Just a week before the Australian Open is set to begin, Apple has improved the sports knowledge base of its Siri digital personal assistant. This will enable the assistant to answer queries about golf and tennis and provide users with detailed information about upcoming tournaments, scores, events from recent years, and more.
Siri is now capable of answering questions like “Hey Siri, who is ahead in the Pebble Beach tournament,” and “Hey Siri, who is playing at Wimbledon today” thanks to its new and improved sports knowledge base.
It can now provide player biographies, historical records, and score updates. Siri already does that for other sports like baseball, football, and hockey. Siri’s sports knowledge base now hosts information about the ATP world tour and the WTA with data covering the 2016, 2017, and the upcoming Grand Slams in 2018. It even has golfing information from the PGA and LPGA tours for men and women.
Users can inquire about golf tournaments that will take place this year and last year. It also has data covering every Grand Slam since 2007. Siri can surface this data across all Apple devices that it supports, be it an iPhone, Mac, iPad or Apple Watch. It can either surface the data with plain text replies or with rich tabs when appropriate.