Profile of beach tennis players in the city of Criciúma

Beach Tennis is currently a practice that has been growing a lot all over the world, especially because of the easethat a person learns to play and for the fun that it provides. Beach Tennis is a sport played on a sand court, with rules and execution of movements similar to those of tennis. With the...

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Autores: Rosa, Thainá Ribeiro da, Alvarez, Bárbara Regina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)
Repositorio:Research, Society and Development
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/24173
Acceso en línea:https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/24173
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tenis de playa
Perfil
Practicantes
Examen
Analisis.
Beach Tennis
Praticantes
Questionário
Análise.
Profile
Practitioners
Quiz
Analysis.
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Sumario:Beach Tennis is currently a practice that has been growing a lot all over the world, especially because of the easethat a person learns to play and for the fun that it provides. Beach Tennis is a sport played on a sand court, with rules and execution of movements similar to those of tennis. With the recent arrival of the sport in the courts ofCriciúma, this study aims to analyze the profile of beach tennis players in the city.descriptive quantitative research approach to analyze the data that were collected through a questionnaire with closed questions that was prepared in order to identify the profile of practitioners. Participated in the research 81voluntary practitioners. It was concluded that the public who practices the sport in the city of Criciúma is composed mostly of female gender 75.3%, ages between 25 and 35 years. In level of education, 85.2% have higher education and 60.5% are married. Most of the practitioners are employees of private companies, businessmen, and liberal professionals have a monthly income above 3,500 reais (80.20%) and live in Criciúma (87.70%), in a distance between 1 to 4 km and all use a car as means of transportation. As for the characteristics of the training sessions, most train for 1 to 3 months (48.15%), they practice for recreation (59.26%), and because most of them are beginners in beach tennis they participate in category D (44.83%) in the championships and also 75.30% have their own racket and do not train only in beach tennis.