Comparison of match activity profile and technical-tactical performance in elite women´s doubles tennis on three different surfaces
[ENG] Many professional tennis tournaments take place every year. These include tournaments by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), women’s and men’s International Tennis Federation (ITF), as well as women’s and men’s Grand Slams tournaments. Doubles match...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/227932 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227932 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/696921 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Fisiologia de l'exercici Rendiment esportiu Tennis Dones esportistes Exercise physiology Athletic performance Women athletes |
| Sumario: | [ENG] Many professional tennis tournaments take place every year. These include tournaments by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), women’s and men’s International Tennis Federation (ITF), as well as women’s and men’s Grand Slams tournaments. Doubles matches are played in all of these professional tournaments and doubles specialists and many singles players participate. However, despite the importance of doubles tennis, there is little research on this modality of the game, especially in women’s tennis. All the studies have focused exclusively on analysing men’s doubles tennis performance and no research has analysed women’s doubles modality. The professional tennis tournaments take place on different court surfaces, including hard courts, clay courts, and grass courts. Performance characteristics of elite tennis match-play differ depending on the court surface, affecting the physical and physiological responses of players. Therefore, we considered important to analyse doubles matches played on all the various court types used in professional tournaments and differences across playing surfaces were analysed in all the studies. The first aim of the thesis was to describe the activity profile of women´s doubles matches during three different Grand Slam tournaments (study I). Then, we analysed and establish the structural variables of women’s doubles matches, determined how points were finished on the three different surfaces and we also studied whether there were differences between the winning teams (WT) and losing teams (LT) in terms of finishing the points (study II). Finally, the last aim was to describe the finishing shot, ending zone, and shot by ending zone (study III). All these variables were analysed in women’s doubles matches across three different Grand Slam tournaments. We conclude that the most common tennis shots are the forehand (F), the backhand (B), the first service (FS) and the volley (V), and more than 50% of the total shots in a match come from the baseline and mid court game (BMC). Also that resting time between games (RTG) and resting time (RT) was longer at the Australian Open (AUS) than at Roland Garros (RG) and Wimbledon (W), and the number of F shots at RG was higher than at W. We found that players played around 2 sets per match (SM), 20 games per match (GM), 130 points per match (PM), 0.2 tie breaks per match (TM), 9.5 games per set (GS), 62 points per set (PS) and 6.5 points per game (PG). About 33% of the points ended with a winner (Wn), about 30% with a forced error (FE) and about 22% with unforced error (UE), with Wn being the variable that discriminated the most between WT and LT. Lastly, we proved that around 56% of the points were finished from the baseline and mid court zone (BMZ), 36% from the net zone (NZ) and 7.5% from the service zone (SZ). The shot with which the points ended primarily was the forehand volley (FV) (18%), followed by the F (17%), the B (16%) and the backhand volley (BV) (13%). There was a higher percentage of F played from the BMZ in RG than in W, a higher percentage in overall F in RG than in W, the forehand return (FRT) percentage was higher in the AUS compared to RG and the O shots played from the BMZ were higher in W than RG. |
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