Hey everyone, I’m back with another one of my tech adventures, and today I wanted to share my experience building a simple “Coco Gauff tennis live score” display. You know, I’m a huge tennis fan, and keeping up with live scores, especially for players like Coco Gauff, can be a bit of a hassle sometimes. So, I thought, why not create something myself?
Getting Started
First things first, I needed to figure out where to get the live scores. I did a quick search, just like I did before when I wanted to follow Andy Murray’s live score. Remember that time? I also tried some other search terms like “tomorrow carol to play tennis with her +team”. All the results were not I expected. So, I decided to find a proper way for my project.
After some digging, I found out that most of the information was irrelevant to my expectations. These search engines always give too much useless information. The results show me “Segurana de doses mais altas de melatonina em adultos”, “Torrentgalaxy mx galaxyfence php f dropoff 2ftorrents php 3fsearch 3dto 2ball 2bthe 2bboys 253a 2balways 2band 2bforever 2b”, “Crazy Frog”. None of them helped me with the live score, and most of them were written in languages I don’t understand. So I gave up on searching on search engines and went to find a website that provides sports scores. But there are still too many irrelevant results.
Building the Display
With the data source sorted, the next step was to actually build the display. I’m not going to lie, this part took some trial and error.
- First, I tried to copy some code from the internet, but it didn’t work at all.
- Then, I chose to use some simple HTML to structure the basic layout – you know, a box to display the player’s name, the current score, and maybe the match time.
- After that, I used a bit of JavaScript to periodically fetch the live score data from the API I found and update the HTML elements.
I played around with the styling a bit, trying to make it look decent, nothing too fancy. Let me tell you, getting the score to update smoothly in real time was a bit of a challenge. I had to make sure I wasn’t making too many requests to the API, or else I might get blocked. It’s like when you keep refreshing a webpage too many times, and it suddenly stops working.
The Result
After a few evenings of tinkering, I finally had something that worked! It wasn’t perfect, but it did the job. I could see Coco Gauff’s live score right there on my screen, updating automatically. It felt pretty good to have built something useful, even if it was just a small project.
This whole experience taught me a lot about working with APIs, handling real-time data, and just the general process of building something from scratch. It wasn’t always easy, but it was definitely rewarding. Plus, now I can keep up with Coco’s matches without having to constantly check different websites. If you’re into tennis or just curious about building your own little web projects, I’d say give it a shot! You might surprise yourself with what you can create. I also recorded my operation process, so feel free to ask me questions if you want to know more.
