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ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Mental Game of Tennis: A Scoping Review and the Introduction of the Resilience Racket Model.

Gerasimos N Konstantinou, Stefan Kloiber, Daniel M Blumberger

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Review in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gerasimos N KonstantinouDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0303-1633
Stefan KloiberDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6838-4114
Daniel M BlumbergerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review examines the relationship between tennis participation and mental health, highlighting both the psychological benefits and challenges associated with the sport. Using a retrospective, citation-based methodology, peer-reviewed studies published in English, French, and Greek between 2000 and March 2025 were included. The findings indicate that tennis participation is associated with reductions in depressive and anxiety symptoms, improved self-confidence, and enhanced resilience. However, competitive tennis also presents significant psychological demands, including elevated stress levels and susceptibility to maladaptive coping behaviors. To address these complexities, this review introduces the

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mental healthresilience racket modelstresstennis

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PMID40423266
PMCPMC12116160

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