_level}/v3/{language_code}/sport_events/{sport_event_id}/timeline.{format}

This ensures that country names and other text-based fields are returned in your preferred language where available.

List of Supported Languages

• de (German)
• en (English)
• es (Spanish)
• fr (French)
• id (Indonesian)
• it (Italian)
• ja (Japanese)
• ru (Russian)
• th (Thai)
• zh (Chinese - simplified)
• zht (Chinese - traditional)

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Data Flow and Retrieval

The Tennis API organizes its data into logical endpoints, or feeds. For example, to access a season's schedule you will want to retrieve the Season Summaries; to access match play-by-play or stat updates, you will want to retrieve a "Sport Event" feed like the Sport Event Timeline or Sport Event Summary feeds.

The Tennis API is separated into 37 distinct feeds, each with a focused purpose to allow for efficient data retrieval. Depending on your specific need, different feeds and pull frequencies are needed. Use our Tennis Endpoints section for feed documentation and an interactive sandbox.

Most feeds will require the inclusion of a unique Id or parameter. Parameters can range from: season, competition, sport event ID, player ID, or competitor ID. To retrieve these unique Ids you may have to iterate through feeds with larger data sets. See our ID Handling section for more info on Sportradar Ids.

Here is a retrieval path for a competitor profile.

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All Tennis API feeds will follow this pulling logic. Visit our Integration Scenarios section for specific retrieval scenarios.

You can also reference our Tennis API Map to get a sense of how the entire API is interconnected.

RESTful & Push

Most of our Tennis endpoints are RESTful, but we also include complementary Push feeds available for Realtime customers.

With RESTful feeds, a request must be made whenever a data update is needed. For our Push feeds, one request will open up a streaming connection. Data is then delivered in a continuous stream indefinitely.

Push feeds correlate to the RESTful endpoints, but are not necessarily 1:1 in parity. For example, the Push Events feed follows the same format, and includes nearly all of the same data, as the Sport Event Timeline RESTful endpoint. And Push Statistics correlates to Sport Event Summary.

For increased data speed, and less API requests, many customers use Push. Though it is important to note that Push feeds are not meant to replace the RESTful data, but to enhance it. RESTful feeds should always be used as the backbone of the Tennis API.

See our Push Feeds section for more info.

Monitoring Data Changes

Learn how to track daily changes to the Tennis API without depleting your call limits.

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Pagination

The Tennis API uses pagination to manage the volume of data returned in a single response. On busy match days, there may be hundreds of events and thousands of statistics provided. Returning all of this at once could lead to performance issues or timeouts.

For details on how pagination works for supported endpoints, refer to this FAQ.

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Additional Integration Options

OpenAPI Specs

Postman Workspace

Schema Download

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More Questions?

Check our Tennis API FAQ or reach out to our support team at [email protected]