Women´s Tennis: Past, Present and Future
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https://doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v20i56.407Keywords:
Tactics, Women, Top level, EvolutionAbstract
Taking his experience in the women´s professional tour, the author, former coach of Justine Henin-Hardenne, one of the great champions in female tennis history, analyses the international tennis background of professional women after the 90s. In this article the author also explains the characteristics of tennis at this stage and discusses the transition of women´s tennis at the end of the 20th century and stresses the importance of speed and power in modern women´s tennis. It also discusses those aspects that define professional women´s tennis today and the need to pay special attention to the stage of a tennis player’s development
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