SportAI brings instant AI match analysis to 400 French padel cameras

SportAI has plugged its AI match-analysis system into more than 400 LiveXperience padel cameras across France, giving club players instant statistics, automated summaries and highlight reels as soon as matches end. The rollout moves padel video beyond simple replay and into the kind of post-match breakdown once reserved for elite players with coaches, analysts and separate editing crews.

The new layer is built to extract ball tracking, heat maps, movement data and rally analysis from ordinary club footage, then turn that information into usable feedback and shareable clips. For amateur and competitive players alike, that means a match can now be reviewed the same way a serious training session would be, with the footage serving both as coaching material and as content players can circulate after a game.

LiveXperience already had the club infrastructure in place to make that possible at scale. The company says it has developed digital solutions for padel and Foot 5 in France since 2016, and another account says it was founded in 2018 by two former sports center managers. Its network now equips more than 400 clubs across France and already includes real-time score displays, voice-over score announcements, connected watches for screen control, instant replay in the clubhouse and live broadcasts to bars and social media.

That footprint matters in a French padel market that is still expanding fast. The Fédération Française de Tennis said France passed 100,000 padel licensees on June 17, 2025, up 42.7 percent from 70,500 at the end of the 2023/2024 season. The federation later said 850,000 people were playing padel in France and 272,000 were licensed, a 130 percent increase from 2022, while the number of competitors climbed to more than 120,000 from fewer than 700 in 2015.

Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, the FFT’s padel director, has said the sport is still developing and that simple competitions fill immediately when clubs put them on. That makes AI video less of a novelty than a retention tool and a possible premium upsell: clubs can package better match review, more polished content and more engaging experiences around the same court booking. SportAI is also leaning on a broader sports-tech pedigree, saying its products offer elite-level technique analysis, automated highlights and tactical data, that it was named a TIME Best Invention 2025, and that it previously tested AI-highlight functionality in Norway and worked with France Télévisions on AI-based technique analysis and 3D visualization at Roland-Garros’s RGLab.