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- Title
ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT VELOCITY AND DISTANCE COVERED IN WHEELCHAIR TENNIS.
- Authors
Filipčič, Tjaša; Filipčič, Aleš
- Abstract
New technologies enable new approaches to sports science, including sports adapted for people with physical handicaps. The research reported in this paper is focused on a comparative analysis of workload (movement velocity and distance covered) between winners and losers in wheelchair tennis. It also focuses on two different quality groups of players (recreational and top-level). Fifteen tennis players with physical impairment covered an average distance of 613 m in a match, 4.1 m in a game and 6.11 m in each rally. Statistically significant differences between the two groups of players have been found in all three distance segments: total match distance covered, game distance covered and rally distance covered. The average velocity in the rally was 0.93 m/s. Statistically significant differences were found in the average movement velocity for top-level players. Those players also achieved higher values in the maximum movement velocity in the rally; however, the difference was not statistically significant. No significant differences in the average velocity and in the maximum velocity were found between the winners and the losers.
- Subjects
WHEELCHAIR sports; WHEELCHAIR tennis; SPORTS sciences; DISTANCES; TENNIS players; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
Kinesiologia Slovenica, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 2, p25
- ISSN
1318-2269
- Publication type
Article