Tennis
Fitness for Tennis
Tennis players need a very good level of speed, agility
and endurance. Great speed and agility categorize the champion tennis
players of today, while aerobic fitness is also very important for maintaining the intensity throughout long games, matches and tournaments.
Other fitness components are also important for tennis, such as anaerobic capacity, power, flexibility. A poll on this site a while back came up with this ranking of the importance of each of the components of tennis fitness.
It is important to monitor your tennis fitness, by regularly undertaking fitness assessments. Check out this suggested list of fitness tests for tennis players.
Related Pages
- see also the Tennis Fitness Testing and Tennis Fitness Ratings Page
- all about fitness testing
