A study of female tennis players: Speedcourt training is effective on improving agility and change-of-direction.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the present paper was to determine the impact of Speedcourt training on agility and change-of-direction (COD) in female tennis players, and to research the relevance between agility and lower limbs unilateral explosive power (UEP). Despite extensive research on agility training, limited studies have explored these effects specifically in female athletes and the number of exercises such as Speedcourt is also small, necessitating this investigation.

Method

Twenty-two female tennis players underwent SpeedCourt training for 6 weeks, respectively executed random sequence shuttle run training (RS group, N = 11, age: 22.36 ±  1.21 years) and fixed sequence shuttle run training (FS group, N = 11, age: 22.27 ± 1.27 years). The spider run, T-drill, r

SUBMITTER: Zhou Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12045285 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature