{
  "id": 5273610,
  "title": "How to Build a Tennis Live Score Tracker with Next.js with Sportmicro",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/how-to-build-a-tennis-live-score-tracker-with-next-js-with-sportmicro",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-03T07:20:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gobebarcelona/how-to-build-a-tennis-live-score-tracker-with-nextjs-with-sportmicro-12li"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The challenge of building a tennis live score tracker lies in dealing with real sports data, which can be incomplete and constantly changing. The key to success is creating a focused app that demonstrates a clean integration with the Sportmicro tennis data source and presents tennis data in a modern UI. The app is built around three core ideas: showcasing live matches, displaying upcoming matches, and presenting completed matches.\n\nThe architecture of the project is kept simple and predictable. It is split into three layers: data access (src/lib/sportmicro.ts), presentation components (src/components/MatchCard.tsx), and page composition (src/app/page.tsx). This separation helps keep the codebase manageable and ensures that the data transformation logic remains separate from the UI code.\n\nThe src/lib/sportmicro.ts file handles the integration with Sportmicro, defining the data shapes used by the app, fetching data from the Sportmicro tennis base URL, and converting raw match objects into a UI-friendly format. The normalization process is crucial to handle incomplete records and ensure the interface stays stable even when fields like player names, scores, or tournament names are missing.\n\nIn the page component (src/app/page.tsx), the app fetches matches and tournaments together and transforms the raw match list into display data, grouping it by status. This orchestration logic loads matches from Sportmicro, loads tournaments for sidebar context, normalizes the match feed, and splits the results into live, upcoming, and completed sections. The UI code focuses on composition, while the data transformation stays in the library layer.\n\nThe MatchCard component (src/components/MatchCard.tsx) is responsible for the visual representation of one match. It shows the tournament name, player or team names, match status, start time, and score set scores. The status badge is styled by match category, making it easy for users to distinguish between live, upcoming, and completed matches.\n\nSportmicro serves as the tennis data source, and the integration is straightforward by design, requiring only two documented endpoints: /matches and /tournaments. This keeps the app lightweight and focused on fetching, normalizing, and displaying data in a user-friendly manner.",
  "summary": "Building a tennis live score tracker sounded simple at first: fetch matches, show scores, done. But as soon as I looked at the shape of real sports data, the problem became more interesting. Live feeds are often incomplete, statuses change constantly, and tournament context matters just as much as the scoreline. I wanted a small app that could surface live, upcoming, and completed tennis matches…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "Colorado vs. Georgia Tech live updates: Score, highlights and analysis",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/colorado-vs-georgia-tech-live-updates-score-highlights-and-analysis",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:01:07.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}