Physical fitness is a crucial component of tennis performance, and improving agility lateral movement can give young players competitive edge. By training with plyospecific exercises, which focus on explosive movements plyometric junior improve their speed, power, reaction time the court. The paper aimed to evaluate effects benefits 10-week physical program players, using results seven tests, a...

In 1982, David spent a sabbatical year in Paris at the Laboratoire ofÉconométrie de l' ´ Ecole Polytechnique. He enjoyed so much his stay there that he came back to buy a flat. The atmosphere at the Laboratoire was a little bit unusual. The large and beautiful building, right in the center of Paris, was almost empty, left by its students who had moved outside Paris, and occupied by a handful of...

When a tennis player steps forward to hit a backhand groundstroke in closed stance, modifying the direction of the front foot relative to the net may reduce the risk of ankle injury and increase performance. This study evaluated the relationship between pelvic rotation and lower extremity movement during the backhand groundstroke when players stepped with toes parallel to the net (Level) or wit...

Tennis is a pan-global sport that is played year-round in both hemispheres. This places notable demands on the physical and psychological preparation of players and included in these demands are nutritional and fluid requirements both of training and match- play. Thus, the purpose of this article is to review nutritional recommendations for tennis. Notably, tennis players do not excel in any pa...

Australia boasts an enviable record of Grand Slam champions. Of these, two are further enshrined in sporting history as having won all four singles titles a calendar year. course, we referring to Margaret Court and Rod Laver. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, both have written books about their journey legendary status (Court, 2016; Laver & Writer, 2013). A reading stories reveals number...

Heart rate (HR), hematocrit, hemoglobin, blood glucose, and plasma concentrations of lactate, cortisol, and testosterone were monitored in 10 male subjects (Division I, 20.3 +/- 2.5 yrs, VO2max: 58.5 +/- 9.4 ml.kg-1.min-1) during singles tennis and a treadmill test. During the on-court session, HR was 144.6 +/- 13.2 beats.min-1 for the 85 min of play. Plasma lactate rose 50% from a post-warmup ...

The knowledge representation community has built general-purpose ontologies which contain large amounts of commonsense knowledge over relevant aspects of the world, including useful visual information, e.g.: “a ball is used by a football player”, “a tennis player is located at a tennis court”. Current state-of-the-art approaches for visual recognition do not exploit these rule-based knowledge s...

The aims of this study were (i) to describe the relative intensity of simulated tennis play based on the cumulative time spent in three metabolic intensity zones, and (ii) to determine the relationships between this play intensity distribution and the aerobic fitness of a group of competitive players. 20 male players of advanced to elite level (ITN) performed an incremental on-court specific en...