Tennis is one of the leading sports all around the world. In the past few years there has been tremendous growth in the use of high-end technology to follow every instance of every match in a Tennis Tournament. Unfortunately, the visually disabled players cannot completely enjoy following and playing the sport as they cannot determine the position of the ball precisely. This rises their stress and anxiety levels and thus many players eventually give up. Training the players and the instructors is difficult because the players need to be extensively trained to determine where is the ball currently, how is the ball being hit and where will the ball land on the court. Thus, there is a dire need for a system that makes the sport less stressful and more enjoyable. The existing systems for the visually disabled Tennis make use of special sound balls that rattle when they bounce. This paper presents a extensive survey of Tennis for the visually disabled, the existing technologies that are being used for analyzing the game and, finally, propose a system that would allow the visually disabled players to follow and play the sport with enthusiasm, just like everyone by following the match closely.

Computer Vision, Internet of Things (IoT), Object detection, Object tracking, Sound Generation, Visually impaired tennis

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