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The Tennis Open Data Standard (TODS)

Over the past couple of weeks the USTA has sent an inordinate number of email messages to its membership heralding the imminent arrival of the World Tennis Number. For anyone who has ever bothered to register with the ITF, the World Tennis Number is already here. It appears on the ITF player profile page. In order for that to work, the ITF has to be able to receive information from all its member organizations in some standardized format. That is where the Tennis Open Data Standard (TODS) comes in.

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