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The circuit : a tennis odyssey
\"A multigenre exploration of the 2017 pro tennis season\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Point-of-care radiology service at the US Open Tennis Championships
Abstract Professional tennis tournaments have onsite sports medicine physicians who oversee the athletes’ overall health during competition, including musculoskeletal injury and general illnesses. The medical team is composed of orthopedic and non-operative sports medicine physicians. Frequently, the tournament doctors require imaging to localize and grade musculoskeletal injuries and to make decisions regarding treatment, safe training, and return to match play. The most versatile and readily available imaging modality to evaluate for acute musculoskeletal injury is point-of-care ultrasonography. In 2015, a dedicated radiology service was created at the US Open by bringing in a musculoskeletal radiologist who would perform ultrasounds in a formal and consistent manner. In addition, the radiologist was tasked with onsite radiography as well as review of all MRI examinations done at the imaging center. This article describes how this radiology service was implemented, what types of studies were performed and the advantages of having an onsite musculoskeletal radiologist at the tournament. This service allowed the medical team to provide the comprehensive and efficient medical care required in a major professional tennis event. It also showed the value of having the in-person expertise of the musculoskeletal radiologist in the sports medicine team. This same model could be applied to other professional sporting events.
Journal Article
Ping pong
Makoto \"Smile\" Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong. As one of the best players in school, Smile feels the pressure to win the regional high school tournament. But will the fierce competition bring out his best or drive him away from the game?
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Force-Time Curve Variable Outcomes Following a Simulated Tennis Match in Junior Players
This study examined the alterations induced by a simulated tennis competition on maximal isometric voluntary contraction (MVC), peak rate of force development (PRFD) and rate of force development (RFD) at different stages of contraction. Twenty junior tennis players performed an 80-minute simulated tennis match and two (pre and post) muscular performance tests. Variables tested included MVC, PRFD and RFD at 50, 100, 150 and 200 ms while performing a 90º shoulder internal rotation (IR90), 90º shoulder external rotation (ER90), shoulder horizontal adduction (ADD), shoulder horizontal abduction (ABD) and isometric mid-thigh pull (IMTP). Serve velocity (SV) was also registered. No significant changes were found regarding MVC, PRFD or SV. Non-significant moderate effect size (ES) towards a decrease in the IR90 RFD at 50 ms could be observed (16%; ES = 0.5) alongside an increase in the ADD and IMTP RFD at 150 ms (-15.8%, -8.2%; ES = -0.53, -0.54) and IMTP RFD at 200 ms (-13%; ES = -0.54). Results indicate that MVC, PRFD, RFD at different time intervals and SV are unaltered following an 80-minute simulated match, possibly due to insufficient alterations triggered on key factors affecting the tested variables.
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Tennis
Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the
Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year
that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging
wide-angle history with individual stories of players and
off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis's evolution into the
game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered
world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime
amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization
that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the
post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable
superstars, a popular women's tour, rival governing bodies, and
sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the
economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely,
force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.
Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the
interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the
professional game.
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Effects of sports drinks on the maintenance of physical performance during 3 tennis matches: a randomized controlled study
Background
Tennis tournaments often involve playing several consecutive matches interspersed with short periods of recovery.
Objective
The objective of this study was firstly to assess the impact of several successive tennis matches on the physical performance of competitive players and secondly to evaluate the potential of sports drinks to minimize the fatigue induced by repeated matches.
Methods
This was a crossover, randomized controlled study. Eight male regionally-ranked tennis players participated in this study. Players underwent a series of physical tests to assess their strength, speed, power and endurance following the completion of three tennis matches each of two hours duration played over three consecutive half-days (1.5éday period for each condition). In the first condition the players consumed a sports drink before, during and after each match; in the second, they drank an identical volume of placebo water. The results obtained were compared with the third `resté condition in which the subjects did not play any tennis. Main outcomes measured were maximal isometric strength and fatigability of knee and elbow extensors, 20-m sprint speed, jumping height, specific repeated sprint ability test and hand grip strength.
Results
The physical test results for the lower limbs showed no significant differences between the three conditions. Conversely, on the upper limbs the EMG data showed greater fatigue of the
triceps brachii
in the placebo condition compared to the rest condition, while the ingestion of sports drinks attenuated this fatigue.
Conclusions
This study has demonstrated for the first time that, when tennis players are adequately hydrated and ingest balanced meals between matches, then no large drop in physical performance is observed even during consecutive competitive matches.
Trial registration
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01353872.
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23 Titles
\"He first won in 2008. Over the years, Novak Djokovic kept winning more tennis titles. On June 11 [2023], Djokovic won the 2023 French Open. This was his 23rd singles win at a major tennis tournament. No man has won more!\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about tennis player Novak Djokovic.
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The 2025 Australian Open
\"The Australian Open is always the first of the four annual professional tennis tournaments known as the grand slam. The other three grand slam events, in the order in which they are held, are the French Open, the Championships (Wimbledon), and the US Open. This year [2025], the Australian open began on Jan. 12.\" (World Book Online Behind the Headlines) Read more about the 2025 Australian Open.
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