Características Temporais do jogo de Beach Tennis

Abstract

The objective of this study was to characterize the temporal demands of the Beach Tennis in official games. The sample of this study was composed of 12 Beach Tennis games played in the world stage in Santos, in January 2022. The games were played following the rules of the International Tennis Federation. The total duration of the matches, the number of rallies, time between rallies, average duration of each rally, number of sets, average duration of each set, average duration of the games were observed and analyzed through the analysis of the filming of the games. We observed that the average duration of the rallies remained constant throughout the sets, 4 sec‡3. The total game time for the first set was 25min 49sec±6.48, 28min 40sec±9.58 for the second set and 9min 32sec±3.14 for the third set. The rally number in the first set was 46.4±9.3, 41.5±13.8 in the second set and 14.8±4.7 for the third set. The average duration of the game was 1h 2min 28sec, however with 7min 37sec of real time. The rest time between the rallies was 30sec±23 in the first set, 33sec±26 in the second set and 36sec±23 in the third set. The rest time between the sets was 2min 30sec±1.08. Understanding the real game time allows coaches and athletes to create specific training scenarios for the game of Beach tennis.