Physical Demands of Tennis Across the Different Court Surfaces, Performance Levels and Sexes: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis.

Autor: Pluim BM; Section Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. b.pluim@knltb.nl.; Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (ACHSS), IOC Research Center of Excellence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b.pluim@knltb.nl.; Medical Department, Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB), Amstelveen, The Netherlands. b.pluim@knltb.nl.; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b.pluim@knltb.nl.; Academic Center for Evidence-based Sports Medicine, ACES, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b.pluim@knltb.nl., Jansen MGT; Toptennis Department, Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB), Amstelveen, The Netherlands.; Centre for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands., Williamson S; English Institute of Sport, London, UK., Berry C; Lawn Tennis Association, London, UK., Camporesi S; Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Fagher K; Rehabilitation Medicine Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden., Heron N; Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.; School of Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK., van Rensburg DCJ; Section Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.; Medical Committee, World Netball, Manchester, UK., Moreno-Pérez V; Center for Translational Research in Physiotherapy, Department of Pathology and Surgery, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, San Joan, Spain., Murray A; Sport and Exercise, University of Edinburgh. Pleasance, Edinburgh, UK.; European Tour Health and Performance Institute, European Tour Golf, Virginia Water, UK., O'Connor SR; School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK., de Oliveira FCL; Research Unit in Sport and Physical Activity (CIDAF), Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal., Reid M; Tennis Australia, Melbourne, VIC, Australia., van Reijen M; Toptennis Department, Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association (KNLTB), Amstelveen, The Netherlands.; National Olympic Committee TeamNL, Arnhem, The Netherlands., Saueressig T; Physio Meets Science GmbH, Leimen, Germany., Schoonmade LJ; University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Thornton JS; Return to Health and Performance Lab, Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada.; Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, Western University, London, ON, Canada., Webborn N; IPC Medical Committee, Bonn, Germany.; Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine (SESAME), School of Sport and Service Management, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.; School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK., Ardern CL; Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.; Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) [Sports Med] 2023 Apr; Vol. 53 (4), pp. 807-836. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 08.
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-022-01807-8
Abstrakt: Background: Tennis is a multidirectional high-intensity intermittent sport for male and female individuals played across multiple surfaces. Although several studies have attempted to characterise the physical demands of tennis, a meta-analysis is still lacking.
Objective: We aimed to describe and synthesise the physical demands of tennis across the different court surfaces, performance levels and sexes.
Methods: PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and SPORTDiscus were searched from inception to 19 April, 2022. A backward citation search was conducted for included articles using Scopus. The PECOS framework was used to formulate eligibility criteria.
Population: tennis players of regional, national or international playing levels (juniors and adults).
Exposure: singles match play. Comparison: sex (male/female), court surface (hard, clay, grass).
Outcome: duration of play, on-court movement and stroke performance.
Study Design: cross-sectional, longitudinal. Pooled means or mean differences with 95% confidence intervals were calculated. A random-effects meta-analysis with robust variance estimation was performed. The measures of heterogeneity were Cochrane Q and 95% prediction intervals. Subgroup analysis was used for different court surfaces.
Results: The literature search generated 7736 references; 64 articles were included for qualitative and 42 for quantitative review. Mean [95% confidence interval] rally duration, strokes per rally and effective playing time on all surfaces were 5.5 s [4.9, 6.3], 4.1 [3.4, 5.0] and 18.6% [15.8, 21.7] for international male players and 6.4 s [5.4, 7.6], 3.9 [2.4, 6.2] and 20% [17.3, 23.3] for international female players. Mean running distances per point, set and match were 9.6 m [7.6, 12.2], 607 m [443, 832] and 2292 m [1767, 2973] (best-of-5) for international male players and 8.2 m [4.4, 15.2], 574 m [373, 883] and 1249 m [767, 2035] for international female players. Mean first- and second-serve speeds were 182 km·h -1 [178, 187] and 149 km·h -1 [135, 164] for international male players and 156 km·h -1 95% confidence interval [151, 161] and 134 km·h -1 [107, 168] for international female players.
Conclusions: The findings from this study provide a comprehensive summary of the physical demands of tennis. These results may guide tennis-specific training programmes. We recommend more consistent measuring and reporting of data to enable future meta-analysts to pool meaningful data.
Clinical Trial Registration: The protocol for this systematic review was registered a priori at the Open Science Framework (Registration DOI https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MDWFY ).
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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