# Tennis Commentary Generation on TennisVL (test)

Source: [Tennis Commentary Generation on TennisVL (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-03-17T08:00:09.807Z

Evaluation of models generating commentary for tennis videos using the TennisVL dataset (test split), assessed using standard NLP metrics (BLEU, ROUGE) alongside custom subjective evaluations (Coherence, Excitement, Professionalism).

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Tennis Commentary Generation |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | TennisVL (test) |
| Metric | BLEU-4 |
| Unit | SCALAR |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 11 of 11 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [BLEU-4](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=BLEU-4>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [METEOR](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=METEOR>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [ROUGE-L](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=ROUGE-L>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [CIDEr](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=CIDEr>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Accuracy](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Accuracy>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Coherence](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Coherence>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Excitement](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Excitement>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Professionalism](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Professionalism>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Pacing](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Pacing>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Total Score](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/tennis-commentary-generation-on-tennisvl-test.md?metric=Total%20Score>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

## Recorded results

| Method | BLEU-4 | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TennisExpert | 7.98 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Gemini-3-pro | 1.78 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Gemini-3-flash | 1.57 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Qwen3.5-plus | 1.51 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| GPT-5.2 | 1.32 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Qwen3-VL-32B | 1.24 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Claude-4.5-sonnet | 1.22 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Qwen3-VL-8B | 1.2 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| Qwen3.5-35B | 1.19 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| InternVL3.5-38B | 0.84 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |
| InternVL3.5-8B | 0.75 | Not recorded | 69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01 |

### TennisExpert

BLEU-4: 7.98. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158dd.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Ours"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Gemini-3-pro

BLEU-4: 1.78. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158dc.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c311e209131cea8cef5.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Proprietary","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Gemini-3-flash

BLEU-4: 1.57. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158da.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7c311e209131cea8cef5.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Proprietary","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3.5-plus

BLEU-4: 1.51. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Proprietary","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GPT-5.2

BLEU-4: 1.32. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158db.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/695f39f053fdd5c361743ecb.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Proprietary","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-VL-32B

BLEU-4: 1.24. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6927db54d6b0dd3342930f66.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open-Weight","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Claude-4.5-sonnet

BLEU-4: 1.22. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Proprietary","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3-VL-8B

BLEU-4: 1.2. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/6927db54d6b0dd3342930f66.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open-Weight","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Qwen3.5-35B

BLEU-4: 1.19. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open-Weight","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### InternVL3.5-38B

BLEU-4: 0.84. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7af01e209131cea85dc9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open-Weight","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### InternVL3.5-8B

BLEU-4: 0.75. Result ID: 69b9093d47f34ce924a158d3.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69b8e00a0636e5bf4afbea01.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7af01e209131cea85dc9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Model Category":"Open-Weight","Setting":"Zero-Shot"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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