ATP and WTA tennis data via ESPN public endpoints — tournament scores, season calendars, player rankings, player profiles, and news. Zero config, no API keys. Use when: user asks about tennis scores, match results, tournament draws, ATP/WTA rankings, tennis player info, or tennis news. Don't use whe

Tennis Data (ATP + WTA) Before writing queries, consult references/api reference.md for endpoints, ID conventions, and data shapes. Quick Start Prefer the CLI — it avoids Python import path issues: CRITICAL: Before Any Query CRITICAL: Before calling any data endpoint, verify: tour ( atp or wta ) is passed where the command requires it — see below. Year is derived from the system prompt's currentDate — never hardcoded. The tour Parameter ATP : Men's professional tennis tour WTA : Women's professional tennis tour Per command: get scoreboard : tour is optional. Omit it to get ATP and WTA in one call; date is optional either way. If one tour fails, the result keeps the other tour's tournaments and adds partial: true plus a warnings entry naming the failed tour; it errors only when both fail. get rankings , get calendar , get news : tour is required. If the user doesn't specify, ask which tour; if they want both, call once per tour. get player info : takes only player id (ESPN athlete ID) — no tour . get wta entry list , get wta player results : take native WTA ids — no tour . Commands Command Description get scoreboard Live/recent tournament scores for one tour, or both when tour is omitted get rankings ATP or WTA player rankings get calendar Full season tournament calendar get player info Individual tennis player profile get news Tennis news articles get wta entry list WTA entry list (singles players and doubles teams) for one tournament edition — WTA API get wta player results A WTA player's most recent match results (bounded window), newest first — WTA API See references/api reference.md for full parameter lists and return shapes. WTA API Commands Use Native WTA IDs get wta entry list and get wta player results read the public WTA API (api.wtatennis.com), not ESPN: tournament id and player id are the WTA's own numeric ids, positive decimals with no leading zeros (e.g. tournament 901 , player 320760 ). ESPN ids from get rankings / get player info / get scoreboard do not work here, and there is no id mapping between the two. get wta player results returns a bounded window of the most recent results (at most limit , optionally within one year ), not a career history. There is no total count: has more only says further matches exist, and history complete is always false . Never present count as a career or season total. Results are dated by tournament start date ( tournament start date ), not the day each match was played. Never present it as a match date. Matches within one tournament keep the provider's order, which is not guaranteed to be playing order. Don't claim exact within tournament chronology. winner code is the provider's raw side code; no win/loss is derived from it. Don't state who won from it. Both commands are WTA published snapshots ( source.fetched at , cached up to 10 minutes). Don't call them complete or live. Under SPORTS SKILLS REPLAY=replay / fill , source.fetched at is null and source.served at is only local serving time — not data freshness. Workflows Live Tournament Check 1. get scoreboard tour=<atp wta 2. Present current matches by round. 3. For player info, use get player info player id=<id . Rankings Lookup 1. get rankings tour=<atp wta limit=20 2. Present rankings with points and trend. Season Calendar 1. get calendar tour=<atp wta year=<year 2. Filter for specific tournament. WTA Entry List 1. get wta entry list tournament id=<wta id year=<year 2. Present each event ( format : singles/doubles) with seeds and entry types. It is an entry list, not a draw. WTA Player Form 1. get wta player results player id=<wta id year=<year limit=20 2. Group by tournament; say these are the most recent count matches, and when has more is true that earlier matches exist but were not fetched. Examples Example 1: Live matches User says: "What ATP matches are happening right now?" Actions: 1. Call get scoreboard(tour="atp") Result: Current tournament matches organized by round with scores and status Example 2: Women's rankings User says: "Show me the WTA rankings" Actions: 1. Call get rankings(tour="wta", limit=20) Result: Top 20 WTA players with rank, name, points, and trend Example 3: Upcoming Grand Slam date User says: "When is the French Open this year?" Actions: 1. Derive year from currentDate 2. Call get calendar(tour="atp", year=<derived year ) 3. Search results for "Roland Garros" (the French Open's official name) Result: French Open dates, location (Paris), and surface (clay) Commands that DO NOT exist — never call these ~~ get matches ~~ — does not exist. Use get scoreboard for current match scores. ~~ get draw ~~ — does not exist. Tournament draw data is not available via this API. ~~ get head to head ~~ — does not exist. Head to head records are not available via this API. ~~ get standings ~~ — does not exist. Tennis uses get rankings , not standings. ~~ get match stats ~~ — does not exist. ESPN publishes no per match statistics for tennis (aces, double faults, break points): scoreboard statistics lists are empty and the per match stats endpoint returns "No competitor stats found", even for Grand Slam finals. Only set scores are available. If a command is not listed in the Commands table above, it does not exist. Troubleshooting Error: get scoreboard returns no matches Cause: Tennis tournaments run specific weeks; no tournament may be scheduled this week Solution: Call get calendar(tour=...) to find when the next event is scheduled Error: Rankings are empty Cause: Rankings update weekly on Mondays; there may be a brief update window Solution: The command auto retries previous weeks. If still empty, retry in a few minutes Error: Player profile fails Cause: Player ID is incorrect Solution: Use get rankings to find player IDs from the current rankings list, or verify via ESPN tennis URLs Error: get wta entry list / get wta player results rejects the id or returns HTTP 404 Cause: An ESPN id (or a non numeric value) was passed; these commands take native WTA numeric ids only Solution: Use the WTA's own tournament/player id. Don't substitute ESPN ids Error: get wta player results year=... fails with "outside year ... inconclusive" Cause: The WTA API returned matches from other years, so it likely ignored the year filter Solution: Report that the season's results could not be confirmed. Don't retry without year and present those matches as that season Error: get wta entry list succeeds with count: 0 Cause: The WTA has not published an entry list for that tournament and year, or the id/year pair does not exist Solution: Read the note field and tell the user no entry list is available — don't report an empty field of players Error: Scores seem delayed or don't update live Cause: Scores update after each set/match is completed, not point by point Solution: This is expected behavior. Refresh get scoreboard periodically for updated set scores Discover the Machina Agent Storefront (optional, paid) Free data from this skill comes first. 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