45/100 Closed by policy
Audited October 16, 2026 — tennis.com has since dropped out of the panel, so this is the last audit we ran rather than today's from public surfaces only. Can AI agents discover, read, and act on tennis.com? Check by check:
GPTBot: blocked ClaudeBot: blocked Claude-User: allowed PerplexityBot: allowed Google-Extended: blocked CCBot: blocked
| Check | Finding | Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | llms.txt for AI readers No /llms.txt found — AI readers get no curated entry point. |
0/15 | fail |
| A2 | AI crawler access policy robots.txt blocks: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot. |
0/15 | fail |
| A3 | Content readable without a browser Plain fetch of the homepage yields ~346 words of visible text. |
25/25 | pass |
| A4 | Structured data (schema.org JSON-LD) No machine-readable entity markup on the homepage. |
0/15 | fail |
| A5 | Sitemap discoverable Sitemap advertised in robots.txt or served at /sitemap.xml. |
10/10 | pass |
| A6 | Everyday agent tasks reachable from the homepage Found from homepage: support/contact, legal/privacy. |
10/20 | warn |
| B1 | MCP server advertised No MCP advertisement (bonus check — most sites skip this). |
0/5 | skip |
| B2 | OpenAPI description published No OpenAPI document (bonus check — only relevant for APIs). |
0/5 | skip |
4 checks cost tennis.com points. Each one below is the specific remedy for what we measured, not general advice.
Serve a plain-text file at https://tennis.com/llms.txt listing the pages an agent most often needs — pricing, docs, support, account management — each as a one-line description and an absolute URL. It is read by an agent arriving cold with no idea of your structure. Fifteen points, and most teams ship it in an afternoon.
Your robots.txt currently refuses GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot. If that is deliberate, this score is the cost and the trade is yours to make. If it is inherited from an old rule or a security plugin — which is the commonest cause we see — those agents cannot read tennis.com on a user's behalf at all.
Add schema.org JSON-LD to the homepage — Organization at minimum, plus Product or Article where they apply. It is how an agent learns what tennis.com is without inferring it from prose.
An agent could not reach pricing, docs/api from the tennis.com homepage, though support/contact and legal/privacy were fine. These are what agents are sent to find most often. Each needs a plain link an agent can follow from the homepage in one hop — not behind a menu that only appears once JavaScript runs, and not solely in a logged-in view.
Optional, and rare — only a handful of the sites we track run one. An MCP server lets an agent act on tennis.com through a defined interface instead of scraping it. Advertise it at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.
Optional. If tennis.com has a public API, publishing an OpenAPI document at /openapi.json lets an agent call it correctly without a human reading your docs first.
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