SMALL COURT. BIG DATA.
Ball tracking built for a 74 mm perforated ball, a 2.13 m kitchen and four players inside 6.10 by 13.41 metres, logged rally by rally as the match runs.
240 fps
Kitchen camera capture rate
±8 mm
Non-volley zone line accuracy
26
Shot types, from dink to Erne
2.9 s
Referee review turnaround
Built on the sport, not bolted on to it
K-BOX reads the 2.13 m non-volley zone at 240 fps, flagging volleys taken with a foot on the line, momentum carried after the shot and serves contacted above the navel.
Every third shot is classed as drop, drive or lob, then scored against return depth, contact height and how quickly the serving pair reached the kitchen line.
Dink exchanges are counted and mapped cross-court against down the line, with the moment a ball rises above net height tagged as the invitation to speed up.
Player tracking follows both partners through stacking, switches and poaches, showing the sideline gap that opens whenever one steps across to take the middle ball.
How a pickleball fixture becomes data you can act on
Four to six cameras clamp to the fence around a 6.10 by 13.41 m court and calibrate off the kitchen, baseline and sideline in about eleven minutes.
The 74 mm perforated ball is followed through its sharp drop in speed, alongside four bodies, two paddles and every foot near the kitchen line.
Every contact is named: serve, return, third-shot drop, reset, dink, speed-up, counter, overhead or ATP, with rally phase and score attached.
Referee flags come back inside the stoppage, and clips, error maps and dink-to-speed-up ratios sync to Takneek before the pair leaves court.
One ecosystem, three levels of the game
A camera clipped to the fence post gives a club court rally counts, dink tallies and clipped points without a scorer sitting courtside.
A four-camera case covers two adjacent courts, adds non-volley zone review and gives coaches third-shot and speed-up data between drills.
Fixed calibrated cameras, a referee review tablet and broadcast-ready ball tracking for sanctioned tour stops and national federation events.
Each figure is measured against a surveyed reference rig at your venue, then re-checked whenever the cameras move.
What federations, clubs and academies ask us about pickleball
It flags them and the referee decides. K-BOX tracks both feet, the paddle contact point and momentum after the volley, then puts the clip on the referee tablet in under three seconds. In unrefereed club play the same flag appears in the match log.
The same ecosystem, tuned to a different game
Give us one tournament day. We will calibrate your courts, run the draw through K-BOX Pickleball and return the rally data before the medals are presented.
