Joshua Colmar, iTPA Intern It is known that tennis is a very demanding sport. Tennis movement is a combination of eccentric-concentric muscle action, all movements are rapid and explosive and include accelerations, decelerations, stretches, jumps and strokes. Previous studies have … Continue reading
By Oliver Statham, CTPS The rise in air pollution is currently attributed to 2 million premature deaths each year, ranking it the 13th leading cause of death worldwide.1 Children and elite athletes are particularly susceptible to the negative effects of … Continue reading
Monitoring and understanding players’ workloads have become essentials for tennis performance specialists, strength and conditioning professionals, tennis coaches and others that treat, train and rehab tennis athletes. The USTA produced a very thorough monitoring for tennis booklet that is a … Continue reading
Patrick Aubone, CTPS & Dr. Mark Kovacs, CTPS, MTPS Sleep is the one time of the day where the body is able to rest and recover. It has important biological functions regarding physiological process, learning, memory, and cognition. (Halson 2014) … Continue reading
This article has been adapted from Kovacs Institute, but we thought iTPA members would find it useful. Over the last two years the Kovacs Institute has been fortunate to evaluate nearly two dozen of the top junior development tennis training … Continue reading
By Patrick Aubone & Dr. Mark Kovacs, CTPS, MTPS Posture has been a hot topic over the last few years. Individuals spend so much time sitting at work looking at their computers, on their phone or reading that they do … Continue reading
There has been minimal literature already published on the incidence and prevalence of tennis players injuries. It is reported that previous studies have been conducted on the injury prevalence of tennis teaching professionals however this was prior to an ITF … Continue reading
The serve is arguably the most important stroke in tennis. Not only does one have more time to execute this stroke than any other stroke but one also has two attempts to get it in. Having said that, it is … Continue reading
By Mark Kovacs, PhD, CTPS, MTPS If you work with high level juniors, collegiate players or young transitional professional players this article will be valuable. If the goal of these players is to make it to the Top 100 on … Continue reading
By Patrick Aubone, CTPS & Dr. Mark Kovacs, CTPS, MTPS Hip range of motion in tennis is one of the most challenging areas to train and treat. It is well understood the importance of the hips in the tennis player … Continue reading
