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ReviewBritish journal of sports medicine2006

Applied physiology of tennis performance.

M S Kovacs

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Review in British journal of sports medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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95citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Risk Factors for Upper Limb Injury in Tennis Players: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  9. A positive autoethnographic study of learning and growth in a beginner tennis player in Korea.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026
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  12. Evaluating tennis player performance based on different types of grip strength.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026
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35 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

M S KovacsUniversity of Alabama, Department of Kinesiology, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA. mark@metisperformance.com

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Competitive tennis play requires a combination of the major physiological variables; however, the specifics of these variables have yet to be determined appropriately. General strength and flexibility training have been suggested as being beneficial for performance and injury prevention, yet specific guidelines are lacking. This paper provides a review of specific studies that relate to competitive tennis, and highlights the need for tennis-specific training as opposed to generalised physical training. It identifies specific studies that support the premise that tennis has physiological requirements which need to be understood when designing training and research programmes.

Indexed as

AdolescentChildHeart RateHumansMotor SkillsMuscle FatigueMuscle, SkeletalOxygen ConsumptionPhysical EndurancePliabilityTennis

Identifiers

PMID16632565
PMCPMC2653871

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