Filip?i?, Tja?a; Filip?i?, Ale? - Analysis of movement velocity and distance covered in wheelchair tennis

摘要

New technologies enable new approaches to sports science, including sports adapted for people with physical handicaps. The research reported in this paper is focused on a comparative analysis of workload (movement velocity and distance covered) between winners and losers in wheelchair tennis. It also focuses on two different quality groups of players (recreational and top-level). Fifteen tennis players with physical impairment covered an average distance of 613 m in a match, 4.1 m in a game and 6.11 m in each rally. Statistically significant differences between the two groups of players have been found in all three distance segments: total match distance covered, game distance covered and rally distance covered. The average velocity in the rally was 0.93 m/s. Statistically significant differences were found in the average movement velocity for top-level players. Those players also achieved higher values in the maximum movement velocity in the rally; however, the difference was not statistically significant. No significant differences in the average velocity and in the maximum velocity were found between the winners and the losers.