ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Tennis vs padel: Precompetitive anxiety as a function of gender and competitive level.
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- Padel, pickleball and wellbeing: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms and competitive anxiety in tennis players: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Topics of Study in Under-18 Padel Categories: A Scoping Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Pre and post-competitive anxiety and self-confidence and their relationship with technical-tactical performance in high-level men's padel players.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
- Precompetitive anxiety and self-confidence during the 2023 Finnish Padel championship in high level men's players.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The main objective of this research is to analyze the level of anxiety and precompetitive self-confidence of tennis and padel players and to check the influence of gender and competitive level in each of the sports. Four hundred and twenty-three tennis and padel players, with a mean age of 15.40 (± 3.43) years, participated in the study. Of the total number of players surveyed, 291 were padel players and 132 were tennis players. The Spanish version of the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2R (CSAI-2R) in the Spanish version was used to measure the level of cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence between 30 and 35 min before the start of the match. The general results showed that the level of self-confidence of padel players is higher of tennis players. In relation to gender, female tennis players showed a higher level of precompetitive anxiety than male players, while, in padel, it was the opposite. In terms of competitive level, U14 players had the highest level of self-confidence and the lowest level of precompetitive anxiety. When comparing both sports, female tennis players show a higher level of state-anxiety than female padel players and U14 tennis players are the ones who showed a higher level of self-confidence. This study shows how precompetitive anxiety is one of the most important psychological variables in relation to sport performance and how it can vary according to gender and competitive level.
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