Tennis and table tennis activities

Former Member over 11 years ago

Hi there,
Apps for these two activities will be quite popular in my opinion. Using indoor running app Vivoactive logged only 16o cals for 1:30 mins table tennis where as Fitbit Surge logged in for similar time about 350 cals. Similar discrepancies with tennis between Surge and Vivoactive.

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Former Member over 8 years ago +4

Still waiting table tennis in Garmin Connect activities
Former Member over 8 years ago +3

I agree with you it would be very popular. The Table Tennis club I play at has over 2000 members with a lot of interest in this app. I wrote Garmin many years ago why they don't have or develop a table…
5434721 over 3 years ago +1

Wait is still On !!

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Multipassionate 10 days ago

For anyone who lands here looking for a table tennis app: I built one, Ping Pong Smash.

You keep score by hand, one press per rally: games to 11, 21 or a custom target, with the serve changing every 2 or 5 points
Undo, and a match history on the watch
Saves to Garmin Connect with your heart rate and every game score
Friends can follow the score live in a browser at pingpongsmash.app, and hear it read aloud

It doesn't detect strokes. On the calories question in the first post, here's what a wrist sensor can and can't measure in table tennis: https://pingpongsmash.app/guides/heart-rate-calories-table-tennis

Store: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/25c6c1b1-b88f-4f33-bd53-ea54d596ea6b

Multipassionate 9 days ago

For the tennis half of this thread: I also made Tennis Smash, a Connect IQ app that keeps tennis score (points, games, sets, deuce or No-Ad, tie-breaks) and saves the match to Garmin Connect with the set scores and the points won on serve and on return. It runs on the fenix 5 Plus, fenix 6 and more than 100 other Garmin watches. If stroke recognition is what you're after, Tennis AI (mentioned above) does that. Tennis Smash keeps the score instead, and I built it to stay one press per point while covering the standard rules, which I think is the right balance for most players. Store: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/7d673782-5db4-4115-bb30-20248596b21b