IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rpanxx/v21y2021i2p215-225.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Time structure in men’s professional doubles tennis: does team experience allow finishing the points faster?

Author

Listed:
  • Rafael Martínez-Gallego
  • Fernando Vives
  • José Francisco Guzmán
  • Jesús Ramón-Llin
  • Miguel Crespo

Abstract

This article provides information on the time structure of the doubles game in tennis and studies the influence of team experience on this time structure. The sample consisted of 2339 points corresponding to 19 complete ATP matches. Variables related to the point length and the number of shots per point were recorded, and teams were classified based on their experience playing together. The Mann–Whitney U test was performed to check the differences according to the types of teams and the Kruskal–Wallis test was used to check the differences depending on the match. The variables related to the duration and density of work presented lower values than in singles tennis. Regarding the data found based on the winning and losing team, the new teams used more time and more shots to win the points than the regular teams. Regarding the type of match, in the matches between two new teams, the duration of the points and the number of shots per point was greater compared to the other two types of matches. Offensive game strategies were adopted in the doubles matches, especially in regular teams, which reduced the length and density of the game.

Suggested Citation

  • Rafael Martínez-Gallego & Fernando Vives & José Francisco Guzmán & Jesús Ramón-Llin & Miguel Crespo, 2021. "Time structure in men’s professional doubles tennis: does team experience allow finishing the points faster?," International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 215-225, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:215-225
    DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2021.1872218
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/24748668.2021.1872218
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/24748668.2021.1872218?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Rafael Martínez-Gallego & Jesús Ramón-Llin & Miguel Crespo, 2021. "A Cluster Analysis Approach to Profile Men and Women’s Volley Positions in Professional Tennis Matches (Doubles)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-9, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rpanxx:v:21:y:2021:i:2:p:215-225. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RPAN20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.